Chapter 365 Is the Truth Already Before Us?

The wind blew out the last spark in the stove, and the roar of the outside world became less important.

This night, Ji Li could feel that he had caught the tail of the truth, as long as he took a small step forward.

The third 24 hours will be divided into two parts, the first half will find out everything, and the second half will be the final chapter of the fight between man and ghost.

When his body relaxed, the pain could no longer make Ji Li fall asleep. The names of Wang Ruili and Mu Nianmei kept circling in his mind.

In the flash of thought, Ji Li had a flash of inspiration, and between these two names, there was another name.

"Pingliang!"

In this story, Pingliang is the only male, and he has an unknown relationship with Mu Nianmei.

Pingliang is a student majoring in finance and a senior of Mu Nianmei. Logically speaking, why should he hide his relationship in college?

Ji Li's thoughts became more active in the pain at midnight, and he had a guess...

This guess was purely a conjecture that integrated the existing clues with expansive thinking, and there was no evidence to support it.

But once this idea came up, Ji Li could never forget it.

It is true that this guess is very bold and strange, and there is no evidence to support it, but there is no evidence to refute it.

Ji Li could not lie down anymore, so he sat up from the earthen kang, grabbed his crutches and walked out of the room beside the snoring Gao Yan.

In the small courtyard, Ji Li sat on the stone bench, the wind blew his long hair, and he looked up at the moon, which made him look so bleak at night.

Lighting a cigarette, Ji Li sat in the courtyard, he knew that he was only one step away.

As long as Pingliang is found tomorrow, everything will be over.

…

In the zero-degree temperature, Ji Li, who sat in the courtyard all night, had a pale face like a piece of white paper.

The cigarette butts all over the ground under his feet proved that he had never left.

"Creaky..."

The small door was pushed open from the inside. The sky was just getting light and the sun had not yet spread. Gao Yan took out a jacket and put it on Ji Li.

Ji Li turned his head blankly. He looked at Gao Yan and saw his inner uneasiness.

Gao Yan sighed. Actually, he woke up after Ji Li left and could not fall asleep again.

Two people, one sitting in the snow, the other lying on the bed, each thinking his own thoughts.

"Put on your clothes and go, find Ping Liang and ask everything, our fate will end today."

On the motorcycle, two men wearing helmets galloped on the deserted streets in the new day, and they headed straight for a destination.

That was Ping Liang's home.

After about half an hour of rushing, the motorcycle stopped at the gate of a community.

This is a mid-range community in Shanming City. As a research tutor of the finance major of Shanming University of Finance and Economics, Ping Liang's living here is more in line with his status.

Gao Yan held the helmet in his arms, took out the message sent by his former colleague, and groped to a building with Ji Li.

Ping Liang lived in Room 02 on the 8th floor of this building.

The two adhered to the consistent principle and walked upstairs. Because Ji Li had difficulty walking, he climbed very slowly.

Ji Li had been thinking about what would happen next. The female leather-faced ghost would not give up, and Ping Liang was also an important clue.

Then it is very likely that they will have a battle.

But this is a good thing. As long as Pingliang can be obtained, all the truth can be revealed.

Including, confirming Ji Li's conjecture.

But... things are not always as expected. When Gao Yan and Ji Li came to the door of 802, the door there was open.

Ji Li frowned. This is definitely not a good sign.

Gao Yan's face changed even more. He has put most of his hopes on Pingliang. If this person has an accident, it will be more difficult to solve the case later.

The two looked at each other, pulled the door, and entered one after another.

From the first glance, it can be seen that Pingliang is a man living alone. The house is very tidy, not messy, and there is no blood.

But Ji Li's footsteps stopped at the moment he entered the room. He grabbed Gao Yan who was about to rush in and said in a deep voice:

"There is a stranger in the house!"

The reason for this judgment is that he smelled a smell of wind and snow from the outside.

Generally speaking, when entering the house from outside in windy, rainy and snowy weather, people will have a smell of dust on their bodies.

The smell Ji Li smelled was the smell of someone who had just returned from outside, but it was definitely not Pingliang, because the door was not closed.

Gao Yan took out a baton from his back and was ready for battle. Ji Li leaned on his cane and thought for a while, squinted his eyes, and said loudly after a moment:

"Tongguan?"

As soon as the voice fell, a man with a slender figure, short hair and bright eyes walked out of the master bedroom. It was Tongguan.

The three men looked at each other, turned around and left Pingliang's room in tacit understanding.

"It seems that Pingliang has been killed or taken away by a ghost. We are all a step late."

The three walked out side by side, and Gao Yan said with a gloomy face.

Only Tongguan and Ji Li did not speak. Due to the mission, they could not make their guesses public, but they all agreed with Gao Yan's words.

Ji Li frowned and stood there. After taking a deep breath, he knew that there was only one last clue left.

Wang Ruili's residence.

That was the only victim of the 11.18 case. Perhaps a little information could be obtained in her home.

Ji Li turned his head and glanced at Tongguan, then told Gao Yan to leave.

The two of them rode their motorcycles, crushing the snow and sped away.

He and Tongguan had not communicated at all since they met, but they both knew that if Pingliang was killed, the last clue would only be Wang Ruili.

They would meet again soon.

Tongguan walked silently to the back door of the community, where a taxi was parked, and the driver had been waiting for him for a long time.

Entering the back seat, Tongguan said to the driver: "Master, go to Xijiang Road in the old city."

As the vehicle moved forward, Tongguan put his hand on a black handbag beside him, and through the leather surface, he touched something bloody.

This was what Xiao Qianduye gave him after he got it in 2000.

The fourth handbag contained a lot of miscellaneous things.

The remaining torso with the pelvis missing, the remaining fingers, half of the broken head with a lot of black messy hair attached, and a right leg.

A blood-stained navy blue jacket, black trousers, and a clean white canvas shoe.

When Tongguan first discovered it, he understood that this was the remains and bloody clothes of Mu Nianmei that had not been disposed of by the murderer.

Until this moment, he completely understood that the ghost in the inverted space of A-3 was Mu Nianmei.

Because the marks it made on the shop assistants were to get a complete body, it had something in common with the puppet ghost in the Kyoto mission.

The puppet ghost used the limbs of living people to create humanoid manipulation, while Mu Nianmei wanted a complete body to achieve a certain purpose.

Therefore, Mu Nianmei was a very special ghost, and it had a very clear goal in this mission.

This was very different from the ghosts in other missions who were only focused on slaughtering the shop assistants.

It seemed that Mu Nianmei had never thought of killing the shop assistants, and its strange actions were just to get a complete body.

Tongguan didn't know what it wanted to get from this body. Perhaps when he found out this, it would be time to complete the mission completely.

In the handbag, in addition to the remains of Mu Nianmei, there was also an account book with a blue cover.

This was the library borrowing record that Xiao Qianduye was ordered to get before. In this record, Tongguan got a very subversive truth.

The book of pop music history was borrowed after the Mu Nianmei case. They had always believed that the person who borrowed the book was Pingliang.

But in fact, the person who took the book was called Wang Ruili!

It was Wang Ruili, who was the director of the Law Department of Shanming University of Finance and Economics at the time, and was also the victim of the 11.18 case in 2015!

Tongguan went to Pingliang's home, which was completely different from Ji Li's purpose.

Because he guessed that Pingliang might be the serial murderer who killed Mu Nianmei first and then Wang Ruili.

Otherwise, why did Pingliang, Mu Nianmei, and Wang Ruili have such a complicated relationship because of a book.

Pingliang and Mu Nianmei were underground lovers. Because they loved heavy metal music, they both handled the book of pop music history, but why did Wang Ruili take the book after Mu Nianmei's death?

Fifteen years later, Pingliang realized something and returned the book through Li Lixin?

Now, it is necessary to determine what role Wang Ruili played in this case, otherwise the case cannot be solved.

Tongguan is now very sure that Mu Nianmei and the 11.18 case are basically a whole. As long as the former is solved, the latter will also be revealed.

…

Wang Ruili lives in Xijiang Road in the old city. This is the old house allocated by the unit.

Ji Li has never been here, but the streets that keep retreating around him make him feel a little strange.

Gao Yan is anxious to solve the case, so he drives very fast, making the scenery particularly blurry, but even so, Ji Li still senses a sense of familiarity.

The closer he gets to Wang Ruili's residence, the stronger Ji Li's strange feeling becomes.

Until the motorcycle turns into a long street, which is called Xijiang Road, and looks at the old buildings flying by on both sides.

Ji Li finally realized that something was wrong. He suddenly grabbed Gao Yan's shoulder, threw away his helmet, and shouted urgently:

"Turn around! You can't enter this street!"

Gao Yan braked suddenly, almost causing the car to overturn, but the car did not stop and was still sliding forward.

Ji Li's face showed an extremely shocked expression. He looked at the familiar street in front of him and finally learned the truth of the case.

The day before yesterday, he left the scene sadly with one leg broken on this street.

This place is called Xijiang Road. It is Wang Ruili's home, but it is also the haunted house of the female leather-faced ghost!

A very subversive truth was finally revealed at this moment.

The victim of the Mu Nianmei case became a ghost and slaughtered the Xinka store clerk;

The victim of the 11.18 case also became a ghost. Wang Ruili turned out to be the female leather-faced ghost who killed people with her senses!

Unfortunately, Ji Li realized it too late. A touch of blood suddenly appeared in front of him and Gao Yan.

It was a blood-stained sweater that Mu Nianmei wore when she was killed fifteen years ago, but now it has become a tool for Wang Ruili's ghost to kill people.

Is the truth already in front of us?

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