Chapter 170: He Wants to Kill Me!

"Do you even know how to hold a conversation..." Yu Dazhang felt the other person was exposing his weak spot.

"Don't say anything cutting in front of a shorty"—and yet she, the moment they met, started commenting on someone else's figure.

Seeing Yu Dazhang ignore her, Su Mi immediately realized she'd said the wrong thing and hurried to apologize:

"Sorry, I didn't mean it that way, but you really have lost weight."

Qu Tuotuo hurried over to smooth things over:

"I noticed ages ago, no need for you to say it—go wash your hands, it's time to eat."

While Su Mi was in the washroom washing her hands, Qu Tuotuo said softly to Yu Dazhang:

"Don't take it to heart. My bestie's just blunt and careless, but she's a good person—no ill intentions."

"Not at all, your friend is pretty nice," Yu Dazhang replied with a smile:

"It's been a long time since I've met someone with such clear, clean eyes."

He could tell at a glance that Su Mi was the sort of girl who had been especially well protected at home.

Compared to Qu Tuotuo, she was obviously a few screws short.

After the three of them sat down at the table, Qu Tuotuo called out:

"Let's eat."

Saying so, she reached for the dish closest to her.

Two minutes later.

"Wow, this is really good." After trying a few dishes, Su Mi said in an exaggerated tone:

"No wonder you're this fat—turns out you fattened yourself up yourself."

Listen to that—does that even count as human speech?

Yu Dazhang barely restrained the urge to strangle her and gave her a smiley face in return.

"Your head is still round, but your face is obviously a whole size smaller," Su Mi commented again.

Qu Tuotuo glared at her:

"Just eat your food, talk less, don't choke yourself."

Yu Dazhang ate this whole meal feeling very awkward.

Su Mi kept praising how good the food was while critiquing his figure left and right.

If Qu Tuotuo hadn't patted his thigh several times under the table, Yu Dazhang would have flipped out long ago.

Gentlemanly grace?

There was no such hypocritical word in Yu Dazhang's dictionary.

Later he also figured it out—this Su Mi was deliberately targeting him.

No need to think about it to know that behind his back she must often urge Qu Tuotuo to break up with him.

They all say that between best friends, the advice is always to break up, never to make up—and now it seemed that saying was really not wrong.

"Why do I feel like you've changed a lot?"

Just as this meal was about to finish, Su Mi suddenly said:

"I'm not talking about your figure, but the feeling you give off—so oppressive, and there's this suffocating sense..."

As she spoke, she looked at Yu Dazhang, her eyes filled with question.

Enough already... Yu Dazhang's patience ran out. He raised his head and met her gaze with a dark, sullen look.

"Clatter"—the chopsticks in Su Mi's hand slipped from her fingers and fell to the floor.

That single glance made her whole person freeze.

As if something had seized her throat, she couldn't breathe, could barely think.

At this moment she felt as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, as though a knife had viciously pierced through her body, blood flowing freely...

She opened her mouth, instinctively wanting to call for help.

But no sound came out at all. A moment later, she let out急促 gasps.

"He—he—he—he..."

Su Mi stared at Yu Dazhang in terror, her whole body trembling.

Finally, she shifted her gaze away and looked toward Qu Tuotuo across from her.

"He wants to kill me!"

Qu Tuotuo:????

What the heck.

They hadn't even been drinking—how is she already talking nonsense?

She could also tell that Su Mi didn't care for Yu Dazhang, always speaking with a sting.

But for the sake of face, she couldn't just tear into her right in front of him.

If she did, Yu Dazhang would also be put on the spot.

But what was this now—taking me for a fool?

Yu Dazhang hasn't said a single harsh word, and you're already saying he wants to kill you.

If you're going to frame someone, at least have the decency to use your brain, will you?

"Su Mi, you've gone too far!!"

Qu Tuotuo couldn't stand it anymore. She stood up and pointed at her:

"Do you even know what you're saying?!" "Tuotuo, I'm telling the truth," Su Mi said with a sobbing tone:

"He—he really wants to kill me, that look he just gave..."

Saying this, she stopped, seemingly at a loss for how to describe it.

You really can't deny a woman's intuition… Yu Dazhang truly believed it this time.

Just now he had made no attempt to hide his emotions, glaring hatefully at Su Mi.

For one fleeting instant, he really did want to strangle her to death.

But it was only a passing thought — how could he possibly actually kill someone.

Yet even he hadn't expected that just that one glare would frighten Su Mi to such a state.

Can people sense danger?

No.

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If they could, there wouldn't be so many people dying in accidents.

But people can sense malice from another person.

Eyes, expressions, body language — all can convey that kind of information.

And such things happen all the time.

For example…

"What are you looking at?"

"Looking at you, so what!"

"Oh, damn…"

Feels awfully familiar, doesn't it.

This is the trouble a look can cause.

Yu Dazhang had personally sent eleven people off just yesterday; the malice he radiated would chill even the most vicious hardened criminal to the bone.

Let alone a woman like Su Mi.

Over the next few days, Yu Dazhang went to work at the detachment as usual.

The city bureau later took over the body-theft case entirely.

Although Yu Dazhang could no longer get close to the case, he could still pick up some news about it.

After all, the crime scene was in Hongkou District, and sometimes for convenience the city bureau would still request the Hongkou branch to send people to assist.

According to the follow-up investigation.

Over seven years, the number of corpses sold by the Hongkou District funeral home had exceeded initial estimates.

This was only the result of preliminary verification; if they kept digging, the final number would continue to climb.

The case also involved multiple funeral homes and medical institutions across several provinces.

The anatomy teaching and research office could only count as a minor player in this link of the chain.

The real bulk buyer of corpses was a biomaterials company.

That company not only sourced corpses from Songhai, but also obtained corpse resources from funeral homes in various other provinces.

This undoubtedly revealed the breadth and concealment of the industry chain.

They processed the corpses they had acquired, turning them into various biomaterials for sale.

You could say nothing was wasted — every bit was put back to use on the living.

The profits involved reached dozens of times over.

That company's annual sales even surpassed those of some well-known large domestic conglomerates.

They say the criminal investigators present at the time were all stunned.

These weren't animal specimens or anything of the sort.

Just as Li Jun and Yu Dazhang had guessed back then, the complexity of this case had already surpassed the previous two special cases.

And its reach extended nationwide, touching on multiple fields.

As the digging continued, an entire industry chain would be thoroughly exposed.

Inside the detachment leader's office.

"How much?!"

Yu Dazhang sat at his desk, staring at Captain Li across from him in disbelief.

"What's there to make such a fuss over." Li Jun rolled his eyes at him:

"Four hundred million is only the amount involved for that one biomaterials company."

"Just wait — once this nationwide case wraps up, the final amount involved will be a number beyond imagination."

(End of chapter)