Chapter 904 - 842: Anticorrosion
Liu Jinghui, using his wit, accompanied Jiang Yuan to the Image Reconnaissance Brigade.
In the command center of the Image Reconnaissance Brigade in Changyang City, there were screens of various types filled the room. Whether they were all necessary was uncertain, but they certainly conveyed a high-tech feeling. The detectives there seemed well-educated, and some could change camera angles simply by using keyboards.
Liu Jinghui stood in the back, watching Jiang Yuan direct the detectives through the surveillance footage. His eyes were fixed on the screens ahead, but his mind had already started to wander.
Handling numerous cases could sometimes be a burden. For Liu Jinghui, he had worked on simple and intricate minor cases, cruel and bloody major cases, high-profile cases of concern to leadership, and profound espionage cases; any and all seemed potentially applicable to today’s case.
Concerning the identity of the perpetrator, it could be an ignorant crime of passion or a premeditated murder, and the possibility of a professional using expert methods couldn’t be ruled out either.
If this were an American blockbuster, Liu Jinghui would now consider suspects like former CIA agents or KGB spies, or perhaps advanced terrorists who could concoct a drug in a lab that confuses the time of death.
Of course, if this were merely a detective novel, Liu Jinghui would consider more common methods available to the average person. For example, lowering the temperature of the air conditioning to delay the decay of the body, similar to refrigerating food, which is a mild method and hard to detect unless one is looking.
With a thought, Liu Jinghui’s brow furrowed even deeper.
The perpetrator painstakingly altered the time of death surely with a purpose in mind, typically this indicates an acquaintance involved to manufacture an alibi.
In popular Japanese detective dramas, scenes where the murderer frantically works to establish an alibi, followed by the protagonist rushing to prove the murderer had the opportunity to commit the crime by ruling out their alibi, often occur. They run tirelessly towards the sunlight, towards their dreams, their striving a representation of the Heisei era’s spirit... father.