Poison (Sixteen)
"Uncle Zeng, good evening." Yu Shu bowed slightly and nodded in greeting.
Zeng Zhiqiang was seriously reminding the night shift police about the precautions in the previous second, but when he saw Yu Shu greet him respectfully but not flatteringly, his expression changed instantly.
His wrinkles gathered together to form a kind smile, and he said, "Why are you two here? Be careful." Although he was retired, he was shocked when he heard that Zhang Chaoling, who had been dead for several days, ran to the police station to surrender. He still rushed over to see what happened.
"Thank you so much for helping me smooth things over." Yu Shu paused and took a small step towards Jiang Yu. The two of them were almost touching each other. He pretended to accidentally bump into Jiang Yu and took the opportunity to pat the phone in Jiang Yu's pocket.
Yu Shu continued, "Thanks to you, we've found some information. If you're here, we'll give it to you. What do you think?"
Zeng Zhiqiang has been a police officer for decades and has seen a lot. He has seen heinous criminals and supernatural phenomena that cannot be explained by science. In fact, he has some idea that Jiang Yu and Yu Shu are making money through illegal means.
He smiled and said, "I'm looking forward to the clues you guys find. So, come with me into an office and we'll talk."
The police officer led the three people into the chief's office.
"Turn on the computer." Jiang Yu instructed the police calmly.
Jiang Yu used a data cable to connect his computer and mobile phone, and copied the evidence he found about the principal and three teachers' crimes to the police station's computer.
"This...this..." Zeng Zhiqiang looked at the scenes, furious and wished he could send someone to catch them back immediately.
The police officer who was helping to operate the computer also had a pale face when he saw this, and his hand holding the mouse was shaking slightly with anger.
There was a low pressure in the office.
After a while, all the videos were finally saved successfully, and Zeng Zhiqiang asked the night shift police officers to go out and rest first.
"You are here because of Zhang Chaoling, right? You are well-informed." Zeng Zhiqiang did not pretend to be ignorant, and he admired these two young people very much.
"The information you provided has saved the police a lot of manpower and resources. I want to express my sincere gratitude to you both publicly and privately. If there is anything you need to know, I will tell you everything I know."
Yu Shu tugged at Jiang Yu's finger to silence him, then, maintaining his unyielding demeanor, said earnestly, "Uncle Zeng, I'm sorry to trouble you. I'd like to ask you to allow us to take a look at Zhang Chaoling's body and look for any clues."
"Also, I hope you can tell the police officers who are following up, and the media who want to report this incident, to protect the privacy of the victimized students. I don't want them to be hurt again."
"Xiao Yu, you have a good heart, but you are too reserved. I will tell them. Also, I have something I want to tell you, and I hope you can help me." Zeng Zhiqiang said.
"You say."
"Residents of the residential complex next to No. 6 Middle School often report that construction workers are working in the underground garage, but the community manager has clearly stated that there are no construction plans."
Zeng Zhiqiang took a sip of his hot tea and continued, "Nothing had ever happened in that neighborhood before. This happened too suddenly."
"I've heard about it from my neighbors too," Yu Shu said. It was true. At a dinner party last weekend, Zhao Jingyun mentioned No. 6 Middle School and said that there were also strange things happening in the neighborhood near the school. He didn't pay attention to it at the time, and Jiang Yu didn't take it seriously either.
"It's only been about six months. The underground garage where the construction workers appeared was originally planned to be the dormitory area for No. 6 Middle School, but the foundation was unstable, so the direction was changed."
When No. 6 Middle School was being built, accidents happened frequently and many construction workers died accidentally.
The construction progress could not keep up, so the investors invited several experts to look at Feng Shui and give some advice, but most of them were charlatans and had no skills.
Construction workers are still having accidents. Residents living nearby claim to have seen the same group of construction workers jumping off the building every night. The police also went to the scene and saw 32 construction workers jumping down one after another in an orderly manner.
But there was no body on the ground.
The situation is getting worse and worse, and nothing can be done to change the predicament.
Things didn't improve until a tall man named Zhao showed up. He explained that there was something dirty buried underground at No. 6 Middle School, and that the digging had woken him up, leading to the frequent accidents. The man had found many stray cats and dogs, as the dirty guy was terrified of them. He asked the management to feed and care for them, and even had the dormitories, originally located in the northwest, moved to the northeast.
Since then, the number of accidents has dropped drastically, and the bizarre repeated jumping from buildings has finally stopped, allowing No. 6 Middle School to be successfully completed.
Zeng Zhiqiang finished recounting the rumor in a halting manner: "Then I'll trouble you."
The strange things happening in the community and the first student being poisoned in No. 6 Middle School coincided with each other in time, so it must be related to poison.
Moreover, in the car, Yu Shu told Jiang Yu that there were new students poisoned today.
Previously, they had vowed that they could follow the clues to find the new poisoned people, but Jiang Yu could not feel any residue and could not use talismans to trace the poison.
Since we can’t find the victim, we can start with the paranormal events in the community.
I'm destined to work overtime tonight.
Jiang Yu drove Yu Shu to a residential complex near No. 6 Middle School. There were paper documents arranged by Zeng Zhiqiang. The security guards did not make things difficult for them. Instead, they called in the property management and several owners to explain the situation in detail.
Construction workers only appeared in the underground garages of Buildings 8 and 9, which are only separated from No. 6 Middle School by a wall.
There was almost no one in the underground garage. Every step you took could be heard as an echo, and even the sound of breathing was amplified infinitely.
According to the owner and the property owner, the construction workers showed up without turning on the lights. Sometimes they showed up for two or three days in a row, and sometimes they didn't show up for a week.
They also made a table of the times they appeared. The latest appearance was on the day Yu Shu just started working at No. 6 Middle School last week.
Looking further back, the dates of appearance are very scattered, with no regular intervals, and even the hours of appearance are irregular, and they have even appeared during the day.
However, Yu Shu noticed that the first time it appeared was seven days before he lost his job, and it also coincided with the time when Li Minghao showed symptoms.
Jiang Yu prepared by pasting talismans in eight directions so that the ghosts of construction workers would be temporarily trapped if they appeared.
"He will definitely show up today." Yu Shu said.
Jiang Yu said calmly, "Maybe he won't show up."
So many strange things are closely related to the poison, and Jiang Yu is certain that the poison in No. 6 Middle School is extraordinary. The fact that it poisons the students' souls without leaving any trace proves that it is definitely not the result of the resentment of ordinary animals.
Jiang Yu's cell phone rang, the volume amplified several times, and continued to echo in the empty underground garage.
"Brother Jiang, something's happening, come quickly." Liu Xu almost shouted.
Before Jiang Yu came to the community, he called Liu Xu and asked him to keep an eye on the area near No. 6 Middle School, because Zeng Zhiqiang mentioned 32 construction workers, and including Lin Wenxue today, there were exactly 32 students. Perhaps the construction workers would not show up tonight.
What appeared might be the corrupted souls of those students.
Jiang Yu hung up the phone without replying, grabbed Yu Shu's wrist and dragged him out.
"Go back to No. 6 Middle School, something's going on."
Yu Shu frowned and felt a slight graininess on Jiang Yu's fingers.
He pried Jiang Yu's hand apart and took it in front of his eyes to look at it carefully.
There are many small transparent bumps on the thumb, index finger and middle finger of my right hand, which are slightly raised like blisters.
"You have a fungal infection on your finger."
"Let's go to No. 6 Middle School first." Jiang Yu said disapprovingly.
No. 6 Middle School was completely silent. Even the lights in the security room were off, without a single ray of light coming through.
The dense banyan tree looked like a big black rag with countless holes. The slightest breeze made the branches and leaves collide with each other, which sounded like the hissing breathing of a person when he was anxious and nervous.
Liu Xu ran over with a flashlight in hand to pick him up: "Brother Jiang, something happened, come with me quickly."
Yu Shu was confused, and before he could ask what was going on, Jiang Yu pulled him forward again.
There was nothing unusual around, the air and wind felt normal, and there was nothing unclean.
On a moonless night, the teaching building in the front left of the square was covered with a very light gray-white halo, and from a distance it looked like a huge tombstone.
Yu Shu followed Jiang Yu's gaze upwards.
There were several people standing on the roof.
The distance was too far and the light was dim, so Yu Shu couldn't see their appearance clearly. He could only vaguely make out that the first one in the line was a boy.
Liu Xu took out two telescopes from his bag and gave them to Jiang Yu and Yu Shu.
The first person is Li Minghao!
But Li Minghao should be well looked after by his parents at home.
There were seven people behind Li Minghao, two women and five men, whom Yu Shu didn't know at all.
The eight students' eyes were clearly open, but their eyes were dull, as if they were hypnotized.
The more Yu Shu looked at them, the more he felt that they looked like eight burnt-out incense sticks, swaying precariously in the faint night breeze.
The student who was originally moving slowly and had a dull expression suddenly started to move.
Li Minghao quickened his pace, walked to the edge of the rooftop, climbed up the fence, jumped, and fell from the seventh floor.
Li Minghao fell on the fence in the flower bushes in front of the teaching building. The wooden branches pierced through his body from his back to his chest.
Yu Shu panicked. He handed the telescope to Liu Xu and took out his cell phone to call the police.
"They are not human." Jiang Yu stopped Yu Shu and said calmly, "They are souls corroded by poison."
"So they should be okay if they fall down, right?"
"Look carefully." Jiang Yu pointed to the ground in the distance.
Li Minghao pulled himself out of the fence, the holes in his body healed quickly, and then he disappeared out of thin air and reappeared at the end of the rooftop team.
While Yu Shu was gasping for breath, the second student also fell down. She landed on the rockery and was covered in blood.
After a few seconds, he got up by himself like Li Minghao, returned to his original state, and appeared at the end of the team.
They were jumping off buildings in a cycle.
Yu Shu was so surprised that he dared not speak. Before he could organize his words, the third student fell headfirst to the ground, and a dazzling dark red pool appeared on the cement floor, but it disappeared as he recovered.
Something even stranger happened. The third student was different from the first two. When he returned to his original state, he noticed the presence of the three people, tilted his head, smiled and waved at them.
Yu Shu shuddered.
"Something will happen to them." Jiang Yu frowned and said, "They will repeat this dance eight times. After eight times, the students themselves will be permanently transformed into human-shaped pieces of meat."
Yu Shu watched his students jump off the building again and again, becoming a bloody mess, and then recover from the cycle again and again. Even though he knew that they were souls, his chest was still filled with sadness and powerlessness, invading his blood and cells all over his body.
If only they had found the poison earlier, then nothing would have happened.
Yu Shu turned his head away, unable to bear watching the loop for the second time, he could only stare at Jiang Yu.
"I can't help it."
Jiang Yu was very calm. He couldn't stop the poison from controlling these souls to fall into the teaching building, but he asked Liu Xu to make all the necessary plans.
With the three teaching buildings as the center, talismans and magic arrays are set up in the four directions of Zhen Wood, Kan Water, Dui Ze and Li Fire. Once there is a situation, the four magic arrays will take effect and temporarily retain the things that have appeared.
When the time comes, you can take back the talisman and absorb the memories of the ghosts and monsters that appeared in the magic circle. If nothing unexpected happens, you can find the poison from their memories and suppress it.
"Look!" Jiang Yu's voice rose half a degree.
There was a new person on the rooftop, with a Mediterranean hairstyle and a round and fat body.
It’s the principal.
"How could the principal's soul..."
"It turns out that the revenge game of poison has just officially begun." Jiang Yu reacted and said seriously.
It turns out that the revenge game of poison has just officially begun.
The poisoning of students' souls is just a prelude. His real purpose is to treat their souls as toys and play with them until they are shattered into pieces. By then, the students will no longer be just human-shaped pieces of meat, but walking coffins.
Wandering ghosts would swarm into their bodies, vying for the position of their souls. The evil spirits brought by these foreign souls would in turn affect their fortunes, and the students' entire family would be doomed to misfortune.
At the very least, life will be worse than death; at the worst, the next few generations will become worse and worse, and the bloodline of a clan will be completely wiped out.
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