Judging from the voice alone, it has a weird tone and doesn't sound like a human voice at all. It's impossible to tell whether it's a man or a woman. It's probably just a processed recording.
More importantly, this eerie audio clip says, "In seven hours, you can see me because I'm behind you." Even without such a gloomy voice, this clip would make people feel uncomfortable.
I turned to Bai Qi and asked, "Uncle Bai, what's going on? Did you take this from a horror movie?"
Bai Qi took the phone from me and said while operating it, "No, this is the weird part of this case. The voice message just now was actually when we were investigating the victim's phone and found that she received a call from a strange unknown number at midnight yesterday. Then we followed this number to investigate the call records and heard it."
"The victim? Does that mean there is a deceased person? Did this deceased person die around 7 o'clock in the morning?"
Judging from the information conveyed on the phone, the murderer is likely to carry out the murder plan according to the time he told the victim. Bai Qi nodded and said, "Yes, the murderer was very punctual this time. The call came at midnight, and according to the surveillance footage at the scene, the victim also died at 7 o'clock in the morning, exactly seven hours."
As he spoke, Bai Qi handed the phone to me again. The three of us immediately looked at the screen of his phone and all of us gasped! Because at this time, Bai Qi's phone showed a photo of a woman with disheveled hair lying in a pool of blood, of unknown age.
The reason why we don't know her age is because we can't see her face at all. Her entire face is completely lost in the large amount of blood. Upon closer inspection, we discovered that her head seemed to have been pierced by something, leaving only a huge bloody hole on her face!
After seeing the deceased's appearance clearly, I felt a little nauseous and immediately looked away from the phone screen in my hand. However, Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue were watching with great interest. I wonder what they were watching.
"So disgusting? How did he die?"
Bai Qi seemed unwilling to look at the photo. He lit a cigarette and said, "I can't describe it to you. You will know when you go to the scene. There is a complete surveillance video. In short, the murderer's methods this time are very cruel, and he killed people under the guise of a ghost story called 'Midnight Spirit Sound'. The whole incident is very strange. When you go to investigate, remember to be careful."
I have heard the story called "Midnight Spiritual Sound" told by Bai Qi, and it happened a long time ago. I can't remember the specific content, but I vaguely remember one sentence from it.
'I will come to see you in seven days.'
This sentence sounds very much like a scene from the horror movie The Ring, and if we look at this sentence alone, it is indeed very similar to this case. The only difference is that the seven days here are changed to seven hours.
I don’t know when it started, but I became very interested in these strange cases that sounded like ghost stories. Looking back on the time when I was in Heishan Village, I was still avoiding them. But in just a few months, I didn’t expect that I would adapt so quickly.
"Don't worry, Uncle Bai. We have rested for such a long time. It's time to show our skills. So where did this case happen?"
Bai Qi smiled and threw the key of the car he had repaired to Bai Longfei, then said, "A newspaper in Haidian District."
After we prepared everything, we set off for Haidian District. This time, the people who went were still the so-called "iron triangle" of me, Bai Longfei and Lin Yingxue. In fact, Pan An and Ding Yang also wanted to go with us, but Bai Qi said that so many people were going to fight wolves? They had no choice but to stay in the special case team and continue to be bored.
Although Haidian District is a district of the imperial capital, the journey is still very long. I took a nap in the car, and I don’t know how long I slept. Bai Longfei finally brought us to our destination, which was a newspaper office in Haidian District.
I was actually very surprised. In this era of information explosion, there shouldn't be many people reading newspapers, right? How can other newspapers survive, except for some state-owned newspapers? When I came to this newspaper, I found out that they not only run newspapers, but also publish books, periodicals and magazines. However, despite this, it seems that this newspaper is not very prosperous.
Judging from the appearance of this newspaper, it must have been prosperous for a period of time in the past, but now it has begun to decline gradually. The building of this newspaper is very large, but it looks a bit shabby, and the architectural style is a bit similar to the style of the 1970s and 1980s in TV dramas.
But we didn't come here to criticize the newspaper. After getting off the car, I stretched and walked into the newspaper building. Because we saw several police cars outside, we went in and asked where the investigating police officers were. Then we took the only elevator in the building to the tenth floor and finally found several police officers.
After we explained our purpose to these police officers, we wanted to ask them some details about the case, but these police officers seemed to be liberated and fled in a hurry, leaving the three of us confused.
"What a bunch of cowards! It's just a death. Is there any need to be so scared?" Bai Longfei looked at the police officers with contempt as they left, then walked forward, because we saw a group of people gathered at the door in front, whispering about something. That must be the crime scene.
We walked up and asked who was the person in charge, then a middle-aged man who claimed to be the office director came out and asked us what was going on. After we explained our identities, the office director looked sad and told everyone else to do what they were doing, and immediately vacated a room in front of them.
The room at the edge of the corridor in front of us should be a three-person office, with three computers, three desks, and an old air conditioner. On the floor and walls of the office, a lot of blood that had not yet completely dried could be seen. Although there was no body, the previous position and outline of the body had been marked.
We had seen the photo of the corpse before. When I saw the crime scene and the outline of the deceased again, the faceless corpse appeared in my mind again. I felt indescribable disgust and immediately asked the office director next to me for the details of this case.
According to the office director, the deceased was an employee in the office on the tenth floor. She had been working here for two years. Last night, as she had unfinished tasks, she stayed in the office to work overtime. According to the surveillance footage, the deceased worked overtime until after 1 a.m. before leaving the office to go home to rest. However, she came to the office again at 6:30 this morning, and then this incident happened.
The office director was talking to us as he led us to the monitoring room on the tenth floor. When I heard this, I immediately asked, "What time does your newspaper start work every morning?"
"It's half past eight in the morning."
After hearing this answer, I immediately became confused. Since the work starts at 8:30 in the morning, why did the deceased come so early today? And he went home at 1:00 yesterday morning? If it were me, I would be thankful if I didn't sleep late.
Of course, there is another thing that I find even more strange. Logically speaking, when Ling Tian was there yesterday, the deceased suddenly received a strange phone call. If it were a normal person, he would have been scared to death and would not have had the time to run away. However, the deceased chose to stay and worked until one o'clock in the morning. This is a bit illogical.
Could it be that in her eyes, work is more important than life
I told my doubts to the office director, and he also said that he didn't know what was going on. He said that although the deceased had a heavy task last night, it didn't necessarily have to be completed that day. He didn't know why the deceased stayed until one o'clock in the middle of the night.
As for why the deceased came to the office at 6:30 in the morning, he had no idea, because in his impression, the deceased usually came to work on time. Even when the workload was heavier than it was now, he never came so early.
I failed to get an answer from the office director, so it seems necessary for me to investigate this matter myself. After all, this doubt is the most obvious one at present. The abnormal work and rest time of the deceased must hide some unknown reasons, and this reason may be some key connection between the deceased and the murderer.
Soon, we arrived at the other end of the corridor, where the monitoring room was located. When we entered, we saw that this so-called monitoring room was actually an office, but with a few more monitoring devices.
The office director came into the monitoring room and introduced us to a young man who was writing something on his desk. He said that he was the employee in charge of monitoring and security, and had a domineering name, Li Gang.
After Li Gang learned the reason why we came here, he didn't say much. He immediately turned on the computer of the monitoring system and adjusted the picture to seven o'clock in the morning. When the picture was still frozen, I saw a long-haired woman with her back to the screen. She was standing at the door of the office we had just seen, staring at something inside.
Since the lighting in the newspaper building is not very good, the picture looks a bit dim, and with this scene, it feels a bit like watching a horror movie.
However, when Li Gang played the footage, in just two seconds, we saw a thick piece of wood suddenly appear behind the woman in the surveillance video, and it quickly and fiercely stabbed the back of the woman's head in front. Under the tremendous force, the thick wood pierced the woman's head on the spot, going through the back of the head to the face, and blood splattered in large quantities, like a human fountain!