Pure Darkness

Chapter 34

We find out more about the 6th mysterious member of Yueying Animation Studio, Ke Qian, as our Scooby Team investigates Jiang Xueran's murder. Does anyone else feel that what happened ‘six months ago’ is very important to this case? Let's find out. . .

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The sky had yet to brighten when Jian Yao suddenly woke up from her sleep on the sofa of the police station room. The room was dark, except for the table lamp on the table that was still on. He dazed for a while, then turned his head and looked at Bo Jinyan who was leaning on another sofa, sleeping soundly.

He woke up lightly, washed his face, returned to see that he was still motionless, and even though he was on the small, narrow sofa, he was still sleeping completely. His long hands and feet seemed to have nowhere to go, and stuck out from the thin blanket.

Jian Yao smiled, walked over, put her hands under the covers, and made sure her feet were tightly closed.

“You really are like a little wife ..” someone mumbled low.

Jian Yao asked quietly, “You're awake?”

He reached out and pulled her into his arms, hugging her as the two of them lay on the sofa.

“It's very crowded,” he said.

“Theoretically, it is not crowded,” said, “Because you are lying on top of me. In overlapping circumstances, we are always like this.”

“Go!” Jian Yao laughed.

He also laughed, buried his face in his long hair, as if he was really sleepy, and did not move anymore.

He turned his face, stretched out his hand to hold his face, his fingers subtly tracing his eyebrows and eyes. Every time his fingertips gently swept his delicate and tender brows, and the back of his cold and hard brows, the admiration and compassion in his heart for this man seemed to always increase a little.

He didn't move, as if he hadn't noticed, or like he felt all this. After a while, he clasped his fingers and lightly kissed her.

“I love you,” he said, his voice soft and low.

“I love you,” she buried her head into his arms.

“Dong, dong, dong—” someone knocked on the door.

He pulled her to a standing position, tidied up her shirt, and then went to wash her face while she went ahead to open the door.

In the middle of the night, the office only has a dim light. An Yan's face was dark and solemn as he stood outside, “Jiang Xueran is dead.”

Jian Yao's heart trembled.

At this point, Bo Jinyan had already walked out from behind him, her appearance grim and resolute. “Didn't we send some people to protect him?”

An Yan replied, “The criminal had the key, opened the door, and entered Jiang's house, and the surveillance cameras were deliberately blocked by Jiang Xueran. When he was found, it was too late, Fang Qing was downstairs, he immediately went to catch up, but was unable to catch the killer. ”

Bo Jinyan lightly fused her brows, “Oh? Even Fang Qing was unable to catch the killer?”

——

When he stepped inside Jiang Xueran's house, Jian Yao did not feel too comfortable.

Any person who sees a murder victim with such an appearance would feel uncomfortable. It was a form of expression, a form of catharsis, with death as the primary means.

In her bedroom, they found a box of sleeping pills, and they have confirmed that in the last half year, she has a habit of taking sleeping pills with her food.

The killer not only has the keys to his house, but also knows his habits. So, he quietly entered the house around 2am.

In terms of the fact that the surveillance cameras were blocked, it was actually Jiang Xueran's fault. Otherwise, Fang Qing would have had time to save him, and could have caught the killer.

It has been confirmed through an investigation, when police previously investigated the apartment, they did not find any feminine white muslin clothing. So, the clothes, wigs, and daggers, were all carried by the killer. After he entered the bedroom, he first changed clothes for Jiang Xueran who was soundly asleep, then put on his makeup and put on a wig. He changed from a smooth and slender man to the appearance of a crossdresser man.

After which, he killed Jiang Xueran with a stab. Let him die with this appearance.

Fang Qing and the others could hear blood-curdling screams through the surveillance camera, it was made by Jiang Xueran at that – he was killed while he was in his dream.

“Can we confirm the suspect now?” Bo Jinyan asked.

“Ya we can.” An Yan replied, he took a hand-drawn portrait, and said, “It was from the night before the poisoning case, the witness, Gu Fangfang, saw the appearance of the person who walked into the studio. He draws quite well, he draws it himself. Through his confirmation, it must have been one of the studio's original founders, the sixth member, Ke Qian. ”

Fang Qing nodded and said, “The picture is quite good. Last night, although I only saw a silhouette, but the shape showed that it was the same person. And when we previously conducted in-depth interviews, we learned from the outside about Ke Qian's whereabouts. Only in the past six months has he no longer participated in community activities. Moreover, this industry has a lot of personnel turnover, that's why no one mentioned it.”

“I've collected footage from surveillance cameras near Jiang's house, by the time Fang Qing was chasing, Ke Qian had taken the road to escape, and two surveillance cameras caught her.” An Yan said, “We can 100% make sure that the killer is him.”

Bo Jinyan simply smiled coldly, looking at the corpse before her eyes, appearing to be thinking hard. Jian Yao took pictures and other information from them, and when she saw Ke Qian's image, her heart trembled.

The boy was tall and thin, 178 cm tall, short hair, his face was very smooth and beautiful, his eyes were slender, the base of his nose was beautiful and tall, his mouth was small. He can be called handsome and beautiful.

Undeniably, the image of the witness is very clear. Ke Qian had a pair of extremely melancholy eyes, wearing a piece of paper, as if one could feel a stream of silence in his eyes.

He is 23 years old this year, and last year, he graduated from Nanhua University. Back then, he formed Yueying Animation Studio with Jiang Xueran and Rong Xiaofeng. “The in-depth investigation” that Fang Qing just mentioned is that they have found some experienced people who have been in the industry two years ago, who have graduated and started working, and who have been in the industry, and by interviewing them, they discovered Ke Qian's whereabouts. But no matter how much Jiang Xueran and the others tried to cover it up, with the level of precision the police took in their work, Ke Qian's discovery was a matter sooner or later.

The information included some images, provided by Gu Fangfang; back then, he and Ke Qian had participated in the same Cosplay competition, so he had saved some photos.

However, everyone who looked at the photos would probably feel stunned.

It could only be seen that Ke Qian was in the picture, wearing red or white clothes all over the body. His hair was long and black like satin stretched out on his shoulders, a small red mole between his eyebrows, his eyes as deep and misty, his smile like a child, his white hands like jade. If someone were to say that the cosplayers they saw earlier were so beautiful that it made people's eyes sparkle, then Ke Qian's beauty and disposition were enough to immediately make anyone speechless.

“Fangfang said, in that annual cosplay competition, he won first place, and Ke Qian came in second,” An Yan added.

Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao did not seem to notice, and Fang Qing glanced at him.

“Seems like there is no information about him after graduation.” Jian Yao said, “Where did he go, what job did he do? Why did he leave society (animation)? And why is he back now?”

An Yan shook his head, “Gu Fangfang has also never heard of news about him. Said that it had been a good six months since he disappeared. ”

“It's time we invited those two people, to come back here again to chat.” Bo Jinyan lightly said, “This society, what kind of secret is it hiding?”

——

Inside the interrogation room:

After being told about the news of Jiang Xueran's death, Xu Sheng's face looked white.

“Who killed him?” he ended up being a little emotional, “How did he die? Wen Xiaohua's? Is that Wen Xiaohua? But she ... how could she be .. “

As he muttered to himself, Fang Qing placed a photo of Jiang Xueran's corpse in front of him.