A few wild cats were howling outside the window, as if they were in heat.
Bai Hengqing opened his eyes. The howling downstairs became louder, as if there was another fight.
He sat up in bed, turned on the bedroom light, and looked at the window that was not closed tightly.
As people get older, they tend to have shallow sleep. Bai Hengqing also always sleeps restlessly. He thinks it is an age issue.
But tonight was a little unusual. He was woken up by the night owl, not by himself.
Bai Hengqing pressed a phone on the bedside, and someone came in immediately and said respectfully, "Second Grandpa, is there anything I can do for you?"
Standing in front of the window, Bai Hengqing looked downstairs and said in a gentle tone: "How did things go today?"
The man said, "The things have been sent in."
Bai Hengqing nodded: "That's about it. Also, don't let anyone get killed. It will be troublesome if the police are called."
The visitor continued, "Our arrangements were perfect, and no one noticed. Don't worry, Second Grandpa."
Bai Hengqing sighed: "Since the Special Security Bureau came, this business has become increasingly difficult. They are really ignorant."
The visitor hesitated for a moment, as if he didn't know how to respond. Bai Hengqing didn't seem to be talking to him, so he remained silent.
Bai Hengqing had no intention of letting him take over the conversation. He just stood in front of the window, and the people who came did not dare to leave, but stood respectfully.
After a long while, the man who came in finally felt like he wanted to say something, so he asked, "Second Grandfather, do you have any other instructions?"
"There are too many stray cats downstairs," Bai Hengqing said, "It's time to deal with them."
The person who came in nodded: "I understand, Second Grandpa, you can sleep peacefully, I will call someone to deal with it."
Not long after, Bai Hengqing lay back on the bed. A few howlings of wild cats were heard downstairs, and then the night returned to silence again.
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At the construction site in the northern area of Gangcheng, Chi Shen and Li Xu looked at each other.
The scream came from the security room, the place they just came from, where the security guard Xiao Wang was. The scream of "Help" was undoubtedly from Xiao Wang.
Li Xu gently put down the blood-stained doll in his hand and asked cautiously, "I haven't chosen yet, and he's here?"
"Let's go and take a look." Chi Shen said.
The two walked towards the security room together. Before they reached the security room, they found some paper money scattered on the roadside and fresh dark red traces on the ground.
"Isn't this syrup a little too dark?" Li Xu said as he swept the red and black marks on the ground with a flashlight. He had just talked so much with Chi Shen and felt that he had already mastered it. While observing the marks on the ground, he reached out and touched it. Li Xu felt that he could make use of the knowledge he had just learned.
Chi Shen glanced at the marks on the ground and said, "That's really blood, not syrup."
"Ah?" Li Xu looked at the red and black liquid in his hand and was stunned for a moment, "Is this real blood?"
"Smell it, there is a smell of blood." Chi Shen said.
Li Xu put his hand under his nose and smelled it as he was told, and there really was a fishy smell!
Li Xu was surprised: "How did you know?"
Chi Shen said: "I smelled it. I have a sensitive nose."
"This time it's really exciting. The person who came here to haunt has really spent a lot of money." Li Xu stood up and looked towards the security room.
"No, this is a person..."
Li Xu looked over immediately.
A cold breeze blew past his ear. Chi Shen stretched out his hand and pinched his earlobe, then changed the topic, "This may be artificial plasma, the kind that simulates blood. It's not the syrup used for performances. Ordinary blood will coagulate quickly. This one looks like it has been dripping for a long time, but there are no lumps, so it's more likely to be artificial plasma."
Li Xu nodded, not quite understanding, and walked forward with Chi Shen. After walking for a while, he finally reacted and said, "How do you know so much?"
Chi Shen smiled and said, "It's just a personal hobby. After all, I'm a horror game fan, so I know a lot about this."
Li Xu nodded again, but he still looked confused and it was unclear whether he accepted this statement or not.
The two men quickly came to the security room. There was the most bloodstains outside the security room, as well as traces caused by dragging heavy objects. The door of the security room was open, and the security guard Xiao Wang was missing.
"Xiao Wang? Xiao Wang?" Li Xu walked around the security room twice and shouted twice, but did not see anyone.
Chi Shen did not move. He stood in front of the security room and looked at the bloodstains on the ground.
"Did you find anything?" Li Xu said, "There's so much blood here. What kind of grand haunted scene is this? Did they take a lot of effort to create it?"
After seeing so many man-made haunted scenes, Li Xu had a preconceived idea that this place was also man-made.
Chi Shen lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the ground, and said nothing for a while. After a moment, he smiled and said, "Brother Li, this may be what you want."
Li Xu didn't understand: "What?"
"Ghost." Chi Shen turned his head to look at Li Xu and gave a gentle and kind smile.
Li Xu shuddered inexplicably. He always felt that Chi Shen's expression was a little scary. He walked forward first, his voice still trembling, but he tried to stay calm: "Then can we find the ghost by following the blood trail?"
It would be impossible for him to say that he was not afraid if he really went to see a ghost, but he really, really wanted to see a ghost with his own eyes.
"It should be." Chi Shen followed Li Xu out of the security room and closed the door.
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Security guard Xiao Wang was running on the empty construction site. He saw the two explorers heading towards the security room, but he didn't dare look back because the headless ghost was chasing him with an axe. He wanted to shout to warn the two men, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his mouth was filled with cold wind. He was choked several times, and he didn't care about their life or death and ran away quickly.
His target was another exit of the construction site.
He had closed the door of the security room before, and wanted to continue to play ostrich and pretend that nothing had happened, waiting for the person pretending to be a ghost or the real ghost to leave, but the ghost suddenly started to bang on the door. When he thought of the huge axe that the ghost was carrying, he seemed to see the famous scene in The Shining. He always felt that the ghost would use the axe to split the door of the security room, stick out his head and say with a grin, "Found you."
So he didn't hesitate, he just climbed out of the window of the security room and ran away.
The headless ghost was standing in the direction of the construction site gate. He didn't dare to run that way and could only think of going out through another door.
In his haste, he forgot to take his cell phone and just wanted to run to another door quickly to alert his colleague that there was a ghost and ask him to run together.
The headless ghost was also very fast. Security guard Xiao Wang felt desperate. He stared at the light of another door and calculated the time. If he couldn't run to that door, he would be caught up by the headless ghost. He had to think of a way!
It seems that this headless ghost can't teleport either. Driven by a huge desire to survive, security guard Xiao Wang quickly thinks that he can use his advantages to get rid of this headless ghost. What is his advantage? His familiarity with this land! He patrols eight times every night, and he knows how to get around this place with his eyes closed!
Xiao Wang braked suddenly, turned around, and immediately ran towards the area where the board houses had not been completed.
The headless ghost stood where Xiao Wang turned. He seemed to hesitate for a moment, and moved towards the security room with the lights on. Then he turned around and headed towards the construction site which had been flattened to the ground and had not yet started. The site was empty and even the weeds had not grown to the top of his feet. He stood there for two seconds and immediately ran towards the direction of the mobile house.
Security guard Xiao Wang had just run into the boarding house area when he turned around and saw the headless ghost chasing him and immediately going up to the second floor.
There were all kinds of "bloodstains" and some strange traces in this board house area, but he didn't care about them. He ran into an empty room and closed the door.
He heard the sound of an axe being dragged in the corridor downstairs. He did not move, and even his breathing became lighter, listening attentively to the sounds outside the door.
The sound stopped after a while and did not go upstairs. Xiao Wang breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that they could not find where he was and went in another direction.
After a long while, Xiao Wang was sure that there was no movement outside. He then carefully opened the door and walked downstairs.
As soon as he went downstairs, he heard a sound coming from the place where the materials for the board house were stored. He quickly opened a door and hid inside. He could feel his heart pounding. He pressed his heart hard, fearing that the headless ghost would hear the sound and chase after him.
"Come here, it's not easy to see here." He heard a faint voice ringing in his ear, and he wondered, could it be that his other colleague was also scared and hid here? He didn't dare to turn on the flashlight, and slowly moved over there.
A hand grabbed him and pushed him towards a place where miscellaneous items were piled. Xiao Wang hid inside. He felt his colleague's hand was very cold, like an ice cube, but he did not dare to speak, for fear that he would be discovered by the headless ghost if he spoke at this time.
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Chi Shen and Li Xu had followed the blood trail back to the board house area.
The bloodstains meandered all the way into the board room, and this time, because the two were looking for bloodstains, the flashlight swept a larger area, and suddenly they found something they hadn't noticed before.
There was a lot of paper money scattered around the board house area, and there were ashes from the burnt paper money and traces of lit incense and candles, as if someone had been worshiping something here.
Li Xu's eyes lingered on those traces for a while, and he said, "Is this the ghost that was summoned?"
Chi Shen reminded him: "There are usually security guards here. If you come in to burn paper money to attract ghosts, you will definitely be discovered."
Li Xu suddenly realized: "The people here think this place is really haunted, so they are burning incense and hoping the ghost will leave?"
Chi Shen nodded. He did not linger on those things. He followed the bloodstains and came to the door of a board house.
Li Xu first went to look at the ashes of the burnt paper money, then saw Chi Shen leaving and quickly followed him. He reached out and pushed the door of the board house, but it wouldn't open because it was locked.
Chi Shen said he was very familiar with this situation. He stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.
Knock, knock, knock.
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