Chapter 47: The Sudden Change in Ah Hao's X-Step Deduction

  The killer twin-faced infant dodged and weaved, but these chemicals drilled into its big eyes. It suddenly lost consciousness, let out a painful shriek, then jumped from Kui Ruo Lan's shoulder to the ground, covering its four big eyes with its hands, continuously shrieking and making a frightening noise.

  At the same time, Chen Qiuyang and I rushed over immediately. The thickened fishing net in Chen Qiuyang's hand quickly covered the killer twin-faced baby on the ground, then tightened the net mouth with force, and caught the twin-faced baby at once.

  The murderous twin-faced monster baby has been captured by us. We didn't think twice about it, because we all knew that showing mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself. If we let this monster baby go this time, next time it will attack Akane or slaughter even more people.

  So, Chen Qiuyang and I both simultaneously pulled out the spring knives we had prepared in advance and hidden on our bodies last night, using all our strength to stab the double-faced monster baby in the fishing net fiercely. Just as we thought we had succeeded and could finally eliminate the harm for the people, something unexpected happened again -

  The silent Ah Hao beside me suddenly turned to help the two-faced monster baby, and he suddenly took a long pole and launched a surprise attack on Chen Qiuyang and me when we were fully focused on dealing with the two-faced monster baby. He swept his bamboo pole across our legs, knocking us down in an instant.

  Everything happened so suddenly that Chen Qiuyang and I didn't have time to react. When Chen Qiuyang and I fell to the ground, Ah Hao had already run to the fishing net at a very fast speed, opened the mouth of the fishing net with one swift motion, and the two-faced monster baby who was struggling inside shot out like a cannonball, jumping onto a wooden stake.

  It crouched on the top of the wooden stake, its four eyes all streaming with murky tears, its vision gradually recovering, staring at us, opening two terrifying mouths, letting out a mournful howl, one after another, more and more desolate, but also more and more furious.

  Due to Ah Hao's sudden intervention, we missed the best chance to capture the Double-Faced Baby Ghost, and I believe there won't be such a rare opportunity again.

  Chen Qiuyang got up from the ground, furiously waving his fists, wanting to beat Ah Hao: "Damn you, what's going on with this little bastard, how did he suddenly turn to that two-faced freak? Don't tell me you also sympathize with this monster, aren't you supposed to be avenging your girlfriend?"

  I found that Chen Qiuyang, who was angry, wasn't feminine at all, but rather very manly.

  A Hao remained silent and motionless, his head bowed down, neither fleeing nor resisting, as if he was willing to let Chen Qiuyang beat him brutally.

  I stopped Chen Qiuyang and looked at Ah Hao, saying: "Ah Hao, we won't hit you. I just want you to give us an explanation. Logically speaking, you should be the one who hates it the most and wants it dead among us. Because it killed your girlfriend. Of course, having a strong desire for revenge is not right, but at the same time, I don't understand why you would help the Double-Faced Baby in this state of mind. I really can't figure it out."

  A Hao had an air of indifference about him. He said, "I have my reasons, but I won't say them. If you want to hit me, go ahead."

  Qiu Yang Chen was so angry that he punched a small tree next to him, shaking its branches and causing several leaves to fall off. He said fiercely, "Damn it, this is ridiculous!"

  The two-faced monster baby was still standing on the wooden stake, screaming miserably, but it didn't attack us. We also knew that we had missed the best opportunity to hunt down the two-faced monster baby, and staying here would be even more dangerous. So, Chen Qiuyang, Rong Ruolan and I ignored Ah Hao and left.

  On the road, we guessed why Ah Hao would suddenly change his mind:

  "It's really hard for me to imagine why Ah Hao would suddenly go and help the two-faced baby. Is he really a Bodhisattva with a compassionate heart, sympathizing with the two-faced baby?"

  "This mentality is simply too ridiculous, even if he has a Bodhisattva's heart, it's impossible for him to suddenly help the monster that killed his girlfriend. This psychology is simply perverted."

  "I'm not a psychologist, I can't analyze his sudden change of mind. Maybe he's really a Bodhisattva, with a heart so kind that it could be the Virgin Mary, able to forgive all the unpleasant things in time, including the murderer who killed his girlfriend."

  I suddenly thought of something and said: "Actually, the reason why we think Ah Hao will change suddenly, and feel that Ah Hao's behavior is strange and difficult to analyze and unreasonable, is based on what basis?"

  "We all think that Ah Hao is extremely disgusted with the two-faced baby."

  I nodded and said, "Yes. Yesterday when we set out to track you and the Two-Faced Baby, Ah Hao enthusiastically expressed his desire to join our team and help us track down the Two-Faced Baby. At that time, I thought that Ah Hao was driven by a desire for revenge because his girlfriend had been killed by the Two-Faced Baby. His purpose in joining our team wasn't to help us rescue you, but rather to exact revenge - this was my initial judgment of his actions. However, when we entered the wooden hut where you were being held and later encountered the Two-Faced Baby, I noticed that Ah Hao's demeanor was extremely calm. We have an old saying in China, "When enemies meet, their eyes turn red with rage," but his expression was so tranquil.

  Of course, this calm explanation can also have many possibilities. One is that he felt that the time was not suitable for revenge, so he did not take action - but this reason has already been overturned by his abnormal behavior just now, so this explanation does not hold up.

  The second reason is that, at the same time, it can directly explain why he just appeared to help the two-faced monster with abnormal behavior, which is - Ah Hao never hated the two-faced monster baby, and he never thought of killing the two-faced monster baby to avenge his girlfriend.

  After I finished speaking, both Huier Lan and Chen Qiuyang were stunned.

  I continued: "So, on the basis of this conclusion I inferred, I might as well continue to infer further: why not hate the enemy who killed his girlfriend? There are also two main reasons for this: First, Chen Qiuyang just mentioned that he is a Bodhisattva with a heart of gold, a saintly mother who can forgive all things in the world. This reason is a bit far-fetched, and I'm not saying I don't believe there are people in this world who have such a broad-minded and god-like realm. However, the probability of Ah Hao having such a situation is almost 0, because he is too young and too small.

  Then I'll talk about the second reason. Yang Baozi, I'm asking you, under what circumstances would you go to help someone? Why would you help that person?

  "Generally speaking, I actually don't often help others. But if you ask me like that, I think the main reason should be that I like the person, or at least I don't dislike them, before I go to help them."

  "When will you hate someone?"

  "I dislike that person, he did something unfavorable to me."

  "I said, 'Right, generally speaking, when you're faced with someone you really dislike, you absolutely don't want to help him. You dislike that person because his behavior made you uncomfortable or did something unfavorable to you. So, going back to the second reason I just mentioned, why wouldn't you hate the enemy who killed your girlfriend? Why would you help the enemy who killed your girlfriend?' - Ah Hao didn't love his girlfriend at all."

  My bold conjecture stunned both Chen Qiuyang and Kui Ruolan.

  Chen Qiuyang said, "Director, but that's not right. I remember when we ran up to the third floor that night, we saw him being scared and crying and laughing at the same time, and he was heartbroken. If Ah Hao didn't love his girlfriend, why would he be so sad? He could have just hidden and covered his mouth to laugh secretly."

  "This behavior can have a very reasonable explanation - he's pretending. However, I don't know the details yet. Why did he pretend to do this? But I believe I will definitely find out the truth."

  "Boss, I find myself admiring you more and more, it's really a waste of talent that you didn't become a detective."

  After we returned to the Leigong Inn, I asked Chen Qiuyang to send Kui Rulan back immediately. Because I felt that Kui Rulan seemed to be stared at by the Double-Faced Baby, and if she continued to stay at the Leigong Inn, it would ultimately be unsafe for her.

  "However, I think the greatest value of me staying here is that I can lure out the Double-Faced Baby. My intuition tells me that this baby seems to have some purpose for me. As long as I stay here, it will definitely come back again. Thirteen, I want to stay here for another day. Tomorrow afternoon, I'll leave. If I don't resolve the issue of the Double-Faced Baby, I'll always feel uneasy returning to Long City."

  I could only nod.

  We hadn't had breakfast yet, and it wasn't until we relaxed that we felt hungry. So we went to the first floor to have breakfast. I ordered a bowl of congee and intestine powder. Because of the ice tea with human flesh in the restaurant before, now I always stir my food with a spoon before eating to see if there's anything hidden at the bottom of the congee. After stirring for a few times, no flesh floated up, but several long hairs did.

  Although it wasn't very disgusting, I immediately called the waiter: "There is a hair in this porridge, please help me change to another bowl."

  The waiter walked into the kitchen with a "oh". However, the landlady of Leigong Hotel saw him and scolded loudly: "Is Zhu Huiling that stinky kid not taking his job seriously again? Tell him that if I catch him playing with his phone during work hours again, I'll fire him! A good chef doesn't do this kind of thing, he's always doing useless things!"