10. Blame the old man
The information that Lao Zhao gave us is very interesting.
The mother-in-law of the former owner of the inn cursed all men to hell, which is exactly the same as the Snow Maiden's characteristic of only killing men in the snow.
But there is also one thing that I can't understand, the mother-in-law of the former boss curses all men to hell and not to go to heaven, which is obviously not a curse that an old Chinese lady would say. Also, the former boss's father-in-law and mother-in-law were with Haode after the New Year, and the old lady did not appear after that.
Could the disfigured female ghost summoned last night be the mother-in-law of the former boss?
The more I thought about it, the more I felt that the former owner of the hotel was very worthy of investigation, especially the situation at his wife's house, so I immediately asked Tang Hui to investigate. Soon Tang Hui asked a friend to find an important clue - among the missing people in 2010 was the mother-in-law of the former boss, and the time of disappearance was just after the New Year.
If the ghost in the hotel is the mother-in-law of the former boss, then let the former boss's father-in-law come over to end the female ghost's "death recurrence", and by the way, you can also find out a hidden murder.
Without further ado, Tang Hui and I immediately set off to find the former boss's father-in-law.
According to the address provided by Tang Hui's friend, the two of us quickly found the community where the former boss lived in the county, and as soon as we entered the gate of the community, Tang Hui and I had three familiar faces - Shu Xin, Ye Hong and Zhu Yue!
I didn't think much about the competition, but Shu Xin didn't. She didn't say a word to me last night, and she had already gone out to investigate with Ye Hong before I got up early this morning, and at noon I saw her ask her what she had found, and she shook her head and didn't pay attention to me.
To be honest, I didn't expect Shu Xin and the others to find out what they were known for, but now that we have found out together, obviously I underestimated a few of them.
"Who are you looking for?" Shu Xin also saw me, and finally said the first sentence of the day to me.
"I came to find the old man of the previous owner of the resort, what about you?" I said.
"The old man of the previous boss? Who is it? Shu Xin asked curiously, obviously the person they were looking for was not the same person we were looking for.
"You answer my question first, who are you looking for?" I said.
Shu Xin glanced at Zhu Yue, as if asking for her opinion. Zhu Yue thought for a moment and then smiled at me and Tang Hui and said, "It's okay to tell you, but in the same way, you have to tell us who you want to check, and you have to explain that Weishenme wants to check." ”
"Well, that sounds fair." I said something against my will, and then told the three of them about our investigation without reservation.
Shu Xin listened to my words very carefully, and at the same time used the handheld computer to make records, like a detective.
After listening to my explanation, Shu Xin also told me who they were going to check.
I really don't think they will find out any big names, but after listening to Shu Xin talk about the progress of their investigation, I suddenly feel that our side seems to be still lagging behind.
Different from the division of labor between the three of us, Shu Xin, Zhu Yue, and Ye Hong acted completely together, and they chose a completely different entry point from my side, that is, the Phantom Forum.
Shu Xin and the others believed that the Snow Girl and the Snow Monster were attacking people in the way that the believers wanted, but at the beginning of the establishment of the forum, the number of believers was not enough to meet the conditions for the appearance of the ghosts, and the so-called "Snow Girl Incident" that occurred during that time was that the ghosts were choosing the targets of harassment based on their own grievances.
There is a lot of information on the forum about the sightings of the Snow Maiden in Changbai Mountain. Zhu Yue is very experienced in judging the authenticity of photos, and Ye Hong, who also has research on supernatural photos, quickly screened out three real ones from the eyewitness photos uploaded at the beginning of the forum, and then contacted the photo uploader.
The three people who uploaded the photos were tourists, one from Beijing and the other two lived in the south. They have no relationship geographically, but they have surprising similarities in other aspects, such as they are both male, both between 25 and 30 years old, more than 1.8 meters tall, both have the same good body as athletes, and they are all very handsome.
According to the descriptions of all three men, they all saw a woman in the woods on a cloudy day, and the woman watched them from afar, only to disappear when they tried to get closer. Zuihou and the others only took a few blurry photos, and suspected that they had met the Snow Maiden.
Ye Hong had seen the ugly female ghost last night, and she believed that it was the female ghost that these three handsome tourists had seen.
The female ghost didn't want to hurt these three handsome guys, and at the same time, she didn't want the three handsome guys to see her ugly appearance, so Ye Hong judged that the female ghost must be related to a handsome guy who was twenty-five to thirty years old, plus the female ghost should be over fifty years old when she died, so Ye Hong deduced that the female ghost may have a son who was twenty-five to thirty years old before her death.
Following this clue, Zhu Yue's police friends in Jilin helped him find the records of deaths or disappearances in recent years, and then found women in their 50s and 30-year-old tall and handsome sons among the missing or deceased people.
As a result, within ten minutes, Zhu Yue's friend replied to her. In January 2010, a handsome man named Hu Xiaoming once reported that his mother Ji Hua had disappeared, and Ji Hua has not been found. In addition, Ji Hua had been living in Mihezi Village for two years before his disappearance.
So Zhu Yue asked for Hu Xiaoming's address, and then came over with Shu Xin and Ye Hong to talk to this handsome guy.
The two women disappeared at the same time period, and both of them had some connection to the haunted hotel and the snowy mountains, and it seemed that the outcome of the game would soon be revealed.
After understanding each other's progress, we still acted according to their respective jihua - Shu Xin and the three of them went to find the handsome guy Hu Xiaoming who was more than 1.8 meters, while we continued to find the former boss's father-in-law.
It's really not easy to knock on the door of the former boss's father-in-law's house. Tang Hui and I knocked on the door for two minutes, but there was no response from inside, just when we thought the old man was not at home, the door finally opened, but only a small crack opened, and then half of the old man's face appeared from behind the crack in the door, and nervously asked us what was the matter.
When I said I was here for his wife, the old man slammed the door shut without saying a word.
We knocked on the door for another ten minutes, and the old man opened it a second time, again with a small crack.
This time he said angrily in a very low voice: "Don't knock on the door, don't let me think about the old woman anymore, I want to stop for a few years, please, don't knock on the door again!" ”
Then he tried to close the door again, but this time I stuck my foot in the crack of the door and pushed the door hard to prevent the old man from closing it. Tang Hui also came over to help push the door and shouted at the old man, "We need your help!" Your son-in-law's hotel has been killing people lately, and we suspect your missing wife did it! You'll have to come with us to recognize someone! ”
The old man was stunned, and even his hand pushing the door suddenly lost his strength.
After a long pause, he spoke: "You...... What do you mean...... Is she still alive? ”
"You mean you're sure your wife is dead?" I immediately asked rhetorically.
"I ...... I...... I do not know! The old man's voice was getting quieter, and it was clear that he was hiding something from us.