Chapter 201: Who Are You Really?

Chapter 201: Who Are You Really?

Haven’t you ever left your home?

Isn’t the female passenger from the train six years ago none other than Song Wanyu standing before me?

Xiao Yu stared in shock, his gaze slowly pulling away from her face.

Her subtle expression silently told him the truth.

There was no lie!

Could I be seeing ghosts?

Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yu said, “Thank you. I might come looking for you again. Goodbye!”

After speaking, he turned and walked away.

Downstairs.

“Not her?”

Wang Dong was equally bewildered. “How can it not be her?”

“Just take a look and see for yourself.”

Xiao Yu pulled out his tablet and retrieved the old train surveillance footage.

Any surveillance linked to a case is never erased until the case is solved.

When he took over the case, Xiao Yu had also reviewed it; back then, nothing seemed amiss.

Now, the situation was much more serious.

After reviewing the footage, Xiao Yu discovered that, indeed, a female passenger had entered the private sleeping compartment designated for the three members of the Ji Family.

However, the “640” video was a bit blurry, and her bulky dress made body comparison difficult.

From start to finish, her face never fully appeared on the surveillance.

“This is troublesome!”

Xiao Yu muttered in frustration, “The case is too old; even the original investigators wouldn’t remember what that female passenger looked like six years ago. The ID is likely a fake made using Song Wanyu’s information… Wait, if Song Wanyu lost her ID six years ago, surely a replacement was issued, right?”

He suddenly remembered something.

After all, counterfeiting today’s ID is nearly impossible.

Even the chip inside isn’t something just anyone can replicate.

At the train station, you need an ID to extract your ticket from the self-service machines.

Song Wanyu’s ID, issued in M City, somehow appeared in Bincheng?

Lost ID cases require a reissue record at the police household registration office.

So, Xiao Yu and Wang Dong decided to check.

There was no replacement record for Song Wanyu’s lost ID.

Xiao Yu and Wang Dong exchanged glances and smirked.

Isn’t this rather interesting?

Ten minutes later.

“Why is it you again?”

As Song Wanyu opened the door, she frowned at Xiao Yu and cast a sideways glance at Wang Dong.

“Six years ago, was your ID always with you all by itself?”

Xiao Yu fixed his eyes on Song Wanyu and asked one word after another.

“That question sounds very odd,”

Song Wanyu replied, confused. “Of course my ID has always been with me.”

“Then, six years ago, were you living alone or with someone else?”

Xiao Yu continued his questioning.

“Well…”

After a brief hesitation, Song Wanyu admitted, “A friend stayed at my place for less than a month. Is that a problem?”

That was a major issue indeed.

Xiao Yu and Wang Dong exchanged a knowing look, a flash of realization in their eyes.

ID fraud!

“We need her identity information,”

Wang Dong stated, leaving no room for refusal.

Song Wanyu revealed her friend’s identity.

Zhou Han, female, 32 years old from M City… declared missing three years ago.

“Missing?!” Xiao Yu sighed.

“Yes!” Wang Dong’s expression darkened noticeably.

It was all too common in their line of work.

How could anyone not understand what it meant to be missing?

Xiao Yu was deeply frustrated.

The task deadline given by the system was less than seven days away.

And now, with no leads whatsoever, what was he to do?

No, there had to be another way…

Xiao Yu took a deep breath.

There was still a chance to salvage this!

After quickly regaining his composure, he reorganized his thoughts.

“It all started with the theft of the Platinum Sphere, followed by the Ji Family’s mysterious death—no, it wasn’t a suicide, it was a murder. The killer did it for a storage card, and the case is linked to some photos. How can we catch him?”

“The clues from the photos are almost useless. We can only trace from the theft, but that leads nowhere. No, not nowhere—suspect Zhou Han is missing…”

“Pursuing Zhou Han’s trail yields no results; he likely left no trace. So…”

“Smack!”

Xiao Yu slapped his own face, jolting his mind awake. “Let’s reanalyze!”

As always, deduction is about eliminating the unnecessary.

List all the clues and sift through them one by one.

Are there really no clues left?

No, there were two more.

One: the storage card.

Two: the Platinum Sphere.

Both clues were glaringly obvious.

Everything began with them.

Without them, there would have been no theft, no Ji Family deaths, no Human Skin Wax Figure photos…

“Unless… the Ji Family members?”

A spark lit in Xiao Yu’s eyes. “Yes! Why would they have those photos? Why did the killer take them back instead of returning them, choosing instead to hide them?”

“That’s wrong. It all went wrong from the very beginning.”

“The Platinum Sphere… it probably wasn’t stolen by the murderer. Maybe the Ji Family staged it?”

“Otherwise, how do you explain that all four train tickets were bought by the Ji Family themselves?”

“Were they trying to signal someone, saying something was missing?”

“But then, when discovered, they retrieved the Platinum Sphere just to display it before the Ji Family—and killed all three of them?”

“That would also explain how the Platinum Sphere ended up with the Ji Family.”

“Could it be that Zhou Han, who was suspected of stealing the Platinum Sphere, actually knew the Ji Family personally?”

“No, even if a theft occurred on the train, some people simply couldn’t have witnessed it… Could it be that the Ji Family was putting on a show for Zhou Han?”

“Were they performing a scene for Zhou Han? Why would they do that? Could it be that… Zhou Han had connections with the murderer? Was the Platinum Sphere deliberately discarded by the Ji Family?”

“Why would they do such a thing? What significance did keeping those photos hold for them?”

“No, it’s got to be about Zhou Han. The problem lies with Zhou Han…”

“Zhou Han’s information… Has Song Wanyu really been truthful?”

“Isn’t microexpression psychology supposed to be foolproof?”

He replayed the scenario repeatedly, scrutinizing every detail.

Xiao Yu’s brain worked like a high-speed CPU, processing furiously.

Countless possibilities, so many pieces of information.

He began piecing everything together at a breakneck pace.

One line of thought gradually became clear.

“So then…”

Xiao Yu suddenly looked up. “Why would Zhou Han fraudulently use Song Wanyu’s ID without her knowing? Is that even possible? Or maybe… is there something wrong with Song Wanyu herself?!”

I… was deceived by my own eyes?

…

“What exactly are you all trying to do?”

When Song Wanyu opened the door for the third time, she fixed a cold, steely look on both Xiao Yu and Wang Dong.

“I have only one question for you.”

Xiao Yu’s voice turned cold as he asked, “Did Zhou Han really use your old ID in the past?”

Song Wanyu fell silent.

“I just looked into your past,” continued Xiao Yu.

Fixing his gaze on her, he said, “Back in college, you studied psychology—experimental psychology, including microexpression analysis and management, right?”

Song Wanyu’s calm expression finally betrayed a flicker of panic.

“I always knew the eyes could mislead, yet I was fooled by mine just once.”

Xiao Yu sneered, “Song Wanyu, who exactly are you?”

And what about that Zhou Han?

No, there is no Zhou Han!

Six years ago, it was Song Wanyu herself who boarded that train and entered the Ji Family’s private compartment.

If it weren’t for Xiao Yu’s wits,

he would have been duped by her microexpressions…