Chapter 61: The Corpse Will Return

  "What happened to the body?" I asked, my eyes also drawn to the screen by his words. On the screen was a picture of two corpses floating on the lake surface, taken in the afternoon judging from the time stamp. The setting sun shone obliquely onto the lake surface, and the sunlight reflected off the lens, making it hard to see the bodies clearly in the water, only able to make out that they were human figures.

  Su Haicheng pointed at the corpse on the screen and said: "Enlarging the picture here."

  I thought that even if this picture is enlarged, it's still a mosaic and can't be seen clearly. However, since he said so, there must be a reason for it.

  After enlarging the picture, as I expected, a mosaic appeared on the computer screen. I frowned and didn't know what was different about this corpse?

  Su Haicheng pointed at that white spot on the mosaic and said, "After being burned, the body should be completely charred. It looks like it's wearing clothes here."

  I also remembered that when we passed through that passage that day, the corpses there were indeed charred black. "Your meaning is to say that these two corpses are not the ones you set on fire and burned, that is to say, he did not float up from the lake."

  "I don't know. From the time and location, it should be those corpses in that channel." I turned back to look at him, his eyebrows were also furrowed as if thinking about something.

  Suppose these corpses are indeed from the lake, then what about those white things - aren't they the clothes they were wearing?

  Okay, let's assume they are corpses that floated up from the lake. After they float up, what happens next? According to common sense, after they float up, they will be discovered by people and then fished out by the police for investigation to determine whether it was a suicide or homicide. After frequent investigations, it is confirmed that these corpses were burned in the village on the other side, which becomes an inexplicable matter. Then the case is suspended.

  This is a reasonable guess, of course, there are also unreasonable guesses. Just like Su Haicheng standing in front of me now. Isn't he one of the corpses that floated up from the lake? Although we're not very clear what he's been through yet, but he himself still has memories of having gone to that lake.

  "Su Haicheng, are you saying that these corpses might come back like you did?" I felt a chill run down my spine as I made this guess.

  "If it's really like that, then we don't know if it's good or bad for us." He said, "Hand me the phone, let Ah Tian contact Black Face and have Black Face follow up on this matter."

  I handed over my phone, and he took it out of the living room to make a call. After he left me for a short distance, I unconsciously let out a sigh. Being too close to him made me feel tense, as if I would become nervous. I gently patted my face and whispered to myself: "What's there to be nervous about? What can he do to me? At my age, even if something really happens, it's not like it's the end of the world. Those younger siblings have already moved in together. If I hadn't been clinging to our boss all these years, I'd probably have been married off long ago."

  Su Haicheng walked into the living room and put his phone on the computer desk: "What did you just say?"

  "Nothing, nothing at all?" I hastily looked up and gave him a big smile. But the next second, I tensely turned my head away, not daring to look at him.

  He patted me on the shoulder and I turned back abruptly, saying nervously: "Let's not go to bed tonight. I'm not ready."

  He listened to me and was stunned for a moment, I also felt that what I said wasn't quite right, my face suddenly flushed. After several seconds, he said: "I mean you should go out for dinner."

  This time it's quite embarrassing.

  Maybe I was too tired, so I just had a casual meal at the fast food restaurant downstairs. For some reason, my heart wasn't in a hurry to go home, and I walked slowly back home, swaying with each step. Walking in front of me was a couple from school, probably first-year students, who rented an apartment in our building in October. They were in a different unit than me, but we had all seen each other before.

  They walked ahead hand in hand, chatting with each other. I followed behind them and inadvertently overheard their conversation. To my surprise, the person they were talking about was my boss. "Right, that's Old Shen. Didn't he take a few days off recently? And then he came back and went crazy again."

  "She said, 'You know, he's actually quite romantic.' 'If you could treat me like he treats his girlfriend, I'd be perfectly happy.'"

  "What's wrong with you? Shouting loudly on the internet that I love you, and quickly come back like a lunatic. Hmph! If I were his girlfriend, Sakura Yuki, I wouldn't have come out at all, coming out is just to lose face."

  Our boss has started shouting "Sakura, come out!" again and is searching for her around him. Now that we know Sakura isn't dead, why doesn't she show up? What's troubling her? Or maybe she's already left D City.

  Even if I was hesitant, I had to head home. I stood at the door and took a few deep breaths to calm myself down. I told myself that there was nothing worth being anxious about tonight, and then used my key to open the front door. What didn't surprise me was that the living room lights were on, but there was no one around - the house is small enough that you can tell at a glance. On the sofa in the living room, there was a note. I walked over and picked it up. It had two sentences written by Su Haicheng: "Tonight I'm going to find Tianye, contact me by phone if something comes up." There was no signature, and if I hadn't known he was at my place, I wouldn't have thought the person who wrote the note was him.

  "Isn't he at home?!" I said, but my own tone startled me, it was clearly a disappointed tone. Shouldn't I be worried and afraid instead? Today he's not at home, I should be happy, so why am I feeling disappointed? I think I really have fallen for this dead guy. But what Kakashi said wasn't unreasonable either. With Suigetsu by my side, it's almost like we can't see a future together. My rationality won't let me fall deeper, but how can emotions be measured with rationality?

  This evening, I was entangled in this topic until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning before falling asleep dazedly, and this sleep really lasted till noon.

  I was woken up by the knocking sound, still wearing my pajamas, and rushed to open the door. My first feeling should be that Su Haicheng is back. When I went out for dinner last night, I took the key myself, now he's back, of course, he has no key and can only knock on the door.

  But the little bell standing outside the door in his neat military uniform almost made me cry out, how could it be him? Little Bell looked at me up and down with a smile and said: "Miss Chen, I've been waiting for you downstairs."

  He turned and went downstairs, and I finally picked up my jaw that was about to drop in surprise. With a bang, the door closed, thinking to myself, fortunately Su Haicheng is not at home, if it was Su Haicheng who opened the door just now, then things would be unspeakable.

  I don't know if Su Haicheng will come back or not? What time will he be back? If Xiao Zhong is waiting downstairs, but Su Haicheng goes upstairs, then yesterday's suspicions about Su Haicheng would also be justified.

  To separate their time, I used the fastest speed of my life to change clothes, brush teeth and wash face, pack things up and go downstairs immediately. This community was originally an old community, so there was no parking restriction. Xiao Zhong stopped the car at the entrance of the stairs, and as soon as I came out of the stairs, I could get in the car directly.

  I was still panting when I got on the car, and then I found that Xiao Zhong was still looking up at the upstairs. "What's wrong?" I asked.

  "You shouldn't run so fast. Watch out for the kid."

  "Hehe!" I just laughed, and earlier my actions didn't really look like those of a pregnant woman. But after going to the hospital later, whether or not I'm actually pregnant is what the doctor says.

  But Xiao Zhong still looked up at the upstairs with his head raised. "What's wrong?" I asked again.

  "Are you living with a man?" He finally turned his head back and started the car. "Although we don't have any interest in this, Miss Chen, I still want to remind you that this child is very important to General Su. If you give birth to the child and the DNA test proves that he's not a Su family member, General Su will be very angry. He's an old man, and there are some things he's very stubborn about, just like a child."