At this time, the door of the living room had been closed. Not long after Li Naijing sat on the sofa, Shen Xing walked out with slippers on, but instead of going to the sofa, he went to the bathroom first.
After coming out of the bathroom, he came to the sofa and sat down. He was wearing pajamas when he went to bed last night, and he didn't change his clothes at the moment, but he had just put the wooden eyeball on the bed.
Before entering Shen Xing's room, Li Naijing had already checked the alley behind the building, and she had also checked Lin Wanru's body, especially the eye sockets where the eyeballs were missing.
So when she talked to Shen Xing, she didn't beat around the bush, but got straight to the point: "After you encountered Lin Wanru's body last night, what was her walking style?"
Shen Xing did not hide anything. He thought for a moment and said, "It's as if his head is being pulled forward by something, and his limbs don't seem to be exerting too much force."
"Did you notice anything unusual about her body?" Li Naijing kept staring at Shen Xing when she asked.
Shen Xing said: "Eyes, one of her eyes is blood red, and it is wide open. It looks scary."
"Is it the wooden sculpture you were holding in your hand just now?" Li Naijing said suddenly.
Shen Xing was stunned for a moment and answered truthfully: "Yes, maybe because of my career, I naturally want to express the things that impress me in the form of wood carvings."
Li Naijing nodded, expressing understanding, and continued to ask: "Why did you run downstairs after Lin Wanru's body fell down?"
"I'm worried that other unsuspecting residents will come close, because I have seen Lin Wanru's body with my own eyes, so I think she is a fake. If someone comes close at that time out of curiosity, it will be very dangerous." Shen Xing joked.
"Someone saw you upstairs and said you were squatting in front of the body and seemed to be checking something." Li Naijing asked again, with a more scrutinizing look in her eyes.
Shen Xing nodded, with no difference in his expression, and replied calmly: "Because I found that her blood-red eyeball was missing."
"Did you open her eyelids and find out?" Li Naijing asked.
Shen Xing was not a fool, so he definitely couldn't answer yes, otherwise it would be strange if the other party didn't suspect his behavior.
"No, I didn't dare to do that. When I got closer, the woman's eyelids were still open, but when I took a glance, I found that her left eyeball was gone."
"When you arrived in the alley, did you notice any other abnormalities?" Li Naijing seemed to have no doubts and continued to ask.
Shen Xing thought of the dog: "That alley usually smells very bad. Except for some stray dogs, few people usually go there. It was so late, and there was a dog there, but I seemed to scare it away when I went there. ”
Li Naijing nodded, matching what she knew about the situation, and then stopped asking any more questions.
Shen Xing thought that if the disappearance of the eyeballs was related to the mangy dog, that is to say, if it was eaten by that guy, it would be none of his business.
Judging from Li Naijing's current questioning, including Lin Wanru's corpse and the bloodshot eyeballs, in the eyes of others, these images had a strong visual impact on Shen Xing. That's what led him to notice eyeballs and make wood sculptures.
This is just a normal reaction of ordinary people towards fearful things.
But if Shen Xing showed too much attention to that eyeball, or paid too much attention to it beyond imagination, the Sheriff of the investigation team would definitely still suspect that he was hiding some secret.
Li Naijing thought for a moment, took out her mobile phone and called Shen Xing. After the phone rang, she immediately hung up and said, "Save my phone number. If there is anything unusual around you in the past two days, contact me immediately."
Shen Xing didn't know why she had her own mobile phone number, but his mobile phone was still in the bedroom. He couldn't help but ask: "Is your investigation team specifically responsible for handling special cases like corpse fraud?"
Li Naijing did not answer him directly, but stood up and said: "Compared to the police officers you often see, our investigation team has always been short of manpower. As for the cases we are handling, we cannot disclose them to the public for the time being."
After saying this, Li Naijing walked to the door of the living room and opened the door. At this time, there was a young man wearing a black short-sleeved T-shirt standing at the door outside the room.
After seeing Li Naijing coming out, the man took two steps back to the right to make room for her. He was obviously waiting outside.
In the direction of the stairs leading to the fifth floor, a man's back disappeared around the corner, as if he was just going upstairs.
Li Naijing pointed to the man's back and asked the young man waiting for her, "Who is this man?"
The young man glanced at the direction leading to the stairs on the fifth floor: "It should be the residents upstairs, carrying shopping bags from the supermarket, and they just passed by here."
Li Naijing stopped asking and turned to Shen Xing who was following behind her: "Lin Wanru came into contact with you for a reason. We will continue to investigate this case. During this period, if you find anything suspicious, please do not be alone like last night. Before going downstairs, you must inform us first.”
Shen Xing didn't speak, just nodded.
After watching Li Naijing and her colleagues go downstairs, he slowly closed the door and seemed to hear the scraping sound of plastic shopping bags coming from upstairs.
"Isn't there a reason why Lin Wanru came into contact with me?"
Shen Xing silently repeated Li Naijing's words, frowned and thought for a moment, but still had no clue as to why Lin Wanru came to find him.
At this moment, his stomach suddenly growled.
Only then did Shen Xing realize that he hadn't eaten for a long time.
Looking at the time, it was almost dinner time. Thinking of going out to stretch his body after staying at home for a long time, he did not order takeout, but took a shower and changed clothes, then locked the door and left.
When he came out of the stairs on the first floor, Shen Xing happened to see Uncle Wang, who lived on the first floor and was always known for his hot temper, cursing there and holding a dirty shovel with dirt in his hand.
"Uncle Wang, look at you... who made you angry again?" Shen Xing asked with a smile.
Uncle Wang wore a white old man's shirt and loose shorts. He raised the shovel in his hand, pointed at a spot with traces in the corner of the stairs, and said in a loud voice: "I don't know if our community has been touched in the past two days." What bad luck happened? The girl surnamed Lin just passed away during the day yesterday. At night, I heard that a thief had come to the building. Today, there was a dead dog on the stairs. I just shoveled the dead dog out and cleared the ground. Clean it up, it’s so unlucky!”
There was a reason why he was so angry, because the place where the dead dog lay was facing the door of his house.
It seemed that Uncle Wang was not even ready to ask for the shovel.
"Dead dog?" Shen Xing was stunned and asked, "Where did you throw the dead dog?"
"Where else can I throw it? In the trash can behind the street!"
"I'm just about to pass by that way. Uncle, your shovel is dirty too. Do you still want it? Don't you want me to throw it away for you?" Shen Xing said.
Uncle Wang gave it to him: "I forgot to throw it away just now. Sorry to bother you, Xiao Shen!"
