It was noon and there were a lot of people on the street. Among so many pedestrians coming and going, the three of us were just the tip of the iceberg. But even in such a situation, Bai Longfei actually told me that we were being followed!
If someone else told me this kind of thing, I would definitely think he was joking, but if it was Bai Longfei who said it, then there must be someone behind us quietly following our footsteps.
When I thought of this, I seemed to be able to feel a pair of evil eyes secretly staring at us from behind, which made me have a strong urge to look back, but Bai Longfei said to me: "Keep it up, just walk calmly like before."
In broad daylight, with so many people walking on the road around, I actually felt a sense of fear! So it is true that the unknown is the most terrifying.
At this point I was no longer in the mood to look at the buildings around me. I wanted only to avoid looking back and use anything that might reflect light in front of me to see what was happening behind me. However, all I saw was a bustling crowd, and I couldn't tell who was following us.
After walking down another street, I asked Bai Longfei with some doubt: "Brother Long? Is your information reliable? What should we do now?"
Bai Longfei said disdainfully: "Of course it is reliable. I have absolute confidence in this aspect. Don't forget that I also served in the special forces for a few years. You can go with peace of mind. That person is still behind us. There is a small alley in front of us with few people. Let's turn and walk in, and then watch my performance."
Seeing that Bai Longfei finally came up with a solution, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked slowly towards the alley in front. After we turned into the alley, Lin Yingxue immediately pulled me into the alley for a few steps and hid aside, while Bai Longfei stood at the entrance of the alley with his back pressed against the wall, apparently preparing to catch the person who was following us.
Along the way, I kept thinking, who is following us? We have never been to this place before, and we probably don't have any enemies. Could it be someone from the newspaper following us
This doesn't make sense. We asked the two police officers to guard the door of the newspaper office. If someone came out, they would definitely stop him as we said. How could they let someone out to follow us? Could it be that the person following us was the boyfriend of the deceased Ma Jie
If the person following us is really the boyfriend of the deceased Ma Jie, then it means that her boyfriend is not a member of the newspaper office, but an outsider! But how did an outsider get into the newspaper office
My brain was working fast, and I began to simulate any possibility of the situation in my mind. However, after I thought for a long time, Bai Longfei still did not make any movement. Lin Yingxue and I waited quietly for another five minutes. When I was about to fall asleep, I finally couldn't help but quietly walked to Bai Longfei who was still leaning against the wall and said, "Brother Long, didn't you say you were a professional? Where is the person following us?"
Bai Longfei's face was full of question marks at this time, and he said with an expression of disbelief: "There is no reason. I found many traces of people following us. I definitely can't be wrong about this. Could it be that there is something wrong with the food I just ate, causing me to hallucinate?"
I rolled my eyes at Bai Longfei and said, "I think you are just a bit neurasthenic and suspicious. Go see a doctor and get your violent disorder treated."
It seems that this time we were being followed was completely Bai Longfei's illusion. I immediately relaxed, stood up and prepared to leave the alley. But when I just walked out of the alley, I seemed to see a face on the wall at the entrance of the alley, staring at me!
After I found this face, I immediately turned around and looked to the side. I almost screamed out of fright! Because at this moment, on the wall at the entrance of the alley next to me, there was an extremely hideous demon face, staring at me!
Seeing this horrifying scene, I couldn't help but gasp, then crawled back into the alley. Seeing this, Bai Longfei immediately rushed out and looked towards the place I had just looked at, and was also frightened and trembling!
However, Bai Longfei was only startled by the sudden appearance of that face. He then turned his head and looked at us with a serious face and said, "I'm not mistaken. Someone was following us just now! Come and have a look!"
After a short buffer time, I seemed to have figured out what I had just seen. I immediately walked out of the alley again with Lin Yingxue, and found that the devil's face I had just seen was still on the wall at the entrance of the alley. However, this time I looked carefully and realized that the devil's face was actually a rather hideous mask.
I am sure that this mask was not here when we entered the alley. Obviously, someone quietly put it there after we entered the alley! And this person is the one who followed us as Bai Longfei said!
Bai Longfei reached out and took down the mask hanging on the wall, but something fell from the mask to the ground, making a crisp metallic collision sound. We all looked down at the same time and saw that the thing that fell to the ground was a small dagger!
I picked up the small dagger and took a look. I found that it was relatively new and had been sharpened. This scene seemed to indicate that the person who was following us was threatening us! As for what he was threatening us to do, it was not clear. It was very likely related to this case!
I originally thought that this case was just an ordinary small case. Who knew that such a strange scene would appear just after the investigation began? What is the relationship between this person who threatened us and this case? Or is this person actually the real murderer
I was holding the dagger and thinking, Bai Longfei snatched the dagger away, played with it in his hand for a while, and then put it directly into his pocket, and said disdainfully: "So big, no one who threatens me has a good end! I have investigated this case! I want to see what this person who threatens us is capable of!"
We looked around again and didn't find anyone suspicious, so we didn't stay any longer and continued walking towards the house rented by the deceased Ma Jie. Bai Longfei also didn't notice anyone following us along the way, so the matter came to an end for the time being. However, the occurrence of this incident gave me a bad feeling in my heart.
Soon, we arrived at the community where the deceased rented a house. We found the specific room according to the information given to us by the two police officers before, and then contacted the landlord and told him the purpose of our visit.
The landlord was an old lady. When she heard that the tenant Ma Jie had died, she kept cursing and saying that since someone had died in the house, it would be difficult to rent it out in the future. I thought to myself, the person didn't die in the room, so why should she be afraid
Although the old landlord was very reluctant, she still cooperated with our work and used the spare key to open the security door of Ma Jie's house. When the old landlord opened the door, I asked her if Ma Jie had a boyfriend.
When the landlady heard my question, she started to talk nonstop, telling me how indecent Ma Jie was, how she often brought men home, and how the men she brought back were different every time. She spoke as if she had been spying on Ma Jie's private life all the time. It sounded so real that she almost told me what happened after Ma Jie brought the man into the house.
Although what the landlady said may not be reliable, it can be used as a reference. After the door is opened, we just let the landlady stand at the door. Then we put on the gloves prepared by Bai Longfei in advance, walked into the house, and began to look for the clues we wanted to find in the house.
This house is indeed not very big, with about one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom. It is about the same size as the house I rented when I was a courier in Zhongwei City. But the room is very tidy, unlike my pigsty-like room.
Lin Yingxue and I first went to the bathroom, while Bai Longfei went directly to the bedroom. I thought that if Ma Jie really lived with her boyfriend, there should be more information in the bathroom. However, when we arrived at the bathroom, we found only a toothbrush and a towel in it. Although there were two pairs of slippers on the ground, they were both women's slippers. There seemed to be no signs of two people living together.
I walked out of the bathroom puzzled and went to the living room to take a look. There were no extra items on the sofa and coffee table in the living room. Only in the coffee table cabinet did I find a lighter and a box of unsmoked ladies' cigarettes. It turned out that the deceased had a habit of smoking before his death.
Just when I was about to go to the kitchen to take a look, Bai Longfei suddenly said, "Ji Wen, come quickly, we found something here!"
We immediately walked towards the bedroom where Bai Longfei was. As soon as we entered, we saw that Bai Longfei had turned the entire bedroom into a garbage dump. Although we had never been here, judging from the tidiness of other rooms, this bedroom was definitely not like this before Bai Longfei came in.
Bai Longfei grabbed a few clothes from the pile of clothes on the floor and threw them on the bare bed board after the sheets had been blown away. Then he said to me excitedly: "Look, there are some men's clothes in this closet! And I also found a few pairs of men's underwear!"
I walked carefully to the bed and looked at the clothes on the bed. Indeed, these clothes were all men's, including several suits and casual jackets. After a preliminary count, there were about five or six.
But when I looked at the clothes carefully, I found something strange. I picked up one of the suits and looked at the size on the collar, then said, "This pile of clothes seems to belong to two different people!"