European and American Style Liaozhai

It happened to be noon when the plane arrived in Texas from New York. The three of them came out of the gate and met the people who came to pick them up.The person who came was Stephen Armitage, a college classmate of Sherlock's, and now he is teaching at the Department of Medicine at the University of Texas.The two deceased this time were both medical students who graduated a few years ago, and the place of death was also the laboratory of the medical department. Because of this incident, the entire medical department was panicked, and the laboratory could not be used normally, which seriously affected this Ah. Mr. Mitic's life, so he desperately hoped that the case would be resolved quickly, but the local police obviously did not have enough capacity, and the murderer was not found after more than ten days of delay.It happened that Mr. Armitage saw the news that Sherlock had come to the United States from Watson's Twitter, so he contacted Sherlock, hoping that he could help solve the case.

"Since they graduated a few years ago, why did they appear in the laboratory of the medical department?" John asked.

Sherlock frowned when he heard that, and said, "John, didn't you read that document carefully? There is a reason written on it."

The document Sherlock said was the one he showed Yun Xiangdi in the morning. John did read it, but he didn't read it very carefully, because the photos of the corpses in the document made him unable to concentrate at all.

"Sorry, I might have missed it," John said.

"It doesn't matter." Mr. Armitage smiled without hesitation, and explained: "Not long ago, the school just held a school celebration, and almost all the outstanding graduates from the past few years returned to their alma mater. The two deceased are also for this reason. Back, the first deceased was found on the morning of the second day of the school celebration, when one of my students was going to the laboratory to get the experimental data, and she was shocked when she saw the dead body."

John nodded after listening, and then continued to ask: "Then why did you say that this case was a supernatural case when you contacted Sherlock?"

"Because the police have so far been unable to find any clues related to the murderer. In addition, the surveillance cameras of the entire school did not capture the image of the two deceased entering the laboratory building and being killed inside. The most important thing is that those surveillance videos are all They are complete, without any traces of being intercepted and modified, and the only abnormal thing about them is that the images of those two people are missing.” Mr. Armitage glanced at the three of them, and then said: “These things started from the very beginning. It caught the attention of the members of the school's spiritual research club. Seven days ago, the members of this club held a soul-calling ceremony. According to them, they recruited the souls of the two deceased and were told that they were killed by ghosts. Specifically I don't know the situation, but now the whole school feels that this case is weird."

Yun Xiangdi was not interested in other things, the only thing he was interested in was the soul-calling ceremony, so after Mr. Armitage finished speaking, he asked: "Can you tell the members of the supernatural research club of your school what is going on?" Is it a spirit summoning ceremony?"

You must know the soul-calling ceremony, as long as the soul-calling ceremony is completed, as long as the soul is recruited, the ceremony is completed, but what kind of souls are these souls, whether they are real souls or fake souls, and whether they are the souls that the soul-caller wants to recruit, there is no certainty. up.

"I don't know about this either." Mr. Armitage shook his head and said, "It may be a ceremony similar to the pen fairy. I heard that they seem to find answers in the form of questions and answers."

Yun Xiangdi nodded, if the ghost club really used the pen fairy method to recruit souls, then the chances of them recruiting the right owner would be very small, and the accuracy of the answer would be even lower.However, you have to go to the school to see everything before you can really draw a conclusion. If the murderer is indeed a ghost, then he must solve it to earn a fortune.

However, Mr. Armitage did not take the three of them to school directly, but found a restaurant to treat them to lunch first.Sherlock didn't take a few mouthfuls as usual, well, this time he ate a little less than usual, probably because of the influence of the illusion in the morning.

Yun Xiangdi didn't feel guilty at all about this, if Sherlock hadn't taken out the documents while he was eating, he wouldn't have suffered like this, he deserved it now.

After lunch, the four of them went to the University of Texas. The laboratory where the crime happened has been lifted, but no one has entered it, so it still maintains the same state as when the second body was found.But it doesn't look special, because the murderer in the two cases didn't touch anything here except for brutally killing people and dissecting the autopsy in this laboratory, which is why the police couldn't find any clues.

When Yun Xiangdi entered the experimental building, he felt a strong resentment, and at a glance, he knew that there were many resentful ghosts living in this building.But he didn't think it was strange. The most indispensable thing in the laboratory building of the medical department is the corpse. If the soul of the deceased is still wandering around the corpse, he sees his body being turned over and over for various experiments, or cut into pieces to make The specimens will probably feel resentful.

But despite their resentment, none of the ghosts here have done any evil.Once a ghost kills a person, it will turn into a ghost. If there is a ghost in this building, Yun Xiangdi will feel it immediately.Moreover, ghosts and murderers will leave traces, but Yun Xiangdi walked around the laboratory, but did not see such traces.

But Yun Xiangdi is not sure that the two people who died here were really not killed by ghosts. People can erase the traces when committing crimes, and continue to pretend to be good people after killing people. Similarly, ghosts have ghosts Methods.

At this time, Sherlock had quickly looked around every corner of the laboratory. While thinking about the few clues he had just found, he walked over and asked, "Mr. Yun, is there a ghost here?"

"Yes, but I'm afraid there isn't the ghost you're looking for." Yun Xiangdi said.

Sherlock frowned and said, "You mean this isn't a supernatural case?"

"I'm not sure, so far I haven't found any traces of ghosts killing people." Yun Xiangdi said.

One of Sherlock's eyebrows was raised, and the words "you're only good at it" were written on his face.

Yun Xiangdi glanced at him and continued, "But I can ask the ghosts here to see if they saw what happened at that time?"

The expression on Sherlock's face changed immediately, and he asked excitedly, "Can I see it?"

"Yes." Yun nodded to Di.

Sherlock came here to watch ghosts, and he had already paid his wages, so Yun Xiangdi naturally wanted to meet his request.

"Then how can I see it?" Sherlock asked.

Yun Xiangdi ignored him, turned to look at John and asked, "John, do you want to see it?"

"I won't..." John wanted to refuse when he opened his mouth. The shadow that Greyet brought to him has not been eliminated. To be honest, he doesn't really want to see ghosts.But John felt that if he didn't look at it, he might feel more scared.Just like some well-known horror movies, it’s actually the same thing after watching it, but if you haven’t watched it, you will be frightened by your own wild thoughts.So John thought about it, and then changed his mind and said, "Then I'll watch it too."

"Okay. Then close your eyes." Yun said to Di, and then reached out and touched the eyes of Sherlock and John at the same time.

Sherlock and John only felt a chill seep from their eyelids to their brains, a bit like the aftereffects after taking a bite of ice cream, and when they opened their eyes, the scene in front of them was different from before.

The bright and clean laboratory seems to have been artificially added a layer of horror film filters, the entire tone has become gray, and the specimens and the blood on the ground are covered with a layer of surging black air. It looks a little permeable.

"Where's the ghost?" Sherlock asked after looking around.

"Wait a minute." Yun Xiangdi gave him a cold face, then squeezed a formula in his hand, and grabbed it casually into the void, and he caught a black ghost in an orange prison uniform from outside the house.

The ghost was caught suddenly, struggling in panic and yelling, with a rap rhythm.

"What do you want?

I am not afraid of you!

I'm a nigger,

**1.8 meters,

watch out for me

poked your beep--

Beep again——

Then put you beep beep beep beep—”

Sure enough, the soul is immortal, and the RAP does not stop.

A black line slid down from the foreheads of the three of them at the same time, and Yun Xiangdi threw his hand out of the window without hesitation, and threw the ghost out.

"I'll do it again." He said, and then pinched a formula in his hand again, and then lightly grabbed it in the void.

However, Yun Xiangdi deliberately changed direction this time, and did not attack in the same direction as he had just caught the black ghost. He was afraid that things of a kind would flock to each other, so don't catch another ghost who sings rap with a yellow accent.

Fortunately, the ghost caught this time was quite normal. It was a girl in a hospital gown with draped hair and a pale face, which fit the general description of a female ghost.

This female ghost was not very old when she died, she was suddenly caught and trembling with fright, shrank her body, hugged her arms and asked in a low voice: "Who are you, what do you want to do by arresting me?"

"We want to ask you something, and we'll let you go after asking. I hope you can answer honestly." Yun Xiangdi said to her.

The female ghost looked timid, but she was good at judging the situation. She found that Yun Xiangdi was the dominant one among the three, so she turned to him and nodded obediently, "I promise to answer honestly."

Yun Xiangdi was very satisfied with the other party's obedient attitude, and just about to ask a question, Sherlock stepped in front of the female ghost, stared at her and asked, "Are the two people who died here killed by ghosts?"

Scared by Sherlock, the female ghost took a few steps back, knowing that half of her body was sunk in the experiment table, she whispered, "I don't know."

Sherlock carefully observed the female ghost's expression, and said, "How could you not know that you are in this building, didn't you hear any movement?"

"I, we all have our own territory. I don't wander around often, and I haven't heard any movement." The female ghost whispered.

It stands to reason that the two deceased were tormented like that, and they must have suffered quite painful torture before they died. They must have made a lot of noise. People outside the laboratory may not be able to hear it, but the ghosts in the laboratory will definitely hear it. .But if the two were really killed by a ghost, and that ghost could hide its tracks from Yun Xiangdi's eyes, then he might not be able to hide from the eyes and ears of other ghosts.

Yun Xiangdi didn't say this, but Sherlock had already guessed it from Yun Xiangdi's words just now. He thought about it and asked another question: "You all have your own territory, so what is in this laboratory? Is it the place of other ghosts? If so, where is that ghost now?"

The female ghost shook her head and said, "I just came here not long ago. I heard that this place was indeed occupied by a ghost before, but she was always elusive. Few of the ghosts in the building know her, and I have never seen her."

Sherlock immediately realized that this female ghost should be the key clue, and immediately chased after him: "Do you know how to find this ghost?"

But the female ghost didn't know the answer, she said: "Someone said she could leave the building, so it was hard to find her."

"What's her name, you should know that?" Sherlock said.

As a result, the female ghost still shook her head and said: "There is only an old ghost who talked to her, but he never mentioned her name."

"Where is that old ghost now?" Sherlock asked quickly.

The female ghost glanced at him cautiously, and said, "It's gone, the laboratory has replaced a batch of new specimens not long ago, and the old ghost's heart was disposed of, so he followed."

The clue was broken again, and Sherlock frowned and walked around the laboratory, then said to John: "Contact Stephen, I need the records of the batch of specimens that were disposed of."