CHAPTER 23: CHAPTER 23 IDENTIFICATION OF THE BODY

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The car soon arrived at the police station, but since it was late at night, most of the staff had left for the day, and only those responsible for this case had no choice but to work overtime begrudgingly.

Lin Quan waited at the entrance. Upon seeing Sui Yi, he immediately snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and walked up to her, getting straight to the point, "Now I’ll take you to the morgue."

"Okay."

For the first time, Zhang Xiao felt that his team leader was truly domineering, and also realized why the man was still single.

Damn, he’s too harsh on women!

The morgue was very cold, and Sui Yi, dressed in a thin T-shirt, felt the chill seemed to envelop her from all directions, as if suffocating her.

Zhang Xiao shivered and was about to stamp his feet when the old guard fiercely pulled him, "You’re new here, aren’t you?"

"Uh, yes... How could you tell, sir?"

"I could tell by your dumb look."

"...Sir, why are you insulting me!"

The old man glanced at Sui Yi ahead, then sneered coldly at him, "Stamping your feet in the morgue can awaken unclean things; it might even bring the dead back to life! Only rookies do such things... However, clearly that young lady has more courage than you."

Damn it!

Zhang Xiao rolled his eyes, itching to argue with the old man.

Meanwhile, Lin Quan had already lifted the white cloth covering a body and quickly looked towards Sui Yi.

Sui Yi was already standing beside the body, very close by, quietly looking at the pale skin of Hei Pi’s upper body, marked with vicious bloodstains and some burns, and in the center of the forehead, there was a bullet hole the size of a thumb.

The flesh was torn open, revealing the red and white underneath...

The body had only been dead for two days and was still well preserved.

In Sui Yi’s eyes, it wasn’t frightening; rather, it was Zhang Xiao, who had offered her consolation before, who was now weakly leaning against the wall.

"So, have you remembered anything?" Lin Quan just casually asked. As Sui Yi had said, their police department’s plan was to lure the snake out of its hole, and Sui Yi was merely bait.

Alright, although the plan was somewhat unorthodox and unfair to Sui Yi, the leadership at their police department considered Sui Yi not to be a model citizen, and they saw this as a chance for her to "redeem her crimes with merit." "Where was he found?" Sui Yi asked instead of answering.

Lin Quan frowned, disliking this feeling, but still replied, "About a kilometer downstream from your house. The killer took him there and jumped into the river, then killed him afterward."

"The bullet is missing."

It wasn’t a question but a firm statement, which made Lin Quan tense, furrowing his brow with a hint of hostility, "Why do you say that?"

"If you had found the bullet, naturally you could trace it back to the type of gun and scrape together some clues. However, judging by your status, it seems you’ve come up empty-handed."

At that moment, both Lin Quan and Zhang Xiao felt humiliated, uncertain whether the girl was mocking them.

But her expression remained indifferent and cold.

"Torture has been tried already, it seems they were indeed looking for something. No wonder the police turned to me."

Sui Yi felt a hint of worry; could what they were searching for be the fragment she had obtained? However, could someone care about such a tiny piece of rubbish to the extent of committing murder over it?

Glancing surreptitiously at the somber-faced Lin Quan, Sui Yi felt that if it wasn’t for the fragment, there must be something the police were keeping hidden from her, something to do with the assassin.

She hoped it was the latter.

"I hope Captain Lin can be upfront with me about some matters, only then can I recall more details better."

Lin Quan was already highly displeased, his expression dark, "Sui Yi, don’t forget... I am the police officer."

Sui Yi twisted the white cloth, whoosh, and swiftly covered Hei Pi’s face with it. In a moment nobody else noticed, her finger lightly brushed the bullet hole on Hei Pi’s forehead, a chill seeping into her fingertips.

Her mind’s Magnetic Sensation conjured a somewhat blurry scene, and she spoke lightly, "I could consider not participating."

She manipulated more lines of Magnetic Sensation to clarify the vision, and it became increasingly clear...

First came a bullet, then a gun.

This magnetic sensation also has this ability? To record the traces of history’s existence? It seems to be sensitive to some artifacts as well, so it appears the principle is the same.

"Your grandma on that side..."

"It’s my grandma, not yours, isn’t it?"

Lin Quan suddenly realized, this Sui Yi didn’t trust them, the police, and similarly, they didn’t trust Sui Yi either, only using her as bait...

It really was ironic.

But now, Sui Yi’s expression was somewhat pale, with a slightly weak appearance, seemingly out of anger.

Lin Quan frowned, watching as Sui Yi stepped out of the gate, Zhang Xiao took the opportunity to lean on the wall and follow.

God, he really didn’t want to stay in this place.

Inside the morgue, the old man glanced at Lin Quan, then suddenly smiled, "Lin Quan... do you believe that your fortune is about to change?"

Lin Quan was taken aback, looking at the old man who was smiling somewhat obscenely.

"What do you mean?"

"What I mean is... this young lady is not simple, her momentum and fortune are hard to grasp~~ I’ve seen many people, and I’m never wrong about this"

Honestly, Lin Quan found the situation before him somewhat comical; a morgue guardian who could also tell fortunes?

You’re always looking at dead people, aren’t you!

Seeing too many dead people?

Lin Quan twitched his eyebrows, glared at the old man, and walked out of the morgue.

After he left, the old man chuckled to himself, sat down on a chair beside him, crossed his legs, and swung them leisurely as he comfortably made a phone call.

"Yo, it’s me~~~"

He cared not in the least that this was a morgue.

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Outside the morgue, Sui Yi leaned against a pillar and took a few breaths to soothe the soreness and fatigue in her body. The magnified magnetic force she had absorbed from the Black Jade Bead was gone today, indicating that simulating the image of a firearm was still quite difficult.

She could only vaguely make out the general shape.

After a while, she asked for the time, and Zhang Xiao told her it was already nine o’clock.

"Nine o’clock, I still have classes tomorrow... Could you please take me somewhere?"

"Eh? Back to the suburbs?"

"Not there..."

Lin Quan had just come out, heard that Sui Yi was leaving, and his face darkened, looking at Sui Yi with a furrowed brow forming an inverted V, he said coldly, "I will be frank, but you’d better hope what you say is very useful to us cops."

Sui Yi glanced at him, leaning against the pillar.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Quan, regardless of Zhang Xiao’s presence, spoke in a heavy voice, "Hei Pi’s gang has been committing tomb robberies repeatedly in Yancheng, Jiangxi Province, which you are certainly more aware of than me. Previously, they committed several heinous crimes in Yancheng Ancient County, and several people died. The issue became so serious that it caused widespread concern, and the local police station set up an investigation. After two months, they found very few clues. Moreover, they discovered that members of their gang were dying one by one, each in more bizarre circumstances than the last."

"Bizarre?" Sui Yi seized on the word.

"Yes... Two were shot to death, but they also had strange wounds from a sharp weapon, and there were those who mysteriously died of poison, and... Well, that aside, the strangest thing is the treasures that their gang had stolen over the years. They were originally distributed in different regions, but disappeared wave by wave with the death of each guardian. The last guardian of these treasures was Hei Pi, and what he guarded was the artifact from the last ancient tomb..."

Lin Quan paused, releasing a breath, "According to previous patterns, he would also be killed, and the artifact would be stolen too, but we didn’t expect that he’d be smarter than the other tomb robbers, sneakily coming over to our side, and even got involved with your shopkeeper. Now Hei Pi is dead too, and the item’s gone. If the assassin has given up, then they must have the item, but if they haven’t... then where exactly is that item now?"

As Lin Quan spoke, his eyes fixed on Sui Yi like a hawk, trying to discern some clues.

But he found nothing.