Chapter 137 World Four [23]

An hour later, Zhu Qiuyu, who had successfully chatted with the dormitory manager and gained a lot of information and gossip, appeared in the student cafeteria.

After picking up the chopsticks and scooping up the noodles and taking a big slurp, Zhu Qiuyu began to share the information he had obtained.

"Before winter break, a minor incident occurred in the women's dormitory. A sophomore, a Chinese language major, seemed to be ostracized by her roommates. She was locked outside the house all night in the middle of winter. When she was found the next day, she had already passed out and ended up being hospitalized for several days."

"The department counselor came to mediate several times, and finally told everyone it was a misunderstanding. The girl was drunk and didn't knock on the door, so she just fell asleep against it. Her roommates were asleep, so they didn't notice."

"Then I found a student forum and searched for keywords. I discovered that after the girl recovered, the dormitory's power outages became frequent, and the air conditioning was intermittent. There were also posts saying someone went to the laundry room in the middle of the night and seemed to have seen ghosts."

After telling all the information he had found out in one breath, Zhu Qiuyu freed his mouth to take a second bite of noodles and drank a sip of soup to quench his thirst.

"Anything else?" Captain Cheng pressed. "Did anything happen to the girl who saw the ghost?"

"I didn't find any relevant information on the forum, but based on the dormitory management's response, most people think the girl was mistaken, perhaps mistaking clothes left in the laundry room by other students for ghosts."

Zhu Qiuyu said, "The girl who was locked outside lives on the third floor, and the girl who saw the ghost lives on the fourth floor. One is 314, and the other is 414, so they're on opposite floors."

"414, this dormitory number doesn't sound very auspicious," said Captain Cheng.

Feudal superstition should be opposed, but it is also an undeniable fact that demons and monsters exist in this world.

"Advisor Wen, do you want us to apply to the school and ask them to provide us with more relevant information?" Captain Cheng asked.

"Captain Cheng, none of this has happened according to the teachers. The school leaders are so busy with their work that they might not even have heard of it. If we tell them, they'll just pass on the orders layer by layer, which might alert the students and cause panic."

Zhu Qiuyu reminded that as someone who had graduated less than three years ago, she was still very familiar with the usual practices of some schools.

"Is it because I haven't thought it through carefully enough? In that case, why don't we just go and investigate on the spot?" Captain Cheng asked, his eyes falling on Wen Ruyue.

Captain Cheng: "Should we split up? I'll contact the relevant agencies to directly retrieve the student files to see if there are any other clues. The task of field investigation will be given to the three of you."

In terms of appearance, Captain Cheng had handsome features and looked very righteous, but her age made her look more like a teacher than a student. She was fine wandering around campus, but entering the girls' dormitory would make her stand out a bit.

Zhu Qiuyu and Wen Ruyue, who were only in their mid-twenties, only needed to disguise themselves properly to blend in perfectly with the students. Especially with a pair of student-like glasses, they would be mistaken for female university students when walking down the street.

"I have no problem with that, but Senior Sister, can I bring Senior Sister Jing with me? Can I keep a cat in the dormitory?" Zhu Qiuyu asked.

Wen Ruyue raised her eyebrows slightly and directly unzipped her coat. After Jing Ke skillfully came in, she pulled it up a little bit, and perfectly told Zhu Qiuyu the answer with her actions.

Zhu Qiuyu made an OK gesture and started eating faster while holding the bowl of noodles.

The students' lunch break is almost over now. If you leave in time, you can sneak in during their first class in the afternoon and perfectly avoid the time with heavy traffic.

-

At 1:50 in the afternoon, Wen Ruyue took advantage of the low temperature outside and carried Jing Ke all the way into the girls' dormitory, and successfully arrived at dormitory 314 on the third floor.

The corridor of the dormitory is very quiet. Although part of the outer wall has fallen off, the walls and floors inside have been renovated and there is no trace of an old dormitory.

Stopping at the door of dormitory 314, relying on her excellent five senses, Wen Ruyue heard that there were at least three people in the six-person dormitory, and they seemed to be gathered together discussing something.

"Should we talk to the counselor and ask her to arrange for us to move to another dormitory?"

"I don't know. Didn't the instructor criticize us last time, saying we were isolating ourselves? It's like snowing in June! I clearly remember everyone coming back, so I locked the door and went to bed. Did she go out in the middle of the night and forget to bring her keys?"

"Forget it, let's not talk about what happened before. If getting her to move out doesn't work, then we should just move out. I really can't stand living with her anymore."

"I can't stand it anymore. If the counselor doesn't agree, I'll probably apply to live off campus in the second half of the year. If we share a room then, it won't cost much per month."

After standing at the door and listening for a while, when someone from another dormitory came out, Wen Ruyue tugged at Zhu Qiuyu's sleeve and asked her to walk forward with her so as not to look too awkward.

After climbing the stairs from the third floor to the fourth floor, the two people and the cat passed by dormitory No. 414.

Dormitory 414 was very quiet. It sounded like everyone had gone to class and there was no one in the dormitory.

After walking to the laundry room in the middle, the sound of dripping water came out, attracting the attention of the two people and the cat.

The laundry room does not provide hot water. Even if there is a washing machine in winter, few people choose to wash clothes with cold water.

"Senior Sister, I must have heard it right. I remember the sound of water." After discovering that the laundry room was empty, Zhu Qiuyu couldn't help rubbing her arms.

Zhu Qiuyu is not afraid of physical monsters. At worst, he can just draw his sword and kill them.

But she couldn't help feeling uneasy about the illusory ghosts. Even in the daytime, she was worried that if she turned around, she would see a female ghost with tears of blood and a pale face.

"Something is playing tricks." Jing Ke scratched it with his claws and poked out the cat's head.

"She's not here. She's hiding. Go to the toilet on the right." Jing Ke sniffed and found that the smell was not pleasant. He turned around and buried his head in the bulge on Wen Ruyue's chest.

"Okay." Wen Ruyue touched the furry little head of her Taoist partner, turned to look at her junior sister who was beginning to become suspicious, and couldn't help but sigh in her heart.

"Qiuyu, what is the most taboo thing when encountering evil spirits?" Wen Ruyue asked with a stern face.

"The worst thing to do is to be timid before fighting, giving the other side a chance to take advantage of you." Zhu Qiuyu said subconsciously.

Zhu Qiuyu certainly understood this principle, but her imagination was a little too rich. Before she even met the female ghost, she had already imagined many ways to kill her by turning around and getting close to her.

To sum up, I scared myself, which made my mental state tense.

"Okay, Jing Ke is still here. Have you forgotten about the White Tiger Exorcist?" Wen Ruyue couldn't help but shake her head. "If you're scared, follow me."

"Okay, Senior Sister," Zhu Qiuyu replied quickly. While internally cursing herself for being so timid, she followed closely behind Wen Ruyue, who felt incredibly secure.

-

The weather today is cloudy. You can see a little sunshine in the morning, but it hides in the clouds in the afternoon.

For ventilation, the windows of the public toilet were open, and the lingering west wind blew in with a biting chill.

After noticing that the smell of decay was getting stronger, Jing Ke couldn't help but stick his head out and look around with his amber eyes.

After walking around, Jing Ke's eyes fell on the inner wall and nudged Wen Ruyue's chin with his head. "The second to last cubicle, there's something wrong with the wall over there. The smell is wrong."

Wen Ruyue didn't hesitate and quickly walked to the second-to-last cubicle and opened the door in a flash.

Zhu Qiuyu, who was following behind and starting to imagine, instantly grabbed the talisman in his hand, and would throw it away if there was anything wrong.

There was no one in the cubicle and it was very clean. It must have been cleaned by the cleaning staff. Even the trash can was empty.

After opening the door and walking into the compartment, Wen Ruyue bent her fingers and tapped the wall.

Dongdong——

A slightly crisp sound echoed in the small compartment, and the originally open door slammed shut, scaring Zhu Qiuyu who was outside the door. He directly threw the attack talisman in his hand and swung it towards the compartment door.

The talisman paper turned into flames and burned the moment it touched the compartment door, followed by a shrill scream.

"Senior Sister, are you okay? Senior Sister?" Zhu Qiuyu's scalp was numbed by the screams, and she didn't care about anything else. She took out her magic sword and prepared to attack directly.

But just as Zhu Qiuyu took out his weapon, the shrill screams stopped abruptly, replaced by sobbing.

At this time, Wen Ruyue pushed the door open with her elbow, holding Jing Ke, who had turned into a little tiger, in one hand, and pinching a soul that was constantly rolling and covered with black energy in the other hand.

"We caught it. It's this little thing that's causing trouble." Wen Ruyue said, picking up the soul that was forced to shrink ten times.

The moment the cubicle door is closed, the toilet becomes a relatively independent space. If a living person is trapped inside, he will fall into an illusion and will either be assimilated or become crazy.

But at the moment the space was formed, Jing Ke stretched out his claws and scratched it.

In addition, Zhu Qiuyu used a talisman that could eliminate evil spirits outside, and the hiding female ghost was severely injured. Finally, Wen Ruyue picked her up with two fingers and pulled her out.

"That's it?" Zhu Qiuyu let out a breath. After seeing the so-called female ghost with her own eyes, she was no longer afraid.

"Senior Sister, should we just get rid of her directly or take her away to investigate the cause and effect?" Zhu Qiuyu asked, noticing that a few red lights would occasionally flash inside the dark soul body.

It seems that this female ghost has already killed people. If she practices for a while longer, she might become an even more powerful ghost.

Wen Ruyue did not answer immediately, but glanced at the painted wall and frowned slightly.

"No rush, let's investigate according to the procedures first. This matter also requires the involvement of other agencies." Wen Ruyue said.

When entering the compartment, Wen Ruyue also smelled a hint of decay, coupled with the slightly crisp echo from before...

Wen Ruyue frowned subconsciously, and a not-so-good conclusion emerged in her mind.

Zhu Qiuyu did not smell the faint smell of decay, but simply took out the corresponding container, took over the soul from his senior sister, and held the container firmly in his hand.

-

Half an hour later, the four met again in the car, and Captain Cheng handed the copied documents to the other three.

"The student who was locked up outside is from another province. He has good academic performance and received a scholarship in his freshman year," said Captain Cheng.

"She took a year off in high school. Her file said it was due to family reasons, but I asked a friend to check and found out that she was forced to take a year off because her family couldn't afford her education."

"I applied for scholarships to pay for my university tuition, and I earned my living expenses through part-time jobs. Before the accident, I was a good student who worked part-time to support myself."

"On the night of the incident, she had a consumption record at the bar at 11pm. The curfew time of the girls' dormitory is 10:30pm, so her roommates may really not have known she was out."

Captain Cheng also dug up a lot of useful clues in less than an hour.

"That student is the victim. She got into trouble probably because her mind was affected by this female ghost." Wen Ruyue quickly read the information and handed the female ghost in the container to Captain Cheng.

"Also, there's something wrong with the public toilet in the laundry room on the fourth floor. There should be some rotten body parts in the wall of the second-to-last cubicle." Wen Ruyue said the explosive news in a very calm tone.

"Rotten corpse parts?" Zhu Qiuyu's eyelids twitched. For once, he used his divergent thinking to correctly guess, "Could the corpse sealed inside the wall be the body of this female ghost?"

"It should be part of the corpse." Jing Ke corrected.

"Was it murder and body dumping?" Captain Cheng was also stunned. "When I went to investigate earlier, I looked at some files related to Dongzhou University. There were fights between students, and some students reported teachers for having affairs, but there didn't seem to be any murders or missing students."

"If the missing person isn't a Dongzhou University student, then we need to start our investigation with the construction team that renovated the dormitories." Wen Ruyue frowned. "For criminal investigation matters, we might need help from the Dongzhou City Criminal Investigation Team."

"Okay, I will contact the Criminal Investigation Brigade and break down the wall under the pretext of renovation." Captain Cheng agreed immediately.

"Senior Sister, can't we just ask the female ghost? If she was the victim at that time, she should know who killed her, right?" Zhu Qiuyu raised her hand to speak.

"Her sanity has been almost completely eaten away. It will be difficult for her to recover. At least she has to be buried in peace." Wen Ruyue said.

Zhu Qiuyu showed a puzzled look, "Isn't her body inside the wall? If the wall..."

Halfway through her speech, Zhu Qiuyu suddenly realized, "Senior Sister, are you saying that only a small portion of the enemy's bodies are inside the wall, and the rest are somewhere else?"

"Well, the number sealed in the wall is at most one-third, and the head should be among them, so the female ghost appeared in the toilet cubicle." Wen Ruyue did not deny it.

"If it's just dismemberment, it will take at least twenty years for the soul to transform into a being similar to an earthbound spirit." Captain Cheng pointed out something he couldn't figure out.

"I also checked the renovation date. It was renovated during the summer vacation three years ago. Even if that place was a girls' dormitory, it wouldn't take three years to raise an earthbound spirit."

Wen Ruyue didn't answer. Instead, she opened the map and observed the geographical location of Dongzhou University. "It has little to do with the feng shui of the dormitory building. There's nothing wrong with the distribution of Dongzhou University's buildings."

"If it's not because of the special location, then it's possible that evil cultivators are deliberately cultivating earthbound spirits." Jing Ke said, "When you tear down the wall, you can pay attention to see if there are other things inside that shouldn't be there."

"If there is, I suggest following the clues to track down the evil cultivator, and then in turn identify the suspect and find the remaining bodies."

Jing Ke paused and said, "If you can't track down the evil cultivator, you can bring me what you dug up so I can use some tracking techniques."

"Thank you, Senior Baihu. I will personally watch over the demolition of the wall." Captain Cheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this.

It is quite difficult for the Special Management Bureau to conduct reverse tracking solely by relying on magical tools and evil objects. Not only are there many kinds of materials needed to cast spells, but it is also uncertain whether they can find the person in the end.