Volume 1 Can't Escape the Nightmare Chapter 6 Multiple Cases Chain
Zhang Ze pushed away the medical staff and rushed to Zhuo Man's side. Zhuo Man's frightened eyes disappeared, and he suddenly threw himself into Zhang Ze's arms and whispered.
"Get me out of here."
Zhang Ze felt that something was wrong, the other party made a look, and Fang Fan sent all the surrounding medical staff out.
"What the hell is going on with Dolman?"
"You take me first, and I'll tell you later."
Zhang Ze left together after going through the discharge procedures for Zhuo Man. Dean Chang Aimin made a phone call.
"Zhuo Man has been taken away by Zhang Ze and Fang Fan."
"Good."
On the other end of the phone, Wang Di happily watched with a lollipop in his mouth, and things were going along his plan step by step.
After the three of them returned home, Yuehan was accompanying Wanli by the bedside. After Zhuo Man cleaned up properly, Yuehan took some of his own clothes for Zhuo Man, and the clothes in the mental hospital for many days were dirty and smelly and could not be worn. Yuehan poured another cup of hot milk for Zhuo Man, Zhuo Man gently held it in his hand, the heat of the milk crossed her cheeks, and she was surrounded by warmth for the first time in many days.
"Since Ye Guozhong's matter was revealed, the Zhuo Group has collapsed, so I have to pretend to be crazy to escape death, Long Feng has been thinking about the Zhuo family for a day or two, although Ye Guozhong has fallen, but most of the assets of the Zhuo family are still in my hands, and the person who wants me to disappear the most at this time is probably him."
"Why did Long Feng do this, wasn't Group K attached to the Zhuo family back then?"
"It's all driven by profit. The Zhuo family did not start out in a glorious way, and at that time, many things needed to be solved by relying on Team K. Wang Tiancheng has always been a businessman, so he can't get used to the Zhuo family's sideways, which is why the Zhuo family and Wang Tiancheng have always been rivals. When the strength of the Zhuo family began to be equal to Wang Tiancheng in Zhonghai City, my father was anxious to give himself a proper identity, so he drew a clear line with Group K, but Long Feng was not satisfied with the conditions offered by his father, and left the Zhuo family completely in a fit of anger. β
"So that's the case, no wonder Long Feng is still obsessed with the declining Zhuo family and refuses to stop."
After Fang Fan finished speaking, Yue Han pinched him and gave him a heavy roll of the eyes.
Fang Fan honestly shut his mouth.
"Sister Zhuoman, you can stay. You and Wanli live in the same room, so you wronged Zhang Ze to sleep on the sofa, don't mind if the place is small. β
Yuehan generously invited Zhuo Man to stay, and Zhang Ze thanked Yuehan from the bottom of his heart for his understanding. In the dead of night, Fang Fan and Yuehan both went to sleep, and Wanli was still unconscious. Zhuo Man sat alone by the bedroom window and watched the cars coming and going on the street, and Zhang Ze stood at the door with a bowl of ginseng soup and looked at her.
"Still not sleeping?"
"I can't sleep, is she the Wanli you told me about?"
Zhuo Man looked at Wanli in the lower bunk and said.
"Hmm. I don't know when she'll wake up. β
"Sure enough, she is a delicate and lovely person, no better than me, a troublesome half-aged."
"Don't say that. Actually, I..."
"Actually, what?"
Zhuo Man approached Zhang Ze step by step, but saw the fluttering hesitation in his eyes, she took a few steps back to defend her remaining self-esteem, and sat down next to Wanli instead.
"Some people are just destined to stray from the trajectory of love."
"Derman..."
"Don't say it, I want to sleep."
Zhang Ze stood outside the door in a daze, he suddenly understood that he only had sister and brother feelings for Zhuo Man in front of Wanli, and the vague love before only regarded Zhuo Man as a substitute for Wanli, in order to relieve the loneliness in his heart. At this time, Zhang Ze felt a wave of nausea, and the disgust in his heart even exceeded the blood that had been stained on his hands. A door separates two hearts, one free from the island and the other on eternal death.
July 7, 2019 8:00 a.m
Opposite Fang Fan sat an old man, there was a large mole in the middle of the old man's eyebrows, and sweat swept across the mole to the tip of his nose. On dog days in the heat, he was wearing an old suit, although the collar of his shirt was soaked with sweat, the neckline under the black tie did not mean to loosen in the slightest, and the old man took out a handkerchief to wipe the beads of sweat on his forehead. After wiping it, the old man put the handkerchief back into his trouser pocket, and the three-pronged leather shoe on his right foot carefully poked forward so that the folded handkerchief could be placed neatly in his trouser pocket.
The old man exuded a gloomy temperament, and Fang Fan felt very depressed.
"What's the matter with you?"
Fang Fan was the first to speak, wanting to find out his intentions and send him away as soon as possible. The old man didn't speak, he looked up at the ceiling, Fang Fan followed his gaze, a blurry face slowly appeared on the ceiling, Fang Fan stood up in horror, when he looked down at the old man again, the old man's face began to swell, and it became more and more swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye, his eyeballs slowly protruded from his sockets, and the skin gradually became transparent, suddenly the old man's whole body exploded, and the liquid splashed all over the room, when Fang Fan came back to his senses and looked again, the liquid that burst out was not blood, but water.
Fang Fan woke up suddenly, and there was a sleeping Yuehan lying beside him, which turned out to be a nightmare. Sweat soaked the pillow, he walked out of the bedroom and found that the door to the guest room was still closed, but Zhang Ze on the sofa was no longer there, and he should have gone to work. In the days when he was on Wanyou Island, he didn't know how to explain to the leader, and it was certain that he was recorded as absenteeism.
He picked up a glass of water from the table and was about to drink it, when suddenly there was a sharp knock on the door, and a panicked young man stood outside the door.
"Is this Fang Fan's detective agency?"
"Yes, you are?"
The young man did not speak, but flashed sideways into the house.
"Close the door."
Fang Fan closed the door, and when he turned back, the young man was sitting on the sofa trembling.
"You're looking for me?"
Fang Fan asked at a loss, fortunately Yuehan hadn't woken up yet, otherwise he would have to be scared.
"There's a ghost chasing me."
"Huh? You slowly say what's going on. β
The young man evened out his breath and told his story.
The young man's name is Qiu Ming, and he works for a real estate agency. A few days ago, an old man went to him to put his house on the intermediary, and the old man told Qiu Ming to sell it if the price was right, without notifying himself. Qiu Ming saw that the location of this house was very prosperous, and he would definitely be able to buy it for a large price, if he could extract some money from it, it would be more than he earned after half a year of hard work, and the old man also told him not to notify him after selling it.
Three days later, a couple happened to buy a house, so he gave priority to recommending the old man's house, who knew that the couple immediately approved the suite, went through the formalities, paid the money, everything went smoothly, Qiu Ming took more than half of the benefits from it, but strange things followed.
That night he called his friends out to celebrate, after spending all day drinking, Qiu Ming stumbled home alone, and when he arrived at the door of the corridor, he suddenly saw a small white paper house, he was startled at first, but because of the strength of the wine, he kicked the small house by raising his foot, and scolded in his mouth. When he got home, the bathtub in the bathroom was already filled with a large tank of water, and he was a little unbelievable, could it be that he had put it before going out? Tiredness hit, he didn't care so much, and joked that the conch girl helped him put it away, and after taking off his clothes, he soaked in the bathtub, and before he knew it, Qiu Ming fell asleep in the bathtub, and when he woke up the next morning, he found that there was an extra slap mark on his chest. Qiu Ming didn't care, thinking that it must have been left by the pushing and fighting between friends after drinking last night, and after a simple freshening, he went to the company. During the day, everything is fine, business with customers, and laughter with colleagues are normal. At night, Qiu Ming always felt inexplicably tired when he got home, so he washed up early and went to bed.
After a few more days, Qiu Ming felt more and more tired. That night he looked at himself in the mirror of the washstand, and he was a little scared when he suddenly found that a black mole had grown between his eyebrows. The next morning, he went to the company to talk to his colleagues about it, but they said he had no moles on his face.
Qiu Ming thought about whether it would have something to do with the house he sold, after all, he was a thief, and if he was a little weird, he would associate it with the bad things he had done. He dialed the phone left by the old man, but it was a little boy who answered. After repeated inquiries, it was learned that the little boy was the grandson of the old man, who had died some time ago. Qiu Ming counted the days, and the day the old man came to him to sell the house happened to be the old man's first seventh.
This frightened Qiu Ming, and he immediately returned the money and goods he had embezzled to their original owners, and burned a lot of paper at the crossroads. He thought that this was the end of the strange thing, but who knew that something even stranger had happened, Qiu Ming returned home and found that all the faucets in the house were on, and the house was full of water. Fortunately, the downstairs neighbor went out on a trip, or he had to find it. As he was cleaning up the water in his house, four words suddenly appeared on the wall: "Thief's life."
Qiu Ming, who was frightened, ran out like crazy, not daring to go home again, and after being outside until dawn, he ran to Fang Fan and begged him to help him solve it.
After Fang Fan heard what he said, he didn't care much about the other plots, but the old man with a mole made him very interested, and he muttered in his heart if it would be the old man in the dream just now.
"Mr. Fang, what do you think should be done?"
"I'm not a ghost catcher, so I can't do this."
Qiu Ming immediately took out a card, half-knelt on the ground, and pleaded.
"This is all my savings, you can help me."
Fang Fan pushed the card back to Qiu Ming.
"That's not what I meant. I'll investigate it first, and we'll talk about the remuneration later. β
After Fang Fan sent Qiu Ming away, he dialed Zhang Ze's phone.
"You can help me check if there has been a case of an old man who died in an accident in the past half a month."
"Hey, what did you say? Hey..."
Zhang Ze shouted loudly on the other end of the phone, it seemed that the signal was not good. When Zhang Ze returned home at noon, Fang Fan told him everything in the morning.
"There is really a case of an old man who died unexpectedly. The old man's name is Cai Yongliang, a retired sanitation worker, his son and daughter-in-law died in a car accident, leaving only a little grandson named Cai Sixin. After the old man died, his grandson Cai Sixin was sent to an orphanage by the street. A few days ago, the old man's house was sold, and the money went into Cai Sixin's account, but no one knew who sold the house. β
"How did the old man die?"
"Some time ago, there was a heavy rainstorm, and the road was flooded, and the sanitation workers who arrived to help later found the old man drowning in the drainage well. It is presumed that the old man accidentally fell into the manhole cover after opening the manhole cover himself while waiting for support. β
"Was there surveillance at the time?"
"The location of the incident is the old city, and it is very remote, and there is no surveillance at all."
"No, I'm afraid it's not an accident, is there a photo of the deceased?"
Zhang Ze handed the deceased's file to Fang Fan, Fang Fan gasped after reading it, the deceased Cai Yongliang was the old man in his dream.
Fang Fan and Zhang Ze immediately set off to the place where the accident occurred, this old street is really old, if you take a photo of this place to show outsiders, absolutely no one believes that this old street will be part of the bustling Zhonghai City.
"This is the drainage well where Cai Yongliang's body was found at that time."
Fang Fan carefully observed everything around him and found that there were a lot of cars here, and they were not cheap. Most of them are probably white-collar cars in the new city, and when they go out to talk about business, they don't want to lose their share in front of customers, so they grit their teeth and buy a good car to strengthen their faΓ§ade, and as for the place to live, they have to choose the cheap old city.
"There are so many good cars here, and the owners all use their cars as treasures, so the dash cams on their cars must have turned on the function of parking shooting."
Zhang Ze understood what Fang Fan meant, and immediately began to look for the owner of the car from car to car, and under continuous inquiry, he found a car owner, whose car was parked not far from the drainage well, and the angle just happened to photograph the situation of the drainage well.
The owner of the car called up the video of the day, in which Cai Yongliang wore a raincoat and a mask, staggered close to the drainage well in the rainstorm, and found that the inside was blocked after struggling to open the manhole cover, and the water not only did not go down, but poured upward, and he stood by the well after calling for support on the side of the road to warn passers-by to be careful. At this time, a young man rode a motorcycle quickly, and accidentally knocked down Cai Yongliang because of the speed, the motorcycle did not stop but drove away, Cai Yongliang stood up in a daze, and fell into the drainage well without standing firmly.
Fang Fan and Zhang Ze suddenly realized, Zhang Ze immediately began to investigate the motorcycle, and after two days of tracking, the motorcycle owner found it, and it turned out to be Qiu Ming. Qiu Ming honestly confessed the facts of the day, and finally Qiu Ming was convicted of traffic escape and manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Fang Fan and Zhang Ze came to the orphanage, and they looked through the glass of the orphanage as Cai Sixin was playing with other children, with innocent and happy smiles on their faces.
"It's over. Who is the person who sells the house? β
"It's Cai Yongliang."
"Ghost selling?"
"Maybe that's how it is. Maybe Cai Yongliang didn't resent Qiu Ming for knocking him down, but Qiu Ming's private swallowing of the inheritance he left to his grandson really angered Cai Yongliang, so that he returned his soul to revenge. In fact, the kind-hearted old man Cai Yongliang just wanted to protect his grandson. Although his relatives are gone, money can continue to support Cai Sixin, which is probably the last helpless hope left by the old man. β
"Then this work is in vain."
"No, at least I earned a lot of warmth."
Fang Fan began to have a new understanding of ghosts and gods, and was no longer a staunch atheist before. Just as Fang Fan and Zhang Ze were leaving the orphanage, Fang Fan's mobile phone suddenly rang, and it was Yue Han calling.
"Fang Fan, where are you? Hurry back and come back, Dolman is gone. β
After Fang Fan and Zhang Ze arrived home, Yuehan was anxiously pacing back and forth in the living room.
"You're back, Zhuo Man is gone, and only left a note for Zhang Ze."
Zhang Ze picked up the note and looked at it, it said: Don't look for me. Zhang Ze crumpled the note into a ball and stuffed it into his pocket, looking as if nothing had happened.
"You'd better go out and look for it."
"Don't look for it, I know Zhuoman's character, even if I find her, it won't help."
"Then she's in a dangerous situation right now."
"Don't worry, it's not that simple for Long Feng to kill her. It's time to think about our own situation. The news that Zhuo Man was still alive must have reached Long Feng, and it was now the calm before the storm. β
Fang Fan took Yuehan out shopping, and also wanted Zhang Ze to be quiet by himself. Although he was casual on the surface, he was still very worried in his heart. Zhang Ze poured a cup of coffee and leaned on the sofa to close his eyes to recuperate, but his mind didn't stop, he was wondering where Zhuo Man could go. He wouldn't stand in the way of Dolman's departure, but he just wanted to know that she was safe at this time.
In the waiting hall of Zhonghai Airport, Zhuo Man looked at the flight schedule, but his heart stayed in the bedroom of more than ten square meters, that night Zhang Ze's expression sometimes jumped out like a doll in a clown box, and when she wanted to press him back, she found that there was too much reluctance. She understood that her dependence on Zhang Ze was hopeless, and her habit of him made her shudder, and in the end, it was this dependence and habit that made her choose to leave. Yu Zhangze is for Zhuo Man, it is you who realizes it later, you who sinks repeatedly, you who worry about it, and you who love it.
The white-haired old man walked towards Dolman.
"It's time, let's go."
Zhuo Man smiled at the old man and took the old man's arm and walked towards the gate. Not long after, the passenger plane bound for the United States slowly entered the stratosphere, leaving a few wisps of sorrow in the sky of Zhonghai City.
July 8, 2019 7:34 AM
Zhang Ze was woken up by the sound of the phone, he was the police officer on duty at the police station.
"Officer Zhang, I just received a report from Guo Jianyue in the Xinyue Villa District, and his son disappeared out of thin air in the early hours of this morning."
"Huh? What does it mean to disappear out of thin air? β
"I don't understand, you can come to the police station to watch the video."
Zhang Ze woke up Fang Fan and told him the general situation of the case.
"Recently, this case has become more and more evil. I think it's better to set up a supernatural department. β
Fang Fan complained while putting on his pants. The two rushed to the police station, where many police officers gathered in front of the computer to watch the video provided by the informant.
"This is the video provided by the informant."
When the police officer Xiaolu saw Fang Fan and Zhang Ze coming, he immediately gave them a seat.
Fang Fan and Zhang Ze watched the video carefully, the camera directly filmed the situation in the baby's room, everything was normal at first, and when the video reached 45 minutes and 23 seconds, the baby who was originally lying in the crib suddenly disappeared.
"What about the informant?"
"I'm recording a confession."
Fang Fan and Zhang Ze came to the office, and the female police officer Tao Lu was recording a statement to the informant. The informant, Guo Jianyue, was wearing a brand-name suit and a pair of rimless glasses, and although he was already anxious, he could still see that he was highly educated.
"Miss Officer, when will I find my son?"
"We'll try to help you find it, don't worry."
Fang Fan gently patted Tao Lu on the shoulder, signaling her to leave the rest of the matter to him and Zhang Ze to deal with.
"Is there anything strange going on in your family lately?"
Guo Jianyue recalled.
"If there's a strange thing, it's that since my wife gave birth, I've heard knocking on the glass every night. The sound is not loud, not like the muffled sound of a palm knock, but more like a gentle tap with the tip of a fingernail, and sometimes there is a sound similar to the tip of a fingernail scratching glass. β
"Could it be your auditory hallucinations?"
"No, it won't. My wife was suffering from postpartum depression, and at first I suspected it was her auditory hallucinations. Until one night when I was working late on my company paperwork and was about to go back to my bedroom to bed, I heard that voice too. I followed the noise to the nursery, and the sound came from the floor-to-ceiling window of the nursery, but there was nothing outside the window. β
"Then when did you find out that the child was missing?"
"In the early hours of this morning, the voice sounded again, and I went to the nursery again, but as soon as I entered, the sound disappeared, and the child was gone."
"Did you go into the baby's room in the wee hours of the morning?"
"That's right."
"Then why don't you see you on your surveillance footage?"
"How is that possible?"
Fang Fan took Guo Jianyue to watch the surveillance video together, and sure enough, there was no Guo Jianyue in the video from beginning to end. The situation of the case was much more complicated than Fang Fan imagined, and he decided to go to Guo Jianyue's house to have a look.
Guo Jianyue took Fang Fan and Zhang Ze to the Xinyue Villa area. Guo Jianyue's family lives in the middle of nowhere, in the westernmost part of the villa area, where there is only one villa for his family, which looks like an isolated one from a distance.
"I'd like to find out more about your wife's voice knocking on the window."
Guo Jianyue's face was a little dangerous.
"Okay."
He gently pushed open the door to the nursery, and his wife sat on the floor against the crib, her hair hanging loose, and her eyes staring out the window.
"Wife, these two are policemen, and they are here to investigate the disappearance of the baby."
The woman didn't speak, Guo Jianyue looked at Fang Fan and motioned to Fang Fan not to ask first.
"They came, they took my child."
The woman spoke suddenly, startling Guo Jianyue and Zhang Ze. Fang Fan immediately squatted beside the woman.
"Who are they?"
The woman was silent again. Fang Fan and Zhang Ze decided to stay at Guo Jianyue's house tonight and wait for that voice to appear.
"Fang Fan, his wife suffers from postpartum depression, do you think she hid the child herself?"
"You can really think about how to explain the video."
"I'll just talk about it casually. I can't bear it, call me when the situation comes, I'll squint for a while. β
Fang Fan sincerely felt that his physical strength was not as good as before, in the past, he stayed up for a few nights to handle cases, and the next day he was still doing what he had to do like no one else. It's good now, but I'm already a little sore before the night is over. He looked at his watch and it was already 3:56 a.m., and it was almost time. He stood at the door of the nursery, quietly waiting.
About 15 minutes passed, and suddenly there was a tinkling sound in the baby room, and if you listened closely, the sound was very similar to the sound of Guo Jianyue depicting the sound of knocking on the glass with the tip of her fingernails, and suddenly Guo Jianyue's wife came out of the bedroom and shouted into the baby room.
"Don't knock again, don't knock again."
She shouted hoarsely, her eyes bloodshot and her neck popping out. After shouting, she knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, it's all not taking good care of the baby. Give me back the child. β
Guo Jianyue hugged his wife's trembling body tightly from behind. The voice stopped abruptly, and Fang Fan walked into the baby's room to observe carefully, so as not to miss any clues. There was still nothing outside the floor-to-ceiling window, and when he squatted down, he found that there was a small handprint on the lower left corner of the floor-to-ceiling window, and there was still some dirt left under the handprint, Fang Fan muttered in his heart, this matter is too evil.
Guo Jianyue's wife's shouts woke Zhang Ze, and he saw Fang Fan squatting in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and observing.
"What did you find?"
"Look at this mudra and the dirt."
Zhang Ze took out the evidence bag he carried with him and packed the soil.
"It can't be those things again, right?"
"It's hard to say."
The next day, Zhang Ze returned to the bureau with a soil sample for testing. Fang Fan was still at Guo Jianyue's house, and the doorbell rang as soon as Zhang Ze left. Fang Fan thought that Zhang Ze had forgotten something, but when he opened the door, it was a middle-aged woman.
"Guo Jianyue, you come out for me."
"Mom, why are you?"
"How did you lose my grandson? Are you so big that you can't even look at a child? β
It turned out to be Guo Jianyue's mother, who came to Xingshi early in the morning to ask for guilt
"Mom, be quiet, Xiaoshuang is still sick."
"What's wrong with Xiao Shuang?"
"She was already depressed after giving birth, and now that she has lost her child, she is even more serious, and she blames herself for everything."
"It's the hardest time to be a mother at this time."
Fang Fan suddenly had an idea, the old man knew some ghosts and gods, maybe she could say a thing or two. Fang Fan told Guo Jianyue's mother what happened last night and what he saw. The old lady's expression changed dramatically after hearing this.
"It's late, it's late."
"What's late?"
"The little ghost is knocking on the door, this is looking for Mom."
"What you're saying is too wicked."
The old lady no longer paid attention to Fang Fan, her eyes staring at the handprints on the floor-to-ceiling window.