Liang Shan is an employee of the Shi'an Group stationed in the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and is considered a non-scientific position for the time being.
As a practitioner, Liang Shan's skill level is appalling, but he has a quick head and a good personality. He is usually only responsible for information collection and connection. As soon as the evil spirit broke the seal, all non-scientific positions had to work overtime as combat forces, so he had to work part-time to run the scene.
Right now, he is waiting at the door of Fanghua Apartment, ready to pick up the car.
Liang Shan sighed and looked at the tall old buildings around him.
Neat square windows were installed on more than a dozen floors, with only a small half of the windows lit. At the entrance of the building were four large gilt characters that read "Youth Apartment", and the gold coating was peeling off in spots.
Just a few days ago, a girl disappeared from this apartment.
Gao Mengyu, 27 years old. She used to be a bank employee. She resigned at the beginning of the year to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination. For this purpose, she rented a supporting single room in Fanghua Apartment.
There is a picture of the girl on the police file. Gao Mengyu has a high ponytail, a square face, long eyes, a slightly big nose, and a very ordinary appearance. In the photo, she stared blankly at the camera with a slightly stiff expression.
Since four days ago, Gao Mengyu has not contacted anyone.
Gao Mengyu's family and friends only thought that she was focused on studying, and it was Fanghua Apartment that noticed the abnormality—
"Have you read all the case information? This time we are using a third party to assist, just as an experience work. Just keep a good record, you don't need to solve the case... Let's talk about it first, it's not that I won't take you to dinner. Even if you just ate, this I’ll have to spit it out soon.”
Liang Shan pressed the elevator button, her tone a little more serious.
The old man was wearing a plain shirt, his eyelids were drooped, only the black eyes were exposed between his eyelids, and he looked particularly frightened. He glared at several people angrily, and then looked straight at the ground.
Most newcomers are like this. They are curious about everything and look at everyone like a suspect.
Liang Shan sighed and took two steps forward, showing his black-stamped work card: "Shi'an, here, here!"
"We have said hello to the police in advance. When we get to the missing person's room later, please don't take away or move anything at the scene. If you find anything suspicious, you must report it to me first... Hey hey, little Zhong, where are you looking? "
Suspiciously, Liang Shan checked the work ID cards of the two people. Liang Shan's head was as big as a bucket.
The afterglow of the setting sun disappeared completely, and Shi'an's special car stopped at the door of the apartment.
"Residents nearby, this is my first time meeting you. Don't disturb them casually. If you really mind, report it to the police and they will ask."
Help, the work ID clearly says "for physical examination only"!
Not only are they new in the trial period, these two are basically still factory settings. And looking at the temperament of that "Yin Ren", he doesn't look like an orthodox practitioner.
Yin Ren was listening attentively. When he turned his head, he realized that Zhong Cheng was openly distracted.
In recent days, Gao Mengyu's room has emitted an unspeakable stench. No matter how many times the neighbor knocked on the door, there was no response. The apartment management couldn't contact anyone, so they simply opened the door with a spare key.
Hearing that Shi'an was going to send two probationary employees, Liang Shan essentially refused - the case was a missing person case, but it was a brutal scene and not suitable for a rookie transition.
Fortunately, the police did not find Gao Mengyu's body in the room, and the case is still classified as a missing case.
"Zhong Cheng said he was with Yin Ren, right? Take them all. Inside is a three-piece set of shoe covers, gloves, and vomit bags. They will come in handy soon."
After seeing the condition of the room, the apartment management called the police on the spot.
An old man was sitting alone at the entrance of the apartment, carrying a maza.
He followed Zhong Cheng's gaze and saw only a big living person -
He distributed the bag in his hand to the two of them and introduced them in a rapid-fire manner.
The one who came down first wore glasses and had a red stamp on his work ID card. He looked like a weak college student. He was probably a rookie in the science field. The one that comes down later...wait, is this an employee or an evil thing to be caught
Zhong Cheng said he observed the old man for a while and asked, "Who is that?"
Zhong Cheng nodded seriously and even prepared a vomit bag as a precaution. Yin Ren followed the example and took out the paper bag and held it in his hand.
Gao Mengyu lived in Room 1413 on the 14th floor. As soon as the elevator arrived, he couldn't wait to get into the elevator with a hint of stench.
Yin Ren sniffed in disgust.
The stench of rotting raw meat was too familiar to him.
The elevator door slid open, and the stench rushed up. The smell instantly coated their skin, and the three of them seemed to have fallen into the mud of a sewer. Yin Ren quickly frowned, and Zhong Cheng took a half step back and covered his mouth and nose.
Liang Shan stepped out of the elevator first and introduced with a straight face: "Younghua Apartment is an office building. It is a bit old and the rent is very low. However, most of the tenants are young people, there is a large flow of people, and the monitoring is very complete."
Zhong Cheng said, covering his nose, his voice a little loud: "Why did you find Shang Shi'an...?"
Since there is complete monitoring information, the matter should not be difficult to solve. This is the 14th floor. If you want to bypass the surveillance system, the only way is to jump off the building.
"The police checked the surveillance immediately."
The science post responded very quickly, and Liang Shan's tense mood relaxed a little.
"There is only one tenant in 1413, Gao Mengyu. She entered the apartment four days ago and has never left the house since... You guys come in first and take a look. The police just finished taking photos today, and it will be processed here tomorrow."
Liang Shan walked to the door and put on her shoe covers and gloves. Finally he grabbed the door handle and opened the door a crack.
It's midsummer and it just rained last night. If the stench just now was still wrapped in mud, the stench this time seemed to punch people in the face.
Yin Ren, who was repeatedly beaten by the stench: "..."
Is this job really reliable
After making sure that the two of them were not vomiting, Liang Shan pulled the door open. Just a squeaking sound was heard, and the security door of Room 1413 slowly opened.
Inside the door is a one-room apartment of about 30 square meters. There is only a toilet partitioned by a sliding door, so there is no room for hiding anything.
Shoes were neatly placed at the entrance, and Gao Mengyu's cell phone and keys were all placed on the shoe cabinet. The kitchen and sink are clean, and the quilt on the bed is evenly spread. There was a square table next to the bed, covered with a tablecloth with a cat pattern.
There were only a few open books on the table. An uncapped pen was tucked into the pages filled with notes.
There aren't many things in the house and everything is in good order. Just looking at these, it seems that the owner of the house is very good at taking care of his life.
At this moment, a fly flew by and landed on the tip of the pen. It crawled across the dried ink marks on the pen tip and rubbed its hands together quietly. Around it, countless fat flies buzzed noisily. They formed a wave of shiny insect mist, flying around and bumping into each other.
The flies come from the only "abnormality" in the house -
The floor was covered with white translucent plastic bags. They piled up quietly around the refrigerator, swollen due to the decay of the contents, and looked like giant insect eggs.
Each bag was crawling with squirming maggots, and turbid rotten juice flowed everywhere.
With some inhumane experience, Yin Ren was able to guess what was in the plastic bag.
They were carefully packed, fist-sized pieces of raw meat.
They were wrapped in mottled masses of maggots, and only their outlines could be seen. The chicken, duck, and fish inside were easy to distinguish, but other pieces of meat were so rotten that it was difficult to identify the source with the naked eye.
Near the pile of bags, the refrigerator door was half-open, and a large amount of viscous gray-yellow liquid flowed out of the freezer layer. The slime seeped into the gaps between the tiles and flowed through half of the room, making the already strong stench even higher.
Everything is incompatible with the tidy environment, and the tearing feeling makes people feel uncomfortable all over.
Seeing the situation inside the house, no one said anything for a while.
Yin Ren decided to be more positive: "What is that? Just... those gray-yellow slime on the ground."
That was the only thing that Yin Ren was unsure about. Unfortunately, he didn't know the refrigerator, so he had to change his story temporarily.
Liang Shan didn't pay attention to the small pause and smiled bitterly.
"It's a rotten brain."
Zhong Cheng said he forgot to cover his mouth and nose: "What kind of brain?"
Yin Ren perked up: "Can I buy the brain alone?"
In this strange atmosphere, although the two newcomers showed tons of resistance, neither of them showed any fear. Liang Shan suddenly had the illusion of transforming into a tour guide at the wet market.
Needless to say, the two new rookies this time seemed not as good as he thought. Seeing such a scene, the vomit bag didn't come in handy.
Liang Shan pointed to a relatively clean bag and showed the "Donghe Farmers Market" logo on it to the two of them.
"The girl bought a lot of whole pig brains. She also bought these meats, and the payment records match. There is nothing that shouldn't be there, it's just common meat in the vegetable market."
It’s just that the scene and situation are particularly wrong.
According to police investigations, since he was preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, Gao Mengyu's life has been almost two-point-one-one-he studied in his apartment during the day, and at most he went downstairs to pick up express delivery. At night, I went to a nearby market to buy groceries while taking advantage of the closing prices.
The stall owners were all impressed by her. She didn't seem to like eating meat very much.
However, just in the past month, Gao Mengyu began to frequently purchase various types of meat. In the past two weeks, she gave up buying randomly and began to focus on buying fresh pig brain flowers, buying about 10 kilograms a day.
This amount was too much for him to eat and too little for his shop. The butcher shop owner remembered it very clearly.
Looking at the surveillance, from the time Gao Mengyu behaved abnormally to when she disappeared, no one came or went in her room. She also did not bring any large items such as suitcases or cabinets that could hide people, so there was no possibility of secretly bringing people into the house. There are no traces of modification in the monitoring, and the thing is incredibly simple -
Four days ago, Gao Mengyu walked into the room with a shopping bag and never left the door again.
She evaporated from this small room with only one person.
The Haigu police called all nearby surveillance cameras, but still found nothing. The investigation and visits have not stopped at the moment, because this fact lies in the evil sect, Liang Shan takes the initiative to ask Shi'an to intervene.
Liang Shan tried to guide the novices: "You have all read the information. Do you have any ideas? Xiao Yin, you go ahead."
After all, the positions were similar, and he wanted to test the depth of this junior metaphysician.
Yin Ren tried his best to shrink away from the window: "There is no trace of packing. There may be thieves... The gangsters kidnapped her."
He wasn't lying. Yin Ren endured the stench and smelled it. There was no ghostly smell unique to the ghosts here. In other words, there is no possibility that Gao Mengyu is possessed by a ghost.
There were a few mixed and vague evil spirits in the room, but there was no hostility in those evil spirits. There is a mix of good and bad people here, the house changes owners frequently, and it is normal to have a little dirt.
Thousands of years have passed, and the world has changed, and new evil things are inevitably born. Before determining the source of the evil aura, Yin Ren didn't want to be too self-righteous.
Unfortunately, his modesty goes a bit too far.
Liang Shan wiped his face with vicissitudes of life: "Well, you and the police have quite the same view."
Gao Mengyu did not have his mobile phone with him when he disappeared, was not wearing outdoor shoes, and had no ability to tamper with surveillance. Her family is well-off, and the police's thinking is indeed biased toward kidnapping... But does it take you, a metaphysician, to say that
"Where's Xiao Zhong, do you have any other opinions?" Liang Shan turned her head without hope.
Zhong Cheng said, covering his mouth and nose tightly, carefully stepping over pieces of rotten flesh, and walked around the room for a while.
"She might still be here."
Liang Shan: "What?"
"Quite simply, since there's no clue that she left, she's probably still here."
The author has something to say:
Ghost King: I think it’s a kidnapping.
High-end scientific research talent (facing an empty room): She may still be here.
Liang Shan:? Is there something wrong with you two
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Yesterday, I responded to a few questions on the scarf! Moving, basically more than one reader has asked.
①The characters of the two protagonists are different from the painting style of the novel "The Evil Man"
I don’t choose the title of the novel casually. There must be a reason for choosing this title☆
②Why is the original sound of Xiao Zhong’s name shuō but she is accustomed to use yue
In the same way, I like to add some spoilers (???) or some symbolic jokes in the names of the protagonists in the previous books. I also do the same in this book -
③Add another question that was answered by a reader before
This article is not an orthodox supernatural world view, and there is no reincarnation system. I personally don’t like “reincarnation” jokes, so I haven’t written it, and I won’t write it in the future. XD
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