The devil affectionately calls me a bad guy

Chapter 77: It was murder, not suicide

Mass graves are a common backdrop in horror films.

"There really is a mass grave..."

Shen Mengxin rubbed her arms and carefully moved closer to Li Lin.

"Haven't you been looking forward to coming to the mass grave?"

Li Lin put his hands in his pockets and looked around with shining eyes.

It is clearly a mass grave, but there is not even a single dirty thing to be seen. It is truly a unique mass grave.

"I, I'm just thinking about it..."

Shen Mengxin simply took Li Lin's arm, shrank her neck and looked around alertly.

"The police are here to collect evidence, why should we follow them?"

"This one……"

Shangguan Xue, who was walking in front, turned around and smiled awkwardly.

"Because of the lack of manpower..."

Although it sounded far-fetched, and as the person who said it she did not quite believe it, she really was not lying. The police station in the entire area had consumed a large amount of manpower on a certain matter, and there were no extra people to help find the things that Zhang Feng said could not be dealt with in such a large mass grave.

"Speaking of which, don't you find it strange that no one knows about such a large mass grave right behind the bathhouse?"

Li Lin's words were like a cold wind blowing in from the collar in winter. Everyone subconsciously tightened their collars and shivered.

"Uuuuuu——"

Having watched so many movies, Shen Mengxin subconsciously imagined countless tragic deaths in her mind. She immediately hugged Li Lin's arms tightly and uttered a few worried and frightened whimpers.

"and……"

Li Lin continued speaking in a flat tone, as if he didn't notice the changes in other people's expressions.

"Don't you think there's someone missing among us?"

In an instant, everyone jumped up as if they had stepped on a bug. Shen Mengxin hugged Li Lin's arms tightly and buried her face in Li Lin's chest, not daring to even breathe.

Except Shangguan Xue.

"No, there is no one extra person," Shangguan Xue blinked and said very honestly, "Senior, you are too nervous and you must have seen it wrong."

"Well, I just saw that everyone was very nervous, so I made a joke to lighten the atmosphere."

Li Lin spread his hands.

"How about this cold joke of mine."

Don't... make such a joke in a mass grave!!!

The policemen, whose clothes on their backs were soaked with cold sweat, forced themselves to resist the urge to rush over and punch Li Lin. They forced a laugh and said that they were not scared.

"don't want……"

Shen Mengxin lowered her head, her shoulders trembling slightly.

"Ok?"

Li Lin blinked and lowered his head.

"What did you say..."

"Don't tell such a boring joke in a mass grave!!!"

Shen Mengxin yelled and punched Li Lin in the stomach.

"Pfft-"

Li Lin, with a distorted expression, covered his stomach and slowly knelt in front of Shen Mengxin, then fell to the ground with a bang.

"Police, police...someone is beating someone..."

Li Lin stretched out his hand tremblingly towards the policemen holding flashlights.

The policemen, frightened by Li Lin's cold joke and whose clothes were soaked with cold sweat, were silent for a while, then turned around and dispersed, and began to search for suspicious corners.

Shangguan Xue hesitated for a moment, then bent down and helped Li Lin up.

"Senior, generally speaking, we won't care about the little fights between couples."

Due to the size contrast between Li Lin and Shen Mengxin, she felt that Li Lin was acting to cooperate with Shen Mengxin and was pretending to be in pain to please Shen Mengxin. However, out of her responsibility as a police officer, she still gave Li Lin some scientific knowledge very seriously.

"This is an extremely inappropriate waste of public resources. Serious cases can lead to criminal penalties."

Li Lin's face turned pale.

Look at me... I don't look like I'm pretending!!!

"Yeah, we get it."

Shen Mengxin pushed Shangguan Xue away with an apologetic look on her face, and took Li Lin's arm like a little bird, then hit Li Lin's waist heavily with her elbow.

"Really? Don't cause trouble for others!"

"cough--"

Um...kidneys...

"By the way, would you mind telling us the reason for the shortage of police force?"

In order to prevent Shangguan Xue from noticing that Li Lin looked like he had lost his kidney, Shen Mengxin asked with pretended curiosity.

"This……"

Shangguan Xue subconsciously glanced in the direction of her colleagues who were searching.

"If it's inconvenient to say, forget it."

Shangguan Xue's attitude made Shen Mengxin realize that this might not be a question that could be used to change the topic, so she immediately shook her head.

"No, it's not that it's inconvenient. This matter has been on the headlines of newspapers recently. It should have been on the hot searches, but it was suppressed by the things happening in the entertainment industry."

Shangguan Xue scratched her face, and there was a hint of guilt in her tone.

Shen Mengxin blinked. She usually didn't pay attention to trending searches and didn't have the habit of subscribing to newspapers, so she had no idea what Shangguan Xue was talking about.

"Ah, that's it, mass suicide."

Li Lin, who had recovered, pinched Shen Mengxin's butt hard as a revenge. Shen Mengxin, who was already used to this little trick, simply raised her hand and pinched the soft flesh on Li Lin's waist.

Li Lin's mouth twitched, and he loosened his hand with a stiff expression. He gently rubbed Shen Mengxin's hips as an apology. Shen Mengxin just rolled her eyes and did nothing else. She was quite curious about the large-scale suicide incident that Li Lin mentioned.

"Yeah, it's really hard for us police to admit this matter ourselves."

Shangguan Xue held her forehead and sighed deeply.

"The director had already said that those were not suicides, but homicides."

"I think so too," Li Lin nodded, "This suicide frequency is really too exaggerated."

"That's the problem..."

Shangguan Xue made an OK gesture to her colleague who was making a gesture to her and continued.

"Many of the suicides occurred at the same time and at considerable distances from each other, and the people who committed suicide had no connection or commonality."

"So, why did your director say it was murder?"

Li Lin raised his eyebrows.

The fact that they happened at the same time and were quite far apart in distance meant that it was a group crime. The fact that the people who committed suicide had no connection or even anything in common meant that the group was killing people completely randomly.

According to common sense, it is more likely that they just happened to commit suicide at the same time than that such a group exists. After all, with such a high frequency of crimes and so many victims, how could there be no trace left? How is that possible? We can only say that such a group does not exist at all.

or……

Li Lin narrowed his eyes.

The person who committed the crime is not a human being.

"because……"

A gust of cold wind blew by, and Shangguan Xue spoke seriously after a brief silence.

"The director committed suicide."

Chapter 78 Jump, or jump down

The director committed suicide...

The cold night wind blew Shangguan Xue's hair. Shen Mengxin stared blankly at Shangguan Xue, who seemed unable to feel the cold.

The director committed suicide, so he was able to confirm that it was a homicide and even spread the word.

However, how can a person who has committed suicide tell others that he did not commit suicide but was murdered? How can he tell everyone that all recent suicide cases were homicides?

Shen Mengxin swallowed subconsciously and held Li Lin's arm even tighter.

So, Shangguan Xue, who knew all this, was...

"Is your director not dead?"

Li Lin sighed, raised his hand and gently patted Shen Mengxin's head.

"Of course he's not dead..."

Shangguan Xue blinked.

"How can he give us orders when he's dead?"

……

Shen Mengxin let go of Li Lin's arm somewhat awkwardly.

Oh, that’s right. How can I give orders when I’m dead? It must be because I’ve watched too many horror movies. Whenever I see someone showing a slightly abnormal reaction, I think that the person in front of me is a ghost. Well, this is not good, this is not good. I should just... quit watching horror movies.

"The director was originally going to hang himself, but he had a heart attack. According to the director, his heart would not allow him to die for any reason other than a heart attack." Shangguan Xue couldn't help but complain.

"Ah, this... your chief's heart... is quite sickly."

Li Lin was also speechless.

This director was too careless. Not only did he almost hang himself, but the reason he failed was that he had a heart attack. He went through the gates of hell twice in one day and yet he joked about his heart in a yandere way.

"So, how did your director determine that this was murder?"

"Well, how should I put it..."

Shangguan Xue straightened her back, coughed lightly, and changed her tone as if she was imitating someone.

"I didn't want to die at all but I went to hang myself. Do you think there's something wrong with this? My heart is reminding me!"

Perhaps she herself felt that it was ridiculous, for after imitating the director's speech, Shangguan Xue's face fell.

"Although we all want to complain, as the director is the only survivor of a suicide case, we cannot ignore his comments."

"Emm... He didn't want to die but he hanged himself. Hmm, that's interesting... It seems like someone controlled him to hang himself," Li Lin's eyes turned, "Speaking of which..."

That novel is updating automatically even though the author is dead, and it’s about suicide…

Li Lin's expression change did not escape Shen Mengxin's eyes, but considering Li Lin's own special circumstances, she suppressed the doubts in her heart.

"Found it! I found it!"

A younger policeman waved his hand excitedly.

Li Lin and Shangguan Xue's eyes lit up at the same time, and they ran towards the direction of the police who were shouting. However, because Shen Mengxin was a little distracted and her reaction was a little slow, Li Lin bent down and picked up Shen Mengxin and caught up with her.

Shen Mengxin, who did not turn around, subconsciously exclaimed and put her arms around Li Lin's neck.

"You, you put me down..."

The ambiguous looks from the other policemen around made Shen Mengxin's pretty face blush with embarrassment. She raised her fist and gently knocked on Li Lin's chest, saying tenderly.

"Ah."

Li Lin did not take advantage of Shen Mengxin, but stared at what the young policeman found. No, it should not be considered a thing, but a well, a dry well with no bottom.

"It looks like the Unethical Map is not unethical this time."