Because they couldn’t find any direct poison, and the hospital didn’t provide a clear poisoning report, the police were very limited in what they could do. They couldn’t possibly summon all the suspects to the station for questioning, and even investigating their social connections was primarily cursory visits.
However, thanks to these quick and timely actions, they were able to "confirm" the rumor that Zhou Yunyun was poisoned, quashing the "mentally unstable class monitor incident" version that was brewing and about to spread.
After all, if it was really a mental breakdown, there wouldn’t be this many police officers involved.
Tan Yunlong was assigning the next phase of investigation tasks and directions, while Li Zhiyuan and Lin Shuyou left the dormitory building first and got into the police car they arrived in.
Lin Shuyou felt a bit excited and jittery, "Brother Xiao Yuan, what do we do next?"
"There’s a very simple way."
"A simple method sounds great, let’s go with simple!"
"You go and kidnap those five girls, then torture them to extract a confession."
Li Zhiyuan turned his head, looking out the car window. The campus often had an aura of tranquility over the years, and every university had its own style.
Lin Shuyou hesitated and pondered for a long time before asking, "Brother Xiao Yuan, should we take them to the basement of our school’s affordable store?"
"I think it seems more suitable to imprison people there. The most dangerous place is often the safest."
"Are you really planning to do that?"
"If we can confirm that the curse caster is among those five, Brother Xiao Yuan, I think your method is feasible."
"Then why don’t you just kill all five of them, since the killer is among them."
Lin Shuyou strained to convince himself, fingers tightly clenched, his expression twisting. Finally, deflated, he said,
"Brother Xiao Yuan, I don’t think I can do it."
He had actually considered the feasibility of doing this.
Li Zhiyuan, "No rush, the curse caster is stupid. Bait them a little, and they’ll catch themselves. I deliberately brought up the laundry soap in front of them, that’s setting the hook."
Fish would flee when startled, but fools would leap right onto the surface.
With the suspect pool narrowed down this much, identifying the curse caster wasn’t a difficult task anymore.
Now, the more important consideration was that if the other party had access to such an advanced cursed object, it was unlikely they just picked it up by chance on the roadside as an ordinary person.
In his hometown cemetery in Shigang, he still had a Copper Coin buried there, and he hadn’t retrieved it.
Such an advanced cursed object, if she knew how to use it, dared to use it, and knew how to retrieve it, showed that she had a deep understanding of it.
The whole notion of using a cannon to kill a mosquito may have seemed absurd, but the premise was, she had a cannon and knew how to fire it.
she was a fool, but a fool with backing.
Li Zhiyuan interlaced his fingers, gently drumming them.
Catching her was just the first step.
The second step was to reel in the network behind her.
As for the third step, that was... hehe.
A common line in the gangster movies Run Sheng enjoyed watching was, ’Trouble doesn’t reach the family.’
But the problem was, you already started with our side’s family.
Lin Shuyou noticed a profound indifference in the boy’s eyes.
He mistakenly thought Brother Xiao Yuan was dissatisfied with his previous refusal, and had to force himself to say,
"Brother Xiao Yuan, could there be more than one killer?"
"I mean, among the five people, is it possible that there’s two, three, four, or even all of them are the killers?"
If all were the killers, then he wouldn’t have any moral burden and would go open the altar for divination tonight, only killing without saving!
"No, there’s only one killer."
"Zhou Yunyun was well-liked. Even if she’s not a killer, her daily interactions with Zhou Yunyun should have been good among sisters.
In a dorm, if multiple people were dissatisfied with you, colluded in harming you, conspired, and sheltered you, to what extent would they have to be to arouse such hatred?
Besides, this is about cursing, using a cursed object, ordinary people wouldn’t have the qualification or ability to participate even if they wanted to."
"Right now, I only hope for one thing." Li Zhiyuan looked down at his neat fingernails.
"Did you bring any money?"
"I did!" Having experienced the embarrassment of not having money to take a taxi home last time, Lin Shuyou now made sure to carry his wallet with him every time he went out.
"There’s a store over there, go buy some paper and paint."
"Okay, I’ll go buy it."
Lin Shuyou got out of the police car, watched him leave, and Li Zhiyuan’s gaze slowly darkened.
He hoped that the connection behind the killer wouldn’t be as understanding and timely as Lin Shuyou’s family had been last time, not hastily coming forward with a ’standing up for justice’ act.
So this time, he wouldn’t reveal the identities of the Qin and Liu families just yet.
For now, he was: sitting at Nantong Haohe Pier, Corpse Recovery Li.
The sky gradually darkened.
Inside the dormitory.
The police had already left. The five girls either sat by their beds or on chairs, and the atmosphere was very tense.
In their eyes, suspicion and caution had already appeared.
Tong Yan Yan spoke, "So, Yunyun was poisoned?"
Suddenly, Wang Lunan started crying, speaking through her tears, "Why did this happen, why? Who is trying to harm Yunyun, who?"
She was the youngest in the dormitory, and looked the most delicate. In the past, whenever she cried, the sisters in the dorm would come to comfort her.