Chapter 174 Jinjiang First Launch

Shen Yang stopped pestering her. The aunt in gray turned around and sat back at the table. She handed the handbag to Bai Mian expectantly. Bai Mian stretched out two fingers and placed them steadily on her pulse.

While Bai Mian was taking her 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 that I ran into this out of nowhere!"

Xia Mang bit her index finger and said, "You mean, it's a ghost 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 shocked 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. It's said in detective novels that many murderers like to return to the crime scene after committing a murder," Xia Mang said. "Some of them do this to destroy 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 the evidence. At that time, the police surrounded 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 is really hard to say. After all, I am not a murderer and I don't understand the murderer's psychology. You tell me, Shen Jing is such a good girl, how could the murderer have the heart to kill her? 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 said her guess. "If the murderer is really secretly observing your building, 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 the house into a murder house! However, in order to take revenge on the landlord, turning himself into a murderer, isn't the price a bit too high?"

The gray-clothed aunt waved her hands at them and said, "Hey, you are definitely wrong. I know the landlord next door. He is 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 Shen Jing had to suffer a disaster?"

The two sisters were stumped by the question and were both speechless. An uncle next to them advised: "Sister, I think this is just your psychological effect. No one is watching you at all. You have heard the story of seeing snakes in cups, right? You must have been affected by the murder case. You are trembling every time you go out. That's why you feel this way. 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 so sharp. After all, 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 upper and lower floors are also planning to sell their houses. As long as the murderer is not caught, everyone will be uneasy. If this continues, our building will become a vacant 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?" The gray-clothed aunt 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 continued.

"eight."

"seven."

"six."

…

Everyone held their breath, waiting for Bai Mian to continue counting. 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 these few words of yours, the murderer was caught? The police didn't issue a notice, and it wasn't reported in the news. Just based on her words, you guys are cheering here. Are you guys crazy?"

Seeing that Shen Yang was not convinced, the gray-clothed aunt called her 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 has been 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 auntie was excited: "How did you catch him? Tell me quickly! I'm old now 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 Hall!"

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. A murder had happened 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 they had caught the criminal. 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 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 went downstairs, I saw a person. Who do you think it was?"

The gray-clothed aunt immediately asked, "Who is it?"

Xiao Zhang: "I guess you won't believe it even if I tell you this, but this person is the female tenant who lived across from you and was recently murdered!"

The gray-clothed lady was shocked: "Actually, I have seen her several times, but... you can actually see her too? 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 proud and confident look. She looked fine and healthier than me. Our whole community was shocked!"

The gray-clothed aunt was stunned: "But, wasn't she killed not long ago?"

Xiao Zhang Zheng said: "She was murdered, that's just 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 would need 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 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 at all, and we are not a haunted house. This is a good thing!"

After hearing this conversation, Shen Yang's eyes instantly became sharp. He gritted his teeth silently, and Bai Mian saw this micro-expression clearly.

After hanging up the phone, the aunt in gray was still confused. It was indeed a good thing that Shen Jing was not dead, but this was also beyond her cognition. A person was stabbed several times and bled profusely, but could still 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 hospital bed slowly opened his eyes and stared straight at the mobile phone camera in front of him:

"I can hear you."