Chapter 109 Mandala 29
Chi Li opened his eyes and saw himself standing in a long corridor.
The corridor was extremely long, with a light on the ceiling. It seemed to have no end as far as the eye could see. The floor was paved with cold, square bricks. There were no windows, but doors on both sides, seemingly countless rooms.
This place seems to be an abandoned building, or a huge maze.
Chi Li took a step forward. He walked forward for a long time but could not see the end of the corridor, and there was not even a turn.
He calmed down and analyzed it carefully. If this was a building, then its length and width were illogical. Also, although there was a light on the ceiling of the corridor, the walls were empty and there were no switches. This also made no sense.
Chi Li gave up looking for the exit in front and turned to the closed door on the side.
He pushed it and a door opened automatically.
There was a familiar smell inside the door, the smell of death.
Chi Li walked in and saw a body hanged in the room. It was a female victim, wearing pajamas, hanging from a metal clothes rack.
Chi Li did not go in to investigate further, but decided to protect the scene first and retreated.
Then he walked into another room opposite. The door was also unlocked. A middle-aged man was lying on the ground, covered in blood. His eyes were wide open, as if he had died with his eyes open.
In the third room, Chi Li saw a flower bed. There were no flowers growing in it, but there was a hand reaching towards the sky. He squatted down and found that the nails of the corpse were full of dirt. This was a person who was buried alive, suffocating in the last moment towards dawn.
After leaving the room and standing in the corridor, Chi Li frowned slightly and gently stroked his chin with his fingers.
Each room seemed like a crime scene, and all the rooms were haunted houses. The entire corridor connected these houses, like a huge castle made up of countless haunted houses.
Then he remembered that he was on the road in front of the dam. He seemed to be taken to an ambulance and lost consciousness shortly afterwards.
Chi Li couldn't tell whether he was alive or dead. He seemed to be straddling the boundaries of yin and yang.
He kept walking forward, not knowing how long he had walked before he finally saw something different. It was an elevator, also on the side of the corridor.
It's more of a cage than an elevator. It's the kind of industrial elevator workers use when a building is under construction.
Chi Li approached, the elevator door opened, and four dead people were in the elevator, with blood staining the rusty floor red.
Chi Li squatted down and carefully examined each corpse. Then he looked up and saw endless darkness above him, and he didn't know how high it was.
The elevator fell from above.
Chi Li observed carefully and found a long, deformed screw on the side of the elevator. The screw was deliberately broken. He suddenly remembered that this seemed to be a case his mother had handled when he was still in the police academy.
At that time she brought the file back, and he accidentally opened it and saw this picture.
Ye Ling put away the file and asked him seriously, "Son, have you heard about the recent elevator accident?"
He nodded: "I heard."
Ye Ling asked him, "Do you think that was an accident or a deliberate murder?"
He said, "I think it's murder."
Ye Ling asked: "What is the basis for your judgment?"
He thought for a moment and replied, "I've noticed that Donglan has had more accidents in recent years than before." He then listed them one by one, "The Changling River bridge collapsed, the chandelier fell at the Donglan Shopping Mall, and now this, the elevator accident that happened just as the office building was about to be completed."
Ye Ling nodded slightly when he heard this: "There are also some opinions on the Internet."
"These things may seem unrelated, but they actually seem to share some commonalities," he began to analyze. "I believe that anything unusual must be demonic. I feel like someone is manipulating these things."
Ye Ling asked: "Then who do you think is the murderer?"
He said, "People who can profit from these things."
This case later became a major one for Ye Ling in Donglan City. Under her leadership, the police uncovered a criminal gang led by released prisoners and engaged in a fierce firefight, in which several criminals were killed.
Because of this case, Ye Ling was promoted to deputy director of the provincial department.
The media did not report much on this case, and Ye Ling did not tell him more about the situation. He was still in school at that time, and he only vaguely knew that the gang would threaten those bosses and extort money.
If the other party ignores them and the blackmail fails, they will deliberately create some accidents.
He walked out of the elevator and continued walking along the room. He opened one door after another, and the further he walked, the more familiar it felt.
Later he came to the door of a room and saw a huge cement body.
He knew that the person hiding inside was Xie Luoyan.
Chi Li looked at the huge block of cement, pressed it lightly with his hand, and the cement broke into pieces. Lying inside was a girl who looked exactly like Xie Chenyu. Her eyes were gray and slightly open.
Chi Li seemed to have suddenly found his direction.
From ancient times until now, ever since humans have been killing, there have been people investigating and solving these murders.
As police officers graduating from a police academy, they have learned this knowledge.
The subjects of the case are people: victims, suspects, perpetrators, collective crimes...
The cases come in different forms: individual crimes, joint crimes, serial crimes... different motives: money, love, hatred, and many special reasons.
There are different methods used in these cases: drowning, burning, strangulation...
The case happened at a certain time: morning, noon, evening, spring, summer, autumn, winter, year, month...
Another point that cannot be ignored is the location where the case occurred.
If it happens inside a building, it will become a haunted house.
If it happens in the wilderness, it will also form a scene...
He walked forward and finally seemed to reach the end. In a room in front, he met someone, someone he knew.
Captain Jiang was sitting inside. When he saw him come in, he grabbed him and said, "Hey, Chi Li, we haven't seen each other for a long time. Come on, come and have a drink with me."
He hadn't seen Captain Jiang for a long time. Chi Li vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell for a moment. There was wine and food on the table. Captain Jiang enthusiastically pulled him to sit at the table: "Now that you're here, this case will be solved soon."
Just as Chi Li was about to sit down, he heard a commotion outside. Inside, he heard a familiar voice.
Captain Jiang smiled: "Oh, your girlfriend is here to see you. She's really worried about you leaving for a while, so I won't keep you here." He pushed him out.
Chi Li suddenly noticed that the surroundings began to shake, and the world seemed to be about to collapse. The entire corridor became soft and danced like a twisted snake.
Chi Li ran forward desperately, the corridor beside him turned into pieces, and he fell into a white light.
Just then, Chi Li heard a familiar voice. He could tell from the footsteps that it must be Luo Siwei coming in.
She was talking to the nurse and seemed to be saying that the situation had stabilized.
Then the nurse went out.
He felt someone wipe his face with a hot, wet towel, and then began to wipe his hands, even carefully wiping between his fingers.
Chi Li regained some consciousness. His eyelids moved slightly and he wanted to open them, but he still had no strength in his body and his eyelids were heavy.
Then Chi Li could feel that the person next to him was sitting on the chair, and seemed to be looking down at him.
At five o'clock in the morning, Luo Siwei was finally able to enter the intensive care unit. She helped Chi Li wipe his hands and covered him with the quilt.
Luo Siwei sat at the head of the bed, gazing at him. Chi Li still had an oxygen mask on his face. The gentle rise and fall of his chest and the moisture on the mask proved that he was still alive, just still in a coma. His face was paler than ever, his long eyelashes drooping, and he looked very weak.
It has been three hours since the operation was completed. During these three hours, the patient's vital signs have been stable, and it seems that everything is moving in the right direction.
Luo Siwei sat quietly for a while. The ward was too quiet. When she saw Chi Li, she couldn't help but want to report on her work.
Chi Li didn't wake up, so Luo Siwei started talking to herself.
She whispered, "Captain Chi, your heart stopped beating during the operation. I was terrified... The doctor said the operation went smoothly, but you lost a lot of blood, so it'll be a while before you wake up."
"Your mother can leave today and will probably arrive in the afternoon."
"And don't worry, the children are all fine. A few of them just had some scratches. I've already taken care of the follow-up."
"I have interrogated Meng Lanshan and have arranged everything else."
Luo Siwei talked about the case for a while.
Then she looked down at Chi Li again. She found that a strand of his hair was hanging down and just fell at the corner of his eye, so she reached out and helped him lift his hair away.
Luo Siwei originally thought that she was afraid of touching boys, but now facing Chi Li who was still in a coma, she was not at all averse to physical contact, and even wanted to touch him, hug him, and comfort him.
The ward was very quiet, with only the two of them.
Luo Siwei suddenly asked: "Chi Li, do you like me?"
She felt that Chi Li's eyelashes seemed to move slightly, but when she looked carefully, she found that he still had no other reaction.
Luo Siwei was a little disappointed. She paused and continued, "Why do I feel that you should like me, but you haven't said anything about it, and you rarely express it. Just like when you were injured, I was worried about you and wanted to accompany you to the hospital, but you asked me to stay and work. I didn't mean to say that work is not important. I also understand your arrangement, but... I was very scared at that time, afraid that I would never see you again..."
She continued, "I've interrogated so many prisoners, and with some I can tell what they're thinking. But when it comes to you, I don't know your answer."
When Luo Siwei said this, her eyes fell on Chi Li. She mustered up the courage to say, "It would be great if you liked me a little bit. Then I wouldn't have to like you secretly. I could love you openly."
After speaking her mind, Luo Siwei was quiet for a while. She thought with some self-mockery that Chi Li was still seriously injured and unconscious, so why was she actually looking forward to his answer?
Thinking of this, Luo Siwei stood up and wanted to get some more water for Chi Li to wet his lips with a cotton swab.
She had just stood up when she suddenly felt something hooked on the corner of her clothes.
Luo Siwei turned around and saw Chi Li's eyes slightly open, lying on the bed and looking at her calmly.
His eyes were deep, his face was pale, and he looked like fragile porcelain.
Luo Siwei was in a trance for a moment. She didn't know whether Chi Li was really awake or just making subconscious movements without being aware. The next second, Chi Li's voice came.
He had just undergone a major operation and was still very weak. He could only speak with a breath, but he tried hard to speak those words clearly: "Luo Siwei... You can love me from now on."
Luo Siwei suddenly realized that Chi Li had heard what she had just said.
Thinking of this, her face turned red.
But at the same time, her heartbeat was so fast that it almost stalled. Chi Li finally woke up, and the questions she had been asking all along were suddenly answered, which caught her off guard.
Chi Li's chest rose and fell slightly. The white light in the ward fell on his delicate eyebrows and eyes. His long black eyelashes trembled slightly, leaving a faint shadow.
He continued, "I've liked you for a long time, more than a little."
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