Chapter 3: The Woman in Black
The second case happened two months later, the protagonists were a pair of young lovers, because the first case happened late at night, and there were few guests that day, and I took advantage of some of my media friends to not report publicly, so the hotel's business was basically not affected, and there are still many families and couples who come to our hotel for vacation every weekend. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info The young man looks very affectionate, talking and laughing from entering the hotel to checking in, and sticking together like a conjoined baby. I was also infected by their happy emotions, and I couldn't help but sigh at the beauty of love and youth, and the gloomy mood seemed to have improved for many days. I went to bed early that day, I hadn't slept so well for a long time since the first case, and I was woken up in the early hours of the morning by a heavy banging on the door, and it was Xiaohua, a waiter on the third floor, who couldn't say a word because of the fright. I didn't waste time, I hurried upstairs with him, it was the couple's room, the door was open, at this time there were already a lot of awakened guests gathered by the door, but no one dared to enter, they all gathered around the door and pointed and whispered, pushed the crowd into the room, I saw the boy squatting on the wall farthest from the bed, holding his head and sobbing softly. And that girl, lying on the bed, covered in ****, her eyes widened, her mouth opened gently, motionless, and her white and tender neck had obvious red fingerprints. I had the courage to go over and observe her, wishing she was still alive, but I found that her body was stiff and must have been dead for some time.
Soon the police and the medical examiner came and drove away the crowd of onlookers, and the boy was taken away, and the forensic doctor determined that the girl had been strangled to death. However, this is not the most terrible, just after the police finished exploring, carried the girl's body into the body bag, and was about to close the zipper, I found that her expression had changed, the original wide eyes and slightly open mouth suddenly turned into a strange smile, the corners of the mouth were slightly raised, and the eyes were slightly curved, this smile made me scream and fall to the ground, because it was exactly the same as the last smile of the girl who jumped off the building.
The medical examiners were also startled by my screams and quickly asked me what was wrong, and I quickly told them to check again, because the person may not be dead, and I found that she was still laughing. Incredible as they were, they reopened the body bag. But, do you know what's going on, Mr. Chen didn't seem to be able to remember, he held his head in his hands, and after a while, he slowly exhaled: her expression was still the same, her eyes were wide open, with horror and hatred, and there was no smile at all. The medical examiner pointed to a purple-red spot on her chest and told me that the corpse spots had come out, and the person was already dead.
But believe me, it's really not an illusion, although I was frightened, but I knew very well that I was very familiar with that smile, because after living for so many years, I have never found this smile on anyone's face, how to say, it is very ...... Evil, and it gives me the feeling that it is not a smile of its own accord, but a smile that seems to be made by something pulling the flesh of the face, which is why it is so chilling, this is a smile that only the dead can make.
As I expected, the case was identified as intentional homicide, and the boy admitted that he strangled the girl, but the reason was ...... Unknown. According to the boy's statement: after they checked into the room that night, everything was developing in a logical direction, the two hugged each other and slept after a cloud and rain, and in the middle of the night the boy felt that his throat was stuck by something, and when he woke up, he was horrified to find the girl sitting on top of him, and his tie tightly strangled his neck. Originally, he wanted to struggle to break free, because there was a disparity in strength between men and women, but the girl suddenly showed a mocking smile, I don't know why, he was angered by this smile, so he turned over and pressed the girl under him, and pinched her neck fiercely, pinching more and more tightly, until her body slowly became cold, he suddenly came back to his senses, let go of his hand, and let out a scream. The police investigation revealed that the young lovers were in a period of intense love, and there were no conflicts between them, and there was no quarrel that night. But the most bizarre thing is that the boy himself didn't understand why he strangled the girl that night, he only remembered that he was extremely angry at that time, his brain was instantly chaotic, and he couldn't remember what he had done very clearly, and when he reacted, everything was useless.
Since then, the business of the hotel has plummeted, because this incident caused a great sensation, and the girl's parents even carried her coffin to the door of the hotel to ask for the explanation, you know, the so-called statement, is money. The girl comes from an extremely patriarchal family in a small mountain village, ranking second, with an older brother and a younger brother below, although this matter has nothing to do with the security of the hotel, but as far as I am concerned, one is that they cry in front of the hotel all day long, which has too much impact on the business, and the second is that after all, such a young life disappeared in my place, and I was willing to give some compensation and help. But I really can't see the behavior of the girl's parents, brothers and some so-called relatives, when there are guests coming, they cry and make a fuss, stop the car, and don't let people in, when the reporter comes to interview, her mother is even more snot and tears crying about how filial the girl is, how difficult it is to train a college student at home, but as soon as the reporter leaves, he should play cards, play cards, eat and eat, and talk and laugh. Pity the girl, her body was lying so alone in the coffin, no one even looked at her. Although I am a businessman, I still have my own principles for being a person and doing things, and the behavior of this family is really disgusting to me, so I avoid them, and this matter has been put on hold.
About four or five days later, one morning, I was surprised to find that the family had begun to pack their belongings, carry the coffins into the van they had hired, and prepare to leave, even though they had been spilling outside my office the night before, saying that they would never leave without compensation, and that they were ready to eat and live here for a year. I have always been afraid to speculate on people's hearts with the greatest malice, so their behavior is really incomprehensible to me. I went out to ask them what was going on, but I didn't expect them to see me one by one as if they were seeing a ghost, and they didn't want to say anything, just quickly packed up their things and prepared to leave. I couldn't help it, I grabbed the girl's brother, the little boy was fifteen or sixteen years old, I gave him two thousand yuan and asked him to tell me the reason.
After all, he was still young, and he told me the truth after hesitantly accepting the money: last night, it was late at night after they finished making a fuss in the hotel, and the family fell asleep casually chatting all day, and he was no exception, lying on the quilt he brought and quickly fell asleep. Sleeping until the middle of the night suddenly felt very cold, he wanted to get up to find himself a thicker quilt cover, the moment he opened his eyes, but vaguely heard that someone seemed to be singing, like a kind of opera, he couldn't remember what it was, first, because he really didn't understand opera, and second, because he had been stunned by the scene in front of him: the singing came from a woman, a woman dressed in black, she was sitting on top of his sister's coffin, chanting softly, ten fingertips, with the ups and downs of the pitch, comparing different gestures. Now, as if she had noticed someone watching her, her two dark eyes slanted in his direction and gave her a strange smile. This smile scared him out of a cold sweat, so he slowly retracted his head into the quilt, did not dare to move, did not even dare to breathe loudly, for fear of alarming her, but the song was getting closer and closer, and the woman seemed to come down from the coffin and came to his side, because he felt her fingers brushing his quilt, and through the quilt, he could feel that these fingers were so sharp and so cold. The boy could only pull the quilt tightly, for fear that the last layer of armor would be taken away, and I don't know how long later, he fell asleep groggyly.
When he woke up, it was slightly bright, he was woken up by the sound of packing, and the boy hurriedly told his relatives what he had seen and heard last night, but he didn't expect that they were not surprised after hearing it, but just glanced at each other meaningfully, and the boy understood that last night, they must have all experienced the same thing. Rural people are very superstitious, and they themselves know that what they are doing now is not honorable, so they left Songjian Building after cleaning up, leaving me with a lot of chicken feathers.
"The woman in black? Did the boy remember anything unusual about her outfit and how old she looked? Xu Xing, who had been silent, suddenly interjected and asked. The boy was so frightened that his family had been urging him to leave, so he didn't tell me about it, but it didn't matter, because it wasn't long before I met her myself. ”