Abyss of ignorance

Chapter 130 The Vanishing Painter

It was already dark when Lin Xiaodong arrived downstairs.

Since the last time he was assassinated, Lin Xiaodong is now extra careful when he walks downstairs of his house, always making sure that there are no suspicious surroundings before going upstairs.

Today, everything is normal, only a grocery store on the opposite side has been transferred out, and a small truck is parked at the door, moving things into it. It seems that the new store will be opened soon.

When he was about to step upstairs, two familiar people appeared in front of him.

It was Yue Jianfeng and Xiao Xu.

"Why are you two here?" Lin Xiaodong burst into joy.

But there was no smile on the faces of Yue Jianfeng and Xiao Xu.

Lin Xiaodong saw that the atmosphere was not right, so he put away his smile: "What's wrong?" He asked.

"Team Lin..." Yue Jianfeng said hesitantly. Although Lin Xiaodong is no longer his captain, he still calls him "Team Lin" habitually, "We now suspect that you are related to a murder case. I hope you will go back and cooperate with our investigation. .”

Lin Xiaodong was taken aback, looked at his two former subordinates in front of him, and couldn't believe it: "You guys colluded to play a prank, right? What murder?"

"We received a report that an adult male body was found in the reeds of Linzhou Wetland Protection Park. Your fingerprints and some shoe prints were found at the scene of the crime. You may need to compare them with your shoes." Yue Jianfeng With a serious face, "Team Lin, we are serious, we are not joking."

"Reeds?" Lin Xiaodong suddenly realized after hearing this, "I have indeed been there, but I went there alone. I didn't find anything suspicious at the time. Who died?"

"We are still verifying the identity of the deceased, Team Lin, you really have to go back with us." Yue Jianfeng had a complicated expression on his face.

……

Lin Xiaodong did not expect that when he returned to the Linzhou Public Security Bureau, he would be a suspect.

Under the complicated and puzzled eyes of everyone, Lin Xiaodong walked into the interrogation room.

Yue Jianfeng and Xiao Xu sat opposite Lin Xiaodong, looking at each other, as if they both wanted to start interrogating Lin Xiaodong.

Seeing this, Lin Xiaodong took the initiative to say, "It's nothing, it's a routine, nothing, let's hurry up and start!"

Only then did Yue Jianfeng open the notebook, and asked from the beginning:

"Name?"

"Lin Xiaodong."

"age?"

"thirty."

"Where were you between 6:28 and 17:19 on June [-]?"

"At about 17 o'clock that day, I should have just returned from Reed Marsh, on my way home. The road was a bit congested that day, and I just arrived home at about 19 o'clock."

"That is to say, you were on the road for these two hours. Is there any witness to prove it?"

"Um, then I can only trouble you to check the surveillance cameras nearby. I went back by myself on a motorcycle."

Yue Jianfeng handed a photo to Lin Xiaodong: "Did you see this person when you were in the reeds?"

The person in the photo was lying on his back on the reeds, his face was white and swollen from soaking in the water, and his original appearance could no longer be seen.

Lin Xiaodong obviously didn't know this person, but this place and this appearance made him feel a little nervous: "How did he die?"

"He was hit hard on the head." Yue Jianfeng blurted out, and then said, "We found clear shoe prints beside the corpse, and there were reed leaves that were torn off artificially a few meters away. Your fingerprints were on the mud on the leaves."

Lin Xiaodong scratched his head, remembering the situation that day, but at this moment his brain was occupied by the death of the man in this photo, and he didn't even open his mouth to explain immediately.

"More than 40 years ago, the same murder case happened in this place, and it has not been solved yet." Lin Xiaodong looked up at Yue Jianfeng, "It was also a severe blow to the head. You can ask Lao Liang to retrieve the file." He said to himself As she spoke, she quickly searched for the possible reasons behind this - in this world, there is only one person who has the reason to repeat this case, and her revenge is not over yet.

"Lin..." Yue Jianfeng almost called "Team Lin" habitually again, but he soon realized that this is an interrogation room, so he could only change his words, "Lin Xiaodong, we will arrange an investigation on the clues you provided, but for now From your personal situation, when the deceased was killed, you had no way to provide a reliable proof of absence, which, as you know, will be very disadvantageous to you."

"That shoe print is indeed mine, but it was left in the early afternoon, around 16:30, and the fingerprints on the reed leaves were also left because I had to wipe off the mud before I got on the motorcycle.

right!I can attest that I left the scene prior to the decedent's death. "

"Please speak!" Yue Jianfeng obviously lost his composure, as if he was more eager to prove his innocence than Lin Xiaodong himself.

"When I was about to leave, I met a painter. Because the road was relatively narrow, I took the initiative to step on the mudflat to make way for the road. The footprints were also left at that time. She was still there when I was leaving. I found this painter. It can prove that I was not at the scene when the deceased was killed."

"Painter? What's his name? Let's find out right away!" Yue Jianfeng said immediately.

But at this time, Lin Xiaodong found himself in a difficult situation: "I met her by chance. I don't know her name. She is a girl in her early twenties, wearing a pink skirt, about 1.5 meters tall, with long hair and two dimples. When I left, she stood there. If you paint in that location, you should be able to find some traces, paints and the like.”

Listening to Lin Xiaodong's story, Yue Jianfeng and Xiao Xu's expressions became more and more solemn.

Lin Xiaodong looked at his former colleague's reaction and couldn't help asking: "What's wrong? What I said is the truth."

"We surveyed the scene and found that the place where the body was found was inaccessible. Within a radius of one kilometer, except for your traces, there was no trace of anyone who had been there." Yue Jianfeng looked at Lin Xiaodong with puzzled eyes, as if the person in front of him It was very strange to him.

"It's impossible. I saw her coming down that road. As you know, the wetland park is full of dirt roads. There must be other footprints. By the way, she also set up an easel, and there will be marks on the ground... ..." Lin Xiaodong said to himself, and suddenly realized something, "Unless... these traces were artificially erased before you arrived. And..." Lin Xiaodong pressed Yue Jianfeng, "You said that there was no one at the scene except my traces. The traces of the past, does this also include the deceased?"

Yue Jianfeng nodded: "Yes, this is also something that confuses us, but various evidences show that this person died at the scene, not an abandoned corpse."

"Then..." Lin Xiaodong frowned. If this was the case, the young female painter was either the murderer or she might have been killed too.

(End of this chapter)