The Haunted

"It's almost eight o'clock, why come here in time? Where's Tao Juanjuan?" Chi Yan asked while flipping through the photos and case files Song Jin brought.

"Juanjuan is on the night shift today. I just sent her there and stopped by your place. I will go home and sleep in a while. I will pick up Juanjuan from get off work tomorrow morning and send her home before going to work." Song Jin said, "This case I just reported to the city. My master assigned it to me to let me see if there is any clue. I have studied it for a long time and found nothing. I just think it is quite evil, so I thought of bringing it here for you to see. .”

Chi Yan let out a "tsk", put down the photo in his hand, and looked up at his friend: "I'm not a professional, how can I understand these things?"

"Don't you know how to do Taoism?" Song Jin showed a smile of "Don't be modest", pointing to the photo and said, "I saw this kind of magic on TV in other people's novels. Looking at a person's photo, You can figure out the whereabouts of this person by holding the objects used by this person. I just thought...in case you can."

Speaking of this, he pulled his hair embarrassingly, and he also felt that this idea was a bit unreliable.Friends may have the ability to drive away those things, but they may not be able to do this kind of magic that doesn't know whether it really exists.

Unexpectedly, Chi Yan nodded affirmatively and said: "The kind I use is not a Taoist technique, but I do know that there are related techniques, and there are people who can do it. Unfortunately, I don't know it." Law is not advanced, there are many people in Chi's family who know it, but he can't be regarded as "Chi's family".

He hesitated while speaking and read the description of the case again, frowning slightly: "Da Song, is this case urgent?"

"Urgent," Song Jin nodded, "After all, the lives of five people are at stake. Now they don't know whether they will live or die. If they are in danger, the hope of finding them and saving these five people will be greater. And this is my The first case with a bit of technical content that Master gave me, I want to finish it and let him have a look."

Chi Yan nodded: "It says that Zhu Hui's family runs a canteen in Fengshui. In order not to delay the business, they drove a three-wheeled motorcycle to Qingyao Town after closing the door at seven o'clock in the evening on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It was to visit his wife Liu Qingfeng's natal family. After the [-]th day of the first lunar month, I went to the county to get goods and then returned to Fengshui. The opinions of these neighbors of Zhu Hui's family and Liu Qingfeng's family are the same. If everything goes well, the three of Zhu Hui's family should meet at night Arrived at Liu Qingfeng's natal home around ten o'clock, but they never showed up. Liu Qingfeng's brother couldn't contact them. He waited for a day on the [-]th day of the first lunar month. On the [-]th, he went to Fengshui Town early in the morning to inquire. let's go."

"So the two police officers in charge of Pinggu County judged that they disappeared on the road from Fengshui to Qingyao Town, but they didn't find any valuable information when they searched for clues along the way during the day, and they were troubled for a week. It was decided to start searching along the route at [-]:[-] p.m., hoping to find some clues that were easily missed or ignored during the daytime... As a result, the two police officers also disappeared."

"Then there may indeed be some problems with this departure time."

"That's right." Song Jin patted her hair irritably, "I also know about these things. Juanjuan will have a day off tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and I'm planning to go to work tomorrow and talk to Master before heading to Fengshui Town to see if there's anything there. If it doesn’t work, just wait until [-] o’clock in the evening and walk the road to Qingyao Town.”

He cursed secretly: "I still don't believe there are ghosts."

Chi Yan looked at him calmly: "It's really a ghost, you've seen it before."

Song Jin raised his head to look at him, his face turned blue, and complained, "Ruler!"

Chi Yan smiled: "It's okay, don't be nervous. I happen to have nothing to do these two days, wait for me to tell Grandpa, I will go with you tomorrow."

Song Jin was naturally overjoyed by the news, and made an appointment to pick him up when he came out of work tomorrow.

There are quick-frozen dumplings, ham sausage, canned food and other instant food at home. Grandpa can eat them after a simple processing. Tao Juanjuan can also deliver meals to grandpa when she is resting the day after tomorrow.Grandpa said that he is still in good health, and there is no problem with taking care of his own life, even if Chi Yan doesn't come back for ten days and a half months, it will be fine.

Song Jin came to Chi Yan's house to pick him up around ten o'clock the next day, and arrived in Fengshui Town at noon.A police officer surnamed Li from Fengshui Town received them and directed them to the small store in Zhu Hui's home, and chatted with the neighbors around them. The information they got was no different from what was written in the case file. .

The three of them visited the town for a whole afternoon, and rode a motorcycle back and forth between Fengshui and Qingyao towns, but they still found no more clues.

It was already five o'clock in the afternoon when we returned to Fengshui Town, Chi Yan looked at his phone: "Let's eat first, let's go check it out at seven o'clock after dinner."

The police officer surnamed Li was obviously a little scared when he heard this, and he sneered at the two of them and said, "It's time for me to get off work, I guess I won't be able to accompany you two at night, do you think it's okay?"

Song Jin narrowed his eyes and looked at him: "Is there anything wrong with that road at night?"

Police officer surnamed Li rubbed his hands uncomfortably, and said with some hesitation: "There's nothing wrong with it. It's just that five people have disappeared since the beginning of the first month, and two of them are my colleagues. Although we don't believe this, I feel a little bit in my heart." Frustrating, no one dares to walk that way at night."

Chi Yan thought of one thing: "Hasn't such a thing happened before? What about the other people who went from Fengshui Town to Qingyao Town at night? They have never been lost? Only Zhu Hui's family and the two people who tracked down their disappearance The policeman disappeared?"

Police officer surnamed Li said: "We also walked through that road in the afternoon, and you two have already seen it. It is very biased. The car you drove here can't go in at all. The road from Fengshui to Qingyao is open to traffic. Not this one. At the beginning, Zhu Hui’s family took this small road over the mountain for the sake of speed. Usually, this road is rarely used by people. I have never heard of such a thing before. According to Zhu Hui’s neighbors, Zhu Hui’s family I’ve walked this road before, and I’ve taken them there, and nothing happened.”

Song Jin nodded and told the policeman to go back, and only continued to borrow the two motorcycles they rode in the afternoon, saying that they would return them when they came back.

The two waited in Fengshui Town until seven o'clock in the evening, and began to ride along the mountain path.It was only mid-March at this time, and the spring was cold in the north, and the weather was not warm, especially after the sun went down.It was not yet the vernal equinox, and it got dark early. It was completely dark at this time, and we could only rely on the headlights in front of the motorcycle to illuminate the road ahead.

The two were not riding fast, and while riding they observed the conditions on both sides of the road with flashlights, Song Jin looked to the left, and Chi Yan looked to the right.

After riding for more than two hours, the mountains gradually became foggy, and his vision became even less clear. Chi Yan closed his jacket, shivered, and turned to Song Jin, "Da Song, it's too cold, and it's too cold. I can’t see clearly, if not, let’s go back, or ride to Qingyao Town and rest, and then come back tomorrow.”

Song Jin ignored him, but looked straight to the left. After a long while, he opened his mouth and pointed a flashlight at a place: "Ruler, do you think there is something over there?"

Chi Yan looked in the direction pointed by the beam of the flashlight.The mountains are dark, only shadows of ghostly trees and vegetation growing in disorder. There is a small ditch under a tree, and a red thing can be vaguely seen by the light of the flashlight.

Some familiar.It seems to be a corner of Zhu Hui's three-wheeled motorcycle seen in the photo.

Song Jin nodded to Chi Yan, got out of the car, parked the motorcycle on the same road, and walked there by himself.Chi Yan also followed.

It was so close that it was clearly Zhu Hui's three-wheeled motorcycle without the cover of the fog.The whole body of the car was overturned in the ditch, but the surrounding area was clean and there were no scattered items.

Song Jin squatted on the ground and took out his mobile phone to take pictures of the three-wheeled motorcycle. While taking pictures, he analyzed with his friends: "It should be that the motorcycle had a problem and fell into a ditch on the road, but it doesn't look like there were any casualties. Zhu Hui The family is going to visit relatives and buy goods, and they don’t have much luggage with them, and it looks like they have all been taken away.”

"The three of them can't get out of the car, so they must go to someone for help, but it will take three or four hours to walk back to Fengshui Town from here, and it will take an hour or two to Qingyao Town. They walked to Qingyao Town ?" Song Jin put away the phone after taking the photo, and analyzed it while muttering.

"No." Chi Yan shook the flashlight, signaling his friends to look at their feet, "Look here, there are traces of someone walking by, and traces of a motorcycle being run over."

Song Jin followed her feet and looked into the distance. There was obviously a fork in the road, a small road that only allowed two people to pass. It was hard to find if you didn't look carefully.They didn't notice the tricycle during the day, and they didn't notice that there was still a road here.

He squatted down again and looked at the traces of the grass being crushed: "Yes, it is the rut of the motorcycle, which should have been left not long ago. The two police officers should have also found the tricycle, and then found this road. So follow this road to trace forward."

Chi Yan felt strange in his heart, there was darkness and silence ahead, and there were no signs of human settlements or fireworks.It is understandable that the two police officers walked along this road to find out the whereabouts of Zhu Hui's family. Why did Zhu Hui's family come here at that time and chose to follow this extremely remote path where the end point did not know where it led to? Go forward instead of returning to Fengshui or going to Qingyao along the road they are familiar with?

He felt a little cold, so he couldn't help shivering, and tightened his clothes again, even more so.He took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It was already 09:30 in the evening, and there was no signal on the mobile phone, nor could it receive the Internet.

Chi Yan turned to Song Jin: "Da Song, it's too late today, the mountain road is not easy to walk, and it will take an hour to ride faster on the way back. Remember this location, make a mark, let's come back tomorrow."

Song Jin also took out his mobile phone and looked at it, unwillingly said: "Let's take a look at it now, in case we don't find any clues during the day tomorrow. It's 09:30, let's ride along this road to 45 , go back if you don’t have any clues.”