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Chapter 1930 Reconstructs the Explosion Scene, Shocking the Audience!
The deathly silence in the room was broken by heavy breathing.
All eyes were fixed on Li Xiangnan's face. His handsome face, which was now as calm as ice, became the only clear presence in this smoke-filled room!
Yuanda!
He may have personally manufactured the explosives that caused the Mu family's water tower to collapse, or he may even have been at the scene of the explosion!
Everyone who learned of this information was now digesting the huge and shocking speculation brought by Li Xiangnan!
It was Guo Qian, the captain of the criminal investigation team, who was experienced and able to calm down immediately. His throat was dry, and he couldn't help but cough heavily, his face still showing signs of shock.
"Xiao Li, you mean... this Yuan Da, he might have known about it, and he was at the site of the Mu family's explosion. What do you think he was doing there? If we suspect he planted the explosives, there's no reason for him to stay at the scene, is there?"
Li Xiangnan didn't rush to answer yes or no. Instead, he walked to the table, unfolded the map of the Mu family ruins and the map of Pudu Temple, and laid them out on the table. He also grabbed a few of his grandfather's chess pieces as markers.
His movements were unhurried, yet they carried a breathtaking focus.
"Let's not rush to conclusions and determine Yuan Da's motives!" Li Xiangnan squinted, rubbing the chess piece in his hand. "Let's answer Captain Guo's initial question first: Yuan Da, this guest monk of Pudu Temple, a guest monk who should be welcoming and seeing off guests in the temple, why did he appear at the scene of a symbolic explosion targeting the neighboring powerful family, and even appear within the blast radius?"
"Yes! Why?" Wang Defa and Song Ziming felt that they had swallowed more saliva today than in the entire past month.
Wei Jingfei was already scratching his head in frustration: "Please, Consultant Li, just tell me already! I really want to know why!"
The police officers around him looked at him with hopeful eyes, clearly tormented by the problem.
"Xiao Li, what do you say?" Guo Qian lit a cigarette with a snap, trying to dispel the excitement he felt as he approached the answer.
Li Xiangnan smiled slightly, picked up a black chess piece, and placed it in the warehouse in the backyard of Pudu Temple.
This is a pawn.
It represents a lowly soldier.
"Let's assume, for example, that he was the one who directly carried out the demolition, or the one who was in charge on site!"
Li Xiangnan pointed to the character "卒" (zu, meaning "soldier"), "This seems to be the most direct and consistent piece of evidence regarding gunpowder residue on Yuan Da's sleeve, right?"
He looked at the crowd, and everyone around him nodded silently.
"But there's a contradiction here! As everyone knows, Yuan Da is the guest monk at Pudu Temple. Such a monk is always in the public eye, so naturally many people know him! The neighbors around Pudu Temple, the pilgrims who often come here... So, if he frequently appears before the explosion, or on the ruins of the Mu family, or near the water tower, wouldn't the risk be extremely high? Wouldn't it be easy for him to leave behind eyewitnesses?"
"On the contrary, monks like Yuan Neng, who are in charge of chores and rarely appear in front of others in the front courtyard, or even strangers who sneak in from outside the temple, are the most discreet when carrying out specific tasks! Why him? Wouldn't that expose himself?"
Li Xiangnan's words made everyone fall into deep thought.
Admittedly, this is indeed a major contradiction.
Wang Defa frowned and pondered, "But what if Yuanda is a highly skilled and daring person? Besides, Nanchizi Street has been haunted by rumors among the neighbors ever since the Mu family's house burned down overnight decades ago, killing many people. Not to mention that there's nothing here at night, even during the day, people passing by are always in a hurry, afraid of getting involved with the evil spirits here. Who would pay attention to Yuanda!"
“Possibly!” Li Xiangnan did not deny his opinion. He picked up another red chess piece, a pawn, and placed it on the spot representing the ruins of the Mu family's water tower. “Then we need more detailed motives and behavioral logic to prove why he had to be at the explosion site!”
The group started brainstorming again.
Li Xiangnan looked at everyone, his gaze sharp and intense.
"Let me start by offering my initial thoughts. I speculate that Yuan Da's presence at the scene might stem from several 'critical tasks' that couldn't be delegated to others, and these tasks were even impromptu. These tasks required his involvement, pointing to his role in the bombing! He might not be a simple demolition expert, but rather a more crucial decision-maker or supervisor!"
At this point, Li Xiangnan paused, sat down at the octagonal table, and looked at Guo Qian.
Guo Qian exhaled a puff of smoke, his brows furrowed, frantically searching his mind for every possibility. Soon, his eyes lit up, and following Li Xiangnan's train of thought, he immediately found a possibility.
“He might be confirming the target’s death!” Guo Qian suddenly said.
These words caused a subconscious surprise among those around him, and then all eyes turned to him.
Guo Qianteng stood up abruptly and quickly searched the table for a photo of Mu Zelin. He soon found a picture of an old man in the messy table and held it up to show everyone.
“We previously deduced that Old Master Mu Zelin had likely discovered the secret passage of Pudu Temple, but was silenced before he could send a message! And according to Old Master Li, Senior Mu was a bird guard of the Mu family, so his skills and alertness were naturally not bad!”
Everyone's breath froze.
Guo Qian continued, "Let's assume that the area near the secret passage, which is the backyard of Pudu Temple, was indeed the primary scene of the cover-up. However, there's another possibility: perhaps Yuan Da, Yuan Neng, or even the Little Buddha himself captured Mu Zelin, but in order to extract more information and pry secrets like the account books from his mouth, they simply disabled his ability to act and controlled him, taking him to the ruins of the Mu family to recreate the Mu family fire from back then..."
"Hiss!" As Guo Qian recounted the story, everyone seemed to be transported back to the day of the bombing, as if they were there themselves.
"As it turned out, Old Master Mu Zelin was a tough guy and refused to reveal any information, even to the death! Yuan Da, of course, wouldn't take him anywhere else. Using this as a starting point, he orchestrated the bombing. However, Yuan Da had to ensure that Old Master Mu was truly dead and had no possibility of transmitting any information to the outside world!"
"He wouldn't trust outsiders, or even those of insufficient rank, with this matter! So Yuan Da personally went to the scene and immediately approached or observed the site after the explosion to confirm Mu Zelin's state of death! He might even..."
Guo Qian looked at Li Xiangnan: "Or perhaps after the explosion, he suddenly wondered if Mu Zelin was carrying anything he shouldn't have, such as leaving marks on his body, or grabbing his clothes, and he wanted to check! During this process, the shockwave from the explosion hadn't dissipated, and flying debris hit his cuff!"
A chill ran down everyone's spine.
This speculation is reasonable, yet it carries a chilling cruelty.
However, based on the clues we have so far, it is indeed possible to deduce it backwards!
Is that really the case?
After finishing his sentence, Guo Qian looked at Li Xiangnan with great anticipation and asked, "Advisor Li, I know you have several possibilities in mind, right? I want to know, what are the possible scenarios where he might appear at the scene?"