Xia Yuanfang said at this moment, "It wasn't just the gunmen who killed students. I saw this student, Qiu Zining, kill this student with my own eyes."
She pointed at Pan Nanjie's corpse lying on the ground.
There was a bullet hole in the back of his head, still steadily gushing blood.
Qiu Zining looked aggrieved. "Ma'am, don't make things up!"
"I don't even have a gun. How could I kill anyone?"
Xia Yuanfang said angrily, "You gave the gun to your subordinate! Did you think I didn't see it?!"
Qiu Zining turned to look at her subordinate and said, "I gave you a gun?"
The subordinate shook her head, then suddenly raised her hand and pressed the gun to her own temple. "I accidentally killed your classmate. I'll pay with my life!"
With that, she pulled the trigger.
Bang! Her brains splattered in front of Qiu Zining. She committed suicide before everyone's eyes.
Qiu Zining looked startled. Covering her mouth, she staggered back several steps and cried, "It was only an accidental killing! Why were you so foolish? You didn't have to pay with your life!"
Then she turned to Xia Yuanfang and said viciously, "You made my loyal subordinate die just to frame me. I won't let you get away with this!"
Xia Yuanfang had not expected Qiu Zining's subordinate to die so decisively.
She immediately said, "You merely made her pay for you. Stop pretending! If there's surveillance here, check the footage!"
Zong Ruoning rubbed his brow and thought, As expected, she had accounted for everything.
The school grounds were too vast, so there were an especially large number of surveillance cameras to provide full coverage.
So many cameras required regular inspection and maintenance.
This particular area happened to be where surveillance coverage from three different sectors