Chapter 144: Strange
Chapter 144: Ghost

Fortunately, night fell and Gao Fei actually got off work on time today.

Bai Yanliang chatted with him for a while, and from Gao Fei, Bai Yanliang finally learned Xu Zhifei's identity. She was a profiler from Liangcheng.

This term seems quite mysterious, but it is actually not as magical as the rumors say.

A profiler is someone who profiles a criminal's mentality by analyzing his modus operandi, scene layout, and criminal characteristics, and can then make further predictions about his race, gender, age, professional background, physical features, personality traits, and even next actions, so that the police can narrow the search scope and put a stop to the continuation of the criminal behavior in a timely manner.

Although Xu Zhifei is young, he is already a well-known therapist.

The most important part of profiling is still to think from the perspective of the criminal, that is, to analyze and reason from the perspective of the criminal.

Therefore, a highly talented profiler, or detective, must have the potential to become an extremely terrifying criminal.

When talking about Liangcheng, Bai Yanliang couldn't help but think of Li Mu and the criminal he mentioned - Key.

I heard that the criminal organization he belonged to has arrived in Yecheng, but there is still no news about him.

Bai Yanliang stroked Poe's head and thought quietly.

Gao Fei was exhausted and had already gone back to his room to rest. The lawyer He Yige had not been seen today and had not returned even though it was already dark.

Bai Yanliang was just about to go back to his room to rest when there was a knock on the door outside the yard.

Bai Yanliang thought it was He Yige who forgot to bring his keys, but after opening the door, he was a little surprised.

"Fengxiuxue?"

Under the mottled light outside the door, Feng Xiuxue was wearing a pair of big sunglasses. Wearing sunglasses late at night was undoubtedly a very stupid thing to do.

Bai Yanliang remembered that he had told her before that wearing these sunglasses would only make her more eye-catching, especially at night.

"How do you know I live here?"

Bai Yanliang looked at her calmly. He didn't want to hear from Feng Xiuxue that she had secretly investigated him.

Feng Xiuxue looked up at her and said, "I asked Xu Zhifei."

Is this so...

"What do you want to talk to me about? Didn't we agree to meet tomorrow?" Bai Yanliang was a little confused.

"Have a meal."

"Ah?" Bai Yanliang was startled, looked at Feng Xiuxue, and asked again: "You came to eat with me?"

Feng Xiuxue nodded, and she finally took off her big sunglasses, but she still looked the same.

Speaking of appearance, among Wu Ji, only Xu Zhifei can be compared with her, and even the equally beautiful Yu Sheng is half inferior to her.

"No, I'm treating you to a meal, so you do me a favor."

"tell me the story."

"Kill Feng Xiuxue."

Her lips looked unusually cool in the night, and the five words that came out of her mouth made people feel cold in their hearts.

"So you are Feng Yiru." Bai Yanliang looked into her eyes. This extremely calm feeling was definitely not Feng Xiuxue.

Feng Yiru looked at Bai Yanliang quietly: "I have always been Feng Yiru."

Bai Yanliang clearly remembered that when Feng Xiuxue came to him for the first time, she took out a photo of Bai Yanren. She claimed that Bai Yanren was her brother-in-law and that her sister had also disappeared mysteriously.

After that, Feng Xiuxue has been active in the entertainment industry using the name Feng Yiru.

Now the two personalities of this woman each had their own opinions, and Bai Yanliang couldn't tell for a moment which of them was telling the truth and which was lying.

"Are you going to stand at the door all night?"

Feng Yiru looked at him and asked.

Bai Yanliang suddenly smiled, he returned to the room, took a coat, and said, "It just so happens that I haven't had dinner yet."

...If we were to say what Bai Yanliang’s biggest shortcoming is, it would undoubtedly be his social experience.

After all, he spent a full ten years in a mental hospital, but what Bai Yanliang didn't expect was that Feng Yiru seemed to be such a person.

She said she was treating herself to a meal, but she just brought money, no reservations, no restaurant she wanted to go to, and even no plan of what to eat.

She just looked at Bai Yanliang with a pair of calm eyes, as if to say, "You decide, I'll pay."

Bai Yanliang thought about it and found a very busy food stall on the side of the road.

Well... I took the popular female star Feng Yiru to eat at a food stall. Fortunately, it was night time and Feng Yiru was standing in the shadow. Although she still looked stunning, no one recognized her.

Bai Yanliang didn't think there was anything wrong with it, and neither did Feng Yiru.

Led by the boss, the two sat at a dining table in the corner of the street.

Bai Yanliang ordered the signature dish, and after the boss left, the two continued their previous topic.

"Why are you looking for me? Besides, if you kill Feng Xiuxue, you will also die." Bai Yanliang asked.

Feng Yiru moved into the shadows again and said, "It's not a killing in reality, it's in the fog."

Bai Yanliang looked at her quietly: "I don't understand what you mean."

Feng Yiru suddenly stared at Bai Yanliang and asked in a low voice, "Do you know...how ghosts come from?"

Being stared at by her in such a weird and mysterious way, Bai Yanliang actually had a strange feeling.

He shook his head: "I don't know."

Feng Xiuxue turned her head and looked into the depths of the dimly lit city, and said faintly: "Rotten human nature is a ghost."

She seemed to be hinting at something.

"Bai Yanliang, do you know? Ghosts are not the souls of humans who have died. Only living people can breed ghosts."

She stared at Bai Yanliang again: "And the dead are just dead people, they can't become ghosts."

She was saying strange things, as if she was already drunk even before she drank.

"You don't believe it?" Feng Yiru suddenly tilted her head and looked at Bai Yanliang.

Bai Yanliang nodded and said, "I don't believe it."

Feng Yiru curved her eyebrows and said, "You really can't lie."

Then, her expression became somewhat lonely, as if she was recalling something: "I saw it with my own eyes... a ghost grew out of a living person..."

A flash of lightning flashed through Bai Yanliang's mind.

A ghost grew out of a living person's body...

Feng Yiru's words reminded Bai Yanliang of the twisted black shadows he had seen.

He made a preconceived mistake. Perhaps those twisted black shadows were not foreign invaders, but... deformed monsters that grew from within humans themselves.

He thought of Hao Bowen, who committed suicide mysteriously in the detention center and a twisted black shadow emerged from his body.

There was also a twisted black shadow on Lei Dongming's wife.

Even... Bai Yanliang thought of Li Degang.

The assistant instructor who was killed by Hao Bowen, lived downstairs in his apartment building. There was a tall, thin monster with eyes all over its body...

Bai Yanliang suddenly had an idea. Maybe... the "ghost" that had just been conceived was just a distorted shadow, while the "ghost" that was still fully formed would turn into all kinds of bizarre and terrifying appearances, such as... the monster downstairs in the apartment building.

It... is most likely a ghost born from Li Degang's abnormal and morbid psychology.

Just when Bai Yanliang was about to continue asking Feng Yiru, the boss came up with a large plate of spicy crayfish.

"You two, please use it slowly."

(End of this chapter)