Mu Xiaoyi briefly examined the body, then picked up a toy nearby and announced her autopsy results: "I found two things. First, the time of death should indeed be last night. Although the body had been in the water all night, it's still possible for it to come back to life if it wanted to. I just don't understand why it would snatch a child's toy. Also, after snatching it, why didn't it stay at the scene or go somewhere else, but instead jumped back into the lake?"
Secondly, the soul on the corpse is gone. Normally, the soul remains after death, but if it's taken away by ghost messengers, the corpse will retain their aura and markings. Now, with the cooperation of the three realms, to facilitate our metaphysical community, ghost messengers leave marks when collecting souls. However, we didn't find any marks at the scene. So, where did this person's soul go?
Hearing Mu Xiaoyi's results, Bai Xinyu nodded and said, "What you said is all correct. However, there wasn't much ghostly energy at the scene, and there was also yin energy at the bottom of the lake. We don't have any clues for this case yet. It seems we still have to wait for the police to give us the identity of the deceased."
To find out the identity of the deceased, we still need the help of the police, after all, they are the professionals.
Not long after, the police identified the deceased based on his photo and sent his file to the management office, along with a short video.
The video was taken from a surveillance camera. When Xiaobaicai opened the video, everyone gathered around his computer to watch it.
All I could see in the surveillance footage was the process of the child's toy being snatched, but the image wasn't very clear, probably because the camera was a bit far from the lake.
In the video, the old man is leaning against the railing by the lake, smoking. He takes a puff of his cigarette and then touches his phone, seemingly watching a video. Not far from him, a little child is playing with a toy dinosaur by himself, and there is no one else around.
But just then, a person suddenly jumped out of the lake near the children!
The person jumped out of the lake in an instant, landed accurately in front of the child, snatched the child's toy, and then jumped back into the lake!
The child whose toy was suddenly taken away stared at the fence for a few seconds before running crying to his grandfather. The whole bizarre process took less than a minute.
After watching the video, Xiaobaicai exclaimed in surprise, "Is this the deceased? Why would he go and snatch a child's toy after he's dead?"
"Hehe~ We don't know about that, we'll have to ask him himself."
He smiled discreetly and said something.
After watching the video, Ye Dongfeng went to look up the deceased's personal file. The deceased's name was Zhu Botuan, seventeen years old, a junior high school student at the Experimental Middle School, and he died on a Friday.
He didn't go home on Friday night when school let out. His parents assumed he had gone somewhere to play and didn't look for him that night. However, after calling him the next day and no one answered, they called the school.
The next day, which is today, they called the school this morning and went to the school to look for him, but they couldn't find him. Who knew he had died in the lake.
After reviewing the file, Mu Xiaoyi suddenly pointed at the computer and said, "Oh, what a coincidence, Experimental Middle School, isn't that the school my Xiaojin went to?"
Upon hearing Mu Xiaoyi's words, Yue Jiuling and Ya Zi immediately went to look at the computer. When they saw the photos of the school on the computer, they remembered that they had just visited this school last night.
He tidied up the documents on the table, then picked up his phone and said, "Let's go, let's go to the school first, maybe we'll find some clues."
Mu Xiaoyi also said, "Okay, I'll ask my Xiaojin if she's going. Didn't she say she wanted to help her roommate?"
Ye Dongfeng rummaged through his drawer and pulled out a few talismans, saying, "Since we're going, let's go. By the way, Little Cabbage, do you want to go back first? We might not be back tonight."
Since it was already close to seven o'clock, and they were going out on fieldwork, sometimes even working through the night, they probably wouldn't be coming back to the office. Therefore, Xiaobaicai, the 'clerk,' could go home after get off work.
Xiao Baicai understood what Ye Dongfeng meant after hearing his words, so she nodded and said, "Okay then, I'll head off work now. Be careful!"
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