Chapter 57: Murder Reenactmen (1/2)

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Huang Xiaotao asked me what we should do next. I told her that there was nothing else to do for the time being except wait for the reports from the others. I suggested going back to the hotel and get some needed rest to refresh our bodies and minds.

So we went back to the hotel, and I saw Dali still lying in bed. I brought the roast duck and food to him. Despite being sick, Dali actually ate very happily. While eating, he asked me about the investigation today, so I briefly summarized everything to him.

Dali listened to my speculations and asked, “Do you think that maybe the perpetrator of this case is not a human being, dude?”

“No,” I firmly denied, “No matter what, I believe that humans are always behind the crimes that happened somehow.”

At this time, there was a sound of water splashing next door. Dali suddenly became cheerful.

“Dude, listen, Xiaotao-jiejie is taking a shower!” he chirped.

“No, that’s Wang Yuanchao’s room,” I replied.

Dali instantly lost interest and lay back down in bed.

“Stupid Old Wang,” he muttered. “Taking a shower at this time of day…”

I had driven to Wuqu City overnight, so I felt incredibly sleepy. So I slept for a while and felt a lot better when I woke up. I checked my phone and found that I had a few messages.

It was all in a WeChat group specially created for the task force. One police officer said that he had found an important piece of information, and then there were messages from Luo Weiwei and Bai Yidao saying that they’d completed their tasks.

I put on my clothes and knocked on Huang Xiaotao’s and Wang Yuanchao’s rooms. After waiting for about five minutes, Wang Yuanchao appeared in front of me neatly dressed. I asked him, “Didn’t you sleep?”

“I did,” he replied plainly.

After a while, Huang Xiaotao opened the door. She wore the hotel’s bathrobe and her face was covered with a mask. She stretched out her arms and said, “I had a good sleep just now. What’s wrong? Did they find a new clue?”

“Yeah,” I replied. “I’ll give you ten minutes, put on your clothes quickly.”

“Ten minutes? Have you ever waited for a girl to get ready before? I’ll need at least half an hour just to wear my clothes and comb my hair! I’ll need longer if I’m going to wear makeup!”

That really was the first time I found out that girls needed so long to get ready.

“Then Old Wang and I will head to the police station first,” I said. “You can catch up with us later.”

“Roger!”

We went to the second-floor conference room. Bai Yidao, Luo Weiwei and another policeman were already waiting. Bai Yidao gave me two paper bags. I opened one and found that it contained three carved masks made of cedar wood and the other contained some herbs.

“Well done!” I praised.

“I’ve got a friend who does this kind of craftwork,” he said coolly. “Why do you want this thing anyway?”

“For something important,” I replied vaguely.

Luo Weiwei had brought the mice, and the two were put in a small iron cage.

Next, the policeman said that he investigated the husband’s bank account found a suspicious anomaly. About five million yuan had been withdrawn from the account after the husband’s death. The money was transferred into an account that belonged to a person called Yu Jun.

I asked him and Bai Yidao to investigate this Yu Jun person. As for Luo Weiwei, I had no other tasks for her. I told her she could leave work early if she wanted to.

However, Luo Weiwei insisted on investigating with Bai Yidao. As she left, I asked her for the key to the murder scene.

I then borrowed a laboratory to slowly heat up the medicinal herb mixture, and then asked the forensics officers there to give me a serum sample of both the husband and wife.

After that, I told them to inject 20 milliliters of the serum into each of the mice. At that moment, Huang Xiaotao arrived and saw the mixture of herbs in the pot simmering away and the police officers giving injections to the mice. It must’ve been an interesting scene to behold.

“Song Yang, what kind of evil experiment are you conducting here?” she jokingly asked.

“You’ll know later.”

After the serum injection, I waited quietly for a while. The two white mice were still alive and kicking, seemingly nothing had happened to them.