A perfect crime? To me, it's full of flaws!

I received the hints inside.

Qi Feng and Guan Hai left the Municipal Public Security Bureau without stopping and headed straight for the hospital.

Arrived at the hospital.

On the hospital bed, Wu Yue, the seventh victim, was sitting, and a nurse had just finished changing her IV drip.

Judging from her facial expression, she was in much better spirits than last night. Apart from her face still being a little pale from being too frightened, her eyes had regained some of their sparkle.

The doctor was conducting an examination, and Guan Hai immediately went to greet him.

"Doctor, may I begin my questions now?"

"Yes, but please be careful not to upset the patient, and it's best to keep the time within half an hour," the doctor said, putting away his stethoscope.

"Understood, thank you."

After receiving permission, Guan Hai waved his hand, and the doctor and nurse immediately understood and left the ward, closing the door behind them.

For a moment, only the three of them remained in the ward.

Guan Hai moved a chair and sat down in front of Wu Yue's hospital bed, trying his best to make his voice sound less like he was interrogating a criminal.

"Hello Wu Yue, I am Guan Hai, the captain of the criminal investigation team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau. I would like to ask you about the situation."

However, Wu Yue looked at Guan Hai's square face, which seemed to say, "I'm a policeman, I'm fierce."

Her already tense body instinctively shrank back even further, her eyes timid, her little hands gripping the corner of the blanket tightly.

His gaze passed over Guan Hai's shoulder and cautiously glanced at the excessively handsome young man behind him.

"..."

Guan Hai felt a little tired.

He desperately wanted to yell at the girl in front of him: "Girl! We're investigating a case here! We're investigating a case! This isn't a beauty pageant! Can you be serious?!"

But for the sake of the case, he could only silently get up and give Qi Feng a look.

Come here!

Qi Feng understood immediately and sat down in the spot where Guan Hai had just been.

He didn't immediately ask about the case. Instead, he gave Wu Yue a bright smile before asking, "Miss, don't be nervous. I'm Qi Feng. You're safe now. The bad guy who tried to hurt you has been caught."

At this moment, the allure of good looks is unparalleled.

Upon hearing Qi Feng's words, Wu Yue leaned forward, clearly showing a desire to confide in him.

"We need your help now. Please answer a few questions for us, okay?" Qi Feng coaxed patiently.

"Okay." Wu Yue's voice was barely audible, but she finally spoke.

Qi Feng was delighted and got straight to the point.

"Twenty years ago, there were seven of you who came to H City together, right?"

Upon hearing this question, Wu Yue's pupils suddenly contracted!

She stared at Qi Feng in disbelief, as if she had heard the most incredible thing.

She and the other six people never told anyone this secret!

How did this young policeman know?

Qi Feng looked at Wu Yue, without urging her, and simply waited calmly.

After a long silence, Wu Yue sighed and nodded gently.

"Um."

Qi Feng was incredibly excited, but he forced himself to remain calm and kept his voice steady.

"Then why did you separate? Did something happen before you came to H City?"

This question, like a key, unlocked the floodgates of Wu Yue's memories that had been sealed for twenty years.

Her eyes began to glaze over as she drifted into distant memories. After a long while, she finally spoke slowly, her voice tinged with fear and confusion.

The story was somewhat bizarre, and Wu Yue's narration was fragmented. Qi Feng and Guan Hai listened intently, and it took a lot of effort to piece together the past from those broken fragments.

That was over twenty years ago.

Wu Yue has been an orphan since childhood.

No, back then she wasn't called Wu Yue; she didn't even have a name of her own.

She only vaguely remembered being led away by a man and then taken to a place.

That place was so far away that she couldn't see any tall buildings or houses, only endless mountain ranges.

She and the man who brought her there waited for several days in a small wooden cabin.

During this period, many children of similar age to her were sent to her by different people.

A few days later, a group of people emerged from the deep mountains.

They remained silent, leading the bewildered children away as they ventured deeper into the area.

They walked for an unknown amount of time before being led to a place.

It was a village built in a valley, or rather, a secluded village.

Here they have hot meals, warm beds, and new "parents".

In the village, there was a group of older brothers and sisters who had arrived a few years earlier than them.

In short, apart from not being able to leave the village, life seems pretty good.

And so, whether it was a year or two, she was almost forgetting her days of wandering when a terrifying thing happened.

Everything has changed.

"It was one night," Wu Yue's voice began to tremble, "I was awakened by thick smoke, and there were flames and cries all around me."

"It was those older brothers and sisters...they, they united and set the whole village ablaze!"

"Then, they rushed into the house, grabbed us younger siblings, and started running out."

She didn't know what was happening; all she knew was to follow closely behind the older brothers and sisters, running for her life.

The firelight illuminated the night sky, while behind them came the angry roars and chasing sounds of the "fathers and mothers" from the village.

"Run! Run! Don't look back! If you get caught, you're dead!"

This was the sentence her older brothers and sisters called her most often, in her memory.

Along the way, some of the slower runners were caught and brought back.

Some of the older brothers and sisters who were responsible for covering the rear disappeared into the darkness to cover them and never followed.

She doesn't remember how long she ran, only that her legs no longer belong to her. If an older girl hadn't picked her up, she might have stayed there forever.

They finally shook off their pursuers at dawn.

At this moment, the surviving children huddled together, trembling with fear.

Wu Yue counted them.

Including her, only seven young children remained.

And the older sister who was a little older than her was holding her.