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Chapter 264 Guess

“Yes.” Bai Mengfei agreed: “Besides, if we investigate after this point in time, we’ll have to go through a complicated and tedious process.”

As he spoke, Xiang Yuntian stood up, his eyes fixed on the trash can.

Don't be fooled by the filthy appearance of the trash can; it may contain many crucial clues.

Those discarded items often betray their owners, revealing their past habits and actions.

Bai Mengfei saw Xiang Yuntian squatting there searching. Although she didn't know what he was looking for, she was still very curious, so she went over to check.

"What are you looking for?" Bai Mengfei asked softly.

Xiang Yuntian turned to look at her and then said, "Actually, I wasn't looking for anything specific. I just wanted to see if I could find any clues or anything like that."

"Did you find it?" Bai Mengfei felt that Xiang Yuntian's blind search was probably fruitless, so she smiled gently.

Xiang Yuntian turned his head again and carefully examined the trash can, saying as he did so, "I haven't found it yet, but I believe that as long as I have patience, I will definitely find something."

"Alright, then you keep looking, I'll go check other places." After saying that, Bai Mengfei stood up, and really prepared to go check other places.

Xiang Yuntian immediately followed and asked, "What do you want to see?"

"I don't know what to look at either, so I'm just copying you and looking around randomly." Bai Mengfei was actually teasing him on purpose.

Upon hearing Bai Mengfei's teasing remark, Xiang Yuntian immediately understood and secretly broke out in a cold sweat.

He continued searching through the trash can and finally found a receipt. It was an order form showing the items to be delivered.

"Come and take a look, I found this," Xiang Yuntian shouted.

Bai Mengfei, who had already walked towards the kitchen, came back and checked with Xiang Yuntian, saying, "What did you find? Quick, let me see!"

"Hmm, look." Xiang Yuntian handed the receipt he found to Bai Mengfei. "There's so much food on it, it's definitely not enough for one or two people to finish."

“That’s right!” Bai Mengfei examined the receipt carefully, her brows furrowing deeply. “What exactly is going on here?”

Xiang Yuntian looked at the somewhat soiled receipt again and said, "It must have been from not long ago, so why didn't the police take it back for investigation?"

Bai Mengfei guessed, "Maybe they think there won't be any clues on this? That's probably it." When she said this, she wasn't quite sure herself; it was just a guess.

Xiang Yuntian nodded in agreement, then said, "But now we've discovered that this is indeed a clue."

As Xiang Yuntian spoke, he slowly raised his head, lost in thought. He was sorting through the clues in his mind.

It was only then that he realized: these clues might need to be analyzed in combination in order to be effective.

Just as he figured it out, Bai Mengfei had also thought of this. So Bai Mengfei turned her head, looked at him, and said, "If we combine these clues, perhaps we can make a breakthrough."

Xiang Yuntian suddenly realized that Bai Mengfei and he were thinking the same thing, so he smiled slightly.

The two then found many more clues here, but these clues were very fragmented and could not be directly connected for further thought.

The two could only try their best to connect the dots and piece together the clues.

Even back at the police station, they were still thinking about the case. Xiang Yuntian placed a bunch of seemingly useless things, including the voided invoice, on his desk and started fiddling with them with a pen.

Just as Xiang Yuntian was deep in thought, Bai Mengfei suddenly walked over and asked, "Have you come up with any ideas?"

"Not yet!" Xiang Yuntian said, somewhat distressed.

Bai Mengfei pulled out a chair from his desk, sat opposite him, and stared at the evidence that could serve as clues with him, her brows furrowed and her face full of worry.

Xiang Yuntian didn't want Bai Mengfei to worry so much, so he said to her, "Alright, don't overthink it. We should believe that there's always a way out, right?"

Hearing Xiang Yuntian comfort her like this, Bai Mengfei knew his good intentions, so she smiled slightly and looked at him, saying, "Yes, you're right. But I still hope you can share some thoughts on this case."

"Thoughts on this case? What have you come up with?" Xiang Yuntian felt that among this pile of clues, very few were truly useful.

Seeing Xiang Yuntian's helpless expression, Bai Mengfei took a ruler from his pen holder and used it to examine the clues, trying to find useful information from them.

After some analysis, Bai Mengfei said, "Actually, I think all these clues point to one scenario: before the victim was murdered, many people must have been to her house, right?"

When Bai Mengfei heard that he had finally provided a useful clue, she smiled slightly, nodded, and said, "Yes! Anything else?"

After saying that, Bai Mengfei rested her chin on her hand and looked at him expectantly.

Xiang Yuntian pondered for a while, then smiled gently and said, "Also, there should have been a man who disagreed with the others at the time, so that man is very likely the murderer."

Bai Mengfei laughed again, this time lowering her head and laughing loudly, saying, "Maybe! I'm not too sure, but haven't the colleagues in the criminal investigation team already determined it was a homicide and suspected her boyfriend was the murderer?"

Xiang Yuntian couldn't help but grunt, frowned, and lowered his head, looking somewhat disappointed.

Just as Xiang Yuntian was deep in thought, Bai Mengfei sighed and said, "Alright, stop guessing. Let's clarify our goal: to find evidence to prove that Li Tie is the murderer."

"But what if we don't start the investigation carefully from the beginning? What if Li Tie isn't the murderer? There are two possibilities: one, our investigation is completely misguided; two, we might mistakenly use wrong evidence as proof that he is the murderer, and then we'd be used by someone."

Bai Mengfei suddenly felt that what Xiang Yuntian said made a lot of sense, so she smiled slightly, nodded secretly, and said, "You're right, very good. It seems that you're becoming more and more insightful."

Hearing Bai Mengfei praise him, Xiang Yuntian felt a little embarrassed and smiled shyly, quickly saying, "No, it's actually because you taught me so well that I had such thoughts!"

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