Chapter 13 Second Encounter 2

  I wanted to throw my shoes at him, but I wasn't wearing any. Standing in front of a well-dressed person with bare feet made me feel very uncomfortable. There was no way around it; this was a mental hospital, not a human rights organization. In the face of a "patient" like me who had a tendency towards violence, the safety of the other person had to be protected first and foremost.

  "Xiao Yu, I need your help." He looked at me with what seemed like sincere eyes.

  I'm starting to doubt whether I'm awake or not. The person who got me sent to the mental hospital, the one who stabs me with a dagger every night in my dreams, is standing right in front of me and my older sister, calmly saying "I need your help". Are we friends or something?

  "I know you have a lot of questions and are unclear about what happened from that day to now. I can tell you, but you need to listen quietly until I finish speaking."

  "Okay," I sat down beside my older sister and patted her hand. She neither spoke nor turned around to look at me, which was unusual.

  "Your sister is fine, she's just been possessed by a gu."

  "Gu? Is it that thing used by the Miao people in legend?"

  "Uh-huh." He nodded.

  I'm so angry I could grit my teeth. Isn't this blatant coercion? On the one hand, they say they need my help, and on the other hand, they've turned my older sister into a wooden person like this. If I don't help, what will happen to my sister? Will she be electrocuted? Run over by a car? Or sent to a mental hospital like me? If my sister weren't here, I would definitely pounce on him and bite him to death.

  "Don't get angry first, just listen to me finish speaking, okay?"

  I tightly hugged my older sister, without saying a word. I had already thought it through, and when we leave later, I'll take advantage of his carelessness, give him a big hug, and knock our heads together until he's dead.

  "My name is Lí Xiǎo Shū."

  I know!

  "The day you got into trouble, I was not in Xiangcheng, I went to Germany for exchange and study."

  "Then who was it I saw in the villa? Was it a ghost?"

  "That's my twin brother."

  "Hmm, this story is quite interesting, continue speaking."

  "He was born dead. He wants to take back the postal book you took away that day, if he gets it, he will continue to find offerings, and many people like you that day will be confused into the villa, then stabbed with a dagger through the palm of their hand, bleeding to death."

  I shivered with cold sweat, "A dead person - a ghost, would stand under the bright daylight and talk to me, and even stab people with a dagger? Do you think I'm a little kid?"

  "Ah," he thought for a moment and looked at his older sister, "I'm afraid I can't explain this to you clearly right now."

  "Hmph," I gave him a cold laugh. "There are many things in this world that can't be explained. What was the reason you and Officer He came here last time?"

  "That's not me, it's him. When was the last time you saw your sister?"

  "No," I shook my head.

  "Not long after sending you to the hospital, he found your sister and controlled her. That day, he contacted Officer He, planning to bring your sister to deceive your testimony, but I took your sister away halfway. So when you arrived, you didn't see your sister, of course, and also didn't provide testimony to the police as he had wished."

  "What testimony? What testimony?" I started to recall the scene that day, and it seemed that the doctor said my mental state was not good, and I couldn't provide any legally valid testimony.

  "The mailbox is now at the Public Security Bureau. Only if you can prove that the mailbox was taken from 'Li Xiaoshu' by you, can the Public Security Bureau return the evidence to its owner. Otherwise, the mailbox will only be lying in the cold archives of the Public Security Bureau, and even if he has great abilities, he dare not take it back, for there are too many corpses in that villa."