Chapter 3: The Ghostly Shadow

"That, I'm sorry, it's Officer Han Dong Han who is in charge of the protection of cultural relics, you go inside, turn left and the last room is where he works," I pointed towards the place where Han Dong worked in the bureau, and pointed the direction to the girl in front of me, the beautiful girl always makes people start to move. "Thank you, I haven't asked you what your name is, officer," looking at the stupid police officer in front of her, Xia Rui couldn't help but have some strange thoughts in her heart, the people in the countryside are quite interesting!

"My name is Li Guoyuan, I'm sorry, I'll leave first if there's nothing to do," Xia Rui looked at me with an innocent look on her side face, and I suddenly felt a burst of heat rise on my face, dodging Xia Rui's eyes and then hurriedly leaving.

"This police officer can't help but be funny, he blushes now" Xia Rui looked at Li Guoyuan, who was gradually leaving, and her heart blossomed with some joy. Remembering that when he first arrived in the village, the passers-by who were in a hurry on the street seemed to feel an unusual atmosphere, and recalled the purpose of this trip, so he had to ignore these things for the first time and walked towards the place where Han Dong worked.

After leaving the police station, I slowly began to sort out what had happened along the way, and it all started that night. Qiangzi's mother left her hoe in the vegetable field not far from the back mountain when she was hoeing in the vegetable garden during the day, and looked up at the sky that seemed to be just dark, so she walked alone through the muddy back mountain path to find her hoe, and the cemetery not far from the path suddenly blew an unusual cold wind, although the older adults couldn't help but shiver, and the dark sky aggravated the strange atmosphere of the back mountain again.

The dark mountain tomb seemed unusually calm tonight, the messy branches swayed with the wind gave people the feeling of a group of demons dancing, and her legs involuntarily slowly trembled slowly as she walked and chanted Amitabha Buddha from time to time in her mouth.

"Uh......h Woo. Uh-huh" With a low cry of an owl, "Ahhh

At this moment, in the silent woods, there was a sudden sound of footsteps, the chaotic footsteps kept shuttling in the woods, she subconsciously stopped, her eyes slowly looked in the direction of the sound, her trembling hands clenched together, and she stayed in place tremblingly.

Suddenly, a figure appeared in the distance, flickering in front of her eyes, the ghostly figure, swaying from side to side in a chaotic pace, stretching his hands forward, as if he was about to grasp something, waving his hands constantly.

The strange figure was getting closer and closer, and at this time there were bursts of cold sweat dripping on her forehead, and her legs were as if they had been spelled, unable to move, "Ah, ghost," just the moment she saw the figure, she shouted and activated the strength of her whole body to rush down the mountain frantically, just after she left, the skin on the figure's face had already been corroded, the whole eyeball bulged out, the tattered clothes were like begging beggars for a long time, and the whole body emitted a stench of rotting corpses, and then continued to move forward like a living corpse.

Qiangzi found her mother at the door, and when her mother ran to the door, she seemed to lose her strength and fainted. After waking up, his mother kept telling Qiangzi that she had seen the dead Ergou, and this matter was spread one after another, and the people in the village said that the ghost had come up to see the ghost from the underworld.

Within a few days, Qiangzi's mother began muttering to herself, repeating that Ergou was looking for a replacement for the dead ghost and wanted to drag her down, until a few weeks later, when she suddenly died in the middle of the night, and all kinds of rumors began to spread about the ghosts and gods in the village.

Some people say that Ergou was looking for a substitute for the dead ghost, but he happened to run into her, and in the end, the second dog found a substitute for the dead ghost to reincarnate, and he didn't come out to make trouble. Some people also say that the village has been invaded by evil spirits, and the village will never be peaceful again. Now even the strong son fell off the cliff and died for no reason, but why did the strong son go up the mountain late at night? Whether it was an accident or someone else's doing, whether his mother really saw Ergou that night, as the atmosphere in Ergou's village where he died unexpectedly became unusually cold again, there were no more children playing and old people chatting and walking at night.

The people of the village decided to go to the Ergou cemetery to have a look, and the group walked along the muddy path, even during the day, the whole back mountain still looked eerie, and the wind in the woods seemed to be blowing more and more fiercely, blowing a chill in everyone's hearts.

When they arrived at Ergou's cemetery, they found that there was no sign of exhumation or deception in the base, and the older generation decided to do a ritual for them, and after asking the deceased to rest in peace, they hurried down the mountain, and everyone did not want to mention the ghost of Ergou.

As I pondered, time passed bit by bit, and before I knew it, it was almost night, and looking at the village road, the lively scene of the past was gone, leaving only the cold road and fewer pedestrians. The succession of deaths in the village seemed to make the whole village even more eerie, and the sound of birdsong at night sounded unsettling at this moment, and I shook my shoulders and walked back into the bureau.

The sky over the village began to darken, and a black cloud drifted towards the police station, as if to envelop the entire police station in black space. The gate of the police station was constantly blowing a cold wind, and the iron gate was creaky by the wind, as if revealing a message of death. As I approached the heavy iron gate, I heard the faint sound of approaching footsteps in the cold wind, and I stopped, trying to find the place where the sound came from.

The slow footsteps didn't seem to stop, mixed with the howling of the wind, and the slow footsteps drew closer and closer to me, and yes, the sound came from behind me, and just when I felt that the sound was about to approach me, I turned back sharply and shouted, "Who?" ”

"It's me, Uncle Chen, haven't you gone back so late?" Uncle Chen's slow footsteps stopped, looking at the time when the night was approaching, and asked me who had not yet returned home.

It turned out to be Uncle Chen, who was a guard at the police station, and Uncle Chen's errand time in the police station should be the longest, and the meager salary was not enough to support the whole family, and just a few years ago, Uncle Chen's wife was fired from the factory because of lung cancer, and needed to undergo long-term chemotherapy, and the cost was unbearable for ordinary people.

In desperation, Chen Bo had to apply to be a police officer at night and became a police station guard, although this is the case, but it is still far from the cost of treatment, so he had to run to relatives and friends in all directions to start raising money, Chen Bo, who is burdened with countless debts, has a very hard life, but despite this, Chen Bo still has not given up, he firmly believes that one day these difficulties will be over.

"Oh, it's okay Uncle Chen, go back immediately, I'll check some information and leave," the tense nerves also slowly eased, as if he was infected by the atmosphere in the village, and his spirit became extremely tense in the past few days. Saying goodbye to Uncle Chen, I slowly walked in the direction of the archives, there was silence in the empty corridor, I looked at the surrounding environment, all my colleagues should have already left work, and I walked into the archives alone.

The empty archive room is so quiet that people are frightened, I turned on the light before I felt a little safe, the bookshelf is placed with all the files and materials of the cases in the village, the cabinet of special cases is only a few files, the originally peaceful village has few cases, I didn't expect that in half a year the vacant special file cabinet suddenly has a few more materials, I sighed helplessly, picked up the information on the cabinet and walked towards the desk.

I began to look through all the death files of Peng Qiang and his mother, and I found nothing suspicious in the files. At 10 o'clock in the evening of July 3, the deceased Chen Xixiu, according to the family of the deceased, had serious mental delusions within a month before his death, and had self-harming excesses, but did not pose a threat to his life because he was found in time.

Within an hour before the deceased's death, in the absence of the deceased's family, the deceased once again self-harmed himself, and there seemed to be severe mental hallucinations in the chaotic room, and the deceased had died violently when the deceased's family found out. There are traces of being caught and bypassed at the scene, which is confirmed to be caused by the deceased, there are no other fingerprints on the deceased's body, and homicide is ruled out, no fatal wounds were found on the deceased's body, no signs of death caused by poisoning, and the cause of death is unknown.