Chapter 2 — Guide to Judgment

“An anonymous person will make the case impossible to revive forever.” Truong Sieu couldn't help but interject, his voice still stiff but no longer sarcastic like before: "How to determine? Over the past three years, we have compared DNA with all the missing people in the city, even in the whole province, but no one has matched." “Then expand the scope.” I said: “Investigate all the young women who disappeared in the city in the last three years, especially those who were engaged or had a habit of wearing a particular type of ring.” Truong Sieu frowned: "Try to act mysterious! We have checked the list of missing people eight hundred times!" "Really?" I calmly asked back: "So this time, try checking to see if there is anyone named Tran Tuyet or not." As soon as the name was spoken, the morgue fell into a deadly silence. Truong Sieu suddenly opened his eyes wide, eyes filled with disbelief. If the previous strange phenomenon could still be reluctantly explained by hallucinations, then the specific name I just said had completely destroyed his last psychological line of defense. Captain Giang reacted very quickly, immediately turned around and ordered the police standing in front of the door: "Immediately check the civil status system and missing person database! Find a girl named Tran Tuyet, missing three years ago!" “Yes!” The police received orders and ran out as fast as flying. I looked at Truong Sieu's absent-minded appearance, but there was no wavering in my heart. Your dignity is not taken by me, but by you. Now is just the beginning. 4 The results of the investigation were released very quickly. So fast that it made everyone feel scared. In the civil status system there is actually a girl named Tran Tuyet. Three years ago, she was twenty-two years old, studying fine arts at a university in the city, then suddenly disappeared, completely unknown. Her family reported to the police, but because she was an adult and did not show any signs of coercion, the police investigated for a long time without any results, and in the end they could only file the case as a missing person case and leave it at that. Team leader Giang immediately sent someone to contact Tran Tuyet's parents, who were in a remote countryside, and quickly took their DNA samples. Comparison results were quickly given. The headless female body that has been lying in the morgue for three years is the missing Tran Tuyet. When team leader Giang announced this news to Tran Tuyet's parents, there was a heart-breaking cry on the other end of the line. In pain, Tran Tuyet's mother provided an extremely important clue. A few days before her daughter disappeared, she had a fierce argument with her boyfriend, Chu Minh, who was planning to get married. The reason for the quarrel was that the engagement ring Chu Minh gave to Tran Tuyet had disappeared. That ring is a family heirloom of Chu Minh's family, and has a very important meaning to them. Tran Tuyet felt extremely self-blame and heartbroken because of this. The ring. Those two words were like a bolt of lightning, clearing the fog in everyone's heads. It completely coincided with the gesticulation of the figure I had "seen". All clues point to Tran Tuyet's boyfriend that year, Chu Minh. He had a motive for the crime: to vent his anger at his girlfriend because his precious engagement ring was lost. He had suspicions about the crime: before Tran Tuyet disappeared, he was the last person to have a violent argument with her. In the meeting room, the atmosphere was heavy. Truong Sieu sat in the corner of the room, his face gloomy. He didn't say a word, just stared at the autopsy report on the table. Even though he was extremely unwilling, the truth was right before his eyes. I, the one who "relies on relationships" and the "fortune teller" in his eyes, only used the time to burn three incense sticks and found a breakthrough that they couldn't find in three years. Each seemingly mystical clue I provided was in turn corroborated by subsequent scientific investigations. That feeling for someone who firmly believes in science is like a collapsed belief. Captain Giang made a decision: “Immediately summon Chu Minh

!” Chu Minh was quickly taken to the police station. Three years have passed, and he is no longer the immature student he once was. He wears a neat suit, is the owner of a successful technology company, is married and has a two-year-old son. Faced with the police's question, Chu Minh answered without revealing any loopholes. He admitted that that year he had indeed quarreled with Tran Tuyet about the ring, but he affirmed that after the argument, Tran Tuyet ran out on her own, and since then he has not seen her again. "Policemen, I also really want to know where Tieu Tuyet went." He appeared extremely miserable: "I've been looking for her for a long time, really." What's more troubling is that he provides a perfect alibi. According to him, the night Tran Tuyet went missing, because he was in a depressed mood, he and some college friends played games all night at an internet cafe near the school, and didn't return to the dorm until the next morning.