Rebirth

Rebirth

"Boss, this club really exists! 'Somnusclub' originally appeared on the Tieba forum, but it was later blocked because too many gory images were uploaded to it. So, this group of people switched to a QQ group and shared their experiences. I've even found some chat logs from the group and sent them to your phone, along with the club's logo."

"good."

The photo sent by Bai Shuo showed the pattern more clearly. The italic letters and the green rose vines were intertwined, wrapping around the arm like a poisonous snake.

"That's it." Jiang Li asked, "What case are you investigating?"

Chen An hesitated for a moment and decided to tell him, "Well, Zheng Tong is dead, did you know that?"

"Zheng Tong?" Jiang Li recalled, "Oh~ That's the woman who asked for your WeChat."

Chen An hesitated to speak, and took out his cell phone to show him the news. He read the news of just a few hundred words for ten minutes. After reading it, he still felt unbelievable. In the second half of the night of the same day, a person who had argued with them and passed the checkpoint died.

"I see it's reported here as an accident. After all these days, the truth still hasn't been revealed?"

Chen An shook his head. "Team Two is handling this case, but we've discovered some suspicious points."

Chen An spent the next ten minutes telling him the general situation. Jiang Li sat in the corridor, sorting out the information he had gathered. "Zheng Tong died from a machine malfunction. The operator at the time was named Anna. They were the real daughter of a wealthy family. Yu Xiaowei knew about this, so after Zheng Tong's death, she suspected Anna had deliberately manipulated the machine to kill her."

"Yes," Chen An said, "Cheng Xiaoxiang investigated Anna's past and discovered that her record before adulthood was completely blank, practically to the point where she didn't exist."

Jiang Li looked up at him and said, "Do you think this looks like kidnapping?"

What he said was exactly what Chen An was thinking. The name Anna appeared suddenly. Before she became an adult, she lived like an illegal resident, with no household registration, no family, and no place to stay, so she couldn't go to school. After she became an adult, she registered her household registration, but it was too late to go to school, so she simply rented a house in the school so that she could attend classes.

Combined with what Jiang Li just said about the OD Club, Anna seems to be their target customer.

Jiang Li stood up and patted his butt, "Let's go find Anna."

"Hey, the people in the ward don't care anymore?"

Jiang Li pulled him over and said, "Hey, he has someone to take care of him, we are not needed. Don't you have to submit the results within three days? Let's go!"

The car drove back and returned to the university town.

The iron gate to the back street was too small for cars to pass through, so we had to park outside. After getting off the car, a large crowd of people poured into the back street. This area not only has houses for rent, but also has many snack shops, and many students come here to buy dinner.

Keep going straight. There is a post station at the end of the road. Chen An said, "We will be there soon after passing the post station."

Finally they stopped in front of an old building. The iron gate downstairs had long been out of service and could be opened by anyone, making the safety factor almost zero.

The narrow and dim corridor was difficult for two 5'8" tall people to walk through. The air here was particularly bad. There was construction not far away, and a lot of sand had been piled up, making the place dusty. Jiang Li covered his nose with his sleeve and jokingly said, "The rent here must be very cheap."

Turning back and coughing twice, Chen An smiled and said, "Not necessarily. It's impossible for school district housing to be cheap."

Room 409 on the third floor, someone knocked on the door hard, the iron door made a loud bang, and a female voice came from inside.

"Who is it?"

The small hole in the lock suddenly opened a small door, very small, but you could reach through it. The girl was looking at the other side of the door. Chen An bent down and showed his ID, "Police."

"Didn't I ask that?"

"There are still some details."

"Oh...wait a minute."

Anna turned around and searched for the key on the table. After a while, she used the key to unlock the door. After unlocking all the locks on the chain, the chain fell off with a tinkling sound.

Seeing it was a new face, she felt a little uneasy and stood still. "Anything else you want to ask?"

Jiang Li looked around the small room, turned around and said, "Wouldn't you like us to sit down?"

"Ah... okay." Anna took out two plastic chairs and put a kettle of water to boil. "Sit down first."

The room was small, and everything was visible at a glance. There was a simple folding bed, a crude wooden wardrobe, and some miscellaneous items piled in the corner. The first thing Chen An noticed was the poetry collection on her bedside table. Unfortunately, it was also "The Bird's Nest."

Anna took some tea leaves and brewed a pot of tea after the water boiled. She then brought the steaming black tea in an ordinary cup to them. "This is the tea cake that Boss Zhu gave us at the celebration banquet. It's black tea. I don't know how it tastes. You guys should try it."

Jiang Li picked up the teacup and took a sip. "It tastes good." Rather than the poetry collection, he was more attracted by the endgame on the table. "Can you play Go?"

The chess paper that was originally spread out on the table was turned over, and before the black and white chess pieces could be put away, Anna smiled awkwardly, "A little."

"I know a little bit, want to play a game?"

So the two of them played chess face to face, with Chen An observing from the side.

Jiang Li chose the white chess piece, so Anna naturally made the first move. She played the chess with ease and made her moves decisively. Jiang Li chatted with her while they played chess.

"Why do you like Go?"

"Because." Anna put all her energy into the chessboard, "It allows me to calm my mind."

"There are so many things in life that make people sad and upset, and make them angry. I play chess just to calm down, even if I'm just playing by myself."

Jiang Li nodded, "Indeed." The white piece fell, instantly eating up one of her black pieces. He said with some regret, "I think if Zheng Tong had a calm mind, she wouldn't have gotten into these troubles."

Anna touched the black piece in the chess box and stared at the young boy. This group of people were all the same, just trying to get information from her, but she thought about it over and over again and still couldn't understand what was wrong with her that made them so suspicious.

A faint smile appeared on her lips. "Zheng Tong and I really don't have much in common. Apart from the two classes when she sat next to me, we hardly ever spoke."

"Really? Can you tell me about the few times you've crossed paths?"

Anna was silent for a while and then told about a rare interaction between her and Zheng Tong.

Judging that the game would last for a while, Chen An walked around the room casually. After a round, he didn't find any problems. When he sat back in the chair, Jiang Li's eyes were sharp and he looked quite aggressive.

"What does it have to do with me that Peng Yue is her boyfriend? I'm not familiar with Zheng Tong. I've only met Yu Xiaowei, who frequently falsely accuses me, a few times. To be honest, if Zheng Tong hadn't gotten into trouble, I wouldn't have even met Yu Xiaowei."

Chen An said sternly, "You're lying. Yu Xiaowei herself admitted that you acquiesced to the fact that you were the missing child of the Zheng family."

Ana raised the corner of her eye and said with a smile: "Officer, do you believe everything Yu Xiaowei says? She hates me so much, it's not an exaggeration to say anything about me."

"Have you ever thought about why she hates you?"

Anna smiled bitterly, "Please, do I have to know exactly why others hate me? Do I need a reason to hate someone?"

Jiang Li's white piece fell, and defeat was inevitable.

Anna clenched the black piece in her hand, then loosened it after a moment. The black piece fell back into the chess box, and she sighed, "You win."

"Anna, Zheng Tong's death really has nothing to do with you?"

She bit the soft flesh inside her lips, raised her eyes to meet Jiang Li's, and said firmly: "It doesn't matter."

"Okay." Jiang Li found the picture and showed it to her. "Have you seen this pattern?"

The other person's pupils suddenly shrank, his face turned pale for a moment, and then quickly returned to normal. He shook his head and said, "No."

"Zou Liang, he has this mark on his hand. Do you know what he does?"

Anna frowned, "Did something happen to him?"

"He's in the city hospital. You can go see him."

Anna lowered her head and replied, "Okay."

Jiang Li stood up and his gaze lingered on her long sleeves for a long time. For a moment, he really wanted to see if there was this tattoo on her arm, but he held back.

After leaving the house, he said confidently, "She definitely has this pattern."

"Does Zheng Tong have this tattoo on his hand?"

Chen An said: "No."

Surrounded by doubts, Jiang Li followed his intuition and said, "Zheng Tong must be related to this club."

"Zheng Tong is a good girl in front of others, but behind the scenes she can only get freshness by frequently changing boyfriends. Do you think she will join this club just for the sake of novelty?"

Chen An frowned and said, "She joined because it's new and exciting? Cutting your wrists and committing suicide is painful, and it's easy to leave marks. Would a girl like her, who looks so good, do that?"

"It depends on what medicine you are taking. Some medicines will paralyze the nerves if taken too much. Even if you cut your wrists, you won't feel any pain. You will just feel dizzy all over, and then watch coldly as the bright red blood drips from your wrists onto the ground." Jiang Li's voice became lower and lower as he spoke, immersed in his own fantasy like an obsession.

"Jiang Li!"

The electric scooter sped past him. Chen An quickly pulled the person towards him and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Jiang Li raised his head, swallowed guiltily, and avoided the other person's concerned gaze, "It's okay."

"Where were we just now?" Jiang Li continued without waiting for his answer, "Oh, right, when we talked about Zheng Tong joining the club for the novelty of it. Maybe there's something else that attracted her to join besides the novelty. In short, I think this club is a very important part."

"Okay, I'll ask Bai Shuo to look for more clues about this club."

"Um."

"You just..."

"No." Jiang Li quickly denied it, then forced a smile, "What are we going to do next?"

Chen An suddenly felt that keeping Jiang Li by his side might be a wise choice.

"Go back to the Municipal Bureau, the supervisor is here." Chen An shook his cell phone and joked.

"Supervisor?" Jiang Li followed his steps. "Yu Xiaowei?"

"Um."

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