Chapter Thirty-Three Discovery

  Chu Fei Fan suddenly turned his head around, shining the flashlight at every corner of the first floor, but it was still empty and there was nothing.

  "What's wrong?" Zuo Yi also shone his flashlight downwards.

  "Nothing, let's go up!" He felt a pair of eyes staring at him from behind, and his back was like having countless ants crawling on it, very uncomfortable.

  The laboratory building had been undisturbed for a long time, covered in dust, and their footprints appeared clearly in the corridor.

  Zuo Yi pointed to a room and said, "I remember it was in this house that Jin Er also found the ketchup."

  Upon hearing Su Jin'er's name, Chu Fei Fan's gaze dimmed for a moment, but he quickly recovered and gently pushed open the door. A wave of dusty air rushed towards them, causing them to cough.

  "How can there be so much dust? It's as if no one has come here for hundreds of years." Zuo Yi said, waving his hand.

  They shone their flashlights on the ground, and there was no footprints on the ground, it really looked like nobody had been here for hundreds of years.

  "It's really strange, is Xu Lingling telling a lie? She has no reason to deceive us!" Chu Feifan frowned.

  "Can that woman be trusted? Who knows how many plots and schemes are still out there! Maybe the murderer is her." Zuo Yi said, sounding like a resentful wife.

  "Please! Don't talk nonsense, okay? I really can't stand you."

  "Is it...?" Zuo Yi narrowed his eyes and said, "Do you have feelings for that woman?"

  "I'm telling you, big brother, we're here to look for clues, not to have fun. Can't you be serious?" Chu Fei Fan really wanted to give her a pair of panda eyes so she could see the environment they were in clearly.

  "No sense of humor at all! Such a heavy atmosphere can't be adjusted? It's suffocating!"

  A dark shadow suddenly flashed past from behind them.

  "Who?" they asked in unison.

  In the empty corridor, there were only the two of them, their silhouettes and the sound of their frantic heartbeats.

  "I clearly felt someone was there." Zuo Yi said, rubbing his eyebrows.

  "We've all forgotten something very important." Chu Fei Fan furrowed his brow.

  "What's wrong?"

  "The layout of the laboratory, the rooms on the second and third floors are exactly the same, perhaps Xu Lingling was afraid of making a mistake and took the third floor for the second floor."

  They rushed quickly to the third floor, and the originally dull footsteps sounded very piercing. They pushed open a room in the same location.

  "I knew it."

  On the land covered with dust, a clear human footprint pierced their eyes.

  "If we had discovered it earlier, things would have been much simpler."

  Chu Fei Fan crouched down and looked at the human-shaped mark on the ground, which was covered with another layer of dust, but could still be vaguely seen.

  Zuo Yi also squatted down, looking at other parts of the room: "Look over there!" He pointed to a place not far from that mark.

  "Somebody has been here before us."

  Chu Fei Yan also held a lamp and shone it over there, but because he was still some distance from the door, he couldn't see very clearly. "I'll go take a look!"

  He walked over and carefully looked at the faint footprints on the ground: "This footprint is very shallow and small, it should be a girl's footprint, and her weight should be very light."

  Suddenly, he stared at the footprint with wide eyes and slowly said: "I know who it is."

  "Who is it?"

  "Jin'er!"

  "Chu Fei took a deep breath and said: 'This should be the first scene of Xu Mengguang's death. There are still signs of struggle on the ground, although they're not very obvious, but you can still see them. Perhaps Jin'er already knew who the murderer was, but she had her memory erased by someone she knew, and it's even more likely that she tried to persuade that person to surrender, but was rejected.'"

  "How did you know?"

  "Because Jin'er believed that person wouldn't harm her, she went alone, how stupid!"

  "Maybe I also know who the murderer is." Zuo Yi said.

  Chu Fei Fan nodded silently and turned back. The two exchanged a glance, tacitly understanding each other with a slight nod.

  They returned to their dormitory, Zhang Yang sat on the bed with his head down.

  They looked at each other and then sat down on Chufan's bed.

  "Zhang Yang, we hope you can tell us everything you know, maybe we can still help you."

  After a long time, Zhang Yang raised his head, and to their surprise, his face was covered in tears: "You guys already know, right? Haha, I thought I could scare you off and make you give up the investigation, but I was really too naive."

  "So that's true, is it really her?"

  "Yes, it's her, but Xu Mengguang was supposed to die anyway. However, we didn't mean to, really didn't mean to."

  "Where is she?"

  "I won't tell you, and you can forget about finding her." Zhang Yang's eyes, which had been red from crying, suddenly glared at them fiercely, like a lion ready to pounce.

  "Zhang Yang, I understand your feelings, but murder must be punished by death. If she can surrender herself, perhaps she can receive a lenient sentence."

  "No, she's only 19 and it was an accidental killing, not intentional."

  "Tell us what happened."

  "Perhaps you already know that five years ago, no, three years ago, Li Yiqing's sister died. At the time, Xu Mengguang told Qianqian that he knew who killed her sister, so they went to the experimental building together. But Xu Mengguang, that beast, said he was deceiving her, saying he didn't know anything at all. Just as Qianqian wanted to leave, he grabbed her and forcibly took off her clothes. I had already fallen in love with her during military training, so when I saw Qianqian going to the experimental building with him, I secretly followed them. When I arrived, Qianqian was strangling his neck, saying 'strangle you to death, strangle you to death'. When I rushed over and pulled her away, Xu Mengguang had already stopped breathing."

  "How could a girl possibly strangle a boy to death?" Chu Fei Fan said disbelievingly.

  "I also found it strange that when I pulled her, I discovered that her strength was amazingly great, and her eyes were particularly fierce, just like the eyes of a devil."

  "And then?"

  "Then, I woke up Qianqian, she saw Xu Mengguang on the ground and was almost scared to death. I promised to keep his secret for him. We were originally going to get rid of the body, but Xueling suddenly came over. My friend and I hid, Xueling saw it and screamed as she ran away. Later, we moved the body, but honestly, we have no idea why his body fell from the girls' dormitory building."

  No wonder they saw Li Yiqian in the lab building that day: "So what Li Yiqian said about going to find Teacher Zhang was also a lie?"

  "Yes, the Zhang teacher she mentioned refers to me, fortunately you didn't go verify it at that time."

  "Why did Su Jin'er lose her memory?"

  Zhang Yang shook his head: "Qianqian was very scared after killing someone, she was nervous every day, but still had to pretend that nothing was wrong. Later, Li Ran died and Zhang Junsheng also died, she was very scared, she wanted to escape, so she came to find me."

  "So you carried out that disappearance plan?"

  "Right, but I didn't expect Du Xiaonan from their dormitory to be afraid that she would be in danger and insisted on going with her, so we knocked her out. As for what happened to her afterwards, we had no idea. I thought the matter would pass like this, because those stupid police wouldn't possibly investigate. Qianqian had a habit of keeping a diary, so I sneaked into their dormitory and stole her diary, thinking I could cover it up. But Su Jiner still found out, and she even knew where Qianqian was hiding. She went to find Qianqian alone and persuaded her to surrender, so I knocked her out like Du Xiaonan. Originally, I wanted to kill her, but Qianqian said she believed Su Jiner wouldn't report it to the police. Maybe heaven was helping us too! She actually lost her memory." Zhang Yang smiled with tears in his eyes.

  Chu Fei Fan suddenly rushed over and grabbed him by the collar, saying: "If you dare to hurt Su Jin Er, I will make Li Yi Qian pay the price. Our situations are the same."

  "What's the use of saying these now? Don't you all know already?" Zhang Yang sighed bitterly, he had no hope left.

  Zuo Yi stroked his chin and said, "If it was really Li Yiqian who killed him, why are there no fingerprints of hers on his neck."

  "We're not stupid, although we were very scared, but still managed to wipe away the fingerprints."

  "Perhaps Xu Mengguang wasn't killed by Li Yiqian, he just fainted at the time and you all thought he was dead, but later he was actually killed by someone else." Zuo Yi curled her lip.

  "What did you say? I remember he was out of breath at that time!"

  "I don't know either, it remains to be verified."

  "Did you really kill only Xu Mengguang?"

  "I've said all I have to say, believe it or not!"

  Chu Fei Fan fell into deep thought, the whole thing was triggered by Li Yi Qing's death, so it should be investigated what happened three years ago. Su Jin Er said they had gone to ask the counselor and were told that five years ago, the school had replaced all the teachers, so what had happened five years ago that made the school replace almost all the teachers? The only ones left were Liu Da Ye and Zhang teacher, but Liu Da Ye was already dead, so it could only be Zhang teacher. However, he had heard from the student council president that Zhang teacher had a very strange temper and was not easy to deal with. Right, now there should be someone in the fifth grade who knows! Maybe that president knows.

  "Zhang Yang, we'll believe you for now, and we'll also keep this secret for you. So, we hope you can cooperate with us."

  Zhang Yang looked at Chu Fei Fan in surprise. He thought that after they knew the truth, they would definitely report it to the police, but... was he using a villain's heart to measure a gentleman's belly?

  "Alright, I'll agree with you, as long as you help me keep it a secret."

  "We are very clear that there is someone behind the scenes manipulating everything, perhaps that person is now hiding in a dark corner watching us, step by step jumping into the trap he has already set."

  Zuo Yi suddenly said: "Do you know who that man in black was today?"

  "It's Qianqian!"

  "How could it be? Do you know that there is a small forest not far from the town?" Chu Fei Fan asked.

  "I saw it when I went to town to buy those clothes for Qianqian, but I've never been there before. Qianqian doesn't know at all."

  "That's to say, the black-clothed person that Jin'er and the others saw is not the same as the one we saw this afternoon?" Chu Fei Fan said in confusion.

  "It's very likely." Zu Yi agreed.

  "Are you saying that Su Jin'er once saw a black-clad person who looked like Qianqian?"

  "Right!"

  "So, I remembered a person. The day I went to buy clothes, someone bought the same one as me. At that time, I thought it was strange, but since someone bought the same thing as me, it means my taste is not bad, so I didn't pay attention."

  "What does he look like?" Chu Fei Fan asked anxiously, this was a very important clue.

  "I didn't see what she looked like, I just saw her back, it was a woman."

  "Is she a woman?"

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