Chapter Twenty-Four: The Mysterious Amnesia

  "Jin'er, what's going on? Don't you remember any of this?" Lin Yuan asked, pulling her hand over.

  She nodded: "Yes, I lost my memory of that period of time. All I remember is that it started snowing, then I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, I saw a private car driving steadily, but for some reason, I was very scared. Then I thought of the movie 'Death Came' we watched together, which made me even more afraid. I tried desperately to open my eyes, but found that I couldn't do it at all. So I started hoping that you could wake me up, and just as a large truck was about to crash into the private car, you woke me up."

  "Me? Wake you up?" Lin Yuan's mouth was agape in surprise: "How could I possibly wake you up! You were so tired when you came back yesterday, I wanted to let you sleep a bit longer. How would I wake you up?! I just happened to see you open your eyes after I finished washing up and came back!"

  Su Jiner closed her eyes, furrowed her brow, and the recent events had completely exceeded her tolerance. Her inexplicable amnesia made the whole thing even more bizarre.

  "What a realistic dream! Even the scenes I saw in my dreams were so real."

  "Whose private car is this? Did you see the license plate number?"

  "What? And what color is it?" Lin Yuan said while playing with his fingers.

  When she heard her words, Su Jin'er was stunned. She didn't know the color of the car or the license plate number. The scene in her dream was so clear, not knowing the license plate number might still be explainable, but why didn't she know the color of the car? Was it simply that there was no color at all?

  She was startled by her own thoughts, how could it have no color, no color should be white, but that car was indeed not white!

  She rubbed her temples, perhaps she was really too tired. Recently, her spirit has been in a state of tension, and it's not impossible that she had some strange dreams.

  "What time is it now?" Su Jiner asked as she got out of bed.

  "It's nine o'clock."

  "Let's go to the police station! I want to ask about Grandpa Liu's autopsy report."

  "Will they tell us? We're just students!"

  "It depends on whether Officer Li is capable of it!"

  Their school was at the foot of the mountain, while the police station was in a small town about five kilometers away from here. There were also buses between the school and the town, and now Su Jin'er and Lin Yuan were sitting on this bus.

  Su Jiner leaned her head against the car window, closing her eyes to think about her own thoughts. More than half of the school's students had already left, so maybe no one would die now! A wave of sadness suddenly surged up in her heart, what was it that she remembered from that day when she lost her memory? What else did they find in Li Yiqian's clothes? Maybe the person who made her lose her memory was the killer, but why didn't he kill her, only making her lose her memory?

  Too many doubts made her feel annoyed and confused. She opened her eyes to find Lin Yuan beside her, his eyes closed as if he had fallen asleep.

  She rubbed her tired eyebrows and cast her gaze out of the window.

  A chill suddenly struck, and his back felt as if it had been stuck with a block of ice, stiff and icy.

  A faint fear spread throughout her body, and she even felt that if she moved slightly, she could hear the sound of her bones "creaking".

  The gaze behind her was icy and venomous, as if it wanted to swallow her whole. Her scalp felt numb, and she didn't dare move a single inch.

  She finally gathered her courage and suddenly turned around, but there was no malicious gaze behind her back, only a few male students sitting there, quietly staring at their phones.

  She turned around in a daze, feeling like her childhood self walking alone on a night road. She wanted to run quickly and escape the terrifying footsteps behind her, but was afraid that her own footsteps would be too loud and wake up the hidden things in the darkness. So she could only walk step by step carefully, and when she finally gathered the courage to turn around, she found nothing behind her.

  The Lin Yuan beside her seemed to be sleeping uncomfortably, frowning and moving slightly. Su Jin'er turned her head to look at her, and as she looked, she suddenly discovered that Lin Yuan's face was slowly changing into someone else's, a person she had never seen before. She opened her eyes wide in horror, incredulously staring at Lin Yuan's face as it slowly transformed into another person.

  That person opened his eyes and stared at her eerie smile.

  "Who are you?"

  "I'm Lin Yuan! You won't even recognize your best friend?" The person still smiled eerily, sending chills down one's spine.

  "No, you're not Lin Yuan, who are you?" She was on the verge of collapse, why had she been encountering strange things recently.

  "Haha!" The person laughed, their voice hoarse and raspy, making it impossible to tell if they were male or female. "You're dying to know who killed them, aren't you? Well, let me tell you! I'm the one who killed those people, all of them."

  Su Jin'er's face was pale, was it a dream? Was she dreaming again?

  "Who are you?"

  "Don't bother who I am, just listen, stop investigating now, you can't beat him, give up and maybe he'll let you off."

  A chill ran down his spine, and Lin Yuan in front of him was still Lin Yuan, with a faint frown on his brow, as if he were dreaming.

  "Lin Yuan, wake up!" Su Jiner gently pushed her awake.

  Lin Yuan rubbed his eyes and looked at the scenery flashing by outside the window, saying: "I'm so tired! Where have we arrived?"

  "Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Does your head hurt?"

  "My head doesn't hurt, but I feel extremely tired, as if I had run a few thousand meters of long-distance running, my whole body aches." She rubbed her shoulders, her eyebrows deeply furrowed into a "川" shape.

  "Do you still remember where we were going? What we were doing?"

  Lin Yuan stretched out his hand and touched Su Jin'er's forehead, saying helplessly: "What's wrong with you? You're not even feverish, why ask such a strange question?"

  Looking at her as usual, Su Jin'er's heart, which had been clenched in anxiety, relaxed. Nothing was wrong after all.

  She fell into deep thought, with more and more doubts, now she was like being wrapped in a cocoon, eager to find an exit to breathe, but found that there was not even a small gap around her, the surrounding air was oppressive and wanted to commit suicide.

  "Jin'er, we're arriving, what are you daydreaming about?"

  "Ah! Oh!" Su Jiner came back to her senses and pulled Lin Yuan off the car.

  Black snow was piled up on one side of the road by people, and there were even some unprocessed garbage.

  "Why did you ask such a strange question just now?"

  Just as Su Jin'er was thinking about whether or not to tell her, a familiar figure appeared in sight, and she quickly grabbed Lin Yuan's hand and chased after him.

  What she saw was not someone else, but Li Jing, the police officer they were looking for this time. Officer Li was hurrying along in front with a few people.

  "Officer Li?" Su Jiner panted loudly.

  Li Jing stopped in her tracks and turned around to look at them from a distance: "How did you end up here?"

  "I wanted to ask for your help, so I came!" Lin Yuan smiled and stuck out his tongue.

  "Where are you going? Why such a hurry?" Su Jiner said as she looked at them.

  "There was an accident ahead, our police officer just went over and I'll go take a look too."

  "Shall we go and take a look?"

  "If you're not afraid, then of course."

  Upon arrival at the scene, Su Jiner found that the scene of the car accident was almost identical to her dream. The private car was silver in color and had collided with a red large truck. The police were handling the situation.

  Su Jiner stared blankly at the shattered glass and the completely deformed car, her throat seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, making it harder and harder for her to breathe.

  "Jin'er, what's wrong with you? Your face is so pale."

  "Xiao Yuan, I'm so scared!" Her body trembled slightly: "Last night's dream, my dream has come true."

  Lin Yuan widened his eyes and stared at her: "You mean you can see things that will happen in the future? How is that possible, we're not filming a Chinese version of 'Death Note'."

  Lin Yuan's smile was a bit stiff, too many strange things had happened recently, and her brain was also a bit overloaded.

  At the scene, Su Jiner did not see the owners of the two cars. They said that everyone was sent to the hospital. The private car had one man and two women, like a family of three. The truck only had one driver, who was also sent to the hospital. This traffic accident is very serious.

  Sitting in Li Jing's office, Su Jiner held a cup of water with some trembling. In her mind, she was still thinking about the car accident, the shattered glass all over the ground, the deformed car, and the blood everywhere. She could even see the driver and his family crawling out of the window with difficulty, their faces covered in blood, stretching out their hands to her for help.

  Why do these things happen so coincidentally? Every time, they are all present, either becoming the first person to discover the body or rushing to the scene of the incident. Perhaps none of this is a coincidence, but rather intentional design. She should have thought of this point long ago, but what is the purpose of the person behind her back?

  At this time, Li Jing returned from outside.

  "Are you looking for me because of Grandpa Liu's matter?" She asked with a smile, perhaps having seen too many deaths, her heart had become numb.

  "Yes, but I also want to take a look at the other three corpses." Su Jiner said sincerely, although she didn't know how to autopsy and had no experience in it, having watched Holmes for so long, she knew some basic things.

  "Aren't you afraid?"

  "Saying I'm not afraid is a lie, but the only ones who can tell us the truth are the corpses of the dead." At this moment, she was surprisingly calm, just like she said, she wasn't unafraid, but fear was useless, she couldn't just watch as the people around her were killed one by one.

  "Alright! Follow me, I'll tell you about Grandpa Liu's autopsy report as we walk."

  Li Jing told them that Grandpa Liu died of a sudden heart attack, and for the time being, no connection has been found with the other three cases. The only strange thing is still Grandpa Liu's expression at the moment of his death, as if he knew he was going to die.

  "It's even stranger if that's the case." Su Jiner furrowed her brow, she had thought Liu Ye's death was due to poisoning, but it turned out to be a heart attack: "I remember when he passed away, there were no signs at all, and his face didn't have any painful expressions from a sudden heart attack. He just leaned his head back slightly, as if recalling something. We were waiting for him to continue speaking, but he passed away."

  Su Jin'er's voice was a little choked, and her eyes were slowly getting wet.

  "Are you going to ask him what questions?"

  "Yes, I think that recent cases might be related to what happened five years ago, so I want to ask what exactly happened five years ago!"

  Li Jing thought for a moment and said, "If something big really happened five years ago, the police station must have a record of it. I'll go take a look later."

  At this time, they had already arrived at the morgue, looking at the black iron gate, Su Jin'er felt a chill, and it was the first time she had been to the morgue since she grew up. She hadn't even entered yet, but she could feel the bone-piercing coldness.

  "It's very cold inside, you guys need to be mentally prepared." Li Jing took out the key, lightly opened the lock on the iron gate, and then pushed open a door and walked in.

  Inside the house were ten beds lined up in a row, and on each bed lay a cold corpse.

  Li Jing turned on the light, and the faint yellow glow made the already eerie room even more ominous and terrifying. They couldn't help but shiver, their hands involuntarily rubbing their shoulders.

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