Crime Hunt Files: Bloody Angel

Eleven o'clock at night.

Bai Jianan leaned over to put down the empty coffee cup. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the red dot in the middle of the bright white screen blinking.

He turned his head alertly and the red dot finally moved.

According to calculations, the gray owl arrived at the factory and attacked them in the second half of the night. Now that it has moved ahead of schedule, could it be going to find its owner?

Bai Ji'an zoomed in on the map and stared at the fast-moving red dot until it approached a place that disappointed him greatly.

Seasoning factory.

He Wei glanced at Bai Jian'an's profile and noticed that his shoulders drooped in disappointment, so he stroked them to comfort him.

"Don't worry. Even if it doesn't go looking for its owner, once the result comes out tomorrow, we can still find the mastermind by following the clues."

Bai Ji'an crossed his hands and placed them in front of his lips. He squinted at the screen and judged: "Could it be that the owner of the gray forest owl is in the seasoning factory?"

Perhaps it was the expressionless woman they saw in the morning while feeding him.

"Ji'an."

He Wei pointed at the screen and saw a flashing red dot circling above the seasoning factory as if patrolling its territory. After making sure everything was normal, it turned and left to the west.

Neither stopped at the spice factory nor returned to the forest!

About to get a new clue, Bai Jianan relaxed his brows which were tightly furrowed a second ago and stared at the screen without blinking.

It took a full half hour until the Tawny Owl landed again, covering a total distance of 43 kilometers.

The starting point and the end point are so far apart.

Bai Ji'an enlarged the map and saw that the location where the red dot was flashing was already at the edge of the suburbs of Yue'an City.

"Qiyan Mountain."

Cross the mountain and walk six kilometers west to reach the neighboring city.

After staying for an hour, the Tawny Owl set off again.

Just as Bai Jianan calculated the time accurately.

Half an hour later, that is, the night after they sneaked into the factory with a drone last night, the gray forest owl landed steadily on the rooftop of the spice factory office like a sentinel.

Qiyan Mountain.

He Wei stared at the mountain name written by Bai Ji'an and asked, "Have you heard of the legend about this mountain?"

"Legend?" Bai Ji'an shook his head.

"A famous ghost mountain in folk legends."

Bai Jianan raised the end of his eyebrows. He finally understood why there was such a famous ghost mountain in Yue'an City. As a local, he was completely unaware of it.

"I never read strange stories."

He Wei smiled faintly: "I know."

"So? What are the rumors about it?"

"It seems to be related to a massacre of the whole village."

He Wei took out his tablet and searched, and finally found the story of Qiyan Ghost Mountain in the Yue'an City Strange News Forum.

It is said that there used to be a small village at the foot of Qiyan Mountain, with more than a dozen families living in it. They worked from sunrise to sunset and rested from sunset. Although their life was dull, they were all very happy.

Until one day, the village was suddenly surrounded and attacked by a group of bandits who came from nowhere.

The men, women, old and young in the village picked up their own farm tools and rose up to resist, but the bandits were ferocious and it was difficult to resist the foreign enemies. In order to survive, the villagers fled with their families.

The bandit leader, fearing that the news would leak out, ordered his men to track down all the escaped people and bring them to the mountain for a brutal massacre.

Since then, whenever someone climbed up Qiyan Mountain, miserable ghost howling sounds would be heard from the mountain, and the temperature would suddenly drop without any warning.

Especially in late autumn and winter, you can hear the crunching sound of people stepping on dead leaves and snow behind you, but no matter how you look back, there is no one.

The more Bai Jianan read it, the more outrageous it seemed to him. At least in his memory, not only was there no record of a village at the foot of Qiyan Mountain in history books, but he couldn't even find any information about the village on the Internet.

It seems that these poor villagers can only be seen in news related to the ghost stories in Qiyan Mountain.

Bai Ji'an shook his head helplessly: "The sound of ghosts howling, isn't it the gray forest owl?"

He Wei curled his lips: "Then, how do you explain the creaking sound made by your feet?"

"It's normal for wild animals to exist in a mountain where few people visit."

“You heard a sound, but when you looked back you saw nothing?”

"Unless humans are the ones being hunted, it's impossible for a timid animal to stand behind humans with impunity."

"The temperature suddenly dropped without any warning?"

Bai Ji'an couldn't help but snorted, "He's suspicious of everything. He got goose bumps all over his body because of the fear. If he's not cold, who else would be cold?"

He Wei fiddled with the tablet: "It seems that you can't be stumped without giving examples."

"Example?"

He Wei handed Bai Jianan the news he had found in advance about accidents that had occurred near Qiyan Mountain in recent years.

"It started seven years ago, and the latest one was two years ago. All three accidents involved cars falling off a cliff."

"Every time, the whole family was in the same car and fell off the cliff at the same turn?!"

Bai Ji'an's expression finally became serious.

"Why are every accident so similar? Could it be that it's not an accident, but a criminal case?"

"I don't know the specific circumstances," He Wei recalled. "When the first two accidents happened, I hadn't yet joined the city bureau. As for the latest one, the captain in charge was Lu Yuxing, the captain of the second team."

"How was the case decided?"

"Accident."

Bai Ji'an was a little unconvinced.

He Wei said: "But the evidence shows that the cause of the accident was indeed the driver's improper operation that caused the car to fall off the cliff."

"But this is too coincidental. The winding mountain road is so long, and there are more than a dozen bends. It would be fine if they fell off the cliff at the same place, but why is it that every time the whole family falls together?"

"Because there are no survivors who know the truth, so." He Wei handed the tablet to Bai Jianan again.

Still on that strange news forum, there is a relatively detailed record about the car accident on the winding mountain road next to Qiyan Mountain.

However, most of the content is not about factual opinions, but rather about the impact of the haunting of Qiyan Mountain on the accident.

Bai Ji'an shook the tablet speechlessly, then turned to look at He Wei: "You don't believe it, do you?"

"Of course I don't believe it. The purpose of showing you this is not to convince you, but to let you know why these rumors appeared and spread so widely among the people."

Bai Ji'an opened his mouth in surprise. After a moment, he held his forehead and laughed at himself.

Even though he never believed in strange stories, there came a day when he was bewitched by them.

"I understand what you mean."

Bai Ji'an stood up and leaned against the sofa, staring at the flashing red dots on the screen.

"The village that has no records, the massacre of the village without any evidence, the inexplicable appearance and the rumors of ghosts that spread everywhere, and even the three car accidents that fell off the cliff since the seventh year, are all barriers created by the owner of the Tawny Owl to conceal his hiding place."

There are ghosts in Qiyan Mountain. If you get close to Qiyan Mountain, you will become unlucky and even your whole family will suffer.

Plant the seed of "It is better to believe it exists than not to believe it exists" in everyone's heart. In order to avoid being contaminated by bad luck, ordinary people will naturally not take the initiative to approach it.