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Standing on a high place, Gao Jie watched Hu Jianhui pick up his clothes and run away, not even having the courage to look back.When he tripped over the dead branches under his feet and fell to Gao Jie's feet, and got up on the ground with hands and feet, Gao Jie saw the cruelty on the young boy's face.Gao Jie knew that Hu Jianhui had no intention of calling for someone to rescue Xiao Le.This teenage child is already so sophisticated and smart, he knows that no one will believe his words--water plants with life like hair, children without facial features...they drag Xiao Le into the water, even if these are the things he saw with his own eyes What he saw, but he didn't think the grown-ups would believe him.

Perhaps, they will also send him to a mental hospital.What a terrifying place, in the heart of young Hu Jianhui, that place is far more terrifying than the invisible and intangible hell. "I'd rather go to the region..." he thought.

Gao Jie looked at the young Hu Jianhui with deep eyes, as if he was thinking about something.This is Xiao Le's "moment before death", that is to say, before he died, he had been watching Hu Jianhui's every move.Seeing with his own eyes that his big brother, whom he had always trusted and relied on, left him without leaving a trace of belief in living, no wonder there is so much resentment, Gao Jie thought.

Suddenly he thought of his elder brother Gao Cong, that cowardly and domineering man, who gave himself the chance to live.Gao Jie just watched his brother slowly sinking into the bottomless river of Wangchuan, he felt his head was empty, and his eyes turned black.

He has always longed for a fresh life, but it was only then that he learned to cherish it.He became resentful of his life, and he could not see the slightest waste of life.Sometimes he even feels that he is becoming less and less like himself, but what does it matter?He is still alive, as long as he is alive, everything will turn around...

Xiao Le in front of him is like Gao Cong at that time, sinking bit by bit, the pond water covered his mouth, nose, and eyes... Gao Jie clenched his fists tightly, as if he wanted to hold himself firmly, Don't let yourself rush over the same.

Gradually, only the top of Xiao Le's head could be seen on the water. Gao Jie tried his best to restrain himself, only feeling his whole body trembling.In his eyes, Xiao Le's face overlapped with his brother's, and he seemed to have returned to that time, when his brother sank into the dark river without a sound, and he stood by the water, but he never saw his brother climb up again. ...

Don't die!

Not caring about anything else, Gao Jie only felt a pain in his chest, and his legs and feet rushed downhill uncontrollably to the pond.However, at this moment, a pair of strong arms grabbed him by the waist.Unable to hold back their strength, the two of them rolled on the ground several times.Fortunately, after this fall, Gao Jie regained consciousness immediately.He sat up with his arms propped up, and looked at the person who stopped him—"Shentu?!"

Shen Tucheng probably hit somewhere, lowered his head, and didn't speak for a while.Someone behind him sighed, Gao Jie turned around, only to see Gu Panhao Shi Shiran approaching, gently supporting Shentucheng.

"It's just a 'moment before death', even if you rush down, it won't change anything." Gu Panhao looked at Gao Jie with some reproach, "It will only keep us all trapped here, and maybe we won't be able to get out again."

"The moment before death" is the ghost's memory, which records what happened in a certain period of time when it was dying.Certain spells can reveal this image, but no spell can change it.Memory cannot be changed.Once there is a memory, it means that this matter has already happened, even if Gao Jie rushed down like this just now, Xiao Le cannot be saved.And the worse result may be that all of them are trapped in Xiao Le's memory, playing the role of bystanders repeatedly day after day.

"Sorry..." Gao Jie whispered.

Gu Pan took a good look at him, then asked Shen Tucheng, "How are you?"

Shentucheng hugged Gu Panhao's waist calmly, shook his head and said, "It's okay."

At this time, the water surface has returned to calm, Gu Pan looked at it for a while, and said: "He is dead." This means that the "moment before death" is over, he read a few words in a low voice, and several soft pearl-colored rays of light came from It emanates from him, enveloping several people.After a while, he returned to the gloomy and dark haunted house.

Gu Panhao removed the last water nail on Xiao Le's body, and smiled gently at it, as if the person who sent out seven water nails in a row just now was not himself: "You can go."

Xiao Le got up slowly, but hesitated.

"Why do you have to ask for its name?" Gao Jie asked, frowning.

"It was a female ghost who killed Lu Zhonghui." Gu Panhao said, "She probably has a child."

"What's the result?"

"...I don't think Xiao Le has anything to do with her."

"So... are you trying to tell us that this whole thing is just one coincidence after another?"

Gu Pan couldn't answer, he pointed to Hu Jianhui and asked Xiao Le: "Why did you kill him?"

Xiao Le first looked at Gu Panhao vigilantly, but when his eyes fell on Hu Jianhui, his eyes were full of confusion.

"Look." Gu Panhao said, "It's instinct for ghosts to kill people." There is no need for any reason.

Gao Jie thought for a while, and seemed to think of something.He opened his mouth, thought for a while and closed it again.At this time, Shen Tucheng suddenly said: "I just want to know if these things have anything to do with that so-called Die Immortal."

"Yes." Gu Panhao said with certainty.

"who is it?"

"I don't know." Gu Panhao thought for a while and said, "It has been avoiding me."

Xiao Le didn't know when he left. Gao Jie called Liu Xia and said a few words to Liu Xia, then said to the other two, "Let's go, go back to the police station."

Shentucheng shook his head: "I want to stay and deal with Jianhui's affairs."

He said he wanted to stay, but Gu Panhao definitely refused to leave.Gao Jie rubbed his aching head, and said impatiently: "I have called someone over." Hu Jianhui's body cannot be buried yet, and must be transported back to the police station, so they are just going ahead.

Shen Tucheng was stubborn: "Then I'll wait for them to come before leaving." After saying that, he walked up to Hu Jianhui and sat down.Gu Panhao sat next to Shentucheng without saying a word, Gao Jie was very angry, but he couldn't do anything about them, and finally took the phone and fired at Liu Xia again.

Probably because he lost his temper, the handling team came soon.Shen Tucheng helped them transport Hu Jianhui's body into the car, and carefully fastened the belt until he saw the transporting car out of sight, then returned to Liu Xia's car with peace of mind.

The complexions of several people were not good-looking, especially Gao Jie, with a gloomy face and a chill all over his body.Liu Xia rubbed his nose, and after driving the car for a certain distance, he asked Shen Tucheng, "What's the progress?"

Shen Tucheng wiped his face and said, "Caught a ghost."

"Disc Immortal?"

"No."

Liu Xia frowned and said nothing.At this moment, Gao Jie said, "It's not like there's no progress at all."

"How to say?" Liu Xia suddenly became interested.

I can no longer be led by the nose by Gu Panhao, Gao Jie thought.He thought about it, and said with some regret: "Maybe we are all thinking in the wrong direction."

"Huh?" Liu Xia was stunned.After so many things and so many people died, their biggest breakthrough was to roughly sort out the chronological order of the development of things. Now Gao Jie actually said——They went in the wrong direction? !

Gao Jie sorted out his thoughts slightly, and said, "Maybe we shouldn't start with time...how about thinking about people?"

"People?" Liu Xia still didn't know why, and answered the question stupidly: "The first one to die is Bai Lu..."

"That's right, Bai Lu was the first person to die." Gao Jie paused and said, "But what about the first person who came into contact with Die Xian?"

"kindness?"

"It's me." Shen Tucheng said.

Gao Jie shook his head: "It's Wang Shiwei."

There was a sudden silence in the carriage, and after a while, Liu Xia said: "Indeed." He quickly glanced at Shen Tucheng, "I remember you told me that Wang Shiwei asked you if you saw Die Xian's hand?" —the hand caught him."

"So, Wang Shiwei became the first intermediary." Gao Jie continued, "When he came into contact with Bai Lu, the intermediary was passed on to Bai Lu...and when Bai Lu came into contact with Sun Zhizhe, Sun Zhizhe became the intermediary. Then Bai Lu died."

Whenever the person acting as the medium reaches the next person, the medium passes on, and the previous person dies.In other words, there is only one person Die Xian really killed, and that is Bai Lu.And when Bai Lu died, she became the so-called Die Immortal.

"No, that's not right." Liu Xia thought about it carefully and said, "If that's the case, why hasn't Wang Shiwei, the first mediator, died yet?"

Shen Tucheng and Gao Jie glanced at each other, and at the same time saw the answer in each other's eyes - it was because Gu Panhao got on Wang Shiwei's body first, and Die Xian avoided Gu Panhao.

But they couldn't explain all this to Liu Xia. In desperation, Gao Jie could only pretend to be arrogant and said: "Follow my way of thinking!"

Liu Xia peeked at Gao Jie from the rearview mirror, surrendered for a while, and said, "Okay, okay...then can you tell me, who is Die Xian?"

"Because the jade dish has always appeared in our sight, we naturally focused our attention on it..." Gao Jie said, "But there is actually another possibility."

"What is it?"

"To play the Die Fairy game, in addition to the disc, you also need... paper!"

"Ah! That's right!" Lian Qiao, who had been silent all this time, exclaimed, "I finally remembered! That day in the coffee shop, I felt that something was wrong, so it was like this!"

Shen Tucheng turned his head to look at her - her eyes were not bright, she was just a coincidence, not Gu Panhao.

"Now I finally remember!" Lian Qiao also turned to Shen Tucheng and said, "Do you remember that you once told me that Wang Shiwei said that the piece of paper was passed down by a senior?"

Shen Tucheng nodded, but his thoughts had already turned to another place—where did Ah Hao go?