Rebirth 78, the beginning of the marriage was broken off by the female educated youth

On the desk, the brown paper bag that had just contained the files was open, like a monster ready to devour anyone who came near.

Li Xiangnan sat behind his desk, one hand propping up the table to create some distance between himself and the file.

Even though he was mentally prepared, the shock and astonishment he felt when he actually saw the case file still gave him a big fright!

Shocking!

In the end, he could only find one adjective to describe the murder Chen Hanguo committed in Luzhou, southern Anhui!

That's so strange, so very strange!

All the evidence points to that frail young scholar!

Snapped!

Li Xiangnan lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and tried to dispel the tremor in his heart.

He knew that the greater the contrast, the more likely the truth would shock him.

He took a deep breath, turned the file folder upside down, and emptied out all the documents inside.

With a clatter, a stack of black-and-white crime scene photos quickly fell onto the table, covering the files.

Although the resolution wasn't high for that era, the bloodshed and horrific scene depicted in the photo instantly grabbed Li Xiangnan's attention and held his breath.

The first picture is a panoramic view of Changjiang South Road.

That once bustling street in Luzhou has now become a scene of utter carnage.

People stood far and near, and dark brown stains, almost soaking the ground, could be seen on the road.

Li Xiangnan knew that it was blood, the blood of the victims.

People watched from a distance, their faces filled with horror and disbelief.

Beyond the various scenes surrounded by onlookers, several white circles drawn with chalk stood out in sight.

They lay twisted and contorted in different places, silently telling the story of the chaos at the time. It seemed that the despair was rising from the white circle, making everyone around them feel the same way.

Li Xiangnan exhaled a puff of smoke, stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray, and then picked up the second photograph.

This is a close-up shot.

A gay man lay on the ground, his clothes ripped open from behind by a sharp weapon. His coat and shirt were soaked in blood, revealing deep, bone-revealing wounds beneath, the flesh turned outwards like a hideous mouth spewing blood.

Li Xiangnan closed his eyes, unable to bear looking, and his fingers clenched the photo slightly.

But I have no choice but to go see it!

Because this concerns the truth about the victim, and the true innocence of that young scholar!

The third one, the fourth one, the fifth one...

Li Xiangnan looked through the photos one by one, each one shocking his visual senses and shattering his long-held preconceived notions about murder cases.

The scariest one was a lesbian.

She lay beside a trash can, her neck almost broken, held together only by a thin layer of skin and flesh, her head at an eerie angle.

Even in black and white, Li Xiangnan could see the madness and violence of the murderer at the time from the bloodstains, footprints, and chaotic objects at the scene.

His fingertips were a little cold, and he couldn't bear to look anymore, so he hurriedly put all the photos down.

Then he quickly got up, picked up the cup on the table, and without caring whose it was, ran to the tea cabinet, poured a cup of warm water, and stood by the cabinet, repeatedly gulping down the water!

Trying to warm my icy heart with warm water!

Li Xiangnan is a doctor.

Having practiced medicine for many years, what kind of scenes haven't I seen? What kind of bloodshed haven't I experienced?

He remembers that when he was a child, he even helped his father pull a calf out of a cow's belly by hand.

He originally thought that he was like a vendor in the market, his heart was already as cold as stone, and he would never be frightened by any scene again!

But today, the direct and intense presentation of violence still caused him physical discomfort, as well as an unspeakable sense of sorrow and chill rising in his heart.

This case, this crime scene, is more than just a murder in the street; it's more like...

Li Xiangnan downed the warm water in his cup in one gulp, then poured himself another, saying, "This is more like a cathartic massacre, more like... like grudges accumulated over generations being released all at once!"

He looked down at the calm water in the glass, his confusion even more intense than before!

Chen Hanguo!

What deep-seated hatred did he have for those four people?

This is so unusual!

Judging from their ages, they would never have any interaction!

Chen Hanguo is only nineteen years old!

The youngest of these victims is 42 years old!

They're from completely different generations!

Chen Hanguo wasn't even born when those victims were young!

Something's wrong, something's wrong!

Li Xiangnan returned to the table, lit another cigarette, and forced himself to calm down.

"Calm down, calm down, calm down!" He silently encouraged himself several times before taking his hands off his thighs and opening the on-site investigation records and the autopsy report.

The autopsy was not conducted by the Luzhou Public Security Bureau. Instead, after they reported to their superiors, the Provincial Public Security Department invited several professors from the police academy to perform it.

The report is extremely detailed, written in a style that is almost brutally calm.

"Corpse number three has a total of twenty-one wounds, each fatal, with some wounds overlapping and intersecting..."

"...The edges of wound number four are clean, the wound cavity is deep enough to reach the bone, and there are drag marks at the tail of the wound, indicating that it was caused by repeated slashing from a sharp blade of a certain weight..."

"...Based on the forensic examination of the scene and the wounds on the body, the perpetrator was in a state of extreme agitation, with a strong desire to attack and a certain tendency to indiscriminately attack. However, whether he lost mental control requires further psychiatric evaluation..."

After reading the first part of the report, Li Xiangnan frowned, his gaze finally settling on the words at the end.

Indiscriminate attack tendency?

Li Xiangnan agreed with the previous judgments, but he had his own opinion on these few words.

Judging from the traces at the scene in the photos, Chen Hanguo doesn't seem to be retaliating indiscriminately!

Could it be that my judgment is flawed?

Li Xiangnan shook his head and continued reading.

The report concludes clearly that all four victims died from hemorrhagic shock, and the murder weapon was a heavy knife found at the scene. The perpetrator's methods were brutal, and he was in a state of extreme agitation or mental instability at the time.

Li Xiangnan nodded; this did indeed match the description of Chen Hanguo's mental state at the time.

He definitely has mental problems!

Next, we see the on-site transcript.

"It was terrifying. I was walking past him when I turned around and saw him rush out of the restaurant, slashing at people indiscriminately!"

"He was gesturing wildly and shouting something I couldn't understand, but he was yelling and chasing after people, so who wouldn't run for their life!"

"Yes, yes, that's the guy! I saw him chasing people with a knife!"

More than a dozen people, without exception, all identified Chen Hanguo as someone who attacked people indiscriminately at the scene, in an extremely terrifying state.

Testimony, crime scene photos, autopsy report, and photos of the murder weapon...

All of this evidence, linked together seamlessly, pinpointed Chen Hanguo as the murderer.

Li Xiangnan frowned. He believed that any experienced police officer would, like him, make an unwavering conclusion at this moment.

This is an accidental injury incident that occurred when a mentally ill patient suddenly suffered a psychotic episode.

The murderer was Chen Hanguo!

The timeline is clear, the evidence is conclusive, and the witness testimonies and physical evidence are complete.

There are absolutely no discrepancies!

After reading the last page of the transcript, Li Xiangnan leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.

The office was eerily quiet, save for the sound of his heavy breathing.

An irrefutable case, with a flawless and clear chain of evidence.

But it was precisely these perfect details that made Li Xiangnan feel vaguely uneasy.

How could a nineteen-year-old genius, a scholar universally recognized as a weakling, suddenly unleash such terrifying power and cruelty?

The murder weapon, the photos from the scene, the eyewitness accounts, the unanimous testimony—all the rationality and all the evidence pointed to Chen Hanguo!

Such perfect evidence pointed to something, yet it evoked a completely different feeling in Li Xiangnan's heart!

No, no, absolutely not!

There must be something else that I haven't discovered yet!

Li Xiangnan suddenly sat up straight, and a bold idea, almost making him faint, suddenly rushed into his mind.

Is it...

Chen Hanguo did kill the person, but this guy used his superior intelligence to exploit legal loopholes and use the excuse that he was mentally ill to escape legal punishment.

Thump, thump.

The thought startled Li Xiangnan, and a cold sweat instantly broke out on his back.

If that's true, then Chen Hanguo is absolutely wicked, a real bastard!

But did things really turn out as I expected?

Li Xiangnan became suspicious, quickly opened the door, and walked towards the isolation room next door...