Chapter Twenty-Seven: Questioning
When they arrived at Hu Daniu's house, they found that Hu Daniu was dead.
The body fell under the coffin, covered with water stains that had not yet dried up, and looked like it had drowned in the river and was dragged ashore. But in fact, Hu Da Niu was obviously not drowned, because his body was unusually shriveled, if it weren't for the water stains on his body, it would have looked like a dry corpse that had been weathered for an unknown number of years.
The two eye sockets were deeply sunken, the skin was covered with bones, and his hideous face still retained the fear and pain of his death.
Looking at Hu Daniu, who died tragically at home, Xia Qi and Leng Yue's faces were very ugly, because obviously they both underestimated the killing speed of the female ghost.
They had thought that the investigation was fast enough, but now it seems that they just feel that the truth is not what they thought it was at all.
Because he didn't know if the female ghost was still there, Leng Yue was very careful when he and Xia Qi approached the coffin, so as not to be attacked by the ghost.
Thankfully, their fears didn't come true, and the female ghost looked as if she was gone, leaving only an empty coffin.
Looking down at the coffin, Xia Qi found that there was nothing in the coffin, and if he didn't know, he thought it was a new coffin that had just been made. But they knew exactly what was in the coffin before that.
Similar to Hu Da Niu's tragic scene, they were not unfamiliar with it before, because they had already seen it in Chen Lao's family as early as noon, and they had seen Chen Cong change from a big fat man to a dehydrated person, which was almost the same as Hu Da Niu, but there was still a breath left to linger and gasp.
Leng Yue kept staring at the coffin pretending to be a female ghost and didn't speak, but Xia Qi said after thinking about it:
"Hu Daniu's death shows that our previous suspicions were correct, and Boss Chen's henchmen did have an entanglement with the female ghost, but they didn't know what this entanglement was."
As early as the afternoon, after they found out that Boss Chen had several henchmen in the village, including Hu Daniu, Xia Qi decided to find out the ins and outs of the incident through these people. Who would have thought that they had just started to act, and that some of them had already been killed.
"I think this female ghost is a water ghost, although it will not drown people, but it will make people die of dehydration, which is much more painful than drowning people. I really can't think about what Boss Chen and the others have done to that ghost. ”
Speaking of this, Xia Qi glanced at the cold moon who was still staring at the coffin, and then asked a little unpleasantly:
"I haven't seen enough after watching it for so long, have you listened to me again!"
"I'm listening." Leng Yue nodded symbolically, then turned to Xia Qi and said:
"Give me the lighter."
"What are you going to do? You don't want to burn this coffin, do you? No way! ”
Xia Qi faintly guessed Leng Yue's plan, so he hurriedly refused and said:
"Let's not say that this coffin is important to the female ghost, just to say that we really burned this with a fire, it is tantamount to declaring war on the female ghost again, which is no different from our direct participation."
"I just want to just take a look."
Leng Yue didn't know if she didn't mean it in the first place, or if she temporarily changed her mind after hearing Xia Qi's words, and then didn't ask Xia Qi for a lighter again.
Where did the female ghost go, and whether she would be killing people tonight, they couldn't be sure for the time being, but what they could be sure of was that Hu Daniu had turned into a corpse, and the corpse couldn't tell them the truth, so it didn't make sense for them to stay here any longer.
At Xia Qi's mention, he and Leng Yue came to the house of another person who was closely related to this incident, and this person was the old king who had just suffered a huge fright.
The so-called early is not as good as a coincidence, Xia Qi and Leng Yue were just about to knock on the door, when they saw Lao Wang rushing out of the door with a frightened face, if it weren't for Xia Qi's reaction fast enough, he would definitely crash into Lao Wang.
"Wang Mu, Mr. Wang, right?"
Because he had seen it in Mr. Chen's family before, Xia Qi had deliberately memorized the names of several people at that time, so although the light outside was very dim, he still recognized Lao Wang's identity with sharp eyes.
At this time, Lao Wang was a frightened bird, and he couldn't stand the slightest fright, so after he was suddenly stopped by two black shadows, he suddenly broke out into a series of frightened cries.
"Ah......h
Lao Wang's shouting made Leng Yue and Xia Qi a little inexplicable, but after thinking about it, Xia Qi thought of a possibility. felt that Lao Wang probably witnessed Hu Daniu's tragic death, so he was scared like this.
Reminding Leng Yue to hold down Lao Wang's shoulder, Xia Qi violently dragged Lao Wang out of the door, for fear that his yelling would alarm the people inside.
Covering Lao Wang's mouth hard, trying to calm him down, he listened to Xia Qi comforting:
"You see, we're not ghosts or humans, so you don't have to be afraid. If you don't believe it, look here, little Niel is here......"
Ignoring Leng Yue's white eyes, he said it several times in a row, and Lao Wang finally listened to his words, and his emotions gradually calmed down, and he asked:
"What do you want to do?"
"I'm asking you something." Xia Qi rushed ahead of Leng Yue and said, not wanting Leng Yue to waste time like Tai Chi.
"What do you want to inquire about?"
"It's about Boss Chen's daughter-in-law, Xiaoli."
"Xiaoli?" When he heard the name "Xiaoli", Lao Wang's body shook obviously, and his originally soothing face instantly became gloomy again:
"How can I know about her, if you want to ask, you should also go to Boss Chen."
Lao Wang swallowed his saliva and said in a stiff tone.
Whether a person is telling the truth or a lie, whether it is from his tone or expression, you can get certain hints, especially people like Lao Wang, who usually don't say much nonsense, know that they are lying as soon as they open their mouths.
"You really don't know?" Xia Qi accentuated his tone at this time.
"Of course I don't know, you're still over, let me go, I have something to do now!"
Lao Wang struggled to get rid of Xia Qi and Leng Yue, but the two of them didn't have the strength to let go at all, he pulled hard but still couldn't break free.
The successive inquiries were treated coldly, which also made Xia Qi completely lose patience, but because this was Lao Wang's door, if he yelled, it was likely to cause unnecessary trouble, and even the ghost who might be wandering around here, so Xia Qi planned to take Lao Wang to a place where no one was.
However, thinking that Lao Wang would not cooperate, Xia Qi simply chose a tough way, directly blocked Lao Wang's mouth and Leng Yue, and the two of them forced him to the courtyard of Hu Daniu's house.
Originally, Lao Wang was still struggling, but when he saw Hu Daniu's shriveled corpse, he instantly quieted down, and his eyes immediately became empty.
And Xia Qi also said in a cold tone at this time:
Chen Cong became a person, and he only had his last breath left, and Hu Daniu's body was here, completely turning into a dry corpse. I think you must know better than us why they are like this, but one thing we know better than you is that if you don't answer us truthfully, this will also be your fate in the future.
We can assure you that we will never tell us what you have revealed to us today. Of course, you don't have a choice, because you said we might be able to help you, and if you don't, you're dead. ”