Long night dreams

Chapter 18 The Truth and the True Truth (1)
On the floor, first a hand appeared, then an arm, head, and shoulders, and then a slender figure appeared in the attic above this attic.

This person was of medium build, dressed in black, and wore a clown mask on his face, revealing only a pair of red eyes and a chapped mouth.

He glanced at the bloody corpse of Guo Haoran on the ground, then stretched out his thumb to Lianzi who was curled up beside him, and said in a numb voice, "Good job, well done!"
Lianzi cried and said, "You promised me that as long as I kill Guo Haoran, you will let me go."
This person sneered twice, and then said: "Then you must at least let me take off Guo Haoran's left thigh. Now the nine corpses I make for the altar are only short of his left thigh." With a "swish" sound, he pulled out a long knife shining coldly from his black clothes, and then slowly walked towards Guo Haoran's body on the ground.

He kicked Guo Haoran's body, then knelt beside the body.He pressed Guo Haoran's thigh, searching for the location of the joint.When he found the position of the thigh joint, he raised the long knife in his hand.When the long knife was swept up, a gleam of coldness pierced into the bone marrow flashed.Lianzi didn't dare to watch this terrifying scene, she covered her face and eyes with her hands.

When the masked man swung his long knife into the air, his movements suddenly froze, and his body froze there, as if he had seen something strange.

Yes, strange things did happen.On the chest of the man in black, there was something extra, it was a sharp short knife, and the handle of the knife was hidden in Guo Haoran's hand.

The masked man in black couldn't believe his eyes at all. He watched his blood ooze out from his chest little by little, and his eyes burst out with surprise.He murmured, "Why? Why is this happening?"
Guo Haoran put his hands on the ground, stood up, looked at the man in black with a smile, and said coldly: "Zhang Dongsheng, the performance is over. You didn't expect that, in the end, you still fell for me and Lianzi." Perfect plan."
The man in black shouted: "How do you know I'm Zhang Dongsheng? Impossible! My plan is perfect, you can't know."
Guo Haoran smiled and said: "Yes, it is indeed almost seamless, but it is only almost, you only did one thing wrong."
"What's the matter? Where did I show my flaws."
"Head! Li Shoulian's head." Guo Haoran said, "Last night, after you stunned Ye Mei, you came to the room where Li Shoulian and I were. You had already injected the drug into Li Shoulian's Indian incense— I should have suspected you a long time ago, you are a medical device manufacturer, of course there are medical channels to get these strange drugs - Li Shoulian is about the same size as you, so you took off his clothes and cut off his head , and put it on Ye Mei's bed. So, everyone thought that you, Zhang Dong, were dead, and that Li Shoulian was the murderer, so he hid himself in the dark."
Guo Haoran paused, and continued: "But in the secret room on the first floor, which is exactly the same as the guest room on the second floor, we saw Li Shoulian's head in the refrigerator. The murderer wanted to use nine corpses to piece together a complete body." Corpse, but he doesn’t need two heads. It’s impossible to cut off Li Shoulian’s head if you have your head—so, in fact, your head was not cut off, you didn’t die, you are actually the one The real murderer."
Feeling depressed, Zhang Dongsheng tore off the clown mask from his face, the pain in his chest made him panting.He said weakly: "Yes, this is indeed my secret."
"Okay, let's talk about it, why did you set up this trap? Do you really believe that nine corpses put together will create a nonsense like Nine Stars?" Guo Haoran asked with a little sarcasm on his face.

Zhang Dongsheng suddenly became serious, and he said seriously, "Don't think that it's all lies, everything has its basis."
Zhang Dongsheng started his narration slowly, because the blood in his chest was pouring out continuously, he spoke intermittently, but it was still enough for Guo Haoran to hear every word he said clearly.

After Zhang Dongsheng resigned from the public office in the municipal hospital two years ago, he angrily joined the pharmaceutical marketing industry and started the sales of medical equipment.At the beginning, he bought finished products from small manufacturers, put his own registered trademark on them, and sold them at a higher price to hospitals he knew well.However, his business has been unsatisfactory. In fact, the medical equipment he bought is mainly consumables, and the quality requirements are not high. He doesn't know what went wrong, and the sales volume has not increased.One day, he received an anonymous email, which said that he could consult production problems for free, but the solution was not the same as the conventional one, but using metaphysical knowledge to solve it.Zhang Dongsheng was curious for a while, so he replied an email, expressing his confusion in business.

Soon he received a reply, in which the anonymous person told him that the problem lay in the registered trademark.He must choose a brand name with good strokes and feng shui in order to make his products sell well.The name must meet the requirements of Feng Shui, which means that it must occupy all aspects of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and cannot let each other restrain each other.There are a lot of things to say in the reply, but in a word, if you want to make the business grow smoothly, you must change the name of the brand.The cost of changing the name is not high, it is a figure that Zhang Dongsheng can definitely pay, and after paying, he will never feel distressed.Therefore, Zhang Dongsheng remitted a sum of money to that person with an attitude that he would rather believe what he had than believe what he hadn't.A few days later, he received an e-mail from this mysterious person, giving his product a new brand name -- "Nine Stars Lianzhu".

I don’t know if it’s because the new brand name is a good one, or if the business is just a matter of course. Since Zhang Dongsheng changed the brand name, he has entered the two largest tertiary hospitals in the city one after another, and other hospitals have called him by name. Provide medical supplies.Therefore, Zhang Dongsheng trusted the person who sent the email. Whenever he encountered a business problem, he always sent an email to the mysterious person, and the responses he received benefited him a lot.Under the influence of that person, he even learned a lot of metaphysical knowledge, and learned about all aspects of Jiuxing Lianzhu.

Recently, Zhang Dongsheng is going to bid for a newly built Hong Kong-funded hospital. This hospital is said to be the largest private hospital in Southwest China, and the consumption of medical equipment and consumables will be astronomical.Zhang Dongsheng dreamed of winning this business, and in order to achieve success, he did not hesitate to spend any price.Of course, he didn't forget to send an email to the mysterious person on the other side of the network, expressing his desire.

The man still returned the letter for him as scheduled.In the letter, the person said that it would be quite difficult to accomplish this, unless the huge energy of Jiuxing Lianzhu was needed to help him.Zhang Dongsheng hurriedly wrote an email asking how he could obtain the huge energy of Jiuxing Lianzhu.The letter came back from there again, saying that there is only one way, the only way to do it...

In the e-mail of that mysterious person, there was an attachment. In the attachment, he gave Zhang Dongsheng an action chart, asking him to come to a certain villa that was abandoned and then converted into a hotel, and told him every step. The detailed process of how to do it.

Therefore, Zhang Dongsheng made this trip to the Hongmen Hotel in Shizhong Village.Before he set off, he received a call from Ye Mei asking him to go to Hecursing Village.Originally, he just hesitated a few words, but he didn't expect to meet Ye Mei and Guo Haoran when he came to this villa. This is really a great coincidence.

After saying these words, Zhang Dongsheng had exhausted all his strength and was out of breath.He lay flat on the floor, breathing heavily.At this time, Lianzi came over and said to Zhang Dongsheng: "What's the name of the mysterious person who communicated with you?"
"I don't know his real name, he's been using a fake name online, called Jeffers."
"Jeffers?" Lianzi opened her mouth wide, not knowing what to say.

Zhang Dongsheng's breathing became more and more cloudy, and he said to Guo Haoran: "I clearly saw Lianzi inserting a knife into your chest on the monitor, why are you still alive?"
Guo Haoran glanced at Zhang Dongsheng, and then said unhurriedly: "When I was untying the Lianzi rope, I saw that the rope was not tied firmly, so I understood that it was a trap set by you. You must not have noticed At that time, I whispered a few words into her ear, right? Tell you, I told her at that time, let her pretend to stab me with a knife, and then I poured tomato juice on my clothes-these tomato juices It was Roger who bought it and put it in the refrigerator. Just when I was digging out the body fragments in the refrigerator for inspection, I saw tomato juice, so I took a bottle and put it in my pocket. I didn't expect it to be of such a use. "
Zhang Dongsheng sighed faintly, and said, "Oh...how did I meet you in such a plan?"
Guo Haoran said with a smile: "Who made me a writer of suspense novels?"
After saying this, the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, and he said coldly to Zhang Dongsheng: "No matter what, you killed so many people. Now that you are dead, you deserve more than death. He praised He raised his hand, and then dropped it heavily, the blade pierced into Zhang Dongsheng's chest again.

Zhang Dongsheng's body twisted vigorously, blood dripped from his throat, and he wailed loudly without saying a word.Guo Haoran leaned down, pointed his lips at Zhang Dongsheng's ear, and seemed to say something.But the sound was really too low, not only Lian Zi beside her couldn't hear it, even Zhang Dongsheng couldn't hear it clearly.

"What did you say?" Lian Zi asked.

Guo Haoran quickly said: "It's nothing, I just said thank you."
"Thank him? Why should I thank him?" Lianzi was puzzled.

"Hehe, you will know after a while." Guo Haoran showed a smile on his face.

Guo Haoran kicked Zhang Dongsheng's body aside, then picked up the long knife that was under Zhang Dongsheng's body.He raised his head and smiled at Lianzi.Lianzi was obviously confused, but she just stared at Guo Haoran, not knowing what he was going to do.

Guo Haoran suddenly raised the long knife in his hand at this moment, the blade drew an elegant arc in the air, and then landed heavily on Zhang Dongsheng's knee.A puddle of blood immediately gushed out from Zhang Dongsheng's trousers, before Lian Zi could react, Guo Haoran raised the knife again and slashed down heavily, this time at the root of Zhang Dongsheng's thigh.With just a few blows, Guo Haoran chopped off Zhang Dongsheng's thigh, and his flesh and blood were separated.

Lianzi was taken aback, she shouted: "Guo Haoran, what are you doing? Are you crazy?"
Guo Haoran was already covered in blood red by Zhang Dongsheng's blood spatter, he stood up slowly, and said to Lianzi: "Have you forgotten? I told you before, I just said thank you to Zhang Dongsheng. Do you know why I want to say thank you? Because he helped me get rid of seven people. Now that he is dead, there are already eight people—you are one of the nine corpses needed for Jiuxing Lianzhu!"
Lian Zi was shocked: "What are you talking about? Why can't I understand a word?"
"Hehe, hehehe——" Guo Haoran grinned grimly, "I must not have told you, I am that mysterious man named Jeffers. I was the one who sent the email to Zhang Dongsheng—God, help me It took me a lot of energy and painstaking effort to solve those business problems, but Zhang Dongsheng and I set him up two years ago. Who told him to seduce my wife Ye Mei at that time? Of course, I also wrote the articles published on the "Cuneiform Script" website, and I was the one who pretended to be Su Xin and chatted with you online. Hehe, it is really not easy to pretend to be a woman to chat. Fortunately, I am a writer, and everything is not difficult Me. I invited all the people here, and I inherited this villa from my parents. Although it fell into disrepair because I had no money to maintain it, I still know the secret passages here. However, the most important thing is that I am a real lover of mysterious culture. I firmly believe in the existence of the Nine Stars Link from the bottom of my heart, and I am even more convinced that nine corpses will cause the ancient prophecy of the Nine Stars Link-this is the great prophet promise. Chandamus, in his great book of occult prophecies, Genesis, speaks of the method himself."
"God——" Lian Zi covered her mouth, she could no longer hide the panic in her heart.

Guo Haoran sneered and walked towards Lianzi step by step, getting closer and closer...

"You devil! You lunatic! You murderer. Lianzi cursed loudly. She still held the Tibetan dagger Zhang Dongsheng gave her in her hand. She put the dagger on her chest and said to Guo Haoran:" Don't come here, if you take another step forward, I will fight you.

Guo Haoran glanced at Lianzi, with a look of disdain on his face.He took a step forward, suddenly raised his head, and kicked Lianzi.This kick happened to hit the Tibetan dagger in Lianzi's hand, and the dagger flew into the air with a sound, and then fell lightly to the ground.

Lianzi's face was full of despair, she looked at Guo Haoran tremblingly, and said intermittently: "Please let me go, please, please..."
(End of this chapter)