Chapter 356: Deep in the Pool of Blood 2

"Promise me one thing." Zhong Xiaoyu suddenly looked at Qi Fei, "For the things I am about to tell you, never tell Zhong Kui for the rest of your life."

Qi Fei's heart trembled; Zhong Xiaoyu's request was something he hadn't anticipated.

"I have blocked all her senses. Everything I know and do, she will not know. This pain is enough for me to bear alone. I don't want Zhong Kui to fall into the same abyss as me," Zhong Xiaoyu said with a trembling voice.

Qi Fei nodded solemnly.

Only then did Zhong Xiaoyu seem relieved and walk to a collapsed wall. Her eyes were filled with overlapping longing and fear, as if she had traveled through time and space back to the Yueya Mountain No. 3 Villa ten years ago.

Her voice was hazy, making everyone else feel that bone-chilling cold: "Xi He picked up a fruit knife and put it in my hand. He hugged me from behind, just like any lover. The only difference was that his palm pressed against the back of my hand, making my hand grip the knife firmly. With my body paralyzed, I could only let him manipulate me like a puppet. He pushed me step by step closer to my family. The blade flashed with cold light in the sunlight. I could see my own helpless eyes on the blade's surface, as if it weren't me.

He whispered in my ear, 'Let me teach you hand-in-hand how to kill the person you love most.'

My heart felt like it was being torn apart, but my body didn't even have the strength to shake my head.

And I, watched indifferently as he continued to use my hand to stab the blade of death toward my family.

It was as if my soul had been extracted, and I had become a bystander from another dimension.

Everything continued so calmly and crazily.

And I, heard a beast growling in my ear, and then..." Zhong Xiaoyu looked at Qi Fei apologetically, "I fell into a very long dream. It was a nightmare. I dreamed of the pool of blood Zhong Kui mentioned. Blood gushed out thick and viscous, and the beast's growl continued. I was terrified. It was something more terrifying than death. I don't know what it was; I only know it was crawling out of the pool of blood.

Sorry I disappointed you. I don't know much more than Zhong Kui. It was Xi He who held my hand and killed my family.

When I woke up again, I was already in the asylum.

I knew my family was already dead. Remnant shadows from I don't know where always floated before my eyes; they lay in pools of blood and would never return.

At that time, I made up my mind that no matter the ends of the earth, I would kill Xi He.

So I created Zhong Kui. She is the mirror image of my hatred for Xi He."

Qi Fei was not disappointed as Zhong Xiaoyu had said. He looked at the person before him, and that photo from the crime scene flashed in his mind again, and he couldn't help but say: "Zhong Xiaoyu, perhaps I have seen the monster you spoke of."

Zhong Xiaoyu was surprised: "That was my dream. What are you talking about?"

"At the crime scene, it appeared, in your image," Qi Fei said. "I believe Shen Hongguan and Luo Xiao committed suicide because of your case. Because they were convinced they had seen the devil."

Zhong Xiaoyu's face turned deathly pale, and she leaned against the ruins as if she couldn't stand: "My guess was right..."

"What are you talking about?" Wu Shanqiu looked at the two of them, confused, as if listening to a riddle.

Only Jiang Tianyi and Lv Dandan, who understood psychology, had grave expressions, and they thought of something very terrible at the same time.

Jiang Tianyi said meaningfully: "Perhaps this explains why Xi He didn't take Xiaoyu away. If he planned this massacre just to possess Xiaoyu, there's no reason he would suddenly change his mind. Unless there was some accident that made him unable to take Xiaoyu away."

"Because he saw the same creature that the two policemen saw." As the only person present who had read the case file, Qi Fei didn't even use the word "person." "Let me boldly guess the situation at the time. Xi He's cruel behavior greatly stimulated Zhong Xiaoyu. Lv Dandan said that the Zhong family has a history of mental illness. This huge stimulation caused you to split off a very violent personality—that was an existence close to a demon, so much so that even Xi He couldn't subdue you and had to flee in a panic.

However, at that time, your family had already met Xi He's poisonous hands. Only your father, Zhong Huaiting, had a breath of life left because he woke up early due to his tolerance to the drug.

This was a huge misunderstanding. When he saw you completely out of control with the butcher knife, he thought you were the murderer who killed the family. And because you had fallen into madness, you had no reason to prove your innocence.

Zhong Huaiting used the last of his life to tie you up. I think that was his love for you; even after seeing such a terrifying side of you, he couldn't bear to hurt you. On the contrary, he tied you up because he was afraid you would hurt yourself.

He even wiped the fingerprints off the knife for you, so the police would only treat you as a surviving victim."

Zhong Xiaoyu's tears fell: "All the sins are mine. It was I who didn't withstand Xi He's temptation."

The sky darkened, and the mountain mist was slightly purple. Tears wet Zhong Xiaoyu's long hair. Lv Dandan picked up the iris from the ground and took one flower to place in Zhong Xiaoyu's hand.

"All the evil is not you. What your hand holds is light and freedom, not a butcher knife. You are just sick, Xiaoyu," Lv Dandan said softly.

Zhong Xiaoyu shook her head: "Sorry Dan Jie, I..." She looked very weak, and suddenly the expression on her face froze. Before long, the sense of fragmentation on her body disappeared, and her eyes became firm and clear again—Zhong Kui had returned.

She looked around at everyone's shocked and sorrowful expressions and rolled her eyes: "Is Zhong Xiaoyu here to beg for sympathy again? What is there that I can't know?"

For a long while, no one spoke.

Qi Fei couldn't fool Zhong Kui with lies and said: "We are only one step away from the answer. At least she let me know that at the scene, there was one other person who clearly knew what happened. Find Xi He, and we will know what the monster you dreamed of really is." ===== CHAPTER 357 =====