Chapter 1 Zhou Ze Is Afraid of Trouble

Zhou Ze was very afraid of trouble, really afraid of trouble, but that didn't mean that when something really pointed directly at him, he would still be stupid enough to cover his eyes with two leaves and pretend he didn't see anything.

Seeing Zhou Ze's face become so serious after he said those words, Xu Qinglang was also stunned, and subconsciously asked:

"Is something wrong?"

Zhou Ze shook his head, "Nothing."

"Then I'll go up first?"

"Okay."

Xu Qinglang went upstairs, turning his head three times as he went. Instinctively, he felt that something was wrong, but since Zhou Ze was unwilling to share it with him, he wouldn't force it. Everyone has their own little secrets and their own calculations.

"You're serious now?"

Tang Shi looked at Zhou Ze, a half-smile on her face.

Zhou Ze was also looking at Tang Shi, flicking the ashes from his cigarette, and said:

"Why are you investigating me?"

"I told you, it's because I'm curious." Tang Shi took the initiative to walk to the bar, closing the distance between herself and Zhou Ze, while sliding her fingertip across the bar, "You know, you're different from us, really different."

"You've said that before, because I haven't truly experienced hell, and you have all been tortured."

"No, it's not that simple. That person and I managed to escape after experiencing the great terror of hell, while you were able to escape from the Yellow Springs Road just as you were about to start down it.

Do you know,

one thing, one experience,

is enough to completely change a person.

For example, that person and I subconsciously shudder whenever we talk about the word 'hell', because the word 'hell' and all the images associated with it are a great terror imprinted in our hearts.

Even though we have all 'lived' again, our personalities and behaviors have been greatly changed as a result.

You're different. You just took a trip to the outskirts of hell and came back.

So, you can sit at a small table with that policeman, laughing and chatting about hell, talking and laughing freely."

"So, what exactly does that mean, what else did you find out?"

The truck driver who ran me over is dead.

Xu Le's cousin, who helped Xu Le hire someone to kill me, is also dead.

Two people, died together in a short period of time.

Ordinary people might not connect the deaths of these two people, but for Zhou Ze, this matter was very unusual.

Xu Le is dead, his body is mine.

The driver is dead.

The cousin is also dead.

Everyone who was involved in this matter before is dead.

Is there really such a coincidence?

"We are aliens in this world, we are even different from the ghost messengers, we are stowaways, and you are an alien among aliens.

We are not the same."

"Get to the point." Zhou Ze tapped the blackboard (bar).

"Have you never suspected that your death and your rebirth were not an accident?"

Tang Shi lowered her voice and asked slowly,

"Think carefully, is there anything you previously overlooked?"

…………

"They're coming after me, they've found me…"

The old man's nails pierced into his arm, as well as the old man's final relieved smile.

At the traffic light, just as my car drove out,

a truck ran a red light,

charging straight towards me.

The firelight and heat of the crematorium;

the numbness and desolation on the Yellow Springs Road in hell.

The faceless woman's roar and unwillingness,

the black fingernails growing from my fingertips.

Myself staggering vaguely on the side of the road,

a man in a hoodie ran out of the bookstore,

he smashed Xu Le to death with a baseball bat,

and then I entered Xu Le's body.

…………

Zhou Ze slowly raised his head and opened his eyes,

the person who killed Xu Le,

after I reported it to the police that time, what was his fate?

Zhou Ze had always overlooked this matter.

He had been going back and forth between the bookstore and Doctor Lin, understanding Xu Le's death and his own "usurpation of the nest" as a cycle of karma and retribution.

It was also heaven with eyes in another sense.

But since the old man who was sent to the hospital for resuscitation deliberately pierced his arm with his fingernails,

the truck driver who ran the red light and killed me deliberately,

so many people, were all deliberate,

then,

that man who I previously explained as having a momentary impulse to rob some money and敲了徐乐 to death with a baseball bat,

could he also,

possibly be deliberate?

If he was deliberate,

it would mean that from my death to my rebirth,

this line,

was all deliberately designed, and I was like a toy car on a toy racetrack, seemingly speeding, but actually just following a set track.

"It seems you've thought of something."

Tang Shi put another White Rabbit candy into her mouth.

Zhou Ze picked up the phone. He was going to call the police station. He had reported the case last time and made a statement at the police station. His first meeting with Doctor Lin was also at the police station.

The policewoman brought Doctor Lin in front of him and said, "Your wife is here to take you home."

Zhou Ze was still in a daze for a while.

However, before making the call, Zhou Ze looked at Tang Shi and asked:

"How did you find out?"

"You know, compared to us,

it's like in a wolf den,

a cute husky has混进去."

………………

The rain was still falling, with no sign of stopping. Tongcheng is located in the Yangtze River Delta region, and naturally there is plenty of rain this season.

There are no earthquakes or tsunamis here. The only thing that happens frequently enough to cause some impact is waterlogging.

Wearing a raincoat, Zhou Ze walked under the old apartment building. The trash cans were already soaked in rainwater, and some of the trash had floated out.

Tang Shi was wearing rain boots and a black raincoat, her legs looming in the rain, but Zhou Ze naturally didn't have the mood to appreciate this scenery.

He had called earlier to check the situation. The person he sent to the police station was only detained for half a month. The charge was only violating public security regulations. After all, although he went to Zhou Ze's store to "commit a crime," the final result was that he was knocked down by Zhou Ze, so it was difficult to get a major charge.

Moreover, Zhou Ze couldn't possibly say:

Police officer,

he is a murderer,

he killed me,

and I am not me,

I am a borrowed corpse!!!

If he said that,

it is estimated that he would not go in,

but he would be forcibly sent to a mental hospital instead.

However, Zhou Ze still found that person's address from there, in this area.

"It's this one."

After going up to the second floor, Zhou Ze stopped in front of a door.

Most of the people living in this community are migrant workers who come to Tongcheng to work. The environment and facilities are actually very poor, and they still use public toilets.

"Are you sure?" Tang Shi asked.

"The house number should be correct."

Zhou Ze tried to look towards the window, but there was a screen window blocking it, as well as old curtains, so it was impossible to see clearly from the outside.

"I'll find something to pry the door open first…"

"Click…"

The door lock opened automatically.

Tang Shi made a gesture of invitation to Zhou Ze.

Zhou Ze was stunned for a moment,

smiled,

and walked in.

Thinking to himself that it's a pity not to be a thief with you.

The room was actually a one-bedroom apartment,

one room,

with a bed, a wardrobe, and a small stove with an induction cooker.

The room was fairly tidy, but some places had accumulated dust, indicating that it hadn't been occupied for a long time.

"How long has he been released?"

"Several months. I sent him to the police station the day after I was reborn, and he was released half a month later."

Zhou Ze looked around, examining the details here.

"Did he move?" Tang Shi said.

Zhou Ze shook his head, "Not sure."

The guy who killed Xu Le with a baseball bat,

is missing?

Zhou Ze suddenly noticed that there was a slightly different area on the wall behind the bed. He stepped onto the bed, reached out and touched the area of the wall, and then said:

"This wall seems to have been painted later."

"Is there something hidden inside?" Tang Shi asked.

Zhou Ze put his ear close to the wall and knocked on the wall, "It doesn't seem to be hollow."

In fact, it is very common for wall positions in this type of house to be hollow. Generally, when decorating a new apartment, the decoration team will first send a master over to tap the walls and floors with a ruler. If they find a problem, they will ask the developer to rectify it before proceeding with the decoration work.

"Just open it and see." Tang Shi said.

Zhou Ze nodded. He was just about to say that he would find a tool, then glanced at Tang Shi and consciously took a few steps back.

Tang Shi looked at the knives and other hard objects next to the induction cooker, and then these objects flew out, constantly hitting and chiseling the wall, again and again.

The thought of a construction company reappeared in Zhou Ze's mind.

Bai Yingying alone is worth the labor of a construction team,

Tang Shi can be worth a batch of engineering machinery,

and he only needs to sit there and count the money.

However, as the wall continued to crack, Zhou Ze immediately abandoned the miscellaneous thoughts in his mind.

"Bang!"

A piece of the wall broke and fell,

and a human face was revealed,

this human face still maintained a horrified expression, seemingly perfectly continuing the emotional state before death.

It was that person,

it was the person who killed Xu Le with a baseball bat!

In the air,

there was a sour smell.

Zhou Ze reached out and checked the corpse inside, frowned, and said:

"The corpse hasn't been dead for even a week."

"You don't seem to be a forensic doctor." Tang Shi reminded.

"This is common sense for surgeons. The time of death can be roughly judged based on the degree of decomposition of the corpse." Zhou Ze explained.

"Then I can tell you that the wall I just knocked on was definitely not sealed up less than a week ago, at least three months ago."

Tang Shi peeled open a candy, put it in her mouth, and continued:

"Unless you think he was killed a week ago and then teleported into a wall that was sealed three months ago."

Zhou Ze immediately realized that something was wrong.

Obviously, the corpse could not have been "spatially transferred" into the wall later, and the wall was intact before Tang Shi dug into it.

Sniffing,

that sour smell,

I only thought it was the smell emitted by the corpse before,

at this time,

Zhou Ze suddenly realized something, pulled open the corpse's head hair,

sure enough,

he found a small hole, this was an injection hole.

"Yes, the corpse has been dead for a long time, but he was injected with formalin, so the corpse can be preserved so well.

In addition,

formalin should have been slowly injected into him while he was still alive,

because it would be more effective to spread throughout the body with the help of blood circulation."