SS Chapter 24

Long Xinyu, seeing the opponent’s agility and Rao Xian’s slower reactions due to his leg injury, with several close calls, quickly looked around, wanting to find something handy to fight the man’s butterfly knife—his earlier painting frame had been thrown in the opposite direction, and there were no paintings on the wall. He glanced around and saw the fire hose box on the wall, but the fire hose box was locked. Long Xinyu took off his jacket, wrapped it around his hand, smashed the glass with a punch, took out the fire axe, and was about to join the fray—

Rao Xian, who was fighting with the man, was alarmed. This man was wielding a sharp blade, and if students came over rashly without knowing the situation, it would be dangerous.

Only after the words came out did Long Xinyu realize what he had just said, cursing himself for speaking without thinking.

When the girl saw them, she screamed, “Murder— Waaah— Ah—” She trembled, pointing to the classroom she had just run out of, sobbing. The girl’s crying made Rao Xian and Long Xinyu stop their pursuit. The two walked over and pushed open the half-closed classroom door, and were stunned by the scene inside.

At the entrance of the laboratory, a girl was lying in a pool of blood, her eyes open, her pupils already cloudy. There were no knife wounds on her back, and blood was still flowing out.

Rao Xian didn’t expect to see such a scene outside the classroom. When he saw the boy running out with his clothes disheveled, he thought she had been sexually assaulted, but the situation just now and this scene were obviously not the case.

The girl shouted, “Yu Kun, Yu Kun—” and was about to pounce on the boy at the door.

Rao Xian stopped the boy, because the boy was emotionally unstable and couldn’t let him disturb the scene.

He called Ye Xiaochen over to take care of the girl and walked over to check the boy’s neck. As expected, there was no pulse.

The boy standing at the door saw his expression and understood that the girl couldn’t be saved, and burst into tears.

One classroom, three corpses. Rao Xian directly called Shao Hui about this situation—no need to wait for procedures, he was the one reporting the case.

After hanging up the phone, Rao Xian saw that the boy was still crying and asked what had happened.

In the blink of an eye, two lives were gone. She was so scared that she gasped. The man must have heard it, took out a butterfly knife, and walked towards the experimental cabinet.

The girl cried and sobbed, speaking incoherently. Ye Xiaochen could only pat her shoulder to comfort her. The experience just now and the corpses in the classroom made her feel scared, but with Rao Xian and Long Xinyu next to her, she tried not to show her fear.

After listening to the story, Rao Xian stood at the classroom door, looking at the window where the white-gloved man had just escaped, wondering if there was any connection between the Yang Miaoting and Cheng Yang case and this case, since both cases had happened in this building.

Long Xinyu didn’t know what Rao Xian was thinking. He asked seriously, “Should I go pray? How come people die wherever I go!”

Rao Xian looked at him in confusion: “The case hasn’t been investigated yet, what does it have to do with you?”

Long Xinyu pointed to the two girls’ corpses over there and said, “Those two girls look familiar, they seem to be from Luo Pingping’s fan club!”

Rao Xian: “…”

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It was already late when Long Xinyu and Rao Xian got home. Long Xinyu remembered that he had told the cleaning lady, Sister Wu, to make two fewer dishes to celebrate Rao Xian’s moving in, but he forgot because he was delayed by the case.

After all the commotion just now, neither he nor Rao Xian had eaten dinner. Sister Wu had already put the food in the warming box. Long Xinyu called Rao Xian over to eat.

Rao Xian and Long Xinyu put the food on the table, and the two sat on opposite sides, silently eating—he was originally here to investigate the case, but ended up encountering a murder case.

When Shao Hui brought Sha Rou and Duan Yisong to the scene, the way Duan Yisong looked at Long Xinyu was almost saying, “Young Master Long, this is also related to you.”

Long Xinyu wanted to cry but had no tears.

Rao Xian also didn’t expect that he would encounter a murder case just by responding to Ye Xiaochen’s request to visit the school—the old case hadn’t been solved, and a new case had arisen. Three students had died in the school all of a sudden, and the murderer had escaped. Chongda was also in chaos, a complete mess.

Long Xinyu held his chopsticks in his mouth, leaned over to look at the cat. Seeing Long Xinyu looking at it, it turned to paw at Long Xinyu’s pants leg and meow.

Long Xinyu muttered, “It’s so big, I don’t know how to raise it. My brother is too unreliable. I have to tell Sister Wu to help feed the cat tomorrow.”

Rao Xian saw Long Xinyu staring at the cat and inexplicably felt that the two of them looking at each other was quite interesting. The depression from the afternoon seemed to dissipate a little.

He said to Long Xinyu, “It must be hungry.”

Long Xinyu stubbornly said, “Cats should eat cat food, but who sent it here? Let it ask whoever sent it for cat food!”

Saying that, he ran to find it himself. Seeing this, the cat also followed Long Xinyu.

Seeing this, Rao Xian sat back in his chair. He rubbed his leg and picked up his bowl.

His mind was again thinking about the cases in Chongda. Now three people from Luo Pingping’s fan club were dead. If Yang Miaoting’s death was a love affair, what about the two girls today? The man in black gloves they met today was obviously a martial arts expert, why did he kill these two students? What did these students do to bring about their deaths?

Rao Xian stared blankly at his bowl.

Long Xinyu finished comforting the cat and washed his hands before coming back. He found that Rao Xian was in a daze and asked if he was still thinking about the case.

Rao Xian came back to his senses and said his question. Long Xinyu couldn’t analyze a reason either, only coming to one conclusion—there was a conspiracy.

After eating, Long Xinyu taught Rao Xian how to operate the dishwasher. After putting the dishes in, he took Rao Xian for a walk around the house as after-dinner entertainment.

This was the first day Rao Xian moved into Long Xinyu’s house, and the richness of his experience was simply speechless.

That night, Rao Xian couldn’t sleep well because he had just moved in and was thinking about the case. While he was dozing off, he heard a soft knock on the door. He opened his eyes and groped to turn on the night light by the window. He was just wondering when the door was pushed open and Long Xinyu poked his head in.

Rao Xian shielded his eyes from the light of the night light and said, “Why aren’t you sleeping so late?”

Long Xinyu shook his head and said seriously, “I had a dream, and then I remembered some things from when I was a kid.”

Long Xinyu grinned: “I not only remembered that woman, but also remembered that when she came to find Li Xu, she didn’t call out Li Xu’s name, but ‘Qin Shuqing’!”

“Qin Shuqing?” Rao Xian was surprised.

Memory is sometimes strange. The things I desperately want to remember may not be able to, but the things I thought I had forgotten can be remembered in an unintentional moment with very few details.

When he saw the painting “Lament” at the school today, he only felt that the woman in the painting looked familiar and didn’t remember where he had seen her. He didn’t expect that he would have a dream as soon as he fell asleep, which aroused his memories.

“Li Xu, Wang Ling, Chu Yao, Yang Miaoting, and the two surviving boys today, there must be a connection between them,” Long Xinyu asserted.

Long Xinyu agreed, dropped the pillow, and ran back to his room to sleep.

The next morning, Rao Xian got up and found that Long Xinyu was already up. The two cleaned up, ate a simple breakfast, and Long Xinyu first sent Rao Xian to the police station before going to the company.

Now every time Rao Xian came to the police station, he felt like he was in another world.

In the past, he was a promising police captain, but now he was a cripple who couldn’t even drive a car. Rao Xian had been accustomed to being outstanding since he was a child, and suddenly his life took a turn, catching him off guard.

Yesterday, when facing the white-gloved man in Chongda, if it hadn’t been for his leg, he might have subdued the white-gloved man. But the situation at the time was that he was at a disadvantage, and he couldn’t jump out of the window to chase the man. And he couldn’t ask Long Xinyu, who was not a police officer, to risk his life to chase the suspect.

Long Xinyu didn’t know what Rao Xian was thinking. When they arrived at the police station, he stopped the car and saw Rao Xian’s solemn expression, thinking that he was thinking about the case.

Long Xinyu called Rao Xian heavily, and Rao Xian came back to his senses. Seeing that he had arrived at the police station, he got out of the car with his crutch.

The crutch was custom-made for Rao Xian by Long Xinyu. Rao Xian didn’t know what material it was made of. The weight was appropriate, and it was very strong. It didn’t even break when he used it as a weapon yesterday.

Long Xinyu saw him enter the police station before closing the car and leaving.

Duan Yisong heard this and casually searched for “Qin Shuqing” in the system, adding an age index. It actually triggered a major case alert, shocking everyone. Everyone immediately gathered around.

Duan Yi took out the case file, and everyone stared at the screen.

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