2:06 AM.
Lin Qiye's phone vibrated slightly. He frowned and took out the phone from his pocket.
It wasn't a call, but an unread message from an unfamiliar phone number.
—Watch this video.
When he saw these words, a hint of doubt first flashed across Lin Qiye's eyes, and then he remembered something and became curious.
Except for a few people, few people knew Lin Qiye's phone number. In addition, the night watchman installed software in his phone that could block all spam and harassment messages, so there was only one person who could send him a message in this tone...
Anqing fish.
The next moment, a message popped up.
This was a video. Lin Qiye clicked on it directly. When he saw the scenes in the video, his brows immediately frowned.
This is a video shot with a mobile phone, and the surrounding environment is the interior of the pub. The camera is placed on the bar, facing the door to the backyard. Both the picture and the angle are almost exactly the same as those in the video recorder.
The pub was completely dark, with only a faint amount of natural light coming from the backyard, and the picture looked blurry from a distance.
Then, a figure appeared in the camera. The person was standing in the backyard. Suddenly, a pair of invisible hands seemed to grab his throat. He slammed into the wall, and then his feet were suspended in the air, and he was lifted into the air little by little...
From his figure and clothing, Lin Qiye could recognize that the figure was An Qingyu.
An iron nail automatically floated up from the ground and pierced into the palm of the figure at a strange angle!
Then came the second, the third, the fourth... When all four nails were driven into the limbs, the figure's fingers disappeared bit by bit mysteriously, as if they were gnawed by something!
Just like in the video!
When the ten fingers disappeared until only the finger roots remained, the last iron nail floated up and fiercely pierced into An Qingyu's chest!
The picture disappears here.
At this moment, Lin Qiye's heart was full of doubts. He knew that An Qingyu could not have really been killed, but since the other party sent this video to him, it meant that he had completely understood the secret!
Lin Qiye picked up his phone and started typing. Halfway through, he shook his head and directly clicked on the number to call back.
Soon, the call was connected.
"What did you find?" Lin Qiye went straight to the point.
An Qingyu's voice seemed a little surprised. "I thought the first thing you would ask was: 'Are you okay?' Didn't the video just now make you a little worried?"
"What are you worried about? Are you worried that you'll get hurt?" Lin Qiye said calmly, "I don't believe a dead person would remember my phone number."
"Well, that's really boring." An Qingyu's voice seemed a little regretful.
"How did you take that video?"
Up to now, all of Lin Qiye's reasoning has hit a bottleneck, and that strange video is the root cause of the bottleneck.
The amount of bleeding after the finger was severed and the direction of the wound, these two suspicious points show that this case is far from as simple as it seems. However, such a weird video makes everything become... too simple.
"As you said, the content in that video is real." An Qingyu's voice came from the other end of the phone, "However, it was processed in a way that couldn't be simpler, and this processing made all the reasoning go in the wrong direction.
That is... reverse!"
Hearing these two words, Lin Qiye's body shook, as if he had thought of something, and a gleam of light appeared in his eyes.
"You mean..."
"That video doesn't tell the story of a person being mysteriously murdered, but... the story of a person whose ten fingers were cut off and who quickly healed. I'll send you another video, and you'll understand after you watch it."
An Qingyu hung up the phone, and the next second, another video was sent.
Lin Qiye clicked it open instantly.
In the video, An Qingyu's limbs were nailed to the wall and his ten fingers were cut off, but not a single drop of blood flowed out.
Then, the muscles in his chest contracted, and an iron nail was squeezed out. The pressure of the muscle tissue bounced it to the ground not far away.
Then, under the effect of super-speed regeneration, An Qingyu's fingers grew rapidly little by little, and returned to their original state in a few seconds.
The second nail was squeezed out of his body and bounced onto the ground, followed by the third, the fourth...
After the last iron nail fell to the ground, An Qingyu's body lost support and fell to the ground. Then he moved forward a step and made a terrified movement!
The screen ends.
Lin Qiye slowly closed his eyes and took a deep breath...
He understood.
No wonder the angles of each nail piercing the body seemed a little weird! No wonder the fingers in the video were not cut off all at once, but were eaten away bit by bit! No wonder the body of the deceased in the video was first pushed to the wall, and then rose up as if being pulled into the air!
All of this... is played in reverse!
The nails were pushed away by the muscle tissue instead of being pierced into the body by the invisible man or the ability to control objects; the fingers were growing little by little instead of being eaten away; the body fell to the ground first, and then deliberately moved forward a step...
Lin Qiye quickly dialed back.
"In other words, the mysteries of being able to be 'invisible', 'control objects', 'cut fingers', and 'interfere with electronic signals' never existed from the beginning. Everything in the video was actually directed and performed by a person who can regenerate at super-speed?" Lin Qiye frowned and spoke.
"That's right."
"But why did he do this?" Lin Qiye's voice was full of confusion, "Why did he go to so much trouble to record this video? Why did he create the illusion of a mysterious crime?"
"Before thinking about this question, I think we should think about who did all this." An Qingyu said calmly.
"It's the man in the video." Lin Qiye narrowed his eyes slightly, "That man directed and acted out this scene himself, which means that Sun Xiao was nailed to the wall by the real murderer after the video ended... Now there is only one question left, that is, when he was nailed to the wall, was Sun Xiao already dead, or was he still alive?"
Then, Lin Qiye shook his head again, "No, actually this question already has an answer. Judging from Sun Xiao's body, the direction of the wounds is inconsistent, so he must have had his fingers cut off first, and then he was nailed to the wall. The reduced amount of blood can also explain this problem.
If he completed the ritual, he would be killed immediately within ten seconds after his fingers were severed, which means that he would be a corpse when he was nailed to the wall.
This means... there must be a first-hand scene of Sun Xiao's murder near that tavern!
No, that's not right!
There is a camera at the street intersection outside the tavern, so the body could not have been killed in other buildings and then transported into the tavern, as that would have been captured by the camera, so... the first scene should be in the tavern!
And there should be only one person who can do all this in the tavern without anyone noticing... "