Three people and one ghost solved 43 mysterious cases.

When the door is opened, the first thing you see is the entrance partition, with a Ferris wheel ornament placed on the entrance.

Passing through the entrance is the living room, with light-colored fabric sofas, decorative paintings on the walls, geometric pattern carpets, Bo's stereo, and lavender sea-flavored aromatherapy.

Everything is designed according to the hostess's preferences.

This is the scene of the first crime, very neat and clean.

But what is incompatible with it is the rectangular glass coffee table next to the sofa.

On the coffee table were half a glass of red wine, Coke, rotisserie chicken with skeletons left, pizza, and greasy pig's trotter rice - all that was left was an empty fast food box.

This amount of food cannot be eaten by one person.

There is also a very special thing placed on the coffee table, a polished object. Although it is polished very brightly, it still cannot hide its age. It is an antique that is estimated to be a thousand years old - Nine Snake Jade Ruyi.

The Nine Snake Ruyi is about thirty centimeters long. The main body is a Ruyi jade, but nine beautifully carved snakes are locked around the Ruyi jade.

The snake is wrapped around Ruyi. The snake's throat is hollow and there are some small holes in the snake's body. One cannot help but admire the ingenious craftsmanship of the ancients.

At this time, the sliding glass door between the living room and the balcony was open, and the wind blew the curtains.

On the balcony, a woman was wearing pajamas, pressing her hands on the armrest, looking at the moonlight in the sky.

"Wife." Alai shouted excitedly to the woman.

The woman turned around and saw a charming face under the moonlight. She was 42 years old and well-maintained.

Even at this age, without makeup, her beauty is enough to dazzle countless men, not to mention she is very rich.

She is Li Mei.

Li Mei turned her head and looked at Alai with a charming smile.

Not seeing her for 22 years, and not seeing her since her death, Alai couldn't bear the frenzy of missing her, so he ran to the balcony and hugged Li Mei.

Li Mei rested her head on Alai's shoulder, and gently touched the back of Alai's neck with her slender white hands.

Her fingertips moved in an itchy and ambiguous way, and she said softly, "Husband, you are still so young, but I am already old."

Alai was only 23 years old when he died, while Li Mei was 42 years old when she died. Their faces remain in the city of longing.

Alai stopped hugging, looked at Li Mei, and touched Li Mei's face with his hand, "No, you are still so beautiful, no, you are more beautiful than before. It's worth it, it's worth it, I can see you, everything is worth it."

"Really?" Li Mei smiled.

"Yes. We are finally together again, wife."

"Honey, do you always miss me?"

"Of course, in the past 22 years, I have been thinking about you all the time. Wife, I know you have been missing me too. If it hadn't been like this, I wouldn't have lived in the city of longing for 22 years."

As long as people in the world miss their old friends, they will appear in the city of longing.

Li Mei smiled again, but there was a hint of ghostliness in her smile.

She hugged Alai again, stroking and scratching Alai's back with her hands, as if she was looking for a place.

Her lips kissed Alai's neck inch by inch, and while kissing, she said, "In the first few years after you died, I really missed you, but later on, things changed. I...I kind of hate you." .”

Alai thought these were his wife's angry words and complaints. He closed his eyes and intoxicatedly enjoyed Li Mei's kiss on his neck.

People in the city of longing have no sense of touch, and everything can only be imagined.

Alai imagined the feeling of a kiss and said, "Honey, it's my fault. I shouldn't have left you so early. Hey, honey, how did you get here in the past 22 years?"

"How did I live my life? I lived my life hating you."

"Why? Wife, do you hate me because you love me?"

"Because you lied to me." As she spoke, Li Mei pressed a position on Alai's back with one hand and grabbed the belt of Alai's pants with the other.

"How could I lie to you? I am sincere to you, wife. Do you think I have someone else in the city of longing? It's not the case. I have been single for the past 22 years."

Alai held out three fingers and said, "I swear, I swear."

"Then how did your father Li Damin die?" Li Mei suddenly asked.

After hearing this, Alai stretched out the three fingers that he swore in and trembled slightly.

Although people in the City of Missing have no sense of touch, all reactions come from mechanical "instincts."

"me."

Li Mei's eyes flashed fiercely, "It was you who killed my father. The reason why you appear in the City of Missing these years is not because I love you, but because I hate you, you shameful bastard."

Just after saying this, Li Mei locked Alai's back with one hand, grabbed the belt of Alai's pants with the other, and used karate-style skills to throw Alai from the balcony on the 33rd floor.

Two seconds later, Alai fell from the 33rd floor to the asphalt road with a "snap".

It doesn't hurt, but my body is flat and I can't move.

Alai opened his eyes, as if he were "dead", and was a "dead ghost" in the city of longing.

On the balcony on the 33rd floor, Li Mei pressed her hand on the guardrail and quietly watched Alai on the ground downstairs.

She felt happy that all her revenge was finally completed.

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Yao Ruolan slowly walked to the balcony and came to Li Mei's left side.

She glanced at Alai below, and saw a car approaching, running over him and continuing to drive.

Alai can't die, he doesn't feel pain, but he can't move. He has no moving limbs anymore. He is like a vegetative state, or more like a conscious "lone brain".

"It's wrong for you to do this." Yao Ruolan said.

"who are you?"

"I am the ferryman here, and my colleagues in the human world are following up on your case." Yao Ruolan looked at Li Mei, "So, you finally completed the plan to kill all three husbands, right?"

"They all deserve to die." Li Mei gritted her teeth.

"Can you tell me why you killed them?"

Li Mei exhaled. Now that things have come to a point, there is no harm in speaking out.

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She began to state:

My father Li Damin loves me very much and is the person who loves me most in the world.

In addition to being a hunter, he has a special identity as a tomb robber.

My father and I are both descendants of the Hegu clan, the last generation.

Since hundreds of years ago, our tribe has been wandering without enough food and clothing, so we can only survive by robbing tombs.

According to legend for hundreds of years, our clan has extraordinary skills in robbing tombs. Can quickly know whether there are treasures near where you are.

But we know very well that tomb robbing is disrespectful to the dead. The rule of the Hegu clan is that every time you rob a tomb, no matter how big it is, you can only steal some ordinary items, such as coins and porcelain. Large, valuable items must not be stolen.

As long as the money in exchange can meet the needs of food and clothing.

My father is the only grave robber left in the Hegu clan.

In 1985, I came to Yuluo Village with my father, who had always made a living by hunting.

In Yuluo Village, my father met my first husband, Alai.

He grew up watching Alai and felt that Alai was poor and pitiful, so he accepted him as his apprentice and taught him to hunt.

His father treated Alai as an adopted son and taught Alai the skill of robbing tombs.

When I was fifteen or sixteen years old, I had a long-term relationship with Alai. I fell in love with Alai, but my father had always been opposed to this relationship.

I was the apple of his eye and he thought I should find someone better.

At that time, I was studying and was busy with my studies, so I put this secret love on hold.

My grades in school were not bad, and it was not a problem to get into a second-tier university, but my father wanted me to have a better future. He was interested in a foreign aristocratic school. The tuition was extremely expensive, but my father insisted on sending me to study abroad.

I know there is another reason for this - my father wants to completely cut off the love between Alai and me.

But facing the high tuition fees, my father had no money at all, so he decided to rob the tomb.

He has always known that there is a large tomb near Yuluo Village, but there are many and complicated mechanisms in this tomb, which cannot be completed by one or two people.

He conservatively estimated that three people would be needed.

At this time, Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang appeared.

They are all orphans, homeless people scavenging by the railway, and they are also very young.

His father came into contact with them while hunting and felt sorry for them. After observing them for a while, his father decided to take them and Alai to rob the tomb together.

"But", Li Mei sighed.

In 1999, while robbing a tomb, my father died in the tomb and was shot to death with a concealed weapon.

Alai escaped with Ye Bingliang and Tan Kun.

This news was told to me by Alai. He said that my father was dead. I was heartbroken and wanted to take back my father's body.

Alai held my hand and said, "No."

Grave robbing is a serious crime. If my father's body is discovered, he will be known as a tomb robber until his death.

And doing so will also implicate Alai in jail.

For this reason, I could only hold back this secret and tell the villagers in Yuluo Village that my father left without saying goodbye.

Alai stayed with me when I was most sad, and we finally got together and decided to get married.

I also gave up going to college, and after getting married, I stayed at home and farmed, and Alai went hunting.

Although life is poor, I am content.

But Alai didn't see it that way. Every night, he would apply massage cream on my hands that had been busy with farm work all day long, and his tears would fall down as he applied it.

I know Alai loves me, but he hates himself for being useless and not being able to let me live a good life.

One early morning in late 2000, it was the second time that I was devastated.

It was Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang who came to see me. I had known them before, but I wasn't very familiar with them. We only had dinner at the ancestral hall.

But these two people have a good relationship with Alai.

They lowered their heads and hesitantly told me a heavy truth.

Last night, they and Alai went to rob the tomb again and got the items. However, when they were escaping, Alai unfortunately fell into the swamp and died.

I burst into tears, and Tan Kun covered my mouth and whispered, "Don't cry. If you alert the neighbors, it will be over. Grave robbing is a serious crime. Don't you want Alai to bear this crime even if he dies? Then he will die." It’s worthless.”

Ye Bingliang took out a backpack for me. The backpack was dirty and covered with mud.

The items obtained from this tomb robbery were divided into three parts. The items in this backpack were what Alai paid for with his life and left for me.

"We won't see each other again soon, remember, keep this secret."

After Tan Kun and Ye Bingliang finished talking, they hurriedly left Yuluo Village.

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I grieved for a whole week. Every time I wanted to cry, I would stuff my mouth with a towel and hug the mud-covered backpack left by Alai.

A week later, I controlled my emotions and went to the police station to report Alai missing.

This has to be done, and if you delay it for too long, it will arouse suspicion.

As days passed, the police made no progress in Alai's disappearance, and I continued to live alone in Yuluo Village.

That Tan Kun was nice to me. He visited me several times and brought me delicious food.

Later, I came often and he took good care of me. As a lonely woman, I gradually developed a liking for him.

So in 2005, I married Tan Kun.

On the eve of my wedding, I was packing my belongings alone at home. I was going to move the next day, to the city, to Tan Kun's mansion.

While packing, I found a diary with my father's handwriting on it.