Eyes that are the same as those of evil

Chapter 233 Confess to Me 6
After reviewing the surveillance footage, the next step is to locate the primary crime scene.

Not every floor and every room in the unfinished building was utilized; the murder mystery game shop only rented a portion of the space in the middle.

In order to downplay the traces of Tan Jia's dream in the case investigation, the criminal investigation team did not directly use Lin Zhiyue's painting to specify a particular place to look for, but instead checked each room one by one.

I also took the opportunity to "admire" the spooky decor of each room.

Zheng Yan and Tan Ming frowned deeply, while Xiao Chen accepted it well, even commenting, "If you replace the light with a brighter incandescent bulb, it'll feel completely different. There's no originality at all."

Two minutes later, he entered the maternity ward, which was filled with fear. He accidentally kicked a baby prop that could make noise, which startled him so much that he jumped up and quickly retreated, pressing his back against the wall and activating his defensive mode.

Tan Jia and Zheng Yan turned to look at him.

"It looks like a cow that was blown into the sky just now fell down."

"Brother Chen, you're overreacting."

"Don't speak, don't speak yet," Xiao Chen pleaded earnestly. "This damned red light is shining on your philtrum, making you two look like the ox-headed and horse-faced demons who died unjustly and are here to settle scores with me."

Zheng Yan expressed her disdain for him in three hundred words through her expressions and eye rolls.

Following their observation route, they finally found the crime scene in a suite at the very back of the second floor.

Tan Jia looked around, gave them a subtle nod, and then gestured with his chin to a spot on the right side of the room.

That place doesn't look strange now.

Given its horror theme, fake blood was everywhere, along with numerous murder weapons and props, and even a mannequin dressed in a striped hospital gown with a gruesome death. It was a fairly clean-looking place, seemingly not worth observing further.

The shop assistant, who was carefully accompanying them, noticed that they had been lingering for a while and asked, "Is there a problem here?"

"To our eyes, there is indeed a problem," Zheng Yan said mysteriously. "And don't you smell blood here?"

It seemed the veteran detective's years of experience had honed his keen eye. The other party immediately showed him respect.

Then they were asked to leave the scene.

Zheng Yan turned off the dim red light, took out the spray, and sprayed it a few times at the spot Tan Jia had specified.

Tan Ming immediately took out a portable testing light and shone it on the ground, where circles of blurry blue light appeared.

"It's blood. It's been treated."

“The deceased was lying right here,” Tan Jia said in a low voice, pointing out the exact location based on the image in her dream. “The murderer straddled her and stabbed her hard with a screwdriver…it matched the spot with the most blood. She was supporting herself on the ground with her left hand, so there should be fingerprints or palm prints left behind.”

“Fingerprints on the ground are hard to extract, and this isn’t a smooth tile. But there might be traces on the things she used to remove the bloodstains,” Zheng Yan said.

"There should be other traces left behind." Tan Jia pondered carefully, kneading the dough in her hands. The unique feel of the dough was like a hypnotic tool for a psychologist, allowing her to focus her attention on the detailed analysis.

“The deceased couldn’t have just been lying there and killed. There must have been a fight between them. Could there be the killer’s skin flakes under the deceased’s fingernails? Could there be the killer’s hair on his body?” “Also, there must be her fingerprints on the murder weapon.”

Speaking of the murder weapon, Tan Ming and Xiao Chen searched the entire room carefully but did not find a screwdriver.

"The murder weapon is not here. It's unclear whether the murderer took it and hid it or threw it away. I've asked the police to search the surrounding area."

Tan Jia stood where the body had been lying, recalling the surveillance footage. She thought for a moment and said, "In the footage, the girl in the red dress wasn't carrying a bag, and judging from the dress she was wearing, it probably didn't have pockets either. But she told other people about the murder, and they even helped her move the body. It's impossible they didn't mention the murder weapon. If I were the murderer…"

When the key quote was mentioned, everyone looked at her.

“If I were the murderer, leaving the murder weapon here would actually be the best thing to do. I could clean up my fingerprints, put the screwdriver back and continue using it as a prop, and even if it had blood on it, people would just think it was paint that was deliberately applied. This is the safest way. If I hide it or bury it, I'm worried that it will be exposed sooner or later, and if I throw it away, it's easy for someone to find it.”

She participated in the search as she spoke, but in the end, she really couldn't find the screwdriver.

"Something's strange." She frowned and looked around the room again.

At this point, Zheng Yan said, "It's also possible that someone else hid the murder weapon. They all helped cover up the victim's death and helped move the body, so it wouldn't be difficult for them to hide a murder weapon for her. I remember that the clothes they wore were quite good at hiding things."

Tan Jia: "But the key question is, why did they take the murder weapon? They were able to think of leaving the body in a horror-themed bar to delay its discovery, so why wouldn't they think that leaving the murder weapon here would be the safest option?"

Her inquisitive manner was quite unsettling; being stared at by those eyes felt like a warning: "If you can't give a reasonable explanation, you shouldn't be a police officer."

Zheng Yan finally understood how Tan Ming and Xiao Chen felt when they were bombarded with questions at the bar.

"Maybe they don't need 'security,' they just want to achieve a certain goal, and achieving that goal requires that screwdriver."

Tan Jia put this guess into his mind to analyze and process it, and opened his mouth to ask a question, but Zheng Yan "silenced him with one click".

"Alright, just standing around analyzing won't solve the case. Holmes still needs to go out into the field to verify the authenticity of the clues. Let's just find the people and ask them."

They cordoned off the scene, contacted forensic experts to arrive as soon as possible, then left Xiao Chen to guard the location while the others went back to the police station to retrieve surveillance footage from the surrounding roads and track the movements of the group of perpetrators that morning.

Believe it or not, there are quite a few surveillance cameras in this area.

Tan Ming explained, "Because it's an area with a high concentration of entertainment venues, the requirements for surveillance are quite high, and there are regulations regarding the retention time of their surveillance videos."

“So this is really strange,” Tan Jia said, arms crossed, still bothered by the incongruity. “Why does the murder have to be done outside, in a crowded place? If it’s because murder mystery shops offer ready-made cover-ups, then unfinished buildings should be the best place to dump the body and hide the murder weapon.”

"But in the first half, she acted like a novice who impulsively killed someone because she had a sudden change of heart. In the second half, she exposed the body, which made her seem like a cunning old pervert with other motives."

Thinking about it this way, some answers seem obvious—

“Among her accomplices were people who disagreed with her and who gained the upper hand.”

Zheng Yan wanted to praise her, but then the technicians said they had found the girl in the red dress's identity.

"She recently had a civil dispute related to a car accident. Look at her name, it's Yuan Hanyue, she's 28 years old, and the car involved in the accident was a Ferrari."