Chapter 101
Actually, changing a person isn't all that difficult.
It's just that first, he needs to meet someone who can help him change.
After school, Lin Yu'an was unusually humming one of his favorite songs on the way home.
At home, Lin Yu'an's adorable younger brother Lin Yuxi quickly noticed the change in his older brother's mood.
"Older Brother, did something good happen to you today?" he asked curiously.
Lin Yu'an smiled and nodded. "Sort of."
A butterfly only has to lightly flap its wings to bring about tremendous change.
This action of Chen Mo's had silently prevented a few tragedies from happening......
Tonight, Chen Mo and Su Yuqing visited Uncle Xu's house again, had a small portion of fish balls and dumplings as a late-night snack, and then went home.
Since she hadn't slept well the night before, even though she had napped at noon, Su Yuqing still felt sleepy early tonight.
Chen Mo didn't keep her; he made her a cup of hot milk, had her drink it, and then told her to go to bed.
After Su Yuqing had gone to sleep, Chen Mo tapped open the surveillance feed from outside the guest room window on his phone to check the situation outside.
At this time, there were basically no people passing by nearby.
After watching for a while and confirming there was nothing unusual, he turned off the TV and the living room lights, and returned to his bedroom to wash up.
Even after finishing up and lying in bed to check the surveillance again, he still didn't see anything unusual.
And so the day quietly came to an end.
The next day, as soon as Chen Mo woke up, he immediately opened his phone to check whether the surveillance had recorded anything suspicious.
While the surveillance did capture two people sporadically passing by, no one was seen peeking into the window of Su Yuqing's guest room.
So far, the person who had left footprints at the window for two consecutive days still hadn't been identified.
But this only made Chen Mo feel increasingly uneasy.
Appearing two days in a row, yet ever since he installed the surveillance, the person hadn't shown up again.
Could it be that the person saw him installing the surveillance during the day?
With this suspicion in mind, Chen Mo spent all of Thursday wondering who it was that had appeared in front of Su Yuqing's window for two days in a row.
As a former Police Detective, Chen Mo had naturally studied the methods of [footprint analysis].
He had analyzed the footprints.
The owner of the footprints should be an adult about 178 centimeters tall, weighing around 150 jin, likely a burly man.
Precisely because Chen Mo possessed the ability to analyze footprints, even though the shoeprints left behind were from two different pairs of shoes, he could still instantly determine that the person who left them was the same individual.
It's just that, as far as he could recall, no one matched that description.
Which only made him more curious about this matter.
Soon it was Thursday night, after another evening self-study class.
Chen Mo and Su Yuqing returned home again, and everything was still just as peaceful.
That person who had left shoeprints for two days in a row still hadn't shown up.
This made Chen Mo start to consider whether he should take down the surveillance under the eaves and replace it with a very inconspicuous pinhole camera by the window to secretly film.
That might give him a better chance of capturing the suspect.
After all, even though Chen Mo had disguised the surveillance under the eaves, if the other person had strong anti-surveillance capabilities, it would still be easy to spot it as a camera.
If that person was the real murderer of Su Yuqing.
Based on the clues Chen Mo had obtained from rewinding time, that guy definitely possessed extremely strong anti-surveillance skills, and there was only one route on that side without any surveillance at all.
If the killer had used that route without surveillance to reach the crime scene, carried out the attack, and then quietly slipped away...
Then it would be incredibly difficult to catch him.
However, along that route, there actually were a few surveillance cameras-but all of them had been broken for some time.
Since it was the old district, no one cared or came to fix them.
After all, nothing important had ever happened nearby that required pulling surveillance footage.
That's how such a completely surveillance-blind area came to exist.
But to know that all four surveillance cameras along that route were broken-that person must be incredibly familiar with the old district.
Based on that alone, it had to be someone who either lived there or was frequently active in the area.
Previously, Chen Mo had suspected Zhou Hao and Li Yan-both of whom lived near the old district.
They had the ability to obtain this critical information.
That's why Chen Mo couldn't help but suspect them.
Even Lin Yu'an and those three thugs Chen Mo had suspected.
Same thing-although Lin Yu'an didn't live in the old district, his home wasn't far, and residents in his area often went to the old district's market to shop.
So it would be easy for Lin Yu'an to learn some information about the area when tasked by his mother to buy things there.
Especially since marketplaces like that were full of gossip and rumors, making it easy to hear related info.
Those three small-time thugs as well-some of them lived in the old district, so they naturally had the prerequisite knowledge.
But all those people were old suspects.
Now, based on the footprints, Chen Mo had deduced the height and approximate weight of the target.
Just the 178-centimeter height alone was enough to rule out the three Huang Mao and Lin Yu'an.
Zhou Hao could also be ruled out-he was a tall guy, 180 centimeters.
Li Yan's height, on the other hand, was exactly 178 centimeters. As for his weight...
It wasn't obvious just by looking, but since Chen Mo had once worn a raincoat with him and their bodies had touched, he could clearly feel that Li Yan was stronger than his gentle appearance suggested.
Teacher Li had a very sturdy build.
Chen Mo remembered that when he touched his body, he could clearly feel tight muscles.
Looking at it that way, Teacher Li's height and weight both matched the footprint owner.
But Chen Mo had already ruled out Li Yan as a suspect-despite his matching height and weight, Chen Mo didn't doubt him.
Because under those circumstances that night, he basically had no motive or opportunity to commit the crime.
Having ruled out all those people, Chen Mo closed his eyes and tried hard to recall anyone he saw that night who was around 178 centimeters tall and weighed about 150 jin.
After going through his mental search, sadly, none of the passersby he saw that night matched the criteria.
This only made the matter more puzzling for Chen Mo.
Could it be that the person peeking through the window for two days was just a petty thief scouting the place?
A total stranger with no connection to Su Yuqing's case?
For now, that was the only analysis Chen Mo could make.
Tomorrow was Friday's midterm exam, and he didn't have the time to be too distracted.
Tonight, he had helped the four of them preview quite a lot, and he himself had also studied a lot.
He could only hope that tomorrow's midterm exam would fulfill the bet he made with homeroom teacher He Xiaoyun.
(End of chapter)