The "haunted house" that Chen Haiguo mentioned is a villa with a separate courtyard.
Kui Kui's gaze passed through the police tape and landed on the dark iron gate.
The pitch-black iron gate resembled the mouth of a giant beast, revealing terrifying sharp teeth.
A large, black padlock hung on the iron gate, ancient and heavy.
Jiang Tangzheng pulled up the cordon and bent down to walk to the iron gate.
He grabbed the iron gate with one hand, and using both his hands and feet, he climbed over it and vaulted into the courtyard of the old house.
"Clang!"
As the iron gate slammed shut, he turned around and grinned at Kui Kui, his eyes full of provocation.
It was obvious they wanted to give Kui Kui a hard time.
Chen Haiguo rubbed his forehead, secretly cursing Jiang Tang for laughing like an idiot.
"If you have a key, why are you climbing through the door?"
Jiang Tangzheng put his hands on his hips, raised an eyebrow, and said, "Didn't those victims all come in like this? This is a simulation of the crime scene!"
He was about to have Kui Kui simulate it as well, but when he saw Kui Kui with a serious expression, he nodded in agreement and said, "That makes sense."
As he spoke, he grabbed the iron gate and nimbly leaped to the top of it.
The iron gate didn't make a sound at all.
She didn't rush to jump down, but stood steadily on the iron gate, observing the entire old house.
The old house is an old-fashioned three-story villa with mottled walls and cracks in some places.
The upstairs windows were tightly closed, yet under the sunlight, they resembled eyes without pupils, dark and empty.
In an instant, dark clouds obscured the sun, creating a gloomy and eerie atmosphere.
Legend has it that a tragedy once occurred in this house, where the male and female owners and their two children were subjected to inhuman torture.
Only the son survived, but he was left with a lifelong disability.
The house changed hands several times, and each owner claimed to have seen a female ghost in red, speculating that it was the murdered female owner.
Kui Kui leaped and landed beside Jiang Tangzheng.
They didn't pay any attention to his face, which was mimicking a "shout" in shock.
She walked straight through the desolate courtyard to the gate of the old house, which was ajar.
Chen Haiguo explained at the opportune moment: "The first kid who came in broke the lock."
Kui Kui nodded slightly and reached out to push open the door.
"squeak!"
She walked through the door first, followed closely by Chen Haiguo.
As Jiang Tangzheng was the last to enter, the door behind him suddenly slammed shut with a "click".
Jiang Tangzheng had come several times before, but he had never encountered such a situation, whether he came during the day or at night.
He jolted awake, turned around abruptly, and instinctively reached for the door, only to find it firmly locked.
He swallowed hard; his back was already soaked with sweat and felt chilly.
"Captain Chen... Captain Chen, the door is locked..."
Chen Haiguo glanced at the door suspiciously and reached out to turn the doorknob.
"Click!"
He twisted the entire doorknob off, but the door remained firmly closed.
He opened his mouth wide and ate the dust that rose up.
"Captain Chen, does this constitute tampering with a crime scene?"
"Shut up!" Chen Haiguo glared at him and forcefully shoved the doorknob back in.
"This was clearly broken by the first victim, along with me and Gua."
He put his hands behind his back, pretending nothing had happened, and followed behind Kui Kui.
Following her example, I looked around the old house that I had visited several times before.
The long entryway has a closed shoe rack on the left.
The wall on the right has been turned into a photo wall, arranged in the shape of a heart.
The photos are covered in dust, except for the one in the very center.
It was a group photo of four people: a man and a woman in their forties sitting in chairs, with their two children, around sixteen or seventeen years old, standing behind them.
They looked very happy and harmonious.
Chen Haiguo explained, "This was the original owner of this house. I checked the case files, but the murderer has not been caught yet."
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