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Is there anyone on this island?
Perhaps due to climatic reasons, it is impossible to tell with the naked eye whether the footprints were left just now or a long time ago.
Li Tao closed his eyes. He originally wanted to use his hearing to sense the island, but after losing his vision, his hearing became stronger.
The same goes for the sense of smell.
A faint smell of blood filled his nostrils.
Li Tao suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the row of wet footprints, his heart becoming heavy.
Looking back at Aunt Liu, Li Tao thought that she would definitely not be in danger, so he just followed the footprints.
I didn't walk too far before the footsteps disappeared, maybe twenty to thirty meters.
Sure enough, there was a corpse, lying face down in the mud. Li Tao was naturally familiar with the silhouette.
I was just talking about returning her sunglasses not long ago.
Chapter 184 Sleepwalking
Gao Yuying is dead.
Died on a deserted island.
But for Li Tao, this is just too much of a coincidence, right?
"But after that wave was shot, no one could be sure where the destination was..."
Li Tao squatted on the ground, looking at the woman whose face was covered in mud after he turned her over, feeling deeply confused and puzzled.
If someone was behind the scenes manipulating him to come to this island, inducing him to find Gao Yuying's body, in order to string together the conspiracy...
But this is a bit too far-fetched.
Because even if that person knew everything about Li Tao, he still needed to know his whereabouts before Gao Yuying died.
Theoretically, only Liu Renna knew that Li Tao came to the island today, so it was impossible for Aunt Liu to plan anything with outsiders.
In that case, everyone I met today is a suspect, even everyone on the beach.
Li Tao couldn't figure it out. Although there was no clue that all this was planned, Li Tao still took the human factor as the prerequisite.
"Could it be that someone died here during the heavy rain at noon?"
The rain caused the volleyball game to end early. At the same time, Li Tao, Aunt Liu and the other two women who were hiding from the rain also solved the lunch problem in the hot pot restaurant.
But no one else knew that he and Yoo In Na came to learn swimming.
Moreover, the key point is that even if someone is always monitoring Li Tao and keeping track of his real-time whereabouts, even Liu Renna herself could not imagine that after her swimsuit was taken away by the waves, her Baoer would bite it...
So even if the other party knew this, they should have believed that with the presence of Liu Renna, Li Tao and the others would not move at all under the beating of the huge waves, and should not have appeared on this deserted island.
All the reasoning came to nothing, and this damn feeling was as if I was being imprisoned and played with.
Li Tao pulled up some thin grass from the ground and wrapped it around his ten fingers to make a pair of simple anti-fingerprint gloves.
He gently brushed off the mud on Gao Yuying's face. The woman's carefree, fair face was already covered with dead skin, and the mud took advantage of the opportunity to get in and get stuck into her skin.
The mud was wet, and of course the entire mud ground was wet, but one thing was indeed worth noting: Gao Yuying's nostrils were full of mud.
Li Tao frowned and took a rough look at Gao Yuying's body. There were no wounds or even bruises.
But her heart stopped beating, and her breathing even more so, after all, her nostrils were blocked.
Although Li Tao is not a forensic doctor, common sense suggests that this seems to mean that Gao Yuying was not dead when she lay down. Breathing in the mud quickly blocked her nostrils, leading to suffocation to death.
Whether it was death from suffocation or not will still have to be judged by professionals. This is a homicide case and Li Tao will not keep it to himself.
Li Tao stood up and paced around Gao Yuying, carefully observing whether there were any clues around.
Wait, the overlapping patterns on the soil seem to be very regular. At first, Li Tao thought it was caused by wind or other natural climate.
But as he looked at it carefully, he suddenly felt that the mud he was standing on, with Gao Yuying lying on the ground at the beginning as the center, within a radius of two meters, seemed to be an artificial outline, similar to a sacrificial totem.
Li Tao gradually narrowed his eyes and stood on tiptoe, raising his field of vision to fully observe the entire pattern.
"what--"
Aunt Liu's scream frightened Li Tao, who was concentrating on his studies, so much that he almost fainted.
Looking back, he saw Aunt Liu's small chin resting on his shoulder, her big, charming eyes filled with curiosity and excitement.
"Well, you scared me."
Li Tao flicked her on the head and then rubbed his ears; the sound gave him tinnitus.
"I'm sorry, I just can't recover. I found that you are not with me, and I am still naked. I'm scared~"
If Liu Renna hadn't mentioned it, Li Tao would have forgotten about it. He suddenly realized that the beautiful woman behind him, with her bound feet on tiptoe and her head on his shoulder, was naked.
"Uh, no... not cold, right?"
Li Tao couldn't help but glance at her out of the corner of his eye. Although he quickly looked away, his heart was still pounding.
Temptress~
"It's cold, hug me~"
Aunt Liu put her arm through Li Tao's arm and hugged him tightly from behind.
"That's almost it."
"Just don't catch a cold."
Li Tao wanted to pat her little buttocks, but when he thought about the fact that there was no cloth covering it, he could only withdraw his hand regretfully.
"Aunt Liu, look at this girl, isn't her death a little strange?"
"strangeness?"
Liu Renna was much shorter than Li Tao, and standing behind him, she couldn't see what was in front of her at all, so she walked straight in front of Li Tao without thinking. Fortunately, Li Tao, knowing that he was not brave enough, stopped her in time.
"No, you can't come in front of me until I find clothes for you."
"Woo woo, you don't want to see me, you ungrateful bastard, I'll beat you up."
"Clap~"
The slap made a sound, but the action happened on his back.
Li Tao's eyes almost popped out of his head, and he asked in a hoarse voice: "What did you hit me with just now?"
So crisp...
"Use your body~"
"Behave yourself. I'll watch you from behind."
After Li Tao finished speaking, he squatted down without saying anything, hooked his hands around Liu Inna's knees, and carried her on his back.
Aunt Liu poked her little head from the back to the front and rubbed Li Tao's face affectionately.
"Look at the ground. I think this pattern looks like something for sacrifice..."
"pattern?"
Li Tao spoke so seriously that Liu Renna had to be serious as well. She rested her chin on Li Tao's collarbone and quietly looked at the strange patterns drawn by the mud around Gao Yuying's body.
After a long silence, Liu Renna said softly, "It's a plum blossom."
"plum bossom?"
Li Tao murmured the word for a while, and then her pupils shrank into needle shapes.
"It's one of the four patterns in playing cards, clubs!"
Liu Inna didn't say anything, but pressed her chin hard, which confirmed Li Tao's question.
"She was killed by the Reef?"
Ever since he came into contact with the Reef, whenever Li Tao mentioned playing cards, he would think of this cruel organization.
"This little girl committed suicide."
"That's what I just speculated." Li Tao agreed.
Aunt Liu tapped Li Tao's shoulder with her chin, motioning him to squat down so she could observe him further.
Li Tao slowly squatted down, broke off a branch and handed it to Liu Inna.
"Aunt Liu, this girl is Gao Yuying, I know her..."
"hiss--"
The sound of pain was naturally made by Li Tao.
Li Tao was halfway through his words when Liu Renna bit his shoulder. She said incoherently, "You stinky kid, you're cheating on me behind my back. You're cheating on me~"
"Don't talk nonsense. I haven't even slept with you. Who should I sleep with? Don't I want to stay in this school anymore?"
"Then your hooking up is also considered cheating~"
Yoo In Na began to grind her teeth into the skin of his shoulder.
"No, shut up first."
"Well, I can't make it up!"
Li Tao sighed and could only meet Gao Yuying in the coffee shop. He heard the conversation between the three best friends and recounted it to Liu Inna verbatim.
"Hiss—I told you everything, why did you bite so hard?"
Li Tao pinched Aunt Liu's small nose, causing her to twitch in pain.
"You've already started to play tricks to get her contact information. When have you ever flirted with me? I'm jealous!"
Liu Renna had a fierce face and babbled at Li Tao.
"Hey, don't go astray anymore, Aunt Liu~" Li Tao couldn't help but start acting like a spoiled child. All the information about the reef was very important to him.
"Tell me quickly, how do you know that she committed suicide? And what does this plum blossom pattern represent?"
"It's getting dark, the sea breeze is getting stronger, my little butt is cold~"
Li Tao: “…”