Wu Weiwei turned his head and looked around, his expression becoming increasingly gloomy, as if he was about to reveal a huge secret, which made Chen Ling a little nervous.
"Don't waste time, just tell me."
"The security guard saw a woman in red standing in the corridor on the first floor, her cheek almost touching the glass, staring outside with a smile." Wu Weiwei swallowed and lowered his voice, "Brother Chen, do you think we should go to that building to take a look?"
Chen Ling nodded, "But for now, let's first find out whether the thing just now in the infirmary is Zhou Yuanxin's."
Wu Weiwei: "You can find out by asking Cheng Le. When I dragged him out just now, I heard him shouting that he saw him. I did see him." He sighed and shook his head, "From the way he looked, he is not far from going crazy."
The ambulance sirens sounded.
The prolonged warning sound made people feel gloomy.
As the ambulance got closer, Chen Ling and Wu Weiwei stood up and went around to the back of the infirmary. After they saw the teachers from the infirmary and the medical staff who came with the ambulance leave, the two sneaked into the house.
The negative energy in the infirmary had become so weak that even Wu Weiwei could not feel it.
He wrinkled his nose and said in disbelief: "Gone?!"
"Also, it's very faint." Chen Ling closed his eyes and let go of all senses except vision. The Yin energy almost merged with the air, filling every corner of the room.
If you had arrived a few minutes later, the negative energy would have completely dissipated.
This means that the "he" that Cheng Le saw was not in this place.
Chen Ling took out an exorcism talisman from his trouser pocket, held it between his fingertips, chanted a spell, and the talisman paper spontaneously combusted.
The talisman paper burns very slowly, the flame is faint, and it is difficult to extinguish.
"The evil spirit is still there. Let's get out of here first." Chen Ling said and turned to leave, but the talisman paper on his fingertips was still burning.
Coming out of the infirmary, the two looked at each other.
Wu Weiwei understood what Chen Ling meant and pointed to the location of the Shenzhou Tower. "We can go straight through this way."
The flame of the talisman paper was dim blue and was about to go out, so Chen Ling took out another one and lit it.
As they got closer and closer to the Chenzhou Tower, the talisman fire gradually changed. The faint blue flame began to jump, and the flames desperately rushed upwards.
Chen Ling looked at the fire that was about to burn his fingertips.
There was a very faint black smoke rising above the flame, which would have been overlooked if the light had been a little dimmer.
"Open the door, let's go in and take a look." Wu Weiwei took out the key, inserted it into the keyhole, and turned to look at Chen Ling in disbelief, "Brother Chen, how did you know I had the key?"
"You are young and strong, so those old employees will definitely let you work the night shift first. How can they not give you the key?" Chen Ling threw the remaining talisman paper on the ground, stepped on it and threw it into the trash can next to him.
Wu Weiwei opened the door in silence and flattered him: "Hey, I can't hide anything from you."
Chenzhou Building is an experimental building. It contains either laboratories for various departments or storage rooms for experimental equipment. Except for classes and weekly cleaning time, no one comes here on weekdays.
The building was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
The sunlight shines in, and the beams of light are filled with floating dust particles, dancing majestically.
Chen Ling walked through the dust and stopped at the door of the nearest equipment room.
There are small glass windows on the two doors for outsiders to see what's going on inside. Just by raising your eyes, you can clearly see the bottles, jars, tables, chairs and benches inside.
Wu Weiwei hissed and pressed his palm to the newly appeared goose bumps on his arm. "This place is quite suitable for shooting horror movies."
This should be the biological equipment room. The bottles are filled with transparent liquid with insects, ants and poisonous snakes floating in them. There is also a largest glass jar containing a newly formed human embryo. No one knows whether it is real or fake.
Chen Ling agreed very much and said, "We are now the protagonists of a horror movie. Who knows what will pop up next."
Wu Weiwei sneered and took out a ball of ink line from the security inner pocket, "It's okay, I brought good things."
Chen Ling found that the ink line was a little different from before. He took it and looked at it. He gave Wu Weiwei a look that said "you are great" and asked, "When was it compiled?"
The ink line looks different at first glance, but if you look closely you can see that the single lines are divided into thinner ropes, and the adjacent ropes are tied together in a regular pattern, and when unfolded they become a fishing net.
Wu Weiwei: "I just tinkered with it a few times before going to bed every night, and before I knew it, I had it done."
Chen Ling handed the ink line net back and was about to praise it when the phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
The caller is Principal Jin.
Principal Jin has complicated feelings towards Chen Ling. He hopes that the young man can help him settle the matter, but he is also afraid that something unexpected will arise and make things more complicated.
He spoke cautiously, fearing to offend someone again. "Master Chen, I went to check and saw that you were not in the classroom. Did you go to cast a spell to catch ghosts? Do you need my help?"
There is urgency in every word.
Chen Ling: "No, there is no rush to exorcise evil spirits and catch ghosts. If we want to take action, we have to wait until after the evening self-study class."
The principal hesitated and said, "Is that so? Have you decided where to hold the ritual?"
Chen Ling was not very confident about exorcising evil spirits. The other party must be very capable to hide his aura to the point where he could not sense it. It would be difficult for him to defeat the evil spirit with just his mediocre skills.
"Not yet." Chen Ling asked, "Does Principal Jin have any good suggestions?"
Principal Jin had many opinions, but he couldn't say anything. He smiled and said, "Master Chen has the final say. How can I, a layman, have any opinions?"
After pausing for two seconds, he said, "Master Chen, I agree to your staying in school. But I hope you won't delay the exorcism we agreed to earlier. This afternoon, two students got into a fight in the infirmary for no apparent reason. One of them was mumbling nonsense, and the other was still unconscious until he was taken to the ambulance."
"Alas." Principal Jin sighed heavily and said sadly, "Children nowadays are so precious that parents can make a fuss over a single hair loss. If this happens a few more times, my school will have to close down."
"Jin Gui?" A sneer came from the young man on the phone. Principal Jin was stunned. He pursed his lips and suddenly dared not speak.
Jin Gui also has different roles for different people. Chen Ling mercilessly exposed the principal's false face, "Jin Gui refers to a small part, right? Cheng Le and He Jiajun are both sons of the school director. How can you, a small shareholder, afford to have them lose their arms and legs? Don't you think so, Principal Jin?"
Principal Jin's face alternately turned hot and cold, his blood rushed to his head, and his face turned red.
Chen Ling didn't have the patience to listen to his nonsense anymore, so he directly tried to test him: "The altar for exorcism is set up in Shenzhou Tower. I'll ask Wu Weiwei to send you the things you need. Be sure to prepare them before the sun sets."
"Shen..." Principal Jin suddenly stopped talking, his tone was a little strange, "Are you sure, Mr. Chen?"
Chen Ling told the truth: "Thirty percent."
Principal Jin didn't expect the other party to be so unsure. "This is too low... Master Chen, catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits is no joke. What if you are unsure and anger the other party?!"
"Principal Jin, why are you in such a hurry?" Chen Ling said in a contemptuous tone, as if he didn't care whether the exorcism could be successful or not.
He covered the receiver and told Wu Weiwei to go to the second floor.
"How can I not be anxious!" Principal Jin stood up from behind his desk and paced anxiously. "What if, what if you make that thing angry, the consequences will be even more serious!"
Chen Ling stopped talking, his breath gently brushing over the receiver.
Principal Jin was made nervous by the sudden silence and tried to save his previous gaffe. "Master Chen, I'm not questioning you. I just, just..."
"Why did Principal Jin become nervous after hearing that I was going to set up an altar in Shenzhou Tower?" Chen Ling said jokingly, "Is there some shady secret hidden in Shenzhou Tower?"
"No, there is no secret." Principal Jin tightened his grip on the phone, calmed down a few times, and said carefully, "Master Chen, that thing harmed my students, it should be a demon struck by lightning, you must not be merciful."
"I have my own plans." Chen Ling said and hung up the phone.
Wu Weiwei walked side by side with him, "Brother Chen, what do you say about the surname Jin?"
"After he heard that we were going to set up an altar in the Shenzhou Tower, he became nervous." Chen Ling sneered, "He just told me to be ruthless when I attacked."
"What on earth is there in this building that makes him afraid?" Wu Weiwei wondered, looking up and around.
The dim corridor and the silent laboratory, the fan above my head makes a slight humming sound, and the cool temperature forms a sharp contrast with the scorching sun outside.
"People feel fearful only when they feel guilty." Chen Ling turned around and walked forward along the corridor.
By now they had reached the third floor, which was mainly a chemistry laboratory.
Seeing that one of the doors was not closed, Chen Ling pushed the door and walked in. As soon as he stepped into the laboratory, something flashed by the back door.
"Did you see it?" Chen Ling asked.
Wu Weiwei nodded repeatedly, "I saw it, it looks like a red shadow."
Chen Ling: “Chase!”
The two rushed out of the laboratory. The corridor was empty, not even a fly, let alone a human figure.
Wu Weiwei took out the ink line and asked, "Splitting up?"
Chen Ling took out two more talismans from his trouser pocket and threw them to Wu Weiwei, "Be careful."
"Don't worry." Wu Weiwei was in high spirits to catch ghosts today, and he disappeared after saying that.
Chen Ling went in the opposite direction, walking quickly and thinking quickly. Principal Jin's strange attitude was always on his mind, so he felt that this building was a little strange.
He went up from the third floor to the sixth floor and found nothing. He then went up from the sixth floor to the top floor and still found nothing. Instead, he met Wu Weiwei on the rooftop.
The two went downstairs and returned to the first floor. Just as they were about to leave, they suddenly received a call from Jiang Shengxing.
Only then did Chen Ling remember what he had asked the other party for.
Jiang Shengxing first apologized, saying that he had exaggerated. He thought Tao Zhiyong's background would be easy to investigate, but the investigation did not go smoothly and was even fraught with difficulties.
"What's going on?" Chen Ling turned on the speakerphone, then turned down the volume and motioned Wu Weiwei to come over and listen.
Jiang Shengxing said: "Although Tao Zhiyong is only a small section chief, he has a deep background. His father, Tao Xiangguo, is the head of a certain company and has used many tricks to cover up his son's scandals. In addition to Tao Zhiyong, the Tao family also has an older brother. In comparison, the Tao family's eldest son is much more promising. To be honest, I dealt with him several times last year."
Jiang Shengxing has a lot of experience and connections. Since he knows the eldest son of the Tao family, there is no reason for him to know nothing about Tao Zhiyong.
Chen Ling guessed: "Tao Zhiyong was abandoned by the Tao family?"
"Yes, Tao Zhiyong had an incident eight years ago." Jiang Shengxing's voice became deeper, "Murder."
Chen Ling was shocked, "Then why wasn't he caught?"
Jiang Shengxing said: "There was insufficient evidence, and after being investigated for a period of time, the person was released."
Eight years ago, the Sky Eye cameras were not as densely distributed as they are now. If we cannot find other more complete chains of evidence and find a lawyer who can make a dead person appear alive, it is indeed possible that they will slip through the net.
Chen Ling glanced at Wu Weiwei and asked, "What's the specific reason?"
"I don't know either. According to the investigation data, a female teacher from Rongxin Middle School disappeared. She was said to be a teacher, but in fact she was the principal's secretary. Some time before her disappearance, she happened to have a private relationship with Tao Zhiyong, and they were already discussing marriage."
Chen Ling thought of Zhou Yuanxin and asked, "When did Zhou Yuanxin's mother marry him?"
"About a year after the female teacher disappeared," Jiang Shengxing said slowly, "After the female teacher disappeared, her family found out about the relationship between Tao Zhiyong and their daughter, and they immediately went to Tao Zhiyong's house to ask for her. Tao Zhiyong said he didn't know the female teacher, so the female teacher's mother broke into the house and found a piece of clothing that her daughter had worn."
"Tao Zhiyong was unable to defend himself and was forcibly taken to the police station by the other parent. The police station could not get any information from him and released him. But the female teacher never came back and there was no record of her staying in a hotel or taking a bus. A living person just disappeared like that."
"About three months later, her family filed a lawsuit directly, saying that Tao Zhiyong had killed their daughter. They hoped that the police would act in accordance with the law and preferably shoot him. But without solid evidence, no matter how big the suspicion is, it is in vain. As far as I know, there are still police following up on this case until now."
Chen Ling changed his posture while holding the phone and asked, "Is his relationship with Principal Jin linked to that female teacher?"
Jiang Shengxing: “No.”
Jiang Shengxing's tone was not very good, and he looked very angry. "He and Principal Jin were only implicated eight years ago. Tao Zhiyong relied on his family's connections to secretly sell a batch of inferior construction materials to Principal Jin for the expansion of the campus. Then Principal Jin reported the price of good materials to the board of directors for approval, and the two of them made a profit from the difference."
Using inferior building materials as substitutes for good ones, once an accident happens after the house is built, hundreds or even thousands of people will be injured. What's more, this is used in schools!
Jiang Shengxing felt more and more disgusted the more he thought about it, and he exploded with anger, "At present, all the teaching buildings newly built in Rongshen Middle School within the past eight years are shoddy projects!"
An idea suddenly came to Chen Ling's mind, and he stood straighter as his mood suddenly tensed up.
He leaned closer to the receiver nervously and asked, "Could Principal Jin also be related to the disappearance of the female teacher?"
Otherwise, why did Mr. Jin become so nervous when the Chenzhou Tower was mentioned just now, as if his grave was about to be dug up
Jiang Shengxing was not too sure. His people had not been able to find out much inside information, and the current information was obtained through some shady means.
"I can't say for sure, but Principal Jin and Tao Zhiyong have done a lot of shady things. In addition, the ingredients purchased by the school cafeteria are also problematic. Those ingredients are all rotten vegetables that Tao Zhiyong got from familiar wholesalers. Cut off the rotten parts and continue cooking."
Jiang Shengxing is a businessman. Whether because of his own conscience or out of respect for Jiang Yu, very few people in the Jiang family dare to do anything harmful. Every year, Hengjiang Group allocates a portion of funds for charity.
In his eyes, what Principal Jin and Tao Zhiyong did was like shit in a stinking gutter, which was shameful and disgusting.
Chen Ling didn't expect that such a thing would happen, so he quickly asked Wu Weiwei to find an opportunity to take a walk around the cafeteria to see if he could find some clues.
Of course, it would be even better if we could get some information from the cafeteria staff and record a video of the scene.
When the time comes, once the evidence is dug out, those two beasts will be left speechless.
Jiang Shengxing waited for Chen Ling to finish instructing Wu Weiwei, then said, "Mr. Chen, this is all I can find out. Is there anything else I can do?"
"Not yet." Chen Ling was about to speak when he heard a series of footsteps in the corridor.
He held Wu Weiwei's shoulders, and a pair of eyes appeared from the hidden corner. It was actually Principal Jin.
Principal Jin looked very nervous and took every step carefully. His eyes were darting around as if he was looking for someone.
He walked down the corridor and up the stairs on the left side of the building.
Chen Ling quickly asked the person on the phone, "By the way, what is the name of the missing female teacher?"
Jiang Shengxing said: "Fan Xiaozhou."
The next second, Chen Ling sneered and hung up the phone.
Wu Weiwei heard the coldness in his smile and subconsciously stood up straight, his heartbeat slightly faster, "Brother Chen, what's wrong?"
Chen Ling looked over and asked: "How many floors does this building have?"
Wu Weiwei said: "The ninth floor."
"Nine, the Art of Ultimate Yang." Chen Ling asked again, "Did you hear the female teacher's name just now?"
"Fan Xiaozhou?" Wu Weiwei slapped his forehead suddenly, "No, it should be Zhou, the Zhou in Chenzhou Tower!"
The Shenzhou Building is only used for experiments, and the ninth floor is not needed at all. The reason for wasting space and high cost is to use the number nine, the most yang number, to calm the soul!
Wu Weiwei felt a chill in his heart, he bit his cheek tightly, and his fists were clenched so hard that they made a crackling sound.
Chen Ling was afraid that he would not be able to resist and would rush up to the principal and punch him a few times, so he quickly comforted him, "Don't get excited, we can't alert the enemy yet. In addition to the purpose of coming here to redress Zhou Yuanxin's innocence, we now have another mission."
—Find the missing teacher.
And in the world, apart from Principal Jin and Tao Zhiyong, there is probably no third person who knows her whereabouts.