At this moment, I was no longer burdened with any psychological burden. I stared directly into the captain's murderous eyes and waited quietly for his answer. The atmosphere around me seemed to be frozen, and no one dared to speak or comment at this moment.
I seemed to feel the fire between the captain and I. Seeing that he didn't answer my question for a long time, I asked coldly, "What's the matter? Is there a problem?"
The team leader's cheeks bulged, and the sound of grinding teeth could be heard faintly in the air. Then the team leader looked at me unwillingly, and then whispered, "No problem, leader."
"Since there is no problem, then quickly call the forensic doctor. It is winter now, and the body will become difficult to predict as the temperature changes. If there is any problem with the body, it will be your responsibility."
I said all this word for word without mercy, and the team leader turned around and left unwillingly. But Xiaomei suddenly turned around and looked at me before leaving. Her eyes seemed a little complicated, and I couldn't figure out what she meant. But she had nothing to do with me anymore, so I was too lazy to guess anything.
After the team leader and his companions left, the villagers who had been watching all this began to talk about it. However, I also saw that my uncle's mother and my cousin with gauze wrapped on his face were also standing in the crowd, looking at me in shock.
But when my eyes swept over them, my aunt and cousin immediately lowered their heads, not daring to meet my gaze. Only my uncle gave me an encouraging and happy look, and I nodded and smiled at him.
Of course, my father and mother were also among this group of people. I didn’t dare to look at my mother’s expression at the moment, but I knew that when things were over here and I went back, my mother would probably beat me to death.
After experiencing such a little episode, my mood was surprisingly good. I don’t know if it was the effect of my pretense just now or what, but now all the gloom in my brain has been completely dispelled and my mind has become clear.
All this is thanks to Lin Yingxue's help just now. Although she revealed her identity and I might get beaten up when I go back, I really thank her from the bottom of my heart. It is really hard for me to imagine that such a cold person could do such a heartwarming thing at such a critical moment just now.
After the team leader and the others left, Lin Yingxue returned to her usual cold expression. I stared at her for a long time before whispering, "Thank you so much for what you did just now."
Lin Yingxue looked at me expressionlessly and said, "It's okay, I just couldn't stand it anymore. Can you tolerate them bullying you like that?"
"So what if I can bear it? So what if I can't? Anyway, Xiaomei and I have nothing to do with each other now. She can do whatever she wants. There is no need for me to show anything in front of her."
As she was talking, Lin Yingxue suddenly looked at me with an unnatural look in her eyes. At first I didn't understand what she meant, until I saw her pointing at my hand with her eyes, and then I realized that until now I had been holding her little hand tightly. Embarrassed, I immediately let go of Lin Yingxue's soft hand, and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Lin Yingxue didn't care about these, she just said calmly: "Now that everything is settled, tell me what you think about this case."
I still couldn't get used to Lin Yingxue's sudden coldness, so I sighed and said, "I have now made a preliminary conclusion that the murderer is most likely one of my three surviving friends. Although I am reluctant to admit this, it is indeed the fact. I was just about to go and find out who the murderer was according to my previous idea, but the captain's disturbance delayed me for a long time."
"Then let's go and try now. If we solve the case sooner, I can have more time to travel around Sichuan."
It seemed that Lin Yingxue wanted to play for a few more days. I smiled helplessly and followed Lin Yingxue back to Brother Dong's bedroom.
When I returned to Brother Dong's bedroom and saw Brother Dong's body, my good mood became depressed again. But when I saw Brother Dong's body on the ground, I felt my heart suddenly contract violently!
Because I saw that the captain was so sad that he was lying on Dong Ge's body and crying loudly. He didn't care at all that his new clothes were stained by Dong Ge's blood. He just kept crying on Dong Ge's body.
Seeing this scene, I suddenly felt that everything in front of me was spinning, and I almost fell to the ground. I immediately looked carefully at Xiaopang and Monkey who were standing next to them. It was obvious that they had been wearing their clothes for a long time and had not just changed them. I also did not find any bloodstains in some hidden corners of their bodies.
On the other hand, the captain's clothes had obviously just been changed, and some buttons were not even fastened. Of course, the most suspicious thing was that he was lying on Dong Ge's body crying. Dong Ge's blood had completely stained his clothes and skin. In other words, if he was the murderer who killed Dong Ge, there was no evidence to incriminate him now.
All these abnormal behaviors of the captain basically allowed me to completely lock the murderer on him, but I didn't want to believe that the captain who would always think about his brothers, always listen to his brothers' concerns and comfort him, would be the real murderer who killed Brother Dong! But the facts were in front of me, and even if I didn't want to believe it, I couldn't reverse the cause and effect.
Perhaps noticing something was wrong with me, Lin Yingxue quietly pulled me aside and asked, "What's wrong? Did you notice something?"
At this time, I was in a state of confusion and just wanted to find someone to talk to, so I told Lin Yingxue my speculation and the results just now. Lin Yingxue had no feelings for the captain and the others, and directly said: "If that's the case, then arrest them."
"How can we arrest him? He destroyed the only evidence he had. Besides, all of this is just speculation for now. We haven't figured out the captain's motive for killing Dong Ge yet. If we arrest him rashly, he will deny it. We won't be able to do anything to him."
Lin Yingxue looked at me with an inexplicable look for a long time before she said, "It is indeed as you said, but can you guarantee that if the murderer is really him, you will identify his crime without hesitation?"
If Lin Yingxue had asked me this question more than a month ago, I would have hesitated for a long time without getting an answer, but now I have changed. The indecisiveness of the past has long gone from me, and I said to Lin Yingxue with a firm look in my eyes: "Of course!"
We were analyzing the corpse here, but the villagers around us couldn't help but think of the so-called "curse" of the past few days. Moreover, there was a strange copper coin in the mouth of Dong Ge's head hanging in the air, which was why the villagers did not dare to approach Dong Ge's body.
Not only were the villagers talking about it, Monkey and Xiaopang also kept telling me about the 'curse'. Xiaopang even told me his own experience verbatim. Although it was no different from what the captain told me, the villagers and Monkey around him still listened with great interest.
At this moment, my mind was not on this so-called "curse", but I was always staring at the captain who was lying on Dong Ge's body, because I couldn't understand why the captain wanted to kill Dong Ge
About half an hour later, the team leader came back here again, but this time he did not bring Xiaomei and his two men, but a somewhat bloated middle-aged man with a mustache. According to him, this middle-aged man was the forensic doctor. After the team leader entered the room and saw Dong Ge's body, he was so scared that he dared not move forward at all. After briefly introducing the forensic doctor to me, he turned around and fled out of the room and disappeared without a trace.
This forensic doctor was quite dedicated and was not afraid of the corpse. Instead, he took out various tools and began to perform a simple on-site autopsy on the corpse. He soon came to the conclusion that Dong Ge died of a slit throat with a sharp weapon similar to a dagger. The murderer then used the weapon to cut off Dong Ge's head, hung it on the roof, and placed a copper coin in Dong Ge's mouth.
As for the time of death, it was the same as I guessed, about 12:08. But when the forensic doctor said this series of test results, I suddenly thought of a question, and immediately turned to ask the monkey next to me: "Where is Dong Ge's copper coin, do you know?"
The monkey shook his head and said, "I haven't been back for such a long time, how can I know where he hid the copper coins?"
I asked Xiaopang and the captain again, and they both said they didn't know where Dong Ge's copper coins were hidden. That was a bit strange. The murderer killed and beheaded Dong Ge and fled in less than ten minutes. However, there was no sign of rummaging in the house. So how did the murderer know where Dong Ge's copper coins were? Even if the murderer sneaked into Dong Ge's house in advance, he couldn't find the small copper coins without rummaging in Dong Ge's room. There was only one explanation, that is, the murderer knew the specific location of Dong Ge's copper coins, that is, the murderer must have come here to see Dong Ge before today, and learned where the copper coins were from Dong Ge!
Thinking of this, I immediately found Dong Ge's aunt and asked, "Aunt, do you remember who came to Dong Ge's house throughout the day?"
Although Dong's aunt didn't know what I meant by asking this, she thought about it carefully and said, "I remember that around dark in the afternoon, Peng Fei (the pilot) seemed to come over and chatted with Xiaodong in the room for a while before leaving."