Murder Bureau within Bureau

  This scream scared me so much that my scalp is numb. Now it's just that there's no mirror, otherwise I'd want to take a look and see if my hair is standing on end.

  I also had an urge to stand up, but I suppressed it. I slowly turned my head and looked towards the door.

  I was certain that the strange noise came from White Haired Ghost, but there was no shadow of it at the door. I also glanced at Ah Feng and Pan Zi, and I believed they had heard the strange sound too.

  Lu Yufeng appeared calm on the surface, but he had raised his thumb, which wore an iron ring, indicating that he had already entered a state of preparedness for battle.

  Panzi was a bit silly, he just looked up at the light that had flashed a few times. To say that the hissing sound was much more terrifying than the flashing light, he actually ignored the hissing sound, I suspected if he hadn't heard it?

  The medium also noticed our reactions and intentionally leaned forward, asking, "What's wrong with you two? Have you felt the call of death again?"

  Lu Yu Feng and I didn't respond. Pan Zi was more practical and asked how to overcome this gravitational pull if the spiritual medium's words were true.

  The medium opened the drawer, took out three talismans, stood up and walked to a Buddhist altar, bit his finger and wrote a few words on the talismans, then chanted incantations in front of the Buddha statue and bowed several times.

  When he brought the talismans back, he gave one to each of us and seriously instructed, "These talismans must be kept close to your body, don't go out for half a month, hiding will not be a big problem, otherwise beware of bloodshed."

  I looked at the Fu Talisman with a knot, because it was printed with the blood of the spiritual medium, and I felt a bit nauseous. Panzi attached great importance to it and immediately covered it on his chest.

  Lu Yufeng understood the rules, and the medium had made talismans for us. We couldn't show no gratitude at all, so he took out 300 yuan from his pocket and handed it to the medium, constantly saying "thank you, Master, for your help".

  A Feng stopped asking about the case and bid us farewell. As we walked downstairs, he deliberately looked at the small black house across from us, where the medium lived.

  I also suspect that the cry came from this small black house, but now we can't find an excuse, and we can't rush in.

  After getting in the car, Lu Yifeng drove forward for a while but didn't leave the neighborhood. He stopped at a secluded spot, turned around and asked us what we thought about what had just happened.

  I thought for a moment and honestly said, "Actually, I didn't find anything particularly unusual. Then I asked him bluntly, "A Feng, when you were in contact with the medium just now, did you notice any suspicious points?"

  Lu Yufeng didn't beat around the bush this time, he admitted that he had always suspected that the medium was the murderer, but there were two mediums in Longzhou and we hadn't seen the other one yet, so it's not ruled out that he might be suspicious.

  A Feng's idea is that we two suffer a bit, act separately. He goes to find another medium alone tonight, and this one in front of us will be handed over to me and Pan Zi. From now on, the two of us must closely observe every move of this little black guy.

  Tracking and surveillance are a piece of cake for us old hands, Panzi and I nodded in agreement immediately.

  Lu Yifeng took good care of us and left the black sedan for us. He went back to his residence alone, riding a motorcycle to take care of things.

  Now I and Panzi don't have to suffer from the cold wind outside, Panzi's driving skills are not as good as A Feng's, but he is also a good driver. He sits in the driver's seat, I sit in the passenger seat, and we warm up in the car together.

  Our current position is quite clever, just right to gaze at the door of the unit where the medium lives. In fact, we should go upstairs for close-range observation, but the entire sixth floor is the medium's home, and we can't find a cover.

  I think we should also be on guard at night, so I discussed with Panzi that we would take turns, one person resting while the other must keep watch.

  This neighborhood is usually quiet at night, but damn it, tonight there are a few maintenance workers climbing on an electric pole to rush repairs, making noise all the time, and it's not very comfortable for me to sit in the car listening.

  Around ten o'clock, just as I was getting a bit sleepy, the medium came out of the unit door. Although he had changed into casual clothes, his face was still dark and gloomy, and I recognized him at once.

  Pan Zizheng was sleeping soundly, I quickly called him up and said there's a situation.

  Pan Zidu was still sleepy, listening to me say, anxiously ah-ed and wanted to open the car door and get out.

  I was worried about the little beast's IQ, so I quickly pulled him over and told him that since Hei Ling was going out at night, he must be taking a car, and we could just follow him in our own car.

  We also don't know where Hei Ling is going, he took a taxi and left, Panzi drove the car to keep a certain distance behind him, I took advantage of the empty space to open the navigation and stared at the route on it.

  We arrived at a nameless skyscraper in the city one after another, and Hei Ling stepped out of the car with a heavy look on his face and went inside.

  It looks like this building is not an inn, but rather an office building. In the evening, there are still sparse lights on upstairs. I asked Panzi to quickly find a place to moor and then followed him in.

  The whole first floor had only one elevator. When we arrived in front of it, the elevator was going up. I thought to myself that there must be a medium inside without a doubt.

  We both stared at the electronic screen, watching which floor the elevator would finally stop on.

  I've been counting silently: 15, 16, 17, 18!

  The electronic screen finally stopped moving. Panzi made a joke, "Du Rui, did you see that? This spirit medium is quite evil, it went to the 18th level of hell!"

  I also think this 18th floor is quite unlucky, but I don't care about that. We pressed the elevator and let it fall again.

  During this time, I was worried about another issue. The entire 18th floor must have had quite a few rooms. What if we went up and didn't know where the spirit medium went? We would have to check each room one by one, which would be no small trouble.

  After the elevator door opened, I still walked in with this worried momentum. I stood inside and leaned against the wall. Pan Zi blocked my way in front of me, responsible for pressing the floor number.

  However, these guys raised their hands for half a day and didn't press down, and they were still inhaling air with a hissing sound.

  I'm getting a bit impatient, thinking what is he doing, doesn't he know we're running out of time? The longer it takes, the harder it'll be to find the medium on the 18th floor.

  I gave him a gentle push, urging him to hurry up.

  Kebanzi turned his head and looked at me, took out a inexplicable strong shake of the head, then leaned to one side, making way for my line of sight.

  I was originally puzzled why he was like that, but when I looked at the row of floor buttons, something clicked in my head.

  This building is only seventeen floors high and doesn't even have an eighteenth floor button.

  I'm a bit nervous and somewhat bewildered. I thought the elevator had clearly stopped on the 18th floor just now, how could such a bizarre thing happen?

  Panzi asked me what to do? After a struggle in my heart, the idea of continuing to follow up took over, I gritted my teeth and pressed the button for the 17th floor. I also said to Panzi, "Let's go to the 17th floor first, then take the stairs to see if there really is an 18th floor."

  Panzi said okay, but after he finished speaking, he took out a whip and weighed it in his hand.

  I wanted to comfort him not to be nervous, but as I watched the elevator go up floor by floor, I also felt a lot of pressure in my heart, especially when it reached the 15th floor, I couldn't help myself either and took out the tonfa.

  As we stopped at the seventeenth floor and the elevator doors opened, both of us involuntarily took a step back.

  Pan Zi used his foot to hold the elevator door open, and we stood there, looking out at the surroundings outside the elevator.

  Can't help but say, this layer is pitch black, not a single glimmer of light. I held back my temper and poked my head out to take a look, after making sure there was nothing strange, I called out to Panzi to go down together.

  We didn't bring a flashlight, but I had a small one on my keychain, so I turned it on and found the stairs by its weak light.

  There is indeed an upward staircase and there really is an 18th floor.

  Panzi and I looked at each other, neither of us looking too good. I let Panzi take the lead, I lit the way for him, and together we made our way up the dusty stairs, step by step.

  I even deliberately looked down at the ground, and there were no extra footprints on it. It was very obvious that no one had been here for a long time, eighteen floors up.

  My mind was full of question marks, I didn't know what kind of skills the spiritual medium had, how could he make the elevator go to the 18th floor in an instant. When we just arrived at the 18th floor and looked at the stairwell door, I suddenly ignored all my doubts in my heart.

  Because there were two seals crossed on the door of the stairs. The 18th floor was actually a forbidden place!