"Officer Chen, I am a police officer who has been on the job for a month, Li Yuan!"
"It's like this. I want to apply for personal care of Li Qiqi. Girls are easier to take care of. And I also want to be on the front line and face the incident!"
"I just don't want to disturb your rest, so I came to the scene first..."
"Officer Chen."
"Officer Chen, Officer Chen...Officer Chen..."
...
...
Chen Xuan didn't know how he got to the hospital. He only knew that he was carried on a stretcher and looked at the black sky, wondering why there were no stars at all.
In my ears, I could hear the siren of police cars, the shouts of my colleagues, the movement of surrounding residential buildings, and the faint sound of crying.
But in Chen Xuan's mind, he only recalled the brief experience with Li Yuan, from Li Yuan's bright smile to his desperate cry at the end.
He was wrong.
What's wrong is outrageous, what's wrong is exaggerated.
He is self-righteous, he is headstrong, he is arrogant, and he brings it upon himself.
This was the price he paid for himself from the first moment he came to his conclusion.
So much happened this night.
But this night will eventually pass, and this night cannot be treated as an ordinary night.
It's not completely bright yet.
I can't make any more mistakes.
"Officer Chen, where are you going?"
After changing back into his police uniform, Chen Xuan limped out of the hospital, took a taxi, and rushed towards the police station.
The biting wind blew his mottled white hair. In the cold wind, Chen Xuan lit a cigarette shakily and held it in his mouth. He smoked quickly. He had never smoked so fast before. Then one hit him until he coughed, but another one followed.
Why is the smoke so bitter?
Chen Xuan pulled out another one, got out of the taxi, and walked into the police station. Without saying a word, he held the cigarette in his left hand and a pen in his right hand, and wrote every word on a single line of paper.
The dim light illuminated Chen Xuan's bitterness, and what was written on the paper was Chen Xuan's regret.
He wrote down his mistakes on paper and hoped that those who came after him would not repeat the same mistakes.
No matter how long the night is, it will eventually pass. The sky slowly lights up, and the people from the police station gradually come back. Everyone who came back saw Chen Xuan writing furiously in the office. Everyone held their breath and cautiously Yes, didn't bother him.
Although they don't know everything, they all know that the incident last night was completely out of control, the victim disappeared completely, and two police officers and a doctor also fell into a coma.
Only Chen Xuan managed to return to the police station. He wanted to write down everything that happened that night and record everything.
The chief has also arrived at the police station. His old figure looked at Chen Xuan in the room, his eyes flashing deeply. Everyone was waiting quietly, waiting for this piece of paper to be sent out.
I don't know how long it took, but Chen Xuan finally stopped writing and limped out of the room. His face was covered with stubble and his eyes were dull. Then he handed it to the director with both hands.
"Director Zheng, please, please read this report."
Bureau Zheng took the paper, and everyone gathered around.
I don’t know who is reading it, so that the people around me can also know the contents of the report.
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"My name is Chen Xuan. I am a consultant police officer at the Tangcheng Police Station. I am responsible for detecting cases in which people disguise themselves as ghosts."
Before this, I always believed that there were no ghosts in the world.
Ghost is an alternative created by humanities, a profile of human heart, a means of expression, and a kind of metaphysics.
My existence has always been to prove that "ghosts" do not exist.
But this time, I can't do it.
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Before this, I had always wondered why Wang Sanbei and Li Qiqi were so shy about themselves in the mirror, and why they were so secretive about what they wrote. I used to think that they were unable to accept their own changes, and what they wrote restricted them and prohibited them from speaking out.
But I never thought that these behaviors are not actually restricting them... but protecting us.
Because as long as we see and hear the real content of "it", we will be infected by them and die.
The victims clearly knew that they had been infected by "it", and it was the human instinct to protect the same kind that made them subconsciously not reveal all this, but cover up and hide the existence of "it".
Wang Sanbei even killed himself for this, put on heavy makeup and pulled out its traces, which is what Li Qiqi was doing originally.
But because I stopped their actions on my own initiative, I thought I was protecting Li Qiqi. In fact, this did nothing to protect her. Instead, it prevented her from protecting us.
I also harmed my colleagues.
I was already wrong, but we can't make any mistakes anymore.
This is not a murder from a "human", this is a murder from a species that has never appeared before.
I've seen her appearance, even though it's just the back, but I prefer to call her "ghost"
Or use a once classic word that can describe half of its fear——
Pen fairy.
The "Pen Fairy" who only exists on paper, cannot be expressed or revealed, and represents death upon sight.
But... is there only Bixian in the world? Will there only be pen immortals in the future?
Not only do we need to know it ourselves, but we also need to tell everyone! !
The 'ghost' appeared from this moment on.
"We need to tell people, we need to tell everyone."
Chen Xuan took out another cigarette, took a puff, and exhaled the smoke. In the swirling smoke, he saw his numb eyes.
He was so calm, but everyone thought he was crazy.
"Officer Chen, what exactly stimulated you? Aren't you the most opposed to the term 'ghost'?"
"Maybe this is just a new type of technology? Are we not admitting defeat? If we leave everything to the devil, what's the point of being police officers!"
"And what harmed my colleagues? Aren't Li Yuan and colleagues all fine? They just fainted and woke up. They'll be fine when they wake up."
Colleagues kept talking to each other, but Director Zheng glanced at Chen Xuan and said calmly:
"Chen Xuan!"
"What are you crazy about here!"
Director Zheng suddenly clenched the report into a paper ball and threw it to the ground. Veins popped up on his forehead. He pointed at Chen Xuan's nose and cursed:
"Disturbing the peace of the people and creating alarmism, do you know what will happen if this letter is sent? Not only you, I, all of us will be laid off!"
"Is this your advisory job? You are treating people's lives as child's play!!"
"Okay, then you prove it to me, where is the evidence?! What is a ghost? You can't listen, you can't speak, what the hell is going on here!"
Chen Xuan's eyelids moved, his empty eyes focused, he pulled away from his own memories and looked at the faces of the people around him.
Doubt, worry, disgust, contempt.
No one believed him.
Yes, he had previously firmly believed that 'ghosts' did not exist.
How can people change their minds so easily?
"I'll prove it to you."
Chen Xuan took off his police badge from his chest and slapped it on the table.
Although no one believed in him, this was what he had to do, this was what he shouldered, and this was the price for his mistakes.
Chen Xuan limped and wanted to walk out of the police station. His act of slapping off his police officer's ID card was a provocation to Director Zheng, and no one dared to keep him.
But Chen Xuan was still wrong.
Not that no one believed him.
"Officer Chen, wait."
Footsteps sounded, and she walked slowly.
Li Yuan walked to the door. She supported the wall and walked slowly in front of everyone. These few steps seemed to have taken away all her strength. Then she raised her head, as calm as herself before.
Li Yuan reached out, picked up Chen Xuan's police card from the table, and hung it around Chen Xuan's neck.
Then he took off his police ID card and placed it on the table.
"Let me do it this time."
Li Yuan showed a confident smile again.
"There's nothing I can do."
"But I can prove that what Officer Chen said is right."
Li Yuan pulled open his collar.
It was a light black plum blossom spot.
