Night fell once again at Fengyun Inn. The suburban night seemed particularly peaceful and desolate without the hustle and bustle of the city.
Wang Xu woke up from a deep sleep. Yan Li was sitting in the corner of the room typing on her laptop, while Elbert was meditating on the side. His serious expression was really funny.
Wang Xu looked at the time and saw that it was already ten o'clock in the evening. He slept for nearly ten hours after having lunch.
"Have you done everything I told you?"
Albert opened his eyes: "I asked the innkeeper about the ghost legends around here, and he pulled me and talked about it all afternoon..."
"Hey... this kind of old man is very talkative. Please repeat it."
Elbert gathered his thoughts and then began to state: "About seven or eight years ago, this place was quite desolate. At that time, the tourist area development plan was shelved indefinitely, and there were half-finished unfinished building projects everywhere.
, so many homeless people gathered in this place, living in unmanaged and dangerous buildings, or building shacks on the basis of dilapidated walls.
One day, someone saw a little boy standing alone by the river, crying. The child was only about four or five years old, and he was holding a broken doll in his hand. The person who saw it thought that this was a child who got lost because of fun.
So I wanted to go forward to help him, but when he came closer, I saw that only a broken doll fell to the ground, and the little boy was gone.
The man thought that the little boy fell into the river in the blink of an eye, but he saw that there was not even a bubble in the water. If someone really fell into the water, he would at least be able to flop twice. This was obviously wrong.
It was getting late at that time, and the more he thought about it, the more strange it became, and he gradually became frightened, so he picked up the broken doll and ran back home.
The next day he took the doll and asked who had lost the child. There were only a few people in the place, and they all knew each other. There were some children, but everyone said they had never seen the doll before, and no one had ever seen it.
Lost the child. After a few days like this, the man gradually forgot about the matter, and the broken doll was thrown into a pile of debris in his residence.
On the seventh night after the man picked up the doll, he had a dream. A strange-looking little boy smiled and said to him, "Uncle, thank you." In his dream, he asked, "Why do you want to thank me?"
The little boy said, 'Thank you for helping me find my parents, now we can be together'.
When the little boy said this, he started laughing strangely, making weird gurgling noises, and finally his whole head fell off. The man was so frightened that he woke up and realized that it was a dream.
At this moment, he suddenly heard someone shouting that there was a fire outside. He smelled the burning smell and rushed out. He saw that a nearby shack had been burned to black, but what was incredible was that the one next to the shack was completely charred.
Nothing is wrong with the place.
The police and fire brigade arrived later and pulled out two charred corpses from the shack. It was confirmed that they were a couple who came to S city from other places to work..."
When Wang Xu heard this, he interrupted Elbert: "Wait a minute... why is your story so detailed? Could it be that the shopkeeper added some sugar to it?"
Albert replied: "Well...actually the person who picked up the doll in the story is the shopkeeper here..."
"What! No way! Is he deceiving you?"
Albert shook his head: "It should be true. Since that incident, the city government has strictly ordered the demolition of the illegal building complex and cleaned up the remaining problems of the tourist area project. Soon after, there were investors
A large playground was built here, and nearby supermarkets, restaurants, and inns opened smoothly.
Some of the people living in the slum area at that time were ordered by the city government to return to their places of origin, while others stayed to find jobs. Many people know this story, and some people clearly remember that the shopkeeper here did take out a broken doll.
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Wang Xu thought for a while: "Then according to what you said, what you saw in the ghost hall last night was also the ghost of a child. It was probably the same little boy in this story... But it's wrong, why?
After so many years, the ghost is here again... If he was seeking revenge because his parents abandoned him, then his resentment should be gone, and there is no reason to come out and kill again after eight years..."
Elbert said: "I don't understand this either, but it is a fact that I was attacked. There must be something we have overlooked..."
Wang Xu turned to Yan Li and said, "Sister Yan, how are you doing with the recent murder case?"
Yan Li's eyes still did not leave the computer screen: "This whole day has been a waste of time. I have almost searched through the information about this case on the Internet, and also checked the personal information of the deceased, but it seems that it is not the same as what you just talked about.
The stories have no connection."
"Don't dead people have anything in common?"
Yan Li shook her head: "Not at all. These five people have no overlap in age, gender, occupation, or even hobbies. They are just ordinary tourists."
Wang Xu scratched his head: "Is it possible that the problem is with the room next door? Maybe they all had the accident in the same room."
Elbert denied him: "I've asked the shopkeeper about this too, and these five people have never lived in the same room."
Wang Xu thought for a while: "By the way, where is that broken doll from back then?"
"The shopkeeper said that he also looked for it later, but couldn't find it."
Wang Xu sighed: "Hey... this is what non-professionals are like. After checking for a long time, they still have no clue at all..."
Yan Li seemed dissatisfied with his words: "You were sleeping there while you were instructing others to do things. Who do you have the right to judge us?"
With Wang Xu's thick skin, he basically wouldn't pay attention to this kind of question. He immediately changed the subject: "Elbert, I've had enough sleep now. You don't have to stay tonight, just go back to sleep."
, there is insufficient information, so we have to use the troops to cover it up with water and earth..."
Yan Li said: "Are you going to stay at my place again tonight?"
Wang Xu laughed three times, and then said two words very decisively: "That's right."
"Hmph...shameless..."
"If you are not satisfied, you can go back. Without you as a burden, things will be much easier to handle..."
"If you are really a ghost hunter hero, you shouldn't just protect me. There are so many people living in this inn, you should go out and patrol all night!"
Wang Xu seemed to think about this sentence very seriously, and then replied: "Well... I really admire you. The conditions you proposed are pertinent and reasonable."
Yan Li said in a matter-of-fact tone: "Thank you."
Wang Xu immediately said another sentence: "But I refuse them all..."
