Chapter 15: The rabbit who drew the contact lens performs a meritorious service, and is interviewed...
Towel? White? Red?
Gu Yiliu immediately realized, "The red stuff must be blood."
It was still Xu Hua's blood. Xu Hua's head was severed, and Gu Yiliu could guess how they had severed her head when they killed her... The blood might have been from that moment. She frowned, feeling a pang of pity.
Han Yi took a deep breath. He realized why the towel was both white and red. Obviously, the white was the original color, and the red was dyed on later.
Therefore, if Wang was the murderer, it's reasonable to assume that Li Dexia was also involved. Li Dexia was ultimately responsible for burying the body.
"Quickly, have you seen the knife?" Han Yi asked the two rabbits, remembering something.
The two rabbits shook their heads.
"I understand, thank you all quickly. You all get some rest, I'll need your help tomorrow."
The two rabbits nodded.
The two didn't disturb the two rabbits anymore. Han Yi needed space to deduce the case, so he pulled Gu Yiliu into the yard.
"We need to split up tomorrow. It's been more than ten days since Xu Hua was killed, and it's rained several times already. If we leave the towel on the mountain, the bloodstains might be washed away by the water. If we bring it home, we might burn it or bury it. It's a tricky problem."
"We need to help quickly tomorrow," Han Yi said. "The ring has been found, and it was found by a rabbit, that's an undeniable fact. So tomorrow we might have to quickly stage a scene, having it lead our police officers to the murder scene. Nobody believes an animal, but the severed finger should also be at the scene. Once the severed finger is found, they'll have to believe it whether they believe it or not."
He looked at Gu Yiliu and clenched his fist. "So, I'll need you to come with me tomorrow too. With you there, I'll know what Rabbit is saying."
Gu Yiliu nodded, tugged at his hand, and gestured for him to let go. Han Yi then released his hand at her prompting. "You go back to sleep first. I'll go to the village to discuss the operation with them."
Gu Yiliu didn't say anything more and turned back to his room. Han Yi watched him go back to his room before leaving the house and heading down the mountain to the village.
Gu Yiliu slept soundly through the night, but the crowing of roosters in the backyard woke her. Remembering that she had things to do today, she quickly got up and tidied up.
"Host, the positive review rating increased by 2% yesterday, now it's 68%."
Gu Yiliu hummed in agreement. The system reminded her, "Host, including this time helping the rabbit, you've accumulated two lottery draws. Do you want to draw one now?"
Gu Yiliu seemed to realize something. "You're asking me to smoke now because you want to send me something like last time?"
The system remained silent.
Gu Yiliu: "Then let's draw."
The system presented her with a spinning wheel, indicating that she could now participate in the lottery.
Gu Yiliu readily clicked "Start Confirmation".
The prize was a pair of contact lenses that were in a contact lens case.
"...?"
Why are you giving me contact lenses?
Dian Dian: "You can try wearing it."
"You can wear them even if you don't need to be nearsighted, and don't worry, host, these contact lenses have an unlimited validity period."
Unlimited validity? That means she can use it as long as she wants. Although Gu Yiliu was puzzled, the system wouldn't harm her, so after hesitating for a moment, she put it on.
After putting on her glasses, she left the room.
"Gu Yiliu, come and have breakfast. Uncle Ma just said we don't need to patrol the mountain today. It's just to help the police search the mountain."
Gu Yiliu said "oh," and when she looked up and saw Min Songyue, she froze.
As she looked, she couldn't help but squint, and she actually saw something in Min Songyue's pants pocket.
Min Songyue still loved to eat as always, with two packs of biscuits and a piece of maltose in his pocket.
Gu Yiliu looked away in shock and gazed at Han Yi, who was walking in through the front door in the morning light, and saw the two pairs of handcuffs in his pocket.
this……
"System, these contact lenses are way too high-tech!!"
Dian Dian said proudly, "Products made by the system are definitely not ordinary!"
"These glasses, were they delivered to look for something? We're going into the mountains to search today." Isn't this just a body scanner?
The system firmly disagreed, saying, "The host can use it in the future. You are a police officer, and you will need it in many situations. If I leave the host in the future, this will be something for the host to rely on. I gave it to the host not just for this moment."
Gu Yiliu had already understood what kind of system it was: prioritizing the mission above all else. "You're leaving? When are you leaving? I can't wait for you to leave."
"..."
"What are you looking at?" Han Yi's voice rang in her ears. Gu Yiliu came back to her senses and saw Han Yi standing in front of her. She quickly cut off her conversation with the system.
Then he shook his head at Han Yi.
Han Yi glanced at her. Just now, she had been staring at him intently, without even looking away. He wanted to ask her something, but it wasn't the right time to say so.
He recounted the events of last night and the arrangements made after the discussion: "Last night, we interrogated Li Dexia and Wang Shi overnight. They admitted to the murder, but they haven't yet revealed where they killed them. After discussion, we decided that I will lead a team to Li's house to find the towel today, and Lin Shuhui will lead a team up the mountain to find the severed finger. Rabbit needs to follow him quickly."
How can you be sure he brought the towel home?
Han Yi shook his head. "It's just a gut feeling. I asked Li Dexia if I was going up the mountain to find the severed finger and the towel, but he didn't react at all. However, when I mentioned searching the Li family's house, both he and Wang Shi had a slight reaction, so I suspect the towel is in the Li family's house. If we can't find it, we'll interrogate him again."
Gu Yiliu thought for a moment, "I'll go with you to the Li family's house too."
Under Han Yi's surprised gaze, Gu Yiliu said, "Because I think you can't find it." The towel should not have been destroyed, but hidden in a particularly secluded or unexpected place.
"..."
"Okay," Han Yi nodded, both helpless and amused. But Gu Yiliu wasn't entirely wrong, so they'd only find out when they got there.
After breakfast, Gu Yiliu carried Kuaikuai and Manman out the door, handing them over to Lin Shuhui.
He also instructed them to listen to Officer Lin, and after giving them that instructions, he told Lin Shuhui that if he had any questions, he could just ask the two rabbits, as they could understand human speech.
Lin Shuhui wondered if they could understand, and the next second he saw two rabbits nod at Gu Yiliu.
Lin Shuhui: "..." He rubbed his eyes in shock as two rabbits clung to his trouser legs, one on each side, wanting him to hug them.
He glanced at Gu Yiliu. "Do they mean they want me to hold them?"
Gu Yiliu nodded.
The two search teams consisted of forty or fifty people. Apart from the three people leading each team who were police officers, the rest were villagers.
Gu Yiliu was one of the team leaders, as were Ma Quan and Min Songyue. They were short-handed, so it was a last resort.
She, Han Yi, and a police officer from the town's police station were in the same team. The three of them didn't waste any time and quickly led their men to Li Dexia's house.
Li Dexia and Wang Shi did not return home while the police were interrogating them. Last night, after learning that Li Dexia and Wang Shi were suspects, not only were they detained, but Lin Shuhui also sent two men to guard the Li family home, fearing that some of their relatives might know something and return to help them destroy evidence.
"Was anything unusual last night?" Han Yi asked.
The two comrades guarding the Li family shook their heads. "No one dares to come near."
"Then go in and search carefully, don't miss a single corner," Han Yi said to the villagers behind him.
The villagers were very excited.
"Don't worry! We will never wrong them."
"Those beasts who killed their wives and daughters-in-law will not escape! We must find the evidence and not let them get away with it!"
Gu Yiliu and Han Yi and the others also entered the Li family's house and looked around.
The Li family had a large courtyard. On one side of the entrance was a vegetable garden and a chicken farm, and on the other side was a small house. Gu Yiliu walked towards the small house, which was a dry toilet.
She looked over with X-ray vision, but didn't see the towel.
She even checked the roof tiles above the outhouse to provide shade and shelter from the rain, but still couldn't find them.
They searched the kitchen thoroughly, inside and out, even cleaning up the ashes in the stove, but still found nothing.
She walked into the living room and bumped into Han Yi, who was coming out of his room. "Did you find it?"
Han Yi shook his head, "They took all the blankets apart, but didn't find anything."
Wang, an officer from the town's police station, also came in. He shook his head and sighed, "I even turned over their vegetable garden, but there was nothing there."
They heard a noise above them, and when they looked up, they saw that the villagers had climbed onto the roof and lifted all the tiles off.
A rustling of dust fell down. Han Yi waved his hand and called out, "Any discoveries?"
After a while, someone answered, "No."
Gu Yiliu quickly looked through the rooms and found nothing.
Dust filled the air; it was no longer a suitable place to stay. Han Yi walked over to Gu Yiliu and pulled her into the courtyard to wait.
In the courtyard, Gu Yiliu gestured for Han Yi to let go, as she wanted to see places she hadn't seen before.
"What's wrong?" Han Yi asked, letting go of her hand.
“There are several places I haven’t seen before, four places…” Gu Yiliu turned her head to look around, and when her gaze fell on the chicken coop, she suddenly stopped.
"Has this chicken coop... been inspected?"
Wang, the police officer, said, "I checked and found nothing."
"There's something wrong." Gu Yiliu slapped her forehead. That was brilliant! If she hadn't been there, no one would have noticed! And she hadn't even noticed the thing hidden on the ground at first glance.
Han Yi and Wang Gong'an exchanged a glance and asked in unison, "What's the problem?"
The problem lies inside the chicken coop.
Gu Yiliu strode towards the chicken coop. "Take the chicken coop apart first."
The chicken coop was just a few boards and a tarpaulin.
Han Yi called over a few fellow villagers, and together they dismantled the chicken coop, revealing the entire interior.
A feed tray was placed on several bricks.
"Smash these bricks!" Gu Yiliu said, kicking away the feed tray.
Officer Wang looked at her in surprise, "You think the towel is hidden underneath?"
Gu Yiliu nodded. "Why are there suddenly a few bricks here? Just to put this feed tray? It doesn't matter where you put it. Do you have to be so particular about raising chickens? Even people aren't this particular." Gu Yiliu pointed to the ground in the yard, which was dirt. "And these bricks are even cemented in place, firmly embedded in the ground."
Officer Wang thought it made sense; he had initially assumed it was a special feed tray. He immediately ordered a hammer to be brought over, and he smashed it himself.
After smashing the bricks, they dug down further and actually found a towel, plus an unexpected discovery.
A knife without a handle.
"This knife is..."
Han Yi's pupils contracted. It was very likely a decapitation knife.
Looking at the towel again, it was white with a striking red background, but the blood had lost its vibrancy and become quite dark.
The group immediately took towels and knives and returned to Qing Shi Village.
They had just returned to the village when they encountered Lin Shuhui and his group coming down from the mountain.
"Have you found the severed finger?" Han Yi asked.
Lin Shuhui nodded heavily, "We found it, but because of the rain, the traces at the first and second crime scenes are almost gone."
Han Yi: "It's alright, the towel has been found, and there was also a knife buried with the towel. The evidence is conclusive, and they are doomed to die."
Next came the interrogation and conviction, which was no longer Gu Yiliu's concern. Gu Yiliu returned to the outpost with the two rabbits, but unexpectedly, only two days later, a reporter came knocking on his door before his family could.
They came to her door wanting to interview her and meet the two rabbits who had helped solve the case.
"Host, I actually managed to get 2% positive feedback from Xu Hua's family through the two rabbits. You can give an interview. Events that cause a sensation usually involve a lot of pure emotions, so there may be unexpected effects for both of us. It will also have a positive effect on your career."
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The first major thing He Xiaocui did after taking charge of the household was to find a son-in-law who was willing to move in with her family.
Just as she was looking for someone, the village secretary heard about it and approached her.
He Xiaocui thought the village party secretary, this old-fashioned man, was going to lecture her, but it turned out he was there to introduce her to a son-in-law.
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Meng Zhangzhang was seriously injured and fell into a coma. When he opened his eyes, he found himself in a country called Huaguo.
Upon his arrival, he was packaged up like a piece of merchandise and handed over to a woman, "..."
A general who commands the three armies, when has he ever been so wronged!
Later, Meng Zhangzhang actually fell in love with it.
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