CHAPTER XVIII
"What's his name?" Nie Ming asked eagerly.
"His name is Han Ze, I used to call him Uncle Han." Yu Jie said, "Why are you asking this?" β
Nie Ming ignored his question and continued to ask, "He used to come to your house often?" β
"I came a lot, and I talked to my father for hours as soon as I came. But after my father died, I never saw him again. β
"Do you have any special impressions of him?"
"Exceptional...... Impressions? Yu Jie thought for a while, "I remember that person had a habitual movement, because that movement was a bit strange, so I had an impression." β
"What action? Say it! β
"I remember that he used to rub his left index finger back and forth on his temples when he was thinking about things. Yes, I've seen this action many times. β
After hearing this, Nie Ming ran out of the door without looking back.
Standing at the door, Nie Ming looked to the west of the manor. Then he ran quickly towards the white house.
Nie Ming came to the white house out of breath. He stepped forward, slammed the door violently, and shouted, "Open the door, I know you're inside!" β
But there was no movement in the house, and the door was still tightly closed.
Nie Ming slammed the door a few more times, but there was still no response. He leaned his face close to the door and shouted inside, "If you don't open the door again, I'll call the police immediately!" β
After more than ten seconds, the door opened, and Nie Ming rushed in and closed the door.
"I guessed right, it's you!" Nie Ming looked at the person in front of him and said fiercely.
Looking at Nie Ming, Song Jingci looked a little surprised: "Nie Ming, why did you come here?" "Don't pretend! I know everything, and I know exactly who you are! β
Song Jingci approached Nie Ming and looked at him, her expression suddenly became cold and unfamiliar: "I didn't pretend, I just asked, how did you come here - I mean, how did you know all this?" β
Nie Ming didn't answer her question, he asked coldly, "What about Song Yu?" β
Song Jingci pointed to the back, and Song Yu was lying on the bed in a coma.
"You...... What did you do to him? β
She shrugged: "Don't be nervous, I just gave him a Coke with sleeping pills and he just fell asleep." β
Song Jingci sat on a single sofa, folded her hands, and asked calmly: "You were still convinced of my identity yesterday, why do you seem to understand everything today?" β
"Because I found an imperceptible detail in those notebooks left by your father, and it aroused my suspicion of you."
"Oh? Let's hear it. Song Jingci raised her eyebrows, showing great interest.
"I guess the police didn't even notice this detail. Your father had a habit of recording dates using the lunar calendar that we don't usually use! When I found out about this problem, it immediately occurred to me that the date '05.12.23' he left on the blue notepad might also be a lunar date, but he cleverly used the Gregorian calendar to cover it up! β
"Why would he do that?" Song Jingci asked.
"Because he's going to test it one last time, are you really not his daughter anymore!" Nie Ming said sharply, "Do you know that if 'December 23, 05' is converted to the Gregorian calendar, what is the month and what day?" β
Song Jingci tilted her head to look at him.
"It's January 22nd!" Nie Ming shouted.
"You told me before that it's your mother's death day, in other words, your birthday! Think about it, if you are really the same Song Jingci as before, how can you not know that your father has the habit of using the lunar calendar to record dates? How could it be that the secret hidden by this date could not be discovered? β
"But what does that mean?"
"Means that if you find out this secret, you'll be able to find this last piece of paper, not me - and discover who you really are!"
Nie Ming took out the last page from his pocket and held it firmly in his hand: "We always thought that we had unlocked the secret of your father's words. But I didn't know until just now that there was a second mechanism hidden in that passage - it implied that the last page of this book was hidden in the flowerstand of your mother's tombstone! β
"It turns out that there is still the last page of this book, and my father has set up a lot of puzzles." Song Jingci sneered and said, "You are also not simple, through the date converted to my mother's death date, I immediately thought that this last page was hidden in front of my mother's grave - it seems that it was really the right choice for me to cooperate with you at that time." β
"But," she continued, "what is it on this piece of paper that I can't know, and that needs to go through so much trouble?" β
Nie Ming slowly unfolded the piece of paper, brought it to Song Jingci, and said, "Look at it yourself." β
Song Jingci squinted at the two sentences on the last piece of paper:
First Reincarnation Experimenter: Han Ze (April 27, 1963)
Second Reincarnation Experimenter: Song Jingci (March 18, 1997)
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"Hahaha......" Song Jingci finished reading the paper and laughed loudly, "Damn Yu En, write all this!" β
"Huen?"
"Yu Cheng's grandfather - my former partner."
"You are the scientist who studied the mystery of reincarnation with Yu Cheng's grandfather decades ago, the person he mentioned in the book - Qu Yang?"
"From a physical point of view, I am Song Jingci who is like a fake. But if in essence, I am a person who has lived for more than a century. β
"I'm afraid it's supposed to be the 'soul'." Nie Ming stared at her and said.
"I don't care what you call it." She pouted and said, "What I care about is that I get what I want." β
"What do you want?"
Song Jingci stood up, walked up to Nie Ming, and whispered, "Eternal life." β
"Do you want to survive forever by being reincarnated, occupying the bodies of countless individuals?" Nie Ming stared at him.
"Nie Ming, don't talk to me so selfishly," she said, "there are some truths you should understand. How many people in this world have really contributed to the progress of humanity? Most people are just doing nothing in the world, wasting the earth's limited resources - and I, a brilliant and creative scientist, if I only live for a few decades and then grow old and die because of the laws of nature, is this not a loss for the human world? β
So you keep taking other people's flesh to give yourself eternal life β but every life is equal! What right do you have to decide the life and death of others at will! β
Song Jingci made a gesture for Nie Ming to stop: "Think about it, Newton, Darwin, Bacon, Einstein...... What would the world be like if these people could 'live forever'? β
Her eyes began to twinkle, her tone became agitated, and she opened her hands: "How much will these great, outstanding people contribute to our world?" For this purpose, what does it matter if there are dozens of useless ordinary people? β
Nie Ming looked at Song Jingci, who was dancing with her hands and her face was full of red light, and shook her head indifferently: "You are crazy, you are hopeless." β
"Why, do you think what I just said doesn't make sense?"
"I only know that this world has its own rules and balances, just as the animal kingdom must have the law of the jungle to maintain ecological balance - the same is true of the human world, if we try to disrupt this balance, it may not be a good thing, and it may even bring disaster." Nie Ming said coldly.
Song Jingci stared at him, and then laughed softly: "At that moment just now, I was in a tranceβwhat you just said, and the way you spoke, was exactly the same as Yu En decades ago. β
Yu En...... Yu Cheng's grandfather, he thinks the same? β
And because of that, he changed his original plan. Didn't you notice that it was written in that notebook - Originally, he wanted to be an experiment himself and complete the reincarnation experiment. But then, as if he had discovered my desire for 'eternal life,' he became wary of me. β
"The 'reincarnation instrument' that he developed never appeared in front of me, and he would rather pass on the method of reincarnation to his son than let me know. In order to find out the secret of reincarnation, I promised to be an experiment and reincarnated in the body of one of our students at the time, Han Ze. β
"Why doesn't he want to be an experiment?" Nie Ming asked.
"Because he realized that if the experiment failed, then he would be completely dead, and this method of reincarnation would fall into my hands and completely lose his control."
"So, you've been experimenting with rebirth, but you don't know the exact method of rebirth? Otherwise, how would you go out of your way to get this little book? β
Song Jingci blinked, looked at Nie Ming and said, "Didn't you find a problem here?" β
"What?"
"Although I have been reborn twice, and it was in this white house, each time it was a 'reincarnation ritual' that was performed after I died, which means that I had no way of understanding how he actually reincarnated me - every time I woke up, I found myself in another person's body."
"However, Yu En was not reincarnated, he would grow old and die. In your second rebirth, who will help you ......? Nie Ming said this and stopped.
"I see," he said, "Yu En regards the secret of reincarnation as an ancestral family rule that only the eldest son of each generation knows, and he also has the responsibility to help you reincarnate, right?" β
"You're really smart. Now you understand why Yu Cheng said 'I must die at home' before he died, because Yu En's family rules stipulate that the heirs of the Yu family must tell the eldest son this secret before he dies in the white house! In other words, the eldest son of the Yu family has been given the responsibility and mission of helping me 'reincarnate'! β
"But doesn't Yu En support your 'eternal life'? Then why would he ask his children and grandchildren to help you complete your rebirth? β
Yu En divides his reincarnation experiment into three phases. Stage 1 β Rebirth between the same sex; Stage 2 β Rebirth between heteroges; The third stage, which I am also preparing to experiment, is whether a soul can be reborn multiple times to form 'eternal life'. Yu En told me that if all three experiments were successful, he would let his children and grandchildren publish the results of their research, but the specific method of reincarnation, he would seal away forever because he had the same stupid idea as you that this kind of 'artificial rebirth' is against human morality. β
"In other words, he will help you complete three rebirths at most, and then the method of reincarnation will disappear from the world, and you will not be able to 'live forever', right?" Nie Ming somewhat understood.
"Now, you know why I need this little book so much! You can't imagine how excited I was when we dug this book out of the flower stand! Ironically,When we read that book together,You only seem to care about the useless 'plot explanation' in front of you.,And you don't know at all.,The last dozen pages of that book are the key - but then again,Who can understand those complicated things except me? Song Jingci said with a smug sneer.
"No wonder you took so long to read the rest of that book yesterday! Right now...... Do you already know the method of 'rebirth'? β
Song Jingci shrugged her shoulders: "I originally studied with Yu En, and I know a little about the method of reincarnation, and now that I read this book again, do you think I still don't understand?" β
Nie Ming showed an angry look: "You have been using me from the beginning, why are you doing this?" β
"Originally, I thought my father had told you something about the contents of the little book, I just wanted to paraphrase you. But then I found out that you were quite clever and might be able to help me - it turned out that I was right, and you did me a favor. Nie Ming, thank you for helping me find that notebook. When she finished speaking, she burst out laughing.
There was irrepressible anger in Nie Ming's eyes: "You use me, that's nothing." But you killed your own father to achieve your goal! Don't you even have a little humanity! β
"To be precise, that is Song Jingci's father, not my father. You obviously know that Song Jingci is just a shell. When she was 16 years old, Yu Cheng's father and I discovered that she was a good reincarnation target and performed a second reincarnation test on her. From that day on, Song Jingci was no longer herself, but became me, Qu Yang. β
"Yes, that is Song Jingci's father, and you have never regarded Lawyer Song as your father. However, have you ever wondered why Lawyer Song hid the last piece of paper to prove your identity somewhere else? And why would he just use 'he' instead of you in the message, instead of writing your name directly? He had a premonition that he might die at your hands, but he didn't tell anyone the secret before he died? Nie Ming said as he approached Song Jingci step by step.
"And why do you say that?" She asked, holding her head high.
Nie Ming stopped and said word by word: "Because even if the old lawyer knows this secret, he still stubbornly treats you as his daughter. Even if he guessed that you were going to kill him, he still wouldn't tell you your name and true identity - because he didn't want the police to arrest you and send you to jail! Even if her daughter was left with only a shell, he didn't want her to be hurt! β
"He's doing this to protect you!" When Nie Ming said this, his voice was already a little choked, and his eyes were blurred.
Song Jingci slowly turned her head, looked away from Nie Ming, and did not speak.
After a while, she said, "Actually, I didn't want to kill him...... But I didn't expect him to call me directly to confirm the secret after knowing this secret. I felt bad, and at the same time I was afraid that he would ruin the book, so I rushed to his house immediately. I asked him to hand me the notebook, but he refused, so I had to be ruthless - push him off the balcony! I was also a little surprised at the time, Mr. Song didn't seem to have any intention of resisting......"
"He has lost all hopes," Nie Ming said with a gloomy expression, "A person who is pushed off the balcony by his own daughter, what strength does he have to resist?" β
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"That's it!" Song Jingci suddenly shouted, "Don't tell me any more big truths!" I'm old enough to be your grandfather! It's not your turn to teach me a lesson! β
"I'm not here to teach you anything," Nie Ming said, "I'm here to stop you!" β
"What?" Song Jingci narrowed her eyes and said.
"If I'm not mistaken, you brought Song Yu to this white house because you wanted to be 'reincarnated' today! You already know the method of reincarnation, and of course you're eager to try it β but I'm not going to let you succeed! Nie Ming glared at her angrily, "In this room, there must be that 'reincarnation instrument' hidden, you already know where it is, right?" β
"Hahahaha......" Song Jingci suddenly laughed, "This idea of yours is exactly the same as my previous one." I used to naively think that the 'reincarnation instrument' that I had never seen before might be a machine the size of a television set that was hidden somewhere by Yu Eun. But yesterday when I saw a picture drawn in that little notebook, I suddenly realized-"
"It turns out that I've always been mistaken, this white house itself is the 'reincarnation instrument'!" Song Jingci said as she walked to the big bookcase
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