Chapter 28 - – Bloody Maple Leaf: New Discovery (1/2)

Chapter 28 – b.l.o.o.d.y Maple Leaf: New Discovery

3 of Hearts secret room, day 2.

Xiao Lou woke up and saw Yu Hanjiang standing by the corridor window. His deep eyes were staring into the distance and his brow was slightly furrowed like he was thinking about something.

Xiao Lou walked over and asked, “Group Leader Yu, are there any new discoveries?”

Yu Hanjiang pointed to the maple forest. “Last night, there was a storm and a few maple trees were blown down.

Xiao Lou followed his gaze and looked at the distant maple forest. A large number of maple leaves had fallen down in the rain and the ground seemed to be covered with a thick layer of maple red. At the end of the maple forest, several small saplings planted were blown to the ground by the wind. The flower beds under the teaching body were crooked and many flower pots were broken. The entire campus was messy, like a typhoon had crossed here.

At 6:30 in the morning, the rain had stopped.

At this time, the two people should head to the school gate since the new day would have more clues. However, last night they sneaked into the Shuxiang Building and alerted the security guards, causing the door of the Shuxiang Building to be locked.

Xiao Lou had a very uncomfortable sleep last night. He rubbed his temple to soothe his headache and asked, “Cla.s.s is starting soon. How are we going to get out?”

Yu Hanjiang looked calm as he pointed to the air-conditioning pipe outside the window. “Climb out.”

Xiao Lou, “…”

In the Hearts secret room, Yu Hanjiang took out the att.i.tude of the Spades survival secret room. He simply opened the window and jumped forward, grasping the air-conditioning duct with both hands and stepping on the window edge that was only 10cm wide with both feet, climbing down to the ground floor.

Xiao Lou’s heart was in his throat.

So high! If this person’s feet stepped on air then it would be over!

It turned out that Xiao Lou’s fears were superfluous. Yu Hanjiang seemed to often do this type of thing. He climbed, jumped and seemed familiar with the building as he chose the most convenient route and fell steadily to the ground. Then he looked up at Xiao Lou.

Xiao Lou looked down and didn’t dare step on the window of the fifth floor to climb down… he didn’t want to fall to the ground.

Yu Hanjiang made a ‘go downstairs and wait for me’ gesture and walked quickly to the door of the Shuxiang Building.

It was unknown where Group Leader Yu found a wire from but he took a moment to open the door lock. Xiao Lou was waiting at the door and after he saw Group Leader Yu open the door, he couldn’t help thinking, ‘It is fortunate that Yu Hanjiang is a policeman. If he is a thief then probably no one can stop him?’

Yu Hanjiang seemed to see Xiao Lou’s doubts and explained while restoring the door lock, “When I was in the police academy, a senior taught me unlocking skills. He likes to study these types of things.”

Xiao Lou nodded and didn’t ask much as he headed to the school gate with Yu Hanjiang.

At 7 o’clock, students came to the school one after another.

Xie Xinghe had come early today and his school uniform had a black gauze tied outside. The black gauze was meant to commemorate the dead and the person he was commemorating was apparently Ying Xiaoya, who died yesterday.

Xiao Lou saw this and felt slightly confused. Judging from Xiao Lou’s confession yesterday, his relations.h.i.+p with Xie Xinghe was very ordinary. Yet he wore a black gauze today, indicating that he was very mindful of Ying Xiaoya’s death.

Before long, Yi Ru and Yu Hui also came with black around their arms.

The three people met at the school gates.

Yu Hui frowned as he glanced at Xie Xinghe’s arm. “Xie Xinghe, what are you wearing this for? My family’s Xiaoya doesn’t need you to pay homage to her!”

Xie Xinghe had a blank expression. “I know that your hostility towards me is hard to resolve but Xiaoya and I are cla.s.smates for three years. Her death… I’m very sad too.”

Yu Hui wanted to say something but Yi Ru interrupted. “Don’t quarrel, do you want the people at the school gate to stand in a circle and watch?”

Yesterday, Yi Ru had an emotional collapse and cried in front of the police for a long time. After a night of adjustment, she had returned to normal but there were dark circles under her eyes and she looked tired.

Yu Hui walked forward coldly.

The three people entered the Chongwen Building in unison and the road was silent.

The other students should have nothing to do with the case and the contents of the discussion had no valuable information. Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang still couldn’t recognize the faces of thousands of students but they didn’t leave the school gate.

They were waiting for the chemistry teacher of Cla.s.s 3 to appear.

At 7:25 with five minutes left until morning cla.s.s, a tall female teacher walked through the school gate.

She had short neat hair and wore black pencil pants, a white s.h.i.+rt, a khaki long trench coat and high heels. She had an elegant posture when walking, like a professional dancer. Her slim and upright body made her seem cla.s.sy.

The security guard greeted her. “Teacher Qin, you came to work?”

The female teacher smiled as she greeted the security guard before entering the Hangzhi Building.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang immediately became alert.

Teacher Qin, the security guard specifically greeted her and this seemed to be reminding the challengers that she was the chemistry teacher who was absent yesterday.

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang glanced at each other before quickly catching up with her.

She went directly to the chemistry office on the third floor of the Hangzhi Building. Once she entered the office, a colleague told her, “Weiwei, you were really lucky. Yesterday, you took time off so you still don’t know? Cla.s.s 3 had a student who jumped from the building and committed suicide!”

Qin Weiwei was stunned and immediately turned back. “What? Who jumped?”

Her colleague replied, “The person who was last in this person’s monthly exam, it should be Ying Xiaoya.”

Qin Weiwei’s face was full of shock. “How come? I remembered this girl studied very seriously. Her test result this time was just an accident. I wanted to encourage her. Is there a reason to commit suicide just because of a bad test?”

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang pretended to be pa.s.sing teachers and could clearly see the situation in the office.

The chemistry teacher Qin Weiwei either had a deep heart, first-cla.s.s acting or were really innocent. In the end, they couldn’t conclude if she knew about Ying Xiaoya jumping off the building or not. Today, the police would definitely come to investigate here.

Cla.s.s 3’s morning cla.s.s was a language cla.s.s and the teacher asked everyone to study a text for half an hour.

The first cla.s.s at 8:10 happened to be the chemistry cla.s.s. Qin Weiwei prepared her teaching materials and walked out of the office towards Cla.s.s 2. Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou emerged from the bathroom opposite the office and looked at her back. Yu Hanjiang whispered, “You follow Qin Weiwei. I will go to the school gate and wait for the police. I’ll come see you later.”

Xiao Lou nodded and quietly followed Qin Weiwei.

During cla.s.s time, there were many teachers coming and going in the air corridor. She didn’t notice Xiao Lou behind her.

Qin Weiwei walked into the cla.s.sroom with the textbook. Xiao Lou didn’t know if it was because she didn’t experience Ying Xiaoya’s fall incident yesterday or because her psychological quality was too strong but she taught this cla.s.s very seriously. Despite the students being absent-minded, she performed her job and finished this cla.s.s.