After the deal was concluded, Song Rui took out a pen and paper and began asking questions. In the industry, he was known as a human lie detector, and naturally he had his own method. At first, he only asked very simple questions, such as what is your name, how old are you, where are you from, what is your occupation, etc. This was to let the suspect relax their vigilance, and also to establish a benchmark to distinguish between lies and the truth. With this benchmark, no matter how many lies the other party fabricated, he could see through them at a glance.
Li Youde answered the first few questions almost without thinking.
Song Rui nodded while taking notes, and when the other party’s tense expression had visibly relaxed, he suddenly asked, “When did you discover that you could grow strange hands?”
Li Youde obviously froze for a moment, and he glanced away before replying, “About a month ago.”
His rampant acts of theft began about a month ago. Hearing this, Meng Zhong secretly nodded, thinking that his words should be true.
However, Song Rui said in a cold and blunt tone, “No.”
The dark light in Li Youde’s pupils trembled slightly for a moment, but his expression was calm. When did he discover that he could grow such hands? The answer to this question was only known to him, the heavens, and the earth. Unless this person could drill into his head and check his memory, it was impossible for him to obtain the truth from his mouth.
Song Rui slowly looked at the information detailing Li Youde’s life that Meng Zhong had provided to him, and after a short period of time, he tapped one of the records with the tip of his pen and said with a chuckle, “It was three months ago, right? To be exact, at the end of April?”
Li Youde’s hand hidden under the quilt quietly clenched into a fist, but his face showed a bewildered expression. At this moment, his heart monitor let out a sharp beep, betraying his disorderly heartbeat. He was lying!
Meng Zhong couldn’t help but glance at Song Rui, surprised by the man’s extremely keen insight. He had wondered many times—was Song Rui a psychic? Because anyone who came before him was almost transparent.
Li Youde tore off the various data lines on his body while cursing.
Song Rui didn’t stop, and continued, “On April 21st, you were reported to the police by your roommate at the time because you transferred two hundred yuan from his cellphone’s Alipay. You told the police that you were able to transfer the money because you had peeked at his payment password while he was shopping and secretly memorized it. I was skeptical of this answer.”
Li Youde retorted aggressively, “What is there to be skeptical about? At the time, he and I had a good relationship and he never avoided me when he entered his password.”
Song Rui chuckled and said, “It wasn’t just this that made me suspicious, but also your subsequent behavior. When you left the detention center, you left your original apartment and began renting your current apartment instead. Just imagine, a person who would rather share an 800 yuan basement with others in order to save on living expenses, a person who is so stingy and greedy that he would steal 200 yuan, would be willing to pay the high price of 1,700 yuan to rent a room alone? 1,700 yuan may not seem like much to others, but at the time, it would have seemed like a sky-high price to you, right? As far as I know, you borrowed the money to rent this apartment. Before that, you rented a lot of places, but the rent was never more than 1,000 yuan, and you always found someone to share the rent and reduce the financial burden. But after that event, your lifestyle changed, why is that?”
Li Youde smiled and said, “Because I had enough! Who doesn’t want to make a better life for themself?”
Song Rui shook his head slowly. “No, it’s not because you wanted to make a better life for yourself, but because you couldn’t tolerate others discovering your secret. You used to get scolded by the hotel’s chef frequently because you were absent minded, you looked down on being an assistant chef, you didn’t want to improve your skills, and you performed very poorly. You were even almost fired. But after changing your living environment, your heart settled, you began to practice your chopping skills, and quickly gained the chef’s appreciation. People who lived in your building told us that they often heard you chopping vegetables in the middle of the night, and in the morning they would see a large pile of finely chopped vegetables in your garbage bag. You could even slice tofu as thin as a strand of hair. Your neighbor saw it when you were throwing out your garbage, and he was so impressed that he deliberately mentioned it to us.”
Having said that, Song Rui took off his glasses, looked at Li Youde with an unconcealed sharp gaze, and said with a chuckle, “Were you practicing your vegetable cutting skills, or were you training the pair of hands that had just grown, and although they belonged to you, you couldn’t completely control them yet? Judging from your behavior after three months, it seems that your diligence was not in vain.”
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Song Rui didn’t give him time to struggle and continued, “Then do you know the reason for your mutation?”
“I don’t know!” Li Youde had warned himself thousands of times not to reveal it to anyone, so even though the defenses of his heart had already been breached, he was still able to quickly and decisively give a negative answer.
However, Song Rui said decisively, “You are lying!”
Li Youde’s hands tightly clenched the bed sheets. His emotions were panicked into a tangled mess, binding him firmly from head to toe.
Song Rui glanced at him and tossed down a bomb, “Was the mutation caused by that thing?”
“What thing?” Li Youde’s throat was so dry that his voice’s tone had completely changed. However, he himself didn’t notice it because he was too nervous.
Meng Zhong, who was standing on the sidelines and watching silently, realized that Song Rui had hit the nail on the head. He first used “death is coming” to break the defenses of his heart, and then slipped behind his defenses step by step, until he reached the altar of the devil that no one could touch. Every word of his was a trap.
Song Rui took out his phone and pointed to the unrealistically handsome young man who was his screen saver, and said, “The thing that he took away.”
Li Youde shook his head and broke into a cold sweat. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. What could he have taken from me? I was only wearing a t-shirt and a pair of shorts when you arrested me. What could I have hidden?” He didn’t realize that the more he said, the further he would be exposed.
Song Rui was no longer listening to Li Youde, because he had already roughly pieced the truth together. Of course, it wasn’t Li Youde’s half-truthful answer that enlightened him, but rather a suggestion from Fan Jialuo.
Song Rui used the tip of his pen to tap on Liao Fang’s confession, which recorded the man’s original words—He was of the same kind as you, but he was driven to become a slave to his desires, and has since lost his human nature.
Why would a person suddenly become a monster? What else could it be but an insatiable desire? A monster like Li Youde was by no means an exception. There were many more monsters wearing human skin in the world, such as himself. They were all beasts dominated by desire……
Song Rui put down the pen and paper, began to slowly wipe his lenses, and revealed the truth, word by word, “Actually, although your mutation was triggered by that thing, the main reason for it was yourself. I can imagine the entire process of your mutation: at the end of April, you were too poor to afford food, and you desperately needed money. At this time, you saw your roommate’s cellphone left at home. You knew that he had money in his Alipay, so you tried to figure out the password, but to no avail. Money was at your fingertips, but the reality was that you were powerless to obtain it. Greedy and impatience intertwined in your heart and converged into a torrent that broke through your body. You grew a hideous pair of hands that easily unlocked the phone for you, and realized all of your thoughts for you. They were born from your desire.”
Li Youde finally pulled his hand out of the quilt and began to frequently wipe the cold sweat dripping from his forehead.
Meng Zhong looked at Song Rui with a very complicated gaze. In a sense, this person’s ability was also psychic!
Song Rui was still narrating, “You were so scared that night that you endured the pain and cut off those hands, chopped them up, and threw them in the trash. You want to ask me why I know? It’s because during that period of time, a sanitation worker complained that someone in the community had thrown away a bag of chopped up black-bone chicken into the toxic and hazardous waste bin.”
After saying this, Song Rui couldn’t help but chuckle. “Isn’t a black-boned chicken’s color quite similar to your hands?”
Li Youde didn’t find it funny at all, and began to tremble.
Song Rui continued, “But the next day, when you were arrested by the police, they didn’t find any injuries on your body, so in addition to fulfilling your desires, that thing can also allow your body to recover as soon as possible, right? That’s a real treasure.”
Li Youde trembled like a leaf in the wind.
Song Rui took out his cellphone and stared at the dimly lit screen without blinking, and said with a gentle tone, “When you left the detention center, you couldn’t forget the hands that could easily unlock the phone’s passcode. They seemed to hear your call and grew again. This time, you were not afraid but ecstatic, because you had already found an excellent way to make money using them. You spent three months training them and using various channels to open a bank account under another name, and meticulously designing your future. I don’t need to elaborate on what happened next, right? If you hadn’t felt rich and wanted to find a girlfriend, and cut off the hands again to make it more convenient for dating, we wouldn’t have caught you so quickly.”
Li Youde clutched his arms and clenched his teeth, not daring to say a word. He felt that the person in front of him was even more terrifying than that young man. It was obviously the first time they had met, but he was like a ghost who had followed him like a shadow and witnessed everything that had happened in the dark. The secrets he wanted to hide were all dug up by the other party, including various details of his life, every word of conversation, and even every thought and beat of his heart……
Li Youde even suspected that this person could drill into other people’s brains and steal their memories! He could no longer pretend to be calm, he wanted to escape immediately!
Song Rui knew he had guessed correctly even without the other’s response. He had spoken while observing Li Youde’s reaction, slowly adding to and perfecting the story. In fact, it was not difficult to speculate the truth. Li Youde had lived a mediocre and difficult life for more than 30 years. If he had been able to mutate, he wouldn’t have been such a mess. This meant that his ability must have arisen suddenly, and coupled with Fan Jialuo’s comment, the answer was obvious.
Song Rui suddenly felt very bored, so he put his cleaned glasses back on the bridge of his nose and said with a chuckle, “Since you lied to me at least two or three times, and you know that I’m aware of it, our deal is canceled. Mr. Li, you have two hours left. May you rest in peace.”
Li Youde lunged forward and shouted anxiously, “Wait, wait! What else do you want to know, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you everything! I’ll be honest and specific, so please let me see him!”
However, Song Rui ignored him and walked straight ahead.
Meng Zhong took advantage of the situation to ask, “What exactly did Fan Jialuo take from you?”
Li Youde said impatiently, “It was a miniature carving handed down by my ancestors! My grandmother told me to keep it safe, and said it could grant my wish. The workmanship of the carving was so exquisite that I thought it could be sold for a lot of money, so I strung it on a necklace and wore it all the time as a pendant. That day, I really wanted to get the money out of his phone, and the miniature carving turned into a ray of light and entered my body, and truly fulfilled my wish. With the hands I grew, as long as I touched someone else, my fingerprints would become the same as theirs, so whenever their cellphones were in my hands, I could unlock them quickly. You guys must help me get the miniature carving back to save my life, and I’ll surrender it to the state! Really, you must believe me!”
Meng Zhong smiled and nodded, “Okay, we will go and find the miniature carving for you.”
Li Youde was immediately appeased and fell back onto his elevated pillows with ragged breathing.
Meng Zhong asked again, “Then, where did your grandmother obtain the miniature carving?”
“I don’t know. My grandmother said it was handed down from my ancestors and told me to keep it safe. I also have a lot of questions to ask her, but she has been dead for two or three years already.”
Li Youde’s family background had already been thoroughly investigated by Meng Zhong, so he didn’t ask any more questions. He smiled and said he would go find Fan Jialuo, and then walked out of the ward.
Song Rui stood at the end of the long corridor and waited. He asked with a cold tone, “Are you going to find Fan Jialuo?”
“How could that be?” Meng Zhong shook his head immediately. “Actually, we first noticed Fan Jialuo after Gao Yize’s case, and after we learned your profile for him, we were nervous for a while, debating whether to take any coercive measures.”
Song Rui’s handsome face suddenly grew tense, so tense that the blue veins around his neck appeared. It wasn’t easy to make him feel nervous, but as soon as the words “Fan Jialuo” were mentioned, his emotions were easily stirred up.
Meng Zhong looked at him with a smile before continuing, “But it turns out that your interpretation of him was completely wrong. He is not antisocial, and on the contrary, he is full of reverence and love for the world. He selflessly helped Bai Mu change his fate without asking for anything in return. Of the four people he cursed in the three minute prophecy, those with less sins only suffered superficial injuries. Sister Qing, who sold young girls, was blinded in one eye. The fourth brother, with blood on his hands, was paralyzed while escaping the pursuit of the police. Fan Jialuo believes in karma, good and evil, so he knows what fate evil will have, and he has a bottom line.”
Meng Zhong walked to a dimly lit corner and said in a deep voice, “He was the one who brought our attention to Chongming. After investigating, we found this man has murdered many people. Ever since the age of five, people around him would always die inexplicably, and we were unable to find the cause. If not for Fan Jialuo, we simply would have no way to deal with such people. Chongming’s ability was capable of competing with the god of death! However, after encountering Fan Jialuo, he suffered his retribution. The people we can’t deal with, Fan Jialuo can easily. He turned Chongming into a half-human, half-dog monster, leaving the other to live the rest of his inhuman life in a sober state. After that, he seemed to have received Chongming’s ability and resurrected Xu Yiyang.”
Meng Zhong sighed and said, “Can you imagine our anxiety at the time? We thought that he was a man of principles with a bottom line, but his action of bringing the dead back to life overturned that judgment. We thought that he would allow Xu Yiyang to seek revenge and kill his parents with his own hands or something……”
Hearing this, Song Rui sneered and said, “Not only was I wrong, but you are also wrong as hell.”
Meng Zhong nodded and said, “Yes, in the end we realized that this way of thinking was simply incorrect. He pulled the child back from hell just to realize his last wish. Can you imagine the mixed feelings I had at that time? We watched him closely, so we knew what he thought about reincarnation. He told Liao Fang: to defy fate is to block a train with your flesh, which will only end up with you in pieces, but in order to fulfill the last wish of a child who was already dead, he chose to block that train. He has great respect for all living beings, and even those who are long since dead.”
Meng Zhong slowed down his speech as he continued, “After a long period of observation, we found that Mr. Fan is a man who firmly believes that good and evil will face their own retribution. He only does what he thinks is right, even if it will damage himself. Such people are incredibly rare, so I have the utmost respect for him. Even if the bizarre ability to reverse yin and yang is under his control, I do not feel nervous or uneasy. I trust him as a person. This time, I am not going to ask for what he took from Li Youde’s body. A jade pendant that can fulfill any wish sounds beautiful, but if you think about it carefully, you will understand how terrifying that is. Even I can’t guarantee that I could stay clean of any evil thoughts. However, I believe that Fan Jialuo can, as his will is indestructible.
Song Rui sneered as he walked towards the elevator. “You don’t respect him, you are simply forced to trust him. If the Special Security Department could handle these frequent and bizarre incidents, you wouldn’t ask me for help, wouldn’t hold any psychic auditions, and wouldn’t have focused on Fan Jialuo. You’re now begging him for help, and there is nothing you can do to control him, right?”
Song Rui pressed the elevator button and said slowly, “Guess, does Fan Jialuo know that you are monitoring him?”
Meng Zhong immediately denied, “Impossible, you know what level our intelligence personnel are.”
Song Rui walked into the elevator with a sarcastic smile. “I bet he knows, but he’s just too lazy to pay attention to you guys. No one can control him, so you should get rid of those thoughts as soon as possible.”
“I’ll personally ask him for confirmation when we meet. Song Rui, you have changed a lot. You are like a normal person now.” Meng Zhong’s words were completely isolated outside of the closed elevator doors, and he stared at the cold metal plate with a helpless smile.
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I’m excited for their new case. This one felt very asmr-ish, with soft, rhythmic face-slapping lol
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