Chapter 3 What did you find? Share it with me
"Hey Qingze, it's so early"
Shen Qingze didn't sleep well last night. In his dream, he was haunted by an old ghost. He was able to get up and go to work only because his cell phone alarm kept ringing.
"Well, good morning."
He slowly sat down at his workstation and began to watch the new variety show that he hadn't finished watching yesterday.
What if you die? You have to go to work in the underworld. If you come back to life and go to the world of the living, you still have to go to work.
Life is so bitter.
He, Shen Qingze, is a half-dead Taoist priest in the physical sense.
Abandoned by his biological parents, he was fortunately adopted by a kind-hearted old Taoist priest, from whom he learned a lot of Taoist knowledge since childhood.
The old Taoist priest didn't live long. He passed on most of his skills to Shen Qingze, and then he passed away.
Shen Qing had never experienced the separation of life and death. He cried heartbreakingly in front of the old Taoist priest's grave. In his heartbreak, he signed a blood contract with an unknown ghost, saying that after signing the contract, he could see the old Taoist priest anytime.
Being alone and without any goals to strive for, Huang Quan decided to die. Only then did he realize that the master of the contract he signed was actually the ghost lord of the underworld!
The blood covenant means that his soul is immortal and will live forever with the owner of the covenant, swearing to follow and provide value until death.
So he became the ghost master's little slave, working everywhere in the underworld, or going to the human world to capture escaped evil ghosts.
As time went by, they secretly fell in love with each other, and he was forcibly dragged into the marriage ceremony and bed with her, becoming the wife of the ghost lord of this ghost world.
Shen Qingze's office is just a small flat converted from an office building. In this human world, he still needs money to live.
Under the guise of being Taoist sorcerers who could cure any disease, they set up an office to handle supernatural incidents and check whether they were the work of escaped evil spirits.
Shen Qing was watching the variety show idly, reviewing the recent cases in his mind.
"Teacher Shen, there's a phone call for you"
The people who came were the partners of Shen Qingze's office. There were less than ten of them in total, and they didn't rely on this for their livelihood. The only ones who were there were Shen Qingze and his assistant apprentice.
Xu Anyi handed him the phone.
"The police called and said they wanted to see you"
police?
Shen Qing took off his headphones.
"Hello"
"Hello, Mr. Shen. I am Fang Changling, the captain of the First Brigade of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Ministry of Public Security. May I spare you some time to ask you some questions?"
Shen Qing raised his eyebrows slightly, "Please go ahead."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, as if waiting for someone else to pick up the phone. Then a cold female voice came over, with an uneven tone, a bit of urgency and panic.
“Hello, Mr. Shen. I am the head of the forensic team of the Ministry of Public Security. Do you remember the body found in the alley yesterday?”
"Remember"
The corpse was very strange, and the whole alley was filled with ghostly aura. The deceased must have been possessed by a fierce ghost, and all his energy and blood had been sucked out of his body.
Evil ghosts are usually vengeful spirits. As long as they can find out who the deceased offended during his lifetime, they can find the vengeful spirits by following the clues.
The forensic doctor calmed down and spoke again.
"This body is unusual. There are no fatal injuries. The face is peaceful. The muscles have atrophied beyond recognition. It has been soaked in rainwater but has not yet shown any signs of decay. We have reviewed all the case analysis and related materials in the bureau and have not found any relevant explanation, except..."
Except for those ghosts and evil spirits that people don't believe in at all,
Shen Qing chuckled
"So, what do you want to ask me?"
The forensic doctor sighed helplessly.
"Although I don't believe in gods, Buddhas, ghosts, or spirits, it's too bizarre for us to proceed with our case. Captain, please show me your, um, business card. I hope your firm can help us."
"Is this your commission?"
The forensic doctor chuckled.
"As expected, you guys who are so mysterious will always talk about money. Okay, just consider it as a personal commission from me."
Shen Qing changed to a comfortable position and lay down in the recliner, and asked casually, "Good morning" in a lazy tone.
"How much is the reward?"
"Whether it's man-made or not, I'll pay you the market price you quoted."
Wow, today's forensic pathologists are so rich, you don't have to worry about him asking for an exorbitant amount of money!
It turns out that the meals in a state with a system are different.
"Well, how can I help you now?"
"At 3 pm, please come to the gate of the Municipal Bureau and wait for me."
"Okay, but before that, please send me the information you have about the deceased."
The call was hung up, and the other party sent a message very quickly.
The deceased was a male, a college student at Huazhong University. He came from an ordinary family and had not won any honors or awards. He was just an inconspicuous passerby in the vast crowd. Even his information only had a single page.
How could such an ordinary college student offend anyone that he deserved such a death?
Shen Qing carefully read the information sent by the forensic doctor and was even more puzzled.
Did the other party not send all the information, or was the deceased really that ordinary?
My life is not outstanding, and my appearance is not outstanding.
Some people might even believe that he committed suicide.
There is still some time before the meeting time in the afternoon, so maybe we can find some clues by going to the scene and looking around.
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The scene was tightly sealed off, with only a few passersby occasionally looking inside out of curiosity. The bodies had already been taken away, and the traces that could not be seen clearly at night were exposed to all eyes.
Shen Qing stood outside the yellow line. The majestic ghostly aura he felt last night was gone. All that was left was the scent of grass mixed with rain and soil.
There were several policemen at the scene busy searching.
Shen Qingze couldn't get in and couldn't see any signs, so he had to find someone he knew to take him in and take a look.
He looked around and found a familiar figure in a corner not far away.
"Hey! Little officer!"
Shen Qing went up to greet him enthusiastically.
"Officer Liu, what a coincidence, why are you here?"
Liu Mincheng looked back in confusion and saw Shen Qingze running towards him with a smile on his face.
"Mr. Shen? Why are you here?"
"Uh, passing by, take a look"
Liu Mincheng nodded.
"The captain arranged for us to look for some neglected traces at the scene. It was too dark last night and the rain suddenly came down hard, so many traces were washed away."
Shen Qing calmly aimed at the plastic bag in the other person's hand.
"So what did you find? Share it with me."
Liu Mincheng unexpectedly accepted Shen Qingze's sudden enthusiasm and confessed what he had found without saying anything.
"The forensic doctor said that it is impossible to determine the fatal injury and time of death. I found a severely damaged watch here. I wonder if it can be used to estimate the time of the crime."
The watch in the plastic bag had stopped working, and the strap and dial were covered with mud. It can be speculated that the victim's muscles were atrophied, causing the watch to fall off his wrist and fall into a small ditch nearby.
It was too dark last night for anyone to notice, and it has been soaked in rain for too long, so I don’t know if it can be repaired.
Shen Qing used the bag to remove the mud stains on the dial.
"The time shown on the watch is seven o'clock last night."
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