My Endless Life.

Chapter 338 Satellite Phone
In the hospital, there were the painful sobs of patients and the crying of their loved ones.

Meng An, who was only nine years old, stood in front of the morgue, looking at Zhang Fengyun's body, which had been repaired, in silence.

Behind him, Liu Cheng was talking to the policewoman Hu Yushi. Liu Cheng stared at Meng An's back and asked Hu Yushi:

"Have you ever seen such a calm child?"

"what?"

"I mean Meng An. After knowing that his only relative had passed away, he didn't cry or make a fuss. He just stood there quietly, as if... as if he had no emotions at all."

Meng An's calmness gave Liu Cheng an unusual feeling. He couldn't tell what the feeling was, but he just felt a special sense of disharmony.

His many years of experience as a criminal police told him that Meng An was no simple kid.

But he is just a nine-year-old kid. Even if he is not simple, how simple can he be?
"Maybe it's because I'm too sad..."

The policewoman didn't know what to say. After all, this little boy named Meng An was indeed too calm.

Normally, a child of his age would cry loudly after learning that a loved one has died.

Even if he didn't understand the meaning of death, he could understand that his loved ones had left him forever.

Moreover, Meng An's parents also died in a car accident. He must be able to understand the concept of death. It is not normal for him not to shed a tear when his only relative left him.

But looking at Meng An's appearance, he doesn't seem like a cold-blooded person, otherwise he wouldn't have stood in front of his grandmother's body for several hours.

"Let me go see him."

Liu Cheng raised his wrist to check the time on his watch and prepared to go talk to Meng An.

But unexpectedly, before he could take any action, Meng An had already turned around and walked towards him.

"How did grandma die?"

Meng An asked very calmly, which made Liu Cheng feel that he was not facing a child, but an adult.

Because of this, Liu Cheng subconsciously did not hide it and said bluntly:
"Ms. Zhang Fengyun was killed when she was crossing the sidewalk and was hit by a truck that ran a red light."

“Did the truck driver catch it?”

"…not yet."

Hearing the other party ask this, Liu Cheng felt even more ashamed: "The truck was a fake license plate vehicle, and the owner's information was fake. The driver who hit Ms. Zhang immediately fled after hitting her. We found the vehicle outside the city afterwards, but the driver was nowhere to be found."

"So, this was a premeditated murder."

Li Qi said calmly.

Liu Cheng remained silent. Although this was the case at the moment, the question was what exactly did Zhang Fengyun do to make people choose to murder her in this way?

Seeing that he was silent, Li Qi waited quietly for a while, then asked, "Did grandma leave anything behind?"

"The only thing in her bag was her cell phone, which had been shattered by the impact. The rest...there was nothing particularly useful."

Liu Cheng didn't know why, but he just answered whatever the other party asked.

After answering Li Qi's question, Liu Cheng suddenly asked: "...What are you going to do?"

"what?"

"Ms. Zhang has no other relatives, and you are only nine years old. You need a guardian."

This is indeed a problem.

Li Qi is too young. According to the law, he must have a guardian. Otherwise, he will be transferred to a nearby welfare home and taken care of by the welfare home.

As for the property left by Zhang Fengyun, it will be kept by the Civil Affairs Bureau and will be returned to Li Qi when he comes of age.

Therefore, if Li Qi cannot find a suitable guardian during this period, he will have to go to an orphanage.

Thinking about these questions, Li Qi took a deep breath and turned his gaze to Liu Cheng:

"Officer Liu, how is the situation at your home?"

"Me? I'm the only one in my family...wait, you want me to raise you?"

Liu Cheng quickly understood Li Qi's idea and expressed surprise about it.

With his status and position, it would not be difficult for him to adopt a child, but the problem was that Liu Cheng was not familiar with Li Qi at all. Why did Li Qi want Liu Cheng to adopt him?
Li Qi did not explain. After confirming that Liu Cheng was alone, he said:
"Officer Liu, please accompany me home later. I need to go back and pack my things."

There are three spiritual seeds left. Li Qi plans to give one to Liu Cheng, and then let Liu Cheng return to school to handle the leave of absence procedures for Li Qi, so that he can take back the two seeds from the principal and the dean of studies.

Li Qi had no intention of taking back Wang He's spiritual seed, mainly because he knew too much and the memory of this was not easy to delete.

In fact, Li Qi also thought about letting Wang He raise him.

But Wang He has his own family, and Li Qi has too many secrets, so they are not suitable for living in a family with many people.

It's impossible that everyone will have a spiritual seed by then, right?

That's somewhat of a waste.

……

Li Qi asked Liu Cheng to follow him home, and on the way he naturally implanted the spiritual seed into Liu Cheng's mind.

He did not change Liu Cheng's thoughts. The role of the spiritual seed was only to change Liu Cheng's perception of Li Qi.

From now on, no matter what Li Qi does, Liu Cheng will take it for granted. He will not be surprised by what Li Qi does and will treat Li Qi as his closest person.

Wang He was like this, so he would listen to Li Qi's words. After returning home, Li Qi looked at the house where he had only lived for a few days, and sighed with complicated eyes.

Because he didn't have many memories of the past, his feelings for Zhang Fengyun were not as strong as he had imagined.

But even so, when he learned that Zhang Fengyun had died, he felt the pain of losing his relatives one after another.

And after learning that Zhang Fengyun's death was not an accident, this feeling of discomfort turned into anger.

He could accept that Zhang Fengyun died in an accident or at the end of her life, but he could not bear that his relatives in this life were deliberately killed by someone.

Li Qi wanted to find the murderer of Zhang Fengyun, but the problem now was that he didn't even know why Zhang Fengyun was murdered. Such a carefully planned murder was definitely not a spur-of-the-moment idea. It must be that Zhang Fengyun offended someone.

But why did a high school teacher, who had lived safely for so many years, have something wrong in the past few days?
Is there anything special happening these days?
There are two things Li Qi can think of. The first is that he has recovered his memories of his past life, and the second is the times when the sun disappeared.

Among the two possibilities, Li Qi felt that Zhang Fengyun’s death was unlikely to be the first possibility.

If it is true that someone is causing trouble for Zhang Fengyun because Li Qi has recovered his memory, then they should also be causing trouble for Li Qi at the same time.

Besides, only Li Qi himself knew that he had recovered the memories of his past life. Even if they were fellow undead, they could only confirm each other's identities if they were very close.

The first possibility can be ruled out, so what about the second possibility?
But the second possibility is even more absurd.

What does the coming of the Dark Day have to do with a retired high school teacher?
Li Qi thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. Finally, he decided to come back and check Zhang Fengyun's belongings to see if there were any useful clues left in them.

It would be best to find something like Zhang Fengyun’s diary, which might contain relevant clues.

"Officer Liu, as a police officer, from your perspective, why was grandma murdered?"

After entering the room, Li Qi asked Liu Cheng, who was already considered one of his own.

Liu Cheng thought for a while and said:
"There are many possibilities. For example, Ms. Zhang may have offended someone in the past, or she may have known something she shouldn't have known. It's even possible that someone simply dislikes her and wants her dead."

"Something I shouldn't know..."

Li Qi recalled his contact with Zhang Fengyun.

In his impression, Zhang Fengyun was just an ordinary old lady, nothing special about her. She was kind and amiable, and quite tolerant towards Li Qi, which made Li Qi have a good impression of her.

Is it possible that such a person might offend certain people, or know something but keep it in their heart and not reveal anything?

"Has grandma been anywhere else in the past few days?"

Li Qi asked again.

Liu Cheng said: "After we determined that Ms. Zhang was murdered, we started to investigate. Ms. Zhang's whereabouts in the past few days were very ordinary. She only went to the vegetable market and home. She has not been to any high-end places. There is no possibility that she has learned some secrets."

"Is this so..."

Li Qi didn't ask any more questions after hearing this, and looked around the living room.

Because the house is not big, with only a large living room and a bedroom, Zhang Fengyun usually sleeps on the sofa bed in the living room.

Just pull out the sofa against the wall and it will become a big bed.

Zhang Fengyun's personal belongings were all in the wardrobe at the head of the sofa.

Li Qi opened the wardrobe and pulled out the drawers. One of the drawers was filled with sundries, while the other locked drawer was found to be filled with documents after Li Qi used his lock-picking skills to open it.

Teacher's certificate, retirement certificate, Li Qi's parents' identity certificates, death certificate, household registration booklet, driver's license... and so on.

Li Qi patiently searched through the items inside one by one, but did not notice anything suspicious.

"It seems that grandma doesn't have the habit of keeping a diary..."

Li Qi sighed lightly, feeling a little regretful.

Zhang Fengyun did not have the habit of keeping a diary, and she did not leave any notes or anything like that with her.

There is an older phone book that existed when landline phones were still very popular. It records many phone numbers, but most of those numbers are landline phones.

Now that landline phones are gradually disappearing from people's sight, these phones are useless.

There are few mobile phone numbers out there, and after so many years, it is unlikely that they can be dialed through. Moreover, judging from the time this phone book was placed there, Zhang Fengyun probably hasn't used it for a long time.

This phone book doesn't seem to be a clue.

However, looking at the densely packed phone numbers on it, Li Qi decided to put it away for the time being. He planned to write down the phone numbers when he had time and call them one by one to see if he could find anything.

Li Qi investigated the closet, while Liu Cheng looked at the trash can at home.

He searched through the trash can that had not been emptied yet and found something:
"Xiao An, come and see!"

Liu Cheng rummaged through the trash can and found a broken cell phone.

Li Qi came over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Liu Cheng said seriously: "This is a satellite phone."

"!"

Satellite phone?

Li Qi looked at the exquisite and small mobile phone. It was different from the satellite phone he had in mind. He remembered that the satellite phones he had seen in movies were big bricks similar to old-fashioned mobile phones.

But the satellite phone in front of me is exquisite and compact, just like the antique keypad phone from the past.

Of course this is not the point. The point is why Zhang Fengyun has a satellite phone.

(End of this chapter)