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"He forgot that this tailor shop had just changed hands today. The legend of the Flower Cloth Curse was not widely known, and it hadn't yet spread into an urban legend on campus. This meant that if we first assumed that Lin Yun was murdered, we could directly employ cross-examination to find someone who knew about the Flower Cloth legend—meaning they had visited the tailor shop today—who also played the guitar, had a voice similar to Qi Qin's, and had a perfect alibi for an hour before Lin Yun's body was discovered. I believe there aren't many people who fit that description," Su Yu said. He paused for a moment, then pointed down a side path with a mysterious expression and said to Wang Xiaofeng, "Let's go this way."
From across the way came the sound of hurried footsteps; several girls were laughing as they approached them—it was Xu Bei and her group. They had thought that discovering Lin Yun's body in the afternoon would ruin their appetite for dinner, but now feeling hungry, they had come to the living area to find something to eat.
When they met up with Xu Bei and her friends, Su Yu turned to Wang Xiaofeng again and said, "Even if the murderer is a freshman who hasn't shown off his guitar skills in front of his classmates, we can still easily investigate his background from high school." Suddenly, he grabbed Wang Xiaofeng's wrist and lifted it up, saying, "Oh, you have a lot of calluses on your fingers. If I'm not mistaken, those must be from playing the guitar."
Wang Xiaofeng's face instantly turned pale.
Su Yu continued, "I suspect you went to the tailor shop either in the morning or at noon and heard about the Flower Cloth Curse from the owner Shen Jia. You then devised this plan to steal a piece of Flower Cloth. After we finished playing soccer, I went back to my dorm to shower while you went to Room 407, killed Lin Yun, and hung him from the light fixture to make it look like a suicide. You're a guitar enthusiast; when you heard that an accomplished guitarist was wandering around campus, you weren't curious at all because you wanted to find time to use Lin Yun's SIM card to call Xu Bei and create a false alibi for Lin Yun's time of death. The reason you later disguised yourself as Lin Yun when you went back to the tailor shop was for the same reason. As for your claim that you went to the cafeteria early for sweet and sour ribs—well, that just provided you with the perfect alibi!"
Su Yu turned to Xu Bei, who looked astonished, and said, "You should call the police right away!"
Section Seven: A Strange Motive for Murder
When the police arrived, Wang Xiaofeng confessed without hesitation about how he killed Lin Yun.
He had devised an almost perfect plan. He knew that around five o'clock was rush hour; the road from the police station to the school would surely be congested, and it would take forensic personnel over an hour to reach the school. Even with precise forensic analysis, determining the exact time of death of a cold body could have a margin of error of about half an hour. Thus, he crafted a flawless plan to prove his alibi.
He also understood that police assessments regarding whether a death was due to suicide or homicide were very accurate. Therefore, he didn't directly kill Lin Yun; instead, he knocked him unconscious with a punch and then tied a rope around Lin Yun's still-living neck and hoisted him up until he suffocated.
Wang Xiaofeng indeed visited the tailor shop at noon; after hearing Shen Jia mention the Flower Cloth Curse legend, he secretly took a piece of Flower Cloth and stuffed it into Lin Yun's hand after he was dead. Just as Su Yu deduced, he wanted the police to believe that Lin Yun had been strongly psychologically influenced and chose to hang himself in despair.
The reason he wanted to kill Lin Yun was solely because Lin Yun had received the only guaranteed opportunity for public funding for graduate studies.
Wang Xiaofeng had a cousin who was a fourth-year student in the Chinese department at their school, and they shared a close bond. After the recommendation spot for graduate studies was given to Lin Yun, Wang Xiaofeng's cousin became very disappointed. He often sighed heavily at home, showing signs of depression and an unstable mental state.
Seeing this, Wang Xiaofeng, who was anxious and worried, became obsessed with the idea that his cousin's depression was entirely due to Lin Yun taking away the opportunity for graduate studies. He believed that if he killed Lin Yun, the spot would transfer to his cousin, and his cousin's depression would miraculously heal.
Determined to secure his cousin a chance for public-funded graduate studies, Wang Xiaofeng decided to take a dangerous risk and kill Lin Yun.
After giving his statement, Wang Xiaofeng sighed deeply and told the police, "This was all planned by me alone; my cousin had nothing to do with it. I hope you won't tell him about this. If he finds out, his depression will surely worsen."
Upon hearing this, Su Yu, who stood nearby, couldn't help but sigh as well. He said to the police, "It seems that reducing the psychological burden on university students under heavy pressure is a more important matter."
【The End】
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