fog city detective

Poppy asked, "Ask what?"

Liang Xi: "The numbers for the next lottery draw."

"Fake." Poppy smashed the empty cup at Liang Xi, and the paper cup fell between the two.Bobby said very melancholy: "No one wants to believe me, and they asked me if I had a high fever and asked me to do a brain MRI..."

"Pee." Liang Xi stood up and went to the bathroom.

Poppy asked, "Do you have basic courtesy? Can't you wait for me to finish?"

Liang Xi: "I'm scared to pee my pants."

Liang Xi entered the bathroom, urinated, washed his hands, and stopped by the door: "When I'm frightened, I subconsciously hit an uppercut."

"Haha." Bobby left the door with a dry smile.

Sure enough, it was a swordsman. Liang Xi had no see-through eyes, so he didn't know if there was anyone at the door.

……

Time passed by minute by minute, the night rain came as scheduled, and only the hallway and hall on the second floor were left with lights.Poppy got into the sleeping bag and fell asleep, while Liang Xi casually lay down on the wooden floor to rest.

The ancient church in the distance rang the early morning bell, and Bobby immediately came out of the sleeping bag and looked at the beam.Liang Xi opened his eyes, Bobby made a silent gesture, and the two of them leaned against the wall and waited quietly.

"Squeak!" After 10 minutes, there was a sound of wood under pressure from downstairs, and Liang Xi's heart trembled.There is no wooden floor on the first floor, and the second and third floors are all wooden floors.The sound was obviously coming from downstairs, and the only possibility was the wooden stairs, where something stepped on the wooden stairs and made a sound.However, it cannot be ruled out that thermal expansion and contraction cause wooden stairs to make noise.

A night wind blew into the lobby on the second floor, Liang Xi looked at Bobby and pointed to the window: Did you open the window?

Bobby shook his head slowly, stood up and leaned to the side of the hall, stretched his head and glanced at the corridor, and immediately shrank back: "Something came in."

Liang Xi asked, "Can you speak now?"

Poppy scoffed, "Do you think they'd be afraid of us?"

Liang Xi walked over to Poppy, summoned up the courage to look at the corridor, and saw that the window at the end of the corridor was opened.Liang Xi was shocked because at 11:11 he went to the bathroom once and the window was closed. From [-]:[-] to just now, Bobby didn't leave the lobby on the second floor.The only possibility is that someone used a pole barrel to open the window.

Poppy looked serious, and took out a small gossip made of unknown material from the bag, and the workmanship was very poor.Poppy held the gossip in his hand, muttered words in his mouth, walked slowly to the corridor window, and hung the gossip on a nail by the window.Turning back and walking towards the hall, Bobby said, "I have blocked their escape route."

When Bobby walked back to the hall, there was a muffled bang, like someone stepped on the wooden stairs, or something fell on the wooden stairs.Liang Xi can be 100% sure that it is definitely not a sound that can be made by thermal expansion and contraction.

The brave are invincible!Liang Xi ran downstairs, and when he reached the first floor, he turned on the light according to the memory location.The small living room on the first floor was empty.Liang Xi glanced upstairs, and Poppy shook his head, indicating that he did not want to go down.

Impossible, there can be no ghosts.Liang Xi took a deep breath, plucked up his courage, and pushed open the kitchen door. The kitchen was empty.The back door and window were tightly closed. Liang Xi took out a flashlight and shone it on the doorknob. There was a piece of paper scraps that he placed here. The appearance and appearance of the scraps of paper, and even the way they were placed, did not change, indicating that the door had never been opened. .

Liang Xi pushed open the doors of the rooms on the first floor, the answer did not change, all Liang Xi saw was the empty room.

Soon Liang Xi was sure that no one was hiding on the first floor.

What the hell!

Liang Xi walked up the stairs, looked up and saw Poppy counting a string of Buddha beads in his hand, looking at himself with great affection: "You will be its prey."

Liang Xi asked, "Where is it?"

Poppy said solemnly, "It's right behind you."

Liang Xi suddenly turned his head back, there are no ghosts... Bah!

Chapter 29 The Curse

Liang Xi glanced at Poppy, stepped back down the stairs, walked to the living room on the first floor, leaned over to touch the wooden floor, and touched the liquid.Liang Xi tried his fingers and sniffed again: it was water.How can there be water?

Liang Xi looked sideways and saw traces of water on the floor, puddles of water entering the last room.Liang Xi checked the two doors again, but found no signs of being opened.

Poppy walked downstairs slowly, reached out and touched a handful of water on the floor, thoughtfully: "Obviously you've become its target. If you really beg me, I can save your life."

"Pretend to be a ghost." Liang Xi followed the water stains and entered the last room, only to see the back of a mirror glued to the wall by the window, with red words on the back: Don't look in the mirror in the middle of the night.

Liang Xi looked at the red letter on the back of the mirror and slowly reached out.Poppy discouraged: "This is a curse, I advise you not to touch it." After he left the door of the room, he walked to the stairs step by step. When he was going up the wooden stairs to go back to the second floor, there was a miserable sound of a beam in the room. scream, and then the sound of falling to the ground.

Poppy sighed, "I told you not to touch it."

Bobby returned to the lobby on the second floor and sat quietly. Ten minutes passed, and there was a slight sound of closing the door. Bobby still sat quietly, listening to the steps going upstairs step by step.The footsteps stopped on the last few steps.

I don't know how long it took, Poppy said, "Ali, I know it's you."

A man in a raincoat walked up the stairs and stood at the entrance with a wrench in his hand.

Poppy sighed: "It's fake again, it's fake again." It's a pity.

The man in the raincoat took off the faceless male mask on his face, and took off the raincoat and hat. It was the real estate agent Yali.Allie asked, "Where's Shirley?"

Poppy pointed to the corridor: "Eat my gossip and lie there."

Ali glanced at the corridor, a dog lay motionless at the end: "You killed it?"

Bobby dismissed Ari's question, saying, "I knew from the beginning that you were the one doing the trick, because you lied to me. You didn't want to sell the house, you wanted to buy it. You used your dog and wrench to scare you. Walked and knocked out a lot of people, without exception, who thought there was a ghost in the house. By the way, and the metal mirror you plugged into the socket."

Allie asked, "How did you know that?"

Poppy replied triumphantly and gracefully, "Because I called Lily and she told me you wanted to buy her house. I happen to know you have a dog, and I happen to know what the dog likes to eat. You use the windows outside. You pretend to be a ghost and train your dog to cooperate with you. Right? Ali, who is called the haunted house sales champion in the industry. You have been using the haunted house to buy a house at a low price, then hire a psychic to exorcise the ghost, and then sell the house. The psychic earned Fame, you gain money."

Allie: "You know too much." Walked towards Poppy.

"I know so much, how can I not know that you will use force?" Poppy reached into his pocket and took out an air conditioner remote control: "I'll give you a chance to surrender to the police... Nani?"

Ali grinned and approached Poppy, Poppy touched her body, where's my emergency pager?

Allie: "Go to hell, kid."

"Wait, am I afraid of you?" Poppy stood up, facing Ari in a fighting stance, suddenly pushed the window beside him, and shouted out, "Help, help."

Ali was in a hurry, rushing up to be a wrench, and Poppy dodged aside.Ari kicked Poppy in the leg, and Poppy fell to the ground.Ali raised the wrench: "You smart kid, did you happen to know that I used to be a fighter?"

"No." Bobby shook his head.

With a bang, Poppy waited for a moment, looked up, and saw that Yali turned to look at Liang Xi behind him. Liang Xi held a mirror-like thing made of metal and slapped Yali's head again.Yali watched Liang Xi collapsed to the ground after a few seconds, motionless.

Poppy stood up very unhappy: "I'm about to subdue him, why are you joining in the fun?"

Liang Xi raised the metal in his hand, and Poppy immediately changed the subject very alertly: "Aren't you corona?"

Liang Xi glanced at Poppy with contempt. Poppy felt that his self-esteem was shot through. Liang Xi said, "Although I don't understand why there are water stains or why there is an extra mirror, I know that there is a socket on the back of the mirror."

Poppy stretched out his left hand: "OK, we worked together to catch the criminal, the culprit of the haunted house. Come on, give me a high five."

Liang Xi took out the tie and handcuffs and took out the phone: "He is a criminal, but he is not the culprit."

Poppy was stunned: "No, he is. He used the haunting to buy real estate at a low price, and then sell the real estate."

Liang Xi said: "He's not, you can ask him yourself. Hello, I'm Liang Xi from the Rose Detective Agency. I caught a criminal suspect. I would be very grateful if you could send detectives here... The location is "Okay, see you later."

When calling, Bobby had already patted Ari awake: "Why are you pretending to be scary?"

Yali found that his hands were handcuffed: "Didn't you already know?"

Bobby looks at Liang Xi: Look.

Liang Xi: "You didn't ask the right question. Yali, why did you scare Lily?"

Yali was a little anxious: "No, I didn't scare Lily, you don't want to wrong me. Lily found me, and I knew there was an intruder. I just wanted to buy the house, but Lily didn't want to sell it, and put up the help message. Bounty Network. Many people have confirmed to Lily that it is haunted through me. As long as you scare you away, I can successfully get the house at the lowest price."

Poppy encouraged: "Don't be afraid of his threats. The only way out is to bravely admit your guilt."

Ali was not convinced: "I admit why I attacked you, why don't I admit to frightening Lily?"

Poppy: "Because you're afraid of aggravating the crime."

Liang Xi was fair: "Didn't you notice that it was all surveillance? What method did Ya use to sneak into Lily's room?"

Poppy thought for a moment. "Dog."

Liang Xi: "No, it's a pig, you are a pig. Even if a dog is trained like a human, it can't escape the surveillance." Liang Xi already knew the truth of the case, but he didn't think that Yali pretended to be a ghost, so he was really caught frightened.It wasn't until he saw that mirror Liang Xi that he was absolutely sure that someone was pretending to be a ghost.However, Liang Xi did not have the information that Poppy had, and did not deduce Yali.So Liang Xi pretended to be stunned by electric shock, waiting for the follow-up development.

Bobby was not reconciled: "You mean Lily is mentally ill? Otherwise, with so many cameras, the intruder will definitely be found. But you must not know, I have asked a professional psychologist to evaluate Lily's mental state, and he thinks that Lily is completely insane. Problem. Lily was also fully examined and found no physical cause for the hallucinations."

Chapter 30 Ghostless

Liang Xi said: "Therefore, there is only one answer."

Poppy asked, "The answer is that Lily is mentally ill?"

Liang Xi: "No, only one person can invade Lily's house." Liang Xi was not sure whether Lily was mentally ill, but after obtaining information from Bobby, Liang Xi ruled out Lily's mental illness and made a final inference.

Poppy: "Who? God?"

Liang Xi replied: "The person who installs the monitoring device. A person who is proficient in electronic equipment can't do anything easier with his own products."

Poppy said: "The person who installed the surveillance is Lily's friend." How simple is the answer?

Liang Xi replied: "This is a crime committed by an acquaintance. Only acquaintances know Lily's work and rest time and Lily's living habits. If I guess correctly, he likes Lily, madly, because of appearance, income or other reasons, he is very inferior , did not dare to confess to Lily. Love made him yearn to have Lily, and at the same time, he couldn't bear to hurt Lily. So he sneaked into Lily's house and watched the sleeping goddess. Every day, he monitored the goddess's every move. "

Poppy: "What about the evidence? No, even if he can control the surveillance, he can turn it off, but how can he be sure that Lily won't wake up? His frequency of intrusions is very high. As long as Lily wakes up once, she will know who has invaded. own house."

Liang Xi said: "The evidence is on the third floor. There was a nasal spray salt water cleanser in the carton, and I smelled it. Although I can't be sure if the nasal spray smells like this, I felt sleepy not long after that. Nasal spray Saline cleaning agent is a non-drug cleaning method for the nasal cavity of some patients with rhinitis. It must be washed once before going to bed. If necessary, budesonide spray can be used afterwards. The method of use is to inhale the saline to keep the saline in the nasal cavity. time, and then blowing out the salt water. Based on my reaction to the smell, I can deduce that as long as Lily uses the salt water wash before going to bed, she will not be able to wake up overnight.”

Liang Xi said: "Lily has a show on weekends and often plays until the early morning or even early morning. In this case, the suspect will not risk invading Lily's house."

Liang Xi: "But I'm not sure about the motives. It's not necessarily because of love. As the manager of an investment fund, monitoring Lily and looking through Lily's mobile phone to inquire about various financial information is also a way to make money."

Bobby looked at Liang Xi for a while, then quickly walked up to the third floor, and quickly took back the nasal spray: "Is it?"

Liang Xi nodded: "Yes."

Bobby looked at Liang Xi, picked up the saline and sprayed it into his left nostril, took a deep breath while holding down his right nostril, and sucked all the saline into his nostril.After dozens of seconds, blow out the salt water again.Poppy said, "If I'm asleep, then you're right."

Liang Xi asked back, "You don't believe it?"

Poppy replied, "I don't believe it."

Liang Xi wondered: "Why? I'm not curious why you don't believe it, I'm curious why you don't believe it, but I can't come up with a reason to refute it."

Poppy said: "I won't lose to a so-called detective." The salt water was slightly up, Poppy supported the wall.

Liang Xi: "Why do you hate detectives?"

Poppy said, "I'm a psychic, you're a detective, and we're enemies by nature."

Liang Xi didn't understand: "You cheat money, I do things, why are you an enemy."

"It seems to make sense." Bobby slowly fell down, trying to force his eyes to open in vain, and closed his eyes helplessly.

……

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

Poppy slowly opened his eyes, saw the sun, and saw Liang Xi and Liang Xi's raised slap.

"Hey." Liang Xi didn't see a single slit in his eyes, and slapped him down again.

No one has ever dared to slap himself!Poppy wanted to jump up and fight with Liang Xi, but his limp body had no strength.When Liang Xi's fourth slap was about to fall, Poppy opened his eyes hard.Then Bobby saw Liang Xi's palm fall, took off a hair from his clothes, and said innocently: "Are you awake?"

Poppy swallowed his breath and asked, "Where's Arrie?"

Liang Xi replied, "The police took it away."

Poppy asked, "Why are you still here?"

"Don't you know Lily? She said on the bounty website: A big reward. Look, do you want her to go to the Rose Detective Agency when she has time? Or if I give you an account, she thinks it can be a lot of money." Liang He took out a note: "This is my account number."

Poppy struggled to sit up, Liang Si enthusiastically supported Poppy against the wall, Poppy said, "Call her yourself."

Liang Xi said: "I have explained the case to the detective. I'm just worried that the detective forgot to remind Lily of the huge reward. I watched you all night, can you give me a testimony? Give Lily a call?"

Poppy asked, "Why is my face so hot?"

Liang Xi replied, "The sun is shining. Hey, I saved you."

Poppy couldn't deny the fact: "Okay, I'll tell her. You give me back my pager."

Liang Xi laughed: "I accidentally picked it up yesterday."

Bobby took the phone and handed the air conditioner remote control to Liang Xi: "I'll give it back to you."

Liang Xi smiled: "Haha."

Poppy pressed the pager: "Come and pick me up."

"It turned out that there was someone to pick you up. I thought you came by bus." Liang Xi: "I will help you downstairs?"

Facing Liang Xi's attitude, Bobby responded politely: "Thank you."

Liang Xi: "You're welcome, remember to call Lily."