Leaving the hospital.
Chen Xiao called Xiaoji and the other two.
"Where are you three now?"
"Brother Chen, Dayou is in a scuffle right now. A fortune teller has gone overboard and wants to fight Dayou. We're just here to back him up."
Chen Xiao was speechless. "What's the situation? They aren't really going to fight, are they?"
"It's nothing, just rivals getting overly competitive. But Brother, is there work for us?"
"Yes, I'm at the entrance of Changlong Village at Yang Lake waiting for you. Co quickly."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoji didn't even hang up before shouting to Liu Dayou and Knife Man:
"Stop intimidating the old man, Brother Chen has orders, there's work!"
Chen Xiao laughed and hung up the phone, driving straight to Yang Lake Changlong Village.
After waiting for less than three minutes, Xiaoji and the other two arrived.
Upon getting out of the car, Xiaoji asked, "Brother Chen, has soone hanged themselves here again?"
Chen Xiao nodded. "Yes, a woman hanged herself a couple of days ago, so I'm here to check it out."
"Is it related to the Yang Lake Phantom?" Liu Dayou asked.
"I don't know yet. When I take you to the scene later, rember what you see with your eyes and hear with your ears; everything else is irrelevant."
Saying this, Chen Xiao looked at Xiaoji: "Have I ever told you how to distinguish between suicide and murder? Do you rember?"
"I rember, Brother. It's ingrained in my mind."
"Good, the car stays here, it's not far ahead."
Chen Xiao beckoned, leading the three of them to the scene.
Inside Lian Yuhong's ho, Chen Xiao started introducing the deceased's situation.
Perhaps through proximity, both Knife Man and Liu Dayou showed comndable learning attitudes now.
If they couldn't rember sothing by mory, they would pull out a small booklet to jot it down with a pen.
After Chen Xiao finished introducing Lian Yuhong's situation, Xiaoji's thinking agility was already high.
"This seems strange, Brother, the deceased was pregnant. Her fiancé was okay with her staying alone?"
"Because of customs, the couple was forcibly separated by the deceased's mother before marriage. There seems to be a saying that living together before marriage leads to future relationship and family troubles."
"Didn't her mother stay with her?"
"Her mother remarried, and her younger child was hospitalized, so she's staying with them for a while. Oh, and she's a doctor herself."
"Huh... really? A doctor being so old-fashioned and stubborn?"
"It's related to her character, not her profession. You could say she's dissatisfied at heart, so she wanted to stir things up, and now it truly happened."
Having followed Chen Xiao for a long ti.
Xiaoji would instinctively try to interpret Chen Xiao's words.
After silently committing Chen Xiao's words to mory, he said, "Well, after following you for so long, Brother, I've encountered enough frustrating things that are difficult to understand to not find them strange anymore."
Chen Xiao smiled and imdiately activated the Power of Capture.
The scene's environnt and the information gathered in the eting room didn't show any major discrepancies.
Chen Xiao began detailing other information about the deceased: "The deceased, Lian Yuhong, was discovered just after 8 a.m. the next day; the cri took place between 9:40 and 10:20 the night before, during which Lian Yuhong remained in phone contact with her fiancé Li Xi."
"And Lian Yuhong's ti of death was between midnight and 1 a.m., aning she committed suicide roughly one and a half to two hours after finishing the call."
Upon hearing this, Xiaoji fell into thought. Chen Xiao handed a piece of paper to Liu Dayou, saying:
"These are Lian Yuhong's birth details, calculate them."
Liu Dayou took out an old turtle shell, heading straight into the deceased's bedroom.
Afterward, they heard Liu Dayou muttering to himself, persistently shaking the copper coins inside the turtle shell.
Chen Xiao observed the room, it was tidy, every piece of furniture was spotlessly clean, the only dirty item was the stool Lian Yuhong used for stepping on.
While Chen Xiao was thinking, Xiaoji spoke up:
"Brother Chen, based on what you said, Lian Yuhong could very well have committed suicide. I checked the marks on the stool and the beam, they all match the characteristics of suicide."
Saying this, Xiaoji paused: "But the Yang Lake Phantom has been going on for so many years..."
Before finishing his sentence, Chen Xiao looked at Xiaoji, who understood the aning: "Sorry, Brother Chen, I was careless."
"Yang Lake Phantom is Yang Lake Phantom, Lian Yuhong is Lian Yuhong. We're investigating Lian Yuhong now unless we've already found a connection between the two."
"But didn't you say Lian Yuhong is the daughter of Lian Da, the first victim of the Yang Lake Phantom Case?"
"Yes."
"So could this be revenge towards Lian Da? Especially since Lian Yuhong was just pregnant."
"Targeting Lian Da would first an inflicting pain on him, or perhaps on his close relatives. But do you think anyone would feel pain once Lian Yuhong is gone? If it were about exterminating them, why wait twelve years to act again? Why not kill Lian Yuhong while Lian Da's parents were still alive?"
Chen Xiao said, then supplented: "Captain Xie told , he suspects soone is attempting to exterminate the families of the three victims from the Yang Lake Phantom Case. I don't entirely agree with this because the Lian family indeed has no one left, but the other two, Zhu Mao and Chang Guan's families, actually show signs of thriving."
"If the hatred towards their three families remains enormous, if you were the murderer, who would you hate the most?"
"Hatred remains, those living the best would definitely be the ones I'd want to kill the most." Xiaoji's words were blunt but made sense.
Chen Xiao nodded: "No one knows if it's related to the case from twelve years ago, even if it is, no one knows what the murderer's mindset is like. So let's focus on the current issue, unless we find tangible links, let's figure out if Lian Yuhong died by murder or suicide!"
"Examining Lian Yuhong's death now, the site signs mostly confirm suicide, she had reasons to commit suicide. But there's still one thing not clarified."
"Brother Chen, do you an we need evidence that clearly shows Lian Yuhong did indeed commit suicide?" Xiaoji asked.
Chen Xiao responded, "Exactly, considering the deceased's unique identity paired with this death thod, and with Captain Xie stirring things up, we need evidence that irrefutably eliminates murder as a possibility. In other words, the scene is before us and we need to verify that no thod of murder could produce the current scene."
Xiaoji fell silent again, and Chen Xiao furrowed his brow in thought.
Suddenly, Chen Xiao noticed Liu Dayou coming out.
Seeing his deanor, Chen Xiao instructed Knife Man: "Find a rope and hang it on the other end of the beam."
Knife Man didn't ask why, he fetched a rope and secured it.
Chen Xiao: "Position the stool properly, use a different stool."
Knife Man complied, while Liu Dayou, flaunting an 'I-see-through-it-all' expression, started delighting in Knife Man's misfortune.
But the next mont, Chen Xiao suddenly grabbed him.
Instinctively, Liu Dayou struggled, but in almost the blink of an eye, Chen Xiao stepped onto the stool and pressed Liu Dayou's neck into the rope loop.
With a "bang".
The struggling Liu Dayou kicked over the stool, subsequently leaving him hanging on the rope, struggling constantly.
Witnessing Liu Dayou's struggle, Xiaoji and Knife Man widened their eyes in shock.
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