Jiang Qing shook her head violently.
Her sharp fingertips scratched a deep, long mark across the desk.
"Xiaohua is not that kind of person!"
In Jiang Qing's memory, Xiaohua was frail, honest, and slow-witted.
Later, when they were each adopted, Xiaohua even wrote her letters, saying she would consider her as an older sister for the rest of her life.
However, after she started junior high school, Xiaohua's adoptive father took her and moved away.
Since then, Xiaohua never contacted her again.
After she graduated from college and started working, she had been searching for Xiaohua.
But up until her death, she never saw Xiaohua again.
Si Jingyi, who was leaning against the window, frowned deeply and said, "Could it be that Xiaohua is Shu Ti?"
Qu Weiyang nodded thoughtfully. "I think your sister-in-law is talking about Shu Ti. But your sister-in-law is truly amazing, figuring out so many inside secrets in such a short time!"
When she first investigated this matter, she hadn't managed to uncover Shu Ti's true identity.
Si Jingyi lifted his chin with a proud expression. "Of course. In my heart, my sister-in-law is an absolute god."
Qu Weiyang's mouth twitched.
Wen Yan looked at Jiang Qing, who clearly didn't believe her words. She didn't rush to explain; instead, she guided her patiently, "Think back carefully. When you fell down the stairs while pregnant, did you step on something and slip?"
Jiang Qing furrowed her brows and recalled.
At that time, she had been backstabbed by the students of Class Ten. She was heartbroken and in a daze all day. When she fell down the stairs that day, she thought it was due to her poor mental state.
But thinking about it carefully, she realized she had indeed slipped.
"That day, Xiaohua knew you were coming back to school. She smeared oil on the stairs in advance. Making you fall and miscarry was just part of her plan."
"You were backstabbed by the students of Class Ten, subjected to unprecedented cyberbullying, your boyfriend's father went back on his word and refused to let you marry into their family, and your miscarriage left you infertile. These three overlapping blows made you feel absolute despair in life."
"So you jumped off a building and committed suicide! Full of resentment, you became a vengeful spirit manipulated by someone, turning into a murder weapon in their hands!"
"Teacher Jiang Qing, if you don't stop, more innocent students will die in this school. Your wish when you were alive was to be like Teacher Annie Sullivan, never giving up on your students. You wanted to teach them all the knowledge you had, just like earlier, when you taught my second brother and enabled him to memorize such a difficult text in a short time."
"But did you know? The lesson plans you prepared before your death, the work summaries you figured out, and your unpublished poems and articles were all claimed by Xiaohua, the person you considered a good younger sister."
Wen Yan took out a literary newspaper. "Look at the poem on this. Did you write it when you were alive?"
Jiang Qing looked at the literary newspaper Wen Yan handed her.
The published poem on it was indeed written by her before she died.
But the author had become Shu Ti.
Seeing Shu Ti's name, a flash of fear crossed Jiang Qing's eyes.
"You should be clear now. Shu Ti is Xiaohua. She had plastic surgery, and she brought back an evil entity from Southeast Asia. Everything she wants can be realized."
"The evil entity satisfies her demands, and in return, she exchanged her most precious thing with it. The time limit is six years. The evil entity is about to take away Xiaohua's most precious thing. Xiaohua has grown accustomed to the dazzling world, and her desires have inflated. Naturally, she doesn't want to hand over her most precious thing anymore, so she thought of you."
"As long as she kills three more people, you can devour their souls and become even stronger. By then, she can use you to deal with that evil entity!"
"The final result will be that you, along with the souls of the students you devoured, will be reduced to ashes and scattered into nothingness!"
After hearing Wen Yan's words, Jiang Qing slightly lowered her head.
After a moment, when she looked up again, her eyes had turned blood-red, and a hideous, terrifying smile appeared on her face.
Si Moyan's tall body stepped in front of Wen Yan, afraid that Jiang Qing would go mad and hurt her.
"Jiang Qing, if you believe me, I can expose Shu Ti's true face and clear your name!"
Wen Yan took out a fingernail-sized piece of jade and handed it to Jiang Qing. "If you are willing to cooperate with me, take this. It can temporarily free you from Shu Ti's control!"
Jiang Qing stared at Wen Yan with a gloomy, ghostly aura.
Standing outside the window, Si Jingyi saw the scene inside, and his heart leaped into his throat.
"Officer Qu, do you think Jiang Qing will cooperate with my sister-in-law?"
Although he didn't know Jiang Qing's choice, Si Jingyi felt his sister-in-law was truly awesome.
To actually be able to negotiate a cooperation with a vengeful spirit!
An unknown amount of time passed, perhaps a minute, or maybe five. Finally, Jiang Qing nodded. "I will give you two days."
Wen Yan nodded. "Two days is enough."
Wen Yan and the others walked out of the basement.
A misty drizzle had begun to fall from the sky at some point, and the night temperature had dropped significantly.
Si Jingyi rubbed his arms. Being able to come out alive gave him a surreal feeling, as if a lifetime had passed.
The group arrived at the infirmary.
Qu Weiyang received a call from a colleague; the male student had been successfully resuscitated.
"Miss Wen, thanks to you. Otherwise, there would be another innocent, wronged soul in this school tonight."
Wen Yan breathed a sigh of relief. "It's good that he's still alive."
"By the way, you said earlier that the students who jumped off the building within the last month were not harmed by Jiang Qing, but by Shu Ti?"
Wen Yan nodded. "It was her."
Qu Weiyang was puzzled. "But we checked the surveillance cameras. She didn't have any contact with those students, and she wasn't at the scene when they jumped."
Wen Yan pursed her lips. "When my brother disappeared mysteriously, you didn't see her either, did you?"
Before Qu Weiyang could say anything, Wen Yan quickly added, "Actually, I was wrong at first. These students who jumped off the building weren't targeted just because they had good grades, but because they matched the blood types Shu Ti needed."
Qu Weiyang immediately pulled up the files of the students who jumped on her phone, her eyes widening slightly. "Indeed. The first one who jumped had type A blood, the second had type B, and the third had type O. But there are only five blood types; why did you say earlier that six students would jump?"
Wen Yan looked at Qu Weiyang. "Besides the Rh blood group, there is also the rare P blood type. And my brother has this exact blood type."
Qu Weiyang nodded thoughtfully. "If Jiang Qing devours the souls of these six blood types, will she become very powerful?"
Wen Yan nodded. "Yes."
Si Jingyi punched the wall, filled with righteous indignation. "That Shu Ti is truly despicable. It wasn't enough that she killed Teacher Jiang Qing when she was alive; even in death, she turned her into an invisible murder weapon!"
"Sister-in-law, we must expose Shu Ti and make her face punishment!"
Wen Yan raised her wrist to check the time on her watch. "Let's go. We're heading somewhere right now!"
