While Xiao Le was talking, he turned and looked at me, and my face suddenly darkened.
Who did this
Duan Yunfei? Nangong Ling? Impossible, they can't directly order Guan's employees, or in other words, the investigation call can't reach them. The only person who can do this is Guan Qingyan.
Guan Qingyan!
I couldn't help but sneer at the corner of my mouth.
Guan Qingyan wants to put me to death, so it's time to start our feud all over again.
The police officer in charge of the interrogation said, "Mr. Wu, you should have heard it yourself. Guan does not recognize the employment relationship between you. At the same time, a medical staff member of Corning Hospital was killed. You are a major suspect. Before we find out the truth, please stay in the criminal police team and cooperate with our investigation."
I nodded and said, "I can stay and cooperate with the investigation, but I must be with my two companions."
The police officer hesitated for a moment and said, "I'm afraid that's impossible. You all have some suspicion. In order to prevent collusion, you must be detained separately."
I raised my head from the chair and said, "The ghost's pursuit of Chen Lei has not ended yet. He may sneak into the police station to continue killing people at any time. You can stop the bandits, but can you stop the ghosts?"
Xiao Le's face suddenly darkened: "You'd better not exaggerate. Those tricks will not work in front of us."
The older police officer raised his hand to stop Xiao Le: "Lock them in the adjacent room."
Xiao Le was surprised and said, "Boss, you are spoiling him too much."
"Listen to me!" The policeman forcibly interrupted Xiaole and locked me and Shi Heshang in several adjacent rooms. Then he sat in the room where I was held with Xiaole and handed me a cigarette and said, "My name is Xing Guohua, and I'm the captain of the criminal police here. Do you know why I believe you?"
I took a puff of my cigarette and said, "Have you ever seen a ghost?"
"Yes." Captain Xing said, "Many years ago, I did encounter a case of a ghost killing someone. I spent a long time investigating clues and tracking down the murderer, but found nothing. In the end, I could only classify it as a homicidal case."
Captain Xing took a deep breath and said, "You have no idea how miserable the family of the deceased is. The wife of that family is seriously ill and the children are young. Only the head of the household makes a living by working hard. But the head of the household was chopped off and his head was hung on a wooden man. The scary thing is that the wooden man can still move, go home as usual, and talk to his family."
I was shocked when I heard this and quickly interrupted Captain Xing's recollection: "Did the wooden man with a human head really appear near here? When did it happen? How did you solve the case later?"
"It really happened!" Captain Xing nodded. "When I went to the hospital warehouse to investigate the scene today, I felt that the murderer had returned. If you want to listen, I will tell you slowly."
I nodded and said, "Go on!"
Captain Xing said, "The woman who reported the case said that the man brought a piece of fresh meat home that day, and his child clapped his hands in joy, saying that he could finally eat meat, as he had been craving it for a long time. However, he insisted that the woman chop the meat into pieces and feed it to the child raw. The woman disagreed, so he did it himself."
"The woman was so distressed that she sat on the sidelines and watched. Who knew that a pair of wooden hands would appear from the man's sleeves? The woman was scared to death, but when she saw the kitchen knife in the man's hand, she didn't even dare to shout."
"The man knew his secret was exposed, but he didn't care at all. In fact, at night, he would unbutton his clothes, revealing his wooden body, walk back and forth in the house, and hold the child in his hands that smelled of rotten wood."
Captain Xing lit up a cigarette and said slowly, "At that time, although the woman was trembling with fear every night, she dared not report the case. I later asked her why, and she said that she was afraid that the police would not believe in ghosts."
"But she didn't report the case, which allowed the tragedy to continue. The wooden man would go out every night and bring back a piece of meat when he came back. He would chop the meat into small pieces and feed it to his children like a duck."
"No matter how much the woman begged, the wooden man refused to stop until he had fed the child all the meat. At first, the meat he brought back was fresh, but after a few days, the meat started to spoil and even gave off a foul stench. But the man never cared about that and just kept feeding the child meat."
"It was not until the woman saw a birthmark on the meat the man brought back that she realized that the meat he fed to the child every night was his own flesh!"
"We have a saying here that anyone who eats their parents' flesh will definitely become an evil ghost, an evil ghost that will be punished by heaven and earth."
"The woman was scared. The more she looked at her child, the more she found his eyes scary. She said she saw him licking his lips several times, staring at her as if he was greedy for meat."
"The woman even secretly touched the child's head until horns grew out of the child's hair. She was so scared that she burst into tears and found the police when the wooden man was out."
"I was the one who called the police at first. I thought she was crazy. I finally managed to send her home, but she refused to go. I had to lie to her and said I would help her catch someone. Only then did she take me home."
Captain Xing suddenly showed a terrified expression: "I am a criminal policeman and have seen many corpses. I smelled the stench of corpses as soon as I arrived at the door of that house. But I thought that woman was the murderer. I thought she killed her husband and scared herself crazy."
"Just as I was about to push the door, I saw the wooden man walking out of the room. I will never forget his face, it was the face of a dead man, without a trace of life. As I stared at him in a daze, the woman pounced on him like crazy and tore off the wooden man's clothes."
Captain Xing took a long puff of his cigarette and said, "I was shocked by the scene in front of me. I never thought that a person's head could still be attached to the wood after being chopped off."
"But because I was a step slower, the wooden man ripped out the woman's heart right in front of me, and ran into the house holding the bloody heart in his hand."
"By the time I realized what was happening, the wooden man had already put the human heart into her child's mouth, laughing wildly and shouting 'eat, eat quickly'. The child was like a wolf cub, desperately pulling the human heart down and swallowing it."
Captain Xing held the cigarette butt tightly and said, "I shot the wooden man three times, but he didn't react at all. He even dragged the child towards me. I was so scared that I didn't know what to do. I just shot desperately, but my bullets had no effect on him at all."
"I ran out of bullets, and the wooden man ran away with the child right under my nose. There were no mobile phones at that time, and I couldn't find anyone when I wanted to call my colleagues. When I rushed back with my colleagues, I didn't know where the wooden man had run off to."
Captain Xing took a long breath and said, "Later, I led people to search for a few more days before we found the wooden man and the body of a child in the land temple at the foot of the mountain."
"The child's head was also chopped off and placed neatly on the altar of the land temple. There was a hole between the eyebrows of the wooden man and the child. I even measured it and found that it was caused by a dagger. The dagger was probably more than seven inches long and pierced their heads through."
Captain Xing pointed at his forehead and said, "How much strength does it take to get in from here and out from the back of the head? Three lives were lost right in front of me!"
Captain Xing sighed and lit another cigarette. I asked, "You just said that the woman told you something later? Wasn't her heart taken out by a ghost?"
"Yes!" Captain Xing said, "She told me later! The woman was unwilling to die, and she came to me every night, kneeling at my door and crying about her experience over and over again."
"At first, she just cried at the door; then she simply knelt inside the door; later she knelt in front of my bed, stretched out her hands to grab my sleeves and shook them desperately, her eyes bleeding and she cried and begged me to help her family get revenge."
Captain Xing puffed hard on his cigarette and said, "During that time, I almost went crazy. I'm not afraid of the ghost, but I feel sorry for their whole family. If I had believed in ghosts at the time, maybe that woman wouldn't have died, and his child wouldn't have been beheaded."
I frowned and asked, "How did you survive the encounter with the evil ghost?"
In Taoism, the term "evil ghost avenging a wrong" refers to a ghost filled with resentment who is unable to take revenge on his own, so he places his hope on someone else who can avenge him, and constantly begs or even tortures that person.
If that person can clear his name, he will naturally do his best to repay the favor. However, if the other party refuses repeatedly, or if there is no way to take revenge, the evil spirit will vent his anger on the other party and vent all his resentment on that person. If that person is not protected by a master, he will surely die.
Captain Xing said, "My aunt is a great immortal. She fought hard to beat that woman away and saved me. She also warned me again and again not to get involved in this matter. As a police officer in the world of the living, I can't intervene in matters of the underworld."
Captain Xing pulled out a talisman bag from his neck: "After that, I also began to believe in the legend of gods and ghosts, and started carrying amulets with me."
I glanced at the talisman bag and saw that it was indeed a common technique used by shamans. Captain Xing's aunt must be an authentic shaman.
Captain Xing looked at me with burning eyes and said, "Two murders have occurred in succession in the past few days, and they both seem to be related to the original case. Are you investigating that case?" (To be continued)