Chapter 073 - Witch Hazel (7)
"Is it a pen fairy?"
On the roof of the building, Zhang Wanwan's body had been taken down, but two dark footprints had formed in the place where she stood.
Chang Tai took a puff of cigarette and looked at Xing Ruyi and the cat she was holding in her arms with an inquiring look: "In Niu Xinyan's dormitory, when we were playing that game of Zhaobi Fairy, I saw something that made me feel unbelievable. I am a criminal policeman, I have seen all kinds of corpses, from the day I was admitted to the police academy, I don't believe that there are ghosts in this world, I believe that only evil prevails over good, only justice. But I now have doubts about what I know and what I know.
You tell me that ghosts are born from the heart, so where did that thing I see come from? In my heart? Okay, I'll admit, I really want to solve the case, I really want to find out what happened to these four students in this school, but I've had this idea before, why I've never seen a ghost, not even anything like a ghost. ”
"Are you suspicious of me?" Xing Ruyi stroked the kitten's head.
"Nope! I'm doubting what I knew. Chang Tai took a heavy puff of his cigarette, then threw the remaining half directly to the ground, raised his foot, and crushed it with the tip of his leather shoe. This is a kind of venting, a kind of venting that only normal people can have when they are faced with an unexpected situation and there is no way to control it.
"Brother Chang, you are a criminal policeman, so you should have heard such a story." Xing Ruyi walked to Chang Tai's side and stood side by side with him to look at the scenery in the distance.
Los Angeles is changing almost every day, the old city is gradually being replaced by the new one, the old roads are more elevated at some point, and some of the places you used to know have disappeared at some point.
Xing Ruyi felt sad, so he turned around and leaned against the mottled concrete walls.
"There was such a strange case somewhere, my brother was murdered, and my sister was far away at this time, and she didn't know about her brother's murder, but my sister had a strange dream. In the dream, she saw her brother walking towards her with a pale face, and dreamed that his brother told her that he had been killed and that his body was buried somewhere. When my sister woke up, she felt very unsure, so she quickly pulled out her phone number and called her family. Sure enough, my brother went missing.
My sister couldn't sleep anymore, she closed her eyes and saw her brother's bloodless face, she stayed up and boiled, and finally stayed up until dawn, and then went to the police station to report the case. The investigators didn't believe her words at first, they just had a dream and ran to report the case, which was simply a fantasy and a joke. But the sister cried and pleaded, and her brother was indeed missing, so the investigators tried to contact the police station where the brother disappeared and asked for help to investigate.
As a result, they actually found the body of the younger brother in the place where the sister said it.
According to the routine of the general criminal investigation bureau, at this time, the investigators can suspect that the younger brother was actually killed by the elder sister, otherwise, how did the elder sister who was far away know that the younger brother was murdered, and how did she know the location of the burial? Cases of sibling killing each other are rare, but it doesn't mean that there are none. But after investigation, my sister did not have the time to commit the crime, and her relationship with her younger brother has always been very good.
The case was eventually solved, and the murderer of his brother was found.
The reason why this case is strange is that the sister didn't know that her brother was killed, and between the dreams that my sister had, her family did not tell her the news of her brother's disappearance, and she saw the whole process in her dreams. In the language of the people, this is called dreaming, and it is the way in which the dead tell the living something.
Because the whole case is so weird, even so weird that even the case handlers themselves find it hard to believe, thinking that it can't be explained at all. Later, this case was also reported by relevant media, and they gave this case a very special name, called Dream Capture Murderer.
So, Brother Chang, do you think there are really ghosts in this world? ”
Chang Tai was silent, because he didn't know how to answer the question that Xing Ruyi asked him.
"By the way, there's one more thing I thought I could tell you." Xing Ruyi looked at Chang Tai's side face: "Niu Xinyan's boyfriend, that boy named Zhang Yufeng, had a car accident in the evening of the day Niu Xinyan was killed. ”
"What?"
The day of Niu Xinyan's accident was originally her birthday, and she made an appointment with her boyfriend to meet in the small restaurant outside the school, but because she was threatened by Xu Ruixin to participate in the matter of Bixian, she couldn't go to the appointment as scheduled.
Because Xu Ruixin was worried that she would tell Zhang Yufeng these things after she met him, which would affect her image in Zhang Yufeng's heart. Therefore, before playing the game of inviting pen immortals, Xu Ruixin had been forcing Niu Xinyan to stay with him.
Huang Rui couldn't bear it, so she went to the restaurant to tell Zhang Yufeng about it, but she waited for a long time, but she didn't wait, so she let the restaurant owner see Zhang Yufeng's photo and asked the boss to tell him about it.
The owner of the restaurant is a middle-aged man, and he thinks that these children seem to be engaging in polyamorous love, so he is very impressed by the photo of Huang Rui and Zhang Yufeng. The restaurant owner also told me that the photos Huang Rui showed him were found in his circle of friends. I guessed that the circle of friends must not be Huang Rui's, but Xu Ruixin's. Because the photo was taken candidly. ”
"Then how did you know that Zhang Yufeng had a car accident?"
"It's a coincidence that a friend told me." Xing Ruyi looked at Chang Tai's eyes and said, "I just laid so much groundwork, I want to ask Brother Chang now, do you believe that there is such a thing as an out-of-body soul in this world?" ”
"I believe that there are ghosts in this world."
"Then that's easy to explain." Xing Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief, and said in Chang Tai's strange eyes: "Zhang Yufeng was in a car accident on the way to buy a birthday gift for Niu Xinyan, when he was passing through an intersection, when the traffic light was changing, he saw an old man crossing the road, so he hurriedly stepped forward and wanted to drag back the old man who didn't see whether it was a red light or a green light, but he happened to run into a white Hyundai car that grabbed time and knocked him away. The back of his head hit the ground and he was bleeding a lot, but a kind passer-by contacted the traffic police to send him to the hospital, and he is still in the intensive care unit. ”
"What do you mean by out-of-body experience?"
"This Zhang Yufeng should love his girlfriend Niu Xinyan very much, and everyone else is injured like that, but he still wants to buy a birthday gift for Niu Xinyan. Human obsession is a particularly terrible thing. As for me, I have a friend who opened an antique rouge shop, and she met Zhang Yufeng in this rouge shop.
At that time, Zhang Yufeng went to choose a gift for his girlfriend, only to find that he didn't bring any money after choosing, and ran out of the rouge shop in a hurry. When he ran out, my friend noticed that he was covered in blood on the back of his head and looked very strange, so he told me about it.
As for me, I was also curious, so I asked a friend from the traffic police team to help check it, so I found out about Zhang Yufeng's car accident hospitalization. ”
Xing Ruyi thought about it and said one more thing.
"Also, Zhang Yufeng shouldn't know that his girlfriend has had an accident, so he will look for Niu Xinyan everywhere in this girls' dormitory."
"Zhang Yufeng?"
"That's right, the black shadow that appeared in the girls' dormitory is Zhang Yufeng's out-of-body soul, and the memory of the soul is limited, so he will look around in various dormitories."
"Can you see him?"
"Why not?" Xing Ruyi blinked: "Okay, let's not hide it, I am actually a descendant of the exorcist clan, and I was born to see ghosts." ”
"Exorcists?" Chang Tai tugged at the corners of his mouth, wanting to laugh, but he felt that this matter was not ridiculous.
"Okay, the exorcists are fake, but the ghosts that can be seen are real." Xing Ruyi approached Chang Tai and pointed to his eyes to show him: "People's facial features are very magical existences, and some people are born with extraordinary ear power and can hear particularly low decibel sounds. Some people are born with the ability to distinguish subtle flavors. Others, like me, can see many strange things. Clairvoyance, the ear of the wind, may not be a myth, but a reality. Okay, now we're done with the gossip, let's get down to business. That Zhang Yufeng should have woken up, he may know who killed Zhang Wanwan. ”
"Zhang Wanwan disappeared with Xu Ruina, and now that Zhang Wanwan has been found, where is Xu Ruina?"
"Xu Ruina should still be alive." Xing Ruyi probed the surroundings with ghost magic, but found no trace of the existence of other ghosts, nor did he smell the smell that the corpse should have.
Chang Tai did not go to the hospital to find Zhang Yufeng, but went back to the criminal police team to find the forensic doctor Chen Jie.
Pushing open the door of the forensic office, he saw Chen Jie stitching Zhang Wanwan's body. Usually when he does these things, it heralds that the entire autopsy is over.
"Anything new?" Chang Tai asked, looking tired.
Chen Jie carefully stitched Zhang Wanwan's body together, and said: "The time of death should be around two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the error before and after will not exceed half an hour, and the cause of death is severe dehydration." ”
"Can't the time of death be more accurate?"
"I have tried my best, if it is a normal death, I can analyze and confirm it according to the digestion of the deceased's stomach and the activities of the deceased before his death, but Zhang Wanwan's situation is too special. The time when several of them played the pen fairy game was twelve o'clock at midnight, and the whole process lasted up to half an hour, that is, the accident that occurred at about half past twelve, Zhang Wanwan disappeared with Xu Ruina, and then Zhang Wanwan appeared on the roof of the girls' dormitory, and died of bizarre dehydration. I wondered, it's normal not to eat or drink on this big night, and besides, she must have eaten dinner before, why did she die of dehydration. ”
Chen Jie said, scratching his head. For a forensic doctor, not knowing the cause of death of the deceased is probably the most frustrating thing.