VIP Volume Chapter 132: Deduction

This exposed Ye Xiaoxuan's true intentions!

What kind of person was Guan Ling? She was a young police officer working in criminal investigation! She wasn't some naive girl who sat on the sofa all day watching romance dramas; while she might have been simple-minded, she certainly wasn't a fool.

If there were actually an injury, rubbing it would only make it hurt more; if there were nothing wrong, rubbing it would be useless. This kid was just finding a roundabout way to take advantage of her! If a car crash couldn't kill him, how much force could her knee possibly have had?

Seeing the young officer's face grow increasingly grim, Ye Xiaoxuan realized his ruse had been uncovered. He scrambled up and looked at her with a face full of sincerity. "Let's get back to the case, shall we? No more fooling around! You're doing it wrong; you should be pushing against my chest—that's how they do it on TV!"

Guan Ling was nearly driven to madness. Who exactly was the one fooling around? However, Ye Xiaoxuan’s remark hit right on her point of pride. She curled her lip and said dismissively, "Can you really believe what they show on TV?"

Guan Ling lay back down on the ground and told Ye Xiaoxuan, "Try again. You’d better behave yourself, or you know the consequences!"

Ye Xiaoxuan nodded hastily, like a robot, and slowly leaned down. Guan Ling glared at him, grabbed his collar impatiently, pulled him over her, and said, "When someone is truly resisting from underneath, most people's instinctive reaction is to go for the throat!"

Ye Xiaoxuan thought about it carefully. It really was true! Pushing against the chest was something only a fool would do; how could the strength of an arm compete with the strength of an entire body? True resistance was grabbing the throat! Just like striking a snake at its seven-inch mark, that was a person’s vulnerable spot!

But how, then, did the petite person underneath manage to shatter the Adam’s apple of a man who stood one-meter-eighty tall? Ye Xiaoxuan took Guan Ling’s hand, rubbing it repeatedly as he observed it.

Guan Ling blushed and said with some annoyance, "Old habits acting up again?" Ye Xiaoxuan frowned and replied, "Don't move, and don't tense your hand!"

Seeing that he didn't seem to be trying to take advantage of her, Guan Ling hesitantly relaxed her hand. Ye Xiaoxuan took her right hand, first making a gesture with a horizontal palm as if striking his own throat, then shook his head.

Then, he curled her four fingers into a fist, made a punching motion, and pressed it against his neck, only to shake his head again.

Watching his serious expression, Guan Ling bit her lower lip, feeling somewhat mesmerized. She hadn't expected this kid to look quite handsome when he was focused!

His brows were knitted into a knot; any woman would feel a pang of sympathy and want to reach out and smooth them with her fingers. His mouth was set in a firm line, the annoying, wicked grin gone, replaced by a sense of gravity—as if, should he speak, even the greatest mystery could be unraveled.

This kid—no wonder the girls liked him; he truly had a way of attracting them! If not for the other girls, perhaps even she might...

Ye Xiaoxuan suddenly raised his head, his eyes fixed directly on her, giving her a start! Had he seen what she was thinking?

Immediately after, Guan Ling noticed that the second joint of her right middle finger was pressed against Ye Xiaoxuan's Adam's apple, while her other four fingers were curled into a fist. It was the most common attacking gesture used by martial artists!

Ye Xiaoxuan’s eyes weren't on her, but rather looking over her shoulder, staring at the corn stalks behind her.

Ye Xiaoxuan let go of Guan Ling, stood up, and ran behind her, bending over to search for something among the corn stalks.

Guan Ling stood up curiously and asked, "What are you doing? What are you looking for?" Ye Xiaoxuan said in a low voice, "Come look!"

Guan Ling leaned over as well. On a leaf about a meter off the ground, she discovered faint, scattered bloodstains!

Guan Ling looked at Ye Xiaoxuan in astonishment. "How on earth did you figure that out?" Ye Xiaoxuan smiled slightly. "Just a lucky guess! Let's hypothesize now. Come here!"

Ye Xiaoxuan walked back to where he had been lying down. Once Guan Ling stood beside him, he gestured as he spoke: "Let's assume this was a man and a woman. The man wanted to do something bad to the woman, so he abducted her here..."

Guan Ling shook her head. "Not an abduction. I checked the footprints all the way here; there were no signs of a struggle, so from the start, I didn't think of it as a man and a woman."

Ye Xiaoxuan nodded. "Then it could have been a tryst! Or, the woman had already decided to kill him and was confident she could do it, which is why she followed him here so willingly!"

Guan Ling nodded. "Hmm, continue. What happened after they arrived?"

Ye Xiaoxuan pointed to the indentations on the ground. "The woman was lying here. You lie down!" Guan Ling knew this was the critical part and immediately complied with his instructions.

Ye Xiaoxuan stepped back. "The man was in my position. Seeing the woman being so cooperative, he couldn't wait and lunged down! And the woman used the hand gesture I showed you earlier to strike a heavy blow to his Adam's apple!"

Ye Xiaoxuan lunged down slowly, and Guan Ling immediately curled her right hand into a fist, tapping her middle finger joint against his Adam's apple. Ye Xiaoxuan tilted his head back, spat out a mouthful of saliva, and then lay flat on his back, forming a "T" shape with Guan Ling!

Guan Ling wrinkled her nose and said, "Ugh, you're so disgusting! Couldn't you have used something else? Did you really have to use spit!"

Ye Xiaoxuan sat up and rolled his eyes at her. "What, do you want me to spray cologne out of my mouth? That’s likely how it happened, and from this, we can conclude that the woman is an expert!"

Guan Ling looked at him with admiration. "How did you think of that?"

Ye Xiaoxuan pointed at the ground. "It's all in these marks! I have the same habit as you police—I like to simulate scenarios in my head. When I was a kid, I often imagined what I’d be like after learning martial arts, how impressive I’d be, and that’s how I mastered this skill!"

Guan Ling covered her mouth, laughing as she rolled her eyes at him. "That's just daydreaming! We call it deduction! You make it sound so fancy, calling it simulation..."

"But you might actually be right. If that man's Adam's apple was shattered by a woman, then this woman's martial arts level likely reached that of a high-level martial guard!"

Ye Xiaoxuan nodded and said to Guan Ling, "In that case, we don't need to look at the second victim whose kidney was pierced through the spine; a high-level martial guard could definitely do that. It's the third one instead... I need to go see that one! How could she manage to shove that thing back into the man's body like a stick?"

Guan Ling frowned and said, "It’s not necessarily the same person who committed all the crimes, right? And she might have had an accomplice."

Ye Xiaoxuan shook his head. "Even with a hundred accomplices, they couldn't produce that effect. You don't understand men—it can get soft or curve, but like that poor guy, to have it shoved back in like a stick, and for it to stay that way even after death—that is truly a freak occurrence!"

Guan Ling was becoming more and more confused. She asked him, blushing, "Why would it get soft? Why would it curve? I don't understand what you're talking about at all!"