Based on the doubts raised by this detective, the killer was very likely someone else.
The salmon supplier had most likely been used.
Everyone went back to review the files on the other suspects.
Soon, someone entered their sights.
The restaurant owner's wife.
Many people did not know that in murder cases, the first people patrol officers suspected were often those closest to the victim. In fact, most killers were connected to their victims.
The couple had been in the middle of a divorce.
The restaurant owner had been scheming to make his wife leave with nothing because, while notarizing his will, he had asked a lawyer to conduct paternity tests. He discovered that his five adult children had five different biological fathers—and not one of them was him.
But his wife disagreed. She even said indignantly, "The children have called you Dad for decades. Of course everyone should get a share of the inheritance. Is blood relation really that important? This is the Tribal Jungle, not the Alliance. How feudal!"
"Huh? By rights, the wife should have been the biggest suspect. Why had no one considered her before?" Hao Ming asked strangely.
"Probably because they instinctively assumed robots would only obey their owners' commands?" someone guessed.
"That should be it." Everyone agreed.
"Here's the question: do robots only obey their owners' commands?" someone asked.
At that moment, Investigate Today, Kill Tomorrow uploaded a user manual.
"This is the manual they gave me when I bought it. It has the relevant clauses."
"Article A334: Under normal circumstances, robots purchased by customers will obey the commands of their initial configurator. The following possibilities are excluded:"
"1. Hardware malfunction."
"2. Software operating errors."
"3. Force majeure, such as earthquakes, fires, tornadoes, lightning storms..."
"4. The customer voluntarily transfers command authority."
"..."
"Hehehe.