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?’

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

Boyce said, “Got it.”

was still worried sick about Jasmine, he decided to

matters and came to the police station to bid farewell to Boyce. She wasn’t coming back, and they wouldn’t

“Boyce isn’t here.”

he go?” Jasmine

you go to his house?” The police

moment, “Could you tell

told her Boyce’s address, and Jasmine left

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

to leave, Boyce was still nowhere in sight. She turned on her mobile phone, which she switched off yesterday, not wanting anyone to disturb her as she locked herself

wanted to bid farewell to him in person, but

call, but the other person’s phone

phone ran out of battery after he used it for navigation the whole night. Currently, he was buying a phone

of the locals, he managed to find Jasmine’s house. Her house was empty, deserted, and her neighbors said they had not seen her

leave immediately but asked a little about Jasmine’s family. It was pretty much the same as what Jasmine had

one else at home after she

house and looked to be in bad condition

seemed like it

a motel in the county

time had worn him out, so he went home to rest right away instead of going

in deep sleep when his

phone and picked the call up. Officer Miller’s voice came through, and he

replied, “Sleeping at

in the mood to

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

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

a report. We are unwilling to believe that

you guys, but I trust Boyce too. I mentored him all these years,

He had a good reputation in the field and was respected

worry. We’ll investigate this through. We won’t accuse Boyce of doing the things he never

to Officer Miller’s office without going into his own first. Upon seeing the room which was filled with uniformed officers, he was stunned for a moment. He knew who they were, but who were they going to investigate

that this situation involved him. If it were about somebody else,

him closer, mumbling lowly in his ear, “You got reported for bribery. These people are here to interrogate you, be

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