Chapter 1390: Who Is It? (Part 2)

Regarding Li Rongfang and Zhao Jinzhong, the police station has conducted the appropriate investigations and preliminarily ruled out their suspicions.

After all, one is a library staff member obsessed with meeting lovers, while the other sneaks into school for inspiration to write a novel.

Neither of these two could create such sophisticated weaponry.

In this way, the three suspicious individuals now remain only Zhang Beixing.

As long as Zhang Beixing’s suspicion is ruled out, then their efforts today will have been wasted.

Because they will have no more suspicious people and have to find someone anew.

As he mentioned this last suspicious person, the expressions of all the officers present lifted their heads.

“Director, based on our investigation, he is a student at the Traditional Chinese Medicine University. His parents have been abroad for many years, and he has a younger sister with whom he usually lives.”

Li Wenshan nodded, “At present, it seems that this Zhang Beixing also has no suspicious points.”

“Indeed, he just looks like an ordinary student,” Fu Yuheng agreed along.

The conference room fell into a heavy silence, the air seeming to freeze in place.

If Zhang Beixing’s suspicion is excluded, then they may indeed have to start looking for someone else.

At this time, sitting in the middle position on one side of the conference table, Liang Shaokai glanced at the officers present, then at the director.

“Director, we found a video here, it’s about Zhang Beixing,” investigation team member Wang Chengtian stood up and said solemnly.

Immediately, the officers present turned their heads simultaneously.

Li Wenshan’s eyes lit up, and he quickly asked, “What kind of video?”

Fu Yuheng inquired, “If it has nothing to do with the case, then try not to bring it out.”

Wang Chengtian shook his head, “Before taking out the video, I need to mention something I know. This Zhang Beixing has another identity as a streamer on a certain platform, streaming content of ‘Flying Needle Through Wood.’

“Flying Needle Through Wood!” Li Wenshan jumped up, his eyes wide open, as if he had grasped something.

The rest of the officers, except for Liang Shaokai, all looked at Wang Chengtian in surprise.

Flying Needle Through Wood… How does this sound so similar to the person they are secretly looking for? It’s all about flying needles!

Immediately, Wang Chengtian brought up a premise, “This streamer didn’t use any weapon but purely relied on hand flicking technique.” This statement surprised all the officers.

Li Wenshan’s mouth opened wide, bewildered, “Hand flicking? How can this be possible?”

The officers couldn’t help but chuckle, thinking this streamer named Zhang Beixing was really unbelievable, with a peculiar mind and unique ideas.

Wang Chengtian said no more and silently walked to the projection equipment, import the video and played it.

He explained, “This is a video of one of Zhang Beixing’s live streams, in which he used his hand flick to drive a silver needle through a wooden plank.”

The officers’ attention was instantly drawn to the projection screen, watching the video intently.

In the video, a young man of about twenty, had his hand curved backwards as if holding something. Five meters in front of him, a wooden plank roughly three centimeters thick hung.

Suddenly, the young man flicked his hand, and what he held instantly flew out, transforming into a light streak and raced towards the plank with a piercing momentum!

In the next second, the plank swayed slightly, the silver needle deeply embedded into the wall behind the plank, its tail vibrating rapidly.

After the video ended, the conference room sank into an unusual, eerie, and tense atmosphere.

No one spoke at this moment.

Liang Shaokai sighed and smiled wryly, “I’ve seen this video before.”

Li Wenshan immediately interrupted him, his tone low, asking, “Old Liang, do you think this video is credible?”

Liang Shaokai shook his head, “Director, my first reaction was, there’s a high probability this video was created with special effects.” Li Wenshan nodded thoughtfully.

Wang Chengtian squinted, “Captain Liang, Director, this video has undergone professional testing by our police station, and no traces of special effects were found.”

Yet, he also found it incredible if the silver needle could penetrate the plank solely by hand flicking.

Investigations require uncovering every point of doubt.

Li Wenshan surveyed the conference table, sternly asking, “What are your views on this video?”

At this time, Zhou Mingjiang stood up and spoke solemnly, “From the feedback provided by the video, it’s certain that the plank in the video was between two and three centimeters thick, definitely not exceeding three centimeters.”

He paused and continued, “If assuming the plank was a three-centimeter thick piece of balsa wood, the softest wood in the world…”

He explained in detail, including the hardness of the plank and the power required for the silver needle to penetrate the plank.

After a complex calculation, he concluded: for the young man to drive the silver needle through a three-centimeter balsa wood plank, he would need to exert a force at least four times greater than the plank’s requirement, which means at least 1200N.

The conference room was silent, all officers were impressed by this series of calculations and complex formulas.

Knowledge not only can change one’s destiny, but as it seems now, it can also change others’ destinies.

Li Wenshan asked with an odd expression, “So does that mean it’s possible for the young man in the video to penetrate the wooden plank with the flying needle?”

Zhou Mingjiang both nodded and shook his head, “Possible, but not highly probable.”

He further explained that the wood in the video might not be balsa wood but more common wood, which is harder.

Under such circumstances, even if the young man could exert tremendous force, the silver needle could hardly withstand it.

The room fell silent again.

Though they didn’t fully understand what the complex calculations and data specifically meant, they knew it far exceeded human limits.

Precisely, it was unattainable by anyone.

So the video of the flying needle piercing wood either had to be fake or… special effects?

Li Wenshan asked somewhat uncertainly.

Zhou Mingjiang thought for a moment and agreed, “It could also be some method, but definitely not achieved by merely hand flicking.”

At this moment, Liang Shaokai suddenly stood up and proposed a new possibility, “Could it be possible that he’s the holder of that dangerous weapon? The video of flying needle through wood using that weapon?”

This sentence was like a bomb, exploding among the silent crowd.

However, Wang Chengtian shook his head, denying this possibility, “The silver needle in the video was indeed shot out from his hand, and after repeated viewings, there were no signs of a weapon seen in the video.”

With this statement, the bomb just blown was extinguished.

The investigation hit a dead end again.

Everything would restart, all conjectures overturned.

At this point, someone unknowingly asked, “Could it be a prop?”

Instantly, everyone looked up, their eyes filled with surprise, amazement, and sudden realization.

If it wasn’t a wooden plank but something similar, for example, like foam, it could be explained.

Although such an explanation made sense, it didn’t substantively aid them in finding people.

The officers felt amused yet speechless.

At this moment, the sound of urgent footsteps stopped outside the conference room door.

“Report Director! Commander Augustus of the Southern Theater Yun Province Military Region’s Border Defense Army wants to communicate with you.”

The expressions of everyone in the conference room froze, Li Wenshan was particularly baffled, clearly surprised by the unexpected turn of events.

They are police, representing law enforcement, and Augustus is a border defense commander, representing the military.

Normally, this division results in no cross-over between military and police, except for certain occasions where joint operations happen sporadically, there’s virtually no interaction.