Chapter 114: The Detective Face-to-Face

"I feel the same way!" Shen Yinchuan said. "With two genetically enhanced individuals by his side, no matter what kind of car accident occurred, it shouldn't have resulted in all three deaths, let alone the car falling into the water."

What are genetically enhanced individuals?
They are supermen!
For people of superman caliber, even if a car were to suddenly explode, they would likely have a chance to escape, let alone falling into the water.
Falling into the water provides a buffer period.
It is almost impossible to drown one genetically enhanced person, let alone two.
Given their skills, not to mention a small lake like South Lake, even if they were thrown from a plane into the Pacific Ocean, they might not necessarily drown.

"Let's go take a look," Lin Xiaosu said.
"This..." Shen Yinchuan hesitated slightly. "You just had a direct confrontation with Li Songtao. Appearing at the scene at this time..."
"What? Can't you, the dignified captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade, prove that I wasn't at the crime scene?"
"I can certainly prove it, but I’m afraid that in Li Changsheng's heart, you are the prime suspect!"
Lin Xiaosu smiled. "Suspect in his heart? Whether he suspects me or not is none of my concern. Let's go."

A car sped out of the Criminal Investigation Brigade and headed toward the crime scene.
Lin Xiaosu, 88, and Shen Yinchuan.
Both 88 and Shen Yinchuan were in plain clothes.
Their car bore no police markings.

As the car drove onto South Lake Avenue, Lin Xiaosu gazed out the window, tracing back through time and space.
He saw Li Songtao's car.
There was nothing unusual about the vehicle, and the people sitting inside were the three individuals Shen Yinchuan had mentioned.
Ahead was a bend in the road.
At this moment, a crowd was gathered there, with police cordon tape drawn around the perimeter.

Lin Xiaosu’s heart skipped a beat.
He knew...
He knew everything...
Two minutes before the car reached the bend, a third party had suddenly appeared inside.
Ding Ruoshui!
The trajectory of her appearance was so unpredictable that even seen through the lens of time-reversal, it exceeded imagination.
She seemed like a wandering spirit in the air, appearing on the roadside without warning. In the blink of an eye, the car window glass flew toward South Lake. With the car traveling at at least a hundred yards, she entered the cabin and tapped her finger lightly, causing Zhuifeng and Heizi to lose consciousness instantly.

She had a conversation with Li Songtao.
He deciphered the content through lip-reading, and it was quite speechless: "That 460,000 yuan, I don't want it anymore; keep it to buy yourself a coffin!"
Damn!
Was her motive for murder really just because her speedboat had been destroyed?
And the mystery that had everyone stumped was solved by Lin Xiaosu in an instant...
Why did the car crash?
Because the driver had become a living corpse.
Why couldn't a genetic expert like Zhuifeng save his master? Why couldn't he even save himself? Because he, too, had become a living corpse.
Why did they become living corpses?
Because a master of ancient martial arts had lightly tapped the center of their brows with a finger.
This touch left no mark on the skin, yet it easily snuffed out three souls.

The car stopped.
The three of them got out.

A few police officers looked over, their expressions stern as they warned those outside the cordon not to disturb the forensic investigation. Suddenly, one of the officers' faces changed slightly, for he recognized the arrival: it was their direct superior, Shen Yinchuan.
Shen Yinchuan shook his head slightly, signaling the officer not to reveal his identity.

Lin Xiaosu stared at the three corpses and the flashy Maserati. The car appeared normal, save for a missing window.
The exposed parts of the corpses showed no abnormalities; they simply lacked the aura of life.
There were ambulances at the scene that had already undergone several rounds of resuscitation efforts, but not even a deity could revive those who were destined to die, and the medical staff had long since stopped the futile work.

There were four people examining the bodies.
Besides the three obvious forensic experts, there was one other, whose business registration Lin Xiaosu had found in the Dragon Eyes database: He Jiang of the Jiangcheng Detective Agency.
This was the "number one detective of Jiangcheng" that Ding Ruoshui had mentioned that day.
He never expected, truly never expected, that he, the detective from Fengcheng, would meet the number one detective of Jiangcheng for the first time on such an occasion.

These thoughts flashed through Lin Xiaosu's mind, but his gaze was quickly drawn to two people.
One was about fifty years old, leaning against a luxury car, his face deathly pale.
He was Li Changsheng, the hegemon of the Changsheng Group.
Beside him, supporting him, was a beautiful woman in purple, elegant and moving.
The Qianlong database had records of her, and there were legends about her among the people.
In the Qianlong records, she was Li Ziyi, the apple of Li Changsheng's eye.
In folklore, she was a woman of extreme intellect; Li Changsheng consulted her on the grand strategy of the Changsheng Group, rather than his eldest son, Li Heming, who served as the first vice president and was seen as the crown prince of the group.
No matter how elegant she might be, she could not maintain it today, for tragedy had struck her home.
With her own brother dead, how could a sister remain elegant?

There was another woman, standing a bit further away, looking somewhat dazed...
She, too, was in Lin Xiaosu's database; she was Liu Qianxun from the Liu family in Baiyangchong, Fengcheng County.
Perhaps there were complicated feelings between her and Lin Xiaosu, or perhaps it was the natural resonance of martial artists, but Liu Qianxun suddenly shifted her gaze and saw Lin Xiaosu.
The moment she saw him, her gaze locked onto him.
With that fixation, the expressions on her face shifted like clouds, and in her eyes, an infinite complexity was revealed in an instant...
There was hatred, and there was speculation...
Unfortunately, Lin Xiaosu did not look at her at all; he had been watching that Jiangcheng detective the entire time.

He Jiang’s technique was quite remarkable.
About ten minutes later, He Jiang took off his gloves and his coat, throwing them on the ground. Two beautiful women stepped forward simultaneously to collect them.
He Jiang walked up to Li Changsheng, clean and composed.
"What did Mr. He discover?" Li Changsheng asked in a deep voice.
"Murder is a certainty!" He Jiang said. "If the killer is who I think it is, they are a master of ancient martial arts. They used a technique similar to 'acupoint pressing' to seal the trio's ability to act in the first instance, causing the car to fall into South Lake and fabricating a drowning scene."

Good man!
Lin Xiaosu even wanted to applaud him.
The number one detective of Jiangcheng really had some substance!
The forensic experts below looked at each other in dismay...
Normally, it was inconvenient for private detectives to join a police investigation, but given the status of the deceased, Li Changsheng trusted the lead detective, and with the higher-ups turning a blind eye, he was allowed to participate.
And now, before the forensic team had finished, he had already provided an authoritative conclusion.
Was he slapping the forensic experts in the face?

"An ancient martial arts master?" Li Changsheng's face twitched slightly. "Are you sure?"
"Genetic experts rely on their bloodlines and speed; to subdue someone, they would inevitably leave external injuries. For this kind of strange power that leaves the skin unblemished and the bones intact while making it impossible for people to move, it can only be ancient martial arts!" He Jiang stated.
"Can Mr. He truly find this perpetrator?" Li Changsheng slowly looked up. "If you find them, I will give you 30 million!"
30 million!
He said it through gritted teeth!

He Jiang's eyelids also twitched slightly. "This... I can only do my best. Descendants of ancient martial arts are already rare, and if they intend to hide, it is very difficult to find clues. Moreover, this person meticulously fabricated the scene, clearly possessing super-strong anti-investigation capabilities..."
"50 million!" Li Changsheng spat out the three words.
He Jiang’s heart rate accelerated again...
50 million!
Who wouldn't want that?
If he completed this job, he would achieve true financial freedom.
However, he wasn't certain; he really wasn't certain. Perhaps he was the only one at the scene who knew how bizarre the methods of the person who committed this act were. Such a person could kill anyone at any time with a mere wave of their hand, including Li Songtao, and including him, the number one detective of Jiangcheng...

Just then, Liu Qianxun, five meters away, walked over and whispered something to Li Ziyi.
Li Ziyi’s gaze snapped up, staring at Lin Xiaosu ten meters away.
The next moment, two more pairs of eyes were fixed on Lin Xiaosu.
Li Changsheng's eyes were incomparably venomous, while the eyes of the number one detective of Jiangcheng seemed to hold a hint of excitement...
He, too, had only just found out.
The descendant of ancient martial arts, who was hard to find in the secular world, was standing right in front of them.
And this person, just over ten minutes before Li Songtao's incident, had had a direct conflict with him, using the self-defense exemption clause to crush the spine and mangle the nerves of Li Songtao's personal lackey.
This pile of information injected too much excitement into the detective.
He had the motive!
He had the ability!
He could create conditions to evade legal restrictions, counter-kill Du Qi on the spot, and was proficient in the law.
He was a detective himself, clearly possessing extremely strong anti-investigation awareness...
Did this not perfectly match his profile of the killer?
Was the 50-million-yuan bait offered by Boss Li really out of reach?
It didn't seem so!

Li Changsheng took a step in the direction of Lin Xiaosu.
Everyone was startled by this step.
The most surprised was Ding Lizhong.
Yes, he had come too.
With such a major event happening at the home of the Changsheng Group's chairman, as a partner and the first vice president of the group, his presence was only logical.
But just after arriving, the various analyses and discussions about the case poured into his ears, causing the waves in the old man's heart to never cease.
Because he knew that just over ten minutes before Li Songtao died, his daughter and son-in-law had had an intense confrontation with him.
And this son-in-law of his was a man whose actions were unfathomable.
Not to mention what others thought, even he himself felt his resolve wavering... could it be that his son-in-law had used some method?
He was a detective, and detectives were best at solving other people's cases; correspondingly, in theory, he was also a crime expert.
Now, this kid had actually appeared brazenly at the scene of the murder.
And he had already fallen into Li Changsheng's sights.
What kind of person was Li Changsheng?
Ding Lizhong knew better than anyone; this was a man who excelled at reading people, digging pits, and creating trouble for others.
Most young people, in the face of the aura naturally formed by his long-held high position, would falter before speaking, and even smart people would do stupid things...

Li Changsheng arrived in front of Lin Xiaosu and stared at him.
Lin Xiaosu took off his glasses and looked back at him, his expression very calm. He looked at this hegemon of Changsheng, famous throughout Jiangcheng, with the same look one might give an old woman selling sesame cakes on the side of the road.