If the sound came from the center or top of the door, I might not think anything of it, but the sound came from the very bottom of the door, which was a little hard for me to accept. I felt a chill down my spine and didn't dare to open the door to check.
The location where the sound came from, even if it was a child's prank, could only be done by lying on the ground. Besides, it was the middle of the night, whose child would come to my door to play
This time the sound did not stop, and it kept knocking on my door. I stood there for several minutes until a layer of cold sweat appeared on my body. Then I mustered up the courage, quietly approached the door, and looked outside through the cat's eye, wanting to see what was going on.
The weather was pretty good tonight, the moon was big, and the moonlight shone in through the windows of the corridor, just enough for me to see everything outside the door except the bottom. Unfortunately, I looked through the peephole for a long time, but there was no one outside the door, and the sound of knocking on the door under my feet kept coming one after another, constantly impacting my fragile heart.
What the hell is going on? Is there really someone lying at my doorstep right now
Lying on the doorstep of my house in the middle of the night, scratching the door with his fingernails, is this something a normal person would do? At this moment, I suddenly remembered a ghost story I had heard before.
The story seemed to be about a morgue somewhere, where the person guarding the morgue secretly cooperated with a restaurant and quietly transported corpses to the restaurant as ingredients. As a result, the restaurant became very popular. One day, a diner went to this restaurant to eat and always felt that the taste of the meat was a little wrong. He went home to rest and heard someone knocking on the door in the middle of the night. However, he opened the door several times and found no one outside. He thought it must be a prank by a child and ignored it.
The next day, the incident at the restaurant was exposed, and the diner realized that the meat he ate yesterday that felt strange was actually human flesh. He also understood who had knocked on the door last night.
The person knocking on the door was the owner of the meat he had eaten! The man died with his eyes wide open, and came to the diner in the middle of the night to ask for his meat back!
I seem to have heard this story from a junior high school classmate. I don't know why I remembered it again now. The more I thought about it, the more creepy I felt. I seemed to have seen through the door a bloody corpse lying on the doorstep of my house, with its eyes wide open, scratching my door gently with its fingernails!
Could it be that the soul outside the door is the owner of the human flesh I ate today, and he is here to ask me for meat? Damn it, I have already spit your meat into the noodle shop today, what are you asking for from me!
I swear I was almost driven crazy by the shrill knocking sound. I felt as if all the blood in my body had flowed into my brain. It was unbearable, so I gritted my teeth and opened the door, wanting to see if it was a ghost coming to ask for my meat.
When I opened the door, my eyes instantly focused on the place where the stinging sound came from. After seeing the stingy thing, I was stunned on the spot!
Before opening the door, I imagined a lot of horrific images of corpses in my mind, and made sure that I was mentally prepared to see any horrific scenes, but who would have thought that the first thing I saw was a cute puppy!
In fact, this dog is not small, but I am also a dog lover, so I recognized at a glance that it is a golden retriever. It looks like it is only three or four months old, but compared with other dogs, it is already very large.
"Oh, so cute, come here."
I finally understood why the source of that stingy voice was so low, and I couldn't see any human figure in the cat's eyes. It turned out that the stingy one was a cute dog. Looking at the golden retriever in front of me constantly wagging its tail at me, the fear just now disappeared instantly. I squatted down and the golden retriever immediately ran in front of me. I reached out and touched its head, closed the door, turned on the lights in the room, and looked at the golden retriever carefully. The more I looked, the more I liked it.
In fact, I have always wanted to have a dog as a companion, but when I was a courier, I was too busy and had no time to take care of a dog, so I gradually forgot this wish. Now when I see such a golden retriever, I suddenly have an urge to be its owner.
I looked at the golden retriever carefully under the light and found that its fur color was pure gold and its paws had large bones. It was obviously a purebred and valuable golden retriever. But when I looked again, I saw that the golden retriever was very dirty and looked like a stray dog. It seemed that no one had adopted it.
"It's strange that someone could buy such an expensive dog but then abandon it. Such a person must have too much money to spend."
Since no one wanted it, I wouldn't be polite. I just happened to want a dog, so I took in this golden retriever and named it Diandian.
I gave Diandian some milk and bread soaked in it and put it on a small plate. It obediently wagged its tail at me, and then began to eat with big mouthfuls. Soon, the full plate of food was finished by Diandian. It seemed that it was really hungry.
Watching it eat, I couldn't help but wonder, there are so many residents here, why did Diandian come to my house? It is said that puppies are very spiritual, I guess it chose me because it thought I would treat it well.
I made a small nest for Diandian with some unwanted clothes, and played with it for a while before going back to bed. I slept until eight o'clock in the morning. In the past, I would stay in bed at this time, but today I woke up directly, prepared some food for me and Diandian, and then took Diandian to take a bath, washed all the mud and water off its body, and dried it with a hair dryer. Suddenly, the golden retriever's noble temperament was fully revealed, and it became more and more lovable.
I was playing with Diandian when I suddenly heard someone knocking on the door. I went to open the door and saw that the person who came was Zhang Qishan.
I was wondering why Zhang Qishan came again, and before she could say anything to me, she saw Diandian wagging her tail behind me. Stars immediately appeared in her eyes, and she pushed me away, squatted down and kept stroking Diandian.
"What a cute dog! Is this yours? Come here, let mommy hug you."
I said helplessly, "I just picked it up last night, how come you are its mother? And why did you come to see me so early in the morning?"
Zhang Qishan and Diandian were having a lot of fun and ignored me. I felt helpless and went to the bathroom to wash up, got dressed, and prepared to go to the police station to find Officer Yang to see if he had found anything last night.
"You're going to the police station? I'll go too."
I wondered, “What are you going to do?”
Zhang Qishan said as if it was a matter of course: "Of course I'm helping you investigate the case. You know, we are partners. Haven't you been looking forward to a big case? Now that it finally happens, how can you do without my help?"
When I discussed the plan to deal with Qiongqi with Bai Qi and Officer Yang that day, Zhang Qishan was also present, so she knew what I was going to do next.
"You can go, but I have to tell you in advance that I won't be paid for solving this case. Don't expect to get any more money from me."
Zhang Qishan said with disdain: "Who said I did it for money? I just did it for fun. You can just treat me to a meal afterwards."
In that case, I had no choice but to take Zhang Qishan with me. However, when I went out, I saw Diandian squatting at the door looking at me pitifully, but she didn't dare to come out. I immediately felt pity for her, so I took Diandian and Zhang Qishan and walked towards the police station together.
When we arrived at the police station, it was already past nine o'clock, almost ten o'clock. We went directly to Officer Yang's office, knocked on the door gently, and walked in. We found Officer Yang sitting in front of his desk rubbing his temples. The heavy dark circles under his eyes showed that he must have not slept all night last night.
"Ji Wen, you are here, sit down."
Officer Yang yawned and asked me to sit down, so Zhang Qishan and I sat on the sofa, while Diandian squatted obediently at the door without making any sound.
Officer Yang first looked at Diandian, then at Zhang Qishan, and finally said to me, "We interrogated the noodle shop owner overnight last night, and he confessed all the information he knew, but it seems that he really didn't know that the meat was human flesh."
When I mentioned last night's incident again, I still felt a little sick and asked, "What did he say? Where did the meat come from?"
"Their store was not formal to begin with, and the meat was often sourced from private vendors. According to him, the beef they purchased this time, which was the human meat found at the crime scene, was purchased from a mobile meat vendor. At the time, the meat vendor drove a tricycle to the door of their store and asked if they wanted beef. When the noodle shop owner asked about the price and thought it was reasonable, he bought some directly, and this is what happened."
"Have you found the butcher?" Since the source of the meat has been found, there must be some other clues.
Officer Yang shook his head and said, "No, but we have asked the noodle shop owner to restore the butcher's portrait based on his memory, and we will probably have results soon."
This disappointed me a little, so I continued to ask, "What about the identity of the deceased? Have you found it?"
Officer Yang was a bit amused and said, "How can we find out the identity of the deceased with just a pile of familiar human flesh? We can't even determine the time of death, but the preliminary conclusion is that the deceased should be a woman, and her age is unknown. We have posted a notice to see if there are women missing in the family recently. We should have clues to the identity of the deceased in the next two days. Besides, Xiao Zhang has already taken some of the deceased's body tissue to Yinchuan City. With more advanced equipment there, we may be able to find some clues."
As he spoke, Officer Yang took out a sealed bag from the drawer. Inside was a small piece of cooked meat with a label that read "female".
When I saw the piece of meat again, I instinctively started to dry heave. At this moment, Diandian, who had been very well-behaved, suddenly pounced on Officer Yang's desk and started screaming at the piece of meat!
No one expected that the well-behaved Diandian would suddenly behave so strangely, but a strange guess arose in my mind!