Incineration

Incineration

"Attention passengers bound for London, your flight CA7731 will depart soon. Passengers who have not yet boarded please proceed to Gate 6 to check in and board the plane. Thank you."

The man dragged his luggage and hurriedly took out his ID card from his pocket. "Hello, check-in!"

It was much later than the estimated time in the morning. Seeing that the plane was about to take off, the man was extremely anxious and could not help but urge, "Please hurry up, my flight is about to take off!"

"I'm sorry, sir. Your flight has exceeded the check-in time." The check-in agent returned his ID to him. "Perhaps you need to change your flight?"

The man glanced up at the screen and realized he would miss this train. "Please change me to the fastest flight, anywhere!"

"OK."

He had just received news that the police had come looking for them, the graduate students, and if they didn't want to face the police, they had to leave quickly.

Half a minute later, Chu Tong took the processed ticket and walked towards the check-in counter. When he sat down in the waiting hall, he was still worried.

A few minutes later, he watched the plane take off. Suddenly, there were fewer people in the hall, and of course, there were also some "uninvited guests".

Before he could react, a police ID card appeared in front of him, and then he heard a voice.

"Mr. Chu, we need you to return to the police station to cooperate with the investigation into the death of your teacher, Yin Shilu."

The sweat on Chu Tong's forehead slid into his collar, his Adam's apple rolling up and down, and he tried to find words to protest. "Mr. Policeman, I really don't know anything about Teacher Yin. This business trip was also arranged by Teacher Yin. Can you please be flexible and wait for me for a few days? I will definitely go to the Municipal Bureau myself when I return from my business trip!"

"Make concessions?" Cheng Xiaoxiang sneered. "What do you think the police station is? You're making concessions." He ordered the accompanying police officer, "Take him away!"

Cheng Xiaoxiang was on his way back to the police station when he received a call from Chen An. Chen An hadn't found Chu Tong at school. Yu Fan said he'd seen him that morning, but he was gone. Wu Yuxiang scoffed and guessed that Chu Tong must have escaped.

Compared to Yu Fan, the remaining three students were more or less hostile towards Chu Tong. When Chen An further inquired, they immediately remained silent and denied their attitude towards Chu Tong.

Municipal Bureau

Chu Tong got out of the police car, looking dejected. He was taken to the interrogation room. A moment later, Cheng Xiaoxiang came in with a notebook and asked, "Why did you run away?"

Chu Tong quickly denied it, "I didn't! I already said I left because I had something to do!"

"Chu Tong, lying in front of the police is not an option." Cheng Xiaoxiang showed him the ticket purchase record. "You bought your ticket at noon today, flying to London, but you missed the check-in, so you changed to the next flight to Canada. How can you change your work location in just a few minutes?"

After his lie was exposed, Chu Tong lowered his head and said nothing.

"Yu Fan and the others said that you were Yin Shilu's favorite student and that he valued you the most. Yet, you escaped while your teacher's body was still warm. I wonder if he would think you were so heartless if he knew about this."

When he said this, Chu Tong did not show any emotional fluctuations. He was very calm and remained silent.

This is the wrong direction, Cheng Xiaoxiang thought.

Before intercepting Chu Tong, Bai Shuo found out that he had called his fellow disciple Wang Ruofei before leaving.

"Chu Tong, you called Wang Ruofei before you left. What did you talk about?"

Chu Tong slumped in the chair, closed his eyes, and decided not to say anything.

Cheng Xiaoxiang was furious and tapped the table, saying, "He's already on his way back home. Even if you don't tell anyone, can you guarantee that Wang Ruofei will keep his mouth shut as well?"

There was still no response from Chu Tong on the monitor, and Chen An's voice came from the headset.

"Show him Xu Lanxin's photo."

Cheng Xiaoxiang followed his instructions and placed Xu Lanxin's photo in front of him. "Open your eyes and take a look."

The moment he saw the woman's face clearly, Chu Tong's calm emotions fluctuated. He knew her, and he was very familiar with her. There was even anger in his eyes.

Isn't she Chu Tong's senior sister? Why does she have that expression? Is there something they're having problems with?

He put down the photo and leaned on the table behind him, "Chu Tong, you should be familiar with this person."

The other party sneered, trying hard to restrain the urge to tear up the photo and said, "Yes, her name is Xu Lanxin, she is considered..." Chu Tong had difficulty in choosing the words, but finally had to say, "She is considered our senior sister."

After he finished speaking, he didn't look at the photo again.

Excessive silence can easily breed fear. Cheng Xiaoxiang did not ask him any more questions, but looked at him with a half-smile.

He couldn't hold on for long, so he made amends, "She's actually Yin Shilu's favorite student. Teacher Yin takes her with him wherever he goes, and all the benefits go to her first. But I don't know her well!"

This time, Cheng Xiaoxiang finally spoke up. "How could that be? She's your senior. And I see there are only two students in your class, so you should have had a lot of contact with Xu Lanxin."

"Who said this class..." Chu Tong immediately shut up mid-sentence and changed the subject, "Yes, our class is indeed small, but the teacher didn't assign us many tasks, so we had relatively little contact with her."

He reacted quickly, but as a policeman, there was no way he could let go of his exposed flaws.

Cheng Xiaoxiang said, "You mean there are more than just you and Wang Ruofei in your class? What about the other students?"

"No!" Chu Tong suddenly became anxious. "I was wrong. That year, Teacher Yin only accepted Wang Ruofei and me. If you don't believe me, you can check. The Academic Affairs Office has the files!"

"Really?" Cheng Xiaoxiang walked around him, speaking slowly and deliberately as if to arouse his panic. "Chu Tong, the Municipal Bureau has a Technical Investigation Department. Even if the academic affairs system has erased something, we have professionals who can restore it. If the police find out that there were more than just the two of you in that class, you'll be in trouble."

Chu Tong clenched his fists, unwilling to look up, "Then go check it out! Anyway, if I say there's nothing, then there's nothing!"

Cheng Xiaoxiang stopped talking to him and slammed the door and left.

Lu Yuyao said, "According to our understanding, Yin Shilu's students include third-year graduate students Chu Tong and Wang Ruofei, four second-year students, and six newly enrolled first-year students. The four second-year students were conducting experiments out of town before and after the incident. They will all return to campus over the next two days. Currently, only the third-year and first-year students remain on campus."

Cheng Xiaoxiang added, "Chu Tong really disliked Xu Lanxin. We previously speculated that Xu Lanxin's death might be related to the graduate student she introduced. Can this also be applied to Yin Shilu?"

"In other words, if Yin Shilu is really not a good person as she revealed, then the freshmen who come in after her consultation will collapse after discovering the true face of their mentor. And when the exploitation reaches the extreme, will they kill Xu Lanxin and Yin Shilu?" Bai Shuo continued naturally.

"That means we still know too little." Chen An pulled himself out of his thoughts. "Xu Lanxin and Yin Shilu must have some other unknown deal between them. Otherwise, Xu Lanxin's revelations alone wouldn't have motivated them to kill."

Bai Shuo asked back, "Why? Students won't be able to bear being exploited for too long. Besides, Yin Shilu has female students on his hands. Maybe it was a female student who did it?"

Chen An smiled, looked at him and asked, "Do you know which group has the highest endurance in contemporary society?"

Several people looked at each other and shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know.

Chen An said: "He is an ordinary student."

"Let's not even talk about how much ordinary people have to work hard to get into graduate school. Just look at our current education system. Years of study and discipline have cultivated a group of people with extremely high endurance: powerless students."

"So if there's really no other way out, no one would risk their future by doing something stupid like this."

After he mentioned this, Lu Yuyao remembered the gossip he had heard on the forum before, so he argued, "But I think there will always be people who speak out for the truth. For example, the academic fraud incident that broke out at Qu'an University last year was jointly initiated by his students, so I think it's still possible."

The incident she was talking about was the "Joint Report by Eleven Graduate Students" incident that Li Ziyang had sent to Jiang Li to read. Chen An certainly knew about it.

"Exposing the truth isn't stupid; killing is," Chen An said. "If their goal was to expose Yin Shilu, there was no need to kill him. They could have followed Huang Fuhong's example and reported him, which would have cost them their careers. But killing someone is the worst option, because killing them would ruin them as well. They wouldn't do it unless it was absolutely necessary."

"Boss, I've found out that those students who jointly reported the incident didn't end up well either." During their conversation, Bai Shuo had already thoroughly investigated the Huang Fuhong incident. "Although Qu'an University promised to assign new advisors to its graduate students, most of them voluntarily dropped out after six months. Almost none of the students found new advisors. Furthermore, Qu'an University hasn't even issued their graduate school diplomas."

Lu Yuyao was shocked. "That's impossible! Let me see! I've been following this matter, how come I don't know about it?"

Bai Shuo also found it incredible. "The statement issued by Qu'an University's official media outlet was indeed very appropriate, but the reality is that I couldn't find any information in their files about these people continuing their studies. Instead, I only saw announcements of their withdrawal."

"How could this happen?" Lu Yuyao frowned and murmured, "When did students become a group that can be bullied by everyone?"

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