Captain Li seemed reluctant to bring up the topic. There were footsteps on the other end of the phone. He walked to a deserted place before speaking: "That kid has a misunderstanding about death."

"Children's worldview has not yet been formed. Perhaps in their eyes, death is just a distant place. I can understand that." Ever since Chen Ge met Men Nan's main personality, even the strangest children seemed normal to him.

"If that were true, it would be great. After the child was rescued, he didn't utter a single word for three days. He didn't cry or make a fuss. He was so well-behaved that it was scary." Captain Li fell into memories.

"On the evening of the fourth day, a female police officer found her huddled in the corner of the bed, staring at a spider by the bedside. Thinking she was afraid of spiders, she crushed the spider to death. The little girl suddenly cried and said that the female police officer had killed her sister."

"That was the first time the girl spoke, and that's when we realized something was wrong with her."

"A child who is not sad because of the death of her parents, but cries because of the death of a spider, what kind of world does she know?"

"We tried to explain the meaning of the word death to her, and found that in her mind, death is not the end of a person. The girl told us very seriously that people will become something else after death, which is a bit like reincarnation."

"Because he is not afraid of death, we often hear cruel words from this child's mouth."

"A lovely child who looks as pure as an angel, talking about death with an innocent voice. Is she an angel? Or a devil?"

"After further investigation, we found more details."

"The person who reported the case was a villager passing by. According to the autopsy report, we can roughly infer that the girl stayed with her deceased parents for at least two days." Captain Li lowered his voice: "A four or five-year-old child is already close to being independent psychologically, able to think for herself and do many things. But for two whole days, she didn't call the police or seek help from adults. Don't you think this is strange?"

"Could it be that her parents never taught her this?" Chen Ge's mind flashed through Jiang Ling's pitiful look, and he also vaguely felt that something was wrong.

"Only fingerprints of the girl and her parents were found in the house. The method of poisoning was so crude that it was unimaginable, but it was successful. There are many similar doubts. In short, this case is not as simple as you think."

Someone on the other end of the phone was calling Captain Li's name, as if they had something to ask him, so Captain Li casually agreed.

"Chen Ge, I have something urgent to do and I have to rush over. I know I may not be able to persuade you, so I can only remind you to be careful of that child and not to go to that village at night."

"You can't enter the village at night?"

"Look at the map. Don't you find it strange that there is only one village within a few miles? When we were investigating other villages and towns, an old man told us that Linguan Village had a plague a long time ago and many people died."

Someone on the other end of the phone was urging Captain Li again. After a few quick words, Captain Li hung up the phone, leaving Chen Ge standing alone in the dark and dilapidated village.

A busy tone sounded beside his ear, and Chen Ge quietly put away his phone: "He said a long time ago, how many years ago was it?"

Looking over the dark Linguan Village, Chen Ge looked at the square, dilapidated houses, which looked like rows of unclosed coffins.

"Linguan Village, if you split the word 'Lin' into two parts, wouldn't it be Muguan Village?"

He exited the village and stopped beside the cement road.

Not to mention it was the middle of the night, even in the daytime he couldn't get a taxi here, and he couldn't go back to the city now.

"Jiang Ling said her father's peach orchard is to the west of the village. Let's go there first."

Chen Ge turned on the flashlight and walked along the winding mountain road towards the west of Linguan Village.

The road became narrower and narrower. After crossing the hill, when Chen Ge was about to give up, he suddenly saw a faint light in front of him.

"Anyone?"

The light was moving towards the other side of the mountain, slowly moving away, and the other party seemed not to see him.

Chen Ge pulled the hammer handle outward again, stuffed Xiao Xiao into his pocket, and then continued forward.

The mountain road was rugged and he didn't dare to run too fast. After chasing for about ten minutes, the light in front slowly disappeared.

"Isn't it a will-o'-the-wisp?"

The mountains were particularly scary in the middle of the night, and there was no one around. Chen Ge recalled some stories he had heard when he was a child, such as ghosts leading the way, wolves holding lanterns, and mandrills.

"Calm down and don't panic." He patted his face gently, wrapped his coat tightly, and ran towards the place where the light disappeared.

After climbing over the second hill, the scene in front of us changed. There was a peach forest planted in the gap of the mountain.

Due to neglect, the peach forest is full of weeds, and many peach trees grow crookedly. From a distance, they look like living people staggering.

And the disappeared lamp appeared again, right in the peach forest.

"This should be the peach orchard contracted by Jiang Ling's father." Although he found the place, Chen Ge did not feel happy. Instead, he became extremely nervous because of the appearance of the lamp.

"Everyone nearby knows that a murder happened in Taolin. Why would someone come here with a lamp in the middle of the night?" He became more careful and turned off the flashlight. Because of the existence of Yintong, he could see things much more clearly than ordinary people in the dark.

I slowly walked into the peach orchard and heard the sound of hoes digging up the soil.

"What is he doing?"

Chen Ge finally saw the other person clearly after he got closer.

A lamp and a water bottle were hung on the branches of the peach tree, and next to them was an old man in his sixties or seventies.

He swung the hoe and dug up every inch of the peach orchard, as if he was looking for something.

The old man's behavior was very strange. Chen Ge did not rush to show up. He followed behind quietly and observed carefully.

Although the old man has gray hair, he is in good health. His palms are covered with calluses, probably because he often does farm work.

He was wearing washed-out clothes and had a stern face, as if he had rarely smiled in his life.

"A very ordinary old man."

No matter from which perspective, he was just an old man farming, but it was such a person who ran to the crime scene late at night to hoe the fields.

Chen Ge followed the old man for nearly twenty minutes and still found nothing. He calculated the time and decided to be direct.

He was afraid that his sudden appearance would scare the old man into falling ill, so he retreated more than ten meters, turned on the flashlight, and shouted into the peach forest: "Is there anyone there? How can we get out of this mountain?"

Even though he was more than ten meters away, the old man was still frightened when he heard Chen Ge's voice, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead instantly.