Meng Qin's disheveled hair covered most of her face. Her blood-red eyes stared fixedly at Kang Zhi and Xiao Rui. The corner of her mouth curled into a terrifying smile.
Many officers present saw a female ghost dressed in white. Her white dress was stained with bright blood, like a blooming rose in the snow. It was suffocatingly terrifying.
"Hey, snap out of it!" Just as Xiao Rui pondered how to deal with a ghost, the ghost took on Mo Li's face who then shook him. Xiao Rui wanted to fight back but then the shaking seemed to have cleared up his mind.. The ghost faded away and Xiao Rui saw Meng Qin lying on the ground. Mo Li kicked her down earlier.
"What was that?"
Mo Li pointed at the burning incense. "Those are not normal incense. They are made from mandala flowers which can cause hallucinations. The things that you saw were caused by it. Meng Qin has been trapped here for a long time, her mind is probably lost."
Mo Li turned to the woman and felt pity for her. She was trapped inside a hallucination of her own making. However, even in this trance-like state, she was still capable of murder, that was truly impressive.
Xiao Rui looked at the marks on his arm and the scalpel on the ground. No wonder the pain was so intense. He had been cut by a scalpel. However, a normal person like Meng Qin wouldn't be able to get her hands on them so easily.
"Don't come any closer! Stay away!" Kang Zhi was still struggling on the ground. Xiao Rui frowned. Clearly his subordinate was still stuck in the hallucination.
Compared to Mo Li, Xiao Rui used a more ruthless method to wake up Kang Zhi. After Kang Zhi woke up, he thanked Xiao Rui with a swollen face, "Thank you, boss."
"Meng Qin, you're suspected of killing 3 female students at 22 High School. You're under arrest." When Meng Qin was handcuffed, she was very emotional but no one knew what she was trying to express, as she only kept repeating, "The ritual is almost to completion, one last person, don't destroy the ritual..."
Mo Li opened a small box that she noticed Meng Qin had been praying to. It contained a photograph inside. It was the same photograph of Mo Li and Xiao Rui they had seen in the email. But this time, the picture was black and white... like they were dead and Meng Qin was praying for their blessing from the afterlife.
"Something's wrong with this picture." Mo Li took out the photograph, it was much larger than the box. "We were not the original item inside the small box. Someone must have been here before us to swap them out."
Xiao Rui brought Meng Qin to the station and handed her to the interrogators. From Headmaster Shen, they learned that Wei Lan returned to 22 High School that day for the brain-enhancing drugs. Since the day she came coincided with the delivery of the latest batch, the pills she took hadn't been tempered with. This explained why Zhang Ling and Tian Miao had paper notes in their stomachs but Wei Lan had burnt paper beside her body.
Mo Li thought of something and had someone take a blood sample of Meng Qin and Lin Jing. Mo Li sat at the door waiting for the lab result. Suddenly she received a message on her phone. It was a picture message of Xiao Yue and Quan Yu talking about something together. Why are they together?
Mo Li frowned when she recalled Xiao Yue talking to Qiao Qing at the family party yesterday night. It looks like someone is about to make her move.
Mo Li was surprised because the person who came to deliver the lab result was not a lab person but Xiao Rui. "The results are out, there is 99 percent match to their DNA. Meng Qin and Lin Jing are biological mother and daughter."
The lab was still under the control of the police. Mo Li sighed because this meant that no matter what she did in the future, Xiao Rui would know everything.
"I guess then Headmaster Shen and Meng Qin must have worked together to heal Lin Jing. They probably thought this ritual can help Lin Jing regrow her missing limbs."
Xiao Rui found the whole incident foolish. Why would someone believe such a thing? One of them was even a headmaster, a highly-educated individual!
"They were probably desperate and were willing to try anything." Mo Li said plainly. If she was in the same spot as Lin Jing, Jiang Yao might do something similar.
"They ran out of options and so they had to try everything." Mo Li added, "But what about Flower Appraisal? How did they fit into this and how did the two women gain contact with them?"
Xiao Rui shook his head. He wanted to know that too but Meng Qin was mentally unhinged and Headmaster Shen refused all involvement with the organization.