The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 124 Mirror
The sky was like a piece of dyed ink, and silver rain bullets bombarded the asphalt road densely and heavily. The tires of the car were speeding over the metal speed bumps, making a crackling sound, and the water arrows stirred up rushed into the police station compound. Qi Fei got out of the car without waiting for Wu Shanqiu to open an umbrella and rushed into the heavy rain and ran towards the office building.

For some reason, the rain was so heavy today that his hair was soaked after walking about ten meters. As soon as he entered the door, a towel and a cup of steaming hot coffee were placed at his hand.

When he looked up, Zhong Kui was leaning against the blue door frame calmly. He leaned forward to help Qi Fei open the lid of the coffee cup. The warm steam from the hot coffee was filled with aroma, which instantly improved his bad mood.

"What are you doing..." Qi Fei hadn't finished speaking when Zhong Kui had already opened his collar with her cold fingertips and looked at the lip print on his neck that was beginning to turn rosy. "It's a Valentine's Day gift. Do you like it?"

When she said this, Qi Fei almost spilled the coffee in his hand: "Ahem, Zhong Kui, this is at work, please be careful..."

But it was too late. Wu Shanqiu, with her gossipy ears, had already heard everything. She laughed and said, "I didn't see anything, I didn't hear anything, you guys continue, you guys continue..." Then she went upstairs first, looking back every few steps.

"Oh no! This gossipmonger will definitely tell others!" Qi Fei endured the heat and drank three or two sips of coffee, then chased Wu Shanqiu upstairs.

Zhong Kui watched him go up the stairs and disappear around the corner. Then she turned around and looked at the heavy rain outside. The smile on her face suddenly disappeared: "Zhong Xiaoyu, Qi Fei is mine now. You can never change this fact. If you want to do anything wrong, you'd better savor this ecstasy first. I don't believe you don't like it!"

Zhong Kui's face was reflected on the glass door of the police station lobby, vaguely visible, half bright and half dark, it was her and yet not her.

Only Zhong Kui could see the face, filled with pain and anger as it pounded the mirror frantically. "Zhong Kui, you crazy woman, this is my body, my body! When you kiss it, can you feel the pain in my heart? Can you smell the blood and the stench of decay?"

"Ha! What a wonderful contradiction! Your pain nerve endings are still transmitting pleasure to me." Zhong Kui touched her lips with her fingers provocatively, and smiled sweetly with an unsatisfied smile, her eyes almost crazy. "It turns out that I can enjoy so many things with this body. No wonder you want to take away my consciousness. I always thought you were protecting me and didn't want me to feel your pain. But without pain, how can there be happiness? Zhong Xiaoyu, I want all of you. One day, I will make you give me everything."

"Qi Fei, you don't know anything. You don't understand what it feels like to truly love someone. Do you know how cruel what you are doing is?" Zhong Xiaoyu on the other side of the mirror almost roared.

Zhong Kui flicked the glass, and Zhong Xiaoyu disappeared from her sight. She stared blankly at him for a moment as he returned to his original form. Then she sneered, "Humph, how do you know I don't really like you? You're annoying."

She heard the sound of someone coming down the stairs behind her. Qi Fei took two or three steps back to her and asked, "Why are you daydreaming?"

Indeed, in the eyes of others, Zhong Kui was just staring at the glass in a daze.

Zhong Kui withdrew the fierceness he had shown towards Zhong Xiaoyu and said casually, "I heard you've been very busy lately. It seems I need to play the role of consultant."

"How did you know I was back?" Qi Fei asked Zhong Kui curiously while wiping his hair with a towel.

"They said you went to see Qi Dongjun. Given your father-son relationship, we can't afford to spend more time than this, or we'll probably blow the roof off the house." Zhong Kui put her hands behind her back, her black hair swaying lightly on her fair, smooth cheeks as she walked. "If you came back angry, how could you have the mood to hold an umbrella? To put it more professionally, your emotions were highly activated at the time, and you made subjective evaluations of the surroundings. You thought that getting wet in the rain matched your inner anger and became a way to vent your emotions. The cold, damp, and discomfort of getting wet in the rain were an external experience that resonated with the anger, allowing the inner anger to be 'rationalized' for expression..." Qi Fei suddenly laughed dumbly after listening to this: "Why, have you been possessed by Xiao Tao and started to speak incoherently?"

As they were talking, Xiao Tao magically appeared in their sight and came to Qi Fei in a few steps: "Brother Fei, I was looking for you."

"What a coincidence?" Qi Fei blurted out.

"Coincidence?" Xiao Tao didn't understand, but then ignored it and continued, "There have been further discoveries regarding the four bodies found at Ying Shuigen's house. I carefully examined the bodies and further confirmed the time of death. The result is that no matter how you look at it, Huang Daqiu died at least six hours later than She Xiaohui and her two sons."

"Six hours?" Qi Fei pondered, "The murderer waited at Ying Shuigen's house for half a day just to kill Huang Daqiu?"

"That day at the hospital, Ying Shuigen wrote that he would go to Nanling to see his 'god' on the 8th day of the first lunar month and wouldn't be back until pm. It's strange. Didn't Huang Daqiu know that Ying Shuigen wasn't home?" Zhong Kui said from the side. "So, both the murderer and Huang Daqiu were blindly looking for someone who couldn't possibly be at home?"

Wu Shanqiu came over at some point and said with a wild imagination, "Could it be that Huang Daqiu and Ying Shuigen's wife have some shameful relationship? Did he go there specifically while Ying Shuigen was not home?"

"Huh?" Qi Fei was speechless when he heard this. "Huang Daqiu is surrounded by people like Hong Mei. She Xiaohui is a simple housewife. She shouldn't be Huang Daqiu's type, right?"

"In addition, according to Captain Liu's request, I examined each of the 3702 snakes brought back from Jiangting Island. From the teeth of one of the snakes, I extracted DNA that did not belong to any person known to have appeared at the scene," Xiao Tao said expressionlessly.

"You've checked more than 3,000 snakes?" Wu Shanqiu was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth.

Xiao Tao pushed his glasses up: "It's nothing."

"Okay, you've been bluffing," Qi Fei ruthlessly pointed out, his attention returning to the second half of Xiao Tao's sentence, "What were the results of the DNA comparison of this person?"

"Yes, it was quite unexpected. We found that this sample and a known sample collected at the scene, through analysis of multiple short tandem repeat (STR) loci, detected that the genotypes of the suspected father and son samples were highly matched at multiple key loci."

"Speak human language..." Qi Fei's words were filled with helplessness.

"The two are father and son." Xiao Tao concluded.

(End of this chapter)