Chapter 153: The Waking Corpse (2/2)

Dali immediately moved his face away nervously.

Then I asked Dali to lie down on an empty bed next to the victim. He reluctantly did so. I kept adjusting the joints of the victim’s arms and legs, then finally fixed on a pose.

“This is the posture that the victim was in at the moment of his death!” I declared.

Dali tried to imitate the victim’s posture, bending his legs this way and stretching his arms that way. Xiaotao frowned as she watched on.

“What a strange posture!” she exclaimed.

“Try it upside down, Dali!” I ordered.

Dali turned over and propped his hands on the bed and bent his knees. Xiaotao immediately recognized what it was.

“He was indeed having sex when he died!” she exclaimed.

“Yes!” I replied. Then I used the Echolocation Rod as a substitute for a knife and made stabbing gestures on Dali’s chest. “Judging from the position and distance of the knife, the identity of the murderer is now clear!”

“It’s definitely a woman, then,” said Xiaotao. “But didn’t Hamster tell you there was no one with Cao Da at the time?”

“No,” I corrected her. “His original words implied that there wasn’t a single living person in the room. The wording may be the key to solving the case. But I’ll need to examine the corpse a little bit more.”

“Can I get out of this posture now?” Dali asked.

“No,” I ordered. “Stay in that posture!”

Then I went under him and he blushed.

“Dude!” he said. “Xiaotao-jiejie is right there! Don’t act like we’re in our dorm room!”

“Shut up!” I spat. “Don’t make it sound weird, okay? I never do this with you when we’re in the dorm room!”

Xiaotao couldn’t help but burst into laughter. I was only trying to reenact the murder so I could get more valuable information. There was an ancestor of mine whose name was Song Xia who would solve murder cases rapidly by putting himself in situations that the victim was in at the moment of death. If he was investigating a case that involved someone being buried alive, then he’d bury himself alive too. If he was investigating a case where the victim drowned, then he would tie a heavy rock to his feet and jump into the water. Compared to his dedication, what I was doing could be considered insignificant!

In order to make the reenactment more realistic, I spread my legs and placed them beside Dali’s legs. Dali instantly became very embarrassed.

“Dude, we must never let anyone else know what we’re doing, okay?” he told me. “If one of our classmates found out about this, they’ll make fun of us and we’ll never hear the end of it!”

“What are you telling me that for?” I shot back. “You’re always the one who can’t keep your mouth shut! By the way, we’re supposed to be having sex here, can’t you move your hips a bit?”

“Shit, dude, you’re taking this too seriously!”

“Shut up! It’s not like I’m asking you to take off your pants! Hurry up!”

Dali began to move up and down awkwardly. I nudged him in the chest with the Echolocation Rod, then an idea flashed in my mind and I told Dali to stop immediately. I got off the bed and examined the victim’s body again, and sure enough, there was a particularly long incision in the diaphragm.

“This is where the victim was first stabbed,” I said. “At the time, the victim was moving up and down just like Dali, and the knife plunged into him as he and the murderer were having sex, catching him by surprise. Judging from the position of the wound, I think the murderer is about 150 cm tall.”

Then I examined the victim’s chest a little more closely and exclaimed, “Wait! Something’s wrong here!”

“What is it?” asked Xiaotao.

The victim was the boss of an underworld gang. Judging from the old scars on his body, he’d been stabbed many times before. Why would he just lay there and let the murderer stab him a dozen more times without fighting back?

I massaged my temples and fell deep into my thoughts. It seemed that the only way to find out was to continue with the reenactment, but when I turned around, Dali wasn’t there. I heard his voice coming from the door saying, “I gotta go to the toilet, dude! I’ll be back in a second!”

“Idiot!” I spat. “Just when I need him to be here!”

“I can replace him!” Xiaotao offered with a smile.

“W-What?” I stuttered, blushing.

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