high above the mists

Bai Yanliang was silent, slightly twisting his head to look out the car window.

　　The bright sunlight spilled into every corner of Ye City, and it seemed that even the tiniest speck of dust could be seen clearly.

　　'Thank you, Uncle Yang.'

　　'What are you saying silly boy. 'Yang Wanlong didn't hold back after all, and took an unlit cigarette in the corner of his mouth to get over it.

　　'Ten years. 'Bai Yanliang's voice is very light, he quietly looked at the skyscrapers lined up, Ye City has changed too much than ten years ago.

　　But, there are always those that haven't changed.

　　'Uncle Yang, why do you always believe that the case of Research Man ten years ago has nothing to do with me?'

　　Bai Yanliang finally withdrew his gaze and looked at Yang Wanlong who was concentrating on driving his car.

　　'Tsk ... have to say why. ' Yang Wanlong freed his right hand and scratched the back of his head, 'It should be because I saw a similar case when I was a child.'

　　'Uncle Yang when he was a child? 'Bai Yanliang thought of many possibilities, such as Yang Wanlong found some clues or something like that, but never thought of this reason.

　　This middle-aged criminal police detective was already forty-two years old, his childhood was at least thirty years ago, and a case thirty years ago ...

　　'Well, what happened to that kid was similar to you, but that time, it was me who witnessed it with my own eyes. 'Yang Wanlong finally lit his cigarette, and from the rearview mirror, Bai Yanliang saw Yang Wanlong's pupils shrinking slightly, as if he had thought of something that scared him.

　　What could make a middle-aged criminal police detective who was used to seeing all sorts of bizarre murder cases reveal a look of fear?

　　Bai Yanliang was somewhat curious.

　　'At that time, the family was poor, half a day of school, half a day of cattle herding, that afternoon, I went to the hillside to herd cattle as usual, and then ... I witnessed a bizarre murder case.' Yang Wanlong's hand is slightly trembling, obviously although things have been more than ten years, but that thing not only did not in the least with the passage of time to be faded into oblivion, but instead, like the cellar for many years of old wine, has not yet unveiled the sealing mud has been able to smell the aroma.

　　'The village Yang Erwa, in the mountains his father Yang Laocheng! I now remember him that way, full of hideous twisted face, movement is also weird, like ... being possessed by a ghost.'

　　Speaking here, Yang Wanlong extinguished his cigarette and gulped, seeming to feel some dryness in his mouth.

　　Bai Yanliang also saw that his lips were dry, so dry that they were white.

　　'I hid behind the cow, so scared that I didn't dare to utter a breath, the cow didn't even want to hurry to the house.'

　　'Later?'

　　'Later ... Yang Erwa was arrested, when he was arrested, he was exactly the same as you were back then, stagnant, sitting in his father s corpse and froze, will not cry, will not laugh, and will not answer when asked. Then later, I heard that the kid hanged himself in prison.' Yang Wanlong glanced at Bai Yanliang in the rearview mirror, but failed to see anything in Bai Yanliang's expression.

　　'So, Uncle Yang is afraid that I'll commit suicide as well, so that's why he takes time out of his year to visit me at the mental hospital, right?' Bai Yanliang asked with a smile.

　　'Sort of.' Yang Wanlong was noncommittal.

　　Bai Yanliang knew what Yang Wanlong wanted to ask, how could a human being be that strong?

　　Although Bai Yanliang's case found a fruit knife at the scene, is ... it possible for a young child to accomplish such a bad behaviour with a small fruit knife alone?

　　What's more, judging from the condition of the scene and the subsequent autopsy report, Bai Yanren's body didn't look like it was cut open by a sharp instrument, but ... was eroded by a huge force ...

　　This was almost the same as the case Yang Wanlong had witnessed when he was a child, and Bai Yanyanliang seemed to be the same as Yang Erwa, the one who had suddenly gone crazy and then killed his closest relatives.

　　Bai Yanliang also wanted to know what really happened, but ... he really didn t remember at all.

　　In his mind, there was not a single drop of memory about the crime scene back then.

　　'By the way, your brother, like Yang Laocheng, was confirmed dead, but his body was missing.' Yang Wanlong suddenly said, 'It hasn't been found until now.'

　　Yang Wanlong seemingly looked at Bai Yanliang intentionally or unintentionally.

　　'Researching people's corpses?' Bai Yanliang was unaware of this news. 'Well, your brother and sister's rented house have been searched all over and not found, the sewers of several nearby streets and rubbish bins have also been rummaged through, and nothing has been found.'

　　'...'

　　Bai Yanliang was silent.

　　Yang Wanlong didn't say anything else either, and drove the car without a word.

　　Twenty minutes later, the car stopped in front of a relatively upscale neighbourhood.

　　'Wait for me here, uncle will go park the car.'

　　Bai Yanliang nodded and got out of the car with his luggage and stood in front of the neighbourhood.

　　Rongyuan Cell.

　　Bai Yanliang glanced at the name of the district, this seemed to be a relatively busy neighbourhood, next door was the famous commercial centre of Yecheng JB district, with walking streets and casinos galore.

　　Not waiting long, Yang Wanlong soon came back.

　　The two of them carried their luggage one after the other towards a thirty-storey residential building.

　　'This is it, your aunt died early, a big house only me and two daughters live, the eldest daughter in the southern district on the annexed hospital weekdays do not come back, now the family is only me and Yang Yi Yi that girl, this year, she is also busy with academics, nine o'clock in the evening before going home.' Yang Wanlong said while pressing the lift button for the eighteenth floor.

　　Bai Yanliang quietly listened, when talking about his two daughters Yang Wanlong's tone was obviously a little higher, obviously he was very precious to his two daughters.

　　Although he didn't say anything on his mouth, Bai Yanliang still made the decision to find a job and leave Uncle Yang's house as soon as possible, after all, he is not a relative, Uncle Yang is busy with his work, it's too unlike him to stay in a home with other people's daughters for a long period of time.

　　'Come in.'

　　While speaking, the two had already reached the eighteenth floor.

　　Yang Wanlong opened the door to his room and pressed the lights in the living room.

　　'Feel free to sit down, I'll go give you your brother's things.'

　　Bai Yanliang nodded and surveyed the room.

　　Three rooms and one living room, roughly a hundred and twenty square metres, it was already considered a very good family in the inch-by-inch Yecheng City.

　　'Here, your brother worked as a private detective ten years ago, before he died, he seemed to be investigating some kind of business, but it has little to do with his case, take a look, this is the work information your brother left behind, and this.' While saying that, Yang Wanlong handed over an item.

　　Bai Yanliang first received a document, then caught the small object Yang Wanlong handed over.

　　He only felt a coldness in his hand, and when he moved his gaze away to look at it, he was actually stunned.

　　'Key?'

　　What kind of key is this?

　　Seeing his puzzled expression, Yang Wanlong also spread his hands, 'I don't know, no one has tried what it can open.'

　　Bai Yanliang pinched the key and looked at it carefully, it was silver in colour, one end was a round hollowed out grip carved with mysterious patterns, and one end stuck out forward with three small dots protruding from it.

　　It was evident that although it was exquisitely crafted, it looked a bit old, and it wasn't a key for a door lock.

　　Bai Yanliang frowned slightly, I don't know why, holding this exquisite but unusually odd key, at the bottom of his heart, there is actually a strange palpitating feeling that gradually surges out, like ... something has been opened.