There is a low courtyard wall at the back door of the Daoyuan Hall, I noticed when I came here to investigate the scene before, and the backyard of the Daoyuan Hall is over the wall, the doors and windows on the first floor are pasted with seals, and there is a dense locust tree in the yard, which is full of wishing cards begged by believers, and there is a bamboo ladder next to it, which should be used to hang a sign on the tree, and now it is just leaning under the window on the second floor.

Han Yu beckoned Yinyue to wait in the courtyard, he and I just went down the bamboo ladder to enter the second floor of Daoyuan Hall, it was not in accordance with the rules for me to bring Han Yu here after all, if the butcher and Yun Duruo knew, maybe they would really suspend me, so the lights in the room did not dare to turn on, I specially brought a flashlight.

The light of the flashlight became extremely bright in this dark room, I stared at Han Yu in the back and closed the window after coming in, so as not to be seen, Han Yu patted me on the shoulder behind me, I looked back and saw that he motioned for me to give him the flashlight.

The room is still in its original appearance, and the colleagues in the forensic department have not moved anything in the room except for fingerprinting and taking pictures, and now I see that the room is exactly the same as the last time I visited.

Han Yu took the flashlight and illuminated the window that was about to close, and there were torn yellow papers on the left and right sides, I now know that it was a Dao Talisman, Han Yu slowly closed the window, and the torn Dao Talisman coincided with each other.

The flashlight in Han Yu's hand began to slowly move along the window, and such a talisman had been pasted all over the cracks of all the windows on the second floor, and Han Yu's face began to become a little strange.

"Not only on the second floor, but also on the first floor, all the doors and windows have this same charm attached to the gaps." I saw Han Yu's doubts and explained it to him. "Zhang Songlin is also dedicated enough to pretend to be a ghost, and making the room like this is really a bit Taoist."

Han Yu ignored my words, and tried to touch the talisman on the window with his hand, but I grabbed it back and handed over a pair of gloves.

"You are a person who can draw the Seven Ghost Soul Breaking Talisman, if your fingerprint appears here, it is estimated that no matter how good your eloquence is, it will be useless."

Han Yu gave me a blank look and said to me while putting on gloves.

"There's more than one talisman on this window."

"Yes, the identification department also found this detail, I don't know what reason Zhang Songlin has, after closing the door every night, this kind of talisman will be pasted on the doors and windows, and then tear it off the next day, repeating this thing all the time, the forensic department separated the broken corners of eleven talismans from the residual glue, that is to say, Zhang Songlin had this habit eleven days before committing suicide, I don't know who he offended, so he was afraid of being like this."

"Zhang Songlin is not afraid of people." Han Yu took a deep breath and looked back at me with a frown. "This is the Three Halal Talismans, which are used to suppress ghosts and avoid evil, and are generally used to exorcise ghosts, Zhang Songlin is afraid of ghosts!"

"Ghost ......" I choked on the smoke and coughed violently in my lungs, and it took me a long time to recover. I respect your religious beliefs, but I'm bringing you here to help me see if there's anything you find from your point of view, and you tell me about ghosts...... If there is really a ghost, then my job will be lost, please be serious. ”

"I told you that you don't believe it, Zhang Songlin is swaggering, he comes into contact with Taoist talismans every day, what are these three halal talismans for, don't you know that this is the most basic talisman disciples will do." Han Yu's seriousness made me hesitate a little, and he accentuated his tone. "Look at the talisman on this window should be Zhang Songlin's own words, according to the gourd to draw the scoop, there are a few places to draw the wrong one, it can be seen that this person has no way at all, but he has posted these on the window for eleven consecutive days, indicating that he knows the purpose of the three halal talismans, this is called temporary cramming, it can be seen that Zhang Songlin is really afraid, people like him are swaggering, deceiving ghosts and gods to provoke unclean things."

Han Yu said the truth, the more this is the case, the more I regret bringing him here, Zhang Songlin is a magic stick, Han Yu is not, I will find a magic stick to help me investigate the case, I really don't know if my brain is caught by the door.

I took the flashlight in his hand, with Han Yu's character, he would be entangled with me on this issue all night, the second floor of Daoyuan Hall is a large open room, which was divided into a bedroom by Zhang Songlin with a carved screen, under the guidance of the flashlight light, Han Yu and I saw Zhang Songlin's bed, a very Chinese-style Nanmu big bed, the quilt on the bed was stacked messily, under the bed was a slipper, and the other was far away from the steps.

Yun Duruo has restructured the case here, according to the information, Zhang Songlin lives alone, Zhang Songlin should have been disturbed by something on the night of the crime, and then got out of bed in a hurry, due to excessive panic, he only wore one shoe.

After I told Han Yu this, I shone a flashlight on the window again and continued thoughtfully.

"From Zhang Songlin's behavior analysis of sticking talismans on the cracks of doors and windows, it can be seen that Zhang Songlin knew in advance that someone was threatening his safety, so he would take precautions."

"How many pieces of paper do you use to defend yourself when you are threatened?" Han Yu interjected unrelentingly.

I paused for a moment, theoretically Zhang Songlin's behavior was indeed a little strange, I smiled bitterly at Han Yu, there was a sign of weakness in it.

"Let's not talk about our religious differences for now, regardless of whether it is a human or a ghost that threatens Zhang Songlin, it is obvious that Zhang Songlin knows the danger."

I looked at Han Yu and waited for him to reply, Han Yu nodded, and he agreed with me on this point.

"If it's you......" I stopped in the middle of my speech, I can't measure others by Han Yu's behavior. If you are a normal person, on the basis of knowing that you have precautions, what is the general first reaction when you find that danger is coming? ”

"I will fight to the end, win or lose."

"I didn't say anything about you, I said that if you are a normal person, can you empathize with it." I glared at him angrily.

"Even if it's a normal person, if you have the ability, you will resist." Han Yu saw that I was serious and stopped raising the bar, so he thought about it and answered. However, if Zhang Songlin had the ability, he would not have done so much useless work, which showed that he knew how to resist and it would be useless, in this case, he instinctively reacted...... Hide. ”

"That's right! It's hiding! My flashlight illuminated Han Yu's face, and the strong light in the darkness made him unable to open his eyes, tilting his head and covering it with his hands, looking behind me, and then slowly lowering his hand, in the light I saw him pointing behind me.

Han Yu's appearance suddenly reminded me of the eyes of those black cats and black dogs looking at me when I was a child, and I suddenly felt a chill down my back, although I have been numb to death and corpses over the years, but once I think of the things of my childhood, I will feel a little weird, but it is too long, after the high fever when I was seven years old, the memory of my childhood has also become blurred, I have tried to recall, whether I have seen other people in the mirror, but I can't remember it at all.

I trembled and turned my head along Han Yu's fingers, and the flashlight in my hand moved with it, illuminating the Nanmu bed behind me.

"I guess he'll hide under the bed." Han Yu's tone was very relaxed, and there was a playful smile on his face. "Yo, so you're scared too."

I breathed a sigh of relief, not because I was afraid of anything, but Han Yu's appearance just now suddenly reminded me of some things when I was a child, especially the scene where my mother was hanging on a swing on the roof beam, and I was tiptoeing to blow the windmill below.

"I'm kidding you, don't take it so seriously."

Han Yu's words interrupted my thoughts, he saw that I had not reacted, thinking that I was angry, I came back to my senses with a somewhat gloomy expression, and followed the light of the flashlight to look under the bed.

Zhang Songlin is indeed a lot of money, so luxurious that the bed he sleeps on is made of nanmu, and the low bed edge is just enough to hide a person, I bent down and illuminated the bottom of the bed with a flashlight, and slid on the ground with my fingers, and the bottom of the bed that has not been cleaned for a long time can easily draw a line under the swimming of my fingers.

"It won't be under the bed, if it is, the dust below should leave traces of Zhang Songlin's retreat, and the dust below is very even." I straightened up, shook my head at Han Yu, looked at the shoes next to the bed, and continued. "If Zhang Songlin's first reaction is to hide under the bed, then he doesn't need to wear shoes at all."

The room on the second floor is very spacious, and the furniture placed in it is chic and orderly, because it is separated by a carved screen, so the entire second floor can be easily seen at a glance, if Zhang Songlin really wants to hide, under the bed is the best place, but he has no choice, other than that......

My eyes fell on a wooden cabinet in the corner of the wall diagonally opposite the bed, this should be where Zhang Songlin put his clothes, I looked back at the shoe left next to the bed, the direction of the opposite was the wooden cabinet, the flashlight illuminated the light yellow wooden cabinet, I walked over slowly.

Suddenly, the flashlight in my hand began to flicker continuously, and after I knocked hard a few times, it was still intermittently lit and extinguished, it should be a poor contact, and when I walked to the wooden cabinet, the flashlight was completely extinguished.

I cautiously opened the door of the wooden cabinet, I couldn't see the pattern inside in the dark, and reached for the clothes that were hanging, with a partition in the middle, and a one-meter-high space below.

If Zhang Songlin was hiding here at that time......

I squatted in with a flashlight that went out while thinking about it, Zhang Songlin is shorter than me, I squatted in it is suitable, I believe Zhang Songlin can too, I closed the door of the wooden cabinet, I can clearly see the outside from the horizontal gap of the wooden cabinet.

The soft moonlight struggled to shine through the closed window, and I saw Han Yu staring intently at me in the dimly lit room.

Since Zhang Songlin is hiding here, why is the body in the basement again?

It shows that he was finally discovered, I thought silently in my heart, a person who pinned his last hope in the wooden cabinet, after being discovered, his instinctive reaction should be to resist, for Zhang Songlin, this is his last safe shelter, no matter what, he will not leave here-

So even if he is discovered, he will desperately resist.

Thinking of this, I began to grope in the dark wooden cabinet with the idea of luck, if Zhang Songlin really resisted, he would definitely leave traces here, in that case, my inference would be correct.

My fingertips were stung by something sharp in the smooth plank, and I forcefully pulled the thing out of the gap, but unfortunately the flashlight still didn't shine, and I carefully separated the sharp thing in my hand with the help of the faint moonlight.

"It's a man's nail!"

A feminine voice came from the dark wooden cabinet.

I wasn't alone in the wooden cabinet, the intense stimulation made my hand shake, the flashlight fell into the wooden cabinet, and the heavy impact caused the flashlight to light again.

As the light shone from the bottom up, I could clearly see a woman's dark face in my immediate vicinity