Mystery Hunter - Chapter 102

[Chapter 102 Knocking on the door in the middle of the night]

This is a very small room. Most of the surrounding walls have fallen off, revealing the earth-brown walls. The dim yellow light bulbs on the head make a “hissing” sound, and there is a rhythm. It seems that it has not been used for too long, and it is already a little damp.

Jiang He looked out the window, the courtyard was pitch black, and he couldn’t see anything. Wang Chao knew what Jiang He meant, so he leaned against the glass to look outside, and then said, “Don’t worry, there’s no one outside, that idiot didn’t eavesdrop.”

Hearing Wang Chao’s words, Jiang He quickly said: ” Have you noticed something strange about this village?”

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what Jiang He was referring to.

Jiang He didn’t sell anything, and said directly, “There is not a single dog in this village.”

After saying this, everyone suddenly realized. When these people from the task force walked into the village, everyone felt that something was not right, but when Jiang He broke this point, everyone finally realized it. Niu Qiuju’s shout was so loud before that it almost alarmed all the villagers.

Since everyone was awakened by Niu Qiuju, not a single dog barked in the village. Anyone who has lived in the countryside knows that almost every household in the village has a dog. First, they can watch the house, and secondly, when they go up the mountain to catch a hare or a fox, they also need the help of a dog.

But this village is different, this village does not have a dog, which is very unusual.

“Not a single woman came out of this village.” Shao Lao added, “This is also very strange.”

Jiang He touched his bed and said, “According to the time and space we are in now, there are wild boars on this mountain. It is possible to have hares, foxes, weasels, and wolves, and within the range that humans can raise, the only animal that can rival and resist wolves is dogs, but why don’t the villages keep dogs? If there are no dogs, what if the wolf comes down from the mountain?”

And that’s the crux of the matter, what happened to the dogs in the village.

“Many times, when a dog becomes wild, it turns from a dog into a wolf.” Shao Lao said: “This village is definitely not easy, we will investigate it tomorrow, and sleep now. Xu Yiman Niu Qiuju, you guys The two slept in the next room, and shouted loudly when there was any movement.”

Niu Qiuju nodded vigorously and said, “I can’t do anything else, but I have a good voice…”

After pulling the light cord off, the room suddenly As darkness fell, Lao Shao, Yuan Jun, Jiang He, and Wang Chao were lying on the big kang, which was quite spacious. The four of them didn’t take off their clothes while lying on the bed, so they fell asleep in their clothes.

It was now about twelve o’clock in the evening.

Wang Chao instructed: “Take a closer look at Xu Yiman. When we were on the road just now, I saw the eyes of several villagers looking at Xu Yiman. It was like a hungry wolf seeing fat.”

Everyone nodded. .

Shao Lao looked at the ceiling and said, “Jiang He, what did you see on the fence just now, I’m too old to see clearly at night.”

Jiang He said, “I saw someone on the walls covered with red paint. He used his fingernails to make deep marks on the fence. It can be seen from the marks that this person used to claw on the fence. The fingernails are about 1.6 meters high on the fence. Judging from the fingernail marks left behind , This person’s movements should be to bend his body slightly, and his legs are also bent. That is to say, this person should be between 1.65 to 1.7 meters tall.”

“It should be a woman.” Shao Lao said. .

“But there are red paints on many fences. These paints don’t look like they are used to hide nail prints, because even if they are sprayed with paint, they can still be seen. That Li Sanhan said that it was some kind of kid doing graffiti. That Li Sanhan gave me an unreliable feeling, I didn’t believe a single punctuation mark in what he said.” Wang Chao said.

Shao Lao turned over and said, “The red paint gives off a strong smell of paint, and the paint appears piece by piece and looks uneven, which shows that these people have a serious emphasis on painting. Areas, they smeared a lot of paint in a certain place, and smeared a small amount of paint on the side, behind this action is a very utilitarian mentality, we can call it – purposeful cover-up.

” What are you covering up?” Wang Chao asked.

Almost at the same time, Jiang He and Shao Lao said in unison, “Blood.” In the

darkness, Shao Lao closed his eyes, thought for a moment, and then said, “Blood is a kind of liquid that is difficult to remove, and most of them do not contain chemicals. People with knowledge basically don’t know how to wipe the blood left behind, but using the luminol chemical reaction, even a drop of blood in a tank of water can be tested, but this time we are here to find someone, not here. It was tested.”

Jiang He opened his mouth and analyzed: “I have an 80% probability that this is to cover up blood. There is a big difference between an earthen wall and a concrete wall. If blood is stained on the concrete wall, then use water. After scouring, at least on the surface, there is no blood on the wall. However, once the blood is splashed on the wall, it will be absorbed by the soil. Even if it is washed with water, it will no longer help

. It will leave dark red traces that make people wonder what it is, then it is better to paint it directly.” Shao Lao smiled: “But the interesting thing is that the people in this village are too lazy, if they can If the walls are painted evenly, then we may not have doubts.”

“What about the mirror?” Jiang He raised his own question: “I see bronze mirrors hanging on the gates of every household. What is this mirror used for?”

“You all remember what Li Sanhan said to us when he left.” Wang Chao seemed very excited when he talked about this topic, he turned over and leaned his body on the pillow He put his head on his hands and said, “Let’s not say whether there are ghosts in this world, but the purpose of placing a bronze mirror at the door of the house is to ward off evil spirits, but I don’t know exactly how to ward off evil spirits.”

Speaking of this, Shao Lao thought of his old friend Mary. As a young Mary, a theist, she believed that there were ghosts in this world, and ghosts were just another way of being human.

Shao Lao continued: “The magic weapon that has been turned on is not an ordinary item, and the bronze mirror that has been turned on is called the mirror of the demon. Ghosts can change their appearance, but they cannot change the mirror. Once you are photographed by the bronze mirror, your own appearance will show its true form, revealing the ghosts as they are, and naturally they will run away in despair.”

Jiang He retorted: “There are no ghosts in this world.”

Shao Lao suddenly thought of it. When Mary and Yan Junde were young, one was a staunch atheist and the other was a staunch theist, and the two quarreled a lot about this kind of thing.

Shao Lao nodded: “Yes, there are no ghosts in this world. If there are ghosts in this world, then the murderer has been killed by ghosts long ago, so why do we need to catch them? Just have fun and listen to it. That’s alright. In addition to these bronze mirrors, there are also the door gods on the gate. The couplets on both sides of the gate are rotten and out of shape, but the door gods are very neatly pasted.”

“What does this mean?” Shao Lao He asked himself and answered: “This shows that these villagers are afraid. What are the villagers afraid of? The villagers are afraid of ghosts. Among these villagers, theists are the majority. According to this logic, why are the villagers afraid of ghosts? Because there are dead people in the village. But even if there are dead people in the village, it doesn’t mean that every family is so afraid, so it means that the whole village…”

Shao Lao didn’t finish his words, but everyone who heard it was chilled for a while.

Shao Lao’s meaning is obvious. According to this logic, the reasoning is that the person or these people who died has something to do with the whole village.

Jiang He couldn’t help thinking of the red paint on the wall. Under the faint moonlight reflected by the bronze mirror, it gave off a miserable dim red light. There were no street lights in the village, only a dim light, which was very scary. Under the cover of these paints, there are pools of dark red blood that has solidified.

What happened to make the walls of almost every household splashed with blood, and what happened to make every household silent at eleven o’clock in the evening, the whole village was silent, and there was no sound at all. Not a bit of life.

The whole village feels so eerie.

Except for the low voices of a few people in the room, that is the occasional insect chirping outside. In a big city, I am used to listening to the cars coming and going outside. It’s really not easy to adapt to being so quiet all of a sudden.

Wang Chao sighed and said: “This village is evil enough, but Erdan doesn’t seem to be afraid of these ghosts or something. You see, Erdan’s house has no door gods, and there are no bronze mirrors on the walls. If there are really ghosts in this world , that ghost can’t enter other people’s yard under the illumination of these bronze mirrors, and turned around and walked into the two eggs’ house.”

Wang Chao’s words were originally a joke, he wanted to make everyone laugh, but he At this moment, a rhythmic knocking sound suddenly came from the pitch-dark courtyard.

“Da da da da.”

The voice sounded inexplicably from the yard, and immediately came out in the quiet yard.

“What sound!” Wang Chao whispered.

“Listen!” Shao Lao said softly.

This sound is very clear, like the sound of an old lady walking in the yard with a cane, and the sound is from far to near, as if it was directly directed at the house.

The cold sweat on Wang Chao’s body suddenly broke out. He tried to look outside, but he couldn’t see anything.

What is the sound?

Everyone held their breaths.

Suddenly, the voice exploded at the door.

“Bang bang bang!”

“Bang bang bang!”

Something was hitting the door!

[End of This Chapter]