He frowned and thought to himself, ‘Why is her phone turned off?’ She had no other place to go to other than the campus, which was already empty by now. He looked at the man and asked, “Did she say where she was going?”

The man shook his head, “But I think she probably went to the crematorium first, otherwise where would she put the body?”

Boyce looked at the time. The crematorium was already closed by now. He replied, “Okay.”

While pushing the door to his office open, he thought of something and called the man again, “Is there a record of her hometown’s address in the file?”

“Where’s that?”

“J county.”

Boyce asked again, “Is there a detailed address?”

The man doesn’t remember, “It should be there.”

“Bring me the file.”

Then, Boyce walked into the office while the man had to go and get the file for him. When he came back, he passed the file to Boyce.

“You can go home now.” Boyce took the file over and looked at the address section of her record. J county, which was a mountainous place, was quite a distance away from City B. Initially, Boyce wanted to send his men to accompany Jasmine back to her hometown when she came and claim the dead body since he didn’t have the time to spare.

She was a girl and needed to be taken care of.

But it looked like she left already.

Boyce closed the file, feeling uneasy as he sat back in his chair.

Public transportation required the passengers to purchase tickets with their IDs now, so if it wasn’t this late, Boyce could’ve found out how she traveled back home.

However, he was fidgeting from his worry for that girl.

In the end, he couldn’t sit still anymore. He took his keys and left the office. Once he got into the car, he used his phone to navigate the way to J county. After planning his route, he drove on the road according to the navigation.

Actually, Jasmine hadn’t left yet. She wasn’t planning to return anymore after leaving, so she was still settling her school matters for dropping out.

That was why even after the sun came up the following day, Boyce couldn’t find any of her traveling records after getting his people to check on it.

“She didn’t purchase any train, high-speed rail or plane tickets? There’s no record at all?” Boyce’s heart skipped a beat. ‘How did she go back then?’

we cannot be sure about this. A lot of buses don’t pick their passengers up at the stations, and no

Boyce said, “Got it.”

was still worried sick

Boyce. She wasn’t coming back, and they wouldn’t have

“Boyce isn’t here.”

did he go?” Jasmine

go to his house?”

“Could you tell me

her Boyce’s address, and Jasmine left in a cab after saying

she arrived, she knocked at the door but no one came to it. Then, she just sat

off yesterday, not wanting anyone to disturb her as she locked

was to give Boyce a call. Initially, she wanted to bid farewell to him in person, but it seemed that she couldn’t wait anymore and had

but the other person’s phone was

it for navigation the whole night. Currently,

to find Jasmine’s house. Her house was empty, deserted, and her neighbors said they had

a little about Jasmine’s family. It was pretty much the same

There was no one else at home after

looked to be in bad

seemed like it

the village at noon. He rested in a motel in the county for two hours before rushing back

long time had worn him out, so he went home to

deep sleep when his phone

Officer Miller’s voice came through, and

replied, “Sleeping

still in the mood to sleep? Come to the station

realised something must’ve happened from Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up the call and

He vowed to them, “This is absolutely impossible. I know what kind

to believe that any public officials have such a rumour too. Please trust us to

trust Boyce too. I mentored him all

was known for being upright and honest. He had a good reputation in the field and was

that. Don’t worry. We’ll investigate this through. We won’t accuse

Upon seeing the room which was filled with uniformed officers, he was stunned for

Boyce had a hunch that this situation involved him. If it were about somebody else, Officer Miller wouldn’t call him

his ear, “You got reported for bribery. These people are here

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