“If she doesn’t want to help us, then she should say it. There’s no need to give us such a bullsh*t excuse and mess around with us as though we are fools!”

  Lu Ning explained, “Professor He is her teacher. Perhaps he had mentioned it to her before, so she’s very familiar with the medication……”

  “Alright, enough of your excuses. There’s no way Professor He would mention something so important to his student, and you should stop giving her so much credit!” Dong Cun interjected forcefully. He kicked the coffee table in frustration before adding, “I know exactly what she is trying to do. She thought that I would submit to her if she brought Professor He out? No way! I’d never do that!”

  In the meantime, a group of policemen was approaching No.1 High School. Before Director Liu could recover from his reverie, he received a call from the entrance guard, who said that the police was there to investigate a case.

  After the police ran him through the situation, the police chief, Sheriff Zhao, followed Director Liu to Class 21 to get the person that they had come for.

  “You’re Fu Zhi, right?” Sheriff Zhao asked softly, looking at the quiet young girl before him. He showed her his badge and added, “We’re from the Yu City Police Station and we’d like to ask you to follow us back to the station. There are a few things that we need you to clarify.”

  Why had they come for Fu Zhi? Because Zhou Tingting had been found dead in an alley behind the Yu City Hospital that morning. The tendons in her right arm had been severed, and the cause of her death had been a heavy blow to her head.

  They had also found Fu Zhi’s fingerprints and her student ID on the scene. Therefore, due to the severity of the matter, Sheriff Zhao had taken the case into his own hands and decided to investigate it himself.

  Fu Zhi was required to give a statement at the police station.

  The policemen were all in uniform, and the students from Class 21 were studying them through the window.

  Fu Zhi nodded in assent. She turned around and saw that Director Liu’s face had turned pale. There was sweat budding on his forehead, and his hands were shaking. He said, “Don’t worry. I already called your parents.”

  Truth be told, Director Liu’s worry was totally uncalled for. Fu Zhi was not perturbed at all and even reassured him instead. “I’ll be back soon.”

  Director Liu did not know what to say. His anxiety began to ebb away as he cursed Fu Zhi inwardly for her nonchalance. ‘Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? Do you think the police station is your home?!’

  Fu Zhi passed by the other classrooms as she followed the police.

  Lu Chuwan was talking to Qian Wenrui when she noticed the commotion. She turned her head toward the source and a surprised expression dawned on her face. She looked at Fu Zhi but soon averted her gaze.

  She had no idea whether her ears were playing a trick on her or something else was happening, but she seemed to have caught the word “deceased” during their conversation.

  She thought for a moment and then called Madam Lu after Qian Wenrui left.

  “Bad news, grandma. You have to stay calm and listen to me. Fu Zhi seems to have been involved in a murder case.”

  On the other side of the phone, Madam Lu was playing mahjong with her friends. When she heard what Lu Chuwan had said, she froze.

  She excused herself and exited the room with the phone in her hand. After she ascertained that no one was within earshot, she asked, “What the hell is going on?”

  Lu Chuwan was not very clear. She said, “There are police officers at school, and I heard that someone has been killed.”

  *

  When Fu Zhi arrived at the police station, a gentle-looking female police officer interrogated her.

  “Were you familiar with the deceased?”

  Fu Zhi nodded. “Yeah, I knew her.”

  The female police officer scribbled something on the paper and said, “We found out that you had a conflict with the deceased. Is that right?”

  It had not been a difficult task for the police to find out about this, especially since Zhou Tingting and her family had been admitted to the hospital yesterday because of a scam.

  Fu Zhi had been on bad terms with Zhou Tingting at school, so she was at the top of the suspect list.

  “Yeah, we did, but let me make myself clear. She was the one who kept picking on me,” Fu Zhi replied calmly. Then, she asked the police officer back, “So you guys think that a good student like me, who’s loyal to her country, is the murderer just because of some fake evidence you discovered on the scene?”


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  Chapter 189: The Crime Of Intentionally Harming A National Treasure

  “Please don’t get us wrong. Even though the scene evidence points to you, we won’t rush into a decision before the situation is clear.”

  The female police officer paused for a while, looked at Fu Zhi, and thought, ‘She’s so adorable.’

  Then, she comforted her. “You’re still young, not to mention that you’re a student. No matter the circumstances, we believe that you had nothing to do with this case.”

  “Okay.”

  Since they had chosen to believe that she was innocent, Fu Zhi replied, “Can I go now?”

  The female police officer was stunned by Fu Zhi’s calmness.

  Just as she was about to say something in return, a few black off-road vehicles stopped on the road in front of the police station.

  Then, a group of six to seven men jumped down from the vehicles.

  All of them were international policemen hired by the government to protect Fu Zhi. The moment they had gotten wind of the news that Fu Zhi had been taken away by the police, they had come all the way from their training camp, which was several kilometers away from the city, to assist her.

  The door to the police station was opened by a pair of strong, powerful arms. The man walking in the front of the team had a pair of sharp, piercing eyes, and there was a scar at the corner of his eye, just below his temple. He threw a stack of documents into Sheriff Zhao’s hands and said firmly, “The murder of Zhou Tingting is an international case, so hand Fu Zhi over to us. You guys don’t have to follow up on the investigation.”

  Sheriff Zhao was stunned. He did not check the documents before he said, “But it’s happened in Yu City, so it’s our duty to see this to the end and give the public the truth.”

  ‘Your duty to see it to the end?’

  Captain Jiang scoffed as he glanced at Fu Zhi, who was sitting in the hall.

  ‘Hmm. My dear Zhizhi is still looking great.’

  She could probably put a cow down with a punch.

  When he thought of what he was going to ask Fu Zhi later, he let out a sigh of relief. Then, he turned to Sheriff Zhao and said in a stern voice, “According to a person briefed on the matter, you guys took an innocent person who has nothing to do with the case into custody, and you are suspected of harming a national treasure intentionally. All in all, you guys lack competence, so you are not allowed to participate in the investigation anymore.”

  Sheriff Zhao looked at Captain Jiang with a face full of confusion.

  ‘What? National treasure? I don’t remember coming across any pandas recently. Why is he saying that we harmed a national treasure?’

  Be that as it may, Captain Jiang was not going to explain anything else. After taking Fu Zhi, they left the police station.

  *

  The result of the Physics competition was released on the government website at 1 p.m. sharp.

  All the teachers in the Physics group rushed to their computers and began to search for their students’ names out of the 1,000 candidates on the list.

  Qian Wenrui was so nervous that she nearly stuck her face against the screen of her computer.

  She typed in the number of her team, 101, and five names soon appeared on the screen.

  The first one to appear was Lu Yubai’s result. He had gotten 91 points.

  The teachers had met up for a review session after the competition. Given the short amount of time and the difficulty of the questions, they had all concluded that only excellent students would be able to score higher than 80 points.

  As expected, Qian Wenrui scrolled down a little and saw that Lu Yubai’s result was the 3rd highest in the province. Her heart skipped a beat, and she heaved a sigh of relief.

  After all, Lu Chuwan’s results had always been better than Lu Yubai’s results. Therefore, other than Lu Chuwan, she could not think of any other students who could pull off this feat.

  ‘Way to go, Chuwan. I knew you could do it!’

  Qian Wenrui could barely hold the excitement that filled her to the brim. When she was about to click into Lu Chuwan’s name, Ma Mingquan’s travel mug dropped to the floor with a loud bang.

  Even though the mug did not break, Qian Wenrui was still startled by the sound.

  She turned her head around and saw a bewildered expression on Ma Mingquan’s face. His eyes were also fixed on the screen. A surge of exhilaration welled in her heart as she scoffed, “What’s wrong, Mr. Ma? Could it be that your student got last place?”

  Ma Mingquan did not reply. His eyes bulged widely, and he seemed stunned. Qian Wenrui then added, “How well did that student of yours named Fu Zhi perform? I heard she was taken away by police officers because she murdered somebody? Could she not even have passed the cut-off scores?”


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