Awakening the Daily Intelligence System-Chapter 826 - 414, Destroy Evidence_2
Chapter 826: 414, Destroy Evidence_2
Jack was checking along the path leading up the mountain.
This time it didn’t take long before Jack found the second spot of blood five meters away from the first one.
“Aix, found it, over here.”
After finding it, Jack immediately straightened up and called Aix over to his side.
“What do we do now? Do we go back right away to tell Chief Zhang and the others, or do we keep following the blood trail?” Aix asked, looking down at the blood on the leaves.
What do we do?
Jack bowed his head in brief contemplation and answered, “I think we should keep following the blood trail first. If we have a significant discovery, it’s still not too late to inform Chief Zhang.”
Upon hearing Jack’s response, Aix’s lips slightly curved up as he smiled and said, “I was thinking the same.”
The two followed the blood trail all the way to the entrance of a cave located a kilometer away from the Han Family’s house, where the blood trail disappeared.
At this moment, the two looked up at the cave two meters above the ground. The area around the cave was strewn with many broken branches, whose purpose was unclear.
Although it was afternoon, the forest was dense, blocking most of the sunlight. A chilling wind blew from the cave entrance, brushing against their bodies, making Aix shiver.
The cave entrance was pitch black, making it impossible to see inside from outside. Coupled with the eerie silence of the woods, devoid of even bird calls, both felt a creepy and terrifying aura in the place.
“What do you think? Will you go in, or should I?” Jack glanced at Aix and asked.
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Upon hearing about entering the cave, Aix shrank his neck a bit, saying fearfully, “You go in. I don’t dare.”
Seeing Aix like this, Jack didn’t say much, nodded, took out his phone, and activated the flashlight app, “Alright, I’ll go in. Help me out down here; otherwise, I can’t get up.”
Aix nodded, stood directly below the cave entrance, squatted down, and turned his head to say, “Come on up.”
“Alright.”
With that, Jack climbed onto Aix’s shoulders, grabbed protruding rocks at the cave entrance, and exerted effort to haul himself up.
As soon as he climbed into the cave, he smelled a very odd odor, resembling the smell emitted by a corpse nearing decomposition.
Though unpleasant, the cave’s temperature was significantly cooler than outside; the previously heated Jack now felt a refreshing chill inside.
Using his phone’s flashlight, Jack illuminated the surroundings, finding the cave full of scattered rocks, showing no signs of excavation, suggesting it was a naturally formed cave.
After examining the terrain, he bent down to inspect the ground, spotting traces of blood on some rocks.
The blood trail extended into the depths of the cave, but the phone’s flashlight was limited in range, making it impossible to see what lay deeper inside.
Having no choice, Jack cautiously treaded between the rocks, moving further into the cave.
About ten meters in, he felt he stepped onto something unusually soft compared to rocks.
Instinctively, Jack lowered his raised arm, directing his phone’s light towards the ground.
An unkempt human head appeared before Jack. The eyes were rolled upwards, only the whites visible, the face was paler than pale, akin to skin covered with a sheet of white paper. Moreover, the mouth was wide open, with all teeth extracted, leaving behind terrifying bloody holes.
At the sudden sight of the head, Jack’s body shuddered violently, his heart pounding rapidly, seemingly ready to leap from his chest.
At the sudden sight of the head, Jack’s body trembled severely, his heart’s frantic beating “thump thump thump” seemed audibly clear, feeling as if his heart was about to leap into his throat.
But soon, Jack slowly closed his eyes, taking a deep breath that seemed to fill his chest cavity completely, then slowly exhaled, as if dispelling the fear bit by bit, allowing himself to calm somewhat.
The earlier scene genuinely startled him. Though Jack had seen numerous gruesome scenes like corpses and entrails before in America’s complex societal environment as a police academy student, such sudden terror, Jack had never encountered, piercing his nerves instantly.
When he reopened his eyes, his demeanor had returned to calm, his gaze resolute. He once again looked at the head using the dim phone light.
Judging by the length of the hair, this was likely a woman. Under the head was a slender neck, covered in countless bite marks and other dark bruises like someone had viciously harmed it.
As his gaze moved further down, Jack finally understood why his footing felt somewhat soft.
Because, at this moment, he was standing right on the woman’s chest!
Seeing this, Jack urgently lifted his leg, quickly retreating several steps, as though fearing what he might be standing on. Immediately afterward, he crouched down, carefully examining the female corpse before him.
Before death, the woman suffered prolonged non-human abuse, her body covered with wounds and bruises, possibly having been assaulted given her lack of clothes.
Seeing this, Jack stood up, burning rage igniting within him. He couldn’t help but wonder what kind of torment this woman suffered before death, for such a hideous expression to remain on her face post-mortem?
Jack didn’t know, nor did he want to know.
He took another deep breath, intending to steady his emotions, and then sidestepped the female corpse, continuing inward.
Though the female corpse didn’t quite resemble the photos seen at the Han Family, he was certain she was Han’s daughter-in-law. Moreover, this indirectly confirmed his suspicion.
The Han Family couple had already been murdered!
Soon, Jack found a male corpse three meters away from the female corpse.
This male corpse bore relatively fewer injuries compared to the female corpse. The fatal injury was a wrist-thick mark on his neck, indicating he was strangled from behind.
Moreover, the killer seemed inexperienced, using all their might to strangle the man, effectively breaking his neck.
Seeing this, Jack felt overwhelmed with sorrow, unable to bear witnessing the tragic fate of the couple any longer.
Old Man Han mentioned his son and daughter-in-law were always polite and well-liked around their area, having virtually no enemies.
Yet Jack couldn’t fathom the deep grudge the killer had with the Han Family couple to torture them to death and abandon them in the wilderness.
As much as he couldn’t understand, what he needed to do now was to report the situation here to Alicia Linder and David.
Heading back along the same path, Jack’s fury grew fiercer, his fists unconsciously clenching, his anger towards the murderer accumulating continuously.
At this moment, as Jack reached the cave entrance, he heard Ex, who was sitting below, loudly ask, “Jack, did you find anything in there?”
“Yes.” Jack nodded expressionlessly, disregarding whether Ex might view him unusually, he directly jumped out of the cave entrance two meters high, promptly stating coldly, “Inform Chief David and Officer Alicia, the Han couple’s bodies were found.”
“Ah? No way! That couple really died?” Ex’s eyes widened, a look of disbelief with his mouth agape and his gaze filled with shock.
Jack wasn’t in the mood to speak further, so he urged, “It’s getting late, hurry up and notify them, I’ll stand guard here.”
