Chapter 12: The Disappearing Staircase
Since they left Zhang Xiaoxiao's house, they have been squatting in the opposite unit building, and they didn't see half a figure going upstairs in the process, but two corpses appeared in Zhang Xiaoxiao's home.
Zhang Xiaoxiao's body has nothing to say, but where did her husband Zhang Chen's body come from?
He remembered that when he was at the Dongyu District Police Station earlier, the young policeman mentioned to him that the surveillance video of the community had recorded "the dead man coming home".
But at the moment, it didn't seem to be the case at all, either he misunderstood the policeman at the time, or something else happened.
"I should have asked to see that surveillance footage."
Xia Qi was very annoyed by his careless behavior before, he really wanted to let the policeman transfer him out, but he forgot about it when he asked.
However, it is not too late to make amends, and he will go to the Dongyu District Police Station again tomorrow, which just happens to verify his guess about the incident.
Pretending to be annoyed and coming out of the corridor, Xia Qi found that Shen Ruotong and Zhao Anguo were both looking at the white-flowered wall above with wide eyes as if they had seen a ghost.
"What do you see? Is something wrong? ”
"Stair ......"
Zhao Anguo raised his hand and pointed at it tremblingly, turned his head and shouted in horror:
"I just saw a staircase leading up there!"
"The stairs leading up there?"
Hearing this, Xia Qi chuckled in his heart, hurriedly walked to the direction of Zhao Anguo's finger, and then groped along the wall.
"It's a real wall, not a fantasy."
Xia Qi ruled out the possibility that it was an illusion, but looking at Zhao Anguo's ghostly look, it didn't look like he was lying, but he really didn't see any stairs.
"I saw it too."
Shen Ruotong also withdrew his gaze on the wall at this time, looked at Xia Qi and said:
"It was only for a moment, but I did see a staircase leading to the top. If even Anguo saw it. That shouldn't go wrong. ”
"Well, I know that."
Xia Qi did not deny this, and after glancing at the white wall without giving up, he said to himself:
"But why is it gone?"
"That's why it's strange, there's nothing new in the hell, you can see the extra scene out of thin air. Then it disappeared into thin air, and this was the first time I did. ”
After Zhao Anguo finished speaking, his body couldn't help leaning towards Xia Qi's position, and asked for help:
"Senior, you are well-informed, can you analyze what is going on?"
"I don't know." Xia Qi shook his head to indicate that he didn't know, and then reminded the two:
"Okay, now that we know this is the case, let's just pay more attention in the future. For now, let's go back first. ”
"This is going back? What's going on inside? ”
It can be seen that Shen Ruotong is still a little reluctant to give up, and wants to figure out the extra stairs.
"What else can happen, Zhang Xiaoxiao is dead, and her husband Zhang Chen, who has never been able to be contacted."
"Her husband is in there too?"
"Well, I was also very surprised by that."
"But senior, we have been waiting outside, and we haven't seen anyone go upstairs at all. Could Zhang Xiaoxiao's husband really be a ghost? ”
"Let's study this matter when we get back to the hotel."
Repeating his thoughts again, Xia Qi was afraid that Shen Ruotong would not give up. He added:
"Even if we could get out of the staircase today, what would we do? Which of us would dare to go up?
Do you go up, or do you go up, or do I go up? ”
"Alright, let's go back first."
Shen Ruotong also figured it out at this time, and said in a compromise like Xia Qi.
As for Zhao Anguo, there is no need for Xia Qi to say anything. It's completely his attendant, he almost says anything, and it's all right with Zhao Anguo.
After the three of them came out of the residential building, they did not immediately return to the hotel they had rented before, but found a nearby 24-hour restaurant. I ordered a few side dishes for a supper.
During the meal, Xia Qi briefly talked to Zhao Anguo about the case that had just happened.
"Now that Zhang Xiaoxiao and Zhang Chen are dead, the only people who still meet the conditions are Wang Qianhua and He Chong, who live in the Western District. I think these two people are the targets of the next killing of the ghosts.
But it's not much use to know this, because if we still have nothing to do, then the tragedy will still happen as scheduled.
We can only watch, or wait for hindsight. ”
Speaking of this, Xia Qi couldn't help but smile bitterly, sighed and said:
"Well, but the problem is that we really can't do anything about it right now."
"Seniors, don't be discouraged, we have only been here in Xining City for a long time, and we are afraid that we will not be able to arrive for a day, but we have already analyzed and investigated a lot of things, and solving this incident is simply just around the corner.
Come to the seniors, eat some kidneys, staying up late is not good for the kidneys, you have to make up for it. ”
Seeing that Zhao Anguo was really going to put it in his bowl, Xia Qi hurriedly stopped:
"You can eat the dishes you ordered, I think you need to make up for it."
Ignoring Zhao Anguo, who only knew how to eat fiercely, Xia Qi saw that Shen Ruotong had been listening to him, he couldn't help but feel a little relieved, and continued:
"What An Guo said is actually right, we have been in contact with the incident for less than a day, and we are indeed in a hurry.
Although there is no solution at the moment, many clues have been found.
For example, the target chosen by the ghost to kill, the staircase that appears and then disappears, and how the original dead person appears in the home.
I think that if we solve these doubts, we will not be far away from completely resolving this incident.
Tomorrow, we will go to the Dongyu District Police Station again to see the surveillance video that we have not seen before, and then find Wang Qianhua and He Chong again to see how to give them a preventive shot in advance. ”
Xia Qi told him his plan for tomorrow, and after finishing speaking, he looked at Shen Ruotong, who was thoughtful, and asked:
"Do you have any ideas over there?"
"Not yet, if there is, I'll tell you directly."
The atmosphere of this supper can be described as quite dull, and Xia Qi is completely absent-minded, and basically doesn't want to eat it without eating a few bites. He tried to call Leng Yue with the communicator, but Leng Yue's side was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no response at all.
Zhao Anguo saw that Xia Qi had been talking to himself on the communicator, so he asked curiously:
"Senior, who are you talking to so late?"
"It's also a company, but it's much more than ours." Xia Qi can really be regarded as blowing wherever he goes to Leng Yue, after all, his friend Niu Bi around him has face on his face when he says it.
"More powerful than the predecessors? I'd love to see him, but he didn't reply to you probably because he was also carrying out the event, and two people who were both in a paranormal event couldn't use the communicator to talk. (To be continued......)