Fractured Hues of a Winter's Night Chapter 31

The mountain road was slippery and sticky, with many trees and bushes. The policemen who went up the mountain dragged each other, looking for footholds and climbing up the tree trunks. After passing the slope, there was a relatively flat open area in front, which was also the place where the body pit was found.

Theo Hammond declined Lu Mingyu's offer to help him several times, and climbed to the halfway point of the mountain by himself with the help of Lu Mingyu's umbrella.

The pit of corpses was discovered in a dramatic way. Heavy rain destroyed the surface of the soil, resulting in an oblique cut on the hillside. Passersby passing by the mountain road found a body embedded in the soil. The first to arrive at the scene were police officers from the police station. After they had controlled the scene, they notified the Criminal Investigation Brigade for support.

After the rain, the sky cleared up. The sunlight was repeatedly refracted by the water mist in the air, making it brighter than the sky before the rain. However, no matter how bright the sunlight was, it could not cover up the stale stench emanating from the corpses that had been decaying for years.

The police officers of the investigation team took photos and collected evidence at the scene. However, when Theo Hammond saw the bodies lifted from the pit, he had a premonition that the investigation team's evidence collection was in vain. The bodies were no longer "fresh", and the traces of the burial had long been obliterated by time and thrown into the historical relics that had passed away.