Chapter 29: Notes on a Nightmare
Xu Tian spread out the yellowed notebook, and after two pages of unintelligible text, he entered the regular font.
There was only one word "Fang" in the first line of this page, and Xu Tian judged that these words should have been written by Commander Fang.
We have settled down, and the purpose of leaving this text is to let the descendants of my Fang family remember this history, and if something happens to me one day, I hope that future generations will be able to see these words.
Although we have settled here, I feel that the shadow of that person is still in our home, maybe I am too sensitive!
On the first day of coming here, a lot of strange things happened, the land temple was burned, and the whole village dog barked incessantly throughout the night.
The people in the village said that this is not a good sign, I know what they have in mind, they want our Fang family to move out of here, but our family has 70 retired soldiers as family members, each of them has two guns in their hands, it may be a threat to them, but I really have no ill intentions.
The next morning, the dogs in the village died, what made me feel strange was that there was a bullet mark on each dog's body, I asked the housekeeper to check the bullet, it was not our family's people who did it, but our family couldn't tell it with dozens of mouths, the people wouldn't listen to our explanation, and they wouldn't tell the bullet.
Unfortunately, Mr. Xu didn't come with me, so I decided to write a letter to Mr. Xu, but the content of the letter should not be too straightforward, otherwise it would hurt Mr. Xu in Shanghai.
Although it is not far from Shanghai Tang, it is ......
Reading this, Xu Tian and Lao Chen were suddenly shocked.
"What does this mean? The village is not far from Shanghai in the Republic of China? Lao Chen said in surprise.
"If this notebook is true, then Fang Lu is lying, but the content recorded in this notebook also makes me feel suspicious, the entire plain area fell back then, if Commander Fang wants to find a stable place, he will definitely not choose a place very close to Shanghai." Xu Tian said.
"That's not necessarily, if you think about it, the time when Commander Fang fled should be the era of the Northern Expeditionary Army's conquest, how could Commander Fang have expected it in the later period? Moreover, the power of the Northern Expeditionary Army was very strong at that time, and the powerful army of our motherland had not shown much strength in that era, so it can be said that it was completely the power of the Republic of China in that era, and it was even more unlikely that Commander Fang would predict that the entire country would become a battlefield in the later period. Lao Chen said.
"It makes sense, but this village very close to Shanghai in the Republic of China should be in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, right?" Xu Tian said.
"Keep reading!" Lao Chen said.
The two continued to read the notes.
But now it's chaotic outside, and I don't know if the letter can be mailed, so after thinking about it, I sent my most trusted youngest son to Shanghai to find Mr. Xu.
During the time when my son had not returned, strange things happened in the village one after another, and I knew that someone was behind it, and they were trying to kick our family out.
In the end, I expected it, they extended their claws to our family, Nan Nan was already pregnant with our child, and I blamed me for failing to protect her, those people wanted our Jianye to cut off their children and grandchildren, and I would not forgive them.
After a few days, the village was quiet, but I felt that the strange incident of the Fang family was still not resolved, and just before dinner today, I saw a hanged ghost in the courtyard.
No one in my family knew about it, and I personally untied the hanged ghost, who was not a human at all, just a puppet. This puppet has been seen in our house many times, and its big turquoise eyes are so scary that no matter which angle I look at it, I can feel that it is staring at me all the time.
There should be no one in the village anymore, but I don't believe in the ghosts and gods, and there must be others who survived.
"Officer Chen......" The hairs on Xu Tian's body suddenly stood up. How does the description of that puppet look exactly the same as the doll in the fire? Xu Tian said.
"This ...... I'm a little skeptical about the authenticity of this notebook, and it feels more like something that the murderer deliberately left us to see, with dolls appearing decades ago and now at the same time to foreshadow murder? It's not scientific. Lao Chen said.
"I think so too, this note is more like the murderer deliberately left something to mislead us, the murderer should have wanted to design a imitation of murder, but so far except for the seriously injured Hailan, no one has died at the fire scene where the doll was left." Xu Tian said.
"Hurry up and let the village chief distinguish the authenticity of this notebook." Lao Chen said.
The two immediately hailed a taxi and rushed all the way to the hotel.
After sitting in the taxi, Xu Tian couldn't help but continue to look down.
"You still want to see it?" Lao Chen asked.
"Whether it's true or fake, this notebook has value, it's really the best, if it's fake, then there must be a flaw left by the murderer." Xu Tian said.
"Is there anything else in the back?" Lao Chen asked.
Xu Tian flipped through it, and the text written by Commander Fang was gone, but there was a Xu character on the back page, and the font below was obviously not the same person as the one in front.
"It's become another person's writing." Xu Tian said.
"Show me!" Lao Chen snatched the notebook and said.
"This should have been written by Mr. Xu, right? The amount of information in the first line is huge. Xu Tian said with palpitations.
"It seems that Commander Fang was killed before he finished writing those words, did the second young master find Mr. Xu?" Lao Chen said.
"If what is written above is true, then it should be so, this Mr. Xu should be the detective who helped Commander Fang's family escape, I really want to know his name." Xu Tian said.
While talking, suddenly the taxi driver stepped on a sudden brake, fortunately Xu Tian and Lao Chen habitually fastened their seat belts, but Xu Tian and Lao Chen were still in a daze, and suddenly a motorcycle crashed over, and the window on Xu Tian's side was directly smashed.
Immediately afterwards, a person with a big hammer appeared on Lao Chen's side, and without saying a word, the man picked up the big hammer and began to hit the car window.
The two men were both dressed in black leather and wore helmets on their heads, which were very similar to the two people Kang Yuliang described who poured liquid on Hailan.
At this moment, Lao Chen couldn't get used to those two people, took out his gun and fired two warning shots at both sides, and the person who hit Xu Tian's side on a motorcycle turned around and rode away, but the person with the big hammer continued to knock on the door of Lao Chen's side.
"Officer Chen, get out of the car!" Xu Tian kicked the car door and pulled Lao Chen and said.
After Lao Chen got out of the car, the man with the big hammer smashed the roof of the car, Lao Chen fired a warning shot for the third time, but it didn't work, just when the person wheeled the hammer around the back of the car, Lao Chen shot the man's arm, and then heard a gunshot, and the man immediately collapsed to the ground.
Lao Chen was still wondering, he only fired one shot, what the hell was going on?