Apocalypse: I Can See the HP Bar, Killing Monsters Drops Loot-Chapter 1017 - 405 Crime Scene_2
Chapter 1017: Chapter 405: Crime Scene_2
Chapter 1017 -405: Crime Scene_2
“Okay.”
Wang Tao and Han Rui moved closer to each other.
After seeing the scene clearly, Han Rui instantly shook her head.
“Just as we analyzed in the car, there are no traces here, all covered by the heavy snow…”
Now the snow was heavy, and Yao Guodong had been lying in the snow for such a long time that any traces would have been covered already.
However, suddenly, Han Rui and He Jijun spoke at the same time.
“There’s a discovery!”
“Hm? What?”
Wang Tao immediately asked.
Gu Yun next to him looked curiously at the two.
“There’s a footprint, a very small one, unlike Yao Guodong’s!”
He Jijun pointed to one place and said.
Han Rui nodded as well.
“That’s right, it seems to be a woman’s footprint. The footprint leads directly to the villa…”
Wang Tao looked at the spot they were pointing to but saw nothing. He looked carefully again, and didn’t know whether it was an illusion or psychological influence, but he seemed to really see a footprint…
Meanwhile, Gu Yun looked at Han Rui and He Jijun with a shocked face.
“How did you see that? It’s the mayor’s wife’s footprint; she found the mayor half an hour ago, checked on him, and then immediately went to call the police…”
Hearing Gu Yun’s words, Wang Tao and the others suddenly furrowed their brows.
They caught onto a key point—not the “mayor’s wife,” but what Gu Yun said about the footprint being half an hour old.
It was only half an hour ago, but the footprint was already nearly invisible. And since Yao Guodong had been lying here for at least five hours, anything that happened during those five hours would clearly be completely covered up by the heavy snow… If his death really involved any foul play, it would be hard to investigate!
“I’ll study this closely…”
Han Rui and the others resumed their analysis.
“See if you can find anything.”
Wang Tao patted Lightning’s head, and the dog immediately started sniffing around.
“I almost forgot, you also have this mutant military dog; maybe it really can discover something!”
Gu Yun looked at Lightning, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
“I’m not too knowledgeable about this area, let them look into it. I want to ask more about Mayor Yao’s case…”
Wang Tao turned to Gu Yun.
“Alright.”
Gu Yun nodded.
The two then started talking on the side.
Wang Tao, having no experience in such matters, indeed couldn’t make out much, but he possessed the ability of mental detection. So while chatting with Gu Yun, he kept using mental detection to observe Yao Guodong.
Wang Tao first looked at the spot of the mayor’s wife’s footprints. Visually, it was hard to see any footprints there, but when his spiritual power swept over, he could clearly feel the snow here was different from other places!
This discovery thrilled Wang Tao; his spiritual power was indeed useful!
Moreover, he could not only discern footprints but also use the state of the snow to determine the order of the footprints.
Thus, Wang Tao continued detecting around the surroundings of Yao Guodong.
Then, Wang Tao found that below the masked snow, there indeed were some spots that were different—there were other footprints!
However, after comparing for a while, Wang Tao found that these footprints all belonged to Yao Guodong.
Wang Tao wasn’t disappointed; he memorized all these footprints and after a while of analysis, he slowly pieced together a moving three-dimensional image.
Wang Tao slowly furrowed his brows.
Judging by these footprints, it seemed like Yao Guodong really was drunk—he had staggered all the way from the villa’s entrance to here, then stood still, seemingly to take off his trousers. But he didn’t stand steady, his steps were messy, and he staggered around the area before collapsing into the snow, never getting up again…
For an ordinary person, this would be a logical scenario; before the apocalypse, the north occasionally had news of people freezing to death outside, usually due to drunkenness.
But Yao Guodong was an ability user; even if he really was drunk, it shouldn’t have been like that…
Wang Tao looked carefully again; the scene indeed only had the footprints of Yao Guodong and his wife, and there was a long time interval between their footprints, indicating that Yao Guodong had come out alone.
Near Yao Guodong’s body, there were also some frozen… urine? So he really did come out to urinate?
This urine had not yet been discovered by the police, but surely they would find it once they moved the body…
Wang Tao continued searching around Yao Guodong’s body, but other than those, he found nothing else.
Then Wang Tao focused on Yao Guodong’s body.
Wang Tao’s spiritual power was a strong ability, not only could it connect with another person’s spiritual power, but it could also, like X-ray vision, penetrate someone’s clothes to observe their body.
However, Tao used this Ability very rarely, as even slightly sensitive ordinary people or Ability Users could feel like they were being spied on. If it was a powerful Awakener, they might discover that it was Tao who was spying.
Tao didn’t want to be seen as a perverted voyeur, so he only used it occasionally when playing games with Yu Qin and the others to make it more fun. Normally, he hardly ever used it.
Now that Yao Guodong was dead, Tao had no hesitation, openly applying his Mental Detection on him to study his condition thoroughly.
On Yao Guodong’s body, let alone a fatal wound, there wasn’t even a normal cut.
“Could it really have been an accident?”
Tao frowned.
He personally was more inclined to believe it was murder, but he really couldn’t tell anything, even with Mental Detection.
“I can only rely on them now…”
Tao shook his head.
Half an hour later, the on-site investigation temporarily came to a conclusion, preparing to take Yao Guodong’s body back home. However, the crime scene would still continue to be sealed off, possibly for many more days. But given the current weather conditions, if nothing was discovered today, it might be even harder to uncover anything later.
“I found something…”
Han Rui quietly reported to Tao, her finding was urine, Yao Guodong had indeed gone out to urinate.
“Hmm.”
Tao nodded, certain that moving Yao Guodong’s body would reveal it.
After the police moved Yao Guodong’s body inside the villa, Gu Yun called out to Tao and the others:
“Let’s go, let’s go inside.”
“Okay.”
Tao and his group entered the villa.
By then, the major Force Leaders of the base had mostly arrived, as Yao Guodong’s death was indeed a big deal.
After greeting a few acquaintances, Tao looked at the two women kneeling and crying in front of Yao Guodong’s body. One was about twenty-five or twenty-six, and the other about eighteen or nineteen, both very beautiful, but they were ordinary people with only a few hundred HP.
“These are Mayor Yao’s two wives, cough…”
Gu Yun whispered into Tao’s ear.
Tao: “…”
To think Mayor Yao, at his age, still had such a youthful mindset!
“These aren’t his original wife, are they?”
Gu Yun whispered.
“Of course not, surviving the apocalypse alone is already good enough… These families are mostly reconstructed now… These two ladies are ones Mayor Yao continued his lineage with after joining City Hall.”
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“So which one did you mention as the mayor’s wife before?”
Tao asked again.
“The older one; her name is Qiu Rong. Though our base doesn’t recognize polygamy or polyandry, nor does it enforce monogamy—after all, we’re short of people and need them to reproduce… But officially, we still maintain monogamy, so Qiu Rong, the first to join Mayor Yao, holds the standing as his wife…”
Tao nodded, it made sense.
Gu Yun approached the two women:
“Madam, let’s go inside first. The autopsy is about to start…”
“Okay…”
An autopsy could be a bit terrifying for ordinary people, so Gu Yun asked the two women to return to their rooms.
Tao noticed that there were police guarding the door to the room.
“These two are very suspicious!”
After Gu Yun left, Han Rui whispered to Tao.
“What do you mean?”
Tao raised an eyebrow.
“Because, despite their hard crying and the tears streaming down, it’s very fake; there’s hardly any genuine sadness!”
“…”
Tao suddenly pinched Han Rui’s small hand, then somewhat speechlessly whispered:
“Do you expect two young women to genuinely fancy an old man who isn’t tall or handsome and probably isn’t great in bed? Of course, that’s not entirely impossible, such as if they had a story together. But they haven’t gone through much together; these two are people Mayor Yao found after joining City Hall, so it’s likely the Mayor was merely captivated by their looks…”
“…”
Han Rui felt Tao made sense, too.
She subconsciously looked at Tao; she and Tao were together because they had been through a lot…
However, Tao suddenly said:
“But my gut feeling tells me, something might be uncovered through these two women…”
