Chapter 62 "The Deliveryman" [First Update] Red and White Clash...
The situation took a new turn when Lao Ji called to say that Li Qian's family in the countryside had encountered something yesterday.
Li Qian's scumbag boyfriend died a violent death on their wedding day.
Thinking it was a coincidence, Lao Ji shook his head and said, "Our bureau can't really determine the nature of this right now, but what they're saying is quite strange. They say that when Wu was wearing a groom's suit and entering the residential area to pick up his bride, he was suddenly hit by a large truck and split in two."
"The bride was standing opposite Wu at the time. She said she saw her husband rushing into the road like a madman. Then her parents saw a woman in red wandering around their attic in the stairwell. But she was busy getting her makeup done with her bridesmaids that day and didn't go outside the house."
Jian Dieda and Lao Ji said, "I have always believed that there is real retribution in the world, it's just a matter of time."
Li Qian has been dead for quite some time. This gigolo has found someone new. The other innocent girl may not even know that her boyfriend's ex-girlfriend was murdered. These are lies that normal people can't make up, so they can only be explained by supernatural phenomena.
Old Ji sighed deeply, saying that several of Li Qian's relatives had asked a local shaman to summon her soul. However, these simple villagers were not trying to curse anyone or afraid that a vengeful spirit would come to their door and cause trouble for the living. Instead, they believed that the reason why the girl from their family appeared in that unfaithful man's marriage was because her soul had not been completely collected and she was still a wandering, wronged ghost.
Jane Dieda inexplicably wanted to attend this soul-collecting ceremony.
In principle, he and the deceased were complete strangers, and the police could not possibly disclose any information to him. However, if Jian Dieda could see Li Qian's coffin, with the help of the sorceress and the other party, could he seize this last chance to have a spiritual connection with the corpse and solve the case?
At first, Lao Ji really disagreed with Jian Dieda running off to the countryside.
It wasn't that he didn't trust his young colleagues at Ninth Brother's Noodle Shop; it was that he was chasing Er Majun and a group of criminal suspects, and if the people from the noodle shop went out of the province, there was no guarantee they wouldn't encounter thugs retaliating at train and bus stations.
When Zhong Yinghuai heard about this, he suggested that he, Jian Dieda, and Sun Dali go on a trip to another city. Jian Dieda didn't understand why Boss Zhong was doing this.
Zhong Yinghuai leaned against the car door, immediately feeling sullen. "Your sister hasn't been found yet. I haven't been able to keep my promise to you during this time. I have to take responsibility. Also, your mother's feelings are probably similar to Li Qian's family's right now..."
Jane's heart skipped a beat.
He turned his head and felt awkward again, realizing that Sun Dali had been following them the whole way; Sun Dali's mouth was too loose.
Zhong Yinghuai glanced at the shop door, took his hand, and whispered coaxingly, "I'm just afraid you'll still be embarrassed later. Don't worry, if Sun Dali dares to bully you, I'll slap him for you..."
Inside the shop, Sun Dali peeked at them whispering to each other, then quickly slipped inside. He was both excited and nervous when he heard that he could accompany the two of them.
He was a country bumpkin who went out of town to live a carefree life, and the boss and his wife would even share their meals, drinks, and catching bad guys with him...
Simple!
You are the only boss lady I will ever have in my life!
In the afternoon, they went out. Zhong Yinghuai drove from Nanping to Li Qian's hometown. He also gave Xiangxiang 3,000 yuan and told her to take a bag and go to a scenic spot for a few days. He told her to buy big sunglasses and leave quietly at night, taking regular buses and hotels along the way.
Having come from Nanping, a place with a relatively high cost of living, to a rural area where people make a living by selling fish, Jian Dieda experienced firsthand the hardships of growing up as a girl.
At the belated funeral, two fish, a cake, and a bottle of juice were offered as sacrifices.
Li Qian's family was pitifully poor, and all the underage girls in the village were also suffering. Smoke and fumes from mahjong and card games surrounded every household. Women did all the farm work in the kitchen and fields. Even the sorceress came voluntarily without taking any money. She confessed, "She used to call me aunt. I watched this girl grow up. I heard that she died a wronged ghost. I have to help her even if I don't give her any benefits, so that she can go back to her ancestral grave to live."
After hearing these words, Jian Dieda remained silent for a long time before finally entering the earthen house alone.
The escort girl lost her life, and now she's causing trouble for her fellow villagers. The village secretary gave her a few instructions and then didn't want to get involved with these people.
Zhong Yinghuai has a clear understanding of human nature.
He used to give money to Zhang Mei for charity, but now he doesn't even want to give her cigarettes.
If Boss Zhong had money, he'd rather buy candy for Jian Xiaoshi and Jian Ershi!
To be honest, they shouldn't have been allowed to come in, but the white-haired sorceress, who could see into the yin and yang realms, quickly discovered that the young man from out of town might have that kind of constitution.
Jian Dieda did not say it outright, but secretly used Marshal Wang's spell to protect himself once more.
He is a human being, and the only rule of the game is that he cannot take the obvious path or use illegal skills.
Because of this restriction, he cannot say that he can see ghosts.
He couldn't say it either.
He was the time-traveling player who knew the most about the cause of Li Qian's ex-boyfriend's death.
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[Wang's cause of death: A clash between a red and white star.]
[The Red and White Clash is an extremely yin and malevolent formation. It can lure the living into its trap, summoning the souls of the dead to claim their lives. At best, the wronged relatives will die on the spot; at worst, the entire family of the person involved will be wiped out, leaving ten households extinct.]
As early as modern times, people had heard of the clash between the red and white spirits. Jian Dieda thought about the high degree of similarity between Fu'an Community and the location where Wang died tragically, and felt that the evil spirits and resentment in that scene could not be resolved by ordinary rituals.
Seeing this, the sorceress silently began her work.
The secrets of ghosts are indeed the things that should never be spoken aloud, otherwise they will lose their power.
They offered incense to the five great deities together. She and Jian Dieda each did their own thing, but there were only two people who had to give an explanation to the others. This request included not only the Li family members but also the outsiders.
First, everyone present must make way for those who cannot see, and should not stand in doorways.
Second, do not speak loudly. If you feel someone in the village calling you, do not answer randomly, as you may offend something.
Zhong Yinghuai wasn't afraid. According to him, he and his uncle used to perform spirit parades in the village when he was little, and people would say he had a coffin on his head and a spirit trailing behind him.
"Lingwei?" Sun Dali said cheekily, "Um, boss, are you sure it's not a spirit tablet?"
Zhong Yinghuai: "..."
He was annoyed and almost yelled.
Fortunately, Jane shushed them.
Zhong Yinghuai and Sun Dali had no choice but to shut up and witness what happened next.
On the other side, Little Blackie was performing a ritual.
The sorceress brought up a chicken with a red string and a bell.
The chicken was turned upside down.
The sorceress used her fingernails, dyed with the color of balsam flowers, to scratch open the chicken's forehead while chanting a spell.
The chicken was bewitched; after a few drops of blood came down, it remained motionless.
Jian Dieda helped the sorceress perform a ritual using a chicken with its legs spread apart.
After a few incense sticks burned down.
The chicken sensed something and cried out in anguish.
In the blink of an eye, the blood-red crest and the wide-open bright yellow pupils of the bird over there looked remarkably like Li Qian's death!
Sun Dali saw it clearly. He hid behind Boss Zhong. His back was sweating, and his palpitations and trembling symptoms were getting stronger. The ghost's magnetic field and the human energy in the room were influencing each other.
If it weren't for those taboos still lingering in people's minds, any normal person would be terrified!
My God, ghosts really do exist! Jian Xiaoshi was right, people shouldn't do bad things, there will be retribution, and now he completely believes it!
Fortunately, Li Qian was clear about her grudges and didn't hold a grudge against Sun Dali. She possessed the chicken and conveyed some of her resentment to Jian Dieda through the sorceress. The chicken then closed its eyes and fainted.
Jian Dieda said, "We can go now. Li Qian's matter should be considered settled."
Sun Dali asked weakly, "Did she leave voluntarily?"
Zhong Yinghuai glanced at the doorway.
A look of confusion crossed the man's handsome face. He wondered if it was just his imagination, but apart from the sorceress and Jane Dieda, he could also sense a pair of feet that seemed to be standing on the threshold.
The feet were barefoot, belonging to a woman, with her ankles clearly visible. However, he didn't feel much sensation from her upper body and head.
Zhong Yinghuai stared at it for a long time.
Jian Dieda noticed and patted him: "Don't look, save your yang energy."
Because men are generally more prone to kidney deficiency due to being startled.
Zhong Yinghuai realized he shouldn't be too bold. He immediately stopped looking at his wife while holding her hand. A man with male virtue shouldn't talk too much. It was more important for him to preserve his masculinity.
This experience broadened Zhong Yinghuai's horizons. He realized that the world truly operates on cause and effect, and that those who make money through dishonest means will eventually face retribution. The same applies to being a scumbag. In any case, he would never betray his love in this lifetime.
They traveled home from the village in silence, each lost in their own thoughts.
Back in Nanping, Xiangxiang surprisingly didn't go sightseeing.
Zhong Yinghuai asked, "What's wrong?"
Xiangxiang told the three people, "I can't leave. I'm so angry I could scream! Just today, Lao Ji caught the female accomplice that Xiaoshi was talking about! Can you guess who it is?"
"You guys, I bet nobody would have guessed this!"
Because no one living in the community could have imagined that the mysterious female accomplice really did have the best disguise that she couldn't get rid of, just as Jane Dieda had said.
If Lao Ji hadn't also been an undercover police officer, and had been deeply embedded in several layers of the organization for several years, he wouldn't have realized that one of the key factors in Er Ma Junzai's repeated successes in human trafficking was this female prisoner.
More importantly, Jian Xiaoshi provided another clue. He said that when Li Qian was murdered, the old lady said she didn't hear it, but in reality, most elderly people have poor sleep, not to mention that an old lady who collects scraps is the one who knows the residents' information best.
Upon investigation, it was indeed found that this person was the head of the Ma family, who used the alias "Grandma Ma," and was known in the underworld as her godmother. She was the female leader of a cross-border human trafficking gang.
The two Ma armies collapsed without a fight.
With their mother arrested, the Ma brothers were also apprehended.
They confessed that they killed Li Qian. They had intended to sell the girl for a high price, but a customer caused a fatality. The police came looking for them, unaware that the girl had been dismembered, her hands and feet severed, and her body mutilated. Every piece of her flesh that had been shredded and flushed down the sewer was in the cement.
A few days later, after Lao Ji finished interrogating the second batch of people involved in the case, he himself could hardly believe that there was such a terrible series of cases in the world, but what was even more shocking were the details.
According to Grandma Ma, she would pretend to be a demented old woman and deceive some young women by getting lost, so that they would take her home. The easiest way to deceive women and make them open the door at night was by the sound of a baby crying and a kitten meowing outside the door in the middle of the night.
Anger is one of the most basic human emotions, and anger is like a trigger that ignites the emotions of the entire town.
At this point, Ruan Lili's death is definitely related to these evil people.
This is a fact that everyone agrees on!
Ke Jian Dieda did not comment.
Coincidentally, at this very moment, the older sister, who had been missing for about ten days, appeared in a reed field in Nanping.
She had fainted from hunger. Her eyes and nostrils were covered with plastic wrap, leaving only a hole in her mouth. She had no clothes on her body and only a pair of slippers on her feet.
Forensic examination determined that the older sister had not been harmed.
Although the older sister was found, she developed significant mental health issues and could not help with the progress of the case.
"My name is Jiayi, my name is Jiayi, I am a princess, and you are a pig."
That's all she says.
After learning about this, Jian Dieda consulted the oracle on the road in Fu'an Community where someone had died. He wanted to ask Ruan Lili if Li Qian was willing to be reincarnated and if the person who killed her had been found.
The divination says:
"The good and evil in a person's life are not predetermined."
"Those who do good and those who do evil will each be punished."
“Where the water is pointed, that is when the true culprit will emerge.”
...
Jian Dieda went home once, and when he wanted to switch scenes and collect evidence, he opened his eyes to find that the system had already sent him to the scene.
The door slammed shut.
He didn't know how much time had passed, and he thought no one was around, but then the footsteps returned and walked towards him.
We've been discovered!
Jane had only one thought: his back was pressed against the cabinet door, and his hands were already in a defensive stance.
But this time the door wasn't opened; only one foot stepped in.
The heartbeat has remained unchanged.
Jian Dieda remained motionless.
Because the final game of defecting to the enemy was just one step away, the case of his arrival in this world may soon be resolved.
At this moment, he had a guess about who the person at the door was. This idea lacked evidence, but the system could help him find the clues.
The phone's light shone down on that terrifying face, and a chilling aura rushed up to his head. It turns out that people really can be more frightening than ghosts.
Jane: "Mom, my bucket is missing. I can't take a bath because you used it to hold people's heads, right?"
"..."
Jian Dieda: "The police obtained receipts for my father's multiple encounters with prostitutes, including Ruan Lili."
According to the Ma brothers, Ruan Lili had a regular customer. Before her death, Ruan Lili said that the customer once took her to his home, where she saw his daughter's school uniform.
The police have likely identified the stepfather.
Zhang Mei's haste to return is probably not that simple.
Thinking this, Jane looked at the bathroom toilet and the water.
The sheer volume of clues made it clear to him only now that the stench he smelled at the entrance of Nanping Junior High School was the same as the smell of the bucket Zhang Mei had hidden.
What he and Zhong Yinghuai smelled wasn't the scent of the police and forensic doctors, but the scent of the murderer.
The bathroom tank and drain are currently dripping water.
Jane had those waters marked in her brain.
System: [Giant's Pus, a phenomenon of death caused by highly decomposed corpses soaked in water, originating from the head of victim number 2 in this round.]
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Author's Note: The next chapter is out too, muah~
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