☆、52 missing
Chapter 52
Wu Tianren was practically pissing himself. He watched helplessly as the cheongsam gradually enveloped his body. At the same moment, something black seemed to descend from the top of the cabinet and rest on his shoulders.
It was long black hair, carrying the stench of death, tightly wrapped around his neck.
The air in his chest was getting less and less, and Wu Tianren's face turned purple from lack of air. But at this moment, the wardrobe door was opened from the outside. Liang Liang's face, covered with blood spots, appeared before him.
He seemed to have seen something interesting, and his mouth opened in excitement, with an evil smile full of gloating.
"You, why did you hurt me?" Wu Tianren was in extreme pain and fear, but he believed that he was still quite honest to Liang Liang. Now his only thought was that he would die with a clear conscience.
But Liang Liang's laughter became more and more crazy. "I'm not hurting you, Mr. Wu. I'm helping you."
The deliberately drawn-out ending syllable had a hint of the old male lead from Peking Opera, but Wu Tianren no longer cared. The hair on his neck dug deep into his flesh, and the cheongsam had already climbed up to his chest.
This time he was really desperate.
Wu Tianren closed his eyes in despair, and at that moment, something in his pocket suddenly gave off an icy chill. Then the black hair wrapped around his neck loosened and disappeared.
It was like a mouse meeting a cat. Liang Liang in front of him also took several steps back as if he had seen something terrifying, with panic in his eyes.
It turned out to be a ticket to Yu Jiuyin's Haunted House. The last time Wu Tianren went, he'd slipped the ticket into his wallet and forgotten about it. He'd never imagined that, in this moment, it would be that tiny ticket that saved his life.
No longer caring about anything else, Wu Tianren used a Swiss Army knife to scratch his cheongsam, then desperately broke open the door and ran downstairs in a panic.
Along the way, he could feel the strange looks from those around him, but he didn't dare stop. He ran all the way to a chaotic intersection far from Liang Liang's house before he dared to take a breath. Once he stopped, his legs gave out, and he collapsed on the ground for a long time, unable to get up.
Later, he borrowed a cell phone from a kind passerby and called the person who was waiting to pick him up.
"Where the hell have you been? I almost died just now."
"Mr. Wu, what are you doing?"
"What do you mean by 'I'? I just asked you to bring someone to pick me up. Where did you take them?"
"No"
"What"
"We haven't answered your call all morning."
"Who is the person who promised to bring a locksmith to find him? Wu Tianren felt a chill on his back and the phone in his hand fell to the ground.
"Are you okay? Do you need to go to the hospital?" The passerby was a little unhappy about the phone falling, but seeing Wu Tianren's pale face, he didn't say his complaints. He was still thinking, is this person sick?
But Wu Tianren didn't dare to talk anymore. The previous call had completely broken his fragile nerves. He even began to have illusions, thinking that the people around him might be fake.
Wu Tianren felt a glimmer of hope again as he carefully held the ticket for the second phase of the haunted house in his wallet, hoping that Yu Jiuyin would find him soon.
This time, he didn't even dare to take a taxi, and he crawled to the Yu Jiuyin Museum in the city center. He wanted to try his luck, the Western Suburbs Haunted House was too far away, what if Yu Jiuyin was in the museum this time?
Fortunately, he was lucky this time, and Yu Jiuyin was indeed in the museum.
After tremblingly recounting his experience, Wu Tianren looked at Yu Jiuyin with red eyes, "Brother Yu, Brother Yu, please, please save me. I used to be a bastard, but I have really changed now. Brother Yu, Brother Yu, please save me."
In a state of panic, Wu Tianren actually cried. He knew Yu Jiuyin didn't want him here, but there was nothing he could do. It was too horrible. He could still clearly remember the strange feeling of the cheongsam crawling up his body. It was as if it wasn't the satin touching his skin, but his soul being forcibly pulled out of its shell by the satin.
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. Wu Tianren began to tremble again. He had crawled all the way here, covered in dirt and sweat, looking utterly miserable. Even Xu Wang and the third brother were too embarrassed to say anything to him.
Yu Jiuyin sighed, patted his shoulder, and asked Gu Zhou to get him another cup of tea.
"Rest for a while. I'll call your dad and ask him to come pick you up."
"I," Wu Tianren thought, "I won't go home." But then he thought, "I'm not related to Yu Jiuyin. She shouldn't bother me." Besides, Yu Jiuyin's clap and shout had already helped him feel better. And after all the shit he'd done before, he felt too embarrassed to ask Yu Jiuyin for anything.
Yu Jiuyin saw through his thoughts and felt that Wu Tianren was not completely hopeless. He sighed and beckoned Shi Yang over, "Give me a piece of the blank talisman paper you have with you."
"Okay, Brother Yu, you want to draw talismans?" Shi Yang asked curiously.
"Yeah." Yu Jiuyin nodded, fumbled in his pocket, and took out a brush.
Shi Yang immediately recognized the magical instrument in Yu Jiuyin's hand. This was a valuable item, an old one at that. Sure enough, Brother Yu didn't have any magical instruments of this quality.
Gu Zhou knew more than him, "Brother Yu, is this a reward from the Metaphysics Association?"
"Yes, it was given to me for the case of Bagua Building." Yu Jiuyin responded and started drawing on the talisman paper.
He didn't even have ink, but the pen could naturally draw lines on the talisman paper.
It’s still red, but that bright red color inexplicably gives people a sense of righteousness and security.
It’s so amazing! Shi Yang and Gu Zhou watched intently.
Yu Jiuyin folded it casually, and a square amulet appeared. He took a red rope from his pocket, tied it on the amulet, and handed it to Wu Tianren.
"Take it, nothing will happen again."
"Thank you, Brother Yu." Wu Tianren took it, his eyes reddening. After holding it in for a long time, he suddenly bowed to Yu Jiuyin and said, "Brother Yu, I'm the bastard responsible for what happened before. I apologize."
"Apologizing to me is useless. Just be a good person from now on." Yu Jiuyin remained noncommittal. Some past events couldn't be resolved with an apology. When Wu Tianren played with girls, even if some of them were genuinely materialistic and he had his own reasons, some, or perhaps many, of them were still hurt in his love games.
For Wu Tianren, he is a prodigal son who has returned to the right path, but for those innocent girls who were implicated, the emotional pain will last a lifetime.
As for apologizing to him, Yu Jiuyin felt that it was unnecessary. Wu Tianren had never done anything wrong to him, so where was the apology to talk about?
So, Yu Jiuyin called Wu Tianren's father. However, ten minutes later, the person Yu Jiuyin was waiting for was not Wu Tianren's father, but the police who came to collect evidence from Wu Tianren.
"I can't make the decision on this. Wu Tianren is already scared. I can't guarantee whether he will cooperate or not. If not, just wait a moment. His father will be here soon." Wu Tianren was already scared. When he heard that it was related to Liang Liang, he hid behind Yu Jiuyin and refused to come out.
But after all, he was a victim, and it was difficult to force him to do anything when he was so frightened. But Liang Liang's case was too difficult, and he had no other choice.
"Uncle Yang, wasn't the body found in Liang Liang's house? I saw the journalists also caught him, why are you still so anxious?" Xu Wang knew the leading policeman and asked around.
"Don't mention it, it's absolutely weird." The policeman was also tired, "Can I smoke?"
"I'm sorry, I really can't. Brother Yu hasn't been feeling well lately." Xu Wang apologized. The third brother was very good at reading people's expressions and quickly poured him a cup of tea.
The old policeman didn't hesitate to drink and ordered another cup. Then he slowly told them why he was anxious to find Wu Tianren.
"There was a problem with the time of death of the six people who died during the autopsy. The weirdest thing is, when we arrested Liang Liang, the body was in their home. But later, when we took Liang Liang to the car, he suddenly sat there and cried. After crying, he was like a different person, as if he didn't remember anything."
"Mental problems"
"That's what we suspected at first. Who would kill six strangers for no reason? So no one paid any attention to him and just let him run wild. But when he was taken to the police station, three medical examiners examined him and found no evidence. The most bizarre thing was that the autopsies on the six bodies revealed that, based on the gastric fluid samples, they had actually been dead for at least ten days."
"He's been dead for ten days." Yu Jiuyin also became excited and asked, "Can you tell me more about it?"
The policeman had an impression of Yu Jiuyin and knew that Yu Jiuyin was a capable person. In addition, he was very familiar with the Xu family, so he simply told the whole story.
According to the video footage from the hospital, Liang Liang committed the murder and then took the body away in a sack, which was irrefutable evidence. However, Liang Liang went crazy and refused to admit to the murder. He said he went to the hospital to get something and did not use a knife at all. He also said that the footage on the hospital surveillance was fake.
"You mean we framed you? Who asked you to go to the hospital to get something for no reason? And where are your mother and your grandmother? Can you explain where these two people went?"
In the interrogation room, the police asked Liang Liang a series of questions, leaving him confused.
He couldn't remember where his mother and grandmother had gone. He just remembered that he and Wu Tianren borrowed the car to go to the hospital to get something.
"I don't know, I really don't know. My memory of the time has disappeared. But I really didn't kill any police officers. I was wronged."
"The surveillance video recorded it all. If your house wasn't so remote and we hadn't been searching for a while, how do you think we would have trapped you at home so quickly?"
"That's not me. I really don't know those people. Why would I kill him? Really not, I didn't." Liang Liang was almost going crazy. In fact, when he called Wu Tianren, he was still lucid and knew that he went to the hospital for business, but he couldn't remember who asked him to go or why he went. Because when he regained consciousness, he was already sitting in the police car.
The two policemen asked him for a long time but in the end they didn't get anything out of him. The most speechless thing was that the polygraph showed that he was not lying.
The interrogation of the case was now on hold. But then, the notice sent by the forensic doctor made them even more confused.
The forensic doctor determined through gastric fluid analysis that these six people had been dead for at least ten days.
"How is this possible?" They had carried corpses before, and the presence of so much blood in Liang Liang's house proved that the person had recently died. It was even possible that he was thrown into a sack and brought back before he was fully dead. Otherwise, how could there be fresh blood?
But when they stepped into the forensic room, they were simply dumbfounded.
"It's extremely smelly, just like the smell of a body that's been dead for ten days. How is this possible? When the body was brought back, I saw it being put into the body bag with my own eyes. It was still fine at that time," said Officer Yang, shaking his head in disbelief.
As for Xu Wang and the others who were listening nearby, they were also completely confused and felt like they were listening to a foreign language.
Yu Jiuyin was silent for a while, then said something that made people's hair stand on end.
"Don't leave anyone in the forensic room at night. If I'm not mistaken, the body will come back to life tonight."
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