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The young man lifted his head and glanced at them, saying, "I have nothing to cooperate with."
Xu Chen continued, "Please cooperate a little."
The young man frowned. "Didn't I just say? There's nothing to cooperate with. Don't disturb me while I'm trying to sleep. Get lost!"
Regarding the young man's attitude, Xu Chen was about to take coercive measures when Ye Mingshang softly said, "If you want to die like this, then do as you please. We're leaving."
After saying that, Ye Mingshang pretended to walk toward the door. Just as he reached the entrance, he heard the young man weakly shout, "Stop."
Ye Mingshang ignored him and continued walking outside. The young man stood up directly.
"What do you know? Stop right there!"
Ye Mingshang halted but did not turn back, saying, "If you want to know, then come with us yourself; otherwise, you might not survive tonight."
With that, Ye Mingshang left, and Xu Chen followed. The young man furrowed his brows for a moment before laboriously chasing after them.
They weren't walking quickly; they kept a distance that allowed him to see how hard he was struggling to keep up.
Huff... Huff...
The young man leaned on his knees, breathing heavily as he watched the two of them get into a police car. However, they didn't drive off immediately. After thinking for a moment, he jogged over.
He opened the car door and sat down heavily, gasping for breath as he asked, "What do you know? Do you know why I'm like this?"
Ye Mingshang did not directly answer his question but said, "I only know two things: first, you will die. Second, the only person who can save you is me."
The young man squinted his eyes and after five seconds of silence asked, "Do you have a way to save my life?"
"The premise is that you have to tell me everything you know."
The young man fell silent for a moment, then spoke up, "I'm not really sure about the specifics, but it was about three days ago. That day, I went out drinking with a few buddies."
"Come on, let's drink!"
"Cheers! Why take a break? Are you raising goldfish?"
"We won't stop until we're drunk!"
A few young men were gathered around a table, frequently raising their glasses.
"I had already drunk quite a bit by then and was feeling hazy. My girlfriend called me, asking me to come home. I intended to leave, but they wouldn't let me and kept egging me on."
"Oh! So now you're under the thumb of your wife even before marriage."
"If you keep this up, you'll be kneeling on a washboard after you get married."
"Do you know what we call this back home? We call it being a whipped man~ Haha!" said the friend from Sichuan while patting his own ear.
"I have a bad temper as it is, and after drinking a bit more, I decided not to go back."
"What nonsense are you talking?! When has Yu Ge ever been afraid of women? Come on, drink!"
"Later, my girlfriend called me a few more times, but I didn't answer. Eventually, she sent me a WeChat message saying that if I didn't come home soon, she would commit suicide. Fueled by the alcohol, I replied harshly."
"I don't care if you live or die; if you die, it'll be peaceful!" the young man sent in the WeChat message.
"After a while, my girlfriend replied with some heavy words and said she would curse me."
"I won't let you go even if I die. There isn't a single good man among you. I want all of you men to die!"
"I thought she was just saying that out of anger, but when I returned home in the middle of the night, she really did commit suicide. She hanged herself with my belt from the water pipe in our rental apartment." At this point, the young man covered his head in pain, his voice choked with emotion.
"I never expected her to think that way. If I had known it would end up like this, I would have gone back. I really didn't want this, I truly didn't want her to die."
Tears streamed down his face, and he occasionally wiped his nose.
He sniffled and choked out, "We had originally planned to get married after graduation. I never thought that in our final year, it would end up like this, separated by life and death. Why couldn't she see things differently—ah!" By the end, he couldn't control himself and began to cry loudly.
It was clear that he really cared for that girl, but sometimes fate can be cruel.
Not giving him time to indulge in his emotions further, Ye Mingshang frowned and said, "But we haven't heard of any girl dying around here."
"What is going on?" Ye Mingshang asked.
"When I saw her, she was already dead. I didn't call an ambulance because I was scared; I didn't dare tell anyone." The young man wiped his tears and spoke.
"So, you buried her?" Ye Mingshang frowned.
"No, I left her in the rental apartment."
"Where is your home? Let's go there."
They were also students and didn't have much money; finding a decent place to rent in a big city like Nanjing was difficult.
This was an old residential area; it was hard to imagine such places existed in a large city. The young man led them to a dilapidated house. Although it was run-down, the space was decent—one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, and one bathroom. For the same price elsewhere, they could only rent a cramped basement.
As he opened the door, the young man said, "I placed her in our room. Every night I come back to keep her company and fulfill her last wish."
Entering their room, there lay a person on the bed, but the once beautiful girl was devoid of life.
"Her body is soft, and there are signs of livor mortis; she must have been dead for over three days," Xu Chen said after examining her.
The young man sat down by the bed, holding the girl's hand, his lifeless eyes tenderly gazing at her face.
Ye Mingshang surveyed the surroundings, feeling puzzled. He did not detect any Yin Qi here, nor did he see any ghosts, yet there was an ominous feeling; every time he felt this way, it never led to anything good.
He also examined the girl's body. Like a normal death, there were no abnormalities or signs of decomposition.
"What could be the reason...?" Ye Mingshang frowned in contemplation and then thought of the black card that appeared with every victim. He asked, "Do you have a Black Card with your information and time of death written on it?"
The young man furrowed his brow. "I don't have any black cards, but Ayu has a black notebook." As he spoke, he took out a palm-sized notebook from the drawer.
It looked like an ordinary notebook, but upon opening it, he found a line of preface: "There isn't a single good man in this world; I want them all dead!"
Turning further back, several names appeared on the first page, including Director Lu. The young man was startled. "Impossible! There was nothing written here before!"
Ye Mingshang frowned as he looked at these names. The number of people listed was more than he had learned about; it included not only Director Lu and that police officer but also someone who was already dead—unknown where or how. Strangely enough, Wang Yu's name was not on the list at all.
(To be continued.)
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