Chapter 193: Chapter 181 Story (Penultimate Chapter) Chapter 193: Chapter 181 Story (Penultimate Chapter) In a slightly surprised gaze from the other person, Chen Xiao revealed a standard Chen’s smile, “Oh, so that’s how it is. If Chief Paine’s information is like this, then I need to go over my deductions again.”

As he spoke, he licked his lips, “I want to ask… which bar… was it the first time Andrew met the witness?”

“50 points.” The TV set spoke, and as soon as its words ended, Chen Xiao’s cell phone received the answer.

He looked down at it briefly.

“Hehehe…” Then he let out a shrill, grating laugh, “Though you’ve got plenty of clues, there’s a very key one you missed… the scene in Andrew’s bedroom! I wonder if you noticed that, aside from an extremely brief shot at the beginning of the story by his bed, there have been no more images of his bedroom… hehe… it’s no wonder,

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because right there, in the corner of his bedroom, on the floor… was blood everywhere!!!!

Yes, that’s right, Mr. Andrew committed murder.

Also… because you didn’t capture Andrew’s personal information, you wouldn’t know that not only is he a man who has never solved a case, but also… as a child, he was diagnosed with a mental illness. Without knowing this, you naturally wouldn’t notice the hints in those brief shots, such as the dining table that was a complete mess suddenly becoming clean, or the fridge that was full of beer somehow having most of it drunk, oh, and there was a shot at the entrance of a hospital, that hospital is a mental institution, only to be immediately interrupted by a phone call, suggesting that Mr. Andrew realized he was ill and went to the hospital for a check-up.

Andrew actually knew he had killed someone… he knew the night before he found the body.

Remember what time the witness claimed to have seen the killer? Around 3 a.m.

Ha~ stopping to urinate around 3 or 4 a.m. in that alley? Give me a break. There isn’t even a corridor nearby; where would that so-called homeless witness go to sleep, or are you telling me he went halfway across town just to take a leak there? And besides, a yellow coat… and holding a weapon. Could you really see that clearly under that lighting? So, the witness is fake, but not hired by Chief Paine, but rather someone Andrew had impersonate, and the time of the murder wasn’t 3 or 4 a.m., but several hours earlier, around midnight.

That night, he opened his eyes to find himself lying in his bedroom, surrounded by the smell of blood, with a bloodstained coat and weapon piled on the floor. He realized what had happened right then. So, he found a drunkard overnight, put on his yellow coat, and had him quickly wander in front of the roadside cameras, around 3 a.m., I guess.

After doing all this, he asked the drunkard to go to the police station the next morning and lie about seeing the killer, hehe, and after that, things happened just as you said, only the one who ultimately killed the witness wasn’t Chief Paine, it was Mr. Andrew.

But Chief Paine, after all, has been around the block, so after all this, he realized something was off with the whole affair… or maybe he knew Mr. Andrew’s scheme from the start, but wanted to threaten him at the last minute, asking for money or something. So it turns out, the last call did come from Chief Paine, but what he said was completely different from what you mentioned… that’s the real truth of the story!”

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Chen Xiao said this, his two hands twitching and writhing in front of his chest as if they had a mind of their own, making one feel disgusted from the depths of their heart.

Immediately after…

“So that’s how it is… then I really must thank you!” Tsujido Yuto said nonchalantly.

Following that, the voice from the TV also spoke up, “Incorrect, the narrative right is exchanged…”

“What?!!” Chen Xiao froze for a moment, and then, as if belatedly realizing, looked toward the other person, “You…”

Tsujido Yuto shrugged his shoulders, “Yes, I was lying, ~ I just used a question to deceive you, actually, the answer I got from my previous question wasn’t ‘Yes,’ but ‘No!’ Haha, that means Chief Paine wasn’t helping Mr. Andrew for the money! One question for a mere 50 points, I really don’t care, but it seems you can’t afford it, after all, you have only just over 100 points left… oh oh… alright… I’d be just poking at your wounds if I said any more. Hahahaha!”

As he spoke, Tsujido Yuto raised his hand, “Question: I want to know, did Chief Paine know about Mr. Andrew’s mental illness?”

“50 points!” the TV set pronounced.

Yuto lowered his head to look at the answer and chuckled, “Heh, so this is the truth… Come on, let’s hurry up and end this boring game.”

He then posed like he had when he first narrated the story.

“So, the plot of the story has now come to its third twist… It turns out that Chief Paine had known all along that Mr. Andrew suffered from a mental illness! Heh… It’s no wonder, because he has hated Mr. Andrew for a long time!… It was him, Mr. Andrew, who caused his own divorce and lost custody of his daughter!

Do you still remember the question about Chief Paine I brought up last time? The one I asked that you not be told about? Ha~ Actually, Chief Paine and Mr. Andrew had an interesting history a long time ago!

Surprised, aren’t you… But let me start from the beginning.

You just said that according to Mr. Andrew’s records, he has never solved a case… However, that’s not entirely true. A few years ago, he indeed successfully captured a criminal but kept it hidden, and this detail can only be known from Chief Paine’s record!

At that time, Andrew and Chief Paine worked together on a case. They cooperated quite well, and the criminal was soon to be exposed. However, during the arrest, the criminal got away!

And then… Heh… Chief Paine shot and killed the criminal! And that was when the suspect was unarmed.

That was far too impulsive. You must understand, firing at an unarmed person, even a criminal, has serious consequences. At the lightest, one might lose their job; at worst, they might even go to prison! Imagine, a police officer jailed alongside criminals he put away… The scene must have been explosive!

Hence, Chief Paine had no choice but to ask Mr. Andrew to cover up the whole incident and to fabricate a scenario where the gun went off in a struggle with the criminal…!

While the matter seemed to have been settled then… Mr. Andrew wouldn’t let it go. Holding leverage over him, he repeatedly made unreasonable demands, starting with money, then asking the chief to provide him with various conveniences for cases because of his position, and in the end, he became even more demanding: requiring Chief Paine to cover his alcohol, rent, and living expenses. Heh, otherwise, what’s the difference between a third-rate detective with no accomplishments and a jobless homeless man? How was he affording the rent and all those drinks?

Basically, Mr. Andrew became a parasitic worm, clinging onto Chief Paine while he had to silently endure it, which ultimately led to his divorce… So, does it now make sense why there was such content in the conversation between Chief Paine and Mr. Andrew?

Alright… Now, let’s move on to the beginning of this story.

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Let’s talk about the murderer of the homeless man… He was neither Andrew nor Paine,

but… Haha… It was indeed the alcoholic witness!

Didn’t see that coming, did you?

In fact, on the night of the murder, there truly was an eyewitness, and it was none other than Chief Paine!

He witnessed the drunk getting wasted at the bar and afterward getting into a violent fight with the homeless man outside the back door of the bar, eventually killing him!

However, he did not apprehend the drunk on the spot… because he had a plan!

Without raising suspicions himself, he wanted to frame Mr. Andrew as the murderer!

Since he was paying the rent, it’s unsurprising he had keys to the door. The bloodstains and weapons you saw in Andrew’s room were all placed by Chief Paine to confuse Andrew! The liquor, the tidied-up dining table – all were illusions to make Andrew believe he had relapsed!

As for everything the drunkard homeless man said, it was obviously all choreographed by Chief Paine too… It was to scare Andrew and tell him that someone had seen the killer and that if he didn’t act, he was done for!

Sure enough, after they finished their talk and left the bar, Andrew followed the drunk and killed him, then staged a suicide! Of course, these were all traps set by Chief Paine… The rest of the plot progressed as everyone saw, the case ended, everyone was happy… But in the end, just when Andrew thought everything was over, Chief Paine called him. He wanted to tell Andrew that he knew everything and to live in fear or to be thrown directly into jail… or to let Mr. Andrew, like his past self, be slowly drained and lose everything… In the end, Mr. Paine didn’t lift a finger and completed the perfect revenge… He led a criminal down a dead-end path and turned someone who had never killed into a murderer. Heh, that… That is the truth!”

Yuto spoke faster and faster until at the end, he even began to look at Chen Xiao and opened his arms slightly, as if waiting to greet something.

“Um… This story is really fascinating… but you’re wrong. Now it’s Chen Xiao’s turn to ask questions…”

The television spoke again.