Chapter 214 "Unexpected"

When Zhang Mo's late-night takeout arrived, Zhang Youxuan finally returned.

"How is it?" Zhang Mo asked.

Zhang Youxuan's eyes darted around as she counted on her fingers, trying to recall what she had just memorized: "Wait a minute, let me sort this out. The police asked a lot of questions, but they were all asked in a disjointed way. It's so confusing."

The interrogation lasted for five or six hours, and she really couldn't remember everything.

Zhang Mo: "That's normal. This is a basic interrogation technique."

Human thinking has coherence and inertia. When answering questions in the logical order of routine questions, it is easy to enter a relatively relaxed and predictable state. Such answers may be carefully prepared, or even contain concealment or fabrication.

By asking questions in a jumpy manner, one can suddenly break the pre-set thought rhythm of the person being interrogated and quickly gather information from multiple angles.

So you don't need to worry about the order of the police interrogations; just tell the story chronologically.

Zhang Youxuan: "Okay. Let's start from their wedding 8 years ago."

Zhang Mo: "".

Jiu Xuan chuckled and teased, "Why don't you start with the story of Pangu creating the world?"

Zhang Youxuan stamped her feet anxiously: "Hey, you two, listen to me, it's very important!"

"It's okay, take your time." Zhang Mo had already opened her barbecue.

Then Zhang Youxuan began her story: "The two couples got married 8 years ago. The man was a local, and the woman was from out of town and married into the family."

She has two children, a 6-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter. For the past 8 years, the woman has not worked and has stayed at home to take care of the children, acting as a housewife.

Then, perhaps because of the seven-year itch, anyway, they had been arguing for the past year and finally decided to divorce.

In a situation like this, each parent would normally take one child with them. However, because the woman is unemployed and doesn't own a home, if she takes the children back to her hometown, the educational conditions there are much worse than in City S.

So after discussing it, for the sake of the children's future, the two children stayed with the man. Since the house was meant to be left to the children, it was also left to the man.

In the end, only 50,000 yuan in cash was left to give to the woman.

Jiu Xuan was furious: "What's the difference between this and being left with nothing? This is outrageous!"

Zhang Youxuan sighed, "Well, who can argue with that? But there's nothing we can do. Anyway, the girl finally agreed. She's already bought her train ticket and is planning to leave this city that has caused her so much heartache next week."

Then the man said that before getting the divorce certificate, he wanted to take the children out for one last trip as a final memento.

Yesterday, the family went to the amusement park, had a barbecue in the park, enjoyed the night view, and finally checked into this hotel.

While the two children were fast asleep in the morning, the two of them went to the Civil Affairs Bureau and got their divorce certificate.

There weren't many people at the Civil Affairs Bureau today; a divorce should only take 10 minutes at most.

But when it was their turn to process the paperwork, the man suddenly said that he had lost his ID card and had been looking for it for an hour or two before finally finding it in the restroom of the subway station.

After obtaining the divorce certificate, the two returned to their hotel via the same route.

The two people entered the elevator from the lobby on the first floor of the office building and pressed the button for the 33rd floor.

According to the elevator's security footage, there were only the two of them in the elevator at the time, and everything seemed normal until the elevator reached the 11th floor. Suddenly, the woman went berserk, grabbed the man's hair from behind, and plunged the tip of her nail clippers into his eye!

Jiu Xuan: "Did he really just suddenly go berserk? Did nothing unusual happen?"

Zhang Youxuan: "I've also seen the surveillance footage. The two of them didn't even exchange a single word in the elevator. It really happened suddenly, and the man didn't have time to react at all."

Zhang Mo: "So how did the woman explain it?"

Zhang Youxuan: "The woman said that she wanted revenge because the man killed her child."

Jiu Xuan: "That's not right. The police only went to the hotel room after she killed the people and found that the two children were already dead."

Zhang Youxuan: "That's the problem."

Police reviewed hotel surveillance footage and found that no one had entered or left the room after the couple left. The landline phone had not been used, and there were no communication devices in the room.

How did she suddenly find out that the child was dead?

The police asked her about this ten times, but she wouldn't answer. However, she answered all other questions readily.

This is really strange.

“No one has come in or gone out…” Zhang Mo muttered to herself, casually crossing out the “third party” item on the mind map.

Zhang Mo: "Has the cause of death for the two children been determined?"

Zhang Youxuan: "Based on the on-site investigation, it is speculated that the two children were playing around and lit the leftover charcoal from yesterday's barbecue in the toilet. They did not extinguish it in time, which caused carbon monoxide poisoning in the confined space. It is preliminarily determined to be an accident."

These two kids aren't safety conscious; they were playing with fire in the hotel.

These two kids are supposed to be safety conscious, but they even know to play with fire in the toilet...

That's so weird.

Zhang Mo sneered: "I was getting a divorce certificate, and I just happened to lose my ID card, which took two hours. And the baby died during that same time. What a coincidence!"

As she spoke, she firmly crossed out the word "unexpected" from the mind map.

So, only the man and the woman remain on the paper.

Zhang Youxuan: "Some police officers also mentioned this suspicion during a meeting, but there was no clear evidence."

Furthermore, I don't quite understand why, if the man killed the child, he would go to such lengths to take the child back.

"Even if the woman killed the children, that doesn't make sense. She had already made sure the deaths of both children were accidental without anyone knowing, so why would she choose to kill her ex-husband in a public place, under surveillance?"

Jiu Xuan: "I can answer your first question. Because the couple decided that the house would go with the child, it will belong to the husband in the event of a divorce."

Now that he has the house, getting rid of the burdensome child will prevent him from finding a second spring.

While the fox and the ghost were diligently analyzing the case, Zhang Mo asked a completely unrelated question: "Among your demon race, whose skills can affect the human brain?"

Zhang Youxuan: "The boss means that the woman suddenly went crazy because she was influenced by the demon race? Who has such power?"

“This…” Upon hearing this, Jiu Xuan frowned and pondered for a long time.

Zhang Mo: "How is it?"

Zhang Youxuan asked expectantly, "Have you thought of anything?"

Jiu Xuan's expression was complicated: "I have thought of it..."

Zhang Mo: "Who?"

Jiu Xuan said helplessly, "The problem is, there are just too many..."

Almost all demons who have cultivated for more than a thousand years can influence the thinking and memory of humans to some extent.

Putting everything else aside, I can do it all.

Are you sure you want to investigate in this direction?

This is no different from finding a needle in a haystack.

Zhang Mo: "......"

Just then, the hotel doorbell rang.

Jiuxuan: "You ordered takeout again?"

Zhang Mo: "No, I only ordered one dish, and it's already arrived."

Jiu Xuan glanced warily at the door: "Don't move, I'll go open the door."