After a short while, the school administrators returned with a USB drive.
"Officer, this USB contains all the surveillance footage of the entire building, including the first-floor entrance and hallway cameras."
Han Fei took the USB drive.
During the time the administrators were gone to copy the footage, the police had conducted another search but found nothing, uncovering no useful clues.
Since they couldn't find any leads, there was no real need to preserve the crime scene.
Moreover, having a corpse at the bottom of a university dormitory was certainly not a good look.
Han Fei decided to have his officers take a few photos and then transport the body back to the police station.
At the police station, they reviewed the surveillance footage they had brought back.
Han Fei noticed similarities between this suicide case and the one discovered the previous night.
"It's similar to the footage from the other building. In both cases, the deceased went up to the roof alone, and no one else went up there before or after, right until the body was discovered."
"So it's suicide then?" Wang Dachuan scratched his head.
The surveillance footage for both suicide cases only showed the deceased going up to the roof alone, with no sign of anyone else.
Wasn't this clear evidence that they had jumped of their own accord?
To call it murder seemed quite far-fetched to him.
"Two deaths in one night? Since when did the suicide rate get so high?" Han Fei said. "And both jumped from rooftops, with deaths occurring not far apart in time... When things are this unusual, there's bound to be something fishy."
If looked at in isolation, the newly discovered suicide case didn't have any suspicious elements.
An 18-year-old, full of youthful passion and prone to impulsiveness, jumping off a building due to relationship troubles – it was plausible.
The reason Han Fei suspected this suicide case was problematic was mainly because it overlapped in time with the suicide case from the previous night, and both victims chose the exact same method of death: jumping from a rooftop.
Moreover, because the case from the previous night already had several suspicious points, he couldn't help but doubt this newly discovered suicide case as well, which is why he wanted to investigate them together.
As an experienced police officer, his instincts told him that there must be a connection between these two incidents.
This definitely wasn't suicide!
Han Fei placed the identity information of both deceased side by side for comparison.
"This is our first victim we discovered, Zhu Xingde, 35 years old, a high-level manager at a finance company, unmarried, local to Ram City, suspected to have committed suicide due to stock market losses."
"The second victim, Lu Yu, 18 years old, a freshman majoring in Hotel Management at the University of Technology, from out of town, originally from Su City, suspected to have committed suicide due to relationship issues."
Looking at the two victims' information, Li Chen couldn't help but feel confused.
"Captain Han, there doesn't seem to be any connection between these two victims, nor do they have anything in common. If it really is the same killer, what could be the motive or logic behind the murders?"
Han Fei couldn't really answer this question.
To be honest, it wasn't just Li Chen who was puzzled; Han Fei himself couldn't make sense of it.
There appeared to be absolutely no connection between the two victims, no overlap whatsoever.
One middle-aged, one young.
One office worker, one student.
One local, one from out of town.
At first glance, they had no similarities at all.
Han Fei even started to doubt whether his instincts might be wrong, and perhaps there really was no connection between these two incidents...
Maybe only the first suicide was suspicious, and the one they had just discovered was merely a coincidence?
Just then, Xu Mo, who was standing nearby, suddenly pointed at the two personal information sheets pinned to the whiteboard and spoke up.
"These two aren't completely unrelated. They actually do have something in common."
As soon as he said this, everyone turned to look at Xu Mo. "What?"
"They're both male, and they both seem to be quite well-off financially," Xu Mo said. "The first victim was a high-level finance company manager, so his economic situation goes without saying. As for the second victim, I don't know if you noticed his clothing... He was wearing all designer brands, something an average family's student couldn't afford. Also, Hotel Management is a major that people from less wealthy backgrounds don't usually choose."
Hearing this, Han Fei immediately had an officer look into Lu Yu's background.
Soon, the results came back.
"I've checked, and it's true. The second victim... Lu Yu, his family owns a hotel. They're quite well-off. He just turned 18, and already has two houses and a car in his name."
With this, everyone had a bit more to go on.
Han Fei immediately picked up a pen and drew a line connecting the two victims' information on the whiteboard.
At the intersection of the two lines, he wrote "Killer," and just above the word "Killer," he added a note: "Resentment towards the wealthy?"
The police had encountered cases before where people killed out of resentment towards those better off than themselves.
So, the point Xu Mo raised could potentially be a useful lead.
"Let's assume for now that these two incidents are connected, and that the killer is the same person," Han Fei said, pointing his pen at the victims' information before continuing.
"People who overlap in both victims' social circles and are not well-off financially could potentially be the killer. Let's try following this lead for now."
Han Fei's longstanding principle in solving cases was – whether there are dates on the tree or not, shake it a few times and see what falls!
Once you have a hypothesis, investigate it. It's better than just staring blankly.
Sometimes, as you investigate, the truth reveals itself...
After Han Fei assigned the tasks, the officers immediately started investigating along this line of inquiry.
Xu Mo wasn't involved in checking the overlap in the victims' social circles.
Han Fei had given him a different task – analyzing the surveillance footage.
In both sets of footage, the victims went to the roof alone, and for a long period before and after, no one else was recorded going up to the roof.
Han Fei found this highly unreasonable – could the killer have appeared on the roof out of thin air?
That was clearly impossible!
The only possibility was that the killer had tampered with the surveillance footage.
Xu Mo was a hacker, so checking whether the surveillance footage had been tampered with was best left to him.
...
Half an hour later.
An officer came to Han Fei.
"Captain Han, our earlier assumption seems to be incorrect. We've checked, and there's no overlap at all in the two victims' social circles."
At the same time, Xu Mo had finished examining the surveillance footage and also came to Han Fei.
"The footage is clean. There's no sign of tampering."
...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
【Prologue: The Beginning of It All – Use holy water to heal the saintess tainted by demonic energy, then converse with her.】 Shen Nian stared at his older sister sipping yogurt, lost in thought. So you’re telling me my sister is the saintess, and yogurt is the holy water? 【Main Quest 1: Brave Youth, Become an Adventurer! Reward: Rookie Adventurer Title.】 【Side Quest 1: Find the Adorable Kitty! Reward: 1000 Gold Coins.】 Shen Nian: "Wait, I’m a high school senior here—did some guy who got isekai’d accidentally bind his system to me?" Hold on, completing quests gives gold rewards? Titles even boost stats? Is this for real? (A lighthearted, absurd campus comedy—not a revenge power fantasy.)
e bizarre and supernatural had descended. The previous emperor was a thoroughgoing tyrant; no longer satisfied with human women, he had set his sights on a stunningly beautiful supernatural entity. He met his end in his bedchamber, drained of all his vital essence. As the legitimate eldest son and crown prince, Wang Hao was thus hastily enthroned, becoming the young emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. No sooner had he awakened the "Imperial Sign-In Intelligence System" than he was assassinated by a Son of Destiny—a classic villain's opening. The Great Zhou, ravaged by the former emperor's excesses, was in national decline. The great families within its borders harbored their own treacherous schemes, martial sects began to defy the imperial court's decrees, and border armies, their pay and provisions in arrears, grumbled incessantly against the central government. Fortunately, the central capital was still held secure by the half-million Imperial Guards and fifty thousand Imperial Forest Army who obeyed the court's orders, along with the royal family's hidden reserves of power, barely managing to suppress the realm. As the Great Zhou's finances worsened and supernatural activities grew ever more frequent, the court sat atop a volcano. Ambitious plotters everywhere dreamed of overthrowing the dynasty, and even some reclusive ancient powers emerged, attempting to sway the tides of the world. At the first grand court assembly, the civil and military officials nearly came to blows, fighting tooth and nail over the allocation of fifty million taels of silver from the summer tax revenues. The spectacle opened Wang Hao's eyes—the Great Zhou's bureaucracy was not only corrupt but also martially proficient, a cabinet of all-rounders. Some officials even had the audacity to suggest the emperor release funds from the imperial privy purse to address the emergency. Wang Hao suddenly felt weary. Let it all burn.
