Be in low spirits

The road back was bumpy, and the surrounding mountain scenery was worth seeing. The spring breeze made people feel refreshed. Kong Zhixi was worried, thinking about the girl who turned herself in this morning. Li Li thought she just didn't get enough rest in the past few days, so he said, "How about I get you a room? It seems like you haven't slept well in the past few days."

Kong Zhixi didn't listen carefully, she just said: "Well, do you think that girl is really sick or did she really kill someone?"

"For mental illnesses, it is difficult to define whether the patient is conscious or in an attack." Li Lixiang remained neutral, and he was more concerned about where to start with this murder case.

Kong Zhixi felt that there was no reason to add such a plot out of nowhere, and thought that there must be some connection, but she couldn't figure out what the connection could be.

"Do you think these people's names are weird?"

“These are all online names.”

"Netname~ But shouldn't Fu Yan be the only one who knows about this setting?" Kong Zhixi still had many things she couldn't figure out about this game.

"This is what Fu Yan told me."

"So did you remember anything? Like why did you know Fu Yan?" Kong Zhixi didn't understand the setting that the protagonist forgot reality.

"I have always known Fu Yan. What exactly do you want me to remember?" Li Li didn't understand why Kong Zhixi would ask him what he remembered from time to time but would not say what it was specifically.

Kong Zhixi didn't know what she wanted him to remember specifically, and she thought that this should be a game setting. She should also pass certain levels to trigger his memory, so she didn't continue the topic.

Lao Sui was busy in the forensic room. Kong Zhixi felt that the scene was too bloody and it was not easy to go in. Li Li also felt that he could not help much if he went in. The two had to sit in the office and wait for the results. Xiao Zhao's identity information had not arrived yet.

The two sat there for less than three minutes before Li Li received another message on his phone, saying that a body had been found on Tiger Roar Mountain in the west of the city, so they drove there. Two bodies were found in one day, which meant that at least one or two murderers were committing crimes in the city, and more people might die later. When they arrived at the scene, they found that the body, or more precisely, the skeleton, was sitting on a rock on the mountain, looking into the distance. The location they saw was exactly where they found the female body in the morning.

Although the clothes have been weathered, it can be vaguely seen that they were originally dressed neatly. The corpse has obviously been placed here for many years, and it has never disappeared. I think someone must have been obsessed with it. There is also a hole in the skull, and it should have been shot to death. Li Li stepped forward and lifted the pants of the corpse, and told Kong Zhixi: "Male."

All the dead before were women, but this time it was a man. Kong Zhixi said while searching at the scene: "If it was a gunshot, there should be a bullet, but we didn't find it before, maybe there is one here, let's look for it." After hearing this, Li Li also started to search.

In the forensic room, Lao Sui started hammering at the body alone. Forensic work is sometimes a physical job. After the body was carried away, Kong Zhixi sat on the stone, looking at the river across the street and the stool, trying to figure out the murderer's intention of placing the body like this. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure it out. Li Li searched around for a long time, but couldn't find the bullet head.

"Maybe this isn't the first crime scene either." He made the assumption and Kong Zhixi nodded in agreement.

"If it's the same murderer, then the body should have been frozen as well. Let's wait for Xiao Zhao's household registration information." The two returned to the bureau with basically nothing.

Old Sui was busy today, and the two of them waited in the office until midnight but got no results. Kong Zhixi had no choice but to go to the market to buy vegetables, cook and send to Li Li. The whole process made Kong Zhixi feel very familiar, as if she was already a married woman.

This trance made Kong Zhixi begin to doubt her own memory.

It was already the afternoon of the next day when the preliminary results of Lao Sui's autopsy came out. Li Li waited in the office all night. When Kong Zhixi sat alone on the sofa at home, she always felt that she seemed to have experienced this scene many times, but it was a little vague. The number of times she was in a trance made her more certain that this game would indeed confuse people's memories. Later, she might become like Li Li and forget the reality.

"The deceased had been frozen, and the time of death should have been three to five days ago. He was shot to death." Lao Sui began to report the information he had found. "There was alcohol in the gastric juice, and some diazepam, which is a tranquilizer. It is speculated that it may be a sleeping pill. It is basically certain that the murder weapon was a shooting weapon."

"The murderer shot a person with a shooting weapon, but also gave the deceased sleeping pills and placed him on a chair by the river. What do you think his mentality was?" Li Li asked Kong Zhixi.

"I think? I think he's just a pervert. What else can he be?"

Li Li rolled his eyes. This guy really wasn't capable of solving a case.

"Any news from Xiao Zhao?"

"Wait a little longer. It will probably be after 10 o'clock."

"We also have to wait for the autopsy report. Are you just going to wait there? How about you go back and take a nap?" Kong Zhixi felt that just waiting there was not a solution.

"The autopsy results of that corpse haven't come out yet. I want to go to the scene again to take a look at the earrings you picked up by the river last time. Maybe there is something missing from the corpse." Li Li felt that maybe these cases were really related?

"It shouldn't have fallen at the place where the body was dumped. It was a bit deliberate that the earring fell off the body by the river." Kong Zhixi expressed her thoughts. She thought about it for a long time last night and couldn't figure it out. The earring was somewhat conspicuous at the scene.

"So do you think the direction the corpse on the mountain is looking in is just a coincidence?" Li Li didn't figure it out. If the corpse had no connection with the female corpse, this direction would be too coincidental.

"If it was a coincidence, the probability is too low. Or maybe we have a preconceived notion and think that he was looking in the direction of the female corpse?" she hypothesized.

"It's no use making assumptions here now, let's go to the scene." Li Li stood up and was about to leave. Kong Zhixi quickly snatched the car keys from his hand and said, "Drowsy driving is very dangerous, I'll drive!"

The wind blowing from the mountain road in the suburbs was very cool, and Li Li fell asleep quickly in the passenger seat. Kong Zhixi parked the car at the foot of the mountain and turned on the air conditioner, wanting to wait for Li Li to sleep a little longer before waking him up.

The mountains are sparsely populated, and the wind and oxygen carry the smell of plants, which makes people relax a lot. The breakfast she brought in the morning was still on the back seat of the car. Kong Zhixi reached out to the back seat to eat it, but she couldn't get it after trying several times. She had to get out of the car and walk to the back seat to get it. When she closed the car door, she was afraid of scaring Li Li.

She ate a bun while standing beside the car, looked at the road up the mountain, and thought it was okay for her to go and see it herself, so she closed the lid of the thermos, threw it on the back seat of the car, closed the door, and went up the mountain by herself.

The mountain was steep, and the place where the body was dumped was even trickier. Along the way, Kong Zhixi counted the surveillance cameras on the road, thinking that the video might have captured the murderer's appearance, but it was a long time ago, and she didn't know if the management office had a backup.

The rock on the mountain has been surrounded by a cordon, the remains have been cleaned up and carried back to the forensic room, the surrounding branches and weeds have been trampled a lot because of the discovery of the remains, and the surrounding sand and gravel have signs of erosion by wind and rain. To be honest, in this environment, even if there were any clues, they would have disappeared long ago due to the passage of time.

Kong Zhixi looked around the cordon, but couldn't figure out what was going on. She sat on a rock nearby, looking in the direction the corpse was looking, trying to reconstruct the murderer's intentions.

Li Li stood behind her and suddenly asked, "Why didn't you wake me up?"

The sudden voice startled Kong Zhixi. Fortunately, she was sitting. If she was standing, she would probably have fallen off the mountain because of this sentence.

"Can you please walk louder next time? It's scary in these desolate mountains and wilderness." Kong Zhixi blamed.

Li Li took out a bun from the thermos and handed it to Kong Zhixi. He sat down beside her and picked up the spoon to drink the porridge. "What did you find?"

"We didn't find anything. Even if there were any clues, they would have been washed away by rain or something after so many years." She was a little disappointed.

"You made this century egg porridge the same way you did before." It can be seen that Li Li was indeed a little hungry.

"You haven't eaten it before, so how can it come from the past?" Kong Zhixi felt strange. Could it be that Li Li had some memory confusion?

"The place where the corpse is looking is facing the female corpse. The female corpse is looking at the mansion opposite. Did you notice?" Li Li changed the subject again.

"Mansion? Is it possible that their attention was not the focus at all? Did the murderer just place the body randomly? And... this mansion is a bit far from these two places, right? I thought they were just looking at the high-rise buildings across the river?" Kong Zhixi felt that it was too early to discuss these things at this time.