Chapter 1306
Indictment
He speculated that Gong Xiaorui must have somehow found out that Guo Mengyun was a one-in-a-million "Extreme Yin Child," so she deliberately approached her and fabricated that bizarre dream, gradually luring her into the carefully laid trap of Hequan Manor.
As for the deeper secrets about reincarnation and cultivation methods, they seem to have become permanent mysteries with Gong Xiaorui's death.
The day Guo Mengyun was discharged from the hospital was sunny.
She and her sister Guo Qian were preparing to return to Tanzhou City. Before leaving, the two sisters came to say goodbye to Luo Fei.
"Officer Luo, we really owe you a debt of gratitude this time, otherwise Mengyun and I..."
As Guo Qian spoke, her eyes reddened again, and she pulled her younger sister into a deep bow.
Guo Mengyun also lowered her head and said softly.
"Thank you, Officer Luo, for saving my life."
Luo Fei looked at them, his tone calm yet solemn.
"Let bygones be bygones. Go back, forget this unpleasant experience, and live a good life."
Guo Mengyun nodded obediently, her lowered eyelids concealing a fleeting, almost imperceptible, smile with a strange allure that flashed deep within her eyes.
After Gong Xiaorui's death, the local government, based on archival records, notified her only remaining relative in the world—her uncle.
Out of curiosity about Gong Xiaorui herself, and because of some unresolved questions deep in his heart, Luo Fei took the initiative to find this seemingly honest and sad-looking middle-aged man.
During the inquiry, Luo Fei learned that Gong Xiaorui's parents originally ran a business in Tanzhou City. When she was eight years old, a fire broke out in their home, and both her parents perished in the flames. Young Gong Xiaorui was downstairs at the time and watched helplessly as the fire consumed everything.
Her maternal grandparents and other relatives had passed away long ago. Left with no other choice, her uncle took the orphaned Gong Xiaorui to live with him in Jiangcheng.
However, due to serious problems in his own marriage, his uncle was unable to support her and eventually had to send her to an orphanage.
From then on, Gong Xiaorui believed that her uncle had abandoned her and never saw him again.
The most crucial information came from Gong Xiaorui's birth.
Her uncle searched for a long time before finding an old notebook with blurry notes on it.
Gong Xiaorui was born on the fourth day of the fourth lunar month in 2000, around 4 a.m.
Upon hearing this time, Luo Fei's heart skipped a beat! It was 4:00 AM on the fourth day of the fourth lunar month in 2000!
This is completely consistent with Guo Mengyun's birth date and time, which Guo Qian had previously confirmed!
They were born on the same day, month, and year! They are all one in ten thousand "extremely Yin" children in the Four Pillars of Destiny! It is even highly likely that they were born in the same hospital!
Meanwhile, Guo Mengyun and her sister Guo Qian had already boarded a flight to Tanzhou.
As the plane weaved through the clouds, Guo Qian gazed at the sea of clouds outside the window, her thoughts a jumble of emotions—a mix of relief at surviving the ordeal and a sense of uncertainty about the future.
Guo Mengyun, who was sitting next to her, was quietly looking at the back of the seat in front of her. Suddenly, without warning, a smile that was completely out of place with her pure face, with a hint of evil and playfulness, appeared on her lips. She whispered in a voice that only she could hear, as if in a dream.
"Sister, do you remember? When you were eight, Dad and Mom took us on a picnic at the reservoir... Actually, it wasn't an accident, it was you... who pushed Mom in..."
Guo Qian turned her head abruptly, looking at her younger sister with a puzzled expression.
"Mengyun, what did you say? Your voice was too soft, I didn't hear you."
Guo Mengyun immediately stopped smiling, reverting to her obedient and gentle demeanor, and blinked blankly.
"Huh? I didn't say anything, sister. Did you hear me wrong?"
Guo Qian frowned, assuming it was just her exhaustion causing her to hallucinate, and turned back to look out the window.
Meanwhile, Luo Fei, at the temporary command post in Haizhu City, fell into deep thought.
Guo Mengyun and Gong Xiaorui not only share the same destiny, but they also both lived in Tanzhou City when they were young... Is this really a coincidence?
He recalled again the words of Master Li of Qingcheng Mountain about how that kind of evil magic required a "soul of extreme yin" and a "child of extreme yin." He also remembered Guo Qian's evaluation of her younger sister.
Guo Mengyun has been kind and helpful since childhood. She often donates money to mountainous areas, visits elderly people living alone in nursing homes, and was even named the school's "Ambassador of Love". How could such a "kind" girl be the inheritor of that evil cultivation method?
A bold and chilling idea flashed through his mind like lightning!
Could it be... that they made a mistake from the very beginning?!
The real mastermind behind it all, the reincarnation of Wang Taozhen, is not the stubborn and tragic Gong Xiaorui, but rather this seemingly pure, harmless, and even "charity ambassador"—Guo Mengyun?!
Perhaps Gong Xiaorui was just another "assistant" she chose? Just like Wang Shizhen assisted Tan Yangzi back then? That's why Gong Xiaorui shouted "we" when she pressed the explosion remote control!
Luo Fei immediately pulled out the photos of Guo Mengyun stored on his phone and stared intently at the screen.
In his [Genius Eye], the area above Guo Mengyun's head was empty, with no display of any sin value!
How is that possible? If she was the mastermind, how could she be completely innocent? Unless…
Luo Fei's mind raced.
Unless, of course, all the direct acts of killing, soul-stealing, and poisoning were carried out by Xie Junshan and Gong Xiaorui! Guo Mengyun was merely "passively" used as "material" from beginning to end, or was either hiding behind the scenes directing the operation!
The system follows real-world legal rules and only records crimes that directly violate the law. Mystical matters like "soul-stealing cultivation" are beyond the scope of the law, and in cases like the poisoning and murder of his female secretary Su Qiao, the evidence all points to Xie Junshan!
Guo Mengyun had long ago prepared a plan for her cultivation to fail. As long as Xie Junshan did not accuse her, she could perfectly hide herself and get away unscathed!
Having figured this out, Luo Fei felt a chill run from the soles of his feet straight to the top of his head!
Now, there is probably only one person who knows who is the real reincarnation of Wang Taozhen—Xie Junshan!
Luo Fei suddenly stood up, his eyes sharp as a hawk's, and gave an order to Chen Fan.
"Get the car ready! Head to the city criminal investigation team's detention center! I need to interrogate Xie Junshan immediately!"
He had to confirm this terrible suspicion immediately!
The car sped all the way to the detention center of the Haizhu City Criminal Investigation Detachment. After completing the tedious formalities, Luo Fei waited in an interrogation room with four walls and only a table and a few chairs.
The heavy iron gate was opened, and Xie Junshan, wearing handcuffs and shackles, walked in unsteadily, escorted by two prison guards.
The days of detention had made him look somewhat haggard, but the arrogance and indifference in his eyes had not diminished in the slightest.
He saw Luo Fei sitting opposite him, curled his lips into a disdainful sneer, as if mocking Luo Fei's defeated opponent.
Luo Fei ignored his attitude, leaning forward slightly, his gaze sharp as a knife, piercing Xie Junshan's heart, and asked the most crucial question. "Xie Junshan, tell me, who was it that went to the United States to find you and persuaded you to return to China to carry out this so-called 'immortal cultivation project'... was it Gong Xiaorui, or—Guo Mengyun?"
Luo Fei's almost tangible gaze was fixed on Xie Junshan's face, and the question he asked was like a heavy hammer blow to the air in the closed interrogation room.
Xie Junshan's disdainful sneer froze slightly, and his pupils contracted for a moment, but he immediately regained his arrogant and indifferent demeanor and chuckled.
"Director Luo, what nonsense are you spouting? I don't understand."
"Can't understand?"
Luo Fei leaned forward even more, creating a strong sense of pressure.
"Xie Junshan, even now, do you still want to hide the truth for your real 'master'? Gong Xiaorui is dead! You think she is the reincarnation of Wang Taozhen? No, we were all wrong, wrong from the very beginning!"
The person who hid deepest within, orchestrating all of this, the one to whom even you, a genius whose past life was Wang Shizhen, willingly pledged your loyalty, is Guo Mengyun, isn't she?!
Xie Junshan's eyes flickered as he avoided Luo Fei's sharp gaze, his tone stiff.
"I don't know what nonsense you're spouting."
I did everything. Kill me or torture me, just give me a quick death!
"It seems you won't tell the truth unless I use some tricks."
Luo Fei's eyes turned cold, and he no longer hesitated.
He took a deep breath, focused his mind, and quietly activated the ability of the [Genius Eye]. Combined with the rudimentary hypnosis techniques he had learned indirectly from Xie Junshan and combined with his own powerful mental strength, his gaze was like two vortexes, deeply piercing into Xie Junshan's eyes.
“Look into my eyes, Xie Junshan.”
Luo Fei's voice became deep and had a strange rhythm, as if it had magic.
“Tell me the truth… Who was the person who crossed the ocean to find you in the United States back then, awakened your past life memories, and made you believe in this absurd path of cultivation? Was it Gong Xiaorui or Guo Mengyun?”
Xie Junshan's body jolted violently, and a struggling expression appeared on his face, as if he wanted to resist this invisible force.
However, he was already mentally injured, and with the overwhelming power of Luo Fei's mental strength, his resistance melted away like ice and snow meeting the sun.
His eyes gradually became empty and confused, his lips trembled, and finally, a sound mixed with awe, fanaticism and fear squeezed out of his throat.
"It's...it's Master...it's Guo Mengyun..."
Despite having suspected it beforehand, Luo Fei's heart still skipped a beat when he heard the answer with his own ears.
He maintained the hypnotic state and continued to ask questions.
"Explain yourself! Tell me everything, in its entirety!"
Guided by Luo Fei, Xie Junshan began to reveal the truth hidden in the darkest corner of his mind, as if in a dream.
“Master… Guo Mengyun… she is the true Master Tanyang, the reincarnation of Wang Taozhen… when she was eight years old, she fully awakened her memories of her past life… this wasn’t her first reincarnation; the previous times… all failed… in the modern era, her obsession with cultivating immortality and ascending to heaven is stronger than in any of her previous lives…”
"In this information age... she easily found that kind of... easy-to-success 'shortcut' to cultivating immortality by using Taoist magic arrays to absorb human souls..."
“She found me… At that time, I was still lost. Although I was intelligent, I didn’t know the meaning of life… She awakened me… She reminded me that I am Wang Shizhen… her most loyal disciple…”
“I understand… Helping Master ascend to immortality requires a great deal of money… and Master promised me… that after she achieves her goal and ascends to heaven… she will also help me embark on the path to immortality… so I will do my utmost…”
"I strive to be a top student... to get into the best university... to go to Harvard... to start a business... all of this is to accumulate capital..."
"Later... at my master's instruction... I sold my shares in the US company... and returned to China with tens of billions... My master took one billion of them..."
"She used this money...through various channels...to buy information on girls born all over the country, according to their birth dates and times..."
"I taught her advanced hypnosis techniques... and she learned them very quickly... faster than I expected..."
"She had me secretly bring back seedlings of the Magic Grass from Australia...to cultivate in an underground dojo...to extract the toxins..."
"Using the poison and hypnosis of the Magic Fairy Grass... she... she remotely controlled those extremely Yin women... making them, in their hallucinations... create 'accidents' to kill their own loved ones... transforming them one by one... into 'human demons' that met the requirements..."
"It was also she who got me to set up the construction company... to bribe those greedy officials... and get the land for Feixian Temple... and spend three years... secretly moving the entire Feixian Temple... underground..."
At this point, Xie Junshan paused, a complex expression on his face.
"Gong Xiaorui...her parents...originally had business dealings with Guo Mengyun's parents in this life...they knew each other since they were children..."
"Master... Guo Mengyun... unexpectedly discovered that Gong Xiaorui was born on the same day, month, and hour as herself... and is also a one-in-a-million Yin Child..."
"So... Gong Xiaorui became the first 'material' she found... She subjected the then eight-year-old Gong Xiaorui to psychological control and PUA... forcing her... to set fire to and kill her parents..."
"Master originally intended to take this opportunity to adopt Gong Xiaorui and completely control this extremely yin child... but unexpectedly... Gong Xiaorui was taken away by her uncle..."
Later... Guo Mengyun's parents in this life... also drowned in a reservoir in an "accident"...
"It wasn't until after high school graduation... that Master found Gong Xiaorui again... and used the magic herb toxin and hypnosis... to erase Gong Xiaorui's memory of being instructed to kill her parents... The two became 'best friends' again... and were admitted to the same university..."
"My master instructed me to use the name of the Samsara Group to... fund the orphanage where Gong Xiaorui lives... also to better control her..."
"Later... Gong Xiaorui had that strange dream... and told her master... Years later... when Luo Fei got a replacement phone card, Gong Xiaorui discovered at the telecommunications bureau that the number was real... and her master took the opportunity to invite her to come to Haizhu City together..."
"Pretending to be imprisoned by Xie Junshan...that is, by me...is just to ensure that Gong Xiaorui, this 'material,' won't encounter any accidents before her soul is finally extracted...and will stay obediently in the designated place..."
The narrative thoroughly reveals the true mastermind behind Guo Mengyun's deep-seated, ruthless, and decades-long scheme!
Upon hearing this, Luo Fei felt a chill run up his spine and straight to the top of his head!
He released Xie Junshan from the hypnosis, gave the unconscious man a deep look, and strode out of the interrogation room. Behind him, Xie Junshan slowly awoke, looked around blankly, seemingly having no recollection of what he had just said. (End of Chapter)