Chapter 60: The Murderer Was A Spirit? (2/2)

“What? More cat paw prints?”

“Yes, exactly the same as those found in the house,” I replied.

“I’m starting to think that the murderer doesn’t really exist in this case…”

“No, I believe that there is a murderer!” I insisted.

I carried the girl on my back. The 12-year-old girl was not heavy at all, so I could walk back to the house without any difficulties. Meanwhile, Huang Xiaotao held onto my shirt and followed behind me as we left the alley.

When we reached the house of the murder scene, I told Huang Xiaotao to go get Wang Yuanchao. There was nothing left to investigate here, so I decided we should head back to the police station.

Huang Xiaotao went into the house, then after a while, she came back out with Wang Yuanchao who was carrying the two white mice. Huang Xiaotao smiled and said, “These little guys escaped your attempts at their lives twice! That’s not shabby at all. You should find a please to release them to the wild…”

“These mice don’t have the ability to survive in the wild,” I said. “Releasing them would be just as bad as killing them outright. You can bring them back to raise them as pets if you like.”

“That’s a good idea,” nodded Huang Xiaotao. “And I was born in the year of the rat—what a coincidence!”

“So you’re three years older than me!” I exclaimed.

Huang Xiaotao gave me a look. “Don’t you understand any social etiquette at all? It’s rude to guess a girl’s age!”

“But I was born in the year of the tiger, and you’re born in the year of the rat. It’s obvious that you’re three years older than me! Or are you fifteen years older than me?”

“You idiot!” She threatened to punch me.

We got in the car and put the girl in the back seat. On the way, Huang Xiaotao asked me, “Song Yang, what were you going to say about the reason why the family went crazy?”

“It’s probably due to some kind of magnetic field interference,” I explained. “When the three of them heard the strange sound at the same time, it probably wasn’t a sound at all, but a magnetic field that directly acts on the human body, just like when you put a mobile phone near a microwave oven.”

“Can the magnetic field make people go crazy?” Huang Xiaotao asked incredulously.

“Yes,” I answered. “There are many small magnetic fields inside the human body. Once you approach a powerful magnetic field, you can cause endocrine disorders, and your emotions can go out of control. The negative emotions in your heart will be infinitely magnified. Have you heard of biological tides? Whenever the moon is the most round, the moon’s gravity will affect the earth’s magnetic field, and it’s been reported that the number of animals that commit suicide during this time is three times higher the usual.”

“Then it’s no wonder that people in the West believe that werewolves will change their forms when they see the full moon,” said Huang Xiaotao. “It seems that there is some kind of scientific basis to this legend, after all.”

“I’m only making conjectures based on what I know, though,” I said. “In truth, this case can be explained by another hypothesis…”

“What hypothesis is that?”

“Spirits!”

“Spirits?”

I had limited knowledge of spirits, so I had to find someone who could help me learn more—Lao Yao.

I gave him a call, and the moment it was picked up, I was greeted by that flirty voice of his that sent chills down my spine.

“Little Song!” he drawled. “Why haven’t you called me for so long? Didn’t you miss me?”

I shivered in my seat.

“Lao Yao, can you do me a favor?”

“Sure! What is it?” he asked.

I told him to go to the various spiritual forums to check out the folklore related to cats, and see if there were any cat-related spirits, and email me all the reliable information that he could find tomorrow.

But I should’ve known that the greedy bastard wouldn’t help me for free. He immediately asked, “Okay, but what’s in it for me?”

“As usual. A thousand yuan,” I replied.

“Oh, that won’t work,” he said. “I heard that you gave Dali who accompanied you for a while and didn’t even help you much nine thousand yuan. But I, who had been so helpful to you, merely got a thousand yuan. That’s really unfair, Little Song! You love Dali more than you love me!”

Listening to Lao Yao creeped me out so much that I almost coughed up blood right onto the windshield!

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