When Bai Qi said this, he shook his head helplessly and said, "I guess it was just a security guard on campus who took it and read it while going to the toilet. After reading it, he just left it in the toilet. The local police are too eager for quick success and instant benefits just by finding such a book."
Although what Bai Qi said made sense and this matter didn't sound like a big deal, I still felt that it was necessary to investigate this matter. Abnormality is a sign of evil. Things have come to this point, and I have to take a closer look at any clues that may be related. If I can find out the truth of everything before Qiongqi or his people take action and resolve this matter in advance, then perhaps I can save many innocent people. So I won't let go of any clues now.
"Uncle Bai, I think I should go and take a look at this matter myself. Besides, it won't be long before they start school. It's necessary to go there in advance to familiarize myself with the environment and learn some other information."
Seeing that I decided to follow this clue, Bai Qi was obviously a little unhappy, but he still agreed with me. I also mentioned to Bai Qi that Lin Yingxue would go with us. Ding Yang next to me suddenly said, "In that case, I'll go there too. The special case team is relatively quiet during this period. I have nothing to do. If anything happens over there, it would be helpful to have a forensic doctor there."
Bai Qi smiled bitterly and said, "If you want to go play, just say so directly. Don't make up so many excuses. If you want to go, let's go together. I'll find you if there's anything else."
Just like that, Lin Yingxue, Bai Longfei, Ding Yang and I set out for Sichuan. It had been less than a month since I came back from Sichuan, and I didn't expect to go there again. Although the Normal University is far from my home, I still decided to take the time to go home and take a look, and by the way, ask my dad about it. I just don't know how my family's moving plan is going, and whether they have already moved.
On the way, I called my dad, but no one answered his call. Then I called my mom, but no one answered either. This immediately made me feel something was wrong, and I wondered if something had happened to them
But then I rejected this idea on the spot. With my dad here, the probability of anything happening to them should be extremely low. After all, even a powerful person like Yuan Hao fell into my dad's hands. I don't believe that anyone can do anything to him. I guess they may be busy with something and have no time to answer the phone. They should get back to me when they are done with their work.
Since we were going to Sichuan on a mission this time, we had no time to rest on the way. Bai Longfei and Ding Yang took turns driving. We set off in the morning and arrived at the gate of the Normal University at dusk.
As someone who has never been to college, I have an inexplicable sense of nervousness towards this kind of higher education institution. Just standing at the door and looking inside, I felt that I was out of place in this school and had the urge to escape.
Although we were very tired after traveling all day, we were now racing against time, so we did not rest and immediately contacted the local police. Soon, several police officers came out of the university campus in front of us to meet us.
The leading police officer, an older middle-aged one, stepped forward and saluted us. We immediately returned the salute and then asked about the book.
The surname of this young and older police officer is Zhao, so we call him Lao Zhao. After hearing my question, Lao Zhao seemed a little embarrassed. He coughed lightly and said awkwardly, "This book was found in the toilet when our person had a stomachache while monitoring the campus. The book was placed on the windowsill of the toilet and our person saw it as soon as he entered the door. He had a severe stomachache at the time, so he picked it up and wanted to read it while going to the toilet. But after he finished using the toilet, he remembered that no one had been here for a long time, so how could there be a book here? That's why we reported this matter to Chief Bai."
After that, Lao Zhao sighed and said, "This incident happened yesterday, but we have figured it out today. In fact, the book was left there by the school security guard after reading it in the toilet at night. I'm really sorry that we reported this incident to your special case team without figuring it out. This is our dereliction of duty."
Hearing what Lao Zhao said, Bai Longfei said helplessly: "See, I told you this wasn't a major discovery at all. It made me drive so fast on the road. If we had known earlier, we should have found a place to rest for a day and come back tomorrow."
When Bai Longfei was talking, Lao Zhao's expression became even more embarrassed, but I smiled and said, "It's okay. This also shows that you are doing your job conscientiously. Is the book still there? I want to take a look and ask the security guard here something."
Seeing that we did not blame him too much, Lao Zhao relaxed and immediately nodded and said, "No problem, the security guard who put the book in the toilet is now in the security room, and the book is also there. Let's go in and talk." After that, Lao Zhao took us into the school.
The sky was gradually getting dark, and the street lights in the school had already been turned on. Although I couldn't see the whole picture inside clearly under the street lights, I could still feel that this normal college must be very beautiful, and it must be very happy to study in this place.
The security room was right next to the gate. Before I could take a closer look at the school, we came to the security room. There were two security guards in the room, both of them were middle-aged men in their forties. After Lao Zhao introduced us to them, he pointed to one of the middle-aged security guards and said, "This is the owner of the book. You can ask him if you have any questions."
The security guard was very enthusiastic towards us. After shaking hands with us warmly, he began to talk incessantly about how he got the book, how he read it in the toilet, and finally forgot it in the toilet. Since the security guard was a local and could not speak Mandarin, he spoke directly to us in Sichuan dialect. Lin Yingxue and others nearby were confused and had no idea what he was saying. However, as a Sichuanese, I had no communication barriers and relayed the security guard's words again.
The security guard said that the book actually belonged to his son. His son came here to find him after school that day to go home for dinner, and he accidentally left the book here. That night, the security guard suddenly had a stomachache and wanted to go to the bathroom. When he was getting toilet paper, he found the book. Out of curiosity, he took the book to the bathroom to read. However, reading such a book in the bathroom made the security guard very uneasy, and finally he accidentally left the book in the bathroom.
After hearing what the security guard said, I was a little disappointed. After all, according to him, this book really had nothing to do with the express delivery from Qiongqi. I took the book from the security guard and flipped through it casually, and found that the texture of the book was not very good, and it felt very thin overall. It didn't look like a book, but more like a magazine. I roughly flipped through the contents and found that I had actually read all the stories in it!
These are stories I read when I was in junior high school. I was fascinated by these ghost stories at that time and often borrowed them from my classmates to read. So I still have some impression of these stories now, but these stories are a bit old. Stories like The Red Cotton-padded Jacket and School Rule No. 32 are probably not read by the post-2000s.
But when I looked carefully at the table of contents of the book, I found that the ghost stories recorded in this book were all related to the campus, but the cover of the book did not say that this was a collection of campus ghost stories, and there was not even the name of a publishing house. This made me feel that this book might not be as simple as I imagined.
"Did you buy this book for your son?" I handed the book in my hand to Bai Longfei and asked him to keep it, because I planned to study it carefully when I went back tonight.
The security guard shook his head and said, "No, I asked my son today, and he said that this book is very popular in their middle school. Many students have this book. His book was given to him by an unknown female classmate when he went to school that morning."
"A female classmate he doesn't know gave it to him? How old is your son this year? Is he in a premature relationship?"
The security guard waved his hands hastily and said, "No, my son is seventeen years old and is focusing on his studies. How could he fall in love prematurely? He doesn't know the female classmate and he doesn't even seem to have seen her in school. She is said to be very beautiful, but my son doesn't remember her appearance clearly."
I didn't understand what the security guard said. If I didn't remember her face clearly, how could she be beautiful? But his words caught my attention. If the female classmate who gave the book to the security guard's son was not from their school, then there might be something wrong with this female classmate. Maybe this female classmate who gave the book planned everything so that we could see the book in front of us. The security guard's son also said that this book is very popular in their school. I suddenly felt that this book should be the real intention of Qiongqi this time. But the express delivery clearly said this university, why did it happen in a high school
"Where is your son's school? Can you take us there tomorrow?"
The security guard smiled and said, "No, my son's school is right next to the Normal University, in that direction."
As he spoke, the security guard pointed outside the window, and I looked in the direction of his finger, but suddenly I found that there was a person outside the window, lying outside the window and sneering at me!