Chapter 72: Ignorance Doesn’t Mean It Doesn’t Exist

Chapter 72: Not Knowing Doesn’t Mean It Doesn’t Exist

Wang Dong remained silent, his expression grim.

“How much psychological scar you’ve left on me…” Xiao Yu grinned wickedly as he resumed examining the corpse.

“What’s so fascinating about it?”

“A corpse never lies!”

Solving cases—especially homicides—often hinged on the body.

There, countless clues could be unearthed.

Take, for instance, the wound on the victim’s chest and abdomen.

It was unnervingly straight, a clean slice that somehow spared the internal organs.

The victim even managed to control the depth of the cut when slashing at himself.

How was that even possible?

Why had Xiao Yu just been smiling so eerily?

He’d thought of something rather intriguing.

Imagine, if you weren’t in a daze, trying to disembowel yourself—

Could you really control how deep your cut was?

No, even if you were perfectly lucid, you wouldn’t manage it!

So how did the victim pull it off?

Xiao Yu’s gaze shifted toward the victim’s head.

His eyes lit up as he zeroed in on the blood-soaked ear.

The victim’s ear was missing—it had been self-amputated!

The ear canal was already clogged with blood.

So, what did you find?

“Did you never suspect someone was directing these corpses?” Xiao Yu asked Wang Dong.

“Directing?”

Wang Dong was stunned. “Impossible. During the time of death, we scoured every area around the scene… and found no suspicious individuals.”

“But doesn’t directing someone require you to be nearby?”

Xiao Yu smirked. “What about remote control?”

“Remote control?”

Wang Dong’s face darkened as he stared hard at the bloodied ear canal.

A forensic autopsy at the scene!

Five minutes later…

A tiny black object, no bigger than a fingernail, was extracted from the victim’s ear canal…

A wireless earphone!

National Security swiftly mobilized to inspect the death scene.

Since the range of Bluetooth rarely exceeds ten meters.

An hour later…

A mini MP5 Player was handed to Xiao Yu by a National Security agent.

“Not a phone?”

To be honest, Xiao Yu was a bit surprised.

He’d originally assumed it would be a smartphone.

This MP5 Player had been recovered from a drainage well adjacent to the crime scene.

Approximately six meters from where the victim died.

It featured Bluetooth connectivity for wireless earphones.

However, the player was out of power at that moment.

After half an hour of charging, it regained some energy.

Upon starting it up, there was only one audio file on it.

Xiao Yu pressed play.

A song began to play softly.

A soothing instrumental… like a sleeping spirit!

Xiao Yu’s expression froze.

In less than three minutes, the music had played on repeat three times.

There was nothing but pure music.

How could that be?!

The more he mulled it over, the more it seemed the victim’s self-harm, even suicide, might have been orchestrated.

Via the wireless earphone.

Yet it was all down to one single track?

Just picture it:

The victim, smiling in twisted pleasure while inflicting pain on himself, all the while listening to that calming tune.

Was it really so elaborate? What in the world dazzled me so much?

Xiao Yu’s expression grew increasingly bizarre.

He listened to the track for the fourth time.

Then a fifth, a sixth…

Gradually, his odd expression turned to bewilderment, then to astonishment.

Until finally… it turned cold.

“So, what did you uncover?” noticing Xiao Yu’s change in expression, Wang Dong inquired.

“I didn’t expect it to be…”

Xiao Yu’s face shifted rapidly before he finally uttered, “Hypnosis!”

“Impossible!”

Wang Dong shook his head firmly. “I may not understand hypnosis, but National Security has already ruled it out. They even considered it—hypnosis simply can’t reach this level!”

“I know,”

Xiao Yu nodded. “Firstly, pain would snap a hypnotized person back to reality. Secondly, you can’t violate a person’s psyche. Third, establishing trust and cooperation through respect, listening, and empathy is paramount. National Security found no significant suspects near the victim—so you doubt it?”

Wang Dong fell silent, staring at Xiao Yu in shock.

“Don’t be astonished,”

Xiao Yu turned his attention to the MP5 Player. “I’m quite proficient with psychology.”

This isn’t mere showboating—he truly was skilled!

“If you already know, why call it hypnosis?”

Wang Dong was baffled.

“The rules of the world don’t vanish just because you’re unaware of them.”

Xiao Yu shook his head, his eyes clouded with doubt. “Could it be drugs?”

He had analyzed it thoroughly.

Hypnosis combined with drugs could indeed force someone into self-harm or even suicide.

But in the end, Xiao Yu dismissed that theory.

It was just too far-fetched.

For one, anyone capable of doing that would have to be a top-tier hypnotist.

And second, a substance that numbs pain, induces hallucinations, and leaves one freely mobile… does such a drug really exist?

Most importantly,

without any physical contact with the victim,

how could the drug be administered into the victim’s mouth?

What method was used to hypnotize the victim?

But… as he had just mentioned,

just because you don’t know it, doesn’t mean it isn’t real.

There are far too many things in this world beyond your understanding.

Xiao Yu wasn’t so arrogant as to think he knew it all.

The problem is, your method is completely unscientific!

…

Night.

In a hotel suite.

Sitting before a tea table, Xiao Yu listened to that lullaby of a song.

Tap, tap, tap…

His ‘777 fingers’ tapped rhythmically along with the beat.

Secret codes? No!

Tone control? That’s not it!

One criminal hypothesis after another formed in Xiao Yu’s mind, only to be dismissed one by one.

“I just can’t do it!”

Coming back to his senses, Xiao Yu sighed and muttered, “Even with my Psychological Expert ability, I can use hypnosis. But there’s no way I could pull this off. The system’s provided abilities must be top-tier, right? Could your hypnosis be even stronger than the system’s gift?”

Indeed, ever since the system granted him the ‘Psychological Expert’ ability,

Xiao Yu had also learned hypnosis.

But such power was definitely not meant to be used.

The key was to never use it in front of National Security personnel.

However, Xiao Yu could use his ‘Psychological Expert’ skills to deduce the level of his opponent’s hypnosis.

Is there really someone out there whose ability surpasses even this system’s extra boost?

When Xiao Yu played the music once more,

suddenly, he froze.

Wait a minute…

“Feeding?”

Those two words struck him like lightning, igniting a burst of inspiration.

Feeding doesn’t necessarily require a person.

It seems there are many ways to pull it off!

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PS: Let’s call it the early update; there‘s still a full day left. Once my underlings wake up, I’ll continue the update!