Soling Internet Cafe

"Isn't it better to see this way?" Chang Yuxin shook the flashlight and said, "I just bought it. It has a good light-gathering effect and is durable."

Chu Lingya removed the hand that blocked the light and looked around.

In the middle of the night, this old house looked extremely empty and deserted.

Chu Lingya is a private detective, and Chang Yuxin is his partner. The two of them went to this uninhabited house in the north of the city in the middle of the night to investigate a sensational case—the case of dismemberment of the mansion in search of spirits.

Half a month ago, the city's 110 alarm station received a report that the famous space scientist Xie Rujian had been killed in his home, and the reporter was Yue Zhao, a domestic service worker Xie Rujian had hired three years ago.

No one in Huaguo knows Xie Rujian.Professor Xie is a rare genius. He obtained the title of doctor at the age of 16, won many honors at a young age, and achieved many remarkable achievements.He was the first to focus on space technology, and later gradually developed a new research direction.About seven years ago, he moved into an old house called "Souling" in the north of the city alone, and studied a certain topic day and night.For the convenience of life, he hired Haoyoujia Housekeeping Company to send someone to help him. This is how Yuemao and Xie Rujian got to know each other.Yuezhao, a local, 33 years old, has been in the housekeeping industry for five years. He goes to search for two days every weekend. His main work is to clean the room, wash clothes, cook and buy various daily necessities.Yue Nuo hadn't seen Xie Rujian for a month before calling the police the day before yesterday.

"Professor Xie often locks himself up to see no one when he is busy, but he still eats when he is hungry, so when I go to clean every weekend, I will prepare a week's worth of meals and put them in different colored lunch boxes and freeze them in the refrigerator. Will call on time to remind him to eat. But since a month ago, I found that he no longer takes the meals in the refrigerator..."

"Don't you think it's strange? Professor Xie's daily life depends entirely on you to take care of him. Since you found out a month ago that he no longer eats the meals you cook and hasn't seen anyone from him, don't you feel suspicious and ask him?" ?”

"Professor Xie doesn't like others to disturb him when he is doing research. Although the food in the refrigerator has not decreased, the bread I bought for him has disappeared, so I guess he may not be willing to work hard to eat because his research has reached a critical juncture recently. Eat vegetables, but choose dry food to satisfy your hunger, this kind of thing has happened before."

"Then why did you call the police the night before?"

"I... smelled a strange smell."

Because of this strange smell, Yue Nuo searched all over Xie's house, and finally found that the smell came from Xie Rujian's research room.

It was a smell similar to rotten food, and it was winter, so this smell was really inexplicable, Yue Nuo suspected that Xie Rujian had broken something when he was doing research, but he forgot.He was afraid that the customer would be unhappy and complain that he didn't do his best to clean up, so he boldly knocked on the door of Xie Rujian's laboratory, but no one answered the door.Yue Nuo hesitated for a long time, and finally boldly opened the door of the laboratory, but after seeing the situation inside, he almost fainted from fright.

Blood was dripping everywhere in the airtight research room, scattered pieces of meat and organs were thrown all over the floor, covered with maggots, it was these things that were putrid and degenerated, giving off an unpleasant stench.

Yue Nuo came to his senses and crawled out of the house to call the police. Police officers from the Changle City Bureau rushed to the scene. The forensic doctor could tell with the naked eye that all the pieces of meat and organs came from the human body. He went back for a test. It confirmed that Xie Rujian was dismembered after his death.What is strange is that all the body parts can be pieced together to form a human figure, except that the head is missing.

Professor Xie's head was missing.

Because of Xie Rujian's reputation and the strangeness of this case, the entire Hua Country was a sensation. Online and offline, professional and non-professional people were discussing this case, analyzing the real murderer behind it and the motive for killing and dismembering the corpse.Helplessly, Xie Rujian usually lives in seclusion, and his interpersonal relationship is extremely simple, so there is no reliable explanation so far.Chu Lingya was in such a situation. The day before yesterday morning, she received an unsigned courier. After opening it, she found that it was an invitation letter.

"We sincerely invite Mr. Chu Lingya to come to the old house in the north of the city at 24:[-] on the evening of X, X, for a talk. Thank you Rujian"

When seeing this invitation letter, Chu Lingya's first reaction was who was playing a prank.Although Chu Lingya and Chang Yuxin have been in the business of private detectives for many years, thanks to the fact that the crime rate in China is relatively low, they usually do more to investigate third-party derailments, or to find cases of lost pets. , the reputation is not very famous, and Chu Lingya does not remember that he had a relationship with this Dr. Xie.

Chang Yuxin read the invitation letter and asked him: "Tell me honestly, what is the relationship between the two of you? Did you give up on him?" Chu Lingya came out to his friend early in the morning, so Chang Yuxin also Know he likes men.

Chu Lingya was speechless: "I haven't even seen this person before, okay?"

"Really haven't seen it?"

"I really haven't seen it."

"Do you dare to swear?"

"What's wrong..." Chu Lingya decided to be conservative and search for Xie Rujian's photos.

When the young man in glasses wearing a Chinese Tang suit and braided braids appeared on the computer screen, Chu Lingya's eyes straightened.

"Really haven't seen it?" Chang Yuxin asked again, and Chu Lingya realized that he seemed, might, seemed, indeed had seen this person.

How can it be!Chu Lingya thought, judging from his age, he was four or five years older than this Dr. Xie, completely ruling out the possibility of being a classmate, and he didn't remember ever coming into contact with such a beauty at work—yes, Dr. Xie is really beautiful, and he is very pleasing to Chu Lingya's eyes. He is the kind of pleasing to the eye.

"Ah!" Chu Lingya finally remembered, "It was my neighbor when I was young."

Chu Lingya's parents worked in a state-owned research institute. He grew up in the compound since he was a child. At that time, he vaguely remembered seeing such a child with the same beautiful eyes. The boy is different, he always sits quietly and reads a book alone.

Chu Lingya was a face controler when she was a child, and she especially liked the other person's appearance. Once she took the initiative to greet him and asked him: "What's your name? My name is Chu Lingya."

"Thank you, Rujian."

"What book are you reading?"

The child put the book down for him to read, but Chu Lingya couldn't remember what kind of book it was, only remembered that it was difficult to understand, and he couldn't understand it anyway.

"Why do you like reading this kind of book? It's not interesting at all."

"Because I want to figure out who and where I am."

Chu Lingya looked suspiciously at the little luotou in front of him, no matter how young a child is, as long as he can speak, he can tell who he is and where he is now, why would Xie Rujian, who likes to read difficult books, not know?

"Wow..." Someone let out a short exclamation.

The memory was interrupted, and Chang Yuxin pointed his flashlight somewhere and muttered: "What the hell, it's a cat!"

There is a huge locust tree in the courtyard of the old house of Soling. At this time, a white cat is lying on the branch of the locust tree. It is staring at the two with a pair of green eyes... No, Seems to be staring at me?Chu Lingya wondered inwardly, he reached out and waved at the white cat: "Mimi~"

The white cat gave him a contemptuous look, and ran away without a trace.

Pretty tsundere!

Chang Yuxin had already entered the room, and Chu Lingya quickly followed.

After the police left, the search was sealed off, and the whole room still maintained the appearance after the search, but after a while, the dust had accumulated.When Chu Lingya was a child, she always heard her grandfather muttering that the house is supported by people, and empty houses without owners are easy to be occupied by lonely ghosts, and houses that have lost their popularity are also very fast.I don't know if it was due to psychological factors, but Chu Lingya felt a little vague when he entered the spirit search in the middle of the night, as if there were still some creatures here, hiding in the dark and watching their every move.

"There's nothing there!" Chang Yuxin inspected the old house, muttering, "What kind of prank is it that made the young master find out that it looks good like you!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden sound of crisp birdsong in the silent empty room, which startled both of them.

"What the hell!"

There was a series of bird calls, followed by the sound of "Dangdangdang". It turned out that the bell rang.The pendulum swings, the hammer strikes, one, two, three, four, five, six... a total of twelve times, it is exactly midnight, that is, 24 o'clock in the middle of the night.

"Fuck, you scared me to death!" Chang Yuxin cursed, but Chu Lingya didn't hear it.As the last bell rang, Chu Lingya saw a dim yellow light not far ahead, as if someone had lit a candle.

"Old Chang, Youguang! Old Chang?" Chu Lingya turned around, and suddenly found that Chang Yuxin, who was still muttering by his side just now, had disappeared.

Ran?

Chu Lingya frowned: "Old Chang? Old Chang!" He lowered his voice and walked cautiously in the house while shouting.

The candle was still burning firmly in the distance without fluttering, which looked very strange.Chu Lingya also thought about whether it was Chang Yuxin's flashlight, but he remembered that the flashlight Chang Yuxin bought had a cold light, while the light in the distance was warm.

Is there anyone else in this room?

Chu Lingya thought, it's not completely impossible, since they can be invited by an invitation letter, Bao Buqi and other people will also be brought by the same method, as for the purpose of the sender, it is up to them to solve the mystery problem.

After searching around the room but not finding Chang Yuxin, Chu Lingya hesitated and exited the room.He thought that the light would stop him from leaving, but to his surprise, the other party didn't make any movement, and was still hanging quietly and steadily in the distance, as if completely unmoved.

Chu Lingya left the house and searched around the courtyard, but still couldn't find Chang Yuxin.He dialed Chang Yuxin's phone, and the system voice that could not be connected came from the other end.

Weird!

Chu Lingya thought for a while, and finally decided to go into the house again.I'm here now, I'm afraid I won't be a private detective!

Chu Lingya has always been courageous, and now that he has made a decision, he enters the house again.As expected, the candle flame still stayed in the original place. Chu Lingya took out a self-defense stick from his arms, held it in his hand, and walked towards it cautiously.

Soon, Chu Lingya saw a wall, and on the wall was a halo similar to a stage follow spot light, and there was a shadow in the halo.

Chu Lingya looked behind him, it was pitch black, and there was no light source at all.Looking at the left, right and above, there is no light source, but the group of light is so abruptly and lonely on the wall.Countless stories of Liaozhai flashed through Chu Lingya's mind in an instant!