Luo Yonghua was lost in his memories, his voice trembling slightly as he spoke, full of excitement and smugness.
He described in detail how he had gradually backed the kidnappers into a corner, and how he had found the body they abandoned.
Terrified, the kidnappers had already forgotten why they had kidnapped Li Moqian and what their game was about. They hastily killed her and threw her body inside an unfinished building.
Luo Yonghua had only needed to spend a little time squeezing through a ventilation window to get inside the building and find Li Moqian's body. Back then, her body had not yet begun to decay, and tears and an expression of despair still lingered on her face.
Luo Yonghua gesticulated wildly, then seemed at a loss.
"That place was too far from my home. There was nothing around it, either. No people, no other houses. It was in the suburbs, beside a wasteland. Maybe they'd originally planned to build some kind of private workshop there... I had no choice but to go home and prepare a few things. By the time I found a chance to return, the body had already started to rot." Luo Yonghua said regretfully. "It stank, and there were maggots and flies. I could only put up with it. But it made using spells on her too difficult. Her blood wasn't fresh anymore."
He spoke as though he were talking about an object, not a living person, much less the victim of a kidnapping.
Luo Yonghua sighed.
At that moment, he had forgotten all about his current predicament.
In the surveillance footage, I saw Chu Lan trembling on the hospital bed. She stared at Luo Yonghua with an expression of disbelief.
Luo Yonghua continued speaking as if to himself. "I tried a few spells,