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He forgot that the tailor shop had just changed hands today, and not many people knew about the legend of the cursed floral fabric; it hadn't yet spread into an urban legend on campus. With that in mind, if they first assumed that Lin Yun had been murdered, they could directly employ cross-examination methods to find someone who not only knew about the floral fabric legend—meaning they had visited the tailor shop today—but also played the guitar, had a singing voice quite similar to Qi Qin's, and had a perfect alibi for an hour before Lin Yun's body was discovered. Su Yu thought that there couldn't be too many people who fit that description. He paused for a moment, then with a mysterious expression pointed down a side path and said to Wang Xiaofeng, "Let's go this way."
From across the way came the sound of hurried footsteps; several girls were chatting and laughing as they approached, led by Xu Bei and her group. They had thought about the body of Lin Yun discovered in the afternoon and lost their appetite for dinner, but now they felt hungry and had come to the living area to find something to eat.
When they joined 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 their guitar skills in front of classmates, investigating their middle school history would reveal everything." 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 have come 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 floral fabric curse from the owner Shen Jia. You then devised this plan to steal a piece of floral fabric. 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. As a guitar enthusiast, when you heard about a wandering guitar master coming from outside campus, your curiosity didn’t arise because you wanted to buy time to use Lin Yun’s phone 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 going back to the tailor shop was for the same purpose. As for your claim of having gone to the cafeteria early for sweet and sour ribs—well, that just provided you with the perfect alibi!"
Su Yu turned his head towards Xu Bei, who looked astonished, and said, "You all should call the police!"
Section Seven: The Bizarre Motive for Murder
When the police arrived, a dejected Wang Xiaofeng confessed without hesitation to killing 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 be congested beyond belief, meaning it would take forensic personnel over an hour to reach the school. Even with precise forensic analysis, determining an exact time of death from a cold body would still have an approximate half-hour margin of error. Thus, he crafted his perfect alibi.
He also understood that police assessments regarding whether a body died by suicide or homicide were very accurate. Therefore, he didn’t directly kill Lin Yun; instead, he knocked him out 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 legend of the cursed floral fabric, he secretly took a piece of it and stuffed it into Lin Yun's hand. Just as Su Yu deduced, he wanted the police to believe that Lin Yun had succumbed to intense psychological suggestion and chose to hang himself in despair.
The reason he killed Lin Yun was entirely because Lin Yun had received the sole opportunity for guaranteed 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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