"So, this is that phone booth?"

With the assistance of the local telecommunications department, the little snake and the trash can came to the location of the phone booth where the police call was located, or where it should have been, but where is there a phone booth here, replaced by a battery space for a shared motorcycle, and the staff who came with him introduced: "This place was still a phone booth about fifteen years ago, and then about ten years ago because of the popularity of mobile phones, the phone booth was slowly eliminated, and then this place was changed to what it is now." ”

"Do you know how long it's been changing?" The trash can glanced back at the staff member: "Approximate time." ”

"Probably...... Two years must have been, now landlines are only some enterprises and institutions are still in use, this line just happened to be in my maintenance, so the memory is more profound, two years ago the original abandoned phone booth in the old city renovation to shovel out, I also came here to do line maintenance. ”

"Thank you."

The trash can stood in place for a while, then crossed his waist and looked up at his surroundings, and then said to the little snake with a smile: "The phone booth that has disappeared for ten years suddenly called the police. The address on the call log is indeed here, you say it's weird or not. ”

The little snake also sensed that something was wrong at this time, but she was more curious about how the trash can could be so keen, and she could sense something wrong at the first time.

"Professional sensitivity, I'm an old cop after all." Trash Can smiled and said, "Do you know what we're going to do next?" ”

This question blinded the little snake, she was a rookie on the first day of work, what did she know. However, the trash can didn't blame her, so he still smiled and said, "Our next step is to go to that school to see what kind of Ah Piao is worthy of another Ah Piao to call the police." ”

"Are you sure it's Ah Piao?"

"Suppose, it can't be time travel."

The little snake nodded knowingly, and then followed the exploding head to the old school.

The school is very old, probably the kind of classic old campus in the seventies and eighties, because the old city is being renovated here, the school has also moved to a new area, and now this old campus is in a state of waiting for demolition, just temporarily closed because of the outbreak of the plague, but in this state of shutdown there was this strange alarm incident.

"Are you afraid?"

It was already afternoon when they came here, because it was still very dark at this time, so it was about to get dark at about half past five, and there were no lights in the old campus, and the whole school looked dark.

Because the little snake couldn't see clearly with the naked eye, she simply closed her eyes and used her mental power instead of her eyes to observe the surroundings, but in the eyes of the trash can, she thought she was afraid: "Don't be afraid, I can still handle things of this level." ”

"No, it's too dark, I'm replacing my eyes with spirits." The little snake replied with a smile: "I am not so easily afraid. ”

"Is this how you squandered your advanced abilities?" The trash can shook his head helplessly, and then took out a flashlight from his pocket: "I'll use this anyway." ”

The two of them walked into the school, which showed the kind of dilapidation, darkness and gloom everywhere, the classroom still had tattered desks and chairs, the slogans on the blackboard had faded, the black corridor stretched all the way, and the whirring wind made a sudden sound here from time to time.

"Nothing." Little Snake's battlefield situational awareness has swept the entire school: "I didn't find anything. ”

"Don't worry, let's take a stroll here just to get familiar with this place." The garbage can flashlight came to the location of the office on the top floor, he stood in the corridor and looked out, he could only see the street lights on outside the school area, and because the surrounding area is the old city renovation, there are no local residents still exist, about a kilometer or so, it is already a barren, there are many wild cats and dogs, but there are really no people.

"It seems unlikely that there are any eyewitnesses in this place." The trash can spat down, and then shook it around with a flashlight: "And since you said you can't perceive it, then we can only continue to check it in the usual way." ”

"You think there are people buried under this playground? When I watched the news before, I saw a school with a body buried under it for more than ten years. ”

"Hey, don't say it yet, it's not impossible." After walking around the trash can, he didn't find anything, and then he left with the little snake: "Let's go eat something first, and then go to the archives to find something, you may have to work hard today, we have to go through some old cases." ”

"No problem!"

The two came outside to eat something casually, and then went straight to the local bureau, and then entered the archives room after completing the formalities, where there are some old cases, and even many of them are some police records, and finally in addition to some murder cases will continue to follow up, many other small things will melt in time little by little.

Coming to the huge file center, the trash can sleeve flicked: "Now I give you a task, which is to check all the police calls about that school since it was built, as well as all the cases related to that school, including petty theft, student fights, etc." ”

Seeing the shelves full of files, the little snake couldn't help but gasp, but the trash can had already begun to work at this time, he took a 1982 file and began to flip through it: "Why am I called the trash can, that is, I have always been doing this kind of trivial things that others don't look down on, but you say it's a trivial matter, in fact, it is likely to involve a very bizarre murder, Ah Piao will not appear for no reason, its appearance must be accompanied by greed and hatred, and do you think about whether all the murders in the world are inseparable from these three words?" ”

The little snake snorted, and then sat down and began to look through the dare, because these files were many and varied, and most of them were very old, the furthest was forty years old, and the president of the United States was still Reagan at that time. Therefore, it is difficult to consult, the workload is large, and the details are difficult to control.

But the trash can has not stopped since he lowered his head, he changed it one by one, and if he felt that there was something suspicious, he would record it in the small book, and occasionally raised his head to chat with the little snake, and the sky outside in a trance was bright.

"You go back and rest first, and I'll continue to work for a while."

Little Snake yawned: "How old are you, you don't look like a young man." ”

"I'm twenty-six." The head of the trash can was not raised, and said, "I still hope that you don't judge me from my appearance that I don't look like a young man." ”

Little Snake laughed, and at this moment, she suddenly saw that there was a clear piece of information in the file under her hand, she flipped through the year on the cover, and then shouted: "I have found this." ”

The trash can immediately walked over and bent down to look at it. After reading it, he tapped the page vigorously: "This is a major discovery, circle it." ”

The little snake immediately began to copy her notebook, although she was very tired and sleepy now, but it was this sudden feeling of seeing the sky through the clouds and mist, which made her sense of accomplishment directly full, she felt that she had never done such an awesome thing in her life, even if the two things were not sure whether they were related, but that feeling was really too fulfilling.

"Hello, I need your help with me." The trash can found the relevant personnel in the bureau: "Can you check the list of missing persons in January 2005?" ”

Because their authority is relatively high, this matter was quickly implemented, because the age is relatively new, so the relevant content is still better preserved, and a file was placed in front of them in less than half an hour.

One of them is very consistent with what they found in the previous police record, the missing person is a teacher, just the teacher of that school, the 23-year-old school Chinese teacher Chen, the date of disappearance is January 22, 2005, the person who called the police is her boyfriend, according to the content of the record, it can be seen that on January 22, 2005, Chen's boyfriend returned from a business trip and found that his girlfriend was missing, so he went to his work unit to inquire, and found that his girlfriend had not come to work for four days. Before, he just said that he was not feeling well and asked for leave, and after that, there was no more news, which led to the police.

But the problem is that at that time, the Internet was not as developed as it is now, and there were endless disappearance cases, and even many people directly changed their faces to live in another city, so this incident did not cause any waves, but just went through the investigation process, and then Chen was labeled as a missing person, and this fight is seventeen years.

After that, the matter was naturally to contact Chen's boyfriend, because there was ID card information, so soon the trash can contacted the man, and now Huang, who is in his forties, opened a restaurant here, and the other party said that he had time to cooperate with their investigation, so they made an appointment in the afternoon, and then the two returned to the rest place for a short rest.

After getting up and tidying up a little, they came to Huang's restaurant and met Huang, who was already middle-aged, but when he mentioned the disappearance of his girlfriend back then, he still seemed a little uneasy, and said a lot emotionally.

"I'm sure she was killed!" Huang said: "I contacted the people in her family later, and they all said that Ah Ying did not contact them, Ah Ying is not that kind of person, she is very well-behaved." ”

Even after seventeen years, it still seems that this incident can still make the man show panic and self-blame: "Alas, it's all my fault, if I hadn't been on a business trip at the time, this kind of thing would definitely not have happened." ”

"Can you calm down and elaborate on her details?"

According to the description of Chen's boyfriend, a portrait gradually appeared in front of the two, the missing person Chen was twenty-three years old, young and beautiful, but he was more old-fashioned and relatively conservative. It's already 2005, but he still doesn't want to use a mobile phone, and prefers to use a landline or IC card phone every time he contacts, and according to Huang's description, on January 20, 2005, he received a phone call when he was out on a business trip, and the number was obviously an IC card call, but after he received the call, there was only a sobbing sound on the other side, but no one spoke.

"You remember it very well."

"Well, it's very clear, because I'm familiar with the number of that phone booth, it's the one that A-Ying often calls me, my first reaction at the time was A-Ying, but no matter how I asked, there was no response from the other side, and then I didn't know what was going on, so I called her home, at that time I was on a business trip in Inner Mongolia, and I bought a ticket to rush back the next day, and when I came back, it was the third day, and I couldn't find her anywhere after I came back, so I called the police. Comrade policeman, do you think she is still alive? ”

The trash can smiled helplessly, and the little snake was just about to speak but was hit by him with his knee, after all, when they appeared, it was basically certain that this person was gone, and there might not even be any bones.

"We are still trying our best, whether it is life or death, we will definitely give an explanation."

When the two of them were leaving, the forty-year-old man said that he would leave them to eat, and finally the exploding head garbage can did everything possible to push the matter over, and when he was sitting in the car, the little snake asked curiously the trash can that began to gnaw on steamed buns: "Eating a meal is not corruption, right?" ”

"It doesn't matter if it's corrupt or not, you'll know later, when you appear in front of the victims' families, there will be light in their eyes, a light of hope. But I know it...... So I couldn't look directly at that light. In fact, you have to know that we are not much different from ordinary police officers, but the groups we face are different. ”

"Oh......" Little Snake is young, she doesn't understand it very well, but she can't say anything, just change the topic: "Where are we going next?" ”

"Eat, go back to that school!"

They bought a few buns on the side of the road and hurried back to school, this time not going straight in, but coming to the charging pile, where the former phone booth was.

"This is where the call to the police was made, and this is where the last call was made to the man seventeen years ago," the trash can said. ”

"How do you know?"

"It feels like I don't even need to collect evidence to know that these two calls were made from the same phone booth." The trash can crossed his waist and took a deep breath: "Then the question is, why is the interval between the two times so long as seventeen years?" Why is that? ”

Little Snake thought about it, and then she was not polite, and called the king of the mountain directly: "Brother Pig......"

Hearing this little voice, the Mountain King shuddered, and then said with a doting smile: "You must have nothing good to look for me." Say, what's wrong? ”

As soon as the little snake told the king of the mountain about the matter, he almost didn't need to check the information, and immediately responded: "If it reappears after many years, either something that suppresses it has been lost, or there is a strange vision of heaven and earth, and there is basically no other possibility, and your place is not a particularly evil place and there was no special vision a few days ago, so it is certain that something that suppressed her has been lost." ”

"Brother Pig...... What do we need to do if we want to see her again? ”

"The scene is recreated." The Mountain King said lightly: "This is the easiest and quickest way to recreate the scene of that night 17 years ago, it doesn't have to be a very advanced spirit, many times you can only follow instinct and memory remnants to deal with things, you can check the recording of that night first, and then do analysis." ”

"But we didn't find anything unusual when we listened, it was that someone called the police through a phone booth and said that they had seen something unclean in the school, followed by crying."

"What's that?"

"The original words seem to be ...... Comrade policeman, I saw something I shouldn't see, come quickly, I'm in XX elementary school...... And then there was a cry. Oh, yes! It was a sunny day that night, but it was raining heavily on the phone. ”

(End of chapter)