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Chapter 62 The Desperate Mermaid

Several people ran back to the pier, and the Empress was still docked there, but the staff was preparing to close the cabin for maintenance.

"Sorry! Can you wait a moment!" Yan Junli shouted out of breath, "A passenger is missing, and we suspect she may still be on board!"

The staff member who closed the cabin door was stunned, and immediately shook his head: "Impossible, we have cleaned every room, how could there be someone on board, look elsewhere, I'm going to close the door."

Zhu Zhixin hurried to the front: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but the missing one is my niece, and I can't find her anywhere. Please forgive me and let's go in."

"No, no, it's impossible for someone to be inside." Saying that, the staff member was about to close the cabin door.

"Hey, wait a minute, let them in." At this moment, a voice came from the side.Turning around, it was indeed Yin Mingxu.

"It's such a terrible thing to not find anyone. Although I don't know if I can help, it doesn't matter if the cruise ship is delayed for maintenance." Yin Mingxu asked the staff member to make way for several people while talking.

"Then thank you very much." Zhu Zhixin showed a grateful smile, and took the lead to board the cruise ship.

"Cut...you said you were looking for it, so where can you find someone on such a big boat?" Zhu Haoran also followed along cursingly.

Yang Wenbin and Yan Junli looked at each other, and followed them into the boat.

Because there were no guests, most of the lights on the cruise ship went out.The sunlight coming in from the window is not enough to illuminate the huge space in the hall, making it look a bit gloomy.

"Bai Rong! Zhu Bairong!" Zhu Zhixin yelled, bowing his hands into a trumpet-like shape, "Zhu Bairong! Are you on the boat?"

"Miss Zhu! Please answer if you hear it!"

"Miss Zhu Bairong!"

At this moment, Yang Wenbin stopped suddenly. He frowned and asked softly, "Did you hear anything?"

"Sound?" Yan Junli was taken aback for a moment, and stopped in his tracks.Sure enough, he heard what seemed to be a faint cat meowing not far away.

"Cat meowing?" Zhu Haoran obviously noticed it too, "Is that..."

Zhu Zhixin immediately turned around and walked towards the direction of the meowing. Sure enough, they saw Zhu Bairong's Persian cat on the deck after walking for a long time.The original fluffy white hair of the Persian cat was covered with water and made a mess. It was shrinking pitifully in a corner and meowing.

"Isn't this Kitty? Why is it here?" Zhu Zhixin bent down and hugged the cat, and asked suspiciously, "But... her cat is here, where did she go?"

"she……"

At some point, Yang Wenbin had reached the edge of the deck and was looking down with his elbows on the railing, his voice trembling a little.

"I think she's here."

"What?" Several people were shocked and ran to the edge of the deck.

In the tumbling waves under the boat, one can vaguely see a human figure floating in the water, the white dress is stretched in the waves, the necklace around the neck is shining, and the long black hair is floating, like a mermaid in a fairy tale , beautiful and sad.

However, everyone knew clearly that it was not a mermaid, but a corpse.

Miss Zhu Bairong's body.

"Bai Rong!!!"

Luo Yan, who had no money, waited at the door of the hotel, but she couldn't wait for the two men to come back. Just when she was about to lose patience and was about to fish them out of the sea, she saw someone coming from afar. After a few people, Luo Yan rushed forward.

"Oh! You are finally back, I am almost bored to death by myself, you—" Before Luo Yan finished speaking, his attention was attracted by the stretcher covered with white cloth carried by Yan Junli and Zhu Zhixin arrive.

"What, what are you carrying?"

Yan Junli's face was dark, extremely ugly, while Zhu Zhixin, who was walking in front, was covered with tears, and the two carefully placed the stretcher on the ground.

"It's a corpse." Yang Wenbin wiped the water off his face and said coldly.

"Corpse..." Luo Yan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed a few times, "Ha, haha, how is that possible, you won't be able to scare me even if you want to!"

As Luo Yan said that, she quickly stretched out her hand and lifted the white cloth, and the people beside her didn't have time to stop, and Zhu Bairong's body was exposed in full view.

"Ah!!" Luo Yan was so frightened that she fell to the ground and was speechless for a moment.

"You!" Zhu Zhixin turned red with anger, and immediately stretched out his hand to hit Luo Yan, but was stopped by Yan Junli, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, but he couldn't stop cursing, "It's fine if you steal the necklace! You still want to do something to Bai Rong's body." What! You stinky girl, did you premeditate, tell me! Did you kill Bai Rong!"

Luo Yan was completely frightened and sat on the ground unable to speak a word.The high decibels of Zhu Zhixin's cursing obviously attracted some attention, and the exposed corpse attracted the screams of many unsuspecting tourists.

"What's the matter, what's the matter, Zhu Bairong found it—" Mao Yingqin hurried out of the hotel with the hem of her coat in her hand, and saw the corpse on the ground at a glance, and she knelt on the ground as if she had lost her soul, "God Oh, my God, my God...she's dead, she's dead! It must be the curse, that necklace killed her!"

Yan Junli quickly put the white cloth on the stretcher again: "Calm down! Calm down!"

At this time, Yin Mingxu also rushed over, and he was a little confused when he saw the chaotic scene.Yan Junli sighed helplessly, stood up from the corpse, and asked without hope: "Is there a police agency on this island?"

Yin Mingxu shook his head: "As far as I know, there is no such thing. After all, this is a newly developed island and there are not many tourists..."

"This is... very difficult." Yan Junli looked at the frightened crowd and said in embarrassment, "Even if we call the police now, it will take a day to arrive, not to mention that it will be useless when we arrive. gone."

"But, but, aren't you a criminal policeman?" Yin Mingxu said hastily, "Didn't you and Mr. Yang just solve the case of the necklace theft, then even the murder case can definitely..."

"How can a homicide case and a theft case be compared?" Yan Junli sighed, "Besides, even if I am a criminal policeman, I can't take care of homicide cases outside of City C. This is not the area I am in charge of for a long time. What's more, this is not the same as Zhu Yuanzhang. It's about home—"

"But if the two of you don't help now, no one can help." Yin Mingxu interrupted Yan Junli and said sincerely, "If there is anything that needs help, I will do my best to help as long as I can Yes, if it doesn’t work, I can ask the staff on the Empress to help.”

Yan Junli seemed a little moved by Yin Mingxu's persistence, he turned to look at Yang Wenbin: "Mr. Yin said so, what do you think?"

Yang Wenbin went to the corpse and squatted down, said with a smile: "Then, since the situation is indeed like this, there is nothing we can do. Let's solve the problem by ourselves."

As he spoke, Yang Wenbin lifted the white cloth, revealing Zhu Bairong's head.

Zhu Zhixin couldn't bear to look away, while Mao Yingqin hugged Zhu Haoran sobbing.

"Judging from the location where the body was found, I'm afraid that Ms. Zhu fell into the water while the boat was still sailing, and then the body drifted along the current along the way, and was finally discovered by us." Yang Wenbin said, and lifted the body again. White cloth for feet.The corpse's feet were tied up with cloth twisted into ropes, and the ends were tattered as if they had been torn apart by something.

Yang Wenbin patiently tugged at the piece of fabric, and finally untied it smoothly, stretching it flat.

The sharp-eyed Zhu Haoran recognized the appearance of the fabric at a glance: "Ah, isn't this... Zhu Bairong's little coat that used to match this dress?"

"I'm afraid this is to add weight to the body so that it will not float up. The cloth is used as a rope, and some heavy objects are tied to the feet. It's just that the cloth of this dress is not very load-bearing, and it will be torn off within two strokes." Therefore, the corpse also floated to the shore along the current." Yang Wenbin held up the piece of fabric and looked left and right.

"This cloth is the cloth on Zhu Bairong's clothes. Could it be..." Yin Mingxu couldn't help but said, "Miss Zhu Bairong tied it on herself?"

Yan Junli also frowned, and asked, "Did Zhu Bairong commit suicide?"

Several members of the Zhu family looked at each other, and Mao Yingqin burst into tears all of a sudden: "Damn it! I knew it! I knew that necklace would definitely curse people to death! It must be the curse of that necklace, first of all Zhu Bairong, then it's our turn!"

"No, that's not right." At this time Yang Wenbin interrupted the speculation of several people, "Zhu Bairong definitely did not commit suicide."

"How to say?" Yan Junli leaned over.

"Do you have gloves?" Yang Wenbin stretched out his hand to Yan Junli, Yan Junli sighed, actually took out a pair of plastic gloves from his coat and threw it to Yang Wenbin.

"I forgot to take it out when I went out, but I didn't expect it to come in handy."

Yang Wenbin put on his gloves and said: "First of all, the most obvious feature of a drowned person is that there will be turquoise-like white foam around the mouth. When the seawater pours into the lungs during drowning, the lungs will secrete mucus when they are stimulated. It forms foam when mixed with sea air."

As he spoke, Yang Wenbin opened the mouth of the corpse, and drew a circle in the mouth with his fingertips: "But there is no foam in Miss Zhu's mouth. Besides, people who die by drowning usually look extremely painful. She will struggle desperately, but Miss Zhu's expression is too peaceful for a drowning person. However, the most obvious thing is the cloth tied to her feet."

"Isn't the fabric the same as her own clothes?" Zhu Zhixin asked.

(End of this chapter)