In an instant, Ye Xiaolei fell silent, a trace of sorrow flashing through her eyes.

At this moment, Ali, who was standing by the window, said, "Turn off the lights."

Qian Shanxue was taken aback.

Feeling a stirring in his heart, Shen Qiang immediately turned off the lights.

The room instantly turned dark.

In Shen Qiang's Divine Sense, he clearly saw a bottle of spray appear in Ali's hand.

"Ali? What are you doing?" Just as Qian Shanxue was asking, Shen Qiang saw Ali already pressing the spray in her hand.

Ye Xiaolei sniffed lightly and immediately exclaimed, "Luminol."

Qian Shanxue was stunned and said, "What does it mean?"

Shen Qiang raised an eyebrow and said, "Luminol, also known as luminescent ammonia, emits blue light when oxidized. Hemoglobin in blood helps transport the oxygen we inhale through this protein to all parts of the body."

"And hemoglobin contains iron, which can catalyze the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide, turning it into water and monooxygen, which oxidizes luminol, causing it to glow."

"When examining bloodstains, hemoglobin catalyzes the reaction between luminol and hydrogen peroxide, revealing a blue-green fluorescence. It can detect blood with a concentration as low as one in a million, so even a small drop of blood in a large vat of water would be detected. So, if Li Shuhua was killed here and there are traces of blood, even the smallest trace would be detected."

Qian Shanxue's beautiful eyes widened in surprise: "That's amazing. Does that mean that as long as there's bleeding, there will be traces left?"

"Yes." Shen Qiang nodded.

But at this moment, Ye Xiaolei, wearing a thick mask to cover her mouth and nose, said unhappily, "But at the same time, luminol is a strong acid that destroys the smell of the scene and affects my sense of smell."

Qian Shanxue was astonished.

Shen Qiang gently said, "Then you should wait outside for a bit."

Ye Xiaolei gave a hum and went out the door.

Remaining in the room, Qian Shanxue looked at Ali in surprise and said, "Ali, when did you start using this method?"

Ali, while conducting the examination, said, "When I found that my scene reconstruction ability was often unusable, I started learning modern forensic technology because my scene reconstruction requires the scene to remain as it was."

"In this hotel, where there is typically little furniture and cleaners tidying up, I can only reconstruct the scene as it was left by the cleaners. So, to understand whether a murder happened here, using luminol is better. As long as there's a bloodstain, we can basically confirm that this was the crime scene."

But moments later.

Ali, who carefully sprayed luminol to check, got up in disappointment.

Shen Qiang turned on the lights and, seeing her disappointed look, said, "Even though most crime scenes will have bloodstains due to fights or struggles leaving traces, it's also possible that no blood was shed."

Ali was silent for a moment and said, "There's no bloodstain, but the person disappeared just like that. Xiaolei can't be wrong; there's no scent of Corpse Dissolving Powder, no strong acid smell, no scent disturbing Ye Xiaolei, which proves that Li Shuhua was not disposed of here."

Shen Qiang helplessly raised an eyebrow and said, "That means my speculation is the most reliable. This Foundation Establishment female teacher was silently murdered by a more powerful cultivator, and afterward, that cultivator stored her body in a Storage Ring or Qiankun Bag and took it away, to handle it elsewhere."

Qian Shanxue furrowed her eyebrows deeply and said, "In this situation, it's certainly a possible guess, but if Shen Qiang's speculation is correct, she's definitely already dead. Because living people cannot be put into a Storage Ring."

Ali was silent for a moment and then said, "Maybe she didn't die, but was taken away in some strange way."

Upon hearing this, Qian Shanxue sighed slightly and said, "Ali, I know you hope to save her, but the reality is that for cultivators, killing others without shedding blood is exceedingly easy. For instance, I could instantly freeze her, and with her blood crystallized and cells damaged, she wouldn't revive."

"At that moment, if I just put her into a Storage Ring and took her away, it would result in a situation exactly like now. She would simply disappear."

Ali sighed.

At this point, Shen Qiang said, "Regardless of whether Li Shuhua is alive or dead, what we need to do now is find the last person who saw her. As long as we find the man who checked into this room, we can learn the truth of the matter."

Both Qian Shanxue and Ali nodded.

The three left the room and saw Ye Xiaolei, who was wearing a mask and appeared somewhat uncomfortable at first glance.

"I've already heard what you said in the room." Ye Xiaolei showed her phone screen to the three of them and said, "Since we're operationally the frontline investigators on this missing person case, I've already sent the obtained surveillance video and the ID number used for checking in to them."

"So look, here's the returned message. Are you surprised?"

Looking at the information displayed on Ye Xiaolei's phone, Shen Qiang was stunned for a full three seconds before exclaiming, "Named seven times as a suspect in women's disappearance cases within five years, but each time the outcome was inconclusive due to lack of evidence. Looks like we've found a big fish."

Taking over the phone and connecting to the case system, Shen Qiang seriously reviewed the data,

"General Manager and Chief Engineer of Yiatel Engineering Equipment Development Company, thirty-two years old, height 177 cm, weight 137 lbs, unmarried, owns two properties and two cars, company is solely owned, and has a refined appearance."

"An absolute young diamond bachelor!" Ali's eyes lit up.

Shen Qiang raised an eyebrow, "Is this considered a diamond? At most, he's a silver bachelor."

Ali argued unhappily, "Ha? Not comparable to you, of course, but in the eyes of ordinary women, he's already excellent, okay? Height, build, looks, young and wealthy, if I were a divorced woman with kids and he were still willing to be with me, I'd definitely choose to be with him."

This left Shen Qiang stunned, and after a moment, he looked at the data in his hand and said in surprise, "Ali, you guessed it right. This person, Yu Liqun, has a common trait in the women he was investigated for — they were all divorced."

Qian Shanxue asked, "Did they all have children?"

Shen Qiang shook his head, "No, the common trait was only that they were divorced, aged between twenty-two and twenty-eight, all were female teachers, and lived alone."

"What should we do? If we don't understand his methods, even if we confront him, he won't admit to anything." Ye Xiaolei said.

Upon hearing this, Shen Qiang coldly raised an eyebrow, "Ordinary police officers indeed have no way, but don't forget, this guy is a cultivator, and so are we. We have plenty of ways to make him speak."

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