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The bodies of Zhang Haitao and Zhang Beibei had not yet been unearthed, and in the blink of an eye, another corpse had appeared. Jiang He rushed to Old Wei's side to check on his injuries. He saw that the top of Old Wei's head was caved in, a mix of white and red staining the area. That was blood mixed with Old Wei's brain matter.
Blood flowed down Old Wei's bald head. Jiang He checked for a pulse and then for breath; both had completely vanished. With such severe brain damage, even a deity could not bring him back to life. Jiang He looked at the large tree in the field, wide enough to be embraced by three people.
The brown trunk was smeared with red blood, standing out starkly in the gray haze of late autumn. This tree had likely grown here for many years—perhaps thirty, fifty, or even a hundred. It would continue to grow, but the person who had died against it would never know again.
"Is there no hope?" Yuan Jun sat on the ground, gazing at Jiang He in the distance.
Jiang He nodded and replied, "There’s no hope. In fact, from Old Wei's words, I should have realized he didn’t want to live anymore."
Yuan Jun sighed deeply. "Perhaps I shouldn’t have told him Zhang Beibei’s name at all."
"Yes," Jiang He agreed.
Old Wei had long since resigned himself to death; living had lost its meaning for him. How terrifying that was! Some people lived to seventy or eighty years old, still full of passion and wanting to live another five hundred years. Yet some only lived twenty or thirty years and felt they had already lived enough; their lives held no value anymore.
In this way, life truly seemed unfair. Some wished to live forever, while others wished they had never been born.
Jiang He dialed Old Shao’s phone number.
"Hello?" Jiang He asked. "Old Shao, what’s the situation over there?"
Old Shao replied, "The autopsy is complete. Xu Yiman has analyzed various aspects of the body and confirmed that Liao Fanmeng has been dead for a month. The body was kept in a freezer, which greatly preserved its integrity. What about you? Any discoveries?"
Jiang He paused for a moment before saying to Elder Shao, "Yuan Jun and I found Zhang Beibei and Zhang Haitao."
After a brief pause, he added, "The two bodies. And we’ve uncovered that Zhang Beibei was strangled by Old Wei."
“Old Wei?” Old Shao asked.
Jiang He sighed and said to Shao the Elder, “That’s right. You’ve seen Zhang Beibei’s diary, so you should know that she used to keep watch for Zhang Haitao. Old Wei would go out every night to scatter yellow paper, and that’s how they got to know each other. Later, Li Dabiao accidentally killed Zhang Haitao, and Zhang Beibei lost her father in an instant. Old Wei felt that Zhang Beibei must have had a terrible life after losing her parents, so he killed her.”
Old Shao was silent for a moment before saying, “If that’s the case, then Old Wei also dug up Zhang Haitao’s body, right?”
Jiang He replied, “That’s correct.”
Everything started to make sense. Although Old Shao hadn’t heard Old Wei’s account, through Jiang He’s words, he had already connected all the clues together—the timelines and all the evidence were now clear.
Life truly is a strange cycle where one cannot find a way out; everyone struggles to survive within this bizarre loop.
Old Shao asked, “So what about Old Wei? He was caught, right? With Yuan Jun around, he couldn’t escape.”
Jiang He answered, “He didn’t escape, but he took advantage of the moment when Yuan Jun and I weren’t paying attention and crashed into a tree, killing himself.”
“He’s dead?” Old Shao was somewhat surprised.
“Dead,” Jiang He said flatly.
“That’s good,” Shao the Elder remarked. “Are you all okay?”
Jiang He replied, “We’re fine; we just need a few hearses to take away these three bodies.”
Shao the Elder said, “Contact Zhang De.”
At this point, the case had essentially revealed its truth; only some details needed further investigation. When Zhang De learned about this incident, he remained silent for a long time. He had previously believed that the culprit behind the body digging was Li Erdan but hadn’t realized that Li Erdan was merely another victim in this tragic story.
Zhang De sighed as he dispatched his subordinates to transport the bodies to the funeral home.
The three corpses were loaded into vehicles, and Zhang De said to Jiang He, "Life and death are truly mysterious. Li Erdan is no longer working, and Old Wei has died. This crematorium should not continue to exist. But what can we do? The city refuses to tear it down, and there's nothing you can do about it. My office, which shouldn't even exist, will have to continue for a while longer."
"People must find meaning in this utterly meaningless life," Zhang De remarked to Wang Da. "Take the bodies directly to the police station."
Wang Da nodded in agreement.
Jiang He asked, "Is Li Erdan not coming to work anymore?"
"Not anymore," Zhang De replied. "With someone like him who has necrophilia, how can we expect him to come to work? After you found him, he contacted me once, and then there was no further communication. He no longer stays at Huang Family Shed; I have no idea where he moved to. By the way, please notify Li Erdan's family; I won't get involved."
Xu Yiman drove to pick up Yuan Jun and Jiang He.
In the car, Jiang He pulled out a phone and said to everyone, "I found this on Zhang Haitao; it just ran out of battery and shut off."
Guan Deng quietly took a charger from his laptop bag and handed it to Jiang He. Jiang He glanced into Guan Deng's bag and saw it was filled with various electronic devices, though he couldn't tell what they were all for.
Jiang He connected the charger to the phone and plugged it into the car. After charging for a while, he turned on the phone.
The phone prompted for a lock code. Jiang He thought for a moment and asked, "What is Liao Fanmeng's birthday?"
Old Shao checked some information nearby and replied, "December 10th."
Jiang He nodded and entered "110."
With a chime, the phone unlocked, revealing the home screen.
Jiang He thought for a moment and opened QQ on his mobile phone. Jiang He saw that in the QQ interface, apart from the various advertisements pushed, there was only one user. Zhang Haitao has no remark, but the name of this QQ is "Mushroom". Looking at the avatar, it looks like a cute cartoon character. "What does this boat mean?" Jiang He saw a big ship behind this QQ. Yuan Jun looked down and said: "Oh, this time Zhang Haitao has been chatting with this person for at least a month. He is the person he talks to most frequently." Jiang He clicked He nodded and clicked on this QQ. I saw that the last message was sent by Wu Wu to Zhang Haitao: "Haitao, we are going to meet soon. Are you nervous? I am too nervous. This is my first time falling in love. Although it is online love, I I think you must be someone worthy of trust, so I will come out of the back door of Sponge Factory and wait for me." After that, Zhang Haitao did not reply to "Mushroom". "This mushroom is Zhu Liang." Jiang He said to everyone. Jiang He Flipping through the chat records, a long-planned conspiracy gradually surfaced. Jiang He doesn’t know how Zhang Haitao chose Zhu Liang, maybe because Zhu Liang is too introverted, maybe because Zhu Liang is too easy to trust others, this is a mystery, and everyone It will never be known. What Jiang He knows is that Zhang Haitao approached Zhu Liang from the beginning just to get her Entrails. That was half a month ago, half a month after Liao Fanmeng died. Zhang Haitao gradually realized that Entrails alone could not save Liao Fanmeng. He needs Entrails of living people, he needs Entrails of young women. Zhang Haitao came to Sponge Factory while digging out the body. There are only female workers in Sponge Factory, and the management is not strict, so anyone can come in. So, Zhang Haitao fell in love with Zhu Liang. Through the contact of people nearby, Zhang Haitao got his wish and added Zhu Liang on QQ. In the QQ world, Zhang Haitao pretends to be a love-struck, rich and handsome man. His QQ for Zhu Liang Zhu Liang is only a single digit different from his ex-wife. His ex-wife passed away due to illness, and it has been some time. Because he missed his wife so much, he randomly added someone on QQ, and that person was her.
Zhu Liang was truly inexperienced in the ways of the world; she believed wholeheartedly in such a flawed lie. She comforted Zhang Haitao, assuring him that he would meet someone better, and that his ex-wife would surely be happy for him.
From then on, Zhang Haitao would chat with Zhu Liang every day.
Zhu Liang's heart gradually opened up to Zhang Haitao, and she shared many things about herself. They talked about everything from the sky to the sea, from the sea to the universe, and from the universe to their two lonely hearts. Zhang Haitao reminded Zhu Liang of his ex-wife; she had a shadow of her in her.
Zhang Haitao told Zhu Liang that he was a doctor at the People's Hospital. Zhu Liang was just a worker, and their social classes were indeed worlds apart. However, Zhang Haitao told Zhu Liang that what mattered was inner beauty, and it didn't matter what job she had or how much money she made.
Zhu Liang confided in Zhang Haitao about someone who was pestering her, mentioning a pervert who always wanted to be friends with her, and asked him what she should do. Zhang Haitao advised her that as long as she had a boyfriend, the person would stop harassing her. Zhu Liang didn't have a boyfriend; Zhang Haitao himself was her boyfriend.
Thus, Zhu Liang fell into the depths of love. After work each day, she would chat with Zhang Haitao on the playground until ten o'clock at night. At that point, Zhang Haitao would say he needed to work; in reality, he was going to the crematorium to handle corpses.
This continued until five days later when Zhang Haitao took the initiative to ask Zhu Liang out to meet.
Zhu Liang could never have imagined that the prince charming she envisioned did not exist; what existed instead was merely a devil.
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