Once, I wanted to be a good person

When Fang Ze was talking to Chairperson Liu and the other two, he didn’t purposely control his volume, so many commissioners heard him, and like the three of them, felt puzzled.

They all looked up at Fang Ze’s direction, wanting to see who was speaking so boldly about solving the case. And they saw Fang Ze.

Although none of these commissioners recognized Fang Ze, the dress code in this world is very strict. So merely seeing Fang Ze in deep purple noble attire, with patterns on the collar that only the Chairperson of an Administrative Region can wear, almost instantly revealed Fang Ze’s identity to the commissioners: The passenger of this special train, Chairperson of the Eastern Administrative Region.

Though they knew Fang Ze’s identity, they didn’t understand Fang Ze’s experiences or deeds, so these commissioners still exchanged puzzled glances. Apparently, it’s a bit odd: Can a Chairperson solve cases too?

At this moment, Chairperson Liu and the other two, realizing the attention from neighboring commissioners, found the situation a bit out of control. Vice Chairperson Wang quickly walked towards them, stopping their "snooping" and instructing them to continue their investigation. As for Chairperson Liu and Black Shark, they swiftly walked over to Fang Ze.

Standing beside Fang Ze, Chairperson Liu looked at the six bare-legged crew members, then at Fang Ze, and with a smile, pulled Fang Ze aside, softly saying, "Chairperson Fang, you, being the Chairperson of a region, don’t need to involve yourself in such a case. Besides, this case is very complex. If we can avoid getting involved, let’s not get involved...."

Hearing him, Fang Ze gave him a peculiar look and replied, "But, I’ve already solved the case. Can I still not get involved?"

Upon hearing Fang Ze’s words, Chairperson Liu hesitated for a moment, then skeptically inquired, "Really solved? So quickly?"

Fang Ze calmly stated, "Yes. Just that quickly. Because this case actually isn’t complex; on the contrary, it’s very simple."

"Simple?" Hearing Fang Ze’s words, Chairperson Liu was nearly bewildered.

Although he didn’t understand how to solve cases, the Minister of the Special Service Department and the Director of the Security Bureau had both told him how difficult this case was. The two departments sent so many people with no clues at all, which already indicated the complexity of the case.

Yet Fang Ze said it was simple?

At that moment, Chairperson Liu was starting to suspect if he had misheard.

At this point, Fang Ze nodded and then said, "Yes, very simple. Because the case isn’t actually complex; the suspect is just very smart, deliberately misleading the investigators with false information."

Seeing Fang Ze’s confidence, Black Shark became interested too, and couldn’t help but inquire, "What false information?"

Fang Ze said, "Time."

"Time?" Hearing this term, Chairperson Liu and Black Shark were a bit puzzled.

Fang Ze nodded, then slowly began sharing his thought process.

Actually, when Black Shark spoke about the case earlier, Fang Ze already felt something strange: No Power of Law fluctuation, no Divine Power fluctuation, no abnormalities in the surveillance, and the footage wasn’t edited either. Yet such a large train vanished into thin air. This matter is indeed bizarre!

Unless the other side has a Late-Night Investigation Room like him, otherwise there’s certainly a crucial piece of information that everyone has overlooked!

So Fang Ze quickly reverse-engineered the entire event in his mind.

Firstly, the train must have been moved by human intervention. This goes without saying. After all, the train doesn’t have legs to run on its own. Even if it could run, it’s impossible to tamper with the video.

And as long as it was moved by human intervention, there would theoretically be traces and clues left behind.

If none were left, then there’s only one possibility: These traces and clues were eliminated in advance.

To erase traces of transferring such a large train bit by bit manually is far too cumbersome and time-consuming. Therefore, Fang Ze is more inclined to believe.... that [time] became an accomplice.

In other words: The perpetrator fabricated the time of the crime.

This method isn’t common in this world, but in Fang Ze’s previous life, it was actually very common: Many criminal suspects would use various means to deliberately mislead investigators, postpone the crime’s timing, and fabricate an alibi to clear themselves of suspicion.

Applying this to the current case: If this train wasn’t moved an hour ago but had never entered the station or was moved immediately upon arrival, then the fluctuations of Power of Law and Demigod aura in transferring the train would disappear over time, and today’s surveillance footage naturally wouldn’t capture suspicious individuals or spot abnormalities.

As for how the perpetrator feigned the train’s presence after its disappearance?

Fang Ze thinks it’s simple: The suspect could easily use some projection technology or Extraordinary Artifact to forge images of the train always being at the scene to deceive surveillance.

Then use Extraordinary Artifacts to alter the crew’s memory or perception.

In this way, since these days only the crew has interacted with this train, the deception could easily escape detection.

And how to prove this conjecture? It’s actually quite straightforward.

Fang Ze has two approaches:

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The first is to broaden the monitoring scope and thoroughly investigate all the surveillance records before and after the train entered the secret platform. Among them, there must be content edited or altered by the suspect.