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Chapter 29: Discovery of an Important Clue, Is the Suspect Also Going to Commit Suicide?

This seemingly playful suicide note…

Or rather…

It shouldn’t be called a suicide note, because it doesn’t contain any regret or unwillingness.

It also doesn’t address any final arrangements like others do.

But as Su Ming held it in his hands, he felt a sense of heaviness and sorrow that was hard to describe.

Because.

Although this letter didn’t express fear in every word, it clearly conveyed regret and sadness.

Especially that line.

“I never want to come back in the next life…”

……

After a few seconds of silence.

Su Ming gently closed his eyes, slowly suppressing the complicated emotions inside him.

Although he had simulated crimes hundreds of thousands of times.

And had been the brutal killer countless times.

His heart should have been as cold as ice, but this wasn’t a simulation, it was real, with real human emotions, and people often acted based on their feelings.

As he closed his eyes, Su Ming kept asking himself, trying to sort out his thoughts and find the right answer.

Was the victim’s death a suicide?

If it was a suicide, why was the radial artery on her left wrist cut?

Why didn’t the girl who spent the last moments with her try to stop her? Instead, she seemed to cooperate?

Why was the dust on the sixth-floor stairs wiped away, likely to hide footprints, but no one bothered to clean up the garbage on the rooftop, leaving behind DNA traces?

Could the items on the rooftop have been intentionally placed by the killer to make the death look like a suicide, crafting a perfect crime?

The victim said she was unnecessary burden. Had her parents already divorced and formed new families? What did the “i don’t matter” phrase represent? Poor relationships with classmates? Or was it a case of depression and suicide caused by school bullying?

……

After collecting the potential DNA evidence.

Xu Changsheng stood up and saw Su Ming with his eyes half-closed. Curiously, he asked.

“Xiao Ming, why are you closing your eyes?”

“Is there something crucial in the letter? Or have you deduced something useful?”

After organizing his thoughts, Su Ming opened his eyes at the right moment, handed the letter to Xu Changsheng, and replied.

“Brother Sheng, take a look at this letter.”

“It’s not a final message, but rather what the victim left for us.”

“Then I’ll summarize the current clues and give you my rough conclusions.”

With that, Su Ming paused for two seconds, cleared his thoughts, and continued.

“First.”

“It’s safe to say that the victim committed suicide. The way she fell backward was very peculiar. Unless she jumped on her own, I can’t think of any other possibility.”

“But even if she did jump on her own, we can’t rule out the possibility that a criminal might have used drugs or mental suggestion to control the victim’s extreme state.”

“Because in previous cases…”

“There have been instances where victims were controlled by drugs or mental manipulation, leading them to commit suicide.”

“As for.”

“Why the victim’s left wrist artery was cut, I have three possible theories…”

“The first is that before jumping, the victim might have asked her companion, who came up to the rooftop with her, to give her a peaceful death if she wasn’t dead by the time they went downstairs.”

“The second is that the companion saw she wasn’t dead and, unable to bear her suffering, chose to cut the victim’s radial artery.”

“The third is that there could have been another person involved, and under that person’s instructions or demands, the companion had to ensure the victim died.”

“Regardless of which theory is correct, I believe the person who cut the victim’s radial artery is the same companion who spent time with her, chatting and eating snacks!”

“So the key issue is…”

“We must quickly identify that companion, or at least call them a suspect for now.”

“Because in my opinion… there are just too many suspicious points about this person!!!”

“If they were friends, why didn’t they try to stop the victim from committing suicide? Why did they cause the victim further harm?”

“Secondly.”

“The dust on the sixth-floor stairs was wiped away to avoid leaving footprints, but they didn’t care about the DNA traces left on the rooftop. Does that suggest one thing…?”

“Footprints are easier to trace than DNA?”

“And.”

“Did they think that we, the police, would definitely find her in the end, so they hid the footprints but didn’t care about leaving their DNA, hoping they wouldn’t be found too soon?”

“And the most important thing.”

“By the fact that the person drank AD calcium milk, ate spicy strips and chips, and sat chatting with the victim, we can deduce that this person is likely of a similar age to the victim.”

“Being so young, why would they have such strong psychological resilience?”

“Seeing the victim fall without any fear, and even going up to cut her radial artery with a sharp knife, that’s just too strange.”

“It makes me extremely suspicious…”

“This case might not just involve two middle school students. There may be someone giving orders behind the scenes, but we can’t confirm that based only on speculation.”

“Lastly.”

“Brother Sheng, I think we need to act on two fronts.”

“First, we need to understand the victim’s family situation and interpersonal relationships, to find out the real reason for her suicide, and explore whether she had been in this state for a long time or was deliberately guided into it.”

“On the other hand, we need to find the suspect who witnessed the case, based on the current clues…”

“This suspect is likely between 14 to 17 years old, female, and probably had a close relationship with the victim, or was one of her few friends.”

“Based on the suspect’s actions of wiping away footprints but leaving DNA, I suspect that this person might have a leg disability.”

“They could also be one of the excluded, ignored people at school, and because they had similar experiences to the victim, they became close friends.”

“Another highly likely thing.”

“That is…”

“From the way the suspect tried to cover their tracks, it’s possible they’re not trying to flee, but just want to delay us from finding them.”

“So why not afraid of being found, but concerned about being found too early?”

“If we think about it in the extreme, it’s very possible that this suspect also plans to…”

“Commit suicide!!!”

At this moment.

When Su Ming finished his deduction.

Xu Changsheng had also finished reading the victim’s letter.

But he…

Didn’t have time to say anything before quickly heading back to the stairs, using a flashlight to search for something on the dusty fifth-floor stairs.

Half a minute later.

Among the faint footprints, Xu Changsheng noticed one near the wall with a clear mark of the front of the foot touching the ground and the back of the foot hovering in the air!!!

And.

It wasn’t just a random occurrence.

Looking closer.

It was clear that every step had this kind of footprint.

Xu Changsheng’s gaze sharpened slightly, and he didn’t expect that Su Ming’s earlier deduction was correct—the suspect had a significant leg disability.

But the most crucial thing was…

According to Su Ming’s theory, this suspect might also be planning to commit suicide?!!!