Yang Jiakai seemed to have suffered a great injustice. He was not only righteous and loud, but also shed tears: "I like her so much, why doesn't she want to play with me?"
I interrupted him in a deep voice: "I don't have time to listen to you. Since you killed the man, according to the rules of the underworld, you should pay for your life!"
"Haha..." Yang Jiakai laughed harshly, "Don't think I don't know that the man surnamed Du is a policeman. Can he kill me? Without evidence, the most he can do is arrest me. Besides, even if you arrest me, what else can you do?"
I sneered, "You kill people without leaving any evidence, but I can do the same. Look at what's behind you."
Yang Jiakai shuddered: "You cheated me!"
I said slowly, "Don't think you're the only one in the world who can control ghosts. The ghost I summoned is right behind you. Don't you feel that your clothes are a little heavy? Wait a minute, he'll pull you down, and then everything will be over."
"You're talking nonsense! How can Mr. Dongbei have the ability to ward off ghosts..." Yang Jiakai shouted in disbelief, but his eyes were looking behind him. But Monk Shi and I were still standing on either side of him. He wanted to turn around, but he didn't dare to turn around too much, because he had to secretly look at the two of us.
The more Yang Jiakai didn't dare to look back, the more uncertain he felt. If he didn't understand the situation behind him, he always felt that there was a ghost behind him and he couldn't deal with the two of us with all his strength.
Yang Jiakai finally couldn't stand the pressure anymore and suddenly turned his head to look back. Just as he turned around, the green aphid dart that I had already held in my hand also flew out. Shi Heshang's speed was not much slower than mine. The two copper bells in his hands instantly turned into hidden weapons and hit Yang Jiakai one after another.
A moment later, two hidden weapons brushed past Yang Jiakai's ears and flew away. In panic, the latter shook his body, lost his balance, and fell headfirst downstairs. When Shi Heshang and I rushed to the edge of the roof, Yang Jiakai had already fallen and died.
We both grabbed the talismans from our bags at the same time and scattered them downstairs. The talismans were still flying in the air, and Yang Jiakai's soul had already floated out of his body into the air.
After a person dies, his soul will continue to rise until he realizes that he is dead, and then he will stop. This distance may be one or two meters, or it may be five or six meters. However, no matter how high Yang Jiakai's ghost floats, it will touch the talismans we scattered.
The collision between the ghost and the talisman caused the talisman to spontaneously combust instantly. Countless sparks flew all over the sky, and Yang Jiakai's ghost was also burned into a fireball that exploded in the air.
"Done!" Monk Shi couldn't help but stretch out his hand in front of me. I looked at him for two or three seconds before I realized that he wanted to high-five me.
Before I could reach out my hand, I heard Lao Du roaring, "Is this how you kill people?"
When I looked back at Lao Du, he had already sat up. Once Yang Jiakai died, his curse would naturally be broken, and Lao Du sat up on his own without us having to break the curse.
Lao Du's questioning attitude immediately angered Shi Heshang, who wiped the blood off his body with his hand and said, "If we don't kill him, are we going to be killed by him? This is the martial arts world, this is the art of the law. Do you want to enforce the law impartially? Do you have the ability to do that?"
Old Du said with red eyes: "You sorcerers do have abilities, but can those abilities be relied upon by you to take human lives lightly and do whatever you want?"
Monk Shi could no longer suppress his anger: "So what do you want? Arrest us? I'm telling you clearly, I and that guy surnamed Yang have the same story. If you don't have evidence, it's useless to arrest me."
Lao Du stood up with difficulty: "I don't believe that no one can subdue you. Sooner or later, I will catch you with my own hands."
Monk Shi wanted to say something else, but I stopped him with my hand: "Let him go!"
After I watched Lao Du leave the rooftop, I helped Xie Wanhua up and took her away from the abandoned building.
I took Xie Wanhua to a relatively open square and stopped. "Dr. Xie, isn't it time for you to introduce yourself?"
Xie Wanhua was surprised and asked, "What did you say? Why don't I understand?"
I suddenly grabbed Xie Wanhua's wrist and said, "You are the sorcerer who is actually killing people, right?"
Before I made my move, I was sure that Xie Wanhua was not prepared. However, just when I was about to touch her wrist, Xie Wanhua slid quickly with her feet, twisted her body like a fish in the water, and disappeared from my sight without a trace.
"Stop right there!" Monk Shi, who had been prepared when I made my move, suddenly blocked Xie Wanhua's retreat and grabbed Xie Wanhua's shoulders with his hands like hooks.
Xie Wanhua just shook her shoulders slightly, and then she escaped from Shi Heshang's pursuit, and calmly fell into the distance. She reached out and gently pushed her glasses: "How did you find something wrong with me?"
I staggered my steps and prepared to strike, but on the surface I remained calm and said, "That scapegoat Yang Jiakai might be a sorcerer, but do you think that a person with a mind like a child could come up with a murder plan in the haunted building? I think it would be more in line with his character to cast a curse on us directly, right?"
Xie Wanhua said: "Just based on this, you doubt me?"
"No! Yang Jiakai's appearance only confirmed that you were the murderer." I looked at Xie Wanhua and said, "In fact, I have been doubting one thing from the beginning, that is, how many spells does Xie Wanqiao have mastered?"
I slowly moved my feet and said, "The practice of a sorcerer cannot be accomplished overnight. Using a spell to seal the diary may seem simple, but it is not something that can be accomplished in one or two years. I always suspect that there is someone else who sealed the diary."
Xie Wanhua nodded and said, "This is indeed an oversight. What else?"
I said in a deep voice, "We received two express parcels. It seemed that the other party was unpredictable and anticipated our moves, but in fact, they had already made the calculations. You are leading us into a trap."
Xie Wanhua smiled and said, "You figured this out afterwards, right? I don't think there's anything suspicious about my arrangement!"
I said in a deep voice, "There is indeed nothing suspicious about your arrangement, but you are more suitable to be a psychologist than a sorcerer. Every time you take out the diary, it just makes Lao Du have wild thoughts and makes Lao Du feel that Xie Wanqiao betrayed him."
"What is your purpose in making Lao Du suspicious? Do you want him to give up the investigation into his wife's death?"
I answered my own question and said, "Lao Du is our employer. You know, if there is no personal hatred between warlocks, they will never cause trouble for each other without reason. As long as you defeat the good in Lao Du's heart, there is a 90% chance that he will give up investigating the case, and there will be no need for us to continue investigating the cause of Xie Wanqiao's death."
Xie Wanhua nodded and said, "You're right. I really don't want to fight with my colleagues. However, I didn't expect my brother-in-law to be so persistent in wanting the truth, so I have to adjust my arrangements."
I said in a deep voice: "Was He Yang's death a coincidence, or did you plan it in advance?"
"He Yang should have died long ago." Xie Wanhua said, "Even if you hadn't shown up, I would still have killed He Yang. The main target of the poisonous snakes in the gallery is He Yang, and you are just incidental. It would be best if I could kill you, but it doesn't matter if I can't."
Xie Wanhua's answer was similar to what I expected. Although the iron bark in the gallery was a poisonous viper, it was impossible for it to kill us in one blow, but it was enough to kill ordinary people like He Yang. Therefore, I have always suspected that the target of the murder was not us, but He Yang.
I continued, "When we killed the venomous snake in the gallery, you suddenly screamed and led us to the car, just to kill He Yang smoothly, right? Since He Yang deserved to die, why didn't you kill him eight years ago, but waited until eight years later?"
Xie Wanhua smiled and said, "That's my own question. I don't need to answer you. Let's continue talking about how you found me!"
I smiled faintly and said, "You probably didn't expect that I could infer from a painting that Tongtong was born with the ability to see Yin and Yang, right?"
When Xie Wanhua nodded, I continued, "It was precisely because I accidentally guessed the core of the problem that I jumped out of the initial circle and approached the truth directly. At this time, you panicked. Because you were not ready for the next trap. However, you also made a mistake."
I looked at Xie Wanhua and said, "You shouldn't have agreed with my speculation about the Yin-Yang eyes. You've already said that you've been in contact with the Zhuyou Department, which shows that you're not a standard atheist. At the beginning, as Tongtong's psychologist, how could you not have thought that he had the Yin-Yang eyes? At that time, I suspected that you were hiding something from me."
"He Yang's wife brought a lawyer to the police station at the right time. Maybe it was arranged by you? You know Lao Du very well. You know that he is a principled man. If someone came to his door, he would probably take He Yang's painting back to the police station to explain. Unfortunately, you miscalculated Lao Du again."
I slowly moved and said, "You didn't expect that we would locate Yang Jiakai's approximate location so quickly and rush to Wutong Street without stopping. You didn't dare to let me calculate Yang Jiakai's location, so you could only make hasty arrangements to stop us outside Wutong Street."
"Originally, the conditions in that haunted building were extremely favorable. If I were in charge of the layout, I could have set up at least three traps. However, you didn't have the time, so I could only hastily set up a killer move."
I suddenly raised my voice and said, "When the so-called ghost of Xie Wanqiao appeared in front of us, your fox tail was exposed."
Xie Wanhua looked at me coldly and said, "You can conclude that I was behind it just by seeing a ghost once?" (To be continued)