Special Social Situation Administration

"There is one thing I don't quite understand." Yan Ting frowned and looked at the half-length mirror in front of him. "Ghosts like shadow ghosts and mirror ghosts, which are limited by their attachments and living space, are invincible in their living space. , but in a larger environment, it is also subject to great restrictions. If you want to invade a private space with a personal label like a house, you must have a way."

"The way?" Nie Wenxi blinked and asked if he didn't understand.

"The carrier of entry." Yan Ting explained and continued, "It must be summoned or attached to a certain medium to enter this space. We often see a saying in film and television works or literary works, It means that when someone or creature you don’t know asks if you can open the door or enter the house, you must not agree. This kind of statement is not unfounded, because as the owner of the house, your consent itself is also a medium, and it gets your consent. If you give permission, ghosts and ghosts can invade your domain wantonly. If you refuse, they usually have no way to easily break into your home."

"I understand what you mean," Lu Yu took over, and explained to his confused subordinates by the way, "Different from the human sparrows we met before, mirror ghosts and shadow ghosts without entities are strictly controlled by space and media. Restricted, then, the question goes back to the secret room at the beginning, how does it enter and leave this space?"

"It may be that the victim was bewitched by some kind of bewitch, and it was summoned in this room, or it may be brought into the house with the help of some kind of medium. We don't care about the way it came, and we can directly think about how it left here. , because it can be called to come, but it cannot be called to leave, and it can only leave by means of a medium."

Lu Yu scratched his head, maddened: "So I'm still at odds with the murder in the secret room, right? Regardless of whether the murderer is a human or a ghost, I have to solve this damn murder in the secret room?"

"Why do you have such a big prejudice against this murder in a secret room?" Yan Ting couldn't help laughing.

"As soon as Qin Fen encounters a murder case in a secret room, he will throw it at me!" Lu Yu spread his hands, "I feel bald when I see these five words now!"

Yan Ting shook his head with a smile: "Actually, this case can completely bypass the secret room."

"Oh?" Lu Yu's eyes lit up immediately, which shows how much he hates such cases.

"You just resist the thought of killing people in a secret room, so you don't think about it." Yan Ting looked around the room, "When the police entered, this was indeed a perfect secret room without any flaws. But when they entered After that, this secret room no longer exists."

The tacit understanding built up over the years has not been erased together with Yan Ting himself, and Lu Yu understood it almost instantly: "When the police came in, it didn't leave this room, but because it belongs to evil spirits, so Qin Fen's gang of little The cub can't see him."

"Yes."

"That makes sense," Lu Yu clapped his hands, "Xia Xinyue previously said that she saw a demon on the subway, attached to the shadow of a person, and could move between images appearing in the same mirror. I have known all the evil spirits and ghosts in the city over the years, so there is no reason for so many new evil spirits with similar abilities to appear in a short period of time. If what Xia Xinyue saw on the subway before was the evil spirit that committed this case, then everything would make sense. It has been trapped in this room since the death of the victim, but when the police entered the room to check the victim's body, their images were inevitably reflected by the half-length mirror facing the bed. can be transferred from the shadow of the victim to the shadow of a certain policeman and taken out of this room."

Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, knowing these things, he finally had a little idea in his heart.

However, at this moment, Ye Xiangdi, who was buried in the file room of the left-behind bureau, suddenly called. As soon as Lu Yu connected, he heard Ye Xiangdi's eager voice from the other end: "Boss! The second victim The one appeared!!!”

"What's the situation?" Lu Yu turned his head and signaled Yan Ting and Nie Wenxi to leave here. This crime scene is not of much value. Since there is a second victim, there is no need to delay here.

"I just received a call from Captain Qin, saying that there was another case. The scene and characteristics of the crime were very similar to that of the victim in our hands. It is suspected that the same murderer committed the crime. us."

"The victim was also strangled?"

"No, the crime method has been upgraded this time. The victim was hacked to death at home." Ye Xiangdi added, "But the whole crime scene is also a perfect secret room, there is no condition for the murderer to escape after committing the crime .”

After listening, Lu Yu told Ye Xiangdi what they found at the crime scene, and asked him to see if there were any similarities.

"...Yes!" Ye Xiangdi said to Lu Yu while flipping through the documents, "All the mirrors in the victim's house were smashed."

"Let's join the case together." Lu Yu sighed, he had just discovered clues here, and there were victims there immediately. Although the murderer's approaching insane way of attack could easily expose himself, it would also cause many casualties that they could do nothing about. "What else did Qin Fen tell you, let's talk about it together."

"Oh good," Ye Xiangdi paused, and began to introduce the basic information of the victim, "Because the crime took place at home, it didn't take much time to identify the victim. The victim's name is Cen Licheng, male, 28 Aged, an employee of a state-owned enterprise. He is kind and has no enemies. I haven't heard of offending anyone recently. I have a fiancee who plans to get married early next year, tsk."

"that's it?"

"By the way, there is one more thing." Ye Xiangdi added, "Before the second case happened, the police station received a strange call, which was an early warning. A girl called the police station and said she was at the riverside. She met a man in the business district of the square. She described the man's appearance and clothes, and said that he would be killed, and hoped that the police could save him. But later she found out that she had borrowed the phone from a stranger, and dialed Surveillance checked and found that the man was still alive and well, so the police treated it as a prank.”

Lu Yu frowned, guessing the follow-up: "But that man is dead."

"Yes, that man was the victim this time. When verifying his identity, he met the police who had previously transferred the surveillance, and then connected the phone call with his death."

"Adjust the surveillance, check the call records, and find that girl." Lu Yu opened the car door and got in the passenger seat. "I have a hunch that the girl should be the key."

"Yes!"

After returning home from the Jiangbian Square in a daze, Su Luo began to pay close attention to the local forums, post bars and Weibo. Any obituary would make her terrified—even though she knew that the demon spirit would never let it go, she still humbly hoped that The man implicated by her should not die.

At least, not his death.If it were another victim, she might feel better.

Unfortunately, a few days later, she still waited for his obituary.

Even though she had already prepared her mentally well, when she opened the post and saw the man's face clearly, in an instant, she was overwhelmed by guilt, which almost overwhelmed her. She was overwhelmed by this heavy death, even though An early warning call was made for that man, but it didn't help her feel less guilty about this matter.

Fortunately, this guilt didn't last long, and she soon found a way to make up for it.On the evening of the day when she saw the obituary, a handsome man knocked on the door of her house—forgive a girl for being the first to notice a man's appearance no matter what the situation, especially when she faced a handsome guy.

"Hello," the man showed his ID, "My surname is Lu, and I belong to the Action Team of the Special Social Affairs Administration. I have something to check with you."

"What, what's the matter?"

Lu Yu took out a photo, which was the poor man implicated by her: "The man in the photo was found dead in his home two days ago. His death was miserable. I won't show you the photos of the scene. Girls shouldn't look at that." Lu Yu showed a gentle non-aggressive smile, and successfully lowered the girl's defenses. Seeing this, he continued, "We found out that the day before his death, you had borrowed The mobile phone of the owner of a drink shop in Jiangbian Square called the police to ask someone to stop his death, but unfortunately, no attention was paid to it at the time.”

"……Um."

"That's why I'm here."

Su Ling's mind was spinning a thousand times, and she said naively: "I don't know how to explain that phone call, but I am definitely not the murderer, I did not kill him, although strictly speaking, he can indeed be regarded as dying because of me ..."

Hearing the words, the man in front of him showed a very comforting smile to Su Rong: "Of course I believe that you are not the murderer, otherwise you will not be waiting for me, but the police."

Su Yan twitched the corner of her mouth when she heard the words, but her smile was uglier than crying. She nodded, agreeing with the man's point of view, but fell silent because she didn't know what to say.

"Won't you invite me in? I'm not a bad person. If you're afraid, you can open the door, or let's go downstairs and I'll buy you coffee?" Seeing that she didn't have any desire to talk, Lu Yu guided, "For the photo On this poor man, you should have something to tell me, right?"

"I..." Su Luo still hesitated. After all, what she had seen and heard before was really hard to believe, and she didn't know how to say this.But the guilt in her eyes when she faced the man's photo was seen by Lu Yu: "We can't undo his death, but please believe me, everything you know is very important to give him justice .”

Su Ling hesitated again and again, and finally raised his head slowly and asked, "Mr. Lu, do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?"