The first people to report the case were a middle-aged couple who had just settled in Yunhai for ten years. They settled there so that their children could go to school and have a good education. They struggled for several years before they finally bought a small house and got what they wanted.
The child was smart and hardworking, with good grades, and was admitted to the best high school in the city. He is now in his third year of high school and will take the college entrance examination in half a year. But a few days after the New Year, something happened to the child.
According to the child's parents, the child did not behave abnormally at all. He ate, drank, and studied as usual on the day and went to bed on time at night.
But when they got up the next morning, they found the child's door was open. The mother thought he had forgotten to close it when he got up in the middle of the night. When she went to close the door, she found that there was no one in the bed.
It was seven o'clock in the morning. Their child went to bed late at night and didn't like to get up during the day. He would sleep until nine o'clock every day.
The mother thought it was a bit strange but didn't think much about it, thinking that he went to the bathroom. When breakfast was ready, she went back to the child's room, but there was still no one there. She searched around the house but couldn't find him. She called but no one answered, so she panicked.
Finally they were notified by the police that the child had jumped to his death.
Of course the parents couldn't accept it and were convinced that it was a murder, so they called the police.
After the police investigated, they found that the child had indeed left home on his own, climbed to the top floor of the Wanli Shopping Center, and jumped down. People involved in the investigation felt that the parents could not accept the shock and therefore could not accept the truth.
But in the following days, they received a lot of reports, all of which were about children committing suicide, and all of them said that the children's deaths were suspicious.
This has attracted the high attention of the police. It may be a coincidence once or twice, but they have now received six similar reports, and the locations of the jumps were all in Wanli Shopping Mall.
Now, the Wanli Shopping Mall has been sealed off, and there are people patrolling 24 hours a day to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
Zhu Jinni said: "We have conducted an in-depth investigation. These families' social circles have no intersection at all. They do all kinds of things at home. They are not related at all. Each of the deceased jumped out on their own. From the surveillance video, their expressions are all normal. They even had happy smiles on their faces when they jumped off the building. We speculate that there may be supernatural forces involved in this case."
Wen Qi asked: "Has the case been transferred to the Tianshi Association now?"
Zhu Jinni: "Not yet, we are working together on the case now."
Wen Qi was a little surprised, "With the association's Heavenly Master here, can't it be solved quickly?"
Zhu Jinni smiled bitterly, "We thought so too, but after we applied, the association said they didn't have enough manpower and suggested that we seek help from a private Tianshi organization."
Wen Qi understood after thinking about it. It must be because of the revival of spiritual energy. Supernatural events broke out in various places and the people in the Tianshi Association could no longer handle it.
After thinking about it, Wen Qi said, "I'm going to Wanli Shopping Mall now."
After leaving the house, she sent a message in the group, asking who had time to take on commissions with her, but the replies she received were all that they were busy. After the New Year, the firm just started business, and it was immediately flooded with orders! Wen Qi was happy and worried, and she didn't know whether the revival of spiritual energy would bring good or bad things.
When we arrived at the mall, Zhu Jinni, dressed in casual clothes, was already waiting there with two colleagues.
Wen Qi walked over, and they also came over. They all looked very haggard, and it felt very stressful just by looking at them.
I was in no mood for small talk, so I just nodded my head as a greeting. Zhu Jinni said directly: "I'll take you to the place where the children fell from the building first. Maybe the ghosts of those children are still there."
Wen Qi nodded and followed her without saying a word.
The other two colleagues asked, "Are you Master Wen Tian from Wuyou Office?"
Wen Qi turned around and saw a bearded man with bloodshot eyes. It was unknown how long he hadn't had a good rest because of the case. She nodded and smiled, "It's me."
The man also pursed his lips, "I've heard of you. With your help, those children will be able to rest in peace sooner."
Wen Qi nodded seriously, "I will try my best."
The place where the person jumped from the building was right in front of the shopping mall. The body had been taken away long ago, but there were many white lines crisscrossing on the ground, which were the traces left by the body.
Wen Qi stepped forward to take a look, then shook his head and said, "There is no sign of a ghost." People who committed suicide should not report to the underworld so soon. Most likely they have been detained or returned home to receive offerings.
Zhu Jinni was a little disappointed, "Let's go upstairs and take a look."
Wen Qi followed them into the mall again, took the elevator directly to the top floor, got off the elevator and turned into the corridor. Climbing up one floor, there was a closed security door.
Wen Qi took a look and asked, "Is this door usually not locked?"
Zhu Jinni shook her head. "This is one of the suspicious points. The people at the mall said that this door is never opened. Normally, no one would come up here."
"Where's the door to the mall? How did they get in after the mall closed?"
"There is a cinema on the fifth floor. It is open 24 hours a day and there is a small door for entering and exiting."
Wen Qi went in and took a look. It was similar to the top floor of an ordinary residential building, except that there were a few more lights.
Wen Qi jumped up and looked down, facing the main entrance of the mall. She felt dizzy because of her fear of heights and swayed as if she was about to fall.
Zhu Jinni was startled and quickly stepped forward to grab her, "Be careful."
Wen Qi's expression also changed. She jumped down from the upstairs and walked downstairs very quickly. She didn't take the elevator. She walked up the stairs to the third floor, pushed the door open, and came to an arcade with a very clear goal.
Zhu Jinni and the other two had been following her, and seeing this, they couldn't help but ask, "Is there something wrong with this store?"
Wen Qi pursed her lips and walked in, carefully checking each machine one by one, and finally stopped in front of a claw machine.
Zhu Jinni and the other two's expressions suddenly became serious, and they looked at the claw machine tensely.
Wen Qi tapped the bracelet, and Qing Yi appeared immediately, "Master."
Wen Qi stared at the claw machine and said calmly, "Pull it out."
Qingyi turned around and went into the claw machine. In just a dozen seconds, she came out with a male ghost full of resentment.
The male ghost looked like a migrant worker, with dirty clothes and a bright yellow safety helmet on his head. He was pressed down by the man in green clothes, looked at Wen Qi with a cowering look on his face, and crouched on the ground.
Zhu Jinni and the others couldn't see it, so they asked anxiously, "Has he been caught? Is it really a ghost? Why did he harm other people's children?"
Wen Qi didn't know now, so she could only say, "Check whether those children have been to this arcade before."
Zhu Jinni understood and left with her two colleagues. It would not be easy for ordinary people like them to be there when the Taoist priest was doing the work.
After the people left, Wen Qi asked, "Can you speak? Do you want to confess yourself, or wait for me to torture you?" As he spoke, he spread out his hands, with electricity flashing in his palms, and he was eager to try.
When Qingyi heard this, a smile flashed in his eyes. His master was getting better and better at interrogating people.
The male ghost instinctively shrank back, but his expression was still very wooden. "My son is dead, why can other people's sons live? My son has never been to the video game arcade, why are they having so much fun? This is not fair."
Wen Qi frowned and guessed, "Your son is dead too?"
Speaking of his son, the male ghost's eyes became more lively. "My son is very good. He has been good since he was young, but he is unlucky. He has leukemia and is not a good match. I can only take care of him, but his body is getting weaker and weaker. I work hard to make money. I wish I could live two days a day, just to wait for a suitable match so that I can pay for his medical expenses."
"That year I joined a large construction team, and the boss paid me a high salary. I thought that after the project was completed, I would have saved enough money for my medical treatment. But I didn't expect that the project would be left unfinished and the boss would run away! And at that moment, a match was found! But I had no money! No money!"
The male ghost cried out in a shrill voice, "My son is dead! There was hope right in front of us, but he still left!"
The male ghost's eyes turned red, and he said angrily: "Then one day, I ran into that boss on the street. He was driving a luxury car to pick up his kids from school! The project was left unfinished, but it didn't seem to affect him at all! My son is dead! How could his children still be alive? No one can survive!"
Wen Qi pursed his lips, "So you are now starting to harm other people's children?"
The male ghost repeated with a crazy look on his face, "No one should think of living, no one should live, why should they live..."
The male ghost's heart is full of resentment and obsession, and other than related topics, nothing else can elicit his response.
Wen Qi sighed, "Lock him up first. When the police have closed the case, you can just physically liberate him."
Physical salvation? Qingyi was stunned for a moment before she realized, did it mean to disperse directly? She understood and nodded respectfully.
Wen Qi went out and met Zhu Jinni who was in a hurry. The latter said, "We found out! All the deceased had been to the arcade a week before their death and had played the claw machine."
"Besides the ones who died, have other children played with the claw machines?" Wen Qi said, "Children who have come into contact with claw machines will be infected with resentment, so it's best to deal with them all together."
Zhu Jinni nodded with a serious look, "I'll arrange it now."
Wen Qi advised: "First, go for the longer intervals." She suspected that one week was the final deadline, which was also the outbreak period.
Zhu Jinni quickly contacted her colleagues, checked the homes of those children, and went to their homes one by one to pick them up. Finally, she finished dealing with the most urgent batch before midnight.
Wen Qi was infected by the tense atmosphere and her heart was in her throat the whole time. She only breathed a sigh of relief when the last child let go of his resentment and followed his parents home.
"Thank you for your hard work. I'll have someone take you home." Zhu Jinni said with a smile, "I'll have to trouble you to come again tomorrow."
Wen Qi also smiled and said, "No need, Feng Ce is here to pick me up. Call me anytime if you have any questions."