Chapter 7: The Vengeful Spirit Demands Life

  The meeting with Bi Xian ended here, and I left the cryogenic chamber simultaneously with the four of them.

  Just as we were leaving, Kong Xiangdong stuffed 500 yuan into Yan Feng's hands and returned the security guard coat to Zhao Ye, advising them not to quarrel in the future.

  I find it inexplicable that the man who killed his wife is now advising others, and he even claims to have had a great relationship with her. This is somewhat hard to swallow.

  But whether it is Wang Wenlu, Kong Xiangdong, Zhao Ye or Yan Feng, the four of them had no motive to kill and no time to commit a crime, I have nothing to start with, it seems that I can only investigate from the side.

  Recently, I want to visit Xu Na and Xu Jie's small harbor, see what kind of submarine they are studying, can it be used in such a small waterway?

  "Detective, I'll protect you." Yan Feng shouldered his wooden sword, still maintaining his usual calm and collected demeanor.

  This reminds me of something: "When the previous Inspector Lin was investigating a case, you always secretly followed him. Can you explain why?"

  "How did you know?" Yan Feng was startled, then dryly laughed: "You're a super detective, you know everything. No mistake, I've been following that icy face all the way, wanting to see who the murderer is."

  "Is that so? What did you find out?" I strolled towards the small bay while occasionally glancing at him.

  It was my unintentional gaze that provoked Yan Feng to shrug his shoulders: "I've watched police procedural movies and TV dramas, Lin Detective's approach to investigating cases, collecting evidence, screening personnel, and recording data in detail is like a story replay. But you're different, you pick up a bit here, gather some there, and suddenly jump a big chunk, it really makes people unable to keep up with the rhythm."

  Is this a praise? I find it hard to get excited, the investigation of the five-person method missed one, and the grasp was not accurate. This also gave me an experience, in the case of uncertain data, it's better to stick to finding the complete number of people, so as to avoid another futile effort like this.

  "He just looked wrong." Yan Feng muttered to himself, then turned and said loudly: "I'm telling you, detective, I didn't find anything, but this murderer is definitely Zhao Ye."

  "You say this, even if there's no basis for it, at least there should be some rumor or hint, right?" I'm really helpless with this kid.

  Yan Feng immediately said loudly: "I'm definitely not the murderer, and neither is the captain. That leaves only Zhao Ye and Dong Ge. When I was investigating with Detective Lin, only Zhao Ye told a lie about buying fish food and opening a Land Rover to go out every other day?"

  "Some things you little kid won't understand." At this time, I had already arrived at the small dock filled with tools and iron blocks, but there was no one around, could they be in the water?

  I took a rough measurement of this place, it's 8 meters high, 20 meters wide, the middle water channel is about 10 meters wide, at most * meters deep, under the light, the bottom of the water is clearly visible, but a little far away from the light, it instantly becomes pitch black, typical urban underground drainage.

  Furthermore, mountain spring water is very cool.

  Yan Feng ran to the edge of the wooden dock and looked around: "Those two sisters have jumped into the water again, and there's no one on the shore. How dangerous is this!"

  "What danger? What's wrong?" I'm still quite unfamiliar with this place.

  Yan Feng turned his head and said, "Those two old-fashioned devices are not guaranteed at all. The first time they dived, the submarine was flooded, and the two of them barely made it back, almost making me laugh to death."

  Woooowwwww...

  Speak of Cao Cao, and Cao Cao arrives. As I was chatting with Yan Feng at the small dock, a series of propeller rotation sounds came from the water, and through the spotlight, I saw a super-small "mystery" submarine about 3-5 meters in size appear... Is it made of wood?

  "My god, can this submarine work? Don't let it get rusty from being soaked in water!"

  Whoosh! After a burst of draining water, the submarine gradually floated to the surface. The dock had an old-fashioned stabilizer that could stabilize the submarine's dynamics.

  "Whoa! The submarine hatch opens, and first to pop out is a face full of excitement: 'Yes! We did it again, we've made so much progress, it's simply awesome.'"

  Before long, two sisters dressed in crisp naval training uniforms appeared, but obviously my presence in police uniform more or less ruined this wonderful celebratory moment.

  "What's going on? Do you still want to interrogate me?" The girl on the right side was fuming, with a "don't mess with me" look.

  Yan Feng immediately stepped forward: "Xu Na, let me tell you, this is a super detective, not like that street cop from yesterday, you'd better be careful."

  "Huh?" On the left side, it was naturally Xujie: "Yan San Shao, you don't play games anymore and have switched to being a detective, I'm watching you ~"

  It seems that all the 'girls' here like YuYu's way of speaking, Zhang Meng is like this too, and this tone of speech can be quite infectious.

  "Why don't your submarines have metal hulls?" My first question made the three of them look at each other with dull, stupid expressions.

  Xu Na was the first to react: "We two sisters are not like these rich young masters, with empty pockets. We were able to make it this far thanks to the old captain's help."

  "Sister, we're almost successful. Once we succeed, we'll have money to buy better materials." Xu Jie comforted her stubborn sister, whose temperament had a hint of gentle toughness.

  I came with great interest: "After you make submarines, can you make money and have a market?"

  Xu Na coughed and said, "As long as we succeed, it's easy. I saw online that small submarines are sold for 1.8 million yuan. We can sell them for 300,000 to 500,000 yuan. After deducting material costs, we can make even better submarines and sell them to various parks."

  "How to use the park?" I curled up my mouth wanting to laugh, but finally held it back.

  Xu Jie hastily said: "Some parks have deep water, some parks have shallow water. As long as we investigate the water level in advance, we can operate it. When tourists take our submarine to watch the poor water quality, they will love and protect the environment even more."

  In my mind, I thought that in the city where we are, except for Nanhu Park in the city center, there is probably no other park with a deep enough water level. Otherwise, it would be dangerous to dive, with great risks and investments, high maintenance costs, but the returns are minimal. This investment seems not very realistic.

  "I heard you guys once stopped Li Mohan from raising fish, but that park is full of fish, even a submarine can't overcome this, I'm afraid no one will acknowledge it." I started to steer the conversation in that direction.

  Xu Na burst out laughing: "You suspect us of being the murderers too? Let me tell you, we're not. If we were, Li Mowang's ghost would have devoured us by now."

  "Hmm~" Xu Jie also chimed in, "She likes raising fish, we like submarines. If we harm her, let the water ghost possess us and eat us up, our conscience is clear, we're not afraid at all."

  Bang!

  The two girls' voices had just fallen when a loud muffled sound came from the direction of the submarine. The four of us looked over and saw that the submarine was shaking violently, as if it had malfunctioned!

  "Not good, Xiao Jie, quickly go get the winch, hurry up!" Xu Na shouted loudly, rushing towards the submarine first, while Xu Jie hastily jumped up to the control room and flipped the switch of the crane.

  "Good grief!" Yan Feng's eyes widened as he exclaimed, "This is Li sister's spirit appearing! Could it be that the murderer is one of her sisters?"

  "No... don't go past!" In the instant that the submarine shook, all the hairs on my body stood up. My beast-like crisis sense of smell told me that there was extreme danger ahead!

  I rushed towards Xuna at lightning speed, I must pull her back, I must!

  We were all on the small dock, one in front of the other. Although the distance was not far, Xuna was too close to the water's edge. Her small hand touched the submarine when I was still running towards her.

  In just a second or two, the lights flickered on and off several times before suddenly going out collectively with a "pop".

  With a loud splash, a dark figure suddenly emerged from the water and shot towards Xun Na like lightning.

  At this time, I rushed over, and although it was pitch black all around, using the refracted light of the water's ripples, I faintly saw a dark shadow rushing towards us. Although I didn't know what it was, I clearly saw a pair of bloodshot eyes.

  "Be careful!" I hugged Xuna tightly, and with a swift twist of my waist, we dodged the 'girl' just in time. The bloodshot eyes in the darkness brushed against my shoulder with incredible force, sending me tumbling down, and the two of us crashed to the ground in a tangled mess.

  Pfft...

  It was as if a rolling sound followed by a splash of water, and then - the lights came back on!

  "Sister, are you okay?!"

  "Something's wrong, our submarine!"

  "Get back here, all of you!" I grabbed one in each hand and dragged Xu Na and Xu Jie to the edge of the wall corner. Meanwhile, that Yan Feng guy was still standing there with his useless wooden sword, shouting "Demacia" as he guarded us from the front.

  "Waaahhh... waaaahhhh..." The two girls cried, and it wasn't until then that I lifted my head in a daze to see the material under the submarine being hoisted by the crane was shattered!

  What happened?

  It wasn't until about half a minute later that the four of us came back to our senses, looking at each other in confusion.

  Yan Feng scratched his head: "Xiao Na, Xiao Jie, it was you who killed Mo Han's sister, and now she has come back to take revenge on you."

  "Nonsense, we didn't!" Xu Jie clenched her small fist, and tears welled up in her big eyes again.

  "You fart!" Xu Na was furious: "It must be sabotage, who is so shameless, 'damaging' our sister submarine, I will not let him go!"

  I furrowed my brow, lost in thought. At this moment, rather than talking about Xu Na and Xu Jie's retribution or suspecting Yan Feng's ghost theory, I'd rather follow the clue from the water...

  "It's all over!" Thinking of those bloodshot eyes, I gasped and shouted: "Quickly! Go to every place in Ghost City and tell everyone not to approach the water's edge, go quickly!"

  Chen Dong used the community's loudspeaker to announce that no one was allowed to approach the canal.

  At this time, with me as the center point, the vast majority of people in the Ghost Market gathered at the four-way intersection on the upper shore, which is also the front end of the White Otter's 'cave'.

  "What's wrong, bad guy?" Zhang Momo ran over with a glass ball in her arms.

  Seeing that she was fine, I finally put down the heart that had been hanging in mid-air: "From now on, you're not allowed to leave my side, not even half a step."

  "What's wrong?" Zhang Meng's small face turned slightly red, with so many people around.

  Wu Xing and Captain Wang walked up in big strides: "Chuan Jie, have you found out who the murderer is?"

  I helplessly shook my head: "The murderer hasn't been found yet, but the fierce beast has appeared."

  "No, it's a ghost!" Yan Feng boasted in front of his brothers: "I saw Sister Li's ghost, coming to take the lives of Little Na and Little Jie."

  "Shut up!" Xu Na's temper wasn't very good, and she was ready to fight: "I'll say it again, Li Mihan's death has nothing to do with us sisters, if you want to die then speak up!"

  "Cut it out!" Yun Feng said indignantly: "At that time, if I hadn't risked my life to protect you all and shouted 'For Demacia!', you would have been done for, do you know that?"

  Xu Jie pouted: "Nonsense, it was clearly the police who saved my sister, you're just good at playing with broken wooden sticks."

  "Alright." Captain Wang shouted loudly: "Everyone stop arguing, Comrade Policeman, now what's the situation, you tell us."

  It was the older people who knew better, I took a deep breath and said: "At that time, Yan Feng and I were visiting and asking Xu's sisters about Li Mianhuan. Coincidentally, when they were cursing and wishing they were not the murderer, we were attacked by something."

  "What is it? Is it a monster or something dirty?" The people in the ghost market became restless, how could such a thing happen?

  "It doesn't seem like it." I continued, "That should be man-made, the lights went out, and that monster appeared to launch a surprise attack. The lights came on before it ran away. Ah, at that time, it was ambushing Xu Na, there must be something on Xu Na's body that made the murderer uneasy!"

  "It's better not to jump to conclusions too early." Wu Xing waved his hand: "Everyone, let's take our equipment and go to the scene of the incident together."

  "Great, great, great! Let's all go together and defeat the monster with unity and cooperation. We are the heroes who save Ghost City!" A group of excited net worm boys took the lead, and the vast majority of people in Ghost City followed suit.