Chapter 454
After putting on his clothes, Ro felt that he hade back to life. Standing before the group of
people, he spoke slowly. "Over the past two months, there have been several murder cases in the
city. I believe you have heard of them too."
Jimmy was aware of them, but those cases did not happen in the area he was in charge of, which
was why he did not investigate them earlier on.
He would not have cared so much about these cases if it were not for Ariah who couldn''t control her
emotions and vented her anger on Jimmy because of her sympathy for her patients.
But what did these cases have to do with Ariah?
Jimmy stared at Ro.
"It may seem like this matter has nothing to do with you on the surface, but as long as you delve
deeper, it is not only rted to Ariah, but it also has a lot to do with you."
Ro''s words made Jimmyugh. "If you are trying to buy time, I..."
"Do you still remember Beast?"
Before Jimmy could finish his words, Ro had interrupted him with such a shocking question.
Jimmy''s facial expressions thus froze. His pupils dted for a moment, and his hands, which were
hanging down, started trembling. These reactions were so minute that one would not notice unless
one observed carefully.
Jimmy stood with his back to his subordinates, so Ben and David couldn''t see his expression. They
only knew that after Ro uttered those words, Jimmy had stopped moving.
Beast?
What was Beast? Was it a human? Or was it an animal?
David and Ben looked at each other. "Jimmy?"
Jimmy seemed to wake up from a dream as he responded in a hoarse voice, "David and Ben,
please go out first."
What?
Both of them were stunned.
"Are you alright?"
Jimmy didn''t look back, but his voice was cold. "Didn''t you hear me?"
"A-Alright."
"Get out if you have heard me!"
"Yes, Sir!"
They had been following Jimmy for many years and knew that he had a bad temper. Although
Jimmy had a bad temper, he rarely got so angry before Ben and David.
They didn''t dare to disobey him, so they hurriedly left.
It wasn''t until the door of the room was closed that Jimmy''s expression suddenly changed. Though
he was sharp and forbearing, he hid his killing intent. "Who the hell are you?"
Beast... This was a person''s nickname; this was the name that Jimmy wanted to forget in his whole
life... Almost all the people involved in the case died, and he was the only survivor. But now, why did
Ro, who seemed to be an outsider, know this name?
In a calm manner, Ro replied, "It doesn''t matter who I am. The most important thing for you now
is to find Ariah."
"You mean Ariah''s disappearance was caused by Be..." Jimmy didn''t want to say this name
because anyone who had something to do with Beast would die.
Ro shook his head. "I didn''t say it was him, but I think it has something to do with him."
"Tell me clearly whether it was he who did it!"
"At least five murder cases have happened over the past two months, and the victims were all
women. The causes of their deaths were extremely horrible. What caught my attention was the star
in their hands after they died." Ro looked at Jimmy and said word by word. "Didn''t the police tell
you about this?"
Jimmy tightly clenched his lips. In the file, there was indeed no mention of the stars in the hands of
the deceased. If it was mentioned, Jimmy would have been flustered a long time ago.
The stars...
Other people were not familiar with him, but Jimmy knew him well. This was the characteristic of
Beast in the past. He would put a star in the hands of the people that he had killed...
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"H-How do you know about them?" Jimmy asked in a hoarse voice.
"Because I was the first person to appear at the crime scenes," Ro said tly, "I didn''t destroy the
scenes. I just stood there and watched before the police got there. That''s how I knew there were
stars in the hands of those victims."
Ro became the suspect because he appeared in the footage of a surveince camera that was
still working when most of the cameras had broken down. That was also why there was not much
evidence about him, except for a blurry photo provided by the police station.
Who on earth was Ro? Why did he know so much?
Jimmy was silent for a long time before he asked, "Do you suspect that Beast took Ariah away?"
"Yes."
"It''s impossible!"
"Why not?"
"Because Beast is dead." Jimmy''s face was calm.
"I killed him myself, so it can''t be him."
However, Ro was not surprised at all. "What if Beast didn''t die?"
"He''s not dead?"
Jimmy was stunned for a moment. How was that possible? He had witnessed how Beast had died
in the fire. How could the man still be alive?
"I secretly followed Ariah for a few days and discovered that she had been followed. I suspected
that Beast wanted to look for the best opportunity to kill her. Therefore, I took Ariah away yesterday
and wanted to lure Beast to the mountain."
Nevertheless, Beast did not appear because only two insignificant individuals had shown up.
As long as Ariah had been targeted by Beast, he would appear sooner orter, which was why
Ro wanted to keep Ariah by his side as the bait.
It was a pity that this bait had been taken away by someonest night.
"You used her as the bait?" Jimmy was a smart man, so he naturally understood the meaning of
Ro''s words. As he saw red, he clenched his fists tightly to restrain himself from punching Ro.
"I wanted to sleep in the same room with herst night because I wanted to protect her, but she did
not agree. She was afraid that I would do something to her. See how loyal a wife she is."
To justify his decision, Ro immediately added, "If she had stayed with me, she would not have
disappeared like that."
Jimmy''s face was cold as he heard that. "Loyal? If she cares about that, she would not have slept
with you!"
Stunned, Ro raised his eyebrows. It turned out that Ariah hadn''t told him the truth, which made
him believe that there was really a rtionship between Ro and Ariah.
"We''re both grown-ups. It''s not a big deal if we have slept with someone." Instead of exining
himself, Ro made the matter sound more ambiguous. "If you care about her having something to
do with me, you''d better go out and sleep with a woman. Then well call it even..."
"I''ll kill you!"
Jimmy flew into a rage and red up on the spot.
David and Ben swallowed hard while listening to the argument inside. "Would you like to go in and
try to stop the fight? Ariah is missing, and Captain Hudson has not slept all night. All our colleagues
have been called back to watch the surveince. Now that we have some clues, shouldn''t we go
and look for her immediately? Why are they fighting now? How shall we exin it if something
happens..."
While the two were still whispering, the bickering suddenly stopped. The next second, the door
opened, and Jimmy and Ro came out one after the other, which shocked both Ben and David.