Night fell on the Fengyun Inn again. The night in the suburbs was devoid of the hustle and bustle of the city, and it seemed extraordinarily peaceful and desolate.
When Wang Xu woke up from a deep sleep, Yan Li was sitting in a corner of the room typing on his laptop while Elbert was meditating. His serious expression was really funny.
Wang Xu glanced at the time. It was already ten o'clock in the evening. After eating lunch, he slept for nearly ten hours at a stretch.
"Has everything I told you been done?"
Elbert opened his eyes: "I asked the innkeeper about the legends of ghosts and ghosts nearby, but he dragged me and talked about it for the whole afternoon..."
"Hey... This kind of old man is very eloquent, please repeat it."
Elbert sorted out his thoughts, and then began to state: "About seven or eight years ago, this place was quite desolate. At that time, the development plan of the tourist area was put on hold indefinitely, and half-built unfinished buildings were everywhere. , So many homeless people gathered here, lived in unmanaged dilapidated buildings, or set up shacks on the foundation of dilapidated walls.
One day, someone saw a little boy standing alone by the river crying, the child was only about four or five years old, holding a broken doll in his hand. The person who saw it thought it was a child from some family who was playing and lost, so he wanted to go to help him, but he didn't expect that when he came closer, there was only a broken doll on the ground, and the little boy was gone.
The man thought that the little boy fell into the river when he blinked, but he saw that there was not even a bubble on the surface of the water. If someone really fell into the water, he would at least be able to splash twice, which is obviously not right.
It was getting late at that time, and the more he stood there, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was weird, and he gradually became afraid, so he picked up the broken doll and ran home quickly.
The next day he took the doll to ask who lost the child. There were only so many people in this place, and they basically knew each other, and there were some children, but everyone said that they had never seen this doll before, and no one knew it. Lost a child. After a few days like this, the man gradually forgot about it, and the broken doll was thrown in a pile of sundries in his residence.
On the seventh night after the man picked up the doll, he had a dream. A little boy with a strange appearance said to him with a smile, "Thank you, uncle." In the dream, he asked, "Why do you thank me?" ’ The little boy said ‘Thank you for helping me find Mom and Dad, now we can be together’.
The little boy laughed strangely when he said this, and made a weird giggling sound, and finally his whole head fell off. The man was so frightened that he woke up, only to realize that it was a dream.
At this moment, he suddenly heard someone shouting that there was a fire outside. He smelled the burning smell and rushed out, only to see that a nearby shack had been burnt to black, but it was unbelievable that the shack next to it The place is all right.
The police and the fire brigade arrived later, and pulled out two charred bodies from the shack. It was confirmed that they were a couple who came to work in S City from other places... "
When Wang Xu heard this, he interrupted Elbert: "Wait, wait... Why is your story so detailed? Couldn't it be fueled by the shopkeeper?"
Albert replied: "Well... In fact, the person who picked up the doll in the story is the shopkeeper here..."
"What! No way! He didn't fool you, did he?"
Albert shook his head: "It should be true. Since that incident, the city government has strictly ordered the demolition of the illegal building complex, and cleaned up the remaining problems of the tourist area project. Soon after, there will be investors A large playground was built here, and nearby supermarkets, restaurants, and inns opened smoothly.
At that time, some people who lived in the shack were ordered by the city government to return to their original places, and some stayed to find jobs. Many people know this story, and some people clearly remember that the shopkeeper here did take out a broken doll. . "
Wang Xu thought about it for a while: "Then according to what you said, what you saw in the hallucination in the ghostland hallucination last night was also a ghost of a child, which is probably the same as the little boy in this story...but it's not right, why did you see it after the incident? After so many years, that ghost has come again... If he took revenge because his parents abandoned him, then his grievances should have disappeared, there is no reason to come out to kill people after eight years..."
Elbert said: "I can't figure this out, but it is a fact that I was attacked. There must be something we have overlooked..."
Wang Xu turned to Yan Li and said, "Senior Yan, how did you investigate the recent murder case?"
Yan Li's eyes still didn't leave the computer screen: "This whole day is a waste of time. I almost searched all the information about this case on the Internet, and also checked the personal information of those deceased, but it seems that it is related to what you just talked about. The stories don't connect."
"Don't dead people have anything in common?"
Yan Li shook her head: "Not at all. These five people have no similarities in age, gender, occupation, or even hobbies. They are just ordinary tourists."
Wang Xu scratched his head: "Is it possible that it's the problem in the room next door? Maybe they all had accidents in the same room."
Elbert denied him: "I also asked the shopkeeper about this. These five people have never lived in the same room."
Wang Xu thought about it again: "By the way, what about that broken doll back then?"
"The shopkeeper said that he also looked for it later, but he couldn't find it anyway."
Wang Xu sighed: "Hey... that's how non-professionals are. After searching for a long time, the result is still completely clueless..."
Yan Li seemed very dissatisfied with his words: "When you ordered others to do things, you slept there yourself, what right do you have to judge us?"
With Wang Xu's thick skin, he basically would not pay attention to this kind of questioning, he immediately changed the subject: "Elbert, I have had enough sleep now, you don't have to watch tonight, just go back to sleep , Insufficient information, then soldiers have to come and cover up the water and earth... "
Yan Li said: "Are you going to stay with me again tonight?"
Wang Xu laughed three times, and then said two words very decisively: "That's right."
"Hmph... shameless..."
"If you are dissatisfied, you can go back, without your burden, things will be much easier..."
"If you are really a ghost hunter hero, you shouldn't just protect me. There are so many people living in this inn, you should go outside to patrol for one night!"
Wang Xu seemed to think about this sentence very seriously, and then replied: "Well...I really admire you. The conditions you raised are pertinent and reasonable."
Yan Li said in a natural tone: "Thank you."
Wang Xu immediately said another sentence: "But I refuse all of them..."