Chapter Seventeen: The Predecessor and Green Tea

  At 7:00 am, it was the peak hour of Metro Line 5.

  In the subway monitoring room, the security guard stood stiffly, facing two men in police uniforms who were questioning him, looking somewhat at a loss.

  "This, I don't know either. At that time, the surveillance suddenly cut off and didn't come back on for a whole hour. The last subway had already arrived safely at the station."

  "The officer-like person shouted: 'Why didn't you go and repair it immediately at that time?!'"

  "This..." The security guard's face turned difficult, "Officer, you also know that this subway is haunted. In the middle of the night, I'm alone, how dare I go?"

  "Someone took the last subway home last night, unfortunately, no valuable clues were found. Otherwise, we would have been able to find out the trail of those three men who jumped onto the tracks." Another police officer spoke up.

  ……

  ……

  As I walked into the classroom with my roommates, Wu Fan and Shang Jin were whispering to each other. When they saw me coming in, Wu Fan immediately stood up and shouted: "Shu Lin."

  Zhū Tíng poked me: "Hey, I'm calling you."

  "What's up?" I casually put down my backpack on the table before walking over.

  "That...," Wu Fan hesitated for a moment before saying, "This afternoon, you don't have class, can you accompany me to pay respects to Yue Fei?"

  I glanced at Shangjin and saw her lowering her head without speaking, I sneered in my heart, but calmly said: "The student union has something this afternoon, I'm busy."

  Zhū Tíngtíng and Shī Qín, who were standing upright with their ears perked up listening to this, exchanged a glance. Zhū Tíngtíng clicked her tongue twice and said in a low voice: "Shū Lián's acting skills are top-notch." Meanwhile, Shī Qín gave me a thumbs-up.

  Shang Jin stood up and said, "Shu Ling, you're really capable. Wu Fan and I don't dare to go alone. Can you ask the student union for a leave of absence and accompany us on this trip?"

  "Afraid to go?" I hooked up the corner of my mouth, "I thought you two had big guts."

  The two of them knew I was hinting at the incident on Subway Line 5, and they both lowered their heads in embarrassment. To be honest, if it wasn't for me intervening this time, the two of them would probably have become corpses too. Just thinking about how close they had come to death made both of them break out in goosebumps all over their bodies. For several nights afterwards, they had nightmares and were listless, but that's a story for later, so I won't go into it here.

  "Go ahead with an easy mind, don't do anything that will make you lose sleep, and you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door." I flashed a row of big white teeth and smiled as I returned to my seat.

  Want me to accompany two people, all the way watching them show affection and be a light bulb? Sorry, my ex-girlfriend is very petty-minded, so it's better not to give myself trouble. As for whether this proposal was made by the scumbag male lead or the green tea female lead, I don't want to consider it anymore.

  This lesson is a theoretical class of systematic anatomy, I'm already very familiar with the corpse, and this kind of human structure can be learned quickly. After not listening for long, I feel that the teacher's progress is too slow, and I'm a bit sleepy. Unfortunately, my roommates are all pretending to be academic tyrants, choosing to sit in the first row, so I have no choice but to prop up my cheek with one hand and force myself to stay awake.

  I recall a conversation with Jiang Zhun after getting off the subway last night.

  "I still don't understand why Liu Quan didn't kill Wu Fan and the other two."

  "Isn't life good?"

  "It's not bad... it's just hard to grasp."

  "You should know that Liu Quan was after all a loyal and chivalrous minister's son. No matter how great his resentment, the three lives lost were already enough to weigh on his conscience. Moreover, this time it also involved an innocent person, Shang Jin, he wouldn't go so far as to slaughter innocents indiscriminately."

  "Senpai, isn't this all just your imagination?"

  "Isn't this the best explanation?"

  I tilted my head, thinking and thinking, and before I knew it, the corners of my mouth had softened.

  Indeed, this is the best explanation. Anyway, after today's events, everything will be settled, and as for those three men who fell onto the tracks, they can only become an unsolved case.

  After all, I'm just a soul catcher, not some kind of divine detective officer.