I Asked You To Simulate A Crime, And You Pulled Off The Perfect Crime? - Chapter 31

Hearing Chen Shu’s confident response, Su Xiaoxiao felt unbearably curious. She’s dying to know, where exactly is the corpse hidden?

But then she remembered last night, her own confession leading Officer Wang and the others to the scene in a dramatic search for the body, only to come up empty-handed. That memory made her deflate instantly.

It was all the director’s fault! He just had to make her confess. Clearly, the production team just couldn’t handle losing! Great, now Chen Shu definitely wouldn’t trust her anymore.

Oh well…

To be honest, from the very start, Chen Shu never intended to let her in on it. Otherwise, he would have told her when he secretly moved the corpse.

Sigh… with that thought, Su Xiaoxiao rested her head on her arms, quietly observing Chen Shu. They had been together for almost half a month. At first, she thought he was just here to slack off, but now, he had single-handedly fooled everyone.

Her admiration for him was like a river, flowing endlessly, or like the Yellow River flooding uncontrollably…

The show was almost over. With his current popularity, the director would definitely do whatever it took to renew his contract. Which meant that in the next season, Chen Shu would surely return. After all, he was their golden ticket to viewership.

As for herself…

Ever since she agreed to the director’s request and turned herself in, Su Xiaoxiao had started to dislike the role she was playing.

If even she found herself annoying, then the internet trolls had probably already ripped her to shreds.

Sigh, it wasn’t on purpose…

She had no choice! Hopefully, people would go easy on her.

Two days until the show ends.

At the city police station, Qin Min and Su Haoran were swamped with work. They followed every lead suggested by online viewers, searching for the corpse. But in the end, they found absolutely nothing, not even a hair.

Wang Zheng had also returned from the countryside. He and his team had turned the entire village upside down, searching every possible hiding spot, but there was not a single clue. They had to return empty-handed.

One day until the show ends. 

That day, everyone was busy. Even the netizens who had been rooting for Chen Shu to pull off the perfect crime had now switched sides, helping the investigation team find the body.

After all, people naturally liked to support the underdog. Plus, getting involved in the show made things more exciting for them. But despite all their efforts, the corpse was still nowhere to be found.

“I give up. My brain cells are fried. I can’t think of any place we missed.”

“Who was it that said Chen Shu ate the corpse? Sorry for calling you a psycho, I’m starting to believe you now.”

“Let me go watch a few hundred episodes of Conan first. I’ll be back.”

“Wuhuhu! Perfect crime! Chen Shu is a genius!!”

With only one day left, the people who were the most anxious weren’t just Director Wu Hong and the investigation team. There was one more person. Liang Wei.

Ever since the show started, even though he wasn’t part of the cast, netizens constantly compared him to Chen Shu. After all, the role of “big brother” was originally meant for him. So no matter what Chen Shu did, people always debated, if Liang Wei had played the role instead, how would he have handled it?

At first, they criticized Chen Shu while praising Liang Wei. They even wished the show could pause just to replace Chen Shu with him. But as time went on, the tide completely shifted. Now, all they did was marvel at how brilliant Chen Shu was, how unpredictable his tricks were.

And as for Liang Wei?

“Who’s that?”

“Never heard of him. Stop trying to stay relevant.”

Did this make Liang Wei mad?

Well, he said he wasn’t, but deep down, he was definitely not okay.

So when the “Nationwide Corpse Hunt” event started, he stayed up all night rewatching the previous episodes, determined to find out where Chen Shu had hidden the body. He couldn’t let Chen Shu pull off the perfect crime! Because he knew that if Chen Shu succeeded, netizens would drag him out for another round of mockery.

Of course, he was also genuinely curious. What if he actually figured it out? And sure enough, after all his efforts, he finally had a breakthrough. Without hesitation, he grabbed his phone, opened the “Nationwide Corpse Hunt” discussion thread, and started typing.

“The only logical explanation, this is the ultimate analysis!”

“First, we can confirm that Chen Shu definitely moved the corpse. But when did he do it?”

“Based on the livestream footage and ignoring the moments when the camera wasn’t on him (since those were too brief for him to handle the body.)”

“The truth is, he moved the corpse right under our noses!”

“So when exactly? It was the day he first went to the countryside!”

“We can be sure he dismembered Liu Liang’s body. There’s no way he could’ve carried an entire corpse around otherwise.”

“On the bus, he chatted with the ticket lady the whole time. That was a distraction to keep her from noticing any traces of the body.”

“At the village, he helped the butcher slaughter a sheep. That was to use the smell of blood to cover up any lingering scent from the corpse.”

“That night, he attended the ancestral ritual and spent a long time talking with the village elder. During that time, he gained the elder’s trust, making him lower his guard.”

“So!”

“The body must have been secretly hidden in the ancestral hall at that moment!”

“I, Liang Wei, guarantee it, there’s no way I’m wrong!”

“You all know that I was originally supposed to join this show. I’ve read the entire Sherlock Holmes collection and watched 1,500 episodes of Detective Conan, my deduction is flawless!”

Liang Wei’s analysis sent shockwaves through the internet.

Netizens immediately reacted. They had considered countless possibilities. Septic tanks, rivers, forests… but never once did they think Chen Shu would dare to hide the body in an ancestral hall! That was sacred ground for worshiping ancestors. Would he really go that far just for a game show?

As Liang Wei’s post went viral, it quickly caught the attention of the investigation team.

“Captain Wang, did you check the ancestral hall when you were in the village?” Qin Min asked.

“No,” Wang Zheng shook his head.

His reasoning was the same as the netizens’. At the end of the day, this was just a variety show. Would Chen Shu really go that far, hiding a body in an ancestral hall?

Forget doing it, they hadn’t even dared to imagine it.

“Captain Wang, that guy Chen Shu is ruthless. What if Liang Wei is right?” Su Haoran stood up and checked the time. “There’s still a bit of time left before the show ends. If we leave now, we might just make it.”

Wang Zheng waved his hand. “Alright, let’s go search the ancestral hall.”