Next, I stayed alone in the reception room of the prison, smoking cigarette after cigarette, thinking about what Guo Fangzheng had just said.

The murderous demon had been duly punished, and the death penalty was expected to be carried out in ten days. This would have been a happy thing.

Through the conversation with Guo Fangzheng just now, I suddenly realized that his arrest was only the tip of the iceberg of the source of all evils.

The strange man in red with his shoulders collapsed down may be the black hand who controls the whole case behind the scenes. And the reason why Yu Tianlong spent so much energy to get Guo Fangzheng out of prison must also have ulterior interests involved.

I speculate that he must have something to do with the Ren Yu case.

Thinking of this, I feel more and more that from Tang Yirou's disappearance three years ago to Xie Jiayi's sudden appearance now, there should be some kind of connection between the two.

Perhaps, like her, I have been swept into the center of this vortex, and the evil forces hidden in the darkness have gradually begun to move.

After I finished thinking about these things, it was already dark outside, although Guo Fangzheng had been arrested and imprisoned, but looking at the dark sky, I felt very depressed inexplicably.

I stopped a black car near the suburbs, and after bargaining and coercion, I finally persuaded the master to take me to Fujiang District.

At that time, when Guo Fang was getting up to leave, he told me that he had a gift for me.

I don't think he's a dead man, so there's no need to play any tricks. Thinking about this, I still have some hope that what kind of thing that murderous demon will leave for me.

The only place that matches what he explained is that it could only be his and Liu Ping's residence. I vaguely remember that in Liu Ping's bedroom, there seemed to be a desk like that.

It still takes a long time to drive from my prison to Liu Ping's house.

Staying in the taxi, I flipped through my phone in boredom, and found that Lin Xiaoxue had made more than 20 phone calls to me all afternoon, and even had an unread text message.

This girl is so anxious to find me, eighty percent is to let me take her to have a good time in Huayuan City, which is also what I promised her to do. But now, my mind is on Guo Fangzheng's side, and I'm not in the mood to take her out to play.

Although I have repeatedly broken my promise and am sorry for Lin Xiaoxue, I thought that I would wait until the matter was almost over, and then compensate her.

At this moment, the black car happened to pass by the most prosperous area in the city center, and I vaguely remembered the most famous cake shop in Huayuan City, which seemed to be near here.

I asked the black car chef to park the car in front of the cake shop now, and specially bought a medium tiramisu cake for Lin Xiaoxue, wanting to give her a small surprise.

I didn't expect a palm-sized cake to charge me 58 yuan.

After paying the money, I immediately regretted it, and quickly asked the store to issue an invoice for me, and when the time came, I would let Lu Yuan reimburse it as public expense。。。。。。

An hour later, the black car driver finally drove the car into the community where Liu Ping lived under his unreliable GPS positioning.

Fujiang District was originally a new district, sparsely populated, and not long ago the people were in a uproar, the surrounding residents have long dared not go out easily at night, and the whole community can no longer see a living person who goes out except for the janitor.

After getting off the bus, I followed the route I had memorized all the way forward, and soon found the building where Liu Ping lived, and I still clearly remembered that Liu Ping's family lived on the sixth floor, and at that time, it was Guo Fangzheng who brought me and Lu Yuan here.

I climbed up to the sixth floor in one breath, and when I stood at the door of her house, suddenly an inexplicable chill immediately spread throughout my body.

There was almost no light in the hallway, and the darkness weighed down my breath.

The iron gate of Liu Ping's house has become very dilapidated, and several pale yellow exorcism talisman papers have been pasted on it, which looks more and more weird.

Looking at the surroundings of Liu Ping's house, there is still a vague cordon left by the police at that time, and because of the murder here, the family that originally lived opposite Liu Ping's house did not know where to move.

Fortunately, I asked Lu Yuan for the backup key of her security door last time for the convenience of investigation. In the absence of new residents, the property will not replace the security door for the time being, so this backup key can still be used.

With a slight twist, I only heard a click, and the security door opened.

Immediately, a faint smell of corruption greeted him. Even after all this time, the room was still filled with the smell, and the corpses of flies were everywhere on the floor. It seems that the insecticide work of the Huayuan City Police Department is still in place.

I still have tiramisu cake in my hand, and I always feel a little weird standing in Liu Ping's house like this.

I remember that the teacher of the police academy once said some taboos at the scene of the crime, one of which is not to enter and leave the scene of the crime with food, which is said to be a rule that has been handed down since a long time.

One is disrespectful to the work, and the other is because it may lead to some strange situations.

If Lin Xiaoxue knew that I had come here with this cake, I don't know if she would be able to eat it.

The power supply to the house had already been cut off, and I could only barely light up the surroundings by relying on the brightness of my phone's screen.

Walking along the living room and going inside, I quickly found the location of Liu Ping's bedroom, unscrewed the handle, and the wooden door was slowly pushed.

There was silence all around, and in the darkness, I was the only one who was moving.

The bedroom wasn't too spacious, as the moonlight from the window illuminated the area where the wooden desk was located.

It is a kind of wooden desk that integrates book collection and office, which is quite domineering, and there are carved patterns around the table, which shows that the price is expensive, at least I should not be able to afford it.

It seems that Guo Fangzheng and Liu Ping's life in Huayuan City is quite wealthy.

I came to the desk in the dark, took out the stool, and also experienced the feeling of a rich man.

There are four shelves of bookshelves right in front of you, and each floor is filled with things, some books and some gadgets.

Guo Fangzheng told me that his "gift" was in the penultimate compartment on the second floor of the bookshelf. I put the cake on the table and counted it all the way down the grid, and soon found the "penultimate grid".

In the huge space, only a red gift box was stuffed with a delicate bow tied on it, which seemed to be the gift that Guo Fangzheng had carefully prepared for me.

To my surprise, both the packaging and the style of this gift were very similar to the box containing Liu Ping's severed limbs found in the backyard of Lu Yuan's house. When I looked at the gift box in front of me, a bad premonition came to my heart.

Isn't there something similar in this box?

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and slowly unpacked it. Every time I opened a layer, my heart felt like it was about to pop out of my throat, for fear that in the next second, a part of someone's body would suddenly appear in front of me.

Eventually, the gift box was completely opened. Luckily, the box didn't contain anything disgusting, just two small things, a book and a photo.

Could it be that Guo Fangzheng carefully prepared for me these two gadgets?

The book was a very ordinary magazine, the kind that would be published regularly every once in a while.

There were a lot of serials in the magazine, and I flipped through them, but I didn't think there was anything special about them. Looking at the last page, the magazine was published in neighboring province Z, and because of sales, the magazine was only published separately in province Z.

I don't understand why Guo Fangzheng deliberately bought this magazine from Province Z and left it to me, is there something hidden in this book?

I put the magazine away and pulled out the photo.

It was a black-and-white photograph taken in the last century, yellowed in the corners, and looked a little older, and in the corners, a line of inconspicuous 1990 was written.

Photographed in 1990? More than 20 years have passed since then, and Guo Fangzheng deliberately left this photo, which obviously has a deep meaning.

I turned the light on my phone to the brightest and hit it on the photo, and when I saw the content of the photo above, I couldn't help but tremble.