Chapter 320: The Terrifying Woman

Chapter 320: The Terrifying Woman

“Let’s start with the case at hand,”

Taking a seat again, Xiao Yu’s gaze locked on Feng Xiuyun’s face. “What was the real purpose behind the case you told Niu Xin about? Did you actually kill…”

“No need to ask,”

Feng Xiuyun shook her head and cut him off. “It was all a made-up story designed to grab the police’s attention. The murder weapon was fake. The Iron Block had been dropped off the Bridge three years ago, and I didn’t kill anyone three years ago either. I just happened to know someone in Bincheng had gone missing. As for how that person disappeared… I’m not going to explain. This isn’t a threat or a condition—unless my sister’s case gets cracked. Otherwise, even if you lock me back up in jail, I won’t tell you a thing!”

Xiao Yu’s expression showed a hint of surprise.

The situation was pretty much what he had guessed.

Feng Xiuyun had deliberately mentioned that ‘horrific murder case’ to attract the police’s attention.

Her aim was to break out of jail and return to Bincheng… using the police to investigate her sister’s old case?

Though she claimed there were no conditions, there were in fact terms already set.

The police would help solve her case, and in return she would reveal the truth behind the missing person.

If the police didn’t help, that missing person would remain lost forever!

Was that a threat?

It was, but not entirely.

Because even after the murder case five years ago, the police still hadn’t cracked it.

As the victim’s sister, did she have any right to be involved in solving the case?

The police could not stop her from trying.

Suppose Feng Xiuyun really did have a lead.

Would it be any different if the police ignored that lead?

Everything…

“Was this all planned out by you in advance?”

Watching the change in her eyes, Xiao Yu’s tone turned cold as he asked.

“Yes.”

Feng Xiuyun nodded without hesitation. “Unless you don’t want to solve the case!”

What a clever woman… Xiao Yu chuckled, “How did you know that the murderer from the case five years ago has resurfaced?”

Xiao Yu was half in disbelief.

It was perfectly normal.

How could someone locked up in jail possibly know what was happening outside?

Especially when the police knew who the murderer was, yet you knew too?

Is it science?

“I just knew.”

A cool, unfriendly arrogance radiated from Feng Xiuyun as she declared, “I intend to investigate this on my own!”

Hearing her say such audacious words in the softest tone, Xiao Yu nearly burst out laughing. “Do you have some sort of delusion about your current self?”

“No delusion,”

Feng Xiuyun shook her head. “If I hadn’t wanted to get into jail myself, do you really think I would have ended up here?”

Xiao Yu fell silent.

Exactly—this was the key point he couldn’t quite piece together.

Feng Xiuyun had absolutely no need to kill her own sister.

Yet she went ahead and did it.

There was absolutely no reason for her to end up in jail.

And yet, she did…

“That’s not a valid reason for us to be led by the nose by you,”

Xiao Yu shook his head. “Without a solid reason, you’ll never get out of the detention center.”

He wasn’t joking.

Without a special circumstance, a prisoner could never leave jail.

Feng Xiuyun looked down as if deep in thought.

After a long pause, she suddenly looked up at Xiao Yu. “Over twenty days ago, there was a victim who didn’t file a report, which allowed the police to investigate. She must have been hospitalized at XX Hospital. That bastard would always leave a mark—a cross—on the victim’s back after each crime. It wasn’t a tattoo; he used his knife to carve a cross into their skin!”

That’s right… Xiao Yu blinked slowly.

In the case from five years ago, three female victims all had the killer’s ‘cross’ carved into their backs.

However, after three consecutive cases over five years,

the murderer seemed to vanish into thin air, leaving the police with no clues at all.

And now, after five years, the murderer has reappeared again?

A little investigation would reveal the truth.

Xiao Yu glanced at Guo Qiang beside him.

Guo Qiang stood up and left…

Inside the interrogation room, neither Xiao Yu nor Feng Xiuyun said another word.

Time passed slowly.

About half an hour later, Xiao Yu’s phone rang.

It was a call from Guo Qiang, with only one message, “Boss, it’s confirmed, that’s right!”

After hanging up, Xiao Yu looked at Feng Xiuyun, then slowly stood up. “One day!”

Taking a suspect out of the detention center might be simple.

But getting a criminal out required a series of procedures…

……

One day later, outside the detention center.

Xiao Yu coldly glared at two female officers as he led Feng Xiuyun out of the center.

Inside the police car.

“How are you planning to investigate?”

Turning, Xiao Yu looked at Feng Xiuyun, handcuffed and flanked by two female officers.

“Let’s go check on the victim first,”

Feng Xiuyun replied calmly.

The procedures were in order, but… Xiao Yu frowned and asked, “Have you studied criminal investigation?”

“I’ve been studying for two years, all to catch that bastard,”

Feng Xiuyun answered through gritted teeth.

Xiao Yu could hear a fierce murderous intent in her words.

And… a hatred so deep you’d wish she were dead!

After more than twenty minutes, the police car stopped outside a residential area.

Shouldn’t it be a hospital?

No, because the victim didn’t report the crime at all.

0……..

She stayed in the hospital for only a few days before going back home.

Now, she was being cared for by her family.

And the case in question had taken place twenty-two days ago.

So how did Feng Xiuyun, in jail, know about it?

In one day, Xiao Yu managed to piece together quite a lot.

It was indeed a coincidence.

The victim’s sister turned out to be a criminal, detained in the same center as Feng Xiuyun.

How else could Feng Xiuyun have known?

Sixteen days ago, that female criminal had met with her family.

After a sentence is finalized, a prisoner is allowed family visits.

At the detention center, visits last 15 minutes at a time, and can occur several times a month.

In prisons, visits are up to 30 minutes, but no more than three times a month…

During that visit, the female criminal learned that her sister had been brutally assaulted, abused, and left disabled.

After the meeting, she broke down and cried, recounting her sister’s ordeal to the other female inmates in the cell.

That’s how Feng Xiuyun learned the news…

Which led her, fifteen days ago, to concoct a ‘horrific murder case’ to tell Niu Xin,

who then reported it.

Ten days ago, Niu Xin and Feng Xiuyun were escorted to the Bin City Detention Center, and the Criminal Investigation Team took over the case.

Up until now, Feng Xiuyun had managed to get out of the detention center.

A woman can go to such lengths.

Just as Xiao Yu had said.

She was a clever woman.

But also a terrifying one!