Ch6 - You are also very reasonable.

Translator- Rhapsodite

“Isn’t this the same as looking for your own death!” 

Wei Fuyuan complained in his heart until he felt like his heart was about to overflow.

He didn’t have the slightest sympathy for Liu’s self-seeking death party.

For Young Master Wei, who had never lacked anything in terms of material since childhood, even if a diamond-encrusted Rolex fell into the manhole, it was not worth lifting the lid, let alone falling into it and dying for it!

“Really?” 

Bei Quan put his hand on the table and smiled at Wei Fuyuan, “Then look at this again.”

He pushed a piece of paper with his other hand.

Wei Fuyuan took a look and found that it was an enlarged print photo of a screenshot of the surveillance examination.

The camera’s initial pixels weren’t very excellent. Furthermore, the sky was gloomy, and the light was insufficient. The whole screen was filled with mosaics after being expanded to A4 size, giving the appearance of 3D naked-eye stereograms, which were formerly popular.

However, although the picture was very vague, Wei Fuyuan could still see that it was the picture of a man bending over to lift the manhole cover – it should be the monitoring screenshot of Liu moving the manhole cover.

Bei Quan asked, “Do you see something wrong?”

After Bei Quan mentioned this, Wei Fuyuan quickly discovered the problem.

Although the man in the photo was not short, he was very thin. He had a typical bamboo figure. 

According to Wei Fuyuan’s visual observation, the man’s weight was about 120 Jin, but the manhole iron cover he carried must be at least 200 Jin! And judging from the posture of the screenshot, the man didn’t even have difficulty removing it!

“This…”

Wei Fuyuan was speechless for a while.

Unless the manhole cover Liu lifted was a hollow fake lid, otherwise, this person would be a national weightlifter. 

“It’s weird, isn’t it?”

Bei Quan asked with a smile.

Wei Fuyuan reluctantly let out an “um”.

Bei Quan wrote the second line on the paper: 

“On February 9, Liu, male, 34 years old, cause of death: fell into the manhole.”

“Okay, next is the third one. ‘

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It was only now that he realized that collecting and organizing newspapers was not only the hobby of Sāntúchuān company but also something that could be really useful.

The newspaper was dated March 4th. Like the previous two times, the page circled in red pen recorded a weird accident.

In fact, Wei Fuyuan also heard about this accident.

Because the way of death of the deceased was similar to that of a certain male star a few days ago, it had been hyped by major marketing companies. Master Wei had also eaten two mouthfuls of melon in his spare time, and he knew about it without reading the newspaper. 

The person who died in the accident was named Meng Mouchang, 32 years old, and he worked in the product sales department of a beverage company.

On that day, he went out for business, drank a few drinks while socializing, and then drove home intoxicated on a narrow road in the middle of the night.

As a result, Meng’s Mitsubishi car broke down in a remote alley. He got out of the car to check but had forgotten to turn off the car. Suddenly the car went reversed, overturned him on the railing, and he was stabbed through his chest from behind by the spike of the iron fence of a residential courtyard wall. When he was found by passers-by, he was already cold.

“On March 4th, Meng Mouchang, male, 32 years old, cause of death: iron rod piercing through his chest.” 

Bei Quan wrote the third line on the paper.

Wei Fuyuan’s face turned pale at this time.

Pretending to be calm, Wei Fuyuan asked, “There won’t be a fourth collection, right?”

“Congratulations, you guessed it right.” 

Bei Quan handed him the fourth newspaper, “It’s true.”

Wei Fuyuan had also heard of the fourth accident.

However, unlike the previous three times, the accident occurred in a neighboring city that took about an hour by train.

According to the report, the woman in the accident was named Lin, a 26-year-old corporate female. 

On the 30th of last month, Ms. Lin’s company organized a short vacation. She and her colleagues went to a scenic spot in a neighboring city. When the park was closing, her colleagues realized that she was missing.

After receiving the news of missing tourists, the park organized dozens of staff to search, and they were too busy to find Ms. Lin in the middle of the night.

No one expected that Ms. Lin, who had been missing for a long time, would sneak up to the closed glass trestle in the early hours of the morning.

The trestle bridge, which claims to be able to carry a full load of 5-ton trucks, broke and collapsed from the running of a petite woman. Ms. Lin and countless broken glasses fell into the canyon. 

Under the tremendous impulse of falling to the ground, Ms. Lin was cut into pieces by the broken glass, her neck was cut off, and her head was in a different place. It took the police a long time to find her head in the grass more than ten meters away from the body.

This bloody way of death was more than Master Wei’s psychological endurance. He couldn’t help but turn his head to cover his mouth and retch as he felt the sour water in his throat.

“This is the fourth one.”

Bei Quan seemed to have not noticed Wei Fuyuan’s expression. He bowed his head and wrote the last line: 

“March 30, Lin Mou, female, 26 years old, cause of death: falling from high altitude.”

Then he pushed the paper to Wei Fuyuan. Bei Quan’s eyes bent and asked with a smile, “What do you think?”

Wei Fuyuan was stunned by this endless question.

“Just… It’s really weird…” He gave a dry smile, “Haha, it feels like a live-action version of ‘The God of Death is Coming’.” 

Bei Quan, “Do you think the story Mr. A told last night is true?”

Wei Fuyuan shook his head.

“Although these four accidents have some similarities with the dreams that Mr. A said, but the boss…”

He turned to look at Bei Quan, his eyes serious. 

“The time Mr. A called the hotline was fifteen hours ago, but these accidents, even the most recent one–” Wei Fuyuan tapped twice on the last line with his fingers. “This Ms. Lin had an accident on the 30th of last month! That person-I mean Mr. A, he can completely reverse the accident according to these accidents and make up a ‘predictive dream’ story!”

As a staunch materialist, Master Wei firmly believed that most of the strange things in the world are nothing more than an “Approach to Science’ if we study them carefully.

“Well, you are also very reasonable.”

Bei Quan did not refute Wei Fuyuan’s ideas. 

“In that case…”

He smiled, stood up, and held Master Wei’s shoulder.

“Let’s investigate and see if what Mr.A said is true or false!”

——- 

Half an hour later, Wei Fuyuan waited in the living room for Bei Quan, to go out.

Bei Quan wore a dark gray high collar shirt, a knee-length black wind coat, black Slim pants, and black boots. The contrast was so strong that people couldn’t move their eyes.

Wei Fuyuan looked at Bei Quan in a daze, unable to speak for a while.

Normally, ordinary people dressed like this usually had only two results: pretending to be fashionable but failing or acting like a pervert. 

But Bei Quan’s figure was very well proportioned; with wide shoulders and a thin waist, a long face, and long legs. In addition, the complexion of Beiquan was whiter than that of Easterners and cooler than that of Westerners. The contrast between black and white made Bei Quan not only unobtrusive but gave him a superstar temperament.

Master Wei swallowed secretly.

Master Wei, himself, was very handsome, and had seen many beautiful beauties. However, it was the first time that he met someone who could carry the black wind coat so beautifully.

“Come on, send an email to this mailbox, and copy the content from this note.” 

Bei Quan did not rush out but handed Wei Fuyuan notepaper.

Wei Fuyuan took a look, and an email address and three words were written: “HongNanZuo”.

Wei Fuyuan: “???”

Bei Quan shrugged, “You know, I don’t have a smartphone.” 

Indeed, as soon as Wei Fuyuan applied for the job, he asked his boss to use WeChat.

At that time, Bei Quan took out a Nokia brick that was said to be used for survival in the wild and told him that they were using it, so they could only make phone calls and send text messages.

“I’m so angry that I can’t stand high-tech products,” Bei Quan explained earnestly.

Wei Fuyuan initially thought that Beiquan was just teasing him, but after a week’s observation, he found that the other party was really like an 80-year-old man, and did not use the smartphone at all. 

Since Bei Quan didn’t have a smartphone and he needed to use an email address, Wei Fuyuan, a worker, could only do his work and send an email of unknown meaning to some using his email address.

Unexpectedly, the reply arrived within a minute after the letter was sent.

Wei Fuyuan clicked to take a look, immediately got shocked.

There was no content in the reply, but there were four pages of pictures attached-it was the stub of the death certificate of the deceased in the four weird accidents. 

Master Wei looked at Bei Quan suspiciously.

The household registration stubs of death certificates were under the control of the Public Security Bureau. You couldn’t easily get these by sending an email, which at least showed that there was someone “on top” who was helping Bei Quan.

“It’s reasonable to investigate a recent accident first.”

Bei Quan didn’t take master Wei’s mobile phone. He just asked him to click on the attachment, then put his head close to the other side’s shoulder and quickly scanned it. 

“However, the place of Ms. Lin’s death was a scenic spot in the next city. We may not reach there on time and may not be allowed to enter the park now. ”

As he said, he patted Wei Fuyuan’s arm.

“Then, let’s start the investigation of the third deceased.”

Wei Fuyuan had to click on the third death certificate and studied the columns carefully. 

In the newspaper, the name ‘Meng Mouchang’ was named ‘Meng Li Chang’ to respect the privacy of the victim. He was married and died at the age of 32. The registered residence was in Room 303, Xiling Hutong 23, Xizhimen Avenue, Fèng Xīngchéng City.

Master Wei was not familiar with the old city, and quickly turned on the navigation and found that Xiling Hutong was not far from the Sāntúchuān Broadcasting Company. It only takes about 20 minutes to drive there.

“Okay, let’s go now.”

Bei Quan smiled in satisfaction, picked up a black suitcase, hung a black umbrella at the elbow, and went out.