Rebirth 78, the beginning of the marriage was broken off by the female educated youth

Upon seeing this sentence, Li Xiangnan's first reaction was immense confusion!

Chen Hanguo's case has indeed caused quite a stir. He killed four people in the street, which is known to everyone in Luzhou City. Moreover, it happened during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, and many tourists from other places witnessed this tragedy and were very concerned!

However, what shocked people was his sudden act of killing, but they were unaware of the inside story!

For example, details about things like the old coal mine are only known to those who were involved from the beginning and the end.

None of the people who had been with Chen Hanguo these past few days—the police officers, Director Qi, Director Fan, and the experts and scholars who diagnosed his condition—knew about this situation!

But now, suddenly this note has appeared, and the information on it tells me to go to the old coal mine in person, and to avoid the officials.

This is something to consider!

This is definitely not information that someone nearby could have sent!

Because there is absolutely no need.

If it were the police officers who had been involved these past few days, they would have discussed it directly in meetings of all sizes, rather than informing me of the direction for solving the case by passing me notes.

This person naturally did not want any officials involved.

No, it's not that he was involved; it's that he simply didn't trust the officials!

Who would distrust the official information and instead pass it on to them?

Is he an insider who knows the truth about what happened back then?

Or is he a victim related to Chen Hanguo's second personality?

Is it related to Chen Hanguo?

Is it related to those four victims?

"Little Li, Little Li..."

A series of exclamations woke Li Xiangnan up. He handed the note to Defa, saying, "Fatty, take a look!"

"..." Wang Defa took the note, glanced at it, and jumped up from the bed. "Holy crap, there's a mole!"

After saying this, sweat immediately broke out on his forehead. "No, no, this person isn't one of ours... otherwise, he wouldn't be talking like that. Does he not trust the authorities?"

Li Xiangnan shook his head. "I'm just guessing, but who would send us a message?"

"Could it be a relative of Chen Hanguo? Someone from the old man's side?" Wang De asked.

Li Xiangnan shook his head again. "No, if he knew about the old coal mine, he would have told me when he saw me tonight! It couldn't be him!"

"Who is that?" As soon as Wang Defa said this, he immediately opened the door and ran out. Two minutes later, he came back, shuffling back in his slippers. "I went downstairs to check, but I didn't see anyone!"

Li Xiangnan stood by the window, looking down at the city's public security bureau across the street. "Chief Qi and his team are investigating the written leads. We're going to the old coal mine tomorrow; I was just planning to go check it out!"

The two stayed there until midnight, still unable to figure out who had given them the note. They slept fitfully until the next morning, then secretly made an excuse and took a tricycle straight to Laomeifang Lane.

This is an old brick alley, the street is dilapidated, many buildings have collapsed beams, and moss and weeds grow under the broken walls, making it look extremely desolate.

Most of the buildings and houses had their doors and windows nailed shut, making it impossible to enter. Only a few elderly people remained, and they were wary of strangers.

The two tried to strike up a conversation, but when asked what happened at the old coal mine twenty years ago, the old people all turned pale.

"I don't know, I don't know anything!"

"Go, go, go! What are you asking? Get out of here!"

Some people with a better attitude might say they don't know, while others with a bad expression might simply close the door, blocking the two of them outside.

After asking four or five households, all of which had the same situation, the two of them felt their spirits plummeted.

"This is definitely not right, Xiao Li!" Wang Defa said, munching on a steamed bun and drinking water at the intersection, getting angrier the more he thought about it. "We've been pretty nice, haven't we? We've given out a whole pack of cigarettes this morning!"

Li Xiangnan squatted on the ground, looking at the end of the alley. At the end of his vision was the mountain road winding out of the coal mine. He stood up and said, "If we keep walking, we're sure to run into someone!"

The two made their way towards the mine. After leaving the alley and walking a few hundred meters further, they came to a fork in the road where a large, solitary house stood by the roadside. It looked even more dilapidated than the houses in the alley.

The two wandered around the area, somewhat lost.

"Why is this house all alone here? There's not a soul in the hundreds of meters around! Why is someone living here?" Wang Defa stood at the door, puzzled. To his right was the old coalfield alley, and to his left was a fork in the road leading into the mountains and into the mining area.

"Let's go, it won't take up any more time!" Li Xiangnan couldn't answer the question, so he patted the man's shoulder and pulled him inside. Suddenly, he saw a woodcutter resting in the shade under a big tree by the roadside.

The two exchanged a glance, quickly ran over to offer each other cigarettes, and chatted casually about the mining area that used to be there, treating each other like fellow travelers.

Knowing this opportunity was hard-won, Wang Defa offered cigarettes even more frequently this time.

The old man exhaled smoke, looking down at the dilapidated alley not far below the mountain, and sighed, "Brothers, don't wander around here if you don't have to... It's very eerie... That alley... and that mine, nobody dares to go in..."

Wang Defa's heart skipped a beat. He exchanged a glance with Li Xiangnan, squatted down, and asked, "Fellow villager, why?"

"Why? To save my life! That place isn't clean...it's haunted...lots of people died there back then..."

"hiss!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Defa's expression changed slightly.

"Haunted?" Li Xiangnan squinted and followed his words, trying to make his tone sound less ulterior motives, and said with a smile, "Fellow villager, you've seen it? You can't go around saying things like that!"

The old man shuddered and glanced timidly in the direction of the old house. “I’ve never seen it… but I’ve experienced it… I used to live at the back of that alley, but I moved across the river… Even though you’re the only one in your house, it gets lively at night. There’s noise everywhere—on top of the wardrobe, on the beams, on the tiles, in the water tank. You can feel like there are people everywhere… It will scare you to death, or torture you to death! Can you stand it? You simply can’t!”

This fellow villager was saying strange things, but his tone was quite amusing.

Wang Defa glanced at Xiao Li and asked in tacit agreement, "Grandpa, don't scare me. It can't be haunted, can it? There must be some reason, right? Tell me!"

"My heroes, you're absolutely right. What a tragedy... The Hu family... they died a truly horrific death... Look..."

When Li Xiangnan and Wang Defa heard this, their hearts skipped a beat. They thought to themselves, "It's here, it's finally showing some signs."

Then they saw the old man point his hand up the mountain.

"Look, the bodies of the Hu family... were found in the mine above... After that, the alley and the mine started to be haunted... and quite fiercely so. Every night, women would cry, and babies would want you to hold them... Over time, everyone in the neighborhood moved away... and the mine was abandoned... who the hell would dare to live there anymore..."

The Hu family?

Miner corpses?

A family massacre?

Upon hearing this information, Li Xiangnan's heart began to pound violently.

It seemed that all the clues had suddenly become clear to this fellow villager at this moment!

tom!

As if guided by some unseen force, a thunderclap suddenly boomed in the sky, and a huge flash of light instantly turned the three people's faces snow-white.

In the woods, lightning flashed and thunder roared, and a chilling wind blew, giving one a creepy feeling even in broad daylight.

"Damn it! I won't say anything more, okay!" The old man jumped up in fright, abandoning his own firewood, hurriedly picked up his machete, and rushed towards another path down the mountain.

Rumble!

A deafening clap of thunder echoed across the mountaintop, seemingly exploding right above the two men!

Then, large raindrops followed one after another, instantly soaking the two of them to the bone!

"Let's go back to the station and investigate the mining case!"

An alarm bell blared in Li Xiangnan's mind.

He had a premonition that the second personality within Chen Hanguo was probably intricately connected to the Hu family.

It's even possible that they were members of the Hu family who died tragically back then!