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

"Second Brother Kui, it's been a long time." Li Wen pushed open the door and said to Kui An as she entered.

"Sis! What are you doing in here!"

Seeing Li Wen enter, Qi Feng stood up from his chair, intending to step forward and stop her.

However, someone stopped him.

It was Lin Haitang who came in with her.

She shook her head almost imperceptibly at Qi Feng, her eyes signaling him to calm down.

Li Wen ignored Qi Feng and walked step by step to the chair where Qi Feng had just been sitting, and sat down naturally.

She looked at Kui Si and spoke again.

"Second Brother Kui, it's been a long time! Do you still remember me?"

Li Wen thought that when Kui Ru saw her, he would be hysterical, furious, and curse her.

But Kui Si simply raised his head slowly, his eyes filled with weariness and understanding.

"Wen, it really is you."

"Brother Kui, for over twenty years, this matter has been like a stone weighing on my heart. Can you tell me why?" Li Wen's eyes instantly reddened, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.

"When you see your younger siblings, the ones you played and laughed with, being placed on that cold stone slab, and watching them die right before your eyes, don't you feel even a sliver of sorrow? They were people you spent every day with!"

By the end, she was in tears.

Kui Lu's body trembled slightly, his lips moved as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he only let out a long sigh.

"pain."

Kui finally spoke, his voice carrying a hint of struggle and a hint of composure.

"Of course I'm in pain. I hate that place, just like you, and I hate that so-called ritual."

"So, after that fire, I left the village. I went out into the world to explore and study, thinking I could finally escape that nightmare."

"It wasn't until a year ago, when my eldest brother died, that I was forced to go back. It was then that I realized it wasn't a nightmare, but a curse, a fate that no one in our Kuijia Village could escape."

"For the sake of my brothers and sisters in the village, and for my own sake, I... have no other choice."

As Kui Ru recounted his story, a tragedy spanning a century unfolded in this small interrogation room.

Kuizi Village is an ancient village with a history of over a thousand years, named after a surname.

Since ancient times, the village has had a tradition of offering human sacrifices to the mountain god in order to pray for good weather and a prosperous family.

It is unclear whether this was the reason why the village continued to expand, at its peak it had more than 10,000 people.

However, a hundred years ago, a new village chief emerged in the village after returning from studying elsewhere.

He regarded human sacrifice as a foolish and barbaric practice, and against all opposition, forcibly abolished the ritual.

That year, all was calm and peaceful.

The village chief thought he had succeeded, believing that science had triumphed over superstition.

The following year, however, a sudden plague swept through the entire village, leaving widespread devastation and with only one in ten survivors.

The spirited village chief also died in this disaster.

In fear, the surviving villagers elected a new village chief. They blamed the plague on the blasphemy against the mountain god and dared not be negligent in the slightest, immediately restarting the sacrificial ritual.

But at this point, only a hundred people remained in the entire village. To use villagers as sacrifices would be tantamount to suicide.

So they came up with an even more vicious idea: to use outsiders.

From that time on, Kuizi Village became a den of swindlers and cheaters.

"Because in the past, people from the village were used as offerings, and we were connected by blood, so we only needed to hold the ceremony once a year. Now that we've switched to outsiders, the village elders feel that the mountain god will be unhappy."

"Therefore, the ceremony was changed to once a month. The life of a kidnapped person was combined with the blood of a young man of the same age from the village to complete the sacrifice."

Kui Si's voice was calm, as if he were narrating a piece of history that had nothing to do with him.

Peng!

In the observation room, Guan Hai could no longer control himself and slammed his fist hard against the one-way glass, making a dull thud.

"Beasts! These are a bunch of fucking beasts!"

His eyes were bloodshot and his veins were bulging. If his two colleagues hadn't been holding him back from behind, he probably would have rushed in and torn Kui to pieces.

This is no ridiculous ritual! This is clearly an organized, centuries-old serial murder!

Inside the interrogation room, only Wang Linfeng remained calm.

He adjusted his reading glasses; though his tone was calm, the murderous intent in his eyes was impossible to conceal!

"I don't understand. They've been gone for twenty years and have no connection with your village anymore. Why are you still harassing them?"

Kui Lu's cloudy gaze turned to Wang Linfeng, as if he was considering whether to satisfy the old policeman's curiosity.

Finally, he spoke up.

"Yes, they escaped. We just need to replace them with another group of people."

"At first, that's what the villagers thought too. But since then, one year, two years, ten years... the village has not prospered, but has become smaller and smaller. There are always fewer people being born than dying."

"Until two years ago, my father, the previous village chief, said before he died... that he saw the mountain god's instructions."

Kui Lu's gaze became somewhat unfocused, as if he were lost in some kind of memory.

"My father said the mountain god is angry! We must offer the sacrifices that ran away twenty years ago back to it one by one to appease the mountain god's anger and restore the glory of Kuizi Village."

"My eldest brother took over as village chief, and he believed it. He went to great lengths, sending people everywhere to search for you, but the search was endless, and he found nothing. Then... he also contracted a strange illness and died."

"Before he died, he grabbed my hand and said, 'This is the mountain god's curse, it's retribution! We must kill a sacrifice to save one person from Kuizi Village. The curse will only leave Kuizi Village after all the escapees have been killed.'"

"So you believed him?! You just listened to the nonsense of a dying man and killed someone?!" Qi Feng couldn't hold back any longer and shouted angrily, "You're someone who went to university! You've received higher education! Don't you even have this basic scientific common sense?!"

"Haha... Hahahaha!"

Kui Hu suddenly burst into laughter, a shrill and desperate laugh.

"Of course I don't believe it! How could I possibly believe such a cursed lie!"

"But...."

The laughter stopped abruptly.

A flash of extreme fear crossed his eyes. With great effort, he raised his handcuffed right hand and abruptly rolled up his sleeve.

"Shortly after my older brother died, I also fell ill, you see!"

Everyone stared intently.

On Kui Su's arm, several palm-sized patches were clearly visible.

It was a strange dark brown color, unlike birthmarks or ordinary skin diseases. They looked like pieces of rotting, dead flesh, grotesquely stuck to his skin, with the edges even slightly curled up, as if they might fall off at any moment.

"So, this is what you mean by killing one person is saving one person. We saved Wu Yue and stopped you from killing, which is... killing you!" For the first time, Wang Linfeng's voice was filled with barely suppressed rage.

He couldn't understand, much less accept it. How could someone who had been exposed to modern civilization be manipulated to such an extent by such absurd and ignorant ideas!

Kui Lu slowly lowered his sleeve, covering the terrifying patch of skin, and then looked at everyone coldly and calmly.

"It's all fate!"