Soling Internet Cafe

At noon the next day, not long after Chu Lingya got up, Chang Yuxin blocked everyone before they even left the room.

Chang Yuxin's expression was ashen, his head was downcast, and he looked very miserable. If he hadn't appeared in broad daylight in public, he would be no different from a scary ghost crawling out of a grave in the middle of the night.

"Why did you go, how did you get into this state?"

Chang Yu gave Chu Lingya a weak eye, "Why didn't you answer my call last night?"

"Did you call me last night?" Chu Lingya thought for a while, "Oh, sorry, I left my phone in the house to charge it last night, and didn't bring it with me." He walked to the bedside and picked up the phone , Press the power button, and sure enough, a series of "ding ding dong" prompts sounded.

Chu Lingya checked them one by one, and it turned out that they were all contacts from Chang Yuxin. At first, it was a phone call, and maybe when the phone couldn't get through, she started sending WeChat or even text messages. From the initial "I seem to have something wrong" to "Old Chu, help me", and finally, "Chu Lingya, you bastard, let me see if I will die tomorrow, you woo woo woo".

Chu Lingya: "..."

Chu Lingya carefully looked at his brother: "Old Chang, what happened to you last night?"

Chang Yu felt aggrieved and said: "I met a ghost and hit the wall."

Chu Lingya: "Ghost hitting the wall?" Chu Lingya wondered, "Where, how did you solve it later?"

Chang Yuxin muttered sullenly, but Chu Lingya didn't hear clearly, and asked, "What did you say?"

Chang Yuxin exploded all of a sudden, and raised his voice and said: "I said that bastard Bai Jing solved it!"

Chu Lingya: "...Oh."

Chang Yu scratched his messy hair wearily: "Don't talk about what happened last night, I'm here to ask you for help." He said, first turned around and closed the door of Chu Lingya's dormitory tightly, so he was still worried. , moved a chair against the door, and then sneakily took out something and put it on the table.

"What is this, a USB drive?"

"Surveillance video."

"Surveillance video of what?"

"Three days ago, our police fished out a mummy at the bottom of the Ankang River..." Chang Yuxin said.

The mummy fished out of the Ankang River bottom was accompanied by clothing, cash, mobile phone and ID card, so it was relatively easy for the police to lock the identity.The name of the deceased was Zhao Zhixiang, born in 95, he was a migrant worker working in a food delivery company in this city, referred to as the delivery boy.About a week ago, Zhao Zhixiang left his post without a reason, and no one knew where he went. When he was found again, he became the mummy at the bottom of the river.

The results of the forensic examination showed that Zhao Zhixiang had no obvious trauma or signs of poisoning. All the water in his body had been evaporated, and his skin was completely leathery. However, no traces of bacteria multiplying in the internal organs of Zhao Zhixiang's corpse were observed. In other words, this person did not become a mummy after he died. Directly from a human to a mummy.

"This is too..."

"Fantasy, isn't it?" Chang Yuxin spread his hands, "The more bizarre ones are yet to come. Our police checked the nearby surveillance cameras. As you know, there are accidents in the Ankang River every year. Surveillance probes are essential, almost There are no dead ends in all directions. We started to investigate from the monitoring a week ago, and found that he came to the vicinity of the Ankang River five days ago. At that time, he was still a serious living person. no difference."

It was after eleven o'clock in the evening, and Zhao Zhixiang appeared on the surveillance camera alone.He looked like he had been drinking, and he was staggering when he walked, and strangely, he was gesturing to the side all the way, as if he was talking to someone.Of course, the actions of an alcoholic are often unfathomable with common sense, so at first the police only thought that he was drinking too much and talking nonsense.

Zhao Zhixiang walked across the Ankang Bridge, climbed over the protective fence from the side of the bridge, and climbed down.He went down to the bottom of the slope, approached the Ankang River, and then did a dumbfounding thing. He suddenly lay down on the river bank, poked his head out, and started drinking the water in the river like a dog.

People who have drunk experience know that people are prone to thirst after drinking high alcohol, but Zhao Zhixiang's appearance of drinking water is really scary.Like a person who has trekked in the desert for several days and nights without a drop of water, he lay down by the river and drank water desperately.

"Of course it's impossible to see clearly from the surveillance, but the amount and time he drank water has obviously exceeded the normal standard." Chang Yuxin rubbed the goose bumps on his body as if recalling the horror of watching the video at that time.

Under the watchful eyes of the police officers, Zhao Zhixiang drank the river water desperately five days ago, and quickly filled his stomach full. However, he still felt that this was not enough, so the next second, he was shaking. Standing up unsteadily, he walked towards the Ankang River.

In the silent scene, the police officers just watched Zhao Zhixiang step by step into the Ankang River like a moth to a flame, and soon disappeared into the water.The whole process, without a trace of struggle.

No matter how drunk you are, when you encounter a life-threatening situation, your survival instinct will drive you to respond accordingly, but Zhao Zhixiang does not.He was obedient from the beginning to the end. He went down to the river bank obediently, drank the water obediently, then sank into the water obediently, and never came up again.

Zhao Zhixiang was completely submerged in the water at 55:[-] p.m. After he entered the water, the officers still stared at the monitor screen for a long time, expecting to see something else.For example, some murderer came out to pick up Zhao Zhixiang, treated his body and threw it back into the river, or Zhao Zhixiang's body surfaced, but there was none.

The surveillance video was released on the next morning, when the sun rose, there were more vehicles and people around, and Zhao Zhixiang never had a single bubble emerge from the Ankang River.Afterwards, the officers watched the surveillance video in its entirety on the day the body was found, but found no clues.

Zhao Zhixiang walked into the Ankang River alive. A few days later, he was picked up, but turned into a mummified corpse.

Chang Yuxin said: "Do you think this is a ghost? A big living person drowned himself in the river for no reason, and when he was picked up, it turned out to be a wet corpse. Who would have thought of that?"

Because of this reason, the whole case fell into a strange predicament and could not be pushed forward. Of course, Chang Yuxin would not sit still. He decided to retrace the path that Zhao Zhixiang walked on the night of his death, because he was very concerned about who Zhao Zhixiang was with at that time. Gestures.So last night, Chang Yuxin alone followed the whereabouts of Zhao Zhixiang on the night of Zhao Zhixiang's death traced by the police and re-enacted the path that Zhao Zhixiang walked before his death.

Chang Yuxin first went to the ramen shop near Zhao Zhixiang's rented dormitory to eat a bowl of noodles, and at the same time bought a few bottles of beer in a small supermarket nearby. He ordered a brand of beer with Zhao Zhixiang and drank the same amount. Seeing that the time was about the same After that, we started to walk towards the Ankang River.

At the beginning, Chang Yuxin didn't feel that there was anything wrong.Following Zhao Zhixiang's walking method, he completed the Ankang Bridge, climbed over the fence from the other side of the bridge, and descended to the bottom of the slope.When he reached the bank of the river, Chang Yuxin walked to the place where Zhao Zhixiang was drinking water under surveillance, and also got down on his stomach. Of course, he didn't drink water like Zhao Zhixiang did.There is no need to do that step, not to mention the water quality of the Ankang River has been specially tested by the police, and they have not found any special factors that can turn a person into a mummy, so Chang Yuxin just imitated Zhao Zhixiang's posture and tried to draw from his body. Look around to see if there is anything worth noting around.

The result is no.

The first attempt failed, but Chang Yuxin did not give up. He climbed up the slope, returned to the other side of the Ankang Bridge, and started the second experiment.Cross the bridge, climb over the fence, walk to the river, lie down and pretend to drink water... Chang Yuxin waited for a long time, but still did not find anything unusual.

So, he started the third attempt.

Before trying this time, Chang Yuxin turned on Zhao Zhixiang's surveillance camera before his death, and revisited Zhao Zhixiang's movements, trying to find out if there was anything else he hadn't noticed.

When Zhao Zhixiang walked across the Ankang Bridge before his death, there were no people around. There were four people passing by during the whole process, one was driving, one was riding a battery car with a person on the back seat, and a passerby passed by on the opposite side.The police found all four of them based on the surveillance video, but no matter from the video or the final investigation results, none of the four had any contact with Zhao Zhixiang. There were some, but it was only Zhao Zhixiang's drunk appearance that caught their attention.

"He looks crazy and talking nonsense."

"I'm a girl, and I'm afraid of walking alone at night, so I ran away quickly after seeing his appearance."

Chang Yuxin had of course read the information repeatedly before conducting the experiment, but he still wanted to confirm it again, as if he had some kind of intuition reminding him that he was still in that seemingly simple surveillance video. noticed something.

Chang Yuxin found it.

This time, while watching the video, he retraces the path of Zhao Zhixiang before his death. He even tried to make the same body movements as Zhao Zhixiang before his death. This also made some passers-by startled when they passed by him and ran away.

"When Zhao Zhixiang was crossing the bridge, he was gesticulating all the time, looking very irritable, as if there was an invisible person following him, and he hated him so much, so he kept yelling at him. I then I re-demonstrated it according to his movement range, and then I found a strange thing, the Ankang Bridge is too old, a sidewalk on the bridge was damaged by a car last year, and no one repaired it afterwards. The bricks are left there, and passers-by can easily trip over if they are not paying attention."

"Zhao Zhixiang's route included this area. He looked like he was drunk and was talking to an invisible hallucination on the left side of his body, but when he passed this area, he avoided the area very smoothly. Broken bricks on the ground on the right side of his body. I tried a lot of trial and error, convinced that if a person was really drunk, or focused all their attention on the left rear, it was impossible to avoid that area, so I started I felt that Zhao Zhixiang might not have been drunk at the time, and he was even paying attention to his right side when he was gesticulating to the left. Then I found that as he got closer to the other end of the bridge, he seemed more and more Getting more and more irritable, and at the same time, getting closer and closer to the bridge railing, which is the left side of his body, like..."

"Are you avoiding the approach of something?"

"Yes." Chang Yu said heartily, "Sure enough, you think so too."

Chu Lingya said, "And then?"

Chang Yuxin said: "Then, I ran into a ghost hitting the wall, and the Ankang Bridge suddenly became a bridge that I couldn't get out of. I walked on it for more than two hours, but I couldn't go to the end. ...I called for help, but I couldn't find you. I thought I was done playing, and all other calls couldn't get through. In the end, that guy called me suddenly and rescued me."

That guy obviously meant Bai Jing.

"But that's not important, the case is more important!" Chang Yuxin blushed slightly, and shouted, "I copied the video secretly, can you help me find out what's in it?"

Chu Lingya answered Chang Yuxin directly with actions. He turned on the phone, connected the USB flash drive, and called up the surveillance video.

Chang Yuxin had already edited the video, and he directly gave the most important part. Chu Lingya was stunned after watching it for a few seconds. After about ten minutes, the video was over.

Chang Yu asked: "How is it, do you see anything?"

Chu Lingya didn't answer him, but replayed the surveillance video. After watching it for a long time, he suddenly asked a question: "Have you checked where Zhao Zhixiang was a week ago? Oh, it was June 6nd."

"June 6?" Although Chang Yuxin was a little puzzled, he still said, "Let me call and ask."

After a while, Chang Yuxin hung up the phone: "June 6 was the day before Zhao Zhixiang disappeared. I heard that he took the train and left for..."

"Yong'an City."

"Yes..." Chang Yu looked at Chu Lingya in surprise, "How do you know?"

"Did he have a conflict with someone at the train station that day, and almost got into a fight?"

"Correct."

Chu Lingya sighed softly: "In this video, there is a woman you can't see, with long straight hair, wearing a suspected white dress. She was on the opposite side of the bridge at first, which is the right side of Zhao Zhixiang's body, and then slowly Crossed the bridge and approached Zhao Zhixiang, and when he reached the other end of the bridge, he was already standing with Zhao Zhixiang. Since she completely controlled Zhao Zhixiang, Zhao Zhixiang became quiet. He climbed over the fence, went down to the bottom of the river, gulped down the water, and was caught The woman pushed gently and sank to the bottom of the river."

Chang Yuxin: "..."

Although he was mentally prepared, Chang Yuxin couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body.

"Then... what the hell is it? A female ghost?"

"I don't know." Chu Lingya said, "But that woman looks a bit like my classmate's wife."