Chapter 196

As for her evil deeds in Zizhen, Alan's account was consistent with the confessions of He Jian and others, and the motive was naturally because of money, while Gu Changzheng believed that Alan's psychology of revenge against society could not be ignored.

Gu Changzheng asked: "Did your sister Lou Hongyi particularly like wearing red clothes when she was alive?"

Alan wondered: "What do you mean?"

The photo Gu Changzheng showed her was of the bones after the forensic examination, so she hadn't seen the red clothes and those strange symbols at the scene. However, at this moment, Gu Changzheng already had a direction for his deduction, and Lou Hongyi's death was highly likely related to Yan Kefei. This was also a guess he had long held. Now, he needed to clarify why Lou Hongyi's bones appeared in the hospital basement, and who had secretly sneaked in there to paint the symbols and specifically placed a red garment!

Alan's reaction made him believe that the red garment was a hint of the special connection between the bones and the red garment (Hongyi), but the other party using such a complex method was truly baffling! And all of this would only be possible to get an answer after he went to verify his guess!

Finally, Gu Changzheng asked another key question: "That time at the school gate, did you instruct He Jian to kill Wang Heshan?"

Alan smiled and didn't directly answer Gu Changzheng's question: "Captain Gu, do you think that kind of man was not wrong at all? Could it be that you police are just there to protect that kind of scum?"

Gu Changzheng said sternly: "Lou Honglan, do you still not realize what you did wrong even now?"

"I was wrong!" Alan said: "I was wrong to be caught! None of the men I killed were innocent! If I had the chance, I would still kill them!"

Gu Changzheng didn't speak, knowing he couldn't convince her. For him, right and wrong, justice and injustice were judged by the law. Wrong is wrong; no one can use the injustice they suffered as a reason for doing evil!

After ending the interrogation of Lou Honglan, he applied to rush to Diannan again, and this time the destination was Mangshi, where Lou Zhen was buried. As for the interrogation of Yan Kefei, it was also suspended at his request, to be interrogated after he went to Diannan to clarify that matter.

Although the place where Lou Zhen was buried was relatively remote, back then Alan and Yan Kefei announced to the outside world that Lou Zhen died of a sudden illness. To cover the eyes and ears of the people in the sect, although it was an irregular burial, they still properly erected a tombstone. After Alan stated the specific location, Gu Changzheng asked Peng Luzi to confirm the location of Lou Zhen's grave, and he took Luo Fei to board the train to the southwest again.

Arriving in Mangshi, old friends Peng Luzi and Old Yin were already waiting at the exit. The few were already old acquaintances. After meeting and exchanging a few pleasantries, they headed straight for Lou Zhen's grave.

On the way, Gu Changzheng asked Old Yin, only to learn that after he and Liang Yongjun clarified Lou Hongyi's identity, they were supposed to participate in the investigation into the cause of her death, but Mangshi had to deal with the aftermath of more than a hundred abducted children, so they rushed back to Mangshi in advance.

Lou Zhen's grave was extremely remote. The few took Peng Luzi's broken van, bumping all the way, and finally reached the destination three hours later.

This was a naturally formed cemetery. Looking at it, one could see graves of all sizes, rising and falling, scattered like stars in the sky. A rough count revealed there were actually a hundred or so. Although these graves were not arranged in an orderly manner like the well-planned cemeteries in the city, they were by no means randomly piled up without any method. They were like being scattered on this land by an invisible hand, revealing a unique pattern within the apparent disorder.

The few held shovels, pickaxes, and other items in their hands. Seeing that the scale of this cemetery was not small, they quickly discussed the areas each was responsible for searching, and then they split up to take action. Time passed minute by minute. After about ten minutes, a shout suddenly broke the original tranquility of the cemetery.

"Captain Gu! Director Peng! Brother Yin! I found Lou Zhen's grave!" It turned out to be Luo Fei shouting excitedly. Hearing the sound, everyone stopped and looked in the direction of the sound, only to see Luo Fei standing in front of a tombstone in the middle-back of the cemetery, waving his hands vigorously at them.

Seeing this, everyone immediately took steps and walked toward Luo Fei. Because the distances were different, the order of arrival at the tombstone was also different. Among them, Gu Changzheng arrived at the tombstone first because he was relatively closer.

Walking closer, this tombstone looked somewhat short and dilapidated, and its material seemed to be cast from cement. The surface of the tombstone had been eroded by time and washed by wind and rain, already appearing mottled, and the originally clear characters had become blurred. However, after careful identification, one could still see the four vigorous and powerful characters "Tomb of Lou Zhen" engraved on it. And below these four characters, there was another line of slightly smaller characters—"March 1993", which must be the time of death of the tomb owner, Lou Zhen. However, unlike other common tombstones, this tombstone did not have Lou Zhen's date of birth and death engraved in detail as usual, and even the name of the person who erected the tombstone was not left behind.

At this time, Peng Luzi and Old Yin had also arrived at Lou Zhen's grave. Peng Luzi took a look at the tombstone and wondered: "Huo? This tombstone is so simple, eh?" Only to see him staring at the grave behind the tombstone and shouting in surprise.

Everyone followed his gaze, but didn't find anything unusual. Seeing everyone's puzzled faces, Peng Luzi "hehe" smiled and said: "Hehe! I discovered that a ferret just ran out of the grave, nothing, nothing! Haha!"

Everyone couldn't help but smile. Old Yin said: "Old Peng, I thought you saw a ghost!"

Gu Changzheng smiled: "Don't dare say that, there might really be a 'ghost' down here!" He was, of course, not referring to the ghost in Old Yin's words. Everyone already knew his purpose, and they smiled knowingly. Only to see Old Peng put his hands together, muttering something in his mouth before picking up the pickaxe and digging into Lou Zhen's grave...

The few started from four directions at the same time. Because this place was mostly red clay, it was quite laborious to dig. After about an hour, Peng Luzi smashed down with a pickaxe and suddenly felt that it was not the sticky feeling of smashing into clay as before, but as if he had smashed into some hard object. He raised his head and looked at the others, saying: "Dug into a coffin!"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but speed up their movements, and the shovels were swung even faster. Another ten minutes passed, and a partially decayed wooden coffin was completely exposed in front of everyone!

Peng Luzi picked up the pickaxe in his hand, inserted the pointed end into the gap of the coffin lid, and pried hard. Only hearing a "crack", a large piece of the coffin lid was actually pried off!

It turned out that the material of this coffin was really not very good, and it had been buried underground for more than ten years, already decayed into a mess! Seeing this, everyone used shovels or pickaxes together, and after a few times, they pried off the coffin lid!