ghost stories

Xu Jiayin's case was actually closed, and she was included in the missing persons list.

Lu Yuan was not surprised when he heard the news. Mother Xu told the police the day after the incident that Xu Jiayin had run away from home.

The massacre on Pingning West Street is still in a stalemate, and no one has time to carefully deliberate on the authenticity of her words. In addition, there is nothing unusual about the scene where Xu Jiayin disappeared, except for the windows that were entangled in wires.

There is no evidence that Xu Jiayin lived there before he disappeared.

When Lu Yuan came to this house again, the things inside basically remained unchanged.The landlord's face was full of anger. She felt that Xu Jiayin's disappearance made it very difficult to rent out her house again.

"How can such a thing happen! Didn't it hurt me! She was insane, and her mother didn't send her to the hospital, but kept guarding here. It's obvious that the two are insane! Now they are fine, and they don't take away their things. After running away like this, I still owe me a month's rent, what should I do with the things inside, I dare not keep..."

Lu Yuan dealt with the landlord err, and inspected the room carefully. It seems that Xu's mother did not take anything, and all of Xu Jiayin's things were still in the room.

"If you want these things, take them away. If you don't want them, I'll sell them. If you can't sell them, I'll just throw them away... I don't know how much I can sell them for, and I still owe rent..."

"I will continue to rent," Lu Yuan took out his wallet, took out a wad of money and handed it to the landlord, "There is no need to move things, I will live here today."

The landlord was stunned for a while, took the money and counted it, turned around to go out, thought for a while and then suddenly turned around: "You really don't know where she went? Did you two break up a while ago? I haven't seen you for a long time." Came here to find her..."

Lu Yuan looked at the landlord without saying a word.

The landlord was a little embarrassed by the sight, and walked out awkwardly. Feeling a little uncomfortable, he slammed the door and cursed in a low voice while going downstairs: "The police are amazing? Maybe you killed them!"

Lu Yuan walked into Xu Jiayin's bedroom, opened the curtains, and the sun filled the room.He wanted to open the window again, but the wires were so tightly wrapped around his hands that he fiddled twice before giving up.It seems that Xu's mother has never even entered the bedroom, and the room is still as it was that day, with the blanket falling on the floor.He bent down, picked up the blanket that had fallen by the vanity mirror, put it on the bed, and then stood in front of the mirror.

The photo Xu Jiayin sent him was taken from this angle in front of the mirror.He stood for a long time, staring at himself in the mirror, but saw nothing unusual.No matter how you look at it, the mirror is just an ordinary mirror, stuck on the wall.

Lu Yuan ran his fingers along the edge of the mirror carefully, but found nothing wrong, and then tapped on the mirror with his fingers. Hearing the sound, there was no gap behind the mirror.

Why is Xu Jiayin afraid of something coming out of the mirror?What the hell did she see in the mirror?

Lu Yuan walked to the full-length mirror and looked at it for a while. Apart from being a little bigger than the vanity mirror, this mirror was just a very ordinary mirror. It didn't look like the original one. It was simply wrapped with a metal edge. It should be Xu Jiayin. Bought it myself to hang on the cabinet door.He opened the cabinet door behind the mirror, inside were Xu Jiayin's clothes, hanging neatly, Lu Yuan rummaged around, but found nothing, but the closet was full of the kind of perfume that Xu Jiayin often sprayed, which made him a little Disappointed.

Lu Yuan tried his best to recall what he saw in the surveillance that day, hoping to find some clues.The two times I saw Xu Jiayin, she sat on the bed with her head down.Lu Yuan thought for a while, then climbed onto the bed, sat where Xu Jiayin had sat, looked around the room up, down, left, and right, and found something that moved his heart.

At this angle, you can see both mirrors at the same time with peripheral vision.

From this point of view, Xu Jiayin really cared about the mirror very much, not only blocking it, but also sitting here staring at the mirror, and she needs to be able to see two mirrors at the same time.

After thinking for a while, Lu Yuan felt a little headache.The direction of his current thinking completely deviates from his cognition. The strange information left by Xu Jiayin makes him unable to think through normal channels. He can only imagine that this is a supernatural event, otherwise there will be no There is no way to explain how a living person disappeared without a trace in the secret room.

When Lu Yuan was considering whether to really spend the night in this room at night, he received a call from the archives office, saying that if he wanted to check the information, he could go there today to check it.

"Come here early to check. The old files are all there without subdivision. I don't know how long it will take to find them. We have to lock the door at five o'clock." The little girl in the file room emphasized, as if She was afraid that Lu Yuan's failure to investigate would delay her from get off work.

Lu Yuan recalled the dream-like scene that day, is this really what he has experienced before...

"The ones from those years are all over there." After the little girl in the archives finished the registration, she opened the door for him and pointed to the innermost row of shelves.

A case like this where a husband and wife died in the room at the same time is considered quite big, and it will not take much trouble to investigate, but the premise is that it must be a homicide.The homicide files should theoretically be kept forever, but Lu Yuan couldn't tell whether it was a homicide or just a suicide.

He walked to the innermost shelf and stood there for a while, hesitating a bit, instead of rushing over to search it as he imagined.If the file is still preserved, what kind of truth will he see?

There are very few archives of that year, and it seems to be a quiet and peaceful year.Without much effort, Lu Yuan saw what he was looking for on the bottom shelf of the file shelf.When his fingertips touched the file box, he suddenly felt timid and his hands trembled.He couldn't understand himself, the truth that he had pursued for so many years might be right in front of him, but at this moment he didn't even have the courage to take it and open it.

The file box was not very heavy in his hand, Lu Yuan weighed it, this should not be too complicated a case.

He put the things on the table next to him, and opened the memory that had been waiting for him here for nearly 20 years.

Lu Jindong and Xiao Yu were found dead in the bedroom by neighbors.

The time of death was inferred to be August 8.

According to the suicide note left by Lu Jindong combined with the on-site inspection, it was concluded that after Lu Jindong strangled his wife to death, he hung the body on the chandelier, then slashed his own neck, cut off the carotid artery, and died of excessive blood loss.

Lu Yuan closed his eyes.

He finally knew the names of his parents and the cause of death.

This is a seemingly simple case.

Before Meng Fanyu hypnotized him, he had many assumptions about his parents, missing, and abandoning.After hypnosis, he knew that his parents were no longer there, and he also saw the suffocating scene.

Is this the truth, the truth that he has been afraid to face and always wanted to remember.

Lu Yuan originally thought that when he knew the truth, he would recall all the past, and his memory would bring back those things that he deliberately forgot at the beginning like a tide.

But it turned out that he didn't feel anything when faced with the detailed report of his parents' deaths.No sadness, no shock, no emotion, no difficulty to face.As if reading someone else's story, the death of his parents was like the most common kind of murder he had seen.

He didn't expect to meet his past with such a mood that was as ordinary as a daily job, and he unexpectedly didn't resonate with such a past.

Is he really numb to such a point?

Lu Yuan pressed his temples, opened his eyes, and continued to look back.

Transcripts, testimonies, written evidence.

After reading a few pages, Lu Yuan's previous calm state of being aloof was broken.His heart was beating faster, he was having difficulty breathing, and tiny beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

Father's suicide note.

"I think the child is not missing, but dead...Xiao Yu always felt that it was her fault, she shouldn't have slept so deeply, and she didn't hear the two children when they went out to play...Xiao Yuan was frightened and kept Also didn't tell us how the brother disappeared..she became weird and i think she has mental problem..she said young jay is back in her stomach..i think she must be crazy, she will Kill Xiaoyuan..."

This was something Lu Yuan had never thought of.

He also has an older brother.

He had to press his hands on the table to stop the shaking, he had an older brother, he had a missing older brother, and the tragedy of his parents seemed to be directly linked to his disappearance.

He quickly flipped through the files and found the transcripts of the interrogation made by neighbors, colleagues and friends at that time.

"I think Xiao Yu has been a little weird since Lu Jie disappeared. He always said it was his fault, but later he didn't even leave the house. I didn't see anything wrong with Old Lu..."

"Since the 14th, I haven't seen anyone from their family, and I haven't heard any movement, but at night, the lights will be turned on, and there will be TV sound. I really didn't expect Lu Yuan to stay there alone. ah……"

"Xiao Yu told me before the accident that she met her when she was shopping for vegetables. She said that she must be pregnant. I said that she is in such a bad health, so I should not think about it. After all, she still has a child, but she said that Lu Jie is still at home, I think she may have a brain problem..."

"Old Lu called me and said he wanted to send Xiao Yu to the hospital, but Xiao Yu refused, and he couldn't force it. He mentioned to me that Xiao Yu beat Lu Yuan very hard, and he was afraid that Xiao Yu would hurt the child. ..."

……

Lu Yuan couldn't control the stabbing pain in his heart. When he saw these transcripts, he felt a suffocating discomfort. The narration of these people gradually gave him a general understanding of the incident.

But he still couldn't remember anything, and the feeling of wanting to remember but having no clue anyway made him feel unbearable.Trembling, he quickly flipped through the pages of the transcript, trying to find anything else that would be helpful to him.

Attached to the last page was a transcript as simple as a few words.

Interviewee: Lu Yuan.

My brother is with me.

"My brother is with me."

These words were like a sword, piercing into Lu Yuan's body accurately, ruthlessly piercing some of his most vulnerable places.

It was the only thing he had ever said, the only thing he had ever said since what happened to his parents.

A darkness rushed towards him, pain, loneliness, fear, he closed his eyes.

Lu Yuan felt his headache was about to burst, as if something was churning in his head, he almost cried out, this pain that he had never experienced before made him confused.

He gritted his teeth and took out his mobile phone. Meng Fanyu's speed dial key was 1. He wanted to find Meng Fanyu before he lost consciousness. He had something very important to tell him.

"Fanyu, I remembered."