Bloody Romance: I, the big troublemaker, Zhong Yuemin!

Liu Daqiang and the other nodded, and Zhong Yuemin continued:

"Secondly, I just heard your investigators describe the case, and I feel like this entire theft went incredibly smoothly. From the moment the thieves broke the bars on the finance office window, climbed in, and then had to carry the hundred-pound safe out of the office, to finally escape by scaling the wall behind the factory. The entire process took less than half an hour. The factory's night patrols visit the finance office area every half an hour, yet the burglary happened during that timeframe. Don't you think it's a bit of a coincidence?"

Wang Jun said:

"Regarding the suspect's entire crime process, there are some details that you may not know. The iron railings in the finance office were not broken that night. The suspect must have broken them a few days ago and simply glued them back together. There is nothing unusual on the surface. Therefore, we speculate that the suspect must have visited the area beforehand and even entered the finance office. He must have planned his escape route after the robbery.

We found numerous fresh footprints, trampling marks, and dragging marks at the base, top, and top of the factory's rear wall. This further proves the suspects had visited the area beforehand and had a thorough understanding of the factory's conditions. Therefore, half an hour would have been more than enough for the two to commit the crime."

Zhong Yuemin said:

"Captain Wang, this actually reveals that the suspect is an insider from the factory. If he was an outside thief, why would he go to such great lengths? He could have just robbed the safe and left. It's because the suspect knew that a large sum of money would be deposited into the finance office safe in a few days, so he had a crooked idea and made preparations in advance. This is logical."

Another point is my personal speculation: whether the suspect broke the finance office railing or left traces when he escaped over the wall at the back of the factory, it was all intentional. His goal was to mislead you police officers into thinking the safe was moved out of the finance office window and thrown out over the back wall. This created a false impression, but the thief's cleverness backfired, and he ended up exposing himself."

"Illusion?"

Wang Jun asked, "What do you mean? If the safe doesn't go out of the finance office window, how can it disappear out of thin air?"

"Go through the finance office door!"

Zhong Yuemin said:

"This thief was so deliberate, sawing the railings and carefully gluing them back together, and scouting the area several times. Why didn't he just try to get a key to the finance office's iron door? This thief was so meticulous and cautious, but when scouting the area, he revealed so many flaws, with the drag marks and shoe prints. It feels like he started well but ended badly, as if he was deliberately doing it for you police officers to see, right?

Another point is that this safe weighs over 100 pounds, and it takes a lot of effort to move it normally, let alone steal it. Although the crime happened at night, there are patrols in the factory and workers work overtime at night. It is very inconvenient to drag such a large safe. The chance of running into people is still relatively high, and the risk is also very high. If I want to be a thief, I might as well just pry open the safe, take the money and leave. All these signs show that the thief's previous actions were to mislead you, the police.

There were two purposes: one, to direct the target of the crime to someone outside the society, and two, the safe had been stolen that night and could not have been in the factory.

Liu Daqiang frowned, holding his cigarette, letting the ash fall out. He knew all the details of the crime by heart, but now, after hearing this analysis, he felt a sense of sudden enlightenment. After previously ruling out the people inside the factory, he focused on people in society, but the more he investigated, the fewer clues he had, and there were almost no useful ones. He had run into a dead end. This was a typical case of preconceived ideas and rigid thinking. If he was not careful, he might have gone in the wrong direction.

Wang Jun also felt the same way, and he felt that what people said made sense.

"Go on, keep talking. Isn't there a third point?"

Zhong Yuemin said:

"Captain Liu, Captain Wang, I think solving a case often requires analyzing from the suspect's perspective. Consider yourself a suspect. If I were a thief, a mid-level manager at the factory, and learned that a large sum of money would be deposited into the finance office's safe, I would prepare in advance. The safest way would be to peacefully enter the finance office, obtain a key, open the door, steal the safe, then saw through the window bars and deliberately leave footprints and escape traces on the factory's rear wall. The goal would be to mislead the police into thinking the case was done by someone outside the company. Furthermore, the safe had already been stolen and had already left the factory, so I could deflect the blame and exonerate myself.

After a few days when things calmed down, I would find a chance to load the safe onto a truck and drive it out of the factory gate. Would the gatekeeper check it? No one would notice.

Captain Liu, Captain Wang, this is my personal opinion. You might as well shift your focus back to the factory. I think we'll be close to solving this case."

Liu Daqiang and Wang Jun were really shocked. This analysis was well-reasoned and not a random conjecture. Instead, it was a scientific analysis and bold guess based on facts. They felt that the suspect's face was already in front of them. Although it was still a little blurry, it was only a matter of time before they saw his true face. The suspect could not escape.

It wasn't until the cigarette burned his fingers that Liu Daqiang reacted and looked at people with a different look.

"Young man...By the way, what's your name?" After chatting with someone for a long time, I still don't know his name.

"Captain Liu, my name is Zhong Yuemin, you can just call me Yuemin."

"Yuemin!" Liu Daqiang said:

"Luckily you're not an employee of the machinery factory, otherwise I would have arrested you as a suspect and interrogated you, a key suspect."

This is not a joke. People talk about it as if it were their own experience, which makes it hard not to doubt it.

Zhong Yuemin joked, "Captain Liu, if I wanted this thief, he wouldn't do something like that to get himself into a trap."

The reason why he could depict the suspect's "appearance" so accurately was nothing else, because with the memory of two lives, he already knew who the suspect was. That made it easy. You police officers were looking for the clue of the case in the mess, that is, the clue of the investigation.

And what about him?

The end of the ball of twine (the suspect) has been caught. What we need to do next is to string together the details and clues to make it scientific and reasonable, not too abrupt, and finally guide you, the police, to catch the final suspect.

It was really not easy. It made him confused and he was so tired that he was talking about it. Fortunately, the result seems to be good now.

Liu Daqiang put out the cigarette in his hand, and the previous dejected look on his face was gone. He said:

"Dajun, gather everyone and hold a new meeting. Overturn all previous arrangements. Withdraw all investigators from the periphery and refocus on investigating the personnel within the machinery factory. Focus on the mid- and senior-level leadership, especially their alibis during the time period of the incident. This is of paramount importance. We must have let something slip before, allowing this suspect to slip right under our noses."