Chapter Seventy-Six: The Little Tree and the Apple
The time of death of the corpse was between thirteen and seventeen hours, and the deceased's mode of death was asphyxiation, and according to the identification of the corpse's wounds, it can be determined that the deceased was whipped after death, and there was no external intervention in the death process.
The mouth that was pressed by an external force was different from the scar that was exerted on its own, which confirmed that the girl's testimony was false.
Of course, just looking at the time of death, Chen Qing almost had an entire police station as an alibi.
"So, why do you testify against me?" He sat on the edge of the bed, and asked the girl on the bed with a strange and strange smile on his face.
Her tongue had been pulled out, her limbs were bruised in various sizes, and she was lying on the bed in the same position as she had been confined at the time.
Her eyes were round, and there was fear in the depths of her eyes.
She looked at Chen Qing's face and kept leaning towards the other side of the bed, until she squeezed the armrest on the edge of the bed, and then stopped retreating.
Behind her, Jiang Wan also spoke: "Do you know what the consequences of being a false witness will be?" Do you know how much pressure it will put on the police?! ”
Her expression was serious, but the girl didn't seem to hear the words of scolding, still staring at Chen Qing with fear.
He looked at the girl's staring eyes, and the smile on his face became more and more eerie, the kind of smile mixed with a little excitement, a little curiosity, and it made sweat ooze from her face.
"You've seen them...... But why do you testify against me? He leaned his face up and looked at the girl in front of him like an instrument that no one cared about.
The gaze was aggressive and explicit, staring nakedly at every micro-expression on her face.
"You know it's not me, but you're making tough accusations against me? You're afraid of me. ”
He looked at the girl in front of him, her breathing became a little shorter, she clutched the futon, her fingers pinched white.
It was like looking at some creature that wasn't supposed to exist, watching someone who was already dead appear in front of her.
"Oh, I forgot you can't talk."
He brought the drawing board and threw it in front of the girl with a little roughness.
"You're scared of me. What are you afraid of? ”
He smiled, and looked at the girl who didn't even dare to pick up the pen.
"You're afraid of why I'm still alive." He looked at the girl and took the tape out of his pocket.
"You know what it is, because you've seen it, you're alive, so you know what it represents."
Her fingertips trembled, but she desperately grabbed the pen on the quilt, she waved her hand at Chen Qing, and wrote on the drawing board.
No. I haven't seen it. I do not know. I don't know.
A few short lines of words didn't seem convincing, and she should know that, but she looked flustered and couldn't say anything more.
"She knew what it was. That's why she survived......"
Seeing the girl's panicked appearance, Chen Qing also lost the consciousness of asking, forcing to ask, you have to let people speak, singing and harmonizing are interesting.
What does it mean to be unilaterally cathartic.
He was deflated, shook his head and took the tape away, while Jiang Wan followed.
The two walked for a long time, and after leaving the surveillance of the hospital and the police station, Jiang Wan frowned and asked him in a low voice, "You just took this thing away?" ”
"What if it weren't?" He also lowered his voice: "Let it continue to harm people? ”
Chen Qing shook his head, his eyes were a little solemn: "The four people who appeared at the scene of the crime must be investigated, they are absolutely abnormal, and there are ......"
He was silent for a moment before continuing to speak: "Xie Hongbo's investigation has been accelerated, I always feel ......"
"The problem is with him?"
He nodded, but remained silent.
After the separation, it was also a long time before Bu Zhaozhao's figure reappeared beside Chen Qing.
He glanced at the other party, and it had been a long time since he had seen her show her figure: "What's wrong?" ”
She looked at Chen Qing, her face was gloomy and she could already squeeze out water, she pointed to the tape in Chen Qing's pocket, and her voice was cold: "You're right." Two hundred years is enough time to make this world a place I don't know at all.
You're right...... Two hundred years ago, they could already see the population as pigs two hundred years ago, how can they value the worldly life now. ”
He frowned slightly, and understood: "Those four people are them?" ”
"The uniform is." She still had a little fantasy: "Remember, I told you that most of the ordinary people who managed to survive by chance encounter extraordinary events were taken away by them as consumables. ”
"She's too......"
"Her first task was probably to distribute the tapes."
"Why?" Chen Qing was puzzled.
"This is an extraordinary thing involving rules and ancient gods, so why ask why?" She looked at Chen Qing with a solemn gaze: "That is the most valuable treasure in itself, why do you actually ask?" ”
He was silent for a while before he asked Bu Zhaozhao, "How can I find them?" ”
"What do you want them to do?" She sneered: "Kill them for justice? They are indeed spreading their offspring, but the root cause is not them, and this is not a cure for the symptoms. ”
"You don't want to find them for revenge?"
Bu Zhaozhao was silent, she looked at Chen Qing, the emotions in her heart were extremely complicated, she thought about it for a long time, and after making a decision, the pressure suddenly relaxed.
She sighed, as if much more relaxed: "Yes, but not now."
I want to kill them all, but I want to solve this problem even more.
Killing them all doesn't protect the innocent people, they've changed, but I'm not. ”
For the people of that era, faith existed in the mind, and that belief was above all individualism.
She wanted revenge, yes, she hated every member of the Foundation who came today, but she didn't want revenge now, because she still remembered the original mission of the Foundation.
We contain, we protect.
She sighed and continued to say to Chen Qing: "That tape is also an extraordinary thing, when your observation time is the same as the shooting time, you can hear the contents of the tape. You go and try it, maybe they said something. ”
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, then nodded, he went all the way home, and when Jiang Wan sent the player, the time had already come to five o'clock in the afternoon.
He plugged in the cassette tape and sat in the room with Jiang Wan, watching the screen in the twilight light.
"I didn't expect this tape to be extraordinary." She looked at the screen and was surprised.
But Chen Qing didn't answer, he twisted the volume button on the machine and asked, "How are Xie Hongbo's investigation results?" ”
"He's ......" Jiang Wan was silent for a moment: "He's lost." ”
"Lost?" Chen Qing stopped what he was doing, he tilted his head, and frowned slightly: "Where can he disappear, and when can't he be contacted?" ”
"Yesterday night. After you told me, I couldn't find him. ”
"Is there a report?"
She shook her head, her eyes narrowed, "No...... There is no evidence. He's checked our phones before, so there's no reason for us to restrict him, do we? ”
"That's what I said......" He was silent for a moment, and suddenly the player in front of him heard a squeak, squeak, like a busy sound when the signal of the satellite dish was bad in the last century.
The two waited for a moment before a sound came from inside the player.
The man's voice seemed to be a century away, and his voice seemed to come through the oldest walkie-talkie.
He said: "Mission Event - Recover Offspring Pollutants, Mission Rating - E Rating. Conclusion: Containment risk is low, and the containment return is expected to be two copies of the offspring contaminant, and the mission begins. ”
After he finished speaking, a picture began to appear on the screen, Chen Qing watched the four men walk out, they looked at the direction of the screen recording, and their mouths were broken.
"It's a pity, this time the pollution level of the heir is only E." This is the first person, he is dressed in black, but there are a few white shirt sleeves that are turned out on the cuffs.
"After completing this mission in the Overworld, I don't know when I will have it again next time." The second, who was emaciated, wore an all-black suit that was a little loose.
"How long is two E-class offspring pollutants enough for us to live?" The third person, who is short and looks unusually young.
"Two weeks and four hours." The fourth person, he was the most conspicuous in the crowd, he had a black and white Suzhou embroidered badge on his clothes, and his walking posture was the most relaxed.
"The breath tax has gone up again." He added.
"The price has gone up again......" the third man spat: "A bunch of blood-sucking worms." ”
"But without them, you would have died."
"I'd rather die like that." They muttered and began to flip through the house.
"We only get a tenth of the income from an F-class Backroom, and we have to buy items at our own expense before we go!"
"You can try harder." The fourth man added, "If there are ten apples in a tree, then you can only keep one." But if you bring back a hundred, you'll have ten. Why not? ”
The boy hesitated, muttering something out of his mouth, and the two people off the screen frowned.
"None of them thought of resisting? They already have some ability of their own, even if they leave the Foundation. Jiang Wan frowned and asked with some puzzlement.