Volume 1, Death Assistant Chapter 100, The Missing Shopkeeper
I asked for Wang Lixin's phone number from the sissy man, and then left the clothing store. I couldn't help but look back at the store when I went out, but the only people standing in the store looking at me were the models in the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and the sissy who was so frightened that he shrunk his neck.
I got a mobile phone number, I made a call, and the phone was answered by a middle-aged woman, she said she was Wang Lixin's mother.
I said that I was a friend of Wang Lixin who met on the Internet, and I saw people who looked like Wang Lixin twice in the past two days, but I just saw a photo of her passing through PS, so I was not sure if it was her, and I called here this time to see Wang Lixin's life photos.
Wang Lixin's mother didn't suspect it, and happily told me the address of her home.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, Hu Yang and I went to Wang Lixin's house and met Wang Lixin's mother.
After briefly introducing herself, Wang Lixin's mother also let me and Hu Yang into the house. After I sat down, Wang Lixin's mother showed me a photo. At a glance, I was sure that the woman I saw in Lili's clothing store was Wang Lixin, and she couldn't be wrong.
I told Wang Lixin's mother the result of my judgment, and I thought that she would immediately propose to go to the clothing store to find her daughter, but she did not do so, but was relieved.
I was curious to ask why.
Wang Lixin's mother replied that Wang Lixin broke up with her boyfriend last year, and since then she has been in an unstable relationship, and has committed suicide several times, but never once.
"She didn't really want to kill herself, did she?" I questioned it because I felt that if a person was bent on dying, there was definitely a way to do so.
Wang Lixin's mother smiled bitterly, then got up and went to the back room, and after a while she took out an envelope and handed it to me and said, "This is the suicide note she left behind, you can understand it after reading this." โ
I took it and opened it and read it, and the suicide note was written on a total of three pages, with a lot of content and beautiful words, like writing a prose. The approximate meaning is: she is a person who loves beauty, and she doesn't want to be ugly even when she dies, so she wants to pursue a beautiful way to die, and it just so happens that she meets a like-minded person, so she makes an appointment with that person to try a new death experience, and after death, her beauty will be preserved forever in this world.
After reading this suicide note, I do understand why Wang Lixin has failed to commit suicide several times - whether it is hanging or jumping off a building, it will not leave a beautiful corpse, and those suicide methods that do not damage the body are easy to be rescued, as for the like-minded person she mentioned at the end, I think it must be related to the death assistant.
"When did your daughter leave this suicide note?" I asked.
"It's been half a year." Wang Lixin's mother replied.
"Didn't you call the police to look for her?"
"I looked for it, but the police couldn't find it."
"I heard from the people at the clothing store that Wang Lixin joined a cult?" I continued to ask.
"Several people went to commit suicide together, isn't this a cult what? Well, I'm ready to take her to a psychiatric hospital, and I thought she'd probably be safer if someone was watching her over there, but she ran away a day early, and when I think about it, I think I forced her away. Now that I've heard you see her, I feel a little more comfortable, at least I know she's not alive yet. I don't want to get her back now, as long as she can have a good time outside, it's better than trying to die at home. Wang Lixin's mother became more and more sad the more she spoke, and finally burst into tears.
I didn't comfort her, because I didn't know where to comfort her, and I wasn't even 100% sure if Wang Lixin was still alive.
The hotel's surveillance footage captured a woman with bangs in a beige trench coat, which really proves that it is a living person, because the ghost is not captured so clearly in the video. However, I couldn't see the woman's face clearly in the video, I just judged that she was the same person as the woman who appeared in Lili's handress store by looking at her clothes and hairstyle.
However, it is easy to confirm my judgment, I handed Wang Lixin's photo to Hu Yang, and asked him to go back to the hotel to find the waiter who worked the night shift before, and asked the waiter to confirm whether it was Wang Lixin who delivered the letter.
After Hu Yang left, Wang Lixin's mother's love also eased up a little, and then I changed the topic and asked about Lili's hanswear store, especially the models in the store.
Wang Lixin's mother didn't know much about this, she said that she hadn't been there since Wang Lixin cashed out the store, and the only thing she knew was that the person who cashed the store was a two, and both of them were quite eccentric.
The guy in the shop was a sissy, but I prefer to use the word disgusting to describe him, and it doesn't seem like the right word this time. So I specially confirmed with Wang Lixin's mother what kind of people she was talking about and what kind of weird method she was.
Wang Lixin's mother replied that the two were probably in their 50s, and it seemed that they used to work in the hospital, and later planned to open a clothing store when they retired. And when it comes to weirdness, these two people are always looking at their watches when they talk about the exchange of shops, and they always have gloomy faces and frowns, asking them if they are in a hurry, but they immediately shake their heads and deny it.
This message is meaningful to me!
The sissy man was at least 30 years old, and it seemed that he should be a clerk hired by the doctor.
In addition, the two of them used to be doctors, and it was hard for me not to associate the profession of "doctor" with the female ghosts I saw last night with patches on their faces.
"Do you know how those two get in touch?" I then asked again.
"I have their phone number, do you think Wang Lixin is with them?" Wang Lixin's mother asked.
"I can't say this either, I'm just curious." I say.
"Oh," she replied, and then found the phone number of the two and gave it to me.
When I got the number, I immediately called the phone, and it rang several times before I picked it up.
"Who are you looking for?" Jinjima fork garbage.
The person who answered the phone was a man, and he seemed to be a little impatient when he heard the voice.
"I'm a friend of Wang Lixin." I replied.
Wang Lixin...... Oh, what do you mean by hitting me? He asked.
"I saw her in your store today, so I wanted to ask if you have any ...... lately."
Click!
Before I could finish my words, the other side hung up the phone, and I quickly dialed again, but the other party refused to listen.
"How? What do they say? Wang Lixin's mother asked on the side.
I shook my head, "They hung up the phone, I guess I thought I was messing around." โ
"Hey, you don't have to look for her to come back, it's good to know that she's okay." Wang Lixin's mother squeezed out a wry smile, but her two hands kept holding it repeatedly, and it could be seen that she still hoped that her daughter would come home.
I couldn't promise her anything, and I didn't want to give her some hopeless hope, so I simply didn't say anything and offered to leave.
After I came out, I called Hu Yang and asked him about the situation.
He said that he was about to call me, but he had already finished asking at the hotel, and the waiter said that the person who came that night was not the person in the photo.
Obviously, someone deliberately dressed up as Wang Lixin to send me a letter, probably to make me notice Wang Lixin hidden in the hanfu store!
I suddenly thought of the models, so I asked him to meet me directly in front of the hanfu store. After hanging up, I took a taxi to the hanfu store, but to my surprise, the store was closed in broad daylight.
I knocked on the door when I got there, but there was no one inside, so I simply took the master key to open the lock and pushed the door up.
The dummies in the store are gone! I quickly opened the glass door and entered the store, and it turned out that the models had been moved to the back door at the back of the store. I checked the faces of these models one by one, and soon I found that the face of one of the models was very familiar, except for the different styles of bangs, its facial features were very similar to Wang Lixin, but it felt slightly different, just like ...... is like Wang Lixin who has undergone plastic surgery.
I reached out and touched the model's face, the surface of the face was soft, I continued to press it harder, and the model's face sank in. It doesn't seem to have a hard shell to support it, but instead uses some kind of soft padding.
"Are you Wang Lixin? If you can hear it, reply to me, or give me a reaction. I said something to the model.
The dummy stood still and didn't moveโof course, how could it move.
I looked back at the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, and the sunlight was pouring into the store, and even ghosts would not appear in this environment.
At this time, a taxi stopped in front of the store, and Hu Yang got out of the car.
I immediately beckoned to him, and when he entered the shop, I asked him to block the windows with a thick cloth so that no sunlight could penetrate at all. Then I told him to close the door of the inner room, and even the cracks of the door were covered with cloth, and when all this work was done, the whole inner room became dark.
I gave Hu Yang a few talismans and asked him to take care of himself according to the Eight Yang Mantras and Mudras I had taught him before, and then I recited a mantra to the model who looked like Wang Lixin to summon spirits. The Spiritualist Charm is not a panacea, but if the model does have a ghost attached to it, and the ghost has also come up with it, my trick will definitely work.
Sure enough, I only read a few words, and the slightest yin began to emanate from the model's body, and the air in the store began to cool down.
Hu Yang exhaled, and a cloud of white gas appeared.
"Are you coming?" He asked me with his eyes wide open.
I nodded at him and went on with my work.
Suddenly, the model's eyes moved, and she looked towards me, and then her body turned mechanically towards me.
"Are you Wang Lixin? How did you die? I immediately asked.
The model seemed to want to open her mouth to speak, but her mouth was closed and she couldn't make a sound, and after some effort, she finally gave up talking and instead raised her arm and pointed at the bare wall on the left......