Chapter 3078 3090 [Ghost outside the window]
The sharp-nosed puppeteer tenant chuckled: "What else could it be? Of course it's the wronged ghost who died in vain - I've always wanted to make a puppet of the same style, but unfortunately I can never see the ghost in this house clearly, but this time..."
Halfway through his words, he suddenly noticed that the glowing figure outside the window was disappearing. He rushed forward and pulled open the screen window amid Mao Lilan's screams: "This time I want to take a good look at what it looks like!"
With a loud bang, the window opened wide, but the figure floating outside the window had completely disappeared.
Several people were stunned on the spot.
"Get out of the way!" Calvados came to his senses. He rushed to the window in disbelief and leaned out to look.
——For other people, the figure standing outside the window on the second floor and then disappearing suddenly might be very strange. But for him, a cadre of the organization, he knew that there were many agile people in the world who could walk on the 20th floor as if it were flat ground, not to mention the second floor.
However, after sticking his head out and looking around, Calvados found nothing.
——Forget about people, the entire wall outside the building is bare, and there is no place to stand.
…
One street away.
"Doctor Shinde" stood in the shadows, holding a portable monocular telescope. Seeing this scene, she fell silent for a moment.
…What is Calvados doing?
…
Calvados's hard worldview is undergoing a shake-up.
He looked at the bare wall and thought of the figure standing steadily outside the window: "How is this possible..."
"Why not?" The otaku tenant came over with a fat face and smiled sinisterly, "Now you see, this is a real ghost - it disappeared from the window because it must have quietly entered this apartment."
Maori Kogoro ran into ghosts twice in a row, his face turned pale, but his daughter was right next to him, so he could only grit his teeth and snort coldly, pretending that he was not afraid at all: "Nonsense, if there really were ghosts, the world would have been in chaos long ago - although I don't know the reason yet, but the one outside the window just now was definitely not a ghost, but someone pretending to be a ghost!"
Mao Lilan shook her head vigorously: "But before I opened the window just now, its figure had already begun to become incomplete, and the moment I opened the window, it completely melted and disappeared - if it was a human, there was no way it could do such a thing. The scene just now was just like..."
The landlord yawned and walked over. "It looks like the ghost was hit by the light and burned to ashes, right?"
Jiang Xia: "Have you seen it?"
"Yes, it was this window at that time." The old landlord looked at the end of the corridor and sighed:
"Speaking of which, Miss Rui had a very unfortunate fate. She was burned to charcoal in the park across the street four years ago. After her death, she will inevitably turn into ashes. Maybe she hoped that someone would see her from this apartment and save her from the criminals, so she always appears outside this window."
"Ms. Rui?" Conan's ears twitched, "Is this the name of the victim? How do you know her name?"
The old landlord said: "I live nearby, and the police came to me for questioning. At that time, they found a driver's license next to the deceased, and the name on it was 'Taguchi Rui'. In the end, the identity of the deceased was confirmed by comparing the teeth."
"She was a very young girl. Unfortunately, I can't help her. I'm afraid that only by catching the two criminals who killed her can she rest in peace."
As he spoke, he walked towards the room with his hands behind his back: "It's getting late, I'm going to bed, you guys can do whatever you want."
Jiang Xia withdrew his gaze from him and looked at the four tenants in the house: "How can you be sure that there are two murderers? There were living witnesses at the scene at that time?"
The graduate student nodded and said, "This park is a little off the beaten track, but people pass by occasionally. I heard that one night, a passerby saw two men burning something on the ground in the park. The passerby thought it was strange, but was afraid of running into thugs, so he didn't dare to go forward."
As he spoke, he suddenly remembered something and pointed out the window: "I remember that on that telephone pole, there is still a portrait of the suspect that was reconstructed by the police based on the description of the witnesses. The suspect is a man with a scar on his right cheek, drooping eyebrows, and deep nasolabial folds."
Jiang Xia nodded and collected clues diligently: "Only one person's portrait?"
"Yes." The graduate student sighed, "The other person happened to have his back to that side, so he wasn't seen. But judging by his figure, he was also a man."
The puppeteer also came over: "We also heard these things from the old man - when that case happened, only the landlord lived here, and we tenants moved in later."
"but……"
He turned to look at Calvados and said to his new roommate sympathetically, "I didn't expect you to choose Room 6 - it's the most haunted place in the entire apartment. You must take good care of yourself in the future."
Calvados: “…”
Those bastards in logistics actually picked a truly haunted place to assign him. His luggage hadn't been unpacked yet, so why not take this opportunity to request a different place to stay?
“But even if we find them now, they probably won’t believe there are ghosts here. They will just say something like ‘Wouldn’t it be better if it were haunted? We can blame anything on the ghost’… Tsk, weren’t these guys real estate agents before they joined the organization?”
A sniper's forehead veins throbbed and he felt angry as if he had been cheated.
At this moment, a terrified scream of "Ah!!" suddenly sounded in front of him.
"?!" Calvados was startled, and looked up suddenly, and found that the person who spoke was the frightened high school girl.
At this time, Mao Lilan was staring at his forearm - I don’t know what she saw, but the light in this woman’s eyes was gone with fear.
"..." Originally, Calvados would not care about these things, and he did not think that the things that scared high school girls could scare him. But now, after encountering ghosts one after another, his heartbeat could not help but start beating violently.
Without thinking too much, he slapped the place where Mao Lilan was staring at.
He thought he would find a ghostly pale finger on his forearm, but when he patted it, he found that it was not a ghost hand, but a large moth.
Calvados: “…#”
"Haha, you look like a tough guy, but you're actually afraid of bugs." As expected, the others misunderstood his reaction. The otaku tenant came over with his hands in his pockets and said cheerfully:
"This is a common moth in our area. The park in front has a good ecology and the environment is very suitable for the survival of these things. Occasionally, they fly into the house by mistake."
(End of this chapter)
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