Chapter Nineteen Entanglement

  After that day, Su Jin'er began to investigate the bizarre murder case on her own. She was neither a police officer nor a detective, so she had no way of knowing the specific details of the case.

  Also because of the sudden death of three people in school, the school is in a state of panic. Originally, the principal had asked the police to keep this matter confidential, but with three consecutive deaths, it was impossible to hide it any longer.

  "Su Jiner, where are you going again?" Lin Yuan said as he walked out of the bathroom and looked at Su Jiner who was about to slip away.

  "Uh! I have something to attend to, you stay in the dorm and wait for me." She said with her back to Lin Yuan, one hand pulling on the already half-open door.

  "No way, last time you secretly ran away and left me worried to death. This time don't think about abandoning me again." Tears welled up in her eyes.

  "Xiao Yuan, you know that Qianqian has been missing for a week now. The police investigation has yielded no results. I won't let you fall into danger too, or else I will never forgive myself."

  "You think that by putting you in danger, I can forgive myself for investigating this matter? But Lin Yuan knows, we're both very clear about Xiaonan's situation. So, let me and you investigate together." Lin Yuan's tone was firm, although Su Jin'er had a thousand or ten thousand unwillingness, she couldn't do anything about it because they knew each other too well.

  Lin Yuan was right, Du Xiaonan's situation is getting worse and worse. She is dazed every day, and the worst thing is that she will faint from time to time. After waking up, she will lose some memory, and now she doesn't recognize anyone. Her mouth is still muttering something, but what's even stranger is that she knows when to eat, and everything a normal person does, she knows, as if her body is not controlled by herself, but by another soul?

  How did she think of this, does she still believe in so-called "ghosts" in her subconscious?

  She was startled by her own thoughts, this must be man-made, it must be!

  Seeing Su Jin'er's silence, Lin Yuan thought she was angry, but she still said firmly: "Even if you're angry, I'll still go with you."

  "No! I'm not angry, okay? Then you come with me!"

  When Lin Yuan heard her words, she happily jumped up. Su Jin'er helplessly looked at the good clothes she was wearing. Where did she go to take a bath? She was obviously waiting for an opportunity to catch her!

  "Where are we going now?"

  They walked down from the dormitory building, and Lin Yuan asked in a low voice.

  "Do you still remember what Li Yi Qian said when we heard the knock on the door last time?"

  "What's up?"

  "She said if there were words on the wall, I would go see them the next day, but there were no words on the wall."

  "So you're saying she's lying?"

  "And it seems she's hiding something from us, and that something is closely related to what we're investigating."

  "Could it be that someone deliberately scratched out the words?"

  Su Jiner shook her head: "There is no scratch mark on the wall at all."

  At this time, they had already walked to the school gate. The security guard, Old Zhang, saw them and smiled as he waved at them. They also smiled and waved back in greeting.

  "You're not going into that gloomy forest, are you?" At the thought of that dark and eerie forest, she couldn't help but shiver with fear.

  "You're right, although we can't know the real cause of Zhang Junsheng's death, I always feel that he will leave us a clue." Su Jiner looked at this strange forest, searching for the tree where Zhang Junsheng was hanged to death.

  "Have you grasped the clue?"

  "No, I don't know anything, it's all - feeling, you see, just like this tree."

  "How did you know it was this tree? Don't tell me it's intuition again!"

  "Of course not, hehe, it's because of this." She pointed to a very small white bead under the tree, which she had deliberately left there that day. The bead was so small that if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see it at all. No wonder she had been bending down and looking at the ground just now.

  "You're really clever!" Lin Yuan said with a pout.

  Su Jiner looked at her amusing expression and said: "Alright, quickly help me find things, such as paper and so on. As long as it's suspicious, we need to take a look."

  Looking at her serious appearance, Lin Yuan narrowed his eyes and said: "Ah! Our Su beauty has become a detective, I wonder if Master Chu still dares to want her?"

  Upon hearing her words, Su Jin'er's face turned red: "If you keep talking nonsense, I won't talk to you anymore."

  "Ah! You're shy, it seems the Eldest Young Master of Chu has 8... 'Stop messing around and get to the point already!' She said, getting more and more fed up with what she was hearing, Su Jin'er glared at her."

  Lin Yuan was stunned and his shoulders slumped as he stopped speaking.

  Maybe it was because of their jokes, but the surroundings didn't seem so gloomy anymore.

  But they won't know that what they are looking for is quietly waiting for their arrival in a hollow tree.

  In the boys' dormitory, Chu Feifan was lying on his bed in a huff, he didn't even know why he was so angry, and Su Jiner wasn't even related to him, nor did he have any reason to be angry with someone else! Thinking of this, he suddenly sat up, startling Zuo Yi.

  "Hey! What's wrong with you? Your face has been ugly for the past two days, who made you angry?" Zuo Yi put down the book in his hand and looked at him quietly: "You're not still mad about Su Jiner, are you?"

  "Not at all! I just think that what happened in school is really suspicious!"

  "Is it?" Zuo Yi looked at him with a smile that was not quite a smile. "What's wrong with admitting you like her? Do you have to be so entangled about it?"

  Zuo Yi Na covered her face with a book, secretly glancing at Chu Fei Fan's face which was alternating between red and white as he smiled awkwardly. She had never seen him look so flustered before.

  "I'm just worried about her, why is she so stubborn?" He scratched his somewhat disheveled hair, how can girls be so difficult?

  "You have your stubbornness, she has her persistence. How can you be so clever in other aspects, but when it comes to love, you're such an idiot."

  "You - you're calling me an idiot?"

  "It's actually like that! I think it's you who are being selfish! You're only worried about her safety, but she's worried about everyone's safety. Although your concern for her is right, you can't say she's selfish!" Zuo Yi looked at his increasingly embarrassed face and secretly smiled, really one thing can bring down another! Even the great Chu Da Gongzi cannot escape emotional troubles.

  "What am I supposed to do now? Go and apologize to her?" Chu Feifan said anxiously, he had never liked any girl before, so he didn't know how to get along with a girl at all.

  "I don't think it's necessary."

  "Why?"

  "I think she wasn't actually angry, she was just worried about her friend."

  Chu Fei lowered her head, yeah! How could she be so stupid? Her dorm mates were gone, and what she should have been worried about was how to find them, not getting hung up on these trivial matters. What's wrong with herself?

  "I think the information we've investigated about Zhang Junsheng will have a great impact on this matter. I think I should secretly protect her."

  "Right! The key to chasing a girl is to move her. " Zuo Yi walked in front of Chu Fei Fan: "What do you plan to do about your brother's matter?"

  Chu Fei Fan shook his head, thinking of his brother made him headache. In the year he was 10 and his brother was 15, his brother had a fight with their father and was kicked out of the house. He thought it was just temporary anger between his father and brother, but what happened next was beyond his imagination. A year later, his brother actually killed someone, and to make matters worse, his father not only didn't save him but also put the 16-year-old in prison. His father thought this would teach him a lesson, but things turned out to be the opposite. Two years later, his brother escaped from prison and then disappeared for seven years without being found. After Chu Fei Fan got into college, his father's task for him was to find his brother, Chu Bu Fan.

  "He's been missing for seven years, and yet Dad suddenly wants me to find him - what's the point of that?"

  "It's been seven years already, maybe he's gone long ago."

  "No, he's still alive and doing well, I think my dad must have found evidence that he's alive but didn't tell me."

  "Then go ask your father about it!"

  "He won't tell me, maybe he has another purpose."

  "So what do you plan to do?"

  "I have no clue now." He rubbed his nose and said, "Forget it, let's focus on solving the problem at hand! Su Jin'er and the others will definitely go look for clues, I'm worried they'll be in danger."

  Zuo Yi nodded, unaware that Su Jiner and Lin Yuan were searching for clues left by Zhang Junsheng in the woods at this time.

  "Jin'er, will he really leave a clue? Why don't I believe him at all!"

  "I don't know, I feel like he knows a lot of things." She used the stick in her hand to carefully lift up a pile of leaves and examine them seriously.

  There's too much trash here, whether it's drink cans or food bags, they're all over the place, and there are paper scraps everywhere, making it impossible to find anything.

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