"Do you think Ouyang Yu has changed?" Lin Fan took a sip of water and said. "He's not as annoying as before, now he seems a bit more human."

Qin Feng looked at Lin Fan for a few seconds. "You should still hate him; having a good impression of him is not a good thing."

Lin Fan laughed and nudged him. "Jealous?"

Qin Feng pinched Lin Fan's face. "Yeah." He finished his water. Originally, he suspected Mr. Chen, but now that Zhou Jing was returned unharmed, he said, "Stay in the office, I need to go out for a bit."

"Okay, you go ahead."

Qin Feng left, and Lin Fan opened her bag to take out her homework. There was a friend request on WeChat, the avatar was a bleeding girl, and the name was Shura. Lin Fan hesitated for a few seconds and then pressed "reject."

She continued with her homework. At noon, Qin Feng brought her lunch, and while eating, Lin Fan said, "Wasn't that female ghost supposed to be unable to leave the library? How did she get out? Where did she and Ouyang Yu go?"

"I checked the surveillance, didn't see anything." Qin Feng gave some beef to Lin Fan and said, "That ghost probably isn't unable to leave the library, but leaving the library doesn't benefit her."

"Where would she go? Home? To find her parents?"

"Shen Yi's parents are no longer in Jiangcheng, they—" Qin Feng paused his eating, put down his chopsticks, and stood up to grab his coat. "She's probably no longer Shen Yi; she's Su Weilan! Yes, she could be Su Weilan! Come with me to the hospital."

Lin Fan hastily finished her last bite of rice. "Who's Su Weilan?"

"The person who died in that building twenty-four years ago."

Lin Fan put down her chopsticks and quickly followed Qin Feng out. "You suspect that the current Shen Yi isn't Shen Yi, but Su Weilan?"

"Yes." She might go to find Lei Xiaojia's parents. Su Weilan's death might be related to Lei Xiaojia's mother, Liu Xue. Where would she go after leaving that building? Qin Feng had checked, Su Weilan's mother died of illness after her incident, and her father is now missing, said to be mentally unstable. He probably left Jiangcheng long ago. If she wasn't taken by Ouyang Yu, what would she do?

Find Liu Xue.

Qin Feng pulled Lin Fan along. They almost bumped into someone carrying documents, Qin Feng nodded at the person and quickly headed to the parking lot.

"So who are we going to the hospital to find? Su Weilan's parents?"

"Her mother died after the incident, and her father is missing due to mental illness." Qin Feng opened the car door and got in, Lin Fan quickly got in from the other side, closed the door, and fastened her seatbelt. "Ah? So tragic?"

"Only child, one child is the life of the whole family." Qin Feng said.

"So, to the hospital?"

"The person who might have caused the tragedy back then, Lei Xiaojia's mother."

Lin Fan quickly understood the relationship. "Are you sure?"

"Almost." Qin Feng said, "I investigated at the school. Back then, Su Weilan and Lei Xiaojia's father had a good relationship. After Su Weilan's accidental death, Lei Xiaojia's father got together with her mother and then married. There was an emotional entanglement between the three of them. I haven't had time to find Liu Xue, Lei Xiaojia's mother."

"Su Weilan's cause of death was sudden heart attack, and the time of death was early morning." Lin Fan waved her hand, suddenly realizing, "You suspect it was deliberate murder? Someone intentionally locked her in the lab at that time? No one would go to the lab in the early morning, and with a heart condition, she wouldn't risk it for excitement. Is that it?"

"There's no evidence to support it yet."

Lin Fan still couldn't figure it out. "Why kill one person every twelve years? I remember something, I don't think Lei Xiaojia's case was an accident, it might have been premeditated murder."

"What is it?"

"A while before Lei Xiaojia went on her adventure, a famous Weibo blogger she followed posted a horror story about our school, a report from a passerby. Lei Xiaojia went to explore the library because of this. Suppose, before Lei Xiaojia was killed, the ghost couldn't leave the library, could someone have intentionally spread the news to lure her there?"

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"What's the Weibo account?"

Lin Fan gave Qin Feng the account of the famous blogger, Qin Feng asked, "Had you heard crying sounds at school before?"

"No." Lin Fan said, "The library is very secluded, if it's not mentioned deliberately, few people pay attention."

Qin Feng had also checked the surveillance. In the past six months, apart from Zhou Jing and the school's gardener who pruned the trees, no one else had been there.

"Do many people in your class follow this account?"

"I don't know, but in this era, people who play with their phones, have Weibo, and love adventure probably follow those accounts, right?"

"Got it."

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at the hospital. Qin Feng quickly walked to the inpatient department, the ward was already occupied by others. Qin Feng paused, quickly took out his phone to make a call, Lin Fan turned to the nurse who was coming over and asked, "The lady who was in this ward yesterday, has she been discharged?"

"Yes, she was discharged this morning."

Qin Feng and Lin Fan hurried out of the hospital. Qin Feng was on the phone, but the call couldn't be connected. He tried calling again, and Lin Fan suddenly pointed ahead. "Stop the car there, I see Lei Xiaojia."

Qin Feng quickly turned the car and stopped by the roadside. Lin Fan opened the door and ran out. The sun had already broken through the thick clouds, shining on the ground. She shrank in the shade, shivering. "Lin Fan, please save my parents! Please save them!"

Lin Fan ran over, quickly took off her down jacket, and covered Lei Xiaojia's head, shielding her from the sun. "What happened to your parents? Where are they?"

"Rongcheng Garden, she followed me, she wants to kill my parents."

"Get inside my coat."

"Huh?"

Lin Fan wrapped Lei Xiaojia in her coat and rushed to the car, throwing her and the coat onto the back seat. "Quick, to Rongcheng Garden, you were right."

Lei Xiaojia was shivering in the back seat, afraid of the evil spirit on Qin Feng.

Rongcheng Garden was not far from there. Qin Feng turned on the police lights and arrived at Rongcheng Garden in seven minutes. Lei Xiaojia rushed out of the car, running and stumbling until she disappeared from sight.

Lin Fan grabbed her coat and got out of the car with Qin Feng, heading straight for the building.

The smell of blood was in the air as soon as they got off the elevator. One apartment had its door open. Qin Feng put Lin Fan behind him and rushed in first. There were two people lying on the ground, covered in blood. Lin Fan squeezed in, Lei Xiaojia was crying in the corner.

Lin Fan's head buzzed, it was all over. For a moment, she went deaf, only hearing the crying. In a daze, she saw Qin Feng making a call. She looked over.

Qin Feng hung up the call, tore off a piece of cloth and pressed it against the man's neck, he was still alive. Lin Fan hurried over, Lei Xiaojia's mother was already dead, Lin Fan saw her spirit coming out of her body. There was a hole in her heart, probably for some time now, blood sprayed everywhere. Lin Fan checked her pulse, she learned from Liu, the forensic scientist, there was no pulse.

"Jiajia?" Liu Xue rushed to Lei Xiaojia, hugging her. "My Jiajia, you're alive? You're okay? My precious Jiajia."

Lei Xiaojia looked at the corpse not far away, tightly holding her mother. "Mom."

"I missed you, baby!"

When the ambulance arrived, Liu Xue finally looked over and was instantly terrified. "What is that? Jiajia?"

"Mom, you're just like me now." Lei Xiaojia held her mother tightly. "We were both killed by her."

The doctor started emergency treatment on Lei's father, and Qin Feng stepped aside, his hands covered in blood. He took out his phone and called Xiao Wang to come over. The doctor examined Liu Xue's body and shook his head. "No need, her heart has already stopped."

Qin Feng wiped the blood off his hands and went outside to light a cigarette. He needed to calm down. There were signs of a struggle at the scene, the whole room was a mess, furniture thrown everywhere. The claw marks looked like they were made by a wild beast.

"I'm dead?" Liu Xue was stunned for a few seconds, then rushed to stop the nurse from carrying her husband away. "Husband!"

She missed because Qin Feng was standing in the doorway. She watched helplessly as the nurse carried her husband away, and let out a heart-wrenching cry. Lei Xiaojia came over and held Liu Xue.

"Mom, what should we do?"

"Who killed you?" Lin Fan raised her head, her hands also covered in blood, her face pale, but her eyes unusually calm.

"Su Weilan!" Liu Xue suddenly became terrified. She backed away, hugging her head. "Su Weilan came for revenge, Su Weilan took my life. Su Weilan, she is Su Weilan!"

"Why did Su Weilan kill you? Why did she want revenge?"

Liu Xue retreated to the wall, Lei Xiaojia holding her tightly. She suppressed her fear and looked up at Lin Fan. "Because my mom killed her back then."

Her voice was soft, word by word. In the background was Liu Xue's terrified crying. Twenty-four years, twenty-four years. She never thought Lei Xiaojia would get into No. 16 High School. It was such a coincidence that Lei Xiaojia attended their alma mater. She comforted herself, telling herself that after twenty-four years, she must have reincarnated and left.

Twenty-four years, Liu Xue had forgotten what she looked like. She married Lei Xiaojia's father, they had a child, and their new life was so beautiful that they forgot about that poor girl.

Lin Fan clenched her fists. "Why?"

Liu Xue buried her face in Lei Xiaojia's arms and wailed, "I didn't mean to, I didn't think she would die."

"Su Weilan and my mom both liked my dad." Lei Xiaojia remembered. She was killed by Su Weilan. Su Weilan said, "Back then, your mom made me feel like this. Feel it well. Fear, madness, collapse. I waited for death in the darkness, the darkness swallowed my soul, I couldn't breathe. I screamed like crazy, no one responded, no one unlocked the door, no one..."

Lei Xiaojia's voice was very low. "My mom tricked her into the lab, and with her heart condition, she was scared to death."

Liu Xue covered her face, tears streaming down. "I didn't mean it! I just wanted to teach her a lesson, I didn't mean to kill her. I didn't want to kill her—"

"Mom, now you're all free." Lei Xiaojia hugged her mother, gently stroking her hair, her voice becoming soft. "Mom, you hurt her, she killed me and you. It's all over."

In fact, back then, Lei Xiaojia's father liked Su Weilan more. Liu Xue was jealous. At that time, the high school environment was poor, the whole school had only one gatekeeper. Liu Xue gave the gatekeeper a bottle of wine. Who could hear the screams when he was drunk?

At seventeen, a vibrant life was lost.