A perfect crime? To me, it's full of flaws!

On the other end of the phone, Li Wen's voice was soft, but it struck Qi Feng's heart like a heavy hammer.

"In the end... I still couldn't escape it."

"Sis, I'll come pick you up."

After saying that, he abruptly hung up the phone, started the car, and drove out of the hospital.

"Qi Feng! Where are you going!"

Guan Hai's anxious voice came from outside the car window. He had just come downstairs and was running this way.

Qi Feng seemed not to hear him, stepped on the gas, and left Guan Hai with only a rapidly departing back view.

Half an hour later, at the entrance of the Municipal Bureau.

Qi Feng brought Li Wen, who had been silent the whole way, to this place.

The two of them didn't get out of the car; they just sat there quietly.

Finally, Qi Feng broke the silence.

"Sis, if you don't want to go up, you don't have to. The murderer... has already been caught."

After a long silence, Li Wen slowly spoke.

"No."

"This matter has weighed on my mind for over twenty years, and it's time for it to come to an end."

After saying that, she unbuckled her seatbelt, pushed open the door, and got out of the car.

He strode towards the municipal bureau building.

Just then, another police car sped up, and Guan Hai jumped out of the car in a flurry.

He spotted Li Wen walking toward the building and Qi Feng following behind her.

He walked quickly to the car and looked at Qi Feng with a surprised expression.

Qi Feng simply shook his head slowly, signaling him to follow.

The corridor outside the interrogation room.

Li Wen stopped and turned to look at Qi Feng.

"Is the killer inside?"

"Hmm. After uttering some nonsense, he didn't say another word."

"May I take a look?"

Qi Feng looked at Guan Hai, who immediately understood and nodded.

Observatory.

Li Wen walked up to the huge one-way glass.

On the other side of the glass, in the interrogation chair, the suspect remained silent with his head down, not uttering a word.

Then, as if sensing something, he slowly raised his head and looked in the direction of Li Wen behind the glass.

Time seems to stand still at this moment.

Li Wen's body trembled slightly, and she murmured to herself.

"Second Brother Kui... you still... caught up with me."

.........

In Qi Feng's small office.

Li Wen held a bottle of coffee and sipped it slowly.

Qi Feng and Guan Hai remained silent, waiting for Li Wen.

I was four years old when I was taken to the mountains.

Li Wen suddenly started speaking, her tone calm, as if she were telling a story unrelated to herself.

"At first, I wasn't used to it. There was no TV, no tall buildings, just endless mountains. But later, I got used to it. At least I didn't have to wander around anymore, and there were many other children like me to play with, which made me happy."

"But as we grew up and became more sensible, we discovered something... strange."

Li Wen's breathing began to quicken.

"On the fifteenth of every month, the village would prepare a particularly sumptuous dinner for us. That was the day we looked forward to the most, but later we realized that that night was a nightmare, a night when the devil descended upon the world."

"Every year after the fifteenth, one of the older brothers and sisters among us would mysteriously disappear."

"Some of the bolder older brothers started to notice this. That night, they pretended to eat their food and then sneaked out."

"Finally, they discovered the secret."

Li Wen's body began to tremble uncontrollably.

"It turns out that every year on the fifteenth of the month, the villagers would put poison in our food, making all of us children fall into a deep sleep."

"Then, they would take the oldest brother or sister from among us and bring them to the deep mountains."

"In the mountains, there is a temple where they have worshipped the mountain god for generations."

"The chosen person will be tied to a huge stone slab along with a young man of the same age from the village. Then, the village elders will begin a very strange ritual..."

At this point, Li Wen's voice stopped abruptly, as if she had imagined some terrifying scene.

"sister!"

Qi Feng stood up, trying to stop Li Wen from continuing.

But Li Wen shook her hand to indicate that she was fine and continued speaking.

"When the ceremony is halfway through, someone will come up and cut the wrists of both the orphan and a young man from the village at the same time with a knife."

"Then, tightly...join their bleeding wounds together."

"After the ceremony, the young man in the village will be helped up, his wounds will be bandaged, and he will be well taken care of."

"And the one who is an orphan like us will be left on that stone slab, lying there until... until all the blood in his body has drained away."

At this moment, Qi Feng and Guan Hai inside the room both glared angrily!

This is a fucking wicked local custom! It's an evil sacrifice!

"After discovering this, my brother came back and secretly united all the older children who had been brought into the mountains, including me."

"Finally, we found an opportunity, set the whole village on fire, and took advantage of the chaos to run away with our younger siblings for our lives."

"But in the end, only I, with my seven younger siblings, managed to escape."

"I was scared! I was scared that the villagers would come after us and take us back one by one. So, I sent the seven of them to seven different orphanages in H City. I thought that even if one of them was found, the others would be safe."

"And myself."

Li Wen looked at Qi Feng, her eyes filled with endless fear and relief.

"Because I was the oldest and the most obvious target, I didn't dare stay in H City. So, I went to the provincial capital alone... and eventually, I was taken in by an orphanage there."