When a snail falls in love | Liskook

Chapter 78

As they neared the mountains, the temperature began to drop. Thin layers of snow could be seen blanketing the top of every mountain in the dim evening skyline as the air in the forest became much thicker. The weather was freezing cold, and the horizon was out of sight.

Jungkook made an emergency brake and stopped his car at the three-way fork on the road. Da Hu immediately hopped out, but after looking at the traces on the ground, he just kept quiet.

This was the main road leading up to the mountains and due to the high volume of traffic, the tire marks on the snow were unreadable, it was impossible to distinguish them. However, if they were to blindly move forward, they would enter the vast forest that stretched thousands of kilometers. As the mountain paths constantly intertwined, and most of them were not under surveillance, Chanyeol could have very well brought Lisa down any one of the routes.

On top of that, even if Jungkook had the manpower to sweep the whole mountain, it would still take a couple of days to do so. Furthermore, the reinforcements were still on their way here.

Da Hu got back into the car and looked at Jungkook's slightly reddened eyes. Even though the current situation seemed hopeless, he could not just stay put, so he popped the extremely tough question and asked Jungkook, "Captain, where do we go from here?"

Jungkook gazed at the dark mountains, his hands gripping onto the steering wheel to the point where the blood could not properly circulate.

As they continued to lose precious seconds, his heart seemed to sink deeper and deeper into a pit of despair. Besides this, he feared that he would never be able to hold her hands and be with her again; the mere thought of it caused him unimaginable pain.

However, he quickly dispelled the thoughts, choosing not to let it infect his head and torment him soundlessly. Instead, he only had one thing on his mind right now, which was to find her.

That being said, there were neither tracks for them to follow, nor any logical deductions for them to act on. Jungkook could deduce a killer's characteristics from just a footprint, but now he had to search for a needle in a haystack in order to get them out of this crisis.

Right then, Da Hu interrupted his thoughts by asking slowly, "Should we go to Chanyeol's villa in the mountain? That's his anchor point, perhaps they'll be there..."

Jungkook did not reply.

He suddenly recalled something that Lisa had said in the past.

It was not long after Sehun's case was closed, when Lisa was on leave nursing her body at home. When Jungkook returned home from work, he saw her sitting on the couch, and on the wall opposite of her were photos of Chanyeol and Rosé.

Upon hearing him come in, Lisa asked calmly. "In your opinion, how does Chanyeol actually feel about Rosé?"

What kind of relationship was it?

Love fused with hate? They had to remember that Chanyeol's fiance was killed by Baekhyun, and Rosé was Baekhyun's ex-lover, so it was still possible that revenge was very much his motive, but he just had not made his move yet.

It could also be that he felt nothing toward her at all and that the relationship between Rosé and Baekhyun was the only factor which made her his final target.

Lisa shook her head when he suggested these, "That's not it, Third Brother." She removed a photo from the wall and passed it to him. In the photo, a man and woman hugged each other under the night sky, looking for intimate and very much in love.

"You can't use normal logic to decipher the thoughts of a psychopath." She said very seriously, "Things like love and hatred that normal people see as important might mean absolutely nothing to him—psychopathic killers like him rarely ever kill for 'hatred'. His world is far more quiet, clear, and resolute than what normal people can imagine. In his world, the rules and standards are different - he commits crimes because he needs to."