1264 I Want to Make You Stay 142 (2/2)
”Yes.”
”Do you know why my subordinates and I were on that hill that night?”
Shaking her head, Mu Wansheng answered, ”I don't know.”
”Take a look at this,” he said, handing her a stack of newspapers.
Mu Wansheng put her chopsticks down and read the piece of news.
She then handed the newspaper back to him and continued eating. ”This soldier has finally cleared his name. He seems rather pitiful.”
”He was the one who abducted you from your home and dumped you on the hill. His name was Zong Jingyi.”
Mu Wansheng stared at him in astonishment and asked, ”Why? Why did he abduct me?”
”Your mother is his ex-girlfriend. She was also a snitch who was sent to spy on him. She had an ulterior motive for dating him. He was executed later on. However, he didn't actually die and was kept in the tomb by his brother-in-law for a whole sixteen years.”
”He didn't die after staying in the tomb for sixteen years? Can he even stay alive without drinking or eating?”
”That place is supernatural so he didn't die. He came out to seek help from my Young Madam. We placed a GPS tracker in his car so we had gotten to monitor wherever he went. We found it really strange the moment we discovered that he had gone onto the hill. So, Young Madam sent me and Xiao Bai to take a look. That's how we found you.”
”No wonder he left me that note.”
”What note?”
”He said that he didn't mean to dump me there and that if I must blame someone, I should blame it on my mother. He also wanted me to tell her that she can't shirk the responsibility for what happened to him sixteen years ago and that she shouldn't be too preoccupied with living comfortably. He wants me to let her know that he's not dead.”
”That man has now passed away.”
”Passed away? How?” Mu Wansheng asked with a frown.
”He poisoned himself to death, so as to atone for the murders of two innocent lives.”
Mu Wansheng continued to eat her food, taking one small bite at a time. She could empathize with Zong Jingyi and understood his reasons for doing what he had done. She thought that he was being kind by dumping her on the hill instead of killing her.
”I don't know why, but I feel a little guilty because of my mother.”
”It's not your fault. Do you believe that one can remain youthful-looking and not age for years?” Fan Shixin asked, staring at her.
”Doesn't that defy the law of nature? That's impossible,” said Mu Wansheng.
”Do you know how sinister Shen Jia Lake is?”
”I don't, but I heard that there were zombies there that caused a massacre in Beiying. I don't know if those are just rumors, though.”
”It's true.”
”Really?” Mu Wansheng asked.
”Yes, really. My Young Madam was there too. However, the media was prohibited from reporting about the incident because it would invoke fear within citizens. That zombie was already dead for years but he remained preserved. Zong Jingyi came from a tomb not too far away from where that corpse was found. He looks exactly the same as he did sixteen years ago. He didn't age at all.”
”Does that mean that I can remain youthful too if I were to live there?”
”I guess you can if you stay at the bottom. However, the tomb has already been sealed and not everyone is allowed to enter.”
Mu Wansheng put down her chopsticks and took a few sips of water to wash her food down before saying, ”Did his age change, though?”
”He was in his thirties sixteen years ago. He should be about 50 years old now. How old is your mother?”
”Forty-nine years old.”