Chapter 737: Truth Unveiled

Rubber gloves, wigs, women’s clothing, forged documents—he tossed each item into the burning iron barrel. With everything done, he finally cracked open a beer. Half poured out on the ground in tribute to his sister, the other half he drank himself.

“Quick, check Weibo!” Someone messaged him.

He opened Weibo and froze. The internet was flooded with news about the headless man in Long’an. Rumors and truths intertwined, making the whole incident even more mysterious. Videos from the scene were all over Weibo. After watching them, he fell into a panicked silence.

Zhang Xiao, whom he had killed, was resurrected!?

With a clatter, his phone slipped from his trembling hands.

He sat down, biting his nails in thought. Finally, he made up his mind and picked up his phone to send a message in the group chat, “Hey, is that headless guy Xiao ge…?”

Thinking it over, he deleted it. He logged into another account and messaged a friend, “Xiao ge got killed!”

The friend was shocked, “How do you know?”

“The police questioned me this morning. Heard his body was taken away. Oh, by the way, he was beheaded.”

“Really?”

He then mentioned it in the group chat himself. Another person said, “The headless guy making waves on Weibo… the more I look, the more he resembles Xiao ge’s build!”

“Xiao ge was also beheaded. The timing matches.”

“Wow, this is explosive, isn’t it?”

“Could it be a persistent desire for a threesome that won’t let Xiao ge rest in peace.”

As everyone discussed it, he smirked and sent a message, “I suggest we meet up and pay our respects to Xiao ge.”

“Okay, I agree!”

“Where should we meet?”

“After I get off work!”

Everyone agreed. He smirked, feeling his conspiracy had succeeded…

Reporters swarmed the Public Security Bureau, making it impossible to move. Chen Shi just glanced out the window and was caught by sharp-eyed reporters who shouted, “Hey, isn’t that the cop from the video? Sir, can we interview you?”

Chen Shi quickly drew the curtains and sighed to the others, “What a mess!”

Director Lin Qiu had already been summoned by the bureau chief to discuss countermeasures. Before leaving, he ordered everyone not to reveal a word until a strategy was devised. The current situation was like a burning house visible for miles around, with the police’s meager efforts being utterly ineffective.

Actually, Chen Shi didn’t care about the headless man or anything like that. He believed that Peng Sijue could give a reasonable explanation through dissection. What really bothered him was the horde of reporters preventing them from investigating the case. At such a critical moment, the killer might make another move. Ugh, it was really frustrating.

“Hey, a cop is surrounded by reporters,” someone saw through the gap in the curtains.

Everyone gathered around. It turned out to be officers from another department going out on business. Reporters swarmed them, and the officer was embarrassed, claiming ignorance, but the reporters didn’t buy it and bombarded him with questions.

“Some conspiracy theories have already appeared online, saying a mysterious department is conducting human experiments, and the headless man is a sample that accidentally escaped,” Lin Dongxue said, looking at her phone.

“Conspiracy theories that never die, a manifestation of poor imagination always leans towards the most exaggerated direction,” Chen Shi commented.

“I guess even when the official explanation comes out, they won’t believe it,” Lin Dongxue added.

“I still can’t figure out how a person without a head could climb up,” said Xu Xiaodong. Every few minutes, someone raised this question again, and this time it was Xu Xiaodong’s turn to take the baton.

“Don’t talk about it anymore! What’s the point of discussing it? Wait for the autopsy results!” Lao Zhang was already impatient.

Chen Shi refocused on the case. Now wasn’t the time to join this national carnival. He thought of something. It was necessary to confirm the evidence.

When he got up to leave, Lin Dongxue stood up too and asked, “Where are you going?”

“I think there’s a clue I should check out.”

“Ha, me too!”

The two went to the information department and the evidence room respectively. Half an hour later, they met in the corridor. Lin Dongxue asked, “What did you find?”

“I think I know who the killer is.”

“Really!?”

“Zhang Xiao drew three stick figures on the ground. Although I don’t know what he meant, it reminded me of something mentioned in Xiao Wei’s chat records. He mentioned that the third phase of group sharing had its class deleted, with three people—Xiao Wei, Da Niu, and Xiao Si! I originally wanted to call other members and ask about the third phase of admission time, but I suddenly found that there was no one to ask, except for Zhang Xiao and the deleted record!

“The truth seems to be coming out, Da Niu’s death has an answer, the killer is Xiao Si, and the motive for killing Xiao Wei and Da Niu was to hide his time of joining the third phase, that is, Xiao Si is likely to join after Duan Lin is killed.

“I also thought of two details at the same time, first, Xiao Si was left-handed; second, Xiao Si had asked everyone to take a bath. He had a low income and was a newcomer. Why did he do this, only one reason, he wanted to observe everyone naked, i guess because , Was Before Had Too From Escape Along That One Pipeline Which He Carried Unhealed Bruises!”