Episode 5 Chapter 046 Intuition
When I first heard the sound, it reminded me of Cai Ming's laughter during the Spring Festival Gala, but then an eerie feeling crept into my heart. Shi Hu took off the eyes of the puppet on the cat's eye and asked the people who came with him to put the puppet in a bag and take it back together.
We didn't see any trace of Master Nan in 721, which was somewhat surprising, and Old Man Liu's ashes were not here either. Then Shan Lanjin suddenly asked, "Has our building always been so sparsely populated, especially on the seventh floor? Since they came down, it seemed that no one had entered or left."
Shan Lanjin said that it was daytime now, and even if he was at work, the place would not be empty. I said no, there were usually a lot of people there, but I didn't come here often, so I didn't know much about the seventh floor. Shan Lanjin seemed to be more cautious, and then whispered something to the people around him, and I didn't hear it clearly, and then two people went downstairs.
Shan Lanjin walked from one end of the corridor on the seventh floor to the other. When he reached the end, he suddenly asked Shi Hu if he felt the silence there was unusual. Shi Hu's answer was somewhat intriguing. He said that the strangest thing was that he could live safely next to a room like 721 without being affected.
I saw Shan Lanjin's eyes suddenly tightened, and his pupils shrank sharply. Shi Hu often came and went here, so he must have noticed something. Now I was the only one who was confused and didn't know what was going on on the seventh floor. Then I saw Shan Lanjin make a move. He walked to the door of the house at the end and started knocking. After knocking for a while, there was no response. Shan Lanjin walked a few steps away from the door and stared inside. I knew he was using the peephole to see what was going on inside.
Then Shan Lanjin said that there was someone inside, or maybe there was no one, but there was an eye behind the door looking at him. Then he suddenly took out his cell phone and dialed a number. I didn’t know who he was calling. Only after the call was connected did I guess it might be from the police station. He said he needed to dispatch people to our community, and to this building. Then he told Shi Hu that Master Nan was on the seventh floor, but not in 721.
Then he told the rest of the people to guard the entrance and exit of the seventh floor, and then he started knocking on the doors one by one. Every time he knocked on a door , he tried to pull down the door handle to open it, but none of them could be opened. Shi Hu asked me to pay attention to the peepholes in each room. There was an eye behind each one, as if there was someone in each room looking out through the peephole.
This situation is somewhat strange, but Shi Hu quickly said that it might not be a person, just like what we just saw, the eyes of the puppets were just glued to the cat's eyes. I asked, "Is there a puppet in every room?" Shi Hu said, "That's a question for the master."
Within half an hour, many police officers came and almost sealed off our building, especially the seventh floor. Shan Ranjin's people went down to find the property management staff. Shan Ranjin meant to ask the property management staff to open the doors of all the residents on the seventh floor one by one. At first, the property management staff was stubborn and said that it was not good to do so and would be complained by the owners, but Shan Ranjin's eyes seemed to see through him. He didn't insist on his pale and weak words for a long time, and he completely gave in because Shan Ranjin told him that no one lived on the entire seventh floor. After hearing this, the property management staff turned pale and obediently opened the doors of the seventh floor one by one.
When the doors on the seventh floor were opened one by one, I realized that the seventh floor, which I thought was full of residents, was actually not occupied in any of the rooms. Except for room 721, the other rooms were simply decorated. Upon inquiring, the property management said that the seventh floor was bought by one resident. Shi Hu asked if it was Old Man Liu, but the owner shook his head and said no.
Then he told us in words he himself didn't believe, that this person might have bought it for investment, and had kept it in his hands without moving it, and that 721 might have been rented to Liu Laotou's daughter and son-in-law, or it might have been transferred to them, and they didn't know the details. Hearing this, I felt that things were far from being as simple as I knew, and I even began to doubt how many people lived in our building. When the property management heard me ask this, they panicked and told me not to worry, that except for the seventh floor, all other floors were full, and that they had kept it a secret because if this kind of thing was told to others, it would cause others to make random guesses, so they kept it a secret.
From a business perspective, this is understandable. After I looked at all the houses on the seventh floor, I found that each one had one thing in common, that is, they all had a table in the living room with a statue of Buddha on it. After I looked at it, it was exactly the same as the one my mother had brought back, even the layout of the table was the same. Of course, if I noticed something, there was no reason for Shi Hu and the others not to notice it. During the time, Shi Hu even asked me if my father and mother had ever been to the seventh floor.
Shi Hu's implication was that since the ghost Bodhisattva was brought back by my mother, it must be related to this place. Now that it is mentioned, I really don't know where this Bodhisattva came from. I just remember asking casually at the time, and I also remember my mother answered that it was brought back from the temple.
Shi Hu stopped talking after hearing that. Finally, we saw Master Nan's talisman bags in a room. I recognized these talisman bags. They were used by Master Nan to store the ashes of paper figures and fragments of ghost Bodhisattvas. Master Nan did not dispose of them, but put them here. It was only then that Shi Hu told me with certainty that what Master Nan did was not to help my family exorcise evil spirits, but to attract ghosts. Those things that looked like corpse marks under the sea lamp were not corpse marks, but ghost shadows.
Of course, as Shi Hu guessed, there was a puppet hanging behind the door of each room, exactly the same as the one we just saw outside the door, and the eyes we saw were the eyes of the puppet.
Finally, we found Master Nan in the room at the end of the other side. He was standing by the windowsill with a dazed look on his face. We could only see his back when we went in. In the living room was the urn of Old Man Liu, but the urn had been opened and the ashes inside had disappeared.
The police quickly subdued Master Nan. Actually, the word "subdued" is not appropriate because Master Nan did not struggle or resist at all. He looked completely different from the person I usually see. He did not look like a ghost catcher at all.
Shi Hu asked him where old man Liu's ashes were, but he didn't respond at all. Shi Hu saw that he couldn't get anything out of him, so he could only ask someone to take him to the police station for detention. After all, forging police documents is illegal, and the reason the police took action this time was also for this, because you can't tell the entire community that the building is haunted, and then mobilize forces to catch the person possessed by the ghost.
I walked to the windowsill and looked down. The windowsill of this room was the other side of the community. I looked down and there was no one there. I didn't know what Master Nan was looking at, so I looked elsewhere and accidentally saw the building opposite. Then I seemed to see someone looking over here.
There are three buildings on the opposite side. I found something wrong and immediately called Shi Hu to ask if there was someone looking at us. Master Nan kept staring out the window to see if it was related to this person. I talked to Shi Hu but my eyes never left the man. I felt that he was also looking at me, even though we were far away, but I had this feeling.
Shi Hu saw it and immediately brought two people to take a look. I told him to be careful, and then Shi Hu went. But when Shi Hu left, I suddenly heard someone calling my name downstairs, so I stuck my head out to look, but there was nothing down there. And as soon as I stuck my head out, the sound disappeared immediately, but when I stuck my head back, the sound came again.
I felt a little guilty, so I moved away from the window sill and quickly left the room. After that, Master Nan was taken away, and Shan Lanjin asked the property management to go back with him to take a statement. He probably meant to follow the clues to find out the tricks on the seventh floor. Shan Lanjin asked me to go back to the police station with him, saying that it would be safer for me to stay with them.
When I came downstairs, there was a group of people gathered downstairs. The police dispersed them. I saw Shi Hu had returned from Building 3. I asked him if he had any clues, and Shi Hu shook his head.
After arriving at the police station, Shan Lanjin did all these things personally. Shi Hu took me to another empty office. He said that Shan Lanjin had discussed with him and they were going to second me to the police station from my unit. I was a little surprised. Shi Hu said that of course seconding me would just put my name under the police station, and I didn't have to come to work like them, I just had to work with them. I asked why they did this, and Shi Hu said that he and Shan Lanjin both felt that I was the most suitable person to be a psychic consultant.
I was speechless, I knew nothing about this kind of thing, how could I be a psychic consultant. Shi Hucai said that a psychic consultant doesn't necessarily have to know how to catch ghosts or something, the most important responsibility is to be able to give a good direction for investigating the case. Shi Hu said that although I don't know these things, maybe because I'm in the middle of it, my intuition is very accurate, just like I just helped them find the location of Master Nan.
I thought about it and this is actually the best way. At least if I'm seconded here, I can avoid a lot of rumors, and I won't have to take leave all the time and have no source of income. Shi Hu said let me think about it first, and I agreed, and they went to handle the secondment procedures.
