The moment I asked the question, I saw Uncle Mei and Hu Wazi's expressions change.

Hu Wazi stared with his large, copper-bell eyes and asked, "What? A person covered in scales on their back? Brother-in-law, did they knock your head in?"

Uncle Mei also shook his head repeatedly.

Their reactions made me start to doubt myself.

Could I really have been mistaken?

But that scene was so clear. I could still recall the image perfectly when I closed my eyes.

I said to Uncle Mei again, "Uncle Mei, didn't you see it at the time? In the corner room of the villa, there was clearly a monster with scales and green eyes!"

Uncle Mei asked back, "You mean the room you desperately forced your way into, thinking An'an was being held there? There was someone in that room?"

"Yes! That's the room!" I nodded quickly. "There's someone in the room! The person I'm talking about, the one covered in scales!"

Uncle Mei recalled it carefully, nodding slightly as he said, "Now that you mention it, there should have been someone in that room. After all, there were always two people guarding the door. And I remember when you were smashing the door, Shopkeeper Wang pointed at that room and said something like, 'Take him with you, don't let him fall into the hands of the authorities'..."

With Uncle Mei's testimony, I was even more certain that I hadn't remembered wrong, there was someone in that room!

"What happened after that? Uncle, after I was knocked out, did you go into that room? Where's the person inside?" I asked quickly.

Uncle Mei said with a blank look, "Afterwards, Hu Wazi kicked the door open and went into the room, but inside... there was no one."

Hu Wazi also shrugged, saying, "Brother-in-law, there really wasn't anyone. I checked it myself."

"How is that possible?"

I couldn't figure it out no matter how hard I tried. Then, another thought occurred to me, and I asked,

"Right, does that room have a window? Could the person in the room have jumped out of the window and escaped?"

Hu Wazi shook his head and said, "Unlikely. There is a window, and I even took a look at it specifically. If you jump out of the window from that room, you'll end up in the Tuo River, and it's the section with the fastest current. No matter how good you are at swimming, you'll drown if you jump in."

Hearing this, I became even more convinced that the monster must have jumped out of the window and left!

Because he wasn't human!

His back was covered in scales, and his eyes were green!

At that moment, I really thought he might be a large fish from the river that had become a spirit, or perhaps an ancient corpse that had crawled out of the ancient Shu tombs!

Thinking of this, I suddenly remembered the black shadow that crawled out of the coffin that night!

If Jiang Yongguang's guess was wrong, then the black shadow wasn't some rat escaping in a coffin...

But really the owner of the tomb?

I quickly said, "What if, could it be that the one locked in that room was the black shadow that crawled out of the coffin that day? He wasn't afraid of the water at all, so he was able to jump into the Tuo River and escape?"

After hearing my analysis, Uncle Mei, Hu Wazi, and Xiao Liang looked at each other.

They were silent for a few seconds, then laughed in unison, as if I had told a huge joke.

Xiao Liang giggled, making the hand massaging my bruised area shake. She looked down at me and said, "Chen Rongsheng, you really have an imagination. It's a waste for you not to write novels."

Uncle Mei softly advised, "Rongsheng, you're too tired, take a rest, stop overthinking things."

I wanted to tell them that this wasn't overthinking!

Because I really saw that strange monster with my own eyes.

But I knew they wouldn't believe me, so I didn't bother wasting my breath and simply rested my head on Xiao Liang's soft and elastic thighs, closing my eyes to rest.

In the evening, Jiang Yongguang drove over.

As soon as they heard the sound of him parking in front of the door, Uncle Mei and Hu Wazi couldn't wait to greet him.

Xiao Liang and I followed behind, because we knew that Jiang Yongguang was likely bringing important news.

For example, news about the murderer who killed Aunt Mei, news about Little Mei's whereabouts, and so on...

However, when I saw Jiang Yongguang, I found that his expression was off, he looked very dejected, as if the mission had failed.

Hu Wazi, always impatient, stepped forward and asked, "How did it go? Did you find out who harmed my aunt?"

Uncle Mei also asked, "Is there any news of An'an?"

Jiang Yongguang sighed and shook his head, saying, "Don't even mention it, we arrested the wrong person."

"What?!"

We were all stunned.

Arrested the wrong person?

How could they arrest the wrong person?

Uncle Mei said loudly, "Impossible! Rongsheng and I personally confirmed that the person was Shopkeeper Wang, there's no mistake, how could we arrest the wrong person?"

I also said, "Yes, we heard Haozi call him Shopkeeper Wang with our own ears, that's why we signaled you to close the net."

Jiang Yongguang shrugged helplessly and said, "That person is indeed Shopkeeper Wang, there's no mistake about that. But this Shopkeeper Wang is not the Shopkeeper Wang we were supposed to arrest..."

The more I listened, the more confused I became. Could there be two Shopkeeper Wangs in the world?

At this time, Jiang Yongguang revealed the truth: "We caught the Little Shopkeeper Wang, the one in charge of logistics. His father is the real Shopkeeper Wang, the Old Shopkeeper Wang."

Hearing this, Uncle Mei and I were speechless and angry!

Hu Wazi kicked the wall hard and cursed, "Damn it! After all that, I wasted my energy for nothing!" httpδ:/m.kuAisugg.nět

Xiao Liang quickly advised, "Don't worry, Little Shopkeeper Wang is also a core member of the tomb robbing gang. Besides, father and son are of one mind, once we catch him, we won't have to worry about catching Old Shopkeeper Wang."

I also took a deep breath, calmed down, and nodded, saying, "Xiao Liang is right, at least we have a bargaining chip now."

After that, I asked Jiang Yongguang, "This Little Shopkeeper Wang can't be completely ignorant, right? He must be able to provide some information, right?"

"That's true." Jiang Yongguang admitted, "This kid has been pampered since he was little, he never goes into the tombs, so he knows nothing about tomb raiding. But he's in charge of logistics, he's responsible for the rats' equipment purchases, transportation, food, and lodging, so he has a lot of information."

"Does he know anything about Aunt Mei and Little Mei?" I asked again.

Avenging Aunt Mei and finding Little Mei's whereabouts are the two most important things to me at the moment.

Jiang Yongguang shook his head apologetically and replied, "Judging from his reaction, he has indeed never had contact with Aunt Mei and Little Mei, but don't worry, I will definitely continue to interrogate him, and if I can get any news, I'll tell you as soon as possible."

"Thanks." I patted his shoulder.

Uncle Mei couldn't hide his disappointment at all. He had originally hoped to find Little Mei through Shopkeeper Wang, but now that the person had been caught, the clues seemed to have been cut off.

He asked desperately, "Will we ever find An'an? Will we ever catch the murderer? It's been so long, I'm afraid there's no hope anymore, right?"

Jiang Yongguang quickly comforted, "Third Brother, don't worry. Now that Little Shopkeeper Wang has been caught, Old Shopkeeper Wang definitely can't escape either. That kid is easy to interrogate, we've tricked him into saying a lot with just a few words. We'll keep him up all night tonight and wear him down. We'll definitely be able to find out Old Shopkeeper Wang's whereabouts before tomorrow!"