Chapter 174 Jinjiang Debut
Chen Yang stopped pestering her, and the aunt in gray turned around and sat back at the table, expectantly extending her hand to Bai Mian. Bai Mian stretched out two fingers and placed them firmly on her pulse.
While Bai Mian was feeling the pulse, the gray-clothed aunt said, "Oh, there's one more thing. I don't know if it's just my mind, but ever since the dead Shen Jing came back, I've always felt uneasy. Every time I walk in the neighborhood, it feels like there's a pair of eyes staring at me. Tsk tsk, tell me, it's really unlucky to run into this out of nowhere!"
Xia Mang bit her index finger and said, "You mean, a ghost is watching you? That's impossible. Traditional ghost stories say that ghosts dare not come out during the day and can only appear at night. Maybe you are a little too sensitive."
Everyone was talking about it, and Lu Xue slowly proposed a possibility: "What do you think, could that be the murderer's gaze?"
This guess scared everyone. The gray-clothed aunt said fearfully: "Didn't the murderer run away after killing Shen Jing? What is he doing back in the community?"
"That makes sense. Detective novels say that many murderers like to return to the crime scene after committing a murder," Xia Mang said. "Some of them do this to destroy the evidence, while others do it to feel the pleasure of killing someone at the time."
The gray-clothed aunt grinned, "Ah, it is definitely impossible to destroy evidence. At that time, the police cordoned off the entire building, not even a hair was spared. If there were any clues at the scene, the police would have collected them long ago. How could he destroy the evidence? As for experiencing the pleasure of killing, it's really hard to say. After all, I'm not a murderer, and I don't understand the murderer's psychology. Tell me, how could the murderer have the heart to kill such a good girl like Shen Jing? Shen Jing just fired him on behalf of the boss. The worst that could happen is that he can find another job somewhere else!"
"The murderer is an employee fired by Shen Jing. This is just your guess. The police have not yet given the final results of the investigation, so the murderer may be someone else." Lu Xue hesitated and expressed her guess. "If the murderer is really observing your building in secret, I feel that he has an obsession with this house. Maybe he hates the owner of this house instead of Shen Jing. For some reason, he doesn't want anyone else to live in this house. Whoever lives here, he will kill. Now there is a new resident in the house opposite, so the murderer is back again."
Xia Mang nodded repeatedly: "This makes sense. Maybe the murderer had a conflict with the landlord, so he deliberately turned this house into a haunted house! However, in order to retaliate against the landlord, turning himself into a murderer, isn't the price a bit too high?"
The gray-clothed aunt waved her hands at them, "Hey, you're definitely wrong. I know the landlord next door. He's a very nice guy. If he encounters a tenant in trouble, he will take the initiative to waive two months' rent for the tenant! Tell me, how could such a landlord have conflicts with others? And your logic is wrong. If whoever moves in will die, then why were the previous tenants fine, but something happened to Shen Jing?"
The two sisters were stunned by the question and were speechless. An uncle next to them advised: "Sister, I think this is just your psychological effect. No one is watching you. You have heard the story of the cup-bow snake shadow, right? You must have been affected by the murder case. You are trembling every time you go out. That's why you have this feeling. Think about it, the police are so powerful now. If the murderer really dares to come back, wouldn't he be caught by the police immediately?"
The gray-clothed aunt was somewhat convinced by him: "Well, you are right. Maybe I am really old and my brain is not very smart. In the final analysis, this is just a feeling of mine. I didn't see anyone really staring at me. But the impact of this incident is really too great. Many neighbors have moved away. My upstairs and downstairs are also planning to sell their houses. As long as the murderer is not caught, everyone will feel uneasy. If this continues, our building will become an empty building..."
"The murderer will be caught soon, and in that house." Bai Mian, who had been taking the patient's pulse, suddenly said.
"Oh? Really?" Aunt Gray asked in surprise, "How long will it take?"
"Ten." Bai Mian glanced at the time.
The gray-clothed aunt guessed, "Ten days? Ten hours? Or ten months?"
"Nine." Bai Mian said immediately.
"eight."
"seven."
"six."
…
Everyone held their breath, waiting for Bai Mian to count, no one dared to interrupt, at the same time, a strange light flashed in Shen Yang's eyes.
"three."
"two."
"one."
Bai Mian finally said the number, and everyone cheered. Shen Yang stood up and shouted:
"What the hell, just based on your few words, the murderer was caught? The police didn't issue a notice, and it wasn't reported on the news. Just based on her words, you guys are cheering here. Are you guys crazy?"
Seeing that Chen Yang was not convinced, the gray-clothed aunt called the neighbor on the spot to confirm: "Hello, Xiao Zhang, yes, it's me, your upstairs aunt, I want to ask, are you home now? I heard that the murderer was caught, can you help me go upstairs to check?"
Xiao Zhang replied enthusiastically: "Auntie, you also read the news in the group, right? You don't need to go upstairs, I can tell you for sure that the murderer has been caught!"
The gray-clothed aunt was excited: "How did you catch him? Tell me quickly! I'm old and it's hard for me to see things, so I blocked the group a long time ago and never read the messages in the group. This information was calculated for me by Master Bai from Ci Xin Tang!"
Xiao Zhang: "I didn't go to work this afternoon. I was playing with my phone in the living room when I suddenly heard a loud fight coming from upstairs. There had been a murder here before, so I was extra vigilant. I immediately locked the door and blocked it with a sofa. But the fight soon ended, and then our community WeChat group became lively. Everyone said that they had caught someone. I hurried downstairs and saw several police officers escorting a man. The man had a black hood on his head, so I couldn't see his face clearly, but everyone said that he was the murderer who killed the female tenant. Auntie, we can rest assured now!"
The gray-clothed aunt heaved a sigh of relief: "Oh, yes, now you don't have to sell the house, this is really good news. I guess the police will issue a notice by tonight, right?"
Xiao Zhang hesitated. "It's hard to say. I think this matter is more complicated than I thought. When the police came downstairs, I saw someone. Guess who it was?"
The gray-clothed aunt immediately asked, "Who is it?"
Xiao Zhang: "I guess you won't believe it if I tell you this, but this person is the female tenant who lived across from you and was recently killed!"
The gray-clothed aunt was surprised: "Actually, I have seen her several times, but... you can also see her? Isn't she a ghost? How dare she come out in broad daylight?"
Xiao Zhang laughed: "Who said she was a ghost? She is a living person! Auntie, don't scare yourself. I saw it with my own eyes today. She followed the police with a heroic spirit. She looked fine and looked healthier than me. Our whole community was shocked!"
The gray-clothed aunt was stunned: "But, wasn't she killed not long ago?"
Xiao Zhang corrected him, "That girl was killed is a folk legend. The government has never announced this news. At that time, someone saw a lot of blood at the scene and said that the girl must have died, but no one knows the real situation. Now looking at the situation, it is estimated that the girl is not dead at all. She was stabbed, but she has recovered."
"But, but, she lost so much blood, how can she be saved?" The gray-clothed aunt said in disbelief, "Even if she was only stabbed, she needs to recuperate for a while before being discharged from the hospital. She has only been in the hospital for a few days, how can she recover?"
Xiao Zhang didn't take it seriously: "Who cares? Medical technology is so advanced nowadays. There must be some means that we don't know about to save the girl. Excessive blood loss can be transfused, and wounds can be sutured. In short, the girl is still alive. If she is not dead, it means that this case is not a homicide case at all, and this is not a haunted house. This is a good thing!"
Hearing this conversation, Shen Yang's eyes instantly became sharp. He gritted his teeth calmly, and Bai Mian saw this micro-expression clearly.
After hanging up the phone, the gray-clothed aunt was still confused. It was indeed a good thing that Shen Jing was not dead, but it was also beyond her understanding. A person was stabbed several times and bled a lot, but could he heal quickly? Could this be a superpower?
Then she remembered that Shen Jing's mother was right next to her, so she said to the old woman, "Auntie, it's a pity that you are unconscious, otherwise you would be so happy to hear this news, your daughter Shen Jing is not dead!"
Unexpectedly, the next second, the old man on the bed slowly opened his eyes and stared straight at the mobile phone camera in front of him:
"I can hear you."
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