The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 51 Mom, I'm Back
"How can you call it cheating? My business is always based on mutual consent. Besides, I've never been wrong in fortune-telling. It's their blessing to meet a fortune teller like me, okay?" Zhong Kui said confidently, completely ignoring Qi Fei's protests and asking, "Do you want to know who came to see me?"

Clues were more important than anything else, so Qi Fei had to soften his attitude: "Okay, tell me what you found first."

Zhong Kui looked triumphant and said, "After everyone left, I wandered around Guiyue Apartment. I wanted to see if there was any alley that matched Xiaoyou's description. When I came back downstairs, I ran into an old lady who lives in Room 202 of the apartment building."

"The old lady in room 202?"

"Yes, didn't you ask about the situation door to door? She didn't tell you anything." Zhong Kui said with a smile.

Qi Fei remembered that it was an elderly woman in her eighties who lived alone. She was one of the few residents who told them that she had never had any conflicts with Yue Fengsheng. "Why? What did she hide?"

"You can't say I was hiding something. From her perspective, this matter had nothing to do with the case. She wanted to ask me about something else. Because I told them I was a fortune teller and that she had recently encountered a strange thing, she wanted my help. I felt sorry for her because she was alone, so I gave her a discount and went in to help her."

"Service? Haha." Qi Fei expressed his helplessness at Zhong Kui's wording. He was obviously taking the opportunity to make money. He even made money from such an old man. It was really too much.

"It's just service. People in Sanwu Town don't get this kind of treatment. I'm just lowering myself for the sake of your police station." Zhong Kui said this on purpose as if to anger Qi Fei.

Qi Fei waved his hand perfunctorily: "Okay, okay, just tell me how this matter is related to Yue Fengsheng's case!"

"You want to know? Then come with me and listen for yourself, so you don't have to think I'm talking nonsense." Zhong Kui said and turned around and walked out.

Qi Fei couldn't stand her leading him by the nose, but no matter how angry he was, he had no choice but to follow her back to Guiyue Apartment to investigate.

They soon returned to the old apartment building.

This apartment building, built in the last century, doesn't even have a decent doorman, let alone surveillance facilities.

This made it very difficult for Qi Fei and his colleagues to handle the case.

Zhong Kui went straight up to the second floor and knocked on the door of Room 202.

The old lady who opened the door looked younger than Qi Fei had expected. Like He Zhixin and his wife, she looked well-maintained and not the kind of senile old woman.

As soon as she saw Zhong Kui, she immediately welcomed him in warmly: "Great Immortal, you are back again!"

Then she politely invited the two people into the house and said, "I'm sorry, I'm the only one at home and I don't have the habit of turning on the lights." The dim environment and the old lady's hoarse voice always made people feel weird.

"Well, remember our agreement? You need to tell this police officer what you told me."

"Will he really believe it?" The old lady looked at Qi Fei, hesitant.

"He will." Zhong Kui answered firmly.

Qi Fei moved closer to Zhong Kui and whispered in her ear, "What did you agree on?"

"What else could it be? We agreed on something I'm good at." Zhong Kui shrugged and pulled him directly to the living room: "Listen carefully later."

"My name is Chen Liangdi, and I've lived here for over 40 years. Let me be clear: although I'm old, I'm not senile. Everything I'm about to say is true. Daxian can vouch for me." Chen Liangdi spoke clearly. To help ease her burden, Qi Fei reluctantly echoed what Zhong Kui had just said: "Don't worry, Auntie. Our Nancheng Police Department is very open-minded. You can tell us anything, no matter how bizarre it is. We'll see if we can help." Qi Fei deliberately emphasized the word "bizarre" and glanced at Zhong Kui.

After hearing what he said, Chen Liangdi said very seriously, "My son is back."

When Qi Fei heard this, he thought to himself that this was nothing, then he smiled and said, "That's good."

"He's been dead for twenty years." Chen Liangdi's second sentence plunged the whole room into awkwardness.

Zhong Kui muttered beside Qi Fei: "What a good ghost."

Qi Fei gritted his teeth and whispered to Zhong Kui, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"

Zhong Kui smiled at Chen Liangdi and said, "Chen Liangdi, please continue. Officer Qi is listening carefully!"

She actually called the old lady by her name. How rude of her.

But for some reason, Chen Liangdi completely trusted Zhong Kui and even had special respect for him. She was even happy that they were willing to listen to her strange ideas. She immediately waved to Qi Fei and said, "Come, I'll take you to see my son's room."

As she said this, she turned around and walked shakily towards a bedroom.

This old house is not very tall to begin with, and with the lush trees outside due to years of age, it looks eerie even in broad daylight.

The bedroom door creaked open.

There was a neatly arranged bed, pillows and bedding with old-fashioned patterns, an alarm clock, stationery, a desk lamp, a tape recorder, and even an old desktop computer. The plastic shell had turned yellow, but it was wiped clean.

Qi Fei felt like he had traveled through time, back to the millennium. It was as if the owner of this bedroom would be back soon, and he would turn on the tape recorder to listen to the songs on the tape, and then open the computer to start chatting with the original QQ...

"When I was young, I was busy with work, so I had children late. I only have one son, but unfortunately, he died before he got married..." Chen Liangdi's words were filled with sorrow, and they echoed in the room. "For twenty years, I have cleaned this room every day, and while cleaning, I think, 'It would be great if my son could come back.' Maybe God has pity on an old and lonely person like me."

Recently, when I came in, I found that the quilt was opened. Just like before, he never liked to fold the quilt after getting up, and I often scolded him and asked him to help him fold the quilt.

The day he passed away, I sat by his bed for a long time, thinking that I would never have the chance to fold his quilt again.

But he's back!

When I touched the quilt, it was still warm, just like before. He must have woken up and gone out!"

"Aren't you worried that a stranger might break into your house?" Qi Fei didn't believe this.

"Come on... I have more definitive evidence." Chen Liangdi said as she fumbled for a long time to turn on the old computer. The three of them waited for a long time before the computer turned on. When the screen lit up, the computer desktop was white with four big black words written on it: Mom, I'm back.

(End of this chapter)