Chapter 140

The sound of high heels hitting the tiles pierced the deathly silence of the ward.

"Consultant of Nancheng Police Station." Zhong Kui's voice came, and the guard let her pass without any doubt.

Ying Shuigen opened his eyes suddenly when he heard this voice. The figure approaching in the darkness made him roll off the bed and kowtow repeatedly.

"Slap!" With the sound of the switch, the pale light of the ceiling lamp split the darkness. Ying Shuigen curled up at the corner of the wall. He looked up, and Zhong Kui's pale face was looking down at him from above.

His mute throat vibrated, squeezing out a broken air sound. When Zhong Kui leaned over, she brought an indescribable sense of oppression. Her bright red lips opened slightly: "Take me to Nanling to see your 'god'."

As she spoke, she had already handed the paper and pen into his hands.

Ying Shuigen's hands, shaking like chaff, took the paper and pen, and tremblingly drew concentric circles like a spiderweb, with the ends of the lines pointing to seven black dots.

"What is this?" Zhong Kui tilted her head, looking at this round, crooked pattern.

Ying Shuigen wrote the two words "Labyrinth" on the side.

If it were anyone else, they might not understand what Ying Shuigen meant. But Zhong Kui understood, because Qi Fei had told her while under hypnosis that there was a labyrinth in the depths of Nanling where he and Xi He used to play together.

Zhong Kui's mouth curled slightly: "You choose one of these seven points to meet every time. How do you determine which point it is?"

Ying Shuigen's violently trembling fingers pointed outside the ward window—in the night sky after the rainstorm, the handle of the Big Dipper was pointing to Antares in the Eastern Azure Dragon's Heart Mansion. The black pen tip marked the "Upper Platform" and "Lower Platform" stars among the Three Platforms of the Taiwei Enclosure, and the arrow pointed directly to the Northeast Kun position of the Nanling Labyrinth.

Zhong Kui's pupils shrank slightly: "No wonder your meeting day is always the fifteenth day of the lunar month..." She ran her fingertips across the paper, "So every winter solstice full moon, when the Big Dipper's Yuheng star and the Heart Mansion's Dahuo star form a right-angled triangle... any location must be the altar corresponding to 'Mars guarding the heart'. Interesting." As she spoke, she reached out and patted Ying Shuigen's head, like patting a stray dog, reached out and took the paper from his hand, gave him a cold smile, turned around, and left the ward gracefully.

The iron art school gate of Yingshui Middle School was rusty, and the gilded characters "Study Virtue" on the lintel had peeled off, leaving only the "Study" character remaining.

The campus during the winter break was silent. Qi Fei stepped over the withered leaves soaked on the ground, and his rubber-soled shoes made a sticky sound.

A cold wind blew, and the camphor forest on the east side of the playground rustled, also blowing the three people to wrap their coats tightly.

"By the way, Brother Fei, the night before last, I just got off work and saw your car flying past me like lightning. Where did you go? When I was at work, I saw your computer was on, and you didn't answer the phone." Wu Shanqiu looked at the haggard Qi Fei and couldn't help asking.

"I went to Zhong Kui's place..." Qi Fei rubbed his temples, not knowing why his forehead would ache faintly whenever he thought about what happened that night.

Wu Shanqiu was suspicious and said: "Hmm? That direction, it seems to be with Guiyue Apartment..."

Before she finished speaking, Zhong Kui's voice suddenly came from the side: "Is there someone peeking at us over there?" This immediately interrupted the conversation between Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu.

Sure enough, following Zhong Kui's pointing, not far away, a sneaky figure appeared from the direction of the gymnasium. Qi Fei was familiar with this person's back.

He ran toward the puddle and, before the person could escape, grabbed the person's collar.

"Hey, hey, hey, Big Brother, let go!" The voice was that familiar greasy feeling. Qi Fei used force, and the person turned around to reveal his face. It was the paparazzi Wang Defa who had once secretly photographed Hong Mei.

"It's you? What are you doing in middle school?" Qi Fei asked vigilantly.

Wang Defa's eyes drifted, and he was clearly hiding his guilt. He stammered: "I'm not doing anything, just wandering around my alma mater..."

When Qi Fei heard this, he immediately said unhappily: "Alma mater?! Heh, don't forget we investigated you. I remember you didn't go to Yingshui Middle School."

Seeing that he couldn't fool them, Wang Defa bit the bullet and said: "Big Brother, I'm doing my job. I'm not bothering you. I'm not killing anyone or setting fires. I don't need to tell you, right?"

"Who is your Big Brother!" Qi Fei didn't buy it, "Huang Daqiu died these past two days. Don't tell me you don't know about this."

Seeing that he couldn't fool them, Wang Defa was annoyed: "Hey! It was originally a big scoop I was saving. Are you not letting me expose it again? As an entertainment reporter, the last scoop on Hong Mei already made me lose a sum of money. Huang Daqiu died, and I could still use some scraps to make a little money. Do you have to block this path for me too?"

Qi Fei didn't care about Wang Defa's complaints and stared at him closely: "Alright, hurry up and speak."

Wang Defa pouted and said reluctantly: "I knew how Hong Mei and Huang Daqiu met early on. It was through the guidance of a 'master'. It was through this Golden Snake Great Immortal that they got connected. What kind of bullshit Great Immortal, he's just a male mother, finding outside partners for these rich people."

"What are you doing in Yingshui Middle School?" Qi Fei looked at Wang Defa suspiciously.

Wang Defa smiled: "I'm an entertainment reporter. What do you think I'm doing?"

"What kind of gossip could make you run to Yingshui Middle School?" Qi Fei pretended to be puzzled.

"Scraps, scraps..." He shrugged and brushed it off.

"Be serious! Speak quickly if you have something to say!"

"Tsk, I said it, and you won't let me expose it. I really owe you in my last life." Wang Defa muttered and said reluctantly, "I'll declare first, this matter isn't because Huang Daqiu died that I'm following it. I've been following it for two years. I was already working on this when he and Hong Mei got together." He said with a proud attitude, "Huang Daqiu has an illegitimate child!"

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu dragged out a long "Oh~~~" exaggeratedly.

"This time the news is true!" Wang Defa was anxious when he saw they were not interested at all, "I have evidence!"

Qi Fei didn't have much hope and said: "Let's hear it, what evidence?"

Wang Defa took out his laptop and opened it directly on the school bench: "This was told to me by a model who broke up with Huang Daqiu. She said that Huang Daqiu once got drunk and bragged that he got someone pregnant when he was in his teens and had a son. Of course, this kind of unknown little model sometimes deliberately exposes fake black material to me to become famous.

However, I have always been a dedicated person. During that time, as long as I had time, I would follow Huang Daqiu. On one hand, I could take some candid photos of small stars to make a little money, and on the other hand, I wanted to see if there would be any signs of this matter.

It was really followed by me. In the summer three years ago, when Huang Daqiu came out of a bar, he was pestered by a man on the street.

I could hear from far away that the person was shouting something like 'I'm your brother-in-law, you have to be responsible for my sister'.

Looking at this age, he shouldn't be in the entertainment industry, which aroused my attention."