Everyone stood up one after another and looked toward Jin Yuanxun.

“Who died?”

“A… a sister…” Jin Yuanxun said breathlessly. “She was killed!”

Upon hearing this, Qi Xia’s expression showed alarm. He knocked over tables and chairs and immediately ran out the door.

Officer Li also seemed to have thought of something and followed closely behind.

The remaining people from “Heaven’s Mouth” also followed in dribs and drabs.

Qi Xia came to the classroom where he and everyone lived with a panicked expression. The moment he pushed open the door, he smelled a pungent smell of rust. That odor mixed with the fresh putrid stench from the playground made one’s mind momentarily dazed.

Yu Nian’an lay in a pool of blood with a sharp knife standing upright in her heart.

“An!”

Just as Qi Xia was about to run forward, Officer Li grabbed him.

“What are you doing…?” Qi Xia asked.

“This time… we really need to ‘protect the crime scene.'” Officer Li slowly walked a few steps around the edge of the classroom, looked at the footprints on the ground, and said, “Don’t you want to find the murderer?”

After Officer Li’s reminder, Qi Xia finally calmed down slowly.

This time, Yu Nian’an’s death was different from Han Yimo’s situation before—it was clearly murder.

People gradually gathered at the door to watch. Qi Xia’s teammates also all ran over.

Lin Qin looked at Yu Nian’an lying in the pool of blood, then turned to look at Qi Xia, feeling something was strange.

Qi Xia… didn’t have a headache?

Officer Li walked forward with Doctor Zhao and checked Yu Nian’an’s pulse. She had no vital signs, but her body still had warmth—clearly she had died not long ago.

Officer Li squatted down to look at the ground. The footprints here were difficult to draw clues from, after all, ten people lived in the room.

But what was certain was that the blood was only near Yu Nian’an’s body—there were no bloody footprints.

This indicated the killer’s method was extremely swift, leaving the scene before the blood spread.

But there was also another possibility…

“The killer might have escaped through the window,” Su Shan suddenly said.

Officer Li nodded and looked up at this girl.

The two simultaneously went to the window to check. The school windows could only be locked from the inside, and all the windows were currently locked.

Officer Li and Su Shan simultaneously picked up Yu Nian’an’s left and right hands, looking at her nails and palms, then finally examined the fatal wound.

After a moment, both showed troubled expressions.

The two stood up, both seeming to have something to say.

Officer Li looked at Su Shan and asked, “Are you a police officer?”

Su Shan nodded. “Yes, are you as well?”

After hearing this, Officer Li extended his hand in salute. “Li Shangwu, Captain of the First Criminal Investigation Team, Balin Left Banner, Inner Mongolia.”

Su Shan also became serious and respectfully saluted. “Su Shan, Technical Officer of the Criminal Investigation Technical Section, Changsha, Hunan.”

The two nodded knowingly, which also made the others feel much more at ease.

But the next second, Officer Li said seriously, “On the surface, the possibility of the deceased’s suicide is greater.”

“What are you saying…?” Qi Xia’s expression froze.

“Officer Li is right.” Su Shan nodded. “The deceased shows absolutely no signs of struggle. The heart and lungs were injured from the front—it’s very difficult for a normal person not to struggle.”

Su Shan lowered her head again and looked at the sharp knife in Yu Nian’an’s chest.

“This is a fruit knife with only one sharpened edge. But the blade edge is facing upward…” Su Shan extended her hand to simulate the motion of holding the knife. “When a normal person holds a fruit knife, the blade should face downward. That way it’s convenient to stab into the other person’s body.”

Everyone found that the situation was indeed as Su Shan described.

“To stab the heart and lungs with the blade facing upward…”

Su Shan gripped with both hands, simulating the situation at that time.

She knelt on the ground, pretended to grip the knife, then turned both hands over and stabbed into her own heart.

“Only this way… would the blade face upward,” she said, turning back.

Officer Li nodded and continued to add, “There are no bloody footprints in the room, and there are no traces of the windows being opened, so what Su Shan said…”

“Nonsense,” Qi Xia said coldly.

“What?”

“I said you two are spouting nonsense.” Qi Xia completely didn’t believe what the two said. With a grim expression, he sat down beside Yu Nian’an. “Where is Jin Yuanxun? Call him over.”

A youth slowly walked out from the back of the crowd—it was Jin Yuanxun.

“Brother, I’m here…”

“Everyone was participating in the gathering. Why would you discover the body?” Qi Xia asked sternly.

“Brother Chu had me patrol…” Jin Yuanxun answered. “Although you were all at the gathering, I didn’t go.”

“Patrol…?” Qi Xia still had a face full of disbelief.

“Brother, are you suspecting me?” Jin Yuanxun’s tone also became serious. “How can you say that? Are you saying I killed someone?”

Officer Li and Su Shan naturally understood Qi Xia’s thinking. In most murder cases, the first person to discover the body has considerable suspicion of committing the crime.

“Yu Nian’an was only wearing a white dress,” Qi Xia said. “Jin Yuanxun, tell me, if it was suicide, where did this fruit knife come from?”

Hearing this, Lin Qin’s heart jumped. A sentence Qi Xia said when he attended the gathering somehow echoed in her mind—”I just went to deliver something to my wife.”

“Damn… how should I know?” Jin Yuanxun felt extremely upset. “I don’t even know who this person is, okay? Why would I kill her?”

At this moment, Chu Tianqiu also slowly walked over from the back of the crowd. He scanned the scene inside the room and immediately frowned.

“What’s going on?” Chu Tianqiu asked Jin Yuanxun.

“Brother, I don’t know. I discovered the body, but he suspects me,” Jin Yuanxun said anxiously.

Chu Tianqiu didn’t speak, but instead walked around the room in a circle.

He swept over the floor, the windows, and Yu Nian’an’s body, then said indifferently, “Looks like suicide…”

As soon as the words fell, he felt himself suddenly knocked down.

The one who knocked him down was neither Qi Xia nor Qiao Jiajin, but that pale-faced young man.

The next second, the pale-faced young man immediately stepped forward and grabbed Chu Tianqiu by the throat. In his hand he held a blood-stained dagger, obviously pulled from the body.

At this moment, Qi Xia stood beside this pale-faced young man. It seemed the two had premeditated this—Chu Tianqiu felt he had fallen into a trap.

“Where is Xu Liunian?” Qi Xia asked from the side.

“What?” Chu Tianqiu frowned. “Xu Liunian…?”

He instantly understood something.

“The killer is Xu Liunian. Call her over, or we’ll kill you,” Qi Xia said.

Whispers immediately spread through the crowd.

The killer was Xu Liunian?

Chu Tianqiu showed an uneasy expression and turned to shout toward the crowd, “Don’t—”

Before he could finish speaking, Xu Liunian hurriedly walked out and said, “Qi Xia, don’t kill him! I’m here! I couldn’t possibly be the murderer…”

Chu Tianqiu’s expression instantly darkened. He knew Xu Liunian was still too naive.

To play against someone like Qi Xia, how could she believe what he said?

After hearing this, Qi Xia revealed a slight smile. “Excellent.”

He nodded to Chen Junnan. Chen Junnan suddenly raised his hand and fiercely stabbed the dagger in his hand down toward Chu Tianqiu.

Qi Xia didn’t care at all where Xu Liunian was—he only wanted to confirm whether the person before him was Chu Tianqiu himself.

But what he never expected was that at this critical moment, Jin Yuanxun beside them suddenly reached out and grabbed Chen Junnan’s wrist.

“What are you doing?” Jin Yuanxun asked Qi Xia in a low voice.

“Can’t you tell?” Qi Xia said. “Revenge.”

“You don’t even know who killed her. What revenge are you taking?” Jin Yuanxun shouted.

Qi Xia looked up at the youth before him.

During the last “Earth-Tiger” game, when Xu Liunian was selecting team members, she had said “too bad Jin Yuanxun isn’t here,” and settled for Li Xiangling instead.

Thinking about it this way… could this youth’s combat power be even higher than Li Xiangling’s?

Chu Tianqiu, lying on the ground, thought for a moment and said, “Jin Yuanxun, disarm the knife.”

Jin Yuanxun nodded. His hands gripped Chen Junnan’s arm, and just as he was about to apply force to break his arm, he was suddenly embraced around the shoulders.

“Handsome, listen to me first…”