Chapter 8: Footprints

Entering the house again at night gives you a very different feeling than during the day.

Due to the limitation of light, the range of what can be seen is very limited, and some things that are not inherently problematic have become terrifying.

Li Li's flashlight shone on a figure, causing her to scream in fright, but Lu Xiaoling then shone a flashlight on it, only to find that it was just a stone sculpture the same size as a human body.

"Scared the hell out of me." Li Li complained, standing in front of the sculpture and looking at it carefully.

The surface of the sculpture has been covered with a layer of gray-black stains, but you can still see the exquisite carving, every inch of skin and every muscle is lifelike.

"This place only took two years?" Ma Bin used a flashlight to shine on the mahogany furniture placed in the lobby, and couldn't help but shake his head. "It's a shame."

"Why did that guy do that?" Li Li asked. "It's just an audit, even if there is a problem, it won't take such a serious measure, right?"

Sun Yang shook his head, Xie Yongsi was vague about this, and Sun Yang guessed that even the Xie family themselves probably didn't know the real reason. After all, the status of a small treasurer and the CEO of the consortium is too different, and there can be no direct intersection between the two.

But this is indeed a doubt.

What kind of pressure would make the librarian choose to solve the problem in such a tragic way?

Sun Yang only remembered at this time, because the name of the character was unknown in that report, and he didn't even know what his name was.

"Resentful spirits stay in one place for a long time, often because they have been wronged or misunderstood, right?" Li Li said. "If we can figure out what happened back then, maybe it will leave?"

"You can try." Sun Yang said.

Ordinary people who have no magic power can probably only resort to this method when facing ghosts, but monks often do not spend too much time on the ghosts, but take direct destruction or suppression to solve the problem.

Maybe it was indeed wronged or framed before it died, but after it became a ghost with resentment, it had already changed from a victim to a perpetrator, and no matter what kind of life experience, there was no way to wash away this. This is especially true of the evil spirits that have killed many people.

But since it was said that Li Li and Ma Bin would solve the problem, then probably only this method could be used, right?

The three of them began to walk upstairs under Sun Yang's prompting, the old floor slab was trampled and creaked, Li Li was originally very courageous, but as she got closer and closer to the place of the incident, her steps became slower and slower.

"If you don't think it works, tell me right away or Xiaoling, and we'll take over, you know?" Sun Yang deliberately said in a very serious tone.

Li Li nodded vigorously, which made Sun Yang feel a little funny. He had been observing the entire house with the Eye of Heaven, and at least until now, he had not seen any ghost qi capable of causing substantial harm to people.

The three of them finally stepped on the ground on the third floor, and Sun Yang heard Ma Bin say: "The power of the explosion is really great, you see that the table is rotten like that." ”

This made him stunned for a moment, and ran up in three steps and two steps.

The door to the conference room was also open, but to Sun Yang's surprise, there was a large conference table inside, and the side near the door was visibly damaged, and the surrounding chairs fell to the ground in all directions.

"Wait a minute!" He stopped the three people who were about to enter the conference room, and walked in first.

A faint ghostly aura filled the room, but there was no sign of ghost activity. But isn't this supposed to have been emptied?

Sun Yang subconsciously touched the table with his hand, there was a thick layer of ash on it, and there was no trace of people moving around and moving furniture on the ground, these things could not have been moved in again after he came.

"What's wrong?" Ma Bin stood at the door and asked.

"These things have been removed from the last time I came." Sun Yang replied.

"How is that possible!" Li Li said. She shone her flashlight on the ground, and the ash on it was so thick that there were no footprints at all. "You're trying to scare us, aren't you?" She said with a sudden realization. "Such a method is too low-level!"

"I don't have to lie to you." Sun Yang said. He suddenly realized that something had felt wrong before. "Do you see any footprints?"

"What footprints?" Li Li asked angrily. "I want to be scary again!"

"My footprints!" Sun Yang said. "I walked all the way from the bottom of the stairs that day, but did you see my footprints when you went upstairs?"

Li Li was taken aback by him, she turned around to the staircase and shone a flashlight on the footprints on the stairs, the shoes worn by the four people were different, and it was easy to tell them, but as Sun Yang said, there were only four footprints on the stairs!

The pores on Li Li's body suddenly stood up, and she immediately grabbed Lu Xiaoling.

But the place where the tentacles were wet, and she turned her head in surprise, only to see that what she was grasping was a headless body!

"Ah~~!"

"What's wrong with you?" A pair of hands grabbed her and shook her body vigorously, and she finally came to her senses.

"What do you see?" Lu Xiaoling asked.

"Me? What did I just do? Li Li asked nervously.

"You shine your flashlight on the stairs, and then you hold on to the pillar, and suddenly you scream."

"Pillars?" Li Li shone a flashlight on the side, it was a stone pillar carved from marble, it was wet, and there was a lot of moss, which should be leaking from the roof of the building.

"Li Li?" Lu Xiaoling asked.

"It's nothing, I guess I'm wrong." Li Li shook her head and said. "Xiaoling, you must catch me and not let go for a second, okay?"

Lu Xiaoling sighed angrily: "Now you know that you are afraid?" ”

"Okay?"

"Got it, got it!" Lu Xiaoling said.

"What do we do now? Waiting for it to come out? Ma Bin asked.

Although he had been in the Special Crimes Bureau for a long time, he had not actually participated in the operation very much, and there was no such thing as a ghost-related mission. The task of the Special Cases Administration is more to pay attention to and control the actions of those monks and monsters, and speaking of which, as far as Ma Bin knows, it seems that he really rarely takes the initiative to be involved in such cases.

Is it because the Special Cases Administration doesn't have any particularly effective means of dealing with ghosts?

"Maybe it won't dare to come out." Sun Yang said half-jokingly.

Needless to say, the aura on his and Lu Xiaoling's bodies, the charms on Ma Bin and Li Li's bodies have been emitting a faint light in such a dark and ghostly environment, but they can't detect it with their abilities.

Sun Yang could imagine that in the eyes of those ghosts, their group of people must be very dazzling.

If they had been smart, they wouldn't have come out to die at this time.

"Let's take a look around." Li Li suggested. "After it happened, everybody pulled out, right? Maybe those documents from that year are still there, maybe we can find the truth of that incident! ”

Sun Yang shook his head slightly, if it was so easy, there was no reason why the people of the Xie family couldn't find out back then.

But tonight, I only accompanied them to catch ghosts, and those things have not dared to come out, which may be a good result.

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from downstairs!