Ghostly Tomb

Chapter 5 Alarm
When he got home, the first thing he did was to get under the quilt and hide in it shivering.After a while, he nervously blocked the door with tables and other heavy objects, fearing that the ghostly figure would come looking for him.

Before that, Chen Zhi absolutely believed that the world was materialistic. He used to hate those nagging things the most. Even when he saw Teacher Guo's body, he thought it was just a planned murder.There are no ghosts in this world.

But when he saw the ghost figure in the duty room, his worldview was overturned. That thing was definitely not a person, but what was it?Is it Teacher Guo who came to work the next day?Or is Mr. Guo himself a ghost?

When the first ray of sunlight hit his face in the morning, Chen Zhi felt much better.Man is such an animal, no matter how unacceptable something you encounter, time will calm you down slowly.

The first thing he did was to call her mother. Chen Zhi didn't have any relatives, and the only relative he could rely on was his mother.

The phone was connected, and his mother's voice came from over there.

"What's the matter?" Chen Zhi's mother asked coldly.

When Chen Zhi heard his mother's voice, he felt a little excited.

"Mom! Let me tell you, something happened to me and I don't know what to do. I'm very scared." Chen Zhi was a little incoherent.

"Is there anything else?" The voice over there was still cold.

"No, I..." Chen Zhi was speechless for a while.

"Beep! Beep! Beep!" The other party hung up.

"Sure enough, it's still like this." Chen Zhi sighed heavily, he was already used to his mother's indifferent attitude towards him.

Chen Zhi looks a lot like his mother, otherwise Chen Zhi would really doubt if that is his real mother.As long as Chen Zhi could remember, his mother had been indifferent to him.After the divorce, she had less contact with Chen Zhi, but her mother would come over on time every week to help Chen Zhi clean the room. Sometimes she would visit Chen Zhi's father in the nursing home, but she never went with Chen Zhi.Chen Zhi used to resent his mother, thinking she was selfish, but later he thought, maybe her mother was too tired of this family.

Chen Zhi quickly made a decision and called the police.

Yes, the police had to be called, he had to know what was going on.From a common sense analysis, this is simply impossible.That Mr. Guo is real, his body is in the cellar, that is indisputable evidence, the cause of death should be the car accident.

But under normal circumstances, if there is a car accident, the person in the car should call an ambulance immediately. How could he be thrown into the cellar?Unless, it's murder.Yes, Chen Zhi was sure that was murder.What did Teacher Guo ask me to do there?Who came to work instead of Mr. Guo?Most importantly, what exactly is that ghost figure?Chen Zhi now has too many questions to answer.

Chen Zhi first dialed 110, and described the general situation to the policewoman who answered the phone. The other party seemed to be amused after hearing this, and told Chen Zhi to report the case to the local police station.

Chen Zhi washed his face first, and was startled when he saw himself in the mirror.His face was blue and gray, his eye circles were black, and the shock last night made him haggard like a ghost.

Chen Zhi took the remaining two hundred yuan with him and went to the police station on Qianjie.

When Chen Zhi stepped into the police station, two policemen were leaning on their chairs and talking.Seeing Chen Zhi coming in, he looked him up and down, and asked, "Hi, what's the matter?"

Chen Zhi muttered, "I, I'm here to report a murder case."

The two policemen were taken aback and asked eagerly, "When? Where did you see it?"

"15 years ago, my math teacher was killed, and his body was in an abandoned factory in the suburbs. Later, I..." Chen Zhiyue said in a lower voice, and he couldn't believe what he said now.

The tense expressions of the two policemen relaxed. One policeman looked at Chen Zhi with the eyes of a mentally ill patient, and said to the other policeman with a smile, "It's all about drama all day long." He got up and went to reheat the cup. water.

Another policeman said to Chen Zhi with a suppressed smile, "Oh, the teacher is dead? Are you sad?"

"It's not very sad, it's been 15 years," Chen Zhi replied.

"If you don't feel sad, you can go home. Why did you come to see us?" the policeman asked.

"I suspect he was murdered, so I'm calling the police." Chen Zhi felt like a fool.

"It turned out to be murder. It's terrible. Then how did you know? He gave you a dream on Teacher's Day?" The smile on the policeman's face could no longer be concealed.

Chen Zhi raised his eyebrows all of a sudden, and he said loudly, "I found a dead body. It's real. It's in the cellar of the Youth Forging Complex in the suburbs. You'll know when you go and have a look." Chen Zhi's expression was very serious.

The policeman stopped his smile, lowered his head and thought for a while, and said, "Then tell me the general story."

Chen Zhi explained the matter in detail, trying to use a trusting tone, because he knew that this matter was so incredible.But he didn't talk about the ghost man, he didn't want the police to treat him as a lunatic, and it wouldn't be too late to talk about it when the body was found.

After listening, the policeman said, "Are you sure you didn't drink too much or dreamed last night?"

Chen Zhi said: "I'm sure not, I hope you will follow me to the scene immediately."

The policeman went to another policeman to whisper a few words, and took Chen Zhi into a police minivan and drove to the suburbs.

In the police car, the two policemen did not ask him too many questions, but chatted with each other.Chen Zhi lowered his head and thought about what happened last night.

When the police car drove a few kilometers into the suburbs, a policeman said loudly, "Look, what is that?" Chen Zhi looked up and was taken aback.Right at the location of the abandoned factory, a puff of black smoke rose into the sky.

"It's a fire," another policeman said loudly.

"It's a fire, the factory is on fire!" Chen Zhi's eyes widened, he couldn't believe what he saw.

The police drove forward in a hurry, and after arriving at the scene of the fire, Chen Zhi was the first to rush down.The fire has been largely extinguished.Several fire engines were parked near the fire site, and there were firefighters and intense smoke everywhere, making people cough.Many farmers in the suburbs were watching, and some people in the crowd said: "Why is it on fire? This factory has been abandoned for a long time, and it is indeed haunted."

Among the chattering crowd, Chen Zhi stood dumbfounded, unable to say anything.And the two policemen turned around to look at Chen Zhi at the same time, their eyes full of suspicion.

Chen Zhi's next days were quite difficult, and two policemen took him directly from the scene of the fire to the General Public Security Bureau.In the next few days, he seemed to enter a spinning world, full of spinning people, spinning harsh interrogations, and spinning nice words of advice.The questions are basically the same every day.

"Why did you set fire to it?"

Chen Zhi said everything and tried his best to explain.But the police told him that when they went to the warehouse, it had been burnt to a mess. There was a cellar, but there were no corpses at all.

Chen Zhi couldn't argue with a hundred words, and his spirit was on the verge of collapse.In the end, the police did not have any definite evidence.

On the morning of the third day, an elderly policeman came over and said to Chen Zhi, "Do you have any relatives? Let him pick you up."

Chen Zhi said: "Yes, my mother"

The police went out to make a call, and about two hours later, Chen Zhi's mother came.

Chen Zhi's mother came in with a very short haircut, a plain face and no makeup, holding a cheap handbag.The police first called his mother to educate her for a while, saying that Chen Zhi was very suspicious and could not leave the city for the time being.

Chen Zhi's mother agreed one by one, said some polite words, and took Chen Zhi away.

On the way home, Chen Zhi and her mother walked one after the other, and his mother never looked back at him.

Chen Zhi opened his mouth and said: "Mom, I'm sorry."

Her mother didn't speak.

Chen Zhi said again: "Mom, let's go home and have a meal together, I have something to tell you."

The mother still didn't speak.

Chen Zhi was silent for a long time, when he came to a fork in the road, Chen Zhi spoke again, his voice was hoarse.He said: "Mom, something happened to me these two days, one of my elementary school teachers..."

"Shut up, get out!" Chen Zhi's mother turned her head and gave Chen Zhi a vicious look, her eyes piercing Chen Zhi's face like ice, and she left without looking back.

Chen Zhi stood on the spot like a wooden sculpture, motionless. He felt as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water from head to toe, and his heart was completely frozen.

After so many days and suffering so much, Chen Zhi didn't shed a single tear.But when his mother dropped that sentence and walked away from him, he cried.He stood there, tears falling like broken beads.He felt that his spine was crushed, what did he do wrong, without the protection of his father, without the care of his relatives, even his mother, who was supposed to be the closest, regarded him as an enemy.Maybe he really shouldn't live in this world, maybe he really should die.

In the few days after Chen Zhi went back, he lay at home like a dead person.Gou Zhengfei didn't know where he got the news of Chen Zhi's detention, and gloated and spread it everywhere, saying that Chen Zhi was caught stealing and was investigated by the Public Security Bureau, and he would be arrested and sent to jail in a few days.People in the community were spreading rumors, saying that Chen Zhi was hopeless like his alcoholic father.Liu Xiaohong came up to see him several times and brought him meals several times.Chen Zhi was too lazy to talk to her, but just stared blankly at the ceiling. Sitting beside him, Liu Xiaohong shed tears several times.

(End of this chapter)