Chapter 781: Isabella
Afterward, he had the private detective investigate some basic information about the German Alice Apartment.
Michelle continued hypnotizing Jin Baiying and Zhao Jue, extracting their memories after arriving in Aisen Town. Their memories from the time they arrived weren't a complete narrative thread, but rather fragmented scenes, one after another.
Among them, one scene showed that shortly after arriving in Aisen Town, they were approached by several people.
Forced, yet somehow successfully, they joined a group in Aisen Town.
Michelle hypnotized Jin Baiying and Zhao Jue, making them describe the appearances and physiques of the people they had seen.
Then Chief Pete listened to these rough descriptions of appearances and physiques to identify their identities.
Of course, this identification process was relatively simple because they already knew about the existence of Alice Apartment and knew that the apartment seemed to house many deranged criminals and deranged serial killers.
Chief Pete immediately realized why the man Zhu Hong killed looked almost exactly like that deranged serial killer named Melo.
It turned out the two were most likely the same person, not just people who looked alike.
Therefore, to determine the specific identities of the people Jin Baiying and Zhao Jue had seen after arriving in Aisen Town, they only needed to compare them against profiles of criminals from around the world.
After the comparison, they quickly found the corresponding specific identities.
Once they found these identities, they discovered that all these deranged criminals and deranged serial killers—who should have been sentenced to life imprisonment or the death penalty and locked up in prisons—had actually appeared in Aisen Town.
Not in Alice Apartment.
Michelle and Chief Pete were quick to draw inferences, treating Aisen Town as a place similar to Alice Apartment.
Assuming that many deranged criminals and deranged serial killers also lived here.
For this reason, Chief Pete understood why there were so many cold cases in Aisen Town. It turned out most of them were likely committed by this group. These people had assumed new identities, pretending to be ordinary citizens living in this town.
And the most critical point was that they also applied the situation from Alice Apartment.
That was the lab rats at each welcome party at the Hua Country Alice Apartment. Since Alice Apartment had lab rats, did Aisen Town have them too? They were certain it did.
Then... who were the lab rats?
Unsurprisingly, they were the recently deceased people who had just arrived in Aisen Town.
Things like cardiac arrest, the scarecrows, the Aisen Bell Tower, and so on.
Especially since the two of them knew that the Hua Country person named Jiang Ran was also a lab rat, so why he had been targeted for murder time and again was completely logical.
But then Stella's accident left Michelle puzzled again. Stella was definitely not a so-called lab rat. So why would that car deliberately hit him and his girlfriend Mia?
Could it be that Stella and Mia were simply unlucky, becoming prey for some deranged criminal or deranged serial killer in Aisen Town?
But none of that mattered now.
At this moment, Michelle said, “I was originally planning to stay here a while longer, but Stella's incident made up my mind. Tomorrow at 9 o’clock, I’ll tell my students we’re leaving Aisen Town. As for Stella, I’ll help him transfer to a hospital back in America.”
“If something happened to me alone, I wouldn’t care, but I have to be responsible for my students.”
Chief Pete listened, forcing a smile onto his face as he gave Michelle a thumbs-up.
“You're a really good teacher.”
Michelle smiled too.
“Alright, enough about me. What are you going to do? Now that we’ve uncovered the truth about Aisen Town, are you still planning to stay here as police chief?”
The smile on Chief Pete’s face immediately turned into worry.
“I don’t know. But just now, I had an idea. I was wondering—if I caught all those murderers in Aisen Town and sent them away, do you think Aisen Town could return to normal? Or would it be that no matter how many I catch and send away, an equal number would be sent in to replace them?”
Deep worry also appeared on Michelle's face, creasing it with wrinkles.
“I don’t know. I really don’t know. From what we’ve seen so far, the mastermind behind all this is unimaginably powerful. Maybe it really is that no matter how many you catch, he can still send in different ones.”
“But at least we can be sure of one thing right now—as long as we don’t reveal anything about Alice Apartment, no matter how many we catch, we shouldn’t be in any danger to our lives.”
Chief Pete sighed again.
This time, the sigh was exceptionally long.
He suddenly found it so ironic. In his youth, he had also participated in operations to capture deranged criminals and deranged serial killers. Those operations had all been dangerous without exception. But in the end, the people they had worked so hard to catch were released by some mysterious mastermind to continue committing evil.
What did this mastermind even want?
Bai Xiaoliang and Michelle’s other disciples certainly couldn’t have imagined that their teacher and Chief Pete had hidden so many things from them.
Moreover, Michelle and Chief Pete were excellent actors—they had been putting on a show the whole time, pretending not to know anything.
After leaving Michelle’s room, the others went back to their own rooms.
One of Michelle’s female disciples, Isabella, accompanied Mia back to her room.
Mia was still in a daze, utterly heartbroken.
Every time she thought about how her boyfriend might become a vegetable, her heart felt as if it were being cut by a knife.
Tears always slipped uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.
After Isabella sent Mia back to her room, she didn’t leave. Instead, she continued comforting Mia, urging her to get through this.
“Let me get you some water.”
Isabella turned to get Mia some water.
In the corner of Mia’s room, there was a case of bottled water.
Isabella went over to get it, crouched down, and pulled out a bottle from the plastic wrapping.
Then, instead of standing up, she first looked back at Mia on the bed behind her.
Seeing that Mia was still wiping her tears with her head down, completely lost in her own world, she opened the cap of the water bottle in advance.
Afterward, she took a capsule out of her right pocket.
Opening the capsule, she mixed the white powder inside into the bottle of water.
The powder dissolved quickly in the water.
And the water remained clear and colorless after dissolving.
“Here, drink some water. You’ve been crying like this; you definitely need to rehydrate.”
Isabella handed the open water bottle directly to Mia.
Mia took it and took a small sip.
Then, under Isabella’s comforting, she drank a few more sips.
After drinking a few sips, in less than ten minutes,
Mia collapsed onto the bed, falling into a deep sleep.