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John grabbed onto the bush and moved down. He had just slipped on pine needles, and it still made him feel frightened, so he walked slowly.
He thought, “After catching Holt, I’ll beat hit to teach him a lesson. Otherwise, he will really think he can offend Mr. Whitaker without paying a price.
Just then, a female voice sounded behind Dexter. “Excuse me. My earphones fell here.”
Dexter turned around and saw Aurora standing behind the bushes. He looked in the direction that she was pointing and noticed the wired earphones on the ground. The nearby grass had signs of being crushed.
He realized that she hadn’t told him the truth just now.
In an instant, he became suspicious of Aurora.
Dexter thought, Tve seen her three times in one morning. How could such a coincidence happen? Could she have been sent by someone to follow me?‘
“Here you are.” Dexter picked up the earphones and placed them in Aurora’s hand. He glanced at her, trying to find any flaws from her.
Aurora took the earphones and thanked him calmly.
She had only walked for a while when she realized that her earphones were missing. Recalling that she had listened to songs on the way here, she guessed that her earphones were most likely left on the ground where she had just rested.
Thinking of the two suspicious men, Aurora hadn’t planned to go back. But then she thought they were here to look for someone and they wouldn’t stay in one place for long. She thought they might have left.
However, she guessed wrong.
A minute ago, Aurora came back and found that Dexter was still there. She wanted to leave, but she had already come. If she had accidentally made a noise, he would have noticed her and suspected her.
After weighing the pros and cons, Aurora chose to state her purpose.
John, who had finally gotten down the
slope, didn’t know that Aurora had turned back.
However, when he saw the scene below the slope, his expression froze.
Holt lay in the valley below lifelessly with an ashen face. The dew on the vines that were hanging down from the valley fell on him, and his clothes were mostly soaked.
Holt was dead. He died right in the valley, just three feet away from John.
John opened his eyes wide with shock. He wondered, ‘Who could count time so accurately and kill Holt before Mr. Whitaker and I came?’
“Mr. Whitaker, he’s dead!” John looked up and shouted to Dexter above.
As he shouted, he climbed up along the same path he came from wanting to talk to Dexter in person.
As a result, when he climbed up, he saw Aurora
John was stunned, thinking, “Why is she here?”
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John reacted quickly, pretending to be panicked, and rushed behind Dexter. He grabbed Dexter’s arm tightly and said incoherently. “There… Someone is dead. There’s a corpse down the valley,”
What? Aurora was startled, having a bad feeling in an instant.
Dexter was close to the valley, so he jumped down the slope firsand leaned over to take a look.
After seeing the corpse, he was stunned. He thought, ‘How can Holt who called me last night to confirm the meeting time actually died now?
I haven’t learned the whereabouts of my aunt from him yet. How could he die?
“It took my family more than ten years to find Holt, but now, he dead, and all the clues are broken. How can I report to my family?
Aurora hurriedly followed Dexter and jumped down the slope. After confirming that there was a corpse, she felt terrible. Recalling that she had just sat there for a while, she felt a chill suddenly spreading all over her.
Dexter looked livid and increasingly suspected the person who caused his aunt’s disappearance.
Holt died in Bradley Mountain, which meant that he did keep the appointment, but someone killed him before Dexter arrived.
It happened just before he came. Dexter thought, ‘Is the person behind the scenes so well–informed, or is there a traitor around me?
Thinking of this, Dexter squinted. Seeing that Aurora was standing aside, he suppressed his fluctuating emotions.
He began to recall all the people he had met on the way up Bradley Mountain, trying to figure out the potential murderer. However, in the end, he found that no one was suspicious.
Dexter racked his brains to figure out who killed Holt.
Aurora, standing beside Dexter, was not feeling so complicated because she had no idea that the dead man knew the whereabouts of her mother.
The man was about fifty or sixty years old. There were no external injuries, but his neck was bent into an incredible arc, and there were bloodstains at his mouth.
Aurora deduced that the man was strangled to death.
“I’ll call the police.” She took out her mobile phone.
Learning that a murder had occurred in Bradley Mountain, police arrived in less than fifteen minutes and put up a cordon,
Please come with us to the police station to take a record. A policeman “You three are the ones who found the body, righ with a chiseled face made a gesture, and the three of them got into the police car.
In the car, the policeman asked who called the police.
Aurora raised her hand and told the whole process of finding the body and calling the police.
When they arrived at the police station, the police separated the three of them and took them to take a record.
In the dim interrogation room, Aurora sat at a small table. A man and a woman were opposite her. The surveillance camera in the corner was flashing red lights.
Behind Aurora, separated by a wall, several people looked at her
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Seeing Aurora lower her head silently, the policewoman though she was afraid. After a moment’s hesitation, she started asking kindly. “You look young. You should be in high school, right? Which high school are you in? My brother is also a high school student.”
Aurora looked up. She was calm, not as flustered as the policewoman had expected, “Mereida High School I’m Aurora
Crawford
She was just recalling Dexter’s expression when he saw the body Judging from his expression, it seemned that Dexter knew that dead man.
Aurora glanced at the dead man’s clothes and found that the total value of his clothes was no tnore than two hundred
dollars.
However, the two men who had asked her for directions both wore custom–made suits. The man, who had been called “Mr. Whitaker“, wore two expensive sleeve holders, the latest model of Sleeve
Aurora knew this brand through Margaret.
A few days ago, it was Margaret’s father’s birthday, and Margaret gave him a pair of sleeve holders as a birthday gift. It cost more than 70 thousand dollars.
Except for the color, the sleeve holders Dexter wore were exactly the same as the pair Margaret bought.
Considering what Dexter had said to her, Aurora thought the dead man was most likely Holt.
How could Holt, whose clothes were worth less than 200 dollars, be a guide for a man whose sleeve holders were worth more than 70 thousand dollars?
Aurora’s intuition told her that there must be something unspeakable between them.
Seeing that Aurora was not afraid, the policewoman praised her and started asking, “Ms. Crawford, what are you doing at Bradley Mountain?”
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