Guo Pu gave Di Zhen a cold smile and said, "What can you do?"
"Hypnosis. I can hypnotize someone and make them walk onto the road and get hit by a car!"
"Really?" Guo Pu looked skeptical. "Have you ever killed anyone?"
"Yes, a man."
"Why?"
"He stepped on my shoe and didn't even apologize. I made him fall onto the subway tracks and get hit by a train. It was on the news on February 14th at Shuangta Subway Station. You can check. Line 4 got shut down for an hour because of it."
The trick of lying is to describe details as clearly as possible.
Guo Pu seemed to believe him a bit. He pointed at Fan Yi. "Hypnotize her and let me see your skills. If you're lying to me, I'll beat you to death on the spot."
"Boss, don't do this!" Di Zhen laughed.
"Hurry up!!!" Guo Pu urged fiercely.
Di Zhen stood up and stood beside Guo Pu. He said to the trembling Fan Yi, "Beauty..."
"Don't call her 'beauty', call her 'bitch'!" Guo Pu roared and corrected him.
"Bitch, after I hypnotize you, you won't feel any pain and can die peacefully. It won't do you any harm."
"No!!!" Guo Pu said viciously. "I'm going to torture her to death!"
"Boss, I'm in the middle of hypnotizing. Don't interrupt."
"Damn it, hurry up. Where's your watch? Don't hypnotists usually have those watches that swing back and forth?"
"I don't need that. Miss Fan, look at my fingers. Dao begets One, One begets Two, Two begets Three, and Three begets all things under heaven. Man models himself after Earth, Earth after Heaven, Heaven after Tao... (These are from the Tao Te Ching, a classic Chinese philosophical text)" Di Zhen murmured the scriptures. This was also a way of hypnosis, making the other person focus by speaking.
The hypnosis that came from the West would guide the other person to imagine a scene. In fact, what is said doesn't really matter. The important thing is to cause a resonance of ideas. The text from the Tao Te Ching, which has been recited generation after generation, has already been integrated into the genetic memory. Anyone who hears it for the first time will have an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
But at this moment, he couldn't hypnotize Fan Yi because Fan Yi already believed Di Zhen was a bad guy and had developed a resistant mentality. There was no way he could hypnotize her.
"The Tao models itself after nature!!!"
The moment Di Zhen loudly recited this sentence, he suddenly turned around and punched Guo Pu in the face, directly giving him [b]physical hypnosis[/b] - knocking him out!
Guo Pu was caught off guard. He took a punch as big as a sandbag and flew into the air, then fell heavily to the ground.
Fan Yi shivered in fear, covering her chest and asking, "You... were you just acting?"
"Otherwise, should I have gone head - to - head with him?"
"Who the hell are you?"
"A stranger, a stranger here to save you."
"Thank you! Thank you!"
Fan Yi knelt on the ground. Her highly taut nerves relaxed, and she shed a few tears out of fear.
Fan Yi had a good figure and fair, delicate skin. Perhaps because she had just removed her makeup when she got home, her face looked really bad. It was strange without eyebrows, especially after she had just cried.
Di Zhen squatted down and said, "What happened between you and him?"
"He... he's a psycho... I've never had any relationship with him at all. It's just that he unilaterally has a crush on me... Before, he was an employee of Boss Wei. He told everyone he was good buddies with Boss Wei, but Boss Wei didn't even give him the time of day. Once, he thought Boss Wei was hinting at him. So he volunteered to kill one of Boss Wei's competitors and even came back to take credit!"
"Boss Wei was, of course, terrified and immediately called the policemen. He thought he'd been used and hid. I never thought he'd hold a grudge all this time and do such a thing!"
Di Zhen noticed Fan Yi's fingers and said, "In this story, you seem to be completely innocent."
"Of course I'm innocent. If I've done anything wrong, it might be breaking up Boss Wei's marriage. I just wanted to avoid struggling for a few years!"
Di Zhen obviously didn't buy it. He pointed at Fan Yi's ring finger and said, "This is the mark left by wearing a ring. You're already married to Wei Xiang, which means you're now his legal heir. If you know all these inside stories, why didn't you tell the policemen? I think you're using someone else to kill (a Chinese idiom meaning to harm someone through a third - party)!"
Fan Yi's face contorted as she questioned, "How can you think like that? Who are you!"
Fan Yi started to put up a defensive front, which proved indirectly that Di Zhen's speculation was getting closer to the truth.
Di Zhen heard the sound of a car below. He walked to the window and saw a police car stop. Maybe someone in the opposite building heard Fan Yi's cries for help and called the policemen. He said, "Leave the rest to the policemen. I hope you can fool them. After all, they're a lot smarter."
"Pfft!"
Suddenly, Di Zhen turned his head, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
Fan Yi actually rushed to the unconscious Guo Pu, picked up a knife, and stabbed him in the abdomen. Di Zhen shouted, "What are you doing!"
Fan Yi raised her blood - smeared face and twistedly smiled, "Self - defense! Can you testify for me in front of the policemen? I can give you a large sum of money. Anyway, I'm going to be a multi - millionaire soon."
"You don't want him to live. You're really using someone else to kill. You venomous woman!"
"So what!" Fan Yi shouted. "I had to act in front of that ugly and fat Boss Wei every day. I was called a mistress behind my back and had my hair pulled and was slapped in the face by his wife in public. I was under so much pressure. I thought I could be a rich lady after getting married, but he was so shrewd that he transferred all his property to the company. I only got close to him for the money. Since he wouldn't give me any, I had to resort to this and use this crazy guy!"
After saying that, Fan Yi raised the knife. Just as she was about to strike again, Guo Pu, who was in a coma, suddenly sat up. He grabbed Fan Yi's hand and pushed the dagger into her abdomen.
"Ah!!!"
Fan Yi opened her mouth wide. She never expected to suffer a setback at a seemingly safe moment. Guo Pu's mouth was full of blood, and his bloodshot eyes stared angrily as if flames were about to burst out. "Let's go to hell together, bitch! (Note: '表子' is a vulgar Chinese term for a promiscuous woman)"
"Why... Why..." Fan Yi was heart - broken and shed tears.
Guo Pu held her in his arms and pushed the dagger a bit deeper. Then he patted her on the back. As a man is about to die, his words are kind. "Baby, go to sleep! Go to sleep!" He slowly raised his head and looked at Di Zhen, who was already shocked.
It was the first time for Di Zhen to witness a murder. Although his face remained calm, his heart was in turmoil.
"You lied to me!?" Guo Pu questioned.
"I didn't. I'm really Qiu Qiang's son. I came to you because I hate my father, and you are imitating him!"
Guo Pu smiled bitterly. "You actually don't have to hate him."
"Why?"
"Because Qiu Qiang is not the 'Smiling Face Killer' at all!"
Di Zhen was struck like by lightning. The source of all the sufferings he had endured since childhood was easily overturned by this dying man. He roared, "What did you say!?"
There came a sound of footsteps in the corridor.
"Who is the 'Smiling Face Killer'? Was my father framed?" Di Zhen couldn't wait to ask.
Guo Pu coughed up a large mouthful of blood and said, "Kid, have you ever seen a ghost?"
"Answer the question!"
Guo Pu murmured in a daze, "Those who know are all guilty! Those who know are all guilty! (Note: The meaning here implies that those who know certain secrets will be punished)"
Hearing the footsteps getting closer, Di Zhen knew the policemen were coming. He gritted his teeth and rushed up the stairs.
The moment Gong Jingfan and Wang Bing rushed in, they saw a shocking scene. A man and a woman were hugging each other, covered in blood, and there was a figure running upstairs.
Gong Jingfan shouted, "Stop right there!"