Chapter 2: Supernatural Cases

  After being beaten by Xu Jian, Liu Li finally calmed down temporarily and went to work honestly every day. However, due to Liu Li's previous misbehavior, the leaders of Huangcai Township Police Station did not dare to assign tasks to him, only arranging for Liu Li to be on duty at the unit.

  August 18, 2013, the twelfth day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar, two days before the "Ghost Festival" in folklore. "Ding ding ding...ding ding ding..." At 1:30 in the morning, a piercing phone ring echoed through the duty room of Huangcai Township Police Station.

  Officer on duty, Dou Zhihao, got up from bed and picked up the phone in a daze: "Hello, this is Huangcai Township Police Station. What's the matter?"

  At this time, the receiver transmitted the urgent voice of the dispatcher at the command center: "Huangcai Police Station, this is the command center. We just received an alarm call saying that someone was killed by a 'ghost' in the tomb area north of Guojia Village, Huangcai Township. You go and take a look at what's going on."

  After hanging up the phone, Dou Zhihao was wide awake and put on his clothes to run to the dormitory of the police officers upstairs. He came to the third dormitory and knocked on the door: "Liu Ge, Liu Ge, get up quickly, someone has reported a crime."

  After a few knocks, the dormitory door was opened from inside by a young man in his twenties, who was tall and handsome with a sunny face. He wore a white sleeveless vest on top and a pair of large shorts below, and was gazing sleepily at Dou Zhihao:

  "Brother, where's my soul? I was just dreaming of marrying a wife, and the bride looked like a movie star, so beautiful! But just as we were about to enter the bridal chamber, you woke me up. You owe me a wife!"

  It turned out that this young man was Liu Li, who had been scolded by Xu Jian before. At this time, Liu Li hadn't woken up yet and was staring at Dou Zhihao with sleepy eyes, constantly yawning.

  Doubi Hao saw that Liu Li was still confused, so he went up to Liu Li's ear and shouted the command from the command center in his largest voice.

  "Damn it... a ghost killing people? I need to prepare some self-defense equipment." After hearing Dou Zhihao's words, Liu Li's sleepiness instantly disappeared. He quickly put on his police uniform and rushed outside while shouting: "Little Dou come with me to the scene, Little Zhang call the captain and report the case to him."

  On the way to the scene, Zhihao Dou looked at Liu Li sitting in the passenger seat: "Liu Ge, didn't you say you had prepared a magical tool? Why can't I see it?"

  When Dou Zhihao heard this, Liu Li handed over his smartphone. Seeing the phone handed over by Liu Li, Dou Zhihao was suddenly filled with admiration. It turned out that Liu Li had set the screen of his mobile phone to Lin Zhengying.

  After arriving at the scene, Liu Li found two panicked girls squatting beside the highway. Next to them were three fallen electric bicycles. Walking up to the girls, Liu Li asked who had called the police?

  When they saw the police arrive, the two girls seemed to have found their backbone and rushed to Liu's side, tightly grasping his uniform and begging him for help.

  Seeing the two people's emotions were quite agitated, Liu Li first comforted them for a while, letting them calm down. After the two people's emotions had stabilized slightly, Liu Li then asked what had happened?

  After Liu Li's inquiry, the two girls with panicked expressions slowly told Liu Li about what had happened. It turned out that the two girls were named Du Yan and Peng Fei, and besides them, there was another girl named Lin Na. The three girls were all from Guo Jia Village, and since they worked at the same company, they often traveled together.

  In the north of Guojia Village, Huangcai Township, more than 500 meters away, there is a cemetery where all the deceased villagers are buried. After decades of burial, hundreds of tombs have been erected in this cemetery.

  When the "Village-to-Village Highway" policy was first implemented, during the measurement and construction of the highway's orientation, in order to save resources, a vertical route was taken, and the construction personnel of the Highway Bureau built a rural road on the west side of this tomb area.

  The distance between the highway and the cemetery is only about five meters, and every time pedestrians and passing drivers pass by here, they see this large-scale cemetery next to them, and their hearts are a little scared.

  However, since this road is the only one leading to the countryside, even if it feels a bit stuffy, people from more than a dozen surrounding villages will still choose to take this road. Firstly, the road is easy to walk on; secondly, it's close by; and thirdly, it saves time.

  This morning, Du Yan, Lin Na and Peng Fei, who worked at the Hongfa Textile Factory in the countryside, were on their way home from work when they walked through this cemetery. Suddenly, the front tire of Du Yan's electric bicycle went flat.

  At this point, the three of them stopped their electric vehicles by the side of the road and were about to help Du Yan repair her vehicle. Just then, as Du Yan crouched down to examine the condition of her vehicle, she seemed to have discovered something. Suddenly, she let out a loud cry: "Ah... there's a ghost."

  Lina and Peng Fei were startled by Du Yan's scream, the girls were already timid, at this late hour, on the eve of the Ghost Festival, being in a cemetery, suddenly hearing the words "there is a ghost", both felt their scalp tingling.

  Although they were afraid in their hearts, the two of them still subconsciously looked in the direction that Du Yan was pointing, but there was nothing to be seen where their eyes landed. Peng Fei trembled as he said: "Du Yan, the Ghost Festival is almost here, you... don't shout randomly, let's... let's push the cart and leave this place first."

  Du Yan heard Peng Fei's words and hesitated for a moment, no longer caring about the car's paint job. She put down the car prop and was about to push the electric bike away when they discovered something that terrified them all.

  When did she appear? The three of them suddenly found a woman in white clothes with disheveled hair standing opposite them. With the help of the electric bike's headlight, Du Yan and the others vaguely saw the appearance of the woman opposite them.

  At this sight, the three of them were shocked and lost their color. Du Yan was even more terrified and shouted: "You... you... are Wang Jie? No... you... you're not already dead? How... how can you appear here?"

  It turned out that the woman in white in front of him was actually a good friend who lived in the same village as Du Yan and three others - Wang Jie.

  However, a month ago, Wang Jie hanged herself in her dormitory due to emotional problems during the night shift.