I don't know how long I stayed in this posture. When I turned my head to look out the window, I saw the female ghost in red with blood coming out of all her orifices standing motionless outside the window, facing me across the glass. I felt like my heart had completely stopped beating at that moment, and I had completely lost any ability to think and react, even my breathing seemed to have stopped. I just kept staring at the female ghost in red.
I don’t know how long it was before the hand holding the cigarette butt suddenly got burned by it. I came to my senses and immediately threw away the cigarette butt that had burned to the end. Then I rolled off the bed and fell heavily to the ground. I didn’t feel any pain and immediately crawled on the ground to the corner farthest from the window. Only then did I feel a lot safer.
At this point I no longer dared to look up at the female ghost outside the window. As an atheist, after encountering such a series of horrific things, my worldview completely collapsed. I was completely unable to think about what was going on. I just wanted to stay here quietly, thinking nothing and doing nothing.
I didn't know whether the female ghost in red outside the window had left or not. Besides the faint sound of construction work outside, the only sound was the sweat dripping from my head to the ground. In this dark room, every second was torture for me. I could only pray silently in my heart, praying that the sky would brighten soon or that the female ghost in red outside the door would leave quickly.
I didn't know how much time had passed in this state. Suddenly, I heard three slight knocks on the door of the room next to me again.
'Bang, bang, bang!'
Although the knocks were very polite, they sounded like three time bombs exploding right beside me. I felt as if all the blood in my body was flowing into my brain at that moment! Because I was so familiar with this knock, it was exactly the knock I heard in my dream before!
Am I still in a dream? Or have I not gotten out of the vicious circle
Countless possibilities of the current situation flashed through my mind, but I summed them up in one sentence: There really is a ghost in this Kaimen Village!
In this state, I couldn't even move my body, let alone go forward to open the door. The knock on the door only sounded once, and there was no movement after that. I continued to curl up in the corner, waiting for the arrival of dawn.
Just as I was enduring the torment, I suddenly heard a loud noise outside the door, and then the door that I had locked flew into the house along with the door frame. I was already a frightened bird, and the sudden loud noise scared me so much that I screamed on the spot!
Then, two figures quickly rushed into my room. As my eyes had adapted to the darkness in the room, I recognized at a glance that the two people who rushed in were Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue!
As soon as Bai Longfei entered the room, he saw the red-dressed female ghost still standing outside the window, staring at the room with a strange smile. He was so frightened that he froze in his place. After Lin Yingxue entered the room, she looked around for me. Finally, she saw me in the corner. She immediately rushed over and squatted beside me, looking at me with concern and asked, "What's wrong with you? What happened just now? We suddenly heard you yelling in the room. Why didn't you open the door for us when we knocked?"
As Lin Yingxue spoke, she took out a pack of tissues from her pocket and wiped the sweat off my forehead. At this moment, I saw Lin Yingxue and Bai Longfei. I had given up struggling, but I finally regained my motivation. When I came to my senses, I said weakly, "There's someone outside the window."
When I said this, Lin Yingxue immediately looked in the direction of my finger, and saw the female ghost in red outside the window. No matter how brave Lin Yingxue was, she was frightened when she suddenly saw such a scene.
Bai Longfei had come back to his senses by now. He was looking at the red-dressed ghost outside the window with a bit of fear in his eyes, but in the blink of an eye, he turned into anger. He jumped directly onto my bed, kicked the window to pieces, and then rushed out through the window and said, "I want to see who is playing tricks on me!"
I kept my eyes on Bai Longfei. He kicked the window and rushed out. The female ghost in red standing outside the window didn't even blink. She stood there calmly, as if Bai Longfei was no threat to her at all!
Bai Longfei who rushed out was also a little puzzled, but he was not afraid of it. He stepped forward and grabbed the collar of the female ghost in red, and it seemed that he was going to beat her up. But when Bai Longfei grabbed the collar of the female ghost in red, his expression suddenly became shocked, and then he slowly let go of the female ghost in red!
At this time, two more people walked in from outside my room. They were the fat and thin policemen who were resting in other rooms. They obviously heard the noise and came over without even putting on their clothes. When they walked into the room and saw Bai Longfei and the female ghost in red outside the window, they were so scared that they hurriedly ran out of the room and kept asking outside the door what had happened.
As there are more and more people here, my condition has gradually stabilized. Although my legs are still a little weak, I am no longer as scared as before. Instead, I have become curious.
With Lin Yingxue's help, I stood up from the ground, tremblingly walked to the bedside and asked, "Brother Long, what's going on?"
Bai Longfei turned his eyes away from the red-clothed female ghost when he heard my voice, and turned to me and said, "This is not a ghost, it's a dead person!"
Hearing this, I don't know where I got the strength from, but I immediately climbed onto the bed, went out through the window and stood next to Bai Longfei, and looked again at the female ghost in red who almost scared me to death. Only then did I see clearly that this was clearly a dead woman in red clothes!
The reason why this dead person in red could stand outside my window was because her neck was tied tightly with a black hemp rope, which fixed her entire body outside my window. No wonder she was looking at me in such a weird posture.
Since the other person was dead, I finally put my mind at ease. I immediately stepped forward to check carefully and said, "Xiaoxue, come over and see what's going on."
Now among us, Bai Longfei and I are completely amateurs at autopsy, Ding Yang is not here, and I don’t know if the fat and thin police officers are capable of doing it. We can only rely on Lin Yingxue to help examine the body.
Lin Yingxue also jumped out of the window, picked up the flashlight she had asked the two policemen for, and began to examine the body carefully. After about five or six minutes, Lin Yingxue said, "The deceased's face was blue, and some parts of his face and body had been hit hard. There were also some bruises and blood on the corners of his eyes. But judging from the situation, the real cause of death should be strangulation, otherwise his face would not have been this color. These are what I secretly learned when Ding Yang was performing the autopsy. As for whether it is correct, I am not sure."
No matter what, I still believe in Lin Yingxue, but now the question is, who is this woman? Why did she die outside my window? Lin Yingxue couldn't predict the time of her death, which made us very passive now.
Bai Longfei and I knew nothing about autopsies. Looking at the body of this man, we had no idea where to start, so we could only leave the job to Lin Yingxue. Bai Longfei whispered to me, "You're too timid, aren't you? You're so scared just by seeing a dead body?"
I said helplessly, "You don't understand. I had a nightmare before this, and this corpse was exactly the same as the one I dreamt about! I thought I woke up from a nightmare, but I just relaxed and saw a corpse like this. I was lucky not to be scared to death!"
With so many people around me, I finally calmed down. I kept recalling the nightmare and what happened. I always felt that this nightmare was a little strange. I don't usually dream, why did I have this kind of nightmare when I came here? And I dream about what I think about during the day. I can have such a dream, which proves that it is related to my experience during the day. Could it be that something happened during the day, I clearly figured it out, but I forgot it deep in my brain, so I can only let it reappear in the form of a nightmare
The fat and thin policemen were now a little bolder and came over to check the body with us. I asked them to call the police station to ask if they could send someone over. After all, a murder had occurred and the nature of the events in Kaimen Village had begun to change.
The thin policeman immediately took out an old-fashioned mobile phone from his arms. This kind of old-fashioned mobile phone has a very long standby time and is very suitable for use in this kind of place. However, he made several calls in a row, but no one answered the police station. It was now past three in the morning, and the people in the police station were probably asleep.
We don't have a professional forensic doctor among us, and we can't determine the time of death of the deceased, so we dare not move the body easily, for fear of destroying some small clues on the body. In desperation, I had to let the thin policeman use his old-fashioned mobile phone and a flashlight to take detailed photos of the body temporarily, and then leave the body there until tomorrow when we contact the police and the forensic doctor comes, and then make a decision.
The pixel of the old phone in the thin policeman's hand was very poor, and the phones of the rest of us were out of battery, so we had to take a few photos and then decided to go and rest.
At this moment, I suddenly felt that everyone had left, but I still didn't dare to sleep alone. Besides, my bed and windows were in a mess, and there was a female corpse outside the window. How could I sleep
So I quietly said to Bai Longfei: "Brother Long, how about I sleep with you? How can I sleep like this?"
I originally thought that Bai Longfei would readily agree, but who knew that after hearing it, he said with a look of disgust: "I don't want to sleep in the same bed with a man, you figure it out yourself, hehe!"
Bai Longfei's answer completely confused me. Under normal circumstances, he should have agreed without hesitation. Why did he reject it today? Could it be that I am still dreaming
At this time, Bai Longfei's expression looked a little strange, as if he was laughing secretly. Before I could figure out what his expression meant, I heard Lin Yingxue behind me say calmly: "Ji Wen, you sleep with me tonight."