I remember what Cao Guang said, it was he and Meng Chai who kidnapped me and my mother together 20 years ago, which led to the mysterious case 20 years ago, and it was later proved that the reason why Cao Guang was locked up in Mulinbian Prison was because he was suspected of killing the warden of Mulinbian Prison.

So when I think about it, I look at him and I don't know what to say, I seem to know what he is going to say, but I still wait for him to say it himself.

Cao Guang knew that I had understood, and he said: "You are right, the 'villagers' of Mapo Town are all prisoners of the Mulinbian Prison, including me, and they are almost all prisoners who have committed capital crimes. ”

I thought of the scene when I met Cao Guang, it was after the kidnapping case, when Fan Zhen handed me over to him, what was your intention?

But I didn't ask, because I knew that Cao Guang would say it, since he had already said it to this level, then he would not hide some key places, and sure enough, he said: "We have a total of one hundred and twenty-one prisoners, who were arranged to different places in Mapo Town, as if they arranged for us before we came, we don't know why, we stayed here for one night, but more people, the first night has already sprouted traces of escaping, and by the second day, really all the people are gone, but only I am fine, When I woke up in the morning to find the whole town empty, there was no one, and I thought they had fled except me, but I learned later that it wasn't. ”

Speaking of this, Cao Guang paused, and he continued: "So I became the only one left among the one hundred and twenty-one people, and the person in charge the next day also noticed my specialness, but did not say anything, but continued to let me stay here, I did not have the idea of escaping, but I felt that things had become more and more strange, and there were even deep secrets in it, until the end of the third day, and on the night of the fourth day, I saw a fellow prisoner who had disappeared appeared at my door, I remember him, At that time, he was very panicked and kept knocking on my door, and when I opened the door, I felt that he had lost his mind, and he was saying something inconsequential, but more than that, he was saying - He Yang is not here with you?

"I happened to know you, and when I heard the name, I thought he knew that I had kidnapped your mother and son, so he asked me this, so I didn't pay attention to him, and he looked even more crazy, and he grabbed me by the collar and said, "Have you seen him, tell me where he is?" ”

"But soon I sensed that something was wrong with him, because he grabbed me by the collar and I was sure to resist, and just as I was about to break free from him, I noticed that his expression began to be wrong, and it seemed that something strange had changed in his body, and this change was the scene of corpse transformation that you have seen before.

"In the end, I watched him turn into a dry corpse in front of my eyes, and I was so frightened that I didn't know if it was because I was infected by this situation on him, and I felt a hot pain all over my body, and I found that there were a lot of blisters on my body, more like abscesses, and it soon covered my whole body, and I felt numb in pain, and then I lost consciousness. By the time I woke up again, seven more days had passed, and I was sleeping in bed, and the blisters on my body had completely dissipated, leaving only some vague traces, and beside me were these people who were in charge of Mapo Town at the time, and they kept asking me a question - where had I been in the past seven days, and what was going on with this corpse where I lived.

"I don't know what this is going on, and I know that I have been in a coma for seven days, but you should know that it is almost impossible to be in a coma for seven days without any nourishment, but in my understanding of it as a coma, and they thought that I was missing like the other prisoners, but I appeared unharmed, and only then did I know about the disappearance of the one hundred and twenty-one prisoners in front of me and the same disappearance of the one hundred and twenty prisoners later, but I don't remember anything, I can only tell them that the dried corpse is the prisoner I know, and it was also at that time that I came into contact with Fan Zhen. ”

Cao Guang stopped when he said this, looked at me, and seemed to see my reaction again, and when I heard this, I only felt that I was wrong in one place at the beginning, that is, about the toad corpse that Zhang Ziang told me, what I have always understood is that the dried corpse appeared after the toad corpse appeared, and the dry corpse is a mutation of the toad corpse, but now it seems that the corpse of the corpse appeared first in Mapo Town, and the case of the toad corpse appeared ten years later, that is to say, the corpse of the toad is the mutation of the corpse, or it is an independent event at all. Maybe the source is different, but in the end there is no connection.

Cao Guang saw that I was distracted and asked me, "What are you thinking?" ”

I looked at Cao Guang, the thought just now had already crossed, another thought had already emerged, and I suddenly almost covered my mouth and said, "You are a bald leper!" ”

I then understood why he suddenly paused to see my reaction when he said this, it turned out that he just wanted to know if I had figured this out, and after I said it, he didn't deny it, but looked at me, but his eyes were sharper, as if after I thought about this layer, some things have to be thought of by myself.

The question I was thinking about was why he didn't tell me directly, but wanted me to guess like this, and I didn't understand.

I was about to ask, but Cao Guang made a silent gesture at me and said, "I know what you're going to ask, but you can't ask." ”

I asked, "Why?" ”

"Because you haven't figured it out yet," he said. ”

I was even more puzzled: "What didn't I figure out." ”

Cao Guang gave me a meaningful look and continued: "Later, I was incorporated into Fan Zhen's team, which is the predecessor of your current investigation team, that is, the first investigation team you know. ”

Unlike what Zhang Ziang said, Cao Guang saw my shocked look, and he said: "It's normal for you to be surprised, because in your cognition, or in the limited archives, the first investigation team appeared shortly before the toad corpse case appeared, but what I want to tell you is that after that, something even more unbelievable happened." ”

I hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Cao Guang said: "Because a month after I was incorporated into this investigation team, there was an incident in which one of the 121 people who had disappeared from the military suddenly appeared in the village, and he was still holding a five-year-old child, and this child was you. ”

I jerked my head up at him and asked, "What?!" ”

Cao Guang said: "Moreover, this child's name is He Yang. ”

Cao Guang said this sentence almost word by word, he said: "And I have seen He Yang, because I was the party in the kidnapping incident before, I know what that child looks like, and then I also saw you, you and he are not the same at all, but you are also called He Yang, and you were taken by that person to appear here, but when Fan Zhen and they followed the clues to find you, they did not see that person, and later they confirmed that the person who appeared was Jiao Ming." ”

I was shocked again: "Jiao Ming! ”

It turned out to be him, it was the bizarre dried corpse on the night of the crime, this name was something I suddenly remembered, why in retrospect, Cao Guang seems to have given me a clue now, because I know him, and why he was at the scene that night, I'm afraid it is also related to me and Zhou Tongcheng.

I have a vague feeling that the events of that night have been faintly recognized, but the whole thing has gone in the other direction.

I asked, "Did you find him later?" ”

Cao Guang shook his head, and he said, "After Fan Zhen found you, he handed you over to me." ”

I asked, "Why was it given to you?" ”

Cao Guang said: "This is what I said when I first met you, you seem to have become stupid compared to before, because when they found you, you calmly said to them - I want to see Cao Guang." ”