Chapter 14 Cooperation

Chen Xiaomeng's face twitched slightly, but she still said, "It's enough for you to die, no need for such troublesome inverted rotations."

Jiang Cheng ignored her, shamelessly asking, "Where did you find this photo?"

"Second floor," Chen Xiaomeng said, "In the wardrobe where I was hiding. There was originally a frame, but I took it apart because it was a hassle."

"Wooden frame?" Jiang Cheng used his hand to roughly estimate the size, "About this big?"

Chen Xiaomeng's eyes changed slightly, and after a few seconds, she seemed to realize something.

But before she could ask, Jiang Cheng took out another identical one from his clothes... no, her pupils suddenly shrank. There were only 6 people in this photo!

A woman was missing.

"Did you find this on the first floor?" Chen Xiaomeng asked, looking up.

"No," Jiang Cheng shook his head, "I found it first, it has nothing to do with those two."

Chen Xiaomeng pursed her lips, her gaze towards Jiang Cheng filled with distrust.

"I know what you're thinking," Jiang Cheng sat beside Chen Xiaomeng, raising his eyebrows and saying, "You're wondering why I would voluntarily tell you that I have another photo."

Chen Xiaomeng remained silent.

Jiang Cheng didn't care about her reaction, and said to himself, "The ghost in this mission is very strange. From what I know, ghosts rarely kill two people in a short period of time, but you've seen this ghost. If I hadn't been so kind and helped you, all three of you would have been finished."

Chen Xiaomeng stared at Jiang Cheng and asked, "You want to... cooperate?"

"Mhm."

"Mr. Yin is like a prophet, with the heart of a snake. I don't think I can help you much." Because she was tied up, Chen Xiaomeng was very uncomfortable, and she was extremely dissatisfied with Jiang Cheng.

"If you hadn't discovered something, would you have risked coming to this abandoned building alone?" Jiang Cheng asked with a smile.

After thinking for a while, Chen Xiaomeng suddenly said, "What are your conditions?"

"After the mission is over, I want to leave first." This was Jiang Cheng's bottom line.

Chen Xiaomeng nodded, "Okay."

"Then what are Miss Chen's conditions?" Jiang Cheng asked, squinting his eyes.

"I have no conditions," Chen Xiaomeng said bluntly, "I just want to make friends with Mr. Yin and hope to meet after we leave this place."

Then, she lowered her voice very formally and said, "I have a lot of information about Nightmares that I can provide to Mr. Yin. Of course, I also hope that talents like Mr. Yin can provide me with some services."

Jiang Cheng squinted his eyes and sneered, "Stop with the act! You just want to find out my real location, then find someone to kidnap me and take me for yourself, right?"

Chen Xiaomeng: "......"

"I'm asking you," Jiang Cheng leaned over, staring into Chen Xiaomeng's eyes, and hummed, "Where are Li Lu and Yu Man?"

"They're still in the village looking for clues."

"Why did you split up?"

"Untie the rope first," Chen Xiaomeng said with a cold face, "I'm not comfortable and can't answer your questions."

Jiang Cheng untied the rope. Chen Xiaomeng took the opportunity to move her numb arms and legs, looking for Jiang Cheng's weaknesses to see if she had a chance to subdue him.

"Stop looking," Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes, coiling the rope while disdainfully saying, "I suggest you think carefully before you act. If you fail and I catch you, what kind of consequences will you face?"

After he said that, Chen Xiaomeng really didn't dare to act rashly.

While moving her numb forearms, she pretended to be tough and replied, "Some villagers told us that the courtyard we live in is the former Qian family mansion."

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng placed the two photos neatly in front of him. The positions of the chairs and people on them were exactly the same, except for one woman.

Why were there only 6 people in the photo on the first floor, while the photo hidden in the wardrobe on the second floor had one more woman?

Obviously, there was a big problem with this woman.

Chen Xiaomeng also came over at this time. After all, the ghost in the mission was their biggest threat.

Compared to the ghost, Jiang Cheng was nothing.

"This woman should be the Qian family's youngest daughter, Qian Jianxiu, who was rumored to have died of illness a long time ago," Chen Xiaomeng said, pointing to the woman, "The reason why her photo was hidden was because they were worried that someone would find out she was still alive."

It seemed that the Qian family had sent their daughter out of the village a long time ago, and then falsely claimed that their daughter had died of illness in the village.

As for why, Jiang Cheng thought it stemmed from the customs of Xiaoshijian Village.

There was a scarcity of women here, and there were waves of men waiting to get married, which over time evolved into the bad habit of not letting daughters leave the village.

The former Village Chief Qian's family couldn't bear to see their daughter suffer in the village, so they secretly sent their daughter out of the village under the guise of a fake death.

Many years later, another woman named Zhao Xiangmei returned to Xiaoshijian Village.

And she also started a shameful transaction in Xiaoshijian Village.

Abducting women from outside and selling them to the single men in the village.

Zhao Xiangmei... was the former Qian Jianxiu.

Now everything made sense...

Why Zhao Xiangmei had so much resentment towards the Qian family, because she was originally a member of the Qian family.

But when the police came to their door, the Qian family pushed all their crimes away, and let Qian Jianxiu, who had changed her name to Zhao Xiangmei, take the blame, saying that she was the mastermind.

Letting her be beaten by the women's parents, and even when she was dying, the Qian family never offered a helping hand, but chose to watch coldly, watching her die in pain.

Afterwards, they threw her body into the Hanzhen Pool, which symbolized shame.

After such an operation, Qian Jianxiu was full of resentment. It would be strange if she didn't rise from the dead.

"So... Zhao Xiangmei, no, Qian Jianxiu, turned the spear of revenge towards the Qian family," Chen Xiaomeng said slowly, "And that's why the Qian family was almost wiped out."

Jiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "It sounds like that's what happened, but... why didn't Qian Jianxiu attack the women who had been abducted, and the parents of the women who beat her? After all, she was beaten to death."

"Maybe the feeling of being betrayed by loved ones is more unforgettable than physical pain," Chen Xiaomeng sighed.

"I just think it's very strange," Jiang Cheng shrugged. "If I were her, I would definitely kill everyone who had a grudge against me. Whether it's the Qian family, those women, or their parents... I wouldn't let any of them go. Anyway, I'm a ghost, what am I afraid of?"

"I'd make those with bigger grudges die more painfully, and those with smaller grudges I'd just chop them up, and then I'd set a fire and make the whole Xiaoshijian Village disappear from the map!" The more Jiang Cheng spoke, the more energetic he became, and his face turned rosy.

Jiang Cheng's tone was very casual, but the hairs on Chen Xiaomeng's body stood up. She became more and more convinced of her previous judgment of Jiang Cheng.

He was sick, and he was seriously ill.

The most obvious manifestation of antisocial personality disorder is a strong sense of revenge, ignoring the constraints of social morality and ethics, and easily making behaviors that most people find unacceptable.

Therefore, it is also known as callous-unemotional traits.