Chapter 571 About the Curse
After listening to his forensic colleague's words, Chief Zhang fell silent for a rare moment.
"Let's go back to the station first." After a while, Zhang said to his forensic colleague. A case involves a mystery from decades ago. What is the connection between the two?
Chief Zhang couldn't figure it out, and was even more confused about the two cases that happened so far apart in time.
The scene at the institute was the same as usual, with everyone busy with their own work. "Chief Zhang, you're back?" a cheerful young colleague greeted him.
Chief Zhang nodded and said to the forensic colleague following behind him, "You go and take care of your own things first. I'll come to you if I have any questions." After that, without waiting for the other party to answer, he walked towards the file room at the back.
All the files were neatly arranged by time. Chief Zhang quickly found the file he needed. The murder that occurred thirty years ago was big news at the time, and many newspapers reported on it at the time.
The case file records the details of the case. It happened in a local village not far from the station. All the people involved in the case are here.
Zhang wrote down the address of the village and drove there early the next morning.
Some things will only get worse if you keep them in your heart for too long. Now that Lin Yilan's case is linked to a thirty-year-old case, Zhang feels it's necessary to get to the bottom of what happened back then, including Lin Yilan's current situation.
Outside the village, Zhang parked his car in an open field. He got out, but there was no one around. The few houses around him were also very dilapidated. It was the 21st century, and people here were still living in mud-brick houses that only existed in the 1980s and 1990s.
After entering the village, Zhang finally saw a figure.
The door of a house was still open, and several middle-aged men were sitting outside. When they saw Zhang, dressed in a plain shirt and trousers, appear, their eyes widened with alertness.
Thinking of his main purpose for coming here, Chief Zhang didn't intend to play dumb. He approached the middle-aged man outside and asked bluntly, "I'm a police officer. I recently looked through the files at the station and discovered a murder occurred in this village thirty years ago. Are any of the people from that time still here? I'd like to ask them something."
"Huh?" A middle-aged man suddenly tilted his head, a dull expression on his face, and asked blankly, "What did you say?"
"I said..."
"Lao Wang!" A man sitting next to the man suddenly raised his hand and hit him, saying, "Stop talking, you idiot!"
"But he is asking me..." said the man called Lao Wang.
"People are asking me, so I can't just say nothing, right? This is called working for the people. Why are you stopping me from speaking?" The man felt suffocated and started arguing with him. "That previous murder case was an indispensable topic of conversation around here! It was also strange. Everyone involved seemed to have gone mad or died, and they kept silent about what happened before. It seems the only one left alive is an old lady at the west end of the village..."
"old lady?"
The man's speech and expression were clearly unusual. Zhang's heart immediately sank, and he came to his conclusion: This Old Wang might have some intellectual issues.
When Lao Wang heard what the people around him said, he was very dissatisfied and retorted: "I'm not stupid, you are the stupid one!"
"Okay, what are you arguing about? Let's all go home!" At this time, an old woman in gray clothes walked out of the house. Zhang looked at the old woman and the first thing he noticed was the room behind her. There were several shelves inside, with all kinds of things on them.
This looks like a small shop.
The old woman who came out was hunched over, and when she spoke, you could see that all her teeth had fallen out.
"You...you are a policeman?" He repeated in a low voice, "Policeman..."
Zhang hadn't seen many people since entering the village. It was already noon, but there was no smoke from any of the houses. It was as if the entire village was deserted.
Zhang Suo felt a sudden chill on his back. He turned to look at the old woman and asked, "Do you know what happened back then?"
"Back then?" the old woman stumbled, her words unsteady. "What do you want to ask? Everyone went crazy and died! Not a single one survived! It must have been a curse... It's absolutely abnormal! There's no way such a thing could happen in the world."
The last sentence made Zhang Suo's face slowly darken. At this moment, everything he saw when he entered the village was reasonably explained.
"Go back... go back..." It was unclear whether the old woman was talking to the other men outside or to Zhang.
Driven away by the old woman, the men scattered like birds and beasts.
Only Zhang and the old woman were left outside the store.
The old woman pointed to the long bench by the door and said to Zhang, "Sit..."
"Do you know about the murder that happened here thirty years ago?" Chief Zhang took out a small notebook and planned to take notes while asking.
The old woman looked at Zhang Suo, a look of nostalgia on her face. After a moment, she suddenly closed her eyes, only to open them again. Her expression was serious, and she said, "It's been so long. Lately, some fragments have been flashing through my mind, but I can't tell if they're from a movie or..."
"Then can you tell me about the picture that appears in your mind?" Zhang Suo asked immediately.
The old woman nodded and said, "It was a little girl who died... The little girl was walking down the street, and suddenly she started dancing! There was someone else with her, I remember..."
"The little girl was dancing, and the man was clapping and laughing, and he seemed to be talking to her! And then... then she fell to the ground, bleeding..."
Zhang wrote down every word the old woman said in his notebook. When the old woman finished speaking, she suddenly burst into tears.
"Are you okay?" Zhang patted the old woman's back comfortingly and asked with concern.
"It's okay, it's okay..." The old woman covered her face with her hands, waved at Zhang Suo, and said, "Go away!"
Seeing that the old woman seemed to no longer want to see him, Zhang Suo had no choice but to say, "Then take care of yourself. I'm leaving now."
After the investigation, Chief Zhang returned to the office and started looking for Chen Xiang's relevant information.
The files on the disc on the desktop had been flipped through many times, but Zhang still didn't feel bored this time and checked them carefully from the beginning.
When he turned to a page, he was attracted by the content recorded on it.
Chen Xiang's household registration was actually restored one year, and it was only cancelled two days ago...
Seeing this, Zhang's eyes lit up. He took out his phone, took a photo of the page, and immediately sent it to Huo Juncheng.
Zhang hadn't noticed this before, but now he found it very strange. He had been so busy lately that after sending the photo to Huo Juncheng, he leaned back in his chair and fell asleep.
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