Chapter 281 The Truth

Wen Qi was about to take Li Shijing out, and when he looked back, he saw a lot of cardboard boxes piled up under the bed, covering the entire bottom of the bed. He curiously took out a few of them. Except for one or two female items such as underwear and skin care products, they were basically empty.

[Insight Tip]: "Ordinary 36D unopened lace underwear, or it should be said that it is ordinary, but anyway, congratulations on picking up a treasure."

"Ah! Put it down!" Li Shijing quickly snatched the underwear from his hand and said shyly: "These are the express deliveries I bought, and I forgot to take them out."

"Then why don't you throw away the empty boxes?"

"No, I can use them when moving or packing."

Wen Qi is not a pervert. After using insight to observe and finding no clues, he put them back. Looking at the spacious space behind the box, he muttered: "Then at least push the box in, it's almost overflowing, and there is still a lot of space left behind."

"I think I have it full?" Li Shijing was a little confused. She couldn't remember many things now.

Since there were no clues, he did not stay any longer and took Li Shijing to the next door. The door that was half-closed was now open. It seemed that someone had really come in and out just now. But when he pushed the door open, he found that there was no one in the room. It was no different from when he just left, and there was no sign of any movement of items.

"Strange, I clearly heard a sound just now."

Wen Qi muttered, and cautiously activated the detective skill. Many messy footprints appeared on the floor in an instant, emitting an ominous black mist. It seemed that something had indeed come in, but it was hard to say whether it was a person.

"There are evil spirits here too." Li Shijing affirmed, she felt the breath of the same kind.

"It should be hiding somewhere. Let's wait. I hope we can communicate like you, which will be much more convenient." Wen Qi walked into the room and sat on the bed. He didn't want to leave without catching the thing that entered the room.

Creak, creak... Strange sounds came from the bottom of the bed.

"Why is it so awkward to sit on this bed?" Wen Qi twisted his buttocks. The touch from under him was a little strange. It felt like the sponge was not filled and was empty.

After twisting a few times, he realized something and immediately jumped up from the bed and threw the quilt directly onto the sofa next to him. He saw that the place next to him was like a sponge that was full of water and pressed, slowly oozing blood, forming a bloody human figure on the sheet.

"No way!?" Wen Qi slapped his head hard. He was worried that climbing onto the bed would leave traces, so he just lifted the quilt and pillow to check if there was anything underneath. He didn't expect that the abnormality would be hidden in the mattress.

He threw the sheets to the ground. There was a gap the size of an adult cut on the mattress, and it was covered with a layer of sponge full of blood.

He already knew what was hidden underneath, and he resisted the nausea and dragged the sponge out, revealing the situation underneath. A man's body, with all his hair burned clean and covered with traces of smoke and fire, lay quietly underneath, with blurred flesh and blood between the cracks of the charred surface.

"I remember!" Li Shijing shouted the moment she saw this figure: "He is Brother Wang next door, and he was the one who wrestled with you that day!"

"He's dead too..." Wen Qi murmured unconsciously. The smell he smelled when he entered the room before should be the smell emitted from the burning of the man's body and the hollowed-out sponge underneath, and the murderer was very calm and cunning, and soon came up with a way to destroy the body after killing someone.

"Insight."

[Insight Tip]: "The fingerprints left in the room partially overlap with the man's, but because the fingerprints are severely damaged, they cannot be completely confirmed."

Originally, the biggest suspicion was placed on this neighbor, and from Li Shijing's statement, he was still alive at the time, and it should not be the case that he turned into an evil spirit to hurt others.

This is a problem. Who killed him and hid him under the mattress? Is there a fourth person hiding at the scene besides the three of them?

The whole incident became more confusing. Just when Wen Qi was wondering if there was a fourth person at the scene, his heart suddenly went on the alert. A deep malice enveloped the whole room. The amulet immediately appeared in his hand and he crushed it without hesitation. The yellow talisman paper turned into ashes in his hand, and a layer of light golden light covered his body.

[Amulet: Protects against evil spirits, good luck, and can produce a layer of golden light that can resist one attack of evil spirits after activation. ]

But this layer of golden light did not last long and shattered like a foam phantom. Accompanied by a shrill scream, a twisted figure was ejected from Wen Qi's shadow and hit the wall hard. It was exactly the same as the corpse on the bed. It was the evil spirit transformed by his resentment.

"It looks like he has lost his mind." Wen Qi knew that he could no longer communicate with the man when he saw the madness and resentment on the man's face, which was like a venomous snake. He took out another talisman from his backpack.

[Golden Light Talisman: It can ward off evil spirits and kill evil spirits. After it is activated, it can cause damage to evil spirits. The effect depends on the degree of resentment of the other party. ]

The bright golden light bloomed, like golden needles shooting forward. The black fog was filled, and the man's screams and wails sounded in the fog. Soon the screams stopped. Just when Wen Qi thought the problem was solved, the man wrapped in the black fog rushed up, knocked him against the wall, and strangled his neck with both hands.

The force was so strong that if Li Shijing, who was standing next to him, hadn't knocked the man away in time, it would have probably strangled Wen Qi's neck.

The man made an unclear hoarse sound in his throat, as if there was thick phlegm stuck in it. The door slammed shut, and the temperature of the whole room rose rapidly. There was a flickering fire, as if it had turned into an oven.

There was also black mist escaping from Li Shijing's body, which was proof that she was constantly being hurt. She wanted to go up and stop the man, but it was useless. She was almost slapped and her body was almost scattered. The difference in strength between the two was too great.

"It's over. Do we have to start over? If I had known that there would be such a terrifying evil spirit in the two-star copy, I shouldn't have saved money and exchanged more talismans." Wen Qi couldn't help but start to complain about his petty behavior.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Life has its origin, and death has its destination." A faint word mixed with the clear sound of knocking bowls penetrated the wall and echoed in the room. The sound of knocking bowls seemed to have some kind of magic. The man's crazy expression became sluggish, and the firelight around him disappeared. He followed the direction of the knocking bowls woodenly.

Gu Qi

"Li Shijing?" Wen Qi tried to call her, but she drifted away from the room woodenly like the man, "Knocking bowls? Is it the old lady mentioned in Li Shijing's diary? Who is this person?"

Wen Qi pondered for a moment in the empty room, and then chased out. The knocking bowls became clearer. The rich and fragrant smell of incense could be smelled on the platform in the middle of the stairs. When he walked to the door of 403, he saw a hunched and thin figure kneeling in front of the table in the dim corner, knocking a bowl full of rice.

The incense burner on the table was inserted with three huge incense sticks, and the table was filled with various offerings and a statue of a god with wide eyes.

Both the crazy man and the sane Li Shijing stood behind her obediently, like two lifelike puppets.

Li Shijing saw him coming in and blinked frantically, signaling for help.

Wen Qi could only signal her to be at ease, then walked up to the old woman with gray hair and asked, "Grandma, who are you?"

The old woman's movements seemed inconvenient because of her age. She needed to hold on to the table next to her to stand up. Wen Qi hurried forward to help her. Only then did he see the old woman's face clearly. She looked kind and gentle, just like the old lady in the neighbor's house who often stuffed candy for you when you were a child, which made people feel close to her.

"I'm just an ordinary old man who is responsible for sending them back to where they should go. You can call me Long Po." The old woman smiled.

This job has nothing to do with ordinary things, okay?

Wen Qi complained in his heart, but still said politely: "Luang Po, you just saved us, but my friend is different from this irrational evil spirit. She didn't attack anyone. Can you let her go?"

"Evil spirits are ominous things. They are formed by the resentment and obsession of living beings during their lifetime. They keep absorbing negative emotions in the world to grow, and they have poverty, decline, sadness, disaster, shame, cruelty, mildew, pain, pain, death from illness, premature death, loneliness, lewdness, delusion, bad luck, disease, misfortune, pain, and demon possession. They have eighteen black things in one body."

"Just contacting them will make you extremely unlucky." Luang Po sighed, shook his head helplessly and said: "But I can't help them get rid of it now, because the resentment and obsession in them have not dissipated yet."

"They were killed by others. I guess they won't be freed until they see that person get the punishment they deserve. We Looking for the murderer, Long Po, you also live here, do you know what happened last night? "

"I had nothing to do last night and went to bed early, how could I know what happened, but did you ask these two evil spirits soon to find out?" Long Po asked in confusion: "They should remember the appearance of the murderer who killed them, and they will want revenge."

"If it were that simple, this man has completely lost his mind and cannot communicate, and Li Shijing only remembers the good times we spent together, and can't remember who the murderer is at all."

"This is impossible, evil spirits only remember the things they resented and the people they hated during their lifetime, how could they remember those beautiful things?"

"The fact is like this..." Wen Qi saw that Long Po didn't believe it, and just as he was about to refute it, he suddenly paused, his pupils shook violently, and at the same time Li Shijing also looked at him dully, with dark mist spreading in his pupils.

Could it be...

A possibility suddenly emerged in Wen Qi's mind, and the more he thought about it, the more it fit all the previous traces. In an instant, it seemed as if a cold electricity spread from the coccyx to the whole body. He couldn't help but tremble slightly, and took out two diaries from his backpack.

When he opened his own book and saw the photos inside, he couldn't help laughing out loud, not because he was happy, but because he was angry or felt that the sneer was too ironic.

He realized that the focus of the photo was not bad, but on the contrary, it was very accurate. The focus of the photo was concentrated on the jade bracelet on Li Shijing's wrist, so people mistakenly thought that the photographer's skills were not good.

It was like a screen playing a movie in front of him, and various memories emerged one after another.

At first, Zhang Xu was attracted by the jade bracelet on Li Shijing's wrist when he saw her, so he didn't want to approach her, but wanted to steal or rob the bracelet, but there were too many people on the bus, so it was not easy to do it.

So he could only go there every day to wait or even follow Li Shijing after get off work, wanting to do it when it was quiet and no one was around, but Li Shijing was timid by nature, and every time she got off work, she would speed up her pace and become very cautious because of fear.

The reason why he wanted to help drive away the stray dog ​​that night was because he was impatient and planned to take action directly, but he didn't expect the stray dog ​​to suddenly jump out. The barking sound attracted the attention of other pedestrians. He had no choice but to pretend to be here to help. That's how the two met.

As for the key to 503, it was because Zhang Xu realized that he couldn't steal the jade bracelet directly from Li Shijing, so he secretly copied her key with ink while having dinner together, and then put on gloves and sneaked into Li Shijing's apartment.

But he still underestimated Li Shijing's love for the jade bracelet. She wore it whether she was taking a bath or sleeping, not to mention when she was at work, so he couldn't find a chance to take the bracelet.

Originally, when Li Shijing didn't know him, he robbed it, but now she knew her name and appearance, and if he wanted to rob again, he would be found immediately. He just wanted the bracelet and didn't want to kill anyone, so he kept hiding under the bed, blocking it with a box, and secretly spying on her life.

All the food, clothing and daily necessities were from Li Shijing, but she would carefully clean up the traces every time. Occasionally, she didn't have time to throw away the garbage once or twice, but Li Shijing didn't take it to heart, simply thinking that she had forgotten after using it.

But living there would always make noises, and the neighbors heard it. That day, the neighbor asked if Li Shijing didn't have to go to work for a month? There were often noises in the house.

Li Shijing thought the neighbor had heard it wrong at first. After all, the house was so big that she could see it at a glance, and there was no place to hide people, until she saw something wrong under the bed.

So that night, Zhang Xu was writing his diary halfway, and the box in front of him was suddenly moved away. He was frightened and rushed out of the door, but he didn't expect Li Shijing to chase him out and pick up the vase to attack him. He was suddenly attacked and couldn't control himself for a while, so he killed Li Shijing with his backhand and hid the body in the closet. In a panic, he even forgot to take the bracelet he had been thinking about.

But at this time, the neighbor next door heard the noise and came out to check. He found Zhang Xu standing at the door covered in blood. He realized something was wrong and naturally wanted to stop him. The two fought each other, and finally Zhang Xu won.

Zhang Xu and Li Shijing had lived together for nearly a month. He knew that no one would come over on weekdays, so he hid the body in the closet and didn't know how long he would wait until it was discovered.

But the neighbor's body couldn't be done. Because he didn't know if he would come over on weekdays, he took great pains to remove various features on the body and hid it under the mattress.

"So there are no shoes suitable for me in 503, and there are only one person's fingerprints in it." Wen Qi couldn't help but curse himself for being stupid. He was deceived by Li Shijing's attitude towards him. If they lived together for a month, how could there be no belongings and fingerprints belonging to him?