Ghost turning over in the middle of the night?

Jiang Ying and San Gou, along with Uncle Ye's entire family, who had been drowsily asleep, were instantly startled awake.

Even though dawn was breaking, such a terrifying scream still frightened them considerably.

Especially Uncle Ye's family; the long and bizarre night they had last night had already turned them into jumpy birds. Suddenly hearing this scream in their sleep, they were all startled and trembling.

Jiang Yue pinpointed the sound and walked to the balcony, looking down.

The sky was actually already slightly bright, dawn had arrived.

As the first light of dawn appeared, all ghosts retreated.

At this time, no matter how ferocious a ghost, it shouldn't dare to come out and cause trouble. At least not in a busy place like the main road, there was no reason for it to reveal itself and act strangely.

The person screaming downstairs was a middle-aged woman walking her dog.

This woman woke up very early every day, and every day she would drag her dog around the neighborhood paths, and not quietly either, completely disregarding whether other residents were still asleep.

At this moment, this middle-aged woman was clearly terrified, stomping her feet by the roadside, shouting hoarsely, "Someone's dead, someone's dead! Someone help!"

Accompanying her shouts, the Pekingese dog at her feet jumped up and down, barking incessantly.

The small Pekingese looked extremely agitated, barking constantly at the empty air, as if there was some fatal danger hidden in the air.

"Let's go down and take a look," Jiang Yue called out.

Uncle Ye's family clearly didn't want to get involved in this commotion, but with Jiang Yue going down, they felt uneasy and too scared to stay home, so they had to follow him out.

"Huh? Second Brother, look, this handprint was clearly fading last night, how did it seem to return to its original state?" San Gou stood in front of the security door, looking at it in surprise.

Jiang Yue focused his gaze and saw that the handprint, which had been slowly dimming, had actually returned to its original state!

Pitch black, exuding a suffocating terror!

He clearly remembered that after Officer Han said the matter was handled yesterday, both the handprint on Xiao Yi's shoulder and the handprint on the door were slowly fading, and the trend was very obvious.

How could it have returned to this dark and terrifying ghostly appearance after a night's sleep?

Was Director Luo's handling of matters so unreliable?

Jiang Yue suppressed the questions in his heart and rushed to the scene.

The barking of the Pekingese dog gradually stopped. Jiang Yue leaned closer and saw that lying face up in the grass was a female corpse, in her early twenties, not yet thirty.

Not far from the body was a car key that had fallen.

Judging by the appearance, it should be a resident who returned home late in the early morning?

Jiang Yue pulled Xiao Yi behind him: "Xiao Yi, you shouldn't look."

Even though he only glanced at it, the gruesome scene made Jiang Yue feel somewhat uncomfortable.

A piece of the corpse's skullcap had been removed, and her entire tongue seemed to have been forcefully pulled out of her mouth, dangling outside. There was a distinct dark bruise on her neck, which looked particularly eerie.

The most crucial thing was that on her **exposed upper body shoulder, there was a dark handprint!

A familiar and chilling handprint!

Only a ghost could leave such a handprint!

This was a handprint of death, a handprint filled with immense resentment!

After Uncle Ye saw it, his entire face lost all color, as if all the blood had been drained from it.

Aunt Zhang even started dry heaving on the spot.

Jiang Ying, with her relatively strong psychological fortitude, also found it difficult to adapt, took a few steps back, and pulled San Gou away.

San Gou, on the other hand, was the most composed. His lips twitched slightly, and he muttered, "This is a vengeful ghost calling for life!"

Jiang Ying saw more and more residents running over and didn't want San Gou to bring trouble upon himself with his words, so she covered his mouth: "Don't talk nonsense."

Jiang Yue was furious. Regardless of the time, he made a phone call.

"Xiao Jiang, what time is it?" Officer Han asked, rubbing his sleepy eyes.

"Officer Han, did Director Luo handle that matter properly yesterday?"

Hearing Jiang Yue's cold and stiff tone, it seemed like something extremely serious had happened, and Officer Han immediately lost his sleepiness: "He told me it was handled, what's wrong?"

"What's wrong? Another life has been lost!"

"Ah? Where? How did she die?"

"Still in our neighborhood, died the same way as yesterday's victim! But there's an extra dark mark on her neck and a dark handprint on her shoulder."

"What does that mean?" Officer Han felt a chill and couldn't help but pull his blanket tighter.

"Imitating the victim's cause of death. Yesterday's murder might have been man-made. This one is definitely the work of a ghost. The handprint on the deceased's body, my neighbor has one too!"

Jiang Yue didn't mean to blame Officer Han. Since Director Luo had promised to handle this matter, Officer Han was not at fault.

"I'm coming over now." Officer Han quickly got dressed, not even having time to wash up, and rushed to the scene.

The situation at the scene was generally consistent with Jiang Yue's description.

This time, Officer Han was not an officer dispatched upon receiving a report, and it was inconvenient for him to collect anything at the scene. He took a few photos and left it for his colleagues who would arrive later to handle.

"Xiao Jiang, are you sure this is the work of a ghost?" Officer Han was still a bit uncertain.

"Do you want to go look at the handprints on Xiao Yi, and the handprints on her security door?"

"That's not what I meant... I mean, could it be a murderer, deliberately trying to scare us?"

"Isn't your colleague already checking the surveillance footage?"

The community's surveillance footage was quickly pulled up. It was just past 3 AM. The victim drove home, parked her car, and was walking on the road holding her keys. Everything was normal.

Including when she passed the crime scene, there was nothing unusual.

The surveillance showed that she did pass the crime scene, but she never returned after passing it.

Since then, there had been no abnormalities on the surveillance!

It wasn't until a middle-aged woman walking her dog passed the crime scene that she discovered the victim's body!

Bizarre, incredibly bizarre.

The police officer reviewing the surveillance replayed it several times, but still couldn't find any clues.

Officer Han, standing nearby, clearly had a different look in his eyes.

He walked out of the monitoring room and saw Jiang Yue waiting for him.

"How is it?"

"The surveillance footage at the scene didn't capture anything unusual."

"It would be strange if the surveillance could capture a ghost wall." Jiang Yue wasn't surprised at all.

At this point, even if Officer Han found it hard to accept, he had to admit Jiang Yue's guess.

In fact, his inability to accept it for a moment was merely due to his long-cultivated scientific approach to handling cases, a professional habit. Deep down, he had never doubted Jiang Yue.

"Xiao Jiang, you said last night that turning the body over, did that method really work?"

This question was actually difficult to answer.

The method came from Spirit's suggestion, bought with 30 points. If Spirit had cheated him out of these points, wouldn't that be too unethical?

Did the basic trust between humans and systems still matter?

He felt that no matter how unreliable Spirit was, it shouldn't play tricks on him on such a fundamental matter.

"Could Director Luo have overlooked something?"

"That shouldn't be the case! With Director Luo's work style, if he doesn't do something, he won't make a mistake when he does it?"

"He personally told me that he not only turned the body over, but also locked the body drawer, and put a seal on it. The morgue door was also sealed. We police haven't been there, and we absolutely won't allow anyone to tear it off!"

"Let's go take a look."

The sky was now nearing dawn, and the immediate crisis could be resolved. However, Jiang Yue still cautioned Uncle Ye to avoid being alone as much as possible and to stay in crowded places.

The two drove to the Star City Second Hospital morgue.

The old man at the door seemed to have really listened to the government and gone home to sleep.

As Jiang Yue and Officer Han approached, the morgue door was ajar. The seal had long been torn off and discarded on the ground.

The iron chain locking the door had also been cut by external force and was still hanging on one side of the door.

The two exchanged a glance, a flicker of surprise in their eyes.

Upon entering, they saw that all the body drawers were intact, as if no one had touched them.

When they found the drawer belonging to the victim surnamed Su, they discovered that the lock Director Luo had mentioned had already been broken.

It was clear that someone had tampered with it!

Officer Han took photos as evidence along the way.

Jiang Yue didn't hesitate either and stepped forward to pull the drawer open.

The body was still there, lying there cold.

Apart from the absence of blue handprints, the manner of death was almost identical to that of the victim this morning.

The key point was--

The face was up, the back was down.

It was indeed tampered with.

Based on all the signs at the scene, it could be completely determined that Director Luo had definitely turned the body over, placing the corpse face down and back up. The details about the lock and seal also matched.

The problem was: later, someone seemed to have broken in again, torn off the seal, cut the chain, opened the lock, and turned the body back!

The body was turned over, and the resentment within the corpse's chest was released again.

The malevolent energy of the vengeful spirit continued!

Therefore, the handprints on Xiao Yi's body reappeared, and the handprints on the door also reappeared.

More importantly, the vengeful spirit ghost creature regained its ability to commit evil, and finally succeeded!

Who did this?

In the dead of night, who could do such a thing?

Who had the ability to do such a thing?

Who had the guts to do such a terrifying thing?

Officer Han couldn't help but have a thought: could it be that the vengeful spirit ghost creature came back itself to turn the body over?

Or, did the corpse turn itself over?