I told Huang Xiaotao, "Actually, this case is already very clear."
The murderer is Deng Chao. The headless corpse belongs to Ma Baobao. Deng Chao probably harbored murderous thoughts towards Ma Baobao long ago, but his first attempt at murder didn't succeed. So he racked his brains and came up with a flawless murder plan!
"The whole process of the case should be like this," I gently coughed and said, "Deng Chao first killed Ma Baobao and preserved his corpse with dry ice. Then, under the influence of alcohol, he proposed going to the old teaching building to play a daring game, when in fact he was just using those two girls! Deng Chao was only trying to put on a show for them! After scaring them away in the shortest time, Deng Chao changed Ma Baobao's corpse into his own clothes, because he wouldn't have been able to replicate the intricate death by violin strings, so he used knives and saws to chop off Ma Baobao's head, making it as realistic as possible."
"Finally, he used corrosive chemicals to make Ma Baobao's head blurry and unrecognizable. He faked his own death to make a clean getaway. The police couldn't find Ma Baobao's corpse, at most it would be considered a missing person. I can't help but compliment, this guy is worthy of being a top student, simply a criminal with high IQ!" I sincerely admired.
"However high the IQ, he was still seen through by you in the end. Isn't this just a roundabout way of complimenting yourself?" Huang Xiaotao laughed.
"You flatter me, you flatter me!" I said modestly.
"Why did Zhang Kai die?" Huang Xiaotao asked.
"Killing the donkey after extracting work from it!" I said, "Deng Chao needed an accomplice for his ghost murder trick. Think about it, at that time the violin strings were flying around in the classroom. Zhang Kai originally wanted to go in and save people, but got his hand cut by the violin strings, which inadvertently heightened the horror. So the two girls believed in the ghost. If Zhang Kai hadn't been there at the time, or was completely unaware, the ghost murder trick could have been exposed on the spot, so Zhang Kai's role was crucial."
"This Deng Chao really has a scheming mind! If Zhang Kai were still alive, think about it, how could a college student withstand the police interrogation? Things could have gone wrong and the truth exposed. So to be safe, Deng Chao had to kill his buddy as a sacrifice!" I analyzed.
Huang Xiaotao stared at me for a while, making me feel a little embarrassed. Could she have taken a liking to me?
"Song Yang, why do I feel like you're not a college student? You can say such mature words, is this really your first time solving a case?" Huang Xiaotao asked.
"Yes, I'm really an absolute beginner. You can go ask around if you don't believe me." I shrugged helplessly.
Huang Xiaotao chuckled, "Okay, okay, I believe you. Mr. Detective, now should we think of a way to catch Deng Chao and bring him to justice?"
I pondered, "The timing is not right yet, we still need to verify some information."
"Verify what? Do we need to go to Ma Baobao's dorm?" Huang Xiaotao asked.
"No, never go there!" I waved my hands again and again.
"Why?" Huang Xiaotao asked.
"We have to pretend we don't know the victim was Ma Baobao," I said coldly.
Huang Xiaotao rolled her eyes, "Oh, I see, you're luring the enemy in."
I nodded, "Smart! Think about it, the school had so many police officers today causing such a big commotion, I guess Deng Chao is secretly observing. So we should cater to his expectations even more to put him off guard."
"What should we do now then?" Huang Xiaotao said.
I handed her the cosmetic surgery flyer. Huang Xiaotao was shocked, "Why give this to me? Do you think there's something wrong with how I look that needs plastic surgery?"
With her rosy lips and fair skin, Huang Xiaotao has a perfect face. Naturally she would never need plastic surgery in her life. I was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, "Don't let your imagination run so wild! I want you to check out if Deng Chao has been to this cosmetic surgery company, because there's another doubt I need to clarify."
Huang Xiaotao took the paper and coquettishly said, "Couldn't you just say, 'You're so beautiful you don't need plastic surgery!' You really have no emotional intelligence!"
I scratched my head. Why do girls always love to hear people praise their beauty?
"Alright, alright, just teasing you!" Huang Xiaotao looked at her watch and said, "It's 10 o'clock now. I'll drive over and be back by noon to treat you and Wang Dali to a meal."
"Sure!"
I had nothing to do for now, so I went back to the dorm. Wang Dali wasn't there. Unlocking a phone is so much trouble? Only then did I see he had sent me several messages asking me to hurry to LaoYao's dorm.
Just thinking about LaoYao's lewd gay face made me feel disgusted. I had no choice but to reluctantly go over.
As soon as I walked into the dorm, I smelled a stench. The floor was littered with empty drink bottles and takeout boxes. Clothes lines were strung over the beds, hanging a few gaudy underwear. The other people in this dorm couldn't stand LaoYao, two had moved out last year, and another went home this year, so the dorm had become his personal domain, or rather a devil's den!
I saw LaoYao squatting on a chair like a monkey, wearing a loose tank top over his skinny rib-like body, his big feet probably hadn't been washed in a long time with black soles.
He had a bird's nest of messy hair, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, engrossed in playing League of Legends.
Wang Dali stood beside pleading, "LaoYao, brother Yao, could you please hurry up? You said you'd help me after one round, but you've played three rounds already. Can you please just get my thing done first?"
"What's the hurry, how could I betray my teammate? I'll help you after this round, just wait a bit longer," LaoYao nonchalantly said. Suddenly seeing me come in, his eyes immediately lit up creepily, his sordid face breaking into a smile, obscenely saying, "Aiyo, little Song Song, long time no see, you're looking cute again!"
Hearing his lecherous voice, goosebumps immediately broke out all over my body.
LaoYao stretched out his hairy legs and rummaged out two slippers from the pile of trash, putting them on before quickly running over to me.
"Little Song Song, did you miss me? Come give me a hug!"
I pushed him away, sternly saying, "We're civilized people, let's talk instead of getting handsy."
"Tsk tsk, acting all prim and proper with me now? I heard from Dali you were quite glorious this morning, working with the police on a serial murder case. Is that true?"
After saying that, LaoYao shamelessly slapped my butt. I instantly felt like dying.
s + Rent Collection Wealth】 At the start, he inherited a rundown house in the urban village from his grandfather. The house had no tenants, but the moment he was diagnosed with a terminal illness, a self-proclaimed empress from the Tianxuan Continent arrived as his first tenant. Ye Chuan soon discovered that with every new tenant moving in, not only did he receive massive daily payments, but he also obtained unique items related to their backgrounds. 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Tiger Strength Pill—dramatically enhances physical power!】 【Acquired Bai Qianshuang’s related item: Deer Blood Pill—significantly boosts vitality!】 …… From that day on, all sorts of bizarre tenants began appearing in the house: the empress from Tianxuan Continent, an apocalyptic sorceress from the Magic Realm, a mysterious scientific girl who fell through a spacetime rift… Every single day, he received strange, powerful items and endless money. Then one day, he suddenly realized—he had become invincible. Enough, enough! Stop giving me more!
] [Lone Wolf, No Male Gaze] [Protagonist is pursued early on; extreme protagonist-stans, stay away!] The "Carnival Paradise" descends and slowly devours the real world in the form of a game. By chance, Zhu Yan awakens the talent [Roleplay], becoming one of the first beta players. He thought he could develop safely, but after clearing the first instance, he is branded by humanity as the chief culprit behind the game's spread—a traitorous villain. A villain? Who would ever... become one! He'll be the villain! From then on, Zhu Yan is not only a player but also a lackey for the Carnival Paradise. Between the straight path and the crooked path, he chooses the con. With his left hand, he dons the villain's mantle, staging scenes within instances, infuriating players who decry him as a despicable traitor, all while the game happily promotes him. With his right hand, he joins the non-human organization "Fangcun Mountain," which opposes the Carnival Paradise, transforming into a mysterious player who slaughters game bosses, earning cheers of "Long live the expert!" from fellow players. Gradually, Zhu Yan rises to become an S-rank human player in Fangcun Mountain's archives, while also being the Carnival Paradise's certified top game Boss. But when the final war erupts and both major factions place their hopes in him— Players tag his various aliases: "Experts, this offensive depends on you." The Carnival Paradise's supreme Boss throws an arm around his neck: "Bro, you're the iron, I'm the steel; you can't let me down again!"
lity and could only live as an ordinary mortal. He only wished to live a peaceful life. Yet he didn't know— The dog he adopted, because it ate his food, became a legendary demon king. The kitchen knife he casually forged became a peerless divine weapon, causing numerous experts to fight desperately for it. The young disciple he took in became an immortal lord that led an era, due to cultivating the techniques Ye Feng taught him. Even the skeletons he looked down on the most were ominous demon kings that suppressed countless worlds. Many years later, looking at the void shattered with a punch, Ye Feng murmured to himself: It turns out the peerless kings were myself all along...
nd fell into a coma while saving his younger sister from an out-of-control car. He became a vegetable. No one knew that his consciousness had crossed into a world of cultivation. Over the course of sixty years, he began as the lowest kind of mine slave, struggling to survive amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. By sheer chance, he eventually obtained the complete memories of a fallen Immortal King. Alchemy, medicine, formations, feng shui, physiognomy, artifact forging… Every great inheritance of the cultivation world was now his. But when he opened his eyes again, he discovered that ten full years had passed in the modern world. To pay for his treatment, his father had sold the family’s shop and house, leaving himself covered in lasting injuries and illness. His mother had cared for him day and night, and more than half of her hair had already turned white. His younger sister, who had been only fifteen back then, was now twenty-five. To help repay the family’s debts, she had been forced to lower her head and put on a smiling face in places of glittering lights and endless revelry. Only then did Chen Xuan understand that what he had lost was not merely ten years. He had lost the life his entire family was meant to have. The good news was that he had brought back the memories of an Immortal King’s entire lifetime. The bad news was that his soul had returned alone—his cultivation had not come with him. Spiritual energy was scarce, resources were depleted, and the modern world still had firearms, surveillance, capital, and laws. If he wanted to protect his family, break free from everyone’s control, and become truly invincible beneath the heavens, he would have to start all over again.
