"Give me a gram of black pepper steak, medium rare, a cup of coffee, thank you." I put down the menu, looked at Zhang Chao, who had also finished ordering, and said with a smile: "It seems that this case has made you feel a lot of trouble?" Can you tell me about the situation? ”

Zhang Chao looked at me with red eyes and said, "Who are you and what do you know?" I don't have the time to talk to you here, let me tell you, if you are a journalist and want to talk to me, then your wishful thinking is wrong, and I have seen a lot of reporters like you who pretend to be mysterious to attract attention. ”

I took a sip of water and said with a smile: "If it weren't for the entrustment of someone, I really wouldn't be too lazy to talk to you here." ”

Hearing me say this, Zhang Chao was even more puzzled, he frowned and took a sip of water and said, "Entrusted by someone? Who will ask you to help me? ”

I smiled wryly and shook my head, I can't tell him I'm accepting a commission from the organizers. After thinking about it, I digressed the subject and said, "Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" ”

Zhang Chao was obviously a little stunned by my question, and was stunned before saying, "Ghost? You can say such a ridiculous thing? It's a scientific society now, don't talk about those weird things in front of me, I never believe it. ”

I watched the waiter bring two steaks over, covered his face with a napkin and said: "When you said you didn't believe it just now, it was considered, and when you said this, your eyes wandered, although it seemed that you were looking at me on the surface, in fact, your eyes had no focus at all, which means that your mouth is not right, is there a ghost in this world, I think you know more than me when you are a policeman, otherwise, there will not be so many headless cases in this world." "Actually, the reason why I believe that Zhang Chao believes that there are ghosts is because every year, there are several cases that are very mysterious and terrifying, and even the police have to list them as unsolved cases. And I once read a survey, and the people who believe most in the theory of ghosts and gods are not Buddhists, nor are they those so-called fortune tellers and goddesses, but doctors and policemen.

Because these two professions are more likely to come into contact with the dead, and they are also more likely to encounter various mysterious events. In police stations, when a forensic doctor dissects a corpse, he usually wears three sticks of incense and asks the soul of the corpse to leave the body temporarily. In hospitals, the reason why people have to cover themselves with white cloth from head to toe after death is not because they are afraid that the living will see the dead, but because they are afraid that the dead will see the living.

The waiter opened the lid covering the steak, and suddenly, a white smoke came up, and a white wall of fog seemed to be formed between us, making us look at each other a little blurry, at this moment, I felt that it was not Zhang Chao who was sitting in front of me, but a long-haired woman who was laughing miserably, the woman's lips moved slightly, from the movement of her lips, I roughly knew that she was telling me not to meddle.

I hurriedly rubbed my eyes and looked over again, the person opposite was still Zhang Chao, he saw that my face was not very good, and asked with a little concern, "What's wrong?" ”

I smiled a little reluctantly, lowered my head and picked up the knife and fork to deal with the steak on the plate and said: "It's okay, let's get down to business, Zhang Chao, let me tell you, what you have to face this time is probably what you don't believe in your mouth, if you believe me, please cooperate with me, at least I can do my best to help you, if you don't believe me, then I can't help it, but I will still use my own ability to investigate this matter, and I hope you don't obstruct too much when the time comes." ”

Hearing me say this, Zhang Chao was obviously stunned, and after a while, he picked up the coffee in his hand and drank it slowly, obviously, he seemed to be thinking about something.

After a long time, just as I finished eating the steak, Zhang Chao also put down the empty cup in his hand, sighed and said: "I really want to know who you are entrusted by to make you know that you are facing some supernatural phenomena, and you have to investigate." ”

Seeing that Zhang Chao showed signs of relenting, my heart also relaxed a little, and I am afraid that the hallucination just now was temporarily alleviated. From the beginning of this game to now, I have been in this city for three days, although the game condition given to me by the organizer is to survive in this city for thirty days, but in these three days, I have already felt a terrifying aura slowly approaching me, if there is nothing to do, I am afraid it will not take thirty days, and in another three days, I will become a victim of that breath. After reading a lot of information, I concluded that this incident should be related to the bizarre murder in the newspaper in the past few days. So, I found Zhang Chao, who was in charge of handling the case.

I shook my head with a wry smile and said, "Who asked me to come, I really can't tell you, but I hope you can believe me." ”

This time, Zhang Chao and I happened to be opposed, he started to eat steak, and I started to drink coffee unhurriedly. There was a strange silence at the table.

After a long time, just when I thought there was no play, Zhang Chao didn't raise his head, looked at the plate and seemed to say to himself: "As a policeman, I must not disclose any information about the case to others, and I am indeed a little tired in the past few days at the police station, so I decided to take the case file home to take it and take a look, and then sleep for a while." With that, he stood up, stretched, and continued: "Hey, I don't know when I will get rid of the habit of not closing the door casually, by the way, you said that you invited this meal, then I will go first." ”

I smiled and nodded, Zhang Chao had already said it so obviously, I naturally understood. After drinking the coffee in a hurry, I watched Zhang Chao leave, then called the waiter, and left the coffee shop after settling the bill.

In the morning, I had already investigated Zhang Chao's residence clearly, and now although I don't have any ability, I still have a lot of money, as long as I have money, there is basically nothing you can't investigate.

Near Zhang Chao's house, I found a hotel room where I could see Zhang Chao's room and stayed in it. Zhang Chao didn't let me wait too long, and after about an hour, Zhang Chao walked into the building where he lived with a document bag. After waiting for about an hour, I walked out of the hotel and came to Zhang Chao's house.

There are two rows of door-to-door rooms on each floor of an old-fashioned house in Hong Kong, and Zhang Chao lives in room 307 on the third floor. Walking to the door, I gently pushed the door, and sure enough, as originally planned, Zhang Chao did not close the door. I pushed the door in, looked in, and made sure that Zhang Chao was asleep before walking in.

On the coffee table in the living room, there was a document bag that Zhang Chao brought in before, and I pulled out the documents inside, there were five copies in total, and it was obvious that they were the five victims of this case.

The first victim is called Li Fugui, 75 years old, living alone in an old abandoned house in the suburbs, buying waste for a living, and it was his son Li Laicai who found his body.

The second victim, Xu Jinhua, 48, an ordinary vegetable farmer in a vegetable farm, died in her bedroom, and her body was found by his mother, Wang Zhaodi, who usually woke up in the morning to help her make breakfast and wake her up. But no matter how much I screamed that morning, I couldn't wake up, and when I opened the door, I found that Xu Jinhua was dead.

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I looked at the case files carefully, and I looked at each case file again and again, for fear that I would miss some important details, and I didn't even notice that Zhang Chao got up and took a shower.

Zhang Chao wiped his wet hair, handed me a bottle of canned beer, sat down and said, "How is it, what did you find?" ”

I opened my beer, took a sip and said, "First of all, all the cases were shaved heads, and also, they were scared to death. ”

Zhang Chao smiled and said, "We have already discovered this, there is no need for you to say it." ”

I frowned, waved my hand and said: "Wait for me to finish first, secondly, didn't you find out, every victim will be found as soon as possible, this is not a coincidence, the longest time for these victims to be found is about eight hours after death, the shortest, only less than an hour, why is this?" ”

Hearing me say this, Zhang Chao also hurriedly picked up the case file, looked at it carefully, and said for a long time: "It seems to be the case, but what's the point?" ”

I smiled, looked up at Zhang Chao and said, "You are still a policeman, think about it carefully, what will happen if the body is found late?" ”

Zhang Chao looked at the first file, which was Li Fugui's file, and muttered to himself: "If the body is not found for a long time, it will decompose, and in this case, the most affected thing is the time of death!" ”

I nodded and said: "That's right, this murderer hopes that we don't make a mistake, or it is not good to judge the death time of the corpse, so it will allow us to find the corpse as soon as possible, it seems that this murderer in addition to shaving his head and scaring the victim to death, and the victim's death time is also something he is concerned about, how do I feel like some kind of religious consciousness, by the way, how much error can your police station control the victim's death time?" ”

Zhang Chao thought for a while and said: "I'll go to the police station first, you look at these materials first, I'll try, and let them do everything possible to minimize the error in the victim's death time." Anyway, regardless of whether I agree or not, he just picked up his coat and hurriedly walked out. (To be continued.) )