Chapter 3: Sun Necklace(1/2)
In April, all things are revived and the earth is rejuvenated.
The cherry blossom area, one of the twelve districts of Canglan City, is now in full bloom.
As the night approaches, pink petals float under the street lights.
Buzz!
On the highway, a concrete tanker whizzed by, and the fierce wind frightened Li Can and moved several steps towards the flower bed.
The soles of the feet are soft.
"Ouch!"
The scream exploded in his ears, and Li Can turned his head suddenly, just facing a slightly fat girl with an angry face and glasses.
The air seemed to be still at this moment.
Seeing that Li Can's eyes were strange, the fat girl did not dare to stay for a long time. After saying "I'm sick", she quickly left the place.
Watching the slightly fat girl leave, Li Can's pupils suddenly shrink, and he saw that the direction of the other party leaving was the remote old street.
Familiar strange face...
A familiar one-way street...
Familiar environment...
"What's going on? Why am I here again? Even what happened is exactly the same! Did I go through what is about to happen in advance, or did time go backwards?"
No answer.
Li Can had goose bumps all over his body, and the unprecedented strange feeling made him sweat. In just a moment, his clothes behind him were completely wet.
"tear.."
The burning stinging pain came from the chest, and he quickly pulled open his collar and pulled out the necklace he was wearing close to his body.
The necklace consists of an ordinary red rope and a pendant made of unknown material and looks like the "sun".
“So hot.”
I looked at the sun pendant in surprise. The high temperature on it was as if it had been burned by a fire and was difficult to touch.
This necklace originally belonged to his father Li Haotian, but on the day of the car accident, Li Haotian gave the necklace to himself on a whim.
Later, in order to miss his parents, I always wear them close to my body and never leave them.
Is it because of the necklace?
Li Can temporarily suppressed his doubts. Now he cares about another thing most...
There is a murder case in the "Kitchen Next Door" deep in the old street. The deceased is a young woman in a white dress!
The murderer...is a burly and fierce restaurant chef.
He took out his cell phone, unlocked the screen, and was about to call the alarm, Li Can suddenly hesitated.
"If the murder case is true, how can I explain the process of discovering it? After all, the body is hidden in the kitchen cabinet and it is difficult for outsiders to detect it."
"Brain by chance?"
"No, the time point does not match, and it is not logical."
"Besides...what if the murder case does not exist at all?"
"But if I told you truthfully, will the police believe it? Surely I won't believe it, even I don't believe it!"
Click.
Li Can locked the screen and put the phone back into her pocket.
"Whether it is to understand the mystery that appears in itself or to reveal the case of hiding the corpse, I must go back and confirm that the middle-aged man really exists, and everything about to happen must match the previous one!"
Li Can has always been decisive and has made up his mind to act immediately.
He first hid his heavy luggage in the flower bed to relieve the burden, and then quickly trotted into the old street.
The bloated aunt "had another bucket of dirty water to pour water. When she returned, she slipped under her feet and leaned back.
Li Can was prepared for it and grabbed the former's wrist to help him stabilize the center of gravity.
The flowing movements shocked many passers-by, and everyone's eyes were bright and they praised them secretly.
"Young man, thank you." The aunt said gratefully.
Li Can waved his hand and said nothing, and continued to move forward.
…
"When will you use this soup? The noodles cooked are no longer strong!"
"Sorry, brother, I'm a little businessman, I'm considerate."
“That’s not what business does…”
…
"Boss, two more guests came, but the dumplings were used up, what should I do?"
"Go and bring that plate yesterday...ahem...that."
"Oh, I understand."
…
While rushing to the road, Li Can confirmed what he saw and heard with his previous experiences.
“It doesn’t exactly match, but it’s reasonable.
Because I was looking for food before, I moved forward much slower than now.
In other words, everything I see now is ahead of schedule.”
Li Can glanced at the time on his phone.
22:25.
"If you remember correctly, the first time you passed by the barbecue restaurant was around 22:30, and the final death time was about 22:45, with no more than 5 minutes difference.
"At my current speed and location, it takes 5 or 6 minutes to get to the "Kitchen Next Door" at the end of the street. If you speed up, the time will be advanced.
By doing this, I looked almost 15 minutes earlier than the first time.”
The closer to the kitchen next door, the faster Li Can's heart beats, and he even occasionally needs to open his mouth to breathe.
No one can remain calm in such a weird and cunning situation.
"Damn it, buy a knife to defend yourself first."
When passing by the hardware store, Li Can pierced in without thinking. Then, in the store owner's gaze, he picked a 20-yuan inferior kitchen knife and left.
The back was quite determined...
Three minutes later, the sign of the kitchen next door appeared in sight.
Li Can took a deep breath and walked to the sidewalk tree opposite the restaurant with a kitchen knife in his hand.
The reason why I didn't enter the restaurant as soon as possible was mainly because I wanted to keep a safe distance and observe the situation of the restaurant, especially the middle-aged man.
Normal people... don't have a strange tail!
However, when he saw the figure sitting at the restaurant door playing with his cell phone, Li Can was furious and the cold air rushed to the sky.
It was the woman in a white dress.
"Damn!"
Li Can's body was trembling and his eyes twitched wildly.
Since I saw a woman dying with her eyes open in advance, when I saw her appearing alive, I subconsciously thought she had hit a ghost!
"It seems that I did come early, so the next few minutes are the key."
Li Can breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down again to continue observing.
A woman should be around twenty-five years old, with long curly hair, tall figure, fair skin and beautiful appearance, and mature temperament.
"It's hard to imagine that she would be brutally killed when she is so beautiful."
Li Can touched the kitchen knife hidden around his waist.
He is struggling...
Trouble about how to make a decision later.
Wait for the murder case to happen and then call the police as an eyewitness?
Or ignore it and draw your sword to help?
The former will not endanger one's own life.
And the latter...is hard to say!
A minute later, the woman stood up from her seat, and picked up the broom and mop in the corner of the restaurant and started cleaning.
To be continued...