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.
With such a solid evidence that could not be explained away no matter how hard he tried, Liang Youkang's arrogance was completely extinguished.
He sat on the bench in the police station in silence for a long time before he slowly admitted his crime.
Finally the dust settled and the police officers who had been busy all night breathed a sigh of relief.
A young female police officer couldn't understand what was going on and couldn't help asking, "What on earth are you thinking? Your wife is not the one at fault. She is the victim! You clearly saw the evidence, so why did you cover it up and commit the crime with those beasts?!"
Until this time, Liang Youkang just curled his lips, still not thinking he was wrong, and muttered incoherently.
Ge Liaochan, who was watching from outside the interrogation room, was furious: "You really don't repent."
Gu Zhisang said in a cold voice: "You can't reason with this kind of beast. He is selfish, cowardly, and self-deprecating. The only person he loves is himself."
During the "soul search", Gu Zhisang also saw Liang Youkang insulting his wife in front of his son.
He even suspected that his son was not his own and took his son's hair for a paternity test.
Even though it was finally confirmed that the child's identity was normal, he didn't treat the child very well.
He said that he was afraid that transferring his child to another school would affect his learning environment and mentality, but in fact he was too lazy to care about the child's life or death and directly threw him into a boarding school.
In the past two months, he only gave his son 800 yuan on the first occasion.
Afterwards, he used his wife's hard-earned money to live a life of debauchery and drunkenness, and had long forgotten that he had a child studying in school.
Anyone who thinks a little bit will know that something like this happening at home will definitely spread throughout the neighborhood, and his son will also be criticized by some students at school. Transferring him to another school as soon as possible is the most normal thing a parent who cares about their child would do.
After Liang Youkang confessed, the police re-interrogated the gangster Zhao.
Looking at all the evidence, Zhao realized that it was useless to keep his word, and finally admitted that he had taken the blame for others. Then the third person - the mastermind behind forcing Liu Chunxin - finally surfaced.
After obtaining this person's identity, the police officers at the police station were extremely shocked.
"It's actually him?!"
The person Zhao gave out was the father of the boy who drowned a week ago and whose body sank into the "Goddess Lake" and disappeared!
According to the information in the file, this person's surname is Wen and his given name is Lisheng, and his family background is indeed quite wealthy.
Wen Lisheng is 44 years old and works as a deputy section chief in a department in Hunan Province that is known for being relaxed and well-paid. His wife's family does business in this city.
He himself has mediocre abilities and has not been promoted to a very high position, but his younger brother is quite capable. He is two years younger than him and holds a position two levels higher than him, so he has promising prospects for future development.
In addition, although Wen Lisheng's father died early, he was a well-known good man in the city.
When he was alive, he did a lot of charity work and performed many heroic deeds. In the end, he was accidentally injured while saving someone and eventually died.
Therefore, the Wen family has a good reputation in this city.
Before, Wen Lisheng's son drowned, and he and his wife privately contacted each other to buy boys and girls to fill the river. After the matter was exposed, the people around them took pictures and posted them on the Internet, which had already affected the fortune of their family.
Many netizens heard Wen Lisheng's words: "Do you know what my family background is?", which caused widespread social repercussions, and believed that there must be someone behind him.
After peeling away the clues, they finally found out that it was Wen Lisheng's younger brother.
Although Wen Lisheng's younger brother was indeed unaware of the incident and there were many chat records proving that he did not want Wen Lisheng to be distraught by the death of his child, his reputation was still tarnished and his career and future were still affected.
Originally he had great hopes of making another move next year, but now his old boss is already promoting another person.
Wen Lisheng was fired from his job just after he walked out of the police station the day before yesterday.
Because this matter was too absurd, it was widely circulated in the department.
The people at the police station also heard something or other, and they all lamented how pitiful Wen Lisheng's younger brother was, having his prospects for promotion ruined by his stupid brother.
The police officers looked at each other, and after a long while they uttered:
"If it really is this Wen Lisheng...then their whole family will really be killed by him."
Gu Zhisang was not surprised by this result.
There must be a reason why the boy's body sank into the river. It must be that he or someone closely related to him had done some "bad karma".
Police officer: "But I still have a question. If Liu Chunxin really turned into a ghost because of hatred, I can understand that she wants to punish Zhao Hunhun and Liang Youkang. But when we arrested Wen Lisheng and his wife the day before yesterday, I didn't seem to see that his body was covered with red bumps and stench like the other two people."
"Why is it that Wen Lisheng was the one who forced/indirectly killed Liu Chunxin, but she didn't take revenge on him, but instead vented her anger on the child?"
Gu Zhisang asked for Wen Lisheng's photo, and she also saw the photo of Wen Lisheng's younger brother on the Internet.
After reading it, she said, "It's not because Liu Chunxin didn't take revenge, but because her grievance didn't work."
Although she speculated that Liu Chunxin's current level and ability were not weak, its true form was probably unable to show up for some reason, so it could only transform its resentment into a form to take revenge on the three people.
It holds the deepest resentment towards Liang Youkang, the man who killed it, so Liang Youkang's situation is much more serious than Zhao Hunhun's.
Wen Lisheng, the only one among the three who seemed to have escaped punishment but also caused its tragic death, was not without resentment.
In Gu Zhisang's eyes, which had already opened her spiritual perception, she could see that Wen Lisheng was wrapped in a thick layer of dark resentment, which turned into hideous shapes and entangled his body, but could not penetrate.
Under the resentment, there was a layer of light golden shell wrapped around Wen Lisheng's body, struggling to resist the invasion of resentment.
That is the power of merit.
It should have been thicker and more powerful, able to ensure Wen Lisheng a life of wealth and peace, but after three months of dissipation of resentment, only a thin layer remained.
I'm afraid that in three months to a year at most, when the power of merit is completely offset, Wen Lisheng's fate will not be much better than the other two.
This power of merit can also be seen on Wen Lisheng's younger brother's face, but it is far less than that of his older brother.
Gu Zhisang said: "The fathers and ancestors of the Wen family must have often accumulated good deeds and virtues, and accumulated a great deal of merit and virtue. After they died, they gave a large part of this merit and virtue to Wen Lisheng."
"It was these merits that helped him avoid a disaster."
A police officer who had heard about the Wen family's past nodded and said, "I heard that Wen Lisheng's father is a good person."
"...Then his father and brother are so unworthy. How could they give birth to such a son and brother?!"
Gu Zhisang lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the serious and upright middle-aged man on the screen, and pulled the corner of his lip.
Is this brother really that innocent?
Did he really know nothing about what his brother had done?
Gu Zhisang: "I speculate that Liu Chunxin was stimulated by the power of merit around Wen Lisheng, and the resentment of not being able to take revenge was greatly aroused. In this extremely strong hatred and negative emotions, it completely lost its mind and attacked Wen Lisheng's son."
"Wen Lisheng's son may not have taken the initiative to go to the 'Goddess Lake'. He was probably like the old lady who committed suicide by jumping into the lake. He was influenced by the resentment of the water ghosts and was attracted to the 'Goddess Lake'. Then Liu Chunxin seized the opportunity."
She frowned slightly, feeling that each of these tragedies seemed to be pushed forward by a huge hand.
The wandering Taoist priest came at a perfect timing.
It's just a coincidence that Wen Lisheng has the protection of merit and his brother's identity...
Everything seemed to be designed to catalyze and inspire Liu Chunxin, who had turned into a fierce ghost, to lose her mind, thus causing one thing after another to radiate her resentment to the entire "Goddess Lake" and even the surrounding giant screen.
At this time, Ge Liaochan asked, "With the testimony of Zhao Hunhun and Liang Youkang, can we catch this beast surnamed Wen?"
The police officer shook his head. "It's hard to convict someone with only witnesses. We still lack the strongest physical evidence that he was also involved in this incident."
"Alas, what can we do? Most of the money Zhao and Liang Youkang got was in cash and gold, and their bank accounts were also overseas. For the time being, we can't find any connection with the Wen family. They did say in their confession that Liu Chunxin had recorded a video as evidence, but they also threw that phone to the bottom of the lake..."
"It looks like we really need to call in professional divers to recover the evidence."
Gu Zhisang shook his head gently, "Don't bother, the 'evidence' will come to you on its own."
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The next afternoon, a young woman wearing simple sportswear, a mask and a hat appeared in the city's best, closed-door junior high school.
Although she was covered up tightly, her unique temperament in her every move, as well as the fair skin slightly exposed above the mask, still attracted the attention of many students.
When she arrived, the class had just ended. She walked up the stairs to her destination class, stopped outside the classroom door, and quietly looked into the classroom through the window.
In the last row of the classroom, even after the get out of class, a thin boy was still sitting on his chair, oblivious to the noisy environment around him, and concentrated on studying hard.
Several male classmates who were holding basketballs raised their hands and smashed the basketballs onto his shoulders. The force was so strong that the pens in the boys' hands flew away and fell to the ground with a "thump".
"Oh my, Liang is really different. He still has to study and pretend to be a good student after class."
The boys were laughing and without saying a word, they were making faces and steering the topic to a strange direction.
"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 to expressively: "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.
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