The Mystery of the Inner Demon

Chapter 140 Yingshui Middle School
The sound of high heels hitting tiles pierced the silence of the ward.

"Consultant of Nancheng Police Station." Zhong Kui's voice came, and the guard let her pass without any doubt.

When Ying Shuigen heard the voice, he suddenly opened his eyes. The figure approaching in the darkness made him roll to the ground and kowtow continuously.

"Snap!" With the sound of a switch, the pale light of the ceiling light split the darkness. Ying Shuigen curled up against the wall and raised his head. Zhong Kui's pale face was looking down at him condescendingly.

His mute throat trembled as he squeezed out a broken breath. When Zhong Kui leaned over, he felt an indescribable sense of oppression. Her rosy lips opened slightly, "Take me to Nanling to see your 'God'."

As he spoke, he handed the paper and pen to him.

Ying Shuigen took the paper and pen with his trembling hands, and drew spider-web-like concentric circles with trembling hands, with the ends of the lines pointing to seven black dots.

"What is this?" Zhong Kui tilted his head and looked at the round, crooked pattern.

Ying Shuigen wrote the word "maze" on the side.

If it were someone else, they might not understand what Ying Shuigen meant. But Zhong Kui understood, because Qi Fei told her under hypnosis that deep in Nanling there was a maze where he and Xihe played together.

Zhong Kui raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Every time you choose one of these seven locations to meet, how do you decide which one it is?"

Ying Shuigen pointed his violently trembling fingers outside the ward window - in the night sky where the rainstorm had just stopped, the handle of the Big Dipper was pointing to Antares in the eastern Azure Dragon constellation. The black tip of the pen marked the "upper stage" and "lower stage" stars among the three stars in Taiweiyuan, and the arrow pointed directly to the northeast Kun position of the Nanling Labyrinth.

Zhong Kui's pupils shrank slightly: "No wonder every time you meet, it's the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar..." She ran her fingertips across the paper, "It turns out that every time during the winter solstice, when the Big Dipper's Yuheng Star and the Heart Constellation's Mars form a Pythagorean triangle... any place must be the altar corresponding to 'Mars guarding the heart'. Interesting." As she spoke, she reached out and patted Ying Shuigen's head gently, as if patting a stray dog, reached out and took the paper from his hand, smiled coldly at him, turned around and left the ward gracefully.
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The iron gate of Yingshui Middle School is covered in rust, and the gilded characters "Du Xue Ming De" on the lintel have peeled off, leaving only the character "Du".

The campus was silent during the winter vacation. Qi Fei stepped on the rotten dead leaves on the ground, and his rubber-soled shoes made a sticky sound.

A gust of cold wind blew, rustling the camphor trees on the east side of the playground, and causing the three people to hold their coats tightly.

"By the way, Brother Fei, the night before yesterday, I just got off work and saw your car fly away from me like lightning. Where did you go? When I was at work, I saw that your computer was on and you didn't answer the phone." Wu Shanqiu looked at Qi Fei, who looked haggard, and couldn't help asking.

"I went to Zhong Kui's place..." Qi Fei rubbed his temples. For some reason, his forehead ached slightly when he thought of what happened that night.

Wu Shanqiu was not without doubt and said, "Hmm? The direction you're going in seems to be the same as Guiyue Apartment..."

Before she finished speaking, Zhong Kui's voice suddenly came from the side: "Is there someone spying on us over there?" This immediately interrupted the conversation between Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu.

Sure enough, following what Zhong Kui pointed, not far away, a sneaky figure flashed from the direction of the gymnasium. Qi Fei felt that the back of this person looked familiar.

He ran over through the puddles and grabbed the man by the back of the collar before he could escape.

"Hey, hey, hey, big brother, let go!" The voice had that familiar greasy sound. Qi Fei exerted force and the man turned around and revealed his face. It turned out to be the paparazzi Wang Defa who had once secretly photographed Hong Mei.

"It's you? What are you doing in the middle school?" Qi Fei asked vigilantly.

Wang Defa's eyes wandered, revealing his guilty conscience. He stammered, "I just had nothing better to do, so I came to visit my alma mater..." Qi Fei, upon hearing this, immediately snapped, "Alma mater?! Don't forget we investigated you. I remember you weren't from Yingshui Middle School."

Wang Defa realized he couldn't fool her, so he said stubbornly, "Brother, I'm doing my job. I'm not interfering with you. I don't kill or set fire to anything. There's no need to tell you, right?"

"Who is your eldest brother?" Qi Fei didn't buy it. "Huang Daqiu died these two days. Don't tell me you don't know about this."

Wang Defa realized he couldn't fool people and became furious. "Hey! I was saving up this explosive news, and you're not letting me expose it again? I'm an entertainment reporter, and Hong Mei's news already cost me a fortune. Now that Huang Daqiu is dead, I could still make a little money with some scraps of news, but are you going to block even that path for me?"

Qi Fei didn't care about Wang Defa's complaints at all, and stared at him: "Okay, tell me now."

Wang Defa pursed his lips and said reluctantly, "I already knew how Hong Mei and Huang Daqiu met. They were connected by some 'expert' who helped them. It was through this Golden Snake Immortal. What a bullshit immortal! He's just a male mother who helps these rich people find partners outside."

"What are you doing at Yingshui Middle School?" Qi Fei looked at Wang Defa suspiciously.

Wang Defa chuckled and said, "I'm an entertainment reporter. What do you think I'm doing here?"

"What kind of gossip could make you come to Yingshui Middle School?" Qi Fei pretended to be confused.

"Scraps, scraps..." He shrugged and turned a blind eye.

"Be serious! If you have something to say, say it now!"

"Tsk, I said this, and you won't let me explode again. I really owe you in my past life." Wang Defa muttered, reluctantly saying, "Let me make it clear first, I didn't follow this matter just because Huang Daqiu died. I have been following this for several years. I was doing this when he and Hong Mei were together." He said seriously with a smug look, "Huang Daqiu has an illegitimate child!"

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu exaggeratedly dragged out the sound "Oh~~~".

"This news is true!" Wang Defa became anxious when he saw their lack of interest. "I have evidence!"

Qi Fei didn't hold out much hope and said, "Tell me, what evidence do you have?"

Wang Defa pulled out his laptop and opened it directly on a bench at school. "This is what the model who broke up with Huang Daqiu told me herself. She said Huang Daqiu once got drunk and boasted to her that he got someone pregnant when he was a teenager and even gave birth to a son. Of course, it's not uncommon for little-known models like these to deliberately expose false negatives to me in order to become famous."

However, I have always been a dedicated person. During that period, I would go with Huang Daqiu whenever I had free time. On the one hand, I could take some Reuters photos with young celebrities to earn some money, and on the other hand, I wanted to see if there would be any signs of this matter.

I really did catch him. Three years ago in the summer, when Huang Daqiu came out of the bar, he was harassed by a man on the street.

I could hear from far away that person shouting something like, "I'm your brother-in-law, you have to be responsible for my sister."

Seeing that she's not young anymore, she's probably not from the entertainment industry, which caught my attention."

(End of this chapter)