The dishes on the table were delicious, and Gu Xizhou ate to his heart's content. He stretched lazily to relax his muscles.
He exchanged a few words with Si Yu before he turned to look at Fang Zhi. He patted Fang Zhi's shoulder. Fang Zhi was startled. Gu Xizhou smiled and asked, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so distracted? "
Fang Zhi turned his head mechanically. He was stunned for a moment before he realized what Gu Xizhou was asking him. "I was thinking about the memories I saw behind the door …"
"If She Xue had told the police that she had stolen Su Xiaomian's identity when Lin San was reported missing, perhaps Su Xiaomian wouldn't have died … and none of the things that happened afterward would have happened."
Gu Xizhou raised his eyebrows and continued, "There are two things in this world that you can't look at directly. One is the sun, and the other is the human heart."
Fang Zhi understood what Gu Xizhou meant. Because they were the police, they had seen the darkest side of human nature. They would only see more of it in the future. In the end, he could only sigh.
"Why did the door appear when She Xue admitted that she wasn't Su Xiaomian?"
"Her wish should have been to tell Lin San that she was dead and for Lin San to stop looking for her."
He was silent for a moment before he asked, "Then did her wish come true?"
Gu Xizhou thought about it. He really didn't know. After all, he still didn't know whether the supernatural world was real or not. He didn't even know the meaning of the missions they had experienced in it. He didn't even know why he had been resurrected.
The only thing he knew was that every time he successfully escaped from the mission world, his lifespan would increase.
"That's not what we should be focusing on now," Si Yu said lightly. He seemed to think that this question was meaningless and didn't want to discuss it.
Fang Zhi sighed. He knew that none of them actually had an answer to his question. The mission world itself, as well as the countdown to their lives that appeared in the void, were things beyond human understanding. Each of them were just ants struggling to survive in these worlds.
"By the way, Si Yu, how much time did you get for clearing the mission?" Gu Xizhou broke the silence and asked Si Yu.
Si Yu was silent for a moment. His gaze suddenly wandered. After a moment, Gu Xizhou heard Si Yu say, "The reward time this time is considered normal."
It was just as he thought. Si Yu's time was deducted because he cheated and asked the ghosts for answers. Beating the ghosts, Gu.... Gu Xizhou nodded............... the three chatted for a while....... and Fang Zhi...........
Just as Gu Xizhou and Fang Zhi got into the car, Gu Xizhou's phone rang.
........ What's the situation............. What's the situation?.................. . Someone died? Did the perpetrator run away? "
............... I'll be there right away. "
Gu Xizhou hung up the phone and said to Fang Zhi, "Something happened again. Someone killed someone on the street. I have to go to the scene to check the situation. You …"
Fang Zhi nodded and interrupted Gu Xizhou, "Okay... Gu Ge... I'll go with you."
Gu Xizhou nodded. Originally, he wanted to let Fang Zhi rest. However, he knew that Fang Zhi wouldn't be willing to leave. Gu Xizhou drove straight to the scene of the incident.
Before he got out of the car, he saw the entrance of a supermarket from afar. There was a pool of red blood on the ground. Yellow police tape surrounded it, but it still couldn't stop curious onlookers.
Gu Xizhou pulled up the yellow police tape and walked in. As soon as he arrived, the forensic doctor, Xiang Yuan, came over and told Gu Xizhou the results of the autopsy. "The deceased is Xue Chaoguo, male, forty-five years old. He was slashed thirteen times by the person with the knife. He died on the spot."
A police officer came over and handed the evidence to him. There was a circle of crime scene marks around the corpse on the ground. There was also a bloody kitchen knife on the ground.
"Who killed him?" Gu Xizhou asked.
The police officer heard this and showed a conflicted expression. After half a minute, he said with difficulty, "According to the statements of the two people who were with the victim, the person who killed him was the victim's father, Xue Youxue."
"The person who killed him was his father?" Gu Xizhou was stunned. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Are you sure?"
"I'm sure. Both of them said that it was the victim's father."
Gu Xizhou nodded and said, "Take the witnesses to the police station for questioning. Inform everyone to search for the perpetrator."
Gu Xizhou looked around and noticed a surveillance camera at the entrance of the supermarket. He and Fang Zhi walked into the supermarket.
The salesperson in the supermarket was sitting on a chair and looking outside. Gu Xizhou knocked on the table with his hand, took out his ID, and said, "Hello, I just saw a camera at your entrance. It should be able to capture the scene of the perpetrator killing the victim. We need to take a look."
The middle-aged woman sitting on the chair stood up. She was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and an orange coat with the supermarket's logo on the outside. She enthusiastically helped Gu Xizhou bring up the image.
Because the location of the murder was facing the entrance of the supermarket, and the supermarket's surveillance camera was newly bought, the image quality was very clear. It just happened to capture the scene of the perpetrator killing the victim.
The perpetrator was an old man who was about seventy years old. He was very thin and small, and his skin was wrinkled into a lump. His actions were very clear. He was there to find the victim. The two of them argued on the road. During the argument, the old man pulled out the kitchen knife that had been clipped to the back of his trousers and slashed the victim's body.
The other two people who were with the victim were stunned for a moment. They were completely frozen in place. Then, the old man in the video continued to swing the knife. After slashing the victim more than ten times, the old man fled.
The old man did not have any clever means of committing the crime. He simply and violently slashed the victim without any concealment.
During this time, Gu Xizhou could still hear the voices from the surveillance camera. Of course, because of the distance, the voice was not very clear, but he could still hear some of it.
"Do you have a conscience?!"
"Conscience? What is conscience? "
"Give me back my house. Get out of here, get out!!!"
"What do you mean your house? Whose name is written on it? Open your dog eyes and see clearly! "
Slap!
Here, the victim slapped the old man in the face. Then, the old man pulled out the knife from his trousers. After that, because of the screams of the surrounding people, Gu Xizhou could not hear what the old man was saying.
"At that time, I saw the old man slashing the victim with my own eyes. It was so scary!" The cashier seemed to be very scared. Then, the middle-aged woman asked Gu Xizhou in a gossipy manner, "Police comrade, I just heard that the old man who slashed the victim was his father. Is that true?"
Another staff member in the supermarket sighed and said with certainty, "I saw the surveillance camera. Did the father and son quarrel over the house? But after all, he is his own son. How could he do it? "
"Police comrade, what's the situation now?"
Gu Xizhou did not satisfy the middle-aged woman's gossip. Instead, he asked the other police officers to copy down the surveillance camera and bring it to the police station.
After arriving at the police station, Gu Xizhou did not even warm his seat when he received a call saying that the assailant had turned himself in.
The old man appeared at the police station. Gu Xizhou looked down at the old man who was half a head shorter than him. There was no light in his eyes. His eyes were old and pale yellow. His hair was all white and he seemed to be a little uncomfortable. After being taken into the police station, he had been coughing non-stop.
In the interrogation room, Gu Xizhou sat opposite the old man. He pushed the glass of water in front of the old man. The old man drank two mouthfuls and seemed to be more comfortable. The coughing stopped.
Gu Xizhou asked, "Tell me, why did you kill him?"
He did not raise his head. Instead, he lowered his head and asked, "Can you give me another cigarette?"
Gu Xizhou asked his colleague outside to bring in a cigarette. At the same time, he lit it with a lighter and handed it to the old man.
The old man took the cigarette and thanked him. He smoked very slowly with a look of enjoyment on his face. After a while, he said embarrassedly, "Thank you, I haven't smoked in so many years … I've almost forgotten what a cigarette tastes like."
Gu Xizhou did not say anything. He looked at him quietly, waiting for him to tell him the reason for the murder.
After a while, the old man finally told him the reason for the murder.
"He's not my son," the old man said, looking as if he was reminiscing. "At that time, my family was poor and I couldn't find a wife. So, I married a divorced woman. He was the child of my second wife.
"I married that woman for less than two years. She despised me for being poor, so she left Xue Chaoguo and ran away with another man. I lived with Xue Chaoguo for two years and we had some feelings for each other. I couldn't bear to leave him behind, so I supported his education and watched him get married and have children. I thought everything was perfect. Although I didn't have any children of my own, I treated him like one.
"I gave him all the money I earned over the years. When I was free, I helped him take care of his children … After the farmland was taken over, there was a good primary school behind the house given to our team. He was very good to me at that time. Later, he used the excuse that he wanted his grandson to study and asked me to transfer the house to his name. I thought that I could only count on him for the rest of my life … Anyway, it was going to be left to him in the future. It didn't matter if I gave it to him sooner or later. So, I transferred the house to his name."
The old man was silent for a while. He said, "After I transferred the house to him … his attitude towards me changed 180 degrees.
"He actually hit me and even kicked me out of the house! I gave him everything in my life. Even if he's not my biological son and I don't have any ability or money, I raised him for so many years. How could he hit me? And he even kicked me out? " As the old man spoke, he suddenly cried silently. "I didn't ask for much. I just wanted him to give me a room, a blanket, and food to eat …
"I raised him for so many years and he treated me like this. I lived under the bridge and felt very cold. I couldn't sleep for a few nights. The more I thought about it, the angrier I got. Actually, if he had talked to me nicely when I went to find him, I wouldn't have killed him …" The old man's voice was nasal and choked with sobs.
The old man confessed the details of the crime. With the surveillance footage, the evidence was conclusive. Gu Xizhou was silent for a moment before he walked out and bought two packs of Zhonghua cigarettes outside the police station.
Fang Zhi looked at Gu Xizhou strangely and asked, "Gu Ge, you want to smoke again?"
Gu Xizhou shook his head and said, "No, I bought it for that old man."
Fang Zhi said, "He just said that he hasn't smoked for many years."
Gu Xizhou said, "Do you know why he hasn't smoked for many years?"
Fang Zhi, "?"
Gu Xizhou didn't answer. He asked Fang Zhi to pass the cigarettes to the old man.
Outside the interrogation room, Gu Xizhou heard Fang Zhi's voice. "Can I ask you a question?"
The old man looked pleasant. He didn't dare to imagine that such a person would kill someone on the street. "Of course."
"Why did you say that you haven't smoked for many years?"
The old man's expression was calm. He had completely calmed down. He answered, "Because I don't have money. I want to raise him."
The "him" was self-evident.
Fang Zhi walked out and looked at the old man who was silently smoking and crying in the interrogation room. He felt very sad and his eyes were red.
Gu Xizhou patted Fang Zhi's shoulder and said, "Actually, if you think about it from another perspective, his wish has been fulfilled. At his age, he won't be sentenced to death. In the future, he will have a house to live in, a blanket to cover him, and food to eat.
"Okay, the case is solved. Everyone has worked hard. Let's go home."
Gu Xizhou returned home. As soon as he entered the door, he saw his dog running to him and squatting in front of him, wagging its tail happily.
Then Gu Xizhou felt someone grabbing him and turning his body left and right. It seemed like someone was checking his body.
Gu Xizhou, "…"
"Zhizhi, are you worried that I'm missing a piece of meat?" Gu Xizhou teased. "Don't worry, I'm not a rookie like you."
Then the door of his house opened with a click. Other than him, his dog son was also kicked out.
"Hey, are you crazy again? You stingy person! " Gu Xizhou touched his bag and then remembered that he had thrown his keys on the cabinet at the entrance when he entered the house …
He wasn't angry at all. Wasn't he just thrown out of his house by a ghost?
Ahhhhh! So angry! Next time, he would definitely not throw his keys away!
The door that had just closed suddenly opened again. Gu Xizhou thought that the ghost had gotten over it and was about to go in … when he saw a dog leash fall from the sky and land firmly in his hand. At the same time, there was a small note stuck on the other end of the leash.
The content of the note: Walking the dog ^ _ ^
While Gu Xizhou was reading the note, his dog son was anxiously circling around his feet. Its tail was wagging like a small fan.
"Why are you wagging?" Gu Xizhou patted his dog son's head and tied the leash around his dog son's neck. "It's about to break!"
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