When Luo Pingping’s death was exposed, because Long Xinyu was involved, the Li and Long families joined forces to suppress the public opinion. Mainstream media were silent, and only a few miscellaneous websites could see some news. Luo Pingping’s fans didn’t make much noise either. Liang Qin’s contribution was indispensable. Therefore, when the company’s project manager said that because Luo Pingping died, he hoped the company could consider signing her sister, Li Guang agreed, thinking it could be considered compensation.
The first time Li Guang met Luo Wenwen, he discovered that although Luo Wenwen had some resemblance to Luo Pingping, she was taller than Luo Pingping, and her facial lines were not as delicate as Luo Pingping’s but more glamorous.
At that time, Luo Wenwen was still considered well-behaved, but tonight Luo Wenwen’s actions made Li Guang feel that she was either pretending to be crazy under the influence of alcohol or deliberately seducing him. Li Guang hates people who don’t separate public and private matters, and everyone in the company knows that. Therefore, Luo Wenwen’s amorous behavior made him feel uncomfortable that his rules were being ignored.
Now, whenever Li Guang sees Luo Wenwen, he thinks of Luo Pingping, and he recalls his good friend Long Xinyu, who was almost killed by a crazy woman after being involved in a murder case. Thinking of this, CEO Li feels that drinking alone is really boring.
Especially after receiving a call from Long Xinyu’s father in the afternoon, asking if Long Xinyu had come to him, he was sure that Long Xinyu had sneaked out of the house, but didn’t come to him for refuge.
Li Guang looked at the dance floor and found it uninteresting, so he sent a message to his driver to say he wanted to go back and asked him to wait at the door, then he got up to leave.
As he walked out the door, Luo Wenwen happened to be returning from the other side of the corridor. Seeing Li Guang’s departing back, her bright red lips pursed slightly, and a meaningful smile flashed across her face.
Li Guang was oblivious.
After going out, the car was already parked at the door. Li Guang got into the car, and Uncle Peng, the driver who had served the Li family for many years, asked Li Guang where to go.
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Thinking that he hadn’t returned to the old house for some time, Li Guang told Uncle Peng to go back to the old house. Uncle Peng agreed and started the car quietly.
The car wasn’t driving fast. Li Guang told him to play some music and then closed his eyes.
Seeing Li Guang close his eyes, Uncle Peng chose a heavy metal song.
The music was melodious and fragmented. Uncle Peng concentrated on driving. When turning into a relatively quiet section of the road, a car came from the opposite direction. The road wasn’t narrow. Uncle Peng was driving normally and didn’t pay attention. However, another car suddenly flashed out from behind the car opposite, crashing head-on into their car. Uncle Peng immediately turned the steering wheel to avoid it, but it was too late—
“Bang—”
The two cars collided, making a huge noise that was deafening in the dark night. Li Guang’s car was spun half a circle by the impact, crashing into a protective fence on the side of the road before stopping. The front of the car was dented, the car window was shattered, and fragments and glass splashed all over the ground. White smoke rose from the front of the car…
Rao Xian’s home is a typical two-bedroom apartment. Long Xinyu saw that Rao Xian had finished eating the noodles and started to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and immediately took the initiative to help. Rao Xian had said before that he would let Long Xinyu wash the dishes. Seeing that Long Xinyu was serious, Rao Xian didn’t really make him do it. He took the dishes and chopsticks to the kitchen to wash himself.
Seeing Rao Xian’s limping figure made Long Xinyu feel a little uncomfortable. So the second young master Long kept his promise and wanted to roll up his sleeves to wash the dishes, but he was chased out by Rao Xian. Rao Xian’s words were—letting you wash the dishes was just teasing you. I don’t even know how things in my house are placed, don’t make trouble.
Long Xinyu had no choice but to sit listlessly on the sofa and send a message to his brother, saying that he was safe and would go to the company tomorrow, and to tell Dad not to send people everywhere to look for him.
Long Xiuyu replied to him: Got it, pay attention to safety, I will consider persuading Dad!
That night, Long Xinyu stayed at Rao Xian’s house, temporarily living in the side bedroom. After finally falling asleep, Long Xinyu had another nightmare.
In the dream, sometimes it was Luo Pingping, sometimes it was Li Xu, sometimes it was ice-cold seawater, sometimes it was a small fire burning. And he, like every time, stood there not knowing where he came from or where he was going.
Li Xu’s unforgettable and bizarre figure appeared, saying “I love you,” but carrying Luo Pingping’s head and walking towards him with a smile.
What made Long Xinyu anxious was that he knew he was dreaming, but he couldn’t stop the palpitations. He moved forward step by step, and suddenly Luo Pingping appeared beside him again. Long Xinyu looked at the head that Li Xu was holding in her hand, and Luo Pingping beside him, at a loss.
Two lines of bloody tears streamed from Luo Pingping’s eyes, and her face became distorted. Long Xinyu unconsciously continued to retreat, and suddenly stepped into the air. His heart clenched, and just when he thought he was about to fall into the abyss, a strong hand grabbed him and pulled him up.
It was Rao Xian!
As soon as Rao Xian appeared, the distorted Luo Pingping disappeared, but Li Xu threw the head at them. Rao Xian fired a gun, and both Li Xu and the head disappeared.
The next morning, after months, Long Xinyu, who had finally slept well, ran to the balcony of Rao Xian’s house to open the window. After smoking a cigarette in the warm winter wind, he felt refreshed. After scrounging a breakfast at Rao Xian’s house, he drove Rao Xian to the company.
Long Xinyu first parked the car at the company entrance and took Rao Xian to see the place where he saw “Luo Pingping” appear.
Rao Xian stood where Long Xinyu saw Luo Pingping that night and looked in the direction Long Xinyu pointed out to him.
There was a pile of bushes there, separated from the Long Family entrance by a wide road, with vehicles passing by from time to time.
Long Xinyu said that Luo Pingping disappeared in a flash. With that distance and the interference factors, a person could quickly walk away.
Rao Xian leaned on his cane and stood at the Long Family’s entrance. Long Xinyu stood beside him. People passing by nodded and greeted him when they saw Long Xinyu.
Long Xinyu helplessly said, “Officer Rao, can we change places to space out? You’re standing here like a signpost, waiting for people to admire you!”
In fact, Long Xinyu was freezing. The weather was cold, and the wind was blowing. He was wearing less. Although he looked suave, he was already freezing like a dog.
Rao Xian looked at Long Xinyu, who was wearing thin clothes, and nodded, “Then let’s go back to my—” Before he could say the word “car,” Rao Xian felt an ill-intentioned gaze looking at him. Rao Xian suddenly looked over. Some people were walking on the opposite sidewalk. Because of the cold weather, people were standing with their collars up, wearing hats and masks, and it was impossible to tell whose gaze it was, but that malicious feeling made Rao Xian’s heart skip a beat.
He looked at Long Xinyu, who was waiting for him at the door, and was certain that someone was indeed staring at Long Xinyu!
Long Xinyu didn’t seem to notice anything and urged him to walk faster.
Rao Xian and Long Xinyu got back in the car.
Long Xinyu turned the car into the parking lot and parked it properly, then got out of the car and went into the elevator. Long Xinyu’s office was on the 19th floor. After exiting the elevator, Long Xinyu took Rao Xian to his office. Along the way, employees greeted Long Xinyu from time to time, and he returned the greetings. He was less like the “Young Master Long” of ordinary days and more like a “successful person.”
Rao Xian noticed that several young girls greeted him, and he responded with a smile. Two of the girls blushed slightly after seeing his bright smile.
Long Xinyu pushed open the door to his office. Rao Xian wasn’t surprised to see the office decorated quite grandly.
Rao Xian was pulled by Long Xinyu to sit on the comfortable sofa. He watched as Long Xinyu pressed the intercom to tell his secretary to bring in the things he had received recently.
Long Xinyu’s secretary left, looking very beautiful and capable. She directed two people to bring in a pile of things and piled them on Long Xinyu’s desk.
Long Xinyu thanked them with a cheeky smile. The secretary saw that he had no other instructions and left.
Long Xinyu beckoned Rao Xian to come over and take a look, saying that they were arranged in the order he received them.
After taking out his gloves from his pocket and putting them on, Rao Xian checked the items Long Xinyu had received one by one:
At the very back was a cardboard box about 30 centimeters square. A courier label was attached to the bottom. Opening the box, there was a dark skull inside.
Based on Rao Xian’s experience in handling cases, the color and texture of this skull didn’t look like real human bone, and even had a handmade design feel. No wonder Long Xinyu regarded it as a prank.
Behind the cardboard box was a file-style courier package. Inside the courier package was a piece of paper. Opening it, there was a blood-colored “Curse of the Dead—My sin cannot be forgiven.” Although the words were the kind of whitish color of dried blood, Rao Xian was certain that they weren’t written in blood, because blood contains a lot of water. If the paper was written in blood, it would wrinkle, but this paper was smooth even with the writing on it, so it should be a colored oil paint or something. In addition, the writing was very beautiful. Although it looked bloody and terrifying, it actually had a kind of designed ugliness.
Behind the file bag was a paper box smaller than the first cardboard box. Inside the paper box was a doll. Rao Xian recognized at a glance that the doll’s dress was the same style as the dress Luo Pingping was found wearing on the day of her death, and a red line was drawn across the doll’s neck—Luo Pingping was beheaded, and this doll reproduced Luo Pingping’s appearance at the time of her death.
After that, there were also paintings of hell scenes, a very supernatural and ghostly photo, and a razor blade!
After checking them one by one, Rao Xian pulled out the “Curse of the Dead” paper and examined it carefully.
Seeing Rao Xian take out this paper alone, Long Xinyu curiously leaned over and asked, “What’s wrong with this one? Is there anything special about it?”
“The wording is very strange. ‘Dead’ is a foreign way of saying it. We usually say ‘I won’t let you go even as a ghost’.”
As Rao Xian said this, he put down the paper. After looking at everything from beginning to end again, he discovered a common point: these things had a very designed feel and even could be said to have artistic sense. Even the razor blade had the words “Living Dead” carved on it in an art font.
Rao Xian asked Long Xinyu, “Were these things all mailed to you?”
Long Xinyu thought for a moment and said, “There are people upstairs responsible for receiving and sending mail. They brought them to me. I thought they were just random things and opened them. In the end, I didn’t take it seriously and gave them to the secretary to keep. Later, Xiang Ze found out and told the logistics department to pay attention to my emails, but there are so many emails sent to the company every day, it’s hard to guard against, and the emails appeared.”
Rao Xian understood. A large company of this scale wouldn’t allow couriers to directly enter the office area. There were people who handled receiving and sending mail in a unified manner. He looked at all the items again and then looked at the packaging. Courier labels were attached to them.
Rao Xian took out his cellphone and scanned the courier labels one by one. Some had a sender address, and some showed invalid emails.
Long Xinyu helplessly said, “Xiang Ze has already checked. The addresses that were left are fake. Those that show invalid emails are just discarded courier labels. I don’t know how they got mixed into the mail. It’s very difficult to trace the source.”
Rao Xian nodded to indicate he understood, thinking about whether to contact Shao Hui and the others to go over and check where these things were sent from.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
The knock made Rao Xian and Long Xinyu look at the door at the same time. The next moment, the door was pushed open, and Lu Ye stood in the doorway. Behind him was Long Xiuyu, dressed in a suit.
Long Xiuyu came in, and Lu Ye followed behind him.
Seeing Rao Xian, Long Xiuyu greeted him—Long Xiuyu had visited Rao Xian when he was hospitalized for those months, so they could be considered acquaintances.
Rao Xian returned the greeting with a smile.
Long Xiuyu sat down on the sofa and said, “Officer Rao, Xinyu said he asked me to help him investigate the threatening harassment he’s been receiving recently. I came over to take a look. I’m so grateful that I can help Xinyu as soon as I get out of the hospital.”
Hearing this, Rao Xian was polite, but he turned to look at Long Xinyu, his eyes full of: You spread the news fast enough, I only said I’d come to take a look, I didn’t say I’d help you investigate!
Long Xinyu blinked: I’m already here?
Rao Xian: You lie without thinking.
Long Xinyu: It’s a gift from the heavens, I don’t need to think to lie.
Long Xiuyu coughed lightly, “Officer Rao, do you have any opinions?”
Rao Xian looked at Long Xiuyu and Lu Ye behind him, and after a slight pause, he said, “The things he received are definitely not from malice, they are obviously aimed at Luo Pingping’s affair. When the news of Luo Pingping’s murder was Fry it, the relationship between her, Min Jun and Long Xinyu was used to fabricate stories. Even if it’s true, some people who don’t know the truth will be misled and think that Long Xinyu is the murderer.”
“Because the main suspects Xu Ming and Li Xu died in the cases of Luo Pingping and Min Jun, many details of the case cannot be sorted out, the clues are interrupted, and there is no evidence or confession records, so the police cannot give a conclusive explanation of the case. This makes it easy for Long Xinyu to be regarded as a criminal, caught in a vortex of rumors, and arouse the hatred of extremists.”
Long Xiuyu nodded, his expression solemn: “It’s not much different from our speculation. Now there is also a sudden situation, which is that Li Guang had a car accident last night.”
Rao Xian and Long Xinyu were both shocked.
Long Xinyu asked what was going on.
Long Xiuyu gave Lu Ye a look, and Lu Ye said: “I just got the news that Li Guang’s car was hit head-on by a car last night. After the car crashed into the fence on the side of the road, the driver was pierced by the broken fence and died on the spot. The driver who caused the accident also died before reaching the hospital. The police found a card in his pocket with ‘Curse of the Dead’ written on it. Fortunately, Li Guang’s life is not in danger. He was sent to the hospital last night with a concussion and soft tissue contusions, and he woke up this morning.”
Long Xinyu frowned. Another curse of the dead. Could Li Guang’s accident also be because of Luo Pingping’s case!