Chapter 236 Catching the Murderer
"On the contrary," his voice suddenly dropped, "the central area of tempered glass is the strongest part."
"Hacking here is not only extremely inefficient, it also does little to speed up the demolition process. That person's actions clearly violated basic rescue common sense."
Xia Lili suddenly understood. "So the staff member standing in the middle and smashing the glass probably did it on purpose?"
Even if an ordinary person who doesn't understand the properties of tempered glass comes up and sees that the glass is shattered and may break at any time with a hammer, he will choose to hide aside and let others smash it.
This person must have done it on purpose!
Then, Xia Lili became confused again: "But why? That would only hurt himself!"
Li Qihan's eyes were determined: "He must have a reason to do this even if he was hurt."
Xia Lili nodded: "This staff member is highly suspicious!"
Li Qihan knelt down, observing the interior of the three-dimensional water tank. "When a murderer returns to the scene, there are usually several possibilities: to destroy evidence, to observe the police investigation, or out of emotional needs, such as a sense of satisfaction or guilt..."
Xia Lili squatted down with him and said, "Based on the scene in the hallucination, we can rule out the latter two possibilities."
"So... he came here to destroy the evidence, and the most likely evidence left in the water tank is the lock!"
At this moment, a police officer from the inspection department came over with the inspection report: "Captain Li, the inspection report for that retro prop lock is out!"
Li Qihan quickly took the test report and started reading it.
The police officer from the inspection department explained: "This lock was originally made of stainless steel, but a small part inside the lock core was replaced with a magnesium piece."
"When dry, the magnesium alloy maintains rigidity and the lock can open and close normally."
"After being soaked in water, the magnesium and water will react with each other, causing the magnesium sheet to gradually deform and jam the lock cylinder!"
"It's consistent with our guess." Li Qihan's eyes stayed on the test report. The test report showed that the laboratory also found a magnesium-aluminum mixed thermal agent in the lock body.
"Thermal mixture?"
Li Qihan frowned.
Xia Lili had heard a lot of unfamiliar terms today, and her head was dizzy. "What is this?"
Li Qihan explained to her simply: "This mixed thermal agent can dissolve magnesium flakes at high temperatures."
"It is estimated that the murderer hid in the lock body to destroy the replaced magnesium piece."
"The traces left after high-temperature dissolution are very similar to rust corrosion."
Xia Lili immediately got to the point: "The murderer wanted people to think that this vintage lock was broken because of internal rust."
"That's right." Li Qihan changed the subject: "However, in order to make this mixed heat agent and magnesium flakes react, external force is required, such as a heavy external impact!"
Xia Lili understood what he said, her pupils shrinking as she immediately guessed, "So, the staff member standing in the middle didn't just fail to dodge in time, but was deliberately falling behind."
"With the glass shattered, he used the last extra blow of the hammer to destroy the lock on the escape exit and destroy the evidence!"
At this time, Leng Xiaohe brought up four staff members who were responsible for the performance and smashing the water tank glass with hammers.
Xia Lili and Li Qihan looked at each other and were sure that the murderer was among these four people.
Tension and anxiety could be seen on the faces of these four people.
Leng Xiaohe handed two files to Xia Lili and the other two: "This is the identity information of these four people."
The two of them quickly looked through it, but they couldn't tell anything from the identity information in a short time. The experiences of these four people were really rich.
It's like a mess in front of everyone, making it hard to know how to start the investigation.
——"Captain Li, everything is ready."
At this moment, four police officers came over, each holding a stainless steel tray with a transparent glass wide-mouth bottle on the tray.
Xia Lili noticed that the liquid in the wide-mouthed bottle was a rich amber-gold color, a bit like honey.
She lowered her voice and whispered to Li Qihan: "Is this a chemical reagent?"
Li Qihan nodded and explained in a low voice: "This is titanium yellow reagent. It will react with magnesium metal residue and turn it orange-red."
He put down the documents in his hand and said to the four staff members, "Now dip your hands into this wide-mouthed bottle."
"You can take your hand back after 5 seconds."
The staff members were very cooperative when they heard this and dipped their hands into the wide-mouthed bottle. After all, this was a global broadcast and they also wanted to catch the murderer as soon as possible.
Only one staff member with single eyelids and thin lips was stunned for a moment after hearing Li Qihan's instructions.
He was half a beat slower than the others.
This immediately alerted the police officers present.
The information shows that the staff member's name is Lin Chuang.
The police officers all had their eyes on Lin Chuang.
After the 5-second countdown, everyone pulled their hands out of the wide-mouth bottle.
The police officer from the laboratory came over with a portable ultraviolet lamp.
"Put both of your hands out."
The four staff members cooperated by stretching out their hands, and Lin Chuang's hands trembled slightly when they stretched out.
The police officer held an ultraviolet lamp and shone it on the hands of the four staff members in turn. Just when the ultraviolet lamp shone on Lin Chuang's hand.
The high-definition camera at the scene captured orange-red marks on Lin Chuang's fingernails!
The police officer from the laboratory excitedly shouted, "He's the murderer behind this!"
"Catch him quickly!"
At this time, Lin Chuang ran off the stage in a panic!
But with so many police officers surrounding him, he was pinned down by the police before he could run a few steps, and his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
There were exclamations of surprise one after another at the scene.
"The murderer was found so quickly?"
"I thought I'd be stuck here for a long time today, cooperating with the investigation!"
"Isn't the Dragon Country police too fast?"
......
Lin Chuang was taken away by the police officers.
Xia Lili glanced at the time on her mobile phone. It was now 20:12, and there were still 78 minutes until the end of the performance at 21:30!
In other words, Xia Lili can get an additional bonus of 780,000 yuan on top of the 2 million yuan bonus!
Li Qihan had already informed Victor to rearrange the program and reduce some magic performances, so the audience could probably still watch the performance for an hour.
While Victor was rearranging the program, Li Qihan, as the spokesperson for the Yangcheng Police Station, quickly gave a brief account of the preliminary investigation into the case.
He had changed out of his wet clothes and donned a crisp police uniform. His pale complexion looked even more stern against the navy blue. His wet hair was combed back, revealing his full forehead, and a look of awe-inspiring righteousness etched between his brows.
"Preliminary investigations by Yangcheng police revealed that the suspect, Lin, replaced the lock cylinder parts of the underwater escape exit with magnesium sheets.
"The magnesium sheet deformed and damaged the lock core after undergoing corrosion reaction underwater."
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"Thank you to everyone in the audience for your patience and to all the busy staff tonight."
Li Qihan paused and his eyes fell on Xia Lili.
Li Qihan's gaze swept across the crowd and lingered on Xia Lili for half a second.
"Finally, a special thank you to my partner."
Xia Lili suddenly raised her eyes and met his deep gaze.
When their eyes met, each other's eyes were like a deep sea with undercurrents.
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