Chapter 14: Cruel X Unrevealed Truth

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  Yang Hong put on a soft, silver silk pajama after taking a bath in the bathroom. The soft silk fabric clung to his skin and gently stroked his skin, making him feel extremely comfortable. He sat on the edge of the soft, snow-white big bed, took out today's newspaper and browsed through it hastily, then put the newspaper on the table beside the headboard.

  Yang Hong stood up, walked out of the room, and came to the living room. He took out the bananas he bought tonight, a bright red American snake fruit, and yogurt from the refrigerator and brought them back to his room. He sat on the edge of the big bed, picked up a golden banana, peeled off the skin, and finished eating it in a few bites. The expensive banana tasted good, so Yang Hong picked up another one and continued eating. He ate several bananas in a row, then picked up a fruit knife to peel and eat the American snake fruit. However, he thought again that his stomach wasn't feeling well, and the snake fruit was quite sour after all. So he put down the American snake fruit and the fruit knife on the table. Yang Hong inserted the straw into the lid and started drinking the yogurt. But before he finished drinking it, he suddenly felt severe abdominal pain.

  Yang Hong ran out of the room to the bathroom, and after coming out of the toilet, he ate a few tablets in the hall before returning to the room. He climbed onto the bed, lying on his back. Yang Hong did not close his eyes to sleep, but stared at the ceiling with wide eyes. His hands kept rubbing his bulging abdomen, and his expression was slightly painful.

  Yang Hong massaged for 8 minutes, and the pain seemed to ease. Yang Hong's expression also gradually relaxed. Suddenly, he jumped up from bed, arched his back, and stared at his round belly.

  His face turned extremely solemn and increasingly terrified.

  "He said: 'You, you spoke again, why, why won't you forgive me——'"

  "There was no one in the room, only Yang Hong alone, but Yang Hong seemed to have seen someone. He said: "You, you've been calling out in my body for several nights, beautiful one, can't you forgive me? I don't want to hear your voice anymore, get out, go far away, I've forgotten you, I don't want to think about those past things again."

  Yang Hong picked up the pillow, covering his stomach, and his body was constantly convulsing. He pressed the pillow tightly against his belly, his facial expression extremely distorted, his features almost deformed.

  Then he covered his ears tightly with both hands and shouted: "I really don't want to hear your voice anymore, can you just not speak?"

  Yang Hong struggled for a while, and the sound seemed to disappear. He gradually calmed down and lay flat on his back in bed with a very comfortable posture. His sleepiness began to creep in, and he intended to go to sleep. The room's lights were still bright, but he didn't have the intention of getting up to turn them off.

  Suddenly, Yang Hong turned sideways, reached out and grabbed the fruit knife on the table, bent down, and with great force cut into his own soft belly, slowly cutting open a slit to the right. He then threw the fruit knife aside, and fresh blood slowly seeped out, flowing out bit by bit, streaming down his round, snow-white belly. Yang Hong raised his right hand, inserted it into the slit in his belly, grasped the slippery intestines inside, and slowly pulled them out, dangling them on the right side of his abdomen. Throughout the process, Yang Hong's face showed no signs of pain, and he completed it all with a smile. After pulling out his own intestines, he did not die immediately; instead, he lay motionless on the bed, eyes closed, mouth curved in a smile, waiting for his beautiful life to slowly ebb away, second by second.

  The video continued to maintain this scene until Aunt Cai entered the room and saw this scene, being frightened and fleeing in a hurry. When I got here, I finally knew why He Jiali went crazy and then killed herself. He Jiali just hung the camera down outside Yang Hong's window and went to sleep afterwards, she wasn't watching the video screen when Yang Hong committed suicide. She only found out everything after something happened to Yang Hong and looked for the video.

  Suddenly, a scene flashed in my mind: on the busy streets of Mong Kok, Hong Kong, Ho Ka-lei's pale face showed an expression of regret and despair. She cried out, "Every night, I secretly took pictures of Yeung Hung, watching from the screen. But that one night, I was too tired, so after setting up the camera, I fell asleep. If only... if only I had seen it then, I would have rushed to save him without hesitation. Alas... I really hate myself for not saving her, waaahhh... waaahhh..."

  He Jiali squatted down, covering her eyes and sobbing loudly.

  After watching the video, Chen Qiuyang picked up a tissue to cover his mouth, afraid that he would vomit. He said: "I... I always thought that the video would show some eerie person or unknown creature killing Yang Hong, but now that I've seen these images, I feel like it's even scarier than seeing ghosts. What happened to Yang Hong? He didn't have any mental illness, so why did he suddenly take a knife and cut open his own abdomen, pulling out his intestines? This image is just too terrifying... Sorry, boss, I need to go to the bathroom to cool off with some cold water, I..."

  My heart is even more turbulent at this moment. Chen Qiuyang was right, the content shown in the video is more terrifying than ghosts and aliens. Because Yang Hong cut his own belly with his own hands, pulled out his own intestines from his abdomen with his own hands, and then smiled quietly waiting for his own death.

  These scenes are too cruel, too brutal, too heart-wrenching and too desperate.

  Calmly, Zou Guan said: "After watching the video, Yang Hong is a suicide. Thirteen, your intuition is very correct, I remember that when you first judged this case, you said that Yang Hong was a suicide. Now, the case of Yang Hong should be over. I'll forward the video to Officer Dong in a while."

  I gazed at Zou Guan's family, his calmness in my eyes turned into indifference, this gloomy indifference made me feel a bit repelled. I said: "Is it over like this? Even if the video shows that Yang Hong's death was self-inflicted, aren't there still too many suspicious points inside? Would Yang Hong be hypnotized by someone else, or would he be poisoned with gu worms or his spirit controlled by others? A normal person cannot possibly take a knife to cut open their own belly, pull out their intestines and then wait quietly for death.

  My tone is very loud, I know that my emotions have become extremely unstable, close to the edge of collapse.

  Zou Guanjia stared at me, his eyes as deep and dark as the blackest night, cold as the coldest ice. He spoke slowly and deliberately: "Even if there are many doubts, what we need to look at is the result. The evidence shows that the current result is Yang Hong's death, which was caused by himself. Other things will be handled by Officer Dong and his team. You're all tired, take a few days off."

  Three days later, at dusk, I stood by the riverbank of Longjiang, blowing in the cool evening breeze, gazing at the rippling water under the sunset, took a puff of smoke, and then stared blankly at the river.

  Ruan De-feng, who was standing by, said: "Has Yang Hong's case been settled?"

  I became somewhat perplexed, as I didn't know whether the case had reached a dead end or was being pushed towards an even higher unknown. I forced a smile and said: "I can't explain these things, I even suspect that the video He Jiali secretly took is fake, fabricated by Yang Hong's murderer. By the way, shouldn't you be working at the hospital taking care of patients? How do you have time to come to the riverbank for a stroll?"

  Ruan Feng gazed out at the Long River in the twilight and said, "Because there's someone who doesn't want you to be troubled for too long by the Yang Hong case, they've asked me to take care of a few things."

  I know that the person Ruan Degfeng is talking about must be Zou Guanjia.

  "Right, although I'm not a great detective, I've also watched that video and seen the whole file. Thirteen, are you willing to listen to my explanation of this case? Of course, it's just my speculation, based on the video combined with my medical knowledge. You can believe or doubt it, judge for yourself after listening."