The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 52: The Devil Pretending to be an Angel

"Sometimes the computer is on, and the messages on it change constantly, but they're all my son's words to me." Chen Liangdi's voice was choked with sobs. "But he's just playing hide-and-seek with me, and won't come out to see me. Dasheng, you said you'd help me."

"Don't worry, our agreement won't change." Zhong Kui patted Chen Liangdi on the back. "Once the Yue Fengsheng incident is fully investigated, I'll help you talk to your son."

Chen Liangdi's sadness eased after hearing this, and she continued mumbling, "Last time, he left a message on that computer, saying he was sick and asked me to go buy medicine. At that time, I was just like the police officer, worried that someone was playing a prank on me. But then I thought, what's the point of teasing a useless old woman like me? My son said he needed cefuroxime, so I went to buy it for him, and look what happened!"

Chen Liangdi took out the medicine box as if it were a treasure, pulled out a whole box of medicine, and sure enough, there were two pills missing.

However, after hearing this, Qi Fei already knew why Zhong Kui asked him to come.

Cefuroxime is a prescription drug, and real-name registration is required to purchase it. They were originally investigating who had a conflict with Yue Fengsheng and who had recently purchased cefuroxime. They never expected that this person was Chen Liangdi, and that the person who took the drug was her son, who had passed away twenty years earlier.

Zhong Kui nudged Qi Fei lightly with his elbow and said with some pride, "See, fortune-telling is very useful, isn't it? The best part is yet to come!"

Then he said to Chen Liangdi, "Can you take us to that place again?"

Chen Liangdi nodded, left her son's bedroom, walked through the living room and headed towards the front door.

"Where are we going?" Qi Fei asked Zhong Kui.

Zhong Kui didn't say anything, but just gestured for him to follow Chen Liangdi outside.

When passing by the living room, Qi Fei couldn't help but take another look at the black and white photo of the young man enshrined on the wall. The black eyes seemed to be staring at him and might blink at any time.

Chen Liangdi walked down the stairs slowly and went around to the back of the stairs on the first floor. There was another flight of steps going down from here.

There was only a dim light on in the corridor, and it became darker as you went down.

Chen Liangdi touched the switch familiarly and turned on the corridor light.

I turned on the lights and walked along the narrow corridor. On one side was a concrete wall covered with cobwebs, and on the other side was a metal door.

The dark passage was deep and Chen Liangdi walked slowly because she was old. The three of them walked for a long time before finally reaching the end.

She took out the key tremblingly and opened one of the iron doors.

"The light is broken." Chen Liangdi said, groping with her deformed fingers, walked to the other end of the basement and opened another door.

To Qi Fei's surprise, after opening the door, the whole room suddenly became bright, and the outside was actually the first floor.

This turned out to be the building's utility room. The apartment building was built on a slope, so the basement was the first floor. Chen Liangdi, still showing proof of her son's return, pointed to a nearby bicycle. "This is my son's. We've never been willing to throw it away. He used to ride it to work. It was originally placed over there," she said, pointing to a corner. "It was behind a pile of junk, and it was recently brought outside."

And, look at it." She touched the bicycle seat, "it's all clean."

Qi Fei walked forward to take a look. The car was indeed old. Because it had been there for so long, the axles had rusted and the paint on the seat had become so brittle that it would fall off at the slightest touch. However, the tires had been replaced with new ones and the chain had been oiled.

However, what caught his attention most were a few red fibers still hanging on the wheels.

He remembered this red color so well. On the day Yue Fengsheng died, He Zhixin, the resident of Room 101, indignantly pulled out a worn-out tracksuit. It was exactly this color. Could it be that the bike Yue Fengsheng was riding when he knocked Zhou Li down? He immediately asked Chen Liangdi, "Old man, did you lend your bike to Yue Fengsheng a while ago?"

Chen Liangdi quickly waved her hands and firmly denied the allegation, "I'll stay as far away from that guy as I can. This car is my son's treasure. How could I possibly lend it to him?" Then, somewhat emotionally, she added, "My son is very handy. He must have fixed the car. Look, the things in the toolbox are all outside."

In fact, Qi Fei didn't care about Chen Liangdi's logical consistency. He just couldn't understand why Yue Fengsheng, if he was deliberately provoking her, could have just used his own bike. Why did he go to so much trouble to steal Chen Liangdi's bicycle and even repair it so troublesomely?
He began to pay attention to the things in the utility room.

Broken bicycles, worn-out toys, messy tool boxes...

These things often appear in the same place as Daddy-Long-Legs.

Is it...

"Great Immortal, you must let him see me one last time." Chen Liangdi paused here, then nodded to herself. "I don't have much time left. Our mother-son bond is almost over. Let me know where he will be reincarnated. If I ever go to hell, I will definitely ask the King of Hell to reincarnate somewhere closer to my son so that I can see him again in my next life."

"Don't worry, I'm good at psychic communication." Zhong Kui guaranteed.

Qi Fei did not expose Zhong Kui this time. He never believed in psychics and knew that she was lying. In the past, he was absolutely against lying, but this time, looking at Chen Liangdi who was full of hope because of Zhong Kui's blank check, he didn't know how to judge.

Qi Fei now understood what Zhong Kui meant. During the first investigation, because of the clue of Daddy-Long-Legs that Xiaoyou mentioned, they completely ignored Chen Liangdi, who had no connection with the case in any way.

Zhong Kui had previously said that the alley Xiaoyou described might not be a real alley. Judging from the narrow passage leading to the basement and the lighting, it's very likely that Xiaoyou saw the so-called Daddy-Long-Legs here. It was right inside the apartment building, so it's no wonder those outside said they saw Xiaoyou returning to the apartment building alone.

Qi Fei walked out of Guiyue Apartment again, looked at the pure blue sky above his head, and then looked back at the old apartment building behind him, feeling extremely complicated.

Zhong Kui, standing nearby, said quietly, "He's the Daddy-Long-Legs who brings Xiaoyou a sense of security, the ghost who comforts Chen Liangdi over the loss of her son, and the Judge who eliminates the troublemaking drunkards for everyone. This person seems to be saving them, but in reality, he's exploiting them. He's truly a devil masquerading as an angel."

Hearing this, Qifei couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart: No matter who used Xiaoyou to kill Yue Fengsheng, it seemed that all this was just the beginning. Why would those eyes in the darkness target ordinary people living here?

(End of this chapter)