Episode 5 Chapter 045: Seeing a Ghost
There is no doubt that Director Gao knows this person. Seeing Director Gao's reaction, Shi Hu asked him who this person was. Then Director Gao said that this person's name was Qiao Jie. When I heard this person's name, I jumped up as if I was electrocuted. He is Qiao Jie, it turns out he is Qiao Jie!
Shi Hu knew the whole story, but Director Gao didn't. My action scared him and he asked what happened. Shi Hu tried to smooth things over for me and said it was nothing and asked Director Gao to continue. Director Gao said Qiao Jie used to be a driver at the funeral home, but after the incident with Old Liu's family three years ago, he resigned. The driver that day was none other than Qiao Jie.
It is normal for people to resign after something like this happens, but Director Gao continued to say that it was strange that less than a month after Qiao Jie resigned, he suddenly jumped from a building and died. At that time, everyone said that he was mentally ill. His family said that he had been muttering that someone was following him, and no matter where he went, someone followed him. His family helped him find someone to exorcise evil spirits, but it was of no avail. They also took him to the hospital and even to a mental hospital, but the results were the same, there was nothing wrong with him.
Another case of jumping from a building. I know of two such cases. All of them worked in the funeral home and were related to Old Man Liu. That's why Director Gao explained why he was so frightened when Qiao Jie's half-length photo appeared here. The man had been dead for three years, how could his work photo still be kept? And I just met this person, which was even more unbelievable.
Yes, I actually talked to a dead person and even saw him, so why did he take me to the columbarium? I feel that after experiencing so many of these things, I am not afraid anymore, but more puzzled and confused. Director Gao was very scared, he said who knows, he has been dead for three years, who knows why he suddenly appeared.
Shi Hu and Director Gao asked for the Yin money and Qiao Jie's half-length portrait. It was certain that this matter was related to Old Man Liu. It was not until we were in the car again that I told Shi Hu about the other voice that suddenly appeared when I answered the phone that day. That was the time when we sent Old Man Liu's ashes back. The voice on the phone said that I couldn't send the ashes back. Now that I think about it, is there a problem here? Is there something strange about Old Man Liu's ashes?
So Master Nan took the ashes, and this was also related to Old Man Liu, and Master Nan was possessed because he came to my house. It was like a conspiracy, and everyone seemed to have been arranged long ago. I asked Shi Hu where Master Nan would take the ashes. Shi Hu thought about it and could n't think of a place for a while. He said the key was to find out what Master Nan did with Old Man Liu's ashes.
I don't know why, but I said 721, Master Nan should have gone to 721. After I said it, Shi Hu looked at me. He seemed to have the same guess, but he hadn't confirmed it yet. Seeing me say that, he asked me why. I couldn't tell the reason. I just thought that Master Nan would put his ashes in 721. This idea was like a flash of inspiration. Shi Hu said that we should go to 721, and he believed me.
Of course, we didn't go there rashly. Shi Hu called Shan Lanjin halfway, and Shan Lanjin said to wait for him for about an hour, because he had something to do and couldn't leave for the time being. We went back and forth like this since morning, and the whole morning had passed. When we returned to the community, it was almost noon. Shi Hu and I had a simple meal outside, which was considered lunch. Shan Lanjin said we just needed to eat and didn't need to wait for him.
As we had to wait for Shan Lanjin, Shi Hu and I went back home first. When we got home, I found that the house had changed completely. Except for the ink line that Master Nan played like a cage, everything else was gone, including those things that looked like corpse marks. The round mirror on the coffee table was also cleaned up. Needless to say, this was all arranged by Shi Hu. Shi Hu said that these ink lines should be removed as soon as possible to prevent Master Nan from doing anything bad.
To be honest, I am very grateful to Shi Hu. At least he helped me sincerely, and he was not just investigating the case for the sake of investigating the case. We sat at home for a while until Shan Lanjin called and said that they were already on the seventh floor. Then we went downstairs. Shan Lanjin brought four people with him. I didn't know if they were from the police station. Shi Hu didn't introduce them to me. Then I took the key to open the door, and we went in together.
The situation in 721 has never changed. It is still the same as when I came here earlier, but it is inexplicably more gloomy. It is probably because no one has lived here for a long time and there are these things happening. On the table in the master bedroom, I saw that the white paper on it was still there, but it had been moved, and there were new sketches on the table. I saw that they were from Shi Hu and Master Nan. Shan Lanjin picked up the sketch and looked at it. I asked who drew it. Could it be that Master Nan drew it himself? Neither Shi Hu nor Shan Lanjin was sure, but Shan Lanjin said that no matter who came here to paint, there was only one person who was really painting, that is Old Man Liu. Apart from him, there was probably no one else who would have this idea. Shan Lanjin also said that Old Man Liu had studied art and was very good at sketching. These things should all be from his hand.
Hearing Shan Lanjin say this, I seemed to understand what he wanted to say, so I asked if he was possessed by Master Nan. Shan Lanjin didn't respond to me, and I didn't feel embarrassed. Instead, I looked somewhere else in the master bedroom. When I looked up, suddenly a very bad feeling passed through my heart. It felt like someone was spying on us, which made me feel scared, and the feeling that danger was lurking beside me once again came to my mind, making me want to leave here immediately.
I looked around uneasily, looking back from time to time. Shi Hu noticed my abnormality and asked me what was wrong. I was fidgeting and said I felt someone was spying on us. I didn't expect that just this one sentence made Shi Hu and Shan Lanjin nervous. This made me feel flattered that they cared so much about what I said.
Shan Ranjin had the two sketches put in a file bag, and then we left the master bedroom. He left some people in the living room, and we went to the guest bedroom. We saw that the bed was still there, but there was no trace of a corpse on it. It was just an ordinary wooden bed.
There was nothing in there at all, so we came out and just as we reached the door, other people told Shan Lanjin that there was a problem in the bathroom, so we went to the bathroom again, only to see that the mirror in the bathroom was sealed with white wax. Only a translucent layer could be seen. When people stood in front of it, they could only see a blurry shadow reflected in it. It looked a bit creepy, it would be better to see one's own image directly in it.
I whispered to Shi Hu about the reason for sealing the mirror with wax. Shi Hu said that mirrors are evil, and if they are covered, it means that something bad has happened because of the mirror. Now it is sealed with wax, and the same reason applies. Could this also be done by Master Nan? But why did he seal the mirror? Is he here to prevent that kind of bad thing from happening?
But I don't think so. Since he was possessed, he wouldn't do such a kind thing. Besides, I don't have a very good impression of Old Man Liu. I always feel that he would not do anything other than harming people, otherwise his whole family as well as Qiao Jie and Huang Weilun would not have died inexplicably.
Neither Shan Lanjin nor Shi Hu dared to touch the wax. In the end, Shan Lanjin had the mirror removed from the wall and taken back for careful study. He also asked them to be careful not to break the mirror. So his men came in to dismantle the mirror. We retreated and when we retreated to the balcony, I heard someone calling me from downstairs. So I walked to the window and looked down. There was no one downstairs. I wondered if it was my illusion.
I then withdrew from the window, but immediately the same voice came from downstairs again. This time I could hear it clearly, it was indeed calling my name, but the voice was very distant. So I walked to the window again, but there was still no one downstairs. This repeated three or four times, Shi Hu realized something was wrong and asked me why I kept going back and forth by the window, and whether I had discovered something. I said it seemed like someone downstairs was calling my name, but there was no one downstairs at all.
After I finished speaking, Shi Hu also walked to the window and looked down. He said that they didn't hear any sound. I said that although it was far away, it was still very loud. I heard it, so they couldn't not hear it. Shan Lanjin said that we shouldn't stand here, so we went back to the living room. But when I got back to the living room, I felt that it was different from when we first came in, and I couldn't see where it was for a moment, so I asked Shi Hu and the others if they noticed it.
As I was talking, I looked around the room carefully, and finally my eyes fell on the door. The door was closed, so I walked to the back and looked out through the peephole. I didn't expect that as soon as I got closer, I saw a pair of eyes looking in from the outside. It happened again! I immediately took a step back and exclaimed that there was someone outside. As I said that, I opened the door. When I opened the door, something fell from the door. It was the dishevelled dummy. It fell to the ground with a "pop", as if it was the one lying on the door just now.
But I still rushed to the corridor, but the corridor was still gloomy and there was no one. I looked in both directions, and there was nothing but deep darkness. Shi Hu picked up the dummy from the ground and said that this dummy was not one of the two found in the water tank. As he said that, Shi Hu moved the dummy and saw that it was more flexible and the joints were softer. Shi Hu then said that this was not a dummy, but a puppet, and when Shi Hu pressed it, it laughed "haha".
