The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 46 Death in the Toilet

Qi Fei was stunned. He didn't know why Zhong Kui knew such a thing.

He was very sure that he did not know Zhong Kui when he was a child, and he had never talked about marbles with anyone when he grew up.

Zhong Kui obviously had no intention of answering his doubts: "Whether it's Xu Wei or Zhuang Xueqing, they're both weak, aren't they? How could they handle their first murder so cleanly?"

Qi Fei had no answer to the question raised by Zhong Kui.

"Is it possible that there's someone skilled at this who's teaching them how to do things?"

Zhong Kui's gaze and the amber eyes of Luosha behind him overlapped in Qi Fei's eyes which were blurred by the yellow wine, and for a moment they could not distinguish one from the other.

"If you look at the pattern itself, you'll see the brushstrokes are identical; they were painted by the same person. Xu Wei's lack of education is one thing, but Zhuang Xueqing, so frail, how could she have dragged Niu Yinzhu and Feng Yi so far into the fields where even a car couldn't enter? That night of freezing rain, all traces were obliterated by the rain. If it weren't for the weather, I think someone else's footprints would have been found at the scene, and they must have belonged to the person who painted that painting."

Qi Fei listened intently, it was incredible yet so reasonable. Slightly tipsy, he looked at Zhong Kui with a dazed look in his eyes: "The last time I was here, you said that you created this monster, so you must know who he is!"

"It wasn't me. I said I was possessed by a demon at that time. The one who created this monster is dead. My goal is the same as yours, to send this demon hiding behind the murderer to hell."

"You came to me with a purpose from the beginning, didn't you?"

"Otherwise, is it fate?"

Qi Fei couldn't hide his disappointment after hearing this. He looked at Zhong Kui and said, "I said it, I will take it seriously. Don't use me..."

"Qi Fei, this isn't exploitation. I want you to be my lucky star. I don't remember what the monster looks like because the dead man you saw last time sealed its appearance and name." Zhong Kui suddenly spoke frankly, "I'm just sure I have to find it and kill it. I'm also sure you're the best partner."
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At the end of the dark passage, the little boy was hiding in the corner sobbing. A dark shadow slowly walked over, blocking the only faint light in the distance, and his shadow enveloped the boy's thin figure.

The boy was not afraid. He looked up at the stranger and said, "Are you here to take me away? Please let me leave this world."

The man's voice was full of magnetism, and he said to him in a low voice: "If the person who bullied you doesn't beat you anymore, do you still want to leave this world?"

The wound on the boy's face stung and burned, and he said childishly, "Mom said he has a brain problem and it won't heal."

"This is what my mother thinks, but it's not what I think. Believe me, I have a way." The man said in a charming voice.

The boy began to believe it. He looked up at the face hidden in the darkness and asked innocently, "Are you telling the truth?"

"Well, of course." The man stretched out his leather-gloved hand and put a small paper bag in the boy's hand. "This is a potion to prevent him from hitting you. Remember the steps we practiced? Next time he drinks, pour it into his glass, and he will behave himself." After saying that, he touched the boy's head. "I'll take you home." As he said that, he took the boy's hand and walked towards home.

The originally quiet corridor was broken by the sound of a fierce quarrel, and the direction from which the sound came was the boy's home.

The little boy looked up at the man hesitantly.

"Go, everything will be fine after tomorrow. Remember this happy feeling." The man's voice was filled with malicious hypocrisy.

...The ringing of the police car's siren broke the tranquility of the old city in the early morning. Qi Fei got out of the police car. It was too early to go on duty. He just yawned when a cup of hot coffee was handed to him. Zhong Kui had already appeared in front of him, dressed exquisitely, and always looked energetic.

Of course, sometimes he looks too energetic, to the point of seeming emotionally stable yet somewhat abnormal, giving off a contradictory feeling.

Qi Fei was the only one who had coffee this early in the morning, which made his colleagues around him look at him with envy.

Qi Fei seemed to be somewhat ungrateful. He took a look at Zhong Kui's outfit and criticized her, "Your clothes are not suitable for a police call. You should be more modest next time."

Zhong Kui disagreed: "I'm just a consultant. I have the freedom to dress however I want."

The local police officer was obviously familiar with Qi Fei. Seeing him enjoying coffee and beautiful women, he couldn't help but tease, "Brother Fei, it seems like you're having a good time lately."

"Get out!" Qi Fei said unhappily.

"I advise you not to bring this coffee upstairs for a while." The other party smiled evilly.

Soon, Qi Fei knew what it meant.

On the sixth floor of this old apartment building, a room less than 50 square meters was filled with the smell of vomit and alcohol.

Qi Fei walked inside while putting on rubber gloves.

The smell came from the bathroom.

A man in pajamas was kneeling in front of the toilet with his head buried in it, appearing to be dead.

"The deceased's name is Yue Fengsheng, a retired employee. The one who reported the case was his wife, Lv Xiuxia." Following the direction pointed by the police at the scene, Qi Fei saw a disheveled woman sitting in the living room with a child in her arms. She looked towards the bathroom with a dull look from time to time, then immediately looked away, not daring to continue looking.

"Tell us what happened?" Qi Fei walked up to her and said.

"Yesterday my husband drank too much at home and had a fight with me. I hated him, so I sent him to sleep in the small room next door, and my son and I slept in the master bedroom. He likes to drink, and it is common for him to vomit at night. I thought yesterday was the same as before, so I ignored him and thought I would clean up after dawn. In the middle of the night, my son went to the toilet and came back to wake me up, telling me that his new father fell asleep in the toilet. I was sleepy and angry, so I ignored him and continued to sleep. As a result, when I woke up in the morning, I found that he was still lying there. I used my hand to pull him up, but found that he was already hard and could not be pulled up at all..." As Lu Xiuxia spoke, her face turned pale, as if she had returned to that terrible moment.

The little boy next to her seemed to sense Lv Xiuxia's fear. He reached out his little hand and patted her gently, saying in a baby voice, "Don't be afraid, Mom. Your new dad won't hit you when he wakes up."

It was obvious that he did not understand the meaning of death.

Qi Fei noticed the words that Lu Xiuxia and the boy used to describe the deceased.

"New dad?" he couldn't help but ask.

Lü Xiuxia replied, "Xiaoyou's biological father died when she was two years old, and I remarried to Yue Fengsheng."

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