"My mother could never have killed somebody, not in a million years!" Meng Changshou stated with absolute certainty: "The forensic doctor has also concluded that my mother cannot be the killer primarily because of her poor health and old age! My mother and my son, Meng Chen, both disappeared on the same day."
Leaning back against the sofa, Meng Changshou seems to have lost all his strength when recalling these things. He spoke with some difficulty: "A few days later, the police found my mother and Chenchen in a cold goods container in the old city, and from the last posture of their death, my mother had been protecting Chenchen. In other words, someone else was also present with them at the time of their deaths, and that person was the real murderer."
"The old woman is not the murderer, but she knew that there was a corpse hidden in the freezers at her store but she deliberately hid it, which means she must have known the murderer and she was very familiar with him." Li Xue quickly grasped the point: "The words you used to describe your mother, I can feel, in your mind, the old lady is a very kind person... And the fact that someone can make such a person violate their principle, the killer should be the old woman's next of kin. Narrow it down a bit more, the murderer may be among your three brothers."
"If the old woman only wanted to simply hide the dead body, she should not have been killed in the end." Han Fei gestured to Li Xue not to draw conclusions so early: "I feel that the old woman was more likely be giving the murderer a chance to reform, hoping that the murderer will go and turn himself in, she gave him a week, but she completely underestimated the evil in that murderer's heart."
"The police thought the same as you guys about it before. However, they didn't find any evidence. But soon after my mother's death, my second brother, Meng Changxi disappeared. No one knows where he went, no one has seen him alive, nobody has seen him dead. All the neighbors speculate that he is the murderer." The middle-aged man shook his head in pain: "Although the second is introverted and gloomy, I know he could never do such a thing. In fact, none of us three brothers could do such a thing! It is obvious that we are the ones who lost our closest relatives, yet in the end, we are the ones who face suspicion!"
The middle-aged man's emotions became agitated after he finished speaking. He coughed violently and tried to fish out a large packet of medicine from under the coffee table.
"Meng Changxi just disappeared. If we can find his body, then the range of suspects will be further narrowed, if we can't find his body, then he will probably keep carrying the charge of the murderer." Li Xue saw that the middle-aged man wanted to take his medicine so she poured him a glass of water, "I believe Meng Changxi, the second son, is unlikely to be the killer; what do you think?"
"I don't know..." Though he did not say anything further about it, Han Fei actually had a follow-up question. He was prepared to approach the old couple tonight.
Looking at the black-and-white photo of the old woman on the offering table, what came to Han Fei's mind was the game.
He was unable to judge Meng Shi only on the basis of virtue and evil. He was startled by the complexities of human nature at this very time.
Meng Changshou's health was not good, but Han Fei and Li Xue did not continue to disturb him, and the two were very sensible to leave.
The unresolved case from 10 years ago, which was both sensational and tragic at the time, was reopened. However, the case is now hardly ever mentioned anymore. The horrible memories lingered for the victims' families and the police officials handling the case.
With things on his mind, Han Fei walked out a few steps before realizing that Li Xue had been standing on the same steps and hadn't followed him.
"Do you still have something to do?"
"When I was sifting through the data for you today, I found a very coincidental point, the residence of the deceased Meng Shi and the residence of the victim in another case are in the same building, and what's more coincidental is that both homicides happened ten years ago." Li Xue said and walked upstairs.
Meng Shi lived on the third floor, and Li Xue led Han Fei to the fourth floor: "Have you heard of the human jigsaw puzzle case ten years ago?"
"It can't be such a coincidence, right?" Han Fei snapped back to the words of director Jiang, the crew originally wanted to go to the scene of the murder to shoot, but was rejected by the owner, then they replaced to the North Street 15 courtyard.
"The murderer of the human jigsaw puzzle case has not been caught so far, the first two victims of that case were found on the fourth floor of the 15th courtyard, and the deceased were a very loving couple." Li Xue stopped in front of a door: "Ten years ago, there were police officers who suspected that the human jigsaw puzzle case and the freezer murderer is the same person, but the modus operandi of the two cases is completely different, if the freezer murderer is a psychopathic twisted person, then the human jigsaw case murderer is downright evil."
Knocking on the door, after more than ten seconds, the main door opened a crack.
A dry and thin old man appeared behind the door, he frowned at Li Xue and Han Fei outside the door: "Who are you looking for?"
"I'm a police officer." Li Xue took out her temporary district police document. A police officer does not actually have the right to enter the home and conduct a search just because they have a police ID. But the elderly man didn't seem to get it and hesitantly opened the door.
All of the items in the room, which are more than seventy square feet, were perfectly positioned, giving the impression that the old man cleans every day.
When Han Fei entered the house, many photos were hanging on the wall of the living room. The old man in the photos was in good health, with a bright smile on his face, and it was hard to believe that the man in the pictures and the dry and thin old man in front of him were the same people.
The youthful pair in the images is what draws the most attention besides the old man. The young man seems straightforward and honest. The woman radiates virtue and kindness. They appear to be very happy and loving in every picture. Each photo is full of happiness.
Next to the photo wall is a collection cabinet with a lot of Lego toys inside the glass window.
"I go to the police station every year and inquire, I don't know how many times I've been to the police station in the last ten years, have you caught the murderer?" There was a hint of despair in the old man's tone as he touched the photo frame on the table as if he couldn't accept that cruel truth until now.
"I actually have a few questions I want to ask you." Li Xue took out her phone and opened several police programs in succession.
She moved skillfully and kept asking questions to guide the old man's memories without causing him too much pain, her way of asking questions and her questioning skills were much better than Zhang Chu and Wen Tao's.
While Li Xue was questioning the old man, Han Fei stayed quietly by the side, silently looking at a photo on the wall.
The person in the photo is Wei Youfu, the person he will play in the movie 'The Flower of Evil'.
In The Perfect Life game, the old lady lives on the third floor and Han Fei lives on the fourth floor.
In reality, the old lady also lives on the third floor, while the murder house where Mr. and Mrs. Wei Youfu were killed is on the fourth floor.
Although the building layout is not quite the same, this amazing coincidence made Han Fei keep an eye out. He now suspects that the ghost he met in the game last night was Wei Youfu's wife, the woman who was killed by the murderer in the bathroom.
Seemingly unrelated clues intersected at this moment, and the point where they intersected was Han Fei himself.
Through Li Xue's questioning, Han Fei had an understanding of Wei Youfu and his family, which could be said to be good people in their own right.
If they hadn't met with an accident, they would have lived happily ever after.
"They weren't the kind of people who were full of malice when they were alive." Han Fei's heart slowly emerged an extremely bold idea: "I want to live in that netherworld game full of ghosts and monsters, first of all, I need to have a safe house to do so, if I can get Wei Youfu and his wife's approval, I can live with them in the murder house! Then my already certain death at that place will be subsided and I can even live there!"
People who had died long ago but reappeared in the game, whether they were human or ghosts, Han Fei decided to blend with them.
With a light in his eyes, Han Fei got up and sat next to the dry and thin old man.
Under the uncomprehending gaze of the old man and Li Xue, Han Fei said to the old man, "Old man, in fact, Brother Youfu and I were particularly good friends, can you tell me what other wishes he has left unfulfilled?"