Chapter 234: Midnight Haunted House 21
Ye Jian handed his cell phone to Su Qingyun.
Su Qingyun saw a piece of social news on her phone. A year ago, the public security department cracked down on a prostitution den run by a family in Butcher Village during a crackdown on pornography and organized crime. The accompanying news photo showed a middle-aged woman in revealing clothes being taken into a car.
The middle-aged woman in the photo doesn’t look very pretty because her face is painted very white, her eyebrows are drawn very black, and her bright red lips make it impossible to tell what she really looks like.
Su Qingyun returned the phone to Ye Jian and said, "So, the vengeful spirit in this house might be Tu Zhigang's wife."
"That's not necessarily true," Xu Xinghe said. "This news report only explains what the house was used for before. It doesn't mean Tu Zhigang's wife met with misfortune there. Furthermore, judging by the news report, it doesn't seem like the middle-aged woman was forced into an illegal occupation. It seems more like..."
Xu Xinghe tilted his head, perhaps not knowing how to describe the feeling this middle-aged woman gave him.
Su Qingyun gave a hint, "Looks more like a brothel owner?"
"Yes, that's the feeling, because she gives people the impression of being very smart and fierce, and she doesn't look like a fallen woman or a miserable person."
"Since you think it's not, let's continue searching." Ye Jian took his phone back from Su Qingyun's hand, then he looked at Su Qingyun, "Just now I used the strange phone to check the information, and you didn't seem to praise me."
"Praise you?" Why should I praise him?
"It proves that I, a network engineer, am not boasting. This makeshift base station is functional. So, why don't you use your phone to place an order, like drinking water? I'm dying of thirst."
Su Qingyun felt thirsty after hearing him say that, so she took out her strange mobile phone and ordered three bottles of mineral water on the app. She handed the water to Ye Jian, but still muttered, "If you want water, you can ask Xu Xinghe for it. He has a lot stored in his space."
Ye Jian took off his mask and gave Su Qingyun a cold look, then unscrewed the bottle cap and started drinking water.
Su Qingyun, "..."
As she handed the water to Xu Xinghe, she whispered to him, "Did you see Ye Jian glaring at me just now? Wasn't he being too disrespectful to me as the captain?"
Xu Xinghe smiled without saying anything. He took off his gloves, unscrewed the bottle cap, handed the water to Su Qingyun, and then took the water from Su Qingyun's hand.
Everything was very natural and Su Qingyun didn't care. When she was about to drink water, a voice suddenly came to her ears.
"This guy is so gentle, he even helps you unscrew the bottle cap."
Su Qingyun hurriedly looked around and found nothing unusual.
"What's wrong?" Xu Xinghe asked.
"Someone just spoke to me."
When Xu Xinghe heard this, he quickly pulled Su Qingyun to his side.
Ye Jian also quickly stopped drinking water. He tightened the bottle cap and stuffed it into his pocket, then protected the two people behind him. He began to check every corner of the room with a flashlight.
There is nothing unusual.
"Are you sure you heard a human voice?" Ye Jian asked.
"It's definitely a woman's voice. Not an old woman's, nor a middle-aged woman's. More like a young girl in her twenties. Very delicate and charming, like a vixen."
"Let's go out first." Xu Xinghe pulled Su Qingyun back to the aisle.
Ye Jian also retreated from the room.
"Boom."
There was a loud sound of something falling to the ground downstairs.
"What's going on? Why is there a noise downstairs?" Su Qingyun pricked up her ears and listened, but apart from the bang just now, she didn't hear any other sounds.
Xu Xinghe and Ye Jian told her that they didn't hear any sound.
"No, it was so loud, a thud, like a porcelain face box falling on the cement floor."
"Maybe you're the only one who can hear it."
Su Qingyun's hair stood on end when he heard this.
Since she is the only one who can hear it, does it mean that there will be even more frightening sounds soon, and she will be the only one in fear?
"This haunted house is so weird." Su Qingyun subconsciously leaned into Xu Xinghe's arms.
No matter how brave she is, she will be scared in this situation, and her instinct makes her want to find some support.
Unexpectedly, that charming voice sounded again, "Oh, you're quite good at tricking me. Have these two men been completely captivated by you for a long time?"
"Who are you?" Su Qingyun asked.
Ye Jian and Xu Xinghe didn't understand what was going on, but they both knew that she might be talking to a ghost, so they surrounded her and protected her.
"Want to know who I am? Then guess, and I'll tell you why this house is haunted."
"Are you a tenant here?"
The ghost girl laughed happily, "I didn't expect you to be so smart. Since you guessed it, I will tell you why this house became a haunted house."
Following the ghost girl's voice, Su Qingyun saw a long-haired woman sitting in front of the innermost door on the left. She was wearing a silk pajamas and sitting on a square stool. Her whole body was emitting a milky white light.
Su Qingyun gestured to Xu Xinghe and Ye Jian to go and see.
The two people looked confused, it seemed that they could not see.
It’s really strange. Everyone is in the copy, so why can’t Ye Jian and Xu Xinghe see the female ghost?
Is this some trick played by the copy?
Su Qingyun raised her wrist to check the time: 00:00.
Time stopped again.
Su Qingyun whispered to Xu Xinghe, "A female ghost appeared at the door of the third room. I'm afraid she came out on purpose to delay time. You continue to clean up, and I'll let Ye Jian stay here with me."
After Su Qingyun finished speaking, she drew a circle on Xu Xinghe's palm and then nodded. She asked Xu Xinghe, "What is this?"
Xu Xinghe, "Secret code."
Su Qingyun nodded, "Repeat it when you meet up with me later and ask me the same question."
"good."
Xu Xinghe took the key and opened the first door on the left.
When he opened the door, the long-haired female ghost did not react at all and continued talking to herself.
"There was a fire here, a very big fire, and I set the fire." She said, covering her mouth and laughing.
Su Qingyun, "So everyone in this house was burned to death, and this place became a haunted house?"
"right."
Su Qingyun said, "Impossible. There's a portrait of the male owner on the first floor, proving he died of natural causes. I just saw the old lady in this house. Her face was a little gray, but she didn't look like she was burned to death."
Female ghost: "Do you think I'm lying to you?"
"You are a liar, aren't you Tu Zhigang?"
As soon as Su Qingyun finished speaking, the female ghost emitting milky light seemed to disappear like a puff of smoke.
Then, the door behind her creaked open.
Su Qingyun grabbed Ye Jian's arm.
Ye Jian asked, "Did the ghost open the door for you?"
"Can you see?"
"I couldn't see the ghost, but I could see the door open." Ye Jian asked again, "You just asked if that ghost was Tu Zhigang. How come he appeared?"
"It didn't show up. It was a female ghost, but she looked like Tu Zhigang."
This was Su Qingyun’s first reaction after seeing the female ghost.
The voice was female, the demeanor was female, but the face looked like Tu Zhigang in the black and white photo.
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