Chapter 5 Thin Paper
early morning.
Police station, conference room.
The sunlight illuminated the dark circles under the eyes of colleagues in the conference room. Everyone was sitting in a crooked position, but no one cared anymore. Everyone was staring anxiously at the blackboard in the conference room.
There are three eye-catching photos on the blackboard in the conference room, namely Wang Sanbei, Li Qiqi and the latest Zhang Chao family, with a single arrow pointing from Wang Sanbei to Zhang Chao.
Just now, this incident changed from a "suicide" case to a "homicide" case, and two unrelated people were connected in a strange way.
Obviously, this is a "contagious" killing sequence. People who appear in other people's houses will die soon after , and the homeowner becomes the next target of death.
This is the most provocative method of murder that Tang Cheng has used to challenge the police in the past twenty years. They must solve the case as soon as possible, and the special nature of the case has brought tremendous pressure.
"Officer Chen, do you think this murderer is deliberately trying to mislead us? This action is meaningless. It would be much more convenient to just kill him directly."
A police officer spoke up, expressing his own opinion:
"Besides, people are different. How did the murderer ensure that all victims completed the same steps?"
"Strange, really strange..."
There was a moment of silence in the conference room. Everyone was distracted by this strange clue. Some people got goosebumps the more they thought about it.
Although no one said it explicitly, all the clues pointed in one direction -
Damn it.
If it wasn't a ghost, how could such a complicated thing happen?
Chen Xuan held the pen, looked at the blackboard, held his chin with his brows furrowed. Even Chen Xuan had to admit that among all the previous cases, none was as weird as this one.
The strange ritual, the cruel death, and especially the prohibition on speaking on that piece of paper.
Chen Xuan couldn't help but think of the fear in Li Qiqi's pupils in the early morning. She should know what she had written, but she couldn't say anything.
There are many things in this world that can make people shut up, but what is the method used to achieve such a strange silence?
Things seemed to have come to a standstill, but no one was discouraged. The reason why those monsters and demons were no longer practical was because this was an information age and the eyes of heaven were everywhere.
"Officer Chen, the information department has found the surveillance footage of Li Qiqi!!"
A joyful voice was heard, and a technician was brought to the conference room with a laptop computer. Everyone's tired faces finally brightened up!
"Hurry and take a look!"
Although the surveillance video can only explain how Li Qiqi traveled so far to Zhang Chao's home, all things are difficult at the beginning, and having clues is the first step to solving the incident.
"There's something a little weird about the video, though."
The technician who was following beside her added something at this moment. She looked a little confused and couldn't explain it clearly. She simply operated the computer and played the surveillance video -
This is a surveillance video from an intersection not far from Li Qiqi's home. At night, there aren't many cars. Before long, Li Qiqi appears at the intersection. She's wearing her pajamas, eyes closed, waiting quietly for the traffic light to turn red. As the lights of cars pass by, she begins to walk toward the other end. What's particularly striking is that her body seems a bit limp, each step seeming to be on tiptoe, making her seem light and airy.
"It looks like Li Qiqi is indeed sleepwalking. Sleepwalkers tend to lean forward when they walk... But this video still doesn't explain how she walked into someone else's home. Also... what's so weird about this video?"
If it was just sleepwalking, everyone would have already had a preconceived notion in their minds and naturally wouldn't find it strange, but soon, the technicians pulled up another video.
"You'll know after watching this video."
The video switched, still showing the same street, but at a 90-degree angle, facing the intersection where Li Qiqi had just walked out.
The video started playing and the same time arrived, but Li Qiqi did not appear in the video.
Everyone sat up straight. Time passed, but Li Qiqi never appeared in the picture.
"Didn't this video capture Li Qiqi's whereabouts?"
Chen Xuan frowned and stared at the screen, as if he had seen something, but the disbelief in his pupils kept him from speaking. The other police officers were puzzled. The same person disappeared from different surveillance cameras at the same time on the same road.
"How is this possible?"
"What about the other surveillance?"
In the third surveillance video, the video was rotated 90 degrees again and changed to another direction. This time, Li Qiqi appeared in the video, but she looked particularly thin.
"Why does she seem to have lost so much weight...Does Li Qiqi look this thin?"
"Yes... When we were exporting the video, we also felt that Li Qiqi's appearance in the video didn't quite match her human proportions... Could there be a glitch in the surveillance? Perhaps the killer tampered with the street surveillance cameras, causing the video to appear this way."
This seems to be the most reasonable explanation.
But Chen Xuan shook his head.
"impossible."
Chen Xuan sighed and pressed the pause button:
"Look, there's no such problem with the cars or people on the roadside. This means either there's something wrong with the footage, or someone sneaked into the police station and tampered with the video."
"Let's not try to figure out whether there's a problem with the video first, but first try to understand what the image actually conveys."
Chen Xuan redefined his direction. Even if it was a wrong clue, it was still a clue and had its meaning.
"Then Officer Chen, what exactly does this picture mean?"
A curious baby stretched out his hand and asked, while Chen Xuan looked at the video again and said in an extremely uncertain tone:
"I'm not sure... but I've seen a case before where a person was flattened by a roller."
"Crush..."
"Look."
"Li Qiqi saw the complete appearance from the side, but could not see anything from the front."
Chen Xuan picked up an A4 paper and showed it from the front and side.
"The sides of the paper are intact, but the front is barely detectable."
"That is to say, when Li Qiqi was sleepwalking, she turned into a piece of paper."
Chen Xuan took the paper, walked to the window, and stuffed it out through the gap.
"So, she can go through doors, through walls, through cars, through everything."
"Because even from a molecular perspective... there are gaps."
Pass through the gap.
Everyone touched their arms simultaneously, looking at Li Qiqi on the screen, and waves of chills surged in their hearts.
The atmosphere in the room became somewhat depressing, and everyone was speechless for a moment.
What Chen Xuan and the others didn't know was,
The people here are analyzing the incident and the video.
And Li Qiqi over there...
