The master of metaphysics is trying to break up again

Hearing Xie Wenyuan's words, Lin Xuekuang moved his lips, wanted to say something, but swallowed it back.

At this moment, Xie Wenyuan's cell phone rang.

He was not in the mood, he pressed the phone casually and threw it away, his eyes were still on Lin Xuekuang waiting for him to express his opinion, but the ringtone rang again without hesitation.

Lin Xuekuang stood up and said, "Come on, it must be something serious, I'll go to the bathroom and wash my face."

He went around the sofa and went to the bathroom. Xie Wenyuan raised his hand to pull him, then put it down again, picked up the phone and looked, and found that it was the unlucky Yi Fengyi.

"Hey?"

Yi Fengyi was hung up on the phone once. She was annoyed when she heard Xie Wenyuan's voice, but she was startled: "Why is your voice hoarse? Have you caught a cold? Have a fever? Are you crying?"

Xie Wenyuan said: "It's okay, get angry. What's the matter? Tell me."

Yi Fengyi said: "Did you meet a woman named Liu Xian today? She is in her thirties, she is pretty, and she works at the Yinling Building. I think she has your seal on her."

Xie Wenyuan said: "Yes, what?"

"If you're free, come here." Yi Fengyi sighed and said, "She's dead."

Lin Xuekuang came out of the bathroom, saw Xie Wenyuan was putting on his coat, and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xie Wenyuan said: "You stay here, Liu Xian is dead, I'll go and have a look."

Lin Xuekuang was a little surprised: "Dead? What is the cause of death?"

Xie Wenyuan said: "I don't know. Yi Fengyi called me just now, and his tone seemed complicated. Don't go, I'll tell you after I read it."

Lin Xuekuang said: "Then I'll go back to the dormitory."

He also bent down to get the coat on the sofa, but Xie Wenyuan held his hand down, and Lin Xuekuang paused.

Xie Wenyuan's tone even contained imperceptible pleas: "The dormitory is full of people, it's been so chaotic recently, you should stay at my house today. At least wait until I come back, I haven't finished my words yet."

"But……"

"You don't like my bedroom. There is a guest room next to it. It is full of daily necessities and so on. You can use it as you like. We have to discuss the matter of the reef in detail. If there is something else to do when I come back, I can't go to school in the middle of the night. Shall I call you down?"

"Okay." Lin Xuekuang felt his temples throbbing, and he didn't want to argue with him anymore, so he let go of his coat, sat down on the sofa, and waved, "Go quickly."

Xie Wenyuan buttoned up his clothes, took two steps towards the door, then suddenly turned around and walked up to Lin Xuekuang, squatted down and touched his face.

Xie Wenyuan held Lin Xuekuang's face in both hands, and said: "You take a break first, the rice in the refrigerator can be hot, remember to eat. Be sure to wait for me when I come back."

He put the spare key in Lin Xuekuang's hand, shook it, and then turned and left in a hurry.

After Xie Wenyuan left, Lin Xuekuang sat on the sofa with his arms folded, finally sighed, and stood up on his knees.

He easily found the toiletries and a new set of pajamas in this familiar house, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

When Lin Xuekuang came over two days ago, the other guest rooms hadn't been cleaned up yet. This time, he found that every room had been cleaned spotlessly clean, and matching bedding was prepared.

Lin Xuekuang chose a room far away from Xie Wenyuan, changed into pajamas and went to bed after taking a shower.

It wasn't dark yet, but he was exhausted, so he made a trick, a small wind blew in the room, and the two curtains slowly closed, blocking the light from outside.

The expression and tone of Xie Wenyuan's speech just now emerged again, Lin Xuekuang turned over, lay on his side facing the wall, buried half of his face in the soft pillow, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Liu Xian's body was found in her own home, and the report was made by Liu Xian's ex-husband, the "Teacher Huo" from Lin Xuekuang's school.

When Xie Wenyuan passed by, the surrounding area had already been cordoned off. Neighbors were poking their heads not far away, discussing quietly. They didn't know who moved a chair for Huo Bin. He sat there to report the situation to the police, with a dazed expression on his face.

"I kept sending her in. I was afraid that something would happen to her, so I locked all the windows on purpose, and watched her close the door before leaving. She kept saying that the matter was settled in a few days, and she wanted to hire someone Go back to my hometown for a long vacation to relax."

Huo Bin said incredulously: "After sending her off, I went back to school to get a few books, and went to the supermarket to help her purchase some daily necessities, but found that I couldn't get in. It's only been a few hours, why? Will... people suddenly disappear?"

The police took down everything he said, asked some more details, and sent Huo Bin back.

In an ordinary case, Huo Bin, as the last person to see the deceased, would inevitably be suspected, but Liu Xian's case was different.

Aside from neighbors who passed by who could testify that Liu Xian was still alive when Huo Bin left and sent him to the door, another most important reason was that Liu Xian's death should have been caused by non-human beings after the preliminary autopsy.

"It's not artificial."

Yi Fengyi told Xie Wenyuan very positively: "It looks more like an evil spirit took her life. I suspect it has something to do with the curse she was cast on before."

Xie Wenyuan is very sensitive now. When he heard the word "evil spirit", his heart became blocked, and he frowned and said, "If you say it so politely, isn't it just a ghost killing people? Let me see the corpse."

Yi Fengyi said: "Hey, you still have suspicions. Is it really okay to ask to see the corpse so frankly? You should first talk about the seal on Liu Xian's body."

Xie Wenyuan lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and told what happened.

"At that time, Xiaoxue and I were anxious to investigate the matter of the Seven Star Thunder Flame Seal, so we used a seal to cut off the curse on Liu Xian for the time being. When I sealed it, I was sure that the curse would never endanger life."

"The person who cast the curse should want to take revenge on her slowly, and let her experience the torture of being chased by everyone."

Xie Wenyuan nodded in agreement, and said, "Before you came, I did some research here. Besides Chairman Li, Liu Xian also had two dating partners. One was her ex-husband, a professor in the History Department of University A. , brought a boy who was in the third year of high school. The other was her lover, an elite in the IT industry. Besides, I heard that there were a few ambiguous partners who had rumored affairs with Liu Xian, but it has not been confirmed whether the rumors are true or not. , in short, the possibility of killing love due to love and hatred should be relatively high."

Xie Wenyuan said: "Before I observed the objects Liu Xian attracted after being cursed, I found that they also have certain commonalities. It seems that people who are more playful are more likely to be attracted to her, but people with dedicated feelings and firm minds are not. susceptible to curses."

When he observed those people on the spot, he had already discovered some phenomena. There were many men on that street, but some of them lost their minds after seeing Liu Xian and pursued her like crazy, but the other part were just enthusiastic. Stand aside and watch the excitement.

Xie Wenyuan glanced at the faces of some people in a hurry, and vaguely felt that the selection criteria were whether these people themselves were dedicated enough.He would inquire about the relationship between Li Gaocheng and Liang Lu at Li's house, also to confirm this point, but the sample is too small, so it's just a guess at the moment, and further investigation is needed.

Yi Fengyi glanced at Xie Wenyuan's face, and joked: "Let's not talk about others, I think the tossing and tossing you two every day is quite enough. You won't be hated because of love someday, right?"

He was joking, but Xie Wenyuan whispered, "I love him very much."

Yi Fengyi was startled.

Xie Wenyuan said again: "I won't hate him."

These two sentences did not know which heartstrings were stirred, and both of them were silent for a while. After a while, Yi Fengyi said: "I will ask someone to use big data to make an infographic for those who have been recruited. First, Go see the body."

Liu Xian's body had already been transported back to the office. The two walked into the morgue, and it was on the corpse bed to the right of the door. The woman they had just seen not long ago was lying quietly on it.

"When she was found, she was lying in the bathtub in the bathroom of her home, soaked in blood, completely naked, without any trace of sexual assault, and without any fatal injuries. Her face was extremely distorted and terrified, and her right hand was raised. Pointing to the ceiling, the cause of death was cardiac arrest caused by excessive shock."

The white cloth covering the corpse was not well covered, and it slipped down a bit. Listening to Yi Fengyi's words, Xie Wenyuan vaguely saw a little red on the side of Liu Xian's right face, so he stretched out his hand to pinch a corner of the corpse cloth, and directly squeezed it peeled off.

Immediately afterwards, his pupils shrank suddenly.

——The lights in the morgue were dazzling, showing all the traces of the deceased's body. On Liu Xian's side face, a gorgeous red rose was clearly in full bloom.

Xie Wenyuan was still holding a corner of the shroud in his hands, and he stood there fixedly, as if he had already froze, and the profile of his side face was extraordinarily cold because of his clenched teeth.

The red rose on Liu Xian's face was scratched out temporarily with a razor blade. Naturally, its delicacy is far from being comparable to the one on Lin Xuekuang's back, but the similarity between the two can be seen in both shape and style. .

The only difference is that the rose quilt on Liu Xian's face was cut horizontally with a heavy scratch at the end, splitting the whole pattern in half.

Seeing that Xie Wenyuan was staring at Liu Xian's face without moving, Yi Fengyi said: "I think this can also be used as evidence that the suspect is a murder of love. The rose flower is very likely to be a token of love between the deceased and the murderer, or it represents Some kind of agreement. But the deceased betrayed the relationship and was punished by death. You see."

Xie Wenyuan finally put down the white cloth slowly, because of too much force, he felt a slight numbness in his fingers.He turned his head and saw the evidence bag handed over by Yi Fengyi.

Inside the bag was a piece of paper with the word "disloyal" written on it in blood.

Xie Wenyuan said: "Is this also found on the body of the deceased?"

Yi Fengyi nodded: "At that time, it was pasted on the wound on her right cheek. I peeled it off with tweezers, and only then did I see the flower."

"Betrayal", "disloyalty", "promise"...these words struck Xie Wenyuan's heart, and Lin Xuekuang's dazed expression when he was telling about the past appeared before his eyes again.

This is a punishment for Liu Xian, and even more a warning for Lin Xuekuang!

"I see."

Xie Wenyuan said: "Didn't you just say that you still need to make charts and check Liu Xian's ambiguous partners? Then you should be busy now, and I will be back later."

Yi Fengyi said: "What are you going to do?"

Xie Wenyuan said: "I'll go home again. Soon."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left. Yi Fengyi said "Hey" without calling him, and murmured: "Didn't you just come from home?"

He bit the flashlight in his mouth, deftly folded a small iron wire a few times with both hands, and quickly and silently pried open the hidden compartment on the wall.

The light of the flashlight illuminated the space in the dark compartment that was never seen by the sun all year round. All kinds of jewelry were neatly arranged on the wooden stand, and the light flowed and shone brightly.

His eyes quickly slid over the jewelry without stopping, and then he found a very ordinary old-fashioned watch in the innermost position. There were even some spots of rust around the dial, which looked so shabby and shabby under the precious aura. dim.

He felt his heart beating faster, carefully walked around the obstacle in front of him, and stretched out his hand towards the watch.

The fingertips touched the slightly cool dial, and I could hold it in my hand——

Suddenly, a strong and warm body covered him behind him, with arms easily wrapped around his waist, and then he hugged him and pushed him back, throwing him hard against the wall.

The man leaned behind him, stretched out a hand, covered his mouth, blew into his ear with a smile, and asked softly, "Baby, what are you looking for?"

Lin Xuekuang woke up suddenly.

He subconsciously grabbed something to the side, like a drowning person instinctively wanting to grab something, but it was in vain.

The surrounding light was dim, and there was no one else beside his pillow, and only the sound of his rapid breathing could be heard in the whole room, as if someone was still tightly covering his mouth and nose.

Lin Xuekuang rested his arms on his forehead, closed his eyes for a moment, and realized that he was lying on the bed in the guest room of Xie Wenyuan's house. The silence soaked the space like a tide, and the tireless movement of clock hands could be heard in the hall. .

Tang Rin, this man is really like an evil ghost walking in the world. Even after many years, the things he has done and the sense of fear that he has brought to people still linger in his heart and will not go away for a long time.

Lin Xuekuang turned over and lay on his back on the bed, letting his back fit the mattress, so as to offset the feeling of the body pressing behind him in the dream.

"Wipe, wipe, wipe..."

Suddenly, he heard a very slight sound, as if someone was stepping up the steps quickly and hurried upstairs.

Lin Xuekuang lay still, half closed his eyes, groped under the pillow with his fingers, and grabbed the short knife that was placed there.

But as the footsteps got closer and closer, he let go of his hand again, and when he heard the footsteps of the person coming to the door of the guest room, he slowed down, and then Xie Wenyuan pushed the door open very lightly, and took a look inside.

The light in the room was dim, but seeing that Lin Xuekuang was indeed lying on the bed, he felt a sudden sigh of relief, and closed the door again to leave.

Lin Xuekuang sat up: "You come and go, what are you doing?"

"Are you awake?" Xie Wenyuan hesitated, and walked into the room, "Did I disturb you?"

Lin Xuekuang said: "No, I woke up a long time ago, I was lying down and had nothing to do, and I heard you coming back. Didn't you just leave not long ago? Forgot something?"

Xie Wenyuan said: "Well... I forgot something, I haven't finished dealing with the matter over there, I finished it... I have to go back now."

He didn't want to tell Lin Xuekuang about Liu Xian right away, but when he reached this point, Xie Wenyuan hesitated for a while, and then explained the situation carefully with his words.

Lin Xuekuang was listening, with a sneer on his lips.

After Xie Wenyuan finished speaking, he said: "I take myself too seriously. I'm not scared to death when I hear the word 'reef', and I don't have any qualifications to warn me. Let them go."

Hearing his contemptuous tone, Xie Wenyuan asked, "So you don't think this matter was ordered by Tang Lin?"

Lin Xuekuang said: "How could he allow his favorite symbol to appear on a corpse at random. That is to say, the people under his command don't know the heights of heaven and earth, and are eager to provoke me, so they do such stupid things."

Xie Wenyuan took a deep look at him and said nothing.

Lin Xuekuang didn't realize what he said unintentionally just now, but quickly went through the whole case in his mind, and said:

"Besides, the Reef organization has sinister and ruthless methods for sure, but it will not kill aimlessly, especially ordinary people like Liu Xian. Like you said, the mark is probably only after she died. Later, it was put on it specifically to warn me, but the murderer may not have anything to do with the reef."

Xie Wenyuan pondered: "Okay, I see."

Lin Xuekuang had just been awakened by the nightmare, still feeling tired, nodded slightly, and leaned against the head of the bed behind him.

Xie Wenyuan suddenly realized that the two of them looked very close at this moment. Lin Xuekuang was wearing the pajamas he had bought before, sitting on the bed with a quilt, his freshly washed black hair hanging down softly, and his whole person had a casual and homely atmosphere.

And I was sitting sideways on the side of the bed, the chill brought in from the outside melted into the heating of the room little by little.

For a time, it seems that the years are long and the world of mortals is peaceful.

Many images flashed through his mind, but it was difficult to capture, Xie Wenyuan stood up, looked at his watch and said "I have to go", then turned and walked out the door.

Lin Xuekuang thought he would leave right away, but Xie Wenyuan went out for a while and then opened the door and came back, and directly brought a small table into the room, on which were washed fruits and some semi-heated ingredients.

"This time is okay. If you are tired, take a rest and remember to eat when you get up. I will put it here for you so you won't forget it."

Xie Wenyuan gave a few hasty instructions, as if he had become a woodpecker who was persistently knocking on the window in the third year of high school. When he was speaking, the phone rang at the same time.

Lin Xuekuang: "Wait a minute, I think I should..."

Xie Wenyuan took out his mobile phone and connected it, said "Hello", and at the same time bent down, patted Lin Xuekuang's back comfortingly, and rushed to the door and left.

"..." Lin Xuekuang said to himself, "You did it on purpose, I said I will leave too."

Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to his words, so Lin Xuekuang sat on the bed by himself for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more he doubted life.

He was locked in this house in his previous life, and he has never been able to go out again. He should have been extremely disgusted and determined.So how did it get down to this step by step?

To recap, at the beginning, I wanted to find a place to talk about the matter. Xie Wenyuan said it was safe here, so he came here.

After coming, he said that he was going to leave, and there was a new incident, Xie Wenyuan had to leave, let him stay here and wait to hear what happened, he thought about it, so he stayed.

Now that I've finished listening to it, the master Xie Wenyuan has left...so why is he still here?

The more Lin Xuekuang thought about it, the more something went wrong.