Chapter 21 Chapter 20: The Gates of Hell

I didn't expect that Yue Mingfei was full of hatred, he was jealous of killing people, and he would definitely not let me and Tang Ziyue go.When I mentioned the little girl's matter, he might have suspected that I knew he was Li Xiaoai, so he kept doing two things and tricked us to come to Lizhi Cave.Tang Ziyue doesn't know who Li Xiaoai is, but if Tang Ziyue is not brought along, Yue Mingfei must be worried that I won't follow him to this ghost place with trust. But how did Yue Mingfei and Li Xiaoai change?I really couldn't figure it out, before Tang Ziyue and I could ask questions, Yue Mingfei took a step closer, and then told me that his name was indeed Li Xiaoai in the past.Yue Mingfei's parents divorced. He grew up with his mother and took his mother's surname.In fact, Li Xiaoai should be written as Li Xiaoai, but the household registration person randomly filled it in, using the homonym of "Li Xiaoai" instead, and even wrote the date of birth wrong.In Guangxi, there were many such things. At that time, the elderly had no legal awareness and did not know that such behavior was against the regulations.

Yue Mingfei had no family background since he was a child, and he had a feminine name, so he was bullied. This was also an important reason for his distorted psychology in the future.It was not until his mother passed away that Yue Mingfei thought of changing his name back, entered the ferry, and started a new life.Except for Jin Lele, no one at the ferry knew Yue Mingfei's previous name, because Jin Lele had to go through Yue Mingfei's entry procedures.Sister Miao once took away the invoices and documents left by Jin Lele. I glanced at them and vaguely saw the words "Li Xiaoai", which seemed to be the entry form left by Jin Lele.

Hearing this, I asked suspiciously: "Only Jin Lele knows? How come there is your birthday card under Mr. Tang's straw mat? Didn't he know it before?" "My parents divorced a long time ago. I sent myself greeting cards. Is there something wrong? Those greeting cards were originally placed in my room, but Tang Erye stole them. Then he suspected that I was Li Xiaoai. I wanted to learn 'HK' Using a different name to tease people, I didn’t expect to reveal a flaw.” Yue Mingfei said bitterly, and then he said, “Speaking of this, you should understand, right? Why can his handwriting still appear everywhere after Second Master Tang died, because His handwriting is mine."

I was speechless, Yue Mingfei was too scary, maybe even the great detective Poirot couldn't dig out the truth.I thought about it, and still felt foggy, so I asked, "If your handwriting is that of Erye Tang, then you wrote the color code for me? Aren't you afraid that I will see it through?" "I don't give you any hints, will you check all the way down? You want to give up several times, am I right? Besides, those passwords can't be found directly, so there is nothing to worry about. A label was stolen from Xiu's laboratory, and I wanted to mislead you, but you didn't check it out, which made me so troubled." Yue Mingfei replied lazily.

"You stole the county annals from the old library?" Tang Ziyue interjected. "Of course not. It was indeed Erye Tang's fault, but I don't think he has the guts to steal things. If I'm not mistaken, the county chronicles are still in the library, but he stuffed them into the bookshelves on the second floor You look for it in the attic, and if you can find it, there will be ghosts." Yue Mingfei said contemptuously, "I threatened Erye Tang, and I must have sent Sister Miao to a remote place like the old library to discuss it. He mentioned 'Li Xiaoai' With these three words, Gu Yingying thought that Sister Miao was Li Xiaoai. I know you have checked the entry and exit records of the old library, but naturally you can't find it."

"The old library had a power outage that night. Did you snatch the medical examination report? You broke in while it was dark, so you didn't have to keep a record. But what did you snatch it for? Isn't the strange baby with three hands unrelated to your business?" ?” I asked curiously. "You are so stupid. If you caught that clue, you must have missed it. I was helping you. Don't forget, I brought you the statue, and you thought I was misleading you, but you didn't know what was inside the statue. That's the key." Yue Mingfei put it bluntly. "Then you really want to kill me?" I said in a daze.

"Nonsense, are you waiting for you to call the police and arrest me?" Yue Mingfei asked back, but then said, "But it's useless for you to call the police. I just talked and didn't leave any evidence. Even if you ask Qin Wang to find out my former name, That’s just a name, not evidence.” "You're really smart but you've been fooled by your cleverness." Tang Ziyue smiled softly behind me, "Although I doubted you just now, I'm not 100% sure, and I have no chance to prepare. But don't forget, you lied to me Second Master Tang is in the cave. In order to convince Qin Wang to believe me, do you think I will come empty-handed? I have prepared a recording pen long ago and planned to record Second Master Tang’s voice. Turn on the recorder, and everything you say is recorded."

"You are stupid, I know you are prepared, so I cover you behind. Why do you say it now, so that we must die." I said regretfully. As soon as Yue Mingfei heard that the conversation had been recorded, he showed a fierce look. He took out a sharp knife from behind and swung it at us.We couldn't avoid it, there was nowhere to escape, so I first pushed Tang Ziyue onto the fishing boat and told her to untie the reins quickly.After Yue Mingfei said so much, how could he let us leave alive? Seeing that I was about to escape, he threw himself into the icy water with me.I struggled in the water for a while, and before I surfaced, I felt a tingling pain in my left hand. I don't know if it was bitten by a piranha or scratched by Yue Mingfei's knife.

Immediately, water splashed everywhere, and the clear cave water was stained red. I wanted to swim to the fishing boat, but Yue Mingfei dragged me back from behind.Tang Ziyue wanted to jump off, but the boat hit a rock on the shore, and she also fell into the cabin.I resisted the severe pain and firmly resisted the sharp knife that Yue Mingfei stabbed, almost a few centimeters before the knife would touch my neck.We fought in the water for a while, but the smell of blood attracted the piranhas. When Tang Ziyue climbed out of the cabin, she loudly warned us to run for our lives. "Want to run? You caused me to become like this, you must die!" Yue Mingfei shouted viciously.

"You are crazy! You are the second Han Tianxiao!" I replied loudly.At the same time, I thought to myself that Yue Mingfei must have a conscience, otherwise he would have killed me long ago, why wait until today.Of course, he may also want to satisfy his desire to tease me and taste the pleasure of revenge.However, I feel that Yue Mingfei has two people, one is evil and the other is kind.I once saw someone burning incense to Tang Erye by the side of the reservoir. If that person wasn't Han Tianxiao who was locked in the basement, then it was Yue Mingfei. "We're friends, have you forgotten? Are you really going to kill me?" I yelled.

Who knew, Yue Mingfei was so red-eyed that he couldn't stop at all, he didn't care if the piranhas were approaching or not, he insisted on waving the knife at me.After a while, bloodstains were left on my arms and face, and the piranhas were approaching, and it would be too late if I didn't escape.Unfortunately, the fishing boat leaked so quickly that it was impossible for us to get out again.Seeing that Yue Mingfei and I were entangled and unable to escape, Tang Ziyue picked up the plank on the boat and gave Yue Mingfei a hard blow on the back of the head. "Come up!" With just one blow, Tang Ziyue knocked Yue Mingfei down and shouted at me. "No, the piranha is coming soon, I want to take Yue Mingfei away, otherwise he will..." I couldn't bear it, but when I turned my head, the piranha had already rushed in front of me. "Grab the board, I'll pull you up, the boat can last a while, let's row to the front, hurry up!" Tang Ziyue urged. I refused to leave, and wanted to dive down to pick up Yue Mingfei, but saw him fall to the bottom of the water, opened his eyes again, and bounced back to the surface of the water with a kick.I wanted to reach out and grab Yue Mingfei, but he grabbed the knife that fell from the bottom of the water and stabbed me as soon as he came up.At this time, the piranhas were beside us, Yue Mingfei scratched me, but he himself was surrounded by piranhas.Tang Ziyue picked up the wooden plank to fetch water, temporarily drove away the piranhas, and then rescued me from the water. "Let's paddle quickly, the fishing boat is dying soon." Tang Ziyue urged. I looked around and saw that there were piranhas all over the place. It was too late to dock, and the fishing boat had drifted to the center of the water.As a last resort, we could only continue to row forward, and at the same time there were screams and curses from behind.The sound lasted for less than a minute, and we couldn't hear it anymore. I knew that Yue Mingfei was buried underwater.After a while, the cabin filled with water, and we landed beside a pile of rocks.There are a few wires and light bulbs with very low wattage. Walking along the wires, Lizhi Cave begins to fork, one is still a waterway, and the other is a dry road. Tang Ziyue was afraid that I would still want to go back to find Yue Mingfei, so she advised me to continue walking on the dry road, maybe there would be an exit at the end, because the air could still be breathed.I was in a turmoil, and as soon as I learned the unacceptable truth, my former good brother died in front of my eyes.I yelled all the way, no matter where the dry road led, I just followed Tang Ziyue forward with my head empty. Perhaps in order to enlighten me, Tang Ziyue talked about an old Western proverb: Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.Translated, this sentence means that truth is a product of time, not power.British female detective novelist Josephine Tey has a detective novel called The Daughter of Time, which is translated into Chinese. The story is based on a real historical event, that is, the murder of King Charles III's nephew. That period of history has been tampered with. The truth came out more than four hundred years later, and the author was one of the three heroines in the second golden age of the highest peak of British classical reasoning. "If you think about it, the history of the Great Flood has also been tampered with. The county annals must have recorded the Flood, but there were only two sets of original versions, and they were all lost, so they were erased in the abbreviated county annals. Just like the stories in other stories, there are plots of tampering with history and murder." Tang Ziyue said to herself. Truth is the daughter of time, not authority? I muttered in my heart, is the truth really a product of time?More than twenty years have passed, and although we know the truth about the Great Flood, can I make it public?If that's the case, won't the older generation in the crossing field be infamous forever?But the truth is sometimes cruel. To let Qin Wang handle these cases and give justice to the deceased, I have to tell everything—even if it will overthrow the "official product". After thinking about it, we came to the end, where there was no light, and we couldn't feel the flow of air. On the contrary, we were already a little dizzy.Just when I was about to turn around, someone got up from the ground and called out to me: "Huang Dingyi? Teacher Tang?" "Who!" Tang Ziyue and I were startled, we didn't expect to meet living people here. "It's me, Mao Mao Mao." I strode over with the flashlight on. That person was really Maomaomao, but his whole body was covered in blood, and he was scarier than Sadako and her old lady in the dark environment.I temporarily put aside the matter of Yue Mingfei, and hurriedly asked Mao Mao Mao: "Why are you here?" "I... I found the stolen county chronicles on the second floor of the library... so I just..." Mao Mao Mao was a little weak, probably too sleepy for too long to move. I suddenly realized that Mao Mao Mao was still investigating those things, and when he read the county chronicles, the mystery fog became clear.In order to confirm the hidden corpse in the cave, Mao Maomao went to Lizhi Cave alone, but the boat rein was not fastened. After the boat drifted away, he wanted to swim out, but was attacked by piranhas.When I heard this, my heart turned cold. Mao Mao Mao has been trapped here for so long, but no one has found out, so are we going to be buried here too? "Wait, look, here seems to be a steel door." Tang Ziyue said softly, "Huang Dingyi, tell me, how far have we drifted in the cave?" I supported Mao Mao Mao, who was not standing still, and replied: "I can't calculate, it should be very far away. The mountain range of Bailong Mountain is very long, at least extending to the mountain village outside the town." "Could this be the basement of the crematorium? Think about the steel door and the bloody palm prints. Could it be that the person we bumped into was a Maomao?" Tang Ziyue said to me. This time, we were lucky. The person we met that night was really Mao Mao Mao. After he came out of the second steel door, he wanted to keep going, but he couldn’t open the other steel door. .When Mao Mao Mao heard someone outside, Mao Mao Mao fled back in fear. Who knew that the second steel door could not be opened after it was closed, and he was always trapped here.I looked forward and saw that the second steel door was very thick, and the key hole was behind the door. No wonder we couldn’t find a place to insert the key. This kind of door is very delicately designed, which shows that the crematorium may also be an ammunition base during the war.In the deep mountains of Guangxi, there are many unknown military bases hidden, which has long been heard. I just brought a new key, inserted it and turned it, and the steel door opened immediately with a "bang".And we didn't close the first door last night, so we only need to open the second door to escape.No one thought that there would be another village where the willows are dark and the flowers are bright. Apart from being lost, there is also some happiness.In order not to frighten the old man with white hair, we closed the steel door and slipped out of the crematorium quietly.However, there was no car to go back to the town at night, so we immediately decided to walk back. The Red Army can’t die on the Long March, so there is nothing to be afraid of on this road. The road back was very long, we walked in the rain for a while, and started to talk to each other.First of all, I asked Tang Ziyue how to scientifically explain the reason why Hong Ke's corpse decomposed too slowly, which is beyond Yue Mingfei's interference.But Mao Maomao rushed to answer. When the crematorium received the corpses, it was too late to burn them. They must have been embalmed to prevent them from smelling. You must know that floods in Guangxi mostly occur in summer.However, there must be intermittent underground springs in Litchi Cave, which will cause downstream and countercurrent, and the spring water will swell, and the corpses will be discarded on the shore, and they will float out after the water swells.Mao Mao Mao has seen this with his own eyes, so we didn't continue to struggle with it. Then, Tang Ziyue asked me if the nails in the abandoned small building were made by Han Tianxiao, and if Mrs. Han had cut the nails for Han Tianxiao for ten years, would they be able to spread all over the floor.Regarding this issue, I have my own opinion, because Mrs. Han is a bit of a hoarder, maybe she really saved a bunch of nails to miss her husband.The matter of Mrs. Han also gave me a headache. I don't know how to tell Qin Wang. She must have stolen Erye Tang's oxygen cylinder, and the figure I saw many times in the abandoned building must be Han Tianxiao. Finally, Maomaomao asked us, where did he find the key? If Yue Mingfei knew the secret, why would he send the broken key to Erye Tang?I smiled wryly, Yue Mingfei did that to prove that he knew the secret, and got the evidence. Seeing the broken key, Second Master Tang naturally thought that the secret of salvaging the corpse had been exposed. In this way, you said something, I said something, we returned to Yishan Town when it was almost dawn, and the flood had receded, and the sun climbed into the sky from the green hills in the east. This is the end of my story, and the truth has emerged, like a clear sky cleared of dark clouds.However, I still have a few things to say, so that you don't miss- On the same day, I told Qin Wang the truth, because I found Han Tianxiao in the basement, so Qin Wang patiently listened to me tell all the story this time.However, that was an old story, and there was no need to expose the scars, and the matter was not dealt with publicly.There are too many people involved in this matter, even if Qin Wang wanted to, there was nothing he could do. After Yue Mingfei's evil secret was exposed, Captain Hu kept saying sorry to me. I didn't know how to answer, so I kept silent.Captain Hu had only a half-knowledge about what happened to Yue Mingfei, so he wasn't sure. He rescued me at the reservoir that night, but he didn't say anything.It's all because we took away the corpse finger straightener, so he missed the evidence and had to keep it hidden. After Zhang Dahu's fishing boat was found in the cave, there was an uproar in the town. It turned out that he often went fishing near Lizhi Cave.Although there are piranhas there, there are also fat river fish. Those fish eat carcasses all the year round, and they are fatter than fish in other places.When we found out about this, we no longer dared to drink fish soup or eat grilled fish. Zhang Dahu was ashamed to see his fellow villagers. A few days later, he moved out of Yishan Town and went to Guangdong to make a living. As for Mrs. Han's matter, I have never inquired about it, and I dare not inquire about it.I only heard that Mrs. Han shed tears all day long. I feel very sorry for her, and I have never dared to contact the people at the ferry.But the night before I left the ferry, Mrs. Han came to me and told me that she regretted it and should have told me the truth earlier, because Han Tianxiao took Tang Erye's cell phone away when we came back from the crematorium that day. Received a distress call from a woman, it was actually Han Tianxiao who was yelling madly.Seeing that I was silent, Mrs. Han told me that she had checked HK and suspected that HK was Hong Ke, but later she found out that HK was He Kuang.If it hadn't been too long, and Han Tianxiao had "died", Sister-in-law Han would have wanted to avenge her husband's blood.I felt guilty in my heart, everything was not important anymore, and when I left, I said sorry to Mrs. Han, and then left without looking back. So where did I end up? Qin Wang saw that I had brought many cases to light, and wanted to put me in their team so that they could form the water police in Yishan Town.But Yishan Town is not that big, and the people in the crossing field didn’t look up and down. I was in a state of hesitation when I heard that the Shuishang Branch of the Wuhan Public Security Bureau wanted to recruit people to search for corpses. I didn’t hesitate for a moment. A day later, I packed my bags and left This small mountain and water town. Wuhan is surrounded by two rivers and seven lakes. Every year, many people drown inexplicably, and the work of retrieving corpses is even more difficult.As fate would have it, I soon joined the corpse-hunting team of the Shuishang Branch of the Wuhan Public Security Bureau.In the past few years when I was in charge of salvaging corpses, I encountered many strange cases and strange things, but I believe that "the truth is the product of time", and one day, all unsolved cases will be revealed to the world.