The Rebirth Of SOPHIA GREEN - Chapter 255

Benjamin sneered. “Internationally renowned detective? Without me, he would just have been a famous detective. You know, he’s only become famous for solving some big cases, and those cases…”

He looked at Sophia. “I solved them for him. Of course, he has to follow my order.”

Sophia was shocked. If he told the truth, then he was terrible.

But she didn’t get it. “Why did you do that?”

“Because…” Benjamin laughed wildly. “I’m too clever. I’m bored. How boring my life will be if I don’t do anything! I don’t care about fame. It’s a burden to me. I just enjoy being able to do things that no one can do. As for others, I don’t care.”

Hearing that, Sophia didn’t know what to say.

Finally, she asked, “Who are you?”

Benjamin stared at her with an elusive look.

“Who am I? I also want to know that.”

“Well, that’s the all,” said Benjamin, turning to the exit. Halfway through, he looked back and smiled again. “You make me think that… the world is not that boring.”

Sophia felt helpless about Benjamin. She knew he helped kill Nicole, but she couldn’t get him punished at all. What he did was infallible, leaving no trace of evidence in any link.

She still didn’t know what Benjamin approached her for. She remembered meeting Benjamin for the first time in her lab at Glinton University, and he had been in her life ever since.

Did he do it only because he was bored?

In the following month, Sophia had never seen Benjamin again. She didn’t contact him. He didn’t appear in front of her.

During the period, one thing happened.

There were many illegal activities in the Patton Group operation, and its rapid rise in just two years had something to do with them.

Sophia called Eddie a few times, but he didn’t answer it, presumably too busy with it.

A month later, Sophia finally made the lock she wanted.

This proved that the lock existed and that all the M.O.O. was fully explained.

Albert went to her and saw her studying these things. He didn’t ask about them but just told her that she could go to him whenever she was in trouble.

Sophia showed the lock to him. “It’s time to reveal the truth of the whole story.”

She called Professor Thompson and made an appointment with him in Albert’s office.

Professor Thompson was surprised at the call, but he still agreed because Sophia had saved Victor.

He arrived at the office on time. One staff member made him sit in the office and turned away.

However, half an hour later, he was still alone in the room. That was rude. He took out his phone and called Sophiabut couldn’t get through.

Under such circumstances, even in his good temper, he grew impatient. He rose to leave. When he got to the door, he reached for the doorknob and turned down.

But the door didn’t open.

He felt something not good.

When the staff left, he didn’t lock the door. Otherwise, he would have heard the key turn.

Then why didn’t the door open?

Was it…

Just then, there was a noise; the door was pushed open from the outside.

Sophia was standing outside the door, looking coldly at him.

“Are you familiar with the scene, Professor Thompson?” Sophia asked.

An alarming look appeared on Thompson’s face. He kept shaking his head, “What? No… How can I be familiar with it? I… I have to go.”

As he spoke, he wanted to bypass Sophia and leave the room.

Sophia said, “Professor Thompson, your plan is perfect. When the lock starts, it can trap the people in the room without leaving any trace. But you might forget something. The mechanism can leave a trace.”

As she said, she took out a small screwdriver and pried the lock open. “Like this, moving the spring, the mechanism will become what it was before. But a normal lock won’t be like this. When the mechanism failed, it looked like other locks, but it was still different.

She looked into Professor Thompson’s eyes. “After the lab building was demolished, the Pearson Group kept all the things. The lock, of course, was among them.”

Professor Thompson shivered, so as his voice. “Why… why are you looking into this? Did Pearson ask you to investigate? I… I knew he wouldn’t give up. He used to be so good to professor Green.”

“You don’t have to worry about that. I just want to know… are you the one who started the fire in the laboratory?”

Professor Thompson hurriedly shook his head. “No! How could it be me? It was Professor Normand who set the fire…”

Suddenly, he covered his mouth with his hands. By saying so, he was admitting that he knew everything.

Sophia pointed to the sofa next to her, “Sit down, please. It’s just the two of us here, and there’s no monitoring equipment. I just want to know everything.”

Thompson stayed for a while before strolling to the sofa. Then he sank on the sofa with a soft underfoot.

He was silent for a long time before slowly saying, “You’re right. I changed the lock. But it was Professor Normand who set the fire. I got word that he was going to set the fire by accident, then I made the lock…”

Slowly, Sophia asked, “You want to use Professor Norman to kill Professor Green, do you? Then he’s your scapegoat. What’s your grudge against her that you tried so hard to kill her?”

Professor Thompson waved his hands at once, “No, no… What can I have against a little girl? I just…Well, anyway, I never meant for her to die. I was worried she might die from the fire, and I removed all the combustibles around Normand’s fire device, so the fire wouldn’t start!”

Sophia was stunned. She never thought about that.

But there was something she still couldn’t understand. “If you didn’t mean to kill her, why did you do that?”

Professor Thompson shook his head. “I can’t say it. Anyway, I didn’t mean to kill her, nor did Professor Normand. Professor Green rejected his research. He hated her and wanted to ruin her research. I know him. He would never dare to kill.”

Sophia was confused.

Professor Thompson wanted to trap her in the room. Professor Normand wanted to burn her laboratory.

She believed that Professor Normand did not want to kill her. Even if the fire broke out, the lab was on the first floor, and she could run away on the electric wheelchair.

And Professor Thompson said that he emptied all the combustibles to avoid a big fire.

But finally, the fire started.

On the investigation report, the fire was started from the windowsill. She tried to remember what was near there.

Soon, she remembered.

There was nothing near the windowsill. The reason she noticed that was because she saw it was empty and put something there.

The “something” was a bottle of toilet water she had Kevin bring her.

A fine sweat oozed from her forehead.

The main component of toilet water was alcohol, which was flammable and volatile. The bottle was made of plastic. After the self-ignition device started, the fire burnt the bottle, the liquid flowed out, got on fire, and quickly ignited the distant combustible.

She couldn’t understand Professor, but she didn’t expect that the toilet water was the key to the fire.