Ghost Detective

Chapter 18 18 Browsing the Archives

"Okay." Knowing that Ye Nuochen was at the side, Lin Ke pulled out of Mu Lingsheng's arms embarrassedly.

It was only then that Mu Lingsheng noticed that there was another person here, and he casually glanced at Ye Nuochen next to him, the tenderness from just now faded from his eyes, and his expression was full of indifference.

Ye Nuochen kept sulking there, glanced at the two of them once in a while, and then continued to play with his mobile phone. He just didn't talk anyway. Whenever Ye Nuochen didn't want to talk, it meant that he was so angry that he couldn't use it. to the extent that words describe it.

The three of them waited for about 10 minutes before Lin Long was brought in by Uncle Liu.

Lin Long opened the door and came in. He saw three young people, especially Ye Nuochen, who quickly walked up to him and chatted with him: "Xiaochen, you're here, how are you thinking?"

Ye Nuochen changed his indifference just now, and unconsciously raised a smile and replied: "Uncle Lin, my father agrees that I will investigate the case with you."

"Okay, come with me." Lin Long didn't even glance at the other two, or even say a word, before turning around and leading the way.

This puzzled Lin Ke, but Mu Lingsheng's reaction was flat.

"Dad, what about me." Lin Ke shouted quickly when Lin Long was about to walk away.

"Aren't you going to start school in a few days? I originally planned to ask you to come to the bureau to exercise. Let's talk about it next time when you have time. You and your friend go back first, and I will take Xiaochen to look at the files." Lin Long turned his head briefly. Knowing that, she continued walking forward without looking back, and Ye Nuochen followed behind, during which time she never looked at Mu Lingsheng again.

"Where do you want to go? I'll accompany you." Mu Lingsheng couldn't wait to start the two-person world with Lin Ke.

"Is this a date?" Lin Ke looked at Mu Lingsheng with a smile covering his entire expression.

"What do you think?" Mu Lingsheng put his arm around Lin Ke's shoulder and walked out of the lounge.

Not everyone can enter the archives room, only the administrators here and the relevant personnel in charge of the case can enter. This time, an exception was made to let an irrelevant brat come in to check, because Lin Long personally brought it here , so naturally no one has objections.

Lin Long led Ye Nuochen to turn left and right in the bureau, and then walked through a long and dark corridor. At the end of the corridor, he saw three words written in black italics on the upper middle of the white-lacquered wooden door - Archives.

The closer he got to the archives room, Ye Nuochen felt inexplicably depressed and uneasy. He looked at the white lacquered wooden door of the archives room which was close at hand, as if he had seen all kinds of life and was permanently locked inside the wooden door, never seeing the sky On that day, two words were buried there - fairness.

"This is generally a forbidden area. Except for the investigators who can come here, all other personnel are exempted from entering. I brought you here to pursue two unsolved cases and tragedies that shocked the whole country. You will know when you go in and show them." Lin Long explained , while finding the key to open the door of the archive room.

Ye Nuochen stood at the door. He vaguely saw a figure swaying inside the door, and he trembled in fright. He had a supernatural physique, and he had yin and yang eyes. This file room was in the innermost room. Feeling the eerie cold is overwhelming, and now it's even colder, making him rub his arms involuntarily.

The moment the door was turned open, several white shadows flashed past Ye Nuochen's eyes and disappeared, as if they had gone out.

Ye Nuochen quickly turned his head and glanced at the door, but saw nothing, they were running really fast.

When Lin Long came in, he turned on the light in the file room, otherwise it would be pitch black inside. After all, there are no windows around, and they are all closed white walls. If you don’t turn on the light and close the door, it will be completely pitch black. There is nothing around except layers of bookshelves.

As soon as the two entered, they could see the furnishings in the archive room at a glance. The archive room was about 1.2 square meters, surrounded by ten layers of bookshelves, the height of each compartment was about [-] centimeters, and the width of each bookshelf was [-] About meters, roughly counting down, there are eighteen bookshelves.

"They're all even numbers."

This is what Ye Nuochen said when he came in.

Lin Long smiled: "Every design here is exquisite. No matter where it is, it is designed to be auspicious. Even numbers represent auspiciousness, so it is designed and displayed like this."

Ye Nuochen continued to observe and browse, from the left to the right of the door, there are one to eighteen bookshelves, just like the order from yesterday's case to decades ago, from light to serious cases, each compartment of each shelf There are signs in each column, so that people can quickly find the corresponding files they want to find at a glance.

Ye Nuochen walked all the way down, looking at the signs on the bookshelf from top to bottom, the files of the suspects in the robbery a day ago, and the detailed files of the incident, all of which can be found from the files on the bookshelf. The logo only has a few simple words, and the general content inside needs to be browsed and searched by yourself. As for the order and name of the search, each file is packed in a transparent sealed bag, and the name and sequence of letters will be written on the side , is also clear at a glance.

"The number of archives here is tens of thousands. There is no upper limit. Of course, it is not all of the content. After all, every city has a police station, and every police station has an archive room. My here is only a part, and it only belongs to the big and small here in Beicheng. Case record files." Lin Long explained to Ye Nuochen while walking.

"Then what we are looking for now is the file of the unsolved case and tragedy that shocked the whole country as you said?" Ye Nuochen said while looking at it. When he walked to the last two bookshelves, he had already seen the first These eight words are written on the signage board on the tenth floor—the unsolved cases are as follows, and the tragic cases are as follows.

"From top to bottom, it is a case of several months to decades. Generally, as long as there is no definite result whether it is homicide or suicide, or the murderer has not been found, we call it an unsolved case. , The tragedy is literally explained, the tragedy is tragic, but it has not been solved so far, and it can also be called one of the unsolved cases." Lin Long didn't know when he put on the white transparent rubber thin gloves, squatted down from the bottom The bottom layer took out one of the archives wrapped in a blue case in a transparent packaging bag.

Ye Nuochen's eyes were slowly attracted to him, and he stared at the file in the blue case without taking his eyes off it. When Lin Long stood up and opened the file and handed it to him, the two of them browsed and watched together.

From the first page to the seventh page, each person's identity information and a color three-inch photo are recorded on it. Until the end of the seventh page, the time, place and people who happened inside, as well as the process and results of the murder are all recorded. Record in detail.

From the archives and the slightly yellowed pages, it can be seen that it is at least one year. Ye Nuochen naturally saw this. Of course, he could tell from the time recorded in the materials.

"The case five years ago?" Ye Nuochen stared at the four men and three women on the photo. They were all in their early twenties, and they were all as young as a flower. How could they be murdered like this?What a pity.

"At that time, we went to the scene of the crime. At that time, I was not in charge of the case. It was Uncle Liu, Captain Liu. Now he is no longer the captain. For some reason, we don't know the specific reason for him to resign. I am willing to be a patrolling guard." Lin Long said slowly to Ye Nuochen.

"I was the deputy captain at the time. I took this case because of insufficient manpower, and I was still in the learning stage. This case can only be described in four words. It was strange. Almost every month, a young man died near Beicheng. Their only The same three places, one is young, the second is single, and the third is death, all of which are cardiac arrests. This serial murder case lasted for seven months, and it ended after seven people died. I can’t do anything, I can’t organize my thoughts, I can’t figure it out.”

Ye Nuochen listened very seriously, as if a teacher was telling a fairy tale to a classmate with all his attention, his whole person's expression and state were completely attracted, he didn't interrupt or interrupt, he was already fascinated.

"That's all." Lin Long finally remembered to take a look at Ye Nuochen next to him, and with just that glance, he saw Ye Nuochen's downcast expression of concentration, as well as the long and curled thick eyelashes .

Only then did Ye Nuochen come back to his senses thoughtfully, and said slowly: "When I listened to you just now, I seemed to see the laughter before death and the fear before death. Everyone's life is like letting go. It played quickly in my mind like a movie, blurry and chaotic."

"You, can you see it?" Lin Long stared blankly at Ye Nuochen with an unbelievably surprised expression. The shock at this moment cannot be described in words. Did he really see it or was he blinded? human?

"A man... is a man..." In Lin Long's surprised voice, Ye Nuochen saw another scene, that is, in the last scene before everyone's death, there will be a blurred figure of a man walking away.