At this moment.

The five people standing at the endpoint all shared a look of surprise on their faces.

None of them had found any suspicious murder weapon.

During the search, apart from short metal fragments and glass shards, they hadn't seen any sharp objects like daggers or fruit knives.

Zhang Yean looked around and said, "Mr. Li, should we search again?"

Wan shrugged and said, "Should we dig up the soil to see if there's anything underneath?"

Chen He surveyed the surroundings and suggested, "Perhaps we should expand our search area and see if it's possibly elsewhere?"

At this moment, Li Jian furrowed his brows and once more scanned the ground before him.

"According to Mr. Zhang, no soil construction has taken place here since the incident occurred."

"So, the murder weapon can't be underground."

After a long while.

Chen He suddenly said, "Mr. Li, could it be that the killer took the weapon away?"

"After all, the killer came down to look for the murder weapon on the night of the incident."

Wan also nodded, saying, "I agree with Mr. Chen; if there was really a dagger that fell, we would have spotted it immediately."

Just as everyone was puzzled, Jiang An's gaze fell on a cylindrical iron canister near the wall.

He pointed to it, "Has that iron canister been moved?"

Zhang Yean answered, "I remember when I first came here, the canister was in that spot."

Wan turned his head to look, "Earlier, when I passed by the canister, I specifically searched around it and didn't find any murder weapon."

Chen He said in a deep voice, "The incident happened at night, and this site isn't active during nighttime, so that canister shouldn't have been moved."

Hearing their reports, Jiang An remained silent.

He went over to the canister, squatted down, and observed it closely.

Five minutes later, Jiang An's eyes lit up as he suddenly noticed a small arc-shaped mark beside the canister.

Jiang An turned his head and asked, "Senior sister, are you sure this canister hasn't been moved?"

Upon hearing the question again, Zhang Yean suddenly lost some confidence.

She recalled the moment, touched her forehead, and said, "In my impression, the canister was at the corner then."

Seeing Zhang Yean's expression, Jiang An stood up, "Mr. Li, can we ask the workers to start the machine and lift this canister?"

"I want to see the bottom of this canister."

Li Jian hesitated for a moment and said, "Wait a moment, let me get Mr. Zhang to arrange for the workers to power up the canister and lift it."

Five minutes later, Mr. Zhang came over with an engineer.

"Mr. Zhang, please have this canister lifted. We want to check what's underneath."

Mr. Zhang replied, "No problem."

Then he turned to the engineer and said, "Power up and lift the canister immediately."

After listening, the engineer walked away at once.

Chen He asked in a deep voice, "Mr. Zhang, what is this canister usually used for?"

Mr. Zhang answered, "This canister acts as a work platform for tasks like mixing and painting exterior walls, and tiling."

"It's also a transport tool, similar to an elevator, used for transporting building materials."

Two minutes later, the sound of a mechanical gear movement was heard.

With the tightening of the tow rope on the canister, it slowly began to move.

Li Jian, Chen He, Zhang Yean, and Wan all walked over.

Soon.

The canister was lifted, and the ground below its base was exposed to everyone's sight.

Li Jian said, "Mr. Zhang, have the engineer move the canister horizontally to another position to avoid any safety hazards."

"Mr. Li, understood! I'll arrange it immediately."

Once the canister was placed two meters away in mid-air, Jiang An came over with a military shovel.

Under where the canister had been, there was a pile of hollow bricks.

However, most of the red hollow bricks had been crushed by the weight of the canister, losing their original shape.

Wan and Zhang Yean also grabbed tools and went over.

Immediately, the three of them began to shovel the broken brick fragments from the ground.

Two minutes later, a clear metallic clinking sound suddenly rang out.

Instantly, the three of them stopped their movements and exchanged glances.

The next second, the three quickly resumed their actions.

Quickly!

Their hearts tightened; a dagger appeared before them.

Zhang Yean, in surprise and excitement, said, "We really found it!"

At this moment.

Li Jian was standing outside the caution tape, smoking, with a furrowed brow, contemplating the next search area.

Upon hearing Zhang Yean's voice, his heart skipped a beat, and he almost dropped the cigarette from his hand.

Li Jian hurriedly asked, "Found the murder weapon?"

Jiang An turned and looked at Li Jian, nodding.

Immediately, Li Jian extinguished the cigarette in his hand and quickly jogged over.

Everyone saw it clearly.

A gleaming dagger was lying among the pile of crushed bricks.

No explanation was needed.

Everyone knew this dagger was the murder weapon.

A hint of anger flashed across Li Jian's face as he turned to ask, "Mr. Zhang, didn't you say this canister hadn't been moved since the incident?"

Suddenly, Mr. Zhang's eyes shifted, and he said, "Mr. Li, I'm sorry."

"After you finished surveying the scene, because Building 5 was temporarily blocked, we used this canister to transport tools down from the building."

"However, the general position of the canister hadn't changed; it was still at the corner."

Hearing this, Li Jian was furious.

If it hadn't been for Jiang An's suggestion, they might have missed finding the murder weapon due to Mr. Zhang's misleading information.

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