"How is that possible?"
Hearing his colleague's words, the policeman at the desk frowned.
"This kid is already a grown man, his eyes gouged out and his stomach ripped open, and he doesn't struggle? A little old man who has been lying in bed for so many years, he can be knocked down by a single punch, right? Even if we take a step back, in a hospital as big as the Central Hospital, how could the nurses allow someone lying in the vegetative ward to run into another person's ward and cause such a big incident..."
"Otherwise, how can you say this is weird?"
In the office, a middle-aged man in uniform had a serious expression on his face.
"We also asked the head nurse and other staff on the ward, and they all said they didn't notice anything amiss that day...it was as if they were possessed by a ghost. The nurses' station was not far from the ward, but neither the nurse on duty nor the caregivers employed by other staff on the ward heard any sound from the victim."
"Oh, by the way, the most bizarre thing about this incident isn't the fact that the old man ate human organs and eyeballs..."
As he spoke, the middle-aged man clicked the mouse and played a security surveillance video on the computer screen.
The video showed that the time was two o'clock in the morning. The camera was facing what seemed to be a garden path. The light was very dim. For a long time, there was no movement on this path surrounded by bushes and trees. Even the wild cats and dogs that always moved around at night were not seen.
Until suddenly, a white shadow broke into the picture.
It was a boy whose lower body was soaked in blood. He lowered his head, swung his legs extremely stiffly, and walked towards somewhere swayingly.
"hiss..."
The people who were watching the video together in front of the computer couldn't help but gasp.
"What is this?"
"This is the nighttime surveillance footage of Qiming Middle School."
The middle-aged policeman spoke in a tense voice.
"The nurses immediately called the police after discovering the incident at the central hospital. However, when we arrived, the ward was empty except for the elderly man, whose mental state had long since degenerated to that of a toddler."
"But, he, his eyes have been eaten? And his stomach was cut open. How is this possible?"
The colleague exclaimed in disbelief.
The air conditioner in the office is an antique that is so old that it has turned yellow from years of cigarettes. But every summer, people in the office complain about the lack of cooling provided by this broken air conditioner.
But now, several people gathered in front of the computer to look at the files and evidence, but they felt a chill in their hearts, and an inexplicable chill ran along their spine to the top of their heads.
"That's right, so when we first arrived, we were searching the Central Hospital," the police officer said, staring intently at the boy on the surveillance video, a drop of sweat on his forehead. "No one expected someone to be able to walk so far with such serious injuries. Although it's understandable that he suffered a huge mental trauma after such an attack, leading to his abnormal behavior, but, but..."
He didn't finish his words.
There was a brief silence in the office.
Those present were not rookies with thick brains. They all knew very well that people... especially normal people, even if they were stimulated, would find it difficult to inexplicably run from the Central Hospital several kilometers away to Qiming Middle School under such circumstances.
"The way he walks is a little strange too."
Someone stared at the screen and couldn't help but say.
"Why does it look like someone is carrying him forward..."
However, they could see clearly that there was only Song Cheng's shadow in front of the camera.
"The technical department has analyzed the video and found no signs of manipulation. No one is carrying him. If there is, then that person is the one we can't see—"
The young policeman spoke tremblingly, and couldn't help looking around him.
As expected, he found that the faces of his colleagues around him were a little stiff.
"Why are they just as weird as the Xiao family back then?"
I don't know who it was, but for some reason he brought up something that happened many years ago.
For a moment, the tragedy that shocked the whole country more than ten years ago emerged in everyone's mind, and even the experienced police officers shuddered when they heard the word Xiao family again.
"Put away all those weird things in your head!"
The oldest policeman shouted sternly.
"Well, Captain Zhang is right... We haven't even fully understood this case yet. Wouldn't dwelling on those random things be a distraction?"
Someone immediately spoke with a sense of relief, skipping the topic of the Xiao family.
"Besides this student, it seems a teacher at Qiming Middle School also mysteriously disappeared? Is there any connection between the two?"
Someone else asked.
"That's right, the teacher who molested students at Qiming Middle School," Captain Zhang rubbed his nose and said in a deep voice. "In fact, the school had been searching for that male teacher for a long time. When they carefully checked the school's surveillance cameras, they discovered the victim in our case, Song Cheng."
Having said this, Captain Zhang stopped talking.
What he didn't say was that if it weren't for this accident, the school probably wouldn't have thought of checking the situation in the Xiao family haunted house.
The body of the boy named Song Cheng will probably not be discovered for several more days.
"I heard that the boy was in a strange position when he was found."
"Yeah, he was kneeling with his back to the wall. He looked like he was...worshiping a god. However, the direction wasn't right."
The police went through the files and found the photos taken when Song Cheng's body was first discovered.
In the photo, the body of the young man, who had already died due to excessive blood loss, was stiff, but inexplicably, one could see his extreme fear from the posture of the corpse.
What is he afraid of?
Captain Zhang stared at the photo and couldn't help thinking.
I was so scared that I didn't even dare to turn my head.
The middle-aged man's eyes swept across a corner of the photo. Song Cheng's body was facing nothing but an ordinary wall.
The walls were covered with outdated wallpaper, covered in mildew from neglect. No matter how hard Captain Zhang looked, he couldn't see anything wrong.
However, if it was the Xiao family...
"Oh, right."
After a short, unnatural silence, the young policeman spoke again.
"For boys of Song Cheng's age, cell phones are like external organs; they are usually carried with them at all times. However, we did not find his cell phone at his home, the hospital, or the place where he died."
"His cell phone was deliberately taken away."
*
["Hee… Ah Xiu…"]
["My Ah Xiu, how can you cry so beautifully…"]
Deep in the dilapidated urban village, in an extremely old illegal building.
In the shadows, a strange and sticky whisper sounded quietly.
"Woo——"
Li Xiu's grandmother held a yellow talisman and walked back and forth in front of the door several times.
But in the end, she didn't dare to actually walk into the room.
She could only stand stiffly in front of the door, her body shaking constantly due to trembling.
The moment she heard the sound in the room, she suddenly raised her hand, pressed her mouth hard, and swallowed the whimper of fear back into her throat.
The elderly woman looked extremely frightened, her eyes wide open, and she backed away in fear, as if there was something extremely terrible and twisted inside the closed door.
It was not until she exited the corridor that grandma staggered and half fell to the ground.
Two lines of tears flowed from her turbid eyes.
The old woman almost crawled and rolled on the ground with both hands as she rushed to the door. She sat there huddled at the door for a long time, and only then did her withered face show a little bit of color.
"What a sin..."
Grandma murmured.
"It's really a sin."
Just when grandma was too scared to walk into the house, behind the wooden door was still the room that Li Xiu was familiar with every day.
The floor was dusty, the light was dim, and there was cheap, useless junk everywhere.
However, at this moment, there was some other movement under the bed where Li Xiu put a bowl of raw rice every day.
Under the dusty bed was a cracked and blood-stained cell phone.
The phone screen was on, and a video was playing on the screen in a loop.
That was the scene a few days ago when Li Xiu was forcibly taken to the Xiao family haunted house, pinned to the ground, bullied and humiliated, and maliciously filmed.
However, if Li Xiu really saw this video, he would be extremely surprised, because the scene reproduced on the mobile phone at this moment was completely different from what he and Fang Qianan remembered.
…
["Woo…"]
In the dim room, the boy's whimpering, as weak as a kitten's, could be heard.
There was no foul language and no bullying.
The tall, arrogant, and bullying boys just lowered their heads slightly and stood there like a fool in front of the mobile phone camera.
They were motionless, stiff as corpses nailed to the spot by stakes.
Li Xiu was surrounded by those people, huddled in the corner.
The boy's face was pale, like someone trapped in a nightmare, unable to wake up. He tilted his head slightly, his eyes unfocused, and his body twitched slightly.
Next to Li Xiu is Fang Qianan.
The tall boy was like an uncivilized beast, crawling on all fours in front of the thin boy.
In the video, that weird, awkward sound came from his throat.
["A Xiu, you are mine..."]
In the footage, Fang Qian'an caressed the boy's face, neck, and even chest with an incredibly intimate manner, his movements strange and awkward. Although clearly unconscious, Li Xiu would unconsciously avoid Fang Qian'an's touch each time. To stay close to Li Xiu, Fang Qian'an inevitably had to adjust his posture slightly, and at certain angles, the camera would capture his profile.
In other words, the eye on his profile was photographed.
In his eye sockets, there were two pupils squeezed together.
The evil and weird double pupils trembled slightly, reflecting a bloody light under the setting sun.
…
*
"Crack—"
The grandmother, who was huddled at the door with her back to the room, suddenly heard the sound of a door opening.
The old man's movements suddenly froze completely, and his breathing became so rapid that he almost died in the next second.
"Grandma, where's Ah Xiu?"
Amidst her own wheezing and muddy breathing, grandma seemed to hear a hoarse voice.
"I'm hungry."
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Brother: ...I also want to eat Angus beef caviar burger. QAQ