Chapter 1 Li Mengyao's Death

In a moment of panic, Li Mengyao's first reaction was to get away from here, to run, but she was caught and killed from behind.

Yuan Xiaotian learned from Li Mengyao's death and chose to stay this time, hiding in this relatively large office area. His idea wasn't wrong, but... Jiang Cheng looked at Yuan Xiaotian's head split in two, the result was simply too horrible.

"How did he die?" Huai Yi stared at the appalling corpse. It was hard to imagine that just an hour ago, he was still with them, and now, the blood splattered everywhere had mostly dried, giving the whole scene an unspeakable horror.

Huai Yi's doubt was not without reason. Most of Yuan Xiaotian's body was hidden under the desk, curled up in a relatively small space, but his head was split in two.

Judging from the hideous wound, it was caused by a heavy weapon with considerable volume. Everyone was leaning towards an axe or something similar.

But the strange thing was that the surrounding tables and chairs were quite close together, but there were no excessive collisions or signs of damage. Where was the killer standing, wielding the weapon, to kill Yuan Xiaotian?

After examination, Yuan Xiaotian's body also had only one fatal wound, just like Li Mengyao, a single, deadly blow.

Seeming to see everyone's doubts, Team Leader Zhang pointed to the desk above the body and said, "Our preliminary guess is that the killer was likely standing on the desk, then raised the weapon, and swung it down with force. Only from this angle could they have hit the victim's head."

Seeing that everyone didn't quite understand, Team Leader Zhang took a few steps, rummaged through a briefcase on the ground, found shoe covers and put them on, and put on gloves at the same time.

Wu Bin stepped forward to support him, and he carefully stood on the desk above Yuan Xiaotian's body, then folded his arms together, as if holding a weapon out of thin air, raised it high above his head, demonstrated to everyone, and slashed down hard with both hands.

In the end, he was still an experienced old police officer. After his demonstration, everyone felt that this must be what happened.

Team Leader Zhang slowly came down from the desk, his face still very unsightly, his brow slightly furrowed, as if there were some things he couldn't figure out.

Xia Qiang saw it and asked, "Team Leader Zhang, what are you thinking about?"

"I..." Team Leader Zhang's eyes paused, he pursed his lips slightly, and after a few seconds, he raised his head and asked in a strange tone: "I'm confident in my guess, but we haven't extracted any fingerprints or footprints or anything like that from the desk or nearby. I really can't figure it out. Can those things kill people... without leaving a trace?"

"To be honest, I'm not sure either." Xia Qiang looked at Team Leader Zhang with his brow furrowed and said sincerely, "Because those things cannot be deduced by common sense, and they are not the same as each other. My understanding is also limited."

"Then how do we judge..." Team Leader Zhang was about to continue asking, with a determined look.

But he was interrupted by Xia Qiang as soon as he started, "Team Leader Zhang, I understand your feelings, but let us handle these things."

Wu Bin walked over and patted Team Leader Zhang on the shoulder, "Lao Zhang, we just need to do our part. We don't have the experience or the ability to handle such things." After speaking, he looked at Xia Qiang and Jiang Cheng and the others, and said sincerely, "Captain Xia, we are very grateful that you can come and help, otherwise this case would probably be shelved again."

"You're welcome." Xia Qiang said, "Captain Wu and Team Leader Zhang have provided us with a lot of key clues, which is very important."

As before, Jiang Cheng walked to the body, squatted down, and found Yuan Xiaotian's name tag in the same position.

Team Leader Zhang noticed Jiang Cheng's movements, and was about to say something when Wu Bin grabbed his arm and interrupted him, while giving him a look.

Team Leader Zhang knew that Wu Bin was telling him to mind his own business. Obviously, the weirdness of this case was beyond their imagination, otherwise the Night Watcher wouldn't have taken the initiative to come.

Such things were not something they could interfere with, otherwise they would be implicated if they weren't careful.

Compared to the taciturn Team Leader Zhang, Captain Wu Bin was much better at dealing with people.

"Captain." A voice came.

Looking in the direction of the voice, a young male police officer was standing at the doorway about 5 or 6 meters away, with a flustered expression, holding a mobile phone in one hand, obviously with something to say.

It seemed that Captain Wu or Team Leader Zhang had given the order not to let them in without permission.

"Come in," Wu Bin said.

The police officer walked in quickly, but didn't speak immediately, instead, he looked at Xia Qiang and Jiang Cheng and the others, and hesitated.

Wu Bin frowned, "Just say what's going on. Captain Xia is an expert we invited."

Hearing Captain Wu's words, the police officer no longer hesitated and immediately said, "We found some new information when we investigated the deceased's life trajectory."

"According to the company's colleagues, the deceased's mental state hasn't been good recently. He often makes mistakes in some relatively simple tasks, and was reprimanded by his supervisor several times because of this."

"Also, starting from this period, the deceased started going to bars frequently, and drank a lot of alcohol every time."

"Before that, his life was very simple, basically his rental house or the company, a two-point line. He didn't have a drinking habit. Oh, right, he didn't have a girlfriend either, he lived alone in a rented house."

"Do you know why?" Jiang Cheng asked.

Hearing this, the young police officer's eyes also became strange, as if he also couldn't figure it out, but he still replied, "I heard it was because of a company team building event."

"Team building?"

"Yes." The young police officer nodded, "A week ago, the deceased and some colleagues in the company made an appointment to go to a store to have fun, and then there was some unpleasantness. After that, everyone said that the deceased seemed to have changed as a person."

"Explain it more clearly." Wu Bin frowned, he was very dissatisfied with the young police officer's perfunctory attitude.

Feeling Captain Wu's dissatisfaction, the young police officer explained with a bitter face, "I don't know much either. Now some brothers have already gone to that store to investigate, and news is constantly being sent back."

"Just tell us what you know," Xia Qiang said, helping him out.

After thinking for a moment, the young police officer sorted out his thoughts and slowly said, "It's like this, according to our investigation, Wang Jie is a workaholic, very capable at work, but not so good at interpersonal relationships. In the company, everyone doesn't like him very much. The reason his colleagues asked him to come along this time was because a colleague who had made an appointment earlier had something to do and couldn't come, and the tickets had already been bought, so they temporarily asked him to make up the numbers."

"But who would have thought that just as they were about to leave, the colleague who had said he couldn't come because he had something to do, said he could come again. As a result, everyone kicked Wang Jie out without even thinking about it."