Chapter 198

The young man named Xiao Hai looked at Gu Changzheng with quite a bit of hostility, and after hearing the old woman's words, he turned and went back to the back room. Gu Changzheng withdrew his gaze, and instantly, the old woman's eyes returned to calm, and then she said to him: "You are with those police officers, right? You've come several times already. Didn't I say! I really don't know anything about the matter next door!"

Gu Changzheng looked at the old woman in front of him and smiled faintly: "I'm not here to ask about the tunnel entrance. I want to know where the woman in the photo is, and I hope you can give me an answer."

"Jie jie jie jie," the old woman suddenly laughed, but this laughter was as creepy and unpleasant as the call of a night owl! She laughed enough, patted her chest with her hand, and said: "You police are truly interesting. How would I know about Lou Zhen's affairs? Could it be that you solve cases by guessing!"

Gu Changzheng stared at her calmly. After she finished speaking, he said slowly: "Your memory is quite good, remembering what the woman in the photo is called right away. But how did you know that I was investigating a case when I asked about this woman?"

The old woman's eyes paused slightly, she crossed her arms, tilted her head, and said: "You're a police officer, asking about people is investigating a case, right! What else could it be? Could it be that I'm wrong?"

Gu Changzheng looked at her for a while, directly flipped the photo over, wrote his name and a phone number on the back of the photo, and pushed it in front of her: "I'll leave the photo with you. I hope you'll call me if you remember anything."

Seeing that Gu Changzheng had walked far away, the old woman sat blankly, a deep worry appearing in her eyes. At this time, Xiao Hai poked his head out from the back room. Seeing that the police officer from just now was gone, he walked out quickly, looked at the old woman, and said: "Grandma! What did that person come to ask about?"

The old woman came back to her senses and said: "Nothing, Xiao Hai. Where is the paint I asked you to keep? Take it out, Grandma needs to use it."

Xiao Hai replied: "Oh! Okay, I'll go get it." Saying this, he was about to go get it. The old woman said: "Just put it in the back room. You come and watch the shop in a while, I have something to do." Xiao Hai agreed. In a while, he came to the counter where the old woman was sitting and said: "Grandma, the things are on the table in the back."

After the old woman heard the sound, she just responded lightly, then slowly stood up and walked toward the back room with somewhat staggering steps. When she reached the back room, she first carefully closed the door tightly, then turned around, leaned her back against the door, and took a deep breath. Immediately after, she tremblingly stretched out her hands, pinching the already yellowed photo tightly, as if afraid it would suddenly disappear.

At this time, her chest began to rise and fall uncontrollably, and her breathing became increasingly rapid. Clearly, she was in a state of extreme excitement at this moment, to the point that she needed to pant heavily to calm her mood slightly. However, at this moment, a creepy scene occurred—only to see her use those wrinkled, rough-as-tree-bark hands to rub her own sallow and dull face skin fiercely, and continuously increased the force to tear it outward.

Accompanied by a slight tearing sound, that already fragile-looking sallow skin actually fell off her face piece by piece like old cotton wool. After just a short while, that thick sallow epidermis had been completely stripped away, and in its place was a fair and delicate human face like mutton-fat jade!

This sudden change was jaw-dropping, but the even more astonishing part was yet to come! Only to see this mysterious woman holding the photo left by Gu Changzheng, walking step by step to a mirror placed in the corner of the room. She stood there quietly, staring at herself in the mirror. Although the muscles on that face were slightly loose due to the passage of time, it was still not difficult to see that the woman in front of her must have been a stunning beauty. And if one observed carefully, one would find that her face had a few astonishing similarities to Lou Zhen in the photo!

"Jie jie jie jie..." Suddenly, a burst of eerie and terrifying laughter broke the silence in the room. It turned out that the woman was staring fixedly at herself in the mirror, continuously emitting that kind of chilling, strange laughter from her mouth. At the same time, she was also muttering to herself: "Finally... finally it's almost over!"

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After Gu Changzheng left the small supermarket, his mind kept thinking about the appearance of the young man just now. Suddenly, the shadow of a person flashed through his mind! Yes! The boy's brows and eyes were so similar to his! Could it be that she left a child for them?

Only at this moment he couldn't be sure whose child that was. This chaotic relationship had to make him think more! But that child lived with Lou Zhen. What was Lou Zhen's intention?

With many questions, he faced Yan Kefei for the first time.

That Yan Kefei saw that another police officer had been changed today, but he didn't react much, sitting quietly in the interrogation chair waiting for the police officer in front of him to ask questions.

Gu Changzheng glanced at Luo Fei who was interrogating with him. After he was ready, he nodded slightly. Luo Fei asked Yan Kefei for his name and other information according to the routine. Gu Changzheng said straight to the point: "Yan Kefei, do you remember what you did on July 2, 2000?"

During these days, Yan Kefei had been interrogated many times, but they were all about the Supreme Divine Sect. He naturally pushed everything away, claiming that he was just a puppet and that everything was done by the Six Divine Envoys, and he didn't know about it!

So this time, seeing that two police officers had been changed, he didn't think much, thinking it was still the same set, but he didn't expect that the serious-looking police officer in front of him would open his mouth and ask about 2000! Could it be...

During his moment of distraction, Gu Changzheng's vicious eyes had already discovered his hesitation. In order not to give him a chance to think, he immediately shouted: "Speak! It's better for you to confess yourself than for us to say it!"

Yan Kefei seemed a bit scared by his scolding. He blinked his eyes and said slowly: "Comrade police, what you are asking about is something from ten years ago. How could I remember? Isn't this needing to recall it!"

Gu Changzheng tapped the tabletop with one hand and said aggressively: "Then let me remind you, that day you were in Zizhen, with Lou Hongyi! Do you remember now?"

Hearing the name Lou Hongyi, Yan Kefei's body couldn't help but tremble, and a strand of hair on his forehead also hung down restlessly. He subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to tidy it up, only to find that his hands were fixed on the interrogation chair, unable to move!

He looked at Gu Changzheng in a somewhat disheveled manner, silently pondering in his heart how much the police officer in front of him knew, and why he would suddenly bring up Lou Hongyi who had been dead for ten years?