Three people and one ghost solved 43 mysterious cases.

The city of longing.

Late at night, a red retro Beetle stopped under a high-end apartment building.

In the car, Yao Ruolan said to Ah Li, "Li Mei is upstairs."

Alai looked out of the car window and saw a woman standing on the balcony on the 33rd floor.

"Thank you." Alai prepared to get out of the car.

"I have done what I promised you. Now can you tell me how you died?"

What needed to be said had to be said. Alai sighed and said, "I accidentally fell into the mire of the swamp and got stuck. I couldn't get out, so I died."

"Did you go to the swamp alone? When did it happen? 2000?"

"Yes, alone...well, yes." Alai's words flickered.

Of course, this could not escape Yao Ruolan's eyes. She said, Mr. Alai, you should remember our agreement. I will let my colleagues miss you and Li Mei in the world for 7 days. You will still be reunited at least for [-] days. It depends. Do you understand that you must explain everything, the causes and consequences, in detail?

Alai lowered his head, hesitating whether to tell the whole thing.

After thinking for a while, Alai decided to speak up. After all, time was short and there was no need to worry about speaking out.

He finally revealed the secret that had been hidden for 22 years, "On that night in 2000, I actually went to rob a tomb with Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang."

"Grave robbers?"

"Yes, there is a very secret tomb near Yuluo Village. We finally found it. There are many valuable cultural relics in it."

With Alai's statement, the scene was brought back to that night in 2000.

He is married, he loves Li Mei deeply, and he wants the best for Li Mei, but he has no money.

Likewise, he met Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang.

The two men discovered a secret tomb and went there several times. The structure inside the cave was too complicated. It takes three people to complete. One person sneaked into the deepest part of the tomb, another person was in the middle section, and the third person was watching outside the tomb.

The treasures dug out of the graves were brought up in a relay style.

With the lobbying of Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang, Alai agreed to rob the tomb together.

They were very successful that night and got many treasures, including a tiger-head scepter, nine snakes, a crane and a turtle, as well as many jade and coins.

If you take these things out and sell them to black market buyers, you will definitely make a fortune.

They divided the things into three and left each carrying a bag.

Late at night, the three of them were running in the forest.

Ah Lai said, "At that time, I suddenly heard something, a very scary, hissing sound, like a snake screaming. Maybe I was too nervous, but I really seemed to see a huge thing deep in the forest. The giant python stuck out its tongue."

"You said you saw a giant python?" Yao Ruolan interrupted Alai, "What did it look like?"

"I really saw it, but the scene was like a fantasy. I don't know if it was formed in my mind or real, but it was very profound."

Alai still remembers the description, "The giant python had eight or nine heads, a shiny black body, fluorescent eyes, and a red tongue sticking out, as if it was staring at me. Yes, I shouldn't rob tombs. It's too evil." !”

Recalling this point, Alai held his head and felt extremely regretful.

"and then?"

"I was so frightened that my feet went weak and I didn't pay attention. There was a quagmire next to me, and I...I fell in."

Yao Ruolan seemed to have guessed something and asked, "Were Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang near you at that time? Did they try to save you?"

Ah Lai, yes, the two of them wanted to save me.

But at that time, my body was mostly stuck in the quagmire. Tan Kun wanted to save me. He stretched out his hand and grabbed my hand, but he didn't pull me up. Instead, he almost fell in.

Ye Bingliang was behind, huh, that bastard said to Tan Kun, it's useless, you can't save him, if you continue like this we will all be doomed! Let go, it's not worth it if they all die.

At this point, Alai was very angry, clenched his fists, and continued:

Ye Bingliang not only failed to save me, but also robbed me of my tomb robbing items. He grabbed the bag of cultural relics from my back and said to me, "Brother, I'll see you in the next life. Don't worry, I will give the items to Li Beautiful, not a single thing will move!”

Alai said sadly, "Then I saw Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang standing in the distance looking at me. I ate the mud, my head was submerged, I suffocated with the mud, and I stayed in that swamp forever."

Alai sighed heavily, "This is how I died."

"I understand, by the way, have Tan Kun and Ye Binliang seen the giant python you mentioned?"

"Probably not, I don't know."

"Did that python fantasy persist until your death?"

"It seems..." Alai thought for a while, "When I fell into the quagmire, those illusions disappeared. It was really evil. It must be the curse of the owner of the tomb."

Yao Ruolan blinked her beautiful eyes. In fact, she still had many questions, but she needed to find two people to verify them at the same time.

Yao Ruolan looked through the skylight of the Beetle to the top floor of the high-end apartment. Li Mei was standing blankly on the balcony, her pajamas skirt blowing in the wind.

Here is the scene where Li Mei accidentally fell from the building.

"That's it, can I go see Li Mei?"

"Of course, Mr. Alai."

Yao Ruolan got out of the car and said to Ah Li, "I'll go up with you. I also want to see Li Mei."

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Walking past the security booth, an older security guard was reading a newspaper while wearing reading glasses.

This high-end apartment was built five years ago. Before it was built, it was a 50-year-old dilapidated residential building.

The very old security guard was the original gatekeeper of the residential building. After his death, he continued to guard the gate.

The two entered the apartment and came to the elevator.

There is a door open next to the elevator entrance, which is the stairway. Sitting on the ground at the entrance is a thin old woman with a swollen abdomen, eating chicken legs.

Two candles were lit on the ground, and there was a photo of the old woman, and rice with chopsticks inserted.

In fact, this old woman eating chicken legs does not live in this high-end apartment, but in the old building next to it.

She developed a tumor five years ago, and the doctor said she didn't have much time left. If she wanted to go home, she should go home for conservative treatment.

The son and his wife took painkillers and took the old woman home. The old woman lay in bed all day long, unable to eat anything, waiting to die.

She couldn't sleep and heard the quarrel between her son and his wife in the next room late at night.

My wife said, why did you bring your mother back?

The son said that the doctor asked him to bring it back.

The daughter-in-law said, but your mother is dying and died in the house. What will happen to the house in the future?

What do you mean?

We are about to change our house. The house that has been damaged by others will cost tens of thousands less when the agent inquires about it.

The son yelled, less is less, I am willing, and let me tell you, don't keep saying "your mother", she is our mother, if you continue to argue, life will be difficult.

But that's all, divorce. The wife cried.

She is not heartless, she is quite filial, but the house is about to be sold, so she has no choice.

The child wants to go to a popular middle school and needs to move to a house closer to him. She needs money, and she is afraid that if her mother-in-law dies, the agent will take the opportunity to lower the price.

To live, if they want to continue to live, they have to face money, money, money.

That night, the old woman listened quietly to the conversation between her son and his wife.

She knew that she was not going to die soon. Before she died, she might have had a flashback. She was in particularly good spirits that night.

The old woman got up, walked on tiptoe, opened the door, saw the closed door of her son and his wife's room next door, and murmured goodbye.

She saw the room where her grandson lived again. The door was ajar, and the child was sleeping soundly with his innocent face. There are a pile of books and homework on the table, and the child studies very hard.

Yes, there is no need to die in this house.

The old woman thought to herself that her illness had already cost her a lot of money, tens of thousands, but she could not let the tens of thousands brought by this "bad luck" go to waste.

That night five years ago, the old woman left her home alone and walked next door to the newly built high-end apartment building.

Her body softened, she lay on her stomach and hid in the corridor, breathing her last breath in the darkness.

Her death not only allowed her son and daughter-in-law to sell the old building at the normal price, but also got an extra fifty thousand yuan.

She died in this high-end apartment. The apartment had just been built at that time. The house sold for [-] per square meter, and it was sold out as soon as it opened.

At this juncture, an old woman died in the house that had not been moved in yet.

The developer boss threw an ashtray on the project manager's head and said, "Damn it, what did you do? Please fix it for me."

The project manager found the old woman's son and asked him to take back his mother's body and gave him another [-] yuan. "Bury your mother quickly. Please don't tell the outside world that she died in our building."

At this moment, I miss the city.

The old woman was hiding in the corridor of a high-end apartment, eating chicken legs and grinning her teeth. Even if she died, she would not dare to return to her home.

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Yao Ruolan took a look at the scene. Such things happened too often in the city of longing.

With a "ding", the elevator door opened.

Alai and Yao Ruolan entered the elevator and pressed the button for the 33rd floor. The steel elevator went straight up along the cement hollow wall.

The elevator door opened again and we reached the 33rd floor.

Units 09 and 10 are connected and the door is open.

Li Mei lived in the penthouse and died just before she was about to become a billionaire.