Chapter XXIX. Case 5: The mystery is gradually unraveling

Hu Zongren's sudden surprise made me unprepared, and I was even a little scared. You must know that the reason why we hid was to avoid being discovered by the female ghost Yunzhen, but this has just begun, Hu Zongren actually exposed the target himself, and I don't know what Lu Dao did for him. So I stomped on him hard, and then glared at him, meaning you pig, are you sick, why are you yelling. But at this time, I saw that the speed of the compass suddenly became faster and more violent, and the pointer had already hit the small transparent lid to make a titatical sound, and normally, only a sudden outbreak of ghosts could have encountered such a strong reaction. For a moment I was so nervous that I couldn't see the ghost with my naked eye, and I knew that the ghost was around me, so how could I not be afraid.

At this time, I heard Boss Guo shouting in a little panic, and I could see through the gap in his clothes that he was retreating in the direction of the hanger where Hu Zongren and I were hiding. I know that because Boss Guo and this female ghost named Yunzhen have established a connection for a short time before us, he can see Yunzhen, as if he can hear a knock on the door that neither Hu Zongren nor I have heard. The hanger in front of us suddenly seemed to be being pushed open from the middle to the sides, but we couldn't see anyone. The compass spun rapidly in my hand, and it made me think that this female ghost was right in front of me, maybe coming up to me to see what the two of us looked like.

Suddenly, Boss Guo spoke, and his voice trembled a little and said, Yun... Yunzhen, don't be angry, these two are my friends. As soon as he said this, I was even more scared, since he told Yun Zhen not to be angry, it means that in the situation he saw, Yun Zhen was angry with me and Hu Zongren, and it was not fun to provoke a ghost. Suddenly, I felt a tightness on my face, a feeling that was very similar to the feeling of suddenly going outside and being dried by a gust of wind after washing my face with cold water in winter. I squinted at Hu Zongren, his expression was the same as mine, and sure enough, I guessed correctly, Yunzhen was right in front of us.

And the feeling disappeared very quickly, only for a few seconds or so, and I felt the rest of my body carefully and saw that nothing was wrong. I glanced at Hu Zongren, and he was as puzzled as I was, so I looked at Boss Guo, and his eyes were no longer focused on me and Hu Zongren, but with his back to the cash register, his eyes looking in another direction, and that direction was the place where we saw the plastic model in the DV video at the beginning.

So I made a look at Hu Zongren, and the two of us began to walk slowly towards the place where Boss Guo was standing, and when I was on the way, I had put the compass back in my bag, grabbed a piece of red rope with my right hand, and pinched a handful of grave soil with my left hand, Hu Zongren also pinched his gossip bag with his hand, just in case, probably the expressions of the two of us were a little fierce, and full of hostility, so when Boss Guo saw the two of us approaching, he suddenly stretched out his hand to stop us and said, what do you want to do, don't hurt Yunzhen.

Harm? I can't even see it, how can I hurt it? Boss Guo said to us very anxiously, she is not a bad person, you have scared her a lot just now, and now she is hiding there and refuses to come out. Boss Guo's tone was full of tears, so I asked Boss Guo, where is Yunzhen now? He said, between the closet and the model, hiding there and not daring to move, you tell me first, what are you going to do to her? I smiled wryly and said that we just wanted to send it where it belonged, and as long as it didn't do anything to us, we wouldn't mess around. Boss Guo said, that means I will never see her again in the future, right? I didn't answer him, Hu Zongren said, if you want to see it, it is naturally in your heart, no matter how long time passes, it will be there. But we can't let it stay here, people and ghosts have different paths, each going its own way, and we shouldn't bother each other.

After saying that, we continued to move slowly in the direction of the model, and after crossing a hanger about the height of our people, I saw the whole model in its entirety, and not only that, but in the gap between the model and the cabinet, I saw a woman with her back to us at a 45-degree angle, wearing the same clothes as we saw in the video at first, the back of a woman crouching on the ground. Again, that's translucent. But her back was trembling, and it made me think she seemed scared. I'm a relatively soft-hearted person, and when I saw this scene, I couldn't help but relax my tight hands a little. Hu Zongren was the same, so the two of us stood about two meters away from the model and stood still.

After a long while, Hu Zongren suddenly said, Yunzhen, why did you come here and shouted the word Yunzhen, I obviously saw its shoulders tremble, as if a person was hiding but was discovered. It began to slowly turn its head and look at me and Hu Zongren, what I didn't expect was that when I saw its face, I found that it was completely different from the unaesthetically pleasing face we saw in the DV video, it looked very haggard, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it if it had to be described as beautiful. It's just that unlike Boss Guo, he didn't realize that this was a ghost at the beginning, so he was blinded, Hu Zongren and I were already on guard, if we wanted to repeat the old trick to confuse us, it was impossible.

Yun Zhen turned around and held her hands half-folded in front of her chest, as if she wanted to hold her head, but looked at us in horror from the gap between her arms. I know that when a ghost takes the initiative to let you see, there are usually two possibilities, one is that it has established an inevitable connection with people, it may be a question and an answer, or it may be a mutual insight into the true purpose of the other party. Another possibility is more common, it is willing to let you see, during which it may be to scare you into harming you, or it may be tired of it and ask for your help. I don't know much about this Yunzhen, but when I see it, I don't know what it is, I'd rather it be asking for our help. We don't have much to help it with, the only thing we can do is figure out why and why it appeared, and then send it on its way.

Hu Zongren threw the gossip bag in his hand to the ground, then rolled up his sleeves, half-squatted on the ground, stretched out a hand to Yunzhen, and said softly, don't be afraid, we won't hurt you, we just don't want you to continue to linger in the world, you tell us what you are going to do. As early as when I first listened to the audio and video recordings, I had a feeling that this female ghost had a much stronger purpose than other ghosts, and correspondingly, its consciousness was clearer. If most ghosts follow an instinctive and mechanical repetition, then it is more like a ghost with independent behavior, but not yet a particularly confused consciousness. For example, there are 100 madmen in an insane asylum, 99 of them are confused, and they never know what they do, let alone remember what they have done, and the remaining one, although he is also a patient in the asylum, but he clearly knows that the other 99 are crazy people, and he is normal. Apparently this is the case with Yun Zhen.

I saw the sad expression on Yun Zhen's face, with a frightened look, and her mouth slowly opened and closed, but I couldn't hear people and voices, so I said to Boss Guo, can you hear what it is saying? Boss Guo said yes, can't you hear it? I didn't have time to explain to him that we couldn't hear anything, just let him help us talk. Yun Zhen squatted on the ground and kept talking with a sad face, and Boss Guo began to relay his words to us.

From Boss Guo's relay, we know that Yun Zhen was born in the 60s and was a clerk in another shop in Jiefangbei before her death. Jiefangbei was developed relatively early, probably in the 80s, it was already a commercial area with a lot of traffic, and many shopping malls began to be built here, and Yun Zhen, who was in her twenties at the time, was a clerk in one of the jewelry stores. But because her family conditions are not very good, and she herself is not good-looking, so she has not been married until she is in her 30s. So she saved her salary for a long time and bought a gold ring that seemed very valuable at the time at the jewelry store where she worked at an employee discount. Wear it on your middle finger every day, and advertise that you are being chased, immersed in a false sense of happiness that you have made up.

But in the early 90s, the jewelry store where she worked was hit by a gun robbery, which was a series of crimes across several provinces, all of which were mainly based on robbing jewelry stores, and a nationwide wanted warrant was issued for this case, but the case was not solved until about 2000. And Yun Zhen happened to be a clerk on duty when the robbery occurred that day, because of the heavy responsibility, the robber also had a gun, so when the robbery occurred, she became one of the two dead that day. When I said this, I understood that the reason why Yunzhen had a relatively clear meaning was because her death was with a strong unwillingness, but the murderer had already been subdued, and it didn't make much sense for it to stay, but I didn't know how to leave, so I kept wandering back and forth here, appearing at a fixed time every day, but on the day I met Boss Guo, I happened to be seen by Boss Guo.

Ms. Yun-jeong said that soon after she was killed, the police arrived at the scene and, after conducting an inquest at the scene, loaded her body from the corner of the counter. But by that time, the gold ring on her hand was gone.

We all froze for a while, and Hu Zongren turned his head and asked Boss Guo, "What year did you open this store?" Boss Guo said that it was when the Liberation Monument began to be expanded and renovated in 2000. Hu Zongren asked again, is your building a building that has always existed before? Boss Guo said yes. Hu Zongren thought for a moment, then turned to Yun Zhen and asked:

"Boss Guo's shop is the same gold shop you killed many years ago, right?"