Chapter 36: The Nightmare Confession

"And what about the end? Stepmom went home and committed suicide after being given a suspended sentence? Xu Tian asked.

"Hanged herself at home, in the room of the little girl on the second floor, the stepmother wrote a suicide note before committing suicide, and recruited all her charges, but just when the police wanted to close the case, a key person stood up and spoke." Li Zhitong said.

"It's the third person in the family, the little girl's half-brother, the stepmother's son, right?" Xu Tian asked.

"That's right, the little boy shouted in front of the police who handled the case, insisting that his mother was killed by his dead sister, and the little boy dictated what happened to his mother before she died, which was probably described at the time." Li Zhitong paused and continued. "My mother stayed in my sister's room and stared at my sister's photo in tears the night when I came back from the police station, and I wanted to go in to accompany my mother, but my mother wouldn't let me, so I could only squat at the door of my sister's room and wait for my mother to make me dinner. But until late at night, my mother didn't get up from her chair and wouldn't let me turn on the light. That night, there was a very cool autumn wind outside, and I crouched in the door and looked at my mother, who had her back to me, the window of my sister's room was always open, and the cold wind blew the white curtains flickering. Under the moonlight, my mother's shadow was reflected on the white curtains, as if someone was moving with the curtains. There were times when I wanted to turn on the light, but my mother always turned her head back and glared at me and yelled at me, and my mother was very abnormal today, and she was as fierce to me as she was to my sister. ”

"Hey? Wait a minute! Are you telling ghost stories? And it's one of those terrible ghost stories. Xu Tian said.

"I've seen the police transcripts, and that's exactly what the little boy said." Li Zhitong said.

"How can a little boy describe the scene in such detail? Do you believe it? By the way, how old is that little boy? Xu Tian asked.

"I was seven years old, and a seven-year-old boy knew what fear was, and the rest of the words probably looked like this." Li Zhitong continued. "In the moonlight, I squatted at the door of my sister's room and saw a person sitting behind the flickering curtains, and when the curtains were blown high by the cold wind, I saw my sister sitting on the windowsill with her back to me and my mother. I was not the only one who saw my sister, my mother also saw my sister, and I could see very clearly, my mother's eyes kept staring at my sister who was sitting on the windowsill. ”

Just listening to Li Zhitong talk about the most absorbed time, suddenly a cold wind blew, at this time, in the early winter, even in the central region is very cold, Xu Tian couldn't help but wrap his coat tightly, and Mr. Jin also pulled the zipper of the coat up.

"I was very scared." Li Zhitong said imitating the trembling little boy. "I didn't want to stay there any longer, but when I was about to go downstairs to my room, I suddenly heard footsteps on the stairs and a very bright red light, as if a man was going upstairs with a big red lantern. I called out to my mother, but my mother ignored me, and the person who went upstairs got closer and closer, and I watched the red lantern gradually come up, and when the person approached, I saw clearly that the person carrying the lantern was my mother. ”

Hearing this, Xu Tian couldn't help but stand up the hairs on his body, and under the backdrop of the cold wind, a creepy feeling invaded Xu Tian's entire nerves.

"Ghost stories?" Xu Tian couldn't help but say.

"Of course not, when the police entered the scene of the crime the next day, they found that there was a pinhole camera in the little girl's room, and the police who handled the case followed the thread of the camera to find the stepmother's room, and the police turned on the stepmother's computer and found that not only the little girl's room had a camera, but also a camera outside the little girl's room." Li Zhitong said.

"Won't both cameras capture the stepmother?" Xu Tian asked.

"You're right, the camera in the room captured the picture of the stepmother sitting in the little girl's room, but the little boy's sister sitting on the windowsill didn't shoot it, not that it didn't shoot people, but the camera's line of sight couldn't shoot the windowsill at all. But the camera caught a shadow on the floor, not the shadow of the stepmother, as if it was a person sitting on the windowsill. Since the shadow is magnified on the ground, it is impossible to tell whether it is the shadow of a child or the shadow of an adult. Li Zhitong said.

"What about the cameras outside the room? Photographed a stepmother walking up with a red lantern? Xu Tian asked.

"That's right, the stepmother who committed suicide hanged herself in the little girl's room wearing the same clothes she wore when she carried the lantern, but it is strange to say that when the camera outside the little girl's room began to shoot a red shimmer, the camera inside the room was cut off, but the stepmother's image was always there before the cut, from evening to midnight, as the little boy said, his mother has been sitting at the desk by the little girl's windowsill and looking out the window, and from time to time fiddling with the little girl's photo frame. After the video inside the room was cut off, the stepmother was soon seen walking upstairs in floral pajamas and carrying a red lantern, but the picture of the stepmother walking into the little girl's room was gone. Li Zhitong said.

"What about the little boy? Was the little boy who had been crouching in the doorway caught being caught by a camera outside the room? Xu Tian asked.

"There is indeed a flashing picture of the little boy in the camera, judging from the picture of the video, the little boy should have run downstairs in fright, and the police asked the little boy afterwards, when the little boy did run downstairs because he was afraid, and hid in his room all night, until the next morning after dawn before running upstairs again to find his mother. When the little boy saw his mother hanging herself in his sister's room, he rushed out of the house and notified the police with the help of his neighbors. Li Zhitong said.

"The camera is the key, and judging from the pictures of the two cameras, there should be two stepmothers, but the pictures of the two cameras do not capture the two stepmothers at the same time, which means that someone is making trouble." Xu Tian said.

"The police also think so, but the case has not been closed so far, because no one can deduce the truth, and there is very little evidence left back then, and only two video footage can be used as clues for reference." Li Zhitong said.

"Is the video still there? We should look at it and then make inferences. Xu Tian said.

"To pass the time, I've gotten the video from the local police, so take a look at it now!" Li Zhitong took out his mobile phone and said. 10