Chapter 14: The Text Message and the Girl
After a night's sleep, Chen Qing finally eliminated the fatigue of a long time, and after making sure that his body and consciousness were back to the best state, he smiled and turned on the mobile phone that had been turned off for three or four days.
On your phone, you need to read... There is not much information in fact.
Aside from two teachers' inquiries about his absenteeism, there was basically nothing worth paying attention to.
He cleared the messages one by one, but when he cleared it recently, a text message caught his attention.
"You're doing a great job...... But there are some things that have to be paid for......"
Chen Qing was silent for a moment and copied the phone number with a pen and paper.
Is this a private call, disdain to use an analog phone? Or is it just a misinformation?
Chen Qing was silent for a while and dialed Jiang Wan's phone.
"Huh? Are you awake? Have you been to the hospital? ”
"You know I'm fine." Chen Qing shook his head.
"Exactly...... I'm looking for you for something too, is it convenient for you now? ”
"Something?" He was stunned for a moment.
"Yes, it's not convenient on the phone, I'll pick you up."
Chen Qing frowned, but before he could say anything, he had already hung up the phone.
After waiting for half an hour, Jiang Wan's figure had already appeared in front of the rental house.
After answering Jiang Wan's call, Chen Qing looked a little surprised.
"You can find me? I thought you'd find ......"
"Your house?" Jiang Wan shook her head: "I went back yesterday to access all your information." Rental is registered. “
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, his expression a little gloomy.
"What's wrong? Suddenly came to me in the early morning. ”
Listening to Chen Qing's question, Jiang Wan waved her hand and motioned for him to follow, and the two walked towards the car downstairs.
"The inspectorate got a call, but our boss thought they should be looking for a psychiatrist for help, not us.
I heard that before today, this family had called the inspector's office many times, but it was never accepted.
It just so happened that today this family called for help again, and after learning about the other party's needs, I think the other party's situation is not a simple hallucination.
So I applied to take charge of the case. ”
She got into the car and handed Chen Qing a copy of the breakfast in the passenger seat: "Considering the principle that a case must be investigated, the boss is also happy to push this report to me." ”
"Do you think it has anything to do with that organization?" Chen Qing was a little surprised.
"Yes. But maybe it's like you said...... It could just be that the little girl strayed into the Backrooms once. ”
He frowned and nodded: "Make a deal, I'll help you find out about this case, but if there is anything to gain in the process of investigating the case, I need to get seventy percent." ”
She nodded, very indifferent.
"It's a condition, not the content of the deal."
He looked at the other party with a very serious expression: "I need your help to find out who registered my rental information in the inspector's office system." ”
Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment: "Your identity ......"
"I didn't register with my ID."
He looked into the other's eyes with a hint of fear in his eyes.
Since when has his whereabouts been followed?
"You ......" she was stunned for a moment, and then heard Chen Qing say again.
"And ...... Help look up this phone number. This number...... It could be related to someone we're tracking. ”
Jiang Wan nodded, and after her eyes swept over the note, her fingertips typed something on the screen of her phone.
Half an hour later, Jiang Wan and Chen Qing appeared at the home of the informant.
The oncoming husband and wife looked haggard, and the lady had obviously not taken care of herself for many days, even when she saw a foreigner,
The husband and wife's surname is Zhang, the husband's name is Zhang Derong, and the wife's name is Zhang Yan, and the two have a daughter, who is now 15 years old and is at the age of middle school.
And the problem also started after my daughter came home from school one day.
According to Mr. Zhang, one afternoon after school, his daughter came home mysteriously and returned to her room with a schoolbag.
After this situation lasted for a day, Mrs. Zhang couldn't bear it anymore and broke down the door, and the scene in front of her made the couple unforgettable for the rest of their lives.
They saw their daughter hang her limbs in the middle of the room with ropes, black-brown wooden thorns piercing ten of her fingers, and metal chisels plucking open toes.
But to her surprise, after the couple put their daughter out of bondage, all the wounds on her body disappeared, and the daughter herself, as if she had just come to her senses, questioned her parents with astonishment and anger why she had broken into her room and made her room dirty.
When the husband and wife explained that she had caused all this, she was stunned.
She looked at the husband and wife and asked rhetorically, "How is it possible, I have just returned home?" ”
Listening to her words, the couple took out their mobile phones, and also let her know the fact that they had been home for a day.
After this day, the girl's mind always wandered away, and countless ...... began to appear in this huge home Strange things.
Chen Qing frowned and looked up at the decoration in the villa, which should have been the cleanest top, but at the moment it was covered with a faint pink.
The colors were under the paint, presumably refurbished.
Is it blood? Chen Qing frowned.
"Miss Jiang...... This is ......"
Looking at Chen Qing, who didn't look good, Zhang Derong was a little surprised.
As far as he knows, there should be only one investigator who came to investigate this time.
"He." Jiang Wan smiled and looked indifferent: "He is a 'professional' hired by the group surnamed Chen, it doesn't matter if he is called Chen Qing or Brother Chen, it's up to you." ”
"Oh?" Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, a little surprised.
On the contrary, the husband and wife on the opposite side nodded indifferently and didn't ask too many questions.
"Describe the situation."
"Didn't you already say it on the phone?"
"But it's not for me after all."
"Row ......"
He sighed and led the two of them upstairs.
"My daughter has been like a different person since that day...... It's like ...... There are two of hers. ”
"Split personality or something?"
Mr. Zhang nodded: "Similar." Maybe.
At the onset of her illness...... Forgive me, I can only use the word "onset" to describe it.
At the time of her illness, no matter what she did, she would not remember it when she woke up.
We tried to take her to various hospitals...... But the results are ......"
Chen Qing and Jiang Wan glanced at each other, and their expressions revealed curiosity: "What about after that?" ”
"After ......"
Mr. Zhang was stunned as he walked upstairs, and he turned his head to look at his wife, who had made him make some kind of decision with the haggard in her eyes.
After that, strange things came one after another in the house, and at first it was just that some vessels were broken; Followed by...... It was as if there was one more person in the house.
One more person's diet...... One more person to use, you know? It was supposed to be a three-day meal for three people, but it was inexplicably only able to consume two days. ”
Chen Qing frowned slightly, as if such a reason was a little funny.
But Mr. Zhang was a little anxious when he saw this scene, and continued to add: "And! And those that can be counted! Our house's curfew, our family's ......"
He was silent for a while, his eyes full of fear: "Everything, everything is like one more person...... When someone knocks on the door when we go to the bathroom, and when we eat, some of the food is missing, and he lives in our noses......"
Chen Qing listened, walked up to Mr. Zhang, and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, let's meet your daughter first, okay?" We'll take care of it for you. ”
Mr. Zhang gritted his teeth and looked a little weird: "This is the three places we have changed...... And if you do it again...... I ......"
Before he could finish speaking, the four of them had already walked to the girl's house, but they stood still in front of the door, and the decoration on the door did not look like the layout that a girl should have.
Wrist-thick chains fastened the door, and the small window through which the food was carried was tightly tied with ropes.
"Trust me, sir......"
Mr. Zhang whispered, "If you were me, you would do the same." ”
He turned white and pulled a brass-colored key from his pocket.
"Your keys are so quaint?"
"No...... No. This is what the little girl asked. ”
He put down the key in his hand, clenched his wife's hand at his side, and quietly retreated behind the two.
Jiang Wan pointed to the inside of the door, and then pointed to his forehead and legs, and the meaning of the inquiry was very clear.
"Possibly. But it's not possible. As he spoke, the key in his hand was placed in the chain.
And with the clattering of chains, the people in the room seemed to be awakened, and with a bang, a pair of dirt-stained hands tightly grabbed the edge of the food delivery port.
"Let me out! Let me go! You will not die well! It's hard to die! ”
Her voice was hoarse and weak, but her words were uttered with great conviction.
Chen Qing's brows furrowed slightly, and he squatted down to look into the delivery port.
"You're sick."
He didn't wait for the girl to answer, his body was already standing up and pushing the door open.
Jiang Wan and Chen Qing opened the door, and the scene in the house finally appeared in front of the two.
On those walls, there were strange totems painted with red paint, and below the totems, countless rotting and fermenting objects were piled up, and in the center of those objects was the girl who still had a hand stuck in the doorway.
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, he looked at the girl's cloudy eyes, and raised his palm: "Hey? ”
Jiang Wan looked at the two people who looked at each other and was stunned for a long time.
"Are you serious?"