I'm Investigating妖怪Cases in the Human Realm

As a fake half-demon, Yue Jiuling feels that living in the human realm is actually pretty good. However, this is only true if she can retrieve her original body and separated soul. There's no c...

Chapter Eighty-Six: New Case

"Hidden, come and lend a hand! Let's take this back first."

While Ye Dongfeng and Yinni were examining other parts of the scene, looking for any other discoveries, he happened to spot a pink bicycle nearby and asked the police officer beside him, "Comrade, this bicycle..."

The police officer also saw the bicycle. He said, "Oh, this one. We also suspect it might belong to the deceased, because the bicycle looks quite good, and it wasn't left here by someone from the neighborhood, so we suspect it might be the deceased's bicycle."

Yinni wanted to go check on the bicycle after hearing this, but Bai Xinyu asked him for help at that moment, so he had no choice but to go help carry the body first.

"Have you found anything?" Hidden asked the two girls.

Mu Xiaoyi nodded and said, "There is an evil aura, but we dare not investigate here."

Bai Xinyu also said, "I've sealed it off, but I feel that the aura is a bit strange."

"Alright, let's take it back and study it later. By the way, what about Dongfeng?"

Yinni turned around and, not seeing Ye Dongfeng, started looking for him: "That's strange, that kid was just here a moment ago, where did he go?"

He had just finished speaking when he saw Ye Dongfeng and an auxiliary police officer running out of a shop. Ye Dongfeng was holding a cell phone and said, "We found the surveillance footage. Sigh, none of the shops around here have surveillance cameras installed at their entrances, which makes it difficult for us to find anything. Fortunately, one of them has a camera, but it doesn't capture much of the area."

Upon hearing that he had found the surveillance footage, Yinni asked, "Did you see anything useful?"

Ye Dongfeng nodded and said, "Yes, although the angle wasn't great and the image quality was poor, we still managed to see something."

He then turned on his phone, opened a video, and showed it to them, saying, "Take a look at this."

The video showed scenes at night, around 1 a.m., with dim streetlights and some areas not clearly visible.

Suddenly, something was wrong with the manhole cover in front of the bookstore. It started moving on its own and then slowly opened.

Not long after, a girl riding a bicycle came from the street corner. When she passed the manhole cover, she seemed to see something frightening and fell to the ground in fright!

The girl in the video was lying on the ground looking terrified. She wanted to run away, but it seemed like she was being grabbed by something and couldn't move her body. Then, not long after, the girl went from being a living person to a dried-up corpse.

"Tsk~ What is that thing? I can't see anything. Did you guys see anything?"

The auxiliary police officer was also watching the video with everyone else, but he didn't see anything in the video except for some of the girl's movements.

Bai Xinyu pointed to the manhole cover in the phone screen and said, "Can't you see it? There's a dark thing here, but I can't tell what it is."

The auxiliary police officer rubbed his eyes and looked very seriously at the spot Bai Xinyu was pointing to. In the end, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, I still can't see anything. As expected, the captain was right. This case is better handled by professionals like you."

Ye Dongfeng laughed upon hearing this. He patted the auxiliary policeman on the shoulder and said, "Alright, you can't see it because you haven't opened your third eye. But sometimes not being able to see those things is actually a good thing for ordinary people like you. By the way, I have a piece of advice for you: don't go out at night lately, or you might see ghosts!"

The auxiliary police officer was quite familiar with them, and as soon as he heard Ye Dongfeng say that, he immediately pointed to himself and said, "Me? Why? I've been working the night shift lately, I can't stay out at night, do I really expect to encounter ghosts at night?"

"Night shift, huh? I suggest you switch shifts with someone else. If you trust me, don't go out at night for the next week."

After Ye Dongfeng finished speaking, he and Yinni went to move the mummified corpse into the car, preparing to take it back. Mu Xiaoyi also looked at the auxiliary police officer and said, "We're so familiar with each other, I think you can trust us."

"Yes, I also think you can trust us."

Bai Xinyu also said something with a smile, and then followed along.

The auxiliary police officer looked at the group of people, considered it for less than a minute, and then decided to trust them and went to switch shifts with his colleague.