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Chapter 36
Chapter 36
Inquiry
In the interrogation room.
“Name?”
“Lin Chang`an.”
“Gender?”
“...”
...
“Where were you on 20 May?”
“In a dungeon.”
“Why do you remember it so clearly?”
“Should I not?'”
“Why did you enter that dungeon? Moreover, it was before it had completely formed. You know how dangerous the place is.”
“My house is inside.”
“Just because of this?”
“Before the ground collapsed, my browser wasn’t closed.”
Both policemen revealed an understanding expression.
This reason was very valid.
“So did you close it after you went in?”
“I did. I deleted my browsing history completely.”
“Tsk tsk.” The young policeman clicked his tongue. “Give me a website.”
“www.4399.com.”
“Alright, good brother. A good person will have a peaceful life!”
“Alright! Let’s start the inquiry officially!” The young policeman straightened his face and turned on the video recording.
“Name?”
Lin Chang`an: “...”
...
The same questions asked earlier were repeated.
“Did you meet Rong Xingjun in the dungeon?”
“Who is Rong Xingjun?”
The young policeman opened up a holographic image, and Second Young Master Rong’s appearance appeared, looking fair and l*wd.
“I did.” Lin Chang`an was very honest.
He couldn’t lie about such things. It was the truth that he had seen him before.
“Where?”
“In the maze.”
“When you saw him, was he dead?”
“He wasn’t. He even called me to enter to have some dessert in a lewd manner.”
The middle-aged policeman slammed his palm on the table. “This is an interrogation!”
“You’re wrong, it’s an inquiry,” answered Lin Chang`an
The middle-aged policeman’s expression turned stiff. “What happened then?”
“Then, I noticed he seemed to have gone crazy, so I left.”
“That’s all?”
“Yup.”
“Then do you know that he’s dead?”
“I’m not kidding either.”
“Alright, answer the questions properly.”
“Go on.”
“He died.”
“I’m not kidding either.”
“Enough, please answer the questions properly.”
“Go on.”
“He died.”
“And? You guys can’t be suspecting that it’s me, right?” Lin Chang`an showed a look of disbelief, as if he was looking at a fool.
“Can’t we suspect you?”
Both policemen started to doubt themselves a little when Lin Chang`an looked at them like this.
It was true. Why did they look for a student?
“That young master was at the second realm. I’m not even at the first realm.”
The young policeman nodded unknowingly. He had found this ridiculous when he first received this piece of news. A kid who hadn’t reached the first realm killing a second-realm expert?
They must be dreaming.
The middle-aged man continued, “He didn’t die a normal death.”
“How did he die?”
The middle-aged policeman sized up Lin Chang`an. “You don’t know?”
“How the hell would I know?”
“He died of old age inside.” As he said this, he continued to observe Lin Chang`an’s expression. “Based on that dungeon’s structure, we’re guessing that someone made use of the guardian from the dungeon’s maze.”
“Who is it that can make use of the dungeon?” A hint of surprise flashed on Lin Chang`an’s face.
In his previous life, he had read about criminal law, criminal psychology, tools of crime, forensic science, and many other teaching materials.
He knew that a person’s surprise wouldn’t exceed 0.2 seconds.
“Why don’t you ask how he died of old age? Your reaction seemed to be different from ordinary people...”
Ordinary people wouldn’t put their attention on the dungeon but on the victim.
Lin Chang`an seemed to be struck by a realization. “Oh, that’s right. How did he die of old age?”
The young policeman: “...”
“He got trapped in the maze, mistakenly thinking that he had walked for 100 years but hadn’t managed to get out. Someone caused such a space-time distortion, causing his mind to break down. He thought that he had really been trapped for 100 years and thus his mind became crippled.”
There were psionicists in this world who could create illusions.
Terrifying illusions could make one think that the illusions were real and that the things that happened in the illusions would have a direct impact on the body.
If you thought that you had died in the illusion, you would die in real life as well.
This was a horrifying method. Psionicists would need to have transcendental mental energy to be able to accomplish this.
However, only a very few people could do this.
Amongst 10,000 cultivators, there’d only be one with the talent to become a psionicist.
“What a horrifying method!” Lin Chang`an gasped in surprise.
The middle-aged policeman smiled. He realized that their way of questioning wasn’t going to work.
This young man seemed to have thought of all possibilities.
The middle-aged policeman also tried probing him with other means but didn’t succeed. Lin Chang`an’s reaction was definitely insufficient to convict him of the crime.
They could detain him for a limit of 24 hours, but from the looks of this youngster, it was definitely not enough.
Then, the middle-aged policeman kept probing and asking questions.
Lin Chang`an thought (Did you think that it was for naught when I chose to get the memory fragments?)
These questions had all appeared in his simulations, and he was clear on how he should answer them.
Two hours later, the middle-aged policeman felt a little parched.
He got up and didn’t continue. Instead, he opened the interrogation room’s door. “Alright, you can go now.”
“Can I not?”
The young policeman: “?”
The middle-aged policeman: “??”
Lin Chang`an smiled. “I was just kidding.”
He got up and exited the room.
“Oh, right, I forgot to say this. Rong Xingjun didn’t die completely. It was just that his mind broke down. He was discovered early and there’s still a possibility of him recovering.”
Lin Chang`an walked out without any pauses.
He rolled his eyes.
He had verified it himself. The guy had already died thoroughly.
(Trying to hoodwink me?)
“That’s good. The truth will be revealed very soon.”
...
“That’s so strange, so weird. To think that he didn’t have any reaction to the last part... If you were the murderer, would you be scared?”
“Of course I would be scared!” The young policeman patted his chest.
“That’s right. Who wouldn’t be scared? Is he really not the murderer?”
“Master, why spend so much effort on the case of a scumbag like him? Isn’t it better to not be able to find the murderer?”
The middle-aged policeman let out a bitter laugh. “You’ve underestimated the Rong Clan’s influence locally. You’ve also underestimated Second Young Master Rong’s status in the Rong Clan...”
He then looked at the youngster’s departing back view from afar.
Since he had already found Lin Chang`an, they must have too.
“We can only wish him good luck. It’s very likely that they’ll rather kill by mistake rather than miss out on a target. The only thing I can help him with is to try my best to apprehend the true culprit.”
The truth was, how could deaths in the dungeons lead to investigations?
If that pervert wasn’t from the Rong Clan, no one would care how he had died. Even if their entire body was covered in blade cuts, it’d still be deemed as an accident.
...
Lin Chang`an walked out of the police station and thought quietly to himself.
“The Rong Clan can have their way in Qindao. Back then, when Rong Xingjun had his way with a male celebrity till the latter died, they could even turn it into a suicide case. If they really want to kill me...”
It’d be too simple for them to turn this into a suicide case.
“If I were to fail the unified examination, there’s no doubt that what awaits me will be death.”
“Even if I pass, if the ranking of the academy I get into is lower or doesn’t attract enough attention, there’s still a likelihood for me to die...”
This scene had taken place in his simulations.
As for whether his killers were punished by the law thereafter, it was something he didn’t know. It was of no concern to him anyway.
What meaning was there to justice when one was already dead?
The Rong Clan’s status in Qindao City was above everything else.
The Rong Clan’s chairman was a horrifying existence in the fourth realm.
In comparison, Qindao City’s mayor was only at the pinnacle of the third realm, with only half a step into reaching the fourth realm at most.
Thus, the Rong Clan Corporation’s status in Qindao City was very clear.
Right now, they hadn’t made a move on him yet. One important reason was that the unified examination was nearing, and another reason was the backing Su Xi`er represented.
Otherwise, he would definitely not have a chance to stand here. He’d have died thoroughly.
“The high school is no longer safe...”