In the mysterious depths of fate, the Child Wife Case of Yanwu Square and the murder case of Zhou Guanghan at Kangchuan University beca enigmatically intertwined.
Shi Nian’s thoughts concluded just as she reached the end of the corridor. The campus police office was located at the other end of the hallway.
Seeing her enter with clear, bright eyes, Sean, the campus officer who had been watching her from the window, was taken aback. He couldn’t help but wave his hand in front of Shi Nian’s eyes. Only after confirming that her pupils followed his hand’s movents did he awkwardly smile.
"So you can see after all."
Shi Nian carefully observed the campus officer: Sean was a white man in his forties, tall and thin, with a slight hunch. His blonde hair, sowhat dry, stuck out like straw from the edge of his police cap. His gray eyes could change to gray-blue with emotional shifts.
He gestured towards the window: "That corridor is a good 40 ters long, and you closed your eyes almost from the doorway as you walked over. You only reached out to touch the walls three tis along the way, yet you didn’t bump into anything. I thought you were... sorry."
Shi Nian laughed: "You thought I was blind, right?"
"Please don’t take offense." She tilted her head: "It’s because I once lived in darkness for a period of ti. Though my eyes were there, it was as if they weren’t, so I adapted to walking without relying on sight. Even when I returned to the world of light, I didn’t run into things while walking with my eyes closed."
"Oh, that’s quite a skill." Sean was genuinely surprised: "Why would you live in darkness with perfectly fine eyes? Was it a special survival training, or sothing else?"
Shi Nian didn’t want to elaborate, only smiled: "No, it wasn’t."
Seeing Shi Nian avoiding the topic, Sean awkwardly fell silent for a mont. A scene floated into his mind, compelling him to speak: "Miss, your skill reminds of an officer. That officer would wear sunglasses in a dimly lit room. He didn’t look at the corpses and cri scenes with his eyes, but felt them with his hands. At that ti, I also nearly thought that officer was blind and wondered when the police departnt had beco so strapped for funds to even hire a blind officer."
Shi Nian couldn’t help but raise an eyebrow: "Which officer might that be?"
The campus officer thought for a mont: "It seems to be soone with the surna Tang..."
Shi Nian tilted her head, her gaze passing through the slender, deep windows of the corridor, looking at the tall figure standing by the walkway outside.
In the ancient campus, the green trees were like umbrellas. He stood leisurely under the trees, squinting at the passing students, occasionally nodding with a smile or greeting them. She was sure he didn’t actually know them; he was just making his presence felt in this way. Perhaps next ti, when he returns, he’d be mistaken for one of the familiar faces on campus, presud to be a student at the university.
She was even more confident that the people he greeted weren’t just ordinary students but were carefully selected by him. For example, those walking out of this student dormitory or intending to walk into it—in other words, he was imprinting his presence into the mories of students residing in the sa dormitory as Zhou Guanghan.
Clearly, it was for facilitating future investigations... how cunning.
Shi Nian couldn’t help but smile slightly: "Really, that’s quite interesting."
After a few words exchanged, the campus officer Sean did not relax his professional vigilance. The campus police system in M Country differed from the security hired within campuses in China. The campus police there were a branch of the police force, and all campus officers had undergone professional training to beco fully qualified police officers.
Sean scrutinized Shi Nian and asked: "You look unfamiliar. You’re not a student from this dormitory, are you here to find soone?"
Shi Nian nodded, offering a timid smile: "I’m here to find an international student from China. His na is Zhou Guanghan."
Sean’s smile montarily froze.
Shi Nian still pretended not to know, lowered her head shyly: "Could you tell which room he lives in? I wonder if he has classes now. I ca so suddenly, I didn’t even call him. But it was ant to be a surprise."
Sean felt sowhat awkward, then straightened up to scratch the back of his neck: "Uh, I’m really sorry... you’ve co at an unfortunate ti. Zhou Guanghan has already, he’s no longer with us."
Shi Nian thought of Nisha, and recalled the mont when she suddenly heard Tang Yanqing say, "She is no longer in this world"...
Shi Nian’s body trembled heavily, her face drained of color, turning ghostly pale.
She lifted her sorrowful eyes, her lips trembling: "What did you say? You must be joking with , right?"
Seeing her reaction, Sean couldn’t bear it either: "...It’s the truth. Coincidentally, the officer and the case I ntioned earlier were exactly about Zhou Guanghan. Even his remains have been taken away by the police."
Shi Nian cried silently, tears rolling down her cheeks. It seed she might faint at any mont as she held onto Sean for support.
"How could this be? Last week during our video call, he was still beaming, telling about all the wonderful things here. He even told to hurry and co. But after I managed everything and ca joyfully to him, he was already..."
Sean sighed softly, truly feeling sorry: "Miss, I’m really sorry."
Shi Nian raised her small face, her pallor and tear-streaked visage presented to Sean: "I beg of you, at least let see his room. Let see where he once lived, let once again search for a trace of him."
Sean was very troubled: "You know, it’s a cri scene, and therefore restricted by the police."
Shi Nian tightly gripped Sean’s arms with both hands: "I know, a kind gentleman like you surely has a way to help ..."
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Zhou Guanghan’s room faced west. Entering at this ti, the room was shrouded in darkness.
The room, perhaps not frequently ventilated, had a stronger scent of decaying wood than the corridor, and Shi Nian endured it, resisting the urge to cover her mouth and nose.
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[To be continued~]
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