Section 31 When Wang Fei shouted like that, a cold sweat instantly broke out over me. Instinctively, I used my flashlight to scan around, but found nothing. I turned to Wang Fei and asked, "How did you know it was here?" Wang Fei pointed to the side. I followed his finger and saw the pit I had jumped into earlier. I suddenly remembered that before I jumped down, there were indeed some hairs floating on the water surface of that pit. Could it be that the hairs belonged to that thing? And the iron grate covering it earlier was to prevent it from escaping? The real reason Wang Fei brought Ling Zhijie and the other police here was actually to get their help dealing with that thing? Thinking of this, my body shivered violently. I looked at the pit from a distance, then at Wang Fei, unable to figure out what the situation really was. I only knew that Ling Zhijie and I had done some things according to Wang Fei's plan. As for what consequences it had triggered, I had no idea, and I was not even sure if Wang Fei himself had the whole situation under control. I looked at him again and asked, "So what we did before... did we kill that thing... or let it go?" Wang Fei shrugged and said, "I don't know..." "What do you mean, you don't know?! You brought us here to help you deal with that thing, didn't you?" Facing Wang Fei's answer, I nearly lost control, but I immediately realized I must not act that way, and so I softened my tone and added, "You must have had a plan before coming here, right? I mean, a plan for dealing with that thing here?" "Plan? Yes, I had a plan. I knew I couldn't kill it here, so I wanted to take it out of here..." Before Wang Fei could finish, I interrupted and asked, "What did you just say? Take it out? What do you mean?" "Listen to the rest of the original plan first! The plan was to take it out... then I made a machine, a machine that can kill it. After taking it out, I could use that machine to kill it. Do you understand what I mean?" Wang Fei said, staring fixedly at me. Date: 2010-6-10 15:53:00 Although I had no idea what that thing actually was, what abilities it had, or what Wang Fei meant by 'taking it out' and the machine he was making, I still nodded lightly and asked in another direction, 'I just asked you whether to kill it or let it go, how come you said you didn't know?' Wang Fei shifted his body and sat closer to me, saying, 'There's a bit of a problem now…' I looked at him, waiting for him to continue. 'Before you came to the police station today, did you feel that the thing was still in 602?' 'What do you mean 'feel'?' 'Haven't you ever felt that an invisible thing lives in your house?' 'Yes, I've always had that feeling, but that should be your wife…' 'Not my wife… oh no… you're right… it is my wife… that thing was with my wife when it was in 602… so now it's not here, it's still in 602. That's what I mean by a bit of a problem, we came the wrong way… we should go to 602…' Wang Fei's words gradually became somewhat like talking to himself, which was almost completely different from how he was before. I began to suspect whether he had been crazy from the start. And aside from what he was saying to me, if you think about it normally, the 'it' he mentioned was clearly a monster, a monster that had to be killed by some special method. This really looked a lot like a scene from a horror or sci-fi movie. If such a thing happened in real life, I really couldn't imagine it… In short, it was ridiculous… What was even more ridiculous was that I had just for a moment believed him, even thinking along with him about how to deal with that monster… I gathered my thoughts and told myself that a monster like that could not exist in this world, that Wang Fei was just crazy… or that he wanted to confuse me in this way… I decided to play along, still pretending to believe what he said, following his train of thought, then find his hiding place, which is where he had been living and making the so-called 'machine' for the past three years. Xin Jie might be there too. Of course, I couldn't be certain, I just vaguely sensed that Wang Fei was related to Xin Jie's disappearance and that he knew where she was.Thinking of this, I looked at Wang Fei, who was still looking down, lost in thought. I patted him and said, "I'll act with you, but I still want to know where Ling Zhijie and the others went now. You didn't do anything to them, right?"
Date: 2010-6-11 10:55:00
"Officer Ling? No, I didn't do anything. He should already be at the police station now..."
I thought to myself, given Ling Zhijie's personality, there's no way he would leave a dangerous murderer here and go back to the station by himself. But I didn't directly confront Wang Fei; instead, I asked another question: "What about your handcuffs? How did you get out of them?"
"Officer Ling unlocked them for me. He said he wouldn't bother with me and went back to the station himself."
This statement was even more outrageous; it almost made me jump up and shout at him, because it was obvious he was talking nonsense. But I still controlled my emotions and continued asking, "When did he unlock them?"
"About an hour ago."
"Specifically? Why didn't I see you then? Where did you go at that time?"
"I didn't go anywhere."
Wang Fei's words were now full of holes. The previous lines had insulted my intelligence, and this one insulted my memory, because there was a period when he could not be found, yet he claimed he went nowhere... But on further thought, this kind of obvious deception didn't seem like something he could pull off. I carefully studied his expression and asked: "Hmm... you didn't go anywhere... can you tell me everything you saw since we entered that big iron gate? I mean, what I, Ling Zhijie, and you were each doing?" Then I added, "The whole process."
Date: 2010-6-11 10:55:00
Wang Fei nodded, thought for a moment, and said: "After coming in there, I lied to you, saying Dong Xinjie was in pit number 13. Then I saw you and Officer Ling rush over and start prying that iron grate. At first, it seemed stuck, and Ling Zhijie fired a shot, then it opened… then you jumped down. Officer Ling shouted back at me, so I hurriedly found a place to hide, which was that pit over there." As he spoke, Wang Fei pointed with his finger. I followed his gesture and saw it was the pit where Ling Zhijie had originally jumped in (not number 13).I nodded and listened as he continued speaking.
“I hid in that hole and floated on the water, watching you. At that moment, Officer Ling came over. I was about to dive underwater when I saw him walk back to the edge of Hole 13. That's when you surfaced, and then you exchanged a few words. I heard him ask how you got injured, and it seemed quite serious… After a while, Officer Ling started walking toward me again, so I dived down. But before I went under, I felt like he saw me. He chased a few steps, but I still went underwater. I thought he would jump in after me too, but nothing happened. When I surfaced, I saw you both talking again, as if you were arguing. Finally, Officer Ling fired two shots, saying you were dead and he was dead too…”
What Wang Fei said up to this point basically matches what Ling Zhijie described. That is, as a third party, Wang Fei also only saw me dive into the water and resurface after 40 seconds, seeing the injury situation, but he did not witness the process of me being beaten by Ling Zhijie. So, that strange period of time also disappears in Wang Fei's account…