Chapter 326

"You lied. You argued with Dong Ziwu before he met with an accident." In the interrogation room, Qi Fei sat opposite Meng Qian, staring at her beautiful face and said.

Meng Qian's eyes were red, and she bit her lip, trying to restrain her surging emotions. It took a long time before she opened her mouth: "That's right, I lied. I was afraid you would suspect me. But I just argued with him; I didn't kill him. I wouldn't be willing to kill him."

"Why did you argue?"

"Because, that morning, he mentioned breaking up with me. He said Li Shuangshuang was introduced by General Manager Tian and was pregnant with his child. He could only marry her, and our relationship had to end here." Speaking of this, Meng Qian's voice had already begun to tremble. "But, clearly, I am the one who has been with him for five years. These five years, I have always been the one taking care of him behind the scenes. Every time I told him I wanted a name, he would coax me, saying he would propose when he reached the group.

I foolishly believed him and waited for five years like this. And the result?"

"So you held a grudge and decided to kill Dong Ziwu," Qi Fei used a provocative method.

"I didn't!" Meng Qian almost stood up from the chair. "He said it was bad to be seen arguing at the company gate and wanted to drag me home. I refused. Seeing that he couldn't coax me, he made an excuse that he had an appointment to talk about things and ran away directly. Hmph, kill him? He didn't give me a chance to do it at all. You won't understand the feeling of a cold heart. Watching him ignore my pain for his own reputation, I didn't even have the heart to kill him."

"Who did he have an appointment with? Did he say who he had an appointment with?"

"I don't know, and I don't care."

"Oh, maybe it was just an excuse to get away, right?" Wu Shanqiu's words instead provoked Meng Qian's rebuttal.

She immediately said unconvinced: "I watched him run to get into a black sedan! This couldn't have been specially arranged to deceive me, right?"

Qi Fei sat on a rock, watching the mountain road that could only accommodate one person continue forward and disappear into the dark green and black pine forest. The winter mountain wind was biting, scraping across his cheeks like tiny knife blades.

Wu Shanqiu opened a thermos cup on the side and took a sip of hot water, Pan Ting slightly, and said: "When we discovered Dong Ziwu, we didn't find any signs of dragging. This is a scenic area, and the footprints are very messy. It's hard to say whether there is a suspect. Meng Qian didn't see the license plate number at all, and didn't even know what brand of car it was. This clue is approximately equal to nothing..."

"If it's someone who often comes to Bu Er Jing for hiking, it's not difficult to walk out of this place. Whoever brought Dong Ziwu here knows very well that he is not familiar with the surroundings," Qi Fei said.

"It shows that this person knows Dong Ziwu very well," Wu Shanqiu said.

"Hmm, if he came over when he was sober, he would at least remember the road up the mountain, right?" Qi Fei was a bit confused.

"Indeed, judging from the place where he fell, this guy should have been completely blind, not knowing how to walk at all," Wu Shanqiu said.

Qi Fei stood up and looked around.

He traced back the road he came from the position where Dong Ziwu was discovered. This crime scene, which didn't look tricky, hid many places he didn't understand.

Whoever brought Dong Ziwu over was done by an acquaintance. An acquaintance around the deceased, if they wanted to take action, had too many opportunities and ways.

Bringing a tall adult man to this scenic area far from the city by all means—what was it for?

As far as the eye could see, it was all a desolate scene in winter. Qi Fei seemed to feel a kind of sadness, which made him involuntarily think of the snowy field with the scarecrow—Nancheng Investment, this place, what other secrets that couldn't see the light were hidden?

In the cold autopsy room, Dong Ziwu lay face up on the stainless steel table. This young master whom girls fought for, this workplace red man with a bright future, was now just a broken skin bag.

"There is almost no food residue in the deceased's stomach. It seems he was hungry when he died," Xiao Tao organized his tools. The stainless steel utensils touched each other, making a crisp sound in the quiet room.

Qi Fei leaned over to observe the corpse closely and discovered something on the edge of the broken face. He pointed and asked Xiao Tao: "There seems to be a wound here."

Xiao Tao put down the tools in his hand when he heard this, looked along the direction Qi Fei pointed, and couldn't help but say "Eh."

I saw that on the edge of the wound bitten by wild beasts, there were blue-purple bruises the size of fingernail prints. If you didn't look very carefully, it was indeed not easy to find.

"Actually didn't notice." Xiao Tao's usually calm tone carried a bit of annoyance. He turned around and took a magnifying glass to aim at the tiny wound and examine it carefully.

"Epidermal shedding and subcutaneous bruising." Xiao Tao said while looking. "And some tiny yellow blood scabs that are not easy to find..."

"What does this mean?" Qi Fei asked.

"Minor injuries suffered before death," Xiao Tao concluded decisively.

"That is to say, Dong Ziwu had a conflict with someone before getting lost?" Qi Fei asked.

"Hmm..." Xiao Tao was noncommittal, concentrating on looking at the residual wound that was not much thicker than a few strands of hair. "Wait!" He seemed to have discovered something. His other hand took tweezers and very carefully poked around in the tiny wound. Before long, he took out a grain of sand, only about half the size of a sesame seed. "It could also be that he fell."

"Scraped his face on the ground when he fell?" Qi Fei pieced together these traces and speculated on the possible scene. "It might have been a relatively large piece of wound, and most of it was eaten by wild beasts?"

"It's possible." Xiao Tao carefully put away the sand found. "Look back to see if the composition of the things in this wound is close to the stones at the crime scene."

"I just went to Bu Er Jing this morning to re-examine. In the range where Dong Ziwu moved, I didn't find any obvious signs of broken branches or soil landslides. Where could he have fallen?"

"That's strange. Judging from the situation of tissue fluid exudation and scabbing, this wound should have been caused within a few hours before his death," Xiao Tao said, puzzled. "And I checked other parts of his body, and there were no obvious wounds. If it were a fall, we are usually like this." Xiao Tao did a demonstration action. "Upper limbs, knees, palms—these parts are hard to avoid being impacted."

Qi Fei was silent for a moment and thought of the reason: "No, Xiao Tao, the situation you mentioned is when this person is in a sober state. When falling, there will be an instinctive defensive reaction, but Dong Ziwu was anesthetized by someone. This wound might have been caused while he was in a coma. However, even so, there should be signs of someone falling nearby. Since Dong Ziwu's death until now, it hasn't rained in Nancheng. Why are there no such traces nearby? Could it be that he didn't fall near Bu Er Jing?"

Xiao Tao looked at the tiny grain of sand that was almost invisible: "This little thing embedded in the wound might tell you the answer..."