Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 454 seems to be about Chisakura.

Zhuang Yanzheng took two people to check the surveillance footage.

Su Miaoyi was checking at the KTV.

She carefully placed the cigarette ash from the bathroom windowsill into the evidence bag. After leaving the bathroom, she walked out.

According to the surveillance footage and other accounts, Jin Tian went to the restroom before leaving. He should have come out of the restroom and headed towards the stairs, then went downstairs and to the front door.

Reaching the stairwell, Su Miaoyi paused for two seconds before looking at the potted plant about a meter away from the stairwell.

She took two steps toward the potted plant and turned the money tree's leaves over.

A cigarette butt that was stuck in a leaf fell off.

Su Miaoyi looked at Ye Zi again.

The underside of the leaf has charred marks.

The height of the object doesn't look like it was thrown; it looks more like it bounced off.

Moreover, the smoke hadn't gone out when it hit the top.

It bounced onto the money tree, got stuck on a leaf, and was then blocked by the leaf.

Su Miaoyi picked up the cigarette butt that had fallen on the ground and put it in the evidence bag, marking it specially.

She looked at the evidence bag for a while, then walked towards the restroom, passing by the private room where they were playing cards, as well as a few other private rooms that were reserved for playing cards.

Along the way, the surveillance cameras were turned off for this particular stretch.

They were probably worried that if they were caught playing cards, the security cameras would be checked to see who was there, so the security cameras were all turned off, while the cameras in other areas were on.

Reaching the bathroom door, Su Miaoyi looked at Zheng Qi, who was walking over from the other side, and asked, "Brother Zheng, how long does it take to finish a cigarette of this thickness?"

Zheng Qi glanced at the cigarette butts in the evidence bag.

Su Miaoyi then asked, "Can you finish smoking from the bathroom to the stairwell?"

Zheng Qi glanced at the distance: "At the walking speed of an adult, it would take quite a while to draw blood."

Su Miaoyi then looked at the bathroom windowsill.

There was cigarette ash on the windowsill.

Did he smoke there?
Su Miaoyi turned her gaze away from the window and went with Brother Zheng to look at other places.

After inspecting the KTV, they returned to the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Zhuang Yanzheng brought in the surveillance footage.

When they arrived at the Municipal Bureau, Chu Xingrou and Qi Feng had already asked the people who had played cards with Jin Tian.

Everyone went to the conference room again.

Qin Chengyuan sat down in the same spot he had just been sitting in.

Zhuang Yanzheng first showed everyone the surveillance footage he had found: "This is the surveillance footage from across the street from the KTV's restroom."

As he spoke, he quickly sketched a diagram next to the display screen.

"This is the window of the KTV's restroom. Below it is a pile of miscellaneous items. Footprints, size 37 or 38, were found on these items. Someone went up through here to enter the restroom and then left through here. There is a surveillance camera across the street."

Zhuang Yanzheng's sketches are very vivid and easy to understand at a glance.

He opened the surveillance footage: "This was captured by the surveillance camera across the street; it shows a blurry human figure."

Everyone watched the figure that flashed by almost instantly.

He was dressed entirely in black, wearing a mask and a hat.

You can't see their faces at all.

They ran over there very quickly.

With a whoosh.

Zhuang Yanzheng slowed it down, and you could really see the afterimage.

The surveillance cameras weren't night vision, and the footage wasn't very clear.

“The surveillance cameras weren’t pointed at the KTV, so they only captured this fleeting figure and nothing else,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “I looked in the direction the figure left, and it turned out to be an uninhabited alley. There was a surveillance camera there, but it was broken, so it was basically just for show. I also brought back the surveillance footage from outside the alley, and we’re showing it to people now.”

Su Miaoyi looked at the monitor on the screen and said after a while, "Captain Zhuang, play it at original speed."

Zhuang Yanzheng played the video several times at original speed.

Su Miaoyi suddenly said, "I think this figure looks a bit like Qianying."

As soon as the name "Chiyaki" was uttered, everyone looked at her.

Su Miaoyi looked at it for a while longer and said, "It really looks like it. Qianying wears size 38 shoes, and she can also do that big stride on the top of the storage box."

After listening to her, Zhuang Yanzheng looked down and read Jin Tian's information again: her educational background, work experience, and interpersonal relationships.

Moreover, according to Kaneda's parents and friends, Kaneda is a homebody and rarely leaves Kyoto.

Based on this information, they don't seem to be someone who would have any connection with Chisakura.

"Could they be testing drugs?" Qin Chengyuan suddenly asked.

Everyone looked at him again.

Su Miaoyi blinked.

New type of drug.

Someone who seems to have no connection with Chisakura.

If the figure on the surveillance footage is indeed Chisaki, then the possibility is very high.

"This new drug can kill people," Qin Chengyuan said. "Could it be a failed experiment?"

Su Miaoyi's eyes widened slightly, and then she turned to look at Zhuang Yanzheng.

Zhuang Yanzheng called out to the police officer next to him, "Xiao Zhou, go and ask each branch station if they have received any murder cases recently."

If it's an experiment, they won't just look for one person.

"Yes." Xiao Zhou left.

There was a two-second silence in the meeting room.

Although it cannot be confirmed that the person on the surveillance footage is Chisakura, this is still one direction for the investigation.

It was dark.

Xiao Zhou found out about the case at the branch office.

The Chengbei Branch and Hexi Branch received homicide cases on the 29th and 28th days of the twelfth lunar month, respectively.

One case involved a man who was hit by a car while finishing his night shift; the case was treated as an accident. The other case involved a homeless man who was found under a bridge; he had been dead for over 48 hours and died from freezing.

Zhuang Yanzheng sent someone to the branch office to investigate the two cases.

The surveillance cameras also relayed the news.

The security cameras inside the KTV also captured some figures.

The surveillance cameras from the stairwell to the restroom are turned off.

However, the security camera in the hallway on the other side of the bathroom was on.

You can get a slight view of the bathroom entrance.

It can only capture half of a person's body, and below the neck.

Jintian's friends had already recognized him by his clothing.

Each person claimed their own spot.

Another one was from Jintian, who did go to the restroom several times.

Besides these, there was also an unfamiliar figure.

He was shorter than the men.

The chin was captured in the photo, but the person was wearing a mask.

It's only half a body, but you can tell it's a woman.

She looked at the bathroom door and then went back inside; she didn't enter the bathroom from the corridor inside the KTV.

Instead, he looked out from the bathroom and then went back inside.

“Eighty percent of the time it’s Qianying,” Su Miaoyi said after watching the surveillance footage.

"How so?" Brother Zheng asked.

Su Miaoyi walked to the screen and zoomed in on half of the body.

A glimpse of her wrist.

The surveillance footage shows the woman wearing black rubber gloves and black clothing.

Perhaps because she was climbing through the window, her sleeves had ridden up a bit, revealing just a glimpse of her wrist.

There is a mole on my wrist.

The surveillance footage inside the KTV was quite clear. Even when zoomed in, the mole was still clearly visible, though a bit blurry.

“The mole on Qianying’s wrist is in the exact same position, so there’s an 80% chance it’s Qianying,” Su Miaoyi said. “The other 20% chance is that there’s a woman with excellent skills who has the same mole on her wrist.”

(End of this chapter)