The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 202 Little Black Possession
Police cars roared into Nancheng Zoo once again. The animals, just like humans, looked around curiously, as if they too had heard about the recent incident at the zoo.

Liu Binjie had been waiting at the bird pavilion for a long time. When he saw Qi Fei and the others, he immediately stepped forward and said, "Xiao Hei is very intelligent. It has never run away in the years it has been in our park."

I clearly put it back in its cage at the aviary yesterday, but when I got to work today, I found that Little Black was gone.

Upon hearing this, Qi Fei sensed something was wrong: "Wait, weren't you told to protect Xiao Hei separately? It was in the bird pavilion last night?"

Liu Binjie lowered his head guiltily: "Xiao Hei got depressed after staying in that temporary room for so long, and the live stream couldn't cheer it up."

The bird enclosure was the environment it was best suited to. We thought, the person who killed Chen Hao couldn't possibly have a grudge against a bird, so..."

Qi Fei and his team surveyed the aviary and found that the situation was completely different from last time. Only Xiao Hei's cage had been opened, indicating that the other party had come prepared.

Wu Shanqiu showed Liu Binjie the scratches on the jewelry box and asked, "These were left by a bird, right?"

Upon seeing this, Liu Binjie's eyes widened, and he immediately exclaimed, "This was scratched by Xiao Hei's paws!"

"So sure?"

“Xiao Hei’s claws were injured, I can’t mistake it!” Liu Binjie said with absolute certainty. After he finished speaking, he noticed the worried look on Wu Shanqiu’s face and asked anxiously, “Wh-what? Where did you find this box?”

"We're still investigating, so don't worry," Wu Shanqiu said against her will. Xi He had been torturing and killing small animals since he was three or four years old, and now he was ruthless. If Xiao Hei really fell into his hands, it would be in grave danger.

A person and a bird have gone missing at the same time, and the aviary has been cleared of visitors.

The usual hustle and bustle vanished in an instant.

Amidst the man-made rocks and tropical plants, the calls of various birds can be heard from time to time.

Some of the cries were so shrill that they sent chills down your spine; this is probably what the saying "the wind howls and the cranes cry" means.

"We've found something here!" Wu Shanqiu's voice rang out, and Qi Fei ran towards the sound.

Wu Shanqiu lowered her head, bent down, and rubbed some dust on the ground with her fingertips. She smelled it several times to confirm it, and when she saw Qi Fei coming over, she quickly pointed it out to him: "I found this on the ground!"

Following Wu Shanqiu's direction, Qi Fei looked down and saw that on the ground covered with bird droppings, there were faintly colored powders that shimmered with a pearly luster in the light filtering through the glass roof.

"I just smelled the powder; it's a blend of rose and peach scents, the unique fragrance of DS Luminous Loose Powder."

Qi Fei carefully examined the powder, which stretched intermittently all the way to the vicinity of the artificial hill.

"It looks like a mark left intentionally," Qi Fei said, carefully following the trail of powder.

As we got closer to the artificial hill, amidst the various bird calls filling the air, one sound gradually became particularly abrupt.

The traces of loose powder extended all the way to the back of the artificial hill.

At this moment, Liu Binjie, who thought they had discovered Xiao Hei's whereabouts, jogged over to catch up.

"Have you found Xiao Hei?" Liu Binjie asked anxiously.

"Shh..." Qi Fei gestured for him to be quiet.

Because behind the artificial hill in front of us, an unusual sound was faintly coming from behind, which at first glance sounded like the howling of a cuckoo.

“That’s not Xiao Hei’s voice,” Liu Binjie said in a low voice. He leaned close to Qi Fei, pressing his ear against the artificial rock to listen carefully: “Hmm? We don’t have any birds that make that kind of call in our museum.”

"Are you sure that's a bird's call?" Qi Fei asked Liu Binjie, looking down at the scattered powder marks that suddenly broke off under the artificial hill.

Following Qi Fei's gaze, Liu Binjie didn't notice the inconspicuous powder marks on the ground. Instead, he looked up and saw the artificial mountain in front of him, and said in confusion, "Strange, I remember this was a cave, how did it disappear?"

Upon hearing this, Qi Fei couldn't help but examine the fake stone in front of him again. Wu Shanqiu, standing to the side, rubbed her finger into the cracks twice: "Brother Fei! The cement isn't even dry yet!"

At this moment, the howling inside the cave became clearer and clearer, sounding less and less like birdsong and more like groans coming from a human throat.

The people at the scene hurriedly chipped away at the stone, and as the flashlight beam shone through, they discovered a plump, white woman bound hand and foot and forcibly stuffed inside the narrow hole. Her mouth was taped shut, and she could only let out cries that sounded like birdsong.

Her snow-white arm was bruised and bleeding from being scraped by the stone.

It took a lot of effort to rescue Su Jing from that shallow hole.

It was called a rockery, but it was actually covered with rough cement slurry. Once it dried, it was like sandpaper. If you pulled on Su Jing, her skin, which was pressed against the inner wall, would be rubbed raw with fine wounds.

After repeated pulling and Su Jing's painful screams, she finally escaped from this place that had almost become a tomb.

The moment the tape was ripped from her mouth, she seemed possessed, repeatedly muttering, "Idiot, idiot..." while tears streamed down her face.

Upon hearing this, Liu Binjie was the first to get excited. He rushed to Su Jing and asked urgently, "Did you see Xiao Hei? Where is it? Tell me quickly!"

But Su Jing stared at him blankly, repeating with a silly grin, "Idiot, idiot..."

Wu Shanqiu watched in astonishment: "What's wrong with Su Jing? Is she possessed by Xiao Hei?"
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The sound of high heels echoed in the quiet hospital corridor.

Qi Fei went to greet her as soon as he saw her appear.

Zhong Kui smiled at him and said, "Why are you being so attentive today? Are you feeling threatened by that diamond?"

"Tch, that was given to Zhong Xiaoyu by Xi He, not to you," Qi Fei retorted stubbornly.

Zhong Kui didn't argue, but her all-knowing expression made Qi Fei even more uneasy. He quickly changed the subject to work: "Su Jing is fine. Although she looked bloody when she was rescued, it was just some superficial injuries."

The problem now is that her emotions are extremely unstable and she has no way to control them.

The hospital had no choice but to administer a sedative to her.

As he spoke, he looked at Su Jing in the ward. She was covered in bandages and leaned against the bed with a blank expression, muttering to herself.

"I heard she's been possessed by Xiao Hei?" Zhong Kui asked, observing Su Jing with great interest.

"It must have been Shanqiu who said it, right? Sigh, this girl, a policeman, she never talks back." Qi Fei said helplessly.

Zhong Kui walked gracefully into the ward and stood in front of Su Jing.

Su Jing looked up at her and said weakly, "Idiot."

Zhong Kui wasn't angry. Seeing Su Jing's expression seemed to confirm her suspicions before coming to the hospital. Without turning her head, she said to Qi Fei, "Wu Shanqiu is right."