Abyss of ignorance

Chapter 39 Fall
Sure enough, as Ye Mimi said, after about an hour, the rain gradually stopped.

Ye Mimi put out the bonfire with the spruce leaf cover that was used as a shelter just now, arranged her equipment, and said, "Let's go, let's go."

The road was uphill, and the more he walked, the more tired he became. Lin Xiaodong felt that his physical fitness was almost unable to keep up.

But Ye Mimi seemed to have seen the dawn, her pace was obviously quicker, she walked through the forest, and suddenly stopped in the newly exposed sunlight.

She just stood there, didn't speak, didn't look back, and looked down at something.

Lin Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief and stepped up his pace to follow.

When they walked nearby, they realized that they came to a low cliff.When Lin Xiaodong saw the situation under the cliff, Lin Xiaodong's whole heart went cold.

There are low bushes under the cliff, and among the bushes, there is a person lying on the ground with his back up, motionless, exposed outside, his hands whitened by the rain and the strange posture of his legs, which already shows that this person is alive The possibility of it is very small.

Ye Mimi took out the rope in the rescue backpack, found a relatively thick tree trunk and put it on it.

Lin Xiaodong looked at it and asked hesitantly: "No way, you want to go down directly? It just rained and it's too slippery."

Ye Mimi didn't pay attention to him, and quickly fixed him, ready to go down.

But at this moment, Lin Xiaodong stepped forward to stop her: "If you want to go down, I will go down first."

Ye Mimi looked at him and smiled.

Lin Xiaodong knew what Ye Mimi's smile meant, and he proposed to go down first, of course it was not out of macho behavior to protect "weak" women. Ye Mimi was no longer among the "weak" women to him.This was the most direct purpose of his following - to prevent Ye Mimi from destroying the scene after discovering Qian Yingjie.

But what surprised him was that Ye Mimi handed him the rope without hesitation.

This made Lin Xiaodong feel inexplicable frustration again, feeling that his own calculations were always within the other party's expectations.

Anyway, at least he's now the first person on the scene.

After fastening the safety buckle, he began to slide down slowly. This cliff does not look high, but it will take a little time to really descend smoothly.

Lin Xiaodong looked up while carefully placing the rope.

Ye Mimi stood on the edge of the cliff and watched him all the time, but the look in his eyes was not so much concerned as judged, as if he was watching how his descending skills were.

Suddenly, an uneasy thought flashed in Lin Xiaodong's mind. At this moment, there were only him and Ye Mimi. If Ye Mimi broke the rope, there was nothing he could do.

And just now he had put his own life and death in the hands of such a person who was always on his list of suspects.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look up at her twice more, and the rope he held in his hand was released faster.

Due to the rapid descent, Lin Xiaodong staggered when he landed, and fell into the mud pit. Not far away, Qian Yingjie's prostrate face was turned sideways, facing the direction when he fell, with his eyelids half drooping. With his eyes open, his entire face was swollen beyond recognition from the heavy rain.After working in criminal investigation for so many years, Lin Xiaodong looked at the bluish-gray skin that had lost its elasticity, and knew——Qian Yingjie was dead, utterly dead.

At this moment, Ye Mimi had already slid down quickly, cleanly and neatly, without falling down, and not even stained with many mud spots.

She walked to Qian Yingjie's side, and as soon as she reached out to touch Qian Yingjie's hand, Lin Xiaodong stopped her, "Don't move, this is the scene of the crime."

Then he walked over by himself, took out the rubber gloves he carried with him, and made a preliminary inspection of the corpse. Multiple contusions and broken legs were all consistent with the characteristics of falling from a height.Turn on the walkie-talkie and call a teammate.

According to their walking situation just now, it will take at least another hour for the large troops to come over.

Ye Mimi looked at him, looked down at Qian Yingjie, stood up, and was calmer than Lin Xiaodong's colleagues in the police force: "I broke my leg when it fell off, but it didn't die. It seems that I was killed last night." The rain drowned him to death."

That tone, as if what he was facing was not a human corpse.

Lin Xiaodong looked at her—this was not the reaction a 22-year-old girl should have.

However, what made him more concerned was Ye Mimi's judgment, and said immediately: "How do you know he died last night."

"In the mountains, animals that were injured and couldn't hide from the rain often died on the ground, and he looked similar to them." Ye Mimi looked at Lin Xiaodong immediately, "You have a forensic doctor anyway, so you can check it later and see if it's the case gone."

Lin Xiaodong frowned and looked at the corpse in front of him. Qian Yingjie was still holding the phone in his dead hand. The phone had already run out of battery—he wanted to ask for help, but there was no signal in this place.

It was hard for him to imagine how Qian Yingjie waited for death bit by bit in despair in this place for the past two days and two nights.He remembered the "rhetoric words" he had said to Yue Jianfeng before he set off, and suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and murmured: "If what you said is correct, then if we went into the mountain to look for him yesterday, maybe he is already lying on the bed right now. He was rescued in the hospital."

"It rained yesterday, you can't save him." Ye Mimi's words sounded a little too heartless to Lin Xiaodong.

"Well, that's the way it is... This way of dying is a bit tormenting." Lin Xiaodong looked around, there were cliffs, trees, and nothing else. For Qian Yingjie, this was probably a living hell on earth.

"Why did he come to this place alone?" Lin Xiaodong asked puzzled, "We have asked his family about the situation, and it doesn't look like he is going to commit suicide."

"Perhaps, his destination is not here." Ye Mimi said.

"Ok?"

"Instinct. The instinct of fear makes him want to run up. He doesn't know this place is a cliff."

"You mean, he fell to avoid some slip?"

"I'm just guessing, you're a policeman."

The rain stopped completely. It was close to noon, and the sky lit up. The rising temperature made the weather even more suffocating when it rained. Along with the steaming water vapor, the smell of corpses began to spread. up.

Although he had experienced it many times, Lin Xiaodong still had a hard time accepting this taste, so he took two steps back.

Only Ye Mimi was still standing beside the corpse, staring at it intently.

This made Lin Xiaodong very puzzled, and asked her from a distance: "Why are you staring at Qian Yingjie's corpse?"

Ye Mimi raised his eyebrows: "It's nothing, it's just a pity that I didn't know him when he was alive..."

(End of this chapter)