"So, Li Jiu acted so agitated back then because he was ashamed to let people know about his secret?"
Gao Liang's face showed neither belief nor disbelief. He was simply thinking.
If he adopted a skeptical attitude, then according to Old Man Li, Li Jiu had been framed...
"Captain Gao, may I ask why you wanted to open Li Jiu's room back then?" Luo Qiu suddenly asked.
"The smell." Gao Liang answered instinctively. "A smell like the stench of a corpse."
"The smell?" Luo Qiu thought for a moment. "A foul odor... Corpse Oil?"
"Yes, yes, exactly! It was the smell of that bottle of Corpse Oil!" Gao Liang nodded. "But it wasn't actually Corpse Oil. After testing, it should have been extracted from an animal. As for that, Li Jiu may have been tricked by a dealer."
Zi Ling's Mother and Lizi looked at each other in silence... Because of his congenital defect, Old Man Li had probably truly gone mad. He had even been willing to try such a vicious so-called folk remedy as Corpse Oil.
Gao Liang shook his head. "For now, Li Jiu's statement still needs to be verified. But judging from the evidence available, a sick person who would smear Corpse Oil over his body in the hope of curing himself would be more likely to collect human-eye specimens. Perhaps, as Li Jiu said, he really was born with a congenital defect. In that case, the human-eye specimens could also have been one of the folk-remedy materials he found for himself."
Luo Qiu smiled calmly. "Captain Gao, I agree with that view."
Zi Ling's Mother opened her mouth, but said nothing... She knew her own son well—if this matter had not involved Old Man Li, she probably would have thought the same thing, too.
But