Book 2: Chapter 6

Book 2: Chapter 6

The case is very old, so let's review it first.

First, there was a strange fire in an empty building in Beijing. I won't go into the details, but the building was empty and there was only one guard who escaped after the fire. After the firemen put out the fire, it was reasonable to believe that there wouldnt be any victims. But as it turned out, fourteen bodies were found while cleaning up the ruins.

With the exception of one on the rooftopa charred female corpsethe other thirteen bodies were all drowned.

And these thirteen bodies were all arranged on the buildings middle floors in the shape of a fish. No one knew how they got into the building.

The identities of these bodies were unknown, but they didnt appear to be locals at first glance. Moreover, all thirteen people had varying degrees of eye diseases.

This was the first strange point. The second point was that the female corpse on the rooftop was burned to death while standing up. The temperature on her body was so high that all of the asphalt on the roof melted. After looking at the footprints on the asphalt, Black Glasses came to a conclusionthis female corpse weighed a lot. If the woman wasnt a sumo wrestler, then she mustve been carrying another person or carrying something equal to a person's weight.

But there werent any additional remains or other burnt things at the scene.

This was the second doubtful point.

Black Glasses first step in the investigation was to find a place in the building where people could drown. Based on all of the trace evidence, these people entered the building alive, so they must have drowned in the building.

But there was no place in the building where people could drown. Moreover, the water in the building had been shut off since no one was living there.

The main feature of those skilled in the old ways of the business is that a cigarette never leaves their hands. Theyll keep smoking one right after another, because there are too many "things" around them that need to be fed. And when you asked the old Northeastern women about the cigarettes, theyd show you that the cigarettes burned out quickly, as if there were ghosts smoking them.

I always thought it was a ruse, but now I didnt know what to believe.

The sorceresss daughter was studying in the Northeast, so Black Glasses went to see her. He knew that there had been an accident in this strange feng shui array, which led to a large number of deaths. There mustve been something at work there, and the only thing that knew the truth and could still talk was the so-called "Bao Jiaxian".

Black Glasses went to the northeast and met with the sorceresss daughter. When he first saw the young girl, he immediately noticed that there was an imperceptible thing behind her. Moreover, that thing knew that he could see it.

But his eyesight was different from normal people, so this was more of a feeling. He couldnt describe the world he saw, so he couldnt really describe this "different" feeling either.

The young girl promised Black Glasses to ask Bao Jiaxian about the situation at that time. They would hold the ceremony at her school when she was done with classes. But at that time, Black Glasses found that the daughter seemed very hesitant as she spoke.

He didnt know what secrets she was hiding.

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TN Notes:

(1) Per Tiffany: The Chinese characters of Bao Jiaxian can be interpreted as the immortal that protects the family. Of course, the idea of this is that the immortals are animal spirits or ghosts.