You went on a blind date and presented an A-level wanted criminal as a meeting gift?

Faced with Bai Yu's smug and eager-to-show-off attitude, Lin Chen didn't even bother to give him a second glance.

Faced with absolute power, any clown's performance seems so pale and laughable.

He completely ignored Bai Yu and the astonished or puzzled looks from everyone present. He put on a pair of white gloves used by forensic doctors and walked straight toward the charred corpse.

Seeing that he was being completely ignored, Bai Yu felt that his authority had been challenged like never before, and his face, which had been wearing a smug smile, instantly turned red.

"stop!"

He screamed angrily, his voice cracking.

"Who gave you permission to tamper with the crime scene?! What right do you, an unofficial consultant, have to access key evidence?! Can you take responsibility for destroying evidence?!"

"Security! Throw him out!"

However, not a single detective moved.

These seasoned criminals, who have been living on the edge for decades, may not understand sophisticated criminal psychology, but they understand one thing—presence.

Lin Chen's terrifyingly calm aura contrasted sharply with Bai Yu's blustering and boastful manner.

It's clear at a glance who is the real dragon and who is just a snake.

Lin Chen stopped half a meter away from the corpse.

He slowly crouched down, without touching anything, but simply activated [God-level Insight] and [God-level Physics Mastery].

In an instant, the whole world appeared completely different in his eyes.

Every speck of dust floating in the air, every burn mark on every fiber of the carpet, every carbonized detail on the corpse, the tiny curvature on the windowpane that is almost imperceptible to the naked eye... all of these things were transformed into a massive stream of data, flooding into his brain, which was comparable to a quantum computer.

He finally turned his head and glanced at Bai Yu, who was still shouting, with an expression as if he were looking at an idiot.

"Self-immolation?"

Lin Chen's voice was calm, yet it was like a cold scalpel, precisely dissecting Bai Yu's ridiculous theory.

"The forensic doctor hasn't performed an autopsy yet, but I'll speak for him. When they opened the deceased's trachea, there was only a very small amount of smoke and ash inside. This means that he suffocated to death the instant the flames ignited due to the sudden lack of oxygen caused by the explosion, and he didn't experience the so-called 'burning process' at all."

"I ask you, this overseas-educated PhD, have you ever seen anyone commit self-immolation and instantly burn themselves to a crisp in a fraction of a second?"

A single sentence, like a thunderclap, exploded in the silent office!

The eyes of all the veteran detectives present lit up instantly!

Yup!

They had noticed this detail as well, but they hadn't thought of it as deeply as Lin Chen!

If it was self-immolation, the deceased would inevitably have a painful struggle and breathing process, and would definitely inhale a large amount of smoke and dust into their trachea!

Bai Yu's face suddenly stiffened, and he opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word in rebuttal.

Lin Chen ignored him and stood up, slowly walking to the huge floor-to-ceiling window.

His fingers, through his gloves, tapped lightly on the smooth glass, then pointed out the window.

"Look there."

Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing.

About 300 meters away, diagonally opposite the China World Trade Center, another skyscraper was undergoing exterior renovations. Its glass curtain wall, like a giant mirror, reflected the surrounding neon lights in the night.

"What's the big deal...?"

Bai Yu instinctively tried to refute, but he stopped midway through his sentence.

Lin Chen's gaze fell on an ornament on the office desk.

It was an exquisitely crafted globe made entirely of high-purity artificial crystal.

"Look at this one too."

Lin Chen picked up a piece of metal remnant that had been half-melted and whose original appearance was no longer recognizable, and gently sniffed it.

"This is a humidifier."

He connected these three seemingly unrelated things with a cold and clear logic.

"At 3:15 PM today, the sun's altitude angle in Beijing is 38.7 degrees. At this time, the sunlight will be shining directly onto the glass curtain wall of the building across the street."

"After being reflected by the curtain wall, the light will pass through this floor-to-ceiling window at a specific angle and focus precisely on this crystal globe on the desk."

"This crystal ball, under a specific angle of light, forms a perfect convex lens with extremely high light-gathering efficiency."

"The killer only needed to add a special chemical substance—triethylaluminum—to the humidifier beforehand."

"Triethylaluminum is a colorless and transparent liquid, and also an extremely reactive organometallic compound. Its most prominent characteristic is that it spontaneously combusts upon contact with air."

Lin Chen gently placed the charred remains of the humidifier on the table, his voice like a final judgment.

"The culprit set the humidifier's timed spray function. At 3:15 p.m., the sunlight, reflector, and convex lens were all in place, creating a focal point with a temperature of over a thousand degrees. At the same time, the humidifier began spraying mist containing triethylaluminum into the air."

"The high temperature instantly ignited these chemical fumes, causing a violent explosion inside the enclosed office!"

"This is a truly perfect, art-level locked-room murder, executed using astrophysics, optics, materials science, and chemistry!"

Lin Chen slowly turned around, his gaze sharp as a knife, piercing Bai Yu's bloodless face.

"And you, a so-called PhD in criminal psychology, are telling me this is suicide?"

"I really suspect that you bought your doctorate from a toilet wall."

The words fell.

The entire room fell silent!

You could hear a pin drop!

All the criminal police officers, including Li Mingyu and Su Qingge, stared intently at Lin Chen.

Their minds were completely stunned by this earth-shattering yet logically rigorous and impeccable reasoning!

Is this even a human brain?!

This is practically a walking supercomputer!

Bai Yu's handsome face, after going from white to red, then from red to green, finally turned into a pale, purplish-red.

His mouth was open, like a dehydrated fish, making a "hoarse" sound in his throat, but he couldn't utter a single word.

His pride in his knowledge and the authority he relied on for survival were utterly crushed in the face of Lin Chen's devastating reasoning, leaving not even a trace!