Incineration
The night is lonely and silent. The candy wrapper is thrown into the trash can. The strawberry flavor blooms completely in the taste buds. The gray windbreaker disappears in the darkness, and a light breeze is brought up when walking.
The alcohol lamp fell over and burned everything.
Jiang Li couldn't sleep, so he threw off the quilt and got out of bed, pushed open the bedroom door. Chen An hadn't come back yet. Bored, he simply turned on the TV. A soap opera was being rerun late at night, and coincidentally, it was depicting a firefighting scene.
Thick smoke enveloped the entire university town. A fire truck parked ten meters away sprayed out huge jets of water, extinguishing the fire in an orderly manner.
Cheng Xiaoxiang ran over from a distance and choked on a large puff of cigarette smoke. "Boss, there's no one in the lab. The fire department is still fighting the fire. It's estimated to take another fifteen minutes."
Overnight, the term #Quan University Fire# became a hot search, with students from all walks of life constantly forwarding it.
The students all thought that this was just a fire caused by the aging of the old laboratory circuits. Suddenly, an anonymous user jumped out of the group chat, left a sentence "Evildoers will be punished," and then disappeared.
This aroused the curiosity of netizens who added the user's contact information to inquire about the hidden truth.
This user only replied to a few netizens, and the input method behind the virtual network replied: "The hidden truth is..."
"Boss, a body was found in the lab!"
A severely burnt, shriveled corpse was carried out of the laboratory, and it was unrecognizable as a human.
In the early morning hours, a fire broke out in an old laboratory on the campus of Qu'an University. The blaze was so intense that the teacher on duty immediately called the fire department. Meanwhile, Bai Shuo retrieved surveillance footage from a 15-kilometer radius centered on Yuyin Lane and finally, the figure reappeared near Qu'an University. However, when they drove over, they saw only a sea of flames.
The news appeared in the morning paper as expected. Fu Chunzi stared at the TV expressionlessly. The TV showed the charred wreckage after the raging fire and circles of students surrounding the cordon. The sound of discussion mixed with the gentle voice of the host came into her ears.
"Bed 12, time to change the dressing." The nurse came in pushing a cart, and Fu Chunzi's gaze shifted from the TV to her.
She first checked her wound, then took out the empty medicine bottle and replaced it with new medicine.
"You're recovering well. You won't have to fight after today."
Fu Chunzi raised the corners of his lips slightly, revealing a faint smile, and nodded obediently.
Qu'an University, a well-known 985 university in China, could not afford to let such a big accident go unnoticed. The school contacted the police to investigate the fire. Due to a fleeting figure on the surveillance camera, the two cases were linked together and handed over to the serious crime team.
Eight hours later, Qin Huaisheng extracted DNA from the bones. After identification, the deceased was found to be Yin Shilu, a teacher at the School of Medicine of Qu'an University.
As soon as the news of Yin Shilu's death, the graduate students under his supervision, became restless, and a group of them gathered around the workstation of senior student Chu Tong. A younger junior student who had just joined the school this year asked worriedly, "Senior, what should we do now?"
Chu Tong counted and found that except for his fellow students, all the other junior and senior students were there. After going through so much trouble to get into graduate school, but now that their supervisor was gone, everyone was worried about their future. Let alone them, the one who should be most worried about this was him.
Junior sister Yu Fan's eyes were filled with longing for graduate school life. "Which teacher will we be assigned to?"
Chu Tong also had a headache and pinched his eyebrows. "This... I don't know either. Let's wait for the school to notify us. Anyway, the school will not ignore us. Don't worry, you guys go back first."
"oh oh."
After driving them away, Chu Tong immediately called another fellow student.
"Wang Ruofei, where are you?" Chu Tong asked anxiously, "Are you at school? Come to my office."
On the other side, Wang Ruofei had just finished being affectionate with his girlfriend and didn't understand what was wrong with Chu Tong. "What's wrong?"
"Didn't you watch the news?"
"What news?"
He has been traveling with his girlfriend these days and hasn't been online much.
Wang Ruofei turned over and said lazily, "What's the matter? Why are you so anxious? I'm not here. Just call me if you have anything to say."
Chu Tong tried to calm himself down and gave him a brief account of what had happened. After he finished, Wang Ruofei fell silent. Half a minute later, he asked suspiciously, "Who killed Yin Shilu?"
"You! Stop talking nonsense!" Chu Tong pulled the curtains and looked around. He was the only one in the office.
Wang Ruofei avoided his girlfriend and continued in a low voice, "You don't know who he is? How many people hate him and want to kill him? Think about it yourself, is this fire simple?"
"Of course I know, but the problem now is how to make sure this matter has nothing to do with us." Chu Tong said somewhat hopelessly, "I originally thought that we could just endure it for another year, and after we graduated, he would never come back. But before we could successfully graduate, he died. His death would definitely attract the police, and then what he did before would..."
"Are you worried that the previous incident will affect us?"
"nonsense!"
Wang Ruofei calmed down and thought, "No way, logically speaking, the previous incident has been exposed and the experiment has been stopped. What does it have to do with us?"
Chu Tong laughed bitterly, "We are the only two people who knew about the incident at that time. Do you think it has nothing to do with us? Even if it has nothing to do with us legally, this person has already eliminated Yin Shilu. Who's next?"
Wang Ruofei scratched his head and cursed, "What should I do?!"
"Let's go out and hide for now, and let the school handle it." Chu Tong said as he packed his things, "Let's keep in touch and keep each other informed."
"That's all we can do."
Municipal Bureau
"The deceased, Yin Shilu, was eighteen years old and currently serves as the vice president of the School of Medicine at Qu'an University. His wife was at home at the time of the incident, and his son went abroad to study five years ago and has not returned since. Yin Shilu's job at the school was to supervise interns. This year, he recruited four interns, but this incident occurred before he even started teaching. Now the new students are very worried."
The information Lu Yuyao said reminded Chen An of what Xu Lanxin had said, and a possibility suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Check where Xu Lanxin graduated from."
Lu Yuyao immediately understood, "It's Qu'an University! She is... a student of Yin Shilu!"
"So...the person on the phone was actually talking about Yin Shilu?" Bai Shuo felt creepy.
"It's very likely." Chen An closed the notebook. "Let's go to Qu'an University. Bai Shuo, you continue to track that figure."
The laboratory was in the innermost building of the university. Two days had passed and everyone's curiosity had gradually faded. The smell of burning was not pleasant, and the autumn wind blew up some ashes. Lu Yuyao coughed twice and took the mask handed to him by Cheng Xiaoxiang.
The entrance to the laboratory was burned clean, and its original appearance could not be seen. Walking inside, all the places where the fire had passed were turned into charcoal, and there were not many traces left.
There was a particularly large glass window here, only half burned by the flames, and some turbid milky white solids remained on the windowsill, which felt like candles to the touch.
"Hey, what is this?" Lu Yuyao struggled to identify something from a pile of burnt equipment, and an object with a strange shape caught her attention.
Cheng Xiaoxiang squatted down and examined it for a while. "It's just experimental equipment, nothing special."
Lu Yuyao put it down and said, "Okay, liberal arts students don't understand."
With something resembling a candle in hand, Chen An looked around and indeed found traces of the same candles in other corners of the house, precisely located at the four corners. Closing his eyes, the scene of the murderer placing the candles one by one and then knocking them over appeared before his eyes.
When the fire broke out, didn't Yin Shilu know to escape? He must have lost his ability to move, was unconscious, or dead.
There was very little left for them in this room. Apart from that strange-looking instrument and a little bit of solidified wax from a candle, there was nothing else.
Chen An left here first, and before leaving, he told them to take away all the suspicious things and take them back for testing.
He needed to understand Yin Shilu. He had looked him up, and he found him highly praised online. So who was Xu Lanxin's revelations about?
I knocked on the door of the graduate student office, and all the young eyes looked over at me. After asking, I found out that they were all freshmen admitted this year. Similar to what was said online, they all searched for a lot of information online and consulted their seniors before choosing this mentor.
Yu Fan shared his experience of choosing a mentor.
"I came across Dr. Yin's profile online and was very interested in his research. I also wanted to pursue anti-cancer research, so I chose him," Yu Fan said. "I even added a senior from the previous class on WeChat, and she introduced me to a lot of Dr. Yin's research, such as..."
"Wait." Chen An interrupted her, "What's the name of the senior student you're talking about?"
Yu Fan was confused and said bluntly, "Xu Lanxin, Senior Xu. But she graduated this summer."
So, the person Xu Lanxin exposed was Yin Shilu.
"What do you think of your mentor?" Chen An threw the topic to others. Except for Yu Fan, everyone else was silent, as if they knew something hidden.
"I...we haven't had many classes yet. The school has just started, so we're not all that familiar with each other."
The boy rolled his eyes and answered cautiously.
"Yes, we haven't officially started classes yet, and the doctor hasn't assigned us any assignments. Actually..." The girl hesitated, "Actually, he knows the doctor better than our senior brother Chu Tong."
"Chu Tong?"
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