Li Xiangnan's words, "Where is your body?" still lingered in the air, while in the observation room next door, a collective gasp filled the air!

All the police officers, experts, professors, and even Qi Zhiyuan, Fan Deting, Lu Hang, Wang Ming, and Hong Chunlin were dumbfounded at this moment, their faces filled with disbelief!

If everyone had known before that Chen Hanguo had a completely different personality and a mental illness, they could have accepted it to some extent!

But just now, they heard a nineteen-year-old boy recounting a twenty-year-old unsolved case using another person's identity, another person's memories, another person's emotions, and another person's tone!

"How is this possible?!" Hong Chunlin adjusted his glasses, which had slipped down to the tip of his nose, his voice trembling. "A... a wronged spirit from twenty years ago? How is this possible... how did he enter the body of a modern teenager? This... this completely violates all known principles of psychopathology!"

"Did he just... just admit that his name is Hu Jianjun?" Wang Defa was also dumbfounded, his voice trembling as he exclaimed.

Professor Wang Ming murmured to himself, "Memory can be faked, emotions can be imitated... This feeling, as if the soul has directly entered... is too real! This... although it can be explained by dissociative identity disorder... it completely exceeds its scope!"

Lu Hang took a deep breath and exclaimed, "Perhaps science is not advanced enough yet, and we don't know for sure if there are ways like bioelectricity or biomagnetism that allow another person to perceive events happening in different spaces and times... Indeed, science has no end!"

The police officers, including Qi Zhiyuan and Fan Deting, looked at each other in bewilderment, and at that moment they felt a chill run from the soles of their feet straight to the top of their heads.

Those present were all veteran police officers who had handled countless cases, seen the most vicious criminals, and dealt with incredibly difficult situations. However, this bizarre phenomenon of "possession by a vengeful spirit" overturned their worldview and scientific understanding.

Several of the slightly younger police officers even subconsciously rubbed their arms, which were covered in goosebumps, as if trying to dispel the invisible chill in their hearts!

The entire observation room was deathly silent with shock, as everyone was processing this fact that was enough to shake their lifelong beliefs!

However, inside the inquiry room.

Hu Jianjun shuddered upon hearing Li Xiangnan's question, as if he had been pulled back to those years decades ago.

He looked at Li Xiangnan with fear in his eyes, a stark contrast to the thug he had been before, and his voice became weak and feeble.

“I… it’s been so long… I don’t remember very clearly… I remember there was a lake there… many people were buried there… there was a big rock…”

His memory was confused, and he couldn't give precise coordinates. He just kept muttering about the lake, the big rocks, and the many dead people.

Li Xiangnan's hand remained on his shoulder and did not move away.

He then reassured Hu Jianjun with warm words, "Don't worry, now that I know about this, I will definitely not let you suffer in vain. I, Li Xiangnan, promise you that I will thoroughly investigate your case, find out the truth, and give you justice! Calm down and take good care of your health. Of course, don't push Chen Hanguo too hard; after all, it's his health!"

Hu Jianjun looked at him, feeling inexplicably moved. His trembling body calmed down a bit, and the fear in his eyes was replaced by hope.

Seeing this, Li Xiangnan knew that if he continued to ask, the wronged soul in the guise of someone else wouldn't be able to say much more. The most urgent thing was to quickly confirm whether all of this was true. So he beckoned the waiting prison doctor to come in and take care of Chen Hanguo, and then stepped out of the interrogation room.

As soon as he came out, he was immediately surrounded by the crowd that poured out of the observation room.

"Xiao Li, holy crap, this...this..." Wang Defa rushed up, not knowing how to describe the shock in his heart.

Li Xiangnan waved his hand, his expression grave, to silence the chatter around him. He calmly said, "Director Qi, Director Fan, everyone. I know that Hu Jianjun's words are shocking, but as law enforcers and those in the know, we must remain calm!"

"His words just now are only one side of the story. Until we find conclusive physical evidence, we can only take them as a reflection of Chen Hanguo's mental state. We cannot completely believe them!"

He looked around at the people and shared his thoughts: "Perhaps this is Chen Hanguo's extreme empathy for Hu Jianjun's experience, leading to identity substitution. Perhaps it really is some kind of mental substitution phenomenon that we don't yet understand, and it might even be related to biomagnetic fields and bioelectricity!"

Seeing that everyone's gazes had calmed down slightly, he continued, "But now that Hu Jianjun has given us a rough coordinate, we still need to put in some effort. What if we really find the body? Only by digging up the body can we say that the case from back then has any clues! We can reopen the investigation!"

Qi Zhiyuan nodded, took a deep breath, and said, "Hu Jianjun is talking about the lake? The big rock and the place where people are buried?"

"Could it be the mass grave behind the funeral home? There's a lake there!" Fan Deting exclaimed.

Qi Zhiyuan said decisively, "Director Fan, immediately gather manpower, bring tools and forensic experts, and rush to the scene to find an area that meets the criteria and begin the search immediately!"

"Yes!" Fan Deting accepted the order and prepared to leave.

"Director Fan!" Li Xiangnan called out to him again, "There's something else. The two charred corpses found in the Gangshan mine twenty years ago, have someone check the final disposal records to see where they were disposed of!"

"it is good!"

Once the order was issued, the entire Luzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau sprang into action.

The next morning, Li Xiangnan and the others arrived at the overgrown, chaotic graveyard outside the city, where the autumn wind was blowing bleakly.

There was indeed a lake, which gave everyone an inexplicable sense of unease.

Everyone began to cooperate in searching the area near the large rock that Hu Jianjun had mentioned.

I searched all morning but found nothing.

But the comrades who were going to the funeral home rushed over in a hurry.

"Director Qi, Director Fan, Consultant Li, we've found it!"

"The two unclaimed charred corpses from twenty years ago were kept at the bureau for six months according to the simplified transfer record before being handed over to the funeral home. They were then kept there for another six months before being buried here! Because they were crime scene corpses, a reference point was specifically noted: a crooked tree!"

"A crooked tree?" Fan Deting suddenly looked up and around.

Almost at the same time, Wang Defa, who was pulling Lu Hang to look for stones not far away, shouted: "Xiao Li, here! There's a big stone here, and behind the stone... there really is a crooked tree!"

hum!

Upon hearing this, everyone felt a chill run down their spines, and the hairs on their bodies stood on end!

The big rock that Hu Jianjun was talking about.

The crooked tree in the archives!

The two were perfectly matched in the same location!

Li Xiangnan, Qi Zhiyuan, and Fan Deting rushed over quickly.

Between two weathered boulders, a crooked locust tree, struggling to survive, stood tall in the wind, its branches like ghostly claws, already towering above the boulders, its yellow stubble reaching towards the sky.

Without needing any instructions, numerous police officers picked up shovels and began digging near the boulder.

As the soil was shoveled away, people's hearts grew inexplicably tense with the pervasive earthy smell!

Hey!

suddenly!

"what?!"

Hong Chunlin, who was helping with the work, suddenly jumped out of the pit, let out a scream, and pointed into the pit, his face turning pale.

Everyone looked down, their hearts stopped!

In the half-meter-deep pit, two skeletons, with only thigh bones and part of the pelvis remaining, were exposed.

They still bear the marks of certain dark brown spots, lying here for twenty years, silently protesting their injustice.

There was dead silence.

The wind blew across the mass grave, swirling up countless withered leaves.

Yet it could not dispel the chilling aura that permeated the air, chilling one's very soul.

I never imagined that the skeletons from twenty years ago would be recovered in such a way—

See the light of day again!

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