Chapter VII: Punishment (I)
"It's kind of weird."
"It's a pity, if it's really gay, we can have an extra line of investigation right away."
I suddenly smiled: "I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing. β
Cheng Cheng immediately reacted: "You mean-investigate all the people who have been in contact with the corpse?" β
"Team Cheng, let's discuss with you - can you hand over this clue to me for investigation first, I will only delay you for 6 hours, and if there is no progress beyond the time, the police bureau will come forward."
Cheng Cheng has been a veteran police officer for many years, and with only one breath, he roughly guessed my thoughts: "Are you sure about the suspect?" β
"Not really. I just think that at this stage of the investigation, in terms of identity, I will be much more flexible than you - many suspicions are still unclear, and it may be dangerous to act indiscriminately. β
Cheng Cheng is testing my tone, of course I won't say anything, I just want to get authorization to investigate separately from Cheng Cheng now.
And the second half of my words also hinted at Cheng Cheng: In the case of Blackwater Town last time, we took the lives of two police officers because of our rashness, so we should be cautious this time.
The profession of spiritual detective is very special, there is no such thing as a lot of power, many supernatural events cannot be solved by manpower, and even ordinary people can't understand it at all, and let people join the investigation indiscriminately, and the consequence is a bloody lesson.
My master has been a spiritual detective for 30 years, and I heard him say that I originally had a senior sister and a senior sister, but in a supernatural incident, the master's wife and daughter both died, and since then, they have been alone, for no other reason, and they don't want to bear the blow of the second time relatives and friends leave, so they can only think that they are lonely stars.
Knowing that his life was about to end, he hurriedly accepted my apprentice, and sure enough, in less than a year's effort, he died, and I only saw the corpse, but I still don't know what happened.
Therefore, in my work, only Lao Dao can be regarded as a real partner, and other people, such as Li Yi, I really don't want him to be involved. I've always done this before, but only this case in Blackwater Town has Li Yi involved - those thrilling and terrifying experiences are secondary, if Li Yi encounters any accidents in Blackwater Town, I'm afraid I will feel guilty for the rest of my life.
In short, after the battle of Blackwater, I am more critical and cautious about the handling of the cases I take, and I have added a professional code to myself: try to avoid people who are not professional and have not been aware of the dangers of life and death to participate in or involve in truly dangerous supernatural events.
Hearing me say this, the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then said: "The accident between Liu Jianjun and Zhou Ou is mainly a problem of me, the chief officer, and it is none of your business, and you don't have to be responsible for it." β
"But lessons must be learned. It's about being responsible for others, but it's also about being responsible for yourself. β
Cheng Cheng pondered for a while, and finally said: "Okay, I'll help you delay the time, if the deadline arrives, and there is still no progress on your side, I can only report the situation." β
I said yes, hung up the phone, and then pulled up Lao Dao's phone from the phone book and dialed it.
"It's rare that you get up so early?" As soon as Lao Dao's broken sand throat, which was poisoned by tobacco and alcohol, spoke, even through the phone, I could smell a smoky smell of fire, "You have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, let's say, what's wrong?" β
I will talk about the matter in general, and then get to the point: I want Lao Dao to replace me and spy on Xiaoli and Zhang Hui.
"I see. Aji, let me tell you, in our experience, this matter is not a big deal, but it is quite a big trouble on the police department's side, do you know why the level of secrecy is so high? Hehe, people in the police department system, how many people have seen real supernatural events? If you think about it, I have heard about it before, but now I suddenly put a real ghost in front of them, how big should this thought impact be? β
I listened quietly, because the old knife must have something to say.
Sure enough, Lao Dao continued: "So, this matter is not big, but the impact is too bad...... I estimate that Cheng Cheng will soon be under pressure, and if you can't handle it 'harmoniously', this case will soon be out of your hands. β
"Then you're not going to help me mark people? I promised Cheng Cheng that it would only take 6 hours, and now there are only more than 5 hours left. β
"I just have a job in my hand to catch the junior, it is a rich woman's commission, as long as I catch the real hammer, I will give 50,000, and if I catch the rape on the spot, it will be 100,000! What do you think? β
"How's that? You don't want me to go with you, do you? β
"By the way, I can't delay you much time - yo, the main protagonist has arrived, and the meat show is about to start, so come quickly! This employer is a bit powerful, if you don't come to help, I'm afraid I'll kill someone......"
"You're squatting right now? Well, where is the place where the rape was arrested? β
"Room 1521 of Star Shine Hotel! Hurry up! β
After the old knife finished speaking, he hung up the phone directly.
Star Hotel?
Didn't I just "misunderstand" with Zhang Hui, a professional corpse bearer, in the Star Shine Hotel last night?
The last bit of sleepiness disappeared, so I rushed into the bathroom and wiped my face casually, took a carton of milk from the refrigerator for breakfast, and drove directly to the Star Hotel.
At 6:30 a.m., I arrived at the Star Hotel.
Five minutes later, I arrived at the door of room 1521, where a waiter with a health cart greeted me with a smile and a frown.
I stood in the hallway with a thick carpet and just thought it was a little strange - shouldn't the rape be extremely intense? Why is there no movement at all?
Did I come early?
But when I took out my mobile phone, there was no signal - I couldn't help but scold my mother, this is a five-star hotel, and there is no mobile phone signal in the corridor of the guest room?!
But at this time, there was a voice in the room, as if someone was talking inside, and I put my ear close to the door, and I could only hear that it was a man who was speaking, and his tone was very excited, but I couldn't hear the specific content...... The soundproofing of this hotel is not bad.
Probably asking the man who was caught raping, right?
Thinking so, I knocked on the door: "Old knife, it's me, open the door." β
The sound in the room stopped abruptly, and after a few seconds of silence, the door opened.
I walked into the room.
The room was dimly lit, only a rose-red wall lamp was turned on, and a woman in snow-white hotel-style pajamas stood in front of me smiling......
This is a luxury business room, the kind with a living room, and over the woman's shoulder, I see that the living room is empty.
If I hadn't gone to the wrong room, the only explanation would have been that the old knife and the fat rich woman had been driven away by me, and I was a little confused for a while-
I'm not going to mess up the commission of the old knife, right?
"Hey, I'm sorry, I seem to have gone to the wrong room - hey, you're ......"
I immediately wanted to find an excuse to leave the room, but suddenly I realized that the face of the woman in front of me felt very familiar......
Her skin is extremely white, her figure is slender, her lips are bright purple, willow eyebrows, peach blossom eyes, except for her smile is very stiff, she is a beauty.
But where exactly did I meet this woman?
It stands to reason that I still have a good memory for beautiful women.
While I was struggling to search for my memory, the woman standing in front of me did something that made me smack!
She opened her pajamas to me.
There is a vacuum inside.
The light of the corridor passed through my shoulder, illuminating half of her body, and the other one loomed in the light and darkness, and set off the fiery curves just right, describing this woman's figure in four words: peaks and mountains.
Of course, I am not the first brother in the matter of men and women, but such a fragrant and strange situation is indeed the first time I have faced it
However, pie does not fall from the sky, and if there is, it must be a discus.
This woman's abnormal behavior made me suddenly raise my vigilance.
"I really went to the wrong room, sorry!"
But I only had time to take a half step back, and a cold glow of metal pressed against the major artery in my left neck.
"Calm down, close the door first." A voice came to my ears.
Very strange tone, it should be the use of a voice changer.
Instead of resisting, I slammed the door behind me - in the meantime, out of the corner of my eye, I caught eye on my captors: wearing a white ghost-headed mask, wearing a dark gray gel coat.
The light in the room dimmed, but in the darkness, the woman was still smiling at me, her eyes glowing with an eerie pale blue mist.
My head pounded!
I remember!
The woman in front of me is the female corpse I saw in a body bag at about three o'clock this morning!
And the light blue mist in this woman's eyes, it's not the first time I've seen it - Xiaoli's eyes, as well as Li Jianguo's navel, have similar blue mist!
But shouldn't she be a corpse, why is she standing alive in front of me now?
Could it be thatβ
But before I could think about it, the woman smiled at the corner of her mouth, took out a piece of cotton cloth from her coat pocket, and suddenly covered my mouth and nose!
A violent smell of ether hit my nose, and after more than ten seconds, everything in front of me darkened.
β¦β¦
When I woke up again, I found myself firmly strapped to a seat with my mouth gagged in a towel.
Looking around, I noticed that several people were like me, tied to their chairs with white ropes and white towels in their mouths.
There were five people tied up, me, Lao Dao, a fat woman wearing a designer dress. , a thin middle-aged man wearing only panties and gold-rimmed glasses, and a girl wearing white pantyhose and a pink skirt, with a double ponytail and a bowed head.
Among them, with me as the center, the old knife is on my left, the fat woman is on my right, the gold wire glasses are opposite us, and the little girl is on our right.
Two other people stood on either side of the chair tied to the little girl, one officially the "resurrected" female corpse, and the other wearing a white oni mask (the Japanese oni-head prajna mask) wrapped in a dark gray plastic poncho.
And the environment in which we are talking ...... It seems to be on the rooftop of the Star Hotel.
The hotel has a total of 57 floors, the sound of wind and cars. There was also the kind of low-frequency noise peculiar to the city, which swirled in my ears, and the distant sky lit up with a large red glow.
Except for the little girl, the rest of us were already awake.
The man in the demon mask clapped his hands: "Since everyone is awake, let's start quickly - there are people who are precious to time, and no one has an opinion, right?" β
Everyone's mouths are gagged, and even if they have opinions, they can just make a "woo-woo" protest.
"Hurry up, then."
As if receiving some kind of order, the female corpse slowly walked to the fat woman's side, she was still wearing the white hotel dressing gown, and she still did not wear a belt.
However, at this time, there was more light, and I could see that something was wrong.
Although this female corpse can move, it is by no means a "living person", her joints are very stiff, resulting in a very strange walking movement, her skin is also very white and unnatural, the fine blood vessels under the skin are dark purple, and the subcutaneous blood vessels of the living person should be light cyan, and the most important thing is that there is no trace of anger in her eyes.
There was only a faint blue mist, spilling out of the eyes, and then drifting into the morning air with great speed.
However, after the man in the demon mask had just spoken a few more words, I could hear that it was a man's voice, despite the use of a voice changer.
The demon man said to the gold-rimmed glasses, "How is it, have you thought of it?" β
The mouth of the gold-wire glasses made a "whine" sound.
The ghost man shook his head: "That's what I didn't expect yet - to eat a finger." β
I was thinking about what it meant to "eat a finger", but I saw the resurrected female corpse squatting down and pinching one of the fat woman's hands, and then, under the fat woman's round eyes, the female corpse suddenly opened her mouth-
I actually bit the index finger of a fat woman alive!
The fat woman's fat face instantly turned red, her whole body twitched violently in pain, and although her mouth could only make a "whine", she could still feel her pain almost physically.
"Give you another five seconds to think......"
"Five."
"Four."
"Three."
"Two."
"One."
"Eat one more finger."
The female corpse gnawed off the fat woman's thumb.
The fat woman burst into tears of pain.
The forehead of the gold-rimmed glasses was covered with beads of sweat, and he kept letting out a "woo" roar towards the evil ghost man.
"I'll give you another five seconds to think, hurry up."
But the gold-rimmed glasses really can't remember.
In the blink of an eye, the fat woman's entire left hand was only a bloody, bare palm, like a Canary date with its leaves cut off (an ornamental palm plant with a fat and low trunk).
The fat woman's snot and tears covered her face, and she couldn't roar except for panting violently.
"Otherwise, a different way of playing."
The demon man beckoned to the female corpse, who licked the blood that had spilled from the corner of his mouth, walked over to the demon man, and took a small brown plastic square box in his hand.
The female corpse stuffed the small plastic square box into the right hand of the gold-rimmed glasses.
The evil ghost man said: "What you are holding in your hand is a remote control, as long as you press the remote control, this little girl next to me will receive an electric shock, but if you stop the button, I will take away your mother's finger, every time you stop, your wife will lose one more finger." β