fog city detective

Chapter 28 Ghosts
Sitting quietly for 10 minutes without talking, the two ate the hamburger after it was delivered.Seeing that Bobby eats very elegantly, he has a question about this change: "Since you have an arrogant personality and look down on roadside food, and you still have a lot of time, why don't you eat what you like?"

Poppy pretended to be mysterious: "Because if I leave, you won't see ghosts... This burger is delicious, more flavorful than the burgers I usually eat."

Liang Xi replied, "That's because you're hungry."

Poppy: "How do you know?"

Liang Xi: "If you are not hungry, how can you ask me to order food for you?" Are you insulting my profession or your own personality?
Poppy looked at Liang Xi: "It makes sense, you're still a bit interesting as a detective."

Bobby first gave a slight affirmation to Liang Xi, Liang Xi is not a bad guy, and said respectfully: "You are also interesting as a psychic." Although he didn't know what was interesting.

Poppy didn't answer the question, thoughtfully.After the hamburger, Poppy said, "I'll tell you a secret."

Liang Xi said: "You can leave it alone."

Poppy said, "Actually I can't communicate with ghosts."

Liang Xi asked in disbelief, "Really?"

Poppy couldn't bear it any longer, he put up a middle finger, feeling that it was not enough, put down the cola and freed up his hand to put up another one.Liang Xi was too lazy to pay attention to it. He had already run out of swearing English words, and repeating it again appeared to be lacking in words.

Poppy was embarrassed by Liang Xi's lack of response, and quietly closed his middle finger, saying, "From middle school to today, I have lived in haunted houses and haunted houses rumored on the Internet more than a hundred times, and I have never seen any ghosts."

Liang Xi asked, "What? Ghosts don't want to see you?"

Bobby waved his hand, not wanting to talk to Liang Xi, and went to the bathroom in the big room to pee.Peeing, washing hands, and walking out of the big room, Liang Xi stood aside: "Hey."

Poppy jumped three feet high and became furious. Liang Xi immediately ran away, and Poppy chased into the hall.Liang Xi hurriedly said, "Death! I'll see if you're afraid of ghosts."

Poppy glanced at Liang Xi angrily. He knew that he would still suffer from a fight, and gritted his teeth: "I'm not afraid of ghosts, I'm afraid of people."

The two returned to their positions, Poppy sat back on the sleeping bag he was carrying, and Liang Xi sat directly on the wooden floor.After sitting for a while, his buttocks felt uncomfortable, Liang Si stood up: "I'll go to the nearby store to buy a cushion."

Poppy hurriedly said: "No, you may leave the house and the ghosts will not appear."

Liang Xi wondered in his heart that he already had a certain mature reasoning about the so-called haunted house. He only needed to meet and talk with Lily, and after adding the puzzle, he could confirm whether it was Lily's mental problem or whether there really was an intruder.But after hearing what Poppy said, Liang Xi didn't understand why Poppy was so sure that there were ghosts at night.Because whether there really is an intruder or Lily's mental problems, it is impossible for a ghost to appear tonight in his reasoning.

Liang Xi could see that Poppy was arrogant in his heart, insisting so persistently and affirming that he could see a ghost and would not aim at nothing.Thinking of Bobby's [-] experiences of living in haunted houses and haunted houses, Liang Xi felt a little clueless.

Liang Xi asked, "Have you ever seen a ghost?"

Poppy didn't immediately answer Liang Xi's question, but instead asked, "Do you believe it?"

Liang Xi shook his head.

Poppy was not surprised: "No one believed me. I was ten when my grandfather died. I saw him the night before his funeral. He told me that the pastor was ill and that he couldn't have his funeral tomorrow. I contacted another pastor. After I called the other pastor, his smile disappeared. Sure enough, the pastor was sick and couldn’t get up the next day, but luckily another pastor came to officiate the funeral.”

Liang Xi: "It's a pity, didn't you ask him?"

Poppy asked, "Ask what?"

Liang Xi: "The numbers for the next lottery draw."

"Fake." Poppy smashed the empty cup at Liang Xi, and the paper cup fell between the two.Bobby said very melancholy: "No one wants to believe me, and they asked me if I had a high fever and asked me to do a brain MRI..."

"Pee." Liang Xi stood up and went to the bathroom.

Poppy asked, "Do you have basic courtesy? Can't you wait for me to finish?"

Liang Xi: "I'm scared to pee my pants."

Liang Xi entered the bathroom, urinated, washed his hands, and stopped by the door: "When I'm frightened, I subconsciously hit an uppercut."

"Haha." Bobby left the door with a dry smile.

Sure enough, it was a swordsman. Liang Xi had no see-through eyes, so he didn't know if there was anyone at the door.

……

Time passed by minute by minute, the night rain came as scheduled, and only the hallway and hall on the second floor were left with lights.Poppy got into the sleeping bag and fell asleep, while Liang Xi casually lay down on the wooden floor to rest.

The ancient church in the distance rang the early morning bell, and Bobby immediately came out of the sleeping bag and looked at the beam.Liang Xi opened his eyes, Bobby made a silent gesture, and the two of them leaned against the wall and waited quietly.

"Squeak!" Ten minutes later, there was a sound of wood under pressure from downstairs, which made Liang Xi's heart tremble.There is no wooden floor on the first floor, and the second and third floors are all wooden floors.The sound was obviously coming from downstairs, and the only possibility was the wooden stairs, where something stepped on the wooden stairs and made a sound.However, it cannot be ruled out that thermal expansion and contraction cause wooden stairs to make noise.

A night wind blew into the lobby on the second floor, Liang Xi looked at Bobby and pointed to the window: Did you open the window?
Bobby shook his head slowly, stood up and leaned to the side of the hall, stretched his head and glanced at the corridor, and immediately shrank back: "Something came in."

Liang Xi asked, "Can you speak now?"

Poppy scoffed, "Do you think they'd be afraid of us?"

Liang Xi walked over to Poppy, summoned up the courage to look at the corridor, and saw that the window at the end of the corridor was opened.Liang Xi was shocked because at 11:11 he went to the bathroom once and the window was closed. From [-]:[-] to just now, Bobby didn't leave the lobby on the second floor.The only possibility is that someone used a pole barrel to open the window.

Poppy looked serious, and took out a small gossip made of unknown material from the bag, and the workmanship was very poor.Poppy held the gossip in his hand, muttered words in his mouth, walked slowly to the corridor window, and hung the gossip on a nail by the window.Turning back and walking towards the hall, Bobby said, "I have blocked their escape route."

When Bobby walked back to the hall, there was a muffled bang, like someone stepped on the wooden stairs, or something fell on the wooden stairs.Liang Xi can be 100% sure that it is definitely not a sound that can be made by thermal expansion and contraction.

The brave are invincible!Liang Xi ran downstairs, and when he reached the first floor, he turned on the light according to the memory location.The small living room on the first floor was empty.Liang Xi glanced upstairs, and Poppy shook his head, indicating that he did not want to go down.

Impossible, there can be no ghosts.Liang Xi took a deep breath, plucked up his courage, and pushed open the kitchen door. The kitchen was empty.The back door and window were tightly closed. Liang Xi took out a flashlight and shone it on the doorknob. There was a piece of paper scraps that he placed here. The appearance and appearance of the scraps of paper, and even the way they were placed, did not change, indicating that the door had never been opened. .

Liang Xi pushed open the doors of the rooms on the first floor, the answer did not change, all Liang Xi saw was the empty room.

Soon Liang Xi was sure that no one was hiding on the first floor.

What the hell!

Liang Xi walked up the stairs, looked up and saw Poppy counting a string of Buddha beads in his hand, looking at himself with great affection: "You will be its prey."

Liang Xi asked, "Where is it?"

Poppy said solemnly, "It's right behind you."

Liang Xi suddenly turned his head back, there are no ghosts... Bah!

(End of this chapter)