Novel Bin Chapter 387 - Let Her Confirm
Chapter 387: Let Her Confirm
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Cheng Zheng did not look away from her and Bai Muchuan’s foul mood did not seem to affect him.
He continued to look at Xiang Wan. “Teacher Xiang, come here and have a look!”
Maybe in an attempt to stop making the situation ambiguous, he addressed her formally before everyone.
Xiang Wan gave a dubious glance at him before looking at Bai Muchuan inquiringly.
Then, she got up from her seat unhurriedly.
“Look at what?”
“To identify the corpse!”
Cheng Zheng spoke calmly, as though it was an obvious thing for her to do.
As though... he was letting her choose a dish.
Xiang Wan felt a pang of fear in her heart; there was a slight hesitation in her steps.
She was unlike Mei Xin.
She was not someone who was always dealing with corpses. Every time she saw dead bodies, it would make her skin crawl...
Moreover, looking at the pictures and the real thing itself were two different things altogether.
Cough! “Where’s... the corpse?” Xiang Wan asked.
“Here.” Cheng Zheng turned aside.
Only then did Xiang Wan knew what was in that glass cabinet in front...
“Let her look at the photos instead.” Bai Muchuan contemplated for a moment before making a remark.
Indeed, my man really dotes on me! she thought.
Xiang Wan felt relieved when he said that, but Cheng Zheng replied in a serious tone.
“Can the photos depict the actual feeling of seeing the real thing before you?”
This was a rhetorical question.
A polite yet ironic smile formed on his face.
Xiang Wan felt a sting in her heart.
If she did not dare to look at a corpse, how could she become a woman worthy to stand beside Bai Muchuan?
“All right, I believe the photo can’t achieve that!”
Xiang Wan smiled and walked over.
Her calm demeanor suggested that her earlier nervousness had subsided.
In just about 10 seconds, she could adjust her emotions.
Cheng Zheng felt his sight blurred for a moment. He seemed to be mesmerized by that beautiful smile of hers alongside with her delicate face...
For quite a while, he could not pull his sight away from her.
“Captain Cheng!” Bai Muchuan had a grim expression. “You need to move away to the side.”
Although he was standing beside the corpse cabinet, he did not block Xiang Wan’s line of sight.
Hence, the meaning of Bai Muchuan’s words was more than what it meant literally.
The few people present in the Forensics Department were not stupid. Seeing how both of them picked at each other, they detected something amiss between them and thus they decided to keep their mouth shut.
“It’s all right, he’s not blocking...” Xiang Wan quickly smiled then turned to Bai Muchuan and spoke in a low tone. “Don’t worry about me. It’s not that I’ve never seen dead bodies before!”
Bai Muchuan frowned but said nothing more.
Cheng Zheng also moved back a step quietly.
As to what kind of expression he had on his face, he had turned away subtly so she couldn’t see it.
Bai Muchuan walked over to Xiang Wan and patted her shoulder—he was encouraging her!
“Take a look, have you seen this man before?”
At Wen Xin Nunnery, the only one who had spoken to the murderer and was still alive was only—Xiang Wan.
Hence, besides being the victim of this case, she was also a witness.
It was a pity that the murderer was wearing a mask that day.
Because of that fact, it severely weakened the weight of her words.
So much so, that they could only use it as a reference...
“Ahem!” Xiang Wan felt her throat becoming a little ticklish. It was difficult for her to look at the corpse with no clothing on it...
It was a face she was unfamiliar with.
An unfamiliar man.
Xiang Wan was very certain that she had not met this man before.
He had a lot of wounds on his body.
It seemed like he had suffered a lot of pain before he died.
However, his eyes were not fully closed, revealing a pair of eyes akin to that of a dead fish.
Xiang Wan was standing before the corpse, looking at his expression.
She felt like the corpse was gazing at her soul...
A strange feeling of terror rose from the bottom of her heart.
Xiang Wan was, in fact, horrified to look at the dead man like this, yet she told herself she had to calm down—
And look at it seriously.
She wanted to find that feeling she had!
The feeling she had when she was at Wen Xin Nunnery!
She felt that if this dead man was that “Meng Chi” at Wen Xin Nunnery, she should at least have a sense of familiarity with him?
Quietly, her gaze shifted from the man’s head down to his toes and back again...
In this dead man’s eyes, there was anger, panic, and fear.
A fear similar to what Xiang Wan was feeling now.
No! Maybe his fear had exceeded that of hers!
They had already done an autopsy on the corpse.
However, Cheng Zheng was very professional, for he had kept the expression on the corpse intact right when they retrieved it at Wen Xin Mountain!
Xiang Wan kept looking at him. A strange scene appeared in her head...
On the snowy mountain, this man looked at the person in front of him in trepidation. He revealed his unwillingness to part with this world, before falling down to the cliff and breathed his last breath in the forest.
“Is it him?” Bai Muchuan’s line of sight was on her face.
The sight before her drained her face of color, but her eyes were bright and glistening...
When Xiang Wan looked composed as she concentrated on what she was doing, she could actually send hearts racing.
“He did not look like him!”
Xiang Wan did not turn around when she said that. Her voice sounded a little hollow.
Her eyes kept staring at that corpse.
“This man didn’t want to die!”
Xiang Wan suddenly pursed her lips as she said that.
“I feel that the expression he had before he died was a complicated one. There was shock, hatred, and the desire to live. There was even an urge to seek revenge...”
Eh? All of them looked at her.
There was indeed a facial expression on the corpse.
Prior to their death, most people did not look good when they die.
Fear, unwillingness, savageness, pain... these were common to see. Yet Xiang Wan could describe the look on the corpse in such detail. They were surprised to hear that.
Bai Muchuan just looked at her deeply without a word.
Mei Xin, on the other hand, was more inquisitive. “So you’re saying?”
Xiang Wan suddenly turned her head to Cheng Zheng. “When you combed through the scene, did you find any trace or sign suggesting a third party together with this man?”
Cheng Zheng responded after hearing her words. “What are you implying?”
“All of you have seen the look on the corpse. This was a man who had an angry vibe. Frankly, from his looks, he did not look like a good person. Moreover, looking at his expression, it seemed that he knew he would die. If that was the case, in my opinion, a person like him would have tried to leave some clues behind, agree? I feel that he wouldn’t let whoever that killed him have it easy...”
“Hur!” Cheng Zheng suddenly laughed.
He was not someone who liked to laugh.
The truth was, in the entirety of his stay here, none of them had ever seen him smile.
Nobody knew what he was laughing about. Hence, their gazes were on him.
Cheng Zheng’s line of sight, however, fell on Bai Muchuan.
“As per your request, we did another round of tests on the corpse and found something that we have neglected...”
“What is it?”
“The blood-stained robe the deceased was wearing—”
The next moment, Cheng Zheng took out a report to show everyone.
“After a DNA testing, all the bloodstains on the robe belonged to the deceased himself except this small spot of bloodstain that contained more than one person’s DNA...”
“What!?” To think such a thing happened!
Xiang Wan was confounded by the news.
They really couldn’t blame Cheng Zheng’s team for missing out that small detail.
There was no problem with the huge patches of bloodstains on the robe, neither did they find any trace that suggested another person at the scene before the deceased fell to his death. The cause of death was also because of the fall. Who would have thought there was actually a small spot of bloodstain that contained other people’s DNA?
Cheng Zheng said that there was more than one person?
The people inside the Forensic Department suddenly perked up.
The atmosphere was no longer brooding anymore. Now that they had new clues on hand, everyone was excited and started to raise questions.
“Captain Cheng is really amazing to have discovered this tiny detail...”
“How many people’s DNA are there?”
Curious!
Everyone’s curious about it!
Cheng Zheng pursed his lips slightly. “Three. Besides the deceased himself, there are two more people—”
As he said this, his line of sight suddenly landed on Bai Muchuan and continued his sentence.
“We know both of them.”
Thump! Xiang Wan’s heart skipped a beat.
When she heard that both were someone they knew, her brain immediately thought of a scene.
... Meng Chi and Yu Ning who went to the hospital.
However, Cheng Zheng mentioned two names. “Yu Ning and Ye Lun!”
Back then in Jin City, the film crew had already undergone several investigations and questioning of the staff. All of their personal information, as well as their DNA, thumbprint and the like, they had already filed and stored them. Hence, it would be easy for them to do a matching.
“Investigate Ye Lun and Yu Ning right away—”
Bai Muchuan had not finished his words when he noticed that Xiang Wan’s eyebrows were scrunched up together.
“But if there was no sign of any struggle from the spot he had fallen from, how did their blood stain the sleeves of the deceased? Let’s suppose that the murderer and the deceased had an argument, ignoring if it was two against one or a one-on-one match. Both of them actually left a bloodstain at the end of this man’s sleeve... And it was only such a small spot. What are the odds of such an incident happening?”
... Indeed, such a possibility was too low.
Bai Muchuan narrowed his eyes to a squint. “What are your thoughts?”
Xiang Wan deliberated for a while; her gaze gradually fixated on Bai Muchuan and showed a confident smile.
“I think I might have a clue as to who might this dead man be...”
Bai Muchuan paused for a moment. “You’re saying that he might be someone from the film crew of ‘The Grey List’?”
Indeed, that was her man!
Just one look and he got what she meant.
Xiang Wan nodded slightly. “Did you forget that we met Yu Ning earlier?”
Right, even if that dead man was not part of the film crew, he would at least have some kind of relationship with the film crew!
Bai Muchuan asked her, “When you saw that person at Wen Xin Nunnery, is there any bloodstain on his sleeve?”
Eh?
Xiang Wan was stumped by this question
When she met that “Meng Chi” in Wen Xin Nunnery, she was in a special situation.
Everything confused her. She, at the time, was nervous and frightened. She couldn’t possibly have the right state of mind to pay close attention to such kind of detail.
From what she remembered, that person was wearing a pure white-colored Daoist robe.
It felt spotless and tidy. She did not notice any bloodstain on it.
However, as the Daoist robe had wide sleeves, and the bloodstain was not at the front, it was only natural for her not to notice something like that...
“I’m not sure if I saw it, but I suggest for the police to start questioning the film crew if anyone had gone missing, and to investigate Yu Ning and Ye Lun. My guess is, by then, we should be able to know the identity of the corpse!”
“Okay!”
As there was progress in the case, everyone was enthusiastic!
Bai Muchuan’s deep gaze seemed to glow coldly under the light.
His fingers were tapping rhythmically against the table.
As though he was mulling over something...
About slightly over 10 seconds later, he seemed to have made a decision and turned to look at Tu Liang.
“Inform Laowu to come back to the team. We’ve got work to do!”