9:00 a.m. in the teaching office.
"Sit."
Officer Huang sat on the swivel chair of the Head of Instruction, his body slightly leaning back, crossing his legs, hands clasped together on his abdomen, his demeanor was loose and unruffled, as if he was sitting in his own interrogation room.
Gao Yang sat down in front of him in a disciplined manner, silent.
Officer Huang smiled, "Don't be nervous, there's no one else here, I'll just ask a few random questions."
"Well ...," Gao Yang ventriloquized: there's no one else I'm the one who's nervous, okay?
"Is your face injured?"
"Oh, it was bitten by an insect." Gao Yang pretended to casually touch it.
"Okay, let's start." Officer Huang took out his transcript, "Student Gao Yang, what is the relationship between the deceased Li Weiwei and you?"
"We've known each other since kindergarten, our relationship has always been good, considered childhood friends." Gao Yang replied.
Officer Huang asked as he took notes, "Yesterday afternoon, you have been with Li Weiwei?"
"Well, we watched a movie and ate at Dawan Mall, played until quite late, and went home late at night."
"What time was it when you separated from Li Weiwei?"
"Seems like it was almost 11 o'clock." Gao Yang knew that he couldn't remember the time too clearly, otherwise it would be even more suspicious.
"So late, didn't you send her home?"
"I sent her on the way for a while, the last part of the way she said she didn't need to send her, so I didn't send her."
Gao Yang knew that the surveillance on that last stretch of road was destroyed by Qing Ling, he deliberately asked, "Officer Huang you can look at the surveillance right, the surveillance can prove it."
Officer Huang pondered for a moment, his eyes moved slightly, "To tell you the truth, the surveillance on the road where you separated happened to be broken."
"How?" Gao Yang made a surprised expression.
"The possibility of a premeditated crime is high." Officer Huang quietly surveyed Gao Yang's face, trying to find a break in his expression.
"It could be an acquaintance committing the crime, but it's just a preliminary speculation, there's not much to go on at the moment. After all, there's no murder weapon, witnesses, or any of these."
"Not a single clue?" Gao Yang asked.
Officer Huang put down his legs and leaned forward, "Does Li Weiwei usually have any classmates that she is not on good terms with, or who she has offended?"
Gao Yang shook his head, "She's very nice, all the students in her class love her, I can't think of any enemies she has."
"What about people who are jealous of her? Or others?"
Gao Yang thought for a moment and shook his head, "No impression."
Officer Huang nodded, his eyes never leaving Gao Yang's face, "You like Li Weiwei, right?"
Gao Yang paused for a moment, "Like ... it."
"Due to the need to investigate the case, I looked at Li Weiwei's WeChat record, you confessed to her, she agreed ..."
"Yes, yesterday was our first date, I did not expect that it would become the last ..." Gao Yang lowered his head, his mood was low and sad, which was not pretending.
Officer Huang no longer asked questions, he stood up, "OK, today is here first." He went up and patted Gao Yang's shoulder, his tone was somewhat meaningful, "I am sorry for your loss."
...
The questioning ended, Gao Yang breathed a sigh of relief, a false alarm.
He left the office and walked towards the classroom.
"Gao Yang!" Someone called out to him.
Gao Yang didn't have time to turn around, a strong arm suddenly killed him and strangled his neck to death.
Gao Yang could barely catch his breath, "Cough ... cough ... cough ..."
"Hahahahaha weakling!"
A boy with dyed blonde hair and lip studs let go of his arm, it was Prince Kai.
Prince Kai was Gao Yang's high school classmate, but not anymore a week ago, when he was finally forced to drop out of school after he cracked the head of the boy in the next class open for the nth time.
The reason for the fight: the other guy looked at him.
Prince Kai's family is rich, and he drives a sports car to school every day, plus he's good-looking, so he's a real high roller. But this is such a good hand of cards but he was beaten to pieces, in the school, he is completely a person to see people afraid of the bully.
I don't know why, this bully has been especially warm to Gao Yang since his first year of high school, and Prince Kai has emphasized more than once that Gao Yang is his best and only friend.
This made Gao Yang flattered, but at the same time also unimaginable. Subjugated to his authority, Gao Yang fearfully became Prince Kai's friend, and found that Prince Kai, in addition to his love of fighting and the occasional brain fart, he was actually quite nice.
Today's Prince Kai was in a good mood and should have come over to check out of school.
"What's wrong with you, you look like you're eating shit." Prince Kai asked.
"Li Weiwei died." Gao Yang said.
"Ah?!" Prince Kai was shocked, "How did she die?"
"Robbery, killed ..."
"I go! Also too unlucky." Prince Kai smacked his lips, "Loss I also helped you confess to her a few days ago, eh, did she promise you? Definitely rejected it hahaha, how can a guy like you have a girl like you!"
Gao Yang rolled his eyes: this dumbass can never get the point.
"Brother, I'm sorry for your loss." Prince Kai patted Gao Yang's shoulder indifferently, "Look on the bright side, you won't have to worry about her being robbed anymore."
"..." Gao Yang forced himself not to curse.
"Today after school brother drove to pick you up, together double row! Turn grief and anger into motivation, you must go silver this season!" Prince Kai said.
"No, I have to go to Li Weiwei's posthumous farewell party tonight." Gao Yang said.
"No way," Prince Kai pretended to exaggerate and jumped away, "Could it be that your kid still wants to have a human ghost love affair ..."
"Scram!"
Gao Yang was practically speechless, itching to give him a kick. But this was Prince Kai, you never want to hear a word from his mouth that a normal human should say.
"See you later!" Prince Kai slapped his butt and ran away while waving.
...
7 o'clock in the evening. Mountain Green District. Funeral parlor.
Gao Yang and more than a dozen of his classmates, followed by his homeroom teacher, attended Li Weiwei's body farewell party.
On the one hand, Gao Yang was emotionally attached to Li Weiwei, even though she turned into a monster last night, he still wanted to come and see her off for the last time; on the other hand, he was curious as to why Li Weiwei wasn't cremated in the first place after her death, which didn't fit with his understanding of this world.
The hearth was dim and solemn, Li Weiwei's posthumous photo was placed on the altar, the girl in the photo had a bright smile. The body was placed in a transparent glass coffin with a freezing function, surrounded by lush white flowers.
Li Weiwei's parents, dressed in black suits and black dresses, stood beside the coffin, bowing to those who came to pay their respects.
The wife could not stop crying, the husband supported his wife, full of pathos.
The homeroom teacher brought a few students to offer incense to Li Weiwei, and then went forward to shake hands with her parents, and then walked around the glass coffin, the farewell ceremony was over.
Gao Yang followed the team, close to the ice coffin, he took a close look at the remains of Li Weiwei, she wore a black life jacket, face makeup, looks as if just asleep, with the life of no difference.
But when he thought of this girl, who almost pinched his own head yesterday, a deep sense of fear arose from the soles of his feet again, making his hair stand on end.
The class teacher went up to talk to Li Weiwei's parents, Gao Yang only felt his mouth dry, he avoided the crowd and came to the pantry at the side of the spirit hall to drink water.
Pushing open the door, Qing Ling was also there.
Gao Yang didn't dare to look at Qing Ling and went to pour water alone, but Qing Ling took the initiative to come forward, "Did the police ask you anything?"
"Nothing."
"Tell me everything." Qing Ling's tone of command.
Gao Yang looked around to confirm that no one was in the pantry, he showed his cards, "Why don't you continue acting?"
Qing Ling was slightly stunned, "Acting what?"
"Those during the day, didn't you act well!" Gao Yang was a bit angry.
Qing Ling's eyes swept, "You've seen her?"
"What do you mean?"
"My other personality?"
Gao Yang was taken aback, then realized, "You mean, you have ... a dual personality?"
"Yes."
Gao Yang did not speak.
Qing Ling gently closed the pantry door, "If you want to live in this world, you can't do it without lying to yourself. Over time, I've developed a sub-personality. She's my sister, named Qing Ling. The vast majority of the time it was me, and sometimes she would disobey and run out on her own. Qing Ling was quite stimulated by Li Weiwei's death."
Gao Yang's eyes were wary, "Now I no longer know which of your words is true and which is false?"
"Doesn't matter."
"Give me a reason to believe you."
"Reason?" Qing Ling raised her eyebrows, the fingers of her right hand, which was holding a disposable teacup, moved gently, and blades as thin as cicadas suddenly flew out from Qing Ling's chest pocket and pressed against Gao Yang's neck.
"I want to kill you, it's simpler than Li Weiwei killing you, is this reason enough?"
"Enough ..."
Staying green, not afraid of not having firewood to burn.
Gao Yang simply repeated the conversation with Officer Huang.
Qing Ling listened and fell into deep thought.
"You're still resourceful, you didn't reveal anything."
"It's just a cop." Gao Yang intentionally said, "What can be revealed?"
Qing Ling smiled coldly, "It seems that you are still not too clear about your situation, do you know how many beasts there are in this city?"
"How many?"
"The ratio is 1 in 10,000."
"1 beast in 10000 people, very high indeed." Gao Yang said.
"No, it's 1 person in 10000 beasts."
"What?!" Gao Yang almost shouted, "Are you ... kidding?"
"No."
"That's impossible!" Gao Yang couldn't believe it, he just felt his scalp go numb, this was too ridiculous.
"This is the truth, now understand your situation?"
"..." Gao Yang's hands were shaking.
"It's already a small probability that our school can have two humans, me and you." Qing Ling stepped forward, his gaze cold, "As for your family, your friends, your neighbors, 99.99% of the people you come into contact with in your life are, not surprisingly, all beasts,all kinds of beasts."
Gao Yang mortar and pestle in place, fear like a cold poisonous snake will be dead winding him.
Grandma, dad, mom, sister, teachers, classmates, friends ... all of them are probably beasts. And Gao Yang, since crossing over, had lived with them for twelve years!
Gao Yang's stomach lurched and he just wanted to vomit.
"To tell you the truth, you're the third human I've seen so far. The first two humans were stronger than me, but they both died."
Gao Yang still held a trace of luck: "Impossible, if I was surrounded by beasts ... I would have died long ago."
"Because you never realized their existence before this, beasts don't harm unawakened humans. They only kill the awakened, people like us."
"Why?"
"I'm not sure." Qing Ling shook his head, "They seem to have their own set of rules, and the information I have is very limited ..."
"What are you guys talking about?"
Gao Yang and Qing Ling were violently startled.
The door to the pantry was pushed open, and Officer Huang stood outside the door with a big smile.
"The beast you guys are talking about, what is it?"