investigative chronicle

Chapter 96 The Price of Silence

Seeing the stubborn daughter who couldn't be persuaded, the mother actually knelt down in front of her. "Lily, I beg you. You have a poor mother's heart. I really can't lose you. Please, don't go..."

"Now this matter is being heated up, and those people's saliva can drown you. You will not have any good results if you stand up. And with your little clues, it is impossible for the police to catch him."

"That person has already committed several crimes, and there are still so many survivors ahead, and the police haven't caught them yet..."

"And that person knows where we live, and he's already eyeing you. Sending this doll today is to remind you to shut up."

"I beg you, mother. I really can't lose you..."

Luo Li has no concept of the sinister things her parents said, so she is fearless.But she was also afraid. What she was afraid of was her mother's tears. She didn't want to make her mother sad, so she finally nodded and promised that they would keep silent.

This decision filled Luo Li with guilt, and she was lingering in bed for a long time because of it.When she came to school again, it was already a month later.

Although her physical illness is cured, her mental illness has been tormenting her.She didn't dare to look at Miao Miao's seat, didn't dare to talk about her affairs, and even heard a name similar to her, she couldn't help crying...

The classmates and teachers only thought that she was overly sad, but they didn't know the guilt in her heart. The more they comforted her, the more uncomfortable she was.

And her parents were having a hard time.Ever since Miao Miao's incident, the mother has become suspicious, never letting her daughter leave her side during the break time, and even going to school, she has to contact the class teacher to confirm her daughter's situation after each class...

Although the father was not as exaggerated as the mother, he still picked up Luo Li throughout the journey and resolutely refused to let his daughter act alone.

Not only that, but their home schedule has also changed.The original walk after dinner is permanently cancelled.All outings after 19:[-] are gone.

My father installed barricades on the windows of the house.My mother installed 4 or 5 additional built-in locks on the door.When I go to sleep, there are more kitchen knives and baseball bats in the bedroom, balls and screaming chickens on the floor...  

These 'protective' measures have been implemented for a long time, until the mother got up at night and tripped over the ball and was injured, it was slightly reduced.

"We can't go on like this." Mother lay haggard on the bed.

"The murderer hasn't been caught yet, so we can't take it lightly." The father handed warm water to the mother.

"We can't be so defensive for a lifetime," said the mother.

"You mean... do you want to tell the police?" Father hesitated.

"No. I mean we have to get out of this place," said the mother.

"How to leave?" Father still didn't understand.

"Move out. Live in a safer neighborhood." The mother obviously thought about this issue for a long time.She told her husband about the neighborhood she liked, and even asked about the price.

"But we don't have that much money..." When it came to this question, my father felt a little guilty.

"It's okay, let's borrow some money, and I'll borrow some from my natal relatives."

The mother is very determined, but the father is still a little hesitant.

"Lily has been in a bad situation recently. She often cries secretly, and her academic performance has dropped a lot... Changing the environment can help her forget bad memories."

Children are the weakness of all parents. As soon as the mother raises her daughter's question, the father immediately agrees.

In this way, Luo Li transferred another school, left the community where she had lived for more than ten years, left her playmates who had been playing for more than ten years, and moved to live in Chenghuang District.New community, new school, new classmates and teachers, everything seems to be starting again.

Only Luo Li knew that the rain that day, the bus that day, and Miao Miao with the little pink umbrella never went far.They will not disappear because of deliberate forgetting, they will only live deeper in the bottom of my heart.

When no one was around, she would secretly take out the box under the bed, which was filled with various reports about the "Luqiao obscene demon" case.She has read the above text hundreds of times, and she assembled the description inside on the man in the white shirt, trying to describe his appearance, but unfortunately, she couldn't piece together his appearance.

Obviously he greeted us and spent so long with us, why can't I remember his face?

I can notice the fraying of his shirt cuffs, I can smell the lavender on him, but I don't even know if his hair is long or short, why?why?

These thoughts continued to gnaw at her heart, and for a while she couldn't even sleep at night.

It was the mother who noticed her strangeness. She took the box away and forced her to stop thinking about it.

In fact, those things have already been imprinted in my heart, and it doesn't matter whether I take them away or not.

My mother thought that what she had done had worked.In fact, Luo Li's behavior was more secretive.

She is still following the news and Luqiao's case. As long as the murderer is still at large, she cannot stop.

So she pays special attention to gossip news, pays special attention to introverted girls, and hates all sex-related crimes...

She has known the behavior of director Zhao of the law firm for a long time.So she approached the introverted Ji Si'an just to protect her.

So it was not accidental that she stopped Lu Qi who committed suicide, but because she had been paying attention to her.

There are also Wang Meilin and Yu Na, who she regards as Miao Miao's substitutes.She wanted to make up for the regret at the age of 12 by helping again and again.

There was a time when the experience of volunteering saved her heart and allowed her to find the long-lost sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

But at this time Yang Ping had an accident and died in front of her in the same way...So her world was pulled back to ten years ago...

For ten years, no matter how hard she tried, she was still the little girl who could do nothing in front of that person.The mountain-like shadow oppressed her, making her unable to breathe.

"It's all my fault... If I had said it earlier, Miao Miao wouldn't have been wronged for so long, and Yang Ping wouldn't have died..."

"Actually, for so many years... I have always felt that my life was stolen. I was the one who should have died that year..., and the person that person targeted first was me..."

"It's all my fault... If I don't agree to take the bus with her, if I drag her and wait for the parents to pick her up, she won't die."

"Ten years later, it's still because of me... If I answered the dean's call that night, maybe I could find Yang Ping soon... If I had the courage to chase that person last night, Yang Ping might not will die……."

"They are all dead, why am I still alive? The most damned person is me..."

The guilt accumulated in my heart over the years surged up, drowning Luo Li in an instant.

"It has nothing to do with you. Yang Ping was already dead at that time last night. This is just a corpse throwing site." Yuan Mu put his hand on Luo Li's shoulder, but looked at the hillside not far away.

"You guys go back with me to make a record. What we have to do now is to catch him." The detachment leader quickly calmed down.

(End of this chapter)