There's definitely something wrong with this murder mystery game-Chapter 705 - 606: The Murderer Needs to Change Gender

Chapter 705: Chapter 606: The Murderer Needs to Change Gender

Deceased: A decadent middle-aged man.

Location of death: The alley behind Fragrant Residence Bar.

Identity of the deceased: The suspect who ordered White Horse Champagne.

Xu Shuo: Damn.

The first witness was a patrol officer in the Luona District, patrolling the vicinity of the bar.

While on patrol, the officer found someone lying on the ground in the alley. Upon checking, the officer realized the person was already dead and immediately reported it to the Luona District police station, which then relayed the information to Inspector Berrod’s deputy.

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When Xu Shuo saw the deceased, he recognized at a glance that it was the man who had gone to the bar to order a drink from the surveillance footage!

After the officer’s inspection, the deputy reported, “The cause of death was acute poisoning; the residual scent of White Horse Champagne in the mouth leads us to preliminarily conclude that it is the same manner of death as the bar’s victim.”

Xu Shuo tilted his head, “So after he himself took a sip of White Horse Champagne, he had the server continue to serve it to the patrons at table number three?”

Deputy: Although it’s an odd focus, but — “Perhaps so.”

Xu Shuo chuckled ambiguously.

The glass that fell and shattered on the floor inside the bar had already been sent for analysis by the officer, but the results were not yet out.

It’s unknown if there will be saliva residue from two people on it.

Of course, it could potentially have three people’s as well.

“Let’s first pin down the time of death.”

“Yes,” the deputy responded dutifully.

The surveillance at the entrance of the bar showed that, around the time of the bar victim’s death, many people left the bar.

The man who ordered the drinks was naturally among them.

He even left the bar ten minutes before the victim’s death, looking around hastily as he walked, and then he entered the alley behind the bar.

At that time, Jenny was performing her pole dance.

This meant that after giving the champagne to table number three, he left the bar directly.

However, the bar’s victim died within ten minutes of drinking. If this deceased drank the champagne earlier than the other person, then he wouldn’t have had the strength to walk such a distance away from the bar.

Of course, it’s also possible that the poison had not yet dissipated in the drink, and he suffered from a milder poisoning.

Xu Shuo walked over and crouched beside the deceased, tilting his head to examine him.

Then, he took out white gloves from his pocket, put them on, and lifted the dead man’s head to look closely.

The man’s beard was unkempt, his eyes sunken, and his whole body emitted an air of decay and degeneration. While his clothes were not shabby, they had the cheap feel of flea market bargains.

He died with his eyes open, bulging with congealed blood, and beside his mouth remained froth and the strong smell of champagne.

Just like the victim in the bar.

Xu Shuo stared at the man, then leaned in close to the deceased to take a delicate sniff, as if deep in thought.

There was a peculiar scent of perfume on his body.

Naturally, being in a bar and rubbing shoulders with so many girls, picking up a hint of perfume scent was not out of the ordinary.

“Sir, we’ve established his identity. This man recently moved from the Lower District and currently resides on Luona District’s 63rd Avenue,” said the deputy suddenly.

As he spoke, the signal light on Xu Shuo’s portable terminal flashed, and the deputy transmitted the data directly to his terminal.

“So, he wasn’t heading home when he went in this direction?”

As Xu Shuo viewed the data of the second deceased, scrolling down, he also noticed this person’s spending records in the Luona District during this period.

Mostly mingling in bars.

He frequented various bars, spending similar amounts of time, but he had been patronizing the Fragrant Residence Bar lately.

And his last expenditure was…

A single room at the Night Beauty Hotel.

Check-in time, 1:10 a.m.

The assistant said beside him, “Looking at this, he must have left the Fragrant Residence Bar to go out and find a place to get a room, and then the poisoning took effect on the way back.”

The position of the deceased’s body was indeed heading towards the Fragrant Residence Bar, which seemed not to be departing, but rather approaching.

So his actions of leaving the bar after giving the White Horse Champagne to table number three might not be an act of fleeing from a crime—it could have been simply going out to get a room.

But what situation would have made him leave to get a room and then return to the bar?

With this thought, Xu Shuo’s mind flashed through the faces he had seen in the bar earlier, both innocent and seductive, as he sifted through them for any that might have been out of the ordinary.

At this point, the assistant realized belatedly and said, “Could his sudden decision to get a room be because he met a woman in the bar whom he wanted to take away?”

That was very likely.

Otherwise, if he had a place to stay in the Luona district, why would he bother getting a room near the bar in his financially strapped situation?

It was obviously an intention to have a one-night affair.

He must have been asked by some woman to get a room outside first, and then return to the bar to call her.

And that woman must have been very beautiful, as normally, a man would just leave with the woman directly to get a room. Why bother with the trouble of going back and forth?

Only a beauty could bewitch a man into such folly.

“It seems the suspect can change again, to another person or another gender,” Xu Shuo said languidly. “Have they not extracted any information over there yet? They are really slow.”

“If some people are unwilling to tell the truth, we can’t force them,” said the assistant helplessly.

The bar waitstaff had been rounded up for interrogation long ago. Except for the waiter who was the first witness, no one else has admitted to serving the drinks to table number three, as they didn’t want to get involved in this matter.

In a case involving a death, most people would not admit anything unless there was evidence linking them to the incident.

Even if they were not the killer.

They were afraid of the killer who hadn’t been found yet; if they came forward, who could say for sure that the killer wouldn’t kill them as retaliation?

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Thoughtfully, Xu Shuo said, “Isn’t there any form of severe interrogation…”

On hearing this, the assistant gave him a look of incredulity.

Then, realizing what was being suggested, the assistant tried to dissuade him tactfully, “Chief, the Police Inspectorate in Midtown District prohibits the use of extralegal punishment on suspects without evidence.”

Outwardly: no extralegal punishment is allowed.

Covertly: forced confessions are forbidden.

Even though it is an official institution, the rules in Lower District are different from those in Midtown District; the Police Inspectorate in Lower District finds the use of torture on suspects not unusual due to the district’s chaotic nature.

But such practices are unacceptable in Midtown District. They would lead to protests by the public and could easily escalate.

In the Uptown District, it’s even more taboo, as suspects with even a slight bit of status cannot even be taken away for questioning by the Inspectorate.

Inspector Berrod had been transferred up from the Lower District, so the assistant understood why the chief might think this way.

Xu Shuo expressed regret.

At that moment, the assistant checked the information sent over from the police station and relayed, “The time of death has been determined: around 1:15 in the morning, and the two victims died within five minutes of each other.”

It was essentially the case that someone died in the bar and then another person died right after in the alley.

However, the bar victim drank later but died sooner.

From this, it can be concluded that the poison hadn’t fully dissolved before the person in the alley consumed the drink.

“It seems this was just a scapegoat,” said Xu Shuo as he took off the gloves he had used to touch the deceased, speaking somewhat disinterestedly, “Tsk, let’s go back. Let Mr. Lei deal with this himself.”

“Let Mr. Lei handle it?” the assistant was puzzled.

Even though the intended victim was Mr. Lei, such cases were typically handled by the Police Inspectorate.

Are you really okay with washing your hands of this so openly?

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