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Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Ancient Story of the Old House
I was completely stunned. Wasn't Liu Baisheng killed by Liu Laoniu? Why did this female ghost say it was her brother who killed her?
I was momentarily confused, unable to process it all. However, I quickly figured it out because the family in the Dilapidated House had previously mentioned that Liu Baifu's children fell victim to Liu Laoniu's dark magic, which led to the murder of their family members. So I said, "Actually, your brother didn't kill you; it was someone else."
The female ghost wouldn't believe me; she was convinced that everything was done by her brother. At that moment, she noticed Team Leader Wang behind me and went to plead with him to capture her brother.
The first thing Team Leader Wang asked her was, "Were you the one who kept calling the police?"
The female ghost nodded in acknowledgment.
I said, "What you saw may not be the truth. Now that you are free, you should let go of everything from your past life and go to where you belong, to reincarnate."
However, the female ghost refused. She said that if we didn't ensure her brother received his due punishment and avenged her family, she couldn't rest in peace.
In the end, for reasons unknown to me, Team Leader Wang actually agreed to the female ghost's request. He promised to take on her case and find her brother for questioning.
But I wondered, wasn't her brother dead? How could we question a dead person? With that thought in mind, I asked the female ghost, "Where is your brother?"
The female ghost replied, "My brother is at home. I want to find him for revenge, but he has been hiding from me."
"Liu Family Village? The old house number seven?" I asked.
The female ghost nodded.
Thus, I originally planned to ensure that Wang Team would never go to Liu Family Village again, but unexpectedly, in the end, we had to rush back to Liu Family Village once more due to the matter concerning the female ghost. What I did not anticipate was that this time, the price we would pay for going to Liu Family Village would be so heavy!
That night, as we prepared to set off for Liu Family Village, the City Bureau received another emergency call. The reason this call was directed to Wang Team was that it originated from Liu Family Village.
The caller was a man who claimed he wanted to turn himself in. From his voice, it was clear that he was the same person who had reported himself in previous calls. The man stated that he was at the old house number seven in Liu Family Village.
Wang Team informed him that we would come over immediately and instructed him to stay at old house number seven without leaving. Meanwhile, the female ghost told us that this man was her brother.
So, we hurriedly made our way to Liu Family Village.
On the way there, with the female ghost leading us, everyone felt less scared; perhaps they sensed that the female ghost meant no harm. Although she had killed a police officer before, I explained to everyone that at that time her soul was trapped in her body and filled with resentment, which led her to commit acts of violence.
The journey went smoothly, and we arrived directly at old house number seven in Liu Family Village. The door of the old house was wide open. Looking inside from outside, I saw a man in his thirties sitting on a grand chair!
As soon as I saw this man, I realized he was not human but a ghost. Clearly, this person was the one who had reported himself. At that moment, the female ghost who had returned with us rushed forward and began to beat and kick her brother, while the man simply allowed her to hit him without retaliating, his face filled with helplessness and bitterness.
We then entered the house. I first advised the female ghost to calm down and then asked the man: "Did you make the report saying you wanted to turn yourself in?"
The man nodded and said he killed his sister, which is why he wanted to turn himself in.
Upon hearing this, the female ghost became furious again after just calming down. She pointed at her brother and questioned him: "Did you only kill me? Wasn't it you who killed Dad Mom?"
The man immediately shook his head and said, "No, I will not kill my parents; I did not kill them."
The female ghost replied, "You say you didn't kill them, but if you didn't, then who did? When I died, I clearly saw you still holding the knife while our parents lay there! How could you be so cruel to even harm our parents... sob..."
As she spoke, the female ghost began to cry. The man kept shaking his head and fell silent.
Seeing this, I said, "Do you not realize that you are also dead? Why do you still want to confess? Confession should be made to the King of Hell!"
The man shed two lines of bitter tears and said, "Every day I see my sister forcing me and blaming me; it is very painful. If I could go to the Underworld, even if it meant being flayed alive and suffering in hell, I would be willing. It's just... it's just that I don't know why I can't leave Liu Family Village."
Upon hearing this, I vaguely understood. This man must have been cursed by Liu Er with a soul-binding needle. I said, "So you called the police hoping they would take you away?"
The man nodded, "Yes, because I cannot face my sister. Every day in this house, I am hiding from her; I am afraid to see her eyes."
"You cannot face me; it is our parents!" At this moment, the female ghost scolded him.
The man fell silent again, only shaking his head in bitterness.
Seeing this, I knew he must have some grievances and difficulties. Plus, I already knew that Liu Er was the one who truly harmed his family. So I said, "If you have any grievances, just speak out. Sometimes hiding things is not the right choice."
At this point, his sister seemed to sense something and said, "Speak up! Have I wronged you? Whatever you have to say, say it in front of the police now; anyway, today I'm going to send you to jail."
The man looked at his sister and finally sighed helplessly. He wiped away a tear and began to speak. He said, "Actually, I did not kill my parents, but I did kill someone; I killed my sister."
After finishing his words, he glanced at his sister, only to see her eyes filled with resentment, devoid of any affection. The man withdrew his gaze, as if making a difficult choice, and then continued, "The reason I killed my sister is because... because she was under the evil spell of a bad person and ended up killing our father and mother. In the end, she even tried to kill me. I had no choice but to kill her. At that moment, looking at our father and mother lying on the ground, and my sister whom I had killed with my own hands, I... I lost the courage to live on, so I found a rope and took my own life!"
"No, no, it can't be like this, you're lying! Wuwu..." After hearing her brother's story, the sister began to scream as if she had gone mad. After a while, she started crying, deeply sorrowful and desolate...
The man comforted his sister: "Sister, don't cry. You can blame your brother; it's all my fault for not protecting our family."
After crying for a while, the sister shouted at her brother, "Why didn't you tell me earlier? Why did you lie to me?"
"I never wanted to tell you all of this. I would rather you believe that I killed our parents than let you know that it was you who did it because I knew it would hurt you even more," the brother said helplessly.
Upon hearing this, the sister cried even harder. After a long time, she looked up at us and asked, "Is all of this really true? Did I really kill our parents?"
Wang and the others remained silent, only looking at the siblings with sympathy. As for me, I answered the female ghost: "Your brother must not be lying to you because I've heard from others in the village that your parents were killed due to their children being cursed by someone, which led to this patricide and matricide. What your brother said is basically consistent with what the villagers have said."
Upon hearing this from me, the female ghost realized that everything was indeed true. So she stopped asking questions and shouting; instead, she sat down on the ground with a thud, tears streaming down her face...
Of course, we all felt very sad. None of us expected that the truth of the matter would turn out like this. The sister had always blamed her brother for killing their parents and herself while constantly urging him to take revenge. However, the brother had silently endured all of this.
Now I understand why he kept calling the police to turn himself in; it was because he was afraid to see his sister and afraid to hear her questions. He feared that he would reveal everything. He could only escape and hide from her every day. Perhaps because his corpse was also bound by a soul-locking needle at its seven-inch point, he couldn't descend to the Underworld or leave Liu Family Village. He could only call the police every day in hopes that they would take him away from Liu Family Village so he wouldn't have to face the sister he had killed with his own hands.
The brother's helplessness and the sister's sorrow made me feel an endless desolation. Yes, they were truly pitiful...
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