Chapter 104 Ghost's Fingerprint
Li Ao couldn't help but sit down and encourage Pan Min to continue talking. This little girl was a chatterbox. Once she started talking, even her grandmother couldn't stop her. She told the police everything she knew.
Li Yuanzhi is very handsome and has a nice voice. He is more popular than his classmates who majored in broadcasting, so he stayed at the school radio station until his senior year of high school. His classmates and teachers all like him very much.
He is exactly like the school idol in film and television works, who comes from an ordinary family but has excellent academic performance.
"He doesn't usually have any conflicts. The only thing is that the senior student at our radio station always treats everyone to milk tea, mainly to treat him," Pan Min said casually. "He also plays basketball. Every time he takes the court, there are always a lot of people watching."
Li Ao asked, "Do you know who beat him up in Bookstore Street?"
"I don't know them. One has gray-green hair, the other has yellow hair. They don't look like they're from our school." Pan Min thought, "But they seem to be quite familiar with Zhou Dadong."
She added, "Zhou Dadong is a senior in our school. He paid to get in. He's tall and strong, but he has a strong body odor. He likes to occupy a window sill in the hallway and laugh and laugh with passers-by. My friends and I always avoid him. He knows a lot of people outside of school."
Tu Lanxun continued to ask a few questions, but Pan Min unexpectedly said something unexpected: "I heard it, just heard it, but Zhou Dadong's class lost a basketball game to another class. He's been looking down on them ever since and always picking on them."
Xiao Zhang asked, "Is Li Yuanzhi in the same class?"
Pan Min thought for a moment and said, "No, it should be the class next door. The senior from the radio station who invited us milk tea is in that class. One time, she bought some, but Li Yuanzhi didn't want it, so she even sent it back. The two of them were pushing and shoving against each other at the wall, which really upset the senior."
Isn't the class next to Li Yuanzhi Chen Yusheng's class? Li Ao asked, and it turned out to be Chen Yusheng's class.
Li Yuanzhi's class teacher also arrived at this time. Pan Min was dragged back by her grandmother, and a group of people talked in a secluded place downstairs.
The homeroom teacher, who taught math and also Chen Yusheng's class, knew immediately, "Yes, that Zhou Dadong had a fight with Class 3 and beat Yusheng up pretty badly. After that, he's been targeting that kid, constantly getting in his way. I've lectured him twice, and guess what? He didn't listen at all."
It turns out Zhou Dadong was targeting Chen Yusheng, but what does this have to do with Li Yuanzhi's death? Tu Lanxun asked, "Did Chen Yusheng and Li Yuanzhi know each other?"
Li Ao's expression changed. Tu Lanxun implied that he suspected Li Yuanzhi's death was related to the strange phenomenon that caused people to fall into a coma and sleepwalk.
Chen Yusheng was in a coma in the hospital, but the ghost was still active.
"Do they know each other?" The homeroom teacher thought for a moment. "I saw them having dinner together at a noodle shop near the school. I didn't know their homes were so close at the time, so I thought it was quite strange."
Li Yuanzhi is an outgoing student with excellent grades and a strong sense of justice, making him popular. Chen Yusheng, on the other hand, is a quiet, average student with few friends. He is not as good as Li Yuanzhi in every way, and it seems unlikely that they would have any connection.
After seeing the homeroom teacher off, Li Ao identified three areas for investigation: "First, check the surveillance footage in the neighborhood and along the streets to see who was in and out of here last night. Second, investigate Zhou Dadong's social connections. We can't rule out the possibility that Li Yuanzhi stood up for the bullied Chen Yusheng, or perhaps he had offended Zhou Dadong in some other way and was therefore being retaliated against."
Everyone's faces darkened. High school students already possess the basic thinking abilities of adults with their physical strength, but some of their values have not yet been formed, so this uncontrolled power may cause social incidents.
"What about the third one?" Xiao Zhang replied at the right time.
Li Ao said, "Third, Xiao Tu, look for any strange traces in the area. If necessary, go to the hospital to see Chen Yusheng and the other three unconscious victims. See if you can find any evidence of a strange crime. Chen Yusheng is in a coma, Li Yuanzhi is dead, and they lived close to each other and were involved in the same conflict. I doubt this is a coincidence."
Xiao Zhang said, "Okay, I'll check the surveillance footage. But if the killer entered the unit from inside, I'm afraid they won't be able to capture it. They have anti-reconnaissance capabilities and won't fail to notice."
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Tu Lanxun went to the hospital with Old Wei, where the four unconscious victims were placed in the same ward. Their vital signs were generally stable, but they wouldn't wake up. There, she met Chen Yusheng's father.
He was peeling an apple, and the long peel rolled to the ground. When he saw Tu Lanxun come in, he just raised his eyelids, then lowered his eyes to look at the red apple and Chen Yusheng's sickly face behind the apple.
"Father of Chen Yusheng, please go out first." Old Wei said politely.
Father Chen went out numbly, clutching the bare apple in his hand. Old Wei went to close the door. "Can I stay here?"
Tu Lanxun shook his head, and Lao Wei left as well, saying only, "Call me if anything happens."
N appeared beside Tu Lanxun. In fact, without him saying anything, she could already see that the souls of the four patients had not disappeared, but were all intactly preserved in their bodies, but for some reason, they just didn't wake up.
A faint strange smell floated in the ward, indicating that the thing had not been there for a long time.
"What are you going to do?" N saw Tu Lanxun reaching out to him. Tu Lanxun said, "Give me that lackey ghost and the bad-tempered female ghost."
N was slightly surprised: "You want to use them to feed the black and white ghosts?"
Tu Lanxun didn't care. "If they are innocent, the black and white ghosts won't eat them. If they are guilty, they will be used as nutrient solution. Now we need to find the unconscious weirdo. You and I can't do it, why not ask the Black and White Impermanence?"
"You can rest assured about this. They both have more than one life on their hands."
N thought about it and gave the backpack to Tu Lanxun. The bad-tempered female ghost and the servile male ghost were poured out. The former snorted coldly and kept cursing and provoking, while the latter simply cried for forgiveness.
"Anything else to say?" Tu Lanxun asked coldly, "You should all be on your way now. Whoever doesn't have anything to say will go first. If you say something useful, you'll live a little longer."
The female ghost kept on mocking and insulting him, while the male ghost kowtowed repeatedly but couldn't utter a single word. All they knew was Ah Dan's story. Tu Lanxun smiled, his mind clearing up after a burst of thought. The black and white ghosts appeared in the ward, their faces impassive.
Tu Lanxun grabbed the male ghost and asked, "Are you going to eat them?"
The white ghost did not respond. The male ghost in the black coat slowly turned his head and nodded to indicate yes.
Tu Lanxun patted the lackey male ghost and pushed him over there, "You're a coward, you go first."
The lackey male ghost was picked up screaming and pressed on the black and white ghost's hidden wound. This time the black and white ghost also knew the correct "absorption" method. The lackey male ghost became more and more illusory and finally disappeared with tears.
The figures in white suits and black gowns became more solid, their expressions began to become lively, and they could now control their facial nerves.
The ward suddenly became quiet, with only the bad-tempered female ghost left on the ground. After seeing the lackey male ghost disappear, she stopped cursing and said, "Oh, he's finally dead. What a noisy man."
Tu Lanxun walked up to her, leaned over and smiled, "You have backbone, I like that, I'll send you on your way."
With that, she carried the grumpy ghost toward the Black and White Impermanence. Souls are actually very light. The ghost looked at Tu Lanxun with resentment and surprise, as if she couldn't believe how someone could be so shameless. A few seconds later, the grumpy ghost also vanished into thin air.
The effect of taking the two evil ghosts correctly was quite good. The Black and White Impermanence were no longer sluggish. They moved their limbs on the spot. The female ghost in the white suit tilted her head, and her snow-white lips suddenly curved into a smile. She spoke with a southern accent: "Hello. My name is Yan Hailing."
Tu Lanxun blinked. The other person's voice was quite pleasant, so she replied, "Ah, hello. My name is Tu Lanxun."
I hadn't expected the Black and White Impermanence to have names, but Yan Hailing then stumbled over his explanation: they weren't actually the Black and White Impermanence. At least, they had nothing to do with the soul-seeking Yincha in traditional stories.
But it is indeed organized.
"We were born at the beginning of the last century. We were still alive then. We died very young." Yan Hailing smiled, her every move and demeanor very old-fashioned. "Perhaps we died in the wrong place, and later became the executors of the Fourth... Fourth Treaty."
Tu Lanxun asked cautiously, "How did you die?"
"It was a war." Yan Hailing said, "It was a chaotic time, so I won't talk about those things."
She didn't want to talk, and Tu Lanxun couldn't force her. She picked out the more important questions from a basket of questions and asked, "Why are you tied to me? And why isn't he talking?"
"He doesn't like to talk. There's something wrong here." Yan Hailing tapped her head with her fingers, and the male ghost in the black robe glanced at her and said in a low voice: "My name is Yu Yehua."
Yu Yehua was obviously not stupid, but he did not respond to Yan Hailing's slanderous words and just silently indulged her, which made Tu Lanxun a little curious about their relationship.
Yan Hailing continued to answer Tu Lanxun's first question: "We don't know why we are with you, but we have been following you for six years."
Six years ago again. Tu Lanxun shuddered. "Every moment?"
Yan Hailing smiled apologetically: "All the time. I also heard what you are trying to solve now."
She walked to the side of the beds, looked at the four unconscious victims, touched their foreheads, and Yu Yehua followed closely behind, extending two fingers to feel the breath of the four people.
Yan Hailing said, "They are dreaming. Their souls are intact, but there is something else inside their bodies."
Tu Lanxun asked, "What is it?"
Yan Hailing pulled Tu Lanxun's hand, and Tu Lanxun's perspective suddenly became very high. The four people were no longer human flesh and skin, but translucent human-shaped membranes with a faint light flowing under them, except for two black circles on their heads.
To be exact, it is behind the eyes.
Those two black circles look very much like the rudiments of eyes hidden in the head of a human embryo when it still has a tail.
"Don't everyone have this?" Tu Lanxun asked.
Yan Hailing took Tu Lanxun's hand and pulled her to the window of the ward. Tu Lanxun fainted for a moment because all the people on the street had turned into transparent skin bags.
But none of their eyes were two black circles, not a single one.
"That's something that allows people to see ghosts." Yan Hailing said: "If you have it, you are safe. If they have it, they will be unsafe."
Tu Lanxun took a long time to come up with a word: "Yin Yang Eyes?"
"You can understand it that way." N suddenly spoke, a hint of understanding crossing his face. "But in essence, it's a signal receiver with a wider frequency band."
Tu Lanxun didn't understand. Except for people like her who were afraid of ghosts, in popular literary and artistic works, opening the Yin-Yang eyes was the golden finger among the golden fingers. Why would it be bad?
She didn't ask directly, her mind slowly going back: "Someone told me before...The Kingdom of Heaven Group is trying to cause a bigger stir...They want to make an impact on the living world..."
"To influence the Fourth Treaty!" Tu Lanxun instantly grasped the key point. "If a living person sees a ghost and is deeply impressed, but the living person survives, it will trigger the Fourth Treaty to punish the ghost. While this gives ghosts more reason to kill the living, it also reduces the frequency of most ghosts appearing to the living, separating the human and ghost societies."
However, living people like Tu Lanxun, who are "broadband receivers", or living people equipped with "frequency converters" like Lu Lianbing and Zhao Kuanqiao, will not trigger the Fourth Treaty.
Tu Lanxun also suspected that Wenchong did not need the help of a "frequency converter" and could see ghosts on her own.
Tu Lanxun grabbed Yan Hailing's wrist. Yan Hailing's bones were very strong, and at 1.9 meters tall, she looked like a paper-made clay sculpture. Tu Lanxun asked anxiously, "The fourth agreement isn't irrevocable, is it?"
Yan Hailing smiled gently: "Yes."
Article 4 can be modified or even rescinded; it is not an ironclad law. Quite the contrary, its existence is more like a plastic ceiling, shielding it from the incoming sand. However, when the sand reaches a certain weight, this plastic ceiling may dent, tilt, and eventually collapse.
"The Heavenly Kingdom Group wants more people to see ghosts and ultimately destroy the Fourth Treaty. The four comatose patients are just one of their countless plans. Four people with yin-yang eyes... they will be able to see ghosts when they wake up... they will go crazy..." Tu Lanxun took two quick breaths.
What would four crazy people who can see ghosts do? They post online, hang banners on the streets, and frantically tell everyone around them: There's a ghost behind you.
Four crazy people can be defined as mentally ill, but what if crazy people appear on a large scale across the country?
The prelude to the strange invasion six years ago was just a precursor. Once the human and ghost societies collide on a large scale, what power do humans have to defeat the local ghosts and foreign weirdness?
Furthermore, what measures will humans take when they first come into contact with the ghost world? Will they eliminate or control them? Will they try to cover up their mistakes or cause panic? If they offend the silent majority in the ghost world, it will be a disaster.
It also involves a complex ethical issue: local ghosts generally have relatives and descendants. They have close ties with the living, but some of them have lost the values and humanity of the living because they have been ghosts for too long.
Tu Lanxun figured this out and couldn't help but feel overwhelmed. However, the problem at hand still needed to be solved. She asked Yan Hailing, "Do you have a way to stop these four people from developing yin-yang eyes?"
Yan Hailing shook her head. "This process is irreversible, unless you can accept that they will all become physically blind after waking up."
Yu Yehua said: "But we can try to find the weirdness that caused all this."
Tu Lanxun was startled by the male ghost's sudden words and subconsciously asked, "How do I find it?"
Yu Yehua swung his long gown and extended his hand towards Tu Lanxun: "Give me the things."
N frowned: "What?"
Tu Lanxun suddenly had an idea and took out the old antique pocket watch from his pocket. "Is this it? Can you use it to create special effects?"
Yu Yehua's face was solemn. "This is originally my personal property."
Tu Lanxun returned the pocket watch to Yu Yehua. As soon as it was in Yu Yehua's hand, the cover automatically lifted, revealing the trembling dial underneath. Yan Hailing walked over, holding Yu Yehua's hand with one hand, while the other hand kept twirling in the air, as if pulling an invisible silk thread.
Tu Lanxun heard N whisper, "She's trying to capture the strange aura lingering in the air."
The invisible thread gradually solidified in Tu Lanxun's eyes, and was concentrated on Yu Yehua like a cocoon. The pocket watch began to rotate. Yu Yehua closed his eyes and his lips kept moving. Tu Lanxun heard that he seemed to be reciting some scriptures or prayers quickly.
"What is that? Can I learn it?" Tu Lanxun thought it was cool.
N gave him a speechless look. "Only a fool would use such words. To be more precise, only fools like them could say such words. How many lives do you have?"
If you don't want to learn, then don't learn. Tu Lanxun looked at the two ghosts, each over 1.9 meters tall. They had straight shoulders and wore suits and long gowns that looked not only like models' clothes, but also like funeral clothes...
He looked away in awe and waited for another ten minutes before Yu Yehua opened his eyes and said, "Found it. In that direction."
The hospital was on the edge of the city, and the direction he pointed made Tu Lanxun's eyes go dark.
——The direction of the development zone.
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Yan Hailing and Yu Yehua disappeared again. They might need time to digest the two evil spirits.
Tu Lanxun reported the situation to Wenchong, said goodbye to Lao Wei, and immediately drove back to the development zone.
When they arrived at the convenience store, the computer ghost was acting as a salesperson, Sonia was unpacking expensive snacks, and the cat ghost meowed and asked to share the spoils. He turned around and slapped Mikhail's face with his tail, looking very arrogant.
"It's right here." Tu Lanxun looked up and saw that the building behind the convenience store had a good name: Penglai Building.
The weird thing that made people unconscious was hiding in Penglai Building at this moment.
The building was blocked by the municipal government. Tu Lanxun obtained Wenchong's approval and asked N to open the door directly. They entered from the main entrance of the building, went to the elevator control room to open the main switch, and the building was instantly powered on.
"I'll go up first. Otherwise it will run away." Sonia's humpback whale tail shook, and the whole person rushed up along the air flow.
Tu Lanxun took the elevator to the top floor. As soon as she got out of the car, she was hit by a cold chill. She called Yan Hailing twice, but there was no response.
N said: "They haven't fully recovered yet, they may have fallen into a deep sleep again."
A man and a group of ghosts rushed over. The top floor was an empty, huge office. The windows were obviously not open, but dust was swirling in the air. A girl was standing in the middle. The sugar stains from the milk drink on her collar had dried up, and she faintly smelled of milk tea.
"Hello." The teenage girl smiled with a strange look in her eyes.
Then she rushed towards Tu Lanxun with a very clear target. She grabbed Tu Lanxun's neck with her claw-like hands, but the latter quickly dodged.
It's actually a living person!
Tu Lanxun was now unable to move. She grabbed the girl's wrists, but her strength was like molten steel. She screamed, "Go up! What are you waiting for!"
N was already trying to drill into the girl's head, but the thing inside was stronger than any he had seen before. The girl had a ferocious expression, her lips stretched to an incredible arc, but her voice was rough and terrifying, "Come on, come on!"
Tu Lanxun saw the soul cores in the other person's head. There were two soul cores in total. She couldn't tell which one was the girl's spirit and which one was the invading monster.
"You can feel it!" N struggled, "The soul core of a dead person is warmer!"
This goes against common sense.
Tu Lanxun reached out and felt them. Indeed, one was icy cold, while the other had the heat of a living organism. She grabbed the hot one directly.
But the thing shot out like a bullet, brushed against Tu Lanxun's knuckles, leaving behind a mixture of cold and hot pain, and flew out.
N immediately stopped possessing the girl to avoid hurting her spirit. The girl collapsed in Tu Lanxun's arms. The other ghosts chased after her, but the strange creature ran so fast that it slipped away right under their noses.
"Don't worry about it for now, save her!" Tu Lanxun felt the girl's pulse and found it was very weak. The strange struggle between N and her had completely drained her vitality.
The girl was rushed to the same hospital where Chen Yusheng and four others were hospitalized. Her identity was quickly found out. She was the senior high school girl who delivered milk tea at Li Yuanzhi's radio station. She went out to go to school this morning, but didn't show up. Her parents are still looking for her everywhere.
Wen Chong rushed to the hospital and listened to Tu Lanxun's account of the Penglai Building situation. He said solemnly, "This is a warning to you. Your true identity has been discovered by the Tianguo Group."
The headquarters of the Tianguo Group is abroad, and no one knows what kind of information network they have or what kind of people they will send to deal with Tu Lanxun.
But Tu Lanxun and Wenchong were both mentally prepared, and now it was time for a head-on battle.
"How's the case of Li Yuanzhi going?" Tu Lanxun held the hand that was scratched by the soul core. The wound was burning, but the doctor could not see any ulcer at all, let alone use medicine to treat it.
Wen Chong sighed, "We're still investigating. The logic of the murderer's behavior in the Li Yuanzhi case contradicts his strange coma. If it was done by a strange entity, killing them directly wouldn't maximize the benefits unless they couldn't control themselves."
But the girl was clearly still alive, she was just about to irreversibly grow a pair of yin-yang eyes.
Tu Lanxun stared at his injured hand and suddenly felt that there was something blood-red faintly visible on it. It was blood-red when viewed from the front, but turned dark black when the side was hit by the light.
It's just so blurry that you need to concentrate really hard to see it; the naked eye is totally inadequate.
Wen Chong watched her fiddling with her hands. "Did you find anything?"
Tu Lanxun put his hands in his pockets and said, "I want to try that monocle."
The round piece suddenly appeared in my pocket.
Tu Lanxun took it out and observed her hand through her monocle. Ever since she awakened the black and white ghost, something had changed in her mind. Now, there was something new in Tu Lanxun's vision.
There was half a black and red fingerprint on the scratch on the base of the thumb.
Ghost fingerprints.
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