The person in charge of the canteen quickly stepped forward to confirm the specific situation, quickly contacted the police, and directed the staff present to temporarily maintain order on the scene.Under the protection of some cafeteria employees, the area where the incident occurred was effectively protected.

William and Du Ruoying stood in the second row of the onlookers. From a distance, they could see a piece of white cardboard dropped from the victim's hanging hand. On it was written a line of words in distorted, ugly and weird dark red fonts——

"When the sacrificial vessel comes out, it must be served with death."

The box of half-baked lamb chops on the table is covered with a little white suet, half covering the rich cumin chili powder and chopped green onion and garlic.A pair of disposable chopsticks were messily inserted in the box, as if they would fall down at any time.

"It's an obvious poisoning incident." He said softly, "There are a few dark purple-red corpse spots on the body, and it seems that he has been dead for a short time."

"Well, and it doesn't seem to have been moved, this is probably the scene of the first crime." Du Ruoying said, "The victim and the murderer probably slipped in through the east gate that was not locked tightly in the middle of the night, and then he Induced to eat poisonous barbecue - then, the murderer is likely to be someone known to the victim..."

"Everyone—" the person in charge suddenly shouted holding a loudspeaker, "Please cooperate! The police said that before they arrive, they hope that everyone at the scene will not leave here for the time being. I implore everyone to cooperate, thank you!"

"What does that line of red Chinese on the ground mean?" William asked, pointing to the cardboard next to the victim.

"It says 'The man who killed me was Professor William'." Du Ruoying replied calmly.

William was stunned for a moment, and then showed a perceptive smirk: "Student Xiaoying really knows how to joke. I know how to write my Chinese name. After all, I saw it when I filled out the application form before."

She is really a girl who deserves a beating, and she almost believed her nonsense.

"Oh, since your Chinese is so good, you can translate it yourself." Du Ruoying returned him a mocking smile not to be outdone.

Unexpectedly, William turned around and looked at others.Soon, he spotted Gu Yue in the crowd: "Oh, isn't this our English class representative, Gu Yue? What a coincidence."

After hearing her own name, Gu Yue also looked at William weakly: "Ah, so it's Professor William."

"Exactly, can I trouble Gu Yue to help me translate the Chinese on the card on the ground?" He approached her and asked.

Looking at his kind smile, Gu Yue's cheeks flushed red: "That card... it roughly means that the sacrificial vessel was dug out, so someone will die because of it—as a sacrifice... "

More and more onlookers noticed the content on the card, and the discussions at the scene became noisier as a result.

"Sacrificial vessel? Is it the one dug out from the subway construction at the school gate a few days ago?"

"Ah, so it's a curse?"

"Let's stop watching here, this feeling is really unknown!"

"It's the 21st century, do you still believe this? That must be a murderer's bluff!"

……

Suddenly, a few loud arguments from Dongfang brought the buzzing discussion to an abrupt end.Everyone looked towards the east exit and found that two cafeteria staff were trying to prevent an emotional male student from escaping.

"Why don't you let me go, get out of the way!" The boy pushed away the cafeteria aunt in front of him, shouted and rushed out, but was blocked by several tall figures who walked in.

The newcomers were all wearing police uniforms, and Du Ruoying recognized Officer Yuan, Officer Lu, and Du Ruoxian at a glance.

"I asked them to make sure to keep all the people present. If you have any dissatisfaction, please come to me." Officer Yuan said, "But——you are in such a hurry to leave, did you do something wrong?"

The boy was at a loss for words: "You... What nonsense are you talking about? What can I do wrong? Don't spout blood!"

Looking at the boy's side face, Du Ruoying vaguely felt as if she had seen this person somewhere - but couldn't remember who he was for a while.

Soon, the police entered the scene and began investigation work.

Police officer Yuan glanced at the card on the ground, then his eyes stayed on the empty seat opposite the victim for a long time, and he ordered the accompanying personnel: "Make arrangements later, and gather all the people who know the victim together for questioning. talk."

"Okay." The accompanying police officer nodded.

Du Ruoxian, who had already put on his gloves, walked quickly to the corpse, and knelt down to check the condition of the deceased: "The corpse is still warm, with obvious spots and dark red color. Some muscles have strong rigor—" He reached out and pressed He pressed the arm muscles and the back muscles of the calf, "and the biceps and gastrocnemius were severely contracted." Then he checked the pupils of the deceased's eyes, lips and nails, "the pupils of the deceased were asymmetrically narrowed, A small amount of white foam remained around the mouth and nose, and the lips and nails were obviously bruised—it should be organophosphorus pesticide poisoning...I didn't smell chloral or garlic, so the probability of the pesticide ingredient being demeton was high...Death time The initial estimate is within three to five hours, but it still needs to be sent for further inspection.” [1]

Officer Yuan nodded, then looked at Officer Lu.Officer Lu looked at the lamb chops on the table, smacked his lips and said, "It's probably because the poison was thrown into the lamb chops. Hey, it's too much to spoil the food..." He rubbed his belly, remembering that he didn't even have time to take a bite of breakfast After eating, he turned around and said to the technician at the side, "In addition to the drug test, let's also test the fingerprints, although it is probably useless." The technician nodded, and then began to pack the evidence.

Among the crowd of onlookers, William's gaze was always focused on Du Ruoxian. His interested gaze was like a child discovering a novel toy.At this moment, Du Ruoxian was immersed in thinking about a small piece of transparent debris in front of him. This piece of debris was found from the seat opposite the victim. It smelled vaguely of a mixture of lamb chops and nail polish.

"Do you use this method to avoid leaving fingerprints, and it seems to have been painted several times..." He thought to himself, but his thoughts were suddenly cut off by a strange feeling.He turned around and scanned the crowd, trying to find the source of the strange sight, but it disappeared suddenly.

The crowd unrelated to the case was quickly evacuated, and the third canteen was temporarily blocked by the police.

After walking out of the cafeteria, William smiled at Du Ruoying and said, "Fortunately, we have nothing to do with this case. If you really come to record the alibi, then your brother will know about the fact that you slept with me last night."

"Hey! Don't make your words so easy to be misunderstood, okay? What do you mean by 'sleeping with you'? I'm monitoring, monitoring!" Du Ruoying said displeased.

"Okay, okay, supervisor student, then would you like to condescend to watch me go shopping for clothes later?"

Just as she was about to fight back, a call from personnel cut off their chat.The other party wanted to talk to William about the job change and asked him to go to the administrative office building.

"Did the one who was supposed to come still come?" Du Ruoying smiled gloatingly, "Don't worry, we will miss you forever, Mr. William."

However, William just glanced at her with a smile and didn't make any answer.

Seeing him so calm, Du Ruoying felt a burst of frustration instead.Actually, thinking about it carefully, if he really lost his job, it didn't seem like a very good thing to her.

Where will he live in the future?If there is no source of salary, whose money will it be spent on?If she doesn't take the initiative to help him solve these problems, will he take any extreme measures?Like robbing a bank?

The two came to the personnel department of the administrative office building together.The door of the office was open, and there was only one person in it.Du Ruoying found a seat in the corridor, sat down and waited, and let William walk in alone.After he entered the room, she got up and went to the wall, put her ears on it, trying to hear the conversation clearly.

"There is an urgent notice from above, asking you to be transferred from the teaching position. I think you can understand that what you did in the classroom has too much influence." It was the voice of the administrative teacher.

"Well, I understand, this is all expected." William smiled politely, his eyes casually glanced at the other party's collar and the desk in front of him, "However, I still want to ask you to help me. "

"Oh? Why should I help you?" The administrative teacher looked at the empty hands of the foreigner in front of him and asked in a cold voice.

William walked forward slowly, then leaned over and smelled the perfume on the other party's skirt: "Because——if you let others know that the person you cheated on is your colleague, it must be a very serious harm to your work and family Bar."

Hearing this, the administrative teacher's Adam's apple twitched slightly, and sweat soon appeared on his forehead: "Where did you know these things..."

"Ah, this kind of thing—isn't it obvious at a glance?" William narrowed his eyes, and slowly stroked the mahogany-colored tabletop with his slender fingers.

"You...you don't have to threaten me..." the administrative teacher wiped the cold sweat off his face and said, "The instruction from above was to let you transfer to administration. You can choose a position yourself. This is no worse than being a teacher."

"Oh?" William was quite surprised by this answer.Before that, he thought that what he did would inevitably lead to the punishment of dismissal.By observing Du Ruoying's expression, he was even more convinced of this, but now...

It doesn't matter, it just saves him from making another plan.

"Then let me work as a foreign language literature consultant in the library." He said.

"...we don't have such a position."

Seeing the embarrassment of the administrative teacher bowing his head and clenching his fists, William couldn't help but smile lightly: "Isn't this going to happen right away?"

On the other side, Du Ruoying, who was lying on the wall, was still trying to eavesdrop on their conversation.But the two of them seemed to deliberately keep the volume very low, so she basically only heard the sentence at the beginning about being transferred from the post.An uneasy mood gradually climbed into her heart.

What are these two doing?Why did a mere dismissal notice become a whisper...

"Oh, classmate Xiaoying, it's very impolite to eavesdrop." The loud words made her tremble all over, she turned around and found that William was standing in front of her.

Du Ruoying coughed twice to cover up her embarrassment: "How did it turn out, are you really not a teacher?"

"Ah."

After getting the confirmation, she let out a long sigh of relief: "Ah, I really don't know what you think. Don't you like teaching very much, why do you want to die like this?"

"Of course I am happy to teach students knowledge. But before that, I have to let my knowledge keep up with the times," he said, "otherwise I will become a misguided child?"

"...No, if your knowledge really keeps up with this era, it will be even more misleading." Du Ruoying complained, "Then what are you going to do next, become a vagrant?"

"Then why, I am now working as a foreign language literature consultant in the library instead."

"...?! What is that? We have this in our school?" She widened her eyes in surprise, "And... And positions in the administrative department are generally not randomly assigned to new faculty members, right? You haven't figured out the operation of the school, so you just start to operate the business, won't it be easy to get confused?"

"Oh? Is that so... That's really strange..." William thought.

The phone in her pocket vibrated suddenly. Du Ruoying took it out and saw that it was her brother calling.

"Hey, brother, what's the matter?"

"Is that foreign professor with you now?"

"……?!!how do you know?"

"Now take him to the third canteen."

"What happened?"

Du Ruoxian on the other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and then explained: "It has nothing to do with you, but please don't tell him these words - we found a 20 cm long blond hair in the poisonous lamb chops, After checking the basic information of all the school personnel, I think the probability that this blond hair belongs to him is very high, so I want to ask him to come and cooperate with us for inspection."

Hearing this, Du Ruoying looked up at William in astonishment.

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