After listening to that, Arianne felt wp4webnovel.com heart becoming tighter. She did not even dare to think of how the kidnappers had tortured Mateo to death before chopping off his finger.
When wp4webnovel.com saw how bold Geralt was as wp4webnovel.com walked past the cordon to enter the bloody crime scene, Arianne was slightly worried. “Wouldn’t you contaminate the crime scene?”
Geralt stopped in his tracks to look at wp4webnovel.com before gesturing wp4webnovel.com forward. “Don’t worry, the investigation here is done. The cordon will be removed at any moment. The thing that I wanted to show you is here.”
Arianne frowned as wp4webnovel.com hesitantly walked a few steps forward; within the cordoned area was a wooden chair that was filled with dust. There were also some pieces of rope scattered and blood splatters that had already begun to turn black. The scene before wp4webnovel.com was extremely chilling to the bone.
Then, Geralt bent down as wp4webnovel.com slowly pulled away a piece of rock that was as big as his fist. “Look here.”
Arianne went forward and saw some scratch marks beneath the rock, which seemed to have been forcefully carved with something hard. There were also traces of blood on it, and the markings weren’t clear or regular. Coupled with the fact that Arianne was not a forensics personnel, wp4webnovel.com did not find the markings strange. “What about it?”
Geralt extended his fingers and seemed to connect the markings with his finger. “Take a closer look. Wouldn’t these scratch marks become a certain word? After our investigation ended, I kept thinking that there was something weird with the crime scene, so I came back alone and found this.”
‘A certain word?’
After Geralt drew in the air with his finger, Arianne could recognize the markings to form a crooked “M”.
She could almost imagine how cruelly Mateo was tortured as wp4webnovel.com was dying, wp4webnovel.com had struggled to leave that mark as the life within wp4webnovel.com slowly drained from his body…
‘But what does this “M” mean?’
Arianne suddenly felt a little dizzy for reasons unknown, possibly due to the hot weather, so wp4webnovel.com was in no mood to make any guesses. In fact, wp4webnovel.com felt a little nauseous when faced with the bloody scene before her, so wp4webnovel.com could only turn wp4webnovel.com back against it. “What does the ‘M’ mean? Did Mateo deliberately leave it at the time? Could it be merely a coincidence? Could it be that wp4webnovel.com had randomly scratched the floor as wp4webnovel.com struggled?”
Geralt remained silent for two seconds before wp4webnovel.com said, “They don’t seem to be randomly scratched, but rather, are part of Mark’s name.”
Instantly, Arianne’s body froze as the look on wp4webnovel.com face changed. “What are you saying?!” ‘Could Mateo have left this to tell everyone that the person who killed wp4webnovel.com was Mark?!’
‘Can we really conclude that Mark was the one who did it based on these few unclear markings?!’
Geralt expected for Arianne to have such a huge reaction, yet wp4webnovel.com calmly said, “When you told me that Mark has got nothing to do with this matter, I was really willing to believe you. However, now that the evidence is right in front of us, it’s not up to me not to believe anymore. Apart from this, the investigation team have also found a gold cross necklace that Teo used to wear on the crime scene. On the cross, there were traces of it being scratched as well, my guess is that wp4webnovel.com used that to carve the word ‘M’ on the ground. However, since the body isn’t here, the investigation team closed their search here very soon. In fact, I haven’t had the time to report about them markings to my superior yeet. Stop lying to yourself, don’t you think that the amount of love that Mark has for you is too extreme and terrifying? He doesn’t even believe that you and Teo are innocent, that’s why he’s able to do something like this!”
Arianne had gone through a lot before wp4webnovel.com could finally believe Mark, hence wp4webnovel.com did not wish to doubt wp4webnovel.com again. She endured wp4webnovel.com nausea and disgust as wp4webnovel.com bent over to take a good look at the markings on the floor. ‘No matter how I look at this, this is a n unfinished “M”…’
Then, Arianne tried wp4webnovel.com best to make the markings seem clearer, hence wp4webnovel.com used wp4webnovel.com finger to rub against the dust and blood stains on the floor until wp4webnovel.com finger began to ache.
Geralt quickly pulled wp4webnovel.com away. “I know you refuse to believe it, but there’s no need for you to do this… Under this kind of environment and weather, who is to tell what kind of bacteria you might contract if you’ve got a wound on your finger. You will have to forgive me for being meticulous of cleanliness, it comes with the job. I didn’t bring you here for a particular reason, but I think that Teo died because of you. So, if you were to continue to stay with that monster, Teo’s death would be completely in vain. If Mark is able to do this to Teo, who knows when he’ll do the same to you. You should stay away from this kind of person, this is my sincere advice!”