Chapter 245 Piecing together the truth
"Cousin, what happened just now..."
"Li Yang got on top of Li Liu, and I drove him away. Li Yang should have been seriously injured, but he didn't lose his life." Ran Ran spoke concisely while squatting down to check on Li Liu's condition.
Shen Dinghai was still in shock, "He's bleeding from all seven orifices, it looks serious, what is Li Yang trying to achieve by doing this?!"
Zhang Wei's face was solemn. After all, she had just said that Li Yang could not possibly hurt Li Liu.
Ranran used her fingers to pry open Li Liu's eyelids, only to see the whites of her eyes filled with red bloodshot. She then reached out to feel Li Liu's pulse.
"Li Liu's bleeding from all seven orifices was not caused by Li Yang, but by me."
Shen Dinghai was stunned for a moment, "Ah?"
"I've said before that ghost possession can be divided into three categories: ghost manipulation, ghost possession, and ghost murder."
"Ghost manipulation can be said to be the most common type of case we encounter when dealing with Xuanmen incidents. When a ghost encounters a living person and thinks that the person is a body that can be manipulated, it takes the opportunity to possess the person and manipulate the person to act according to its will."
"And ghost possession..." Ran Ran was silent for a moment, and chose to give an example, "What Sister Wu did to Zhu Zhu's niece is a mild ghost possession, and it is also the most harmless kind."
"It can be said that as long as you don't have the intention of taking over the host's body like Sister Wu, you will basically not cause any harm to the host."
"And the steward Zhang and his companions that we saw at Xinxin Manor were possessed by a harsh ghost that could transform into a third type of ghost that kills people."
"In short, the ghost wants to kill the host completely and take his place."
Shen Dinghai was somewhat shocked. "Li Yang is so cruel? He really wants to kill his own brother?"
Ran Ran pursed her lips. "Li Yang didn't have this idea about Li Liu at first. It was just a ruthless ghost taking over the body. But when I tried to drive him away with the Xuanmen Mantra..."
“He changed his mind.”
"In the situation just now, if I didn't continue to force Li Yang out of Li Liu's body, Li Yang would have completely killed Li Liu and taken his body."
Ran Ran lowered his eyes and looked at the blood on his hands. "Although Li Liu is seriously injured now, at least he has saved his life."
"Li Yang was also severely injured. It will take at least a day for his soul to regroup."
Shen Dinghai was shocked. "Li Yang didn't want to kill anyone at first, why did he suddenly change his mind?"
Zhang Wei said silently: "And that's his brother..."
Ran Ran frowned slightly, "Maybe there is something he has to do?"
"What's going on? The person is dead, and it's been seven days since the soul returned. It's been a long time, and you still haven't figured it out?"
When Ran Ran heard what Shen Dinghai said, she suddenly realized, "Li Yang's abnormality should be related to the inexplicable disappearance of his soul."
"I checked on the first day I came to the construction site. Li Yang's soul disappeared so cleanly. Now I think it is very likely that someone forcibly took his soul away."
"So after Li Yang died, he didn't wander around the world for seven days like other souls, gradually accepting the fact that he was dead over time."
"On the contrary, his soul has been suspended in the grievance and anger of being killed for no reason."
"Unprovoked?" Shen Dinghai touched his nose. "It can't be said to be unprovoked. He knew the secret of Sun Zhiqiang's murder and was still so arrogant. I think it would be difficult for Sun Zhiqiang to resist killing him."
Ran Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Okay, but even if Li Yang did something wrong, it would be hard for him to accept being killed for something like this."
"It's normal for people to be greedy."
Shen Dinghai sighed, "I really don't know what he originally planned. He couldn't possibly want to use this incident to blackmail Sun Zhiqiang, right?"
Zhang Wei nodded and said affirmatively: "That's definitely his plan." Ran Ran was reminded of a detail by this remark, "I remember Wang Laowu once said that good luck favored Sun Zhiqiang. Wang Laowu didn't know the real story behind it."
"In his opinion, Sun Zhiqiang not only got promoted, but also became rich. It was like he suddenly got lucky."
Shen Dinghai listened and nodded, "Perhaps Li Yang thinks so too."
"Sun Zhiqiang's material conditions suddenly improved, which attracted his attention. He then targeted Sun Zhiqiang and caught him killing Lao He."
Ranran connected all the clues so far together, trying to piece together the truth of what happened at that time.
"It all started when Sun Zhiqiang, a member of the surveying team, discovered that there was something wrong with the data for Building 8. He proposed demolishing the foundation, and thus, without knowing the secrets beneath the foundation, he came into the sight of the mastermind behind the scenes."
"The mastermind targeted him, investigated his family situation, and dragged his wife Bai Xue into the illegal transactions, forcing him to become part of the illegal transactions as well."
"They were an ordinary couple who wanted to resist but had no power. They could only bow down to the power. Until one day, Bai Xue was bumped into by Lao He while entering and leaving the construction site, and the deal was exposed."
"Perhaps Sun Zhiqiang was coerced by the mastermind, or perhaps he just hardened his heart. One night, before the truth was exposed, he killed Lao He."
"This scene was witnessed by Li Yang and Wang Laowu's children."
"The child was young, and the belief in ghosts was rampant on the construction site. When I got home, I only told Wang Laowu and Yang Juan that I saw a rope-strangling ghost."
"But Li Yang saw it clearly. He knew that it was Sun Zhiqiang who killed Lao He. He might have been terrified at first, but after the fear, greed gradually arose."
"As Li Yang watched Sun Zhiqiang getting richer and richer, he gradually came to the conclusion that this was leverage he could use to make money from Sun Zhiqiang."
"So, in broad daylight, he ran to Sun Zhiqiang's group and brazenly announced that he had seen a rope-strangling ghost."
"In fact, he was only speaking to Sun Zhiqiang."
Shen Dinghai sighed and said helplessly, "As a person, don't be too greedy."
"Li Yang thought he could get money from Sun Zhiqiang, but he didn't expect that Sun Zhiqiang wanted to kill him."
Ran Ran continued, "Then on the night of October 13, Sun Zhiqiang knocked on the door of the tin hut. Li Yang happily opened the door to greet him, thinking that Sun Zhiqiang came to negotiate with him, but he never thought..."
Shen Dinghai was very moved when he heard this. "If this person wanted to kill someone, after killing the first person, wouldn't it be much easier to kill the second person?"
Seeing Zhang Wei's stunned expression, he quickly explained, "What I meant is, will the psychological preparation for the second person be much easier?"
"Every time you do something for the first time, you're always nervous and inexperienced, and killing someone should be no exception."
"But after the first time, you'll have experience and psychological expectations when you do it again. You might even develop the mentality that 'killing one is still killing, killing two is still killing'!"
Shen Dinghai opened his big, sincere eyes and tried his best to prove that he was just speculating on the criminal's psychology and he definitely did not put himself in the shoes of the criminal.
Zhang Wei was somewhat helpless. "Although I don't want to agree with you, you are right."
"The Sheriff's Department has a lot of data that shows that many criminals struggle a lot with their first killing."
"But when they get through this period, they will become increasingly calm when they kill people afterwards, and even become more self-abandoned and bloodthirsty."
"Self-abandonment and bloodthirstiness..." Shen Dinghai murmured unconsciously.
Zhang Wei nodded. "These four words are what you said. If you kill the first one, you won't be afraid of the second one, nor will you resist the second one. You will kill more and more."
"When Sun Zhiqiang attacked Li Yang and Wang Laowu later, he must have fallen into this state."
