Chapter 52. Case 9: A struggle
If it weren't for the fact that the aunt in front of me looked only about 50 years old, and the tone and speed of her speech, I would have thought that she was an old lady in her 70s. So at this moment, I can understand why Miss Wang would be so obviously aware of the changes in her mother before.
Hearing Auntie ask this, Hu Zongren hurriedly said, we are friends of Miss Wang, so let's come to the house and sit casually, there is nothing else, Auntie, you can rest by yourself. Auntie suddenly sharpened her voice, but she still maintained her previous speed, and she looked a little angry and said, "Your friend... Why are you walking around my room... I'm waking them up in my sleep... It seems that the information I read from the compass before is still biased, although this aunt noticed that we entered the house, but she may not be hostile to us, at least at this time saying these words made me feel that she was angry with me and Hu Zongren.
So I hurriedly explained, Auntie, don't be angry, let's just take a walk and have a look, there is nothing disrespectful to you... Before I could finish my sentence, I suddenly heard a terrible scream in my ears, and I could tell that the sound was from Miss Wang's mother, but it sounded a bit like a reverberation sound in my ears. How to describe it, it's like a high pitch, a low pitch mixed together, with a heavy feeling. Her strange scream made me vigilant all of a sudden, and when I was about to raise my hand to grab the rope, I found that it was too late, Hu Zongren and I were standing side by side, but an aunt used the speed that I couldn't react at all, and directly pounced on the two of us.
When I was a child, I once read a comic book called Dragon Ball, and the male protagonist in the book has a skill called teleportation, and I often envy him for having such advanced skills, because in this way, I can go anywhere I want, including the girls' bathhouse, and no one can catch me anyway, which is better than that Yasufu-kun's random door. I didn't mean anything else, but to express the speed with which the aunt was moving from the corner to me, so fast that I wondered if there was a fault in my memory during this time, and I fell to the ground in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, behind us was the leather sofa we were sitting on, and behind the sofa was a large 3P cabinet air conditioner, and the two consecutive buffers prevented us from hitting our heads directly on the ground. In the panic, I opened my eyes and looked at the aunt riding on me and Hu Zongren, she was holding one hand around the necks of both of us, which made me have a short breathing problem, and when I began to take out the red rope to tie her, her head began to swing as if she had taken ecstasy, and the speed became faster and faster, and she couldn't see her facial features at all.
Maybe I didn't learn biology well when I was in school, and I didn't know that getting stuck in my neck could lead to hearing loss. I just remember the buzzing in my ears, as if someone had struck a gong and drum in my ear, and there was a feeling of a long "————" at the end. And I could vaguely hear Miss Wang calling out to her mother, I couldn't hear the specifics, but it should be saying Mom, don't hurt them.
It's a great shame to be begged by a beautiful woman to let me go! So my heart was crossed, I didn't care so much, I reached out with a red rope and put it on my aunt's head that was shaking desperately, just when I thought I was going to lasso her, the suffocation on my neck suddenly disappeared, and the aunt was also disappeared in front of me, I quickly sat up, because ghost movies are generally played like this, when you stare at a place, in fact, the ghost is behind you. So I took a quick look around me, and at that moment I saw a hand stretched out in the corner of the wall that my aunt had grabbed earlier, and then the upper half of her face popped out, as if she had just come out, as if everything was about to repeat itself.
It's just that Miss Wang's shouting made me feel that all this was definitely not an illusion, we were indeed attacked, and Hu Zongren, who was lying next to me, proved this very well. Hu Zongren stood up and stretched out his hand to rub his neck, picked up the gossip bag on his waist, scolded his mother, and was about to walk towards the place where the aunt was standing.
If before Hu Zongren and I came, this Miss Wang had always wondered if her mother was a ghost, I think she was now 100% sure that the woman in front of her in the scene just now could not be her mother at all. She stood there stupidly, all this happened too quickly and ended too suddenly, even veterans like me and Hu Zongren were caught off guard, Miss Wang saw this scene, of course, she needed a lot of time to digest and accept. Hu Zongren struggled a few times after being stopped by me, but soon he also understood that now was not the time to be impulsive, so he followed me and sat on the crooked sofa that we bumped into with a sluggish ass.
Obviously, the aunt locked herself in the room, although I knew that it didn't make much difference to me whether the room was locked or not, and I could kick it open anyway. But I thought carefully about my aunt's series of actions just now, so I came to a conclusion, she knew who we were, and even knew what we were doing, and when we were about to reveal the truth, she suddenly appeared in this way to stop it, and there was only one purpose, that is, not to let us say it.
So what is she hiding?
After thinking for a while, I said to Miss Wang, I just saw that there is a door by the window in your mother's room, where does that door lead? Miss Wang was shocked and said that the door connected to our balcony. My mother has a habit of raising flowers, and sometimes she doesn't go out directly in the morning, but goes directly from her room to the balcony to water the flowers. I pointed to the sliding door behind me and said, "Is this your balcony?" Miss Wang nodded yes.
I ignored her, but stood up and laid a rope nail at the entrance of the house, her mother's door, and the door leading to her mother's room outside the balcony, and I even drew a dressing on the door, so that Miss Wang's mother could be trapped in her own house, double insured, and could not let her come out of anything.
By the time I had done all this, I looked at the time, and it was already close to half past three in the afternoon. It happened to be Friday, and normally, most public institutions would choose to hold a week's regular meeting on this afternoon, because they usually didn't have to work on weekends to civil servants. The time of the regular meeting usually starts around 4 o'clock, because they will get off work at 5 o'clock, so I said to Hu Zongren and Miss Wang, you two come with me, let's go somewhere.
Miss Wang asked in a panic, that... So what about my mom? I can't leave her alone at home. I raised the nail in my hand, and then said to her, girl, I have locked your mother in her room three layers inside and three layers outside, unless that ghost is very capable, then it is possible for it to break free, but think about it, your mother has been staying at home for so long, where else can she go? Miss Wang hesitated for a moment, then grabbed her mobile phone on the table and asked me, "Where are we going and how long are we going?"
Looks like she's really worried about her mother. I said that you will know the way when you go, but as for how long, then I really can't say.
After going downstairs, the three of us immediately got into the car, at half past three, and had not yet begun to enter the rush hour. At best, this is a time for taxi drivers to change shifts, and most of them will be more orderly, so it will not have any impact on traffic. While thinking about the nearest and least congested road from Nanping to Jiangbei, I took out the phone and called my friend. It's a bad habit to talk on the phone while driving, and I've always known it, but I haven't been able to change it.
The person I called, surnamed Feng, was a heroic police officer. Of course, the word heroic is often used by him to describe himself. After graduating from the police academy in his early years, he once served as a caretaker in a detention center in Dadukou District, but later because of his rugged appearance, unlike the relationship between the police and hooligans, he was secretly assigned to a criminal police brigade and became an anti-narcotics policeman. After making many meritorious contributions, he was given the opportunity to be promoted, and began to transfer to the logistics of the police force, specializing in the collection of clues and the collation of evidence in some major cases. A few years ago, he threatened to detain me, and he took me to the police station to solve a perverted murder and mutilation case with him. In private, Lao Feng and I are very good friends, and he is also the highest-ranking one among all my friends who work in the police department, of course, he is also silent about my profession, and he doesn't talk about it very publicly, but in private, because he knows that I am doing something to help others, he will also open the back door for me, and use his position to provide some clues to the bottleneck I encountered.
After I called Lao Feng, I asked him if he would have a meeting later, and he said yes. I said, can you take the time to receive us for a while? I have an urgent matter to ask you for help. He said that if you have something, you can say it, why do you have to receive you. I said I couldn't tell me, I had to show it to you. He may have listened to my anxious tone, so he didn't continue to smile at me, he asked me, why are you so anxious, don't panic and say slowly.
I glanced at Hu Zongren in the co-pilot, and Hu Zongren nodded to me, meaning you do what you think. I looked through the rearview mirror at Miss Wang, who was sitting in the back seat with an anxious face, and then said to Lao Feng:
"I need all the autopsy photos you've collected online in the last month."