Chapter 11 What a huge monster.
The next morning, Lin Meiqi rode her bicycle to work.
It feels so good to have my legs and feet healed. I feel lighter again.
"Thanks system~" Lin Meiqi thought silently in her heart.
This guy always appears from time to time, but he can still be useful at critical moments.
As soon as I went downstairs to lock my bike, I saw a group of media gathered downstairs.
Why are these people here again? Didn’t we interview enough yesterday?
Lin Meiqi frowned slightly and tried to walk around the reporters, but was grabbed by a male reporter by the arm.
"Isn't this Forensic Doctor Lin? Do you think there was anything strange about the victim's death? Was it caused by a ghost as everyone says?"
In Hong Kong, there are indeed some people who worship supernatural things, but she is a forensic doctor.
If it was all done by ghosts, what is the point of her being a forensic doctor?
"I'm sorry, the case is still ongoing and I can't reveal more information. Please don't spread false speculation."
But the male reporter held her hand tightly, as if he was determined to get the hang of her. Since they couldn't stop Feng Charlie, they would try to stop other police officers on duty.
Lin Meiqi twisted her arm, and the male reporter screamed "Ah" as his arm was twisted, and he quickly let go of Lin Meiqi.
"Wow, Forensic Doctor Lin, he actually knows how to capture people!"
The male reporter grimaced in pain.
Lin Meiqi walked upstairs without saying a word.
However, Lin Meiqi recalled that the reporters she just saw and the reporters who appeared in front of the attic yesterday did not seem to be the same group of people.
She went upstairs thinking about it and saw Feng Charlie with a serious expression.
In the serious crime squad, a TV was repeatedly playing today's news.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the interviews conducted in front of the building yesterday that were recorded. There were also some interviews with the public. Many people recalled the horrific memories of this building ten years ago and exaggerated the truth by saying that the man was killed by a ghost.
The members of the serious crime squad were silent.
After the news was broadcast, more reporters came, so this group of people was different from the previous one.
After the news playback ended, there was silence.
After a while, Liang Yifeng spoke up: "Well, everyone has always liked this kind of gossip, but isn't this superstition? It's really just hoping for chaos. I heard that the residents near the building are discussing moving."
"Hey, but isn't this too exaggerated? Feng Charlie told them yesterday that it wasn't a ghost that killed people."
"Forget it. We can't control public opinion outside. We can only solve the case as soon as possible. If the case is not moved forward, the rumors will increase day by day."
He Wanyi sat back on the stool and sighed, "Ah, but what can we do? Even we don't know how that person got in and out, and we don't have a definite explanation to give to the reporters."
"Is there anyone who will go with me to visit the victims today? Guo Zhihao's brothers include one eldest brother, three younger brothers, and one of them is his father's illegitimate child. Their relationship is really complicated."
"Yes, it's common for the heirs of a group to fight over property. It's not surprising."
Feng Charlie took several police officers away to investigate the surrounding area to see if those people were suspected of hiring a killer if they did not have the time to commit the crime.
Lin Meiqi stayed in the serious crime team. She was needed to do forensics on the blood stains on the wheel marks sent by Team B. She was busy with this the whole morning. In the afternoon, she only had to wait for the results.
At noon she fell asleep on the clean dissection table.
He Wanyi was startled when she opened the door: "Why are you sleeping here?"
Lin Meiqi opened her eyes and rubbed them: “Oh, I’m sleepy.”
"If you're tired, you can sleep on the sofa outside. If the sofa is inconvenient, you can't sleep here! You scared me to death. I thought something happened to you. This dissection table gives me a shadow just by looking at it."
"It's okay. I've cleaned it up and put a layer of disposable plastic film on it. I'll see if there's any dandruff left when I wake up, and it won't interfere with my subsequent dissection."
"That's not what I'm talking about. Why would you lie on the autopsy table by yourself? You're really brave. Don't you have any explanation in the forensic field?"
Lin Meiqi continued to rub her eyes: "No?"
"Forget it, let's go buy a retractable bed nearby. Isn't the forensic room next door yours? Wouldn't it be better to sleep there? Why do you have to sleep in the autopsy room?"
"Well, sure, I can buy a bed."
The two of them went out to the nearest furniture store, picked and chose, and finally found the cheapest retractable bed.
Lin Meiqi raised her hand and pointed: "I want it!"
"How can that be possible? Don't you need to buy a better one? Look at this shelf, it's shaky."
Originally, Lin Meiqi had not received her salary this month, and the money she had earned from the previous serious crime team had been almost all spent on food and drink. She also had to pay the balance of the rent for Kowloon Walled City in one lump sum, which made her financially tight.
I will be able to have a little more money after I get paid next month, so I am in a bit of a dilemma now...
"Mr. Lin, you must get a good night's sleep!"
Lin Meiqi gritted her teeth and bought a mid-priced retractable bed that looked very comfortable and said that memory foam was good for the lumbar spine.
After paying the money, Lin Meiqi's wallet was empty, but she thought that she still had a second job and could make money by offering elective courses. Thinking of this, I feel a little comforted.
Two men moved the bed back and placed it in the forensic room.
In the evening, the police officers who were out visiting came back, and Charlie Feng was the last one to come up.
Seeing the dejected looks on their faces, Lin Meiqi guessed that they probably failed to find any useful clues.
"Of the several suspects with motives, one was at the mistress's house, two were out of town, and the rest were at home with the chairman, so they had no time to commit the crime. We also didn't find any suspicion of people around them, so there are really no new clues in the case."
Feng Charlie supported the table with one hand, frowning, "Forget it, there is really no clue. Everyone go home after get off work normally. I will call you if there is anything."
It was already 11 o'clock in the evening when Lin Meiqi returned home from class.
Suddenly I heard the phone ringing and quickly picked up the receiver: "What's going on? OK, I got it."
Members of the serious crime squad rushed to Ziguang Department Store from all directions.
While the gold shop owner was on duty at night, he noticed a sneaky figure entering the building.
There was a cordon outside the building, but many people had already left, leaving only one or two patrolmen, so they were caught.
The surveillance camera captured the man's sneaky figure, but when he came out, the noise he made could be heard throughout several streets. It seemed like he was stimulated by something and ran out of the building frantically in his disheveled state.
He was caught by staff at a nearby gold shop, who then called the serious crime squad.
Feng Charlie hadn't left yet, and there were police officers on duty at night. Even if he wasn't there, they would have called him at his home.
After arriving at the scene, it was pitch black nearby. This haunted building had no lights, and standing in the darkness did look a bit scary, especially since the building was old and had peeling paint on the outside. It really looked like an abandoned building that might give birth to some vengeful spirits.
But those are all plots in TV or novels.
Feng Charlie saw others grabbing the man on the ground. He was about eighteen or nineteen years old and looked like he was mumbling something.
Lin Meiqi squatted down and asked, "Did you see what happened inside? Did you see someone, so you are so scared?"
Everyone wanted to hear what the man had to say, but the gold shop owner coldly rebuked him, "Maybe he's the murderer. Go to the crime scene and see what's left. Isn't it said that murderers usually go to the scene for a second inspection?"
"So, you are sure that it was a human murder, not a haunted building?"
"Of course, I didn't spread the rumors. I'm the shop owner. Am I saying I don't want to run my business anymore? My shop is so close to this building."
"That's not necessarily the case. Sometimes this kind of story will attract more people, like him."
Feng Charlie pointed at the young man, who looked quite immature. How could the murderer have such an unstable mentality if he was not scared like this?
Charlie Feng bent one leg, squatted down and asked, "Why did you enter this building? What did you see?"
The young man was asked a second time before he came to his senses. He waved his hands and said, "There's a ghost in there! There's a ghost killing people!"
It seemed that his fear was not fake, his pupils were dilated.
Lin Meiqi vaguely smelled a faint scent on the young man. The scent was so familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a moment.
The man didn't seem to have the habit of dressing up, so the smell might be from some hand cream or something he ate that left it on his body.
Lin Meiqi thought so.
"Ghost? Did you see it wrong? How could there be a ghost?"
"It is there, but you haven't seen it, so you don't know it at all. It's scary!"
"So what did the ghost look like when you saw him?"
"It was very scary, a black shadow, huge, more than three meters tall, black with only two white eyes showing, oh my god!"
The man's voice trembled, and his arms showed a self-protective mentality as he curled himself up, "It's terrible, really terrible." His voice, he opened his mouth and said, "We have to take him for a check-up. Does he have any history of illness, especially mental? ”
More than three meters high? How come the serious crime squad didn’t discover such a huge monster?
"It's obvious that he is just imagining things. Is he dreaming?" The gold shop owner was speechless.
"Really, I'm not lying to you, it's horrible!"
"Then why are you here? You know this is a crime scene, and you can't see the obvious warning signs, but you still insist on barging in."
The young man covered his face with his hands, his fingers trembling. "I, I just made a bet with someone. If I lose after drinking, I will go into this building. I thought the ghost incidents were fake, but I didn't expect them to be true. If I had known, I would never have agreed to this bet..."
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