Night fell again on the Fengyun Inn, and the night in the suburbs was not as noisy as the city, and it seemed extraordinarily quiet and desolate.

Wang Xu woke up from his deep sleep, Yan Li was sitting in the corner of the room tapping on his laptop, while Elbert was meditating on the side, looking at his serious expression was really funny.

Wang Xu glanced at the time, it was already ten o'clock in the evening, and he slept for nearly ten hours after lunch.

"Have you done everything I explained?"

Elbert opened his eyes: "I asked the innkeeper about the legends of ghosts in the neighborhood, and he pulled me to talk all afternoon......"

"Hey...... This kind of old man is very good, you can repeat it. ”

Elbert gathered his thoughts for a moment, and then began to state: "About seven or eight years ago, it was quite desolate, when the development of the tourist area was on hold indefinitely, and there were half-finished buildings everywhere, so many homeless people gathered in this place, and lived in unmanaged buildings, or built shacks on the ruined walls.

One day, a little boy, about four or five years old, was seen standing alone by the river crying, and he was holding a broken doll in his hand. The people who saw it thought that this was a child who was greedy for play and lost, so he wanted to go up to help him, but he didn't expect to get closer and take a look, only a broken doll fell to the ground, and the little boy was gone.

The man thought that the little boy had fallen into the river in the blink of an eye, but he saw that there was not even a bubble on the surface of the water, and if someone really fell into the water, he could at least flutter twice, which was obviously wrong.

It was already early in the morning, and the more he stood there, the more he thought about it, the more strange it became, and his heart gradually became afraid, so he picked up the broken doll and hurried home.

The next day he took the doll and asked who had lost the child, and there were so many people in this place, who basically knew each other, and there were some children, but everyone said that they had never seen this doll, and no one had lost their child. After a few days, the man gradually forgot about it, and the broken doll was thrown into a pile of miscellaneous items in his dwelling.

On the seventh night after the man picked up the doll, he had a dream in which a strange-looking little boy smiled and said to him, 'Thank you, uncle,' and he asked in the dream, 'Why do you want to thank me?' The little boy said, 'Thank you for helping me find Mom and Dad, and now we can be together.'"

The little boy laughed strangely when he said this, and made a strange gurgling sound from his mouth, and finally his whole head fell off, and the man woke up in fright, only to realize that it was a dream.

At this moment, he suddenly heard someone outside shouting that there was a fire, he smelled the burning, and hurriedly rushed out, only to see that a nearby shack had been burned black, but incredibly, the place next to this shack was not at all fine.

The police and fire brigade arrived later and pulled out two charred bodies from the shack, which were confirmed to be a couple who had come to S City from other places to work......"

Wang Xu interrupted Elbert when he heard this: "Wait, wait...... Why is your story so detailed, it can't be added to by the shopkeeper? ”

Elbert replied, "Yes...... In fact, the person who picked up the doll in the story is the shopkeeper here......"

"What! No way! He shouldn't be fooling you, is he? ”

Elbert shook his head: "It should be true, since that incident, the city government has strictly ordered the demolition of the illegal building complex, and cleaned up the remaining problems of the tourist area project, and soon after, some investors built a large playground here, and the nearby supermarkets, restaurants, and inns were also successfully opened."

Some of the people who lived in the shack area at that time were ordered by the city government to return to their hometowns, and some stayed to find jobs, a story that many people know, and some people clearly remember that the shopkeeper here did take out a broken doll. ”

Wang Xu thought for a while: "Then according to what you said, what you saw in the ghost hallucination last night was also a child's ghost, which is probably the same as the little boy in this story...... But no, why did the ghost come again after all these years...... If he took revenge because his parents abandoned him, then he should have dissipated his resentment, and there was no reason to come out and kill people after eight years......"

"I don't understand that, but it's a fact that I was attacked, and there must be something we overlook......ed," Elbert said.

Wang Xu turned his head to Yan Li and said, "Senior Sister Yan, how did you investigate the recent murder?" ”

Yan Li's eyes still didn't leave the computer screen: "This whole day is a waste of time, I almost searched the Internet for information about this case, and also checked the personal information of those deceased, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the story you just talked about." ”

"Don't the dead have anything in common?"

Yan Li shook her head: "Not at all, these five people have no intersection in age, gender, occupation, or even hobbies, they are just ordinary tourists." ”

Wang Xu scratched his head: "Is it possible that it is the problem of the room next door?" Maybe they all had an accident in the same room. ”

Elbert denied him: "I also asked the shopkeeper about this, these five people have not lived in the same room. ”

Wang Xu thought about it again: "By the way, what about the broken doll back then?" ”

"The shopkeeper said that he also looked for it later, but he couldn't find it."

Wang Xu sighed: "Hey...... Non-professionals are like this, and after checking for a long time, they still have no clue......"

Yan Li seemed to be very dissatisfied with his words: "When you instructed others to do errands, you slept there, what qualifications do you have to judge us?" ”

With the thickness of Wang Xu's face, he basically wouldn't pay attention to this kind of question, and he immediately changed the topic: "Elbert, I've slept enough now, you don't have to guard it tonight, just go back to sleep, the information is insufficient, so I have to come and cover it up with soldiers......"

Yan Li said: "Are you going to stay with me tonight?" ”

Wang Xu laughed three times, and then said two words very decisively: "That's right." ”

"Hmph...... Shameless......"

"If you are not satisfied, you can go back, without your burden, things will be much easier......"

"If you're really a ghost hunter hero, you shouldn't just protect me, there are so many people living in this inn, you should go outside and patrol for a night!"

Wang Xu seemed to think about this sentence very seriously, and then replied: "En...... I really admire that your terms are pertinent and reasonable. ”

Yan Li said in a natural tone: "Thank you." ”

Wang Xu immediately popped out again: "But I refuse to ...... them all"