Chapter 125 - 114: Found! Locking onto the Second Killer and the Victim

During the investigation into Shen Miao, the police discovered a person of interest.

Her name was Sun Yang. She had burn scars on her face, was paralyzed from the waist down, and was in a wheelchair.

She was quite beautiful, but the severe scars marred her delicate features.

Her name was Sun Yang!

"It’s her?" Li Jianye narrowed his eyes.

At present, she was the only one who fit the profile.

However...

"The three of us all performed a psychological evaluation on her, and we didn’t find any issues."

Qian Hua’s brow furrowed.

"Advisor Xu even conducted a one-on-one interrogation and directly asked if she knew Shen Miao."

"But the answers we got still revealed no problems..."

Indeed, that one visit—aside from verifying Shen Miao’s cause of death and helping them learn more about Sun Yang—had yielded nothing useful.

Everything Sun Yang said was true!

"All the evidence points to her..."

Xu Huo murmured to himself. After a moment of thought, his gaze hardened.

"We’ll interview her again!"

People who could deceive the police existed, but not many.

People who could deceive Xu Huo also existed, but they were even rarer!

She didn’t seem to be that kind of person, but an extremely small probability couldn’t be ruled out.

"Now?"

Li Jianye paused and glanced out the window at the inky blackness of the night.

"Now!"

Xu Huo nodded.

But he paused slightly, turning his head to look at Li Jianye.

"Contact the Hanhai provincial department. Have them send over a polygraph tonight."

"At the same time, contact our officers stationed with Sun Yang. Tell her to stay up a little later and wait for our questions."

Li Jianye nodded.

A polygraph. The device wasn’t actually high-tech.

It could be seen as something that just checked physiological responses.

For example, when people lie, they get nervous. Their bodies secrete adrenaline. If a certain point is touched upon, their heart rate and breathing will accelerate, as will their blood flow.

The polygraph could issue alerts based on these phenomena.

If the subject could hide the tells in her eyes and also evade the machine...

Then Xu Huo would have to admit defeat!

It would take time to requisition the polygraph. They didn’t just stand around waiting. He turned his head, thought for a moment, and looked at Qian Hua.

"Captain Qian, take your men to the private school and conduct a secondary investigation into the second murderer!"

"Investigate him?"

Qian Hua frowned. "We have no clues, no breakthroughs."

"We haven’t found any evidence of bullying, and even our interviews didn’t turn up any issues!"

Bullying was the easiest thing to investigate, and also the hardest.

It was easy because if it happened, a few interviews would usually shake everything loose.

It was hard because it usually wasn’t exposed. Even if it was, the school would quickly suppress it and handle it internally.

But at the private school... they couldn’t find a single trace!

"What has been the focus of your investigation!?"

Xu Huo looked at him, his eyes flickering slightly. "If I’m not mistaken, you’ve been focusing on the students, classmates, teachers, and the Dean of Students, correct?"

Qian Hua nodded.

"That’s right."

Those were the standard people to interview in a bullying investigation. At most, you might add neighbors, but since the suspect’s identity was unknown, that wasn’t an option.

However...

"Do you know why the Dean of Students died?"

Suddenly, Xu Huo shot back a question.

"The Dean of Students..." Qian Hua paused, then nodded.

"Two schools, two Deans of Students. One of them knew nothing, and the other had his throat slit."

Xu Huo began to explain slowly.

"The second murderer—the one whose motive originated from the conflict at the private school—didn’t kill that school’s Dean of Students."

"Why do you think that is?"

Because...

"He didn’t hate him?"

Li Jianye paused, his brow furrowed as he replied.

He was reminded of the victims who had graduated from the public school. The second murderer didn’t hate them either, and he had killed them. Aside from the heads, the method of killing was identical.

"Exactly. He doesn’t hate him."

"And from what our investigation shows, the murderer had no reason to hate him," Xu Huo nodded.

The Dean of Students at the private school was completely innocent; he had no idea what had happened.

"Any major incident involving students or teachers at the school could never have been hidden from him."

"Conversely, the fact that he didn’t know means no major incidents occurred among the students!"

"But... are students the only people at a school?"

Xu Huo’s sudden question left Qian Hua stunned.

The next second, it felt as if Qian Hua’s mind exploded, a new line of thinking opening up with unprecedented clarity.

"A school isn’t just teachers and students."

"There are three directors at the same level as the Dean of Students. Besides him and another director also in charge of education, there’s also an administrative director."

"The people in that department have nothing to do with the students, but they are still people. They have feelings and emotions, and if something happened..."

Xu Huo looked down at the police car that had just rushed over from the provincial department, then clapped Qian Hua on the shoulder.

"They can kill, too!"

With that said, he offered no further instructions and turned to leave.

"Captain Li, take eight men and come with me!"

"Bring the polygraph! We’re heading to Sun Yang’s location for a second interrogation!"

As his voice faded, his figure vanished from sight.

Li Jianye pulled a few officers from the small remaining force and disappeared as well.

Qian Hua stood there, processing what he had just heard.

’A school isn’t just students and teachers...’

’There’s other staff, and if something happened to them...’

’They can kill, too.’

And if something happened to those people, no one would pay much attention. Would the Administrative Director even know?

He might not. After all, his subordinates wield more power than teachers of a similar rank and could fire someone in a heartbeat. There’s no way word of it would reach the director’s ears!

But, in any case...

The Dean of Students would never know.