The investigation into the identities of the man and woman also yielded results; both were students at a vocational high school near the park and were currently a couple.

The victim did have an ex-boyfriend, but he is not dead at all. He went to school the day before yesterday, but his whereabouts are currently unknown.

Veteran detectives who handle criminal cases year-round may not possess any supernatural powers, but they do know a thing or two about the subject—even if the victim's ex-boyfriend really did die in the last couple of days, it's impossible for him to turn into a vengeful ghost so quickly.

Moreover, the whereabouts of the male and female victims were easy to track over the past two days, and they had absolutely no chance to kill the female victim's ex-boyfriend. Even if her ex-boyfriend wanted revenge, he shouldn't have targeted them first.

However, dying from cardiac arrest due to fright is indeed a classic characteristic of cases involving supernatural or bizarre events. Furthermore, while the female victim was somewhat disoriented from fright, she didn't appear to be lying.

More importantly, the female victim kept saying that the vengeful ghost would come to haunt her again that night, which made the police officers take the matter seriously.

With a "better safe than sorry" attitude, the Chengxi Branch reported the case to the Municipal Bureau, requesting the help of experts who specialize in handling extraordinary cases. The Municipal Bureau then assigned the task to Xiao Liu, asking him to invite Qin Huanyu.

Xiao Liu meant that regardless of whether the case was a supernatural one or not, Qin Huanyu should at least go there to protect the female victim and prevent her from being killed by a vengeful ghost tonight.

This request was reasonable, and Qin Huanyu readily agreed, as she also wanted to test the effectiveness of her arc rifle against the vengeful ghost.

After packing up her gear for the night's battle, taking a shower, and changing into her police uniform, hot pants, and a new pair of black pantyhose, Qin Huanyu set off.

Following her instructions over the phone, the female victim was moved to a relatively secluded two-story building in the hospital, where she was given a sedative and fell into a deep sleep. Other patients and medical staff in the building were also evacuated.

Upon arriving at the scene, Qin Huanyu immediately directed the officers in Xiao Liu's team to install spirit element detectors at all entrances and exits of the building to ensure that the vengeful ghost would be detected no matter where it came from.

Afterwards, Qin Huanyu used the arc rifle herself, and gave the plasma revolver she had used before to Xiao Liu. The other police officers who were lying in ambush also carried stun guns for self-defense, just waiting for the ghost to appear.

"...A vengeful ghost really has come?"

As midnight approached, the spirit element detector that Qin Huanyu had set up beforehand reacted, and a moving humanoid spirit element aggregate entered the small building and was approaching the victim's female room.

Qin Huanyu immediately grabbed an arc rifle and rushed to intercept it, while instructing Xiao Liu and the other officers to guard the ghost's escape route and be ready to finish it off.

The vengeful ghost made no attempt to conceal itself and was quickly found by Qin Huanyu.

"Ok?"

Upon seeing the vengeful ghost, Qin Huanyu raised an eyebrow in surprise.

She couldn't quite put her finger on it, but she felt that this vengeful ghost was rather strange. It was quite different from the various vengeful ghosts in the Investigation Bureau's catalog, and instead resembled a certain kind of being that she seemed to be quite familiar with.

The vengeful ghost was also taken aback when it saw Qin Huanyu. Its sharp eyes revealed a very clear mind, unlike a normal vengeful ghost that was full of malevolence.

'Could it be that this vengeful ghost possesses reason and can communicate?'

Qin Huanyu also saw the ghost's eyes. Just as she was about to ask a question, the ghost, seemingly fierce but actually weak, suddenly roared and charged forward.

Quickly, Qin Huanyu raised the Jade Kirin Type 1 in her hand and, without thinking, used a strong electric current to pull the trigger on the vengeful ghost.

Sizzle! Crackle!

A dazzling arc of silver-blue electricity illuminated the dark corridor, striking the vengeful ghost precisely.

"Ugh!!!"

The vengeful ghost let out a shrill tenor scream, but before it could even struggle, it was struck by the electric arc and its soul was scattered to the winds.

'it's over?'

Qin Huanyu cautiously checked the spiritual energy environment in the hospital building several more times with the spiritual energy detector. Only after confirming that the spiritual energy environment in the hospital building had completely returned to normal did she feel relieved and signal to Xiao Liu that the case could be closed... This was just a very ordinary case of a vengeful ghost attack. The vengeful ghost was weak, and it didn't even qualify as a Class C case.

Even without Qin Huanyu's personal intervention, experienced veteran criminal police officers could easily take down this vengeful ghost using stun batons and electric fence traps.

As for whether this vengeful ghost was the victim's ex-boyfriend, and what kind of grudges and affections existed between the three of them, that was none of Qin Huanyu's business.

Qin Huanyu was very satisfied with the initial results of the electric arc rifle.

However, Qin Huanyu did not leave immediately. Although she had completed her task, she was still curious about the case itself and decided to wait and see. So she went back to the apartment arranged by the police station that night.

Perhaps because the vengeful ghost had been eliminated, or perhaps because the sedatives and the therapist's words had worked, the female victim was basically calm again when she woke up the next morning.

Qin Huanyu did not personally participate in her questioning; she merely observed from the monitoring room.

When questioned by the police, the girl was initially hesitant, but after the police used some interrogation techniques and learned that the vengeful ghost had been eliminated, she told them everything.

The relationship between the three people is nothing new; it's a very cliché story.

The girl's ex-boyfriend and current boyfriend were originally good friends, so there was nothing wrong with that.

Unfortunately, her ex-boyfriend suffered a serious injury during a basketball game last year and spent almost two months in the hospital. He was unable to play with her anymore, nor could he provide her with physical comfort.

It just so happens that her ex-boyfriend's best friend also frequently visits him in the hospital, and over time, he becomes familiar with the girl... Well, what happens next is that nothing beats the fun of being with his sister-in-law; the ex-boyfriend becomes the ex-boyfriend again, and the best friend becomes the girl's current boyfriend.

After something like this happened, they were definitely no longer good brothers, and the two had a big fight and completely broke up.

But her ex-boyfriend didn't seem particularly bitter or resentful. Apart from saying a few bad things about the girl and her current boyfriend behind her back, he didn't act strangely for almost a year. He went to class and played basketball as usual.

The girl was equally puzzled by her ex-boyfriend suddenly turning into a vengeful ghost and attacking her, unable to understand the reason behind it.

As for why she went to the park's grove late at night, the girl answered readily.

Students don't have much money, and they're young and impetuous. They want to party every night but can't afford a hotel, so they can only choose rendezvous spots like parks and woods. They're cheap and exciting, but this time it was a bit too exciting.

This statement is equally reasonable and there's nothing wrong with it.

The police couldn't get any valuable clues from the girl, so after she signed a confidentiality agreement, they let her go home and rest.

It wasn't until noon on the third day after the incident that news came from the Chengbei branch that the girl's ex-boyfriend had been found dead in a very remote short-term rental room in Chengbei.

Since the case involved supernatural powers, the North City Branch dared not handle the body casually. Only after investigator Qin Huanyu inspected the scene could the forensic doctor conduct an autopsy.

Qin Huanyu arrived at the scene quickly and saw her ex-boyfriend's body.

After carefully comparing it with the vengeful ghost in her memory, the two looked very similar, so there was no doubt that the vengeful ghost was her ex-boyfriend.

Concerned that the body might still be dangerous and could harm the forensic doctor, Qin Huanyu carefully checked the concentration of spiritual elements in the body with a detector. Only after confirming that it was harmless did she allow the forensic doctor to remove the body for autopsy, while a trace evidence examiner was sent to investigate the scene.

Half a day later, both sides released their results simultaneously, but the results were quite strange.

The forensic investigators found nothing. Only her ex-boyfriend had stayed at the short-term rental apartment for the past few days, and there were no signs of suspicious persons coming and going, so the suspicion was basically ruled out as homicide.

The forensic report concluded that the ex-boyfriend died from electrocution, and that the time of death was the night after the incident, not before it.

In other words, when the female victim and her current boyfriend were attacked by the vengeful ghost in the park, the ghost should still be a living person.

More importantly, the forensic examiner carefully examined the scene and found no possibility of electrical leakage in the short-term rental room. The electricity meter records were all normal, indicating that there had been no electrical leakage in the room during this period. It was impossible for the ex-boyfriend to have been electrocuted in this room.

However, the autopsy revealed that the ex-boyfriend was definitely electrocuted, killed instantly by a powerful electric shock, around the same time the victim was attacked by the vengeful ghost in the hospital wing...

By combining all the findings, it's easy to arrive at a strange yet perfectly reasonable answer.

The victim's ex-boyfriend was not a vengeful ghost, but most likely a superhuman with the ability to separate his soul from his body and scare or attack others like a vengeful ghost.

He scared the girl's current boyfriend to death in this way. When he wanted to continue bullying the girl, he encountered Qin Huanyu. His departed spirit was instantly killed by the arc rifle, and his physical body also died from electric shock at the same time.

What was initially a clear case suddenly became complicated again.

Based on the investigation into his ex-boyfriend's past, he must have been just an ordinary person before. Otherwise, his ex-girlfriend and former best friend would not have been able to live so carefree for the past year; they would have been retaliated against by him using his supernatural powers long ago.

The idea of ​​a girlfriend cheating on her with her best friend is something no man could resist, let alone a hot-blooded young male student.

Therefore, the ex-boyfriend must have recently acquired his supernatural powers, and he couldn't wait to take revenge on the two betrayers.

So the question is, did this ex-boyfriend awaken his extraordinary powers on his own initiative, or were they bestowed upon him by someone else?

If he awakened on his own, he should have received some kind of stimulus recently, but what kind of stimulus could be more intense than his girlfriend and best friend betraying him? He didn't awaken last year, so the probability of him suddenly awakening now for no reason is really low.

If someone granted him this extraordinary power, who was it? Or what kind of being granted it? Is there some other conspiracy at play?

Qin Huanyu needed to consider all of these things carefully. She was not careless and deleted the case investigation report that she had almost finished writing. She wrote a new one and submitted it to the investigation bureau, hoping that the bureau would upgrade the case from a Class D case to a Class C case.

Unfortunately, the investigation bureau doesn't seem to take this matter very seriously.

There's no way around it; the Bureau of Investigation has seen far too many cases of people suddenly gaining superhuman powers and then reporting on avengers' crimes, to the point that they've become somewhat numb to it.

Therefore, the investigation bureau only allowed Qin Huanyu to continue to pay limited attention to the female victim before closing the case.

Qin Huanyu had fulfilled her duties; she had clearly analyzed the suspicious points of the case in her report, but there was nothing she could do if her superiors didn't care.

Anyway, it would be difficult to hold Qin Huanyu accountable if anything else happened, so Qin Huanyu obediently chose to close the case, dusted himself off, and went back to the research institute to continue developing plasma grenades.

. . . . .

More than a week has passed since the case of the vengeful ghost in the park grove was closed. Things seem to have calmed down, and the people of White Light City are living in peace and safety.

A Western restaurant with a decor style clearly targeting young couples, had quite a few couples dining there today.

Two of the guests sat side by side near the window, occasionally engaging in intimate acts such as hugging and kissing, chatting and laughing while dining.

Several times, the girl sat on the boy's lap, feeding him with long strips of steak that had already been cut into pieces, and then kissed him after he finished eating.

The boy looked like a typical rich kid, dressed in trendy menswear, and his flirting skills with girls were very sophisticated.

The girl was dressed in a rather innocent style, looking like a female college student. However, many of her behaviors were clearly unrelated to innocence and were most likely the work of a rich second-generation boy.

The two were having a great time eating and playing when another person suddenly walked in from the restaurant entrance, which surprised both the boy and the girl and made them change their expressions.

The rich second-generation boy's eyes were filled with disdain and mockery, like a human seeing an ant waving its mandibles as if it wanted to bite someone, unaware that it could be crushed to death with a finger at any moment.

The girl's eyes were much more complicated, showing nostalgia, guilt, but mostly anger.

Just as the two were preparing to be bothered by the lone man, he didn't even glance at them. Instead, he sat down in an empty seat not far from them and called for a waiter to order.

The boy and girl exchanged a glance, somewhat surprised... Could it be that he really just came here to eat steak?

"I'd like a ribeye steak set meal, well-done."

The lone man quickly placed his order and returned the menu to the waiter.

The waiter hesitated, looking somewhat troubled.

The rich second-generation boy's contempt deepened, and he couldn't help but provoke him, bursting into laughter:

"You poor country bumpkin, this must be your first time eating steak, right? Don't you know steak isn't actually cooked well-done? You're such a country bumpkin, no wonder Li'er dumped you for me! Don't you think so, Li'er? Hahahaha..."

After the rich second-generation boy finished speaking, he pulled the girl next to him into his arms again and kissed her hard in front of the lone man, as if to show off.

The girl called Li'er was just a little shy and didn't refute it.

"you're right."

Surprisingly, the lone boy didn't seem angry at all. He simply stood up and gave the rich second-generation boy a deep look, his eyes filled with unsettling arrogance, as if he were looking at a dead man.

"There is no such thing as well-done steak."

"But you can be fully cooked."

Snapped!

With a snap of his fingers, the lone man unleashed a piercing scream throughout the restaurant…

Chapter 97's clue is the white-stockinged maid.

"Damn it! It still doesn't work?"

In front of the full-length mirror next to the wardrobe, a red-haired beauty wearing only black stockings is leaning to the side with her back arched, her black eyes, as dark as the night sky, filled with anger.

Qin Huanyu only discovered a few days ago that the female thief [Yun Que] had not only bullied her severely that night, but had also left an indelible mark on her body.

When she takes a shower naked, nothing can be seen, but once she puts on pantyhose, a white lark with outstretched wings will appear on Qin Huanyu's black tight-fitting stockings, lifelike and visible to the naked eye.

Qin Huanyu burned several of her pantyhose, electrocuted the patterned areas, repeatedly washed them with various cleaning solutions, and even tried rubbing them with a metal rod, but nothing worked.

No matter what Qin Huanyu did, she couldn't get rid of the white lark on her black stockings.

Of course, the way the female thief [Skylark] left the mark must be some kind of special magic. If it is magic, it can definitely be removed by another kind of magic. If she seeks help from the superhumans of the ancient magic sect, the mark can definitely be removed. For example, Bai Ling and Cheng Hai probably have a way to do it.

The question is, is this something you can ask others for help with? Being left with a personal mark on your buttocks by the enemy after a defeat is too shady; it might even be used as material for erotic films.

At the very least, given Qin Huanyu's pride, she would never ask for help from others unless the pattern would endanger her life.

In fact, the pattern is not harmful at all. Qin Huanyu has tested it in various ways. It is just a simple pattern. Apart from making her feel ashamed, it is actually quite pretty.

'Luckily, this area is well covered by hot pants, so there's usually no need to worry. Just be a little more careful when wearing a skirt.'

After admiring her perfect figure by twisting her body a couple more times in front of the mirror, Qin Huanyu sighed helplessly and could only get dressed.

She quickly put on her black stockings and underwear. When choosing between a police uniform and a white coat, Qin Huanyu hesitated for a few seconds but ultimately chose the white coat, intending to continue developing plasma grenade technology at the research institute as a researcher today.

Just as she had put on her white coat and was about to button it up, her phone rang. When she answered, she heard Xiao Liu's unusually panicked voice:

"It's terrible, Sister Yu! You need to come to the station right away!"

"Your sister Yu is perfectly fine, don't talk nonsense."

Qin Huanyu made a joke, but her actions were decisive. She immediately took off her white coat, hung it back on the hanger, and began to put on her police uniform.

"Another case involving supernatural powers? Zombies or vengeful ghosts?"

"neither."

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