Chapter 2: Isha Mansion Chapter 16: Substitute for the Dead
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Wang Ji stood motionless for more than an hour. It's hard to imagine how strong his will really is. Staring at those headless wax figures, Wang Ji remained as immobile as those stagnant wax monsters, but one can imagine how swift and powerful the attacks of these wax monsters would be as long as he made any movement.
Enough to tear him in half. At this time, what he felt more was the complete numbness and unconsciousness of his arms.
These two arms were tightly grasped by the monster, and the strength did not decrease in the slightest, and the pain in the arms gradually changed from heart-piercing pain to a kind of numbness, and they no longer seemed to belong to Wang Ji.
"Maybe the local legend is true. In addition to these wax figures, there may also be other so-called unidentified creatures. β
With incredibly clear thoughts, Wang Ji silently summarized the investigation.
The monster seemed to be a product of folklore, which he had seen in the afternoon when he was checking the files at the police station. But he still didn't expect that these dead people would hunt him in such a strange manner. What made Wang Ji wonder was why they didn't find him, but waited for him at his door?
"Maybe I thought too much about it at first. They don't know me at all, and they can't determine where I am. There are only a few special ways to come to me. I was at home when I picked up the assignment, so they came to my house to find me. And I didn't encounter any attack from them on the way back. This should prove that they do only crouch. And they don't know about me, which is why it pounces at first. β
Wang Ji couldn't help but smile bitterly when he thought of this. Indeed, his speculation had been correct from the beginning, knowing the peculiarities of these unidentified creatures was of no use, and he had to spend it here and there, waiting for the dawn. Perhaps at a certain point in time, the black fog here will dissipate, and the unknown creatures in front of you will also leave.
Otherwise, if he moves again, he will die.
"Flip in."
"Be quiet!"
At this embarrassing but life-and-death critical moment, Wang Ji suddenly heard some soft whispers downstairs. He never imagined that there would be people moving in the middle of the night, and immediately, he saw the corner of the stairs, six sneaky people coming up one after another, their movements were strange, and they looked left and right from time to time. At this time, the hand that grabbed Wang Ji was silently released.
The wax monsters turned sluggishly and staggered towards the six men who had gone upstairs. For a moment, Wang Ji's arms hung down weakly, and he still had no sense of his arms.
"This mansion is really big!"
"Don't be verbose, go inside, see if there's something and take it away!"
The six of them whispered to each other, walked around the second floor of the south building, and then walked towards the third floor. Behind the six of them, a group of wax monsters staggered to follow. Wang Ji was surprised by the strange situation, the six people seemed to be deaf to the monsters following behind them, and even unaware of the sounds, they walked past Wang Ji, and from time to time lowered their voices to speak, ignoring Wang Ji.
A person passed directly through Wang Ji's shadow, and this tiny detail also surprised Wang Ji. However, he did not move the whole time, silently watching the six men walk blindly until they led the monsters up to the third floor.
"They ......"
Wang Ji looked at the empty staircase. He remembered the file he had seen in the afternoon, the six-person theft gang. After much thought, he quietly followed.
Standing at the corner of the third floor, Wang Ji stood still, looking at the six people groping forward in the dark, staring at the wax monsters that were staggering and following. The six people who were in the dark finally climbed to the fourth floor, and the monsters followed, and Wang Ji followed step by step.
"This mansion seems to be a bit evil! How do you keep going around in circles. β
"yes, we seem to have walked back to square one."
"Don't worry so much, find the exit carefully."
The six stood at the top of the stairs and whispered for a while, then resumed their exploration, the monsters still following. Wang Ji followed them without hesitation, and then watched them go up to the fifth floor.
"When I was buying cigarettes this morning, I heard from the locals that this place is a bit evil."
"Don't talk nonsense, keep looking!"
The six of them continued to advance in the dark, and finally went up to the sixth floor unconsciously. Wang Ji didn't say a word from beginning to end, and followed silently. He watched out for the wax monsters to suddenly turn their heads and pounce on him. Eventually, he watched as the six men stood in front of the door of his rental house, followed silently by a group of wax monsters. The leader of the six said, "This is it, let's go out from here." β
"Finally found an exit."
Others also have a sense of the aftermath. Wang Ji silently watched them start to pick the lock of his rental house with wire, from the second floor to the sixth floor to the front of his house, he had an indescribable sense of absurdity. The gang of thieves actually pried the door of his house again, and said that this was the way out. But all this seems to have a reason, the black fog that fills the entire building is diffused from his rental house.
Crunch.
"The door is open, let's go!"
Six people entered the rental house one after another, and then, the wax monsters all swarmed in, and the door closed automatically. The fog cleared, and then a terrible howl pierced the fog, and all the lights around the rental houses came on.
"What's wrong?"
"What's wrong?"
The inhabitants all came out of the house, and Wang Ji understood something in an instant, and the night demon suit on his body quickly rolled back and retracted into his chest. The neighbors all ran over at this time: "What's the matter! Something is wrong! β
Syllable!
A stream of blood splattered on the window, and the screams in the room continued, and the women who ran out were all screaming in fright. The rest of the neighbors who heard the news were also stupefied.
"Call the police."
After Wang Ji confided in the two words, he began to bang the door desperately, his arm had regained some sensation, but the numbness and pain still tormented Wang Ji. For more than an hour, a normal person's arm may have been scrapped long ago.
Some neighbors who suddenly realized hurriedly came to help, and three or four men slammed the door together, but there was an indescribable terrible force behind the door, and they couldn't hit it open! Wang Ji's mobile phone began to ring, and at the moment he didn't care about looking at it, and banged the door desperately with the others.
Rumble!
The door was slammed open.
The window was open, and the mutilated corpses fell in the room, dark blood flowing down the door, along with wax. Wang Ji squatted down and observed, and a smell of rotting corpses came to his nose. He looked in the direction of the blood stains and wax oil at the open window, and hurriedly ran to the inner window to look down, but there was nothing but the unpleasant smell of wax. The night wind was still blowing, and Wang Ji turned his head and saw the frightened faces in front of the door.
"The scene needs to be protected here, I'm a police officer, please get out of here first, stay at home and don't walk around. Our people will come to ...... later"
While evacuating the crowd, Wang Ji turned on his mobile phone and prepared to call the police, and he could still feel the pain of pinprick in his forearm, but it was much better than being unconscious. He turned on the screen of his phone, and the first line of information flashed through his eyes.
With the initials A, the crisis of the first night has passed. Before sunset today, there will still be unknown creatures in the Isha Mansion in Beihai Town that will arrive in your area to destroy you, so please be careful.
You have two more days.
ββFrom the No. A experimental machine
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Quest for Exploration, Day 2.
It was a difficult night in the city, with whistling police cars speeding down the main roads and rumors spreading. At seven o'clock in the morning, Wang Ji woke up from the hall of the police station, he started from his seat, looked at Liu Xiaonan in front of him, and felt that his lips were a little dry, almost subconsciously, he was going to buy breakfast.
"The identity of the deceased has come out."
Liu Xiaonan followed behind Wang Ji and said: "You may not believe it, in 2011, a roaming burglary gang came to us, and they disappeared mysteriously. The people who died in your house in the early hours of the morning are most likely those six people, and they are all on our online wanted list. According to the information we found, they should have died in 11 years, and the corpse has been 6 years old now, decomposed, and actually appeared in your house. β
Wang Ji did not hesitate and walked quickly to the canteen of the unit.
"Did you listen to me?"
Liu Xiaonan grabbed Wang Ji's arm and pulled him back. Although she is a woman, her strength is indeed not small. Wang Ji stopped, turned around and said, "I just donated blood yesterday, and if I don't eat now, I don't have the strength to talk to you." With that, he shook Liu Xiaonan's hand away and went to the cafeteria. With his back to Liu Xiaonan, he pulled open his sleeves and saw the place on his forearm that Liu Xiaonan had pinched just now.
Black bruises, black bruises that form paw print marks.
Silently moving his palm, Wang Ji pulled up his sleeve and continued to move forward.
7:50 a.m.
The conference room was filled again, and Team Wang, who was temporarily the captain due to Team Liu's hospitalization, presided over the meeting.
"There is a lot of identity information to prove that the six people who died in Wang Ji's house are most likely the theft gang that disappeared in Beihai Town in 2011."
Team Wang's name is Wang Jianjun, and he is about the same age as Team Liu, but his style is very different. He doesn't smoke and think like Team Liu, but likes to say useful things. His voice was loud, and a simple opening remark silenced the entire conference hall. His waist is straight, walking in the hall and playing with the pen in his hand, he is left-handed, he is left-handed, the reason why this is so is because he is missing a finger in his right hand, listening to Liu Xiaonan, it was a scar left by the mission more than ten years ago.
Team Wang said slowly: "Presumably I don't say that you all know it, this matter is worse than the impact of the sower. How did these six people die? The corpses are all decomposing, and the corpses that have been dead for several years appear in Wang Ji's house, how did the murderer escape? It's all a problem. Wang Ji, do you have any other details that you can add? β
In the end, the eyes of the Wang team turned to Wang Ji.
"Nope."
Wang Ji shook his head.
"It's okay."
Team Wang shook his fingers, "I was in charge of the case with Lao Liu at the beginning. Now, Lao Liu is hospitalized, and I can still carry it. A task force should be set up for this matter. β
"I'm joining."
Liu Xiaonan raised his hand.
"Xiao Nan, one."
Team Wang said by name.
"And me." "Count me in." β¦β¦
The police officers in the conference room raised their hands one after another, ready to be in charge of handling the case with Team Wang. After Team Wang wrote down the people one by one, he suddenly said to Wang Ji: "Wang Ji, you can come too." This happened in your house, and you have a psychological shadow, I know. When you find things out, you can sleep at night. Go back and dispose of the furniture and prepare to move the nest, if it is inconvenient to live in my house. β
"Thanks, I'll find a new home."
Wang Ji got up and thanked him, although he was quite marginal, but the captain took good care of him. He politely declined Captain Wang's kindness, and he had other things to deal with.
"Let's go to Beihai Town in the afternoon, I didn't figure out that thing at the beginning, and now I have left such a big disaster......
Captain Wang finally muttered a couple of sentences and then dismissed the meeting. The police officers left one after another, Wang Ji was the last to sort out the documents, he stood alone in the corridor and turned on his mobile phone, and looked at the text message of the No. A experimental machine again, and he couldn't help but think again.
"At first I didn't have a concept of unidentified creatures, but now I'm afraid of it, and I'm prepared for the worst. Now, because of my status as a police officer, I have to go to Beihai Town to investigate with Captain Wang. This made me have to re-examine whether I should investigate Isha Mansion too soon? β
Wang Ji asked himself like this, and the answer he got was also negative.
"It is supposed to be the nest of unknown creatures, and I approached it rashly without being armed, and I was suspected of sheep entering the tiger's den. However, I was not the only one who went to investigate. I'm not the same person in the Daredevil costume as I normally am, and if I determine my identity from now on, I won't necessarily be exposed......"