水蜜桃实验室

“Hey! That’s evidence, you can’t just tamper with it!” Su Jingxue saw Xu Fan take out Sanshui’s cellphone and fiddle with it, then she spoke up to stop him.

“I’m just checking the time, the clock on my phone is off,” Xu Fan said with his eyes wide open, telling a blatant lie, ignoring whatever Su Jingxue said, thinking I just won’t listen to you.

“Now that you’ve seen the time, put the phone back where it belongs!” Su Jingxue said helplessly to Xu Fan.

“I’m sorry, I pressed too hard just now and cracked the tempered glass on his phone. I’m going to go out and replace it with a new one, and then I’ll give it back to him.” Xu Fan pressed hard with his finger, popping a fist-sized crack in the screen protector, then picked up the phone and shook it at Su Jingxue.

“Put the evidence back now; don’t run around with it.” Su Jingxue couldn’t keep up with Xu Fan’s train of thought, and seeing Xu Fan pocket the phone, she hurriedly said.

“That won’t do; if I don’t replace the protector and put it back, I’ll suffer from the pangs of conscience forever. There’s a screen protector shop right at the entrance of the neighborhood. I’ll be right back,” Xu Fan said, then turned to leave.

Su Jingxue stepped in front of him, blocking Xu Fan’s way.

“You can’t go; you need to cooperate with our investigation,” Su Jingxue said seriously to Xu Fan.

Xu Fan lowered his head and glanced at Su Jingxue’s full chest.

“What are you looking at!” Su Jingxue, seeing where Xu Fan’s eyes were, immediately said with a face full of anger.

“Officer 845623, Su Jingxue, could you please take care of my daughter here for a while? I’m going to apply a screen protector and will be right back. The TV is connected to the surveillance equipment; you can switch to the monitoring and see the situation at the time of the incident, to see if I am innocent,” Xu Fan finished speaking, did not stay any longer, his figure flashed, and he slipped past Su Jingxue.

Su Jingxue only felt Xu Fan’s figure flicker, and then he appeared outside the door.

Su Jingxue knew she couldn’t catch up with him, so she picked up the remote control and switched the input to the villa’s surveillance system.

As soon as Xu Fan stepped out the door, his face instantly clouded over, like the harbinger of an impending storm. Inside, a flame of vengeance burned fiercely.

To dare to kidnap Tongtong, that was absolutely crossing Xu Fan’s line. If he didn’t eliminate the culprit, Xu Fan wouldn’t be the Five-Direction Heavenly Emperor who commanded awe across countless realms.

Now was the perfect opportunity with Sanshui’s phone in hand, which could lead him straight to the mastermind. The mastermind probably couldn’t imagine Xu Fan reacting so quickly. They’re likely still waiting at Warehouse No. 74 in Xiangshui Bay for the good news that the ransom has been received.

After Xu Fan’s figure had left, Su Jingxue turned on the surveillance to watch the video of the situation before and after the incident. She also called headquarters, asking for a few experienced criminal investigators to support the scene.

About fifteen minutes later, the support personnel arrived, led by the chief of the third squad of the Criminal Investigation Team, Li Guoxing, who was also Su Jingxue’s superior.

As soon as he entered, Li Guoxing was shocked by the bloody and scorched smell at the scene.

Li Guoxing furrowed his thick eyebrows, carefully observed the crime scene, and after confirming that all three people were indeed dead, he let out a slight sigh.

Upon seeing Li Guoxing enter, Su Jingxue greeted him, then raised her hand to point at the surveillance footage on the TV.

“Does the surveillance capture the entire course of the crime?” Li Guoxing asked Su Jingxue.

“It does, but there are quite a few cameras. I just finished watching the kitchen footage and can confirm that the victims had indeed attempted to kidnap the Family Head’s daughter. It can be said they got what they deserved,” Su Jingxue sighed to Captain Li.

“Kidnap a child? Where is the child?” Li Guoxing asked cautiously.

“Asleep on the sofa, probably due to excessive fright,” Su Jingxue said with a touch of sympathy, glancing at Tongtong sleeping on the sofa. Today’s scene was too bloody for an adult to handle, let alone a child of four or five. Thankfully, the girl had fallen asleep, and hopefully, when she woke up, she would forget the bloody scene here.

“What exactly happened here? Why did all three abductors die in this place? Who did this, and is it visible in the surveillance footage?” Captain Li asked Su Jingxue with a bit of shock in his voice.

“Captain Li, from the information gathered from the surveillance, I’ve roughly figured out the case. These three people premeditated the kidnapping of this little girl. However, the dog kept in this house put up a fierce resistance, biting one of the culprit’s necks, which led to his death from excessive blood loss. The other two are a bit more peculiar; one of them suddenly combusted while facing the dog, turning into a pile of charred bones, and the other, during the hostage-taking, seemingly lost his sanity and shot himself,” Su Jingxue briefly reported her findings to Captain Li.

After hearing Su Jingxue’s report, Captain Li’s eyebrows slowly knitted together—the deaths of these three people were too bizarre.

“Have the medical examiner come and determine the causes of death. Someone record the scene to see if any evidence has been left behind. Also, copy the surveillance from here and within the residential complex so we can verify it back at the station. The rest of you go interview the surrounding neighbors and households, see if there are any new findings or evidence.”

With the tasks distributed, the people Captain Li brought busied themselves with their duties. Only Su Jingxue continued to ponder the surveillance videos on the TV. She had already reviewed the footage from the kitchen before and after the incident and was now watching the video from the hall, specifically at the segment where Ben Ben underwent a transformation.

“Captain Li, come quick, I knew there was something off about this dog, and now I’ve found it—the dog can actually transform, growing from the size of a small Chow Chow to as big as a Tibetan Mastiff in an instant,” Su Jingxue exclaimed, pointing at the screen.

“How is that possible? You must be seeing things,” Li Guoxing said with a slight disbelief, taking the remote from Su Jingxue’s hand to rewind the footage.

Indeed, the transformation process of Ben Ben was replayed right before Li Guoxing’s eyes.

“Could… could this dog be some kind of monster?” Li Guoxing asked, his brows furrowed in astonishment. As a veteran criminal investigator of over twenty years, he had seen many strange cases. In his experience, most bizarre cases were just perpetrators creating smoke and mirrors to divert the investigators’ attention.

However, the transformation of the dog in the surveillance footage seemed incredibly real and hadn’t been prepared in advance. Li Guoxing looked over to the corpse of Cong Lin Bao on the ground and, judging by the position of the body, deduced that the surveillance video hadn’t been tampered with—it was authentic.