Chapter 47: The Demonic Murderer, Jiang Xue!

The floodgates of memory swung open, and Qin Chuan recalled everything regarding the ins and outs of this case.

Nine consecutive murders within a single week had caused a tremendous uproar back then.

It had even startled the provincial department, which specially dispatched a supervisory team to oversee the investigation.

As an ordinary police officer stationed at the Changning Town Substation at the time, Qin Chuan naturally had no opportunity to participate in the investigation of such a massive case.

However, he learned the entire sequence of events from the subsequent police briefings.

The perpetrator, Jiang Xue, female, 18 years old, was a senior student at the Zhulin County Vocational and Technical High School.

She had murdered four teachers, including Principal Liang Guofa, Vice Principal Qiu Guozheng, Dean of Students Cheng Liang, and homeroom teacher Sun Shaofeng.

Among them, Liang Guofa had his eyes gouged out, his hands severed, and his lower body scalded with a hot iron before being fed to wild dogs.

Qiu Guozheng had both of his kidneys excised; Cheng Liang had every tooth in his mouth pulled out; and Sun Shaofeng had the skin peeled off his entire body.

The methods were extremely cruel, and the nature of the crime was exceptionally heinous.

In addition, three students from the same grade and two graduated vocational school students were also murdered.

The methods used against them were even more brutal than those applied to the four teachers and administrators.

After successively killing nine people, the blood-soaked murderess, Jiang Xue, went to the public security bureau and surrendered.

Equipped with a visual enhancement skill, Qin Chuan looked past a distance of dozens of meters and could clearly see the young girl on the rooftop.

Although her complexion was pale, her features were delicate and her figure graceful, yet her eyes were completely devoid of life, just like a walking corpse.

Undoubtedly, Jiang Xue was very beautiful.

However, while bestowing upon her a lovely appearance, fate had denied her a happy life.

When Jiang Xue was ten years old, her mother abandoned her and her father, eloping with a barefoot doctor.

As for Jiang Xue's biological father, he was not only an incorrigible gambler but also a chronic alcoholic.

He subjected Jiang Xue to constant beatings and verbal abuse, utterly failing to fulfill his responsibilities as a father.

As for the four teachers and five students killed by Jiang Xue, in Qin Chuan's view, they thoroughly deserved to die.

Ever since she entered her senior high school year, Jiang Xue's sweet appearance and tragic family background made her a target of relentless bullying by her peers.

This ultimately drove Jiang Xue to commit the heinous crime of taking nine lives.

Qin Chuan took a step forward. In his previous life, he had not paid much attention to this suicide attempt.

Presumably, Jiang Xue had indeed jumped, but she did not die; instead, she was left permanently disabled.

That explained the phrase in the previous life's police report: "The disabled student Jiang Xue, having lost her mind, brutally murdered nine people in succession!"

Recalling the cause and effect, Qin Chuan withdrew his gaze from the rooftop. When he looked at Principal Liang Guofa, his eyes flashed with a terrifying brilliance.

These beasts!

Given what they had done to Jiang Xue, dying ten thousand times would not be enough to atone for their sins.

However, Jiang Xue was innocent; she should not be buried alongside these scum.

"Principal Liang, a prime-aged girl is standing on the rooftop threatening to jump, and in your eyes, it's just a trivial matter... just a temper tantrum?"

Liang Guofa was momentarily stunned, failing to understand why Qin Chuan's tone was so aggressive.

Yet, he dared not do anything to offend Qin Chuan.

Deep down, however, he harbored a bitter hatred for Jiang Xue on the rooftop.

Damn it, a little bitch raised by nobody, I should have just forced myself on her back then!

Causing trouble for me at a time like this!

Just wait until she's talked down, and I'll show you how I'll deal with you.

Up on the rooftop, Jiang Xue saw the police arrive and noticed the people below seeming to converse.

Still, it didn't matter.

They were all birds of a feather.

The only reason she hadn't jumped yet was because the sun had not yet reached its zenith.

Today was her eighteenth birthday. Since she had not been allowed to live in the sunlight, she would die when the sun shone brightest.

"Captain Lu, bring me the megaphone."

"Huh?"

"Huh? Hurry up, I'm going to talk to Jiang Xue!"

"Oh, oh."

Lu Zhiguo trotted back to the police car, grabbed the megaphone, and hurriedly handed it to Qin Chuan.

"Jiang Xue! My name is Qin Chuan, deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Zhulin County Public Security Bureau!"

Subconsciously, Jiang Xue lowered her head to look at the police officer on the ground. She couldn't make out his face clearly, but his voice sounded very young.

"I know your mind is made up to die, but have you ever thought about what will happen to them if you just die like this?"

Them?

Jiang Xue sneered on the rooftop.

Her mother had abandoned her and run away long ago.

Her father was an alcoholic gambler who hadn't even shown up when she attempted suicide.

Who was left to be "them"?

However, Qin Chuan's next words gave Jiang Xue pause.

"If you die, what about those nine people? Do you just intend to let them get away with impunity?"

Nine people?

So, this police officer wasn't talking about her parents, but those nine people.

How did he know about those nine people?

Qin Chuan continued shouting from below: "Jiang Xue, I'm not trying to persuade you, but I ask you to give me a few minutes so I can go up and talk to you."

Jiang Xue looked down at the police officer shouting from the ground.

Then she looked up at the sun in the sky. There was still a little time... probably.

Although Qin Chuan did not receive a verbal reply, this was the best possible response.

"Lu Zhiguo, maintain order down here, I'm going up!"

With that, Qin Chuan dropped the megaphone and sprinted rapidly into the teaching building.

Operating at full capacity, Qin Chuan dashed up the stairs at top speed.

He chanted inwardly: Don't jump! Don't jump! Please, don't jump!

The six-story staircase took Qin Chuan less than two minutes to climb to the roof.

Huff, huff!

Seeing the young girl still standing on the rooftop, Qin Chuan let out a sigh of relief.

Good thing he had made it in time.

"Jiang Xue..."

Qin Chuan approached her, but when he was still ten meters away, Jiang Xue spoke: "Don't come any closer, or I'll jump."

"Alright, alright!"

Qin Chuan hastily stopped his advance: "Jiang Xue, my name is Qin Chuan, the captain of the county criminal investigation brigade."

Jiang Xue nodded slightly, yet remained unmoved.

"I know you've suffered a great deal at school, and I know your family has put you through immense torment."

"But if you jump like this, what will happen to the people who hurt you?"

Qin Chuan knew that merely trying to comfort her was useless.

The fact that Jiang Xue could transform from a heavily bullied student into a demonic killer in his past life meant she must harbor an intense, deep-seated hatred for those who had harmed her.

What Qin Chuan needed to do was to ignite that hatred.

To give Jiang Xue hope for vengeance.

Sure enough, Jiang Xue's expression flickered slightly, shifting her gaze away from the sky and toward Qin Chuan.

Only now did she realize that this criminal investigation captain was so young—he seemed only a few years older than her, and quite handsome at that.

Qin Chuan pressed his advantage: "Jiang Xue, if you jump, the only one who dies is you, while those who hurt you will never face any punishment."

"Is that fair to you?"

Jiang Xue shook her head. Of course it wasn't fair.

Yet she was merely a student; what could she do?

Recalling her harrowing experiences, tears welled up and spilled from the corners of her eyes.

"Captain Qin... there's no way out, no one will help me..."

It wasn't that she hadn't sought help.

Yet when she told her father about being bullied, her drunken father muttered that she was just like her cheap mother.

Why didn't anyone else get bullied, only you?

Following that came a brutal beating.

When she reported her ordeal to her homeroom teacher, she was met with his lecherous, groping hands.

He demanded she take off her clothes so he could check where she had been hit.

When she complained to the dean of students, she was punished by being made to stand outside in the playground all day without permission to eat.

Refusing to accept this, she appealed to the vice principal and the principal.

Only to nearly be raped by them in the office!