investigative chronicle

Chapter 91 Death
With just one glance, Ji Si'an couldn't take it anymore, and she quickly turned her head to the side.

"It's Yang Ping, she's dead..." Luo Li cried out of breath, and the weight of her whole body was pressed against Ji Si'an.

Ji Si'an took a step back, barely supporting her. "Let's call the police immediately."

They climbed out of the pit with hands and feet, and walked a long way outside before they found the signal and successfully called the police.

When Yuan Mu and the others arrived at the scene, Luo Li was shaking from crying, her hands and feet were numb and she couldn't get up.She had no choice but to ask Ji Si'an, who seemed to be calm, to take them to the scene.

Ji Si'an looked at Yuan Mu, his eyes were empty.Yuan Mu told her several times before she understood what she meant.

This wasn't Ji Si'an's first time facing a dead body, but the impact of the scene still made her terrified.

"Okay... I'll show you the way." Although she said so, her legs were not very strong. She tried several times but couldn't stand up, and finally managed to stand up with Yuan Mu's help.

Ji Si'an brought them to the scene, and sat down with his back against the pine tree.Her legs shook uncontrollably.

"The child's name is Yang Ping, and she's not yet 14 years old... She didn't return to the rescue center after school the day before yesterday. I accompanied Luo Li to find her..." Ji Si'an answered the police handling the case.

"You...how did you come here?" the policeman asked.

"When we came to look for her last night, a man in black shook us with a flashlight and then hurriedly ran in this direction. We were very scared at the time, so we thought about coming back the next day..."

"If... I mean if we came here last night, wouldn't something happen to her..."

Ji Si'an grabbed the policeman's sleeve like a drowning person, her self-blame and remorse almost drowned her...

She has missed it once, and if she misses it again this time, she will never forgive herself.

"Although I am not a forensic doctor, her blood vessels have changed color and are clearly visible. It is obvious that she was killed earlier. You...don't blame yourself too much."

Ji Si'an breathed a sigh of relief at the policeman's words, but it was followed by deep guilt.The child died, but I was glad that it had nothing to do with my behavior...

"Tell me about yesterday's situation. Do you remember what the man in black looked like?" the policeman asked.

Ji Si'an wiped his face vigorously, trying to calm himself down.She described the situation to the police in detail, but when it came to the man's appearance and physical characteristics, she stopped.

Thinking of that person, she didn't remember anything except fear.The black clothes, the face hidden in the darkness, he suddenly appeared there like a ghost, and suddenly disappeared in the black.

Ji Si'an patted her head vigorously, this familiar feeling of powerlessness made her full of anger at her own incompetence.

"Don't worry, this situation is normal. At that time, you met unconsciously, and he shook you again. How about this, I will leave you a phone number, and you can contact me at any time if you think of anything later." Police Stop her self-harm when the time comes.

Yuan Mu, who saw this scene from a distance, sighed secretly, she could understand Ji Si'an's feelings.

She looked at the forensic doctor who was putting the body into a body bag at the bottom of the pit, and understood that the on-site inspection work was coming to an end.So she said to Ji Si'an: "Xiao An, come down with me first."

Ji Si'an stood up and saw the body bag. The circles of her eyes became hot, tears fell uncontrollably again, and she replied with a strong nasal voice: "Okay, let's go down first."

Luo Li at the foot of the mountain had regained her composure. After she had introduced Yang Ping's situation in detail to the police, she handed him the hairpin in her hand.

When Yuan Mu and the others came down the mountain, they saw the police put the hairpin into the evidence bag.

"I think the murderer is still that bastard ten years ago." Luo Li said firmly.

"What? Why do you think that?" The policeman knew what she was talking about after only a moment of hesitation.It seems that the case ten years ago has been firmly remembered by them.

"They are all minors..."

"But Yang Ping is a bit older than the previous girl, and she doesn't meet his criteria for choosing a target," the policeman said.

"And...the corpse is not right. The previous victim was strangled to death, but Yang Ping had several stab wounds on her body." Yuan Mu continued.She is obviously also aware of the case ten years ago.

"My instinct is that he..." Luo Li said stubbornly.

Ji Si'an looked at her, Luo Li seemed to be very familiar with the case that happened here ten years ago, and she was very persistent.

Yuan Mu understood because she was a policeman, but why did Luo Li know so well? Ten years ago, she was still a child.

Thinking of this, Ji Si'an looked at Luo Li in surprise. At this moment, she felt that she was getting closer to her secret.

"She also smelled of lavender. That smell... I can't remember it wrongly, I can't forget it in my life..."

Luo Li's tear-filled eyes were exceptionally clear.

"What do you mean? You mean that the deceased smelled like lavender?" The police found it incredible.

Yang Ping had been dead for a while, and the body had already smelled faintly, but Luo Li said that she smelled lavender.His first reaction was that she was stimulated and her sense of smell was deviated.

"Ten years ago... I saw him. At that time, he was wearing a white shirt. Although the cuffs were frayed, the clothes were still clean. He had this faint smell of lavender..."

"The doll hanging from Miao Miao's schoolbag also has this smell... He's back again."

Luo Li's incoherent words caused Yuan Mu and the others to react for a while. "You mean you saw that road and bridge killer ten years ago?"

"Are you a witness?" The policeman stared at Luo Li excitedly.

Luo Li nodded with tears in her eyes. "Yes, I am a witness."

"Ten years ago, I should have been killed. I was the one he was targeting."

Luo Li finally uttered the secret that had been hidden in her heart for a long time, and Luo Li couldn't help crying.

"Ten years ago? Ten years ago, you were a little girl, right..." Halfway through the conversation, the detachment leader stopped talking.

He walked up to Luo Li: "Are you the little girl who walked with Miao Miao after school?"

"I'm sorry...I'm sorry..." Luo Li burst into tears.

Looking at her, the detachment leader thought of ten years ago.At that time, she also broke down and cried like this.Her parents kicked him out for fear that she would be provoked again.

"Have you seen the murderer?" The detachment leader confirmed to her again.

He remembered what her parents said at the time was that Luo Li didn't go home with Miao Miao, and her father picked her up that day.

"Dad came late that day... Miao Miao asked me to take the bus with her... I was actually with her that day..."

"Then why are you lying!?" The detachment leader was very angry.

"Because I'm afraid... My mother said that man is a rapist. If I let others know that he is targeting me, they will inevitably make irresponsible remarks. I will not be able to clean up by jumping into the Yellow River.... I'm sorry , I didn't know he would kill Miaomiao..., I really didn't expect him to kill..."

(End of this chapter)