Chapter 260 Chapter 260

Luzhou City, Tanshui District Public Security Branch.

"I didn't kill anyone." The bearded man lowered his head and repeated, "Really, I didn't kill anyone."

The police officer sitting opposite him didn't say anything. He looked down at the documents in his hands, rubbed his brows, and looked a little worried.

There was indeed no evidence that the man in front of him had committed murder, and his intuition also suggested that this slovenly-dressed man in front of him would not do such a thing.

But this was the third time, three times in a row, he appeared in front of the corpse.

It was in front of the body! Not near where the body was found.

"Name."

"It has become a natural state."

"gender."

"...Male." The sloppy man added, "43 years old, from Yongwei County, Yunnan Province..."

After saying this, the sloppy man also gave his ID number.

Facing such a cooperative man, the police officer's tone softened a little: "What are you doing in Lucheng?"

"Free travel." Ji Yuanhua rubbed his hands together, "I lost my job, I'm in a bad mood, I want to travel, but I don't have money."

So he rode a bicycle to Luzhou.

It took several days to travel the more than 100 kilometers along the national highway.

Walk and stop, look at the surrounding scenery, buy some food and water on the way. Do not stay in unsafe wild places, find a cheap small hotel to sleep in. The cost of safe city hotels is too high, so take out thick clothes and spend the night on a park bench.

It was already spring, and the nights in the south were not that cold. More people were going out for outings and camping, so it was no big deal for him to lie on a park bench for a night.

Lu City was his final destination. The man planned to stay here for two days and then ride home to look for a job.

But for some reason, things started to go wrong after we entered Luzhou.

He slept in the Spring Garden in Luzhou on the first night. Before he woke up the next day, he heard a scream. It was the woman who came to the park for a run in the morning. She pointed to a headless corpse lying in front of the man's bench.

Ji Yuanhua, who was still asleep, was so frightened by this scene that his mind went blank.

Then he was taken away by the police. After questioning, it was determined that he was not the one who did it. The body had been dead for more than three hours. Who would have stayed away after killing someone and slept on the recliner in front of the body until early morning? Even the most crazy murderer in the West would not be so heartless.

He just thought it was some perverted murderer's evil taste, wanting to scare this sleeping homeless man.

Ji Yuanhua was also scared, so the next night he chose to sleep in the hotel, and nothing happened.

He didn't buy any on the third night because he didn't have much money left. The price of hotels in the city was not as cheap as that of houses in small places. If he spent any more, he was afraid that he would have no food to eat on the way back.

As a result, when we got up in the park on the third night, we encountered a similar situation again. This time the corpse was missing its left arm.

The police officer who received the news looked at Ji Yuanhua with suspicion, but he did not arrest him on the spot. He just called him over and questioned him for a long time.

"Maybe the murderer has set his sights on you," the police officer warned. "You should stay at the police station tonight."

There is an empty room where we can be accommodated, although it is usually used to detain suspects.

Ji Yuanhua shook his head and refused. He was an honest man and felt that if an innocent person spent a night in the police station, his innocence would no longer be known.

With no other options, the police officer let him stay in a hotel and gave him a few hundred dollars personally. It wasn't a loan, it was a gift.

Ji Yuanhua originally didn't plan to accept the call, but thinking about his own situation, he had encountered corpses outside for two consecutive nights. He was not sure whether the third murderer would think that his neck looked easy to cut and kill him when throwing the body away.

What's more, the police here asked him not to leave Luzhou for the time being and needed him to cooperate with the questioning. One or two days would be fine, but too long would not work. He could not spend every night in the park.

Ji Yuanhua found a cheaper house, which was not even a hotel but just a residence, and a very small and unofficial one at that. The owner had an extra shabby room and agreed to let him stay there temporarily for a few dozen dollars a night.

Then the next day, the body of the landlord was seen in front of the bed in the room that Ji Yuanhua rented, and the door was wide open.

This time the body was missing its right arm.

You can't wash yourself clean even if you jump into the Yellow River.

The police concluded that it was either done by Jiyuanhua or by someone who hated Jiyuanhua.

In short, this matter has nothing to do with him.

How else to explain why such a heinous crime occurred right after he arrived, and the corpse appeared in front of him every time? The first two times were in the park, and it could be said that the murderer dumped the body in the park, but this time he was chased directly to the door, how could it be such a coincidence, it must be that he was chasing after Ji Yuan's incarnation, or he did it himself.

The identities of the first two victims have also been found out. They are residents near where Ji Yuanhua slept that night. One of them got off work late for work, so he often returned home in the early morning, and the other happened to watch a late-night movie and went home by himself.

Including the homeowner, the three deceased people had no overlapping interpersonal relationships or circles, and had nothing in common with each other. The only thing to say was that the routes they traveled on at night passed by the place where Ji Yuanhua stayed overnight, or they simply rented the house to Ji Yuanhua.

There were no surveillance cameras at the three locations where the bodies were dumped, but there were some farther away, and the surveillance did not capture any suspicious people or vehicles.

The more we investigate, the more suspicions we have of nationality diversification.

Until now, bringing someone back has become no longer an inquiry, but an interrogation.

The police officers were also confused. Their intuition made them think that Ji Yuanhua was innocent and had not lied. They could not find any motive for his murder. However, the results of the investigation on the table all suggested that there was only one possible truth: Ji Yuanhua was the murderer. Not only that, he might be a patient.

A psychopath who kills someone but can't remember doing it.

But... there was no murder weapon, no missing body parts, the chain of evidence was incomplete, and many of the details were contradictory even to the police officers themselves.

Until someone whispered in his ear: "Sir, there is something strange."

Using ghosts to kill people, or being used by ghosts to kill people, now also needs to be taken into consideration.

The police officer suddenly realized that he was used to judging cases based on past logical thinking and almost forgot that times have changed.

The Lu City Police Department transferred the case to the Paranormal Response Department as a paranormal incident and asked the people there to take over the investigation. However, the paranormal investigation department in Lu City was understaffed and not strong enough. After receiving the file information, they also dispatched the police, but they did not have the strange objects used by the Beijing headquarters to detect strange auras, and could not judge whether this incident belonged to the category of paranormal or an ordinary homicide.

The Luzhou Weirdos Department was at a loss for a long time, and then they remembered that the headquarters had mentioned the establishment of a special action team, and that they could hand over difficult cases to them for resolution. The Luzhou Weirdos Response Department immediately submitted the case, and judged the danger based on the existence of weirdness, and estimated it to be Class C.

Then, Qingtong took over the task.

Unlike the confused members of the Luzhou police station and the weird response department, Qingtong immediately queried the system after seeing the case, and the answer he got was indeed weird.

Moreover, this weirdness is also of a relatively covert type, killing someone with a borrowed knife, and it was not detected by the map in the weird live broadcast.

Judging from the danger and strength of the strange, Qingtong determined that this was the task that should be solved first.

*

Lushi Airport.

Qingtong and his friends had just gotten off the plane and were waiting to get their large checked luggage back. Huang Tianzhen yawned loudly. He had packed his luggage and rushed to the airport as soon as he got up this morning. It was almost 1pm when he arrived in Luzhou.

But I didn't have enough lunch.

The amount of food on the plane was really small, a portion of rice and vegetables, a small bread roll, a small piece of fruit, and a packaged snack. It might be enough for an ordinary person's lunch, but it was not enough for people like Qingtong who were used to high-intensity exercise.

Su Sanan picked up his phone and looked through the mission details again and again: "So this mission is still uncertain whether it is weird or done by humans?"

Qingtong: "Don't worry, I can judge."

"Yes, when it comes to judging weird things, our captain is the best." Huang Tianzhen chuckled, "We don't need the help of weird things. No wonder the captain decided to take on this mission. Who else can handle it except us?"

The luggage arrived, and several people walked out of the airport pulling the suitcases.

Han Qi: "If we judge based on the premise that something weird exists, this should be a possession monster."

Su Sanan: "It is also possible that he was carrying something strange."

Huang Tianzhen: "It's not necessarily weird, what if it's just a murder due to split personality? I think this possibility is still very high. Hasn't there been cases of 'murder in a dream' in the past?"

"The murder in a dream you mentioned is a made-up story." Han Qi said, "It's from the novel, not the official history..."

They found an empty taxi, told the driver the location, put their luggage in the trunk, and got in the car.

Because the driver was present, it was not convenient to discuss the bizarre case, so Qingtong changed the subject.

"I haven't finished my airplane meal yet. We still have time. Do you want to eat first? Then I'll report after dinner."

Huang Tianzhen quickly said, "I want to eat!"

Han Qi immediately made a bitter face: "Ah? Can't you just buy some bread?" There are spicy restaurants everywhere in Lu City. They even put chili in porridge.

It is said that Sichuan people love spicy food, and in the map of Sichuan, it is said that Luzhou is the spiciest city in Sichuan.

He thinks steamed fish is better than boiled fish.

"We are not on a mission in the suburbs. Who wants to eat dry bread?" Huang Tianzhen patted Han Qi's shoulder and gave him a thumbs up. "It's okay. I can't eat spicy food either. Can't we just ask the chef not to put chili in it?"

“…Okay.”

A few people got off the bus. There was a small restaurant near the place where they got off. At the same time, the distance to the Luzhou branch was not far, and it only took ten minutes to get there.

After entering the restaurant and ordering food, I specifically asked the chef not to add spicy food, and the chef readily agreed.

Ten minutes later, the dishes were served and several people started eating.

After taking just one bite, Han Qi and Huang Tianzhen paused and gulped down a mouthful of water.

"I told you not to put any spiciness in it, why is it so spicy?" Huang Tianzhen shouted towards the kitchen.

"It's not spicy!"

"Isn't this a chili pepper?" Huang Tianzhen said, poking a piece of pepper on the plate.

The chef was also a bit irritable. He came out with a spatula, pointed at the dish on the plate and said, "This is green pepper! It's not spicy at all!"

"Not spicy? My throat is about to burn—"

After a quarrel with the chef, Su Sanan finally mediated. The result of the negotiation was that the money did not need to be refunded. Su Sanan went to the kitchen and used their ingredients and kitchen utensils to cook a few dishes, which was considered a good meal.

Remember one thing, don't trust what Sichuan people say: this is not spicy.

The pain nerves at the tip of their tongues have been through a lot of hardships and have become somewhat numb.