Charme du chat 2

Chapitre 18

There is a female ghost often standing there. Although she doesn't harm them, she is still quite scary.

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [23]: Another gust of wind blew by, and Li Ke reached out and closed the window.

Xu Xian coughed. "Don't bother looking, they're already gone." He shook the summoning bell in his hand; it wasn't stuffed with cotton.

The sound wasn't made by itself; it came from Xu Xian's shaking.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and Xu Xian timely drew everyone's attention back.

"Don't make such a fuss in the future. She knows we've been watching her, and she knows we're investigating this. But it's very..."

It's strange, she doesn't touch us at all, and seems to have no hostility towards us. She just comes to check on us occasionally, like visiting friends.

Look at us! How strange!

Xu Xian shook his head, then looked at his friends and said, "From now on, just pretend you don't know anything and don't keep looking at the corners of the wall."

"

Everyone nodded and continued studying the photos.

Wu Xi picked up a photograph and examined it carefully, sometimes frowning and sometimes sighing softly.

Zhang Xiaodi took the photo and examined it closely. "What's wrong, Wu Xi? Is there a problem with this photo?"

Liu Bin snatched the photo, then exclaimed "Ah!" as if he understood everything, "Oh, she's a beauty! No wonder!"

Even their souls were stolen away.

Wu Xi quickly snatched the photo back, hurriedly explaining, "It's not what you think, I just saw this in my dream."

people."

Xu Xian took the photo and examined it closely. It was a black and white photograph, with yellowed edges. "How did you..."

How can you be so sure?

Wu Xi pondered, as if searching for a reason. After a long while, she ran her fingers through her hair in frustration. "I don't know. I remember a few days ago..."

When we stayed at the police station's guesthouse?

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"Do you remember when I woke up? I only remember seeing Liu Quan faint in the school bathroom, and then I don't remember anything else."

Later you said I also fainted, and then you found both of us in the bathroom. Since we couldn't stay at school anymore, that's why...

I stayed at a guesthouse. You know what? During the time between when I fainted and when I woke up, I kept having dreams, and the main character was this.

woman."

Xu Xian and Li Ke each put their arms around Wu Xi's shoulders, one on each side. Xu Xian didn't understand why Wu Xi always managed to attract attention.

Where's the ghost? Why is the ghost possessing his body instead of others? The previous "good friends, back to back" thing was one thing, but now there's this...

It seems we need to give Wu Xi something to ward off evil spirits, since the female ghost who was dismembered on the tenth anniversary of the school's founding is supposed to be there.

"Do you remember what the dream was about?" Xu Xian asked as he looked for information.

"I need to think about it, wait a moment." Wu Xi fell into deep thought.

Everyone fell silent, then a voice cried out, "Found it!"

Everyone looked up at what Xu Xian had found. Xu Xian began to read aloud, "Lin Mei, a student in the Accounting Class of the Finance Department, 1942."

She returned to school on February 10th to cancel her leave, and then mysteriously disappeared. Three days later, the red leather shoes she was wearing when she disappeared were found in the newly built dormitory building.

One.

At this moment, everyone except Li Ke was completely bewildered by the swirling clouds and mist.

Liu Quan's face turned pale instantly. "Red...red leather shoes?"

Li Ke also joined in, "Yes, our school was founded in 1932, and the dormitory building was built ten years later. This is related to that girl..."

Everything the ghost said matched.

Seeing everyone's "please explain yourself more clearly" expressions, Xu Xian nodded, and Li Ke explained that Wu Xi was possessed by a ghost.

He recounted what had happened.

After listening, everyone fell into deep thought, and Wu Xi was especially worried! Then, something occurred to him!

"I remember now," Wu Xi said excitedly.

"What? What did you remember?" Liu Quan was still lost in his red leather shoes, speaking with some impatience.

"A dream! I've figured out what the dream was about."

Everyone perked up their ears, signaling Wu Xi to continue...

"The dream was like this... a boy and a girl were playing with a kite, both of them were laughing, as if they were very happy."

They looked quite auspicious. The girl was dressed very elegantly, in a red silk cheongsam and jacket with a matching long skirt, while the boy wore only plain clothes. It seemed...

The man seemed to be a farmhand for the woman's family, because she dreamt that he was chopping wood and fetching water at her house, but the girl didn't look down on him.

The two were very happy. Then, something seemed to happen; a grave appeared on the hillside where they used to fly kites. I don't...

We know it was a man or a woman who died, or some other unrelated person. That's about it.

Everyone's jaws nearly dropped. "Is that all?"

Wu Xi nodded, "There should be two scenes: a woman and a man are flying a kite, and then a gust of wind blows..."

They were all gone, replaced by a grave.

---Magpie Bridge Fairy

Reply [24]: Xu Xian fell into deep thought. What does this mean? Such a simple dream has nothing to do with that red-shoes ghost!

A little thought reveals the truth: the woman in the red shoes didn't come from a wealthy family; where would she get a farmhand? Also, she...

People in that era should have been wearing cheongsams! Why would they still be wearing padded jackets and long skirts? That must be from an even earlier era!

Also, one died in 1982, and the other in 1942, forty years apart. Then...

This year, 2002, twenty years later, all four murders occurred in years ending in two. Is there anything special about this?

Does it have a meaning?