Chapter 67: Haunted House Mystery: Negative Reviews at the Price of Life

Fang Rui found the online store delivery record of the suit. He discovered that a user named Niannian Youyu bought a suit in size L, and the delivery address was the family compound where Liu Xiaonian lived.

"Boss, don't you think this Niannian Youyu could be Liu Xiaonian?" Little Zhang Zhen was shocked, "Did he buy the suit himself? Doesn't he like to play Cosplay in the secret room?"

At the case analysis meeting, Fang Rui stated his reasoning: "I suspect there is no murderer in this case. The deceased committed suicide by hanging."

Xiao Wang retorted: "Wait, boss, you said he committed suicide by hanging? How is that possible? Forensic doctor Mu found sleeping pills in his body. No one would make himself unconscious before hanging, right?"

"Yeah. And he was wearing a bloodstained suit. He couldn't have put it on by himself, could he?"

"Even if he wanted to commit suicide, he couldn't go to such a ghost place to commit suicide. What did he want?"

Mu Mian raised his hand enthusiastically, "I support Fang Rui's speculation. If it was really a murder, the murderer shouldn't dress the deceased as a scary groom, because then we would definitely suspect that the deceased was murdered, which is very redundant.

But let's think about it the other way around. If the deceased committed suicide, then his behavior would easily be disguised as a murder."

Mu Mian thought that the person who killed the deceased should be a very smart person, and he would not make such a stupid mistake. Unless he deliberately wanted this case to be treated as a murder.

Fang Rui looked at Mu Mian: "Mu Mian, when did you suspect that he committed suicide?"

"When I first saw the body. At that time, I felt that the device was very suitable for suicide. After the device was activated, the noose rose very slowly, and he had enough time to walk over and put his neck in it. Of course, if he wanted to regret it, he would have a few seconds to regret it."

"Why didn't you tell me at the time?" Fang Rui was a little helpless.

"I have no evidence. I'm afraid I will mislead you."

"Boss, we still have no evidence now! These are just our speculations." Xiao Wang said.

Fang Rui said: "Do you remember the bag that Liu Xiaonian was carrying in the surveillance video?"

"Remember, it's black."

"We found the black bag in the chest of the skeleton bride. There was only a book in it, which looked very dry." Fang Rui played the video on the screen again, "But the bag in the surveillance video was bulging and filled with a lot of things. I suspect that when Liu Xiaonian went in, the bag he was carrying contained the suit."

Fang Rui continued, "We found a red substance in the bag. The technical department has tested it and found that it is a kind of makeup pigment, which is the same as the pigment on the suit. Moreover, Liu Xiaonian also bought this suit online. All these can be inferred that the bloody suit was made by Liu Xiaonian himself and brought in."

"He put it on himself." Mu Mian added, "The clothes inside were not wrinkled, which indirectly proves that he put it on himself. Because even if he was in a coma, it would be difficult for others to put clothes on him without wrinkling the clothes inside."

"Then how do you explain the sleeping pills?" Chen Xue asked, "Why were sleeping pills detected on the deceased?"

"Liu Xiaonian had sleep problems. His parents confirmed that he had seen a doctor in the hospital and the doctor prescribed sleeping pills for him." Fang Rui added.

All the evidence put together can almost prove that Liu Xiaonian hanged himself.

"What about the motive?" Xiao Zhang said, "What was his motive for running to that secret room to commit suicide?"

Everyone was silent for a while.

"Maybe it was to give that store a bad review." Lin Sen said faintly.

"Consultant Lin, this is too outrageous. Who would hang himself in a store just to give a bad review?" Chen Xue thought this guess was too outrageous.

Lin Sen continued to add: "Giving a bad review to that store is only the superficial reason. The deeper reason is that escape room is the most important thing in his life and the meaning of supporting him to live, but that store tarnished the most sacred thing in his heart, so he did not hesitate to use his life to retaliate against that store."

The current physical evidence can almost prove that Liu Xiaonian committed suicide.

Fang Rui thought of the two blank envelopes again. He took the two envelopes and found Mu Mian.

Mu Mian was brushing the non-existent dust on the skeleton with a brush, looking very serious.

Fang Rui felt that this skeleton seriously interfered with Mu Mian's work. Mu Mian never slacked off at work before!

It seemed necessary to make this skeleton disappear.

"Fang Rui, are you looking for me?"

"Mu Mian, is there any way to make the words disappear from paper?" Fang Rui asked. His first instinct told him that there should be words on the two envelopes, and those words should tell them the reason why the deceased committed suicide.

"There are many! We can write with colorless phenolphthalein, and after it dries, the words will disappear; we can also use lemon juice or vinegar..." Mu Mian listed many methods, "but if you want to make the words appear, you have to try many methods."

"Take a look at these two envelopes to see if there are any words?" Fang Rui handed the two envelopes to Mu Mian.

"No problem."

Mu Mian has been really lucky recently. She only tried one method to make words appear on the envelope.

Mu Mian found that the words on the envelope were written in colorless phenolphthalein. As long as an alkaline solution is applied on it, the words will appear.

The words on envelope one are: Congratulations on solving my suicide puzzle. Please look at the letter inside and you will get the answer.

The words on the other envelope are: From Dad himself.

Mu Mian used the same method to make the words appear on the white paper in the first envelope.

[Smart Mr. (or Ms.) Policeman:

Congratulations on successfully solving my suicide puzzle. The prize is that you will know the whole truth about my suicide.

I have wanted to commit suicide since high school. But I didn't. Because suicide is a very cowardly way to die. Not only will you not get sympathy from others, but you will also be criticized. I don't want to be a topic of conversation.

So, I want to pretend that my death is a murder, so that others will sympathize with me and feel sorry for me instead of laughing at me for being cowardly. I have thought of many ways to kill myself, but I have never carried them out. Maybe I am still afraid of death.

I wanted to commit suicide in the "Lost Island" before. I even drew the blueprint. But Brother Wang was so good to me. He wouldn't laugh at my hobbies, and he wouldn't say I was a waste. So I didn't want to die anymore. I thought it was good to be alive. I

didn't expect that when I wanted to live again, "Edgar Allan Poe's House" would ruin my life!

No one should dare to go to that store to consume now? Is it going to close down soon? Hahaha, this is the effect I want to achieve.

Before entering the secret room that day, I put on a suit that looked very similar to the prop corpse. Then I stuffed the bag of clothes into the chest of the Skeleton Bride. I don't think you will search there first. I can't let you find the bag easily, otherwise you will classify the case as suicide, and then there will be no way to cause a devastating impact on the store.

I took sleeping pills before I died. In this way, you will definitely not classify this case as suicide.

I even deliberately put the drawings in the drawer. Based on the time on the drawings, you will think that the store manager or Brother Wang killed me to cover up plagiarism. In this way, the murderer has a motive.

But in fact, those drawings were used by me to design the way I died. The time was real, but the content on the drawings was drawn by me based on Brother Wang's description in the group. If you observe carefully, you will find that there is the same little man in each design drawing, and that is me.

At that time, I wanted to commit suicide in that secret room. I didn't expect that I would eventually realize my idea.

I learned from the news released by Wang's Weibo account that he deliberately cut his hand that morning in order to ask for leave from his sister in the afternoon to go to that store to play the secret room escape. So I chose to commit suicide that day, so that there would be one more suspect, which would make the case more complicated. Of course, if you investigate further, you will find that Wang is not the murderer.

In the end, you can only come up with one answer: I committed suicide. At this time, you will definitely find all kinds of evidence to prove that I committed suicide. But that store will be notorious because of this murder case, and no one dares to go there to play.

You may not know what the secret room escape is to me? It is the most important thing in my life, my spiritual support, and the only pleasure for me to live. But that store destroyed it, it destroyed the crystal of my life. I can't live anymore.

So I have to destroy it. Even if it costs my life.

You may laugh at me and think that I don't value my life at all. But it doesn't matter, I will be a waste of food and be laughed at by others while I am alive.

Please help me give the other letter to my father. It's okay if you don't give it to him, just throw it away, he may not read it anyway.

That's it, I, the waste, will leave this world, and I will explore another world, if it exists. 】

Everyone was speechless after reading this letter. It turns out that Liu Xiaonian really hanged himself in someone's secret room in order to retaliate against that store.

But this Liu Xiaonian is quite smart. He designed such a complicated case and let the police follow his investigative ideas.

Mu Mian asked: "Does the letter to his father need to show the words?"