14. I don't know that I am dead
Qiao Wei also drew a large circle in the open space as he used to summon souls in the past, but this time he drew a circle that was really big enough, and the diameter should be more than ten meters. After the circle was drawn, the yellow paper talismans in his hand were all scattered, and then he took out a metal dagger from his body and inserted it into the center of the circle.
As the dagger entered the ground, a cold wind suddenly blew in the entire circle, and I quickly pulled my helmet and retreated outside the circle.
As soon as we withdrew, a hand came out of the ground! It's exactly the same as when you summoned ghosts in the Humwaist Village in January!
The hard hat exclaimed, then focused all the light of the flashlight on the hand that was sticking out from the ground, and shouted, "Yes, yes...... There is a hand! There is a hand!! ”
I quickly nodded my head to tell him I saw it, and told him to be silent and not to be afraid.
The hard hat was bold enough, and after listening to what I said, he nodded hard at me, and then closed his mouth tightly and stared at the ghost hand that came out of the circle.
The ghostly hand was only a prelude, as I expected, and soon the arms, head, body, legs and feet gradually emerged from the ground, and a whole person stood in the circle—a well-dressed young man, who had emerged from the ground and looked around in confusion, as if there was no aggression in it.
After the male ghost came out, four more hands stretched out from the ground, and then three old men and an elderly woman appeared. These four people are dressed sloppily, and they feel like the "old men who shoot flowers" I saw when I was a child!
Qiao Wei stood next to the dagger in the middle of the circle and kept chanting, but no other ghosts appeared after these five people.
"Looks like that's all there is to it." I reminded Qiao Wei.
Qiao Wei nodded at me in the circle, and then said in a very fast voice: "You go and ask them how they died, I can't leave." Immediately after he had finished speaking, he continued to recite his mantra or scripture or something.
Although I have never had any communication with ghosts, it seems that I don't need to perform any special rituals when I watched Qiao Wei talk to ghosts before, just go over and say hello. So I also walked to the neatly dressed male ghost in the circle and asked tentatively: "You, can you hear me?" ”
The man really reacted, he slowly turned his face to my side, but the expression on his face was still very confused.
"I'm talking to you, can you hear me?" I asked again.
"You...... Who is it? ”
The male ghost responded!
It was the first time I had spoken to a ghost, and although it felt very weird, it was more of an indescribable excitement in my heart.
"I'm a police officer, I'm here to investigate the case, do you know how you died?" I'm half-truthing and half-truthful about this male ghost.
"I ...... I'm dead? I weishenme...... He's dead? weishenme……”
The male ghost seemed to be several beats slower to react, and he slowly turned his body to look around while muttering the same questions.
Not only the male ghost, but also the four other ghosts dressed like beggars also turned in circles and looked around, some occasionally taking a small step or two, but soon stopped where they were and continued to look, as if they were trapped in an invisible labyrinth.
I tried to ask the man a few more questions, but he didn't pay any attention to me, just kept repeating the previous phrase, "I'm dead." I saw that I couldn't communicate with him, so I tried to talk to the other four rogue men, but these four guys were not as cooperative as the male ghost before, they didn't even say anything, they just went around in circles.
I really didn't know where to start, so I could only show Qiao Wei that I had run out of tricks.
Qiao Wei's side immediately stopped chanting the incantation, and then ran to the side of one of the beggar's dead souls as fast as he could. But before he could make any gestures or ask any questions, the circles drawn on the ground burst into flames, forming a huge ring of fire.
The five revenants who had been circling in place before suddenly covered their faces in extreme pain, and then their bodies also burned violently. Less than a second later, the five souls turned into a ball of fire and eventually vanished, and the ring of fire on the ground dimmed.
Qiao Wei also shook his head helplessly and said, "There's no way, even if you break the Fire Dragon Bureau, it seems to be useless." ”
"Can't communicate with them?" I hurriedly asked.
"It's not that they can't communicate, I guess even they don't know how they died."
Qiao Wei then explained that ghosts generally start to forget things after more than a hundred years, but no matter how many years have passed, there is one thing that ghosts will never forget anyway, and that is the cause of their own death. And judging from my question and the reaction of the five ghosts, they were either sleeping when they died, or they died so suddenly that they didn't even realize it.
What is the connection between the four wanderers, a young man, and their dead souls appearing in the same place in the garbage dump at the same time? What does it have to do with the funeral home's corpse and Lao Zheng's death?
Lao Zheng said that there were fewer corpses, and he also said that he saw zombies, what did he find? Found someone carrying a body out of a funeral home and dumping it at a dump?
Also, what about these five people who died suddenly? What could be the situation that makes them not even know how they died?
There are still too many problems that are bothering me, and I can't find a breakthrough for a while.
While I was thinking about these questions, Qiao Wei also took his dagger back from the ground, and then he went to the hard hat and asked him if he knew who the person who designed the pit three years ago and the contact information of the person who designed it.
The two eyes of the hard hat were still staring at the big circle before, and the whole person was completely stunned. Qiao Wei asked the same question twice before the helmet finally came back to his senses. He said that the pit was led by two people, one with a goatee and the other the person in charge of the on-site construction of the dumpsite.
Qiao Wei asked for the phone number of the person in charge of the construction on the site, and told the helmet not to discuss ghosts and gods with people as usual, and then the two of us thanked him together and went back to the car and left the garbage dump.
Qiao Wei did not call the person in charge directly, but told Tang Hui the number, and asked Tang Hui to call the person in charge of the construction of the garbage dump to the public security bureau as a police officer.
When the two of us returned to the city's public security criminal police team, it was already nine o'clock in the evening, and Tang Hui also successfully called the person in charge of the scene to the police team and arranged it in the inquiry room.