Chapter 18 Is it me? Or Wang Wenqi
Wang Wenqi was stunned when he saw the cigarette offered to him.
His hand instinctively took it.
“Thanks.”
Actually, he didn’t usually smoke, but he still borrowed a light
from Liu Haoyu. After lighting the cigarette, he put it in his mouth and took a big puff.
“Cough, cough, cough!!”
Then he was choked and coughed.
Liu Haoyu sat next to Wang Wenqi and lit one for himself.
He took a light puff and exhaled after it went through his lungs.
The spicy taste of the cigarette numbed his nerves.
Liu Haoyu had seen too many partings, so he was very indifferent to such matters.
“That’s not how you smoke. Slow down, or you’ll get dizzy from the smoke.”
“Cough… cough…” Wang Wenqi took another big puff, choked and couldn’t speak. After he recovered, he said, “I really don’t understand… cough, cough! What’s so good about this thing.”
“It’s like alcohol. Many people know that it’s not good, but the floating feeling after drinking can make them forget their troubles. Of course… I don’t drink.”
“I don’t drink either.”
Wang Wenqi crushed the cigarette he had smoked twice on the ground and then sighed.
“Have you made up your mind?” Liu Haoyu asked indifferently, “Or are there still some worries you haven’t expressed?”
“You brat…” Wang Wenqi forced a smile and said, “There are plenty of worries, don’t you know.”
“Then talk. There’s no one else here. Isn’t it uncomfortable for you to keep it in?”
“Nonsense. Isn’t your wife always following behind us?”
Wang Wenqi smiled and cursed, but the smile didn’t last long on his face.
“But it’s true… it’s very uncomfortable to keep it in your heart.”
“Brother Liu, do you remember the silhouette we saw in the warehouse?”
“Although I didn’t see his face clearly, looking at his back, I remembered it.”
“It was Li Rongjun…”
Liu Haoyu also remembered that a few months ago, Li Rongjun was unfortunately killed while jumping into the river to save someone. This incident left a deep impression on him.
“Brother Liu, you might not know.”
“Because Li Rongjun fired his gun without authorization, the impact was huge. I told him to resign from his job as a police officer.”
“Although I helped him settle the matter afterward, I intended to bring him back to our team after things calmed down.”
“But the result… you know it.”
“He was possessed by an evil spirit and jumped into the river, sacrificing himself heroically.”
“When I heard the news, I was completely stunned.”
“Self-blame, pain, hesitation, I can’t describe the emotions I had at that time.”
“After this incident, I often dream that his resentful soul is interrogating me.”
“And I have also interrogated myself more than once, if…”
“If I had let him stay in the police station, would it have been a different result?”
“Would… Ke Wen not have died at Li Rongjun’s hands?”
By the end, the nearly 1.8-meter-tall strong man couldn’t help but choke up.
“I hurt them…”
Wang Wenqi lowered his head, looked at his hands, and couldn’t say anything more.
Liu Haoyu was silent for a moment, crushed the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground, twisted it, and then placed his hand on Wang Wenqi’s shoulder.
The cold night wind swept past the two of them, taking away some of the heavy atmosphere.
“Officer Wang,” Liu Haoyu’s voice was very calm. He had long seen through life and death, and he understood the pain and sadness in Wang Wenqi’s heart at this moment. “There’s no need to blame yourself too much. The deaths of these two have nothing to do with you.”
“But the problem is…”
Wang Wenqi wanted to say something, but Liu Haoyu interrupted him.
“There is no problem. Are police officers immortals?”
“Don’t take all the responsibility on yourself.”
“The main responsibility lies with that damned mastermind, Gu Qianyang.”
“What you need to do is to let your colleagues rest in peace as soon as possible.”
“And… find that madman hiding in the dark and give everyone an explanation.”
“Including giving yourself an explanation.”
As he said this, the sound of police sirens could be heard in the distance, and it seemed that reinforcements were on their way.
Liu Haoyu stood up and patted the dust off his pants.
“Officer Wang, this case is not over yet.”
“Li Rongjun and Ke Wen are both waiting for you to bring them justice.”
“I will also do my best to help you deal with Gu Qianyang.”
With that, Liu Haoyu started to walk away. The lights of the police car illuminated his back, but soon, they disappeared bit by bit.
Wang Wenqi watched him leave.
“Indeed… instead of sighing here, it’s better to catch the scumbag quickly… Gu Qianyang… a name I haven’t heard of.”
He took a deep breath, then stood up, patted his face, and his gaze became sharp again.
“Captain Wang, what’s the situation?”
Ma Jianhua arrived at the scene with the other police officers.
“Captain Ke sacrificed himself, the terrorist escaped. Immediately seal off the scene and look for any remaining evidence.”
Ma Jianhua was not too surprised by this result. He couldn’t help but sigh, but when he looked at the gun in Wang Wenqi’s hand, he asked with some confusion.
“But Captain Wang, why does your gun have a few more… patterns?”
Hearing this, Wang Wenqi looked down at his handgun.
To be precise… it was the handgun Liu Haoyu gave him.
This handgun had extremely strong lethality against ghosts and monsters.
And through the information given by Liu Haoyu, he already knew the name of the mastermind – Gu Qianyang.
This ghost exorciser who should have died forty years ago but was resurrected for some unknown reason.
“It’s nothing,” Wang Wenqi got into the police car. “I’m going back to the station to check something. You guys continue to stay vigilant.”
He needed to find out all the information about Gu Qianyang, even if the clues were buried somewhere, for him now, he had to find them all.
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On the other side, Qin Liu followed behind Liu Haoyu.
She recalled what had just happened and reminded him.
“Ke Wen is dead, the fourth victim has appeared, and the fifth victim should be Li Rongjun, who died a few months ago.”
“Although it was a bit dark at the time, I still saw the symbol on his chest.”
Qin Liu’s words made Liu Haoyu stop.
“I saw it too. To turn even a soul from months ago into a mirror ghost, Gu Qianyang… this guy’s strength is indeed terrifyingly strong.”
None of the five victims so far were killed by him. With just a mirror ghost, he could deal with the targets one by one, without anyone knowing.
And Ke Wen’s last words made Liu Haoyu even more concerned.
“The next one… is you?”
Who was the “you” Ke Wen mentioned? Was it Wang Wenqi? Or… himself?
