Chapter 16

"Mobius, call the police. Leave the rest to me." Richard recalled the scene of Pearl smashing a wine bottle on that man’s head the other day and soon calmed down. She surely would not let herself be easily hurt. "Okay, Rick." Mobius knew that Richard had always been swift and decisive. Although he blamed Pearl for worrying others, he nodded and did as instructed. Richard drove to Mobius’s university and retrieved the surveillance footage from around the back entrance of the university. At five in the evening, he finally found Pearl in the footage. She had entered a shop and came back out with a black plastic bag before heading toward a public restroom, and there was a figure in blue following her from behind. It meant that the last place she had been was the restroom. Richard’s eyes turned dull and rushed toward that place with his men. It was now six, so there were very few passersby. When they approached, they could hear a woman's grim laughter. "Ha! Ha! Ha! Why didn't you res