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As V's voice fell, I was left dumbfounded, as if I had stumbled upon something extremely important, yet I couldn't quite grasp what it was. I strained to recall the events of that day, and after a while, I swallowed hard and said with utmost seriousness, "So, it seems I really didn't see X enter the Executive Director's office with my own eyes."
"The situation we are facing now aligns with the fifth point of the third category in 'Xuan Xuan's Secret Chamber Lecture': the actual time of the crime occurred earlier than presumed; the murderer had already committed the act and left before the witnesses confirmed the existence of the locked room." V paused for a moment before continuing, "Yes, before you confirmed that office was a locked room, the murderer was no longer in that office. After killing A Man, the murderer never entered that office at all."
"But why did I, B Man, and C Girl think X entered that office? Why have our memories been altered?"
"Only your memory and C Girl's memory have been altered," V replied.
"What about B Man? He also saw X enter that office!"
"B Man is Liao Mengwei's accomplice; he is the one who replaced your and C Girl's memories."
"What?" I was taken aback. "B Man is Liao Mengwei's partner? Our memories were altered by him? What exactly is going on?"
"Here's how it is," V explained methodically. "First, X, who is Liao Mengwei, after killing A Man, slowly walked towards the Executive Director's office in front of you all, creating the illusion that she was going to enter that office. In reality, she never entered. Just before reaching the door of the office, she quickly stepped aside and exited your line of sight."
"At that moment, C Girl and I were completely focused on her moving figure; there’s no way we wouldn’t have noticed if she suddenly stepped aside." As I recalled the scene from that time, I began to analyze.
"Yes, you were indeed watching her closely, but she used a little trick to divert your attention. As I mentioned earlier, Liao Mengwei installed a miniature bomb on A Man and detonated it; this was her key to disappearing into the sealed office. Now do you understand what that means?"
I scratched my head. "Those bombs were..."
"It was to divert your attention, making you focus on the corpse of A Man, while Liao Mengwei took the opportunity to quickly leave the range of your sight through the glass doors of the company."
"Ah?" I covered my mouth with both hands. "Is that really how it was?"
V took out a cigarette case from his pocket, pulled out two candies, tossed them into his mouth, and then said slowly, "Perhaps I should start from the beginning; that way, it'll be easier for you to understand. First of all, Liao Mengwei had a reason to kill A Man. She wanted to commit murder and escape legal repercussions, so she chose a man with a motive to kill A Man as a scapegoat.
"That night, Liao Mengwei first made A Man and that man unconscious and moved them to your company. Then she used A Man's phone to send you and C Girl a text message, asking you to come to the company gate at nine o'clock sharp to witness the live broadcast of the murder she had planned and executed, and to become her witnesses. She first texted you about calling a meeting for department heads, but when she texted C Girl, she suddenly remembered that C Girl was not a department head but just an ordinary clerk, so she changed the message to summon all employees back for a meeting. In fact, the reason she chose both of you as witnesses was not because you were department heads or anything like that, but because you both shared a common trait: indecisiveness and susceptibility to being swayed by external influences.
"As for B Man, Liao Mengwei certainly didn't need to notify him via text because he was her accomplice. If you had checked B Man's phone at that time, you would have found that he never received any messages sent from Executive Director A Man's phone, which serves as evidence of his complicity with Liao Mengwei. Of course, even now, days later, we can still retrieve data from the mobile or telecommunications database to prove the correctness of this reasoning."
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