The advantage of having a police friend is that it's easy to find someone's address. In addition, because the matter is related to the continuous campus deaths that have occurred this year and a murder sixteen years ago, Tang Hui feels that it is very necessary to meet this Shang Jiawen tonight.

Although all the speculations I had made before did not have any actual evidence to speak of, Tang Hui still attached great importance to this matter and reported it to the police captain. In the process of reporting, Tang Hui omitted the part about ghosts, and focused on the interests between Shang Jiawen and Zheng Lili and Zhang Hongliang, as well as her suspicions.

It was also because there was really no evidence that Shang Jiawen could not be arrested, so the police captain just asked Tang Hui to go to Shang Jiawen's home by way of investigation and questioning. However, this time I went not in Tang Hui's personal capacity, but on behalf of the Chinese people's police.

At half past eight o'clock that night, Tang Hui and one of his colleagues arrived at Shang Jiawen's house, and me, Shu Xin, and Qiao Wei also went with them as enthusiastic people.

Shang Jiawen is not married, nor does she live with Zhang Hongliang, and has always been in a state of living alone. Tang Hui rang the doorbell for a long time before someone finally answered, and after hearing Tang Hui say his identity as a policeman, the other party fell into a long silence.

This reaction looked like there was a ghost in his heart, so Tang Hui and his colleagues immediately ordered Shang Jiawen to open the door at the intercom at the door, but only silence was the response to Tang Hui. So Tang Hui pressed the other door numbers and asked other people in the building to help open the door, and after the door finally opened, Tang Hui rushed directly to the third floor.

The door of Shang Jiawen's house No. 301 was tightly closed, and Tang Hui knocked on the door for three minutes before the door finally opened slowly - a tall and slender middle-aged woman was standing neatly dressed in the door, holding a bloodstained knife in her hand!

Tang Hui immediately shouted, "Put the knife down."

The tall and thin woman obediently threw the knife to the ground, and said in a tone so calm that she could hardly feel angry: "I killed the people, Wang Dongmei, Zheng Lili, and those two students...... I plead guilty. ”

Shang Jiawen pleaded guilty the moment the police appeared, and she was obviously sorting out her clothes for the three minutes of silence before, probably to keep herself from being too embarrassed when she was arrested, as if she had been ready for this moment for so many years.

When Tang Hui handcuffed Shang Jiawen, I saw a smile on Shang Jiawen's face. Maybe the stone that had been suppressed in her heart for so many years was finally removed, and now she is relaxed and relieved, probably while killing Zheng Lili, she is also determined to make a break in her life.

The interrogation of Shang Jiawen went very smoothly, or Shang Jiawen said everything without any interrogation at all.

According to Tang Hui's retelling afterwards, the whole thing is almost the same as I speculated, but there are still some deviations in the middle.

Shang Jiawen likes Gu Wei, but she didn't miss Wang Dongmei because of this, and she didn't spread any rumors, it was Zheng Lili who did it. Because the two are friends, Shang Jiawen also told Zheng Lili that her father was the principal Zhang Hongliang, and Zheng Lili wanted to further convince the principal's daughter, so she thought of an idea to help Shang Jiawen snatch Gu Wei back.

After the rumors spread, Wang Dongmei's first suspicion was Shang Jiawen, and she also asked Shang Jiawen to reason in person. But Shang Jiawen chose to wronged herself and did not tell Zheng Lili.

When Shang Jiawen learned a few days later that Gu Wei had resigned and Wang Dongmei was also going to drop out of school, she suddenly wanted to explain clearly to Wang Dongmei, and didn't want Wang Dongmei to hate her for the rest of her life because of a misunderstanding. But Wang Dongmei's plan may be to teach Shang Jiawen a lesson before leaving, so when she went to Shang Jiawen's appointment, she brought a knife in her bag, and deliberately delayed the time until midnight.

Shang Jiawen wanted to explain everything, but Wang Dongmei didn't want to hear it at all. When Wang Dongmei took out the knife, Shang Jiawen panicked, and when she was busy grabbing the knife, Shang Jiawen accidentally stabbed the knife into Wang Dongmei's stomach, and Wang Dongmei accidentally turned out of the building when she retreated.

The guardrail outside the building is less than two meters away from the building, and Wang Dongmei's stomach happened to be pierced by the guardrail after she fell down, and the knife wound happened to be covered, so no one knew that she was stabbed.

The rest of the story was the same as I thought. Shang Jiawen told Zhang Hongliang about killing Wang Dongmei by mistake, and Zhang Hongliang immediately set about dealing with the matter, including cleaning up the bloodstains in the old building, destroying Gu Wei's files in the school, giving Gu Wei hush money, and even bribing the police.

Although she escaped the punishment of the law, Shang Jiawen's conscience has been tormented, so that she has not been able to fall in love for so many years, and she is even more reluctant to contact people. Another thing that bothered her was the knife she had been holding in her hand that night and bringing home, and the blood on the knife could not be washed off no matter how much she washed. This knife is the same one she held in her hand before she was arrested.

Everything that follows is the same as I had speculated before, except that Shang Jiawen's admission to killing people with ghosts and the like will not be recognized, so she must also undergo a forensic evaluation of mental illness. But Shang Jiawen confessed to killing Wang Dongmei and was willing to accept legal punishment, so the end result is likely to be put in a psychiatric criminal prison.

Failure to report information, obstruction of judicial fairness, intentional destruction of evidence, and bribery...... and a series of other charges have also been detained on Zhang Hongliang's head one after another, his position as principal must be gone, and the fate of being in prison is even more inevitable. The police officers involved in the case from 16 years ago were also subject to subsequent investigations.

But the whole incident didn't end here, at least for Qiao Wei and me, there were still two things to complete, one was the aftermath of Wang Dongmei's soul, and the other was to ask Shang Jiawen where he learned the ghost control and murder method.

Ghosts all have roots, and only when they are hard to find are they called rootless ghosts. Now that she has that knife, Wang Dongmei is no longer a rootless ghost. Because Shang Jiawen refused the lawyer to defend him, and the knife could not be used as evidence under the current circumstances, Tang Hui managed to take out the knife and hand it to Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei used the Soul Summoning Duel on the knife on the night he got the knife, and successfully summoned Wang Dongmei's soul. Different from the previous frenzied attack state, Wang Dongmei was very calm, even the stomach injury was gone, and she looked very beautiful. It's probably the most beautiful ghost I've seen in months.

The next day, Qiao Wei and I took the train to Jinzhou again, and then asked Gu Wei and Wang Dongmei's father, Wang Zhanxiang, to attend Wang Dongmei's opening ceremony. The consecration went smoothly this time, and I saw the same yellowish aura as I did when I was in Humpwaist Village before.

On the way back, Qiao Wei once again brought up the matter of Xiangtong, but this time he was relieved, saying that he could teach me a trick or two as a gift between friends. I'm not very greedy, so I proposed to learn a fire talisman, but Qiao Wei told me that the process of learning a fire talisman is similar to that of Lian Iron Sand Palm, and you have to endure hardship, so I decisively refused.

I think it's too troublesome to practice things like charms and spells, and it's still a fool's exorcism that is more in line with my appetite. So Qiao Wei promised to bring me a batch of bronze knife pendants in a few days, and let me keep them as darts to fight ghosts.