…
“Oh, this is it. It used to be Old Li’s place, his daughter-in-law gave birth, so the old couple moved to their son’s place to take care of the child. The house was rented out…”
*door knocking*
*bangbangbang…
“I said, are you really the woman’s family?”
“Thank you, Auntie. Next, we will deal with our own family…”
*kala*
“Oh, it’s Auntie Qian, I was wondering who was knocking on the door before...ay, Auntie Qian, are you looking for that young couple?”
“Not me…”
*bangbangbang!*
“Ah Miao, come to the door!”
“Hey, what are you doing…”
*bang!*
“Aiyo, what is this taste?”
*thumpthump*
“How could this be? How could this happen?”
“Who are you guys? Auntie Qian, who did you bring this time?”
“Already...died...two or three days ago…”
“Tou Er! Ring!”
“How could this…”
“Ah!!! Dead people!!!”
On May 28, 2004, the client’s body was found. The limbs were tied to the foot of the bed. The stomach was cut open and signs of struggling was found, but no other scars were found. No ghost babies were found either. The client’s left ring finger is wearing the square diamond ring. After it was taken off, it disappeared and is confirmed as a spiritual item. It is not a real thing.
On May 30, 2004, Xu Ling and his wife was confirmed dead. They were killed in a car accident. The police investigation reported that the two crossed the road at night and were killed by the passing vehicles. There was no abnormality. The investigation of the two people’s behavior at night was unsuccessful.
Attached: Photocopy of the investigation report.
On June 7, 2004, the ghost of Xiao Zheng was found in traces of Wang Fangjie’s body. It was confirmed that on May 30, 2004, the baby was born in the residential area of Xu Ling and his wife, afterwards their tracks were lost.
On June 15, 2004, the investigation was suspended. The result of the incident was the loss of clues to Xiao Zheng’s ghost, Wang Fangjie’s body, and the ghost baby. The incident is classified into “unfinished” category. Long term monitoring of room 809 of Junli Inn is carried out and keyword “Wang Fangjie” is set. If Wang Fangjie’s whereabouts are found, the investigation will be restarted.
On January 1, 2005, room 809 was confirmed to be normal.
On January 1, 2006, room 809 was confirmed to be normal.
On January 1, 2007, room 809 was confirmed to be normal.
On January 1, 2008, it was not possible to book room 808 of Junli Inn, confirming that the room’s guests were a couple. Booked other rooms in the inn for surveillance.
On January 3, 2008, it was confirmed that nothing happened the couple.
On January 1, 2009, it was confirmed that Junli Inn was normal. Confirmed that the danger is removed and the monitoring action was terminated.
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“This one also died and there is even a family member we can contact.” I turned the case file to the end. I looked at the results and shrugged at the the fat man and the thin man.
“How come they died again? Why can’t they just live?” The thin one complained.
“Maybe they all died and they came back as ghosts and killed all the people at that office.”
“Your imagination sure is rich.” I laughed a couple of times and took off the USB that was with the file and inserted it into the computer. “I guess I’m just a bad picker at these files and coincidently picked the ones that they failed in. What about this, why don’t you two go and go through the other things in that cabinet?”
“What are you talking about?” The thin man’s face grew long and had a scared expression on his face “I don’t want to go into that ghost place! Didn’t you feel it when you entered? That place is gloomy and cold! It definitely has problems!”
“It’s was cold, but it’s probably because the room hasn’t seen light in a long time.” I was clicking on the mouse just like before. “New Year’s Ghost Baby.” The file is turned to the first page.
“I think it must be because of that, too. There is cellophane on the windows, which makes light hard to pass through.” The fat one agreed to my statement.
The thin man looked at Guo Yujie for support. “Xiao Jie, do you think it feels wrong there?”
“Ah? I don’t feel anything.” Guo Yujie made an innocent expression.
The thin man was helpless and looked at us with an expression like an iron that cannot become steel. When he saw that I was holding the headphones, he looked at the files carefully, his eye moving and he looked up at me with a good brother expression and held my shoulder. “Qi Ge, then this is can only count on you! You are the most bravest one in here! Help your little brother and go find the other things!”
“But this isn’t my responsibility.” I took the headphones off and looked at the thin man helplessly.
Besides, I’m not that courageous, I just have a strange impulse to do it.
The thin man was right. That Qingye Supernatural Office is indeed cold and the window was covered with dark cellophane. We don’t even know where the owner is. The room was always closed, the sunlight is blocked and there was dust all over which gives people a cold feeling. But the room doesn’t have any electricity, it must because they didn’t pay the electric bills and it must have been canceled. No sunshine, no light, the sky is bright and clear but the room is dark. They must’ve not asked to reopen their lights and then I noticed the row of filing cabinets. After, a group of people went into the room, I never thought I would open a cabinet without thinking about it. I found out that inside had event records of Qingye and I didn’t even think about it.
When I left, I took a few copies and returned them.
Demons and Gods at work? (T/N: it’s an idiom in chinese, it means an unexplained event crying out for supernatural explanation or an curious coincidence.)
I looked down at the file in my hand.
“Qi Ge, what about it? Help your little brother, please! I will treat you to supper! How about eating barbeque? Fifty lamb skewers and another fifty beef skewers!” The thin
man said with pride.
I saw the fatty there drooling.
“You pay for half! This is work for both of us!” The thin man said reaching for the fat one.
“Ah?” Fatty had an strucked expression on his face.
“Or you can go get that file?” The thin man gave the fat man a choice.
The fat man nodded, the fat on his face trembled.
“Ok so it would be like that!” The thin man patted my shoulders.
“What do you mean it will be like that!” I couldn’t even cry or smile.
“Hey, the key is for you.” The thin man took out a key from his pocket.
At that time, the police had broken the door and the lock was repaired and the key was re-keyed. The key was handed over to the thin man.
I looked at the key and took it subconsciously. I held the warm key from the thin man’s pocket and I didn’t know why I thought of the file cabinet in the shadow.
“By the way, you should also go check when they went missing.” The thin man reminded me. “Look at their last case.”
“Oh ok.” I promised casually.
“Actually this shouldn’t be so complicated right? We have gone through all the formal procedures and there is a notice for these missing people at the police station. You have also inquired the community about this.” Guo Yujie openly stated. “After, the demolition and if the people are still not found. Record it and they will probably appear and then we will offer the demolition compensation. And we’re done, right?”
The fat man listened and nodded.
The thin man was shaking his head. “It has only been a few days and we’re giving up on finding them? When the time comes, the media is going to go crazy again——it’s crazy! And we’re contributing to them! Something like ‘whereabouts of the owner is unknown, government violently demolishes it’, change the news several times and it’s ‘the government’s violent demolitions and the whereabouts of the owner’s disappearance is unknown.’ After a few days it’s going to say that in order for us to demolish it, we killed the people.”
This did not have any effect on the demolition itself, we have to demolish it anyways, but if it befalls on an individual...dear god, it is going to affect our career!
“Is it that exaggerated?” Guo Yujie said. “You’re just saying it right?”
“It can’t be avoided. You need have some kind of big evil intention to bring down others.” The thin man’s face showed the hypocrisy of the world.
i posted all of the chapters that i've translated enjoy
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