Chapter 194: Eagle Eye: Is It Up to the Task?
by xennovelChapter 194: Eagle Eye – Is It Good or Not?
“A method?”
He Li blinked in surprise, her eyes suddenly lighting up. “Is it using a medical esophageal tube? Insert it directly into the deceased’s stomach to perform reverse feeding?”
This method avoids damaging the esophagus and won’t cause adverse conditions.
Of course, anyone who’s had an endoscopy knows exactly how unpleasant it can be.
“Something like that!”
Xiao Yu smiled. With the answer to his purpose at the Forensic Department in hand, he reached out, “Thank you, Sister He.”
“You’re welcome.”
He Li shook hands with Xiao Yu and smiled, “Feel free to drop by anytime.”
Xiao Yu: …
Am I really coming here just to ‘hang out’?
Glancing at the corpse’s liver weighed on the organ scale, Xiao Yu’s lips twitched.
Forget it—I don’t have such a heavy appetite!
……
Climbing into the cop car’s front seat, he glanced at Guo Qiang in the driver’s seat and Li Xin and Liu Hongqiao in the back.
Xiao Yu offered his conclusion, “Looks like a suspected homicide!”
“Hiss!” The three inhaled sharply.
They all knew that linking a theft case with homicide meant something big.
Xiao Yu relayed his findings and his exchange with Forensic He Li to his three subordinates.
All three were seasoned members of the Criminal Investigation Team.
After hearing this, their expressions turned gravely serious.
The likelihood of homicide was too high!
Soon, the strange looks in their eyes toward Xiao Yu grew even more unnerving.
Who would normally think of using mouse poison, cockroach bait, or rice porridge in such a case?
“Don’t look at me like that.”
Xiao Yu shook his head. “That female forensic expert is impressive. Without her tip, I wouldn’t have thought of so many angles.”
And indeed, that was the case.
Not everyone is cut out to be a forensic doctor.
One must not only understand corpses,
but also have the mindset to analyze causes of death.
“Let’s head back to the precinct.”
Reclining in his seat, Xiao Yu’s mind began dissecting the case.
“Should we check out the scene?”
Guo Qiang reminded him.
Can evidence from a case six years old still be preserved?
Yes!
It was a sensational suicide case involving a family of three six years ago.
The property was inherited by relatives but soon earned the reputation of a ‘haunted house’.
Not many would dare to buy a house like that…
“No use.”
Xiao Yu shook his head. “The crime scene inside the house has essentially been tampered with by the relatives.
Visiting the scene is no better than going through the old case files.”
The four returned directly to the Criminal Investigation Team headquarters.
Since the case revealed suspicious details, it was highly likely that the family of three was murdered.
The investigation now needed a completely new direction.
They couldn’t start with a simple theft case.
Instead, they had to explore the possibility of homicide.
Yet, the initial incident… was still a theft!
……
At the Criminal Investigation Team’s Evidence Room.
Xiao Yu was examining a platinum sphere.
It was the exact item that had been reported stolen from the family on the train all those years ago.
The platinum was fashioned into a sphere, looking much like a metallic ping-pong ball.
Platinum, also known as white gold, isn’t actually gold—it’s a different metal entirely.
It’s rarer than gold and much harder, too.
So, despite its deceptive small size, it weighed over a kilogram.
If such an item were lost, anyone would report it.
Was it allowed to carry such precious metal aboard a train?
Yes—items like gold and platinum can be carried as long as they don’t exceed a kilogram.
If they do, you must carry proof like an invoice.
If you’re taking gold in or out of the country, it’s handled differently…
After a while, having found nothing unusual about the platinum sphere, Xiao Yu picked up his tablet and began reviewing the case files.
The case background…
……
Husband: Ji Xiao, Male, 44, from Bin City, a company boss…
Wife: Cui Shufang, Female, 43…
Son: Ji Zuming, Male, 19…
The family of three had traveled out of province to visit relatives.
The platinum sphere was a gift, reported missing from a sleeper car.
It was discovered missing when the journey was already halfway done.
Surveillance from the sleeper car corridor showed no suspicious person had entered the family’s compartment.
Yet each compartment had four bunks, including another female passenger.
After investigation, the female passenger was cleared of suspicion…
Isn’t it strange?
The only potential suspect for theft was ruled out.
Surveillance footage confirmed no one had intruded into the compartment.
Yet the item had vanished?
Railway police initially suspected that the reporting family might have forgotten or even failed to bring the platinum sphere aboard.
But the family insisted they had it with them.
The box that housed the platinum sphere was found at the scene—only the sphere itself was missing.
To avoid any possibility of it being swallowed for ransom,
police even used a metal detector to search all four occupants in the car.
It wasn’t there—the platinum sphere had simply disappeared!
Later, the reporting family returned to Bin City, waiting for the police investigation.
Before any results came in, the family of three committed suicide.
The platinum sphere had reappeared in their home, on the dining table…
……
Xiao Yu snapped back to reality.
Assuming this wasn’t a simple theft case, but would overturn the original investigation,
the likelihood that the family was murdered became the basis for the case.
Xiao Yu’s mind raced through the deductions.
A family of three carrying a platinum sphere—the train burglary, the return home, the murder, and then the sphere reappearing…
What was the killer’s motive?
Could it be that the platinum sphere was stolen by the murderer?
If so, why kill the family and then return the sphere?
If that were the case, Xiao Yu’s head would be spinning.
“No—this is not only absurd, it’s insane, right?”
Xiao Yu’s mind tangled as he reanalyzed the clues.
Assume the murderer’s only goal was to kill…
Shaking his head, Xiao Yu muttered, “That can’t be it. If the purpose was just to kill, why go through all this trouble? They could have simply killed them. So the question… still hinges on the platinum sphere.”
Looking up, Xiao Yu gazed at the platinum sphere in puzzlement.
Apart from its value, what else could it be used for?
Could it be hiding something inside? It appears completely intact… wait a minute.
The platinum sphere… is intact?
A sudden spark of insight lit up Xiao Yu’s mind.
He thought of a possibility.
He’d once seen a video.
Two pieces of metal fused together can form a seamless whole with no visible gap to the naked eye.
This is achieved through a ‘high-precision joining technique’—arguably the most flawlessly seamless method.
To achieve this, the pieces aren’t cut from a single block,
but are made separately and then intricately fitted together.
It’s said that this process can achieve tolerances as fine as 0.001mm…
The joint is so perfect that not even the human eye can detect any seams.
The naked eye might fail… but Xiao Yu’s eagle eye did not.
Eagle Eye—does it work or not?