Chapter 5: Will it be me next?

  "It's not just a connection, it's true. Wang Anli's whole body trembled with fear, but she still looked at Yuan Yiqin seriously. "It's true, our dormitory is right opposite the corridor entrance, last night we girls who got along well were playing and running around in each other's rooms, none of us slept, they saw Shao Yiyang's back, and I was standing at the door of the dormitory, I saw her side."

  Recalling last night's events, Wang Anli was still shaken. She composed herself and said, "I saw Shaoyi Ya holding the doll and about to go downstairs when I saw the doll move. It was the doll that pulled Shaoyi Ya down the stairs, it's true, I really saw it." She spoke with great agitation due to fear.

  Yuan Yiqin's eyebrows furrowed into a "chuan" character, and he fell silent, his eyes cast downward as he pondered Wang Anli's words.

  According to the scene of the case, it is very likely that it was not a human act. He couldn't think of anyone who could make Shao Yiyin die so neatly and mysteriously in broad daylight.

  Looking at Wang Anli's excited emotions, it doesn't seem like she's lying. If what she said is true...

  If Shao Yiyang was killed by the evil spirit attached to that doll, then the suspicious points of her terrified facial expression and position at the time of death can be explained.

  However.

  That doll is spotlessly clean, not to mention being possessed, but even the slightest resentment of being possessed is nowhere to be found, it's just a doll that looks eerie but actually has no problem at all.

  A rare established conjecture was overturned because of this problem.

  "It must be Bei Nan, we've seen her smile and talk to that doll several times, even preparing food for it. Because of the doll, Bei Nan and Shao Yiyang have a bad relationship, they almost got into a fight several times. Bei Nan is very skilled in martial arts, which is why Shao Yiyang doesn't dare to use force."

  Looking at Yuan Yiqin's silence, thinking he didn't believe her, Wang Anli grasped his arm tightly with both hands and trembled as she spoke in a pale tone.

  "Even if your statement is true, that the doll was possessed and killed Shao Yiyang, even so, it can't be 100% related to Bei Nan. At the time, all of you were at the scene, watching as Shao Yiyang fell down, Bei Nan wasn't by her side." The tightly pursed lips opened slightly. "It seems like all of you have a bias against Bei Nan, from our police perspective, at the time of Shao Yiyang's death, Bei Nan was not present, she has an alibi, we can't suspect her."

  "What if she raised some kind of evil spirit and it attached itself to the doll?" Wang Anli refused to give up.

  Yuan Yiqin's face turned gloomy: "Even if you really saw that the doll was the one who pulled Shao Yiyang down the stairs to her death, I still hope you can stop slandering Bei Nan. Any matter requires evidence, and just because it's her doll doesn't mean she has any suspicion. Raising a little ghost and all that are just your speculations."

  He then said, "Wang Anli, our second criminal investigation team has always handled cases at night and some complex ones. There are many people in our team with special abilities. Some things, we can see clearly at a glance." He was reminding her.

  Wang Anli apparently understood that if the doll was really possessed, the members of the Second Criminal Investigation Brigade would be able to detect any clues at a glance.

  "But I really saw that doll move, and when Shao Yiyang fell down, it even looked at me for a moment... will the next person to die be me?"

  "Don't think too much, the doll is now stored in the headquarters of our second criminal investigation team. If there's really a problem, they'll take control of it immediately. Maybe what happened last night was just your imagination, or maybe you were traumatized by seeing Shao Yiyang fall and your memory got mixed up. Such things aren't unheard of. In any case, the matter is already over, it was just an accident."

  Yes, it's unexpected, and for now, this is the only way to deal with it.

  Wang Anli wiped away her tears and her emotions also calmed down a lot, her body's slight trembling proved that she was still very scared.

  Since things have been said to this point, she didn't say anything else. Even if Yuan Yiqin denied his own words, in her heart, she still firmly believed that everything she saw last night was not fake.

  She didn't have hallucinations and she was perfectly normal, but the doll really killed people.

  "Captain Yuan, if that kid really kills me to silence me, you must think carefully about what I said." Wang Anli dropped the words and left with a somewhat gloomy expression.

  Yuan Yiqin silently watched as that somewhat disheartened figure left, his eyebrows furrowed in deep thought.

  He thought about it over and over again but couldn't figure out a reason, so in the end he didn't want to get tangled up in it anymore.

  As she was getting up and preparing to leave, Bainan's figure slowly emerged from the dormitory building, a white long dress without any stains, matching her fair and beautiful face, elegant and lovely, spotless, like pure white jade.

  Without Xiao Xi by his side, Bei Nan slept very restlessly last night and now he's in a daze, his mind wandering.

  It wasn't until she walked up to Yuan Yi Qin's side that she realized he had been staring at her all along.

  "How did you come again?" She couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

  "I haven't gone back yet." Yuan Yiqin replied in a light tone.

  Benan glanced at him and didn't say anything else, continuing to walk forward. Yuan Yiqin naturally followed her footsteps and asked tentatively: "Yesterday you said the purpose of making dolls was for memorial services in the past?"

  "I already said that yesterday, I don't want to say it again."

  "I'm not asking about what happened in the past, I just want to know if there's anything strange that has happened since the doll was made until now?" Yuan Yiqin walked up with big strides and walked side by side with Bei Nan, slightly turning his head to speak while paying attention to her expression.

  "A strange place?" Benan subconsciously stopped in his tracks, looking at him with a puzzled expression. "What exactly are you trying to say?"

  Yuan Yi Qin took out a cigarette and lit one, gazing up at the clear sky for a few seconds before saying: "There are eyewitnesses who saw that it was your doll that pulled Shao Yi Ya down the stairs. What do you think about this?" His gaze returned to Bei Nan's face, where a flash of surprise flickered in her eyes.

  "What did you want to say then?" Benan gathered the incredulity and complexity in his eyes, looking at him indifferently.

  "I just want to know what you're thinking, and some things don't happen without a reason. Who knows, that doll might be a bit eerie after all." Yuan Yiqin was just probing, he had already dismissed the idea that the doll had pulled Shao Yiyang down the stairs, but hearing everyone's discussions about Bei Nan, he couldn't help but probe again.

  "Whatever you think, it has nothing to do with me. My Xiao Xi won't do anything bad." Benan dropped the words and walked forward in big strides.

  Yuan Yi Qin didn't catch up again, but instead narrowed his eyes and pondered her last words.