You're dumping me, huh? Fine, then I'll just pick up the school beauty and make her my wif

"Okay, I'm willing to cooperate with your investigation."

Upon seeing this, the organizing committee director's cold expression softened slightly. "Please come with us."

After saying that, he turned around with his staff and walked ahead to lead the way.

Jiang Che then followed behind the director, slowly walking towards the temporary rest area not far away.

Seeing that Jiang Che had voluntarily accepted the investigation, the others had no choice but to follow behind him and walk together toward the temporary rest area not far away.

The light dimmed slightly after entering the rest area corridor.

Compared to Jiang Che's nonchalant attitude, Su Qinghe, who was standing next to him, looked tense as if facing a formidable enemy.

The girl's palms were covered in a fine layer of sweat.

She followed closely beside Jiang Che, her bright, clear eyes filled with barely concealed panic and worry.

If any stranger gets even slightly close to Jiang Che, she immediately goes into a state of alert, like a cat about to hiss at an unknown danger.

Jiang Che keenly sensed the unusual emotion in the girl beside him.

He gently squeezed the small hand in his palm, half-jokingly and half-comfortingly saying, "Qinghe, which one of us is about to be investigated?"

"If I'm not mistaken, I should be the one in the situation, right? I should be the one who's nervous, so why are you the one getting nervous?"

He slightly turned his gaze to meet the girl's worried look, and smiled calmly, "Relax, it's not a big deal. After all, I'm the victim."

Although she said that, Su Qinghe still bit her lower lip tightly, her beautiful eyes filled with tears, and looked up at him, "But...but they insist that you're the one who hurt them. What if the police come and don't investigate...what if they want to cancel your grades..."

That was the result that her A-Che earned by getting up before dawn every day, braving the scorching sun and rain, working his ass off...

How could we let those reckless idiots destroy it!

Su Qinghe is an extremely rational girl, but when it comes to Jiang Che, she always unknowingly gets stuck on trivial matters.

Jiang Che was naturally aware of this as well. Looking at the girl in front of him, who seemed to be on edge at the slightest provocation, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

This silly girl, she completely loses all reason when it comes to him...

How come someone who is usually so smart suddenly becomes so scared at crucial moments that they can't even walk steadily?

"Qinghe, listen to me."

Jiang Che also put away his joking thoughts, and his tone and expression became much more serious. "The cameras have captured everything that happened on the track today."

"I know the truth, you know the truth, and the audience knows the truth as well."

"No matter how those bastards try to smear me, when we go in, we just need to tell the whole truth, and the police will handle the rest, understand?"

Su Qinghe pursed her lips tightly, her eyelashes trembling slightly. After a moment, she seemed to be persuaded by Jiang Che, and nodded gently, letting out a soft "hmm".

Even with Jiang Che's reassurance, the unease in her heart still lingered and was difficult to dispel.

She understands the evil in human nature too well. The things A-Che said earlier were things that even high school students with little social experience could think of. How could Chen Feng and the others, who are in their twenties or thirties, not have thought of these things?

The other side clearly didn't just mindlessly come in to feed kills; they must have planned it all in advance and made thorough preparations.

No matter how smart A-Che is, he is still just a high school student. How can he deal with those seasoned veterans?

But no matter how much Su Qinghe worried, it wouldn't make any difference at this point.

All she could do was silently pray for her, Ah Che.

Soon, the group arrived at the entrance of the medical room in the rest area.

Pushing open the door, Jiang Che looked up and saw a mummy-like thing sitting on a folding chair in the center of the room.

At first glance, Jiang Che was startled. After staring at him for a few seconds, he could make out from the faintly visible facial features that the person was Chen Feng.

However, this cannot be blamed on Jiang Che. At this moment, Chen Feng's face was wrapped in layers of white bandages.

Because a simple hemostasis treatment had just been performed, some blood seeped into the bandage, which turned a chilling dark red after oxidizing and drying.

Coupled with the gloomy environment of this infirmary, anyone who didn't know better would think that the organizing committee director had led Jiang Che and his group into some terrifying escape room scenario.

Chen Feng slumped in the chair, struggling to move even slightly, looking quite like a victim.

Two other people were sitting on the chair next to him; they were the other two teammates who had crashed into him on the track earlier.

Hearing the noise coming from the doorway, the three of them immediately turned their gazes toward the door.

When Jiang Che's face, which they loathed and resented, came into view, the three of them became visibly agitated.

They all stared at Jiang Che with eyes that seemed to want to devour him alive.

"Director, it's him! He's the one who intentionally injured someone!"

Upon seeing Jiang Che appear, Chen Feng immediately reacted as if he had seen his father's killer, and started yelling at the top of his lungs.

However, because his nasal bridge was broken, he spoke with a very nasal tone.

Coupled with the slight trembling of his body as he spoke, he looked even more like a mummy.

"This guy's obsessed with winning the championship. Seeing me closing the gap, he actually resorted to dirty tricks on me in front of everyone!"

As Chen Feng vehemently accused Jiang Che, he grimaced and laboriously raised his wrist, pretending to wipe away a few tears from the corner of his eye.

"I'm an active athlete on the provincial team, and I was supposed to bring glory to the country in the future. Now, he's crippled me with that elbow, and my entire career is ruined, sob sob sob..."

Seeing this, Chen Feng's two accomplices immediately chimed in, one on each side, "We saw it too! Jiang Che deliberately paused during his final sprint, just to wait for Chen Feng to get close so he could make his move!"

"Take a good look, Chen Feng's nose was broken by Jiang Che's elbow. You can imagine what would have happened if the elbow had been slightly off-center, aimed at his eye..."

"Unforgivable, absolutely unforgivable! How could a high school student be so malicious!"

The organizing committee director listened to the tearful accusations of the three people in front of him, and his face grew increasingly grim.

This marathon hasn't been held in a long time, not even for many years. How come this year, when it's finally being held, they've managed to create such a huge mess?

The organizing committee director felt utterly exhausted. He turned wearily to Jiang Che, "Jiang Che, did you hear what they said?"