Chapter 22: The Talking Shadow
Zhao Long said that he saw a talking shadow, and that shadow was Shen Hong.
I don't believe in ghosts and gods, this shadow must be a trick used by the murderer, but how did this shadow complete the killing?
Three of the five-person software development startup team of the year have died, leaving Shen Hong and one person who has not been found. In addition to the entrepreneurial team, even Shi Yan's driver, Zhao Long, was threatened by the shadow murderer.
Regardless of whether that shadow was an illusion generated by Zhao Long, or if it was created by the murderer through some projection method, I am ready to follow Zhao Long to take a look.
The matter of investigating Shen Hong was handed over to them, and after everything was arranged, I set off with Zhao Long.
Zhao Long is the only person in this case who may have been in contact with the murderer so far, and I must ensure his safety. It's just that the shadow murderer that Zhao Long said is very likely to be a hallucination, and there are many people, and it is very likely to be detected by the murderer, so I didn't call a few more people to protect Zhao Long with me.
Zhao Long's home is on the tenth floor, he lives alone in a two-bedroom house, and his parents are in his hometown. After Shi Yan opened his own company, Zhao Long has been following Shi Yan, so he bought a house here. In the past month, strange things have happened frequently, and Zhao Long has kept an eye on it, sent his wife and children back to his hometown, and continued to live and work here.
Walking into Zhao Long's house, I looked around and asked him, "Where did you say you saw the shadow?" ”
Zhao Long took me to the master bedroom and pointed to the wall at the end of the bed: "Officer Qin, the shadow appeared here." ”
"The shadow on this wall?" I took a closer look at the structure of the bedroom, and if the shadow was on the wall, then the shadow itself should be standing in front of the window, and the sunlight shone through the glass window on the body, casting the shadow on the wall.
If it was night, the shadow itself should stand at the end of the bed, and the ceiling light of the bedroom would shine down, casting the shadow on the wall.
In any case, in order to form a shadow, the body must either stand in the room or outside the window. But if it's some kind of high-tech projection equipment, it's different.
Moreover, at such a close distance, as soon as a shadow appeared, the people in the room could immediately discover the source of the shadow.
I walked to the window, carefully inspected, the window glass in front of me is a common double glass in residential buildings, Zhao Long's home is on the tenth floor, there is no balcony outside the window, there is only an external window sill of about ten centimeters, there is no way to stand at all, and there is no way to hang any projection equipment.
It can be seen that the shadow that Zhao Long said is just his illusion.
"Officer Qin, how many policemen have you sent to protect me?" Zhao Long followed behind me, swallowed a mouthful of saliva a little nervously, and asked me weakly.
It's just an illusion, what needs to be protected. I turned around and smiled at him, "I'm the only one." ”
"You're the only one?" Zhao Long was directly stunned.
"What? Do you look down on me, or do you look down on this? I sneered and patted my waist, which was a police pistol.
"No, no, I didn't look down on Officer Qin, it's just that the shadow is really terrifying, I'm afraid we ......" Zhao Long hesitated for a moment and told me the worry in his heart.
"It's okay, don't worry, the murderer still dares to break down the door and attack the police?" I patted him on the shoulder and smiled.
"Officer Qin, you haven't seen it, you don't understand, that shadow is really not ordinary, it's a ghost! It's a ghost! Zhao Long grabbed me by the shoulder, shook my body vigorously, and tried his best to tell me how terrible this shadow was.
I was about to overflow my brain when he asked for it, and I said again and again: "Okay, it's a ghost, it's a ghost, I have a walkie-talkie, once there is a situation, I will immediately call for support......"
After hearing that there was support, Zhao Long slowly calmed down, bowed his head and remained silent.
This Zhao Long is really sick, and when this matter passes, he must let Miss Shen Baijun show him.
There is no shadow killer in this world, all this is just Zhao Long's illusion.
Now I only hope that Zhao Long can hallucinate tonight and see the so-called shadow killer. If he hadn't seen it today, I'd have stayed here, and I don't want to waste my time on a mentally ill person.
When I arrived at Zhao Long's house, it was already evening, and Zhao Long and I had a simple bowl of noodles downstairs, and Zhao Long was very nervous during the process of eating noodles, as if he was worried about the shadow murderer, and I didn't take the shadow murderer seriously at all.
After eating the bowl of noodles, Zhao Long and I returned home, closed the doors and windows tightly, and locked them all from the inside.
Since Zhao Long saw a shadow, the shadow must have light, I turned on all the lights in the house, sat in the bedroom with Zhao Long, and waited for the shadow murderer to appear.
Time passed minute by minute, and it was already past twelve o'clock in the blink of an eye, and Zhao Long still did not hallucinate, and the shadow murderer did not appear.
"I can't stay up, I'll sleep first, and wait for you to hallucinate...... Oh no, call me when you see the shadow. I yawned and prepared to lie down and sleep.
As soon as I lay down, Zhao Long suddenly nervously pulled my cuffs and said in a trembling voice, "Come on...... Here it ......."
"What's coming?" As soon as I finished asking, I immediately realized that it was a shadow.
It's good, it's good, Zhao Long finally hallucinated.
"Where is the shadow? Let me see what I see......" I asked nonchalantly as I sat up with a smile.
But as soon as I was halfway through my sentence, I was stunned.
Following Zhao Long's somewhat frightened gaze, there was indeed a shadow on the wall of the bed......
The shadow was a humanoid, very tall, looking like a man, and a somewhat fat man.
From the point of view of shadow formation, the owner of this shadow must be outside the window, I subconsciously looked out the window, but there was nothing outside the window, it was pitch black.
Without any light source, how did this shadow form? There is no projection equipment in the room, and there are no projectors such as drones outside the window.
I rubbed my eyes vigorously, it was not an illusion, it was a real shadow.
"Zhao Long......"
Suddenly, an ethereal male voice rang out.
The voice echoed through the empty room, like a seductive messenger from hell who had come to take his soul.
No, there are no ghosts in this world at all.
I listened carefully, judging by the direction of the sound, which was coming from the window, just like the shadow.
But there's no one outside the window?! What's more, this is the tenth floor!
"Oh? There's a guest in the house. The man's tone was suddenly the same, and it was clear that the shadow had spotted me.
Who is the owner of this shadow, and how did he see me?! Could it be that there is surveillance equipment installed in this room?
Pretending to be a ghost, I deliberately didn't think about this shadow, but looked around to see how this shadow was formed.
Just then, the shadow suddenly said something that made me feel creepy.
"I thought it was someone, it turned out to be Officer Qin."
What? He knows me?!