I raise furry animals and fly them to my motherland.

Chapter 312 Strangers at the Rescue Station
Ji Xuehui said arrogantly, "Why would I eat a self-heating hot pot? Tomorrow I'll treat you to sour beef hot pot!"

Ji Xuehui and her colleagues excitedly took photos of the tools used in the crime and tightened the evidence bags.

Xu Ying no longer needed her here. She picked up the snow-sweeping weasel, "[Snow White, let's go back to our wooden house~]"
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The next morning, Xu Ying carried a refrigerated water tank and followed the police to Xishan Pharmaceutical Research Company.

When Zhao Yicheng was called to the supervisor's office, he saw the police officers inside and looked surprised: "Officers, what's going on here?"

Zhao Yicheng is very tall, estimated to be around 1.83 meters, with regular features, which fits the image of a handsome senior in the minds of girls.

Ji Xuehui took out the fingerprint extraction tool: "Please cooperate with us to extract your fingerprints."

"Are you implying I'm a murderer? Are you kidding me?"

Zhao Yicheng gave a helpless, bitter smile, feeling offended by being suspected of being a murderer: "I've been traveling for work these past few days."

Ji Xuehui looked at him coldly and said, "Stop talking nonsense and put your hands on top of me."

Zhao Yicheng reached out and placed his fingerprint on the fingerprint extraction machine.

Xu Ying then shoved the refrigerated water tank in front of Zhao Yicheng.

"Who are you? What are you doing carrying this bucket of fish?" Zhao Yicheng was puzzled and instinctively tried to dodge.

Police officers immediately pinned him down from behind.

Xu Ying smiled faintly at him: "This is a psychological test that can determine whether a person is a suspect in a case."

"You're sure you're not just kidding me? There are psychological tests like this?"

Zhao Yicheng shrugged: "If it really works, then we won't need criminal police to solve cases."

Xu Ying looked at his calm and composed appearance, and then looked through the transparent glass at the witness fish in the frozen water tank that was excitedly blowing bubbles and wagging its tail.

The whitebait in the tank were frantically alerting Xu Ying: [Station Chief Xu, this is the person who threw the body down the ice hole that day!]
Xu Ying smiled. "The psychological test results are in."

"What's the result?" Zhao Yicheng asked calmly. "This fish is telling you that I'm a murderer, and your police are going to arrest me based on this psychological test result?"

"This isn't in accordance with the rules, is it? Have I offended someone?"

Seeing that the murderer still had an innocent and fearless expression, Xu Ying hardened her fist: "Whether you did something wrong or not, you know it in your heart."

Ji Xuehui handed over the collected fingerprint samples to the technicians in the identification department.

He then turned to Zhao Yicheng and said, "The fingerprint comparison results will be available in about an hour. Mr. Zhao, please stay at the company for the next hour and do not leave your post without permission."

Zhao Yicheng straightened his white coat: "The project is on a tight schedule recently, so of course I won't be leaving."

After saying that, he left the office and strode away.

The fingerprint comparison results came out an hour later.

Ji Xuehui suppressed her excitement and led two police officers to Zhao Yicheng's laboratory. Without saying a word, she handcuffed Zhao Yicheng and dragged him out of the laboratory.

The scene drew a large crowd from the company, as Zhao Yicheng was a well-known figure. "My God, is Senior Brother Zhao the murderer?"

"Wasn't Senior Brother Zhao on a business trip? How could he have killed Lin Qing at that time?"

"Senior Brother Zhao and Lin Qing had no grudges against each other and were not even acquainted. Why would he kill Lin Qing?"

……

When Zhao Yicheng was taken away from the laboratory by the police, his face still showed disbelief and anger.

His voice trembled slightly with anger: "Is this how carelessly you police handle cases? You arrest people without any solid evidence?"

Ji Xuehui's expression was cold as she took out a silver key from the evidence bag: "This is the laboratory key we found next to the body of the deceased Lin Qing. It contains both your fingerprints and the deceased's fingerprints."

"That's impossible." Zhao Yicheng's pupils suddenly contracted, then he forced himself to remain calm and said, "I did lose a key, and it was picked up by Lin Qing from the same company. Does that prove that I killed someone?"

Xu Ying stepped forward slowly and tapped the test report on the tablet with her fingertip: "Officer Ji hasn't finished speaking yet. Your fingerprints not only appeared on the key, but also match perfectly with the murder weapon we found at the bottom of the snow cliff."

"Absurd!" Zhao Yicheng broke out in a cold sweat upon hearing the words "tool of the crime." "I was on a business trip on the day of the incident; I wasn't even in this city!"

Ji Xuehui sneered: "According to the airline records, you did buy a ticket, but you didn't board the plane at all. Instead, you changed to another flight the next morning."

"That's because...because of an unexpected situation that caused the delay!" Zhao Yicheng's voice began to waver. "Airport staff can testify that I spent the entire night in the waiting area!"

“Eyewitnesses can be bribed,” Ji Xuehui pressed on. “But the rope used to strangle Lin Qing and the nylon bag used to transport the body only had your fingerprints detected. How do you explain that?”

Zhao Yicheng opened his mouth, but no sound came out. The gazes of his colleagues around him felt like needles on his back, and their whispers slithered into his ears like venomous snakes:

"I never expected that Senior Zhao, who is usually so gentle and refined, would..."

"Lin Qing was really strangled to death by Senior Zhao. How cruel! Why would he do that?"

"You can know a person's face but not their heart."

Amidst the horrified gazes of the crowd, Zhao Yicheng's legs went weak, and as the police helped him out, his suit trousers trembled uncontrollably. He glanced back at the laboratory one last time, his eyes unfocused.

Xu Ying poked at the transparent glass of the chilled water tank: "Thank you, little fish~"

Xu Ying sprinkled a handful of fish food into the transparent tank, and the whitebait inside swam happily, swallowing each fish in one gulp.

You're welcome, Station Master Xu. I've been eating well these past few days too~
[The fish food you made smells amazing!]
The whitebait swam comfortably on their backs in the tank. [Station Chief Xu, when are we going back to the Ice Lake?]
Xu Ying carried the chilled water tank back to the police car and asked with a smile, "You're homesick already? Is the environment here uncomfortable?"

The mountain whitebait replied earnestly: [Although I'm having a great time lying in this little villa, eating and drinking, I'm already starting to miss my little fish friends from the frozen lake~]
"Okay, I'll take you home today." Xu Ying looked at the receding scenery in the rearview mirror; it was time for her to go home too.

At noon, Ji Xuehui treated Xu Ying to a hot pot meal of sour beef soup. In the afternoon, officers from the Xishan Police Station drove Xu Ying to the foot of Xishan Mountain, where Xu Ying's snowmobile was parked in the parking lot.

Xu Ying sped along, and an hour later, the snowmobile approached the rescue station.

She saw two girls with somewhat childish faces sitting on the steps at the entrance of the rescue station from afar.

(End of this chapter)