It’s over, I’m surrounded by weirdos and players

Chapter 182 Another death
"Let him in." Lin Yi turned his head and whispered to Li Zhengguang, signaling with his eyes to stop talking.

Li Zhengguang immediately opened a small hole in the barrier, let people in, and closed it again.

This will ensure that their conversations are not heard by outsiders.

"Oh, I've been knocking on the door for a long time, and it's finally opened." Tang Cheng rubbed his wrist, holding a thick piece of information in his hand, and quickly sat in the seat before Li Zhengguang.

Unlike Lin Yi and Ah Qi, he couldn't see the white shadow floating next to him, otherwise he would probably scream loudly on the spot.

"What did you find?" Lin glanced at Li Zhengguang, who floated next to him and grinned at Tang Cheng, and the corners of his mouth curved unconsciously.

Ah Qi didn't notice Li Zhengguang's grimace. His eyes fell on Tang Cheng with a hint of vigilance.

"Hey, hey, we've met during the day, don't look at me with that suspicious look."

"I am a good person, a very good person, the kind of person who is completely innocent."

Tang Cheng glared at Ah Qi unhappily, slapped the thick pile of information on the table, and said to Lin Yi, "Everything you want me to check is in here."

Even though he said he disliked it, he still filled it up and drank two glasses before stopping.

After saying that, he poured himself a cup of tea, "Hey, why is it still cold?"

It's like reincarnation again after wearing a layer of skin.

"Then I went to find the old servants who had served the Mei family's grandma in the Mei family. They couldn't tell exactly when the statue appeared."

"I see that the Taoist priest you mentioned is not mentioned in the information."

"Do you think there is a relationship between Taoist priests and idols?" Lin Yi raised his eyes and looked at Tang Cheng. He also had some doubts about whether the Mei family's grandmother would use the idol again for the sake of young and sick children.

Tang Cheng smiled and said: "Don't look through it, there is no record of this matter in it."

"Except for the Mei family's grandma and the late Mei family's second son, I'm afraid no one can prove the authenticity of this matter."

"But as far as I know from the exchanges over the past few days, no one has ever said anything about the Mei family's second son that he is weak. They mostly praise him for being smart, upright, kind and so on." Lin Yi turned to the next page and said: asked.

Taoist priests, statues of gods, infirmities were cured, and the Mei family enshrined them.
The direction of this plot is almost the same as the description in the black book.

"About when the child was five years old, the owner of the cloth store was robbed and disappeared when he went out to purchase goods."

"Taoist?" When Ah Qi heard these two words, he remembered the records in the black book again, and for a while he had a bad impression of the Taoist identity.

Not to mention exposing their true purpose and plan.

After explaining such a long list, he poured himself another cup of tea with a dry mouth.

"Is there anything else that isn't mentioned above?" Lin Yi finished flipping through the information in his hand, and all the contents were memorized in his mind.

"Now we are all investigating the Mei family's affairs, and the goals are the same."

“Later on, it slowly developed little by little and gained a good reputation and a stable customer base.”

Lin opened the information in his hand and scanned the text on each page carefully, hearing Tang Cheng's detailed explanations word for word.

"I don't have any records here." Lin Yi flipped through it roughly, but couldn't find anything about Taoist priests.

"After hearing the news, I was born prematurely. The child was weak and sick and could not live without the medicine all year round."

Don't let anyone know something is wrong.

Lin Yi briefly introduced Tang Cheng's identity and current position, mainly to remind Ah Qi and Li Zhengguang present to pay attention to their discretion.

“Two guys took over an old general store, turned it into a cloth store, and then built a small workshop in the back.”

"I'll tell you while you read the information." Tang Cheng turned the cup in his hand and raised his chin to signal everyone to look through the information.

He closed the document and put it on the table, looked at Tang Cheng who was drinking water and said, "Have you confirmed the time when the statue was at Mei's house? I didn't see it here."

Lin Yi casually divided the thick stack into two parts and handed one to Ah Qi.

"I can only roughly deduce it based on their oral accounts. It should have appeared in the year when the second son was cured of his frailty."

"The information given to you is all verified and true. The Taoist incident I just mentioned was made by someone who saw him entering Mei's house and guessed it based on the subsequent situation."

"The Mei family came here almost eighty years ago. At that time, they were a young couple with no children."

"This is Tang Cheng from the fifth investigation team. He is also the person who photographed the crime scene during the day."

After Tang Cheng finished drinking and put down his cup, he lowered his voice and said, "I asked many people about this matter, and they all said they didn't know."

"It changed from a small cloth shop to a big cloth shop. At the same time, the proprietress, who is now the grandma of the Mei family, is pregnant and has a child."

His fingers gently flipped through the papers, and each piece recorded the major developments of the Mei family over the years, as well as the impressions and evaluations of the Mei family from nearby neighboring villagers.

The grandma of the Mei family might not be able to bear the struggle of driving her sick young son all the time.

"His deceased father had some connection with the Mei family."

"I don't have that either." Ah Qi looked slower than Lin Yi, but she was also very serious and didn't miss a word.

After all, maternal love is a great emotion in this world.

Tang Cheng quickly revealed the answer.

"Because when the second son was six years old, he met a Taoist priest who cured his frailty."

"At that time, the cloth shop owner's wife was pregnant with her second child, more than eight months old."

As soon as these words came out, Ah Qi's heart moved.

If someone could help her child recover, she might really be willing to sacrifice everything like the daughter-loving patriarch in the story.

"Do you think it was the Taoist priest who gave the Mei family the idol and then cured the child's frailty?"

Tang Cheng had never read the black leather book and didn't know the origin of the statue. He just thought Lin Yi's question was a bit strange.

"Why is the statue related to Taoist priests? Maybe the statue originally belonged to the Mei family, but no one knew about it before."

This statement reminded Lin Yi, and he thought for a while and asked: "Did your father's notes mention that Mei Rengu had any special or strange reactions after the ancient painting case, or did he mention anything related to the statue? words."

"Let me think about it." Tang Cheng was asked by Lin Yi's words. He tried hard to recall some of the things his father had said to him and what was recorded in his notes.

It took a while before he spoke.

"I remembered!" Tang Cheng shouted excitedly, grabbing Lin Yi's hand and looking a little excited, "If you hadn't reminded me, I would have forgotten it."

"There was a period of time before my father passed away, and he kept saying the same words over and over again."

"What is it?" Lin Yi asked quickly.

Tang Cheng frowned and recalled the expression on his father's face at that time, and shouted: "The greed will never end, and I am afraid of hurting people's lives without knowing it."

"He also said that he should have advised me more from the beginning and shouldn't have let him off carelessly."

"I asked my father who he was talking about, but he smiled bitterly and didn't answer. He just stared at the group photo in silence."

After hearing what Tang Cheng said, Lin Yi once again had the answer in his heart, and many things had a clear direction.

During the ancient painting case, it was discovered that the statues of the Mei family had unusual powers.

It's just that it wasn't taken seriously at the time.

Later, people who knew about it passed away one after another, and the statue stayed safely in Mei's house.

"Have you got any results on that little thing I asked you to check?" Lin Yi ended the topic. He already knew very well what the status of the statue was at Mei's house.

Tang Cheng was stunned for several seconds before he remembered what Lin Yi was talking about.

"It was found out." He took out the small plastic bottle and pointed to a small amount of white powder at the mouth of the bottle. "This is a mixed poison powder, colorless and odorless, soluble in water."

"It only takes a little bit to poison a person, but if half a bottle is taken, it will be completely hopeless."

"The toxicity is complex, contains certain hallucinogenic ingredients, and will give people a kind of spiritual pleasure."

"Will people who eat it laugh?" Lin Yi asked.

Tang Cheng nodded, "Laughter is also a physical reaction after being mentally happy. It will happen naturally." "Have you found the source of the poison?" Lin Yi continued to ask.

Tang Cheng shook his head, "This is a mixed poison, not a finished product on the surface. Someone should have prepared it privately, so it's difficult to trace the source."

"Does the Mei family have a medicine shop? Maybe the Mei family has the ability to get this kind of poison?" Lin Yi continued to ask in order to further confirm the answer in his heart.

Tang Cheng was not stupid. Hearing Lin Yi's question, he knew exactly what Lin Yi was thinking.

It was not that he had ever doubted whether there was something fishy about Mei Renxin's death.

After all, no one hangs himself and still smiles.

It's weird no matter how you look at it.

But after all, Mei's family insisted that Mei Renxin committed suicide and did not want an autopsy.

It is not easy for the fifth investigation team to get too involved in the investigation.

If the deceased is the most important person, the family members’ opinions should still be followed.

Therefore, even though Tang Cheng was unwilling to do so, he could only seal the file as instructed and watch as the body was put into the coffin.

"The Mei family doesn't have a pharmacy, but they have invested in a small medical clinic. It shouldn't be a problem to get some medicine."

"Are you suspecting that the Mei family did it themselves?"

"But according to the biggest beneficiary, the one who is most suspected is Mei Qi."

"There is no need for me to kill my uncle. The will is written in black and white, and he can't stop it." Ah Qi said lightly as an explanation.

Tang Cheng carefully glanced at Ah Qi, who was expressionless, and nodded when he saw that he had no big reaction, "The existence of the will reduces your suspicion, and the motive is not enough to cause murder."

"What's more, an adult like Mei Qi probably wouldn't like to eat the white plum powder that only children like."

"I found some residual brown powder at the bottom of this small bottle, which is white plum powder."

"And the small plastic bottles are used to hold white plum powder."

White plum powder is a kind of candy that is dried and ground into powder. It tastes sweet and sour, with a light fruity aroma.

It is children's favorite snack and is often eaten dry or soaked in water.

"There is only one child in the Mei family who knows how to eat white plum powder." Ah Qi's eyes flashed with surprise, obviously not expecting Lin Yi to be right.

Tang Cheng naturally knew who the child Ah Qi was talking about was, but why?

Why would such a young child have such vicious thoughts to poison his biological father?

He couldn't figure it out.

"But what is his motive?" Tang Cheng asked.

Lin Yi shook his head, "Maybe only Aunt Axiu, who has gone crazy, may know this answer. After all, she is Azhi's mother and the person closest to him."

"The words of the crazy woman are somewhat credible." Tang Cheng yawned sleepily. He finally sorted out a possible result, but had no way to continue the investigation.

It's really frustrating.

"Just listen and you will know." Lin glanced at the time and said with his head lowered.

They don't have any other new developments at the moment.

Although the origin of the statue was found, it had nothing to do with Qi Gui.

The Mei family is getting more and more dangerous.

Not only are there hidden chess tricks that cannot be found, but there is also the dangerous figure of the Dragon Girl who is gradually unlocking the seal in the statue.

The difficulty increases layer by layer.

It’s terrible!
"Then let's continue tomorrow. It's getting late." Tang Cheng glanced at the dark sky outside, and unknowingly so much time had passed.

At the same time, a familiar voice sounded in the distance.

Boom—boom, boom, boom.

As night fell, on the quiet street, a night watchman held a clapper and struck loudly, with a clear and sweet sound.

When the bang sounded, the night watchman shouted loudly: "It's three o'clock at midnight, everything is safe."

However, as soon as he finished speaking, a sharp scream sounded in the night sky.

"Ah-ah-"

"The dead are bleeding and dead again!"

"Ah - that's terrible. The Mei family is cursed!"

"Someone, something happened!"

"Come quickly, someone is killed again!"

Following the scream, there was a burst of noise, which was immediately caught by Lin Yi, who had keen ears.

"It seems something happened again over there in the mourning hall!" He said in a deep voice and stood up immediately.

Tang Cheng's eyes widened, "What? Something happened?"

I was a little distracted just now because I was sleepy, so I didn't pay much attention to the screams outside.

He was completely shocked by the actions of Lin Yi and Ah Qi present.

"Go and have a look." Ah Qi and Lin Yi looked at each other.

Every time you hear the night watchman shouting, something bad happens.

I just don't know what happened this time.

There is really no peaceful day.

The mourning hall is simply like an accident-prone place, with frequent troubles.

When the three people arrived, they found that all the people watching the night had long since disappeared.

The entire mourning hall was empty, and the dark wind blew the curtains, making a soft sound.

In addition, it is late at night, so those who are timid may be frightened.

"Why is there no one there?" Tang Cheng looked around and found that except for the three of them, there was no one there.

As soon as he turned his eyes to the front, he saw that the coffin lid was half opened, and a bloody hand was exposed. The flesh and blood were horrifically mangled.

"Help! It's a corpse scam!" Tang Cheng shouted and hid behind Lin Yi. While hiding, he peeked his head out to take a look.

Scared and curious.

Lin Yi stopped in the distance and did not move forward.

The black coffin directly in front exudes a creepy aura, as if it is a call from the abyss of hell.

A circle of blood oozed out from the surface of the coffin, shining strangely under the flickering candlelight. Drops of blood slowly slid down the coffin, making a dripping sound.

The cover above was half opened, revealing a blood-stained arm, like a struggling beast trapped in the darkness.

The blood stains on his arms had dried up, as if they had experienced endless torture and suffering.

Even before he reached the coffin, he could feel a cold wind coming from the depths of hell.

"It's eldest brother." Ah Qi recognized the birthmark on her arm that was mostly blurred by blood.

A crescent-like shape was soaked in blood.

(End of this chapter)