Chapter 158: Fake Death Syndrome (1/2)

Li Wei lay still on the bed in a pool of blood with a pair of scissors sticking out of his chest. I touched the vein on his wrist, and felt a faint pulse.

“He’s still breathing!” I shouted. “Quick, call the ambulance!”

Xiaotao immediately dialed 120. I looked around the house and saw a closet full of girls’ clothes, and on the table were some makeup, combs, false eyelashes and other cosmetic items. Li Wei’s blood was still warm, so the ‘dead woman’ must not have gone that far yet.

I opened my Autopsy Umbrella and borrowed a UV lamp from the forensics team. I asked Dali to hold the lamp up for me while I slowly turned the Autopsy Umbrella and scanned the whole room. Eventually, a set of very faint footprints appeared on the stairs.

Dali and I followed it all the way down and we reached a flower bed in the front garden of the building. Surely enough, there was a woman’s body lying among the flower plants!

The woman was wearing a pink dress. Judging by her height and body size, she was undoubtedly the same woman who murdered Cao Da. As we went in closer to check on her, Dali suddenly exclaimed, “She’s so beautiful!”

He was right. Even in death’s slumber, the young woman’s face was still sweet and demure. Her eyes were round and large like that of an anime character’s. I touched her and found that her body had gone cold. Her pale white skin had become bluish, and I could clearly see the veins underneath it. She had nothing else on her except for the pink dress. Parts of her body were stained with blood. I also noticed that the fingernail of her right index finger was broken.

I checked her pulse and felt nothing.

“Give me my Echolocation Rod!” I shouted to Dali.

“I didn’t bring it,” Dali replied. “Your bag is still upstairs in the room. Is she really dead this time, dude?”

I wasn’t sure myself. I’d never encountered anything like this before.

Moments later, I heard the sound of hurried footsteps approaching us. It was Xiaotao and the other officers. They stopped dead in their tracks when they noticed the dead woman. Xiaotao had brought my backpack with her, so I pulled the Echolocation Rod out from it and began examining the young woman’s body thoroughly.

I detected no heartbeat and no signs of activity from all of the organs whatsoever. I checked her pupils and found that they were completely dilated. To put it simply, she fit the all characteristics of a dead person to a T!

I then noticed an object sticking out between the woman’s legs. I lifted the hem of the dress and found a plastic rod there. Many officers looked away with a deep frown. I pulled that thing out and examined it. It turned out to be a plastic heating rod coated with oil, and it was something that was often used with blow-up dolls.

Li Wei was probably using it to warm up the dead woman’s vagina. To his horror, it caused the young woman to come back to life, and when she saw what he was doing to her, she grabbed a pair of scissors nearby and stabbed him with it to fight him off. Then she escaped through the door and collapsed again on the flower bed. All this must’ve happened in mere minutes before we arrived.

“Give me some room,” I said. “I’ll try to bring her back to life!”

Everyone stepped back cautiously. I inserted the heating rod back into the young woman. I didn’t feel awkward or embarrassed about it at all as she was only a corpse in my eyes at the moment.

I braced myself and waited. Seconds later, the young woman suddenly opened her eyes. Her dilated pupils constricted again, and when she saw me, she grabbed a stone nearby and tried to smash it on my head. I activated my Cave Vision the second she raised her arm and managed to predict her actions through her muscle movements. Xiaotao shouted for me to be careful, and at the same moment, the stone flew out of her hand. I inched to the side, and the stone whistled past me, grazing the tip of my nose.

“Don’t be afraid!” I tried to reassure her. “We’re the police!”

The young woman backed away in panic. She jumped up to her feet and staggered away, trying to escape. Xiaotao ordered the officers to surround her and block her from getting away. At that moment, the young woman’s eyes rolled to the back of her head, and she fell flat to the ground with a loud thud. Everyone was astounded. An officer approached her slowly and put a finger under her nose.

“She’s dead again…” he announced.

“Take her back to the police station!” ordered Xiaotao.

We all returned to the station along with the ‘dead’ woman. No one could say for sure if she was there as the suspect or the deceased. In the end, it was decided that the body was to be put in the morgue, but the air-conditioning would be turned off and two police officers would watch over her at all times.

By then, it was almost at the crack of dawn.

“There’s nothing more to do now,” said Xiaotao. “I’ll drive both of you back to college.”

“No,” I refused. “You’ve been up all night too. We’ll just take the morning bus back.”

Xiaotao must’ve been exhausted herself, so she didn’t argue. Dali and I left the police station and took the bus back to our dorm. When we reached our room, we collapsed and slept till noon.

“Ugh, my back is killing me!” complained Dali when he woke up.