Episode 8 Chapter 081 Clues
It was only at this time that I remembered to show Shi Hu the archival photos . I said that there were so many unclaimed bodies in the funeral home, and they were not cremated but just frozen. Isn't it a bit too weird? Shi Hu asked me to send these pictures to him. He said he would investigate the matter. I should not disclose this to anyone else for the time being, and I should not do such dangerous things. There are strict surveillance cameras in the funeral home, and it would be bad if I was photographed.
In the following time, the ashes were temporarily placed with me. Shan Ranjin said that it would be too conspicuous to take so many ashes out now, so we should wait until the evening when there are fewer people. It would be bad for too many residents to see them. I looked at the many densely packed urns in the room and said that Huang Weilun treated my place as a cemetery, putting so many in it, and how he put them there was really incredible. It was nonsense that he must have the key to my house and must have come in when I was at work, but I didn't notice it.
That being said, it was hard to tell what Huang Weilun's purpose was. We sat on the sofa outside and chatted to kill time. Shan Lanjin only interrupted from time to time. Most of the time, it was Shi Hu and I who were talking. Finally, when we talked about the disposal of the ghost Bodhisattva, the urn and the cloth shoes, Shan Lanjin said that he did have a way, but he was not sure whether it would work. I asked what the method was. Shan Lanjin said that the origin of the ghost Bodhisattva was unknown, but the urn and cloth shoes came from the middle-aged man who was hanged. We could place it in the abandoned community I dreamed of, because he felt that it seemed to be the real place of his origin.
I said, wouldn't it be a problem if we just sent them over like this, because I don't think these things can be sent away so easily. However, Shan Ranjin said that the most important thing now is not whether we can send them away, but to find out what is in my house that has attracted these things here. He thought that with so many things occupying my house, there must be something that attracted them here.
After hearing what Shan Ranjin said, I couldn't think of what it could be. Shan Ranjin said it might be something very inconspicuous, or it might be something I completely unexpected. In short, he told me to pay attention to all the unusual things I could think of since I moved in here. We have no other way now, we can only do it like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Shan Lanjin also said that since we found the real location of the thing behind the door and the hanged man, my house has been basically free from the intrusion of these two things, which means that his guess is correct. Perhaps we were thinking in the wrong place from the beginning. We shouldn't have asked Master Nan to exorcise the evil spirits. Instead, the situation became more evil. Now, Shan Lanjin said that perhaps Master Nan had seen through it a long time ago and just deliberately used the same trick to exorcise the evil spirits, which led to the subsequent events.
I have to admire Shan Lanjin's thinking and reasoning ability, because what he is thinking now is exactly what I have felt recently. Ever since Master Nan appeared in the funeral home again, I felt that he was actually fine from the beginning, but no matter what happened to him, or everything caused by exorcism afterwards, it all seemed like he did it on purpose. What I can't understand the most is why he stole Old Man Liu's ashes. Why did he do this? I think if we can figure this out, perhaps these mysteries about Master Nan will be solved.
Shan Lanjin just said a few simple words to me and didn't go into details. He said that the seventh floor is also a place that attracts evil spirits, which is why those things cannot be kept there for a long time. I followed Shan Lanjin's thoughts and said that the ghost Bodhisattva came in through paper people. I remembered a place, which is the place . There were densely packed paper people there. Could it be that this ghost Bodhisattva came from there?
When I got to this point, Shi Hu said that the place he mentioned to me that time did not exist. Now it is a question whether that place exists or not, so we have to talk about it later. I am sure that place really exists. I don't think that I have hallucinations or remember it wrong, or bring something unreal into reality. But what Shi Hu said is indeed right. This matter is indeed another matter. Now it is most important to solve the current problem.
When it was getting dark, Shi Hu received a call. From his tone it seemed like the call was from the police. After hanging up the phone, he told us that the DNA of the body dug out from under the tree downstairs had been identified. It was not Li Ming's, and of course it could not be Liu Chi's, because it was a man's skeleton.
After Shi Hu finished speaking, he didn't say anything, as if he found it unbelievable. He was thinking while he was talking. I was a little anxious and asked who it belonged to. Shi Hu said it belonged to Old Man Liu's son-in-law - Zhang Yingquan.
After hearing this, I said how could this be possible. I remembered that all of Old Man Liu's immediate family members had died, and were later cremated at the funeral home. How could they be buried under the tree now?
When Shi Hu heard me say this, he was not as excited as I was. Instead, he said that the matter was not that simple. Just before the results came out, a woman went to the police station to claim the body that had been dug up, saying that it was her husband. I was a little confused when I heard it, but I just said that Old Man Liu's son-in-law was her husband, so wasn't she Old Man Liu's daughter?
Shi Hu nodded and said that was right. The result was too unexpected. The dead came back to life. What was going on? Shi Hu said that it seemed that the death of Old Liu and his family three years ago was indeed very strange. Now he was doubting the truth of that matter. As he spoke, he looked at Shan Lanjin. The reason he looked at him was because Shan Lanjin had been responsible for investigating Old Liu's case, and he knew these details or not.
When Shan Lanjin saw Shi Hu looking at him, he just glanced at Shi Hu. They were communicating silently, and only I was confused and didn't know what was going on. Shan Lanjin finally said that they did investigate the unusual suspicious points at that time. Among the people sitting in the car at that time, Old Man Liu's daughter was not there. For some reason, she was not in the car, but when the death list was announced later, her name was on it, and she also had a share of the ashes, but these ashes were taken away by Old Man Liu, and no one else knew where they were, so the matter has been hanging. Shan Lanjin said that when he started to investigate the case, he conducted a thorough investigation, but he lacked the statement of a crucial person, because among all the people, he was the only first eyewitness.
I said it was Qiao Jie. He was the driver at the time, and he was the only one who knew whether Old Man Liu's daughter was present or not.
Shan Lanjin said that when they got involved in this matter, Qiao Jie had already jumped to his death, and he also found that the funeral home staff who were involved in the incident with Old Man Liu had either resigned or disappeared. The only ones who could be found who mentioned what happened at that time were hesitant and unwilling to explain clearly.
In the end, it was Dan Ranjin who went to great lengths to get the clue he just told us, so from that time on, he felt that Old Man Liu’s case was not that simple, including the fact that he suddenly “came back to life”, which was not such a coincidence or a simple thing.
I said that Shan Lanjin had never mentioned these things before. I looked at Shi Hu and he didn't know anything and had a puzzled expression. But Shi Hu didn't say anything in the end. I was impatient, so I asked Shan Lanjin what else he had found out. I suddenly began to feel that among the three of us, the person who saw the most clearly in the game room was the one who had the most information, and that person was naturally Shan Lanjin.
And he also found some crucial clues, which only he knew.
The topic turned back to the question of whose body it was. I said that the person who had been standing under the street light was Old Man Liu's son-in-law, but how could there be information about the downstairs residents saved on his phone? This didn't make sense. It was indeed a mystery. Shi Hu and the others didn't say anything. Finally, Shi Hu just looked at Shan Lanjin and asked him, "Old Man Liu has been monitoring me, and his son-in-law is also closely monitoring me from the front and back. Is there any other reason?"
