Listening to the middle-aged man's remarks, Gu Chen felt more and more that these unrelated characters seemed to exist independently, but in fact they were all inextricably linked.

First of all, the fishing area under the Rainbow Bridge is the key to all problems.

Wang Xinyu once stayed here briefly, and the breakfast shop owner and the old fish seller both fished here.

Not only that, even the deceased Wang Jiayao was on duty at the reservoir near Rainbow Bridge.

So no matter from which perspective, the lower reaches of the reservoir and under the Rainbow Bridge seem to be the key to all problems.

Moreover, Gu Chen also confirmed his previous guess from the middle-aged man.

That is, there is indeed a woman living under the bridge pier.

Thinking about Gu Chen's previous investigations into Wang Xinyu, Gu Chen quickly confirmed with the middle-aged man and said:

"You said you have seen that woman, can you confirm her appearance?"

"Uh, this..." The middle-aged man hesitated.

But Gu Chen had already opened the photo album, showed the photo of Wang Xinyu he had in front of the middle-aged man, and said:

"Is it her?"

The middle-aged man squinted his eyes and after thinking briefly, nodded slowly: "It seems to be her."

"Are you sure?" Lu Weiwei asked quickly.

"It's basically certain that because of the embarrassment that time, I had a deep impression of this woman. She looks like this."

After hearing what the middle-aged man said, Gu Chen asked about Wang Jiayao's situation again and said:

"Then Wang Jiayao asked you to go fishing today, do you think he will break the promise?"

"Broken appointment? How is that possible? He has always been very reliable in his words. He has never failed to make an appointment." After hearing what Gu Chen said, the middle-aged man immediately retorted.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looked at each other, feeling that this matter was getting more and more strange.

The middle-aged man also noticed something strange about the two of them, so he curiously asked: "Comrade police officer, what's wrong with Wang Jiayao? Why are you asking this today?"

"Wang Jiayao is dead." Gu Chen said bluntly.

"What? Wang Jiayao is dead? Are you mistaken? He even asked me to go fishing today." It seemed that he was also shocked by this result, and the middle-aged man turned blue.

It felt like Gu Chen might be joking with himself.

But after a while, the middle-aged man took back his thoughts.

After all, Gu Chen's expression said it all, he didn't mean to be joking.

The middle-aged man was really panicked at this moment, and he quickly asked: "Comrade police, what on earth is going on?"

"When Wang Jiayao was found, he was already dead on the mountain behind the reservoir, hanging from a crooked-neck tree," Lu Weiwei said.

"Pap!" Hearing such words, the middle-aged man made a "pap" and almost lost his balance. He also held a table with both hands and said with a blue face:

"Is it difficult...did he really do this?"

"What did you say?" Gu Chen felt that this middle-aged man obviously knew something. So he quickly asked:

"You said, if Wang Jiayao really did this, what did he do?"

"No." The middle-aged man shook his head in denial, and then said: "It's the curse."

"Curse? Are you telling a story?" Lu Weiwei was immediately repelled when she heard such evil things.

But the middle-aged man waved his hands and said: "No, this is not a joke. Of course, I thought it was a joke before, but now, I decided to take back my previous thoughts."

"Because when I was fishing with Wang Jiayao, Wang Jiayao told me about the curse more than once."

"This sounds so terrible. He even jokingly told me that if one day he was cursed, he would definitely hang himself."

"No, just wait a moment." Gu Chen suddenly felt that the middle-aged man's words seemed to be getting more and more outrageous.

He also quickly interrupted and asked: "Sir, can you share with us the things you chatted with Wang Jiayao? It's the so-called 'curse'."

"Okay." Taking a deep breath, the middle-aged man seemed a little nervous.

So he quickly picked up the thermos cup on the table, poured himself a sip of tea, and then said slowly:

"I also heard about this when I was fishing with Wang Jiayao."

"He said that in his dream, he once dreamed of a corpse that was buried alive."

"A corpse buried alive?" Lu Weiwei's heart skipped a beat when she thought of the corpse buried in Warehouse No. 2 of the Binjiang Goods Yard.

I feel like the corpse Wang Jiayao mentioned is the one?

It could be seen that Gu Chen on the side was still calm, so he withdrew his curiosity and continued to ask: "What happened next?"

"Later? Later, this nightmare seemed to keep popping up in his mind. He said that he had often had this nightmare in the past few years."

"Every time I wake up, I'm sweating profusely and feel like I've been cursed."

"Later, he went to a fortune teller to clarify his doubts. The fortune teller said that this was a disaster that was destined for him and would be difficult to overcome."

"At that time, Wang Jiayao didn't believe it, but in the past few years, he found that his spirit was getting worse and worse than before, and he often had some hallucinations."

"He felt that the fortune teller might be telling the truth, so he found the fortune teller again."

"What did the fortune teller say?" Although Gu Chen felt that it sounded outrageous, he at least had to investigate.

The middle-aged man hesitated again and again, and then said: "What exactly did the fortune teller tell him? I don't know, but Wang Jiayao told me."

"If one day he hangs himself, it means that he is cursed and cannot free himself. He can only choose to free himself in this way."

"Of course, when he said this, he was joking, so I took it as a joke and didn't take it seriously."

"But, I heard from you that he hanged himself today on the mountain of the reservoir. This makes me feel a little scared. Really, he once told me about this kind of thing."

"But...but I always thought this was a joke and I couldn't take it seriously, but he actually..."

Having said this, the middle-aged man took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

I feel like this is too weird.

Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei also looked at each other, feeling that this matter was not that simple.

So Gu Chen asked the middle-aged man again: "Sir, you said this Wang Jiayao said this in a joking tone. He said he met in a dream and someone was burying a corpse, but the corpse was still alive at the time.

Is it right?"

"Yes, that's what he said." The middle-aged man said.

"Then can you be more specific? For example, the burial location, and the people involved?" Lu Weiwei couldn't wait, feeling that this matter seemed to have some clues.

The middle-aged man thought about it again and again, and then said in retrospect: "Alas! In fact, I didn't take this matter seriously. I just listened to it casually when I was fishing."

"However, I was bored at the time, so I seemed to have asked him about the specific circumstances of the dream."

"I also teased him and asked, could this be real? He couldn't tell clearly, but the content in the dream was very real."

"He said that whenever he dreamed about the buried man, the desperate look in his eyes frightened him."

"It's as if he himself was personally involved in this matter."

"I teased him at the time and said, if you feel that this dream is real, then think about it quickly and see where this place is?"

"Then he told me that it seemed to be in a warehouse along the river."

"Warehouse along the river?" After hearing this, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei couldn't help but say in unison.

It seems that all this is as everyone guessed.

This so-called warehouse along the river is actually the No. 2 warehouse in the Binjiang freight yard.

The rotting corpse was what Gu Chen found in the abandoned room of the warehouse over there.

This just proves that the situations mentioned by Wang Jiayao are not fictions, but things that actually happened.

In that so-called corpse burial that year, in fact, maybe the deceased was still alive, or in other words, half-dead.

Thinking of this, Gu Chen also murmured in his heart.

I feel that Wang Jiayao may have really participated in the burial of the corpses that year, and he may be the real murderer.

Perhaps it was because of the crimes he committed many years ago that his psychology became distorted.

Therefore, this led to nightmares, which led to his mental disorder in recent years, and his personality gradually became withdrawn.

Therefore, I used a method of hanging to completely free myself.

It seems that all this is reasonable, but what role does Wang Xinyu play in this link?

After all, there was a rotting corpse buried in the No. 2 warehouse of Binjiang Goods Yard. This was what Wang Xinyu told himself in a blood letter.

Wang Xinyu made all this public, obviously hoping that the police would dig out the body and then launch an investigation into the identity of the body.

"Isn't this what Wang Xinyu wants to see? Could it be that Wang Xinyu has another purpose? Is her purpose to want the police to pay attention to Wang Jiayao?"

Gu Chen thought to himself and felt that there seemed to be some truth to this matter.

However, after Wang Jiayao's death, why was Wang Xinyu's whereabouts unknown?

Or is it that Wang Xinyu also participated in the corpse burial incident with Wang Jiayao back then?
To be continued...