"Luminol!?"

Wang Chao suddenly exclaimed, looking at Xu Liang with a face full of surprise.

"Brother Liang, where did you get this from?"

What is Luminol?

It's a chemical reagent, certainly not considered rare.

It is an extremely important tool used by criminal investigators during homicide investigations.

What is its use?

It mainly has to do with blood.

When a person is killed, they bleed, and most murder cases involve bloodshed. The blood contains 'iron ions'.

The reagent in Luminol will turn blue upon contact with iron ions.

Therefore, at some crime scenes, if the perpetrator cleans up and the naked eye cannot see any blood spatter, Luminol can be used to reveal the spatter, further deducing the process of the crime.

"Found it in a forensic institution."

"They have plenty of this stuff there, so I bought some."

Xu Liang casually replied.

Wang Chao was quite impressed, occasionally glancing at Xu Liang's back.

His back seemed like a treasure bag, able to pull out a wrench, wires, and even Luminol!

"Enough talking, let's observe the reaction."

Xu Liang reminded, and hearing this, Wang Chao snapped back to reality and quickly observed the blue fluorescence on the ground.

At three in the morning, the dilapidated temple was pitch black.

And on the ground, there was a very noticeable blue area!

It looked as if a bucket of blue water had been poured on the ground, but it wasn't water, it was the result of blood spattering!

Unless anything unexpected happens...

"Jin Bo was killed here."

Xu Liang squinted his eyes, scanning the surroundings.

The abandoned temple was marked with blood spatter traces everywhere—the ground, walls, and even on the cracked stone statues, dim blue fluorescence appeared!

The scene was definitely cleaned, yet so many traces remained...

This is quite reasonable.

You can't wash away iron ions from dried blood!

Even if you polished the surface until it shined, without visible blood traces, Luminol can still react to the blood.

The only way to eliminate this is using certain cleaning agents, bleach to destroy, burning above 600° Celsius, or pre-reacting with Luminol.

As for waiting for Luminol to stop reacting due to time...

Good luck waiting.

This stuff can react to blood traces twenty years old!

"There's a footprint outside the door..."

Xu Liang murmured, looking at the fluorescent footprints at the door of the broken temple.

These footprints stretch from outside the door into the temple.

Judging from the frail steps, it should definitely be Jin Bo's.

Xu Liang followed the steps, moving towards the inside of the temple one step at a time.

"Five years ago, Jin Bo likely encountered a deadly attack while fleeing, wounded heavily as he ran to the dilapidated temple."

"But unfortunately, with the mountain high and road remote, running this far was already tough on him, so... "

Xu Liang muttered as he moved.

He followed the footprints forward, finally stopping before a large fluorescent area.

This is the first site where Jin Bo was attacked!

He died in front of the stone statue!

The statue was a compassionate Bodhisattva, holding a water bottle, suggesting it should be Bodhisattva Guanyin, now worn out with cracked stone and cobwebs all over.

"Jin Bo died in front of the statue, the blood spattered around."

"It's a pity, if this temple had someone, he probably wouldn't have died..."

Wang Chao murmured beside him.

Pausing, he looked around, surprised:

"Was the purpose of returning here just to confirm the murder scene?"

Looking now, returning to the scene seems to serve no purpose.

No, it's not entirely futile!

At least, you can use a camera to document that someone died in the dilapidated temple!

Only the evidence can't confirm that the deceased was Jin Bo.

"Start looking around, perhaps the body is still nearby."

Xu Liang didn't answer straightforwardly but instead surveyed the surroundings and frowned.

"Body?" 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞

Wang Chao was surprised, immediately grasping the point.

Jin Bo was attacked here, but the body can't be left exposed.

In this wilderness, there's no reason for the killer to transport the body elsewhere; most likely, the body was buried nearby!

As for incinerating the body?

It's possible.

Of course, provided you aren't afraid of getting caught!

Setting a blaze that could consume a body in the hills...

Say there's a tourist site known as the Great Wall, where signal fires were used to communicate, the smoke from burning things!

Even without firing the broken temple, a large smoke signal on the mountain would definitely bring firefighters to investigate!

"Alright, I'll go look outside."

Wang Chao readily agreed and began searching the temple surroundings.

As for Xu Liang...

"Hiss!"

He examined various spots within the temple but unfortunately found no clear clues.

Eventually, he circled back and stood before the Bodhisattva statue again.

"Hiss~"

"Where is the information... could it really have been destroyed by Liu Kun? It didn't seem like that from Luo Jun's reaction after all..."

Xu Liang murmured to himself.

While pondering.

He began to reorganize his deductive logic from the beginning.

"Five years ago, Jin Bo sued Jinyang Steel Plant over 'environmental pollution'. At first, the steel plant didn't care, but later they murdered Jin Bo."

"There is only one reason—the investigation was far beyond environmental pollution!"

Xu Liang contemplated, furrowing his brows with countless thoughts interwoven in his mind.

"This needs evidence!"

"Only with convincing and deep enough investigation would Luo Jun and Liu Kun feel cornered and choose to murder him."

Thus.

Jin Bo died.

But...