Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 164 The Hand of God 17
Before the forensic examination results were submitted, no one knew how the fire started, nor did anyone know that the cooling spray can had been blown into the flower bed downstairs.

Aside from the perpetrator who intentionally started the fire.

Moreover, the murderer was someone who closely monitored the situation at the victim's home.

Zheng Yan analyzed: "His house is in the building opposite the deceased's house, so he could see the deceased's room. After discovering the fire, he chose the right moment to pretend to rescue people."

As he spoke, he changed his mind and added, "But there's something strange. If I were the murderer, I wouldn't be the one rushing to the front. Wouldn't it have been more time to blend in with the crowd and go to the flowerbed to find the spray can while everyone was putting out the fire? Wouldn't that have given me more time and made me less likely to be discovered?"

"You stole my lines," Xiao Chen said.

Zheng Yan stared at him expressionlessly.

Tan Ming said, "When I was visiting the community, I heard people say that Kuang Fan was a very helpful and kind person. When someone was about to jump off a building, he was the first to rush to persuade them. When someone's parents were beating or scolding their children, he was not afraid of offending people and went to their homes to persuade them."

Tan Jia suddenly stopped kneading the dough.

Zheng Yan looked at her: "Green Little Wolf, you've been silent for a while. What's on your mind?"

"I have three questions in mind," Tan Jia said.

"First, why did Kuang Fan want to find the spray can and take it away? According to the investigation results and the testimonies of several parties, it was an accident that Grandma Qin's grandson brought the lighter, and it was even more unexpected that the deceased took the lighter. Could Kuang Fan have guessed that the deceased's current mental state would eventually lead to self-immolation? After all, without the lighter, there would have been no fire at all if there was only cooling spray, and he would not have been a suspect. On the contrary, his act of looking for the spray can made him seem suspicious."

"Second, timing. Even if Kuang Fan guessed that the deceased would steal the lighter to play with, how could he be sure when he would spray the spray and turn on the lighter at the same time? Cooling spray is not usually used in the morning, right? But the deceased used two unreasonable things at the same time at this unreasonable time, just before Kuang Fan rushed to work, which allowed him to actively save people and show his kind side."

If the fire had happened during working hours, Kuang Fan wouldn't have had this opportunity to shine.

So the deceased seemed to be cooperating with his idea, using a spray can in the morning and playing with a lighter despite his PTSD about fire.

"Not only that, but the timing of his rescue was also strange. Logically, if he wanted the deceased to die, he would have put out the fire as late as possible, but he acted very actively after discovering the fire. According to the forensic doctor's estimate of the time of death, if the group of neighbors had a smooth rescue, the deceased might still be alive when they rushed in."

The fact that the fire did not destroy the other rooms indicates that the fire did not actually last long.

Xiao Chen chimed in, "Indeed, according to them, the gate was blocked for quite a while. Many people kicked the door, but they couldn't get it open. They had to wait for Old Man Li to come back and open it with his key, which caused a long delay. If it hadn't been delayed, the deceased might not have died."

Tan Ming added: "Furthermore, the deceased's room door was not locked from the inside. If the deceased had run to the living room when they kicked the door, he might not have died."

After saying that, Xiao Chen asked in surprise, "Is Kuang Fan a master of time management? How could he calculate so accurately, knowing exactly when they would kick down the door, the time they would spend waiting for Old Man Li to return, and the time they would spend putting out the fire, so that the deceased would die without the fire spreading too much? Are psychologists that capable?"

Listening to their analysis, Zheng Yan pondered for a moment and said, "That's almost impossible. During our previous interviews, someone said that after the fire was extinguished, Kuang Fan was stunned when he saw the deceased's appearance. Is it possible that he never intended for the deceased to die?"

Xiao Chen thought for a moment, "That's quite possible. He rushed to the front to put out the fire, kicking down the door with great force and even calling out the deceased's name. When we asked the neighbors who were putting out the fire, they all said that Kuang Fan cared a lot about the safety of people with mental health issues. There were people who jumped off buildings and swallowed pills before, and he saved them all. Only the deceased didn't make it in time, and they said he must be very heartbroken." "Jumping off buildings, swallowing pills, family discord, arson," Tan Jia said quietly, "Did so many things happen in Jinxiu Jiayuan community before he moved in?"

They were taken aback.

Tan Ming, a family member with a psychologist, slowly said, "Kuang Fan had no motive to kill, but he seemed to have a motive to create chaos. The reputation he gained from saving people made him famous in this area."

“That’s the third point I’ve thought of,” Tan Jia added. “I suspect he himself had problems, but the death incident was so serious that it got out of control. We need to investigate other patients with mental health issues that he had been in contact with.”

Zheng Yan immediately recalled the twins who fell down the escalator outside Kuang Fan's Psychological Clinic.

They began to investigate Kuang Fan in detail.

For this reason, they even invited Tan Jia's aunt, Tan Xue, to come and help.

Kuang Fan's life story is easy to find: an ordinary family, an ordinary school, unremarkable grades, and after graduating with a bachelor's degree, he worked as a psychological consultant in a small to medium-sized enterprise in the elderly care industry, but he left the job after a short time.

After that, he opened a small psychological counseling room. At that time, he mainly worked online, charging by the hour to chat with people and provide emotional support. He gradually made some money.

Later, she got married, had children, bought a house with a mortgage, and moved into Jinxiu Jiayuan, but she wasn't very famous.

But three years ago, Kuang Fan made the newspapers for saving a child who was about to jump off a building. Since then, his business has been booming. He keeps saving people, receiving praise, and expanding his clinic.

In three years, you can earn enough to buy a house in a good school district in the city center.

“On the surface, it seems that his good deeds have finally been rewarded, but if the incident involving the deceased was orchestrated by Kuang Fan to demonstrate his helpfulness, then it means that all the ‘good deeds’ that happened before may have been orchestrated by him,” Zheng Yan said.

Tan Xuehui, who has been a psychologist for two or three decades, has encountered many similar people and spoke eloquently: "Some parents have this kind of performative personality, especially full-time parents. When their lives consist only of taking care of their children and the only praise they receive comes from taking care of their children, their psychology becomes distorted. They deliberately make others take care of their children poorly or even harm them in order to highlight their own value and receive praise from others."

"Children are the same. There is a mental illness called Munchausen syndrome. They will pretend to be sick, or even deliberately harm themselves to gain sympathy from others."

Zheng Yan and Tan Jia both thought of the twins. Was the problem with their elders in the family, or was it with the children themselves?

Regardless, those twins had clearly come for treatment several times, and their parents had been repeatedly warned, yet today they still couldn't control their behavior of harming their children in front of so many people. Perhaps it was Kuang Fan who intentionally guided them so that he could speak out and show off.

But more importantly, we need to get the patient list from Kuang Fan to find out the truth.

Tan Jia had a guess in her mind, but she needed to talk to those patients to confirm it.

(End of this chapter)