Li Zhi answered the phone, "I'm right behind the university town, at this night market. I'll be there right away."
As Li Zhi walked, he texted Zhu Jiayin, telling her that he and Officer Jiang had arrived and asking if she wanted to go on an adventure to the haunted building together.
When he arrived at the main gate, he saw Jiang Yu and one of his colleagues waiting for him there.
This colleague is Officer Zhang. He and Officer Chen were the ones who came to the case of the female college student's death on the second day of the second lunar month. Officer Chen has now retired, so he came along this time, since he was someone who had handled this case.
At this moment, Li Zhiyi received a reply from Zhu Jiayin: "Sister, I'm sorry, I'm a little timid so I won't go, but I want to go shopping and see a movie with you tomorrow. Are you free?"
Li Zhiyi replied to her with "Okay".
"Let's go, Zhu Jiayin is too scared to come with us."
This time, Jiang Yu went directly to the principal's office. In the afternoon, he had his subordinate call the principal to explain that they would come here to reinvestigate the matter that evening.
Xiao Zhang asked quietly, "Miss Li, aren't you scared?"
"Don't be afraid. If you get scared later, just come with me. I can protect you."
Just as the young police officer, Xiao Zhang, was about to agree, he saw his captain looking at him with a serious expression. He followed behind the two men without keeping his mouth shut.
The principal was waiting for Jiang Yu in his office when the police arrived. He immediately took out a bunch of keys from a drawer and asked, "Captain Jiang, are you really going to the haunted building?"
"What? You're too scared to go?"
"It's not that I'm afraid, but, how should I put it, this haunted building was originally a music building, but in recent years several female college students have died there, and the cause of death was always accidental. But so many accidents together inevitably make people think... You agree, right?"
"I can't believe that a university president would believe in such things. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at if this gets out?"
"Hehe, if I didn't tell you, who would know I was scared? It's only because I trust you police that I'm telling you these things." The principal was clever; his words unintentionally revealed his trust in the police.
As they talked, they arrived at the music building. There were a few students walking in twos and threes on the playground, but not many. When they saw the principal and the group walking together, some people glanced in their direction several times.
Perhaps because it was night, a gust of wind blew by, and it felt eerie. The principal was visibly nervous and said, "Captain Jiang, do I not need to accompany you on this investigation?"
"No need, go ahead and do what you need to do. Give me the key."
The principal, who was reluctant to go, immediately handed the keys to Jiang Yu upon hearing this, saying, "Alright, you can take your time looking around. I'll be going now." He then left without looking back.
Xiao Zhang curled his lip in disdain and said, "This principal is such a coward. He wouldn't even dare to go with a group of us."
Jiang Yu stepped forward and opened the large iron lock on the chain. The lock was rusty from years of neglect and took some effort to open.
Just then, Li Zhiyi noticed a girl rushing towards him from behind. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was Zhu Jiayin.
"Sister, sister, wait for me."
Li Zhi asked in confusion, "Weren't you scared? Why aren't you resting in the dormitory?"
"I was scared, but I was more worried about you, so I mustered up my courage and came over, hee hee." The girl laughed innocently and naively.
"Yeah, there's nothing to be afraid of. Even if there really are ghosts, I'll destroy them. What I'm afraid of is that these are just strange things done by humans."
Zhu Jiayin remained silent and followed closely behind Li Zhiyi.
The team searched each floor from the first floor until they reached the tenth floor, the floor where the deceased had jumped. Officer Zhang covered his mouth and nose and said, "Chief, are there any dead rats here? It smells awful!"
Zhu Jiayin chimed in, "Yeah, it smells disgusting!"
Jiang Yu walked at the front, silent and on high alert, because he seemed to have just seen something run past his feet.
Besides him, Li Zhiyi also saw this scene. Although the thing was very fast, Li Zhiyi still managed to catch a glimpse of it.
After walking a short distance, Xiao Zhang felt dizzy and nauseous. He squatted down and made a gagging motion. "Ugh, ugh..." Xiao Zhang gagged a few times but couldn't vomit. He also felt like something had flown into his nose. In short, he felt very uncomfortable.
Li Zhiyi walked ahead of Xiao Zhang, turned around and asked, "Xiao Zhang, are you alright?"
Xiao Zhang waved his hand: "It's okay, let's go."
Li Zhiyi had been focused on the sounds ahead. Before she had gone far, she felt the footsteps behind her stop. When she turned around, Xiao Zhang and Zhu Jiayin were gone.
"Jiang Yu, they've disappeared."
Jiang Yu, who was about to turn and go upstairs, suddenly stopped. "What's going on? Weren't they walking with you?"
"I don't know, I turned around and there was no one there. Let's find them quickly, this place feels too eerie!"
Jiang Yu hurriedly took out his phone to call Xiao Zhang, but a female voice answered, "Sorry, the number you dialed is currently switched off."
As police officers, their cell phones are on 24/7 to deal with emergencies, so how could Xiao Zhang's cell phone be turned off?
He regretted it a little. He shouldn't have asked Xiao Zhang to come with him. He originally intended to come by himself, but Xiao Zhang volunteered, saying that he had handled this case before and that police officers often worked in pairs. So he agreed to Xiao Zhang's request.
Li Zhizhi immediately sensed something was wrong: "Let's split up and search. You go upstairs, and I'll go downstairs."
"No, that's too dangerous. Let's go downstairs first, then come back up to look." So the two hurriedly went down to the thirteenth floor to look for the person, but still found nothing.
At this point, Jiang Yu was considering whether to go back to the twelfth floor to look for someone, but in the end he decided to go upstairs to look for someone, since the highest floor of this building was only twenty-six.
Unfortunately, the two searched the entire building repeatedly but couldn't find the two people. Li Zhiyi's bad premonition grew stronger, and she suddenly felt something was wrong.
"This is bad, Jiang Yu. I have a feeling something's going to happen to them."
Jiang Yu also started to panic. He hurriedly took out his phone and dialed Officer Li's number. After the call was connected, he asked the police to go out immediately to find Xiao Zhang.
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