Chapter 41: Red Plum X Double-Faced Freak Baby Captured

  The police's blockade investigation at the scene lasted until 2 pm. I contacted Officer Dong, asking him to pull some strings for us, so I also got a general idea of the investigation:

  1. It is indeed a part of the human body;

  2. The deceased cannot be found temporarily, but they are not currently accommodated personnel;

  3. The iced tea was purchased by the procurement officer directly from the sales point in town and brought back;

  4. All bottle caps were manipulated with ingenious techniques to put human tissue into them and then re-seal them to make it look like they had never been opened;

  5. No suspicious fingerprints can be found on the surface;

  6. This batch of iced tea was transported back last night.

  In other words, the perverted murderer placed these fingers, testicles, tongues, etc. in the iced tea last night.

  "I wonder if it's the work of the Two-Faced Demon Infant?"

  "It can't be him, this kind of perverted behavior requires precision, calmness and a pair of sensitive hands to accomplish. Although it's uncertain whether the owner of these things was killed by this pervert or not, as it's also possible that someone else killed them and then this pervert cut off these things and put them in the ice red tea."

  "This is a highly intelligent psychopathic killer. Because putting these things into iced tea requires great effort, and he anticipated that they would be discovered. In other words, this psychopathic killer was enjoying the pleasure of committing the crime."

  I suddenly gained spirit, in this messy Leigong Inn, there are several people whose existence makes Leigong Inn complicated: one is a terrifying two-faced baby, one is a boy who stays behind to avenge his girlfriend, and one is a highly intelligent psychopathic killer. There are even others who have not yet revealed their purpose.

  It wasn't until the police had dispersed that Chen Qiuyang rushed back, his face covered in dust and dirt, as if he had been rolling around in a pile of soil.

  He didn't care about the testicle and finger thing, but instead enthusiastically told us: "Lanlan, Shisan, do you know what amazing discovery I made after following that woman in red? After she left the temple, before crossing the river, she was caught by people from Xiayuan Village. They wanted to beat her up, luckily I bravely intervened and saved her just in time."

  "Why did the people of Xiayuan Village want to beat her?"

  Because she was from Shangyuan Village. Originally, people from these two villages didn't interfere with each other and rarely interacted, but as a person from Shangyuan Village, she went to the temple in Xiayuan Village to worship, which naturally offended the people of Xiayuan Village who had always thought that Shangyuan Village was cursed.

  ……

  Chen Qiuyang escorted the woman in red out of the encirclement and accompanied her across a single-plank bridge over the river, sending her back to her home in Shangyuan Village.

  This was Chen Qiuyang's first time entering Shangyuan Village, and he didn't expect the difference between Shangyuan Village and Xiayuan Village to be so great: this village gave Chen Qiuyang a feeling similar to Liulong Village, it was dilapidated, with low and short tile-roofed houses, the road was bumpy, and dust filled the air.

  The woman in red said to Chen Qiuyang: "My name is Hongmei. Thank you for helping me out of trouble."

  Hongmei's body was extremely dirty, with lice jumping around on her, and a foul smell like salted fish emanating from all over her.

  At close range, Chen Qiuyang was actually quite embarrassed, because the red-clothed woman was already a middle-aged woman, at least over 40 years old, older than Chen Qiuyang.

  Hongmei lived alone in a dilapidated house, the roof didn't even have tiles, only covered with a thin layer of black asphalt paper. There was no decent furniture inside the house either.

  "Sorry about the mess at home, let me pour you a glass of water."

  Chen Qiuyang said "No need, I'm ready to leave."

  Unexpectedly, Hongmei suddenly rushed over and tightly hugged Chen Qiuyang, murmuring: "Don't go, okay? Stay with me for a bit, okay?"

  Hongmei's intimate actions made Chen Qiuyang feel very embarrassed, but he couldn't struggle free. Hongmei hugged him for about a minute before suddenly pushing him away and saying apologetically: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I lost control, I'm sorry, please forgive me."

  Chen Qiuyang could see that Hongmei's spirit seemed a bit abnormal, or sometimes would be abnormal.

  Chen Qiuyang asked: "Since you are from Shangyuan Village, why do you go to the temple in Xiayuan Village to worship? I think the villagers of Xiayuan Village seem to hate you people from Shangyuan Village very much."

  Hongmei looked around, constantly picking up the red cloth that had fallen off her body and tightly wrapping it around herself, saying: "Really? I didn't even know I went to Xiayuan Village to pay my respects, I thought I was still in my own village."

  She said some strange words in a crazy tone and then ignored Chen Qiuyang, went to sleep on the wooden bed by herself, snoring loudly.

  Chen Qiuyang walked out of Hongmei's house and happened to meet an old man with a white beard pulling a water buffalo, so he asked the old man about Hongmei.

  The old man sighed and said, "It's a pity, she was actually from Xiayuan Village, but unfortunately fell in love with our village's Lei Wuzi. The two of them insisted on being together despite everyone's opposition, so she was kicked out by her family and cut off all ties. Good times didn't last long, after they got married, a few years later, Lei Wuzi went to the Leigong Mountains to dig for medicinal herbs and accidentally got bitten by a poisonous snake, and died. After Lei Wuzi's death, Hongmei became crazy and often disappeared without knowing where she went. Anyway, this girl still wanted to learn from Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, but ended up with such an ending. Now neither side welcomes her, our village people didn't want Lei Wuzi to marry her, saying it was her hard fate that killed Lei Wuzi. And when she went back to Xiayuan Village, the people there also didn't welcome her."

  Chen Qiuyang said, "Even if that's the case, she is still a person from Xiayuan Village. I just saw some villagers wanting to beat her up. Just because she went to the temple to worship? The people of Xiayuan Village are also too damn unreasonable."

  The old man seemed to have been heard by others and said, "Of course, there are other things that led the people of Xiayuan Village to hate her so much. Alright, alright, I won't say it anymore, I still need to go herd cattle, sigh, what a sin, what a sin."

  ……

  Chen Qiuyang finished telling the story of Hongmei, and Kui Rulan slammed her hand on the dinner table in anger, saying: "My god, what is this? In the 21st century when satellites have flown to Saturn, there are still such ignorant and unreasonable people?"

  "There will always be all sorts of unspeakable and unexplainable problems between people. Let alone between villages, where various interests are involved."

  "Director, you're right about this. When I came back, I heard that the reason why Shangyuan Village and Xiayuan Village hate each other so much is actually because of the Leigong Mountains. Many years ago, both villages wanted to occupy the mountain and claim the Leigong Mountains as their own. The Leigong Mountains are rich in medicinal herbs and are a treasure trove of gold. However, it's clear what happened in the end - Xiayuan Village took control of the high ground. I heard that people from Shangyuan Village once fought a fierce battle with people from Xiayuan Village on the Leigong Mountains, resulting in countless deaths and injuries, with blood flowing like rivers. Of course, this is all ancient history now."

  "Here, people seem overly complicated. You see..."

  Kui Ruolan hinted to us that we only saw Mr. Wu, a Taiwanese, bringing his twin sons and daughters down from upstairs, and met a woman on the stairs, who gave Mr. Wu an ambiguous smile.

  This woman Chen Qiuyang was recognizable, it was precisely that mentally ill Hongmei.

  But where was the slightest hint of madness in the red plum before her eyes? She was wearing a very fitting women's shirt suit, although it was also deep red, but it was different from the tattered red cloth she had wrapped herself in just a few hours ago.

  Mr. Wu and Hongmei exchanged a couple of words, then Hongmei followed Mr. Wu upstairs.

  "What did Hongmei come to Leigong Inn to look for Mr. Wu?"

  "Just mind your own business, even if they are having an affair, it's someone else's family matter." said Rouran.

  An hour later, we met Hongmei coming down from upstairs on the first floor. Her face was a bit off-color, extremely pale, and there wasn't a hint of blood color.

  She seemed to have just cried, as there were tear stains on her face that hadn't been wiped clean.

  Chen Qiuyang couldn't help but run over and greet Hongmei, saying: "Hongmei, you're here?"

  Hongmei looked at Chen Qiuyang and said, "Hmm, so you live here."

  Having said that, he ignored Chen Qiuyang and left on his own.

  Chen Qiuyang watched as Hongmei's distant red figure disappeared, and said blankly: "She is really very mysterious, like a deep red riddle."

  As soon as Hongmei's front foot had just left, Mr. Wu and his wife brought out their sick twin son and daughter, Wu Zongxian and Wu Yongwei, who were jumping and running around in the empty space, playing and frolicking.

  I noticed this phenomenon: an hour ago, these two children were still listless and lethargic with no energy, but after Hongmei came, the two children became very spirited and full of vitality.

  "Who would have thought that the red plum was actually the Great Luo Immortal, with a magical hand that can revive spring?" "I remember at the bonfire party, Mr. Wu said he brought his children here to recuperate from illness. So, it seems their ultimate goal in coming here is to find the red plum."

  Chen Qiuyang said: "But no matter how I look at Hongmei, she doesn't seem like a doctor."

  We were chatting idly when the Leigong Hotel suddenly erupted into a commotion, with everyone rushing to the back in a state of panic.

  "Hey, uncle, what's going on?" The goat whiskers ran to the back and said: "I heard that the plainclothes caught a double-faced monster baby behind the hotel!"

  I and Chen Qiuyang, Kui Ruolan also followed the crowd running towards the back mountain behind the hotel.

  Behind the hotel is actually a mountain foot of the Leigong Mountains, with dense mango trees. Everyone seemed to rush to the foot of the mountain like a tide, and there were several plainclothes running under the trees in front.

  On a branch of a giant mango tree, a nylon rope net was hung, and the double-faced monster baby was trapped inside.