Fina was stunned for a moment, then her face changed drastically: "You mean... my father? How is this possible!!"
"Nothing is impossible." Jian Jing said calmly, "Why is the case so complicated? Because we all got the premise wrong. What happened the other night was not an accident at all. It was arranged by the professor."
She looked around at everyone and said word by word, "It was the professor's plan to kill people at night."
The air suddenly became silent, and everyone was speechless, not knowing what to say.
Jian Jing said: "Because of the previous accident, the GPS system has been upgraded to prevent the possibility of intrusion by outsiders, but this is not difficult for the professor. It would be easy for him to forge the record of No. 21, right?"
Chen thought for a moment and nodded silently.
Fina couldn't accept it: "Why would Dad do this?"
"He needs proof of his absence." Jian Jing said slowly, "The night before, he was going to kill someone."
Fina's heart was in her throat. "Who?"
Jian Jing did not answer the question, and continued, "Killing is not an easy thing. The professor is good at using guns, but if he acts rashly, it will be easy to trace him. He needs a suitable scapegoat, a witness. It happened that Chen discovered something unusual about the wild animals, and reporter Li provided a piece of information - there was a firefight between neighboring countries, and perhaps some criminals fled into the forest."
Reporter Li took a deep breath and murmured, "Yes, that's what I said."
"This is a perfect opportunity." Jian Jing said, "The professor forged No. 21's record to make everyone think that he is not at the observation point. In this way, if he finds a chance to separate from others, he can come back here and quietly implement his plan."
At this point, Lao Xixi seemed to have understood something and hesitated to speak.
"But the gathering time is only one hour. It will take at least 80 minutes to get back here from the separation point and then go to Point 3. The professor obviously can't get back in time, so he needs an excuse to delay himself for 20 minutes.
"He decided to use Polly. He injected Polly with anesthetics to make it look like he was hit by a tranquilizer bullet. This not only created a non-existent criminal, but also explained why he wasted time. This plan also proved that the people he wanted to kill were not Lao Xixi, Fina or Chen, otherwise he would not have needed to take action against Polly.
"The plan is very clear up to this point, but it seems not perfect enough. What is missing?"
Her tone suddenly became light, revealing her master's joy: "Gun, that's the sound of gunfire. He found the enemy, how could he not shoot? Therefore, the professor needs to prepare at least one more bullet."
"The first one is used to kill people, and the second one is used to create the illusion that he has discovered the enemy." Jian Jing explained very carefully, "So, he must have 11 bullets. Any more or less will not work."
Fina bit her lip and said, "But this way there is one less."
"Please be patient." Jian Jing smiled. "Let's continue to analyze along the same lines as before. The professor should have returned to the hotel and killed the person he wanted to get rid of... But why would he go so far in advance and show up at point 3?"
Lao Tzu: “What?”
"There are two possibilities. First, his plan was discovered by someone, and that could be one of you three. As I said before, you couldn't prepare to kill the professor in advance, so there was no need for the professor to fire that shot.
"So, that leaves the second possibility, that he changed his mind on his own initiative. Although the professor is an extremely jealous man, he is also an animal conservationist. I think the only thing that could make him give up his personal gain and change his mind is his career."
Jian Jing looked around at everyone and said slowly: "He found someone."
Chen's eyes fell on reporter Charlie and Li.
Director Kang said firmly: "He is not a doctor."
Jian Jing nodded: "If it was a doctor, the professor would be sorry for the opportunity given by the professor if he didn't shoot. He prepared an extra bullet, and then he had to press the button to return to point 3 and exchange the two Type 56 guns. The murder weapon became the gun that anyone could get. By the way, this should be the reason why the professor arranged a meeting at point 3. He needed to exchange two guns."
"But unfortunately, that person is not a doctor." She sighed softly and looked at reporter Li, "It's you."
Reporter Li was stunned: "Me? How is that possible? I would have fallen asleep a long time ago."
"An accident occurred among wild animals. You, a person who has written an interview, were not curious about the result at all. You just went back to your room and fell asleep. Is this scientific?"
He said: "Then I am very tired. You can't suspect it's me just because I slept early."
"I'm using the method of elimination. The doctor once said that he couldn't provide evidence of his absence, so he asked me to ask you if you saw him. If he didn't go to the hotel, it would be easy to be exposed if he said something like this. Besides, you said you went to bed early, but I remember that the light in your room was on all the time."
"What kind of evidence is this? Did I forget to turn on the light?" Reporter Li retorted: "The doctor's, maybe he made a dummy, so I can't give him a live testimony in the future. In my opinion, the doctor might have known that the professor wanted to kill him, and asked him to meet somewhere to talk, and then took the opportunity to kill him."
Contrary to his expectations, Jian Jing actually said, "I have also considered this possibility, but sorry, I have a little knowledge of forensic medicine."
She gestured slightly: "Through the wound caused by the bullet, using trigonometric functions, we can calculate the angle of the shooting."
Reporter Li's eyebrows moved slightly.
"I won't repeat the specific calculation process. In short, based on the calculation results, I found that the murderer's hit angle was 60 degrees horizontally downward, so the complementary launch angle was 30 degrees."
Jian Jing gestured with a gun barrel raised, and said, "The professor's wound is on his chest. The 30-degree angle means that the gun should be lower than his chest, but Doctor Charlie is higher than the professor."
Lao Tzu suddenly realized.
"If it was Charlie, his gun should be pointed downwards, not upwards," she said. "The murderer is a little shorter than my husband, but..."
Lao Tzu looked at the people present and smiled bitterly: "The only ones shorter than him are me and Fina."
"Height is not a conclusion." Jian Jing overturned their idea for the nth time and analyzed, "If it was an acquaintance who suddenly attacked, would the professor have a chance to shoot?"
Everyone thought about it and shook their heads.
It was normal for Chen, Fina, and Lao Xi to be holding guns, and Professor Lao was unlikely to become suspicious, so if they suddenly opened fire, the professor would most likely die on the spot and there would be no way he could fire back.
However, if he met Dr. Charlie or reporter Lai and found that they were holding guns, especially the former, the professor could not help but be alert.
Once the two sides engage in an exchange of fire, they will inevitably look for cover as soon as possible.
In this situation, it was normal for the professor to be shot in the arm, but how could he be shot in the chest without any preparation
Furthermore, considering the professor's violent shooting habits, why did he fire a single bullet during the exchange of fire
Chen said, "Ambush."
"I think so too. The professor secretly followed the suspect and was led by him to the vicinity of Point 3. Then, the murderer found a favorable terrain and ambushed him."
At this point, Jian Jing paused for a moment before saying, "Of course, it's impossible to tell whether it was a doctor or a reporter, but don't forget one thing—the professor brought an extra bullet."
Fina was confused: "What do you mean?"
"Why do you need to bring an extra bullet?" Jian Jing repeatedly emphasized, "It's simple. Although it's not difficult to create the illusion that someone is shooting by carrying extra bullets, you can identify which gun it is by examining the shell casing."
Don't think that because they are all Type 56, there is no difference in the shells after use. In fact, there is a big difference.
There are four types of marks on the bullet heads.
1. Bump marks: The marks formed when the bullet enters the chamber and the bullet tip collides with the internal structure of the gun. Different gun structures will have different bump marks.
2. Bullet removal traces: traces of the bullet being pulled out from the shell case due to the push of gunpowder gas.
3. Slope marks: The scratches left by the bullet passing through the barrel can reflect the characteristics of the barrel surface.
4. Rifling marks: After the bullet is pushed into the rifling, it rotates forward, forming a series of rifling marks, which can be subdivided into positive rifling marks, negative rifling marks, main edge marks, secondary edge marks, etc.
When the shell is ejected, the bullet will be deformed by force and new marks will appear.
Therefore, even if they are all 7.62mm bullets, it is possible to determine whether they were caused by the Type 56 and which Type 56 it was. It is impossible to confuse them.
Since Professor Lao knew that he had to exchange the two guns, he naturally would not forget this.
"If he uses his gun to simulate the other party's gunshot, if the shell is picked up, things will be troublesome. Therefore, the best way is to claim that the other party has a gun."
Jian Jing said, "Since the other party has a dagger, then if he wants to murder someone, he must need this thing."
Fina finally understood: "Dad brought □□? The gunshots ..."
"Yes, the gunshot you heard was not from Professor Lao, but from the murderer."
"We only heard a sound..." Lao Xixi said in surprise, "But weren't there two wounds?"
"Three, but it was indeed just one bullet. The bullet went through his arm and shot into his heart." Jian Jing said, "This can also explain why the other guns were not short of bullets. The one that was used was the bullet that Professor Lao carried, prepared to kill."
She had carefully examined the professor's body before. Although the changes in posture were difficult to determine, after careful comparison, it was not difficult to find that the three wounds were in the same straight line.
A slight gasp was heard in the room, and it was unclear whether it was a sigh or a lament.
"If you shoot one, he's a very good shooter," Chen said.
"It's not just about good marksmanship. Although there is a moon at night, the forest is densely covered with trees, and the light that penetrates must be extremely limited. To kill with one shot in such an environment, auxiliary equipment is needed."
Jian Jing looked at reporter Li and smiled: "For example, the camera, and the infrared sight on the camera."
It is not new for cameras to be equipped with infrared equipment. Especially when photographing birds in the wild, infrared aiming can effectively solve the problem of long focal length.
Reporter Li claimed that he wanted to photograph wild animals, so it was normal for him to have such infrared equipment. When they were taking photos on a boat before, she saw that one of his cameras had a built-in infrared sight.
"I think this also explains when Professor Lao fired the shot," she said. "He saw the infrared laser and immediately fired back, but at the same time, the bullet also shot into his chest."
"Ohgod." Fina cried out and covered her cheek in pain.
"Perhaps the murderer did not expect that his work would be so perfect. He checked the professor's body and found guns and extra bullets. Then he had an idea and filled his own gun and took away the professor's guns, creating the illusion that he was shot to death with two bullets, so as to hide himself."
Jian Jing said, "As for the murder weapon, I think it is the one at observation point No. 3. Only in this way can it be more consistent with the theory that the intruder accidentally killed the professor - right? Reporter Li, this is the news you told everyone."