After Liu Chengfeng decided to join, Ning Qiushui told him everything before and after. After the latter listened, he asked Ning Qiushui to prepare a strong flashlight, a waterproof lighter, and a waterproof power bank. He would come after lunch at noon tomorrow. Find Ning Qiushui, then head to Bird Mountain Town.
When he was leaving, he turned back to Ning Qiushui and warned:
"By the way, little brother, take that copper coin with you. It will be of great use."
Ning Qiushui nodded.
After seeing Liu Chengfeng off, he rested at home alone for the night.
Having learned from the past, Ning Qiushui did not rest well at home.
After closing his eyes, he vaguely felt that something was staring at him somewhere in the house, but when he opened his eyes, this feeling disappeared.
This feeling of being spied on would send chills down the back. What's more, Ning Qiushui knew that if something was really spying on him at home, that thing might kill him at any time.
Later in the night, thunder came from the window again, rumbling and breathtaking.
Ning Qiushui really couldn't sleep, her mind was filled with the content of the document sent to him by "Mole" and the old man's hoarse screams.
"He's looking for someone from the 'water'?"
"Water ghost?"
"From the time I entered the Blood Gate to now, it seems that ghosts are born for a reason. Ghosts do not appear for no reason. If a water ghost appears in the orphanage, what is the reason for its appearance?"
"Unjust death?"
"Why did Cai Quan only kill the employees of Sunflower Welfare Home and not the children?"
"Is there any hidden secret here?"
After putting on his clothes, Ning Qiushui took out a bottle of yogurt from his refrigerator. After inserting the straw, he came to the kitchen while drinking and quietly read the document sent to him by the "Mole".
At noon on the second day, the rain outside had not stopped, and the sky was still gray and gloomy.
Ning Qiushui made a simple lunch for himself. Just after finishing his meal, his door was knocked on time, and the bearded man appeared at the door.
"Are you ready, little brother?"
Liu Chengfeng carried a lot of things on his back, and the backpack was bulging.
Ning Qiushui nodded. He had all the things Big Beard asked him to prepare before, and put them all into his pocket.
"Let's not rush out yet... It's still very early today. Before going to Niaoshan Town, let's go to the Public Security Bureau in the center of the city. There is one thing I want to verify first."
He simply washed the dishes, then put on his pocket, and took a taxi with Liu Chengfeng to the night-time area of Shiliu City.
After entering the public security bureau in the city center, Ning Qiushui crossed the crowd and came to the transaction processing window. He took out a special ID and handed it to the police officer in the window. After checking it, the police officer's eyes changed slightly and asked:
"Is there anything you need to do?"
Ning Qiushui looked around and whispered:
"Help me find someone who is related to the massacre at the Sunflower Welfare Institute in Niaoshan Town twenty-one years ago. Where is the prisoner named Cai Quan now?"
The police officer inside looked hesitant. He asked Ning Qiushui to wait, and then made a special call. After some confirmation, the information on the other end was passed over.
After checking the information, the police officer whispered:
"Mr. Ning, the person you are looking for...is no longer here."
When Ning Qiushui heard this, her eyebrows immediately raised:
"Not here?"
"I remember it was like he was serving a life sentence."
"Why, died in prison?"
The police officer looked a little embarrassed. He looked around to make sure that no one was looking nearby. Then he approached the window and added a WeChat message to Ning Qiushui. He told Ning Qiushui on WeChat that the murderer named Cai Quan only stayed in prison. It took a year to escape from jail.
The word "jailbreak" is a bit eye-catching.
Ning Qiushui knew how strict the prison guards in the city center were.
There are many extremely vicious criminals imprisoned inside.
He himself couldn't guarantee that he could escape from that prison.
An old man...is it possible?
Thousands of thoughts flashed through her heart, and Ning Qiushui immediately said to the police officer again:
"After Cai Quan escaped from prison, was he not recovered?"
The policeman's expression stiffened slightly.
"This...has exceeded the authority of my position."
"If you want to know more, you can go to the archives room on the fourth floor to find the archivist."
Ning Qiushui nodded and did not embarrass him any more. She and Liu Chengfeng went to the fourth floor through the safe passage and met a middle-aged woman wearing glasses in the archives room.
After she confirmed Ning Qiushui's identity, she quickly retrieved detailed files on the case for Ning Qiushui.
"Mr. Ning, Cai Quan was arrested and imprisoned twenty-one years ago and his charges were confirmed."
"On a rainy night twenty years ago, he escaped from prison without leaving any traces. The police secretly spent a lot of manpower and material resources to hunt him down for five years, but they never found anything related to Cai Quan. He seemed to have disappeared from the world, and in the end, the matter had to be left alone..."
Listening to this, Ning Qiushui felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity in her heart.
Liu Chengfeng on the side had a strange expression on his face.
"Isn't it right...didn't this man surrender?"
"Why, you thought the food in the prison was not good, so you ran away again?"
The middle-aged woman glanced at Liu Chengfeng and replied seriously:
"Prisons must undergo rehabilitation, participate in labor and learn legal knowledge, but except for special circumstances, prisoners will not be required to have three meals a day."
Liu Chengfeng coughed twice, but he didn't expect a woman to be so serious.
"...That's really strange. If this kind of person didn't want to stay in jail, why did he surrender in the first place?"
"Besides, I remember that our police force in Shiliu City is still very powerful. They can't even find Cai Quan. Where can that guy go?"
"Did you go to other cities?"
Listening to Liu Chengfeng's thoughts, Ning Qiushui was also curious.
Why did Cai Quan suddenly escape from prison?
"Does he have any cellmates?"
Ning Qiushui asked.
The woman shook her head.
"Contained in solitary confinement... We have interrogated those who can be interrogated many times, but to no avail."
"Can't find any clues."
Ning Qiushui sighed.
"Okay, sorry to bother you."
After leaving the police station, the two of them stood by the busy street holding umbrellas, and the bearded man muttered:
"Brother, this is getting weirder and weirder..."
"Let me tell you something - this old man first killed the entire staff in the welfare home, then surrendered, and escaped from prison a year after surrendering..."
"What do you think he wants to do?"
Ning Qiushui looked solemn and shook her head.
"have no idea."
"Let's go, take a taxi to Xiaoxiao's place first, and then I'll borrow a car and drive to Niaoshan Town."
"The connection there has been cut off, we can't get a taxi, and no driver wants to go to that damn place."
Liu Chengfeng nodded.
"good."
"If we go this time, maybe we can find something else..."
PS: Security!
