I looked at the sharp glass piece beside my leg, and I had the urge to plunge the glass piece into the killer's neck. I could see the killer's blood squirt out to dye my eyes red. My heart raced. I only had two things in my eyes, the murder weapon and a dead person. At that mont, the world lost aning to . Everything was moving towards destruction. If I didn't move too slow and discovered the killer too late, the nine people wouldn't have died. I killed those nine people. Yes, since I had killed those nine people, what mattered with one more?
Without realizing it, I picked up the shard and slowly walked towards the killer. He was still facing away from , waiting for Xiao Liu's people to co in. I was getting closer until I could see the veins on the killer's neck.
Even though I was not a professional coroner, I had followed Guan Zhenglin for a year already, and I had a rudintary understanding of human anatomy. The shard I held was sharp. With a puncture, it would pierce through the killer's skin and then his fascia superficialis. These two layers protected us from infection. But these two layers were enough to stop the shard from cutting into his neck.
Then would co the deep fascia, esophagus, air pipe, and blood capillary. The shard would slice through the killer's airpipe, so he couldn't even speak. But he would feel all the air bursting out from the wound. At the sa ti, he would feel warmth around his neck. Blood from vena cava would follow out, and it would be purplish-red in color. Then he would be squirting blood from his artery. It would be fresh red in color. He would die from blood loss in less than half a minute.
The last layer would be the muscle and bone. With my strength, I would only be able to cut halfway through his neck and not entirely sever his neck. However, that would be enough. As long as I was fast enough, he wouldn't even have the ti to speak. He would convulse on the ground, and one minute later, he would be unconscious. Even though I didn't know where I was, from the ti I was unconscious, I calculated that it would take the ambulance at least half an hour to reach the hospital. He only needed five minutes to die. No matter the secret that he knew about , it would die with him.
As long as I could do that before Xiao Liu arrived, Xiao Liu would believe over the killer. My jaw set, and my hand raised.
"Wu ng!" A ray shot into my eyes and blinded . My hand shrunk and the shard sliced through the air. I didn't feel any resistance. I let go. The shard fell to the ground with a tingle.
The killer had no idea what had happened, but he did turn around when he heard the sound. Before he could say anything, Xiao Liu's people had stord into the room. The officers pressed the killer to the ground. The killer shouted, "I surrender!"
Xiao Liu holstered his gun and shone his flashlights at my eyes. I couldn't see anything and tried to move his flashlight away. Xiao Liu looked at and then at the officer behind him. I noticed that he wanted to say sothing.
I closed my eyes and massaged my temples. I asked, "How did you find this place?" I had no idea if Xiao Liu had seen with the shard, but I was halted by the ray shot right into my eyes. So it had to be one of the officers who saw , but I couldn't tell if it was Xiao Liu or not. I opened my eyes and studied the eight officers in the underground. Xiao Liu stood beside , looking at . Three officers pressed the killer to the ground and confiscated his weapon. The other four officers searched through the underground space. I had no idea who had hit with the flashlight among the eight officers. They were busy with their own thing. I couldn't see anything from their expression. It was as peaceful as a pond, but the current underneath was raging.
After ensuring I didn't have any wounds, Xiao Liu removed his jacket and covered it on . "Captain Lee has installed the tracers on the bowl. We followed the signal to nearby but then the signal disappeared." Xiao Liu looked around. "There are only two possibilities. 1, the killer has ruined the tracer; 2, the killer has gone sowhere the signal can't be received anymore. I don't think it could be the first because one has to break the bowls to get the tracer. The killer has gone through so much to have us reconstruct the bowls so he wouldn't break it." Then Xiao Liu told the other officers. "Bring the killer out and guard at the cave. The killer has his teammates, so I will send people over to assist you later." The other officers nodded and led the killer out.
I looked at Xiao Liu. Even until now, Xiao Liu still believed the killer worked in a team, but the truth was the killer was singular. The other killers were the different personas of the sa killer. They had different ages and genders, so their dressing and mannerism would be different. However, Xiao Liu would understand that when the killer talked. I didn't have the mood to explain it to him. As Xiao Liu led out, he said, "Therefore it has to be possibility 2. Based on the ti you took, I arranged for the nearby officers to look around this place. The killer wouldn't have gotten far." If I were Xiao Liu, I probably wouldn't reach this place earlier than he was. I added, "Because of the thing I told you about the sewer, so you believe the killer has brought underground."
Xiao Liu nodded. "That's right. And we finally caught the killer. In Wu Xiufang and Wu Xiufen's husband's ho, I found much evidence for the case back then. They are now all in the car. You can look at them later. By the way, your clothes and phone are also in the car. Great job."
I asked, "Have you contacted Gu Chen? Did they find Guan Zhenglin?"
Xiao Liu frowned. "I should ask you that. You were the one who told that Guan Zhenglin is safe." Hearing that, I froze. Xiao Liu didn't look like he was joking with . Plus, he wouldn't joke with sothing like that. However, I had not said anything like that, so how did he get that idea?
Seeing my confused expression, Xiao Liu took out his phone and showed his ssages. I saw a person nad Xiao Wu ssage him, Guan Zhenglin is safe. Follow the tracer's signal to save .'
I grabbed Xiao Liu's phone and read the ssage again. I didn't rember writing this ssage, but the ssage did co from my phone. Soone had taken the stuff that I had left in the yard?
The more I thought about it, the likelier it sounded in my head. It had taken less than 10 minutes of cycling before the killer stopped at the bridge. Technically I could walk that distance. So could the killer have designed this for to strip?
When the killer knew about the tracers on the bowls, he didn't get angry. This ant that he didn't care about the tracers. So there was no need for him to make strip.
With that in mind, I asked, "When you found my clothes and phone, how did you find them?"
Xiao Liu pinched his chin and said, "Your clothes were placed at the corner of the yard. The pants were at the bottom, then underwear, undershirt, shirt, and jacket. They were neatly folded. The phone was inside your jacket. Is there a problem?" Xiao Liu looked at .
I was frozen and then said, "You know . You know I had never folded my shirts so neatly before. Plus, do you think I would have the ti to fold the clothes in that situation?"
Xiao Liu's eyes widened. "I really haven't considered that. I only charged into the room earlier because you said Guan Zhenglin was safe. I wouldn't dare otherwise! But if it was not you, then who sent the ssage?" Xiao Liu looked at , waiting for to answer.
My mind was a ss, I didn't know what had happened. Suddenly I was reminded of Wu Zui, whom I saw when I was unconscious. Until now, I couldn't tell if that was my imagination or he was real.
"We need to head up to the surface," I told Xiao Liu. "There might be a bigger force behind this case. This case is not that simple."
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