Solving the case: Combining the police dog's olfactory genes at the beginning

"That clueless couple sneaked into my villa and just happened to run into me coming out of the underpass."

The nanny even saw me leading those two people into the passageway and tried to run out to call the police.

They're in my way, so naturally they can't stay.

He admitted that he was proficient in hypnosis.

"At Harvard, I minored in psychology, and my mentor was a world-class hypnotist."

Unfortunately, his prized skills were nothing more than a thin layer of paper to me; I mastered them completely in less than six months and far surpassed him.

He made no attempt to conceal the effects of the magic herb.

"Simple hypnosis is not perfect enough. Only by combining it with the toxins extracted from the magic herb can one more thoroughly control a person's mind."

This type of grassland originally only grows in a remote, wild place in Australia. I spent over a million dollars to bring back just a dozen or so seedlings. Unexpectedly, they've grown exceptionally well in the underground environment I carefully created.”

Luo Fei seized the opportunity to ask key questions.

"Was it implanted in Guo Mengyun's recurring nightmare, the girl crying for help and my phone number in the dream, through hypnosis?"

Xie Junshan shook his head, a genuine look of confusion on his face.

"That dream? No, it has nothing to do with me. I find it strange too; she seems... to have an innate connection with something."

This is one of the reasons why I ultimately chose her as the "Extreme Yin Child."

"Ji Yinzi?"

"Yes."

Xie Junshan explained.

"Guo Mengyun was born in a yin year, yin month, yin day, yin hour, and yin hour. Her eight characters are all yin, one in ten thousand, and she is known as the 'pure yin child with five pillars of yin'! Ordinary yin souls are nothing more than raw materials."

And she is the key to activating the core of the formation!

"Only by gathering the ultimate Yin souls of the twelve demons, and then, on a specific Yin month, Yin day, and Yin hour, at Crane Spring Manor—an extremely Yin dwelling—can I retrieve the soul of the sole, most Yin child, and obtain the true, perfect ultimate Yin soul! Only then will my path to immortality have a chance of great success!"

His eyes lit up with fervor again, but quickly dimmed, filled with regret and resentment.

"What a pity... all our efforts were in vain! You ruined it all!"

"What about Gong Xiaorui?"

She doesn't have an extremely yin destiny, so why did you lock her up with Guo Mengyun?

Luo Fei continued to ask.

"That girl?"

Xie Junshan pursed his lips.

"It was Guo Mengyun's own request."

Guo Mengyun threatened to kill herself if I didn't let Gong Xiaorui go, so that I wouldn't get the perfect Yin Soul.

To keep her calm before taking her soul, I had no choice but to agree. I gave them both a small amount of the Demon Fairy Grass poison to quiet them down, and then locked them in that specially made copper coffin.

The bronze coffin could gather yin energy, temporarily preserving their lives, and also serving as a form of isolation.

Luo Fei asked the last question.

"Did you also kill your former secretary, Su Qiao?"

"Yes."

Xie Junshan readily admitted it.

“She knows too much. Since she's been in contact with you and said so much, keeping her around is a huge problem. I have no choice but to send her to keep those girls company.”

Xie Junshan's confession is basically consistent with the evidence and reasoning currently held by the special task force, and even adds some details.

Luo Fei looked at him, somewhat surprised.

He originally thought he would need to use the "Genius Eye" or go through a series of interrogations to get this high-IQ criminal to talk, but he didn't expect the other party to tell him everything so "quickly".

After a moment's thought, Luo Fei understood.

Xie Junshan's hands were stained with blood, and the evidence against him was irrefutable. He knew he could not escape death, and whether he spoke or not made little difference.

Moreover, his attitude of treating life as a game may have made him feel that since he had failed to clear this "cultivation dungeon", the existence of the "game character" was irrelevant, and it might even be a relief—he had finally encountered a "level" that he could not clear.

"Wu Peixiong!"

Luo Fei called out towards the door.

"To!"

Wu Peixiong pushed open the door and entered.

"Take him to the municipal detention center and keep him under strict guard! Await further legal proceedings!"

"Yes!"

Wu Peixiong and two team members led Xie Junshan, who had stopped resisting and was even cooperating somewhat, away from the meeting room.

……

Outside the Intensive Care Unit of Haizhu First People's Hospital.

Guo Mengyun's older sister, Guo Qian, had rushed over upon hearing the news. She was pale, with red and swollen eyes, and tightly gripped Chen Xuanran's hand, as if only in this way could she gain a little strength.

Gong Xiaorui is an orphan with no family members to contact, so the special task force temporarily assumed the responsibility of her guardianship.

The red light above the operating room door, symbolizing the battle between life and death, has been burning for seven or eight hours.

Every minute and every second of waiting felt incredibly long and agonizing.

Just when Guo Qian was about to give up.

The "Operation in Progress" sign went out with a snap!

Everyone's hearts mentioned their throats!
The operating room door was slowly pushed open, and the surgeon walked out looking exhausted. He took off his mask, his face showing a hint of relief and solemnity.

"Doctor! Doctor! How is my sister?!"

Guo Qian immediately rushed over and asked in a trembling voice.

The doctor looked at Guo Qian, then at Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran beside her, and said in a deep voice.

"The rescue was timely, and both patients are now out of danger."

"That's great! Thank you, doctor! Thank you!"

Guo Qian's tears welled up instantly, and she thanked him repeatedly with great emotion.

But the doctor didn't finish his sentence; his tone remained heavy.

"However, their long-term use of that unknown, potent hallucinogenic toxin caused extremely serious damage to their organs, especially their nervous system and heart."

Although his life has been saved, he will require a very long period of rehabilitation and recuperation. Whether he will fully recover, and to what extent, remains unknown.

He looked at Guo Qian.

"Are you Guo Mengyun's family member? Go and complete the hospitalization procedures first. They will be transferred to the intensive care unit for further observation soon. Now, you can go in and see your sister for a moment, but only you, and for a short time. They need absolute quiet."

"Okay! Okay! I'll go take care of the formalities right away! Thank you, doctor!"

Guo Qian wiped away her tears and nodded repeatedly. Guided by a nurse, she hurriedly ran to complete the formalities.

Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran exchanged a glance, both seeing a mixture of heaviness and a glimmer of hope in each other's eyes. The person had been rescued; it was a stroke of luck amidst misfortune.

But the physical and mental trauma they have suffered, and the long road to recovery ahead, are equally heartbreaking.

With Xie Junshan's arrest and confession, the serial disappearances at Hequan Villa have been essentially solved. Subsequent follow-up work is proceeding smoothly.

All the deceased in the underground temple were carefully removed and sent to the forensic autopsy center for detailed autopsies to solidify the final chain of evidence.

Those dangerous magic herbs were completely destroyed by the local police department.

The villa that served as the entrance was guarded by auxiliary police officers arranged by the local police station.

The underground passage entrance hidden behind the refrigerator was restored to its original state and sealed off after the evidence was collected.

The special task force has been in Haizhu City for nearly twenty days and is preparing to return to Jiangcheng.

But in Luo Fei's heart, there was always a question like a tiny fishbone stuck in his throat—what was the source of Guo Mengyun's strange, prophetic dream?

According to Xie Junshan's confession, he did not perform any hypnotic implantation on Guo Mengyun.

Three years ago, when Guo Mengyun first had a dream, she dreamt of an "older sister who looked a bit older than her then 20-year-old self." Of the previous twelve "human demons," apart from Guo Mengyun, the oldest was only seventeen or eighteen years old.

Luo Fei speculated that the girl who cried for help in the dream was very likely the female college student who went missing last year.

But to completely unravel this mystery, we can only ask the only person in the know—Guo Mengyun herself.

After two days of observation in the intensive care unit, Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui's vital signs gradually stabilized, and they were transferred to a regular ward for continued treatment and observation. The hospital thoughtfully arranged for them to share a room so they could look after each other.

Before leaving Haizhu City, Luo Fei decided to meet the two girls who had survived the hellish place.

When he arrived at the ward, besides Guo Mengyun's sister, Guo Qian, who was taking good care of her at the bedside, there was also a gentle-looking woman in the room, who appeared to be around fifty years old. After introductions, he learned that this woman was Director He of an orphanage in Jiangcheng.

She rushed over for two reasons. First, the "Xuanran Foundation," which Chen Xuanran was in charge of, was a major sponsor of her orphanage. Second, she learned about Gong Xiaorui's situation through contacting the police—Gong Xiaorui was the child who grew up in her orphanage.

Although Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui, who were lying in the hospital bed, still looked pale and haggard after their illness, their complexions had improved a lot compared to when they were found in the underground bronze coffin, and their eyes had regained their luster.

Seeing Luo Fei enter, Guo Mengyun appeared somewhat excited, and she struggled to sit up.

Guo Qian quickly helped her up.

"Officer Luo..."

Guo Mengyun's voice was still weak, but it was full of sincere gratitude.

"My sister told me everything. You saved us... Thank you... Thank you for saving our lives!"

Despite her weakness, she insisted on bowing to Luo Fei.

Luo Fei quickly stepped forward and gently pressed down on her shoulder.

"Don't move, get some rest."

This is our duty.

Gong Xiaorui, who was standing to the side, also looked at Luo Fei with a complicated expression, and she said softly.

"Officer Luo, actually... it was someone from our dream who sent us to find you in our dream."

These words stunned not only Guo Qian, but also Luo Fei and Chen Xuanran. A dream message? Or a dream message with such a clear indication?
Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, Gong Xiaorui took a deep breath and began to recount her even more bizarre experience.

"Actually, it wasn't just Mengyun who had that dream. I had it too, and our dreams were almost exactly the same! Even the phone number the girl in the dream gave out was exactly the same!"

She looked at Guo Mengyun, who nodded in confirmation.

"At first, about three years ago, we just treated it as a rather strange dream, perhaps influenced by our conversations, and didn't take it too seriously. Until a little over a month ago..."

Gong Xiaorui's eyes held a hint of lingering fear and disbelief.

"I work at the telecommunications bureau. That day, I was helping a customer apply for a replacement SIM card. When I saw the new number displayed in the system, I was completely stunned!"

That string of numbers was exactly the same as the number I heard in my dream three years ago, the number that Mengyun and I later wrote down on a piece of paper!

"Only at that moment did we realize that the dream... might be real!"

Guo Mengyun added that the voice was faint but clear.

Gong Xiaorui continued.

"But something even more amazing and chilling was yet to come."

Three years ago, when I had that dream, I could only hear a girl's anxious cries for help, but I couldn't see her face clearly.

But last month, that dream suddenly became incredibly vivid! I... I saw the face of the girl crying for help in the dream..."

Her voice trembled, and her face showed an expression of utter absurdity and fear.

"She...she looks exactly like me! It's me! I'm the one crying out to myself for help!"

The ward was silent; everyone was stunned by this unbelievable detail!
Gong Xiaorui calmed herself down and continued her story.

"In that vivid dream."

I cried and begged us for help, insisting that we come to Hequan Villa in Haizhu City, saying that it held a huge secret and that someone was trapped there.

She repeatedly emphasized that if she encountered danger, she should find a policeman named Luo Fei, and gave him his phone number.

"So, you came?"

Chen Xuanran asked.

"Ah."

Gong Xiaorui nodded.

"We checked, and there really is a Hequan Villa in Haizhu City. We thought we were just going to investigate, but we didn't expect..."

Her face showed bitterness and lingering fear.

"We followed the nanny we had met before into the villa area, and she warmly invited us to come in and sit down."

Then... Xie Junshan appeared.

He sent the nanny away, and then... he imprisoned us.

"He took us to an underground Taoist temple and locked us in a room."

That room…it was exactly the same as the one I saw in my dream!

Gong Xiaorui's voice trembled.

"That night, I dreamed of that 'me' again. She looked to be in her early twenties, and she pleaded with me for help even more anxiously, giving me Officer Luo's phone number again..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Xuanran suddenly realized what was happening. She looked at Luo Fei, her beautiful eyes filled with shock.

"I understand! Three years ago, the person Gong Xiaorui dreamed of was none other than herself three years later, imprisoned underground and in despair! It was the future Gong Xiaorui calling for help from her past self!"
This is... a perfect time loop!

This deduction sent chills down everyone's spine!
But this perfectly explains why the girl in the dream could so accurately predict the future—knowing Luo Fei's phone number, his identity as a policeman, and even that he could save them!
For Gong Xiaorui in that "future," all of this is the "past" that has already happened or is being experienced!
Dean He, listening from the side, was already in tears. She held Gong Xiaorui's hand tightly, choking back sobs. (End of Chapter)