Chapter 12 There Are More Than Cat's Eye Snails in the Sand "Hmm," Tim...
"Well," Tim nodded with a smile, "I won't bother you then."
Liu Shu lowered his head. The breakfast in his hand seemed to be for two people. He even bought some for the class monitor.
Class monitor...Where's Winnie? Wasn't she right here just now? Liu Shu searched everywhere and finally found her at a table in a corner.
"Why are you here?"
"Isn't he looking for you?" Winnie knocked on the table. "I don't want to shine."
"I've already told you it's not what you think." Their friendship was absolutely pure. Liu Shu put breakfast on the table and said, "Let's eat."
"Wow—you bought Chinese food specially for this."
Can't food shut her up? Liu Shu sat down opposite Winnie. She wouldn't like someone just because they bought her breakfast, and it was just a reward for helping someone yesterday.
After breakfast, they walked slowly towards their destination.
The sunshine today was as good as yesterday. Liu Shu smiled unconsciously. There was a jump in her steps, but she didn't notice it.
There are people fishing on the rocks beside the pedestrian path. It looks like they have been fishing for quite some time. Why is there someone wearing slippers and tying a rope with branches?
There was absolutely no way to get there, so how did those people get there? A trace of doubt flashed through Liu Shu's mind. Maybe this was the Fisherman, who would spawn whenever there was water.
By the time they reached the beach where they could go in the water, the sun was already scorching.
"Are we the only ones in our class? We've actually booked the entire place this year." Winnie pressed down the sun hat on her head, took off her sunglasses, but immediately put them back on.
Her light-colored eyes couldn't bear to see the bright beach, so she took Liu Shu's hand and walked down the stairs together.
"Do we change clothes there?" Liu Shu saw a wooden building with male and female symbols on it.
"It should be. Let's go."
Attacked, Liu Shu was attacked by the perfume in the dressing room, and she felt her eyes hurt from staying there.
The scents of different perfumes blended together, and when she went out, her body was covered with the smell.
"Ahem..." Liu Shu took a deep breath after moving away from that place. She didn't have the habit of spraying perfume, and she even didn't like to have any smell on her body.
Winnie had already gone to play volleyball with her classmates. Liu Shu tugged at her shirt, feeling a little embarrassed as she hadn't worn a swimsuit for a long time.
There were groups of people on the beach and some were alone. Liu Shu found a parasol, put down her things, and combed her long hair into a hairstyle that would be convenient for entering the water. She was going to swim for a while.
However, could you please stop looking over here? Liu Shu waved to the people in the distance. If you have nothing to do, you can go count the grains of sand.
Tim obviously misunderstood what she meant. He picked up the cup next to him and walked towards her.
"Watermelon juice."
"Um...thank you." Liu Shu handed the juice in front of her and was stunned for a moment. She thought he just came to take a look.
"Be careful." Tim said and turned back.
The juice tasted great with ice cubes, and Liu Shu walked under the parasol again and put the cup away.
I really need to go swimming.
But when Liu Shu stepped on the wet sand, she knew she should call the police immediately.
She saw a pale hand.
Soon, the police arrived.
When he confirmed that it was a human limb, Liu Shu immediately went to his cell phone.
Then I found the class monitor and asked all the students to leave this place.
As the person who discovered the body, Liu Shu told the police what she saw at the time.
"At first I only saw half of my palm, and now I don't know what's happened." The amount of sand brought or taken away by the waves is not fixed.
"Are you sure that's a human?"
"Yeah." Liu Shu nodded.
There was no need to waste any more words. The police who went to check the location mentioned by Liu Shu quickly came back and told the leader.
"Indeed."
“!!!”
The head teacher made a sharp noise, this head teacher is not pure.
I never expected to encounter such a thing in New York, but at a time like this, the safest thing to do is to go back to the hotel.
"These students are quite obedient." A policeman put one hand on his waist and looked at the high school students leaving, feeling a little puzzled.
Shouldn't someone of this age be a mess when encountering a corpse? Shouldn't they be scared or angry and act like a middle school student? So well behaved? Even the little girl who reported the case was so calm?
"From Gotham." The person next to him took a look at the information given by the teacher.
This is not surprising, nothing Gotham people do is surprising.
"Why are you staying here?" Liu Shu touched the blanket on Tim curiously. She refused the police to cover her with it.
"For some reason."
Nonsense, it’s the same as if he hadn’t said anything. Liu Shu sat down next to him.
"I want to go take a look." Tim looked up and said to the cordon in the distance.
Is this something you can see? The police shouldn't just let anyone in.
"How are you going to get there?" The bodies over there had been dug out. Liu Shu looked at the people searching everywhere on the beach. They were searching very carefully and slowly.
"Come over," Tim draped the warm blanket over Liu Shu's shoulders, "Wait for me."
Liu Shu saw that he was stopped at the cordon, but he said something and the police let him in again.
Tim came back soon, his expression looked calm, but Liu Shu saw that the muscles in his neck were tense. Did he discover something?
"Did he drown?" Being buried on the beach, watching the sea water flood over him, only this kind of death could make him angry, Liu Shu guessed correctly.
"Well, after all the struggle, she only showed one hand today."
"The ranger of this beach left only after completing the inspection, which was at 8pm."
"Six o'clock is when the lifeguards go off duty. Swimming is prohibited from six to eight o'clock, but you can continue to play on the beach."
Tim seemed to be explaining the situation to Ryushu, but it was more like he was analyzing it to himself.
"After eight o'clock?" Liu Shu knew what the police would do next.
Check the people who appeared in nearby surveillance cameras after 8 o'clock.
At this time, a policeman came over.
"If the area is not cleared today, the body will be discovered by tourists, and then we may find nothing." The bespectacled policeman leaned on the railing next to him and said to Tim. This was the policeman who had just stopped him.
"Did you see anyone who looked strange?" Even though there was no response, he continued talking without stopping.
It was a bit noisy. Liu Shu looked at the deep blue sea. How could she know if there was anyone acting strangely? The rising and falling tides would also take away many clues.
She looked at the sea enough and turned to look at Tim for a long time.
"What's wrong?" Tim blinked at her, maintaining the same posture and not daring to move.
"I did see a strange person today." There was no need to check further. Liu Shu silently compared the color of the person opposite him with the eyes and the sea water in his mind.
"What?" The policeman squatted down.
"It's a guy fishing with a stick. It's very strange."
"It's not that strange. Using branches to fish is just a bit primitive." It seems that this policeman is not very smart.
"No, there is no fishing village here." Tim supported his chin with one hand. He understood what Liu Shu meant.
Sea fishing is very different from fishing in a small river or lake. The sharp and brittle reefs can easily injure human skin, so you need to wear protective boots and gloves.
The fish in salt water are very ferocious, and the flow of sea water near the coast is even more unpredictable, so you need to use a professional sea fishing rod.
Many people also choose to take a boat to the sea to fish, which requires calculating the ocean currents to reduce the difficulty of fishing.
"Do you remember what that person was wearing?" Tim asked Liu Shu seriously.
"The top is gray and the slippers are fluorescent blue."
"The reef is different from the beach. The man's feet may have been scratched a lot." Fishing without any preparation, with corpses nearby, Tim didn't believe in coincidences.
Why hasn't this policeman gone looking for someone yet? Liu Shu felt that they were about to tell him the answer.
She and Tim looked at each other and saw the same helplessness in his eyes as she did.
In the end, Tim went to the team leader to inform him of the situation.
"Those who actually fish should be able to notice something is wrong." Liu Shu took two steps and untied his hair that he had tied earlier.
"The more complicated the case, the easier it is to find out the truth." Tim had clothes hanging on his arms. He was not wearing a coat and his shirt was unbuttoned.
But Liu Shu didn't dare to look, she looked away shyly.
"Where are we going tomorrow?" The itinerary was also very important, so she looked ahead.
"It's a free activity." Tim was a little confused. He didn't think he was wearing too little, so he didn't realize what Liu Shu was really thinking.
"Isn't today a free day?" "It's so free, shouldn't we say it's worthy of being a free country?" Liu Shu couldn't help but turn around and ask him.
"No, we have a teacher leading the class today, and tomorrow it will be considered a halftime break." Tim explained patiently.
"So, I can stay in the room all day long?" Liu Shu grabbed her hairpin and tried to tie up her hair while walking, but she couldn't do it.
"Don't you want to go out and play?" Tim paused.
"There's nothing fun here. You finally have some free time. Don't you want to sleep alone all day?"
Liu Shu, who had finally returned to his normal hairstyle, offered him a very tempting option.
"I have things to do. Although I'm staying in the hotel, I can't sleep because I have a lot of documents to look at." Tim's words were full of the flavor of a corporate slave.
It sounded so pitiful. Liu Shu patted his shoulder and said, "You're not in Gotham anymore, so you should balance work and rest."
"I had a lot of fun yesterday," he laughed. "Even though I didn't do anything today, if I go back to work later, I can have a good rest tomorrow night."
Only the first sentence was worthy of his smile. After hearing the rest, Liu Shu wanted to call the police for him.
"So, are you going to sleep tonight?"
"What's the question? Of course I sleep." Tim tilted his head.
"I thought you were going to work all night..."
If nothing happened today, he might really not sleep, Liu Shu stepped onto the stairs.
"Is this the image of me in your mind?"
Not only that, Liu Shu felt that he would worry about everything he saw, and spend day after day busy. As a result, the more he saw, the more things he would have to worry about.
Tim hesitated for a moment in front of the revolving door, then stopped and waited for Liu Shu to go in.
In addition to the front desk, there was also Winnie in the hotel lobby. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the two people coming in.
"That's so scary. Are you okay?" she trotted over and asked them.
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