Chapter 66: Re-encountering Li Jing

  "Where is nothing? You say that Chu Fei is nothing, who was it that brought you back from that desolate mountain and wilderness in the first place? Could you two have made it back on your own?"

  Lin Yuan thought of the monster he met that day, which looked like a mouse. A layer of goosebumps appeared on his body, and he couldn't help but rub his arms and say, "Alright! You're not completely useless, occasionally you can still be used."

  "Occasionally? Please, if it weren't for Chu Fei Fan agreeing to marry that woman this time, who knows how long we would have been dead!"

  Lin Yuan looked around nervously and then hit Li Ye's arm hard, saying: "Can't you not say these things at this time?!"

  Zuo Yi looked at her terrified expression and said, "Alright! Since you begged for mercy from me, I'll spare your life for now."

  Ge Yaze listened to their quarrel, smiling meaningfully on one side.

  "I'm talking about someone with the surname Ge, why are you smiling so much?"

  Zuǒ Yì looked at the sky which had already completely darkened and said: "Can you see me smile?"

  "It's invisible, but can be felt." Zuo Yi waved the branch in his hand.

  Lin stretched out her hand in front of her eyes, she opened her eyes wide and tried hard to see her fingers clearly, but could only see a blurry outline.

  "It's really dark before dawn!" she exclaimed with a sigh.

  Bang!

  Lin Yuan bumped into something and took two steps back. Rubbing her sore forehead, she said, "I'm going to die! Who's in front of me?"

  "It wasn't me!" Left Yi's voice came from the right side.

  "Not me either!" Gaius said on the right.

  At this time, Chu Feifan and Su Jin'er who were walking behind also caught up.

  "What's wrong?" Su Jiner asked with concern.

  "Lin Yuan can't see the road and crashed into a tree!" Zuo Yi said with a hearty laugh.

  "Hit the tree?" Chu Fei Fan said in surprise.

  "No, no, it's not a tree, I...I distinctly felt it was...a person."

  Lin Yuan's words caused everyone to involuntarily take a few steps back, their breathing began to quicken, and their heartbeats started racing violently.

  None of them had brought a flashlight and could only grope their way in the dark. Suddenly, such an unexpected event made them all start to get scared.

  Zuo Yi poked forward with the branch in his hand and didn't touch anything, then moved to the right a bit, and the branch touched something.

  "There really is something, it doesn't feel like a tree."

  His words were like a stone that stirred up a thousand waves, and everyone was thinking about what it would be. Human imagination is infinite, and in such a dark night where they couldn't see their fingers, they definitely wouldn't think of comedies. The scenes from the horror movies they had watched before flashed through their minds one by one.

  Su Jiner took out her mobile phone and said, "Do you have your own mobile phones?"

  "Cell phone?" Su Jin'er's words reminded them of their own cell phones.

  It's okay, several people have their mobile phones with them.

  "Just use one, don't turn on the others." Su Jiner said as she had already turned on her own phone.

  The faint light of the cell phone reduced their fear in their hearts a little, but it was not enough to let them see the road ahead.

  Su Jiner held her phone and turned on the flashlight function, then took a step forward. She took a deep breath, preparing herself to see anything.

  But when the light from her phone shone on that thing, she still couldn't help but be startled to the point of almost throwing away her phone.

  "Ah——"

  Lin Yuan's voice had just called out when Ge Yaze covered his mouth: "Do you want to tell them our location?"

  Lin Yuan's eyes widened in terror, and upon hearing Ge Yaze's words, she nodded, indicating that she wouldn't scream loudly anymore.

  That was a corpse, hanging from the tree, with eyes wide open and eyeballs almost popping out, tongue stretched out long, blood dripping drop by drop onto the ground.

  "Isn't she Ah Jian's crazy mother?" Su Jin'er said as she looked at the corpse.

  "Really? Isn't she crazy? How could she commit suicide?" Chu Feifan also said.

  "I think I need to take a look at the body."

  "How can you check with such a dark sky?" Zuo Yi said.

  "Let's put her down first! Hanging here is quite scary!" Su Jiner said, looking around.

  "I agree!" Lin Yuan tightly grasped Su Jiner's arm, took a terrified glance at the corpse, then lowered his head again.

  "With a timid person like you, what's the point of studying forensic medicine?!" Zuo Yi said, looking at Lin Yuan who was trembling with fear.

  In such a dark night where one can't see their own hand, anyone who sees this corpse would feel terrified, let alone Lin Yuan who crashed into it.

  She pushed Li Ye hard and said, "Who says I'm afraid?" When her eyes met the corpse, she still involuntarily shrunk her neck.

  Ge Yaze and Chu Feifan had already brought the body down, Ge Yaze took a look at the neck of the corpse, there were obvious rope marks, the rope was below the throat, the head of the deceased was hanging down, so the tongue would stick out.

  "The sky is too dark, there's no way to check." Ge Yaze stood up, and he could only vaguely see the marks on his neck.

  "Let's throw her here and go! Let's talk about it when the sky is bright, this place is too scary." Lin Yuan said with a tremble.

  "Where can we go? The desolate mountains and wild ridges." Zuo Yi deliberately scared her.

  "Of course I knew it was a desolate mountain! But..." Lin Yuan hid behind Su Jiner: "Okay, I admit I'm a coward."

  "Alright, Xi Yi, stop scaring her. I don't believe you're not afraid of suddenly seeing a corpse here!" Even he, someone who often sees corpses, was startled, let alone a young girl.

  "Exactly!" Lin Yuan muttered.

  "Shh - someone's coming." Chu Fei Fan pulled Su Jin Er behind a tree.

  The others also hid behind their respective trees.

  The flashlight's beam was getting closer and closer, they held their breath, tensely watching the light that was getting closer and closer.

  They waited for someone to walk in, let out a sigh of relief, and then walked out.

  The people who came were none other than Li Yi Qian and Li Jing.

  "Qianqian!" Su Jiner called out softly.

  Li Yi Qian turned around and saw them, happily running over. Holding Su Jin Er's hand, she said: "You're all right! That's great!"

  Li Yi Qian excitedly said while hugging Su Jin Er.

  "How did you end up here?" Lin Yuan also hugged her and asked.

  "This is not a place for talking, leave first!" Li Jing said.

  "Officer Li, you're here too?" Lin Yuan excitedly said.

  "Let's go! We'll talk as we walk." Li Jing patted Su Jiner on the shoulder.

  Chu Fei looked at Li Jing and slightly furrowed his brow.

  Just as they had walked out a few steps, Ge Yaze turned his head and said, "What about the corpse?"

  "A corpse? Whose corpse?" Li Jing said in surprise, she was a police officer and was quite sensitive to corpses.

  "We just passed by here and found a corpse hanging from the tree." Su Jin'er looked at the corpse on the ground, with the light, barely able to see the appearance of the corpse.

  Li Jing looked at them suspiciously, the first person to discover the body was likely to be the murderer.

  "You don't suspect us of being the murderers, do you?" Zuo Yi said with a hint of a smile.

  "No autopsy has been performed yet so it can't be determined whether it was suicide or homicide."

  Upon hearing Ge Yaze's words, Li Jing's expression stiffened as she smiled and said, "I'm not suspecting you guys, I just find it strange that every time there's a case, you're always present."

  "Don't you believe us?" Su Jiner narrowed her eyes and looked at Li Jing, now she also had some doubts about this police officer.

  "It's not that I don't trust you, but before the killer is caught, anyone could be the killer." Li Jing squatted down and shone her flashlight on the corpse.

  "Are you going to autopsy?" Ge Yaze also squatted down and touched the dead man's neck with his hand.

  Li Jing shook her head: "Who are you?"

  "I'm a forensic doctor with the municipal police department, so let me handle the autopsy!"

  Li Jing frowned and said to him, "You're a forensic doctor, how can you let them bring down the body? If the scene is destroyed, how can we find the murderer?"

  Su Jiner furrowed her brow and smiled as she asked, "The forensic doctor hasn't confirmed whether it was a suicide or homicide yet. Why do you keep saying there's a murderer? Can you really tell at a glance that this is a murder case?"

  Su Jiner's words made Li Jing stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "I just think that a madman is unlikely to commit suicide, so..."

  "How did you know she's crazy?"

  "I..." Li Jing lowered her head and couldn't say anything more.

  "You really are suspicious! Are you a cop or not?"

  "Of course I'm a police officer, otherwise how could I possibly bring you into the morgue?"

  Li Jing's words are not wrong. If she weren't a police officer, she wouldn't have been able to bring them in at all. But how believable is what she said?

  Chu Fei helped Su Jiner up and then shook his head at her, indicating that she shouldn't stir up trouble.