Chapter 7: Peeling Back the Ropes
"Luo Xi, you must think of a way, Shao Jianxiong is my subordinate, I can't watch him die like this, you must think of a way." By this time, we had returned to Zhang Chao's house, and he was anxiously lighting a cigarette in front of me, pacing back and forth anxiously.
I rubbed my temples and said with a headache: "Zhang Chao, don't worry, it's only six o'clock, at least before twelve and fifteen in the evening, he is still safe, I'll go back to the room first, let me be quiet." ”
Zhang Chao knew that I needed a quiet environment to think about at this time, so he took a puff of his cigarette and nodded: "Okay, Luo Xi, remember, we only have six hours." ”
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Lying on the bed, I began to slowly organize my thoughts, first of all, starting from the task of the organizer, the organizer's requirement is that I stay in this city for a month, so if I don't do anything, I will definitely not be able to survive this game, because the organizer will never arrange a game that can be passed as long as you wait. So it should be right for me to approach Zhang Chao to be involved in this case.
So, now I have found the source of the way to live, and the real way to live should be to help the ghost avenge his grievances, so what is the way to die? It's impossible that as long as I'm involved in this case, there will be no dead end, if that's the case, this game can be described as a trip, so even if I'm involved in this case, there will still be a dead end. From now on, there is at least a sixty percent chance that the dead end is that the ghost will come and kill me after killing the six people who testified that year. Now that the dead end has been found, the relative way to survive should be to help the ghost fulfill his wish before the ghost kills the six people, or prevent the ghost from killing the six people.
Now, the ghost has taken away the last person, that is, Shao Jianxiong, from this point of view, I should have mastered all the clues about the way to live, and the only thing that is bad is to connect these clues.
At the beginning of Zhang Chao's investigation of the case, in fact, there were only two people who were really in contact with this case, the first was Tang Lingli, and the second was Zheng Angong, but the testimony of these two people was very different. First of all, these two people have seen ghosts, but Zheng Angong saw a long-haired female ghost, while Tang Lingli saw a male ghost holding a razor. Suppose that the long-haired female ghost is the female worker who burned to death in Shao Jianxiong's father's factory seven years ago, who is the male ghost?
Shao Jianxiong was taken away after Tang Lingli said that he saw a male ghost, so it proves that Tang Lingli is not lying, and I have also seen the female ghost that Zheng Angong has seen twice, so Zheng Angong is not lying. Let's assume that there are indeed two ghosts in this case, then on the surface, Li Xianglian's ghost may have a larger surname for killing, but judging from Tang Lingli's testimony, the ghost with the male surname who really killed the person should be. If so, then why did the ghost with the male surname help Li Xianglian avenge it? And what kind of role did Li Xianglian's ghost play in the whole incident?
Putting these aside, why didn't the bodies of the four people who died in front of them disappear, but after I joined, Mr. Tang's body disappeared inexplicably? Could it be that Mr. Tang's body has the key to solving this mystery?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but begin to recall Tang Lingli's testimony in detail. First of all, Tang Lingli went home that night and opened the door of Mr. Tang's room, at that time, everything went well, and then she found Mr. Tang's tea canister containing money and bank cards and took it away. Just when he wanted to go out, the door suddenly couldn't open, and at this moment, the male ghost holding a razor appeared, and then, Tang Lingli began to scream, but his father didn't feel a trace of it. Wait, scream!
I slammed up from the bed and opened the door, at this time, Zhang Chao was still sitting on the sofa in the living room, smoking one cigarette after another, and when he saw me coming out, he hurriedly stood up: "Luo Xi, did you think of something?" ”
I nodded, grabbed the coat that was thrown on the sofa and said, "Let's go, find Tang Lingli, she is still lying, let's talk as we walk." ”
Zhang Chao put out the cigarette in the ashtray, grabbed his coat, and ran out quickly with me.
I casually stopped a taxi, explained the address to the driver, and then said to Zhang Chao: "It's me who is mixed, really mixed, Tang Lingli said that when she saw her father being shaved, she kept screaming, and calculated carefully, it would take at least ten minutes to completely shave a person's hair, that is to say, Tang Lingli continued to scream for ten minutes, it is impossible that no one heard, but when you went to the scene of the crime that day, there were so many people watching, but no one said that he heard the screams, so what happened that night, Tang Lingli is still hiding it, she should know more than us! ”
Under my urging and the threat of Zhang Chao's police ID, the driver almost raised the speed to the fastest, ran four red lights in a row along the way, and it only took seven minutes for us to arrive at Tang Lingli's doorstep.
After knocking on the door several times, but no one responded, Zhang Chao and I glanced at each other and nodded. Immediately, Zhang Chao took a few steps back and slammed open Tang Lingli's door.
Inside the door, there was silence. Zhang Chao threw the coat in his hand on the sofa in the living room: "Damn, I actually let her run away." ”
I looked around, shook my head and said, "No, it's not so much that she ran away, it's better to say that she suffered the same thing as Shao Jianxiong." ”
Zhang Chao was slightly stunned, and said suspiciously: "You mean, she was also captured by ghosts?" ”
I nodded and said, "Yes, you see, the teacup used by me and Shao Jianxiong is no longer on the coffee table, it was obviously cleaned up by Tang Lingli, if a person wants to run, how can he be in the mood to clean up the tea set used by the guests?" Also, the water in the kitchen is still on, obviously, she was washing the teacups at the time, she was suddenly taken away, she was wearing a pajamas, she couldn't be seen in the room, and she shouldn't have changed it, it is absolutely impossible for a person to run around in pajamas, let's go to her room to see. ”
Zhang Chao pursed his lips, walked into Tang Lingli's room with me, opened the wardrobe casually and said, "Maybe she has already changed, and the pajamas are in the wardrobe now, ah!" Suddenly, Zhang Chao exclaimed, and stood at the door of the wardrobe in a daze, his hands still maintaining the action of opening the cabinet.
"What's wrong?" I hurried over and covered my mouth. Tang Lingli was still wearing the pajamas she wore when she saw us, but at this moment, she was dead, a blue scarf connected her neck to the tube of the hanger, and Tang Lingli was half-kneeling in the closet, her eyes were bursting, her lips were slightly open, and the tongue that stretched out her mouth was probably unable to say a word again, at this time, it was nearly seven o'clock, it was dark outside, and the only thing that could shine on Tang Lingli was the orange electric light in the room, this light, The light on her corpse is particularly terrifying and weird.
Looking at the policemen walking around the room, Zhang Chao tore his hair almost very irritably, I stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Chao, and said with some anger: "Zhang Chao, what are you doing?" ”
Zhang Chao sat on the sofa in Tang Lingli's living room and looked at me: "Luo Xi, it's over, everything is over, and the last clue is broken, what should I do?" What to do! ”
At this time, a person came over and sat next to Zhang Chao: "Lao Zhang, I said how did you do it, just forcibly enter the room, there was actually a murder, now I see that you are in trouble, if you press it down, I will see what you should do, you go back with Xiao Liu to make a record first, you see that it is okay, after all, you are the person who reported the case." ”
This person's name is Kwok Kwok-wah, and he is the leader of the West Kowloon Serious Crime Group. Hearing Guo Guohua say this, Zhang Chao jumped up almost instinctively, stared at him with a pair of red eyes and said: "Transcript, pen you are big, Lao Tzu's team members are dying, you still have to pull Lao Tzu to make a transcript, you are not free!" ”
This time, everyone in the serious crime team of the case that Zhang Chao took over basically heard of it, especially the team leaders, who have been police officers for so many years, more or less still know about some cases, and they don't think it at all, just like the case that Zhang Chao took over this time, in fact, everyone in the serious crime team, including the chief inspector, knows in their hearts that they must not be able to find out why, and the reason why Zhang Chao continues to investigate is just to go away and block the people's mouth.
Seeing that Zhang Chao was angry, Guo Guohua hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Okay, I heard that this case is related to the case you are working on now, so let's do it, I'll ask my superiors for instructions later, and let them transfer this case to your second group, right?" Seeing that Zhang Chao didn't speak, Guo Guohua sighed, turned around and shouted to his team members: "The scene investigation is almost complete, right?" Okay, bring the body back to the bureau first. ”
By the time Guo Guohua and his team members left, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and Zhang Chao looked at me a little anxiously: "Luo Xi, is there really no way?" ”
I smiled slightly, and the corners of my mouth pulled an arc: "Who said that, basically, I have understood the whole thing, there is only one question left, as long as this question is confirmed, then all the mysteries will be solved, let's go, let's go and ask the neighbors." (To be continued.) )