The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 390 - 388: Murder and Dumping a Body

Chapter 390: Chapter 388: Murder and Dumping a Body

The two men were of similar height, but Smith was fatter, making him look more burly.

Yet Chu Yan easily snatched the chair away and kicked him to the ground.

"You, you all..." Smith panted heavily, glaring fiercely at Chu Yan, "Just you wait, I’m going to report you! M Country won’t let you get away with this!"

"What exactly is going on?" Huo Xun stepped forward and asked.

"I suspect he has killed someone. During the show earlier, he was particularly sensitive to terms related to criminal psychology, and his speech revealed a disdain and dissatisfaction with domestic law enforcement.

Smith, as an oncologist, wouldn’t normally pay attention to such matters unless he had recently had close contact with criminal activities.

On the other hand, many people who commit crimes and aren’t discovered by the police develop a kind of self-satisfaction. They believe they have outsmarted law enforcement and show disdain for them psychologically."

"If it’s just a psychological assessment, we might not be able to take him in for investigation," Huo Xun said, looking troubled,

even though he agreed with Chu Yan’s thoughts.

As a criminal detective, he had studied criminal psychology.

Many murderers, before being caught, often took pride in the crimes they had successfully committed. Some would even inadvertently express their perceived superior tactics in public.

"This is a baseless slander without evidence!"

Smith, having overheard their conversation, couldn’t help but shout loudly.

"If you arrest me, I will have my lawyer contact M country’s diplomats. You all just wait!"

Huo Xun furrowed his brow and said in a low voice to Chu Yan, "Do we have concrete evidence? He’s a foreign professor; we can’t just arrest him willy-nilly. If he’s ultimately released without charges, it would be hard to explain to M Country."

"He killed his female assistant in Hua Country, and I know where the body is buried."

Qin Zhao came over, "Can we arrest him with that?"

Chu Yan had noticed something off about Smith and the commotion had attracted Qin Zhao.

When she arrived at the studio, she saw a ghost following Smith.

The ghost was weak and about to dissipate. While Chu Yan and Huo Xun were talking, Qin Zhao was communicating with the ghost.

"Your former assistant was named Yue Xiaoxiao, who resigned from your service half a year ago. A month ago, you encountered Yue Xiaoxiao while on a business trip to Han City.

But shortly after you returned, she disappeared. I wonder if that has anything to do with you?"

Hearing Qin Zhao’s words, the enraged Smith suddenly calmed down.

"I did meet her. Since she was my assistant and had resigned suddenly without giving me a reason, I wanted to confront her about it."

Everyone else was silent, and Smith continued, "I just talked to her on the street for a bit, no other contact. My colleagues can vouch for me."

"But during your business trip, there was one night when you weren’t with your colleagues."

"I went out for a stroll. Can’t I have some leisure time for myself?"

"The fieldwork you were doing was in the countryside, in the rural mountains during winter. What kind of entertainment could there be?"

Smith’s expression changed slightly, and he failed to respond.

Last year, Smith had been hired by a domestic hospital and then recruited a female assistant from Hua Country.

This assistant was a university student, quite pretty, which led Smith to harbor indecent intentions towards her.

At Smith’s home, he tried to force himself on her, but the assistant smashed his head with a vase. Not wanting to let it go, Smith aimed to report her for assault.

But he dialed 119...

At that time, Smith’s Chinese wasn’t very good, so he couldn’t communicate smoothly with the firefighters. The firefighters thought he had accidentally hit his head and took him to the hospital.

Smith felt furious about the experience, so he harbored a bias against the police.

The female assistant resigned the day after the incident.

The matter should have ended there, but before this year’s Spring Festival, Smith went on a business trip with colleagues to the female assistant’s hometown. By chance, he ran into her on the road.

It was a rather remote countryside where Smith took the opportunity to assault her and then killed her.

He threw the body up on the mountain, and nobody would notice a thing.

After her death, the female assistant’s soul followed Smith unwillingly. However, her soul wasn’t strong enough to cause much harm to Smith and was on the verge of dissipating.

Chu Yan was sure Smith had killed someone, not only because Smith’s points of interest were different from ordinary people’s but also because he saw the assistant’s soul.

He couldn’t tell Qin Zhao directly that he saw a soul, so he used psychology as an excuse.

"I’m used to taking a walk outside after dinner!"

Smith thought for a long time and came up with such an excuse.

"If you want to frame me, you’d better have solid physical evidence! Otherwise, I won’t go to the police department with you!"

Qin Zhao first told Huo Xun where Smith had disposed of the body, an abandoned mine in the countryside of Han City, a place people seldom visited.

Even if someone passed by, the mine was so deep they wouldn’t see the remains at the bottom.

"I’ll contact the police department in Han City first."

Qin Zhao said to the soul beside him, "Think, is there any evidence that can prove he killed you?"

"He strangled my neck with a rope and dragged me over to the mine with it. I struggled all the way, scratching his calf with my hand. My fingernails should have fragments of his skin, and the rope should have his fingerprints."

Yue Xiaoxiao, as a medical student who had even audited forensic pathology classes, tried her best to leave behind evidence of Smith’s crime in her final moments.

But the mine was too deep, almost bottomless.

She had been dead for nearly a month before her body was discovered.

Huo Xun got in touch with the Han City police department, and they immediately dispatched personnel to the location of the mine, indeed finding a female corpse inside.

Yue Xiaoxiao’s parents were unaware that she had died, thinking she had returned to work in Imperial City.

Since Yue Xiaoxiao was a senior, she often needed to intern outside during holidays. After killing her, Smith used her phone to send messages to her parents, saying she had returned to Imperial City.

Following the discovery of the body, the Han City police contacted Yue Xiaoxiao’s parents.

They came to the police station, and upon seeing the clothes on the body, they immediately recognized their daughter.

The police confirmed that the body was Yue Xiaoxiao through genetic matching.

In Imperial City, Huo Xun first detained Smith at the Imperial Police Department.

Now they were waiting for the autopsy results from Han City.

Qin Zhao and Chu Yan went back home, leaving the rest to the police. If everything went smoothly, Smith would definitely be arrested and face justice in Hua Country.

Ding-dong.

Upon arriving home, Qin Zhao received a message from Su Xiaotong.

Su Xiaotong sent her a video and also asked her and Chu Yan to record one at home.

After the variety show begins, many promotional videos would be needed. This promotional video was supposed to be a couple’s interaction game, which other couples participating in the variety show also had to record.

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