The coffin was empty.

"The clues about the box end here." Li Yuebai looked at the coffin and felt that his train of thought had reached a dead end. He had to find another way. "Xu Lili's diary just mentioned the necklace. Let's start with the necklace and check it out. Maybe we can find the clues."

"But we don't know where the necklace is." Ye Qing said.

They have carefully checked the ordinary necklaces in Xu Lili's jewelry box, and found no mechanisms inside, and none of them were the necklaces mentioned in the log.

"Bring up that photo and take a look at it again." Li Yuebai said.

He vaguely felt that when he saw the photo just now, his eyes were attracted by the dormant vampire and he missed something very important.

The photo that frightened Wu He so much and made Ma Xiaoting faint appeared on the computer screen again.

"Look." Li Yuebai pointed at Xu Lili's neck on the screen.

There was a thin silver necklace.

The style is simple and exquisite, with only one chain and no pendant. Upon careful comparison, it is different from the several ordinary necklaces in the jewelry box.

"It's very likely that this is the necklace she mentioned in her diary." Li Yuebai frowned, "But I don't know where it went."

The necklace that Xu Lili was wearing when she took the photo mysteriously disappeared after her death.

There are too many doubts and I don’t know where to start.

Suddenly, Li Yuebai's cell phone rang.

"Hello, Officer Ye, I'm Xiaowan's parent. I'm sorry to call you so late at night." There was a bright and strong female voice on the other end of the phone.

Officer Ye?

Li Yuebai glanced at Ye Qing, who was concentrating on examining the body.

"Thanks to you for helping to send Xiaowan back a few days ago. I haven't had the chance to thank you properly!" the female head of the family continued enthusiastically.

It turned out to be the parent of the little girl who was rescued in the underground parking lot of the community a few days ago.

That time Ye Qing sent the little girl home, and her parents asked Ye Qing for a contact number, but the naughty child left Li Yuebai's number.

"You're welcome. This is what we should do." With the tragic incident happening next to him, Li Yuebai couldn't laugh. He could only politely ask, "Is the child okay?"

"But it's about this matter, Officer Ye, please give us some advice. Xiaowan has been crying all the time since she came back and is afraid to see people. When she sees an aunt in a red dress on the street, she gets so scared that she hides. What should we do? It will affect her future schooling!" The parents were anxious and worried.

The little girl encountered a female vampire who called herself Countess of Karnstein. Of course she was frightened. Such psychological trauma can only be healed slowly.

"It's normal for a young child to be afraid." Li Yuebai recalled the first time he met the little girl in the basement. Her face was dull and she didn't even know she was afraid. Compared to that time, now is normal.

"Xiao Wan said that the aunt in the red dress could control her mind as soon as she got close to her." The parent said anxiously, "How is that possible? Officer Ye, when you sent Xiao Wan back, didn't you say that the bad guy had been arrested?"

The female vampire Wan Fang had turned into ashes, but of course she couldn't tell her parents about it, so she just said she was arrested.

"Yes, she has been sentenced. Don't worry, but don't let the child go out alone." Li Yuebai comforted her, "Xiao Wan needs trust and consideration now. No matter what she says, you have to believe it. Even if you don't believe it, you have to pretend to believe it."

After a lot of instructions back and forth, the call was finally completed.

Li Yuebai hung up the phone and wrote down all the doubts and clues on paper.

1. Vampires have some kind of mind control ability

2. Xu Lili's diary mentions the box and necklace

3. The box is a castle stone

4. There are obvious marks of strangulation on the coffin in the box

5. Xu Lili wore a mysterious necklace, but now it has disappeared

6. Xu Lili's hands have obvious marks of strangulation and burns

7. A silver ring was left on the ground

…

Li Yuebai put these together and looked at them three times, and couldn't help shuddering.

He jumped up and found the transparent evidence bag containing the silver ring.

"Xiao Ye, tell me, is this ring really a ring?" Li Yuebai waved the evidence bag in front of Ye Qing.

"It's something that looks a lot like a ring." Ye Qing made a conservative judgment.

Li Yuebai put on plastic gloves, took out the ring, pinched one side with both hands, and made a pulling motion: "Also

Xu..."

He exerted so much force with both hands that the ring was actually deformed and stretched to both sides.

At the same time, a purple light flashed on the ring, and something similar to electric current crackled, and at the same time, the color of the entire ring turned red as if it was burning.

Plastic gloves can block electric current but not heat. Li Yuebai's hands were severely burned and he immediately loosened his hands, allowing the ring to return to its original state.

"This is not a ring." Li Yuebai ignored his burned hand and said, "This is a necklace."

"What's going on?"

"I can probably guess the whole story," Li Yuebai said, "but I still lack evidence, and..."

He glanced at the body on the ground and was shocked again.

Originally, Xu Lili's head was facing inward, towards the corner.

But now, I don't know who turned her so that she was facing outwards, and I could clearly see the struggling and distorted expression on her face.

There is only one thing that could do such a prank.

"Xiao Ye." Li Yuebai put his hand on the gun at his waist: "Pay attention, the dormant vampire... is still in this room!"

Before this, no one had ever seen a dormant vampire.

It was clearly captured in Xu Lili's horrifying selfie.

So this created a brief misconception - they took it for granted that dormant vampires were visible.

However, there is another possibility - the dormant vampire body cannot be observed by the naked eye and can only be photographed by an electronic lens.

It would be great if there was a digital camera here so we could check out the video.

"Well, Master." Ye Qing typed calmly, "I forgot to tell you that I brought a portable camera with me from the beginning, and turned on the automatic shooting."

"Hurry and take a look!" Li Yuebai suppressed his nervous heartbeat and rushed to the computer.

There is an extra folder on the computer, which is filled with photos that were just taken automatically.

After seeing these photos, Li Yuebai felt a real sense of disgust and weirdness.

In the first photo, Ye Qing and I were observing a corpse, and the dormant body was floating in the air, floating in front of our face, staring at us fiercely.

In the second photo, he is standing in front of the computer deciphering the password, and the dormant body is floating behind him.

The third, fourth, fifth... every one of them is like this.

From beginning to end, it was observing the entire process with pride, while neither he nor Ye Qing could see it at all.

Even though he knew that the other person was not a human, Li Yuebai still felt a surge of anger in his heart.

I can’t cure you yet!

Li Yuebai held the gun in his right hand and took out his mobile phone with his left hand. He pressed the side button and the camera turned on.

Since we can't see it with the naked eye, we can use a camera to see it.

I scanned the phone left and right and up and down, but didn't see the dormant body. Maybe it saw that something was wrong and hid itself.

Li Yuebai frowned and looked around with his phone in his hand with a fierce look. He felt like a Pokémon player, but unfortunately he was not looking for Pokémons, but demons.

Suddenly, a black shadow passed across the screen!

Li Yuebai suddenly turned his left wrist, adjusted the angle, and followed closely... It was it, he saw it, it was floating in the air, twisting, a bit like a bat, a bit like a human, and a bit like a cloud of smoke... He hoped that the pure silver bullet could kill it.

Without any time to hesitate, Li Yuebai raised his hand and fired a shot, but unfortunately he missed the monster and only forced it to dodge to the left.

After this flash, Ye Qing's gun also fired.

Li Yuebai saw clearly through the screen of his mobile phone that Ye Qing's bullet had penetrated the left chest of the dormant vampire. The dormant vampire let out a silent scream, then fell to the ground and turned into a puff of black smoke before floating away.

"Solved?" Li Yuebai didn't expect it to be so smooth, it felt a little unreal.

"Solved." Ye Qing calmly put the gun back.

The gun was equipped with a silencer, but the sound was still there. Ma Xiaoting, who was lying peacefully on the sofa, screamed and sat up from the sofa. After being unconscious for a short time, she finally woke up.

"Brother Policeman, what happened?" She asked in horror with her eyes wide open.

Li Yuebai didn't know how to answer her for a moment, and finally could only say briefly: "Move out as soon as possible."

It was not a good idea to keep Xu Lili's body here, so Ye Qing called the police station and asked them to send someone to take the body away and perform an autopsy. The body could only be buried after the case was completely solved.

"Don't stay here tonight. We'll take you to the hotel later, or you can take the train home directly." Li Yuebai thought about settling Ma Xiaoting down first, and nothing else could happen. "Eat dinner, too. There's salsa on the table."

When she heard about the cool drink, Ma Xiaoting's face turned pale again, tears rolling down her cheeks: "I... I'd better not eat it. If I eat it, I'll think of Lili again..."

For her, this night was really too hard to endure. Fear and sorrow were intertwined, and she had no relatives to rely on. Of course, she had no appetite and it was impossible for her to fall asleep.

"Brother policeman, can you please pass me a tissue?" Ma Xiaoting was crying with snot and tears, but the tissue was placed next to Li Yuebai.

Li Yuebai narrowed his eyes and suddenly felt that the whole world was different.

The originally clear surrounding environment became blurred. The walls were melting, the floor was melting, and the ceiling was disappearing... I was no longer in the living room of the rental house, but outside.

The sky was filled with lead-gray clouds, the air was humid, and the surroundings were barren and desolate.

The horizon was far away, the forest was far away too, and the cold wind blew over, chilling my whole body.

It was as if I was the only one in the world... No, there was another person in front of me.

Li Yuebai clearly remembered that the person in front of him was Ma Xiaoting, but now she has changed.

He was a teenager, with a very handsome and cute appearance, but a very gloomy expression. He stretched out a hand to him and said: Brother, come here.

Somehow, he couldn't refuse such a request.

Li Yuebai took a step forward and walked towards the young man.

This feeling is so familiar. It seems that I have often had such dreams since before I traveled through time. It is always the same boy, the same request, and the same inability to refuse.

Before holding the boy's hand, Li Yuebai asked: What's your name?

"..." The young man was speechless.

Li Yuebai was suddenly filled with doubts.

In the past, in every dream, the boy could accurately give his own name, but he would forget it every time.

Li Yuebai asked again: What is my name?

"Your name is... Mr. Police Officer?" The boy smiled mischievously.

No!

My self before traveling through time had nothing to do with the word police officer.

Li Yuebai suddenly closed his eyes and struggled with all his strength, trying to pull himself out of this terrible dream.

In the distant sky, he seemed to hear Ye Qing's voice, which became clearer and clearer.

Finally, he opened his eyes, breathing deeply, with cold sweat on his forehead - he woke up, finally woke up, there was no sky, clouds, or wilderness anymore, he returned to the rental house!

The current situation has taken a sharp turn for the worse.

Ma Xiaoting's soft body had already wrapped around him, her lips close to his ears, and she let out a coquettish laugh.

This laughter is definitely not Ma Xiaoting's.

"Mr. Policeman." Ma Xiaoting's voice was cold and feminine: "Let me drink some of your blood."