Episode 9 Chapter 093 Progress
Shan Lanjin and I thought the same thing. Because of the incident with Lu Fei, I'd better avoid suspicion and not get involved in the affairs of the man in Building 3. I gave my wallet to Shan Lanjin, including the cash inside, and let him deal with it. To be honest, I wouldn't dare to use such ill-gotten gains.
The name on this man’s ID card is Chen Shen. He is only 22 years old this year. I didn’t hear the security guard say what he does for a living. I thought he should come from a wealthy family, but I don’t think that’s likely. It’s useless to dwell on this kind of question, so I’ll just let Shan Ranjin and the others investigate first.
Shan Lanjin put the wallet in a bag, saying that it might be an important piece of evidence. Then he called his people and asked them to visit Building 3 to see who Chen Shen was. After making all the arrangements, he told me that he had found some clues about the bodies dug up on Guangfu Road.
I said that we got clues so quickly, but Shan Rankin said that DNA identification would definitely not be so fast, and there was no DNA database to compare with. In fact, it would not be of much significance in finding people. The real breakthrough in clues was that they had ID cards and the like on each corpse. Although some of them were damaged, they could be restored through technical means and other methods. Even if they could not be restored, the search scope could be narrowed.
Shan Rankin has already explained the technical details. If you explain them in detail, I won't understand them. After all, I'm not an expert in this field. In short, the identities of these bodies can be basically confirmed, although there are exceptions. Shan Rankin said that these people came from different places and had no similarities in terms of geographical distribution. The only thing they had in common was that they were almost all without any relatives. Even if they had relatives, it would be difficult to contact them. This is why no one reported the case after they disappeared for such a long time.
I was confused. So many people were buried there. Was it a mass killing? But Shan Ranjin said it was not possible. Shan Ranjin said with a tense face that he had suspected it at first, but who would kill such a group of people without any relatives or friends? More than 20 people, this is a sensational case.
I think it is indeed unbelievable, but Shan Rankin said that he thought a lot and ruled out many reasons, and finally felt that the possibility of murder was not high. There is one situation that is actually hard to say, but it does not seem to stand up to speculation, but it is currently a more reasonable statement, but it has not yet found a foothold.
I asked what it was, and Shan Rankin said that the bodies might not be from living people, but dead people. I was stunned for a moment, and didn't react for a while, so I said, "Are these not dead people buried alive?"
Shan Ranjin said that I didn't understand. What he meant was that these bodies came from places like funeral homes or hospital morgues. First, the bodies were unclaimed, and second, they were already dead, so there had been no movement for so many years and they had never been exposed.
I think Shan Ranjin's thinking is really flexible. He even thought of this possibility. Shan Ranjin said that he had asked the police to assist in going to various hospitals and funeral homes to understand the situation. However, such official matters generally do not lead to any substantial progress from Shen Emei. Moreover, Shan Ranjin suspected that if this was the case, the possibility of the funeral home would be greater. So after work, I paid attention to whether there were any missing bodies or batch processing in the funeral home. It might be recorded in some confidential documents, or it might be some internal circulation.
Shan Ranjin meant for me to inquire privately, and they were doing it openly, so I had to give it a try regardless of whether it worked or not. I naturally agreed immediately, because since I went to the funeral home, I have been doing this specifically, and now I am used to it.
So this is where the story ends. Shan Lanjin had one more thing to say. He took out his cell phone and showed me a photo. I saw it was a photo taken in a mirror . Through the mirror, I could see that the person taking the photo was Shi Hu, because half of his body was in the photo. But behind his body, there seemed to be another person, but it was unclear and blurry.
When I saw the photo, I felt it looked familiar, because I saw something like a rune on the mirror. I remembered that it was indeed taken by Shi Hu. Shan Lanjin said that I should pay attention to behind Shi Hu. He seemed to have accidentally photographed something, which he only discovered recently. This photo was sent to him by Shi Hu. I saw what Shan Lanjin said at first. Shan Lanjin said that I was standing behind Shi Hu at that time. There should be no such thing outside the mirror, but there was inside the mirror.
Then Shan Lanjin swiped the photo, and it showed the mirror sealed with a white candle found in Room 721. If Shan Lanjin hadn't shown it to me, I would have almost forgotten that they had such a mirror. Shan Lanjin told me to look carefully in the mirror to see if there was also a blurry figure of a person.
I looked carefully and it was true. Putting all these things together, I suddenly remembered where I heard the voice of "Save me". It was at that time. Could this matter be related to Chen Shen?
Seeing that I was just looking at it without saying anything, Shan Lanjin asked me what I saw. I suddenly came to my senses then and said that I just remembered some things. So I told Shan Lanjin about the clues I had sorted out. Shan Lanjin was also silent, as if he was thinking, and did not speak for a long time.
As for this thing in the mirror of the photo, at first glance you can hardly see anything, but when you make out the black shadow inside, you'll find that its outline becomes clearer and clearer. I wondered in my mind, could this layer of wax be sealing something?
So I asked Shan Ranjin, "So what did you find out after you took this mirror back?"
Shan Lanjin said that this was exactly what he wanted to tell me. After they took the mirror back, they scraped off some of the wax on it and analyzed it. They found that it was just ordinary wax and there was nothing special about the mirror. Then the mirror shattered by itself. Shan Lanjin said that they placed it in a very stable place and even placed it in a special cabinet, but the scene was as if someone had taken it out and thrown it on the ground.
I thought this was definitely not a coincidence, so Shan Lanjin said that the mirror itself might not have any clues, but what was inside the mirror. When Shan Lanjin talked about this, I remembered what my grandmother said to me when she came to my house. She told me to look in the mirror less, or even better, not at all. Since I saw my image in the mirror did not move last time, I rarely looked in the mirror, and there was no abnormality afterwards. I gradually thought it was just a special phenomenon, and I didn't worry about it.
Now that Shan Lanjin has mentioned it again, I don't know why I suddenly remembered this. I don't think grandma would say this for no reason, but grandma always speaks halfway and is very good at euphemisms, which sometimes makes it hard to understand. I just asked Shan Lanjin if the mirror in my bathroom is also something that attracts evil. I always feel that the mirror is weird, and I found a palm print on it earlier.
Shan Lanjin said that if I was worried, I should replace it, or just not use it, saying that it would be somewhat inconvenient if I didn't use it. I said it would be better to replace it. Shan Lanjin said that I should not deal with the replaced mirror yet, but wrap it in white cloth and put it away , and he would deal with it.
After that, Dan Ranjin had other things to do, so he left. Later, I went to find a craftsman to replace the glass. There happened to be a glass cutting shop not far downstairs. I got a piece and he came up to replace it for me. When he saw the bathroom glass, he asked why I changed it when it was good and there was nothing broken. I said it was old, so he didn't say anything. After all, it was a business deal.
But when I took down the mirror, I saw something behind it. There were dried hand prints behind the mirror, like dried blood. The glass replacement worker's eyes changed instantly when he saw these hand prints. He asked cautiously if I had put them there myself. I looked at him puzzledly and said I didn't know how such things could come about.
