Police (2)

This was another one of the detectives that they worked with.

Xia Tian and Ling Yue both looked at this person with confused looks, but that detective said, "Detective Ling, Detective Xia, come quickly! There were bodies that were found!"

Both of them slightly knitted their brows, but they still had confused looks on their faces as Ling Yue asked, "What does that have to do with us? We're already working on a case."

The other detective revealed a bitter smile before saying, "The bodies that were found are the missing kids that you were trying to find."

When Xia Tian and Ling Yue heard this, they immediately revealed shocked looks. But then they looked at each other with frowns before following that detective out.

An hour later, they arrived at the scene of the crime.

This was a bank that was further downstream of the river that flowed under the bridge.

When they arrived, they found that there were people on the side with plainclothes officers.

It seemed that they were the ones who had found the bodies or were nearby when the bodies had been found, so they were currently getting their statements taken.

The two detectives ignored this since they could always get the statements later.

Instead, they turned their attention to the area covered in police tape which was clearly where the bodies were.

They moved past the police tape and couldn't help looking away when they saw the crime scene.

Dead bodies didn't faze them, but this one…was just too tragic.

The other five didn't matter, but the sixth corpse was a girl who was completely naked and had strangle marks on her neck. As well, when they looked carefully, they could see that there was congealed blood under the nails of this girl.

It was clear what had happened to her, but it was still hard for them to watch.

So they took a deep breath to calm themselves before going forward to examine the corpses.

With the clues that they found, it was very easy for them to make a deduction as to what had happened.

It was clear that the girl had been raped by some of the boys and that had caused a struggle.

At the same time, there was one of them who had fought against the others to save the girl from them.

In the end, they ended up killing each other.

But based on the information that they had received from the family members, this shouldn't have been. After all, these were kids that had been friends according to them for many years now.

This wasn't something that would suddenly happen, so there must have been some form of catalyst…

In short, there was something that smelled fishy about all of this.

But there was no denying that there were facts in front of them, so they had to properly do their jobs and investigate the corpses.

After they were done, they brought all the evidence that they had just obtained back with them to the police station.

The rest would be taken care of by the forensics team who would give them a detailed report later.

Once they were back in the investigation room, they found that their captain was waiting for them. The captain had a very ugly expression on his face which made it clear that he had bad news.

When they sat down, the captain gave it to them straight, "The higher ups are very displeased with how this matter has turned out. They want you to make an arrest immediately or at least identify a murderer or else we'll all be fired."

Then with a sigh, he added, "Basically, the one who works for the Awakener Association is putting pressure on us to find his son's murderer so he can take his own revenge on them."

When the two detectives heard this, they both revealed angry expressions.

This was a clear abuse of the justice system, but they weren't able to do anything about it. So not only were they angry at themselves for being helpless, they were also angry at how useless the justice system was.

But in the end, there was nothing they could do since this was how things were.

The captain could see the looks on their faces, so he knew that it was better to leave them alone.

The captain stood up and walked over to their side to pat them on the shoulder before saying, "I can hold them off for 48 hours, but past that…our asses will be on the line."

Both of the detectives revealed heavy looks again, but as the captain walked out, they still remembered to thank him.

After all, it wasn't the captain's fault that they were in this situation and he was even covering for them as much as he could. He was doing everything that he could for them, so they could only be grateful towards him.

After a long period of silence, Xia Tian went back to his computer to pull up a video on the screen.

This was the scene of Lin Fan being brought under the bridge by Wang Bing and the others.

After looking at this screen for a bit, Xia Tian said, "We should go and interrogate this person."

When Ling Yue heard this, she immediately knitted her brows and said, "He's a victim, how can you drag him into this?"

Xia Tian shook his head and said, "We don't know if he's a victim or not. All we know is that he was the last person that was seen with them. It is our duty to talk to this witness and see if he knows anything."

Ling Yue looked at Xia Tian with narrowed eyes before saying, "Is this all that your justice is worth?"

Xia Tian's face twisted when he heard this, but he didn't have a response for this. Instead, he said with a sigh, "This is the only option that we have right now."

Seeing the look on Xia Tian's face, Ling Yue knew that he was right…

So in the end, she also said with a sigh, "Fine, we'll go talk to him. But we are talking to a witness, not a suspect. Do you understand?"

Xia Tian gave a nod, but it was clear by the look in his eyes that he thought otherwise.