Frightening Joke: Above the Mist
Chapter 89 Headless

Chapter 89: Chapter 89 Headless

Ren Wudao’s strange attitude took Bai Yanliang by surprise.

"I know her."

"How do you know each other? Why did she call you?" At this point, Ren Wudao suddenly shook his head and whispered, "No, she’s been in a special ward recently; how could she know anyone else?"

Under normal circumstances, Yu Sheng indeed couldn’t have known Bai Yanliang, but... she also opened that door, chosen by the Fog Gathering.

"Are you his..." Bai Yanliang looked at Ren Wudao in confusion. This polite and courteous man had been somewhat emotional ever since Bai Yanliang received Yu Sheng’s call.

"Brother." Ren Wudao looked at Bai Yanliang, his eyes full of vigilance: "Biological brother."

So that’s it...

It seems one took the mother’s surname and the other the father’s. This situation is quite common nowadays.

Their exchange ended here, without further entanglement.

But Bai Yanliang always felt that Ren Wudao’s attitude towards him had changed, becoming... rather unfriendly.

What did I do?

I didn’t bully Yu Sheng...

Bai Yanliang thought carefully but couldn’t understand.

No more clues could be found in the dormitory. Lin Wan took out her phone to check the time; it was almost six o’clock.

"Professor Ren, Mr. Bai, thank you for your hard work. Let’s call it a day; leave the rest to us."

Lin Wan shook hands with the two and said.

"Please find out the origin of these glasses, whether Fu Yunqing brought them in or if they were left by someone else. This is very important." As he said this, Bai Yanliang looked at Gao Fei, not Lin Wan.

Gao Fei nodded, giving Bai Yanliang a reassuring look.

"The detailed autopsy report will be out tomorrow, and Fu Yunqing’s social connections will become clear. Analysis meeting of the case!" Gao Fei seemed very motivated.

Even though he had to work overnight again tonight, he was used to this way of living and didn’t find it too tough or exhausting.

"Hmm, goodbye."

The four parted ways; Gao Fei and Lin Wan drove the police car in another direction, leaving Bai Yanliang standing alone at the university gate, the air a bit chilly.

"Beep beep—"

A gray sedan pulled up beside Bai Yanliang and rolled down the window.

"Where to? I’ll give you a ride."

Ren Wudao asked, one hand on the steering wheel, the other resting on the car window.

"Sure."

Bai Yanliang got into the car readily, sitting in the passenger seat.

"169 Qingyi Street, thank you."

You really aren’t shy at all...

Ren Wudao glanced sidelong at Bai Yanliang and started the car.

"How did you and my sister meet? You seemed a bit surprised when you received her call just now."

This man was indeed very perceptive and meticulous, able to detect even Bai Yanliang’s subtle emotions.

"Kind of like... online friends?"

Bai Yanliang thought for a moment and gave an ambiguous answer.

But Ren Wudao didn’t believe him. He knew his sister’s character better than anyone. Despite appearing strong and quiet, due to her health, Yu Sheng was actually more fragile and sensitive than most women. She wrapped herself tightly in a false shell, letting no one in and never stepping out herself.

And now, she actually invited a man to meet privately?

This was something that had never happened in over twenty years, which made Ren Wudao think deeply.

Yu Sheng was not a girl easily swayed by sweet talk, nor someone who judged purely by appearances.

The man beside him must have done something to leave a deep impression on her.

Ren Wudao glanced again at Bai Yanliang. Though he sat there, if you closed your eyes, you almost couldn’t sense that someone was there.

He was too quiet.

One might even say silent.

The feeling Bai Yanliang gave Ren Wudao was the same as when they first met; he resembled an object without a soul more than a living person.

This sense of déjà vu was familiar to Ren Wudao. The preserved bodies in the medical school gave him almost the same feeling as Bai Yanliang.

Almost instinctively, Ren Wudao didn’t want Yu Sheng to have much contact with Bai Yanliang.

"Mr. Bai, what are your thoughts on this case?"

Ren Wudao asked.

Apart from the strange relationship between Bai Yanliang and Yu Sheng and the odd feeling he gave off, Ren Wudao himself actually had some good feelings toward Bai Yanliang.

This goodwill stemmed from recognition; Ren Wudao rarely met people who could keep up with his train of thought. He was good at finding useful information from minute details, so... people who communicated with him always felt exposed.

But Bai Yanliang was different. His thought process and Ren Wudao’s were completely different. If Ren Wudao worked from point to line and then radiated outward to the whole surface, Bai Yanliang would leap from the point directly to the entire structure.

His thinking was jumpy and divergent, yet at some point, it would converge with Ren Wudao’s.

So... Ren Wudao enjoyed communicating with him.

And when Bai Yanliang heard Ren Wudao’s question, he also shifted his gaze back from the window and said in a low voice: "Decapitation, there are three possibilities why the perpetrator beheaded the victim. One, personal perverted interest: the perpetrator has a strong obsession with collecting and a desire to show off; he will commit the crime again and provoke society in this way. Two, ritualistic: generally, the perpetrator performs certain actions at the crime scene to satisfy a psychological need or emotional expression, such as conveying a point of view or venting anger and revenge; the perpetrator believes that only by completing the ritual is the act of murder complete. Three, concealment: until now, the notion that the victim is Fu Yunqing is still our speculation. Is Fu Yunqing really dead? We don’t know."

Listening to Bai Yanliang’s somewhat deep voice, Ren Wudao also lapsed into silence.

In fact, although Bai Yanliang himself had said those words earlier, his mind was currently more chaotic than ever.

Because he suddenly thought of something.

Yanren...is he really dead?

The dismembered corpse just wore his clothes, with the most crucial identifiable head missing, leaving no biological evidence to confirm...that the dismembered body was indeed Bai Yanren.

Human hair, skin flakes, blood, secretions, excrement, etc., contain individual genetic material, and since human genes are largely unique, they can be used to confirm ’identity’.

The autopsy Gao Fei was to conduct tonight would also include this step.

But a decade ago, the relatively underdeveloped technology could not achieve these results. In the Bai brothers’ house, there was a dismembered male body dressed in Bai Yanren’s clothes, and simultaneously, Bai Yanren just happened to ’disappear’, so... the body was naturally assumed to be Bai Yanren.

Bai Yanliang’s mind was very muddled. He suddenly realized that he didn’t understand Yanren at all.

He was always hurried, mysterious, with no friends or hobbies.

He seemed detached from the normal social system, with a very small social circle.

What on earth was Bai Yanren doing back then?

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