It was very noisy outside the gate of the Bai family's old house.
Several police cars stopped in front of the gate. In addition to uniformed policemen, several unidentified people in black suits got out of the cars.
At this time, an old man in a long gown was standing in front of the gate. He stretched out a hand and stopped the police and the man in black suit outside.
He was the gatekeeper that Chi Shen had seen before.
"Old man," the police officer stepped forward to negotiate, "We received a call saying that a homicide had occurred here. Please let us go to the scene to investigate."
"This is our family affair." The old man said in a deep voice. His hair and beard were all white and he looked old, but his voice was full of energy.
"Old man, there is a murder case now. If you don't cooperate..."
The police officer wanted to say something, but suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder and motioned him to step back. Then a man in a black suit stretched out his hand to the old man: "Yuan Yiping, Sichuan Yuan Family."
The old man did not shake hands with him, but raised his hands forward and bowed: "I am just a gatekeeper, you can call me Mr. He."
"Well then," Yuan Yiping looked at the old man, "Mr. He, what happened in this house? Why can't we go in?"
"Youngsters, life and death are determined by fate. You have come all this way in vain."
Yuan Yiping said coldly: "This has been banned for a long time."
He Lao disagreed: "My Bai family has never banned these things. When you made the rules, my Bai family did not participate."
Yuan Yiping almost laughed out of anger: "If this is really a training for you young people, why would anyone call the police!"
"That's because the young generation is ignorant," He Lao suddenly laughed and looked at Yuan Yiping, "You were alarmed by a simple call to the police. How long have you been coveting the Bai family's piece of meat?"
Yuan Yiping was so angry that he said, "This is our duty!"
——
Twenty minutes ago.
The alarm center took Chi Shen's call very seriously and immediately contacted the nearest police station. Then the officer who received the call suddenly remembered something.
During their training, some special places or situations were marked out, and the place where Chi Shen was located was a marked area. When encountering this situation, he needed to contact a special agency - the Special Security Bureau.
This organization has a casual-sounding name, but its actions are anything but casual. It specializes in handling strange cases and has solved numerous major and strange cases this year. It is internally known as the Special Security Bureau. Whenever people mention the Special Security Bureau, they all have a secretive expression.
The officer who received the call notified the Special Security Bureau in accordance with regulations. When the Special Security Bureau heard the location of the crime, they immediately sent out their closest and most experienced personnel.
Yuan Yiping is the person with the longest seniority.
The Bai family is a big and difficult family to deal with in the Special Security Bureau.
——
The policemen behind Yuan Yiping spoke a few words quickly, and then stepped forward and said, "Please take a rest, old man. We are going to rescue people."
From the alarm information, the police judged that the murderer was likely still in the house, so the reporter was in danger now!
They walked straight past Mr. He and headed for the gate of the old house. However, before they got close to the gate, several people stopped at the same time. The cold and gloomy aura seeping out from the gate blocked their steps and made it difficult for them to move forward. In their eyes, the gate seemed to be pulled infinitely far away, and it seemed that they would never be able to get close to the gate.
Old He looked at them arrogantly, as if he was looking at a group of ungrateful people.
Yuan Yiping looked at Mr. He.
He Lao sneered and said, "You can't enter here because the Bai family's ancestors are locked up here. If you force your way through the door, you will either die or get hurt!"
Yuan Yiping's face darkened. He grasped a long cloth bag on his back. The strap that tied the bag slipped off, revealing the bronze scabbard inside. The sword trembled, making a slight buzzing sound.
General He put his hands into his sleeves, his posture was casual but his muscles were tense.
“I called the police.”
The sudden words broke in gently, dissolving the tense atmosphere.
The door of the Bai family's old house made a decaying and heavy sound and slowly opened from the inside.
Like a spring breeze melting snow, the police trapped in front of the Bai family's gate suddenly felt that the cold and gloomy atmosphere disappeared. All that came from inside the door was dim light and slightly chilly air.
Mr. He was stunned for a moment, then looked inside the door with sharp eyes.
Yuan Yiping was also stunned, and his hand holding the ancient sword loosened slightly.
I saw the old door that seemed like it would collapse at any time opened, and a handsome young man stood inside the door. He was thin and pale, and he looked like a ghost crawling out of hell just standing there. However, when he smiled, he looked like any obedient and sensible boy next door.
Chi Shen smiled kindly, then he remembered that he shouldn't smile like that when he saw a dead person, so he adjusted his expression in time, and even his voice was slightly terrified: "I found a dead person where I live. I checked the victim's ID, and his name is He Chao."
Mr. He's face changed immediately.
Yuan Yiping pushed aside the crowd and stepped forward: "Take me there."
He saw the fleeting smile of the young man just now, which made him feel very strange, but no matter how strange it was, it was not as important as investigating the murder case.
Mr. He had a heavy expression on his face. This time he did not try to stop them. Instead, he quickly followed everyone into the gate.
Chi Shen led everyone through the quaint carved corridors to the crime scene.
The old house, which was once bustling with activity as if it were a festival, now seemed very quiet. The ghosts had all hidden away. There was not even the sound of wind in the huge yard, and no one was talking to each other. There was only the sound of silent footsteps on the road.
In the dark house, there was only one room with a light on, and that was Chi Shen’s room.
Faint light shone through the door and illuminated the blood-stains on the floor.
He Chao, whose body was no longer in human form, was lying on the ground, with foul-smelling vomit beside him. Another young man was lying on the ground like a dead dog, with tears and snot all over the floor. That was Lu Xiangyang.
Chi Shen didn't do anything to him. He just brought Lu Xiangyang over to take a look at He Chao's appearance, and then he vomited all over the floor.
"Grandson!" A shrill cry suddenly sounded in the old house. When Mr. He saw the man lying on the ground, his originally tense body collapsed in an instant, and at this time he finally looked like an old man in his twilight years.
The old man knelt on the ground, his hands trembling as he collected He Chao's internal organs. There were traces of bites on those organs. The more the old man looked at them, the redder his eyes became.
"Who is it!" After putting the last piece of internal organs into He Chao's stomach, He Lao grabbed Lu Xiangyang and lifted him up, screaming with red eyes, "Who tricked him in! Who killed him!"
Lu Xiangyang was trembling under He Lao's hand, unable to utter a word. It was not that he did not want to speak, but that he did not dare to speak. Moreover, after vomiting from the shock, he did not have the strength to speak again when facing He Lao.
"Hurry up and tell me!" He Lao's eyes were so red with anger that they almost dripped blood. The fingers that grabbed Lu Xiangyang almost sank into his flesh. "It's you! Or the kid who wanted to enter the Bai family!"
"Mr. He."
Yuan Yiping called out, and when he saw that Mr. He had no reaction, he called out again, "Mr. He."
Mr. He suddenly turned around and stared at Yuan Yiping. His gaze seemed to be able to see a hole in people.
Yuan Yiping was not afraid of his gaze at all. Instead, he raised his hand and pointed at a pillar in the corridor at the side. An ice cone emitting a cold and chilly aura was nailed on it. In the eyes of others, this might just be an ordinary ice cone. At most, they would find it a bit strange why an ice cone appeared here.
But in the eyes of those who had opened their eyes, there was a ghost nailed to the ice cone, and it was a ghost child who was still struggling to survive.
Yuan Yiping saw the ghost as soon as he arrived, but Mr. He could only see his grandson at a glance and completely ignored the situation around him. He didn't even notice the existence of the ghost.
The traces of internal organs being torn apart by beasts could have been left by evil spirits. Mr. He collected his grandson’s internal organs with his own hands, and the remaining evil energy on them proved that it was the work of an evil spirit.
Yuan Yiping immediately compared the Yin energy in He Chao's body with that of the child. After a period of development, their Special Security Department was also equipped with some related instruments, and they quickly analyzed that the Yin energy of both parties was the same. The one who killed He Chao was the evil spirit transformed by the little boy.
The case was clear and concise, the murderer was pinned directly next to the victim, and they could even go back and write a closing report.
After a brief conversation with the police, the case was officially handed over to Yuan Yiping. As for the reporting procedures, he would have to go back and complete them. While Mr. He was crying bitterly, the police had already withdrawn, leaving only the man in the black suit.
When Mr. He saw the little boy in the shroud, his expression changed again. As the gatekeeper of the old house, he naturally knew this ghost!
The Bai family’s secret cannot be discovered.
This was Mr. He’s first thought when he saw the little boy.
He immediately stepped forward and pulled out the ice cone with his bare hands. The little boy in the shroud had been injured by Chi Shen before and was barely alive. Now that the thing that bound him disappeared, he immediately wanted to run away.
As the gatekeeper of the Bai family's old house, Old He was no pushover. He flipped the ice pick in his hand and nailed it directly into the forehead of the little boy in the shroud. The little boy let out a shrill scream!
"No!" Yuan Yiping stopped him, "We need to take it back and carry out—"
The black gas dissipated, the little boy in the shroud disappeared, and the icicle began to melt, dripping with water.
Yuan Yiping ordered his men to collect evidence and clean up the scene with a cold face, while He Lao reminded them in a warning tone: "An ancestor of my Bai family turned into a fierce ghost and is trapped in this house. If you run around and encounter any danger, don't blame me for not warning you."
"Don't worry, Mr. He." Yuan Yiping said coldly.
He Lao didn't listen to what he said. After he finished what he was supposed to do, he fell into grief. Looking at the mess on the ground, he cried bitterly: "Grandson..."
Yuan Yiping looked around the Bai family's old house at this time. The old house was very gloomy and he could feel the presence of negative energy in all directions. It seemed that it was just as Mr. He said, there was a powerful ghost living in the house, whose negative energy could cover the entire house.
It’s better not to move around and avoid disturbing the sleeping evil spirit.
What remains is the case of He Chao’s death. Although it seems clear, it is also full of doubts.
Why did He Chao come to the haunted house in the middle of the night? What was He Chao trying to cover up by being so eager to kill the evil ghost?
as well as……
Who nailed the evil spirit to the pillar?
There wasn't even any sign of a fight nearby. Who could have quietly captured the evil spirit that could have killed He Chao?
Yuan Yiping's eyes swept across the faces of several people, and finally stopped at Chi Shen's face, who seemed to be in a trance.
Chi Shen: "?"
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