Jian Xie took out a small bottle from his school uniform pocket.
The glass bottle was filled with red, green, blue and orange pills. From a distance, it looked like candy for children.
Although he was standing outside the classroom, he could feel the curious and frightened gazes coming through the classroom windows.
After all, this was the first time they were so close to a “murder suspect,” and they obviously hadn’t recovered from the police walking into the classroom and taking away the students.
Although the Chinese teacher warned them several times to listen carefully, the whispers in the classroom could not be suppressed.
Allegedly, three classmates in the same grade died yesterday!
Although no one knew what happened, the incident caused a huge sensation in the school, and the arrival of the police car in the afternoon was like throwing a stone into boiling water.
There were only one hundred days left before the college entrance examination. The countdown atmosphere has made everyone very nervous, giving no opportunity to gossip openly.
However, also because the college entrance examination was approaching, the school did not consider evacuating the students, and classes continued as usual.
Jian Xie counted the number of remaining pills, took out an orange one and put it into his white palm, then leaned against the wall and ate it expressionlessly.
He preferred the orange prescription medicine, which he felt has a calming effect and tastes sweet and sour.
Jian Xie was waiting for people to come and talk to him.
Outside the classroom was a corridor, and not far from the corridor was the teacher’s office. At this time, the door was half-open, and only a few words could be vaguely heard from inside the office.
“Jian Xie? Impossible, he’s a good student…”
“Although his family conditions are indeed a bit complicated, he…”
It was the homeroom teacher who was defending him. Although it sounded somewhat incoherent, he could fully imagine the anxious look on the face of the middle-aged woman.
“You can’t conclude like that. Jian Xie is indeed very strange. He doesn’t attend physical education classes, sleeps in class, and doesn’t communicate with others. The point is, he comes from a poor family. Maybe—”
The homeroom teacher was angry and interrupted him directly, “You are prejudiced!”
The English teacher who argued with her was a recognized snob who usually fawned on the children from wealthy families in the class and had no sense of being a role model at all.
Even though Jian Xie had excellent grades and was always among the top three in the grade, he never treated Jian Xie well because Jian Xie had never given him any gifts.
“Can you explain why?”
Just as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the office door. Then, the door creaked and was gently pushed open.
Everyone turned around and found Jian Xie standing outside the door. The boy was dressed in a clean and tidy school uniform, which immediately brightened their eyes.
“Teacher, it’s been less than a year since my parents’ accident, so I don’t really want to socialize.”
His expression was cold and detached while his voice was steady. Although it was not loud, it could be heard by everyone in the office.
“……”
Choked by his straightforward answer, the person looking for trouble didn’t know what to say for a moment.
“Don’t get angry with orphans.”
After a moment, the English teacher deliberately snorted.
Jian Xie ignored him. He stood in front of the class teacher and calmly said to the two policemen in civilian clothes, “Now that I don’t have a parent, I can take responsibility for my words and actions. I didn’t kill anyone.”
The boy wearing a school uniform was tall and slender with a handsome face. Although he was found as a suspect, he did not act servile and easily won the favor of bystanders.
For a moment, the other teachers in the office couldn’t help but tilt their hearts towards Jian Xie, feeling that the English teacher’s previous remarks were really unreasonable.
After hearing Jian Xie’s words, the two policemen looked at each other and then looked down at the communicators in their hands.
“If you said you didn’t kill anyone, then you didn’t kill anyone?” The English teacher sneered, still aggressively asking, “Then why are the police looking for you?”
Jian Xie didn’t even look at him.
The English teacher was so angry at his attitude of ignoring him that his face turned blue. He wanted to say something again but was interrupted by the police.
“Of course, we believe you.”
Jian Xie was startled: “…”
“As for the teacher, please leave and don’t interfere with official business.”
Suddenly, someone’s laughter was heard in the office.
Caught off guard and slapped in the face, the English teacher’s face immediately became a bit embarrassed.
But he couldn’t vent his anger on the public servant, so he could only glare at Jian Xie fiercely, and glance at the other teachers in the office. Then he turned around and strode away, slamming the door in the end.
Seeing him leave, the policeman slowed down his tone and said, “Apologies, to the other teachers, please leave as well. No irrelevant personnel are allowed to be present.”
Hearing this, the homeroom teacher and other teachers didn’t know what to say. They could only stand up and walk past Jian Xie.
As they passed by, he could still feel the worried gaze of his homeroom teacher. She whispered to him, “Don’t be afraid. No matter what, Teacher won’t let the police take you away for no reason.”
Jian Xie was stunned for a moment and looked at her from the side. He found that the eyes of this middle-aged woman were unusually firm.
When the school was recruiting students, it was she who overcame all difficulties and secured a generous scholarship for him. She also understood that he had several part-time jobs and allowed him to take leave from school without affecting his studies.
If it weren’t for her, Jian Xie might not have had the chance to return to school after his parents’ car accident.
“…Thank you, Teacher,” Jian Xie said softly after a while.
Everyone else left and the door was locked with a click.
Jian Xie sat down on the seat at the two’s suggestion.
“You’re quite popular.” The policeman said to him gently, “The other teachers like you very much and have said good things about you.”
Jian Xie felt a bit surprised.
Because he doesn’t talk much and doesn’t have many friends, he was like an invisible person in class. He thought he was not a good student.
He never noticed how lethal his good looks and excellent grades combined could be to teachers.
After all, he was well-behaved and had top-notch academic performance. Moreover, handsome boys with pale complexions were very rare and always got more attention and love from others.
Seeing that he just pursed his lips and said nothing, maintaining his cold expression, the taller of the two policemen said, “We didn’t actually consider you a suspect. After all, it’s impossible for a human to do that—”
Before he could finish his words, the door was hurriedly pushed open again from the outside.
This time, a woman in uniform came in, holding an instrument that Jian Xie had never seen before. It looked a bit like a barcode scanning gun used in convenience stores.
She was frowning, not trying to hide the shock in her tone, “I scanned the entire corridor, but all the aura of the B-level monsters had indeed disappeared. This is impossible!”
When their “eye” detected anything unusual, they immediately sent people to the scene.
The department responded quickly enough, but apart from the three corpses that died in extremely tragic ways, they didn’t even detect any trace of a B-level monster, which was absolutely illogical.
Such a strange situation has never been encountered in the decades since the department was established.
According to common knowledge, monsters above C level could deploy their own fields to hunt, and even if it were retracted later, there would still be a lot of energy left.
It was as if… something had completely wiped it out from the world without leaving a trace.
But, this was impossible.
As far as she knew, this was different from the simple operation of deleting discarded files on a computer with one click and then emptying the Recycle Bin.
Because even if the file was deleted, traces of its existence could still be found in the huge data network.
And this B-level monster… it was as if it had never been born. This simply erased its existence from the root. Even a Special A-level monster couldn’t do this!
After all, B-level monsters were already very tricky. Every time a monster of this level was encountered, the bureau needed at least four B-level employees to barely stop it.
So what was it… what horrible thing had appeared?
No matter what, it would be an extremely terrifying and indescribable thing that would transcend all their existing concepts and would definitely lead to chaos in this situation!
Despite the shock, the department considered the possibility of instrument error and asked her to come to the scene the next day and use the latest instrument for diagnosis, but she still found nothing.
Therefore, there was only one clue left in the end—Jian Xie, the one who called the police. He became their only breakthrough.
“B-level monster?” Jian Xie frowned.
Are they referring to the big centipede from yesterday?
“You heard me right.” The tall policeman had a complicated look on his face as he stretched out his hand to Jian Xie. “Hello, my name is Cheng Li, from the Investigation Department of the Supernatural Management Bureau. I specialize in dealing with the supernatural and paranormal. I’m also the investigator in charge of this case.”
Oh……
Oh.
Jian Xie asked, “…So I’m not sick?”
When he called the doctor yesterday, the doctor spent ten minutes repeatedly asking him whether he had taken his medicine on time. Jian Xie, who was staring at the three corpses, felt like a big idiot.
If he hadn’t later on felt guilty and decided to touch the body to see if it was real, he might have turned around and just left.
However, when he called the police, he didn’t expect that he would be found by the police at school for questioning.
“…What gave you this misunderstanding?”
Jian Xie took out the medicine bottle from his pocket, silently raised it a little higher, and showed the name of the prescription drug on it.
Then, he stretched out his finger and tapped his temple, indicating expressionlessly, “I’m taking medicine.”
“…………”
He was so young and good-looking, but he actually has middle school syndrome.
“That’s not medicine,” the woman said with a twitch in her lips, “It’s a very expensive vitamin candy on the market. It just looks like a pill.”
Her niece didn’t like to eat fruit, so her nutrition was unbalanced which caused growing pains from time to time. Thus, her family bought her this kind of candy.
Although this vitamin candy was expensive, it could effectively provide the vitamins necessary for body growth, so it was very famous in the market. Basically, anyone who watched TV would see its overwhelming advertisements; the reason why the people present recognized it at a glance.
Jian Xie was stunned when he heard it.
He took back the glass bottle, looked at it for a few seconds, and suddenly his first meeting with the doctor flashed through his mind.
The other party was different from the other psychiatrists he had met before. He first took out a form and tremblingly asked him to fill out some strange questions, such as whether he liked to eat fruit, what was his favorite color, what gift he wanted for his birthday, etc. Then he wiped the sweat off his face and prescribed medicine for him.
Before deciding to accept a psychiatrist consultation for assistance after his parents’ car accident, Jian Xie had clicked on some psychological tests on a website and found that the questions on them were quite random, so he thought that all psychological questionnaires were of this style…
Now that he thought about it, the other party’s behavior was indeed a bit strange.
That doctor’s eyes were both evasive and fearful. The other would tremble like he had Parkinson’s every time he visited, and couldn’t even look him in the face.
It was as if Jian Xie had kidnapped people by force, and the other made him feel like a bully who oppressed innocent people every time.
After a moment of silence, Jian Xie shook the glass bottle and pointed at the orange pill. “Then what’s that smell?”
Cheng Li answered, “Orange flavor.”
Jian Xie: “…………”
Okay, so the whole world knew he was duped, except for himself.
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