Chapter 385: A Letter Has Arrived
Chapter 385: Chapter 385: A Letter Has Arrived
Since it was neither a weekend nor a holiday, Wenyun Valley was deserted, and even the neighboring Yunshan Scenic Area had few visitors.
Su Qing arrived at Wenyun Valley and headed straight for the cave where Sun Dagui was discovered.
Two or three days had passed. The police who had been investigating and collecting evidence were gone, and the area around the cave was empty. Su Qing entered and went to the spot where Sun Dagui’s body had been discovered. Although his body had been removed, the bloodstains on the cave walls and the ground were still striking—a testament to the brutal events that had taken place.
Su Qing glanced around before walking over to a spot not far from a patch of bloodstains. A few stalks of wild grass grew from a crack in the cave wall there. Judging by the angle, they would have had a clear view of what happened to Sun Dagui. She gently touched the grass and closed her eyes.
Soon, Su Qing entered the perspective of the wild grass.
She saw the police bustling in and out of the cave. She saw them carry Sun Dagui’s body out. She saw herself and her classmates rush in, saw the terror on Xie Lei and Fang Xin’s faces. Then, before all that... there was just Sun Dagui’s body, slumped against the cave wall...
Time rewound rapidly. Just when Su Qing thought she might have failed, that she wouldn’t see who had murdered Sun Dagui, she suddenly saw the backs of three people as they were leaving. She heard one of them say in a harsh, angry voice, "Damn it. That Sun Dagui dared to pull tricks behind our backs. This is what happens."
The vision ended abruptly!
Su Qing frowned and opened her eyes. ’Thirty days of time regression, and all I could see were the backs of three people. I didn’t get a chance to see their faces at all.’ Still, this was a crucial piece of information: Sun Dagui wasn’t killed by one person, but three!
It was obvious from the man’s words that Sun Dagui must have been part of their group. For some reason, however, Sun Dagui had developed his own agenda, so the three of them had killed him here.
’But who were these three? And if they were a group, what were they doing together?’
Su Qing still felt frustrated that she hadn’t seen the three men’s faces.
However... Su Qing closed her eyes and replayed the image in her mind: the backs of the three men, the army-green satchels slung across their bodies, the ropes tied to the bags with iron hooks on the ends. Their packs were bulging with unknown contents. Each man held either a shovel or a knife, both of which were still stained with blood.
’That’s right, one of the men was carrying another satchel. That must have been Sun Dagui’s.’
That was the extent of the clues.
Su Qing felt a small sense of relief. ’At least I got here in time to see their backs. It’s a shame, though. If Zou Ming had just told me about this an hour or two sooner, I might have seen their faces.’
’What a shame. A real shame.’
’Still, it couldn’t be helped.’
Su Qing committed the image of the three men’s backs to memory. She checked the surrounding area again, but found no other clues. The three were extremely cautious; they had likely erased anything useful.
Back at school, Su Qing headed to her dorm first. None of her roommates had returned yet. She had just finished tidying up when Li Huan burst in excitedly. She grew even happier when she saw Su Qing. "Qingqing, we got a letter from Beilin!"