Chapter 72. [Case 12] Going upstairs to lure spirits
As a person who fought with cats and dogs countless times as a child and left tragic scars on my body, I can recognize these three claw marks as canine at a glance. Judging from the distance between the three scratch marks, it is indeed
As described by Mr. Zhang at the beginning, the shape of this dog is at least similar to a large dog such as a golden retriever or a wolfdog. But at the same time, I also know that except for guys like Tibetan Mastiffs who do not recognize their relatives, most large dogs are just walkers.
Despite their appearance, they are actually very gentle and good companion dogs. Most of them can also serve as nannies and take care of children. How could such a ferocious dog attack people several times in a row and seriously injure two people?
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Considering that it might be difficult to find the previous thief and the worker who was fired for stealing things, and there is no reason for them to cooperate with me in such an investigation, the only way for me to get more clues is right in front of me.
I asked this worker who was lucky enough to escape. You said that when you saw the black shadow, it seemed to be surrounded by a thick fog. Did it seem that the whole body was dark, and then in the black shadow?
On the outer contour of the machine, does it look like heat is radiating out, but the heat is black? The worker nodded and said yes.
So I basically confirmed that this must be an animal spirit. Many animal spirits have a shape similar to this or are translucent. Before this, I have treated animal spirits for dogs, cows, horses and other animals.
event, so I understand very well that the so-called black "heat" emitted by them is an expression that is about to dissipate but is forcibly controlled by them in order to maintain their form, because there is a gap between the intelligence of animals and humans.
After death, they always know what their form is. Even if their souls have begun to scatter, they still have to work hard to gather them together. To be precise, they are very likely not to know that they have died, or that they have died before.
The process is just something that makes them feel uncomfortable.
When I thought of this, I said to the worker, could you take us to see the place where you were attacked? The worker seemed a little resistant when he heard what I said. After all, he was injured there.
It was understandable, so I said to him, you don’t have to be so scared as we are guarding you. After hesitating for a long time, the worker said, I can take you there, but I won’t get close.
I can only point you to a place. Hu Zongren glanced at me and nodded, so I said to the worker, okay, that's it.
Originally, there were many workers who wanted to follow us, but I stopped them one by one and refused. I said that if you come with me, I have to take time to take care of you, so don’t put more pressure on us. At least those workers stopped following us.
, the worker took us from the prefab area toward the construction site. After bypassing several piles of steel frames, we arrived at the bottom of a building. This building was only built less than one-third of its height. The foundation
It has been backfilled, but the exposed steel bars on the fifth floor are still hanging out in the air. I asked the worker if this was the building, and he said yes, but it was behind the building. I wanted to go upstairs.
, I had to go around to the other side. I looked at the terrain carefully. If something unexpected happened in this place, it would not be directly visible from the boardroom area, because the entrance of the corridor was just across this building, so I
I also gradually understood why the two people who were seriously injured before were only found after they fell to the ground. It may be because they were stealing things and had already been wronged. In addition, they were far apart, so the escaping people would definitely not be able to outrun the dogs, and
It was very late at that time. If you call for help, you may not be able to be saved if you wait for someone to come. And this worker went back to get the tools earlier, and many other workers had not rested at that time, so he got everyone's help as soon as he called for help.
He called for help, but even so, he was still injured.
After walking around the building, about a few dozen meters away from the entrance of the corridor, the worker refused to leave. He pointed there and told us that it was right here. I came down from the building and was attacked as soon as I turned around.
Now, I can only bring you here and leave the rest to you. I nodded to him and said, do you want to go back to stay with everyone now or wait for us here? He hesitated and said
, I'd better go back.
So Hu Zongren and I walked to the corridor entrance alone. On the way, I took out the red rope and wrapped it around the palm of my left hand repeatedly. Because it was an animal spirit, I didn’t know how much red rope was needed.
, after wrapping it up, I took out the compass with my right hand and held it in my hand. Hu Zongren seemed a little at a loss. He even asked me what kind of food should I use to raise it. I said, don’t you have incense ash? Just try it with incense ash.
Well, it's broad daylight and there are two of us. Even if we can't fight, we can't run.
The entrance to the corridor of that building was marked with a warning sign probably after the worker's accident that night. There were many cigarette butts scattered on the ground. Judging from the accumulated dust on the cigarette butts, no one had dared to walk here for several days.
Come over. It’s no wonder, the spare time life on the construction site is relatively poor. The content of everyone’s chat after work is just about the things in this small circle. Ever since that incident happened, this topic must be
It is the one that the workers talk about most enthusiastically, and there must be many strange and bizarre speculations. The arrival of Hu Zongren and I will either confirm their guesses or break their rumors.
About ten meters away from the entrance of the corridor, Hu Zongren and I began to slow down and approach slightly sideways, because when people are sideways, the target of attack will be smaller, and the chance of escape will be greater. The entrance of the corridor
It's about two meters high and three meters wide. I was able to sneak into the entrance of the dog building and see the safety stairs inside that had not yet been equipped with fire doors and the elevator shaft that had been dug but was dark. Just imagine what happened when the worker was attacked.
In the scene, the position of the stairs is about two o'clock, facing the door of the corridor. Standing outside, you can easily see about a quarter of the stairs from the first floor to the second floor. This is not difficult to explain the worker.
There was a possibility of bumping into something head-on just after going downstairs. So I concluded that we would be able to find some traces of this animal spirit in the distance from the stairwell to the corridor.
The ground was newly filled with cement, and there were many messy footprints on the cement. As we slowly approached, we saw some slight reactions starting to appear on the compass, so Hu Zongren and I became even more vigilant. But it was beyond my expectations.
Yes, the agility reaction on the compass was not exaggerated, at least not the kind of agility that I imagined would attack people. So I had the opportunity to relax a little, squatted down with Hu Zongren, and started to check the footprints on the ground. Just like before
As Mr. Zhang said, among the many people's footprints, there were several dog paw prints that looked like plum petals. When I put the compass on these footprints, my reaction showed a relatively large fluctuation. At the same time,
Suddenly there was a low growling sound in my ears, like a dog about to get angry.
This sound is familiar to me. Although I don’t have a dog myself, many of my friends have dogs at home. Even my mother has two dogs. And based on my naughty personality since I was a child, the dogs around me
Most dogs don't like me, so I often anger the dogs because of certain actions and get bitten. So when I hear this guttural sound, I know that this is the dog giving me a warning, if I go any further
If I don't move away quickly or I don't leave quickly, it will attack me.
Since I didn't see anything, when I heard the sound, I quickly stood up and asked Hu Zongren, did you hear any sound just now? Hu Zongren said that he heard it. When he said this, Hu Zongren also looked at him warily.
I was looking around, and I had never seen him take ghost hunting so seriously before, so I thought Hu Zongren might be as afraid of dogs as I was. I asked him, what should I do now? Withdraw? Hu Zongren said withdraw and you can return it later.
If we can still come here, we should continue to move forward tentatively. I said, what if we are attacked later? Hu Zongren thought for a while and said, then we can run away then.
So I carefully observed the footprints on the ground and imagined that the messy human footprints were caused by the second seriously injured worker kicking his legs randomly after being attacked. Then we continued to walk forward slowly, planning to
Go upstairs. Considering that the three people who were attacked before, whether they stole things or not, all passed through this corridor, so if we encounter danger when going upstairs or downstairs, we can avoid it to a greater extent.
Narrow down the range of animal spirits.
As soon as I stepped onto the first step of the stairs, the compass started to rotate rapidly, and it started to rotate even more violently after taking another step. This gave me a very bad premonition. I quickly stopped Hu Zongren, and I
Let's not go up. The reaction here has proved that it is around. How about catching it here? Hu Zongren looked at me and said, catch it now. You can't catch it. There is still one step left. I asked him if he still wanted to catch it.
What's wrong? He said you only knew that the three people who were attacked before had all come down from this corridor. Then you didn't notice that these three people were also attacked after taking things from upstairs. Otherwise, they would have gone downstairs.
How come you weren't attacked when you were upstairs?
I thought that Hu Zongren was right. When I was a child, my uncle’s family also had a dog. Every time I went to their house with my things to pay New Year greetings, the dog would always shake its head and tail at me. But if I try to
Even if we take something away from my uncle's house, even if it's just an orange, the dog will block the door and bite him wildly. So I thought to myself that if the dog's animal spirit itself is to prevent thieves, if we don't take something away, I'm afraid it won't
He would show up. While the sky was still bright, I said to Hu Zongren, okay, let's go up.
After saying that, I put the compass back into my bag. It was like this anyway, it didn't matter whether I looked at it or not.