How You Can Sue Me for My Crimes in Dreams

Qian Hua pushed his emotions aside and, after a moment’s thought, asked,

”How did she come into contact with Liu Wen?”

Li Jianye frowned.

Liu Wen’s death was somewhat peculiar.

Other than being bullied, everything about him perfectly fit the profile of someone Sun Yang would want to kill for revenge!

It was too much of a coincidence.

Moreover, his transition from working at a hospital was also very abrupt.

Where did Liu Wen find out the private school was hiring?

Did Sun Yang set it up?

But Liu Wen’s situation was different from Shen Miao’s. He could have left the school and escaped the bullying at any time, yet he never did. If it was for the money, he should have committed suicide at the intersection after his mother died.

Sun Yang’s personality... didn’t seem to fit that, either.

Although it was unknown how she evaded the police, there was no doubt that her personality couldn’t be faked.

But in the early morning hours, she revealed a different side, giving off a different kind of aura.

”Sun Yang used to go out to hand out flyers. The locations were random.”

Xu Huo spoke up, casually mentioning one of her past activities.

He wasn’t saying it was definitely the flyers, but that she had the ability to go out. And since she could go out, she could naturally get things done.

”Why did Sun Yang go after Liu Wen? What is her relationship with Shen Miao? Why did Liu Bo attack her? And why did she commit suicide?”

”These four questions are important, but they aren’t critical to the immediate case.”

”What’s important is...”

Xu Huo’s words were delivered in a heavy tone, resonating with everyone present.

”The killer...”

”...is still at large!”

Hearing this, the faces of Li Jianye, Qian Hua, and the others turned grim.

Liu Bo was still at large!

He hadn’t observed the police’s movements before making his move on Sun Yang.

It was as if he had calculated that the explosion would happen one second, and the police would be diverted the next!

So, the moment the police left, he crept in and stabbed Sun Yang once in the abdomen.

The wound wasn’t fatal.

Clearly, this didn’t match his capabilities.

For him not to kill in one strike was completely illogical!

So, this could indirectly prove that perhaps between Shen Yang and Liu Wen... it wasn’t a simple case of Murder, which is why Liu Bo held back.

”He left three minutes before the police arrived.”

”He didn’t take the stairs. He climbed down the outside of the building from the fourth floor. The police dogs couldn’t lock onto his scent.”

Xu Huo stated.

It was late October, and autumn had set in. The early morning wind howled. While not piercingly cold, it was fatal for any scent trail!

Forget the police dogs.

Even he couldn’t track the suspect by scent!

”So now... where is he?”

The heavy question hung in the air. No one spoke, each lost in their own thoughts.

Where was Liu Bo now?

Where could he go?

Would he continue killing?

Truthfully, he could have killed any one of them last night, but not anymore.

Cheng Yang knew the killer was out murdering people, that he had even blown up his family villa and killed his parents...

He was finally afraid.

He stopped attending social functions. Although he resisted coming to the police station, he brought numerous bodyguards and remained in a secure area at all times.

Besides him, who else was there for the killer to target?

”No one.”

Li Jianye thought for a moment, then shook his head.

The case had been pieced together this far. Even if there were loose ends, the most significant would only be Cheng Yu’s old cronies from back then.

There was no reason for Liu Bo to kill them now. If he’d wanted to, he would have done it much earlier.

Most importantly... they had nothing to do with his son.

”So you’re saying, his flight is most likely because he’s lost his target and become disoriented? That combined with his physical and psychological state, he’s just running away unconsciously?”

Qian Hua raised an eyebrow after a moment of contemplation.

”It’s highly probable.”

Xu Huo nodded.

Liu Bo wasn’t afraid of death, but that didn’t mean he didn’t want to live.

They were two different concepts. It’s not as if he was going to kill everyone on his list and then just sit there, waiting for the police to get him.

Rather, even if Sun Yang was his last target, he would still flee after attacking her.

It’s an instinctive reaction.

But precisely because it’s an instinctive reaction...

”He’ll be hard to catch.” Li Jianye lit another cigarette, frowning in deep thought.

Qian Hua couldn’t agree more.

If you could hunt a person based on the logic of available information, then you could try to deduce their location and arrest them.

But if a person acts outside the bounds of that information...

For example.

Everyone knows polar bears exist in the Arctic. But with no other information, try to state the exact latitude and longitude of a specific polar bear’s den.

It’s impossible. You can’t just guess.

But...

”We can lure him out.”

Xu Huo suddenly spoke up, proposing an idea.

”Lure him out?”

Li Jianye froze and stubbed out his cigarette.

”A sting operation?”

Liu Bo’s current state of mind was likely in shambles. He was probably extremely disoriented.

Disoriented was good. When you’re disoriented, you don’t run all over the place.

In other words, there was an extremely high probability that he was still in Zhaozhou City.

As long as he was here, he could be caught!

The police had no leads on Liu Bo’s whereabouts, but who said the police had to be the ones to find him?

They could make him come to them!

”Exactly. He’s most likely still in Zhaozhou City. As long as he is, catching him is just a matter of time.”

Xu Huo nodded. ”Of course, the shorter the time to capture, the lower the probability of unforeseen complications.”

The police understood all this, but...

”How do we trap him?”

Li Jianye’s brow furrowed.

”As it stands, Sun Yang, the perpetrators, the victims—none of them are suitable bait.”

”The ones who were meant to die are dead. Of those still alive, the focus of hatred is on Shen Miao... and perhaps related to Sun Yang.”

”But that holds no attraction for Liu Bo.”

”Cheng Yang?”

”He won’t agree to be bait. We could force him, but even then, it might not be effective.”

”Liu Wen’s death was very unremarkable. So unremarkable that the traffic police just recorded it as a normal accident. Cheng Yu probably doesn’t even know the man disappeared.”

”The same goes for Cheng Yang. He doesn’t even know Liu Wen’s name.”

Cheng Yang’s appeal as bait for Liu Bo was on the same level as those surviving graduates.

Besides, he wasn’t even cooperating. How could he possibly be used to trap the killer?

”Not him.”

Xu Huo shook his head. He paused, an idea—one that wasn’t exactly moral—surfacing in his mind.

He was about to voice it, but he stopped himself and fell silent.

Li Jianye and Qian Hua were suspicious. They exchanged a glance but didn’t press him.

Until...

”The body!”

Xu Huo took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

This case... needed an ending. A period at the end of the sentence!

The law isn’t absolutely just. Bride-price murders, human trafficking, juvenile crime, a life for a life.

These are all controversial issues, constantly being amended, yet never to everyone’s satisfaction.

And what are the police?

The police are a profession that maintains social order. And what stabilizes order? The law!

But then again.

The law is controversial, even among the police themselves.

Therefore, in certain situations, when their personal will conflicts with their professional duty, it can cause a kind of psychological pain and distortion...

Even Xu Huo wasn’t completely immune.

”Liu Wen’s body!” Xu Huo said with certainty.

As he said this, Li Jianye and Qian Hua froze for a second before reeling from the shock.

Liu Wen’s body was still...

At the crematorium. It hadn’t been burned!

”What is his motive for killing?”

”It’s Liu Wen’s death!”

”In other words, Liu Wen is the one he cares about most—more than Cheng Yang, more than any of the perpetrators!”

As Xu Huo spoke, he turned his gaze to Qian Hua.

”Let’s use Liu Wen’s body as bait.”

No one around them said a word.

And no one questioned whether a corpse could actually draw the man out.

Currently, only Xu Huo and a few others in the police force knew the body still existed.

Even Sun Yang probably only knew that he had been hit by a car. But as for where the body was taken afterward, or the fact it hadn’t been cremated—she couldn’t have known that kind of inside information.

By the same token, Liu Bo didn’t know either.

And now, in his disoriented state of mind, if he suddenly received news that he could see Liu Wen...

Even if it was just a body!

He would come.

There’s an old saying in the Eastern Country: ’In life, you must see the person; in death, you must see the corpse!’

”The body, huh.”

”It could work, but...”

Li Jianye thought for a long time before speaking.

”Who’s going to set it up?”

A sting operation didn’t require much strategic thinking.

Its success depended entirely on how powerful the bait’s allure was to the target.

If the allure wasn’t strong, no disguise would work on a man fleeing for his life.

But if it was strong enough, even if you practically told him there were police with loaded guns standing right next to the bait...

He would still go for it!

In this case, however, the psychological pressure of setting up such a trap would be immense.