“You’re too ruthless! Why would you do this to their ancestors? Who exactly is He Nan? How much money did he give you?” Lin Xue angrily demanded.
“It’s not that I’m too ruthless, but that they’ve gone too far,” Long Xingyun shook his head. “He gave me ten thousand yuan as travel expenses or something. I helped him not only for the money, but for the lives of He Bin and his entire family of five! Yao Jun is an inhuman beast! He Bin was only twenty-four, newly married just months ago. Because he was a traffic officer who pulled Yao Jun over, discovered he was driving drunk, and legally issued a ticket and confiscated his driver’s license, Yao Jun actually drove and killed He Bin, then claimed he had fallen off a cliff to his death. Later, he even sent people to seize and burn the corpse—absolutely outrageous! He Bin’s wife later had a miscarriage, and his grandparents and father all committed suicide, unable to bear the tragedy. Tell me, with their entire family of five dying so tragically, shouldn’t I seek justice for them? Doesn’t that beast, Yao Jun, deserve retribution?”
“…”
Everyone fell silent after hearing these words.
Lin Xue was stunned too. Chu Miaoyi stood up and asked, “Is all of this true?”
“I’m willing to stake my life on it,” Long Xingyun replied firmly, each word heavy with conviction.
“…”
Once again, silence filled the room.
Shui Miao focused his mind and sensed Long Xingyun’s emotions—what he felt was pure, burning anger, a willingness to risk his life for vengeance.
“Brother Long, I believe you.”
Shui Miao nodded at Long Xingyun, paused, then continued, “But there’s something I don’t quite understand. Since you’ve tampered with their ancestral graves, why did you also raise those disgusting flying centipedes?”
“Ah! That’s because they didn’t live locally, so the ancestral graves had little effect on them. I wanted them to die sooner, so I raised the flying centipedes. But just when they were about to mature, you destroyed them,” Long Xingyun said with deep regret.
Shui Miao, however, smiled coldly. “Brother Long, may I ask you—did Dahei and Xiaohei really deserve to die? If I’m not mistaken, Xiaohei must have been killed by Old Huang at your command, right?”
“You’re talking about those two cats?” Long Xingyun was taken aback.
Shui Miao frowned. “And you must know about Old Huang’s sudden death, don’t you?”
“What? Old Huang is dead!” Long Xingyun immediately sat upright.
“That’s right, he’s already passed away. We went to his house and saw—the mourning hall hasn’t even been taken down yet,” Chu Miaoyi said.
Long Xingyun slapped himself hard on the face, crying out in anguish, “It’s all because of my big mouth! I shouldn’t have brought this upon him!”
“What happened exactly?” Shui Miao used his psychic ability and sensed genuine shock and regret from Long Xingyun.
Sighing, Long Xingyun explained, “Old Huang and I hit it off immediately when we met. We talked very well together. A while ago, after drinking quite a bit, he suddenly asked me how to deal with rapists—how to make them suffer so badly they wish to die but cannot. I casually told him to smear something extremely yin and evil on the rapist’s genitals, something that would slowly rot away and never heal. Then he asked me what kind of thing was extremely yin and evil. Without thinking much, I told him that if you tied a black cat in a tomb until it starved to death, its blood would be the most yin and evil substance. But I had no idea he actually did it! Could it be that his daughter…”
Long Xingyun’s eyes flashed with fury. “That bastard—I will definitely find out who he is and make sure Old Huang can rest in peace!”
“Don’t you dare play the hero here. We will definitely get to the bottom of this case ourselves,” Lin Xue interrupted Long Xingyun. “But even if Old Huang’s death wasn’t directly your fault, it was still your words that led to it. You’re still responsible. So I advise you to tell us all your secrets. Once we understand the entire situation, we’ll decide your punishment accordingly.”
Lin Xue appeared impartial on the surface, but in truth, she was eager to hear more bizarre stories.
Of course, as a police officer, she did need to uncover the full truth.
“I do bear responsibility… I only regret that I couldn’t personally avenge the He family of five. If I could have avenged them, I’d willingly die early and accompany Old Huang in the underworld.”
Long Xingyun’s mood sank low—Old Huang’s death had hit him hard.
Shui Miao was quite surprised. So that’s why Dahei and Xiaohei were trapped in the tomb. No wonder the old man at the repair shop said the cats had been meowing terribly.
Still, Shui Miao had a question. “Brother Long, I still don’t understand—how was Dahei released?”
Long Xingyun, lying on the bed, answered truthfully, “This morning, I came to the mausoleum and saw that Xiaohei was already dead, so I released Dahei. But before I could go find Old Huang, I saw you all coming…”
“Water Miao, let’s drop the matter of Dahei and Xiaohei,” Lin Xue, clearly indifferent to the cats’ fates, patted Shui Miao’s shoulder and turned to Long Xingyun. “Now tell us why you’re covered in insects and how you set up that evil formation.”
“Actually, I was cursed with a voodoo doll…”
Long Xingyun smiled bitterly. “When I was little, I was extremely mischievous—second to none. I was fearless, always chasing after the strangest and most dangerous things. Once, while playing on the mountain with a group of friends, I accidentally discovered some thatched huts. They were empty, but inside were countless ceramic jars. I opened them and saw they were all filled with disgusting bugs. My friends ran away in fear, but I, being reckless, set fire to the huts and burned them all down.”
“I thought that was the end of it, but it was only the beginning…”
“I remember once when I got thirsty while playing, I happened to meet an old lady. She offered me water to drink—only me, not anyone else. I was foolish and proud, so I drank it all. But that night, my stomach started hurting terribly. I vomited and defecated, and all of it was tiny worms. My parents were terrified. Just then, that old lady appeared. She held a ceramic jar and told my parents it contained golden-winged heavenly silkworms. She said if I swallowed them, they would eat the worms inside me, and my body would get better and better afterward. But if I didn’t, the worms would crawl into my brain within an hour and kill me.”
“I had no choice but to swallow the golden-winged silkworm. But from that day on, I became the old lady’s puppet—I had to obey her every command. Later I found out that those thatched huts I burned were actually her home.”
“As for the evil formation—it’s an extremely terrifying array. If it spreads, it will definitely kill many people. So I’ll only tell this to the three of you.” Long Xingyun pointed at Shui Miao, Lin Xue, and Chu Miaoyi in turn.
“Everyone else, this is under our control now. It’s getting late—please go home and finish your shifts.”
Lin Xue, excited, immediately turned around and dismissed everyone.
But Shui Miao, by chance, caught a glimpse of Long Xingyun’s face from the corner of his eye—and saw a cold, sinister smile flicker across it.
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