After a night's sleep, Chen Qing finally got rid of his long-term fatigue. After making sure that his body and consciousness were back to their best condition, he smiled and turned on his mobile phone, which had been turned off for three or four days.
On a mobile phone, there’s actually not a lot of… information to read.
Except for two questions from the teacher about his absence from class, there was basically nothing worth paying attention to.
He cleared the messages one by one, but when he cleared them until recently, a text message caught his attention.
"You have done a good job...but for some things, people have to pay a price..."
Chen Qing was silent for a moment and copied down the phone number with pen and paper.
Is this a private call? Are you disdainful of using an analog phone? Or is this just a wrong message?
Chen Qing was silent for a while and then dialed Jiang Wan's number.
"Eh? Are you awake? Have you been to the hospital?"
"You know I'm fine." Chen Qing shook his head.
"Just in time... I also have something to ask you for. Is it convenient for you now?"
"Is something wrong?" He was stunned for a moment.
"Yes, it's inconvenient to be on the phone. I'll pick you up."
Chen Qing frowned, but before he could say anything, the other party had already hung up the phone.
After waiting for half an hour, Jiang Wan's figure had appeared in front of the rental house.
After answering Jiang Wan's call, Chen Qing seemed a little surprised.
"You actually found me? I thought you would find me..."
"That house of yours?" Jiang Wan shook her head: "I went back yesterday to check all your information. The rental is registered."
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, his expression a little gloomy.
"What's wrong? You suddenly came to see me early in the morning."
Listening to Chen Qing's questions, Jiang Wan waved her hand and motioned for him to follow, and the two of them walked towards the car downstairs.
“The inspectorate received a call, but our superiors thought they should seek help from a psychiatrist, not us.
I heard that this family had called the Inspectorate’s Office many times before today, but they had never accepted the call.
It just so happened that this family called for help again today. After learning about the other party's needs, I felt that the other party's situation was not a simple illusion.
So I applied to take charge of this case. "
She got into the car and handed Chen Qing a copy of the breakfast on the passenger side: "Considering the principle that every case must be investigated, the superiors are happy to pass this report on to me."
"Do you think it has something to do with that organization?" Chen Qing was a little surprised.
"Yes. But maybe like you said... maybe it was just the little girl who entered the back room by mistake."
He frowned and nodded: "Let's make a deal. I will help you investigate this case, but if there is anything gained during the investigation, I need to get 70%."
She nodded, indifferent.
"It's a condition, not an element of the deal."
He looked at the other party with a very serious expression: "I need your help to find out who registered my rental information into the Supervisory Office system."
Jiang Wan was stunned for a moment: "Your identity..."
"I didn't register with my identity."
He looked into the other person's eyes, with a hint of fear in his eyes.
Since when has his whereabouts been noticed?
"You..." She was stunned for a moment, and then heard Chen Qing say again.
"Also...help to check this phone number. This number...may be related to the person we are tracking."
Jiang Wan nodded. After scanning the note, her fingertips entered something on the screen of her phone.
Half an hour later, Jiang Wan and Chen Qing appeared at the home of the person who reported the crime.
The couple who came towards them looked haggard, and the wife had obviously not taken care of herself for many days, even when meeting foreign guests.
The couple's surname is Zhang, the husband's name is Zhang Derong, and his wife's name is Zhang Yan. They have a daughter who is now fifteen years old and in middle school age.
The problem also started after my daughter came home from school one day.
According to Mr. Zhang, after school one afternoon, his daughter became mysterious when she returned home and returned to her room holding a schoolbag. On that day, whether it was her wife calling her to take a bath, eat, or... When going to the toilet, the feedback she gave was rejection.
After this situation lasted for a day, Mrs. Zhang couldn't bear it anymore and broke out of the door. What she saw in front of her was something the couple would never forget.
They saw their daughter hanging her limbs in the middle of the room with ropes. Dark brown wooden thorns pierced her ten fingers, and metal iron pins opened her toes.
But surprisingly, after the couple released their daughter from the restraints, all the wounds on her body disappeared. The daughter herself seemed to have just come back to her senses, questioning her parents with surprise and a little anger. , why did he break into his room, and why did he make the floor of his room dirty.
After the couple explained that it was all her fault, she was stunned.
She looked at the couple and asked, "How is it possible? I've just returned home?"
After listening to her words, the couple took out their mobile phones and let her know that they had been home for a day.
After this day, this girl's mind often wandered, and countless... strange things began to happen in this huge home.
Chen Qing frowned and looked up at the decoration in the villa. The top, which should have been the cleanest, was now covered with a touch of pink.
Those colors appeared under the paint, presumably covered up by redecoration.
is blood? Chen Qing frowned.
"Ms. Jiang...this is..."
Looking at Chen Qing who didn't look good, Zhang Derong was a little surprised.
According to his understanding, there should be only one investigator coming here to investigate this time.
"He." Jiang Wan smiled and said indifferently: "He is a 'professional' hired by the team and outside. His surname is Chen. He can be called Chen Qing or Brother Chen, it's up to you."
"Oh?" Chen Qing was stunned for a moment, a little surprised.
On the contrary, the couple opposite nodded numbly and didn't ask any more questions.
"Describe the situation."
"Didn't I already tell you on the phone?"
"But it's not just for me."
"OK……"
He sighed and led the two of them upstairs.
"Ever since what happened that day, it's like my daughter has become a different person... like... there are two of her."
"Split personality or something?"
Mr. Zhang nodded: "Similar. Maybe.
When she got sick... please forgive me, I can only use the word "sickness" to describe it.
No matter what she did when she was sick, she would not remember it when she woke up.
We tried taking her to various hospitals...but the results were..."
Chen Qing and Jiang Wan looked at each other with curiosity in their expressions: "What happens next?"
"after……"
Mr. Zhang was stunned as he walked upstairs. He turned to look at his wife. The haggard look in his wife's eyes made him make some kind of decision.
"After that, strange things happened one after another in the house. At first, some utensils were broken; then...it seemed like there was an extra person in the house.
One more person to eat... one more person to use, you know? It was supposed to be enough food for three people for three days, but inexplicably it only lasted two days. "
Chen Qing frowned slightly, as if this reason was a bit funny.
But Mr. Zhang seemed a little anxious when he saw this scene, and continued to add: "Also! And those things that can be counted! Our home's access control, our home's..."
He was silent for a while, his eyes full of fear: "Everything, everything is like there is an extra person... someone will knock on the door when I go to the toilet, and part of the food will be missing when eating. He lives in front of our eyes..."
Chen Qing listened, walked to Mr. Zhang and patted his shoulder: "Don't worry, can you let us see your daughter first? We will handle it for you."
Mr. Zhang gritted his teeth and looked a little weird: "This is the third residence we have changed... If this happens again... I..."
Before he finished speaking, the four of them had already walked to the girl's house, but when they stood in front of the door, the decoration on the door did not look like the layout a girl should have.
Those wrist-thick iron chains tied the door, and the small window through which food was delivered was densely tied with ropes.
"Believe me sir..."
Mr. Zhang whispered: "If you were me, you would do the same."
He paled and took out a brass key from his pocket.
"Is your house's key so quaint?"
"No...no. This is what my little girl asked for."
He put down the key in his hand, squeezed his wife's hand beside him, and quietly retreated behind them.
Jiang Wan pointed to the door, then to his forehead and legs. The meaning of her inquiry was very clear.
"It's possible. But it's also impossible." He said, putting the key in his hand into the iron chain.
And with the clatter of the iron chain, the people in the room seemed to be awakened. With a sound of impact, a pair of dirt-stained hands tightly grasped the edge of the food delivery port.
"Let me out! Let me go! You can't die easily! You can't die easily!"
Her voice was hoarse and weak, but the words she spoke were filled with strong conviction.
Chen Qing frowned slightly, squatted down and looked into the food delivery port.
"you are sick."
Before the girl could answer, he stood up and opened the door.
Jiang Wan and Chen Qing opened the door, and the scene inside the house finally appeared in front of them.
The walls were covered with strange totems painted with red paint. Under the totems, countless rotten and fermented objects were piled up, and in the center of those objects was a girl with a hand stuck in the doorway.
Chen Qing was stunned for a moment. He looked at the girl's cloudy eyes and raised his palm: "Hi?"
Jiang Wan looked at the two people facing each other and was stunned for a long time.
"Are you serious?"
