Chapter 9 Ghost Killer~
Lin Meiqi's legs and feet had not fully recovered yet, so after get off work, she was taken home by He Wanyi.
He Wanyi bought curry cubes at the supermarket and melted them in the pot, making the curry chicken cubes delicious. The rich smell of sauce in the kitchen attracted Lin Meiqi to jump over on one leg.
To be honest, her injuries have improved a lot, but she still feels some dull pain.
If I had exchanged more stamina from the system, everything would probably be fine.
However, it should not get better too quickly, as it would seem abnormal if it got fully healed. If you have your own system, it's better to keep it secret.
Lin Meiqi leaned against the wall and saw He Wanyi take out a white plate, put the curry chicken cubes in it, and cover the crystal clear rice.
"Try my cooking."
"Wow, it looks delicious!" exclaimed Lin Meiqi.
"When it comes to cooking, the easier it is, the better. Semi-finished ingredients are best. Otherwise, it's too much trouble to cook by myself. Unlike my mom, she even makes her own soy sauce. The taste is definitely better than what you buy outside, but she is not as busy as the serious crime team. She is old and has time to grow vegetables and raise small animals. Sometimes I really envy my mom's life. She doesn't deal with such vicious incidents, so her mentality will not be affected, right? She is happy every day."
Lin Meiqi nodded: "Yes."
She sat at the table, picked up a small spoon, scooped a spoonful of curry into her mouth, "Wow! It tastes better than all the curry rice I've eaten before."
"Really? I feel embarrassed by your compliments."
"Really? It's the best curry rice I've ever had in Kowloon. It's the one at Xu Ji."
"Haha, what a coincidence, I also think that place is delicious, so I bought the curry ingredients from there."
"I see."
While the two were eating, He Wanyi turned on the TV, which was reporting on a famous Hong Kong star.
The man's name is Ming Yi. He made his debut at the age of 14 and has starred in TV series such as "Evidence" and "The Wind is Light", which made him popular all over Hong Kong. He is now being interviewed on TV.
Lin Meiqi looked at the pictures on TV and felt that he was worthy of his popularity.
Mingyi's facial features are extremely three-dimensional, and his double eyelids are perfectly shaped, creating a very profound feeling, as if he can look directly into people's hearts when he looks at them.
He is tall, about 1.85 meters tall, which makes him look quite fit in a suit, and the proportions of his broad shoulders and narrow waist are so attractive.
I don’t know if it’s because the food is delicious or because the guy is so handsome, but Lin Meiqi is almost drooling.
Seeing her staring at it motionlessly, He Wanyi couldn't help but smile: "So you like this one."
Lin Meiqi said quickly: "No."
"Actually, Ming Yi should be liked by everyone in Hong Kong. I've bought his CDs, too. But don't you think he looks a bit like Sergeant Zhan? They're both of the same style, handsome and tough."
Lin Meiqi took another closer look and said, "It seems so. Could it be Charlie Feng's brother?"
"I'll have to ask him about it some other time. I've never heard him talk about it."
After dinner, they turned off the TV and asked Lin Meiqi to rest quickly: "You need to rest well, so that your leg will heal faster."
Fortunately, Lin Meiqi fell asleep quickly.
The next day, He Wanyi woke her up and said, "Let's go to work together."
He Wanyi made the curry that hadn’t run out of sauce last night for breakfast today, and added some coffee.
After leaving the house, Lin Meiqi felt a lot lighter and her legs were almost normal. If you didn't look carefully, you could hardly tell that she was any different from usual.
"Wow, you're amazing. Your leg healed so quickly. Is the scar still there?"
Lin Meiqi lifted up her trouser legs and took a look. It seemed to be much lighter.
"Your physical condition is incredible, for a cut that deep to have healed in two days. However, I heard that a famous martial arts actor also had a similar experience, and he said that his wound healed faster than most people."
"Haha, maybe my leg only looks serious, but it's actually not that serious!"
"That's good. I'll find some time to ask Sergeant Zhan if Ming Yi is related to him. How come they have such similar temperaments? But I'm very interested. If these two models are put together, which one will the members of the serious crime team choose?"
"Each one is handsome in his own way."
"In fact, Charlie Feng is more than qualified to make his debut, but he is simply focused on the case and has no interest in anything else," said He Wanyi.
The two walked quickly towards the serious crime unit.
When everyone arrived, Charlie Feng informed them of the latest situation: "The victim, Guo Zhihao, was the son of the chairman of the Guo Group. He was about to take over the company, but he didn't expect this to happen."
A police officer asked: "What kind of person is he usually?"
"Right now, the focus is on people who are in competition with him. Several of his brothers may be suspects. But the strange thing is that all the people who had a time and a motive for committing the crime yesterday have alibis and they didn't have time to go to that haunted building."
"Or is it hiring a killer?"
"We can't rule out this possibility, so we have to keep our eyes on this line. We also have to continue investigating other work partners to see if they have offended anyone. But now the problem is still unsolved. We haven't seen any signs of the murderer coming in or out, so how did he get into the building? And how did he get out?"
"This is really weird. Could he still be in that building? I can't see him because he didn't come out."
"And what about entering?"
“Maybe he entered a long time ago.”
"Is there a place where people can survive? Our police force has not yet withdrawn. Let's go and look for other blind spots in this haunted building. After all, if the surveillance goes back a few months, the workload will be too much."
"Find someone to continue watching the surveillance footage and uncover the mystery of this 'ghost' haunting as soon as possible."
"Yes, sir!"
The group took several cars and returned to the haunted building.
Lin Meiqi also followed him, so going upstairs would not be a problem today.
This building has a total of seven floors. After searching inside and outside, there are still only three entrances. There are shelves everywhere, as well as plastic bags, rags, clothes, etc. discarded by merchants. No wonder some people come here to pick up things.
Grandma had nothing to do that day, so she was here collecting some rags to sell. If it weren't for her, the body wouldn't have been discovered here.
Two hours later, all members of the serious crime team gathered together.
"How's it going? Have you found a place to hide people?"
Everyone shook their heads. "It's too weird. There's no way to hide someone. The key is that there's no sign of food or drink. If that person wants to stay in there, he'll have to eat. I was wondering if there's an underground passage that leads to the outside, but there's nothing. I knocked on all the places with seams and without seams, and there's no sign of a hollow space."
"What are you thinking? Digging a tunnel out from here? Do you think this is a foreign blockbuster?"
"That's what I think."
Lin Meiqi did notice something strange: "I found an exit, but it's very small."
"Where?"
"There is a ventilation duct behind the third floor that seems to have been missed and not blocked. The air is discharged through the ventilation duct, which is behind the building. There is a forest about 12 meters high. The floors of the shopping mall are higher. There is no pipe to climb. If you jump from the outside of the wall, you will definitely break your bones. The ground is hard and there is no cushion at all."
"Let's go and take a look!"
Feng Charlie led everyone to the ventilation duct on the second floor. The duct meandered all the way upwards, and sure enough, there was an exit on the third floor.
Holding the pipe, Feng Charlie looked at the smaller police officer and said, "Try to climb it."
The result was not satisfactory. Halfway through the climb, I got stuck: "No, it's too narrow."
Lin Meiqi said: "I'll try."
"Your legs..."
"It doesn't matter. We can only find out by trying. Let's see what kind of body the murderer has to get out from here?"
Lin Meiqi was held up by Feng Charlie and she struggled to hold onto the vent, feeling like she was going to fall.
"This difficulty is extremely high. Could this really be the murderer's entrance?"
Lin Meiqi turned two corners upwards and got stuck.
At the bend, she measured the size of the hole: "To crawl out completely, you need to be 1.2 to 1.3 meters tall."
When Lin Meiqi came down, she said to everyone, "If even a female figure can't pass, then it means it can only be a child."
Liang Yifeng was shocked: "This is even more bizarre. A child who is just over 1 meter tall, about 6 to 8 years old, how could a child of this age kill someone? Especially killing such a big man. Could it be that the victim had no power to fight back?"
"It certainly doesn't seem like a meticulous method that a six or seven-year-old child could come up with. First he knocked the person out and then he killed him. There was no trace of drugs in his mouth." Lin Meiqi pondered.
"Yeah!" Liang Yifeng frowned.
Lin Meiqi continued, "Judging from the way the knife stabbed him, the man must be more than 1.23 meters tall, otherwise the direction of the knife could only be like this."
She deliberately squatted a little, making herself about 1.2 to 1.3 meters tall, and used Liang Yifeng's back as a reference: "Look, the caliber of the knife will be tilted upwards, which does not match our current situation, unless the victim was lying on the ground and allowed him to... stab him! And he was sober and not drugged, which is impossible."
Therefore, the possibility of people climbing into the ventilation duct was ruled out.
"So, there is no way to leave this place. If it can't be a child, this entrance is invalid. Then it becomes a ghost killer again. All clues in the case are cut off at this point. The murder method is unknown, and we can only find clues from the people around him. But now no one has time to kill, so this is a dead end again."
Feng Charlie said nothing and led everyone out of the haunted building.
As a result, a large number of reporters suddenly appeared outside the police cordon.
Seeing that Charlie Feng was about to get in the car, they surrounded him all of a sudden: "Sir, it is said that this murder was committed by a ghost. Do you think so? Do you also know about the strange hallucinations that occurred in the building before?"
"This is a murder, not the work of a ghost."
Feng Charlie frowned and said very seriously, "Please don't make random reports."
"So how did he get into this building? We have interviewed the shop owners, and they said that the surveillance footage showed no signs of the murderer coming and going, only the victim and the grandma who found the body. Isn't this very strange? Please tell us in detail. People are very concerned. Is this place really haunted?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
