Chapter 37: Do You Want a New Body?
Tu Lanxun and others were hiding outside the campus of Lucheng Agricultural University.
"Here they come, the police car is coming!" Tang Weining nervously leaned against the glass, but Tu Lanxun pulled him back. "Are you worried you won't be taken back?"
The small silver-gray Jetta was already full, with room for two people and two ghosts. Tang Weining then remembered that he was the one who was found to have hidden the body, and he was about to face an earthquake in his life.
Tang Weining whispered, "Miss, I have one last wish."
Tu Lanxun had become somewhat accustomed to being treated like Aladdin's lamp by this person. He sighed and said, "Speak."
"I'm about to be interrogated, and I want to see Xiaoju." Tang Weining lowered his head and looked pleasing.
Bai Chao, who had been silent the whole time, moved at this moment and said, "I want to see him, too."
According to N, it is not easy for a ghost to find another ghost. Going to the cemetery now is indeed a good route. At least the police will not find it for a while, but there is still a problem.
"Sister Chao, have you lost any memory?" Tu Lanxun asked.
Logically speaking, when a ghost becomes a ghost, important memories will be left in the "anchor". Bai Chao has not touched her own corpse yet, so she must be missing some memories, but the strange thing is that she has always behaved normally.
He remembered his name and address, and knew the cause of death, so what did Bai Chao forget?
"Don't touch it. It's like building blocks. It's unlucky." Bai Chao smiled at Tu Lanxun, with bright dimples on his cheeks.
So the group set off for the cemetery. To give Bai Xiaoju a surprise, Tu Lanxun didn't spoil the story in advance. So when the little girl stood by the tombstone and saw Bai Chao and Tang Weining, she almost jumped into a tree and said, "Mom! Dad!"
Her personality clearly resembled Bai Chao's, and she rushed over, "Dear mother and father, I miss you so much!"
The next second, Bai Xiaoju pulled his head out of Bai Chao's arms and trembled: "Hey, Mom, how come you died too?"
Bai Chao patted her head and said, "Be careful with your words."
Tu Lanxun and N stood aside, leaving the space for the two ghosts. Tang Weining was still confused, holding the turned-off mobile phone anxiously. At this time, the school leaders and the police should have called.
He stammered: "Little, little period..."
Bai Xiaoju immediately looked at Tang Weining with sympathy, "Dad, you're the only one left in our family."
Tu Lanxun took the stack of papers he had prepared and hid them behind him, his mouth twitching slightly, feeling that he would not be able to use them.
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Li Ao brought Xiao Zhang into Lu Agricultural University. Along the way, not many people saw them. Xiao Zhang had just graduated from the police academy and still looked like a young boy full of youth. They were caught up only when they reached the laboratory building.
It was the campus facial recognition system. Although the police had high authority, it still attracted the attention of the school. The teacher in charge of administration gasped: "Two officers, is there anything I can help you with?"
Li Ao was a little embarrassed and showed his ID. He couldn't say, "I saw a garbled letter of complaint and suspected there was a body hidden in your school, so I came to check it out."
"Oh, let's go to the cold room in the laboratory building." Xiao Zhang said mysteriously, seeming even more suspicious. Li Ao couldn't help but turn his face away, preparing to call the leader of the team, and get permission to go and take a look after being scolded.
Unexpectedly, the administrative teacher believed it and was even more mysterious than Xiao Zhang: "Ah, I see, it's that, right?"
She was talking about the weird, that is, ghosts. Everyone knows that there are ghosts on earth, but no one has ever seen a ghost - no one can survive after seeing a ghost.
This had nothing to do with the school spirit and discipline of Lu Nong University. After all, it was a ghost, and where it flew to was not up to human control. The administrative teacher was very understanding. "I understand, I understand. Let's keep the noise down and not cause panic among the students. It would have a bad impact."
Xiao Zhang nodded: "Yeah, that's what we thought too. We haven't verified it yet, we just want to confirm it."
The two were led to the fourth floor of the laboratory building by an administrative teacher. The teacher even called in a food science professor and had the area cleared, using the excuse of an annual cold room inspection. The two teachers stood at the stairwell and said, "Well, we won't be going in."
When they were successfully standing in front of the plastic bag of "Snow Mountain Yak Beef" in the corner of the cold room, Li Ao put on gloves, squatted down and knocked on it. His brows furrowed, and he picked it up and weighed it. "Taking into account the blood loss, it's enough for an adult woman."
Xiao Zhang uttered an "Ah!" and, picking up a pair of scissors from the nearby freezer, tried to cut into the item, but Li Ao waved it away. Li Ao, a veteran detective, ran his finger over the stickers, his face darkening when he saw the layers of stickers labeled "Northeastern Soy Sauce Blocks."
"Call the team," he said, then returned to the stairs and asked the academy teacher, "How long has that plastic bag in the corner of your cold room been there?"
The college teacher, who also works in an office, mumbled something about it, but a passing student still came over and said, "It's Teacher Tang's. It's been there for three years. Not really three years, but he's always had a bag like that piled up there."
Li Ao's face turned pale as he pulled up Tang Weining's ID photo on his phone: "Is it him?"
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When they came to the cemetery, they were two ghosts, and when they left, they were three ghosts. The family of three sat in the back row. Tang Weining still had that expression on her face, about to cry. Bai Chao teased Bai Xiaoju and asked, "The report should have paid off. What should we do now?"
The surveillance footage of this period has been processed by N. As long as there is a surveillance camera where Tu Lanxun passed by, no one can capture her. By the way, it also helps Tang Weining hide her whereabouts. In other words, the last trace of Tang Weining was at Shanshui Villa a few days ago.
"In the human world, the evidence against Tang Pengan has already been submitted, but with just a key, at most he can be convicted of stealing illegal drugs. Who knows, the crime could even be pinned on Tang Weining. Tang Pengan could be said to have done it for his brother."
"As for the underworld...we can't find Teacher Xu. Should we look for Teacher Xu's anchor?"
Tu Lanxun has learned to draw inferences from one example. Since the anchor is the basis for controlling ghosts, the right thing to do is to get rid of the trouble caused by Teacher Xu first.
Tang Weining was stunned by Tu Lanxun's question. After two seconds, he said, "Teacher Xu's ashes were buried at sea. They are long gone."
N said, "Even if we assume his anchor is a corpse, once the body is gone, it will transfer to other objects, most likely things he frequently touched during his lifetime, or things he was obsessed with. For example, a cell phone, a bed, or house keys."
A few people thought about it and realized that the school that the Tang brothers attended had been merged, and the campus had been demolished and a new one built. Maybe it was with Teacher Xu's family?
The computer ghost girl sent a message: Teacher Xu is an only child. His mother and father died of depression after his death. The eighth anniversary just passed this year, and a cousin of his family helped to organize it. The cousin also specially posted a Weibo, sighing that his aunt and uncle's family had a miserable life.
The most important thing is that the final heirs of Teacher Xu’s family’s inheritance are my cousin’s family. My cousin’s surname is also Xu, and she happens to be a civil servant in a township around Lucheng.
It only takes forty minutes to get from the cemetery to the township. Today is a weekday, and cousin Xu happened to be home for lunch. Her mother and father are both in their seventies, and the family had beef noodles bought on the street for lunch.
I followed my cousin Xu into the residential complex. Her home was on the first floor. When she lifted the door curtain, she saw the mess inside and complained, "Mom, just throw away these useless things. Don't pick them up. There are so many bacteria."
Xu's mother glared at her, not feeling confident. "What do you know? If there's a disaster, these can be exchanged for food."
Cousin Xu, in her forties, couldn't argue with her mother. Dejected, she kicked the pile of waste cardboard. At the bottom, with a clang, a tin biscuit box dropped. "Oh, my, why did my cousin keep this? Didn't he say he'd throw it away after the eighth anniversary celebration at my aunt's house?"
Xu's mother didn't dare let her look through it again, fearing that her "treasure" would be thrown away if she continued to argue. "It's made of iron, it's valuable."
While Xu's mother and father were setting the table and grabbing chopsticks, Xu's cousin quickly snatched the tin box Teacher Xu had left from the pile of papers and gently placed it outside the door, ready to throw it away before going back to work that afternoon. She thought it was unlucky and took up space. Having kept it for so many years, she felt it was a token of friendship.
The three of them were sweating after eating the beef noodles. Cousin Xu helped to collect the bowls, wiped her mouth and walked out. The tin box at the door was gone, but she didn't take it seriously, thinking that some garbage collector had picked it up.
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As soon as the tin box was brought back, Tang Weining's eyes seemed to be burned. "That's it. It used to be placed in his dormitory, on the bookshelf."
The box was so rusted that it was unrecognizable. There was a brown spot on the painted bear's cheek, as if it had been burned. When the lid was opened, some miscellaneous items were found inside, including needles and thread, buttons, a toy car, and Teacher Xu's teacher's certificate.
There was a small paper bag at the bottom. When it was opened, there were two rolls of film. N and Bai Chao looked at it one after another and said, "This is it."
Teacher Xu’s current anchor is this film.
I'm afraid he himself doesn't know that the film is kept here.
Facing the sunlight, the color of the film could still be vaguely seen. Tu Lanxun took a quick look and threw it aside. N took out the pocket watch again and said, "Take another look."
With Teacher Xu's anchor, the candlelight appeared more clearly in front of Tu Lanxun's eyes. There was only a little candlelight with a strong presence jumping in the darkness. As expected, it was not in the urban area of Lucheng, but on the ring road.
Tang Pengan must be nearby. Knowing that he couldn't beat N, he and Teacher Xu were circling around to avoid them.
Should we just go over and arrest them? That would be too foolish. Tu Lanxun and N exchanged a glance. N automatically handled Tang Weining's phone and dialed the emergency number. The call was quickly connected, and the dispatcher from the emergency center was on the other end.
Tu Lanxun handed it to Bai Chao, who spoke into the phone, "Hello, is this the police? I'm reporting that the suspect in the Bai Chao murder and dismemberment case is on section 7-5 of the Ring Expressway. The license plate number is—"
Tu Lanxun handed over the screenshot of the surveillance video that the computer ghost had located. Bai Chao said, "The license plate number is Lu A-12G53, a red Tanzanite sedan, traveling from west to east."
Before the caller could ask any questions, Tu Lanxun hung up the phone and looked back at downtown Lucheng. "Police all over the city are trying to catch Tang Weining. All we have to do is wait for them to catch Tang Pengan, mistaking him for Tang Weining."
The police arrived quickly. Not long after, the female computer ghost lying on the surveillance camera on the street side of the police station said: Tang Pengan was taken to the police station. Tang Guangming was also there, and a young female police officer was leading him.
Tu Lanxun and N immediately rushed to the police station, Bai Chao followed, and Teacher Xu could not escape.
Tang Weining touched Bai Xiaoju's illusory hand and pushed her to Bai Chao. Before Tang Pengan was convicted, he'd better not show up and had to find a place to hide first.
In the car, Tu Lanxun asked Bai Xiaoju: "What did your father whisper to you just now?"
Bai Xiaoju smiled: "Dad asked me if I wanted a body like Xiaoguang, one that could grow."
Tu Lanxun felt something was wrong and quickly called Tang Weining. They had previously agreed to keep in touch at any time.
Tang Weining's cell phone is turned off.
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