Manual of the Monster in City

32 The Man in the Cabinet

      Something happened?    

There were screams in the classroom of Class 34, tables and chairs being kicked over in a panic, and many people fled from the front door in a panic. The back door was slammed open a few times. Many students ran out, and some girls escaped from the classroom still screaming.

    "What's the matter?" Xiao Shanshan squeezed away from the bewildered crowd, "Calm down, get out of the way first, what happened?"

    "Someone... died..."

    "What?!" Jia Qingming heard such words and rushed in immediately.

    The scene was already in a mess. A boy sat slumped in front of the cabinet in the front corner of the classroom, sitting on the ground shivering, and his pants were all wet.

    "Where?" Xiao Shanshan's energy surged at this time.

    "In...in, in..." He pointed at the cabinet with trembling fingers.

    Jia Qingming pulled the closet door hard, but the door did not move. When he grasped his hand on the cabinet door handle, he suddenly felt--

    That is the cold breath of the spirit.

    He raised his head, looking through the vents above the cabinet, looking inside.

    He vaguely saw a pale face.

    ————

    The police rushed to the scene quickly and asked about the situation.

    The classmate who found someone in the cabinet had secretly put his basketball in it. When he planned to take it to the playground to play, he suddenly found that the cabinet could not be opened, but suddenly found that there was an extremely pale person inside, who looked like... ...A corpse.

    So the classroom was fried, the student union organized everyone to protect the scene, and then waited for the police to arrive.

    But no one can open this weird cabinet. Although the door of the cabinet can be broken with a firearm, it is easy to accidentally injure the students trapped inside at such a close distance.

    Several people in police uniforms shot the pale person inside with flashlights, confirming that this is indeed the missing Zhang Liang. Because the door of the cabinet could not be opened, I had to choose to lift the cabinet and ship it out.

    Soon the ambulance came whizzing in and lifted the tightly closed iron cabinet into the car as if it had lifted a heavy coffin.

    People have been found, but this finding is more terrifying than missing.

    The people in the school were panic, especially the classmates in Class 14. They never thought that they were in the same classroom with a corpse, and they had several classes together, and no one had ever noticed it.

    The teacher can only comfort everyone by saying: It is not certain that they are dead now. It is said that the cabinet has been opened and rescued in the hospital. You don't need to panic too much.

    but--

    How could a large living person be locked in a cabinet, and this cabinet has taken a lot of effort, and no one can open it. And Zhang Liang didn't seem to ask for help, but fell into a coma inside?

    Jia Qingming has been thinking about this, especially when his hand touches the doorknob, the "spirit" he feels is definitely the trace of energy left by the ghost. He has never made a mistake about the incident of the ruined temple and house ghost.

    Now there are voices of discussion everywhere. In these voices, he heard a kind of "spirit" produced by the discussion, which is emitting more and more clear voices——

    This means that more and more people are spreading the same legend.

    ——"This must be... the ghost of Senior Wu Yao."

    Senior Wu Yao... who is it?

    During the lunch break, Jia Qingming raised this question when everyone bought food at the stall outside and had dinner together in the club room.

    "Ah, senior Wu Yao, it seems to have been said that day." Xiao Shanshan thought for a while and replied. "It is also one of the famous spiritual legends in our school! I shouldn't forget to mention it."

    "But it seems that the name was not introduced that day, so Seimei-senpai naturally didn't know..." Edogawa reminded him.

    "Ah. Yeah." Xiao Shanshan suddenly realized, "Senior Wu Yao was that... the victim in the campus murder case. And... it happened in our activity room, which was the school's former science room. . And this classroom has not been renovated since, no one knows the reason."

    Although the explanation was still in the usual relaxed tone, Xiao Shanshan was obviously a little afraid of this. If Zhang Liang really declared his death invalid, this would be another vicious campus murder case. And they were so close to the scene of the crime yesterday, and the time was almost coincident.

    "We have to speed up the investigation." Edogawa said, "I heard that the doorman had already told about the incident yesterday. It was the weird thing that we sneaked in and was almost discovered by him. No one knows. Did we leave fingerprints yesterday... the time coincides, there is no alibi, and we cannot testify to each other. In this case... it is possible that we were originally an investigative agency and we couldn't clean up after jumping into the Yellow River."

    "It's true, the current situation..." After he reminded, Jia Qingming also realized the severity of the current situation.

    No one would believe anything about ghosts. According to the normal reasoning procedure, the final result will definitely fall on them.

    "So, how did Senior Wu Yao die?"

    "I don't know very well. I don't remember clearly. After all, it was a long time ago, and I was not sensible at that time." Xiao Shanshan said.

    However, you don’t know where to go now!

    "It's not that I can't remember. It's that... it's completely endless. It is said that because it was too weird, the school and the police blocked the news of the incident afterward, only throwing out some ambiguity. Anyway, the murderer could not bear the tremendous psychological pressure to surrender. It was not an unsolved case, so the case was hurriedly closed. In the end, it was attributed to campus violence. Although there were elements of accidental death, it was still an intentional homicide. Even the murder committed suicide after being in prison, They are only circulated in the market, but it seems to be the case."

    "Really?" Jia Qingming was lost in thought.

    "Do you think it has something to do with this?" Yuan Mu-mutou, who had been sullenly eating, suddenly raised his head to look at him and asked seriously.

    "Yeah." Jia Qingming said.

    "Then investigate." He said, and the guy suddenly became serious.

    "Where to investigate this kind of thing?" He looked at Yuan Bai and Yang Jianyi's gaze.

    "Go to the police station."

    "Right." Jia Qingming suddenly realized.

    "Even if the news is blocked to the outside world, there will definitely be a record in the police station!" Edogawa students also suddenly realized.

    "But according to our words, we can't get such top-secret information at all." Jia Qingming thought again.

    "Try it anyway!" Xiao Shanshan said, "I am also the president of the student council and the president of our investigation agency! There is absolutely no problem in intervening in the investigation!"

    "Where do you get your confidence?!" Jia Qingming felt a burst of growth.

    "Anyway, try your luck." Yuan Mu-mutou made a final word.

    "Wow! Senior Yuan looks so handsome who is serious!"

    ————

    Shenting County Police Station.

    When the Shenting High School Monster Incident Investigation Agency rushed to the police station, there was a girl in front of the gate, who was also wearing a standard school uniform, standing there with her arms folded.

    She wears a tall dark ponytail, under a pair of raised eyebrows, she has sharp eyes that are different from those of girls of the same age. Based on this kind of eyes, she looks like a proud little queen. Jia Qingming recognizes her——

    "Huh? Senior Sister Su Qiang?" Xiao Shanshan also recognized the girl, which surprised Jia Qingming. "Why is she here?"

    "Do you know her?" Qingming asked.

    "Of course. You think everyone is as narrow as your circle, and Su Qiang is a big celebrity in the school. It's the daughter of Chief Su of the police station!"

    "Huh? I only know that she is the monitor of my class..."

    And it's the super strict kind! Not only is it late for things like being late, but even if the assignments assigned by each subject are not handed in, they will be carefully tracked down like a life, which is stricter than the teachers and representatives of each subject. It's just that Jia Qingming is a good citizen who has never caused trouble, so there is no intersection between the two.

    Jia Qingming said it was a bad idea, did he get chased so far by the squad leader when he skipped class? !

    However, reality does not give him time to struggle and hesitate at all.

    "Student Qingming, why are you here? Are you sneaking out during class time?" Su Qiang exuded a murderous aura at the moment as if a pair of crossbows were hidden in his eyes, and sharp arrows were pierced. "This kind of thing skipping class, I want to write it down."

    "Wait, this is the activity of the student union, I am senior Qingming here. It is not absent from class. Of course, the student union has the power to organize activities." Xiao Shanshan suddenly stood up, blocking the arrow for Jia Qingming. of. "Furthermore, it's Senior Sister Su Qiang...you are not a member of any society. Come here during class time, isn't it truancy?"

    "You! I have an official business! You laymen here just find it interesting, right? It will only add to the chaos! Can't you stay in school and wait for the professionals to solve it!" Su Qiang glared at her and said angrily.

    Xiao Shanshan relied on his sharp teeth and quickly occupied the high ground. Although Su Qiang fought back, he obviously felt a bit irrational.

    As soon as the two girls met, they were frightened, as if they could smell all kinds of gunpowder in the air.

    At this moment, a police officer in a police uniform came out. He looked tough and handsome, but apparently, after working for a few years, the whole person still had a youthful breath, as if he had changed. The school uniform is the same as the senior, there will be no sense of violation at all.

    Seeing him striding over, Su Qiang seemed to have changed a person suddenly and immediately leaned forward. "Brother Lin Yuan, Team Lin, just tell me."

    A look like a sister who is acting like a baby with his brother!

    "No, the Soviet Bureau has specifically confessed that you can't let you intervene indiscriminately. We will do this kind of thing. No matter how soft and hard you are, it's useless, let me tell you. This time it's more troublesome, so you still don't want to mix it up. Come in." He said, feeling like he wants to send away the big Buddha quickly. "I will have to hold a meeting later. If you let the Soviet Bureau know that you are getting information from me, you will be punished again."

    But asking God is easy to send God hard.

    "Is that your classmate over there?" He saw Jia Qingming and several people and suddenly felt that he had some hope. "We will definitely find out. You can safely leave it to us. I still have official duties here, so I can't accompany you. Sorry."

    In short, it looked like it was completely impossible, and the order was issued.

    Su Qiang curled her lips, looking very unwilling, and stomped her feet severely at the door. Watching Lin Yuan turn around and walk back to the automatic door of the police station.

    "However, it is not impossible." Xiao Shanshan smiled and said to her, with a sly smile on the corner of her mouth.