"Ah—"

Another scream interrupted their conversation.

But this time… something was different, because… it was a man's voice shouting.

"Huh? What's going on?" Feng Bujue's expression changed immediately. "All of Xiong Ji's cases should be targeting women, or some kind of perverted behavior like exhibitionism. Why… is a man screaming?"

"Could it be…" Wang Tanzhi's expression also changed drastically, and he turned to look at Jue-ge. "He… has finally turned to men…"

"We have to go over and see…" Jue-ge continued.

"Yeah…" Xiao Tan nodded in agreement.

In less than a minute, they had jogged to the source of the scream.

It was a small alley located between the sports equipment warehouse and the school's outer wall, looking like the kind of… dead corner on campus where delinquent teenagers would gather to smoke.

At this time, both ends of the alley were surrounded by a number of teachers and students, so it looked like… something had really happened.

Jue-ge and Xiao Tan squeezed their way to the front of the crowd and saw…

"What the fuck?" Feng Bujue looked at the headless corpse on the ground and instinctively cursed. And this time, his words weren't censored by the system.

"That is…" Xiao Tan also stared at the corpse and murmured, "Penguin Assistant?"

Although the head of the corpse was missing, its identity could be identified at a glance just by its body.

"That's right, it's Penguin Assistant." Suddenly, Tu Mei's voice came from the side. She followed Wang Tanzhi's words directly, "The deceased's body type and clothing are consistent with Penguin Assistant, and… he's the only penguin in our Animal Elementary School."

"You came really fast…" Feng Bujue squinted at Tu Mei, as if he wasn't very welcome.

"As a detective, I naturally have to rush to the scene of the crime to investigate." Tu Mei replied, "Didn't you and Hayabusa Taro come very quickly too?"

"Oh oh~ This tense atmosphere!" Two seconds later, Xiong Ji's voice rang out. This guy didn't know where he came from, looking excitedly at Jue-ge and the others, reciting, "This case is just right! I can see Tu Mei-jiang and the Cat-Falcon duo's reasoning showdown!"

Before he finished speaking, the eyes of Feng Bujue, Wang Tanzhi, and Tu Mei three "people" were all fixed on Xiong Ji.

"This guy…" At this moment, Jue-ge stared at Xiong Ji, his balls aching, and complained in his heart, "He's still covered in blood… and he just shows up at the scene of the crime…"

Xiao Tan was chanting in his heart: "This is bad… the way he is… even if I'm willing to help him confess, it may not work…"

Even though the two players were in a state of panic, Xiong Ji himself still looked like he was uninvolved, as if it really wasn't his doing.

"Ah! Tu Mei-jiang's eyes have become sharp!" When Tu Mei stared at him, he still explained in his usual tone, "That look… represents that Tu Mei-jiang is concentrating on the case, and her inspiration is working at high speed. Due to this characteristic… she has also received the nickname 'Big Eyes'. As expected of Tu Mei-jiang, is she already close to the truth of the case…"

After reciting this long passage, Xiong Ji looked at Feng Bujue and Wang Tanzhi again, his expression tense, and said with a forced smile, "Hehe… it seems that this victory is already in Tu Mei-jiang's bag… Cat Saburo, Hayabusa Taro."

"Xiao Tan." Feng Bujue said coldly, staring with dead fish eyes.

"What?" Wang Tanzhi also replied in a lifeless tone.

"What we agreed on just now…" Jue-ge continued, "You handle this case…"

"Can I beat him up first?" Xiao Tan asked.

"No." Feng Bujue replied firmly, "Do you want to be taken away by the police for intentional injury and then leave this mess to me? Don't even think about it…"

While the two of them were talking in low voices, Tu Mei had already taken out her phone to call the police.

"Hello? Police station? A murder has occurred at Animal Elementary School." Tu Mei said to the other end of the phone, "Yes, the murderer has already been found, his name is Xiong Ji. Okay, please come as soon as possible." With that, she hung up the phone.

Not long after, the police car arrived… the police officer who came to handle the case was still Inu-no-suke.

"It's you again?" After looking at the corpse, Inu-no-suke came to Xiong Ji and said as such.

"Uh… I…" Xiong Ji was about to speak…

"Hold on!" But a voice interrupted him.

In an instant, all the onlookers on the scene turned their heads to look at the speaker.

"Who the murderer is… is not certain yet!" Wang Tanzhi forcibly put on a profound expression and shouted loudly.

"Oh… well done…" Feng Bujue, who was watching the show from the side, showed a gloating smile and thought, "Scaring others with momentum first is indeed a good strategy."

"What are you talking about? Hayabusa Taro." Tu Mei walked to Xiao Tan's side and pointed at Xiong Ji. "Look, his hands are still covered in blood, and his boots have left bloody footprints."

"So what?" Xiao Tan answered quickly, but he hadn't thought about what to say next at all, so he could only think as he spoke, "Maybe… he just arrived at the scene earlier than others, and accidentally got it on himself when he discovered the body!"

"You're pretty good too…" Feng Bujue squinted and thought, "You can even make up something that sounds plausible…"

"Uh… the first person to arrive at the scene should be me…" Unexpectedly, at this time, another guy with a monkey face came out, "When the scream rang out, I was nearby, and I ran over in less than ten seconds."

"Oh, it's Saru-kichi." Tu Mei looked at the monkey and said, "In that case, did you see anything at that time?"

"At that time…" Saru-kichi recalled, "I was washing my hands at the sink on the back of the sports equipment warehouse. When I heard the scream, I ran over quickly. When I ran to the opposite alley entrance… I happened to see a black shadow, he was holding a knife in his left hand and carrying a dark thing in his right hand, running out of this end of the alley. So I immediately chased after him, but when I came out of this end of the alley, the shadow was gone." He paused, "A dozen seconds later, everyone was attracted by the scream."

"That's right." Tu Mei continued, "What you saw at that time was Xiong Ji, who had just committed the crime." She pointed to the bloody footprints on the ground, "Judging from the footprints, after he killed Penguin Assistant, he immediately ran out of this end of the alley and turned into the sports equipment warehouse." She looked up at the front door of the warehouse again, "After he discarded Penguin Assistant's head and the murder weapon inside, he came out again and mingled with the crowd."

"Damn it!"

The next second, Xiao Tan shouted "Damn it" loudly.

After he said "Damn it," he fell silent again…

"He didn't think of any lines at all… so he just said 'Damn it' first…" Feng Bujue, as Xiao Tan's best friend, saw through the latter's behavior at this time.

"What's wrong?" Inu-no-suke and Tu Mei asked Xiao Tan almost in unison.

"You can just say whatever you want?" After using his quick wit for these few seconds, Xiao Tan had thought of the next step in his response. "No pictures… oh no… no physical evidence, you say [beep]!"

"That's right." Officer Inu-no-suke actually agreed after hearing this, but he immediately changed the subject, "It's better to search the warehouse first." As he spoke, he had already "pulled" Xiong Ji (to be on the safe side, Inu-no-suke had already tied Xiong Ji up) towards the sports equipment warehouse.

"Eh?" Xiao Tan panicked immediately. This was going to lead to catching someone red-handed. "Wait for me…" He quickly chased after him.

A minute later, police officer Inu-no-suke, suspect Xiong Ji, witness Saru-kichi, and three "famous detectives" Tu Mei, Cat Saburo, and Hayabusa Taro, came to the sports equipment warehouse together.

"Oh… it's just thrown here?" Inu-no-suke didn't bother to search much, and found a bloody head and a blood-stained knife under the wall facing the warehouse door.

"Look, it really was done by Xiong Ji-kun." Tu Mei continued, "From here to the floor on the opposite side of the wall, you can clearly see a round-trip blood footprint, this is obviously…"

"I know!" Suddenly, Wang Tanzhi shouted, interrupting Tu Mei's words, "The real murderer in this case is…" He pointed a wing at one of the six people present.