Chapter 89 The Most Improbable Murderer
“Yes.” After saying that, Lu Shijing thought for a moment and then added, “Do you want to come and take a look? It seems like it’s planning to stay at my house.”
I'll come tomorrow!
Yun Shu remembered that Chu Xingnan had contacted her before, saying that the paper gun she had burned had been stolen.
The paper pistol is still missing, and Yun Shu plans to go check on the pistol in the black cat's hand.
Yun Shu then said to Lu Shijing, "Is that black cat still carrying a gun? See if you can touch it. I suspect it stole one of my customers' handguns!"
"Let me ask."
Lu Shijing didn't see the black cat's pistol. The last time he saw it, he asked it about the pistol, and the cat looked completely clueless.
Lu Shijing hung up the phone and went to the yard outside the villa, where the black cat was lying in the gazebo, basking in the moonlight.
He thought for a moment, then turned and went to the kitchen to get a box of fresh, high-quality salmon before coming out to look for the black cat again.
As soon as Lu Shijing approached with the salmon, the black cat that had been lying on the moonlight suddenly stood up and turned its head to stare at what he was holding.
"Want some?"
Lu Shijing held up the box of salmon in his hand, and he could clearly hear the black cat make a sound as it exchanged the fish with him, then looked at him expectantly.
"Take out your pistol and let me see it."
"Meow~"
The black cat scratched its hind leg with its paw, and then Lu Shijing saw that a silver pistol had appeared on its paw.
Lu Shijing: "..."
Can it understand?
So when he asked about the pistol last time, was the black cat deliberately playing dumb for him?
There were lights in the pavilion, and by their light, Lu Shijing took a closer look and discovered that the silver pistol had no metallic feel on its surface and looked like it was made of paper.
"Meow!"
The black cat meowed at him again and patted the table with its other paw, gesturing for him to bring the box of salmon over and place it on the stone table in the gazebo.
Lu Shijing: "..."
This cat is practically a spirit!
While the black cat was eating salmon, Lu Shijing reached out and touched the pistol on the table, only to find that his fingers went right through the pistol and he couldn't pick it up at all.
"This is... a paper offering?"
Lu Shijing had heard Yun Shu say that after paper offerings are burned for the dead, only the ghosts of the dead can use them, and the living cannot touch them.
He looked at the black cat frantically showing off its fish with a strange expression, sensing that this black cat was no ordinary creature, as it could actually use things from the dead.
While the black cat was still eating, Lu Shijing went into the living room first and sent a message to Yun Shu about it.
Yun Shu: 【o(▼皿▼メ;)o】
Yun Shu: [That's the paper gun my customer lost! That despicable gun thief!!]
Lu Shijing had just finished sending the message when the black cat finished eating, ran into the living room from outside, meowing and hugging Lu Shijing's leg.
Lu Shijing always felt that he could understand its meows. For example, when it was rubbing against him and meowing, it was calling for its owner.
He rubbed his temples and then messaged Yun Shu, "[How much is the paper toy gun? I'll pay you back.]"
Yun Shu: [Uh, why do you have to compensate me? I can just go and get it back.]
Lu Shijing: [I adopted him.]
Yun Shu: [This paper gun is different from other paper crafts; it costs a million!]
Lu Shijing: [It's not very expensive. Send me your bank account number, and I'll transfer the money to you now.]
Yun Shu: ?
Not that expensive?! This is a million dollars, not a hundred dollars! Are you even speaking human language?!
Yun Shu sent over her bank card number, and Lu Shijing quickly transferred the money.
Yun Shu sent a message to Chu Xingnan, saying that she would make a new paper gun for her to burn in a few days.
The next day, Yun Shu had just gotten up when she received a call from Lao Qian.
Old Qian said excitedly, "Yun Shu, your method really worked! I said that to him yesterday, and he disappeared. He hasn't appeared in my dreams since, and I finally got a good night's sleep!"
Yun Shu asked him, "Do you still remember the place where he answered in the dream?"
"Let me think, let me think, I slept too soundly last night, I can't quite remember."
Yun Shu added, "You mustn't forget. If you forget what you promised the ghost, he will resent you, and you will die a terrible death."
These words made Lao Qian's heart skip a beat, and he quickly said, "I remember now, he said... he said it was in Wutong Community on Jinghua Road, Room 203, Building 5!"
"Just remember that."
After hanging up the phone, Yun Shu sent a message to Deng Shiye, giving him her address.
However, Yun Shu didn't say it was a ghost appearing in her dream, to avoid making the explanation complicated. Instead, she said that a fan in her live stream said that a resident of the community had been missing for three days.
Deng Shiye hired a mortician to restore the deceased's appearance, but to no avail. Only by recovering the deceased's facial features could they restore about 70% of his appearance.
Upon receiving Yun Shu's message, he immediately led a group to investigate Wutong Community, where they discovered that someone was still living in apartment 203 of building 5.
After investigation, Deng Shiye discovered that the deceased was the tenant of room 203 in building 5, who shared the apartment with his girlfriend.
His girlfriend said he had gone on a business trip three days ago and would be gone for a week, so he hadn't come back yet, and his girlfriend didn't suspect anything.
Upon learning that her boyfriend had not died on a business trip but in an accident, the woman was overcome with grief and wept uncontrollably.
Seeing her so heartbroken, the police officers felt bad too. While the policewoman was comforting her, Deng Shiye said, "Why don't you come with us to the police station to see the body and confirm it one last time?"
"……good."
The woman said, her voice choked with emotion.
Deng Shiye and his men were about to leave when Yun Shu called, asking, "Have you arrived at Room 203, Building 5, Wutong Residential Area?"
Deng Shiye said in a heavy tone, "We've arrived. We can almost confirm the identity of the deceased, but we still don't know where the death occurred."
Yun Shu said, "It's at his house."
Deng Shiye pondered for a moment, "But these past few days, his girlfriend has been at home, saying that the deceased hasn't come back. The deceased left home three days ago in the morning, telling his girlfriend he was going on a business trip, and he may have been murdered on his way there."
"Officer Deng, you've been investigating cases for so many years, you should know that people can lie and pretend. We can't believe her one-sided story."
Yun Shu sighed, "To tell you the truth, this woman is the murderer."
"Unlikely."
Deng Shiye immediately refuted this.
"Miss Yun, do you have any evidence for your conclusion? If not, I'm afraid I can't believe it."
Yun Shu frowned and said, "I don't have any evidence yet, but this is the truth, the deceased said it himself."
"A dead person can speak? Isn't that too outrageous? But, Miss Yun, please listen to why I refute your guess."
Deng Shiye glanced at the deceased's girlfriend, who was being pushed out of the house by the policewoman, with a complicated expression. "That woman has suffered from polio since childhood and has been unable to move around for many years. She needs to use a wheelchair. How could she commit the crime? And how could she dispose of the body after committing the crime?"
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