Chapter 85: I’m Waiting for You

Chapter 85: I’m Waiting for You

For the launch of a new du product, has it really come to this extreme?

Willing to sacrifice five lives with unthinkable cruelty to cover it up?

Could it truly be as my deductions have suggested?

Xiao Yu was filled with uncertainty; his scalp was tingling with nerves.

In less than half an hour, Wang Dong returned, looking utterly dejected.

He appeared as if struck by some unseen blow, or frightened by a sudden shock.

“Figured it out?”

Xiao Yu gasped, “That quickly?”

“No need for further investigation,”

Wang Dong came to his senses and said in a low voice, “The Bincheng police just reported that Lv Jinyan suddenly went berserk at the hospital – he completely lost it!”

“Hypnosis?” Xiao Yu asked, confused.

Impossible—He Yu is already under control.

Surely, no one would intentionally trigger Lv Jinyan to fall into a hypnotic state.

“No.”

Wang Dong fixed his gaze on Xiao Yu. “It’s a reaction we’ve never seen before—a severe du addiction outbreak!”

“Damn it!” Xiao Yu cursed.

“The hospital had injected him with specially targeted anti-addiction drugs,”

Wang Dong shook his head. “They had no effect. Estimates suggest that this addiction is five times more terrifying than Hailuoyin…”

Xiao Yu’s scalp went numb.

What kind of du product is Hailuoyin?

It ranks fourth among the ten most intractably addictive du products recognized worldwide.

Can you imagine an addiction five times worse?!

A spark of insight flashed in Xiao Yu’s mind.

“So the people you intended for your experiments were really meant to die!”

“Because you couldn’t let the police witness this extreme addiction state, right?”

“And as for why you had to be so brutal…”

“You’re deliberately misleading the police to associate these side effects with the drug, aren’t you?”

“Trying to shift the investigation towards a twisted murder case?”

“Originally, experiments were held once a year, but you purposely moved up the sixth one—essentially throwing He Yu to the police to close past cases, right?”

“So the new du product has been perfected?”

“You didn’t expect Lv Jinyan to survive, did you?”

“It doesn’t matter whether he lives or dies. Even if the police trace it back to you later, it’ll probably be too late, right?”

“This addiction level is five times that of Hailuoyin… If the drug’s formulation is simple, you’ll go absolutely berserk?”

“You’ll flee with the formula…”

Xiao Yu looked up, his face etched with grim determination.

He recalled a previous case involving a new du product.

Who would have thought that a rural couple would accidentally discover a herb which, when boiled, could be transformed into a du product?

They began selling it.

In just a year and a half, the couple raked in three hundred million.

They named it… Milk Tea!

Eventually, the leaked formula led to countless du products similar to ‘Milk Tea’ flooding the market.

Nationwide police spent a full seven years to completely eradicate ‘Milk Tea.’

Can you believe it?

Every new du product makes drug busts significantly harder.

It means a new lure in the du industry, and countless families end up ruined.

If the formula leaked, no one can imagine the societal havoc it would wreak!

“Arrest Ku Shi!” Xiao Yu suddenly shouted.

“What?”

Wang Dong was stunned, “How could it possibly be…”

“The head.”

A National Security officer burst in and reported quickly, “Shortly after his release, Ku Shi vanished from the school!”

Bang!

Wang Dong slammed his thigh on a table and roared, “Damn it… arrest him now! Whether he lives or dies doesn’t matter—the du formula must be captured and never leaked!”

Xiao Yu thought of what he had suspected, and so did Wang Dong.

They both knew that the true ‘poison’ wasn’t the du product, but the formula itself!

Xiao Yu and Wang Dong dashed out of the lab.

In less than twenty minutes, special police and Armed Police had cordoned off the school.

But Ku Shi had escaped!

Standing in what used to be Ku Shi’s dorm, Xiao Yu said coldly, “It’s my fault. From the moment I saw him, I sensed something was wrong, yet I never expected him to react so swiftly.”

That’s right.

I had squinted at him; he shifted his eyes as if deep in thought.

He already suspected that I was doubting him, didn’t he?

Only someone capable of orchestrating such a case, conducting five years of continuous experiments on a du product, and being a… hypnosis master could pull this off.

Your IQ must be incredibly high, right?

Understanding psychology means you’d have to know about micro-expression analysis.

I could observe your every move, just as you could read my thoughts.

Oh… spare me the praise…

I’ve become both overconfident and brash!

Xiao Yu took a deep breath.

Never underestimate a criminal. Someone who evades capture for so long may be even smarter than you!

But…

Wangdie’s Nose!

A cold, icy smile spread across Xiao Yu’s face.

“We’re connected. How the hell did you escape?”

…

Xiao Yu burst out of the dormitory, following the scent as he sprinted in one direction.

He raced past the school playground, landscaped gardens, and administration building… until he disappeared beyond the school grounds.

But he didn’t really vanish—Xiao Yu noticed a storm drain cover near his feet.

Was it from here he had run?

Without a moment’s hesitation, Xiao Yu flipped the cover and jumped down…

……..0

Inside the drainage passage.

Xiao Yu inched along, following the scent until, after forty minutes, he looked up…

The drain cover was lifted, revealing him on a surface.

No, not on the ground—but in an underground parking lot!

Xiao Yu scanned the parking lot, frowning.

There appeared to be no surveillance cameras.

Was this part of your plan all along?

Did you deliberately use the city’s underground drainage system to evade surveillance and lead me into this parking lot?

To then escape by car?

No… you didn’t leave. The scent was still present in the parking lot.

Xiao Yu bolted towards an elevator in one corner of the lot.

The elevator led upward. As he activated it and the doors began to open,

Xiao Yu’s expression froze.

He saw Ku Shi—standing inside the elevator.

Not only him, but there were eight others.

Both men and women, all young.

But their expressions were maddened, their eyes gleaming with a ferocious intensity.

Xiao Yu’s scalp fired up as he recalled those five videos and thought of Lv Jinyan.

In the videos, both the deceased and Lv Jinyan exhibited the same state during hypnosis.

“You know, I’ve been waiting for you,”

Ku Shi, standing behind the eight hypnotized individuals, adjusted his glasses on his nose and declared, “I won’t rest until I kill you!”

“Ah~!”

The eight hypnotized figures roared as they charged at Xiao Yu, whose face had turned ashen…

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PS: Dear readers, today we’ll wrap up at 15,000 words over seven chapters. I’m truly exhausted—thanks for sticking with me!