A forensic doctor is reborn, sir, please don't bully me!

Chapter 117: Further Progress in the Case

So they went to the monitoring room together, only to find that the staff were repairing computers there.

As soon as the staff saw Xiang Yuntian and Bai Mengfei walk in, they asked, "Hey, who are you people?"

After all, a murder had occurred here, and everyone was on high alert.

Bai Mengfei turned her head and glanced at Xiang Yuntian, signaling with her eyes for him to show his identification.

In fact, in my country, the duties of forensic doctors are similar to those of detectives in some respects, and they have the right to conduct examinations and investigations.

According to Article 119 of the Criminal Procedure Law, "[Expertise] In order to ascertain the facts of a case, when it is necessary to resolve certain specialized issues in the case, a person with specialized knowledge shall be appointed or hired to conduct an expert evaluation."

However, the staff member seemed uncooperative, so Xiang Yuntian had to explain by citing classical texts: "And I am the one with professional knowledge. Only when I examine the relevant materials and documentary evidence and write an appraisal report will it have legal effect."

The staff member was clearly confused, but he still chose to believe Xiang Yuntian.

After all, Xiang Yuntian is a public official and is so familiar with laws and regulations, so it's really not someone we can afford to offend.

So he nodded slightly, made way for Xiang Yuntian to check the computer.

If Jiang Shuai were here, he could definitely solve this kind of computer problem easily, after all, he is a top-notch computer hacker.

Xiang Yuntian turned to look at Bai Mengfei beside him. Bai Mengfei immediately understood his meaning, took out her old-fashioned mobile phone, and called Jiang Shuai directly.

At this moment, Jiang Shuai was probably having fun somewhere lively again, and the sound on the other end of the phone was particularly noisy and chaotic.

"Hey, Jiang Shuai, can you hear me? Jiang Shuai."

Bai Mengfei thought it was a bad signal, so she went outside.

Once outside, she finally heard Jiang Shuai's voice. The surroundings seemed quieter now: "Hello, is this Bai Mengfei? It's been a while. What's up?"

"There's a problem. We're in Huanghai Residential Area right now, and the security cameras here are broken. Could you come over and help fix them?"

"It's such a small thing! I can just teach you how to do it, right?"

Just as Bai Mengfei was about to persuade him, Xiang Yuntian walked over, took the phone, and asked briefly, "Are you coming or not?"

Jiang Shuai had no choice but to obediently agree on the other end of the phone.

After agreeing, Jiang Shuai arrived at the scene in less than five minutes, reeking of alcohol.

When Xiang Yuntian asked him what he had been doing, he wouldn't say, he just kept grinning foolishly.

The computer screen kept displaying "System not found," leading Jiang Shuai to conclude: "It seems the computer has been hacked and needs a system reinstall. However, this means that if there are important things on the C drive, they will likely be wiped clean. Luckily, I brought a treasure with me."

As he spoke, Jiang Shuai took a small USB flash drive out of his pocket.

"Hehe, this is a boot disk. I can use it to boot into Windows 10 and then check the contents of the hard drive," Jiang Shuai explained as he inserted the hard drive into the computer.

The computer did indeed restart, giving Bai Mengfei and Xiang Yuntian, who weren't very computer savvy, a glimmer of hope. However, even Jiang Shuai himself looked despairing: "The hard drive is damaged. Unless there's a network backup, all the data inside is definitely gone."

Despite saying that, he still tried to "repair bad sectors," but there were as many as 10 bad sectors displayed. At the current rate of less than 10% progress every ten minutes, he didn't know when it would take to repair them.

Seeing Jiang Shuai so desperate, Xiang Yuntian couldn't bear to pressure him any further.

But the case couldn't be left uninvestigated. Helpless, Xiang Yuntian turned around and walked out dejectedly.

Bai Mengfei noticed his dejection and quickly followed him out, comforting him, "Don't be like this."

Jiang Shuai also felt guilty and followed Xiang Yuntian out, saying, "Maybe there's another way. Don't look so desperate, okay?"

"How could I not despair?" Xiang Yuntian said, his face full of disappointment.

Jiang Shuai sighed and left quickly.

Watching Jiang Shuai's helpless departure, Xiang Yuntian understood his personality and knew that he was not the kind of person who would compromise easily. A strange feeling of emotion welled up in his heart.

Bai Mengfei felt that Jiang Shuai probably wouldn't come back after leaving, so she said to Xiang Yuntian, "Don't worry, I'm here for you."

"Yes, I know." Xiang Yuntian turned to look at Bai Mengfei, his eyes affirming her.

Bai Mengfei looked back at him and nodded with a smile.

Having found no clues, the two decided to leave. Just as they were about to depart, Bai Mengfei suddenly had a flash of inspiration, sensing some inconsistencies in the case.

So she slowly stopped walking.

Seeing this, Xiang Yuntian immediately stopped as well, and asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

Upon hearing Xiang Yuntian's question, Bai Mengfei looked up at him.

After hesitating for a moment, she said to Xiang Yuntian, "I've discovered something very suspicious. At the crime scene, there seemed to be signs of a struggle, and the cups were all overturned."

"But... the corpse doesn't seem to be convulsing."

Xiang Yuntian then recalled that there was indeed some contradiction.

Because under normal circumstances, if the body was in an environment where there were signs of fighting before death, the deceased would definitely struggle and become emotionally agitated, and convulsions would occur after death.

Judging from the state of the body, the deceased died peacefully.

Therefore, Xiang Yuntian came to a conclusion: "I understand now, the scene we saw was carefully arranged by the murderer. The scene can be faked, but the body cannot be faked."

“That’s right,” Bai Mengfei replied affirmatively.

Xiang Yuntian fell into thought again.

So the question is, why would the murderer do this?

At this point, Bai Mengfei had figured out the murderer's motive and purpose: "The murderer did this to mislead the investigators and make us investigate in the wrong direction. He wanted us to underestimate his abilities and fall into some kind of trap."

Bai Mengfei felt she had explained herself clearly, but Xiang Yuntian still didn't quite understand some of the terminology: "What exactly do you mean by the misunderstanding you mentioned?"

“It’s possible they wanted us to believe it was a manslaughter that occurred after an argument,” Bai Mengfei explained. “But the killer’s actions actually revealed his identity; he might be someone the victim knew. He attacked the victim when they were completely unprepared.”

"But there was no missing property at the scene, so what was his motive?"

"It's hard to say, there are countless possibilities for the motive. But the fact that the body did not show signs of convulsions suggests that the murderer was trying to cover up the truth through meticulous planning."

After speaking, Bai Mengfei looked up at the sky in the distance, which was gradually turning white, and her expression seemed somewhat confused.

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