The bus on Route 104 had a new owner, but the woman in the red raincoat was still wary of the bus. She stood outside with her hands on the door. Her red raincoat was eye-catching in the dark.
"It's on the way. Why don't we go to Li Wan City together tonight?"
Chen Ge invited the woman in the red raincoat. He had many questions to ask her.
When he left with the hearse, he had handed the 'human trafficker' who had kidnapped the woman's child to the woman in the red raincoat, but this time, the human trafficker had disappeared.
Chen Ge believed that the woman in the red raincoat had probably gotten the information she needed from the trafficker and found her child's location.
If that was the case, she would not have waited at the bus stop for the bus to reappear.
Walking to the front door, Chen Ge bent down to tell the woman in the red raincoat, "If you're ready, we can go save your child tonight. I will go with you. That is my promise to you."
Her lips were sewn shut, and the woman in the red raincoat could not speak. She made a strange gesture at Chen Ge.
Her fingers pointed at the bus on Route 104, then at Chen Ge's face, and finally at Chen Ge's heart. Finally, her fingers closed tightly like she was trying to crush Chen Ge's heart.
"The hearse? My face? Crush my heart? " Chen Ge reacted after several seconds. "You mean, there's someone who looks like me who wants to steal my heart? And he's on the bus now? "
The woman in the red raincoat did not nod or shake her head. Through the gap of her hair, she reached out to grab Chen Ge's arm like she was trying to drag him off the bus.
The bus had become Chen Ge's property, so he was not going to give it up so easily. Furthermore, his backpack and white cat were still on the bus.
Chen Ge took a step back. Seeing Chen Ge's movement, the woman in the red raincoat released her grip.
The rain slid down the edge of her hat. The woman in the red raincoat seemed to be trying to send some kind of message to Chen Ge. She pointed in the direction of Li Wan City and then made a gesture like she was hugging a baby.
Before Chen Ge could understand the meaning behind her action, the woman in the red raincoat returned to the platform.
Blood dripped from her raincoat, and the platform beneath her feet was dyed red.
The bus slowly started to move. The woman in the red raincoat stopped in the middle of the platform and watched the bus leave.
The closer they got to Li Wan City, the heavier the rain outside.
No light could be seen through the window, and the whole car seemed to be wrapped in darkness.
"What does she mean?" The red raincoat refused to get on the bus, which was different from Chen Ge's plan. "If she doesn't want to cooperate with me, she wouldn't have made such a commotion earlier, and she wouldn't have waited at the bus stop. She probably sensed danger, so she refused to get on the bus."
He sneaked a glance at the passengers inside the bus. The doctor and the drunkard should be normal people. Chen Ge shifted his attention to the red high heels and the smiling man.
"Should I make the first move?" While Chen Ge was planning, the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
Taking it out to glance at it, Chen Ge silently hung up and then sent a message to the number.
"Inspector Lee, it's temporarily inconvenient for me to answer the phone. Let's talk through messages."
It was Lee Zheng who had called earlier. When Chen Ge saw the caller ID, he knew that something had happened.
"Jia Ming has escaped from the hospital! Be careful! He wants to kill you! "Lee Zheng used three exclamation marks to reply.
"Why would he want to kill me? I didn't do anything to provoke him. Also, isn't he at the hospital? With you guys guarding him, how did he manage to escape? "The police at Jiujiang could be counted as elites, and Chen Ge had always had confidence in them.
"This madman told us how pitiful he was, that he was just a victim. Then, through eleven different stories, he told us about a shadow monster that was good at changing faces and voices. He told us that the monster was the real culprit and that he was just a poor man who was being coerced."
"Eleven stories?"
"Yes! Eleven stories in total, describing how he was coerced by the real culprit and forced to do things that were against his will. There was no logical flaw in these stories, and the results of our crime scene investigation matched up with what he said. "
"In other words, he wasn't lying."
"Yes, he wasn't lying, but he told the biggest lie of all!" Lee Zheng's emotions were fluctuating, and there were many blank spaces and exclamation marks in the message. "The real culprit doesn't exist; he made it up. The real culprit is only himself! The eleven stories, the eleven murders, they were all his doing! "
Seeing this message from Lee Zheng, Chen Ge finally understood. The eleven stories probably represented eleven human lives.
"This man looked weak and shy, but deep inside his heart, there was a completely sick soul! When he told us these stories, he cried several times, and his voice broke out in pain. His words were filled with remorse, and even the doctors and nurses' attitude toward him changed. We went to the crime scene to verify it, and as more and more things came out of his mouth, the more shocked we became. To get to the bottom of this, we had no choice but to send more police.
"Tonight, Jia Ming's condition worsened again. He was sent to the emergency room, and we left a police officer to watch over him.
"But on the way to the emergency room, this man, who was supposed to be unable to walk, jumped out of the window from the second floor. He had planned everything and observed his route in the dark. The sickroom was on the third floor, and the emergency room was on the first floor. Fifty meters away was the back alley, and there were many forks in the road. One person wouldn't have been able to catch up to him. "
Lee Zheng sent over the process of Jia Ming's escape, but Chen Ge was not interested in that. "Inspector Lee, I expected Jia Ming to escape, but why did you say he wanted to kill me?"
"We found some wooden chips next to the bed that he was sleeping in. We pushed open the bedside table, and on the back of the wooden table, someone used their fingernails to carve out your name. After the name was carved, they used their fingernails to dig it out. If not for the hatred, no one would do something like that, right? In any case, be careful. We suspect that he might have gone to find you. "
"Jia Ming and I didn't even know each other before this, so there's no way he would hate me so much unless the person controlling the body is not Jia Ming." Through Lee Zheng's message, Chen Ge had a feeling that the shadow was still inside Jia Ming's body. The reason he had fainted outside White Dragon Cave Tunnel that night was probably because of some kind of accident.
"By the way, where are you now? Don't run around tonight! "
After a while, Lee Zheng sent another message. Initially, Chen Ge did not think it was weird, but when he was about to reply, he suddenly stopped. "Wait a minute, why would Inspector Lee ask me where I am now? When he sends me messages, he rarely uses exclamation marks. Could it be that the person who sent me this message is not Lee Zheng but Jia Ming? "
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