"No need to thank, it was on the way."
Lu Yi placed the thermos bottle in the corner of the wall, then glanced at the little flags planted around and the patterns drawn: "Brother Genius, what are you doing?"
"There’s a ghost in the dormitory."
"Ah! I still have things to do, I’m going back to prepare lessons."
Lu Yi imdiately took another thermos bottle and ran out of the dormitory, closing the door behind him.
Actually, his reaction was the normal response of a normal person to creepy incidents; the previous behavior of Tan Wenbin was the exception.
After washing up with a basin at the washstand, Li Zhiyuan returned to the dormitory, flipped the mirror back to face the door of the bedroom, and then went to bed, ready to sleep.
Before falling asleep, the fragnted static images he attempted to control Qiu Minmin with last night began to reerge in his mind, entirely unintelligible.
At that ti, he thought it was a characteristic of Qiu Minmin, but afterwards, he found out that she was actually the puppet of another existence, a Chang ghost.
This ans that those mory images he had read not only didn’t serve any practical use but might also contain misleading information. As a puppet, the Chang ghost had little will of its own.
The next morning, as soon as Li Zhiyuan woke up, he heard running footsteps in the corridor—it was Tan Wenbin.
After hesitating for a mont, Li Zhiyuan still flipped the copper mirror over, even though he knew Tan Wenbin would clamor to try it out for himself once he ca in.
Tan Wenbin opened the door of the dormitory, one hand holding a file and the other carrying breakfast.
"Eh, Brother Xiao Yuan, did you set up this door guard?"
"Yeah."
"How co it’s not working?"
"I turned it off."
"Why’d you turn it off? You should’ve let give it a try."
"Let’s deal with the important things first."
"Alright, alright."
Tan Wenbin sat down, and the two began to eat breakfast while looking over the file.
"It was a connection my dad helped find. Hey, you wouldn’t believe it, but my dad really has connections."
"I rember you saying that your dad was later transferred to a town’s police station."
"Yeah, apparently he made a mistake."
"What mistake?"
"A son doesn’t speak of his father’s faults."
"You didn’t dare to ask?"
"You never experienced how my dad’s belt used to really pack a punch. When I was little, watching Bruce Lee’s movies—whenever Bruce Lee swung his nunchuks, I envisioned my old man."
"Let’s look at the docunts."
Li Zhiyuan traded the half of the file in his hand with Tan Wenbin.
As Tan Wenbin had just finished reading the identity information of a witness, simultaneously having consud two stead dumplings, the young man leaned back in his chair and gently stroked the table with his fingertips.
"No way, bro, you went through the files I worked hard to get overnight, just like that?"
"Yeah."
"No wonder my dad used to say you should be a detective."
Li Zhiyuan closed his eyes, reorganizing the information from the file he had just seen in his mind.
Zhao Junfeng humiliated and killed Qiu Minmin in the toilet of the teaching building late at night.
There were three eyewitnesses, one male and two females, nad Wu Xinhui, Liu Xinya, and Zhu Hongyu.
These three, along with Qiu Minmin, were originally rehearsing a dance drama in an empty lecture hall. Midway, Qiu Minmin needed to use the restroom. The rehearsal was halted, and when she did not return after a long ti, the three went to search for her in the restroom, only to see Zhao Junfeng panickingly rushing out.
The two girls went into the restroom and discovered Qiu Minmin, who had been humiliated and murdered.
After the incident, the school’s security departnt and the student council first went to apprehend Zhao Junfeng, and at West Lake—the lake where Tan Wenbin went for his first night run—they found traces of Zhao Junfeng. Zhao Junfeng injured a few students before fleeing the campus.
After the police got involved and began the chase, Zhao Junfeng’s whereabouts were eventually found near General Mountain. The student council was also mobilized to help search, and in the end, Zhao Junfeng, wielding a dagger and holding Wu Xinhui hostage, was in a standoff when he was shot by the police. Wu Xinhui was rescued, and Zhao Junfeng fell into the river after being shot.
It took three days to recover the body.
Because there were three eyewitnesses, and Zhao Junfeng had exhibited clear resistance, fleeing, and resisting arrest, the case was quickly closed.
Li Zhiyuan asked, "Is the student council in college really that active?"
Tan Wenbin finished the last gulp of his soy milk and nodded, "It seems so. After school starts, the student council recruits new mbers, but Brother Liang told not to waste ti there."
"Oh?"
"Brother Liang said, the worst of bureaucratic culture in China is concentrated in the student council. Aside from a few leaders who can get chummy with teachers and leaders, flatter them for their own benefit, while at the sa ti exert so authority over the students below them to enjoy a taste of power, regular students who join are just called to do nial tasks like moving tables and chairs."
"The file says Wu Xinhui was the student council president of that tenure."
"Yeah, I noticed that."
"And Zhao Junfeng was a suitor of Qiu Minmin. He had set up candles underneath the girls’ dorm to confess his love, but he was rejected."
"Brother Xiao Yuan, I’ll put it this way: if you asked to look at this file straight, I’d think there’s no problem with this case. But now that Qiu Minmin has beco a Corpse, and the situation has developed like this, I feel there must be secrets hidden in this case."
"Yeah."
"Then should we go investigate these three witnesses next? We’ll need to find Brother Liang then. Although Brother Liang hadn’t enrolled at the ti of the incident, he has a wide network and can help us inquire in the school. Including the police officer who fired the shot in the end, we can also go to him to understand the specific circumstances at that ti."
"There’s no need for that." Li Zhiyuan shook his head, "We are not here to investigate the case, we don’t need to follow the standard procedures."
Subsequently, Li Zhiyuan told Tan Wenbin about what he had found yesterday at General Temple.
"Brother Xiao Yuan, you an, we go directly after Ran Qiuping?"
"Not only Ran Qiuping but also the two fellow practitioners in General Temple."
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