Chapter 398 Found a clue

But until after nine o'clock in the evening, just as Wu Sangui said, there was not even a mosquito in the operating room, let alone a ghost.

Wu Sangui was already getting very impatient. He cursed softly, "Damn it, why do I feel like we've been tricked?"

Xu Lin: "You're standing here like a Zhong Kui, acting so rudely and speaking so loudly. Not only would ghosts, but even living people wouldn't want to get close to you."

Wu Sangui rolled his eyes at her.

"So what do you want?"

Xu Lin: "It's not what I want, it's what the ghost wants. Isn't it looking for food? We've been standing here, afraid it wouldn't dare come in."

Liu Jian: "Then what can we do to force it to show itself? We can't really go looking for things like Taoist talismans, black dog blood, or peach wood swords, right? There's no way anyone can hide here."

Xu Lin: "Fuck you! It's no wonder Captain Wu scolded you. You really deserved it. What I'm saying is that we should hide outside first, wait until the ghost feels safe, then break in and catch it red-handed."

Wu Sangui scratched his head and said, "Is this okay?"

Xu Lin: "It's better than just waiting here."

When the two of them heard this, they thought it made sense, so they left the operating room and waited outside for the ghost.

In this way they waited until after one in the morning. At this time, Wu Sangui and Liu Jian were both very sleepy, and only Xu Lin was patiently waiting for the arrival of this important moment.

"Puff, puff," like the sound of a bird flapping its wings came from the operating room.

This voice immediately perked up Wu Sangui and Liu Jian.

The two of them glanced at each other and tiptoed to rush in.

Xu Lin, who was standing in the middle, grabbed their arms and shook her head, signaling them not to act rashly and to listen carefully to the situation inside before taking any action.

Suddenly, a voice that Liu Jian would never forget came from inside: "I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I want to eat meat."

This creepy sound made the battle-hardened Xu Lin and Wu Sangui tremble with fear. Only then did they realize how fearful Liu Jian was at that time.

Xu Lin nodded to them and raised a finger.

When she raised all three fingers, the three of them rushed in in perfect tacit understanding.

But when they entered the room, they didn't see any ghost. They only saw that the glass windows were not closed properly and were swaying left and right in the wind, making strange "crackling" noises.

Wu Sangui rushed over first and closed the window.

Xu Lin also quickly locked the door behind her.

Liu Jian: "This is weird! I clearly closed the windows last night! Why are they open again tonight?"

After hearing what he said, Wu Sangui carefully checked the window again and found that the window had long been useless due to its aging. No matter how tightly it was closed from the inside, it could be easily opened by pushing it from the outside.

Wu Sangui: "The mystery of the window has been solved. The most bizarre thing now is not the window, but where that horrible sound came from.

Suddenly, a strange bird flew in from nowhere and swooped down to the window. When it found the window was closed and it could not fly out no matter how hard it struggled, it became angry and transferred its anger to Wu Sangui, who was closest to the window. It flapped its wings repeatedly on Wu Sangui's head and pecked at his eyes with its sharp beak, saying fiercely: "I'm so hungry, I'm hungry, I want to eat meat."

Fortunately, Wu Sangui seemed to be prepared. He protected his head and eyes with his hands, so the strange bird did not succeed.

When the strange bird attacked Wu Sangui, Liu Jian seized the opportunity, hugged the strange bird tightly with one hand, and held its mouth tightly with the other hand to prevent it from pecking people indiscriminately.

Xu Lin found a rope from somewhere and quickly tied up the strange bird's body and beak tightly. However, the bird was still restless and kept jumping around.

Wu Sangui was furious and hit the strange bird several times.

Liu Jian looked frustrated and said helplessly, "So this parrot is the ghost! It almost scared me to death that day."

Xu Lin: "So there aren't so many ghosts in this world. Most of them are just human nature. Let's go back to the bureau first!"

Liu Jian: "Then what should we do with this bird?"

Wu Sangui: "Of course we have to take it back too. It needs to be an important witness!"

After returning to the bureau, Xu Lin contacted the bird expert from the Animal Husbandry Bureau to conduct a detailed examination of the parrot, but found nothing.

Apart from the fact that it can speak those few terrible words, it is no different from other birds.

Experts said that it was an endangered species of parrot, a bird protected worldwide. If it was of no help to the case, it should be handed over to professionals as soon as possible.

Naturally, word of this quickly reached the director, who angrily roared at Xu Lin, "I told you to solve the case and catch the criminal, but you didn't even bring me a single dead person. Instead, you caught a parrot for the bureau, a world-class protected animal. There's been no progress on the case, and we're still spending money and effort to take good care of it. I'm warning you, release that parrot right now. If you still can't solve the case and catch the criminal in a month, you'll have to get out of here like that parrot. Do you understand?"

Xu Lin felt ashamed and didn't say much. He could only nod, make a few perfunctory remarks to get around the issue, and then hurriedly left the director's office.

Under pressure, Xu Lin had no choice but to hand over the parrot to the Animal Husbandry Bureau for them to deal with it.

She herself immersed herself in the case.

Liu Jian placed a pile of information in front of Xu Lin.

Xu Lin glanced up and said expressionlessly, "If these documents don't help me find Wei Zongxian, then you'd better take them away. I don't have time to deal with other things, and leaving them there is just an eyesore."

Liu Jian: "These files record the people who have disappeared or died unexpectedly in Lingsi Monastery over the years."

Xu Lin: "I've read this many times and haven't found any problems. Do you have any new discoveries?"

Liu Jian: "Didn't you notice that most of the people there are women?"

Xu Lin's eyes rolled, and she stopped writing, looking at him thoughtfully.

"I've also thought about the question you raised, and I find it very strange. I still can't figure it out. Wu Sangui said it might just be a coincidence, or just a matter of probability."

"Let's just treat this question as a coincidence! Have you ever thought about whether these missing or dead people are still alive? If they are dead, what will Wei Zongxian do with their bodies?"

“This is really hard to imagine!”

"I have some clues about this."

Xu Lin hadn't heard such exciting news in a long time. She asked excitedly, "Don't keep us in suspense about what the clue is. Tell us now!"

"I've thoroughly researched these missing persons, and surprisingly, one of them was found and returned by police from another city. Lingsi Xiudao later refused to accept her, claiming they were overcrowded. The brothers from that city had no other choice but to contact us, and we then sent the woman to a shelter."