Everyone turned to look at Hua Tao, the woman who had been silent throughout. No one could believe that she was involved…
Xiao Rui and Mo Li shared a look. The two of them were getting better at working together.
Mo Li walked towards Hua Tao and asked in a low voice, “Neither of you are Wu Han’s biological parents, are you?”
When she heard that, Hua Tao finally gave a reaction. She jumped up as if pricked by a needle. Her eyes were filled with shock and terror. “Who told you that? What nonsense.”
Mo Li stood beside Hua Tao and leveled the woman a strong gaze. Eventually, Hua Tao caved. “Wu Han was my biological daughter but not Wu Yong’s. I married him when I was pregnant…”
The men were shocked that Wu Yong was willing to take on another man’s child. It was quite interesting.
Hua Tao sank like a deflated balloon. There were still no tears on her face but she looked pained. Hua Tao immediately wanted to hide the truth but since the police were asking her, there was no point in lying. After all, a simple paternity test would reveal the relationship between Wu Yong and Wu Han.
“Was Wu Yong good to Wu Han?” Mo Li’s gaze sharpened as she stared at Hua Tao.
“Of course… I mean, no, I don’t know. I only focused on Han Han’s work, I don’t know anything else.” Hua Tao looked weirdly terrified and she spoke incoherently.
Mo Li did not press further but she bent down to help Qin Xuan pack up his things. While she helped clean the tools, she turned around to look at Hua Tao. To her surprise, Hua Tao was looking down Mo Li’s direction too. When their eyes met, Hua Tao immediately averted her eyes.
“Okay, let’s return to the station.”
Mo Li did not say anything on the way back. She looked out the window silently. The bumpy mountain road caused the passengers in the car, both alive and dead to rock against their seats.
That night Mo Li had a long dream. She dreamed of a little girl crying and Wu Yong in the middle of his evil deeds. When he discovered Mo Li, he pounced at her. The dream was so real that Mo Li missed her morning alarm.
The next morning, Qin Xuan knocked on the room the station had temporarily assigned to Mo Li. “Mo Li, are you awake?”
“I am. I am waiting for you, we’ll go start the autopsy now!”
“Autopsy?” Qin Xuan tried his best to recall what had happened yesterday. There was no murder case, was there? There was only an accident, so who needed an autopsy? Either way, since Mo Li was his superior, Qin Xuan followed her order. They walked into the morgue. The person on the table was Wu Yong.
“Huh? Why are we performing an autopsy on him? Didn’t he die from a drowning accident?” Qin Xuan was puzzled.
Mo Li said plainly, without any emotions. “I know that but I still have some doubts. That’s why I have Xiao Rui request for an autopsy on this man. It was approved.”
“What doubts?”
“From Wu Han and Wu Yong’s physical condition, they had sex the night before Wu Han died. After Wu Han was discovered, Wu Yong must have panicked. He was afraid that his crimes would be discovered. He fled.”
“That sounds about right.” Qin Xuan still didn’t get what Mo Li was trying to say.
“If he was trying to escape, why pick a river canal that won’t lead out of the city?” Mo Li questioned, “Plus, look at Wu Yong’s hands. Aren’t they strange?”
“They look clean. What’s so strange about that?” Qin Xuan asked.
“Clean is the problem. If he really did drown among the waterweed, shouldn’t there be mud or pieces of the weed in his fingernails as he struggled?”
Qin Xuan knew that the human body would react with a desire for survival during drowning. Even after death, the body would spasm and one was prone to find sand and aquatic plants in the hands of a drowning victim.
However, Wu Yong’s hands were too clean. Mo Li and Qin Xuan conducted a systematic autopsy on Wu Yong. Other than normal drowning symptoms, Wu Yong’s internal organs were congested with blood. The color of his two hearts was different. There was pulmonary edema. A lot of sand and mud was found in the trachea. Muddy water was found in the man’s stomach too. After comparing the water sample in Wu Yong’s stomach and the water sample taken from the crime scene, it was certain that Wu Yong drowned there.
Qin Xuan was frustrated. They did not find anything out of place on the man. It was very confusing. Other than the clean hands, the man did look like he drowned in an accident. All they did was to further prove that the man died in a drowning accident.
“Wait!” Just as Qin Xuan was about to sew up the body, he noticed something at the victim’s armpit.