After the soul search, Liang Youkang, who was already on the verge of collapse, could no longer control his mental state. He covered his head and trembled as he growled:
"Don't, don't... I confessed everything, I told you everything!"
The pain of having one's soul forcibly invaded and one's memory deprived is far more painful than ordinary physical torture;
Even after Gu Zhisang let go of his hand for a long time, the soul-tearing pain still made him tremble all over, and he could not muster the will to persist or resist.
Liang Youkang trembled as he admitted all the facts of murdering his wife Liu Chunxin.
These words will also be used as testimony in court to overturn the case, retry and convict.
During his confession, he hesitated and struggled for a moment, wanting to conceal certain details in order to reduce his guilt.
But when Gu Zhisang's cold gaze swept over him, the pain that made him want to faint when he was "soul-searched" just now destroyed his courage to try to be clever.
When Ge Liaochan asked Liang Yongkang why he moved here, he said in a trembling voice:
"That bitch... After Liu Chunxin died, the master used magic to suppress her, but she still didn't rest in peace."
At the beginning, Liang Youkang didn't believe that there were ghosts in the world, and he scoffed at the so-called evil spirits that took his life.
When Liu Chunxin's body was salvaged, it had been soaked in the lake for several days. The body was swollen and eaten beyond recognition.
There might have been some of Liang Youkang's skin tissue left in the cracks between her nails when she struggled before, but now it has been completely washed away by the water.
After the forensic examination, no useful information was found, and Liang Youkang successfully escaped suspicion.
Therefore, he felt even more confident.
When the wandering master proposed to perform a ritual to suppress his deceased wife's resentment, he did not take it seriously.
Since people in the nearby village believed the master's words, Liang Youkang was in urgent need of a "good reputation" to further clear himself of suspicion and guilt, so he readily agreed to the wandering master's words and allowed him to stay in his wife's mourning hall and perform rituals for three days.
During the period, there was a foul odor near the mourning hall. Liang Youkang took a look from a distance outside the mourning hall.
He only saw Liu Chunxin's swollen and purple body in the unsealed coffin. He immediately felt nauseous and a little creepy, and left in a hurry.
He did not participate in the subsequent process of sealing the coffin and burial.
After Liu Chunxin was buried and Zhao Hunzi was arrested, Liang Youkang felt that he was completely safe, but he still couldn't stand the villagers looking at him with pity and ridicule, and making up stories about him behind his back.
Wherever he went, he felt that these long-tongued villagers had bad intentions.
Eventually he took the "compensation" and moved to the city, quit his job moving bricks at a construction site, and rented a two-bedroom apartment.
After spending a few days of debauchery on his wife's "life-saving money", Liang Youkang, who was drunk in the bar, felt a chill on his back when he returned home in the middle of the night.
When I was in the elevator, the elevator lights in the small space were crackling and flickering.
Liang Yongkang cursed the property management, and suddenly, under the flickering light, he saw a blurry figure reflected on the iron elevator door in front of him.
The figure was pale, with only the long, matted black hair clearly visible, blocking the face.
He was so frightened that he sobered up and his legs went weak.
Because he clearly remembered that when he entered the elevator, there was no one inside except him.
Then he felt something wet at his feet. He looked down and saw that the elevator seemed to be flooded, with water soaking every corner.
When he looked up again, he saw the white reflection on the elevator wall had raised its face. It was a blurry and fuzzy picture, but in Liang Youkang's eyes it was so clear and terrifying!
Under the white shadow's hair was a face covered with purple spots, with half of the head missing, and the hair and body looked wet, as if it had just emerged from the water.
Only those twisted black and red eyes, full of resentment, stared at Liang Youkang.
Liang Youkang recognized him.
This is Liu Chunxin who should have died long ago!
Just at this moment, the elevator arrived at the floor and opened with a ding-dong sound.
Liang Youkang was so frightened that he pissed his pants and staggered out holding the handle.
Even though he found some Buddhist scriptures and amulets to recite that night, he still dreamed of Liu Chunxin who came to claim his life when he went to bed at night.
After several times in a row, he became depressed, thinking that he could see the scenery of "Goddess Lake" from the window of this high-rise building every morning when he woke up. He suspected that the reason why he always dreamed of ghosts taking his life was because he was too close to the lake.
Liang Youkang quickly moved to the urban area farthest from "Shennv Lake".
The reason why he did not leave the city immediately was that he was careful and thoughtful.
He was still worried that Zhao Hunhun had not been convicted. He was also worried that he would move out of the city after his wife's death, which would make the police suspect that he was trying to escape.
After Liang Youkang moved in and lived there for a while, he found that although he dreamed about Liu Chunxin less and less frequently, many changes had taken place in his body.
Thirst for water, dry mouth, easy sweating and physical weakness;
My eyesight and hearing are not as sharp as before, and I am a little afraid of light. I have a layer of bumpy hard bumps on my body. If I don’t scratch them, they itch, and if I scratch them, they hurt...
Sometimes when he smelled himself, he felt as if he was smelling stinky salted fish.
It was as if his insides were rotting and festering.
At first Liang Youkang thought that he had contracted a disease due to his immoral sexual life, but he soon realized that this was definitely not a normal change.
He thought he had gotten rid of Liu Chunxin, but in fact he hadn't, and his physical and mental condition was getting worse and worse.
After being burned by the light several times and scaring his neighbors in the corridor due to his strange appearance, Liang Youkang's situation went from being unable to move out temporarily to being unable to move out at all.
Liang Youkang is like a rat hiding in a cave, losing the right to walk in the sun.
He was filled with resentment, fear and terror, and searched for ways to "kill ghosts and exorcise evil spirits" in the dim room every day.
Even now, after being exposed by Gu Zhisang, he still did not feel the slightest guilt or regret for what he had done. He only felt hatred and resentment towards Liu Chunxin.
As he finished speaking these words with snot and tears on his face, footsteps were heard outside the door.
People from the local police station rushed over after receiving the notification, preparing to escort Liang Youkang back to the bureau for retrial.
After they opened the door, they were also dizzy by the overwhelming stench in the room.
Many police officers who had participated in homicide investigations and smelled the odor of rotting corpses could not stand the smell in this room and felt nauseous.
When Liang Youkang was escorted out, he was like a rat afraid of the light. He hid his head behind the police officers and said that his eyes hurt.
Many neighbors who heard the noise opened their doors and watched from the doorway.
Seeing the hard pimples all over Liang Youkang's face and neck, everyone thought he had some infectious disease. They showed fear and disgust on their faces and dared not go out or get close to him.
The neighbor lady who had chatted with Gu Zhisang and Ge Liaochan before entering the house also stuck her head out to watch the fun and gave them a thumbs up:
"Young girls nowadays are incredible. I heard him screaming like a pig being slaughtered outside!"
When she first heard the banging and smashing sounds inside, she was a little worried that something might have happened to Gu Zhisang and the other man, but the scream that came out was clearly a man's voice!
Gu Zhisang: ...
Ge Liaochan suppressed his smile and coughed lightly, exchanged a few words with the old lady, and then left the community.
Because of the detailed recording of Liang Youkang's personal confession of his crimes, the police directly re-listed him as a major suspect.
After being taken to the police station, Liang Youkang felt less oppressive because Gu Zhisang was no longer around, and the pain of the "soul search" not long ago gradually disappeared. After regaining consciousness, Liang Youkang turned against them again and flatly denied what he had said.
He argued that the recordings were made by Gu Zhisang and Ge Liaochan under torture to force him to confess.
But this time he couldn't get away with it.
Based on what Gu Zhisang saw when he was sensing Liu Chunxin's ghost, the police investigated along these clues and eventually found actual evidence of Liang Youkang's crime.
That night, Liang Youkang sneaked back to the village in the late night. He did not take the main road, but a small road where there was no surveillance.
But after comparison and investigation, the police still caught a fleeting figure in the dark night on the surveillance footage of a certain intersection.
They sent people to revisit Liang Youkang's co-workers.
According to a worker who vaguely remembered the incident, although he did not know whether Liang Youkang had left the construction site, when he got up the next day, Liang Youkang had indeed changed his clothes.
The other workers stayed up all night drunk and didn't have time to change.
Since a strong smell will remain on the body after drinking, it is reasonable for Liang Youkang to change his clothes. He ignored this matter when the police came to investigate last time.
This person remembered that the clothes Liang Youkang changed into in the morning were indeed very similar to the coat worn by the blurry figure in the surveillance video.
It’s the same coat, and the same light brown color.
The police then sent people to conduct a carpet search of the house rented by Liang Yongkang, and found the light brown coat.
Liang Youkang is sloppy and lazy. He never does laundry or cooking at home, especially since he lives alone.
He never washed the clothes after wearing them, and neither did his shoes.
In the end, although the police did not find any useful biological traces on the coat, they did extract a trace of blood scab from the cracks in the sole of one of his shoes.
After processing and verification by the laboratory, it was confirmed that it was Liu Chunxin's blood.
有了这样一个怎么狡辩都解释不清楚的实锤，梁有康的气焰彻底熄灭了。
他坐在警局的凳子上沉默良久，最后才慢吞吞地承认了自己的罪行。
终于尘埃落定，忙了一晚上的警员们都松了口气。
有位年轻的女警实在无法理解，忍不住问道：“你到底是怎么想的，有错的根本就不是你老婆，她是受害者！你明明都看到了那些证据，为什么反而和那些禽兽一起隐瞒、行凶？！”
直到这时梁有康都只是撇撇嘴，仍不觉得自己是错的，嘴里含糊不清地嘟嘟囔囔。
在审讯室外面看着的仡辽蝉面带怒意：“真是不知悔改。”
顾之桑声音冷淡：“和这种畜生是没法讲人的道理的，他自私自利、胆小懦弱又自卑自负，心里爱的人只有自己。”
'搜魂’的时候，顾之桑还看到梁有康在儿子的面前辱骂妻子的场面。
他甚至怀疑儿子不是自己的，取了儿子的头发去做亲子鉴定。
就算最后确认了孩子的身份正常，他也并没有对孩子多好。
嘴上说着怕给初三的孩子转学、会影响他的学习环境和心态，实际上他根本是懒得管孩子的死活，直接把对方扔在了寄宿学校里。
这两个多月的时间里，他就只在第一个的时候给儿子发了800块钱。
后续就拿着妻子的‘卖命钱’在外花天酒地、醉生梦死，早就忘了学校里还有个读书的小孩。
稍微动脑子想想都知道，家里出了这样的事情肯定会传遍附近，他儿子在学校里也会被部分学生指指点点，尽快给他转学才是最正常关心孩子的家长会做的事。
在梁有康招供之后，警方重新提审了混混赵某。
看着种种证据赵某知道自己嘴硬也没什么用了，终于承认了自己为他人顶罪的事实，至此第三名——也是强迫刘纯欣的主使，终于浮出了水面。
拿到此人的身份后，警署的警员们都非常的震惊。
“竟然是他？！”
赵某供出来的人，正是一周之前溺水身亡、尸体沉入‘神女湖’中消失不见的男孩儿的父亲！
根据档案上的信息可知，此人姓文名力生，家庭背景确实算得上殷实。
文力生本人44岁，在湘省某出了名的清闲、工资也不错的部门当副科长，妻子家是在本市做生意的。
他本人能力平平也并没有晋升太高的职位，但亲弟弟颇为厉害，比他小两岁还比他的职位高两阶，未来发展前景可观。
除此之外文力生的父亲虽然早死，但却是本市知名的大好人。
活着的时候做过许多公益、见义勇为过，最后也是在一次救人中被误伤，最后死去。
所以文家一大家子在本市的风评都还算不错。
之前文力生的儿子溺亡，他们夫妻俩私下接洽购买童男女填河，事情暴露出来后被周围的老百姓拍下来发布到了网上，就已经影响到了他们一家子的运势。
不少网友们听到了文力生那句：‘你知道我家是什么成分么？’，引起了社会的广泛反响，认为他身后一定有人。
这么抽丝剥茧一扒，就扒到了文力生的弟弟身上。
虽然文力生的弟弟的确不知情、也有诸多聊天记录证明他并不希望文力生被孩子的死冲昏头脑，但他的名声还是有了污点，事业和前途还是被影响了。
原本他有很大的希望在明年再动一动，但现在老领导已经在提拔另一个人了。
文力生本人前天刚刚走出警署，就被单位革职了。
因为这件事太过荒谬，在合个部门中的流传甚广。
警署的人也听到了一二，还纷纷感慨文力生的弟弟实惨，被愚蠢的哥哥毁了晋升前途。
警员们面面相觑，半晌才吐出一句：
“如果真是这个文力生……那他们一家子真的都要被他害死了。”
对于这个结果，顾之桑并不意外。
男孩儿尸体无故沉河，是不可能没有原因的，势必是他本人或是和关系紧密的人曾经种下过什么‘恶因’。
警员：“可是我还有个疑问，如果刘纯欣真的因为怨恨变成了厉鬼，她要惩罚赵混混和梁有康我能理解。但前天我们把文力生和他老婆抓来的时候，我好像没有看到他的身上像另外两个人那样，布满了红疙瘩和臭气。”
“为什么强迫/间接害死刘纯欣的人明明是文力生，可她却没有报复文力生，而是把愤怒发泄在了小孩子的身上？”
顾之桑要来了文力生的照片，同时她也在网上看到了文力生弟弟的照片。
看过之后她说道：“不是因为刘纯欣没有报复，而是它的怨气没有奏效。”
虽然经她推测，刘纯欣目前的等级和能力不弱，但它的本体应该还因为某种原因无法现身，只能将怨气化形去报复三人。
对于杀害它的梁有康，它的怨念最重，所以梁有康的情况要比赵混混严重不少。
三人中看似没有遭到惩罚的、同样也是造成它惨死的悲惨结局的文力生不是没有被怨气侵蚀。
在顾之桑已经开了灵觉的眼中，她能看到文力生的身上裹着一层厚厚的漆黑怨气，化为狰狞残形缠在他的身上，却无法侵入。
在怨气之下，有一层淡淡的浅金色壳子包裹在文力生的身上，艰难抵御着怨气入侵。
那是一份功德之力。
它原本应该更浑厚有力些，可以保文力生一生富贵平安，但在怨气三个月的消磨下，只剩下薄薄的一层。
恐怕最多再过三个月到一年的时间，等这份功德之力彻底抵消，到时候文力生的下场也不会比另外两个人好到哪儿去。
这种功德之力在文力生的弟弟脸上也能看到一二，却远远没有他的哥哥那么厚。
顾之桑说道：“文家父辈祖辈应该常常积善行德，积累下来了一份丰厚的功德之力，他们死后把这份功德中的很大一部分给了文力生。”
“正是这些功德，帮他挡了一灾。”
有听说过文家往事的警员点头道：“我听说文力生的爸爸人挺好的。”
“……那他爸和他哥也太不值了吧，怎么生出个这样的儿子和弟弟啊？！”
顾之桑微微敛眸，看着屏幕上一脸严肃、正气的中年男人，扯了下唇角。
这个弟弟真的就那么无辜么？
他对自己哥哥所做的事情，真的就一无所知么。
顾之桑：“我推测刘纯欣正是因为被文力生周身的功德之力刺激到了，无法报仇的怨恨更被大大激发，在这种极强的恨意和负面情绪中，它彻底失去了理智，连坐攻击了文力生的儿子。”
“文力生的儿子不一定是主动去‘神女湖’的，他很有可能也是和之前那个投湖自尽的大娘一样，是被水鬼怨气影响、被吸引到了‘神女湖’边，而后被刘纯欣抓住了机会。”
她微微蹙眉，觉得这一桩桩一件件惨案，都像是被一只大手推着向前发生。
那云游道士来的时机太巧。
文力生恰有功德护体和弟弟保护的身份太巧……
一切都像是为了催化、激发变成厉鬼的刘纯欣失去理智，从而环环相扣，将它的怨气辐射到整个‘神女湖’乃至周边的巨幕。
这时仡辽蝉开口问道：“有了赵混混和梁有康的证词，能把这个姓文的畜生抓了么？”
警员摇摇头，“只有人证很难定罪，我们还缺少一个他也参与进此事的最强的物证。”
“唉，这可如何是好，赵某和梁有康拿到手的钱大多是现金和黄金，银行账户也是境外的，明面上暂时找不到和文家人有关系。他们供词倒是说刘纯欣曾经录过像当证据，但那部手机也被他们一起丢到了湖底……”
“看来咱们真得叫专业的潜水员去捕捞证物了。”
顾之桑轻轻摇头，“不用那么麻烦，‘证据’会自己送上门的。”
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第二天下午，一个身着简约运动服、带着口罩和帽子的年轻女人出现在了本市最好的、封闭性管理的初中学校内。
尽管她已经遮盖得严严实实，但举手投足间特殊的气质、以及口罩上方略微露出一些的凝白皮肤，还是引起了不少学生的注目。
她来的时候刚刚下课，沿着楼梯来到目的班级，她驻足在了教室门外，静静地从窗户口看向教室里。
教室最后排，饶是下课了一个削瘦男生仍然坐在椅子上，对周围喧闹的环境恍若无闻，埋头苦学。
几个抱着篮球的男同学一抬手，把篮球砸到了他的肩膀上，不小的力度直接震飞了男生手里的笔杆，‘吧嗒’一声掉在地上。
“哟哟哟，梁大学霸就是与众不同，下课了还要学习装啥好学生呢。”
男生们嘻嘻哈哈笑着，三句话没说话，就挤眉弄眼把话题引到了歪门。
"Tsk, I'm just curious about one thing, about your mom..." Before the leading boy finished speaking, the others laughed so hard that they fell over, "She's cheating on me at home, isn't she afraid of being discovered?"
“…”
The boy surnamed Liang suddenly clenched his fists and gritted his teeth: "Don't mention her!"
"Why can't people chat about gossip? Who are you trying to bully?"
At this moment, the familiar voice of the teacher at the window sounded, causing several boys to shut up immediately, "Ms. Gu?"
Gu Zhisang outside the window tilted his head and looked over: "Hello."
"Excuse me, I didn't know you were here. You guys, hurry up and go downstairs for physical education class!" The head teacher glared at the boys who were making trouble, and then said softly to the skinny boy in the last row, "Liang Cheng, go ask the physical education teacher for leave first. Just say I have something to talk to you about."
After the head teacher brought Gu Zhisang to the office and gave her a glass of water, he began to speak slowly:
"In fact, ever since Liang Cheng's mother got into trouble, some troublesome kids in the class have looked at him with tinted glasses, bullying him and causing trouble for him in various ways, as you just saw. We teachers know about it and want to take care of it, but we really can't do anything about the friction between them when they return to the dormitory privately."
"The child's father doesn't care about his affairs. He is very sensible and has good academic performance. Now he is in the third year of junior high school. As a teacher, we have seen that he has not said a word for the past two months and has become a little depressed. We feel sad..."
As he was speaking, there was a knock on the office door.
Liang Cheng, the son of Liu Chunxin and Liang Youkang, stood at the door: "Teacher Li."
Teacher Li waved at him and said, "Come here, this sister's surname is Gu, she has something she wants to talk to you about."
After saying this, the head teacher considerately left the room, leaving this place to Gu Zhisang and Liang Cheng.
The boy hung his head and said nothing. Gu Zhisang said, "I came here today to ask about your mother's life."
After a while, Liang Cheng only said one sentence: "She is not what those people say."
He raised his head, his eyes red: "She is a good woman, she didn't do those things."
Gu Zhisang clearly didn't say anything to comfort him, he just looked at him calmly, but the defenses and grievances in his heart collapsed little by little, and he bit his lips tightly.
After sighing softly, Gu Zhisang patted the boy's shoulder and said solemnly:
"You're right, your mother is a very good woman."
"Those rumors are false. I promise you will soon be able to wait for the day when the truth comes out."
When Gu Zhisang was about to leave, Liang Cheng, who was pretending to be strong, had already cried for a while and then went to physical education class.
She expressed her gratitude to Teacher Li, paused for a moment, and said tactfully:
"Teacher Li, please advise those boys in the class who have developed bad behavior to stop being mean and do more good deeds."
Our homeroom teacher, Mr. Li, looked a little confused.
Gu Zhisang didn't explain much, but just took a deep look behind her.
The classroom seemed a little dull with the lights turned off.
In the corner of the wall just above the seats on the back beam, there was a huge, inky black, still-wriggling mass of resentment that seemed to be staring at her gloomily.
Not long ago, through the classroom window, Gu Zhisang clearly saw a layer of blue-gray on the faces of the boys who pushed and bullied Liang Cheng.
It is a sign of near death.
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In the evening, the glow in the sky dimmed, and the entire city was shrouded in dusk blue, almost merging with the gloomy surface of the "Goddess Lake".
After returning to the B&B, Gu Zhisang took off his coat and walked towards the living room.
When she walked to the sofa in the middle of the living room and was about to sit down, the atmosphere in the whole room suddenly became cold, damp water marks quickly spread inward from the wall at the door, and the light in the whole room began to dim.
She raised her eyes calmly.
The next second, a circular arc of light suddenly lit up on the ground, which was only an arm's length away from her body. The yellow talismans hidden in all directions appeared at the same time, and the windless air made a "cracking" sound when they were blown.
A swollen and twisted ghost that could barely be identified as a wet humanoid was forced to reveal its form within the formation.
Its soul was different from that of an ordinary ghost. It was actually like a swollen giant corpse, covered with swollen purple veins, and looked extremely terrifying.
While struggling, the entire formation in the room was impacted by the powerful resentment and flashed with light, but it still firmly imprisoned the transformed resentful entity.
Gu Zhisang's hair was blown slightly by the Yin energy.
In her sight, the purple face twisted by resentment, with a pair of red eyes swollen due to congestion, was staring at her.
A sharp and piercing voice rang out in the living room. It was a threat and warning from the resentment incarnation:
"Don't...meddle in other people's business!"
The author has something to say:
The case is over once the truth is revealed. Tomorrow we will arrest the man and beat the dog to pray for the soul of the deceased and completely close the case.
Then we start a new live broadcast, and several supernatural events have been planned (akimbo)
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Recommend a new metaphysical article to my friends:
"Little Ancestor Becomes Popular in Metaphysics Variety Show" by Ting Ju
Luo Guangxing has been in the industry for many years, but has gained nothing except a lot of negative news.
As the news that he was going to appear on a metaphysics variety show came out, it immediately caused ridicule among netizens. However, what made netizens even more angry was that he actually brought a five-year-old girl named Luo Ling as his assistant.
"Luo Guangxing is crazy about becoming famous! Even if this variety show has a script, it's not a place for kids!"
"Can Luo Guangxing get out of the entertainment industry? He has no bottom line!"
Netizens cursed Luo Guangxing while speaking up for Luo Ling. It was not until the variety show started that they realized how wrong they were!
While waiting for the show, the usually arrogant Luo Guangxing, holding snacks in both hands and a little yellow duck water cup hanging around his neck, asked with a smile: "Little ancestor, are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Is the peach wood sword heavy? Let me help you carry it."
Luo Ling, wearing a Taoist robe and holding a small peach wood sword, refused expressionlessly: "I'm not hungry, not thirsty, and not heavy."
Netizen: Who is the assistant among you?
When he encountered the evil spirit, Luo Guangxing squatted down neatly, held his head, and shouted: "Little ancestor, help me!"
Luo Lingtao waved the peach wood sword, and the evil spirit was wiped out. She said with a serious face: "Guangxing is still a child, you evil spirits should not scare him!"
Netizen: No, no, no, Xiao Lingjiao, wake up, you are the child!
While reading someone's fortune, Luo Ling blinked curiously: "You are entangled with three people! How did you do it?"
Luo Guangxing covered her ears: "Little ancestor, this is not something you should listen to at your age..."
Netizen: That’s right! But they want to hear it!
Luo Ling became an internet sensation, and netizens discovered that the little girl they had been worried about was actually a master of metaphysics! There was an endless stream of people looking for her to tell fortunes.