No seré tu muñeca

Capítulo 6

The mortuary in that county was not far from the capital. Chu Fan packed up and rushed to the scene to conduct an investigation.

The people in the county do remember a man dressed in clean white clothes who sold coffins, and that's all they remember.

If Chu Fan's perception of Xiang Lian's memories that day was accurate, then Xiang Lian's refusal to answer that person's question meant she rejected his coffin. Judging from Xiang Lian's panic that day, her disappearance wasn't voluntary; perhaps it was for self-preservation.

She was running for her life.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, Chu Fan rushed back to the Six Doors, a sister company of the Eight Doors. Fortunately, he was good at handling interpersonal relationships and managed to get the information he wanted after some persuasion.

Zhang Erhu, a villager in a certain village, was possessed by a demon and killed his two sons in his quest to buy a coffin from a man in white. He then killed a woodcutter in the village. His wife, Xianglian, seeking revenge, killed him, dumped the body at home, and fled. She passed by a county government office, where she suddenly died. The cause of death is unknown. Note: The man in white is unknown.

A woman named Liu Feng, driven to madness, murdered her husband. On the night of the execution, a coffin suddenly appeared in her home. Later, during her mourning period, a man in white came to her father's door and delivered a receipt for the sale of the coffin. The buyer and the time on the receipt were both suspicious. Note: The man in white is unknown.

Li Si, a man from a certain city, accidentally killed a playmate when he was young. He suffered from hallucinations, was afraid of light, and hid in a stone coffin in his home, where he unfortunately starved to death. Note: The origin of the coffin is unknown.

On the day Qin Shilin, son of the Qin family in a certain city, committed suicide, a coffin suddenly appeared in his house. Later, during his father's mourning period, a man in white came to the door to deliver a receipt for the purchase of the coffin. Qin Shilin's younger brother, Qin Feng, claimed that he had gone out with his brother to watch the sunrise, but the timing and the people involved were illogical. Note: The man in white is unknown.

Song Meiniang, a famous courtesan in a certain city, after leaving the profession, placed her husband in a coffin and disemboweled him. The motive for the crime is unknown. A servant in her household claimed to have seen a man in white meeting with Song Meiniang. Later, Song Meiniang committed suicide in prison out of fear of punishment. Note: The man in white is unknown.

Ruyan, the beautiful wife of the Han family in a certain city, accidentally hit her forehead on a pair of scissors stuck in the wall, and died under mysterious circumstances. There was also a coffin in the room. It is rumored that this woman had an affair with Han Ye, the son of the Han family who drowned. Note: The origin of the coffin is unknown.

A drunk man was walking home late at night when he rolled down a cliff and died instantly. A coffin was found next to his body. Note: The origin of the coffin is unknown.

A certain eccentric poet, after cutting his wrists to use his blood instead of ink, wrote a piece of wild cursive script. He died with a coffin beside him; some claim to have seen a man in white entering and leaving the poet's residence. Note: The origin of the coffin is unknown, and the man in white is unidentified.

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Chu Fan quickly flipped through the thick file book and gasped. He had met most of the parties involved in these few cases.

Li Si bought a coffin; Xiang Lian ran away; and everyone else died.

My coffins are only sold to the dead;

Anyone who buys my coffin is doomed to die.

Those who refuse will not escape either.

Chu Fan couldn't help but think of those three sentences, and a chill ran down his spine.

Stepping out of the Six Doors, it was a bright sunny day, but Chu Fan couldn't feel any warmth at all.

What exactly is he searching for? Can he go back?

The sunlight dazzled his eyes, and in that instant, another question came to mind: Who collected this information?

In the office of the Chief Constable of the Six Doors, Jiang Nan stared at two files on the desk.

One of the reports from his subordinates had already been shown to Chu Fan. And this other one…

Flipping through the pages spread out on the table, the content was almost identical, except for one additional annotation written in striking red ink: Chu Fan.

That striking vermilion seemed to be intended to indicate an important figure who could not be ignored.

Jiangnan's lips curved into a smile.

Everything was as expected.

Hole

Jiang Nan vaguely recalled when he first noticed Chu Fan's existence.

At that time, he went to investigate the incident of Li Si starving to death in the coffin and happened to run into Chu Fan, who was talking to A-Ling.

Although Chu Fan quickly concealed the turmoil in his eyes when mentioning the man in white, he could not escape the discerning eye of Jiang Nan, who had seen countless people.

The pursuit of that elusive man was a secret of Jiang Nan, the chief constable of the Six Doors, and also his original motivation for joining the Six Doors.

To achieve this goal, he worked tirelessly, conducting countless investigations, and even at any cost.

There was once a mysterious case in the Six Doors where a brilliant detective died under mysterious circumstances. No one knew that he was the one who committed the crime.

When he discovered that some of his colleagues were also collecting information on that man, he acted almost without hesitation.

A dark night for murder, a windy night for arson.

Faced with the pleading looks in his colleagues' eyes, he had only one thought in his mind.

That man could only be defeated by him alone.

Originally, Chu Fan was also going to die at his hands.

The afternoon nap Chu Fan took while delivering the message presented the perfect opportunity to kill him and silence him. However, Jiang Nan failed because the woman named Xiang Lian disrupted his plans.

Xianglian was a party involved in the Zhang Erhu incident. Compared to killing Chu Fan, Jiangnan was more concerned about the whereabouts of that man.

Jiang Nan followed Xiang Lian to a county government office and unexpectedly found Chu Fan there as well.

Things shouldn't happen more than three times.

When Jiang Nan found Chu Fan's figure again in Qin Shilin's case, he believed that this was by no means a simple coincidence.

He investigated Chu Fan thoroughly, and the results left him speechless.

This person has no prior record in this place or country; it's as if he appeared out of thin air.

The person whose past is a blank slate either has a high-ranking figure behind them or has problems of their own.

Regardless of the type, Jiangnan only knew that Chu Fan would be an excellent bait.

What happened next unfolded exactly as he had predicted.

Whether it was intentional or coincidental, Chu Fan was involved in the cases of Song Meiniang and Ruyan.

After Chu Fan was forced into prison, Jiang Nan took the opportunity to get close to him.

The moment Jiang Nan caught a glimpse of that white figure through the skylight of the prison cell, he became even more certain of his thoughts.

Taking advantage of his position, he released Chu Fan from prison ahead of schedule.

Although Chu Fan tried his best to appear calm and experienced, his childish nature was immediately apparent to Jiang Nan.

No matter how well he disguises himself, Chu Fan's true nature is still just a child.

A commotion broke out within the Six Doors (a government agency), as intelligence indicated that a once-famous tomb raider had appeared in the city.

Jiang Nan scoffed. He had always had only one goal, but he had to take responsibility for his position.

He is a constable, and he is responsible for eliminating evil for the people.

He set up a tight net and subjected people to torture to extract confessions. At these times, he hated most why time was wasted on catching these scoundrels.

Meanwhile, Chu Fan was experiencing the hardships of his parents' work, and he was thinking that one day he would break free from this life of eating only steamed buns for three meals a day.

A sheet of white paper floated down in front of me, then another, and another.

Chu Fan looked up and his vision was filled with white papers flying everywhere.

Another family is holding a funeral.

Chu Fan began to wonder if there was something wrong with his character. Why was he so unlucky? Ever since he arrived here, he had only encountered dead people, corpses, coffins, and funerals.

The mourning procession marched out of the city in a grand procession, while unimportant people hurriedly gave way to each other, afraid of catching the bad luck.

Chu Fan stepped back to the side of the road. This heart-wrenching funeral scene reminded him of the day his mother was buried.

The sky was overcast that day, and it started raining unexpectedly, just like a scene from a TV drama.

Everyone was dressed in black and carrying black umbrellas, but how much sadness was contained in those black eyes?

Chu Fan was not fortunate enough to witness the moment when his mother accidentally fell from the building.

When a little girl from the same building came home for lunch, Chu's mother's body fell straight to the ground in front of her. The little girl was only ten years old. Later, Chu Fan heard that she had moved away.

Anyone who witnessed such a thing would have nightmares.

Chu Fan stumbled as his shoulder was suddenly bumped, snapping him out of his daze.

The man who hit him not only didn't apologize, but didn't even glance at Chu Fan.

Chu Fan followed the man's gaze to the funeral procession.

Images flashed through Chu Fan's mind intermittently, but he couldn't see them clearly; only a blurry white figure flickered before his eyes.

Chu Fan caught up with the group. He didn't know what what he saw meant, but he knew it was definitely related to that person.

Once the group left the city, they went up the mountain road and stopped in the dense forest along the winding path.

Chu Fan saw the man who had bumped into him come into view and walked over to exchange a few words with the funeral procession.

Then, Chu Fan witnessed the legendary martial arts. However, Chu Fan preferred to call that fist and foot technique brute force.

Several burly men sprang out of the bushes and wiped out the group in no time. They swiftly overturned the coffin lid, revealing countless gold and silver treasures inside.

After killing the person and silencing them, a scene of bandits dividing the loot unfolded.

Chu Fan suddenly realized how unfavorable his situation was. If he were to expose his whereabouts, the witness protection measures of the police in the 21st century were not perfect enough. Could he expect to rely on the social order of this society from hundreds or thousands of years ago?

The burly men divided the loot and swaggered away.

After thinking it over, Chu Fan also prepared to tiptoe around and make way, when suddenly he heard a loud shout of eating and drinking.

"who?"

It's over.

Chu Fan obediently got up, raised his hands in surrender, and lamented endlessly that his life was about to end here.

"Who are you?"

Who else could I be? I'm clearly an innocent victim. Chu Fan wore a bitter expression, not daring to turn around at all.

Nine out of ten people who do murder are psychopaths. They don't need a reason to kill, let alone if he wanted to kill Chu Fan now, he would have an absolutely sufficient reason.

Mu Yan stood beside the coffin, looking mockingly at Chu Fan's back with his hands raised.

The person the thief just shouted was actually Mu Yan, who had suddenly appeared, not Chu Fan.

A sudden, inexplicable fear gripped the thief, and sweat beaded on his forehead. "W-who are you?"

A big question mark appeared above Chu Fan's head. Could it be that his back view was so intimidating that it made the ruthless killer stutter?

"This coffin does not belong to you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Fan's expression changed.

At the same time, countless birds took flight from the distant woods.

Jiangnan received intelligence and, with the help of the Six Doors, successfully ambushed the burly men.