Animal Detective

Chapter 49 Eye Drops

"I do not know."

This is Gao Jinrui's answer.

"At that moment, my mind went blank, I'm not kidding, it really went blank!"

Even though seven years have passed, Gao Jinrui still seems to remember it vividly, his face filled with an indescribable fear.

"I was so scared that I sat down on the ground and froze, unable to move. He reached out his hand to me and seemed to say something, but I couldn't hear him at the time. Later I found out what he said."

He was talking about medicine!

Chen Chao's gaze sharpened as he thought of the bottle of eye drops.

"Didn't you ever think that if you sent him to the hospital, he might survive?"

Chen Chao asked in a deep voice.

Gao Jinrui shook his head bitterly: "No, I didn't even have time to think. I told you, my mind just exploded, it was completely blank. When I came back to my senses, he wasn't moving again. I pushed him, but there was no response. I touched his nose, but he wasn't breathing either."

"And when I looked up, I saw the dog."

Gao Jinrui suddenly looked up and stared straight at Chen Chao.

Zhao Tianxing secretly shuddered.

“The dog was standing about 20 meters away, staring straight at me without barking. I waved at it to let it go, but it wouldn’t move.”

“Really, I panicked completely at that time. I didn’t have time to think too much. I just quickly dragged the child into the grave and started burying him.”

Chen Chao shook his head silently.

Gao Jinrui's reaction clearly indicated that he did not know whether Wu Jiawang was dead or alive at that time.

However, Chen Chao prefers the latter.

Human life is fragile, but sometimes it is also very tenacious.

Moreover, if he only checks for breath, Gao Jinrui, in his extreme panic, might not even be able to sense the faint breath.

So at that time, if Gao Jinrui had realized his mistake and chosen to send Wu Jiawang to the hospital, there might still have been a chance to save him.

Monitoring room.

"Bastard!"

Sun Zhao slammed his fist on the table in anger.

There was silence in the room.

Shen Xin gritted his teeth, his feelings complicated.

There's no way to prove anything right now, but just the thought that Wu Jiawang might have been buried alive makes Shen Xin feel like his heart is blocked, and he feels suffocated.

An 8-year-old child!
After he finished lunch, he said goodbye to his grandfather and ran out to play.

After he had had his fill of playing, he didn't forget to buy eye drops for his grandfather.

He brought his dog and eye drops, perhaps hoping that his grandfather would praise him for being good and filial when he got home.

He was jumping around, lost in thought, and that's how the tragedy happened.

When he regained consciousness, he probably had no idea what had happened, except for one thing: the eye drops he had bought for his grandfather.

He even grabbed Gao Jinrui's trouser leg, thinking that this uncle would save him.

Unexpectedly, Gao Jinrui buried him directly in a dark and sunless grave.

Inside the interrogation room, Gao Jinrui covered his face in anguish.

After calming down a bit, Chen Chao asked, "And then, after burying the person, you thought about disposing of the car as well?"

Gao Jinrui nodded.

"I was thinking of going straight home, but then I thought I couldn't. If I crashed my car, my wife would definitely ask me what happened."

"And there was blood on the car, so I had to clean it up. That's why I went to my cousin's house. His family has settled in Anjing and only comes back occasionally for the Lunar New Year. So they gave us the house key and asked us to help look after the house."

“I called my wife again and told her that I had to go on a business trip and wouldn’t be back until tomorrow. Then I went to my cousin’s house and washed the car.” “At that time, I thought I couldn’t keep the car, but I was afraid that the marks from hitting someone would be too obvious, so I found a cement block and deliberately bumped into it again.”

At this point, he looked up and asked Chen Chao if he had found his Teana.

Chen Chao nodded: "We have Zhang Xuwei under control."

Gao Jinrui gave a wry smile.

Seeing that he didn't continue, Chen Chao took the initiative to ask, "Then what about your secret intrusion into Wu Zhicun's house later?"

Gao Jinrui was taken aback and asked in surprise, "You guys know about this too?"

He was a little surprised.

Chen Chao nodded and said in a deep voice, "Gao Jinrui, we know far more than you imagine, so don't take any chances and tell us everything."

In fact, these were the only points Chen Chao knew.

“I didn’t intend to hide it, and I was just about to tell you.” Gao Jinrui shook his head slightly and said with emotion, “I knew who he was the night I hit and killed that child. My wife called me and said that a child had gone missing in Xianghong Village next door, and that we should keep an eye on our son and so on.”

“That night, I couldn’t sleep at all. Every time I closed my eyes, all I could see was that child’s blood-covered face. He was reaching out to me and talking.”

"As I just said, I later found out what he was talking about with me back then—it was eye drops."

“When I was washing my car in my cousin’s yard, I found a bottle of eye drops under the front seat. I was wondering where the eye drops came from. I thought they were my wife’s, so I threw them in the armrest box.”

Chen Chao felt a chill run down his spine, realizing how the fingerprints on the eye drop bottle had been left.

It's likely that Gao Jinrui was washing the car when his hands got very dirty, and then he opened the bottle to take out the eye drops, which is how he accidentally left his fingerprints on it.

“I crashed the car again, then drove to Xinqiao and randomly found a repair shop to fix it. Then I went back and told my wife that I had accidentally crashed it.”

"She didn't think much of it. That day, I inquired about Xianghong Village and learned that the child I hit and killed was named Wu Jiawang, and had a blind grandfather."

“I didn’t sleep at all for those two days. All I could think about was what would happen if I got caught, I was doomed, I was going to die, I was going to jail. I even started hallucinating. When I went to the bathroom, I felt like there was someone standing behind the curtain.”

“And my son, I clearly heard him call me, but when I went over, he said he didn’t call me.”

"At that time, I was really on the verge of a breakdown."

Chen Chao didn't say anything, he just watched quietly.

He could tell from Gao Jinrui's tone that he was describing something that made him feel very distraught, so he must have felt even more distraught at that moment.

Seeing Gao Jinrui pause, Chen Chao thought for a moment, took out a cigarette case, and asked Gao Jinrui if he wanted some.

Gao Jinrui shook his head, indicating that he did not know how.

But then he changed his mind and asked for one.

Chen Chao lit it for him.

Smoke swirled around his face as he coughed violently, then said, "I only found out by chance that the eye drops weren't hers when I asked my wife."

"At that moment, I realized that it was the child's eye drops, which he bought for his grandfather. It must have fallen out when I put him in the back seat."

"I was terrified at the time, and I took the eye drops while the car was being transferred."

"I threw it into the green belt as soon as I came out of the vehicle management office."

"But I had a nightmare that night. In the dream, the child was tugging at my trouser leg and saying to me, 'Eye drops, eye drops.'"

“At that time, I felt sorry for the child. I don’t know what I was thinking, but I thought that if I returned the eye drops to his grandfather, maybe he would stop bothering me.”

"So I went to the vehicle management office again, and I actually found the bottle of eye drops. It was perfectly fine; it wasn't lost."

"Then I thought about how to return it to his grandfather. I went to his house several times, but I didn't dare to. At that time, the police often came to find him, and he would often cry and make a fuss."

"It's been about half a month now. That bottle of eye drops has been on me the whole time, and I keep having nightmares about that child yelling at me for eye drops."

“I couldn’t stand it anymore, so one night I secretly went there. I figured he was blind, so he couldn’t see me anyway.”

“I was thinking of putting it by his grandfather’s bedside, but for some reason, the old man suddenly woke up and shouted at me. I was terrified and quickly backed out.”

"I put the eye drops in the child's room on the east side, and then ran away quickly."

(End of this chapter)