Chapter 46: The Red Figure

The door opened, and a cold breath came rushing in. Although it was only a little after 8 a.m., the sun had already risen in early summer, shining brightly in the sky. It was already a bit stuffy, and walking into this small courtyard was like walking into another season. The coolness that came with it made people inexplicably feel a layer of goosebumps.

The women outside the door were still talking, and the voice of Mrs. Zhang was especially loud: “Don’t say that others don’t know what’s good, this yard is a good place to choose a location. Look, it’s warm in winter and cool in summer.”

Warm in winter and cool in summer? I looked at the wildflowers that filled the yard with a blank expression. This coolness is a manifestation of the gathering of negative energy, not a naturally cool feeling.

“These flowers…” A policeman next to me walked two steps towards the flowerbed. This was also a policeman at the crime scene yesterday. He recognized at a glance that these flowers were the wildflowers placed in front of the corpse.

One of the policemen was even more angry and shouted directly at Fu Yuan, who had just been arrested: “What else do you have to say?”

“I have nothing to say. Planting flowers is just a hobby.” Fu Yuan’s expression was very calm, so calm that it seemed as if he was just going home, and these policemen were just guests.

The police officer was dumbfounded by Fu Yuan. After all, the flowers in the yard could not be used as evidence. The police captain in charge was too lazy to argue with Fu Yuan. The wildflowers had already explained some of the problems. He said directly, “Search!”

The next step was a tedious search. At first, the police didn’t find anything, but when they went upstairs to the second floor, they found some things that looked like murder weapons, such as a hammer, a dagger, and a bloody axe. These things were carefully packed up, but they were not enough evidence to convict Fu Yuan. The hammer and dagger had been cleaned, and the bloody axe could only wait for the results of the forensic examination.

Hui Gen couldn’t stand it anymore and stepped forward, saying to the police, “I’ll show you where to look.”

I stood in the courtyard and did not move. In fact, I had seen it from the moment I entered the building. I saw about fourteen or fifteen crying women in various parts of the building, looking at us sadly but not daring to come forward. After all, occupations such as police, butchers, and doctors are all taboo to ghosts. The aura they carry is generally something that ghosts dare not approach.

“Fourteen, no, should be fifteen?” The anger in my heart was rising. Among them, I saw the daughter of the storekeeper, and I saw many unfamiliar and innocent young faces. Fu Yuan really could do it. What should life be in his heart?

Looking at these female ghosts, I felt angry and at the same time, I felt something was wrong. Because in the far corner of the balcony on the second floor, there was a red figure standing there quietly with its head bowed. All the female ghosts seemed to have not noticed it, and the female ghost closest to it also seemed not to have seen it.

Was it one of the ghosts that had been killed? I had seen ghosts before, but looking at the red figure, I felt a strange tightening in my heart, and a feeling of fear welled up from the bottom of my heart. I subconsciously wanted to open my third eye. After all, I came in to see these ghosts because I had caught Fu Yuan, and these ghosts appeared in their true forms because they were excited, allowing me to see them.

However, in the end, they are ordinary ghosts with insufficient power. This kind of manifestation can only be felt by ordinary people with slightly stronger spiritual awareness, but they cannot be seen. Naturally, I have no problem seeing them.

But without the ability to see the world as it really is, I don’t know what they really look like. For example, what kind of breath do they emit? Are they fierce ghosts, angry ghosts, or even more powerful beings? I don’t know.

But just as I was about to open my third eye, a policeman also walked to the far corner, because there was a locked door there. I guessed he was going to search that room. The moment he stood at the door of that room, the red-clad presence suddenly moved, passed straight through the policeman’s body, then looked back at me and disappeared behind the door.

At that moment, I subconsciously took a step back, and a chill ran down my spine. I couldn’t see the woman’s face clearly, but I felt that she was looking at me. Her eyes seemed to have penetrating power, and they carried an indescribable chill that suddenly struck my heart.

It was more than a ghost! That was the only thought in my mind, but before I could think more, I saw the policeman upstairs covering his chest, his face suddenly turning purple, bending over silently, and suddenly grabbing the iron railing of the balcony. He looked like he couldn’t get up in pain.

“Something’s wrong!” My face suddenly turned dark, I growled, and then I rushed up without thinking. Several police officers behind me also saw this scene, obviously not understanding what was going on, and they also rushed up.

I looked back at Fu Yuan, and I saw him sneer at me!

I don’t understand why I’m so angry. I have the urge to rush back and beat him, but I clench my fists and hold back. I was late in getting there, and the innocent policeman was dead. Hmm, the symptoms are usually classified as sudden heart attack or something.

I rushed up to the second floor, and in the living room of the main hall on the first floor, Huigen was pointing at a wall in the house, telling the police to smash the wall. Behind the police stood two weeping female ghosts. It’s better not to tell them. While you’re smashing the wall, there are female ghosts watching you from behind.

As soon as I got to the second floor, I felt an inexplicable aura. It wasn’t exactly the aura of ghosts, nor was it the kind of negative aura that flows from them. It was an inexplicable aura of oppression, sadness, and blood that enveloped me.

I silently recited the mantra for calming the mind, and in a few steps I rushed to the policeman, supporting him. I felt his body was cold and frightening. In just a split second, his face turned pale and his lips turned blue and purple.

“Should we take him to the hospital? What’s wrong with him?”

“Could it be a heart attack?”

“Epilepsy?”

The police officers who had rushed up with me were discussing it, and they were all over the place, trying to take the policeman to the hospital. Meanwhile, I took two talismans out of my cloth bag and yelled, “Quiet down! First, one of you come up and hold him, then one of you go down and find a bowl or a cup, fill it with water and bring it up.

The negative energy has entered his body, so what can an ordinary doctor do? Unless you find a TCM doctor who can treat the meridians, and give this policeman some positive energy to drive away the negative energy, I have already placed a positive energy talisman on the policeman’s chest to disperse the negative energy that was lingering in his chest, and to ensure that his chest is not affected by the negative energy.

Then the policeman who had gone downstairs to get the container also ran up panting, handed me a cup, I took a talisman and burned it, then put it in the cup, and pinched the policeman’s jaw and poured it in.

This series of actions left the police officers dumbfounded. The two most extreme professions in the world are either police officers or doctors. They either believe in science and are absolutely materialistic, or because of the particularity of their profession, they have encountered some “evil” things and become extremely “superstitious” people.

Most of them are the former type. After all, the chances of an ordinary person encountering “evil” are relatively small, and these policemen in front of me also belong to the former type. My behavior made one of the policemen unable to help but become serious, and he shouted at me, “Are you a charlatan? Don’t delay Xiao Shen’s treatment. I’ll take him to the hospital.”

After saying that, he walked over and helped the policeman who had an accident up, and he also pushed me! I think if it weren’t for my special status, they would have guessed that I was sent by the secret department of the higher authorities to handle a major case. This policeman would have used force against me, or he would have handcuffed me directly, saying that I was swindling and causing people to lose their lives.

I wasn’t angry, but I sighed helplessly, saying that the Taoists’ way of doing things emphasized fate, and the reputation of being plagued by several cancerous tumors led by Jiang Xiangpai had caused misunderstandings among the people, and it seemed that it would not be possible to eliminate them in a short time.

And our lives are too far from ordinary people. Even if we tell them the truth, they won’t believe us. It’s like if I were to tell these policemen that there are actually a dozen female ghosts watching them.

But in the end, explanations are powerless. I don’t bother to explain, and let them look at me with a strange look, while I turn to the yellow door and think about it.

My emotions told me not to open it, because I resisted everything behind the door from the bottom of my heart, but my reason told me that if I opened it, there would be a real secret hidden inside.

Between my emotions and my reason, I finally followed my reason and reached for the doorknob and pushed it. The door didn’t move, it was locked!

I thought I would have to break down the door, but just as I was thinking that, a sigh came from inside the door.

And suddenly the hallway and downstairs became noisy!