Chapter 37 The Real Murderer
Inside the Jiangliu City Police Station.
Wang Wenqi looked at the file bag in his hand, his expression thoughtful.
“The situation on Panwang Mountain seems to have calmed down.”
While Wang Wenqi and Liu Haoyu were chatting in Jiangliu City, the work on Panwang Mountain had not stopped for a moment.
Because the two drug dealers had been dismembered by evil spirits, in order to cover up the truth, Feiying Sunying dispatched two Type 89 heavy machine guns from the army and swept through the village.
Then, they publicly announced that the drug dealers had been reduced to minced meat in the village square and confirmed their deaths.
As for the wronged souls in the village, strangely, when Feiying Sunying went up the mountain again, they found no ghosts at all.
They seemed to have disappeared into thin air, nowhere to be found.
This also puzzled Wang Wenqi greatly.
In the end, he could only attribute this matter to Liu Haoyu.
“Team leader, received a report from Xiong Ying, the military police on Panwang Mountain have withdrawn, and it will be open to the public normally tomorrow…”
Speaking of this, Xu Wanlin couldn’t help but ask.
“Speaking of which, team leader, I’ve always had a question.”
“Go ahead.”
“Regarding ghosts and monsters, why do we need to conceal it from the public?”
Xu Wanlin was not a ghost exorcist, so she didn’t understand the meaning of covering up the truth.
In her opinion, since there are ghosts, why not say it openly, so that the public can have some awareness of prevention?
But when Wang Wenqi heard Xu Wanlin’s words, he seemed to recall something and said to Xu Wanlin.
“Do you know about the Mao Ren Shui incident? In plain terms, it’s the water monkey, the water ghost.”
“My elders at home said that this legend was very popular in the 1950s.”
“That’s right.”
Wang Wenqi lit a cigarette and said.
“The Mao Ren Shui, it’s not even considered a supernatural event, it’s just a downright rumor, but it managed to plunge half the country into collective disasters.
“Farmers were afraid to work in the fields, students were afraid to go to school, and workers were afraid to work, all because what?”
“Because some people said… there were ghosts in the water.”
“But in reality, according to the investigation by our Special Task Force, there were very few real water ghost supernatural events recorded in the 1950s.”
“Just because someone spread rumors, saying that there were Mao Ren Shui in some places, it caused widespread panic.”
Wang Wenqi said this, and Xu Wanlin seemed to understand something. She put down the document in her hand and muttered.
“It’s not that we don’t want to say it, but that we can’t say it. We can only use the clumsy lie of superstition to cover up the existence of the truth…”
“Yes,” Wang Wenqi nodded. “Because once the existence of supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained, such as ghosts and monsters, is admitted, the national security will inevitably fall into chaos.”
“If one wants to kill someone, they can just sleep in a cemetery for a night, and then go and kill someone with a knife the next day, and then say I was possessed by a ghost, and it has nothing to do with me. Are you going to catch me or not?”
“If you want to bring down your opponent’s business, use rumors to constantly spread that his family’s store is haunted. Then, do you think the public will believe it or not?”
“During the Mao Ren Shui rumor period, in the most severe situations, foreign forces directly spread rumors that cadres in our country were water monsters. Do you think such things should be stopped?”
Wang Wenqi said this, then pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray.
“With the current level of scientific development, we haven’t even fully understood our own bodies, let alone supernatural phenomena like ghosts and monsters. Science cannot even explain them, and people’s trust in modern science will collapse.”
“So even though ghosts and monsters are dangerous and terrifying, there will be countless ghost exorcists who will devote themselves to it. All of this is for the stability of the country, and it is worth it.”
Wang Wenqi’s words made Xu Wanlin fall silent.
“In short, the current situation is under control. After people from other jurisdictions come to support, we won’t be so busy here.”
After speaking, Wang Wenqi left the office.
He was going to find Old Deng.
Although Liu Haoyu was very powerful, facing something like the Red Gate that far exceeded the special grade, he had to be cautious, cautious, and even more cautious.
The police car slowly started.
The blue and white police car drove slowly through the bustling city.
Wang Wenqi, as a ghost exorcist, also had a certain spiritual sight.
Although not comparable to Old Deng’s granddaughter, he could still vaguely sense the existence of ghosts.
“Oh!”
As the police car drove onto the road, Wang Wenqi saw a girl by the roadside stumble and was about to fall face down.
But her body suddenly stabilized.
After the girl stabilized, she scratched her head, thinking that she had stabilized herself, but she didn’t know that when she was about to fall, a dark figure had helped her.
Although it seemed like there was no problem, Wang Wenqi still stopped the car and asked the girl.
“Are you alright?”
“Ah… I’m fine.”
At this moment, Wang Wenqi realized that this girl looked familiar, as if he had seen her somewhere before.
“Oh!!” But as he was thinking, the girl exclaimed and said, “Officer Wang, what a coincidence?”
This time, Wang Wenqi finally noticed the girl’s characteristics.
Short hair, flat chest, very tomboyish personality…
Her name seemed to be Bai Anting?
“Officer Wang, you haven’t forgotten me, have you?”
“No, but what are you doing out here so late at night?”
In response to Wang Wenqi’s question, Bai Anting innocently stuck out her tongue and said.
“I’m strolling…”
“Really?”
It was obvious that Wang Wenqi did not believe Bai Anting’s words.
Under his probing gaze, Bai Anting was sweating profusely.
Finally, she had to admit her destination.
“I want to go to Fugui Apartment.”
“…”
Wang Wenqi looked at Bai Anting silently.
He had just said that people who court death would encounter them so soon?
Seeing Wang Wenqi’s gaze like he was interrogating a criminal, Bai Anting quickly explained.
“I’m a streamer who deals with the supernatural. I heard that place is haunted, so I plan to investigate.”
“This… is this not allowed?”
This time, Bai Anting was fully prepared.
She had investigated the background of Fugui Apartment and contacted the previous residents there.
Only after confirming that no one had died there and had only been slightly frightened did she decide to go and take a look.
It was completely different from the situation before where she impulsively decided to go to Longshan Vocational High School.
Now, she was super, super cautious.
Unfortunately, in front of her was a righteous policeman.
Wang Wenqi placed his hand on Bai Anting’s small head and said with a smile.
“Little girl, don’t you think I don’t know you’re 17 and streaming with your parents’ ID? You don’t want your parents to find out about your streaming in haunted houses, do you?”
“…”
Seeing Wang Wenqi’s expression, Bai Anting became completely honest.
After all, she knew that if her parents found out about this, they would definitely blow up on the spot… No, they would definitely beat her to death.
“Alright, alright, it’s so late now, I’ll give you a ride home.”
Saying that, Wang Wenqi opened the door of the police car and signaled Bai Anting to get in.
The police car continued to drive, but in order to get to Bai Anting’s home quickly, the police car had to enter from the small path leading to Fugui Apartment.
And as they passed the apartment, Bai Anting quickly said to Wang Wenqi.
“Officer Wang, Officer Wang! Look!”
“What is it now?”
Wang Wenqi looked in the direction Bai Anting pointed and saw a man inside Fugui Apartment sharpening a knife in the yard.
Sharpening a knife in the yard in the middle of the night, this situation doesn’t seem right no matter how you think about it.
And under their gaze, the man picked up the pig-slaughtering knife.
In the moonlight, the pig-slaughtering knife gleamed menacingly, looking extremely terrifying.
“There’s something wrong with this person? He’s not going to kill someone, is he?”
Bai Anting muttered, and her little heart thumped with fear.
She felt like she would be instantly killed if she entered this apartment…
As expected, the words of the idiotic netizens were unreliable.
Wang Wenqi also frowned.
He knew that Liu Haoyu had already entered Fugui Apartment to investigate, but given the current situation, no one knew how he was doing.
And the man sharpening the knife in the yard was clearly a living person, not a ghost.
What was this man doing with the pig-slaughtering knife?
Could it be…
Wang Wenqi frowned and said to Bai Anting.
“Don’t move in the car, I’ll be back soon.”
“Uh… Is the police car really safe?”
Saying that, the officer took his handgun and talismans and left the police car, leaving Bai Anting alone in the car, muttering.
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On the other side, on the third floor of Fugui Apartment.
Liu Haoyu confronted Xu Wanrong.
But the ghost just looked at him with hateful eyes, and seemed to have no killing intent.
After a while of staring at each other, Liu Haoyu silently put down the Zhenlei Talisman in his pocket and asked the ghost in front of him in a calm tone.
“Do you have any obsession?”
“Quick… run…”
However, to Liu Haoyu’s surprise, not only did the ghost have no killing intent, but she even urged him to leave.
“Run…”
But Liu Haoyu naturally couldn’t leave this place. He had to resolve Xu Wanrong’s obsession first.
“Since you don’t seem to have any killing intent, I wanted to ask, is the corpse under the bed you?”
Xu Wanrong did not respond. Her soul was already incomplete, and the last bit of reason in her heart was constantly saying one word.
“Run…”
But Liu Haoyu thought of a possibility as to why she wanted him to run.
So, he asked Xu Wanrong.
“Are the two people downstairs not right?”
Upon hearing this, Xu Wanrong’s dazed eyes became ferocious. She wanted to roar, but it was as if she was firmly trapped, and could only cover her neck and struggle constantly.
Seeing this, Liu Haoyu understood something and turned his gaze to the brand-new cement floor.
Even though there was a thick layer of cement, Liu Haoyu could still sense that the corpse inside seemed to have been subjected to some kind of confinement.
This caused Xu Wanrong to only be able to wander on the third floor, and she couldn’t even take revenge on the man downstairs.
But because of the layer of cement, even if Liu Haoyu wanted to dig out the corpse, it would be difficult.
He only had an axe in his hand, and the other tools were in the room on the second floor.
“Wait here, I’ll find a way to get your body out first.”
Liu Haoyu finally decided to return to the room on the second floor first.
At this moment, the atmosphere in the apartment became extremely strange.
Although the fierce ghost had no killing intent, a strong smell of blood filled the apartment.
Liu Haoyu did not stop, carrying the fire axe as he walked towards the second floor.
The dark and gloomy corridor was like the open mouth of an abyss. The further he walked, the more oppressive he felt, as if he was being torn apart.
“So quiet…”
Before, there were sounds in the apartment, but now there were no sounds at all.
Liu Haoyu’s room was at the end of the corridor on the second floor. He remained highly vigilant along the way, fearing that a door would suddenly open.
And because of his previous speculation, Liu Haoyu slowed down his footsteps, maintaining a steady breathing.
Liu Haoyu knew very well that compared to ghosts, humans were actually more terrifying.
He walked stealthily for nearly three minutes, and Liu Haoyu finally returned to his room.
However, when Liu Haoyu reached the door of his room, his entire body suddenly froze.
The door lock of the room seemed to have been tampered with.
There were also some footprints on the ground that did not belong to him.
These footprints were very large and were facing the door.
Someone had entered his room!?
Moreover, Liu Haoyu discovered that although that woman had been here, there were no women’s footprints on the ground…
This situation was a bit unusual.
At this moment, Liu Haoyu’s hair stood on end, and a sense of inexplicable fear surged towards him from all directions. His hands and feet felt cold, and he vaguely heard a young girl’s voice.
“Quick… run…”
At this moment, Xu Wanrong’s voice was tinged with pleading, and she desperately hoped that Liu Haoyu would leave this place quickly.
Although Xu Wanrong was persistently advising him, Liu Haoyu did not intend to enter the room.
Because no one knew if there was a murderer with a cleaver waiting for him behind this door.
In fact, compared to ghosts, Liu Haoyu was more troubled by murderers who were like psychotics.
He couldn’t gain any advantage by confronting them, so the priority was to call the police.
So Liu Haoyu took a deep breath and slowly backed away.
He went to the window on the second floor and checked for a while.
Then he found that all the windows on the second floor were tangled with black hair, and even the main door on the first floor was no exception.
Liu Haoyu tried to pull these hairs, but they had no effect. It would also take a long time to burn them with the Divine Fire Talisman…
Liu Haoyu was silent for a long time. He looked at himself in the mirror.
He was a man in a black trench coat, holding a fire axe.
In a sense, he was the real murderer.
