"Kid, would you like to assist us in solving the case? You'll have to face a lot of dead people, that is, cold, lifeless corpses," the young police officer suddenly blurted out before Lin Yao could speak. His eyes were filled with hope as he pinned all his hopes on the little girl.
A deputy director and a big shot were beyond his persuasion. Only this little girl might be the breakthrough.
Miaomiao nodded almost without hesitation and said crisply, "Sure!"
"Miaomiao, do you know what a corpse is? It's a very scary thing for you..." Lin Yao quickly tried to explain to his daughter, afraid that Miaomiao's chivalrous spirit would get the better of her and she'd act without thinking.
"I know. It's a person who can't move. I've seen them, Daddy," Miaomiao nodded and said nonchalantly.
Corpses used to be a common sight for her.
Due to the famine, she was abandoned by her biological parents. An old beggar picked her up and taught her how to act cute and please others to get food.
During the days of wandering with the beggar group, there were almost bones everywhere on the road. There were countless weak people on the verge of starvation. She'd gotten used to these things years ago.
Later, the old beggar died too. She lay beside his cold body for a night, but she wasn't afraid. After all, the old beggar was the kindest person to her before she met her daddy.
She still remembered that on the day she met her daddy, many people were chasing and bullying him.
The people around her daddy were stabbed by the bad guys one by one and fell, never to get up again.
She was a bit scared at that time.
But when the bad guys broke into the dilapidated temple and her daddy stabbed one of them to protect her, she wasn't afraid anymore. She'd never be afraid again.
She also remembered what her daddy said: sometimes, the minds of the living are scarier than the dead.
So Miaomiao had a very concrete concept of corpses in her mind, and the image of her silly daddy, who was like a towering tree offering protection, was even more deeply engraved.
As long as her daddy was around, Miaomiao was never afraid of anything.
"You've seen them?" Lin Yao frowned, feeling as if his heart was being clutched.
In his previous life, he adopted Miaomiao when she was five. Since his daughter had always been lively and kind, he'd never paid attention to or investigated what happened to her before the adoption.
So when did his daughter see the corpses? Wouldn't such things leave psychological shadows on a child?
How did his daughter live through those four years?
Just thinking that his daughter might have been a helpless little soul living in the dark made Lin Yao feel a thousand pities and ten thousand self - reproaches.
The little girl thought her silly daddy didn't want to let her help. Although she didn't fully understand what the young police officer said, she roughly understood that her help might save more people.
Stand by and do nothing when someone is in danger?
Absolutely not.
The little girl decided to use her trump card. She squeezed out two tears and coquettishly pleaded, "Daddy, I wanna go."
Okay, okay, go, go. I'd even give you my life!
Lin Yao instantly surrendered. He looked at the young police officer dejectedly and said, "Since my daughter is determined to help, I can agree. But on the condition that I'll be there to watch the whole process. As long as I find anything wrong with my daughter, I'll take her away directly, and you can't stop me for any reason."
"Sure, no problem. Then let's go now." The young police officer nodded repeatedly. As long as they could go, it was good.
When they entered the morgue, the cold air rushed towards them. Lin Yao instinctively took off his coat and covered Miaomiao with it. It was thirty degrees outside. Such a sudden change in temperature would surely give her a cold.
The deeper they went, the colder it got, and the more nervous the young police officer became. He kept psyching himself up countless times. He was doing this for solving the case and for the people.
Summoning witnesses and asking ordinary people for help in finding clues were all normal procedures.
He wasn't hurting the flower buds of the motherland, he wasn't hurting the flower buds of the motherland.
There would be psychological counseling after this...
No matter how much self - suggestion the young police officer gave himself, he still felt guilty and powerless.
Finally, they reached the place where the corpses were stored. The bodies of several criminal suspects from the previous day were all in the glass room of the morgue. There were all kinds of instruments in the room, probably for the autopsy.
"Family members, please stop here. Deputy Director Lin, let's go in," the young police officer said.
According to the rules and regulations, Lin Yao couldn't enter the autopsy room. There were many important pieces of evidence stored inside, which needed strict management.
Anyway, with Uncle Lin around, Lin Yao felt a bit relieved. He handed Miaomiao over to them and stood outside alone, observing through the glass.
As soon as she entered the autopsy room, Miaomiao smelled that familiar odor, which came from the three corpses lying on the tables.
The young police officer stepped forward, gritted his teeth, and lifted the white cloth covering the corpses, revealing the hideous wounds on the bodies after the autopsy.
Lin Yao clenched his fists and stared closely at his daughter's every move through the glass. Seeing that Miaomiao showed no sign of discomfort, he barely managed to hold back the urge to rush in.
Miaomiao stepped forward and carefully smelled the odor on each person. It seemed that she had smelled it somewhere before.
After recalling for a long time, Miaomiao finally dug out the general source of the odor from the depths of her memory, but she still needed to confirm it.
The little girl raised her hand and touched the hand of one of the corpses. Just as the young police officer was about to stop her, Uncle Lin stopped him.
"If you want my niece to help, don't disturb her," Uncle Lin said.
The young police officer didn't know that Uncle Lin, a deputy director who had climbed up from a long - time detective, was very experienced.
Just by looking at Miaomiao's expression, he had a rough idea. The micro - expression was very obvious. Miaomiao seemed to really know something, and she was further confirming it.
When she turned over the palm of the corpse, sure enough, she found a very small red dot on the tiger's mouth. Miaomiao then went to look at the other two corpses, and they were in the same state.
That was the thing.
"Is the smell the same?" the young police officer asked tentatively when he saw Miaomiao stop.
"Yes, it's all the same!" Miaomiao nodded and replied firmly.
"Do you recognize this smell?"
"Yes! Daddy told me about it before!"
Daddy? Lin Yao?
Uncle Lin and the young police officer both turned to look at Lin Yao outside. They were both a bit confused.
"Bro, come here for a sec," Uncle Lin said.
The autopsy room had good sound insulation, so people outside couldn't hear the conversation inside. Uncle Lin opened the door and beckoned to Lin Yao, inviting him in.
"Miaomiao said you told her about the source of the smell on these corpses before. What's going on?" Uncle Lin asked.
"Impossible. I haven't had the chance to teach Miaomiao anything yet. And even if I did, I wouldn't teach such strange things."