boyutpedia Chapter 414 The Wind Rises and the Red Rain Falls
Chapter 414 The Wind Rises and the Red Rain Falls
As the shadows fell, the man sensed someone approaching and curled up even tighter, his entire body radiating fear and resistance.
"Don't come any closer, I...I don't know, it's all fake, fake, I didn't see anything."
Lin Lezhi tried her best to make her voice sound gentle as she reassured her, "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you. I just want to ask you what you just saw?"
Lin Lezhi's question seemed to remind the man of that horrifying scene again. He hugged himself tighter, trembling like a leaf, and shook his head, saying, "I don't know, I didn't see anything, don't ask me."
Lin Lezhi knew the man was haunted by the horrifying scene. He didn't urge him, but slowly said, "I know you saw something terrifying, but you were also the only one who witnessed the whole thing. What you saw might be the key to finding the truth. Only by unraveling the mystery surrounding the dead and finding the truth can everyone on the ship escape fear and be spared harm."
Upon hearing this, the man, whose body was trembling, paused for a moment. After hesitating for a moment, he slowly raised his head, his eyes filled with terror, but he still spoke stiffly: "Find the truth, you mean... he... was murdered?"
"Although we haven't seen the body yet, if he wanted to commit suicide, and he was determined to die, why would he go through all this trouble? There's a river right here; he could have just jumped in. There's no need for him to be so covered up, afraid that someone would see his face. So, someone must have ill intentions and did this intentionally to try to cover something up."
"If it was suicide, the fact that it caused such a sensation and that he chose to die in such a painful way suggests that he might have wanted to convey a message to us."
The man regained some composure and clarity in his eyes after hearing Lin Lezhi's words, and slowly said in a low voice, "Then I still hope there is no murderer."
A slight smile appeared on Lin Lezhi's lips as she nodded.
After calming down for a while, the man slowly spoke, "Actually... I didn't see everything. When I did see it," he said, touching his stomach with horror in his eyes, "his body was already wrapped up in this position. I was arranging the pastries at the time..."
As always, he would arrive at Ting Market early every day before dawn to arrange the prepared pastries.
The same applies to other business people in Ting City.
As he was setting it up, a gust of wind suddenly made him feel a dampness on his face. The bamboo curtain had been rolled up more than halfway. He wiped his face with his hand, looked at the sky outside, and wondered if it was going to rain.
He didn't pay attention and continued to fiddle with the pastries on the table, but when he looked down, he found some red spots on the pastries and the table.
At first, he didn't think too much about it and even laughed and said, "Is it going to rain blood?"
Then wipe the red spots off the table with a cloth. The red color spread across the cloth after wiping the red spots.
Put down the cloth.
A patch of red also appeared where the cloth was gripped.
That's when he realized something was wrong.
How could it possibly rain red blood?
He trembled as he examined his palms, noticing red stains on his fingers where he had touched his face, and a faint smell of rust.
Then another gust of wind swept across the river, and a few more red dots landed on the stall and on his face. He stiffly raised his head and looked in the direction where the red dots had landed.
A person was hanging above the bamboo curtain.
His eyes were wide open, filled with terrifying bloodshot veins, as he stared intently at his stall. His body was twisted grotesquely from the pressure, making him look extremely frightening.