The rest might have been analysis and deduction, but manipulating someone through connection lines was pure imagination, without a shred of evidence.
And he had imagined it wrong.
Cai Zhijian did not manipulate others like puppets. He made others perform the same movements he did.
Chu Ge actually felt rather embarrassed. Feeling that Qiu Qiu was laughing at him, he added, "My suspicion that something was wrong with you was speculation, without evidence. But one thing I can be sure of is that, if it was you, something would inevitably happen while Old Zhu was in the hospital."
"Why?" Cai Zhijian asked coldly.
"Now is the best opportunity. Old Zhu already suffered mental damage, making it easy to mislead the police and doctors into thinking it was caused by a mental problem. If something inexplicable happened while Old Zhu was uninjured, the police would investigate the people around him relentlessly. Lin Wuyang's ability to make people tell the truth isn't exactly a secret anymore. You might well give yourself away."
Cai Zhijian smiled mockingly. "His injuries won't heal in just a few days. Are you going to camp beside me every day and follow me to the bathroom?"
"With us and Du Lianfeng involved in this incident, the police might think an esper ability was involved rather than a mental problem. You needed someone else to take the blame. Du Lianfeng's group has a flight sometime after seven... Using that timing to frame them as having killed someone and then fled by plane would be the best way to mislead the investigation. Once that opportunity passed, you wouldn't have such convenient scapegoats."
Cai Zhijian fell silent for a moment. "Impressive. I only instinctively felt this was my last chance. I never imagined that, to someone paying attention, it practically amounted