◎Chapter 2     The Ghost House No. 9

The local snow disaster occurred in the incident, the airport was closed, and tens of thousands of passengers were stranded at the railway station, and urban traffic was paralyzed.

The special case team first arrived at the provincial capital by plane and then arrived at the neighboring city by train. However, the expressway between the two cities has been closed. The police in the neighboring city used a helicopter to send the four special case teams to the school where the crime was in heavy snow.

The helicopter landed on the open space in front of the university gate, and the roar of the plane attracted all the teachers and students of the school.

The heavy snow was still falling, and all the teachers and students of the school lined up to welcome the arrival of the special case team. They stood on both sides of the campus road, no one applauded or spoke, but just looked at the four special case team silently. Su Mei pushed Professor Liang in the wheelchair, and Hualong and Bao Zhan followed behind. They felt that the burden on their shoulders was very heavy.

Professor Liang whispered: "If this case cannot be solved, we will have no shame to go back or face these students."

Bao Zhan said: "There is at least one thing that is very beneficial to us, because the murderer cannot leave the city for the time being because of the snow disaster."

At the end of the road, standing welcoming the leaders of the municipal party committee and government, the education director, and the school principal. Before the special case team arrived, they had already set up a special task force, and the deputy mayor also serves as the city's public security bureau chief, so the deputy mayor serves as the commander-in-chief of the special case, which shows their high importance to the case.

The deputy mayor went up to shake hands with the special case team one by one. Out of the generous personality of the Northeastern people, the deputy mayor took off his coat and put it on Professor Liang when he saw that Professor Liang was dressed in thin clothes, and kept saying that he had worked hard. Leaders from all sides also came forward to ask about his well-being, saying that he had been looking forward to the special case team because the heavy snow blocked traffic and could not welcome him. Please forgive me.

After a simple greeting in the conference room of the teaching building, Professor Liang said: "Based on my past experience in handling cases, the fewer leaders, the higher the efficiency. Therefore, I suggest that except for the deputy mayor, leaders at all levels will withdraw from the campus and the special case team will take over the case. The deputy mayor is responsible for executing and dispatching police forces at all levels."

The deputy mayor said: "I have made a military order in front of all the city's police officers and teachers and students. If this case is not solved, I will no longer serve as the director of the public security bureau. I will take off this police uniform that I have been wearing for most of my life."

The principal said: "Five girls were killed in the school, and four girls were in the same dormitory. One of them was the daughter of the provincial leader, and the other was unidentified and was under investigation. The school has been on winter vacation, but after the case occurred, the school asked all teachers and students in the school not to leave the school and wait for investigation. Because the Spring Festival approaches, the students are excited and cannot always not allow students to go home, so time is very tight and the pressure to solve the case is very high."

Professor Liang said: "Let's go to the crime scene first!"

The girls' dormitory where the incident occurred was a gloomy old building. All freshmen lived in the building. There was no surveillance and no alarm system was installed. The 309 girls' dormitory was located at the end of the corridor on the third floor. Next door was Door 308, and opposite was the toilet and water room.

The four girls in the 309 girl's dormitory were all killed in the dormitory. The murder scene was very bloody and terrible. There was a lot of blood in the corridor. A victim once crawled out of the dormitory and called for help, but for some reason he crawled back to his dormitory. The two girls were cut off one of their legs and one of their arms, and the other two girls were missing one of their arms and one leg, and both had blunt weapon fatal injuries on their heads. After the murderer killed them in the dormitory, they pieced together their limbs into a snowman downstairs. When the police arrived, the scene was damaged because the heavy snow was falling. The murderer's footprints were not extracted from the dormitory. In addition, the weather was cold, everyone was wearing gloves, and the police did not extract fingerprints in the dormitory.

The deputy mayor introduced the progress of the case to the special case team. Nearly a thousand police officers were organized to conduct a detailed investigation. The dormitory building manager locked the door at 10 o'clock in the evening and turned off the lights at 11 o'clock. Because the holiday was approaching, the management was lax, and there was no inspection at night. It is not clear how many people the murderer was, whether they were the murderer's gender, and how they entered the dormitory. The head of the snowman was the head of a young woman, and the limbs were the limbs of four victims in dormitory 309. The school has more than 10,000 teachers and students. Because many students are renting houses outside, and the holiday is approaching, some students have left school early, and it is not possible to determine the identity of the victim to which the head belongs.

The police immediately visited several dormitories next to them. A girl in dormitory 308 next door suffered from sleepwalking and found blood on the soles of her shoes. This shows that she had appeared at the murder scene on the night of the incident, but she knew nothing about it and just felt that she had a nightmare.

This girl suffering from sleepwalking is a sensible person all day long. She often tells her classmates that she has yin and yang eyes and can see ghosts and other unclean things. The classmate nicknamed her, Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao once told her classmates that the 309 girl's dormitory is haunted, and the four girls living in that dormitory - Leilei, Meizi, Xueer, and Yeman will sooner or later have bloody disasters.

The special case team, the deputy mayor, and the principal interrogated Xiao Yao again in the dormitory, and Su Mei filmed the entire interrogation process.

Xiao Yao said that on the morning of January 19, she had not yet got up, and heard many people shouting downstairs, she covered her head and continued to sleep. Later, the police came in and flipped around. After seeing her shoes, she immediately shouted and asked her to get up with clothes and asked her where she had been last night. Xiao Yao said she hadn't gone anywhere and had been sleeping, but her classmate pointed out that she had gone out once at around 12 o'clock in the evening. The classmate asked her if she had gone to the bathroom. She said yes at the time. After about five minutes, she returned to her dormitory to sleep.

Xiao Yao retelled the nightmare she had on the night of the incident to the special case team. She dreamed that she went to the toilet. In the darkness, she saw the door of Door 309 next door was closed. Although it was through the door, she clearly knew in her dream that the four girls in the door had been killed. One of the girls crawled out of the door. The little demon recognized it as Leilei. A hole was smashed on Leilei's head, and her legs were cut off. She crawled on the ground with one of her legs. The legs were exposed with white bones. Behind her was bloodstained, she wanted to climb to the front of the little demon for help. The little demon was very scared and ran into the toilet. Because of the extremely frightened and could not be excreted, the little demon squatted for a while. I remember that when I squatted down, I was scratched by something in the toilet. The little demon looked down and saw a terrifying hand stretching out in the toilet, with red nails dyed on her hands.

The little demon was so scared that his hair stood upright. When he left, he saw Leilei crawling back to the dormitory from the corridor, and the door creaked and closed.

Professor Liang whispered a few words to Su Mei. Su Mei put down the camera, looked at the time, walked out of the dormitory, and then went to the toilet opposite. After coming back, he looked at the time again. The whole process only took two minutes.

Professor Liang asked: "Did you urinate or defecate at that time? Do you have the habit of constipation?"

The little demon replied: "I didn't go anywhere, I never went out at night. I just had a nightmare."

Professor Liang looked at the case report and said, "What you did not have is a dream. Several classmates who lived in the same dormitory as you all reported that you had the habit of sleepwalking. What you witnessed was the real murder scene. At that time, the murderer was probably nearby, inside the door of dormitory 309, or hiding in the toilet."

Bao Zhan said: "Our police did find a hand in the toilet."

The little demon said: "Ah, then the nightmare I had before was also real?"

Professor Liang said: "What nightmare have you had before?"

Xiao Yao said: "My grandfather is a Feng Shui master, so I have a little understanding of Feng Shui. I have seen some supernatural things since I was a child, and it is difficult to explain. When the freshman year first year started, I thought that something was wrong with this building. It is a fierce place in Feng Shui. Once I dreamed that there was an unknown tomb under the foundation of dormitory 309. A tree was born in the tomb, and the roots were mixed. Although it was cut down, the roots were very prosperous. Later, the tomb was eradicated and this building was built. The lonely ghosts in the tomb ran out to harm people."

Hualong and Su Mei scoffed at it, thinking that this was nonsense.

Bao Zhan grew up in the countryside and was in awe of Feng Shui. He asked half-believingly, "Is there any solution?"

The little demon said: "I asked my grandfather, and he said that wild graves produce trees, which are extremely fierce. If you shovel this grave, the evil will appear and naturally transform into a natural disaster. There will be endless troubles and cannot be solved. You can only restrain yourself. You can put a basin of goldfish in the dormitory. The goldfish cannot die, and you must be a red goldfish... I suggested that Lei Lei do this, but she doesn't believe it, and she laughs at me as stupid. He is the daughter of a high-ranking official."

The deputy mayor looked at the principal. The principal thought for a while and said in surprise: "It really happened. I remembered that when this building was built, a grave was indeed dug. At that time, we posted a notice to find our family, but it was left alone. Many students said there were strange noises at night and asked to change their dormitory."

Xiao Yao said: "We also asked to change dormitories. Next door is the murder scene. I always see scary things."

The principal said in embarrassment: "The holiday is coming soon. Let's go to change the dormitory when school starts."

The deputy mayor asked, "What else have you seen?"

Xiao Yao said: "A person died in dormitory 309 next door before...a girl hanged herself."

The principal nodded and said in confusion: "How did you know? This happened several years ago."

Xiao Yao said: "Some of them are what I dreamed of, some are what I saw. The girl was hanging on the door frame of the dormitory, spitting out her tongue, protruding her eyes, incontinence, and flowing down her white skirt."

Bao Zhan asked, "Does the girl who hangs her short or long hair?"

Xiao Yao replied: "Short hair, looks like a boy."

The four people in the special case team looked at each other. Professor Liang took out a photo of the snowman's body and let the little demon identify it. A ruler was standing next to the snowman, and a yellow tape measure was placed in front of it. This was the photo taken by the police when measuring the snowman's height and length. The snow on the snowman's head had been cleaned up, his face was shocked and painful, and his eyes were dull. Because of the freezing, his whole face looked bloodless. This head was short hair and looked like a boy.

The little demon said: "I seem to have seen this dead person's eyes, I still remember it."

Professor Liang said: "You think about it carefully."
Chapter completed!