Chapter 2384: Chapter 2385: You, Must Die Too! Chapter 2384: Chapter 2385: You, Must Die Too! “This…”
Gu Yiran stood frozen in place, a cold sweat running down his smooth forehead.
Lin Yi’s expression was equally serious; he had anticipated many different scenarios.
Clearly, the scene before him was not one he had predicted.
On the ground lay an old quilt, upon which two snow-white foxes were crouched.
Upon seeing soone enter, they imdiately stood up, warily fixing their gaze on Lin Yi and Gu Yiran.
But beside them, scattered haphazardly, lay the corpses of many animals.
There were the most common chickens, ducks, geese, and even cats and dogs.
Their bodies were covered in blood, so even rotting away, emitting a foul and pungent odor.
In addition, on the walls hung many pieces of white paper and yellow cloth with inscrutable drawings on them.
There was nothing particularly special about the kitchen; the items before them were all there was.
Lin Yi cautiously looked around, finding nothing further to investigate, and then gestured with a wave of his hand, quietly retreating with Gu Yiran.
Upon exiting the room, Gu Yiran heaved a deep sigh of relief.
It was as though the dilapidated door behind them was guarding the gates of hell.
“Let’s go. It looks like there’s nothing in their ho.”
“Yes.”
Gu Yiran’s mood lightened quite a bit, following behind Lin Yi as they walked out.
Pushing open the old door and seeing the sunlight once again cast upon them, Gu Yiran felt as if he had passed into another world.
“Old Lady, we’re done looking and ready to leave. Living alone here, you should take care of yourself.”
Lin Yi didn’t want to stay any longer in this ghastly place and was preparing to leave.
The old lady nodded.
The two turned and went on their way.
But at that mont, the old lady’s hoarse voice rang out behind them.
“You didn’t go to the kitchen, did you?”
“No,” Lin Yi answered with a smile.
“You’re lying!”
Suddenly, the old lady’s voice turned sharp again.
“You did go! They’ve already told .”
Hiss—
Gu Yiran’s skin crawled, and he felt goosebumps all over again.
Lin Yi looked at the old lady, his gaze fixed on her sunken, hollow eyes.
As their eyes t, the intense pressure surrounding Lin Yi also dissipated at that mont.
The old lady, however, showed no fear and even revealed a chilling smile!
“Hehehe…”
The old lady started laughing, her laughter eerily indescribable.
“Good that you looked, good that you looked… Now you’ll have enough to eat… after eating your fill…”
The old lady’s gaze turned even more intense,
Deeply staring at Lin Yi and Gu Yiran.
“They are all going to die!”
Under the bright light of day, the old lady’s words seed to blanket the sky with dark clouds, enveloping everything with gloom and eeriness!
“Let’s go, don’t bother with her anymore.”
At this point, Gu Yiran didn’t even want to maintain the most basic of courtesies.
Dragging Lin Yi with him, they left the old lady’s house.
Once back on the village’s concrete road, Gu Yiran finally felt a huge relief.
“The old lady really is…”
“Indescribable, right?” Lin Yi said with a smile.
Gu Yiran nodded. “You’d think she has ntal issues, but she can communicate normally. If you say she’s normal, however, the things she says and does are all so nonsensical.”
“So, she must be healthy,” Lin Yi confidently stated:
“Her eyes were not at all confused. The only reason she rambles on is simply that she wants to.”
“So, do you suspect that she might be the murderer?”
“It’s hard to say.”
“I think we can consider her a key person to investigate,” Gu Yiran said:
“The fox that Fang Daye killed could have been raised by her, harboring resentnt all this ti.”
“If what you’re suggesting is true, she would have acted long ago, why wait three years? That’s not reasonable.”
Gu Yiran fell into deep thought. Lin Yi’s point was indeed reasonable.
“Let’s go back and see. Perhaps Brother Zhu has so findings.”
“Okay.”
The two returned to Fang Daye’s ho, the gloom in their hearts dissipating with their arrival.
“You’re back so soon, how did it go?”
Zhu Junchi asked with a cigarette in his mouth.
Gu Yiran honestly recounted everything that had just happened to Zhu Junchi.
“Really? Does the old lady have an illness?”
“Lin Yi says she’s faking it, and I have the sa feeling,” Gu Yiran brushed back his hair, “But there were two fox hairs on the body, and she had three foxes. Moreover, people from the village hardly ever go to her house, so the possibility that she’s related to the case is greater.”
Zhu Junchi nodded, “But let’s hold off on the old lady for now, see if we can gather more clues, and then investigate collectively to avoid alerting the suspect prematurely.”
“Brother Zhu, have you discovered anything new?”
Zhu Junchi shrugged, “No progress, I’ve been waiting for you guys to co back so we could wrap this up.”
“Then let’s go,” Gu Yiran said. “I guess the investigation on the deceased must be mostly completed by now.”
“Let’s go.”
When everyone returned to the precinct, it was just past one in the afternoon. They had so food in the cafeteria, then returned to the office.
Not long after they arrived, Zhang Zixin walked in.
“Brother Zhu, Lin Bro, Ji Qingyan, the report is out.”
“What does it say?”
“On Fang Daye’s body were fingerprints of people from his household, but there were also a few faint unknown fingerprints, unlikely to belong to the murderer.”
“That’s not very significant,” Zhu Junchi said, resting his hands behind his head, “Even my son in primary school knows that a murderer would wear gloves to commit a cri, let alone the murderer himself.”
“Now we just have to see if Old Zhang can find the car that the victim drove.”
Lin Yi and Gu Yiran both nodded.
“But I’m always curious about how the murderer got the body into the coffin,” Gu Yiran said:
“The victim left his ho after four in the morning and died shortly after. At that ti, people in the village were starting to get busy, and if he wanted to place the body in the coffin, it would have been very easy for him to be discovered.”
“While it was risky, there was still room to maneuver,” Zhu Junchi said:
“Don’t forget their ho has a garage, and if the coffin was in the garage, just by locking the front and back doors, it becos an enclosed space. If he acted quickly, it was possible, but as you said, the risk would be much higher at that ti.”
Zhu Junchi lit another cigarette, “In all the years I’ve handled cases, this is the first ti I’ve seen anything like this.”
“The murderer probably wanted to create confusion, which is why he staged such a drama,” Lin Yi said.
“But to maximize the superstitious narrative, that old lady could have been an accomplice,” Zhu Junchi said:
“This could only beco common knowledge by passing it through her, the natural amplifier!”
Gu Yiran’s eyes lit up, “So, she might indeed be an accomplice!”
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