Chapter 18: The Devil (I)
I sat on the couch in my room and looked up at the ceiling, feeling empty in my heart, and the faint light above my head flickered hysterically and unsettlingly.
I don't want to repeat the rest of the story, Yu Ge went into the water again, salvaged Mrs. Chen's body from the cold water, and then stored it in the restaurant, ready to hand over to the police tomorrow, this bleak love story at the cost of the tragic death of three people has finally come to an end.
To put it bluntly, the encounter between Lao Ma and the Chen couple made me think about a lot of things, I didn't think about who was right and who was wrong, even Mr. Chen, who had committed a lot of crimes in Mrs. Chen's mouth, I didn't think he was so hateful, but felt that he was so pitiful. I guess his mental journey from a man's point of view, he must have loved Mrs. Chen deeply at that time, otherwise he would not be so eager to tie the knot with Mrs. Chen forever, but his self-righteous love in exchange for Mrs. Chen's constant contempt, in exchange for Mrs. Chen's desperate desire for divorce, maybe at that time, he became so cold-blooded and ruthless.
As for Ma Yuan and Mrs. Chen, I don't think their extramarital affair is so dirty and disdainful, but it is a kind of inner pursuit, but this chase seems to have come a little late.
Think about the world now, in fact, everyone is making the same mistakes as them, when they reach an age, everyone has to consider the issue of marriage, but the object of marriage is sometimes chosen so hastily, just like a trip to the supermarket and carried out, before I had a friend who got engaged to a girl in less than two weeks, to be precise, it was a flash marriage, I was shocked when I heard the news, I asked this friend why he was in such a hurry, and he gave me the answer that two people just need to look at the right eye, Actually, it doesn't matter how long it is, I was thinking to myself, please stop deceiving yourself, okay? Two weeks is simply not enough time to get to know anyone. Is this kind of hard-to-end marriage more fragile than the surface of the water? Maybe it doesn't need to be blown by a breeze, and it will itself be shattered in the old age.
Talking about this topic and going away, and this is just my random speculation, if what I said is not right, everyone should not take it to heart. Because I'm too young myself to say those deep and philosophical words.
Time passed like this, and Moon Shadow zigzagged around the room a few times, but I couldn't fall asleep, thinking about what had happened in just two days, who could sleep peacefully? Two days ago, there were five of us climbing the mountain, and now there are only two people left, me and Yuge. This feeling of powerlessness can be borne by a few people.
"Izumi, aren't you asleep either?" Yuge had been lying motionless on the bed, and I thought she had already fallen asleep, but she turned her head to look at me to prove that she was suffering as much as I did.
"Well, it's hard to sleep."
"You also think that what Mrs. Chen said has a lot of loopholes, right?" Yu Ge sat up suddenly, his eyes radiating a bright light.
It turns out that the reason why Yu Ge and I didn't fall asleep is different, I'm lamenting the sad story, and she is still struggling with the "case" in her heart, I know her inquiring character, but at this time, after the three of us have been separated from yin and yang, this retrospective seems so meaningless.
"Xiaoge, we shouldn't dwell on this matter anymore, it's all in the past." I said helplessly. "We're leaving tomorrow morning, and any unthinkable has nothing to do with us."
"Quan, that Mrs. Chen is a very emotional person, and her spirit is close to collapse, she can't fully believe what she said, for example, about Mr. Chen killing Boss Ma, it's just her own feelings." As if he didn't understand my words, Yu Ge was still clinging to the so-called truth. "If Mr. Chen is not the murderer, it means that we have let the real murderer go unpunished."
I sighed, not knowing what to say. "You're right, those are just Mrs. Chen's own reasoning, and you really can't convince a person impeccablely, but this is also the most reasonable ending, the rest of the people can't have anything to do with the old horse, so what is the motive for killing the old horse?"
"Izumi, do you remember that I thought there were two people who were abnormal at the beginning?" Yu Ge asked reluctantly.
"You think Han Ke and Jingjing are very strange, but then you yourself said that they are normal people, so we have long excluded them." I've always been patient, and I'm inevitably a little impatient at the moment. "Don't doubt them anymore, okay, everyone will be psychologically affected when they encounter this kind of thing, Han Ke is just an ordinary woman, and Jingjing is just a child, let's stop thinking about killing people on their side, okay?"
"Liu Quan, you have experienced so many things over the years, it is not that you have not noticed anything, it is because you are unwilling to expose it, right? Or are you lying to yourself? "Yu Ge spoke strangely, as if he was making fun of me.
Naturally, I noticed something unusual, and these small details simply could not hide the eyes of a person who has been dealing with demons and monsters for a long time.
First of all, the cold water surface is a big mystery, but just now, I seem to have observed a detail: because I and Yu Ge visited this pool alone earlier today when no one was around, and found that the temperature of the water was normal at that time, which means that this pool is not cold all the time, and then I think about it again, it seems that this pool always emits this biting chill when people are around, and I found this strange appearance by the pool twice, and there was a person by my side when I found this strange appearance twice by the pool, That is our beautiful girl in a yellow dress quietly.
Let's talk about that Han Ke, when he went to rescue Mr. Chen just now, this Han Ke actually wanted to go into the water to fish for people in person, and he also put on a strange posture, how do I look at that posture like an action to cast a spell, and as a woman, I shouldn't have done these things that are charging into battle, but Ah Zhong doesn't seem to have any surprise, which also makes me a little puzzled, the reason why Yu Ge was the first to rush down is because Yu Ge has a way to be a monster, Can I understand that Han Ke's identity will be somewhat similar to Yu Ge. That Zhang Zhong obviously has a lot of secrets hidden in his heart, because the eyes between him and Han Ke are really complicated, and it is by no means as simple as Zhang Zhong said.
But to say a thousand things and ten thousand, this is also my wishful thinking, just like Mrs. Chen's correction of Mr. Chen, there is no evidence at all.
It's not like Yu Ge who always can't get along with himself, and he doesn't have any desire to solve all these puzzles, because it doesn't make sense at all, whether it's Han Ke or Jingjing, they all have their own lives, even if they are demons or ghosts, we shouldn't bother them for the sake of losing suspicion.
"I didn't notice anything, I thought it was really normal." I decided to play dumb once and dispel all of Yu Ge's thoughts.
"Izumi! Do you remember that when we were at the top of Mount Tai, black and white impermanence appeared, there must be a ...... in this?"
Yu Ge had just finished his sentence when he heard a slight knock on our door.
"Wait, Xiaoge, did you hear the sound?" I gently covered Yuge's mouth and listened carefully to the wind and grass that seeped through the crack in the door.
The sound was like a thin needle poking the rock, dull and shriveled. In particular, it was a knock on the door, but it was more like a claw scratching the door, like a violin.
"There really is a sound......
At this moment, it was already past three o'clock in the morning, and it was a little strange to have a knock on the door at this time, plus the thought that two people had just died today, I didn't feel a little creepy.
"I'll open the door and see......" Yu Ge tiptoed to the door, ready to cast a spell, she gently unscrewed the deadbolt, and the door was slowly opened, and on the opposite side of the door was a beautiful yellow dress, like floating acacia petals.
"Quiet girl......" Yu Ge was stunned for a moment, and then slowly unarmed herself. What's the matter? ”
"Shhhh......h
"Big brother and big sister, I have something to tell you." Quietly holding the hem of her skirt, her face was a little anxious. "It's really important, it's very important."
This is a big surprise, Jing Jing has actually been the object of Yuge's suspicion until now, but at this moment he actually found us by himself.
"Oh? What do you want to say to us, Girl Quiet? This little girl's actions confused Yuge, who had always been calm and sharp.
"At this time, I won't sell it to the two of you, just now when Sister Yuge went down to save people, I already saw the clues." said something quietly, but this plain sentence made me and Yu Ge sit on pins and needles.
"You...... What did you find? "Yu Ge is a little distracted.
"Sister Yuge is not human, is she." Jing Jing looked at us with sincere eyes, not like he was joking at all.
Yu Ge was silent for a long, long time, but his eyes were staring at Jing Jing, and he must have thought a lot in his heart.
"I know the temperature of that pool, ordinary people will definitely die after going down, the reason why Sister Yuge rushed into the water to save people, and she was unharmed, can only show that Sister Yuge is not an ordinary human being."
Yu Ge slowly calmed down, and soon entered a state of feint. "Little sister, you're really joking."
"And just now I saw Sister Yuge using spells to warm up her body, and her body is covered with feathers, if I'm not mistaken, my sister is a feather human race, right!" Jing Jing seemed to see through Yu Ge's disguise and was completely unmoved.
At this time, Yu Ge and I were completely speechless, and we were caught by this little girl at once, but what is even more incredible to us is how a little girl who looks so ordinary can know so many things that ordinary people can't know.
Yu Ge's previous guess was completely correct, this silence was really unusual, and far beyond our imagination.
"The song of the Feather Clan, after listening to it, will make people unforgettable for a long time."
I don't know how long it has been since I've seen Yu Ge so panicked, and I feel like all my secrets are being exposed naked in front of one person at the moment.
"Big brother is not a simple tea shop owner, you have something ten million times more important than selling tea, right?"
I gasped, feeling that the whole person fell into a state of dizziness, this matter didn't even know Yuge, how could this little girl know.
"Little sister! You...... Who the hell are you! ”
"Shh Jing Jing made another soft gesture. "Sister, I won't lie to you, I'll be honest now, I'm from Hades, and I am a person with a position in Hades, to be precise, I'm a criminal investigator in Hades, and a subordinate of the judges of the Ten Palaces."
Yu Ge and I both widened our eyes and couldn't speak for a long time. This result sounds unacceptable, but when you think about it, it feels unexpected and reasonable.
In fact, I didn't understand it at the time, but it slowly became clear later that the so-called ten halls are actually like the ten-layer judgment of the underworld, and the judges of the ten halls are actually like judges in the world, and they will conduct a series of trials on the dead, depending on how many bad things you have done in your life, to see if you need to go to hell, or to be reincarnated, of course, whether it is to go to hell or reincarnation, it is a relatively niche situation.
"No wonder that day, black and white impermanence would talk to you, it turns out that you are colleagues."
We are back on the shores of the lake, which is deeply pampered by the moonlight.
Next to the mirror-like lake, there was really a rockery, and Long Shao had hit it heavily that day. Yu Ge carried me around the rockery several times before I found the small hole that was hidden by weeds.
"I've been on the island for so many years, and I've never realized there is such a cave." Yu Ge said puzzled.
"Naturally, you have no way of realizing that this used to be the place where your mother and I practiced, and only the two of us knew about the island, so we made a very effective camouflage through the surrounding plants for safety." The woman said with a smile. "If I hadn't told you in advance, how would you have noticed this place."
Yu Ge cautiously took a few tentative steps, and as soon as he entered the cave, a warm wind hit him.
"Don't be afraid, just go inside." The woman said. "I'm too lazy to set up any traps in my cave."
Yu Ge moved down the rugged and winding road little by little, and the deeper he went, the more he felt the air getting hotter and hotter, as if he had melted into the earth's crust and fallen into the center of the earth.
"Izumi. If you bear with it a little longer, you'll be fine in no time. Yu Ge saw that I was still in unbearable pain, and unconsciously quickened my pace.
At the end of the dark corridor, a dazzling red light enveloped us for a moment, and we entered a very large space. I didn't expect that under this rockery, there was such a cave place, the walls around were constantly flowing with red magma, the ground was full of criss-crossing ravines, and the walls were full of birdman language. There are many ice-crystal-like flowers growing on the vermilion ground where the lava is constantly flowing, and between this fiery red, they are like dazzling crystals, and they are full of vitality in this place where ordinary living beings will dry up and die.
The scorching air made me sweat profusely, and the wounds on my body were even more painful. "Senior, you won't be lying to us again, how can this place treat burns."
"Senpai, we're here, and then what?" Yu Ge asked eagerly.