Pure Darkness

Chapter 48

The morning had become noon, and the trial landfill was bright with sunlight. However, Fang Qing was not the least bit happy. The smell of different types of garbage and the strange smell of chemical waste almost made him see the stars. He also had to be very careful not to make contact with the nameless acids and poisons used by the chemistry students.

The garbage collecting vehicle had arrived at dawn, but Fang Qing had stopped the worker from picking up the trash. He thought, thankfully this sage*reacted so quickly, otherwise ‘that thing’ would be taken by scavengers, and even a lifetime of searching would prove futile.

*T/N FQ calls himself (Lao Zi) the Chinese philosopher who founded Taoism. It can also be used to refer to himself in an arrogant or joking manner.

However, he became blind looking for her!

He had already searched through half the trash bags in the room. He gritted his teeth and continued his examination of the other half.

He opened the black bag again and very carefully took out the contents one by one and placed them down. Bottles, tweezers, test strips. . .one hour of sand, two hours of sand, three hours of sand. . .

Blood flowed into his head as he was overwhelmed by sudden thoughts, and his movements accelerated.

The hourglass, hourglass in Ke Qian. .'s laboratory as well as the messy objects on the shelf, obviously, there is something that — often moves in the words of Bo Jinyan, Ke Ai, the one disguised as Ke Qian, was a neat and tidy person; his things would not be so messy. Why hadn't he thought of this before? Also, the adhesive, found by chance in an empty space on the shelf. .What objects were originally placed there, and then taken away?

An hourglass.

Many hourglass.

After a certain period of time, the bottom of the hourglass will become heavier and exert greater force. What can be used to control this?

He reached into the trash bag and continued to tear it apart.

Rope, it's rope. Countless strong white thread strands. He pulled them out of the bag with a handful, and finally, took out a strangely shaped object.

It was made of iron and looked a bit like an arrow, but it was not. The countless fine thread strands he had just pulled were connected to both ends of the gadget. Several thin iron branches were extruded from it; when Fang Qing pulled the string at one end, the string connected to the other end moved, and with a slight force.

Fang Qing carefully inspected the gadget for a while, then placed it to one side and continued searching inside the bag.

Then, he touched an ice-cold thing.

Surprised, he stood up and pulled the mouth of the bag wide in one move. Slowly, he took out the big thing.

That's doll.

It was the size of an actual person, with black hair all the way to the shoulders, slightly curved, and pale skin. He was wearing the same outfit that ‘Ke Ai’ wore today: White T-shirt, jeans. His forehead, elbows, knees, ankles. . and other places have small holes, all connected to a rope attached to an iron tool.

Fang Qing reached into the bag again, and this time picked up some men's clothes. He clearly remembered every detail* from Xu Sheng's report of today's attack. At first glance, he knew that the clothes were exactly the same as his account. Needless to say, this must have been worn by Ke Qian as he attempted to kill Xu Sheng! After replacing it, he did not have time to dispose of it properly, so he threw it here! Fang Qing was quite confident that Xu Sheng's fingerprints and DNA would be detected on them!

*T/N (gun gua lan shu) – literally, ripe like a melon rolling from a vine; fig. to know something by heart

Fang Qing put everything on the ground, sat down, and started laughing out loud.

The uncle who was waiting in the doorway to pick up the trash gave him a strange look. He obviously thought this police officer was crazy!

When Fang Qing stopped laughing, he realized that he was exhausted. How many nights has he gone without enough sleep? It's okay, he has caught someone today, he will be able to sleep soundly for a long time!

He pushed himself with a burst of energy. At this moment, his phone rang. It was An Yan.

“Hai, An Yan.”

“Fang Qing!”

Almost simultaneously, they both said, “I know how he does it.” “I know what a diversion tactic is!”

The two paused for a moment, stunned for a moment, then said in unison, “A doll!”

Fang Qing smiled. “Hey, son, you're not bad! Immediately return to the station, contact Jinyan and the others and tell them what we found.”

“OK!”

When she hung up the phone, An Yan hugged the doll with one hand and looked at Gu Fangfang. “I have to go back to the police station now.”

Gu Fangfang said, “Ah, alright. Don't worry about me, I can go home by public bus.”

“I'm sorry . . . . and thank you.”

Gu Fangfang simply smiled.

Then, the two turned around and headed for the exit. After a few steps, An Yan suddenly turned around. “You have helped us voluntarily, and we have even taken your doll. In a few days, I'll treat you to a meal, okay?”

Gu Fangfang felt as if his heart was jumping down his throat. He replied, “Alright.”

An Yan turned to look at her and smiled unexpectedly. Her smile was bright and soft, revealing her white teeth. Her pale face was slightly flushed.

“There was a breakthrough in today's case; it will take two or three days for me to complete the investigation. Friday night?”

“Ya.” Gu Fangfang's face was almost completely red.

“I will go to your school gate to pick you up at 6 pm.”

“It's okay.”

——

The sun is high in the sky.

Bo Jinyan calmly and confidently said, “No, continue the search. The world is big, but the only place Ke Qian thinks deserves to be the final resting place for Ke Ai, is here. Since we found nothing on the lake, expand the search area to include the environment. ” His eyes looked out into the distance, into the grassy fields, dams, and low hills beside the lake. “Search those places carefully.”

“Ya.”

The police officers continued their work, and Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao also joined the ground search team. The sun is slowly moving west. Jian Yao bathed in sweat. When she looked up occasionally, she saw Bo Jinyan sweating on her face. However, he did not look doubtful or defeated. His eyes were calm and resolute as he carried out a careful search.

This is the man he loves very much. No matter when or where, as long as he was present, there would be no dead spirit who would be unable to rest in peace.

Jian Yao picked up a bottle of water and offered it to him. “Minum.”

Bo Jinyan picked up the bottle, opened the lid and drank, then patted her head. “Thank you.”

Jian Yao smiled slightly.

At this point, his phone rang. He looked once at the caller id and picked it up. “Halo?”

Then, surprisingly, he glanced at Jian Yao, turned around and walked to one side.

Jian Yao looked at him in confusion. This guy, what game is he playing right now?

Bo Jinyan walked a few more steps before speaking. “I'm not home now.”

It was a call from an express delivery service. “Bapak. Bo, it's international shipping, the package is insured and high value. You must sign it personally.”

“Alright, you can leave it at the police station, I'll take it from there.”

He hung up the phone and turned around. The two looked at each other.

Bo Jinyan maintained an indifferent expression carefully. “What do you see, let's get back to work.”

“ Cih .”

Back then, there was an explosion of activity among the seekers on the side of the dam. Someone shouted, “We have found something!”

Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao felt their spirits rise and quickly rushed over.

——

It was an air raid shelter that had been built under a dam a few years ago. It was not found before because grasses and grasses overgrown with grass covered the entrance.

As Jian Yao stood at the entrance of the shelter and looked around, she discovered that the air raid shelter was right across from the location of the Ke family's old house, with a lake in between.

Everyone walked slowly to the shelter with a flashlight. The shelter wasn't very deep. After walking for about ten meters, they reached the end.

It was a dark, rough wall.

There was someone sitting quietly on the wall, not moving.

Or, rather, it was a corpse that had already begun to rot. It was wearing a white muslin dress, with embroidered shoes on its feet. It was just that the muslin dress was completely blackened by dried blood. His face was like a skull, and his hands were just bones. In the light and darkness that shifted from the shelter, it silently stared at everyone.

Anyone with a little medical knowledge can look at the structure of the skeleton and find out that it is female.

So, Ke Ai was killed that day at Ke Qian's place.

Bo Jinyan and Jian Yao stood in front of the corpse and fell silent. Others were also greatly affected by this scene.

He was eventually found, a lifeless corpse, two interdependent lives.