Chapter 001: The Ghost Calls for a Meal
Before reading my story, I must state three things.
First, I'm not a good person in your traditional sense, my friends who study psychology even think that I have antisocial personality disorder, and everything I write can't be judged by the traditional view of good and evil, so don't use your moral concepts to kidnap me.
Second, I don't believe in ghosts and gods, let alone worship ghosts and gods, although everything I have experienced is weird and terrifying, but it has nothing to do with ghosts and gods.
Third, I use pseudonyms for some sensitive information, people and places.
My name is Fang Han, and I once studied criminal investigation for several years at a famous public security police academy in Beijing, specializing in trace studies. Later, he was framed and expelled from school for some trumped-up reasons. I still remember the smug look on the faces of my framers when they saw me leave the police academy. Later, I saw the man come out of the hotel with my girlfriend from the police academy.
Since then, I have changed my contact information and have been in the community for many years.
If it weren't for a special purpose, I wouldn't want to go to the police academy, because that kind of incompetent place can't accommodate me. As for what is a special purpose, it will be mentioned later.
After leaving the police academy, I got to know a lot of people, many of whom were generally considered evil.
The story I'm going to tell begins with a case that everyone can find with a casual search on the Internet: the ghost screams for food.
The case actually took place in the winter of 1998, not 1989, as circulated on the Internet, and took place in a port area outside the mainland. There are many versions on the Internet, and what I want to say is something you don't know.
That year, I had been away from the police academy for many years, and I sent four people to the port area to help me tie up one person and come back.
This man was in prison with my dad, and after my dad died, I kept looking for him. There was no news for several years, but this time, I finally found his trace in Minato.
What I didn't expect was that the four brothers I sent to find someone would not be heard from long after they arrived in Minato. A whole week later, Lao Jiu, one of the four people, came directly to the door, and he brought me a shocking news.
He told me that his brothers were dead.
I was surprised and asked how he died, and he hesitated for a long time, and finally spit out two words: evil spirit.
When he said these two words, Lao Jiu lowered his head, and even his voice was much colder.
Before he had time to ask more, Lao Jiu turned around and ran, he told me that the matter should be reported soon, and he just reported it first.
But the fact is that this case was not widely reported at the time, but it was seen in a newly established forum like Tianya, and it existed as gossip.
I sent someone to look for Lao Jiu, but I didn't find it. Two days later, I received a notice to go to Hong Kong to assist in the investigation as a person involved in the case, and I was able to understand the whole process of the case in detail.
Four days ago, the police found the bodies of four men, including Lao Jiu, who had reported to me two days earlier. They all died in an old-fashioned apartment like this. At first, I didn't believe it, because Lao Jiu had met me two days ago, but after seeing the body, I was sure.
It's winter, the degree of decay of the corpse is not very strong, the corpse spots on the body are seriously distributed, that is the form of the corpse spots after entering the infiltration period, considering the impact of low temperature on the formation of corpse spots, the time of their death, a week ago. The police didn't tell me the cause of their deaths, but I could roughly surmise the color of the body spots as soon as I looked at them.
The corpse spots on these corpses are all bright red. In general, corpse spots are dark purplish-red, while in the case of carbon monoxide poisoning, carboxyhemoglobin will be bright red and manifest itself through corpse spots. Lao Jiu and a few others should have died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
There were no wounds on the body, there was no bleeding, but later I heard that on the wall of the crime scene, a lot of dense bloody handprints were found, the blood was the deceased's own, and the fingerprints were also the deceased's own.
It was the owner of a restaurant who called the police, and the information he gave to the police was chilling.
A week ago, the restaurant received a series of calls from the same number. At first, it was the restaurant's delivery man who went to deliver the food to the person who ordered the food, but when the food was delivered, the host did not open all the doors, but opened a crack in the door, handed the money out of the crack in the door, and then took the takeaway back, and then the door was closed.
Originally, there was no problem, but that night, when the boss was counting the banknotes, he found a dark coin.
The boss angrily reprimanded the guy and asked who had done the prank, but no one admitted it. The boss is not bad-hearted and wants to pass like this. However, the next night, the same thing happened, and the boss found the dead coin in the banknote.
When asked about the reason, a guy finally talked about the strange reaction of the owner who only opened the door when he delivered food to the family.
On the third day, the restaurant still received a call to order food, and the owner decided to deliver the food himself. When the boss arrived at the old-fashioned apartment, the door opened only one crack, and a thin hand came out of the crack with a banknote in his hand.
According to the boss, the corridor was very gloomy, and he was a little scared when he saw that thin hand. After taking the banknotes and handing over the food, the boss repeatedly confirmed that the banknotes were okay and quickly left the place. But something that makes the scalp tingle happens again: that night, when the boss was counting the banknotes, he found another piece of dark paper.
The boss was shocked and frightened and called the police. The police quickly arrived at the old-fashioned apartment, and after slamming the door open, the police found four bodies on the mahjong table in the rental apartment. The medical examiner performed an autopsy on the four bodies and found that the time of death was the same as I had assumed, a week ago.
The forensic doctor found a lot of fresh food in the stomachs of the four corpses, including rice and noodles, and the residues of these foods turned out to be the food delivered by the restaurant for those three days. After death, the function of the digestive system also stops quickly, and the forensic doctor gave a surprising conclusion based on the degree of digestion and decomposition of the food: the food was not digested, indicating that the deceased ingested it into the esophagus and stomach after death.
All of a sudden, the police and those in the know were shocked, and the media also caught the news, and the rumors of ghosts calling for meals caused a stir in the port area.
There are also some things that the police in Minato Ward do not dare to disclose for a while. It is said that in the days when the forensic examination confirmed that the deceased was dead, the next-door neighbor would always hear the sound of mahjong colliding in the middle of the night. And the person who lives on the opposite side of the apartment still sees four black shadows reflected in the window at night, and looking at that action, it is playing mahjong.
Even, the police found the fingerprints of the deceased on the dead coins received by the restaurant owner. The restaurant has been temporarily closed, and a fortune teller said that the money used by the dead is different from that of the living, so the money received will become the money of the dead. This frightened everyone in the restaurant, and everyone burned incense to worship the Buddha and pray for peace.
I sent these four people to Minato Ward, and after the police in Minato confirmed the identity of the deceased, they immediately sent me to Minato Ward through the police in Beijing. I was accompanied by a policeman in his early thirties, named Chen Fan, who obviously did not want to come to the port area, and along the way, he complained for days and had a bad attitude towards me.
On the day I arrived in the port area, I sat in the police station for a whole day, except for seeing the bodies of Lao Jiu and four other people, and I was questioned by the port police.
I didn't tell the police about what I saw two days ago, the case is already so weird, I will give them this news again, I am worried that the police are dealing with some cases involving the supernatural. I sent them to find someone, but they died, and this matter, most likely related to the person I was looking for, I concealed it for various reasons.
I had already thought of an excuse, and I told the police that I had asked these four people to come to Hong Kong to shop. The police didn't ask anything, so they asked me to leave the police station for the time being, waiting for a summons at any time.
The person in charge of guarding me was Chen Fan, who accompanied me. Chen Fan's work in a detachment in Beijing City was not bad, and I didn't know him before that. That night, Chen Fan and I stayed in a guest house near the police station. I told Chen Fan that I wanted to go out for a walk and smoke a cigarette. Chen Fan didn't bother to care about me, but he still detained my ID card and wallet before letting me out.
After I ran out of the hotel, I made sure that Chen Fan didn't follow, so I called Luo Feng. Luo Feng is my good brother, and I met him in the years after I left the police academy. He is a certain gang of people, who eats in the port area, has been active in the mainland in recent years, and has also opened a company in Beijing, and the Beijing police have been concerned about him for a long time, but because of the lack of evidence, there has been no way.
When I called Luo Feng, Luo Feng was running errands in Guangdong City, which is very close to the port area. When he heard that I had been brought to Minato, he immediately asked me what had happened.
I told him that four of the men I had sent to Minato had been killed.
Luo Feng was furious, asked who did it, and said that he would send someone to solve it, and the voice was so loud that the earpiece of the phone rang.
I couldn't say it clearly on the phone, so I asked Luo Feng to come to the port area as soon as possible, and bring a few more brothers by the way.
After hanging up, I looked for directions and went to the restaurant in question. The restaurant is in the north of the New Territories, not very far from the police station and the hotel where we stayed, and the restaurant is called Chaoyang Kee (later renamed Chao Chung Kee). The location of the tea restaurant is not out of the ordinary, it is not too late, but there are few pedestrians at the main entrance of the tea restaurant. If you look closely, you will also find that pedestrians will deliberately take a detour or even climb the pedestrian guardrail whenever they want to pass through Chaoyangji.
Like an anomaly, I approached Chaoyangji, and as rumored to be, Chaoyangji was closed, and yellow charms were plastered everywhere above the gate.
I heard a strange noise, so I went around to the back door of Chaoyang Ji. Sure enough, the strange sound came from here.