Mysterious Séancer: My Doll Can Really Show Its Power

The pale light shone on Huang Liting's face; her hands were handcuffed as she sat in the interrogation room.

Across from her sat two police officers, a man and a woman.

"Huang Liting, I hope you will tell me everything you know truthfully."

"We understand your hatred for Su Hu, and we understand your actions after your mental breakdown. We also believe that you did not kill Su Hu. Please rest assured, as long as you confess truthfully, the law will give you—"

"I killed Su Hu."

Huang Liting looked at the two police officers in front of her. Although her face was slightly pale, her eyes were clear and bright. She showed no signs of impulsiveness or loss of reason. Her expression even made people feel that she was filled with a sense of joy at getting rid of a heavy burden.

"There were so many people there at the time, and they clearly saw that Su Hu was not dead."

"In the end, I was the one who killed Su Hu, not anyone else."

Snapped!

The policewoman slammed her hand on the table beneath her and shouted sternly, "Huang Liting! You're a police officer! You're protecting the real culprit!"

"Do you know what the worst possible consequence of what you just said is? You could be sentenced to death!"

Huang Liting's expression remained unchanged. "You should have already found out Su Hu's true identity. Intentionally killing a vicious criminal is a relatively minor offense of intentional homicide, punishable by three to ten years in prison, and..."

Huang Liting smiled slightly and continued, "Because of certain reasons that you all know, if I kill Su Hu, I basically won't even be sentenced to ten years. It's very likely that I'll be sentenced to about five years, or even three years."

The two officers fell silent for a moment. The female officer frowned and asked, "He was already in a certain death situation at that point, why did you still do it?"

"I only rushed in and stabbed him a few times because he was about to die; otherwise, would it have been too late?"

"These stabs will ruin the rest of your life!"

"..."

"Why aren't you saying anything?!"

Looking at the policewoman in front of her, Huang Liting suddenly asked, "Sister, your first half of life must have been very happy, right?"

The policewoman was stunned for a moment. Huang Liting continued, "In your opinion, stabbing me a few times and being sentenced ruins the rest of my life? But..."

"For someone like me who has lived with psychological trauma for over a decade, those few stabs saved the rest of my life."

The policewoman was stunned, seemingly unable to understand Huang Liting's words.

At this moment, the male police officer next to her asked, "Huang Liting, what is your relationship with Yang Ning?"

"Excuse me, I don't know the Yang Ning you're talking about."

Policewoman: "His nickname is Chengcheng. He was one of the children who were abducted along with you."

At that moment, the two police officers clearly saw that Huang Liting's eyes had softened considerably.

"Chengcheng and I...we've been through thick and thin together."

"He gave me candy, and I took a beating for him."

"Also, thanks to Zhang Hui and his family, we are both kids from Central China Province and adults from Yunnan Province."

Huang Liting's voice was gentle and soft, but the phrase "children from Central Province, adults from Yunnan Province" made the two police officers opposite her feel as if they had been slapped in the face.

The policewoman's voice softened considerably. "I'm sorry, there were indeed many shortcomings in our work."

Huang Liting shook her head and said, "No need, you are human too, I understand."

The two officers exchanged a glance and then looked up at the security camera in the interrogation room.

A voice came through the male police officer's earpiece, and he stood up and said, "Today's interrogation is over."

......

Cang'er City Police Department.

Lei Ming and Zhang Donglei were also watching the interrogation of Huang Liting by the Zhongzhou police.

After the interrogation ended, Chen Tao called.

"Team Leader Lei, did you see that?"

"I saw Captain Chen. Huang Liting works diligently and conscientiously here and has never made a mistake. All her colleagues at the police center have a positive impression of her."

"I understand. I'll talk to the district attorney about this. The problem now is..."

At this point, both criminal investigation team leaders on either side of the phone fell silent.

Then they both spoke at the same time: "Any progress on your end?"

The two were taken aback, then said simultaneously, "No."

Both of them then gave a helpless, bitter smile.

After ending his call with Chen Tao, Lei Ming returned to his office and worked for a while longer. By the time he was ready to leave work and go home, the eastern sky was already beginning to lighten.

Lei Ming chuckled self-deprecatingly, just about to go back and rest for a while, when he saw someone enter through the police station's main gate.

He was a middle-aged man, about forty or fifty years old, slightly hunchbacked, carrying a burlap sack on his back.

Lei Ming knew that person; he was the uncle who was in charge of cleaning at the police station.

He muttered to himself, "Everyone else is already at work, and I'm still not off work!"

"Day after day..."

......

As dawn broke, following the incident involving the woman in white with a knife on Yundu Road the night before last, news from Zhongzhou Airport once again topped the trending searches last night!

A murder occurred at Zhongzhou Airport last night; the victim was stabbed through all five limbs!

Twenty-one hours later! Another heinous murder in Central Taiwan!

The white-clad woman's knife has been found! It pierced another victim's throat!

From Yundu Road to the airport, our city is being murdered!

In the comments section of video news, on the subway during rush hour, and on buses, almost everyone is talking about the two extremely heinous murder cases that occurred in Zhongzhou in the past two days!

"What's wrong with this world? How much must that woman hate that man?!"

"It was terrifying, absolutely terrifying! I happened to get off the plane around that time yesterday, and oh my god, you had no idea how horribly that man died! How frantically that woman stabbed him!"

"How tragic? How does it compare to the white-clad swordswoman?"

"The modus operandi is almost identical, both involving stabbing with a boning knife. However, the woman in white stabbed herself, while this airport case is much more serious—she was stabbed by someone else!"

"Don't worry, the woman who stabbed the man has been caught. She's supposedly from Yunnan Province!"

"Two lives lost in two days! This place in Zhongzhou is a bit eerie..."

"Am I the only one who noticed that the knives at the airport and on Yundu Road are the same knife?"

"It's just the idiot editor's rhetoric; it's probably the same model of boning knife."

"Why is a boning knife always necessary when stabbing someone?"

"Because compared to ordinary knives, boning knives have long enough blades to both pick and chop, and when used on a person, they can both stab and dismember."

"So that's how it is..."

While the online discussion was in full swing, Yang Ning was fast asleep on his mat in his shop.

His Lingwa shop remained closed for an entire day.

When he opened his eyes, it was almost dark.

Watching the sun set outside, Yang Ning stretched, got up, and headed to the bathroom. "Take a shower!"

wow-

Instantly, a group of little devils materialized and rushed over.

Some turned on the taps, some got shower gel and shampoo, some tested the water temperature, some prepared clean clothes, some got slippers... Everyone did their job.

Fifteen minutes later, Yang Ning, having finished showering and changed into clean clothes, sat down at the floor-standing desk, took out a few small stones, a few copper coins, and a tortoise shell, and placed them on the desk.

He arranged the stones into a suggested Bagua formation according to the Bagua principles of Heaven and Earth, placed the tortoise shell in the center, and finally scattered a handful of copper coins on top.

Whoosh!

Yang Ning frowned slightly as he watched the handful of copper coins fall to the ground.

"Good heavens, good heavens!"

"Wow, that's impressive!"

"One, two, three... nine, ten, eleven?!"

"This trip will accumulate eleven positive connections?!"

"Doesn't that mean I can come back and kill—bah! I mean create eleven more evil karmic connections?!"

"Let's do it!"

Yang Ning turned to the group of kids around him and said, "We've gone a bit too far these past few days. Let's lay low for a bit!"

"Book me a plane ticket, let's go back to Caiyun!"

"Bring that brat and Mingming back!"

A dozen or so little ghosts immediately pounced on Yang Ning's phone. The first one to grab it was a skinny little male ghost, as thin as a bamboo pole. He exclaimed excitedly, "Mingming is finally coming back!"

......

Cang'er City Police Department, 6 PM.

Today was a rare day with nothing much to do, so Lei Ming stood on the balcony watching the sunset while smoking. After finishing his cigarette, he prepared to leave work on time.

Just then, his phone rang.

Lei Ming instinctively frowned. "Feed? What is it?"

"Team Leader Lei, this is big news. Yang Ning, the guy you've been keeping an eye on, has booked a plane ticket."

Lei Ming's eye twitched violently. His first thought was: Damn it, is this kid going to run away?!

"He's running away?! Where is he going?!"

"Uh, yes, we're coming to Caiyun. Our plane will land tomorrow at 4 PM."

"..."

"Team Leader Lei?"

Holy crap!

Lei Ming flicked away the cigarette butt that was burning his fingers: "I understand!"

After hanging up the phone, Lei Ming turned to look at the sunset and silently said to himself: "Thank you so much! You even remembered to buy a ticket for tomorrow!"

"I'm off work!"

Lei Ming noticed that his normally strong voice now had a slight tremor.

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