Chapter 166 The Missing Forty Minutes!

"Illegal?"

Xu Ye looked at him with a half-smile, "From a legal perspective, this is called an attempted crime, and it is naturally a crime."

"But why do you have to act stupid here?"

He looked directly at Uncle Zhao and said calmly: "If you are just here to steal things, why haven't you touched half of the valuable mural treasures outside?"

"And how did you appear in this secret room?"

"Don't tell me you cracked the code here."

"Comrade police, I am a good citizen!" Uncle Zhao knelt down on the spot with a look of horror on his face. "I just wanted to steal something."

"As for the password here, I accidentally saw it from a note on the dean's desk when I was receiving my salary half a month ago!"

"When I was searching for valuables today, I accidentally touched the mechanism and opened this secret room."

“Then I just randomly tried the numbers I saw at the time, and unexpectedly it came in.”

"Who is a good citizen who would go to a crime scene to steal something?" Qu Yi stared at Uncle Zhao closely, then lowered his voice and said to Xu Ye, "Have you noticed that he is here a long time ago?"

"The soil near the entrance of the cave where we came in is very clean, and there are no footprints left." Xu Ye said lightly, "After just one night, all the traces we left yesterday have disappeared."

"This shows that someone came in and out of here and deliberately erased the traces."

"Judging from the fallen leaves nearby, it would take no more than an hour to clean up the traces."

"And yesterday when we were leaving the office, I stuck a leaf under the door."

He suddenly took out a leaf from his fingertips and looked directly at Uncle Zhao in front of him.

"I...I obviously put the leaves back!" Uncle Zhao looked at the leaves and was a little surprised.

"You did put it back, but the position and the front and back are slightly different." Xu Ye smiled slightly and threw the leaves aside.

"But you can't hide it from me, so I already knew you were here."

"Since there is no one in the office, the only place you can hide is this secret room."

Uncle Zhao's face turned pale and he clung to the wall. He couldn't help but swallow, and forced a smile: "You are right, I did enter here only ten minutes before you came."

"You can even remember the position and pros and cons of leaves?" Qu Yi's pupils trembled and he looked at Xu Ye in shock.

"How is that possible? I just deceived him." Xu Ye replied expressionlessly.

"Hey!" Uncle Zhao's eyes widened, "You just said it in front of me!"

Xu ignored him and just looked around the secret room and said calmly: "This secret room was originally used to store some important evidence."

"But it's obvious that the safe that was originally placed there has been destroyed in advance."

He pointed to a square mark on the ground. What was originally placed there was no longer there.

"And this device, if I read it correctly, should be some kind of special electrotherapy device."

He walked to the other side of the room and patted a bed-like machine.

Only then did Qu Yi notice the machine, his body twitched subconsciously, and anger burst into his eyes: "That bastard is still using this kind of thing!"

This instrument was exactly the kind of machine Chu Sheng used to punish them when he was a child.

As long as they are connected to a power source, they will be able to release electricity and torture them without leaving any traces!

"Remember that empty room? This instrument was obviously originally placed on the second floor."

"But now it's here."

"But obviously, moving this kind of thing requires a lot of movement, and it's not that convenient."

"Combined with the disappearing safe, what can you think of?"

Xu Ye looked at Qu Yi and asked.

Qu Yi thought seriously for a while and murmured: "Someone is eliminating evidence and doesn't want the police to find out?"

"And he already knew the police would be here..."

"That is to say... long before the case occurred, he completed the moving work and eliminated the evidence along the way!!!"

"That's right!" Xu Ye snapped his fingers, "This also means that the reason why you appear here and be designated as the first suspect is not an accident, but an inevitable one!"

"Someone deliberately set up a trap to try to use you as a scapegoat to cover up their own crimes."

"And he is also the real criminal in this case!"

"So, who is the prisoner?" Qu Yi breathed rapidly, feeling that there was a bunch of information randomly intersecting in his mind, and it was impossible to discern the truth!

Another memory was tampered with, and another person died in the secret room for no apparent reason.

Now the other party deliberately set him up again, and Dean Chu Sheng died again.

He really couldn't imagine who could be so vicious and want to make him a scapegoat.

"Isn't the prisoner obvious?" Xu Ye spread his right hand and pointed at Uncle Zhao, who looked horrified, "Isn't he standing in front of us?"

"What are you talking about?" Uncle Zhao looked at Xu Ye's gesture and immediately became anxious, "I can admit that I came back to steal things today."

"But you want to accuse me of being the murderer of more than sixty people in the orphanage??"

"I was not here at all when the crime occurred!!"

"If you don't believe me, just ask..."

"Go and ask Lao Wangtou from the neighborhood next door?" Xu Ye took over his words with a smile.

"Wang Junshui, the leader of the community, is 63 years old. He plays chess in the community every day. He has a wife who is 20 years younger than him, which makes countless old men envious."

"How do you know so much..." Uncle Zhao was stunned.

"Because I have investigated it." Xu Ye said as a matter of course, "You only need to wear a pair of glasses, wear red clothes, and add old-fashioned clothes and hairstyles, and it is easy to get along well with these old people."

"In their eyes, people dressed like this are all intellectuals, worthy of respect, and will be inexplicably close."

"So you are wearing this strange outfit to get information?" Qu Yi suddenly realized and finally understood why Xu Ye came to see him dressed like this.

"By the way, the reason why I was an hour late was because I was entangled by a few aunts."

"They coveted my beauty and tried to get me to visit their homes, but I refused with righteous words!" Xu Ye said in a low voice with his hand covering his mouth.

"You refused for a full hour?" Qu Yi looked at Xu Ye with empty eyes.

"Ahem, let's get back to the point." Xu Ye coughed twice and looked at Uncle Zhao in front of him again, "According to that old Wang and several elderly people nearby."

"You did go to play chess with them that day, and went to Old Wang's house."

"But the time you arrived at the community was not after eleven o'clock, but ten fifty!"

"And at eleven ten in the afternoon, you claimed to go to the toilet and left for a while, and didn't come back from the toilet until eleven fifty."

"I have calculated on foot that a person with healthy legs and feet only needs ten minutes at most to get from the community to the orphanage."

"Qu Yi arrived at the orphanage at eleven thirty."

"That is to say, if you want, you can walk back and forth from the orphanage within forty minutes."

His eyes were sharp, staring at Uncle Zhao like a sharp arrow.

"I want to ask you, where did you go in the forty minutes you missed?"

"Or, what did you do?"