Long Xinyu had been friends with Li Guang for many years. Worried, he paced back and forth a couple of times before deciding to go to the hospital to see Li Guang and, by the way, investigate whether Li Guang’s car accident was related to the intimidation and threats he had received.
Rao Xian grabbed him, told him to wait, and then asked Lu Ye, “The driver had a ‘Curse of the Undead’ in his pocket, right?”
Lu Ye nodded.
Rao Xian picked up the express package on the table and said, “This also says, ‘Curse of the Undead – your sins will not be forgiven.’ Could there be a connection here?”
Long Xiuyu said with a serious expression, “That’s why I came here too. The dashcam in Li Guang’s car recorded the collision process. The car that hit them was heading straight for Li Guang’s car. I was also wondering if this accident was related to the threats to Xinyu.”
Rao Xian pondered, “It seems like they are related. Long Xinyu said he saw ‘Luo Pingping’ the day before yesterday. Just now, when we came, we went to see the place he mentioned, and it seemed like someone was monitoring Long Xinyu there.”
Long Xinyu was surprised, “Really? I didn’t feel it just now. Did you see it clearly? Don’t be too alarmed?”
Rao Xian looked at him seriously and said, “We police officers often face criminals. We have a sixth sense-like intuition for good and evil. This kind of intuition is a professional instinct, derived from the accumulation of professional experience. So, I can be sure that I did feel someone spying on you just now, and with malicious intent!”
Long Xinyu was speechless. It seemed that his feeling that someone was following him was not a delusion.
Long Xiuyu heard this and told Long Xinyu not to run around anymore and to bring bodyguards when he went out.
Long Xinyu touched his nose and reluctantly said, “I won’t run. I’ll pay attention and let the bodyguards follow me, okay?” Saying that, he pulled Rao Xian, “Come with me to the hospital to see Li Guang first.”
Rao Xian was not pulled away and instead took out his phone and called Shao Hui, asking him to take people to Long Family Estate to make a record, bring the things Long Xinyu received to investigate, and then seriously told Long Xinyu not to be careless and wait for Shao Hui and the others to come.
Long Xinyu anxiously wanted to know about Li Guang’s situation and pressed the intercom, calling out, “Xiang Ze, come here.”
Xiang Ze was given the title of “traitor” by Long Xinyu because he “snitched” to Long Xiuyu before.
Xiang Ze knocked on the door and entered. Long Xinyu told him to stay and receive Shao Hui and the others who would come to make a record later. Then, he told Long Xiuyu that he would turn on his location, and the arranged bodyguards could follow him, but stay away from him so as not to affect him.
Long Xiuyu knew that Long Xinyu didn’t like being surrounded by bodyguards, so this was already a compromise. He nodded and told Lu Ye to arrange for people to protect Long Xinyu, and the personnel should arrive as soon as possible.
Long Xinyu ignored Long Xiuyu’s arrangements and anxiously pulled Rao Xian to the hospital to see Li Guang.
Rao Xian was puzzled, “Li Guang is my friend. If I want to see my friend, why would I pull you along!”
Long Xinyu, “Don’t you want to ask about the situation and see if his car accident is related to the person who threatened me?”
Rao Xian thought, so he didn’t say anything.
Seeing that Rao Xian no longer resisted, Long Xinyu greeted Long Xiuyu and pulled Rao Xian out of the office.
Long Xinyu’s car was parked in the underground parking lot. Rao Xian followed him upstairs. After getting out of the elevator, they walked towards the car.
Before the two reached the car, they saw a girl wearing a gray-pink coat standing next to Long Xinyu’s car.
Long Xinyu was puzzled – this is the company’s parking lot. Everyone knows that this is his parking space. What is this girl doing standing next to his car?
Rao Xian also saw the girl and frowned with some wariness.
Long Xinyu and Rao Xian walked over, getting closer and closer to the girl. Long Xinyu couldn’t help but ask, “Little girl, what are you doing standing behind my car?”
The girl heard Long Xinyu’s question and slowly turned around. Only then did Long Xinyu realize that one of the girl’s hands was covering her abdomen, where there was a large patch of blood, and the blood was still flowing out along the girl’s hand. The girl’s hand was already stained red with blood. She looked at Long Xinyu, and her body softened as she fell down.
Long Xinyu hurriedly stepped forward to support the girl’s falling body. The girl fell into Long Xinyu’s arms. Her other hand grabbed Long Xinyu’s arm, leaving clear bloodstains on his sleeve. Her mouth opened and closed as if she wanted to say something, but the voice was too weak, and Long Xinyu couldn’t hear it at all.
Rao Xian quickly followed up to check the girl’s injury. The abdomen the girl was pressing was gurgling out blood. The situation looked serious. Rao Xian immediately took out his phone to call for an ambulance and then squatted down, wanting to take the girl’s hand away to check her wound.
However, the girl’s hand kept covering the wound and wouldn’t let go, while her other hand was holding Long Xinyu’s arm tightly, pulling him down as if she insisted on saying something to Long Xinyu. Rao Xian had no choice but to press his hand down on the girl’s hand, pressing down hard, hoping to reduce the blood flow. The cold blood quickly covered Rao Xian’s hand. Rao Xian saw the way the blood was flowing and knew that the girl might not make it until the ambulance arrived but had no way to stop it.
The girl was still pulling Long Xinyu hard. Long Xinyu was pulled down slightly by her, getting closer to the girl’s mouth. He heard her gasping and spitting out a few words: “Be… careful, the un… dead…”
“The undead?” Long Xinyu looked at the girl in his arms in surprise.
The girl gasped sharply, staring at Long Xinyu. She still wanted to say something, but she couldn’t make a sound, like a fish thrown onto the shore, her mouth opening and closing in vain.
Long Xinyu watched her eyes gradually congeal, her pupils changing from clear to muddy. The person twitched a few times, and the hand that had been holding him slowly dropped down – she had stopped breathing.
Long Xinyu maintained the posture of holding the girl, not moving for a long time.
Rao Xian was speechless. He released his pressing hand. With his blood-stained hand, he probed the girl’s neck: he could no longer feel a pulse. He had no choice but to close the girl’s eyes, stand up, take out his phone, and call Shao Hui, telling him to go to the Long Family Estate parking lot because there was another murder there.
After Rao Xian put down his phone, he saw Long Xinyu put the girl down flat, staring at the girl’s body with a green face.
Rao Xian felt that Long Xinyu’s expression was wrong. He patted Long Xinyu, “What’s wrong with you?”
Long Xinyu slowly turned his head to look at Rao Xian, “Is this girl also dead because of me? I… what did I do wrong? Why are people dying around me one after another?”
Rao Xian’s heart shook. His own mother died early, his father died in the line of duty, and Ye Yuning died unjustly. Rao Xian understood the feeling of people around him leaving one by one. As a policeman, he had seen too much of life and wasn’t cold-hearted, but he was used to pain and loss. However, Long Xinyu was not him.
Long Xinyu was a rich second-generation who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Rao Xian had seen the attitude of the Long family and his friends towards Long Xinyu – he was a person who grew up in a honeypot and was loved by everyone. He was kind, principled, and had a sense of justice. However, from the Min Jun incident, these things that he experienced one by one made his kindness, principles, and sense of justice like beautiful flowers, repeatedly torn apart by evil in reality.
At this moment, Long Xinyu’s eyes were terrifying. It was a kind of restrained expression close to an explosion, like a beast trapped outside a cage, about to break out of the cage.
Rao Xian grabbed Long Xinyu’s arm and gently patted his shoulder, “You didn’t do anything wrong, but there are always people in this world who harm others and themselves. That’s where evil comes from. If we are powerless to change this world, we must ensure that we are not changed by this world. Don’t blame yourself, don’t be numb, don’t panic, don’t be afraid. No matter what we face, the truth will never be hidden. The people who hurt others will eventually be caught and brought to justice. You believe me!”
Long Xinyu’s slender eyebrows were loosely wrinkled. Min Jun’s death was deserved; he didn’t feel he was wrong about Li Xu’s death, but Long Xinyu had always been brooding about Luo Pingping’s death. In the past few months, he had repeatedly thought that if he hadn’t come to help Luo Pingping out that night, maybe Luo Pingping would only have been taken advantage of by Min Jun and wouldn’t have lost her life. He wondered if he had really done something wrong.
There was also Ye Yuning’s death and Rao Xian’s injuries. For Long Xinyu, these were all obsessions that he couldn’t let go of. Now that Li Guang had an accident, this girl died in his arms, and that sentence “Be careful of the undead” seemed like a curse of the undead. He was tightly tied around the throat and felt cold all over.
Although he didn’t think he was wrong, he still wondered if he had really done something wrong, so was there something punishing him in the dark?
“Should I not have helped Luo Pingping out? Should I not have saved Li Xu? That way, you and Ye Yuning wouldn’t have been implicated. Do you blame me?” Long Xinyu finally asked.
Rao Xian saw that Long Xinyu’s expression was abnormal and filled with self-doubt. He grabbed Long Xinyu’s shoulders hard, “Long Xinyu, we’ve known each other for five months and have experienced two life-and-death situations. I know a lot about you, but not everything. I’m a good person. You haven’t done anything wrong. Don’t let indignation and impulsiveness cloud your eyes. I don’t blame you.”
“If I blamed you, I wouldn’t have come to investigate the threats you received. You wake up. Li Guang’s incident, the person who threatened you, and this girl’s words are all talking about the undead. What are the undead?”
Rao Xian sneered, “The undead are just living people. Living people can’t make waves. Only the dead can harm people. It’s all just acting like ghosts. Intimidation, threats, murder, they’re enough to get a life sentence, making him a real undead!” Rao Xian’s words were firm and forceful.
Long Xinyu’s emotions slowly calmed down. He began to clear his mind and first called his brother, Long Xiuyu, to tell him that something had happened in the company’s parking lot, and Long Xiuyu needed to know.
After all, it was inside the company. Long Xiuyu quickly went there with Lu Ye and a group of security guards. Long Xiuyu’s face was not good. He told Lu Ye that he had only arranged a few bodyguards for Long Xinyu, and something had happened in the blink of an eye!
When the security guards saw the girl on the ground, the team leader was also sweating profusely. The incident happened in the parking lot. Entering the parking lot required a card. How did this girl get in!
Before the security team leader finished sweating, Shao Hui arrived with Sha Rou and Duan Yisong, as well as the evidence team. Seeing the living Long Xinyu with blood on his clothes and Rao Xian, Shao Hui felt the veins on his forehead throbbing – this scene looked a little familiar. Min Jun was also killed in the underground parking lot. Why did these people like to commit crimes in the parking lot so much!
The police officers collecting evidence went to collect evidence. Sha Rou and Duan Yisong followed the leader of the security team to the surveillance room to check the surveillance footage of the underground parking lot.
Shao Hui walked over and said to Rao Xian with a distressed face, “Captain, why am I also involved?”
Rao Xian barely twitched the corner of his mouth, “Don’t call me captain anymore. My procedures are almost completed. I’ll be the captain from now on.” Then he looked at the girl’s body on the ground and asked, “What do you think?”
Shao Hui sighed, “She was stabbed in the organs with a sharp weapon, resulting in excessive blood loss.”
Rao Xian nodded in agreement, “Before she died, she said, ‘Be careful of the undead.'”
Shao Hui raised his eyebrows in confusion, “The undead? That’s a bad superstition. Don’t we all say ghosts or gods…”
As Shao Hui said this, Duan Yisong’s roar came from the walkie-talkie in his hand, “Captain, Deputy Captain, come here quickly. Damn it, there really is a ghost–“
Duan Yisong’s voice was so loud that everyone present heard it and looked at the walkie-talkie in Shao Hui’s hand.
Uh, Duan Yisong’s yell successfully called everyone to the Long Family Estate’s surveillance room.
In the surveillance footage, a white car drove in. The person who got out of the car was the girl wearing the gray-pink coat. The girl found a parking space, parked the car, and got out of the car. Another girl in a black dress went down from her car. The two walked to Long Xinyu’s car. The girl in the gray-pink coat was holding a card in her hand, seemingly wanting to stuff the card under Long Xinyu’s car window.
However, the girl in the white dress seemed to say something. The girl in the gray-pink coat stopped and turned her head. Then, they didn’t know what the two said and started arguing. Then, the girl in the white dress got close to the girl and snatched the card in her hand.
Then she got close. Because the two people’s bodies blocked the view, it was impossible to see what she was doing. After a few seconds, the girl in the black dress stepped back two steps. At this time, her black dress was already stained with red blood, and the girl in the gray-pink coat was standing there, not moving.
At this time, the girl in the dress raised her face and glanced at the surveillance camera. Her entire face was revealed. Everyone was too familiar with her eyebrows and eyes. It was Luo Pingping!
Then, “Luo Pingping” seemed to know that there was a camera. She smiled at the camera. Her face was very beautiful, but it was indescribably eerie. Then, she turned around, got in the car, and drove away without even looking at the girl in the gray-pink coat who was standing there.
Duan Yisong gasped, “What we saw was also Luo Pingping, right? I’m not seeing things, right? Is this a ghost?!”