"Soul Reaper Murder Case"

  I furrowed my brow and turned to walk outside, Su Yao was startled by my action and hurriedly followed up to ask: "Where are you going?"

  "Go around to the back of the villa!" I sensed that gloomy atmosphere, which seemed to be coming from behind the villa.

  The backyard of the villa covers an area of over 1,000 square meters, has been neglected for years, and has become desolate, overgrown with weeds, exuding a sense of decline and desolation.

  I trampled on the weeds, moving forward, and found a rear door in the wall of the backyard, which was not closed. I pushed open the door and walked out of the villa yard. As soon as I looked around, I saw a dark hole about 20 meters in front of me, which seemed to be a well!

  As I walked closer, I found that the well's mouth was very strange, with bluestone carvings, like many symbols were copied, but due to years of wind and sun exposure, they had become blurred and unclear. However, the octagonal outline of the well's mouth could still be seen, resembling an eight-trigram pattern.

  It's an ancient well! Absolutely not dug a few years ago.

  I cautiously stretched my body to the mouth of the well, the narrow ancient well was bottomless, dark and profound, like a black hole, sucking away all the light, only darkness was eternal.

  Standing by the well, I seemed to feel a very gloomy breath slowly rising from the bottom of the well. The cold feeling made my whole body covered with goosebumps. Looking down carefully, it seemed like a black shadow was floating up, and the shadow turned into a human head, smiling eerily.

  "Ah!" I suddenly retreated a few steps, still in shock, with a serious expression on my face.

  Su Yao curiously stretched her head to look around, but was suddenly grabbed by me, this sudden action made her completely unguarded and scared her into a sharp cry.

  "Brother Yu, why did you pull me?" Su Yao's slender hands patted her violently heaving chest, with a 'scared to death' expression.

  "This well is strange, don't look at it!"

  Su Yao looked at me with a very serious expression, and although she didn't know why in her heart, she subconsciously nodded, and was actually quite obedient.

  "I don't know if Captain Wang and his team have discovered this well, or if they've sent someone to search it?"

  Su Yao said: "Then I'll call to ask, this well is behind the villa, but there's nothing blocking it, the criminal police team should be able to find it."

  I nodded, and Su Yeo started dialing her mobile phone to call Wang Yufei, the head of the criminal investigation team.

  At this time, I lightly touched the stone slab at the wellhead, and the symbols on it were very strange. The hooks and strokes did not look like words, they were incomplete and difficult to discern.

  As I touched the well with my hand, my mood suddenly became very depressed, and a sense of despair and death grew from deep within.

  For some reason, I have a special fear of this well and do not want to get too involved, but ignoring this point may also have a great impact on the case.

  "Hello, hello? Is that Captain Wang? Hello... I'm Su Yao from the Major Crimes Division's Mystery Section. There's something I'd like to ask you about... it's like this..." Su Yao got through to Wang Yufei on the phone and truthfully reported the situation here. Due to poor signal, she only said a few sentences before changing locations to try the signal again. Ten minutes later, she hung up the phone, exhausted and drenched in sweat, then looked at me with an odd expression.

  "How was it?" I smiled and looked at her speechless expression.

  "They also discovered this old well and at that time they even sent a policeman down, but the policeman came up and said there was nothing found, then they ruled out this well."

  "Is it gone?" I hesitated for a moment, shook my head, and didn't believe that there was really nothing inside.

  "I'll call Director Ke and have him thoroughly investigate this well." I said to Su Yao, not going down myself would only lead to more suspicion.

  The phone rang for a few seconds, and at first no one answered. My heart hung up, thinking that nothing must go wrong!

  After more than a minute, someone finally answered the phone, and I let out a sigh of relief.

  "Hello... hello... I'm Chu Yu...... Director Lian, hello, please come to the back of the villa for a moment..."

  It's really speechless, the phone signal is too poor, it's better to shout a few loud calls towards the villa, I just hung up the phone and heard Su Yao suddenly scream behind me.

  I suddenly turned around and saw Su Yau Fang's face pale as she sat limply by the well, her complexion white as paper, trembling with fear, pointing at the ancient well.

  "What's going on?" I ran over and wrapped my arms around her trembling body.

  "There's a mass of black air inside, and faces are floating up, like a fierce ghost!" Su Yao said with a lingering fear.

  "Don't get close to this old well, there must be some secret hidden inside, or it's extremely terrifying past!"

  Before long, Lian Yuanming, Liu Jiezheng and Meng Zhaohui came over to ask what was wrong.

  "Even Director Li, I suspect there's a problem with this well. Although I called Captain Wang and he said he sent some police officers down, they didn't find anything at the bottom of the well, but it would be best if we could go down and check ourselves."

  Three people walked forward, surrounded the ancient well and looked down, simultaneously took a fright, retreated several steps, their faces looking very unsightly.

  "Is there a sound coming from inside the well?"

  "I feel the yin energy is very heavy, like a cluster of dark fog!"

  "I saw a disheveled skull floating up..."

  Three people have completely different feelings about this old well, which is indeed a bit mysterious.

  Su Ya grabbed my arm, somewhat nervously: "Are we really going down?"

  I shook my head and said, "No need for everyone to go down, two or three people will be enough. Maybe there will be some clues inside the well."

  "Will a vengeful spirit like Sadako be living inside?" Liu Jie Zhen said with a half-joking tone.

  I glanced at him, joking around in a place like this wasn't funny at all. I let out a light sigh: "I'm going down the well, what about you guys?"

  Liu Jingzhuang saw that I had a clear attitude and was determined to go down, so he gritted his teeth and said: "I'll go down with you, someone will be there to take care of you."

  "Count me in, I'm a descendant of Mao Mountain, and I'm not afraid of this kind of yin energy place at all." Meng Zhaohui's body had become plump, we privately called him Fatty Daoist, he was a man who attached great importance to loyalty.

  Lian Yanming nodded, called the other two police officers over, and retrieved ropes, waist rings, and hooks from the trunk of the police car. These basic climbing and descending movements had been learned in police school, and were also trained regularly within the police force. The three of us quickly fastened our waist ring hooks and threaded the rope through.

  I stood at the edge of the well, took a deep breath, and faced the mysterious and suspicious ancient well, trying to calm my mind.

  This time it's not a stolen soul, I only have one life, and if something unexpected happens, I won't be able to die and come back again.

  However, after years of dealing with corpses and facing death, I've become more courageous and naturally don't believe in superstitions about evil spirits.

  "Chu Yu, take this!" Meng Zhaohui handed me a small bottle.

  "What is this?" I asked in surprise.

  Meng Zhaohui explained: "Inside is the blood of a black dog, which can ward off evil spirits. It's always good to be prepared, and I know you don't believe in this, but some things aren't changed by human willpower. If you don't believe it, then it doesn't exist. Put it in your pocket, and if something unexpected happens, just splash it on the dark shadow, and it can block it!"

  Su Yao also persuaded: "Chu Yu, just take it, Meng's good intentions."

  I couldn't help but smile wryly, and reluctantly accepted the gift, putting it in my pocket. Then I entered the well opening, with both feet against the ancient wall of the well, slowly sliding down bit by bit.

  At a distance of five or six meters, Meng Zhaohui slid down second, and the last one was Liu Jingzhen. The rest stood at the wellhead, all highly tense in spirit.

  A narrow and damp ancient well, deep and dark, even in the scorching heat of July, cold air still emanates from within.

  A surge of damp air sprayed directly onto my face, filling my chest with each breath. At this moment, it seemed as if an inescapable shadow was attached to me, and I felt my body suddenly becoming slightly heavier, my senses no longer so acute.