Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty Seven

The strange things that happened on the "Ghost Watching Slope" also reached Meng Shaohui's ears, but he went too late, and he failed to witness the "female ghost" holding the baby with his own eyes.But standing under the "Ghost Watching Slope" and looking at the bleak and steep stone wall, Meng Shaohui felt an inexplicable depression in his heart.In a trance, he seemed to feel that someone was looking at him, the eyes were so complicated, full of sadness, desolation, helplessness and despair. Back at the residence, Meng Shaohui locked himself in the house, and then took out the painting.The situation in the painting brought him back to the scene in the dream, where he was struggling, feeling the pain and fear, but he couldn't solve the confusion.

Gradually, tears oozed from his eyes and fell on the paper, he closed his eyes in pain, and crossed his fingers into his hair.After an unknown amount of time, a big hand rested lightly on his shoulder. Meng Shaohui raised his eyes, and saw Luo Fei standing beside him, and said, "I know you are in pain, but I still need to know something from you... It's about your inner feelings, I hope you don't Hide it, tell me the truth." Meng Shaohui nodded silently. "That baby that appeared in your dream, how do you feel when you think of him?" "As I said, I hate him very much."

"How annoying?" Luo Fei squinted his eyes and continued to ask, "Is it so annoying that you hate it? If you don't draw him on paper, do you wish he never existed?" The corners of Meng Shaohui's eyes twitched in pain. Although he didn't answer anything, this attitude undoubtedly acquiesced to the other party's guess. Luo Fei sighed softly, turned around and wanted to leave. "Officer Luo." Meng Shaohui stopped him suddenly, but he hesitated to speak. Luo Fei saw what the other party was thinking, turned around and said, "Don't worry, I will give you an answer, but it's not the time yet."

Meng Shaohui nodded, and then he seemed to ask politely: "Then where are you going now?" "I have an appointment with Jin Zhenyu to talk about something." Luo Fei didn't lie to Meng Shaohui, he did ask Li Dong to meet Jin Zhenyu alone, and the place was in the cave where two deaths happened one after another. Luo Fei arrived 20 minutes earlier than the appointed time, he would rather wait there for a while than see any unexpected situation happen again. It wasn't too late for Jin Zhenyu to come, he was wearing a navy blue padded jacket today, looking extraordinarily energetic.After entering the cave, he came straight to Luo Fei, and the two stood facing each other.In this situation, it seems that polite words are no longer needed. They are all watching each other, trying to figure out each other's psychology.

After a while, Jin Zhenyu broke the silence first: "Officer Luo, why did you ask to meet at this place, and, besides, it's just the two of us?" "Because I want to ask you some questions, and the answers to the questions may be things you don't want to mention to others." Luo Fei replied calmly. Jin Zhenyu squeezed out a smile: "What do you mean? Do you suspect that I have some shady privacy?" "It's not privacy, it's a scandal!" Luo Fei suddenly raised his voice, "A scandal that is enough to torture your conscience and morality, and make you feel guilty for eighteen years!"

Jin Zhenyu seemed taken aback by Luo Fei's explosive voice, he looked around anxiously for a moment, and then said awkwardly: "I...I don't understand what you're talking about." "Okay. Then let me explain it to you." Luo Fei stared at the other party, "Where do we start? By the way, I came here because of the legend of 'Ghost Watching Slope', so let's talk about it first." Let's talk about the secrets here. That 'ghost' that mysteriously appeared eighteen years ago and disappeared mysteriously, don't you know what it is?"

Jin Zhenyu narrowed his eyes suddenly as if he was poked by something, and then asked back: "What do you think is that?" "The corpse, the corpse of a mother and child! The mother and child were hung on the branch of a tree in front of the 'Ghost Watching Slope' and could not rest in peace. What a tragic scene, isn't it? Although the corpse has been deformed by the seawater, but But the mother's eyes are wide open, recording her last emotion in the world. Have you ever seen that look? Until now, does it still appear in your dreams?" Luo Fei described it with all his strength In that terrifying scene, there was even a buzzing echo in the cave.

"I haven't seen... no, I don't know what kind of corpse it is." Jin Zhenyu seemed a little flustered. "You have seen it, not only you, but also Zhou Yonggui, Deping, and Zang Junyong. Because it is the corpse you collected! Fu Yuzhu saw this scene through the telescope. The'female ghost' circled up in a strange posture, then Wasn't someone pulling the corpse up with a rope? At that time, the cave had not yet been developed, and no one knew the secret path leading to the 'Ghost Watching Slope', otherwise, you wouldn't have to spend so much trouble." Luo Feilue After a pause, he continued, "It's a kind deed to help people collect corpses, but why did you do it so sneakily? In order to hide people's eyes and ears, you even built a dead grave? The islanders thought it was a dead body. Empty tomb, actually? You left a secret opening for the purpose of placing the remains of the mother and child."

Jin Zhenyu stared at Luo Fei in disbelief, and muttered to himself: "How could it be? Impossible...impossible..." I don't know if it means that those things can't happen, or he thinks that Luo Fei can't know so much. Let the other party be unprepared and break through their psychological defense in one fell swoop. This is exactly the effect Luo Fei wants to achieve. He pressed on step by step without stopping: "Of course you won't tell the reason, let me answer it." .Because the death of the mother and child was caused by you! Your selfishness and cowardice are so shameful and pathetic! You dare not let the world know the truth of the matter, and you will suffer merciless rejection!"

"No, I didn't cause it...their death is not my fault..." Jin Zhenyu shook his head in defense, his face was pale, and his voice was so weak that he seemed to have no confidence. Luo Fei fixed his sharp eyes on the other person's eyes: "It's not your fault? When the raft was overloaded and one person needed to go down, what were you doing? The four strong men are all greedy for life and afraid of death. Forcing the separation of life and death between mother and child—is there anything more heartbreaking than this?" Jin Zhenyu sobbed in pain, bent over and squatted down, Luo Fei's words undoubtedly hit the bottom of his heart, and the other party's roar-like volume made him tremble even more, and he had nowhere to hide.

"Okay, it's time for you to repent. Tell me those details, tell me, what else happened at that time!" Luo Fei gathered his strength and launched the final blow. At the same time, he raised his ears and eyes, as if paying attention to the cave. something about to happen. Jin Zhenyu raised his head suddenly, looked at the high rock wall behind Luo Fei in astonishment, with a surprised expression on his face: "Then... what is that?" Luo Fei whispered in his heart: Here she comes!Then he turned his head and looked in the direction of Jin Zhenyu's gaze. But the rock wall is bare, and nothing can be seen at all. Luo Fei was slightly surprised when he suddenly felt something hit the back of his head hard, then his vision went dark and he lost consciousness. It was Jin Zhenyu who hit Luo Fei hard.The former's aggressive words have made him really nowhere to retreat, and he can't accept the situation where that extremely disgraceful past is exposed to the public, which will almost make him lose everything he pursued.Over the years, he has been cautious and careful, and finally established a personal image of integrity, courage and enthusiasm in the hearts of the islanders.Later, everyone elected him as the village head. With his painstaking efforts, the construction of Mingze Island in all aspects has begun to take shape.Now is the critical moment for him to make big moves and realize his grand ambitions, but if that past is revealed, his prestige will be wiped out immediately, and all his ambitions and ideals will be in vain. So, when Luo Fei was so overwhelming that he couldn't breathe, he chose to fight back entirely out of a momentary instinctive reaction. There was nothing on the rock wall originally, he just wanted to draw Luo Fei's attention.He didn't expect the other party to be fooled so easily, which surprised him a little.When Luo Fei was unprepared, Jin Zhenyu picked up a bamboo shoot and smashed it on the back of his head. Seeing Luo Fei fall, Jin Zhenyu took two steps back, and the bamboo shoot in his hand also fell to the ground.Apparently, he too was horrified by his own impulsive behavior.But only a moment later, in a desperate mentality of "do nothing, don't stop", he picked up the bamboo shoot again, with a fierce look in his eyes, and walked towards Luo Fei who was in a coma. At this moment, a figure rushed out from behind a certain stone step in the cave, and angrily shouted: "Stop! You...you can't hurt anyone anymore!" Jin Zhenyu was taken aback, and when he looked closely, he saw that the person who came was thin, pale and frail, and it was the central figure in the incident many years ago——Meng Shaohui. Jin Zhenyu was stunned for a moment, then a strange smile appeared on his face, and he said in a calm voice, "I'm not hurting anyone, I'm helping myself and helping you... Believe me, killing him will benefit us both." "No! I don't allow you to hurt him." Meng Shaohui's tone did not allow any room for negotiation, "If you don't stop, I'm going out to call someone!" "Then you go and call." Jin Zhenyu said grimly.When things got to this point, he had no way out, so he simply raised the bamboo stone and pushed towards Meng Shaohui step by step. Seeing this situation, Meng Shaohui secretly groaned in his heart, deeply regretting that he didn't observe the way out before he showed up.Now Jin Zhenyu has blocked the road leading to the entrance of the cave.And I have no strength to restrain the chicken, so I have no chance of winning if I want to fight such a vicious person.In desperation, he turned around suddenly, ran a few steps, and plunged into a cave at the bottom of the rock wall. Now Jin Zhenyu was stunned.He knew that the caves on these rock walls were winding and connected in all directions, and if he broke into them rashly, he might be in danger of getting lost.But the situation in front of him didn't allow him to think too much, so he could only grit his teeth and follow in. After running not far into the cave, it was already dark in front of him, only the sound of Meng Shaohui's frantic footsteps seemed to be not far ahead.Jin Zhenyu regained his composure and said in a different tone: "Don't run away anymore, it's very dark inside and it's dangerous. Come out, I promise I won't hurt you, I can tell you what you want to know." But Meng Shaohui was not fooled by him at all, it could be heard that the former was trying his best to grope into the depths of the cave. Jin Zhenyu secretly cursed a few words in his heart, but he could only support the rock wall and continue to chase forward.After walking a few steps, his forehead suddenly hit a raised rock, causing him to grin in pain.His heart was burning, he waved his arms frantically, and ran wildly for a while, bumping and falling a few times on the way, but he didn't care at all. But when he did this, he lost his position, and when he stopped again, he realized that he could no longer hear Meng Shaohui's movement.He secretly groaned, knowing that going on like this was not an option.After a long delay, when Luo Fei wakes up, it will be over.After weighing it for a while, he still decided to go back to the cave and deal with Luo Fei first. However, after walking back for a while, there was still no light from the cave, and the road became more and more rugged and narrow.Jin Zhenyu was startled suddenly, he vaguely remembered that the road he took when he was chasing Meng Shaohui was downhill, and it is still downhill now, obviously, this is not the right way to go back! Jin Zhenyu steadied his mind, discerned the direction, and groped forward.After walking for a while, suddenly there was a sound of water under his feet.At first he didn't care about it, but after two or three minutes, the water under his feet became more and more, even reaching his ankles. Jin Zhenyu was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something, with a "shua", cold sweat oozes all over his body!It turned out that he had unknowingly followed the cave to the ground, and now that the tide was high, the groundwater level also rose, and the cave would soon be submerged. This time Jin Zhenyu was completely out of control, he threw away the bamboo shoots in his hands, and ran around in the dark cave like a headless chicken, but he couldn't find the way to go straight up after repeated repetitions.The water level was getting higher and higher, gradually submerging his waist, and it became very difficult for him to walk at this time.Finally, after being exhausted, his last desire to survive was gone, and he could only lean helplessly on the cold rock wall, waiting for the doomsday to come. The water was icy cold and flowed upwards.This brought his memory back to eighteen years ago, the same cold water, the same despair and fear when facing the threat of death.Everything is like a fateful reincarnation, and he still can't escape in the end. Eighteen years ago, if he had been given a chance to choose again, what would have happened afterwards? He was already unable to think about such complicated issues, and the water was up to his neck and began to seep into his mouth and nose. His last waking feeling was the bitter taste of sea water in his mouth. Luo Fei woke up from a coma, with a dull pain in the back of his head.He grinned, looked around suddenly, and saw himself in the cave, next to Meng Shaohui's concerned face. "What's going on here? Why are you here?" Luo Fei's thoughts returned to before the attack, but he still didn't quite understand who gave him this blow. "You were knocked unconscious by Jin Zhenyu with a bamboo shoot." Meng Shaohui explained to the other party, he was somewhat embarrassed about the latter question, "I... I followed you here secretly." Luo Fei vaguely understood something: "Are you following me?" "I really want to know those answers, so... I followed you here. When you started walking around in the cave, I ran in while you were not paying attention, and hid behind a stone step." Talking about his own actions , Meng Shaohui's face turned slightly red, and he looked quite embarrassed. Luo Fei struggled to sit up and touched the wound on the back of his head: "Jin Zhenyu hit me? Where else?" "He is a very bad person. He seems to want to kill you, and then he wants to kill me." Meng Shaohui showed an angry look, and then pointed to the stone wall not far away, "I fled to the cave over there. Followed after me, but still haven’t come out. I think I might have lost my way, it’s dark inside, and I can’t see anything.” Hearing what Meng Shaohui said, Luo Fei already understood the situation at that time, so he couldn't help but smiled wryly.I originally wanted to lure that person to appear, but who knew that Jin Zhenyu was pushed too fast, and such an unexpected incident happened unexpectedly.And Meng Shaohui would follow him, which surprised him even more.But speaking of it, Meng Shaohui saved himself once. "Didn't you get lost inside?" Even out of courtesy, he should be concerned about the safety of his savior now. "Of course I got lost too. But—" Meng Shaohui turned his head, with an uncontrollable joy on his face, "Fortunately, Kaka helped me." Luo Fei followed his gaze, and sure enough, not far from Meng Shaohui, the black cat that had disappeared for a long time was half lying on the ground, playing with a round stone wholeheartedly. Luo Fei frowned in surprise: "Kaka? Why are you with it? Could it be—" He stopped in time, denying inwardly: Impossible, impossible. Meng Shaohui began to tell the whole story: "At that time, I was walking deeper and deeper in the cave, and I couldn't tell the direction at all. It was dark all around, because I was afraid that Jin Zhenyu would find me, and I didn't dare to call for help. At this moment, I Suddenly, I found a pair of green eyes staring at me in the dark. I was startled at first, but when I heard the familiar call, I realized that those eyes came from the Kaka I had been looking for." "Then you followed Kaka to find the way out?" "Yes, Kaka is a smart cat. I said why I can't find it all the time. It turns out that it has been playing in the cave. And it's such a coincidence that it happened to save the owner's life today." Meng Shaohui said while putting Kaka hugged it intimately in his arms, rubbing his nose against its head. Luo Fei was clear in his heart, Kaka did not appear here by accident, but there are some things that have not yet been explained to the other party. At the same time, he must also care about another question: "Did Jin Zhenyu say anything to you?" "No. But I heard everything you said." Meng Shaohui lowered his head sadly, "It seems that you already know a lot of things? When can you tell me everything before and after?" "Don't be in a hurry, I haven't fully understood some details yet." While talking, Luo Fei stood up, "Let's go out first, I'm already feeling a little bored." In the evening, Luo Fei and Li Dong organized some islanders to search for the missing Jin Zhenyu in those caves with lighting tools.However, the channel structure inside is too complicated, with seven bends and eight joints, branches and vines extending almost all over the mountain, and a considerable part is located underground, which is now being submerged by sea water.Everyone has been busy for nearly an hour, but there is no gain, so we can only give up for the time being. Luo Fei was very worried that Jin Zhenyu had also encountered an accident, which meant that the last person who knew about the past eighteen years ago had also disappeared, and it would be even more difficult to completely unravel the dust-laden secret.And the "ghost shadow" who has repeatedly committed evil has successfully achieved her goal. After nightfall, Luo Fei got the news that something unusual happened on the coast, so he immediately rushed to the place where the incident happened.