Chapter Thirteen: Silence

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  Guo Yining walked forward and gently lifted up the tattered canvas. The child was indeed hiding inside.

  The child was holding a piece of chocolate that had been snatched from Zhang Qiang's hand, and upon seeing the three people standing there, the child smiled slightly and pointed to the person lying on the bed.

  Because the canvas was dirty and messy, Guo Yining really didn't see that someone was lying there.

  The smell inside is really too bad, it's both smelly and sour, and there's also the taste of vomiting after drinking. The person didn't move at all, lying there, probably drunk and asleep.

  The child stood motionless in front of the man's bed, still grinning from ear to ear. Guo Yining was perplexed and could only walk forward. As he drew closer, Guo Yining let out a frightful jump because the man had already died.

  Kuo Yining took out the flashlight he was carrying with him and shone it on the person's face. The outline of the person's face quickly became clear in front of Kuo Yining, "Zhou Dapeng!"

  At the sound of Guo Yining's shout, Wu Hui and another person rushed in, soon this small canopy was crowded.

  Wu Hui put on his gloves and walked up to Zhou Da Peng, carefully examining him. He didn't find any external injuries; the only wound was a dark purple bruise on his neck. Did he die from mechanical asphyxia?

  Guo Yining walked out of the tent and made a call to the team, he wanted to notify people to seal off the scene and also let Wang Siting hurry to the scene.

  Wu Hui looked at the child still standing there and thought that this child should not know that Zhou Datong was dead, looking at his appearance, it seemed that he had some intellectual problems.

  Zhang Qiang took the child outside, and the child was still smiling with an open mouth. Zhang Qiang felt that this smile was a bit piercing to the eyes, he didn't dare to look straight at him, "Come on, uncle will help you open it."

  The chocolate in the child's hand had never been opened. He didn't know what it was, probably because he was used to picking up whatever he saw and bringing it home.

  Looking at Zhang Qiang's outstretched hand, and then looking at the chocolate in his own hand, the child hesitated for a moment, but finally put the chocolate into Zhang Qiang's hand. Zhang Qiang opened the chocolate, broke off a small piece, "It's very sweet, take a bite."

  As the chocolate changed hands, the child seemed to understand and opened his mouth wide, waiting for Zhang Qiang to put the chocolate in. Zhang Qiang placed the chocolate in the child's mouth, and the child quickly chewed, soon his eyes sparkled like stars in the sky, happily jumping up and down.

  Looking at this naive child, Zhang Qiang felt a pang of sadness. He probably didn't know that the man in the tent had already died. Soon he finished eating a piece of chocolate and pointed to the remaining chocolate in Zhang Qiang's hand. Zhang Qiang handed it over to him.

  He picked up the chocolate and ran into the tent, he knew it was delicious, he wanted to give the rest of the chocolate to Zhou Datong.

  The child ran to the front of Zhou Dapeng, wanting to stretch out his hand and shake him. Suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he quietly put down the remaining chocolate and walked out quietly.

  Wu Hui saw the fear in the child's eyes, it wasn't the fear of death, but the fear of Zhou Da Peng himself. Wu Hui didn't care about the dirt and smell on the child's body, he rolled up the child's sleeves.

  "This is..." Zhang Qiang saw the big and small scars on the child's arm, which were left by the impact of gravity. He lifted up the child's clothes again, and his back was also full of scars.

  Zhou Dapeng was abusing the child. When Wu Hui and others lifted up the child's clothes, the child was extremely frightened, struggled free from Wu Hui's hands, ran to a corner of the tent, squatted there, hugged his arms, and sobbed silently.

  The child was so frightened that he didn't even dare to cry out loud, what had he gone through.

  Zhang Qiang walked up to the child with a heavy heart and said in a low voice, "Hey, we're not bad people, don't be afraid, we won't hit you. It's very cold here, do you want to go with your brother to find something warmer? There are many delicious things there, lots of chocolate, just like what I gave you to eat earlier, wasn't it yummy? Do you want to go with your brother?"

  Zhang Qiang comforted the crying child again and again. The child looked at the chocolate placed beside Zhou Dapeng, and estimated that he still couldn't resist the temptation of the chocolate. He looked at Zhang Qiang and nodded, after all, he was just a kid.

  Wu Hui nodded at Zhang Qiang, and Zhang Qiang took the child to the car, hoping that the child would never understand that Zhou Dapeng was already dead.

  The police soon felt the scene of the case, Wang Siting carried a box to the front of Zhou Datong's body. According to the liver temperature prediction, the time of death should be less than two hours. Someone killed Zhou Datong before Wu Hui and others arrived.

  Zhou Dapeng drank a lot of wine before his death, so he didn't struggle much when he died, and there were only a few scratch marks on his neck.

  Wang Si-ting found many women's undergarments at Zhou Da-peng's residence, with a large amount of semen and fluid on them, which should be Zhou Da-peng's own.

  After searching the scene, Wang Si-ting decided to take these evidences back for a closer examination, maybe there were some clues about Chen Yi-ling and her sister.

  "Strange..." Wang Siting found that one thing was missing from what she was looking for.

  Wu Hui, who had been observing the scene of the case, heard Wang Si Ting's voice and didn't understand what was strange about it. "What's wrong?"

  Wang Si-ting pointed at her own feet, although she was only wearing a pair of low-heeled high heels today. "High heels, those red high heels, where are they?"

  Wu Hui remembered that Wang Si Ting had said that the deceased Zhou Linlin's head injury was caused by the high-heeled shoes she was wearing at the time. If the person who took away those high-heeled shoes was Zhou Dapeng, then they should still be here.

  Wu Hui guessed, maybe Zhou Dapeng had someone he liked, "Did Zhou Dapeng give it to the person?"

  As for Wu Hui's conjecture, Wang Si Ting didn't want to know, she just wanted to get that piece of evidence. "I don't know about this, you guys hurry up and find it, this is an important piece of evidence."

  Watching Wang Siting turn and leave, Wu Hui thought of her appearance when she was not working, it really was like two different people.

  Zhang Qiang settled the child and came back to find Wu Hui, just in time to see Wu Hui with a silly smile on his face. "What are you thinking about, smiling like that?"

  Upon hearing Zhang Qiang's voice, Wu Hui hastily withdrew his gaze from Wang Si Ting and asked, "What's up with that kid?"

  Zhang Qiang recalled the scars on the child's body, and a chill ran down his spine. "I had Fang You send him to the hospital for a physical examination."

  "En!" Wu Hui responded, taking another look around Zhou Dapeng's place. The area was small and easy to survey, making it a simple task to find something, unless he had hidden the item in plain sight among this massive garbage mountain, in which case it would truly be gone.

  "What's wrong? Is something off?" Zhang Qiang found Wu Hui had been searching for something.

  "Wu Hui expressed the doubts in his mind, 'Who knew we were coming to find Zhou Datong, and who killed him before us? What was he trying to do, hiding something, afraid that Zhou Datong would know something that would expose the killer himself?'"

  After Guo Yining took control of the scene, he came to Wu Hui's side and happened to hear him say, "We asked many people with Zhou Dapeng's portrait, it's possible that the murderer was among the people we asked, or the murderer has been observing your movements, so he can find Zhou Dapeng one step ahead and kill him."

  As for the murderer killing Zhou Dapeng, Zhang Qiang also found it strange. "Why did he want to kill Zhou Dapeng? Did Zhou Dapeng see the murderer or did Zhou Dapeng know something that endangered the murderer?"

  The only clue now is Zhou Dapeng, but unfortunately Zhou Dapeng is dead. "Now let's investigate Zhou Dapeng's identity and see who he has been in contact with recently."

  Wang Hua hastily rushed over, he had important intelligence to tell the captain, "Captain Guo, I've finally found you, I have something to say."

  Guo Yining asked Wang Hua to investigate Chen Yiling's matter, it seems that there is some progress again. "What's the matter?"

  Wang Hua quickly told what he knew, "I showed Zhou Datong's portrait to an aunt in Chen Qitai's neighborhood. She recognized the person inside and said that she often saw him around their area. The aunt thought he wasn't a good person, so she paid attention. On the day Chen Yiling and her sister died, she said she saw Zhou Datong appear in that neighborhood."

  Guo Yining nodded, "I see, after passing through Wang Siting's inspection, it should be basically confirmed that these three cases were committed by Zhou Dapeng."

  Wang Hua looked around and asked, "Captain Guo, what's going on here?" He had heard that a murder case occurred here when he arrived, could it be that another girl was harmed by Zhou Dapeng?

  "Zhou Dapeng is dead!"

  Wang Hua was taken aback and stared blankly at Zhou Datong, "What? That kid is dead, who killed him?"

  Guo Yining saw that there shouldn't be anything valuable here for the time being, so he decided to head back to the team and study it further. "Don't know for now, let's talk about it when we get back!"

  After investigation, Zhou Dapeng is from Dalian City, Liaoning Province. He came to Lincheng for work a few years ago with his son and a woman who was their fellow villager.

  Zhou Dapeng's son, Zhou Xiaopeng, is a child with some intellectual problems. He is over four years old and still can't speak. Zhou Dapeng has been taking care of him since his divorce from his ex-wife.

  Zhou Dapeng opened a small restaurant in Dalian before his divorce and saved some money. He then had an affair with a waitress at the restaurant, which led to his wife divorcing him. Under the encouragement of his mistress, Zhou sold the restaurant and came to Lincheng, planning to open another one here.

  When he first arrived in Lincheng, he was unfamiliar with the place and couldn't find a suitable front door. This good-looking man spent money lavishly and quickly used up Zhou Dapeng's money. After seeing that Zhou Dapeng had no more money, he dumped him.

  Although the good friend dumped Zhou Dapeng, Zhou Dapeng would often go to pester her and occasionally give her some money, hoping she could return to his side again.

  When Zhou Dapeng had money, she would say some good words to coax him, and when he had no money, she would sweep her out of the house.

  Kuo Yining decided to call this woman over for questioning. When the woman appeared in the Major Crimes Investigation Unit, Wang Hua was startled and exclaimed, "How is it her?"

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