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Tan Ming glanced at the instigator but chose to ignore him. He spoke sternly, "Anyone who has come into contact with the fish soup, including those who merely passed by it, step forward!"
Dozens of people emerged, including Qi Qiuluo, Xu Le, and others. Among them were Li Jianping, Master Ban, and Dr. Wang, who stepped forward prominently.
"Everyone can testify. Who saw anyone approach the big pot closely?" Tan Ming asked.
"I did," Li Jianping replied. The fish soup was his creation, making him the most suspicious person.
"Old Li was just cooking for everyone; it couldn't have been him. If he wanted to harm us, he would have poisoned us long ago," Master Ban interjected.
Li Jianping added, "I didn't poison it. I was fully conscious the whole time and didn't faint. I can assure you it wasn't me."
"Just because you say it wasn't you doesn't mean it's true! Anyone can claim innocence! Last time's fire, you also said you didn't start it, yet here we are—words alone can turn black into white!" Xu Le retorted angrily.
"It really wasn't me! Why are you fixating on me?" Li Jianping shot back, his frustration evident.
"Am I fixating on you? Last time at the restaurant, you knocked me out, and now with the poisoning, you were right there again. Is this just coincidence?" Xu Le's gaze was icy.
He could not let go of Zhang Yan's death. He could not bear to watch Zhang Yan die helplessly before his eyes! He had to find and punish the one responsible for Zhang Yan's death!
"Who knew I would be this unlucky?!" Li Jianping shouted, his voice much rougher than Xu Le's.
Xu Le shot a glance at him, unwilling to engage in meaningless arguments anymore because he had already concluded that Li Jianping was the poisoner.
Then it was Zhang Liu's turn. "I approached the fish soup to see what was being cooked," he said. However, he turned to Qi Qiuluo and pointed at him. "I suspect him."
Qi Qiuluo pointed at himself in disbelief. "Me?"
"Why did you give the fish soup to someone else earlier? Did you already know it was poisoned?" Zhang Liu asked sharply.
Zhang Liu had observed closely. Earlier, after serving the fish soup, Qi Qiuluo had taken some but then handed it over to someone else while sitting quietly nearby, his expression suggesting he suspected something was wrong with the soup.
Qi Qiuluo's actions suggested a motive for poisoning.
She smiled and said, "What if I simply don't like fish soup?"
"Then why did you pick it up?"
"Because I was hungry. But after thinking about it, I still couldn't bring myself to drink the fish soup, so I put it down. Is there a problem with that?"
Zhang Liu fell silent, but his doubts remained unaddressed.
After Zhang Liu spoke, Dr. Wang said in a low voice, "I didn't get close to the fish soup, but I did help wash the fish."
"I did too," Master Ban chimed in.
The others leaned in curiously to see what was cooking in the fish soup, none of them showing any signs of a poisoning motive.
Tan Ming looked at the corpses laid out before them, their faces turning purple and black, some even foaming at the mouth.
He seemed to recognize this kind of death. As if verifying something, Tan Ming walked over to the fish soup and stirred it with a spoon, scooping out everything inside.
He splashed it onto the ground.
At the moment a piece of fish meat hit the floor, a boiled fruit the size of a coin rolled out—its whitish surface unmistakable. Yan Qing immediately recognized it as Ginkgo Nuts!
The campus was filled with Ginkgo Trees; picking up a few fruits to toss into a pot of rice was all too easy.
However, these Ginkgo Nuts had mutated; just touching them could be fatal. Who would dare to take such a risk and throw Ginkgo Nuts into the soup?
Undoubtedly, this was yet another unsolved mystery.
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