Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 193 The Murderer Tan Jia 12
After seeing the investigation team off, Tan Jia looked at the door, recalling the change in the policeman's expression, and remembered a sentence.

It's difficult to make everyone a good person, but it's also difficult to make everyone a bad person.

She turned to Lin Zhiyue and said, "It seems the murderer really wants to frame me as a murderer. If no one notices anything amiss, with so many detailed false clues, it will take a lot of effort for me to prove myself."

Then I pinched his chin and leaned in for a kiss.

Lin Zhiyue's cold expression softened, and he asked her, "Is there anything else I can do?"

"Let's have a chat. There are good people in the investigation team. The mole's first move has been ruined, so they'll definitely be thinking of a second way. I wonder where it will come true."

To convict her, the results of the forensic examination and trace evidence analysis are of paramount importance; motive, means, and purpose are all indispensable.

The easiest thing to manipulate is the evidence. This time, they pointed out that someone had forged the evidence, which is why the investigation team didn't rush to convict her. But that doesn't negate the fact that other evidence was indeed very unfavorable to her.

"Furthermore, I still don't understand what the murderer was thinking. Now it seems he wanted to use the manslaughter to solidify my identity as the murderer, thus filling the hole left by Wen Jinbing's death. But this didn't stop the police from investigating the Wen family. Moreover, he killed Xiao Qian, escalating the case, and then hastily used the investigation team to 'settle accounts,' a very abrupt step that made him almost completely unconcealed. I, on the other hand, became the most insignificant link. What exactly is he trying to do?"

She has her own profile of the murderer—the other party should be similar to Kuang Fan and Yan Shulin in the previous case, a high-and-mighty, arrogant and domineering figure, and also possesses counter-investigation awareness and cautious methods that Yan Shulin and the others do not have, just like Qi Sufeng, the murderer in the case of the ungrateful child killer.

He is a very difficult opponent, and one that deserves our full attention and serious preparation.

But over the past few days, some of the other party's abrupt and inexplicable actions have often deviated from this assumption, making them seem somewhat foolish.

However, she believed that the murderer was definitely not stupid, so these seemingly stupid but not stupid behaviors made her suspect that the murderer was playing a big game, a game that she couldn't understand yet.

Lin Zhiyue tried hard to keep up with her train of thought, using his incomplete reasoning ability: "At first it seemed like he was using Wen Jinbing to deal with you, but then it seemed like he wanted to use you to cover up the fact that the Wen family was murdered. Who is his ultimate goal? It's like a road with a destination. If you take a detour, maybe it's because there's a traffic jam ahead... Never mind."

He pursed his lips again.

Tan Jia touched his lips, seemingly lost in thought: "I understand what you mean, it makes a lot of sense, but I suddenly thought of another possibility—perhaps neither the Wen family nor I are his ultimate goal, but just pawns pushed out along the way?"

A person like him, who thinks highly of himself and calls himself a righteous army, may only care about "righteous matters" and only want to talk to people of high status.

For example, the investigation team's superiors.

Wenwu's death may have been caused by other people, which was discovered by this "righteous army," who decided to carry out justice for the police.

As for Wen Jinbing, Xiao Qian, and even her, who were sacrificed to uphold justice, they were merely disposable objects for him to demonstrate his sense of justice. A criminal with a mental problem would never consider whether it was right to sacrifice more lives to seek justice for one.

She shared her idea with Lin Zhiyue, who surprisingly accepted it quickly and didn't find it unbelievable.

It seems that any abnormal, mentally ill, or mentally unstable person in the world is normal to him. Or rather, he doesn't care.

Tan Jia, seeing his bewildered expression, touched his lips again, then slid down to his Adam's apple.

"If my guess is correct, then the murderer is quite different from the mastermind behind the money laundering case. Remember the Golden Bun Shop?"

Lin Zhiyue nodded: "He sold steamed buns and staged the theft himself. He never expected that his family members would be murdered. His steamed bun shop was used for money laundering."

"Yes. Even a steamed bun shop in the old town could be turned into a money laundering den. The leader of their gang is quite unconventional in choosing his people, unlike this fugitive who seems only willing to 'rob the rich to help the poor,' specifically targeting high-ranking people."

The more she talked, the clearer the image of the murderer seemed to become.

"But this fugitive must also have some of the habits of money laundering gangs. Perhaps we've even dealt with them in money laundering cases."

She recalled the details of the money laundering case, thinking as she spoke: "The first time we came into contact with the money laundering gang was in a case where a gay internet celebrity was murdered. We found that his cause of death was the inhalation of nitrous oxide and the drinking of yogurt containing belladonna toxin. Following the clue of the yogurt, we discovered another case of the death of a rich second-generation, and found a suspect named 'Qianqian'."

"This Qianqian is actually a virtual character, behind which is the victim's male friend, who is also the murderer. He used the identity of a female student from an art school and even paid another girl to play the real-life image of Qianqian, and then had a romantic relationship with the victim. When we found out that the murderer was able to come up with this method, he was actually inspired by a business partner, who was a member of a money laundering gang."

"Then, someone sent me a postcard."

"Then, a theft and stabbing case occurred. When we investigated, we found that it was not a simple theft case. Jin Baozi and his ex-wife were both subordinates of a money laundering gang. As we continued to investigate, we uncovered the entire money laundering gang. The leader was an agent in the entertainment industry. At first, he used celebrities to help people launder money, but later he felt that was not enough. So he used surveillance footage to capture the big shots' incriminating evidence and negotiated with them to help him develop the gang so that they could make money and launder money at the same time."

"Money laundering methods include tipping internet celebrities and then returning the money, so the clues are linked to the previous case of the death of a gay internet celebrity."

"This money laundering gang believed itself to be a righteous force. The victims and those recruited as their downlines were actually the villains they had chosen. They planned to squeeze out the last bit of value from them and then push them out to fill the hole, as if they were doing a service to the people."

"But there was a question that we never got to the bottom of: the hotel room where the internet celebrity died was a room that an online fan paid for them to stay in. We also found an abandoned camera on the hillside directly opposite that room. Moreover, when the gang leader used internet celebrities to launder money, he always chose beautiful female internet celebrities. This one was the only one who was a lesbian internet celebrity."

Lin Zhiyue found a common thread: "Surveillance?"

"Yes, surveillance cameras. The money laundering ringleader used them to capture dirt on others, someone used them to film an internet celebrity's birthday celebration, and the guesthouse's surveillance cameras were also tampered with..."

As Tan Jia was reciting the words, a sudden inspiration struck him.

"The murderer probably also used surveillance footage to get information on those people and then used them to do his bidding. He was probably someone who was very good at using surveillance, like someone in a money laundering gang who secretly filmed others to get information."

Even though the money laundering gang had been completely eradicated, she always thought that this "righteous army" had also been punished.

Why was he able to escape unscathed, and why didn't the police notice anything amiss? Was it because of his identity? Or... because of his age?
(End of this chapter)