False evidence

Chapter 322 Anfeng Hotel (Part 2)

I glanced at An Xin and tore open the envelope from the other side of the wax seal.

The moment I pulled a yellow slip of paper out of it, I knew who the 'sender' was.

That was a slip of paper.

The signature paper was made of the same material as the previous Jiang Budai's signature paper, and the handwriting was exactly the same.

However, in the past, the divination slips that Jiang Budai brought with the cats and dogs only contained a few incomprehensible words. This time, however, the small piece of paper was densely covered with tiny characters.

I quickly looked at it twice, then took out a lighter and burned the slip of paper.

I said to An Xin, "I've finished reading it. You can explain the situation now."

An Xin said, "My dad's name is Feng Kui, and he's a bastard!"

I was taken aback: "And then?"

"He was thirty-four years old and had accomplished nothing, so he became a live-in son-in-law...that's why my surname is An!"

"What's the point?"

"The key point is—he's always been idle, lazy, and has never shown any sense of responsibility as a man!"

I asked, "And then?"

An Xin bit her lip: "Then he went to jail for tomb raiding! He wasn't released until last November. Not because he served his full sentence, but because he was diagnosed with a terminal illness!"

I twirled the letter between my fingers.

An Xin immediately said, "The person who gave me the letter claimed to be a friend of my father. But he said he wished he could kill my so-called father. He visited me in the hospital, only glanced at it, and then turned around and gave me this letter. He also told me some things. Or rather... some prophecies!"

I was speechless for a moment because I really needed time to process some things that I couldn't understand or agree with at my age.

An Xin stared straight at me and said, "The first thing he told me was—don't lend money to anyone. I didn't take it seriously and lent it to her. Ha, and then my best friend stopped going to school after the New Year and I couldn't contact her at all! My family doesn't have much money, my mother's mental state has always been very poor, and I manage all the money in our family. I lent her seven thousand yuan, and now I don't even know where she is! I need to borrow money for my family's funeral!"
The second thing—if I lend money to someone, I can't speak before 9:15 every morning afterward! They still didn't listen! That night I had nightmares all night, dreaming that my family was being chased by debt collectors… We had no choice but to sell our house, and our whole family was homeless… A classmate from a poor family spoke to me, and my first thought was that she also wanted to borrow money… I cursed at her with extremely vicious words… and then she jumped off a building!

"child……"

Anxin heard a woman sobbing behind her.

An Xin ignored me completely and was about to speak when I waved my hand to stop her:

"I now know that your dad's friend's predictions were very accurate. Just speaking... about me, what did he say?"

An Xin's eyes were red with emotion, but there wasn't a single tear.

Her eyes were red as she glared at me, and she spoke in a very low voice:
“That uncle told me to be kind and helpful to others. He said if I didn't, my mother, my brother, and I would all die! He also said… on the day my so-called father died, someone would bring a three-legged sheep to my house. That person would be mine…”

"That's not what I want to hear!" I abruptly interrupted her. "What's with the paper figures in the mourning hall? What's with the corpse in the coffin?"

"I prepared the paper figures in advance, following what that uncle taught me. He said my second uncle would harm our whole family, so he told me to prepare paper figures to replace him! My second uncle has gone back to his own home now, but he'll be here in a bit..."

"What was that corpse all about?" I resisted the urge to back out the back door and peek inside.

An Xin looked confused: "What happened to the corpse?"

"You didn't see the body just now..."

Looking into her eyes, I took back what I was about to say.

She's much younger than me; she probably only graduated high school at most.
It doesn't seem like it, I dare not say.

Although we're not close, based on my current understanding of her and her family...

—What this girl has endured, and what she will endure in the future, is far heavier than what I have endured.

I didn't want to say anything more to them, because I was also very confused. I had my own purpose in coming out here, and no matter what unexpected things happened, I would focus on myself! "Didn't you see? That corpse just now..."

Before I could finish speaking, suddenly, a figure ran out from behind An Xin, waving its arms wildly, trying to rush into the front hall.

I grabbed the man's arm—it was the little boy who had been snuggling up to the woman earlier, Anxin's younger brother.

Just as the child suddenly started behaving strangely and frantically tried to rush forward, amidst the torrential rain, it seemed as if a series of dog barks came from all directions.

"Women and petty men are the most difficult to deal with!"

Suddenly, this sentence popped into Lü Xin's mind.

The next second, I shifted the two fingers that were gripping the child's neck, and the child went limp.

Liang Kaiyuan appeared and pointed to the woman who was still huddled in the corner.

Lü Xin and I pointed to the same spot at the same time.

The woman still had tears on her face, but she had already fallen asleep.

An Xin bit her lip: "I knew something was going on tonight, so I gave Mom sleeping pills beforehand. My brother is too young, I didn't dare give him too much..."

"Boom!"

Before he could finish speaking, a violent slamming sound came from the front gate.

I covered my ears, took two steps back, and while looking through the back door, asked:

"Did your uncle, who left me the letter, mention anything about this situation?"

An Xin's eyes darted around, she snatched her younger brother and hugged him, then shrank back to her mother in the corner, glancing at me sideways, and whispered:
"Actually, once I gave you the letter, the rest was none of my business..."

"You really think highly of me."

I nodded to Lü Xin and Liang Kaiyuan respectively, "Can either of you give me a hint now?"

The three of them lit cigarettes at the same time.

Lu Xin had one hand behind his back, and the hand holding the cigarette made two horizontal gestures:

"No one is omnipotent, and I can't figure out exactly what happened. But one thing is certain—right now, our priority is to ensure the safety of the two women, while also protecting ourselves!"

As soon as I stepped into the building, Lü Xin pointed at me and said, "You don't want to report me to the authorities at this time, do you?"

I ran my hands around my waist and walked into the house without saying a word.

"return!"

Liang Kaiyuan suddenly pulled me out and pointed upwards: "See for yourself."

I looked up and felt a chill run down my spine.

When I came here before, although I couldn't see it very clearly, I still remembered that the exterior walls of this building were covered with blue and white mosaic tiles, and it was a light-colored exterior.

However, when you look at it now, the whole building has become dark and gloomy.

If you look closely, you'll see that it's not the exterior wall itself that has changed color, but rather that the entire exterior of the building is covered with a dense layer of flying insects of all sizes!

The number of flying insects was so great that they almost completely blocked out the entire building, even the windows were completely opaque.

I've been down here for no more than half an hour.

In just a few tens of minutes, what was originally an old building was transformed into a demonic building surrounded by swarms of insects!

(End of this chapter)