Chapter 51: The Real Culprit Arrested? Unspeakable Impacts!

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Chapter 51: The Real Culprit Has Been Caught? An indescribable impact!

At the same time, the comments were frantically analyzing the situation.

[What is going on? Wasn't this woman named Zhao Xiaoyue fabricated by Su Chen as a smokescreen to divert the experts' attention?]

[Exactly. So why did the expert team actually capture someone like her?]

[And judging from the way she talks, there is definitely something strange about her.]

[I thought she was simply an innocent victim of Su Chen...]

[Have you all been influenced by the show? Do you think no one is a good person anymore? I think there is nothing wrong with her.]

[I just don't understand why Su Chen had the expert team arrest this woman. Was it merely a diversion?]

Outside the expert team's office, Cui Liwan quietly listened to the rest of Wang Yanxing's account.

After examining the diary, he was able to confirm that neither the degree of oxidation in the paper nor the extent to which the ink had seeped into it showed any signs of forgery or artificial aging.

It was indeed a diary from twenty years ago!

Moreover, the murder case recorded in it was described in such detail that it clearly was not some wild fabrication or delusional fantasy.

More importantly, the case sounded very much like...

Wang Yanxing's voice was not loud, but to Cui Liwan, it was no less than a thunderbolt.

The appearance of this diary most likely heralded the existence of a long-forgotten murder case.

As a veteran criminal investigator, Cui Liwan realized at that moment that his earlier conversation with the woman named Zhao Xiaoyue had been nothing more than two people speaking at cross-purposes.

What that woman had admitted to...

were not those imaginary charges.

There was a hidden truth here—something the expert team knew nothing about.

Once he realized this, Cui Liwan's heart stirred. He ended the call, immediately entered the office, and sat down in front of Zhao Xiaoyue.

He also silently switched on the police recording device.

He decided to bluff her. Adopting the confident air of someone who had already obtained a great deal of information, he said to the woman,

“Ms. Zhao, don't you regret it? Under the laws of the Dragon Nation, murder is punishable by death.”

The instant she heard those words, Zhao Xiaoyue's expression once again became contemptuous and cold.

“There is nothing to hide. I accept the death penalty. After all, I'm merely a clumsy copycat. The true hunter, however, is someone you will never catch.”

She leaned provocatively toward the expert team.

“I told you. I was the one who committed the Jinling University Dismemberment Case.”

Boom!

Every word struck the experts' hearts like a heavy blow!

The Jinling University Dismemberment Case—the unsolved mystery that had remained unresolved for twenty years, one of the Dragon Nation's Ten Great Unsolved Cases.

And now, a woman suspected of being the culprit had personally confessed before them that she was responsible.

The members of the expert team had originally arrested her under the assumption that she was merely the simulated culprit from the crime-hunting livestream.

“You, you...”

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Qin Ming sprang to his feet. Pointing at the calm, tranquil woman before him, he wore an expression of utter shock and was momentarily rendered speechless.

The change from a guest on the show to the true culprit behind an unsolved case was simply too enormous. For a moment, it was difficult even to believe that he had heard correctly.

Beside Qin Ming, Bai Su stared sharply at Zhao Xiaoyue without saying a word, yet her expression grew increasingly grave.

“Move her elsewhere.”

Veteran investigator Cui Liwan waved his hand.

Two heavily built frontline criminal investigators immediately rushed forward from behind him.

They swiftly forced Zhao Xiaoyue's arms behind her back and shackled her. One on either side, they supported the petite woman firmly as they escorted her toward the interrogation room, not daring to relax their vigilance for even a moment.

The officers present felt their hearts race wildly, as though even breathing had become difficult.

Meanwhile, the livestream had never stopped. At this moment, the barrage of comments exploded in volume, almost as if it were about to burst through the screen!

[Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! What is going on?!]

[What the hell? I didn't hear wrong, did I? That woman just admitted that she committed the Jinling University Dismemberment Case!]

[Could a twenty-year-old cold case really have been solved just like that? It feels like a dream!]

[I think there must be more to this than meets the eye.]

Just then, the appearance of one comment caused every viewer behind the screen to break out in a cold sweat.

[Wait... have you ever wondered how this culprit ended up in the hands of the police?]

[Damn, now that you mention it... it seems Su Chen disguised himself as Duan Yu and issued the order that sent the experts to arrest her...]

[Holy crap, I've got goosebumps! Are you saying Su Chen had already deduced that this woman was the culprit?!]

[It has to be! Otherwise, are you saying he just casually named the culprit by pure chance? I would never believe that!]

[This is terrifying. That man is terrifying. Even with God's-eye perspective, I still failed to see his ultimate objective!]

[So Su Chen wasn't trying to lead the expert team through a review of the case at all. His goal was to solve it!]

[My girlfriend laughed at me for kneeling while watching my phone. I slapped her, pulled her down beside me, and made her kneel too. Worshiping the God of Su, brothers—did I do the right thing?]

[Pretty good. Just a little hard on your girlfriend.]

At that moment, the popularity of the crime-hunting livestream surged once again!

In a mere ten minutes, the number of viewers had reached ninety million!

Ninety million—a record-breaking height for Dragon Nation variety shows. It had already reached the ceiling of the country's viewership capacity.

No program had ever achieved such numbers before.

...

Behind the scenes of the crime-hunting livestream, chief director Chen Qiming, Sakura Nation's national treasure director Takeshi Minamino, and bestselling author Masamasa Lanshan stood frozen before the screen like statues.

Their minds had nearly stopped functioning.

“Director Chen...”

Takeshi Minamino trembled as he pointed at the screen, barely able to remain standing. As a renowned director, how could he not know about the Dragon Nation's Ten Great Unsolved Cases?

How could such a major case possibly be solved on a variety show?!

“Is this... is this the script your production team prepared?”

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Takeshi Minamino asked.

Though the question was absurd, he genuinely could not think of anything else to ask.

“No, no, no...”

Seeing that such an enormous accusation was about to descend upon him, Chen Qiming resisted it with every ounce of his life.

Who the hell had ever seen a script like this?!

He was so anxious that he held his breath until his face turned crimson. Hurriedly, he took a fast-acting blood-pressure pill from his pocket and swallowed it with water. Only then did his condition gradually improve.

“Our program is entirely random. Everyone is free to move about as they please.”

“If this woman really is the culprit, then it means the cold case has been solved!”

Although they had already faintly guessed as much, hearing Chen Qiming say it aloud still sent Takeshi Minamino and Masamasa Lanshan's blood surging violently.

“Director Chen, do you have any medicine left? Save me!”

“Give me one too...”

The backstage staff watched in terror, nearly calling an ambulance.

If these three heavyweight figures suffered an accident here, how would anyone explain it afterward?

Two directors who had watched countless films and a novelist skilled in crafting plots had been stunned unconscious by the events of a free-form variety show. Who would believe that?!

And yet, the program had truly shocked them—or, more precisely, the simulated culprit Su Chen had shocked them.

Five minutes later, the three men finally began to calm down.

Takeshi Minamino clasped Chen Qiming's hand tightly.

“If this variety show cannot be brought to Sakura Nation, it will be the greatest regret of my life...”

...

At that very moment, the door to the backstage studio suddenly opened.

Several men in black from the production team walked in, escorting Duan Yu.

Duan Yu wore a smile. He was in an excellent mood.

While in the car earlier, he had continued using his computer to crack the program created by that elite hacker. He had already broken through the final layer of information security.

With just a little more tracking, he would be able to find the culprit's identity and pinpoint his location.

Although he had already been eliminated from the program and could not provide the information he had obtained to the expert team, he had seen hope of victory in this battle of wits.

Duan Yu strode toward Chen Qiming and the others, just about to offer a polite greeting.

Then he suddenly noticed that their expressions were all rather unpleasant.

They looked as though they had suffered a catastrophic ordeal and barely survived it.