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 IDs are required, so we can’t find

Boyce said, “Got it.”

was still worried sick about Jasmine, he decided

bid farewell to Boyce. She wasn’t coming back, and they wouldn’t have a

“Boyce isn’t here.”

did he go?”

you go to

“Could you tell me

Jasmine left in a cab after

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

which she switched off yesterday, not wanting anyone to disturb her as she locked herself up in the

to give Boyce a call. Initially, she wanted to bid farewell to him in person,

call, but the other

for navigation

driving for one night, Boyce finally arrived at J county. With the help of the locals, he managed to find Jasmine’s house. Her house was empty,

but asked a little about Jasmine’s family. It was pretty

father’s death, her mother served a sentence. There was no one else at home after she went

a tile-roofed house and looked to be in bad condition after being deserted for a long

seemed like it was inhabitable

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

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

in deep sleep when his phone rang,

his phone and picked the call up. Officer Miller’s voice

replied, “Sleeping

mood to

happened from Officer Miller’s tone. He hung up

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

to believe that any public officials have such a

course I believe you guys, but I trust Boyce too. I mentored him all these years, and I’m sure you guys are clear about what kind

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

this through. We won’t accuse Boyce of doing

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

involved him. If it were

mumbling lowly in his ear, “You got

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