CHAPTER XXXIX. Old cases

1

Zheng Tingyu picked up the kraft paper file bag pushed by Sang Xiaoge from the table, took out the document, and read it.

Sang Xiaoge leaned on the back of the sofa, not in a hurry, and waited for Zheng Tingyu to finish reading while drinking water.

This information is not long, and Zheng Tingyu quickly finished reading it. A mocking smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he looked at Sang Xiaoge and asked, "You guys went to Wutong Mountain Phase II tonight, just for this?" Have you found out the 'truth'? ”

Sang Xiaoge ignored the ridicule in Zheng Tingyu's tone, nodded very seriously, looked at the bloodshot eyes under the thick eyebrows of the Chinese character face in front of him and said:

"I found out, but I can't tell you. For I know that you do not believe such things in your heart. ”

"You ......"

"Don't interrupt me just yet!" Sang Xiaoge raised his palm, stopped Zheng Tingyu from speaking, and continued: "I want you to recall, is it that in the past month, there have been more and more strange cases? Believe me, there will be more cases that cannot be solved by conventional methods in the future! ”

"What do you mean?" Zheng Tingyu asked with a dark face.

"I mean, why don't you use this case as an opportunity - I'll give you the keys to your family's house, you go there tonight and sleep there, and if nothing happens, I'll do my best to work with you whenever you need it. However, in case you see something incomprehensible, I will cooperate with you. Perhaps, in the future, you will have more means to solve the case? ”

Zheng Tingyu was silent, then reached out and groped in his pocket, and then stopped.

"It's okay to smoke, you're welcome." Sang Xiaoge pushed a stainless steel ashtray over.

Lighting a cigarette, Zheng Tingyu's whole person was immersed in a sense of absurdity. Indeed, in the past month or so, he has handled a lot of strange reports, and at the same time, those "charlatans" in his own jurisdiction have also begun to be active. But in any case, Zheng Tingyu firmly believes that all cases, when the investigation is clear, can be explained clearly by science. But lately, there have been more and more events like the ones in front of me, so much so that I spend most of my time in investigations that will not be fruitful at all.

"It doesn't take up your time at work, just go to this room and sleep, unless you're scared of ......"

Zheng Tingyu smiled, calmly looked at the petite woman in front of him, ignored her agitation, spit out a puff of smoke and said: "I will go there tonight to stay there for the night according to your request, if your so-called 'unknown event' does not happen, you need to give me an explanation that I can accept tonight and last night." ”

"Deal!" Sang Xiaoge happily agreed.

2

Zheng Tingyu opened the door, walked in, and according to the girl's request, took off the gun, JingHui, JingGuan card, and even his coat on the sofa in the living room.

Turning on the lights in all the rooms, he first examined every nook and cranny of the room. I'm sure it's really just an ordinary room.

Standing in front of the bathroom washbasin, he was silent in the mirror for a while, he took out the eye drop bottle that Sang Xiaoge gave him from his pocket, raised his head, and dripped a drop of the somewhat cloudy liquid into his eye.

Cool and swishing, not only are the eyes not uncomfortable, as if the fatigue has been relieved.

After smoking a cigarette in the bathroom, and then wearing autumn clothes and pants, Zheng Tingyu entered the bedroom, closed the door, and lay directly on the bed.

He hadn't slept for more than thirty hours.

There has been a backlog of cases recently, and there is always no clue about the investigation. It is inevitable that he will be impetuous, and under excessive thinking, Zheng Tingyu has a nervous breakdown, resulting in poor sleep quality. Lying on the bed at this time, he hesitated, but still took out his mobile phone and downloaded a video software.

Holding back the disgust in his heart, he found the entrance of the live broadcast square, clicked in, looked at those vulgar and boring contents, and swiped them down one by one, not to mention, it seems that this thing really has a good hypnotic effect. His eyelids became heavier and heavier, and Zheng Tingyu thought: Maybe I can get a rare good night's sleep tonight.

Just as he was gradually falling asleep, a crying voice suddenly sounded in his ears:

"Woo...... Why is my life so miserable......"

As a criminal police officer, this kind of complaint is often heard in the mouths of both the victim's family and the suspect's family. Zheng Tingyu just let out a sound from his nose:

"Huh?"

"Woo...... I'm not willing to die like this...... Woohoo......"

It was an old lady's cry, old, sad, and with a strong unwillingness.

"Who?"

Zheng Tingyu woke up suddenly, he sat up straight on the bed and looked left and right.

In the quiet bedroom, there was no sound and nothing out of the ordinary.

His phone slipped on the bed next to him, and the screen was still on.

"It turned out to be a dream."

Zheng Tingyu smiled self-deprecatingly, picked up his mobile phone, and subconsciously swiped it, ready to quit the software. Then, his movements froze in one fell swoop.

3

On the screen of the mobile phone, there is a live screen similar to surveillance.

The picture is from top to bottom, a person sitting on a bed, looking down at his phone.

Zheng Tingyu took the left hand of the mobile phone, subconsciously held it hard, and his right hand hesitated for a moment and lifted it up.

In the picture, the man sitting on the bed has his right hand raised.

Everyone, in the face of the unknown, will have some emotional and physical stress reactions. For example, hair stands on end, cold sweat, dry mouth, etc. It doesn't have to be fear, maybe it's excitement, maybe it's surprise, maybe it's shock. But in short, the adrenaline and blood pressure will spike, and no matter how sleepy you are, you will be completely sleepy.

This is the case with Zheng Tingyu at this time.

He maintained his body stability, made a few more movements, and determined that at this time, the picture of the live video broadcast was his current self.

He looked up at the ceiling - even though he had checked it before, he still looked up in disbelief.

White ceiling, clean, nothing.

Zheng Tingyu stood up on the bed and stretched out his hand upwards - with his height of 1.8 meters, standing on the bed, his fingers just touching the ceiling.

But the moment his fingers touched the ceiling, the lights in the room went out.

4

Zheng Tingyu expected that his fingers touched the ceiling. But the light went out the moment his finger touched the roof. The room was dark, and the movement of his arm continued for a second, and as a result, his finger touched something unexpected.

Judging from the momentary feeling of his fingers, what he touched should be a somewhat damp and wrinkled face. The position where the middle finger of the index finger touches is like an eye socket; The thumb should be touching the nose; The ring and little fingers are touching the cheeks and should also be touching the hair.

And at this time, the room was not completely dark, and there was a faint light on his mobile phone screen, under the illumination of that light, Zheng Tingyu could vaguely see that above his head, the face of an old woman was staring at him closely!

Zheng Tingyu thinks that he is a very bold person. He has said more than once in front of others that he is a policeman, he has righteousness in his heart, he does not believe in it, he is not afraid of demons and monsters, even if there is such a thing, he will not dare to appear in front of him.

But at this moment, Zheng Tingyu's brain was still "buzzing", and he was so frightened that he fell straight from the bed!

Zheng Tingyu's body lost balance, so he fell to the side of the bed, and then fell to the ground. At the same time, his mouth was slurring a shout, and even he himself did not know what he was shouting.

"What are you doing, what do you want, how do you want to hide......

While shouting, he reached out and touched his waist, and then remembered that his gun JingHui and everything were placed on the sofa in the living room.

Zheng Tingyu turned around and got up, and was about to open the door and rush to the living room to get a gun, but just as his fingers groped for the doorknob, he stopped.

5

"My personal guess is that there must be a murder clue hidden on that roof. The souls of the dead want to use this method to convey the message of their victimization. You are a police officer, and you are a strong fire. Those ghosts naturally hide from you. It's just considering that your current mental state is relatively tired, and then using this talisman of mine, it is possible for you to witness the existence of the Yin Soul with your own eyes - but if you carry a gun and JingHui with you, it is estimated that the Evil Spirit will not appear......"

Before coming, what Sang Xiaoge said to him suddenly came to mind at this time, Zheng Tingyu stopped moving, his body froze at the door, and he didn't know how long it had been.

Ten seconds, maybe three minutes?

The mind is at war with heaven and man, and the mind is fiercely fighting with emotions.

Eventually, the hand holding the doorknob was released. Zheng Tingyu slowly turned his body, took a deep breath, tried to turn a deaf ear to his drum-like heartbeat, first reached out and picked up the phone from the ground, and then turned on the flashlight function of the phone.

When the light of the flashlight shone towards the roof, Zheng Tingyu felt weightless and his head was violently dizzy, and then he found that his body was out of control.

6

This feeling is both strange and familiar.

Strange because in life, there is no such experience, even if you watch a movie, you have a specific "perspective" - that is, you are very clear about where you are looking [at] from where.

That familiarity, what's going on? Maybe it feels like a dream.

In dreams, we can sometimes explicitly "see ourselves" and at the same time "be" ourselves. We are moving and we are also looking at our own actions.

Zheng Tingyu at this moment feels like this.

He sensed that it was night, and then he sensed the rain. Then he sensed a dilapidated house. The dilapidated state is not because of the old house, but because most of the surrounding houses have been demolished, and construction waste is everywhere, so the few houses that have not been demolished are also piled up with a dilapidated temperament.

Judging by the tranquility of the nearby streets and the vast darkness of the buildings in the distance, it must have been late at night. It also rains, so even though it is in the city, it is truly desolate.

A group of men in black raincoats, armed with various weapons, suddenly appeared from the rain curtain, and they broke into the undemolished bungalows with great efficiency. Immediately after that, there was the shouting and scolding of adults, the sound of sticks hitting the flesh, and the heart-rending cries of children...... Then, the families living in the house were kicked out of their homes, and they threw themselves into the rain in despair, their faces blurred.

In one of the most dilapidated houses, an old woman happened to be unnoticed by the men in black who rushed into her house because she went to the toilet.

The old woman trembled with fright, and her house was surrounded by garbage that she had picked up, so she shivered and shrank under a pile of cardboard.

The process continued to proceed with high efficiency, and as soon as the occupants were evicted from their homes, the bulldozers behind them let out a monster roar and knocked the houses down.

A wall fell down heavily, crushing the pile of cardboard where the old woman was hiding in the rubble. Then, the bulldozer drove straight onto the rubble and continued to move forward......