Although I did not go up to the roof to see, I knew that Bai Longfei must be telling the truth. I immediately went to the eaves where the dead body was hanging and took a closer look. Then I understood what Bai Longfei meant.
The houses in this village are generally very high, but there is no second floor, so the houses look very awkward. The height of the eaves is at least about 1.5 meters above my head. Not to mention me, even Yao Ming would not be able to reach it.
If the black hemp rope was not hung from the roof, it could only be hung from under the eaves, which is where the deceased is currently located. But this is not right. There is nothing in the entire yard that can allow someone to step on and reach the eaves. The person who can hang this rope must be either someone taller than Yao Ming or someone who can fly!
Previously, the thin policeman said that when he went to the toilet at night, he also saw a female ghost in red falling from the sky, and he was sure that the female ghost in red was in a position where there was nothing to support her body. Could it be that there really is a flying female ghost in red in this Kaimen Village
I was wondering what was going on when I saw Bai Longfei on the roof jump down from the roof. He didn't care about the height of nearly three meters, landed steadily on the ground with his legs, then clapped his hands and walked towards me.
Dare to jump down from such a high place? Does Bai Longfei also have Qinggong? Bai Longfei didn't care about my surprised look at all and asked, "Ji Wen, what do you think is going on?"
I thought about it carefully and said, "There are two explanations. Either there really is a flying female ghost in red lurking in this Kaimen Village, killing people everywhere. Or this rope was actually hung on the roof a long time ago, but we just didn't find it."
Bai Longfei seemed to understand what I meant, and Lin Yingxue asked, "How could this rope be hung on the roof in advance? If that was the case, wouldn't we have discovered it long ago?"
"Not necessarily. Look at the color of the rope. It's pure black, as if it's been infected by something. It's exactly the same color as the house. If it was placed here normally, it would be hard for anyone to find it. And the window is on the other side of the house, right opposite the door. The house is so run-down, the two policemen probably didn't come here to check, so naturally they didn't find the rope."
"If this rope was really hung up in advance, then what happened last night must have been premeditated by someone. He only needed to bring the body here and quietly hang it outside my window. The purpose might be to scare the person living in this room, no matter who that person is!"
Thinking about it this way, although the rope and the body were explained, the murderer's motive puzzled me. Since the murderer knew that the people living in this yard were all police officers, why did he dare to do such a thing? Was his purpose to scare the police
A few of us were standing in the yard discussing continuously, and soon we heard a series of footsteps coming from outside the door, approaching us. It seemed that Director Yang and his people had arrived.
Sure enough, the yard door was pushed open, and I saw Chief Yang, whom I had met before, walking in with a group of police officers. However, when they came to the location where the body was and saw the body, they were all shocked. After all, the body was dressed so horribly.
While Chief Yang was asking the two fat and thin police officers what happened, he asked his forensic doctor to help with the autopsy, and then asked other men to go out and ask the guests staying here if anyone had gone missing last night. A few of us stood aside and waited quietly. After all, we didn't need to do anything ourselves for this kind of thing.
After resting for more than an hour, the forensic doctor finally came up with a result. He came over and said to us, "The deceased is a female, about 23 to 26 years old. The cause of death was suffocation, but she was beaten before she died. The time of death should be between 1 and 2 this morning."
After hearing this, I immediately recalled the time when I found the body last night. It seemed to be between one and two o'clock. Could it be that the deceased was beaten unconscious first, and then dressed up as a female ghost in red and hung outside my window, eventually leading to her death
With the intervention of the local police, we felt a lot more relieved. Besides, there is a forensic doctor here. Once the forensic doctor takes the body back and conducts a careful examination, there should be more clues. For example, what exactly is the gray powder on the face of the deceased
After completing the autopsy, Director Yang asked the forensic doctor to take a few people to take the body back for a thorough examination. Then Director Yang took people to inquire about the identity of the deceased. At the same time, I also told him that no one could be allowed to leave Kaimen Village for the time being. Before the matter was clarified, everyone would be suspected of murder.
The matters here were temporarily handled by Director Yang and his team, but Bai Longfei, Lin Yingxue and I had other things to deal with, so we didn't stay long and went out and walked towards Shufen's house.
Yesterday Shufen's husband told us that he would tell us about the red-clothed female ghost during the day. We must understand this matter clearly. After all, it seems that this red-clothed female ghost is even more mysterious than those two "resurrected" people!
Of course, after we asked Shufen’s husband these questions, we decided to go to the construction team on the edge of the village to see if there were really any secrets hidden there.
When we arrived at Shufen's house, Shufen's husband was squatting at the gate of the yard brushing his teeth. We didn't need to go in to find him. Shufen's husband also saw us, and his eyes suddenly became helpless. He held a mouthful of water and motioned us to wait for him. Then he walked into the room with a quilt in his hand, and came out after about a minute, putting on his coat.
"Let's go, let's talk somewhere else. If Shufen knew I came out to look for you, she would definitely not like it."
After that, we walked towards the village entrance together. After all, after we finished discussing the matter, we could go out and ask the construction team.
On the way, I first signaled Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue not to talk, and then asked Shufen's husband: "Nothing happened last night, right?"
Shufen's husband was a little stunned by my question and said, "No, what could have happened? I slept until dawn, but the construction team over there was a little noisy. I will go talk to their leader another day."
I was a little disappointed to see that Shufen’s husband didn’t seem to know about the murder that happened last night, and looking at his expression, it seemed that he was not lying.
"I know you want to ask about the red-dressed ghost girl. It's okay to tell you about it, but I'm worried that you won't believe it."
Before I could say anything, Lin Yingxue spoke first: "It doesn't matter. So many strange things have happened now. We have to believe it even if we don't want to."
Shufen's husband finally felt relieved. His eyes were a little confused. He said as he walked, "I have lived in Kaimen Village since I was a child. In fact, there has always been a secret in our village. It is rumored that our village was not as sparsely populated as it is now a hundred years ago. Instead, it was home to many people and was prosperous. The surrounding environment was also very beautiful. In the past, there was no forest surrounding our village like now, and the roads were very smooth."
Later, a murder seemed to have occurred in the village. The deceased was a young woman who was wearing red clothes when she died. Her death was very tragic. At that time, there was a saying circulating in the village that if a person who died unjustly was wearing red clothes before dying, then on the seventh day, she would turn into a fierce ghost and claim lives, and no one in the entire village would survive.
In the next few days, several inexplicable murders occurred in the village. The villagers finally realized that the story was true and planned to move away. However, after two or three days, only a few old and young people who were unable to move away were left in the village, waiting to die.
Just at this time, a fortune teller came to the village. He predicted that on the seventh day, the entire Kaimen Village would be a river of blood and corpses would be everywhere. Unable to bear to see such a result, he decided to help this poor village.
He first had the coffin of the buried female corpse dug out again, and then found a location with excellent feng shui to bury it. Then he asked the villagers to plant trees on a large scale with Kaimen Village as the center, and told the villagers that the more trees they planted, the better the effect would be. The fortune teller then wandered around the village every day with some wooden nails made of peach wood, looking for places to bury them. It was said that the fortune teller was helping to set up the formation, intending to use the formation to suppress the resentment of the female ghost in red.
Finally, with the joint efforts of the fortune teller and the villagers, they finally set up the formation before the seventh day, completely suppressing the resentment of the red-clothed female ghost and saving the lives of all the remaining people in the village.
Later it was said that the fortune teller settled down in Kaimen Village, got married and had children, in order to spend his entire life guarding the formation and preventing the red-clothed female ghost from harming the villagers again. He also led everyone to plant trees outside the village, which eventually led to the current situation where the village is in the center of the woods, making Kaimen Village so remote and desolate, but like a paradise.
The story told by Shufen's husband sounded like a complete supernatural novel and had no credibility at all. When I was about to ask why they all suddenly moved away three years ago, I suddenly saw a man slowly walking towards us at the entrance of the village.
The person looked like a female, wearing a red dress, with disheveled hair, and her face was an inexplicable gray with some blood stains. It was clearly the female corpse that appeared at the window of my room last night!