The deceased went out on his own, making very little noise, and instead of climbing down, he climbed up. They didn't check this part of the situation at all.
But thinking about it, this possibility is the most likely scenario, besides Lin Hao being the murderer.
Because the upper floors are girls' dormitories, with two people per room, each room has a bathroom and shower, providing a high degree of privacy, there is no need for separate buildings for men and women.
Lowering the body down from upstairs is difficult, but it's definitely much easier than lowering it from the bottom up.
In any case, all of this can be resolved with a very simple investigation.
Paul took his leave in haste.
Not long after, news came back that, sure enough, traces were found at the window leading to the third floor.
But the result was unexpected; the man was not killed, but committed suicide.
The reason is that the dormitory upstairs is Lin Hao's roommate's girlfriend's, but the two-person room is not full, and only his girlfriend lives there.
Unable to bear his girlfriend's separation from him, he went to her dormitory and hanged himself.
When his girlfriend saw it, she was terrified, but fearing that others would suspect her, she put the body back in Lin Hao's dormitory. She first hung the body at the window, then lowered the person down, went inside, took the body down, and put it on the bed, so that she would save some energy.
After listening to Paul's report on the case over the phone, Lin Hao remained silent for a moment. Paul then spoke up from the other end of the line, "What's wrong?"
"You...you actually believed it?"
"The autopsy confirmed the absence of the three types of injuries, oh, that is, restraint injuries, coercion injuries, and resistance injuries!"
"If a conflict occurred, it would inevitably leave traces. The physical evidence used to dispose of the body has been found, the evidence is conclusive! Hey, young man, I admit you're very smart, but you also have to believe in science, you can't look at everything with a skeptical eye!"
"Okay, science, then do a science experiment and have her try it again, see if she can succeed!" Lin Hao said and hung up the phone, very puzzled. What kind of level is this?
The next morning, Lin Hao received another call from Paul. As soon as he answered, he heard Paul's excited voice, "It really won't work. Don't say she can't do it, don't say she can't do it, not even a strong adult could. The main reason is that the rope she provided is unreasonable!"
"Yes, I guessed it!" Lin Hao said calmly.
"It will leave traces, right?"
"That's right! So what exactly happened?"
Lin Hao hesitated for a moment before saying, "Can I go take a look?"
"Okay, I'll go ask them!"
Around 10 a.m., Lin Hao, Paul, and several staff members arrived at the scene together.
As Lin Hao observed the scene, his mind raced, pondering this seemingly simple matter that always seemed to fall short of the final step.
First, there's the current suspect. He admitted that the victim entered her room and that he moved the body back, but he denied that he committed the murder. He argued that if she committed the murder, she wouldn't have been able to move the body back herself.
Did she have accomplices?
That's not right either. It's difficult even for a grown man, and it requires air transport. It's not something that can be done simply by having more people.
Thinking about it, Lin Hao lay by the bed for a long time and then looked at the documents for a long time.
"What did you see?" Paul asked, noticing the slight smile on Lin Hao's lips.
"Sleeping pills, what's going on?" Lin Hao asked.
"The deceased had symptoms of insomnia and ate every night, this has been confirmed…!" Paul said, then realized something was wrong.
Based on his current movements, he wasn't sleeping. What sleeping pills did he take?
There are two possibilities: one, he ate by himself and was about to go to sleep, but his girlfriend called him and he went out again.
Secondly, he was fed by someone else.
Paul was still thinking when Lin Hao had already gone out, taken off his gloves, checked the time, said goodbye to Paul, and hurried off to training.
After training, Lin Hao returned to school and met a girl whom Paul had arranged to meet.
The girl was surprised to see Lin Hao. "It's you?"
Lin Hao smiled and nodded, "Hello!"
"What do you need me for?"
"Do you know this person?" Lin Hao took out a photo; it was of the suspect who had now admitted that the deceased had committed suicide and that she was merely the one who moved the body.
Lin Hao clearly saw the girl blink a couple more times, then shake her head, "Don't know her!"
Lin Hao nodded and took out a second photo, which was of the deceased.
This time, the girl nodded. "I know him. He got into an accident, didn't he?"
Lin Hao nodded and took out the third photo, which was of a man. When the girl saw this photo, she seemed to be greatly shocked.
But then she realized she couldn't be too superficial, so she nodded normally and said, "I know him, he's my boyfriend!"
"Judging from your reaction, you know!" Lin Hao smiled.
The girl adjusted her glasses and said softly, "What are you talking about? I don't know. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving!"
Lin Hao waved his hand, "I'm not a detective, what are you afraid of!"
"Just treat this as a story. Actually, this case isn't complicated. The difficulty lies in putting the person back in their original place!"
"At first I guessed that my roommate's girlfriend must have had a boyfriend, and the two of them worked together to move the body down, but the experiment proved that even two people could not do it without leaving a trace!"
"So how exactly did he do that? The answer is, he came on his own!"
"He went by himself, came back by himself, then took sleeping pills and prepared to go to sleep!"
"Then the question comes back to the original one: how to kill someone silently without alerting your roommate? Even if someone has taken sleeping pills, they will still struggle when faced with a fatal threat!"
"The answer is, I wasn't even in the dorm!"
"The rise and fall of my chest that I saw when I got back was a clever mechanism. After I fell asleep, I used a rope to retract the mechanism and tied it to the rope. To make it invisible, I used a thin thread. But I didn't expect that this would fail. The thread was too thin and broke during the retraction. I couldn't retract it!"
"Thankfully, this thing is very small!"
Lin Hao took this thing out directly. It was a very small device that could automatically open and close when a switch was pressed.
"It was hung in a very hidden place by a broken rope, on the inside of the foot of my bed!"
"This is why it went undetected for so long!"
"Because it went undetected, the deceased's girlfriend fabricated a suicide story and confessed to abandoning a corpse!"
"But, it wasn't her who killed him! It was his boyfriend, ah, another boyfriend! Since I don't know who started it first, I don't know who cheated, so that's all I can say!"
"He fabricated this story to protect his other boyfriend, or perhaps his other boyfriend instructed her to do so!"
"This person, the man I showed you, is also your boyfriend!"