Chapter 39 Liang Wei's Report
The sirens outside the window were getting louder and louder, and red and blue flashing lights were approaching downstairs. In the tense atmosphere, Tu Lanxun couldn't help but look at the two white and black ghosts that suddenly appeared.
She really wanted to call them the Black and White Impermanence, but both of them looked so shabby. One of them wore a white suit draped over his arm, with slight burn marks on the edge; the other wore a black stand-up collared gown in the style of the Republic of China, the hem of which was in tatters as if it had been eaten by insects.
They were about 1.9 meters tall. The white ghost was female, her hair braided into a single braid that hung down her shoulder; the black ghost was male, his hair sharply cropped and combed up. Both ghosts had blank, vacant expressions, like two puppets that had been placed there for years.
Tang Weining still had a breath left. They came to pick up Teacher Xu? But Teacher Xu had already been eliminated by N.
Tu Lanxun was getting anxious as he waited. Shouldn't the Black and White Impermanence follow the procedure? Why did these two look like they were hit by a needle, with dull eyes, as if they couldn't see them at all?
"Well... the police will be coming upstairs soon... If you are okay, we will leave first." She said softly.
Nonsense, she was the only living person standing here, and she didn't want to be caught alive at a suspected cult murder scene, then be interrogated and even implicated.
N was slightly surprised by the appearance of the two ghosts. He glanced at Tu Lanxun, turned his palm over, and the dim and faded food pill appeared. The moment it appeared, the white ghost and the black ghost's heads turned instantly, and their stiff eyes were fixed on the food pill.
It flew from N's palm towards the two ghosts. The one who attacked was the white ghost. She quickly slid a chain out of her hand and whipped it up at an angle that was not meant to bind. The food pill instantly carbonized into ash and fell into the air, disappearing without a trace before it hit the ground.
In the blink of an eye, the white ghost and the black ghost disappeared.
N said in a complicated tone, "They are here to execute Teacher Xu."
The sound of an elevator running could be heard from outside the door. N turned around immediately, his expression suppressed. A slightly evil look in his eyes flashed to Tu Lanxun, and he grinned, "The cops are here, why aren't you running away?"
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Tang Weining was eventually taken to the hospital, where police were guarding the emergency room. Tang Pengan refused to confess in the interrogation room, insisting that everything was Tang Weining's doing. Li Ao, who was in charge of the case, was so angry that he slammed the table outside and said, "Nonsense!"
Old Wei poured a cup of hot water. "Captain Li, didn't the forensic doctor say that Tang Weining's fingerprints were all over Bai Chao's body parts, and Tang Pengan was clean? What else is there to doubt?"
Li Ao snorted angrily, "There are so many suspicious points! From the perspective of the perpetrator's psychology, why did Tang Weining hide Bai Chao's body parts in the school for three years? Why didn't he find an opportunity to dispose of them?"
Lao Wei: "Maybe... it can't be handled..."
Xiao Zhang couldn't help but say, "Let me interrupt. Tang Weining is a teacher in Food Engineering and Science. He's also a chemistry major. They...are researching how to process organic materials..."
Old Wei was a bit embarrassed. Someone knocked on the door, and he answered it. He returned with a plastic notebook clip, beaming with joy: "Tang Weining is awake! This kid is lucky. He was cut up like that, yet he managed to survive."
It was as if there was some mysterious force secretly helping Tang Weining. Not only was he alive, but he was also able to simply answer the police's questions.
When asked who killed Bai Chao, he also identified his beloved brother, but Tang Weining provided another clue: five years ago, his daughter Bai Xiaoju was murdered. The murderer was also Tang Pengan.
The two cases had become a tangled mess, but Li Ao was adept at untangling the clues. Just as he was racking his brains, a police officer came in, took in the situation, and said cautiously, "Captain Li, there's been two incidents."
"explain."
"Tang Guangming died suddenly a few hours after being sent to his second aunt's house. He was rushed to the hospital but failed to be resuscitated. The child was already dead."
The police officer looked at Li Ao's increasingly gloomy face and quickly said the second thing: "Also, Tang Pengan's wife Liang Wei came to the police station. She said she wanted to come forward to identify the real culprit..."
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Li Ao sat opposite Liang Wei, looking at the haggard woman. She was in her thirties and looked older than her age because of the dark circles under her eyes. She held a tissue in her fingers, and her eyes were red but without tears.
As a parent who had just lost her only son, Liang Wei was too calm. Considering that she ran away a few months ago and had not taken the initiative to contact Tang Pengan and his son, Li Ao subjectively judged that she did not have deep feelings for Tang Guangming.
"Ms. Liang, we've confirmed that Tang Pengan stole and misappropriated restricted anesthetic drugs from Lucheng Second Hospital. Are you aware of this?"
Liang Wei nodded indifferently, "I know."
Li Ao was a little surprised, but she didn't show it. "So, do you have anything to say about your husband's brother and sister-in-law's family?"
He leaned closer, his tone becoming a little stern: "You've always known about this, right?"
Liang Wei's reaction was strange. She didn't dodge, nor did she admit it directly. She was enveloped in a thick fear, hugging her arms as if avoiding something invisible in the air. After a long moment, she said, "Officer, do you know that there are ghosts in the world?"
Of course Li Ao knew this, but this was a rather ambiguous topic. On the one hand, slogans advocating vigilance against strange invasions and guarding against strangers were posted everywhere; on the other hand, apart from the rumormongers who were verified to be attracting attention, no living person could prove that they had actually come into contact with ghosts.
If there is any, it would be video evidence from cameras or something like that. In other words, the killing rate of ghosts or monsters on living people is 100%.
Only the continuous unsolved cases every year remind people in a bloody way that the weird still exists, but you'd better pray not to encounter them, otherwise, you will have no chance to use your mouth.
This is also another side of the impact of the Fourth Treaty on the world of the living.
Li Ao: "Are you saying that the deaths of Bai Chao and Bai Xiaoju are related to something strange? Have you seen it?"
Liang Wei replied weakly: "I have seen it... It's like a dream..."
Li Ao frowned. He suspected Liang Wei was mentally unstable. Who would submit the contents of a dream as testimony? But driven by his intuition, he continued to ask, "Do you think the strange dream you had killed Bai Chao and his daughter?"
Liang Wei's lips trembled for a while, and after organizing her words, she spoke logically, "Yes and no. I suspect that the perpetrators of both attacks were Tang Pengan, my husband."
Li Ao raised his eyebrows. He thought that Liang Wei came to identify Tang Weining this time. "Suspicion? Haven't you seen it with your own eyes?" He personally poured a cup of hot water for Liang Wei. The latter lowered his head and did not speak, as if he was caught in some whirlpool.
Five minutes later, she looked up and said, "I haven't seen it, but I have evidence."
Liang Wei felt that something was wrong with Tang Pengan five years ago. They used to be a relatively harmonious traditional family. The tradition was that Tang Pengan was the complete head of the family, and Liang Wei could live a stable life just by being a good wife. But ever since her sister-in-law Bai Chao's career took off, Tang Pengan's once cheerful temperament gradually became gloomy.
Real estate, funds, children's education, the gaps in everything made him unable to laugh.
Especially Tang Pengan loves his son terribly. When he thinks that Bai Xiaoju will be able to live a life of financial freedom in the future, while Tang Guangming is timid and unable to achieve anything, and will eventually become an ordinary person, Tang Pengan, who claims to be a young talent, feels heartbroken.
How could he not be worried? The biggest tragedy in his heart was happening: there was not enough wealth to protect his son throughout his life, and his high IQ and social status, which he was proud of, did not seem to be passed on through genes.
"My university major was electrical engineering." Liang Wei took a sip of water. "My husband and I helped oversee the renovation of Bai Chao's villa, especially the plumbing and electrical work. Tang Pengan mistakenly changed the circuit in that room, and the grounding of the entire house is faulty."
Li Ao stared at her: "When did you find out?"
Liang Wei replied, "When the plumbers left the site and the masonry work was halfway through, I remembered that Tang Peng'an had been very interested in my professional books during that time, so I took a look at them. Sure enough, there were slight differences from the original drawings. To be honest, they were covered up very carefully."
"Didn't you remind the Bai Chao couple to re-route the circuit? There's still time to turn back now."
"No, I didn't want to dismantle my own stage. It would be embarrassing and wouldn't stand up to scrutiny. I thought the inspection team would notice this."
But the facts have proved that the probability of domestic decoration being unreliable is too high.
Liang Wei kept this secret to herself and never told anyone.
Liang Wei continued, "On the day Bai Xiaoju had the accident, Tang Pengan took me to buy baking supplies. I remember clearly that I bought four cans of canned butter. But by the time we went to my brother and sister-in-law's house for dinner, it had become five cans."
Li Ao followed up, "One of the cans is the gas anesthetic that Tang Pengan brought in?"
"I don't know, maybe. Later, Bai Xiaoju went upstairs to sleep, and we were about to leave. Tang Pengan went upstairs alone, carrying a bag, and said he wanted to say goodbye to the little girl."
Liang Wei's words made Li Ao shiver all over.
"What about Bai Chao? You also have evidence about Tang Pengan regarding Bai Chao's death three years ago?"
Liang Wei shook her head. "No, but two nights before Bai Chao's death, Tang Pengan wasn't at home. He said he was called to cover the night shift. I called my colleagues at the hospital, but he didn't go. Later, I learned that Bai Chao had died, and I think he was the one who did it."
Li Ao looked her over carefully. Liang Wei's expression grew calmer as she spoke, and her eyes were no longer red. Normally, a wife who learned her husband had lied about his whereabouts would assume he was out having an affair, but Liang Wei's association was far too accurate. "Why were you so sure?"
Liang Wei spoke again in a ghost story-telling tone: "Because after Bai Xiaoju passed away and Xiaoguang was transferred from the ICU to the general ward, he is no longer my son."
"What?" Li Ao was speechless.
"I can feel that there is a different person inside him. He has forgotten some things at school and at home, and his personality has changed a lot. He used to be a very weak child."
Li Ao recalled that Tang Guangming was now passionate about sports and held the title of captain of the youth football club. "Because of this, can you be sure that your son is not your son?"
"Officer Li, we see each other day and night." Liang Wei gave an unpleasant smile, "And there's one more thing."
"What?"
"After returning from the hospital, 'Xiaoguang' frequently requested to bathe with Tang Pengan, and was very repulsive to me, refusing to see me sleeping in the same room with Tang Pengan. The doctor said it was post-traumatic stress disorder. I accepted it."
"But after that, I often had nightmares. One time, when I woke up from a nightmare, I saw 'Xiao Guang' lying on the head of my bed, with its two little hands pinching my neck. I will never forget the resentful expression on its face."
Li Ao: "Then what do you suspect him to be? A ghost?"
Liang Wei nodded: "Yes, there is a ghost in his body."
"So you ran away from home."
"I wasn't running away from home; I was escaping. I had a feeling the ghost was targeting Tang Pengan. He was responsible for everything. So I left. My son was no longer in this world, gone... I handed my husband over to the ghost."
Li Ao flipped through his notebook and found the previous call records: "You contacted Tang Weining a few days ago? Tang Weining said you wanted to meet him and tell him something, but after the meeting, the clue you provided directly sent him back to Lucheng. Can you explain this?"
Liang Wei suddenly smiled: "I went to him because I felt guilty and wanted to warn him, but after seeing the higher-ups, I made a new decision."
"oh?"
"Tang Weining and Tang Pengan are twins. If the devil wants Tang Pengan, how could he not want Tang Weining? I don't want to offend that thing. I'm scared, so I'll just send Tang Weining back and let them solve the problem among themselves."
Li Ao scratched his head in annoyance. What Liang Wei said sounded too much like a story, yet it also made some sense. Finally, his thoughts returned to the beginning of the past few days and he asked, "Ms. Liang, did you write that letter of complaint?"
"What report letter? I haven't heard of it."
"Okay." Seeing that Liang Wei did not admit it, Li Ao closed his notebook and felt quite headache. He did not know how much of these testimonies could be used.
I feel like I'm going to be criticized again.
Liang Wei just stood up, then suddenly sat down again and said, "Oh, there's one more thing. When Tang Weining came to Micheng to see me a few days ago, he was accompanied by a little girl wearing a mask."
"No, to be exact, he came with a little girl wearing a mask."
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