Chapter 350: It's That Boy

The skull stripped of the silicone mask was now facing them. The grinning corners of the skeleton's mouth seemed to be Xi He's mockery.

Qi Fei knew how much he enjoyed this pleasure of fooling others.

"You came just in time. We previously applied for facial reconstruction of the skull, and the technology department just sent the reconstructed pictures over. Let's take a look together." Chen Wenchang said with a heavy Yuanxi accent.

Soon, a man's face appeared on the computer screen, with exquisite features, not inferior to Xi He in handsomeness, but except for the face shape, the two had no similarities at all.

This face was not unfamiliar to Qi Fei. He had seen it, and he would not forget it.

"You He?" Qi Fei and Zhong Kui said the name in unison.

That's right, this handsome face belonged to that boy from Baicheng, the young boy that even the men at the Aiqinghai Bookstore admired endlessly.

Qi Fei still remembered that internet writer Luo Yong who went astray for him.

"Oh, it seems Xi He didn't let him go after all," Zhong Kui said coldly.

Qi Fei understood what she meant. In Xi He's wanton slaughter, there were vaguely some rules. He seemed to have his own system of crime and punishment, one of which was that crimes must be repaid.

"I see the deceased's teeth are still there." Qi Fei leaned in to look at the skull. "We must hurry to find You He's family for DNA comparison."

He still remembered this case of You He. Even he suspected that You He used Luo Yong's love for him to obtain a position at the bank. In the matter of the breakdown of Luo Yong and Lou Jing's marriage, he played a role in fueling the flames.

However, all this was just speculation by others and not evidence of a crime that violated criminal law.

"How did he do it, making You He completely become a puppet? And, You He imitated so similarly, it was basically the feeling of Xi He himself!" Wu Shanqiu said in great confusion, "This is really unscientific!"

"Hmph, what's unscientific about it? It's just some techniques," Zhong Kui said disdainfully. "You He's constitution, a mixture of dependent-avoidant personality and histrionic personality, is easily taken advantage of by Xi He."

"But, can this kind of control reach the point of complete domination? Everyone saw it in the culvert. That wasn't a performance; he believed he was Xi He himself. Even Zhong Xiaoyu, who was so familiar with Xi He, didn't see any flaws."

"Speaking of Xiaoyu," Jiang Tianyi seemed to think of something, "Remember that book? Xiaoyu wrote it. She said that people can create new personalities through control. What if Xi He read that book?"

His words made Qi Fei thoughtful: "You mean, if You He didn't know he was pretending, but Xi He made him believe he was Xi He himself? Is this reasonable?" From Qi Fei's common sense, this sounded like a fantasy.

And Jiang Tianyi looked at Zhong Kui: "Isn't there a living example right in front of us? If Zhong Xiaoyu can create Zhong Kui, then Xi He can also create a mirror image of himself. According to Xiaoyu's theory, this can be achieved. It's just that Xiaoyu's angle was to experiment on herself, and I don't know how Xi He managed to apply this theory to others."

All eyes fell involuntarily on that silent skull. The answers they wanted could no longer be obtained from this person.

The comparison results came out quickly. Just as they guessed, the deceased was You He. In fact, after Luo Yong died, You He disappeared from Baicheng. No one would have thought that he would eventually appear in the Yuanxi sea pond thousands of miles away.

Yuanxi was not adapted to such a cold climate. All buildings were not prepared for the freezing winter. The walls were very thin, there was no air conditioning, and the heating of the air conditioner was not very powerful. Everyone could only rely on thick clothes to resist.

Qi Fei held a large cup of hot water and had been looking at the comparison report for a long time.

"Thought of something?" Zhong Kui's voice came from behind. Such moments were long lost.

Although Zhong Xiaoyu had always been with him, under the same face, Qi Fei clearly knew who was the person he loved.

Although, he also knew that what he loved was the illusion created by Zhong Xiaoyu—he hoped this illusion would eventually become reality and stay by his side forever.

"I can't figure out one question. Why did Xi He let You He impersonate him? Was it really just to fool us? I repeatedly recalled the situation at that time. The risk of exposure was actually very high, which does not conform to his paranoid personality of trying to control everything," Qi Fei said.

"Qi Fei, accompany me for a walk on the beach?" Zhong Kui suddenly proposed.

"In this weather?" Qi Fei turned to look at the cloudy sky outside the window.

Zhong Kui's unrealistically beautiful face appeared in his field of vision, deliberately blinking innocently.

Such a Zhong Kui, Qi Fei couldn't refuse.

The originally poetic beach was now like a cruel trial, and the ups and downs of the waves carried the heaviness of ice slag accumulation.

Qi Fei naturally hugged Zhong Kui in his arms, warming her originally cold constitution with his body temperature.

He felt that the Zhong Kui who came back this time was different from before. She, who had always been unscrupulous, looked worried this time. This was not normal and very worrying.

The two walked silently on the beach for a long time, neither of them opening their mouths.

Finally, Zhong Kui spoke first: "Qi Fei, yesterday I went to find Jiang Tianyi and let him tell me about the latest progress of the Zhong Xiaoyu case ten years ago."

Qi Fei's footsteps stopped. This news was unexpected. The day Zhong Kui woke up from the ward, considering her unstable state, Qi Fei was still hesitating about when to tell her the details of the case.

Unexpectedly, she still keenly sensed this signal.

"I'm sorry, Zhong Kui, I was too anxious that day and shouldn't have asked you about the Zhong Xiaoyu case. After thinking about it calmly these past few days, at that time, Zhong Xiaoyu was still Zhong Xiaoyu, and she hadn't created you yet. What you know won't be more than what we know," Qi Fei said guiltily.

"It's different. I can feel Zhong Xiaoyu's feelings. I can be considered the person closest to the truth besides Zhong Xiaoyu herself. It's just that since Xi He appeared, Zhong Xiaoyu's autonomous consciousness has become stronger and stronger. Before, I thought they were in a confrontational relationship. But recently, I suddenly had a feeling that the two of them, really just like what that monster expressed, are symbionts, nourishing each other, getting stronger as they meet stronger ones."

"I feel that in the bottom of Zhong Xiaoyu's heart, there is a darkest place, and she has completely isolated me from it. My intuition tells me that as long as I find this ultimate dark existence, I will know what happened ten years ago," Zhong Kui said, her voice trembling, whether because of cold or fear, when she said the last two sentences. ===== CHAPTER 351 =====