Chapter 206

Chapter 206

Jian Jing calmly flipped through the previous pages and asked Xiao Nuan, "Did you scream at that time?"

Xiao Nuan gripped her paper cup tightly, speaking incoherently, "I can't remember very clearly, it seems like I did, it scared me to death, it was so frightening."

She was too frightened to provide any clear details no matter how much probing there was.

What supported this point was the poisonous person. People who raise venomous animals probably have stronger psychological endurance, so he recounted the whole process relatively calmly.

"I was sleeping upstairs around 1 o'clock, just woke up and was about to go to the kitchen to find something to eat. As soon as I opened the fridge, I heard Xiao Nuan scream 'Lao Xi' outside, her voice was shaking badly, so I guessed that the courage had slipped off its leash and gone upstairs to find Lao Xi.

"He had already woken up, so the two of us hurried downstairs, but the courage had already slipped out from the front door. We followed it out and then ran into Xiao Xuan."

Officer Liu asked, "You didn't eat lunch with everyone else?"

The poisonous person said strangely, "Why would I eat with them at noon when we don't even have meals together? Besides, my habit is to sleep at dawn and get up at noon, what's the problem with that?"Gét latest novel chapters on nov(e)lbj/n(.)c/om

Officer Liu: "Don't you feed your pets?"

"My little darlings can't get on the plane, so I came alone." He said.

Officer Liu was puzzled: "They all brought pets, how come you didn't?"

"Their shooting content is different from mine, so there was no point in bringing them." The poisonous person shrugged, "I just came out to travel."

"What's your relationship with Lao Mao like?"

The poisonous person sneered, "So-so, not much intersection, we don't even raise the same things."

At this point, the statements from all five people had been recorded.

The results from the quarantine station also came out—they were much more relaxed than the coroner—the urine tests showed traces of some kind of central nervous system stimulant in the courage's body.

No wonder it couldn't control its behavior and injured people when it pounced on them.

"Since it was caused by drugs, it was not an accident but murder." Officer Liu said solemnly, "There must be a thorough investigation."

Jian Jing nodded and paced into the kitchen to check things out.

The few tenants were all casual people, plastic bags and boxes were thrown around, the labels were not torn off, and basically everything was bought from nearby supermarkets.

She asked Sister Xuan, "Who bought this stuff? Was it all put here?"

Sister Xuan answered briskly: "We went together and bought a bunch of things, snacks, drinks, etc."

"The raw food was all prepared for the pets?"

"Yeah, for those who keep cats and dogs." Sister Xuan said matter-of-factly, "Who would cook? We just ordered hot pot takeout last night."

Such is real life.

This also meant that everyone knew the food was for the cats and dogs to eat, and the drinks and snacks were also in the kitchen, so it would be very easy to sneak something in.

So far, it seemed that the problem should be with lunch. After all, apart from the owner, it was hard to find someone who could get close to the Tibetan mastiff and inject it with something.

And from the timeline, everyone had a chance to do it—for example, what if the poisonous person was not sleeping the whole time like he claimed? This time, using the precise timeline to screen suspects would not work!

Jian Jing could confirm two things now.

The dog was drugged. The cat was bitten.

The former could be done by anyone, the drugs were also relatively easy to obtain on the market, let's not go into that for now. But the latter was more bizarre.

How could the culprit make sure the cat was bitten?

Courage first injured the cat, then attacked Sister Xuan. Afterwards, provoked by her, it directly attacked her, clearly unable to distinguish specific targets.

A maddened dog was not a loved pet, even a dog trainer would probably have a hard time commanding it.

An easier way would be to just make sure the cat appeared at the predetermined location, then release the dog.

This posed a technical difficulty—how to determine when the courage would go mad?

Pharmacology is a professional field, requiring expertise to operate. Laymen can easily slip drugs, but calculating the onset time is not so easy.

Jian Jing interjected, "Were everyone's room doors closed? Did you knock and ask?"

"All closed." Sister Xuan supplemented the details, "Darling is afraid of strangers, so I didn't ask."

"Go on."

Sister Xuan went downstairs to the first floor and ran into Mei Tan.

"He told me darling had flown next door." Sister Xuan explained, "So I went straight out the door."

Jian Jing: "Wait at the door."

Sister Xuan did as told.

Jian Jing looked at Mei Tan: "What about you?"

"I went straight upstairs." Mei Tan walked to the second floor and pushed open a room door.

Jian Jing asked, "Wait, didn't you say you heard Xiao Nuan scream? Where were you then?"

Jian Jing recalled for a moment and answered, "Probably near the door."

She asked, "Then what?"

He said, "I went into the room."

"Didn't go downstairs to take a look?"

"She just called out, I didn't hear clearly, nor did I take it to heart," Mei Tan defended himself, "Later when Poisonous Person hurried upstairs with Lao Xi, I realized something was wrong and went downstairs with them."

Jian Jing nodded and asked Xiao Nuan to reenact again.

Her route was simpler. She went downstairs to pick up a delivery order, heard the commotion, walked to the hallway, and witnessed the assault scene, screaming loudly.

"Stay here and don't move," she instructed Xiao Nuan and walked back into the room to ask Poisonous Person, "According to your statement, you were in the kitchen at the time?"

Poisonous Person nodded.

He was in the kitchen when he heard the screams, went upstairs directly to wake up Lao Xi. Lao Xi went downstairs with him and happened to catch Yong Qi attacking Sister Xuan at that moment.

The process was roughly like this.

Jian Jing said to Officer Liu, "See, the murderer is very obvious now."

Officer Liu...Officer Liu was a little confused.

He frowned and grasped the key points to sort out: "In order to commit murder, Lao Mao must be lured out. Nothing was found in his room or on his body, most likely a verbal appointment—who can this rule out?"

"Your train of thought is right. The difficulty in this case lies in how the murderer got Lao Mao killed." Jian Jing looked around at everyone, "But if you investigate according to this line of thought, you may find nothing."

Officer Liu was very surprised: "Why?"

Jian Jing said, "Vicious dogs attacking people is unpredictable. If the goal was to precisely murder Lao Mao, why use such a dangerous method?"

Officer Liu was experienced after all. With her hint, it clicked in his mind: "You mean..."

"Judging from the statements, everyone had grievances with Lao Mao. So it seems Lao Mao was indeed premeditatedly murdered, but in fact, they were competing with each other."

Nowadays, competition is very fierce, whether it's among livestreamers or influencers. People below want to move up, people above fear being squeezed out. Losing any one person benefits everyone else.

Jian Jing said, "I think the murderer did hate Lao Mao the most, so gave him a covert push. But whether Lao Mao died was not that important. As long as someone died, or even just someone's pet died, the murderer could profit from it."

"Wait, if you put it this way, the Tibetan mastiff mauling someone is a sure thing." Officer Liu struggled to keep up with the train of thought, "So the one the murderer most wanted to eliminate was actually the Tibetan mastiff and I Love Tibet?"

As he spoke, his gaze fell on Xiao Nuan.

"Why didn't the dog attack you at the time?" he questioned.

Xiao Nuan immediately burst into tears, "I, I don't know!"

"It wasn't her." Jian Jing was very certain. "Officer Liu, put yourself in the murderer's shoes and think, if you knew there was a Tibetan mastiff that would go mad, what would you do first?"

Officer Liu was only used to thinking from a policeman's perspective, and was perceptive. With some thought, it suddenly dawned on him, and his gaze fell on the most suspicious person at the scene.