Chapter 64
Only Cheng Ying, Zhou Du and Li Yang were left in the room.
The coffee table was actually filled with piles of papers, and the two small teacups in front of Li Yang and Zhou Du only took up a small space.
Cheng Ying picked up a stack of papers, stroked the long-forgotten case, and slowly said, "I haven't been on the front line since three years ago. I have come across very few unjust murders, and most of the cases in recent years have been solved. When I think about it, the only deceased people who can come to me in their dreams are the victims who have not seen the murderer brought to justice and cannot rest in peace."
Li Yang and Zhou Du didn't say anything at this time. Cheng Ying took a deep breath and sighed, "Mr. Zhou, Mr. Li, can you help me call out the victim's... soul? So that I can hear his demands?"
"He didn't speak in his dreams. I kept asking him, but he didn't answer."
Li Yang and Zhou Du looked at each other, Li Yang nodded and said, "We can give it a try."
"Okay, okay, that's good." Cheng Ying nodded repeatedly, "What about calling him now? Is he here now?"
There is no Yin energy here. Li Yang shook his head, "Not here."
The old detective's judgment and thinking are always quick and agile: "Yes, he came in the middle of the night. Then I will take you to the study first. He seems to come to the study every time to look through the materials."
Cheng Ying led them to the study, a normal-sized room with a wall of old-fashioned walnut bookcases, a desk, a computer, and nothing else. However, there were a lot of materials piled up around the walls.
Li Yang looked around and saw no remaining Yin Qi. He checked the time on his phone, which was 6:20 p.m., and said, "Let's wait until the evening."
Returning to the living room, the three decided to first look at the unsolved cases on the coffee table so that they could understand the ghost better by night.
These are all shocking cases where the methods used were brutal and inhumane.
Li Yang opened the first page and saw the photo of the victim lying at the crime scene, which was a photocopy and in black and white.
Bloodstains, scars, lifeless features, and messy hair.
Li Yang's head buzzed as something hit him. He turned the page and covered it with the back.
Zhou Du noticed his reaction and straightened up from bending over to read the information. "What's wrong?"
Li Yang couldn't say for sure. He had seen strange ghosts, but he wasn't scared. He also came into contact with ghosts from past lives when he was a mine transport driver, but he was a little powerless about the disappearance of life. However, the photos of the victims with their eyes closed would make him feel weird and twisted.
Li Yang admitted frankly: "I'm scared."
Cheng Ying and Zhou Du didn't laugh at him, they just told him to stop looking. Zhou Du gave him the pillow behind his waist, "I didn't think it through. You have a special physique, these photos may allow you to sense the victim." In other words, psychic, "Lean back and rest first."
Li Yang hugged a pillow and watched them looking through the documents. As he looked, his eyes narrowed.
When he was about to fall asleep, Zhou Du pointed to a page of information for Cheng Ying to see and asked in a low voice, "Is this a serial murder case or a kidnapping case?"
Cheng Ying lowered her reading glasses, squinted her eyes and looked carefully, then lowered her voice and said, "All of them."
Li Yang opened his eyes.
Cheng Ying seemed to have opened up her memory and said slowly, "The murderer was originally a child trafficker. Once, a little boy died on the road. He had no choice but to dump the body. The forensic examination showed that he died of illness."
"We don't know whether the murderer knew how much he had to do with the child's death. We only know that he gave up on himself and started committing murders, beating and killing the kidnapped children if they didn't obey him."
"At first, we didn't know the perpetrator was the same person. The police station was overwhelmed with reports of missing children and a serial child killer."
"We only found out about it when a survivor said there were two victims at the scene. But the little girl who survived has post-traumatic stress disorder and still can't remember what the murderer looked like that day."
Cheng Ying felt very angry when she thought that the vicious criminal was still at large and there was no news after 24 years of wanted list.
"Then pay attention to the appearance of the victims in all the cases and see if you can match some of their features with the man in your dream."
"Hmm." Cheng Ying thought about the man's torn appearance and sighed. She was afraid that it would be difficult to recognize him... Suddenly, something flashed by.
He quickly asked Zhou Du, "The soul is torn into pieces, does it mean that before death, you were..."
Zhou Du's face darkened, "Yes."
They began to select a portion of all the cases, some of which involved dismemberment, and some of which were spontaneous cases by serial killers.
Among them, the one that came up with the idea on spur of the moment was the child trafficking and murder case that Zhou Du had just asked Cheng Ying about.
Since they were already watching this case, they continued watching it.
A total of seven children were killed. They were flipping through the pages when suddenly a young man's voice sounded from Zhou Du's side, "I know this child."
Li Yang sat up and watched from a distance when they were flipping through the books, but he found that Zhou Du's aura was faint, which could relieve his fear, so he sat closer.
Cheng Ying: "Do you know what it means?"
Li Yang pointed to the line of words: Li Yiming, body parts found in Nanjiang Park on June 13, 1997...
"When I first came to Nanjiang, I captured a fast-moving evil spirit in the old park. He said he was looking for his son. I realized something was wrong, so I asked him what his son's name was and searched the underworld. It turned out to be Li Yiming. He had been in the City of the Dead for 24 years, but he left last year and went through the normal reincarnation procedures."
Cheng Ying actually understood the meaning, but just didn't understand some of the words.
Zhou Du explained: "The City of Wrongful Death is a transit station for children whose life span has not yet ended, but who have died due to human intervention. Only when their original life span ends can they officially go to the underworld to queue up for reincarnation."
Cheng Ying suddenly understood.
Then he thought of what Li Yang said about taming Li Yiming's father, and said, "Mr. Li, what do you mean by taming ghosts?" It's not that he didn't understand what it meant to tame ghosts, but he wanted to know what would happen to the tamed ghosts in the end.
Li Yang blinked, "Just like you, put them in the underworld, the prison corresponding to the living world, and let them reincarnate as human beings."
"Who are you……"
Zhou Du: "He is the Impermanence of the Underworld."
Cheng Ying understood this, "Then we are still in the same line of work."
Li Yang: "Not yet a regular employee."
"You...are going to take an exam too?" The old detective's worldview was completely reorganized.
After a short digression, Cheng Ying thought of Li Yiming's father. "After this child... their family broke up. His father must have become mentally ill and was always out looking for his son. In the end, he disappeared in the middle of the night and was found in the park lake in the morning."
The slightly loose atmosphere gathered again with this sentence, and everyone turned to the next page in silence.
The last victim was an adult male, 54 years old when he was killed.
Before Li Yang and Zhou Du could ask: Isn't this a case of child murder? Why is there an adult male involved?
Cheng Ying's eyes were moved, and he exclaimed, "This is a hero."
"It was the security guard of that old park. Because the two locations where the bodies were dumped and the children went missing were both in or near the park... I asked him to keep an eye on the suspect and control him if necessary, but he ended up losing his life."
"The little girl who survived was saved because of him, but he..."
Their eyes fell on the tragic scene in the photo.
Li Yang suddenly realized, "It's him."
Without waiting for Cheng Ying to be puzzled, Li Yang said, "The person you dreamed of is him. He is here."
Li Yang stood up, and a small wisp of evil energy came in from outside the balcony, passed through the living room, turned a corner, and went straight to the study.
Cheng Ying looked at the clock on the wall and it was already 22:30.
Li Yang reacted quickly, chasing the evil spirit to the study and standing at the door.
The Yin energy wasn't making any movement yet, just hovering in the room.
Zhou Du and Cheng Ying also came behind him and looked at the yin energy.
When the negative energy swirled near him, Li Yang suddenly reached out and grabbed it.
A small ball of Yin energy was controlled in the palm of his hand.
But the Yin Qi let out a slight scream and struggled to emit gray gas, as if it had fallen into molten lava.
Li Yang realized that he couldn't touch him, so he let go.
Before the Yin Qi had a chance to catch its breath, it fell into the hands of another man.
The moment Li Yang let go, Zhou Du took over the ghost. After strangling the vital point, the ghost gradually took shape in his hand.
Cheng Ying looked at the ghost's shattered face and finally confirmed that it was the former security guard of the old park. She almost shed tears, "Wu Xinghua..."
Li Yang noticed his extremely faint soul and looked at Zhou Du, "It's a residual soul."
Zhou Du nodded.
Li Yang tried to communicate with the remnant soul, but sure enough, the other party couldn't understand and couldn't give any response.
"Remnant soul? Did his soul also break into pieces along with his body? But the undertaker has prepared all his...body..."
"He should have been killed while he was still alive..."
Li Yang didn't continue talking, and turned the topic to the important point at hand: "In short, the soul is incomplete. This strand of soul appeared in your house. It should be because his last thought before he died was to catch the murderer, so this strand of soul became obsessed."
Cheng Ying burst into tears. Her words caused him to lose his life. Even when he died, his soul was still obsessed with this matter.
He wiped his tears, and his eyes gradually became firmer. "Mr. Li, Mr. Zhou, if you want to help him transcend and reincarnate, what can I do?"
"We will." Zhou Du did not use talisman paper to suppress the residual soul. He kept controlling it with his hands. There was no other way. Ordinary talisman paper with Qi power might make the residual soul dissipate.
Li Yang continued Zhou Du's words: "Don't worry, so many years have passed, why did he choose to appear at this time? We need to find his other souls now, so that he can speak and you can ask him clearly. And salvation also requires the step of replenishing the souls."
Cheng Ying felt that this was the best solution for both sides. "Okay, follow your procedure!"
To summon spirits, it is written in kindergarten textbooks: an incense table is needed, and tools such as a rooster, chicken blood, and red thread are placed on it.
But Li Yang borrowed the notebook on Cheng Ying's desk, tore off a piece of paper, wrote down Wu Xinghua's date of birth, folded a paper rooster, took off the red rope on his wrist, tied it to the paper rooster, and began to chant the spell.
The red rope turned into a phantom, pulling out a gradually longer red line that stretched out of the window.
After more than ten minutes, the red line locked onto one of the souls in a certain direction.
Cheng Ying just felt like she was having auditory hallucinations and heard the crowing of a rooster. Then, the spirit followed the crowing sound and came to Cheng Ying's study.
The following few souls and spirits were all led here in this way, but each incomplete soul was scattered in all directions, so at 0 o'clock in the morning, the soul-calling work was still in progress.
Zhou Du was also a bit busy, because Li Yang couldn't touch the remnant soul, so the task of replenishing the soul fell on him.
Cheng Ying saw the young man twisting the negative energy around Wu Xinghua into a thin thread and sewing it on his soul like threading a needle.
After repairing all the remaining souls and missing spirits, Zhou Du said, "We only need the last spirit to rest in peace."
Li Yang nodded, keeping an eye on the red line.
However, when the red line locked onto the last soul, the paper rooster crowed three or four times, but the red line remained motionless.
This was Li Yang's first time summoning spirits, so naturally it was also his first time encountering such a situation. He looked at Zhou Du and asked, "What's going on? Does this happen to other people when they summon spirits?"
Zhou Du shook his head. "The necromancy is very simple. There is probably only one reason for the current situation."
That soul refused to come back.
Li Yang immediately decided: "I'll go get it back."
Seeing that they were only one step away, Cheng Ying asked anxiously, "Do you know where it is?"
"About twenty kilometers southwest."
Cheng Ying shook his head in disappointment and rejected the idea. "The area is very large, it's not easy to find." If it wasn't targeted at a certain building or a certain floor, it would be difficult to find it without a search team, but he couldn't submit an application to the bureau.
What can he do? What else can he do? A feeling of powerlessness ensues.
Zhou Du placed the still dazed soul of the security guard in front of Li Yang, "Sense him."
Li Yang had no idea what to do, so Zhou Du guided him: "Close your eyes and think about him."
Li Yang closed his eyes, and Wu Xinghua's face appeared in his mind. He couldn't help but portray it over and over again with his mind to deepen certain impressions.
Suddenly, the young man's brows slightly frowned, and his eyeballs moved left and right under his eyelids as if he saw something.
Li Yang was originally portraying the appearance of the remnant soul, and then several photos of the remains in the file suddenly popped up. He felt a little uncomfortable. After flipping through these photos in his mind, he finally saw something.
Li Yang opened his eyes, "I know where he is."
*
At 1:10 in the morning, the criminal police team was dispatched, and at 1:30 in the morning, the silence of the urban village in the southwest of Nanjiang City was broken.
The police broke into a room on the third floor of a rented private building and subdued the wanted criminal who was sleeping with his hands tied behind his back.
After being taken back to the police station, they quickly compared the fingerprint evidence that was saved in 1997. The report results came out, and the murderer's psychological defenses were broken. Finally, in a deep mountain, the murderer was taken and identified, and the body of one of the seven missing children that year was found.
The shocking serial child murder case in Nanjiang City in the 1990s was completely solved.
Some people applauded, while others burst into tears.
After the murderer was imprisoned, Wu Xinghua's last soul was willing to return.
Zhou Du was mending it and Cheng Ying was watching.
When Li Yang sensed Wu Xinghua that night, what he saw was the scene before he was murdered.
The murderer lured the girl into a warehouse, and Wu Xinghua followed her. He immediately contacted Cheng Ying outside the warehouse, but there was another boy in the warehouse. Because the boy was noisy, the murderer became furious and wanted to kill the boy. Wu Xinghua had to step forward, let the girl run first, and stay to fight with the murderer in an attempt to save the boy.
But the murderer was young and strong, and had a weapon, so they were both killed. After being dismembered, Wu Xinghua's soul was torn into pieces, and two strands of it had strong obsessions. One strand stayed in Nanjiang, and the other followed the murderer. For more than 20 years, they have been following him, watching him hide his identity and wander around in various places.
Finally, when the murderer set foot in Nanjiang City again, the remnant soul that stayed in Nanjiang and the remnant soul that followed the murderer sensed each other. The remnant soul in Nanjiang found Cheng Ying, because it was just a remnant soul, it had no consciousness at all, and could only look for the case materials in the study room based on obsession. Just like the remnant soul that followed the murderer, it only followed based on obsession and could not do anything else to help solve the case.
Li Yang saw the murderer's appearance through Wu Xinghua's perspective, which was particularly clear. He also sensed the residual soul of the murderer by looking for Cheng Ying's residual soul, and knew the location through perspective and memory.
Subsequently, the police captured the murderer in one fell swoop and solved the case through the use of modern technology and interrogation experience.
"The soul is at peace." Zhou Du said.
Wu Xinghua was able to speak and regain consciousness. He also had the memory of his scattered souls over the years. He was delighted at first: "Officer Cheng, the murderer has been brought to justice!"
But he became sad again, "Twenty-four years... is too long."
Twenty-four years have passed.
Cheng Ying was tough and strong when he was young, but when he got old, he could not control his tears. He covered his face and cried again. In the end, he could not say anything. It was Wu Xinghua who kept comforting him.
"It's getting late, let's pray for salvation."
Li Yang and Zhou Du performed the prayer together. It took about five minutes for the cracks on Wu Xinghua's body and face to heal automatically, and he looked just like he was in life.
Wu Xinghua felt very comfortable and all the pain disappeared.
The entire soul body radiates white light, and there is a faint golden light on the outer circle.
Before Wu Xinghua entered the door, he looked back and saw Cheng Ying saluted with tears in her eyes.
Li Yang’s mobile phone pushes the Hell Pass points update, +13366, +1.
Li Yang didn’t understand what the +1 meant, so he clicked on it and saw that it was a golden medal.
He took a screenshot and sent it to Yu Shuang, asking what it was.
Yu Shuang: [?!]
[So temporary impermanence can also reward this?! ]
It seems that Yu Shuang is even more confused than him.
But Yu Shuang still gave an answer: Sending a spirit with the light of merit into the underworld will give you this. It is very rare in the trainee impermanence, and it is also somewhat rare in the official impermanence. It takes about 300 to get one, and it is not certain. It depends on luck. Ten medals can be exchanged for 1,000 merit points in the underworld.
Merit points are a reference for promotion of employees in the underworld.
The results of doing good deeds can be divided into blessings and merits. Blessings are common, but merits are hard to come by. Li Yang actually didn’t understand how to divide them specifically when he was in Liang Tang’s class. The first time he came into contact with merits was the golden light given to him by the wishing tree, and he didn’t feel any changes. The second was the faint golden light on Wu Xinghua’s body after he was saved, which should be the so-called light of merits.
Li Yang put away his phone.
*
The next day, Cheng Ying followed Li Yang Zhou Du's advice and bought ten bags of gold ingots, filling the trunk and back seat of the car, and went to the cemetery.
He first went to Wu Xinghua's tombstone, muttering to himself while placing offerings and burning incense.
He opened the sealed package of the liquor bottle cap and filled three cups. He looked at the dozen plastic cups and couldn't help but take out another cup and poured it for himself, saying happily, "I bought this for you. Anyway, I'm on vacation today, so it's not too much to treat me to a drink, right?"
A comfortable breeze blew by, and the fine mist of incense swirled around. "You are still generous." Cheng Ying drank with a smile.
"I can retire after the Chinese New Year..." Cheng Ying drank and chatted with Wu Xinghua's photo. The breeze kept blowing on his face. After three rounds of drinks, he was drunk. "Okay, I should go and bring you some money. Mr. Li said that the official currency down there is gold and silver ingots. I bought you all gold and silver ingots. You can spend them well down there. If you don't have enough, come back to me..."
Cheng Ying stood up as she spoke, and turned around to see a woman holding a bunch of chrysanthemums, with a man holding a little girl beside her, and two old people behind them.
"Officer Cheng," the woman called.
Cheng Ying squinted her eyes before she could figure out who it was.
It was the little girl that Wu Xinghua rescued.
"Gu Xiaoxi?"
Gu Xiaoxi nodded.
"You have children?"
Gu Xiaoxi smiled faintly, "Officer Cheng, I'm thirty-one. This is my husband, my daughter, and my parents."
During the brief conversation, Cheng Ying learned that every year on Wu Xinghua's death anniversary, Gu Xiaoxi would come to pay tribute with her parents. Later, when she got married, she brought her husband with her. When she had a child, she brought the child to Wu Xinghua to see.
"Every year I tell Grandpa Wu what happened in the past year, because all the good things that happened each year were thanks to Grandpa Wu who allowed me to survive. I don't know if he heard it." Gu Xiaoxi placed the chrysanthemums in front of the tombstone.
A breeze blew over, and Cheng Ying smiled and said, "He must have heard it."
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