Thriller Night Talk

“Well, there is some truth in this conjecture.” 

But Bei Quan sighed.

“But it’s a pity that among the other survivors, there is no one of the same age as Mr. A.”

At the time of the fire, six households were living at 44 Jinyuan Road.

Among them, four families lived alone, including Ye Jia, the deceased, Liu Fei, and Lin Xue, as well as a female graduate student of biology who lived on the third floor. 

But at that time, the girl escaped in time, only choking on a few mouthfuls of smoke. Later, the apartment was burned, and one person died, so the girl moved directly back to the school dormitory.

“Zhu Ling has also gone to investigate the girl. Although she is still worried about last year’s fire, she is in a good mental state. She doesn’t seem to have been entangled by Huigui. ”

Wei Fuyuan nodded, “There are still two households?”

“Two old people were living in Room 102 on the first floor, with a grandson who had just gone to primary school. They all went back to their hometown after the fire. ” Bei Quan replied.

Wei Fuyuan noticed that Bei Quan seemed to have a good memory.

Because when he said this information, he almost blurted out that he didn’t need to look up any information.

“Next door to Liu Fei is a couple from Beipiao who are working nearby. The husband is nearly 40 years old and doesn’ match Mr.A’s age either.”

Wei Fuyuan, “So it seems that these people are not likely to be Mr A.” 

After a moment of thinking, he suddenly patted his thigh, “By the way, it was mentioned in the fire information before that, 119 went out very quickly, but was blocked at the intersection by private cars parked everywhere? According to this, the car owner can also be regarded as one of the killers who led to Ye Jia’s death? ”

Wei Fuyuan thought of another possibility, “Do you think Mr.A is the owner of a private car in a traffic jam?”

Bei Quan was slightly surprised.

At first glance, young Master Wei looked like a husky with his teeth and claws, but he was quite careful and clever. 

“It is indeed possible.”

Bei Quan nodded.

“Anyway, let’s rule it out in this direction first.”

Bei Quan’s attitude was quite natural, as if it was very simple to find a car parked at a certain intersection half a year ago. 

Wei Fuyuan thought that Bei Quan knew someone “above”, but he knew that this was not something that should be investigated, so he didn’t ask any more questions.Ktf vlrmerrlbc yfakffc atf akb fcvfv tfgf.

Dfl Hejc vfmlvfv ab gfaegc ab Mècu Wīcumtécu mlas atf cfza vjs. Coafg rjslcu ubbv cluta ab Qfl Mesejc, tf milwyfv eq ab tlr yfv, mbnfgfv tlr tfjv klat j delia, jcv rbbc ofii jriffq.

Qfl Mesejc abrrfv jii vjs jcv kjr ugfjais oglutafcfv ja cluta. Lf rtbeiv tjnf yffc qtsrlmjiis jcv wfcajiis fztjerafv. 

But Wei Fuyuan couldn’t fall asleep. Maybe it was because of an unfamiliar bed or slept too much in the afternoon. Wei Fuyuan rolled over and over for three hours until his mobile phone ran out of power, and fell asleep in a daze at 2:30 in the morning.

——-

The next day, April 25th, Sunday.

Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan returned to Fèng Xīngchéng city. 

When they walked into the Sāntúchuān Broadcasting Company, the police records and traffic monitoring of the fire truck on the day of the fire had been sent.

“Well, it’s more complicated than we thought.”

Bei Quan spread out the data and studied them carefully.

“It doesn’t seem to be the responsibility of a certain person.” 

Wei Fuyuan had already placed himself in the position of “assistant” unknowingly, and then he took the initiative to take a look.

“Look here.”

Bei Quan turned sideways, letting Wei Fuyuan get closer.

According to the police records, on September 23 last year, after 119 received the alarm, they drove to No. 44, Jinyuan Road, where the fire broke out in a minute and a half. 

However, at that time, two intersections of Jinyuan Road were under construction, half of the driveway was blocked, and in the dead of night, the roadside was full of parked private cars of nearby residents. The fire trucks were almost unable to move. When the firefighters finally got to the scene, the fire had engulfed the whole building, and Ye Jia, who failed to escape in time, was burned to death.

“The streets in the old city are already narrow. In addition to the construction, the residents nearby are used to parking their cars at the roadside. ”

Bei Quan said, “These three factors are the reasons why the fire engines can’t arrive in time. If these people were all related to Ye Jia’s death, at least a hundred more people would have been caged by Huigui.”

Wei Fuyuan understood, “However, Huigui chose Mr.A alone.” 

“Yes, that’s it.”Bei Quan nodded.

“So Mr.A must have done something that other people didn’t do, so he is hated by Ye Jia’s ghost.”

Wei Yuan took complex data from the table and turned it over and over again, reading it three times attentively, as if to engrave every word in his brain.

But after reading it, he still didn’t find any particularly suspicious person. 

“… We can’t wait for Mr. A to die before we know who he is!”

Young Master Wei was a little frustrated.

They were already so close to solving the case and he was not willing to give up just yet.

“Maybe the ghost has already killed Mr. A and ran away?” 

Bei Quan’s expression was solemn.

“It’s nearly a month since March 30, when the fourth victim, Lin Xue, died. According to the interval of the first four times, it’s almost time for Huigui to kill his next prey.”

Wei Fuyuan didn’t realize that he had completely accepted Bei Quan’s anti-scientific ghost theory and joined  the ghost extermination team. In a stupor, he asked, “What should we do now?”

Bei Quan put his chin on one hand and thought about it for a while. 

“There is no clue for now.” He frankly admitted, “Now it seems that we can only wait until after dark to have a look at 44 Jinyuan Road, which was burned down, to see if we can find any clues.”

——-

No. 44, Jinyuan Road, which caught fire half a year ago, was located deep in the Hutong alley of the old city, not far from Sāntúchuān.

Considering the bad road conditions along the way, Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan decided to take a bus.

On the way, Wei Fuyuan asked his boss why he decided to come at night. Bei Quan replied that it was only at night that he could find the traces left by the Huigui.

Master Wei was at a loss. 

So Bei Quan gave him a detailed explanation, saying that he had a “tool” in his hand, which was similar to luminol used by forensic medicine for occult blood reaction tests, and could detect the weak psychic traces left by Huigui after its recent activities.

It’s just that the light was strong in the daytime, and the Yang was too strong. The props couldn’t work. They could only be taken out in the dead of night to use them effectively.

Wei Fuyuan was about to exclaim, ‘there are such high-techs’ when Bei Quan shrugged, “However,you can not hold too much hope.”

He added, “Huiguis, after all, are Yin ghosts who live on resentment, anger, hatred, and other obsessions. As long as their residual energy disappears rapidly in the environment of strong Yang energy, there are few opportunities for my little tool to come into use.” 

Wei Fuyuan frowned, “How many days’ traces can be detected?”

“It doesn’t necessarily work like this for e.g if it’s on a rainy day or a place with a heavy overcast atmosphere, such as a cemetery or a basement, it’s no problem that it can last for about three to five days.”

Then he pointed out the window of the car.

“However, as recently, if the sun is shining high in the daytime and the environment is open-air, the traces left by the Huigui will probably disappear in less than a day.” 

Wei Fuyuan’s eyes suddenly widened, “It’s been half a year since the fire. What else can we find?”

Bei Quan tilted his head and asked with a smile, “Or do you have any better suggestions?”

Wei Fuyuan stopped talking.

He really couldn’t think of a more reliable investigation direction, and could only use the most stupid method to accompany Bei Quan to find Mr. A. 

When the two arrived at their destination, it was about 8:30 in the evening.

For modern people who were accustomed to nightlife, this was not even ‘night’, but for people living in the alleys of the old city, it was time to close their doors and go back to their homes.

Jinyuan Road could only accommodate two cars in parallel.

At night, there was no traffic police copying the license plates, and all the private cars parked carelessly on the side of the road, squeezing the two lanes into a one-way street. 

Fortunately, the traffic on this road was sparse at night. If there were occasionally two cars going across from each other, one of them would consciously pull over and pass the car side obliquely, leaving enough space for the oncoming vehicle to pass first.

“No wonder the fire trucks couldn’t reach on time.”

After seeing the actual situation, Wei Fuyuan felt deeply angry.

Judging from the tacit understanding of the traffic on the road, it would only take a day or two for private cars to stop following the regulations and park their car in disorder in this area. Even if there was a serious fire nearby not long ago, which even killed one person, it didn’t wake up the residents. 

Come to think of it, if Ye Jia wanted to find revenge from the car owners, Wei Fuyuan was afraid that she would have to kill more than a hundred people, as Bei Quan said.

While Master Wei was still thinking about this, the two had reached the old site at No. 44 Jinyuan Road.

The reason why it was called the ‘old site’ was that most of the four-story old buildings were blackened by thick smoke, and most of the walls in places where the fire was severe had been burned through, making it impossible to live there any longer. It’s just that the old building hadn’t been demolished, and only iron gates had been installed at the entrance to keep others out.

Bei Quan and Wei Fuyuan stood downstairs and looked up. 

The abandoned building was empty and dark, without any light inside, it looked like a huge tombstone.

Bei Quan pulled the spray bottle containing cow’s tears from the suitcase he was carrying and instructed his assistant to commence preparations first. Then he grabbed a bamboo tube, disconnected the yellow silk plugged on top, and made a “dumping” action.

Wei Fuyuan was afraid he would miss something important, and hurriedly sprayed cow tears.

Immediately, he saw a white shadow surrounding Bei Quan’s feet, spinning lightly and swiftly in circles. 

Bei Quan pointed to the white shadow at his feet and said with a smile, “It is called Su YingSu Ying,and it’s a fox.”

Wei Fuyuan focused his attention on it and discovered that it was a palm-sized fox.

“It is what I call the ‘tool’ that can detect the residual spiritual power of the Huigui.”

——Well, my boss didn’t use luminescent ammonia, but police dogs. No, ghost foxes! 

Young Master Wei thought so until he noticed that the small white fox had already bolted and ran to the end of the street.