"This is everything that happened on the mountain. When I woke up again, I was here."

I looked at the police officer in front of me and stopped recounting.

"Officer Tang, you know everything that happened after that."

The middle-aged officer, who is Officer Tang, nodded: "The helicopter we sent out didn't find you until after 5 AM, thanks to the car lights. You were really lucky. Unconscious for several hours but didn't suffer from hypothermia in those conditions."

Officer Tang told me that of everyone, only Honghong and I were still alive.

"What about Hu Mo? Is he the killer? Did he kill everyone else? But what was his motive?"

I asked the question I most wanted to know.

Officer Tang was silent for a while.

"We're still investigating this. I can only tell you that Hu Mo's financial situation was terrible. He lost everything after buying private equity on a friend's recommendation and was in severe financial crisis. His mortgage and car loan were about to default."

"Dr. Wang, do you think this would be a motive for the crime?"

I looked at the officer's inquisitive eyes and laughed:

"Your question is beyond my expertise. I'm just a doctor, I don't know how to investigate cases.

"But there is one thing you must look into: the person who recruited Honghong might be the one posing as the villa administrator. They are definitely highly suspicious! I believe you will make a breakthrough."

Sure enough, Officer Tang nodded:

"We've already found the administrator; he's a part-time university student. He thought the job he applied for was an NPC in an online script-killing game, responsible for periodically issuing tasks. His job also included periodically changing nicknames and avatars. Even when you later questioned with both voice and messages, he thought it was part of the script and, committed to his role, continued playing his game without replying. It wasn't until we asked him at his place that he realized something was wrong."

"So... Honghong really didn't

have a problem?"

Officer Tang nodded: "No problem. But aren't you curious about who recruited them?"

I smiled: "This should be classified information, right? I won't ask."

"Nothing of the sort, I can tell you." Officer Tang looked me in the eyes and slowed his speech, "Zhang Tianyuan, your first-year high school class teacher, committed suicide by jumping off a building twelve years ago due to allegations of molesting students. Zhang Tianyuan had a daughter who is twenty-two years old this year, working part-time at a local domestic service company. But she hasn't returned to her rental apartment for over a month. The domestic service company said she hadn't taken any jobs for nearly half a year, but part-time cleaners often secretly take private jobs off the platform, so they didn't pay much attention."

I was silent for a while: "So... you suspect Zhang Tianyuan's daughter is the killer?"

Officer Tang shook his head: "Not suspect, but have solid evidence. We checked the account that posted the part-time job positions and the payment account; they both belong to her. She even rented that villa half a year ago. She had also cleaned that villa earlier."

"So... have you caught her?"

"No, we are still looking for her."

I let out a long breath: "I hope you find her soon."

Officer Tang suddenly looked at me seriously: "Dr. Wang, do you really think that? Do you want us to find her soon, or do you hope she turns herself in sooner?"