Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Stride Reasoning

Passionate since ancient times has nothing to hate, and good dreams are the easiest to wake up from. Sweet love is like a good dream, and it is also a good dream that is easy to wake up from.When waking up from the dream, some people still had a sweet smile on their mouths, but some people's pillows were wet with tears.Love is such a wonderful thing. After two people in double love break up, one party may laugh it off freely, but the other party may still sink into bitter love and cannot extricate himself, and tragedies often arise because of this. My humble servant, Mu Shenyu, although he is not superior in love affairs, he is still good at investigating cases and arresting criminals. At least I have a police card.The department I belong to is a mysterious department. It is impossible for ordinary citizens to know the existence of this department through normal channels, because I belong to the Crime Squad, a secret group that deals with supernatural events, although it is under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation Bureau in name. Under, but in fact directly under the director.

Well, after introducing myself, it's time to get down to business. This time I'm going to talk about a case related to love.Of course, it is definitely not an ordinary love that can be related to the word "case", and it is definitely not an ordinary case that allows the crime team to intervene in the investigation. Early in the morning, my boss—Liang Zheng, the leader of the crime team, threw a file in front of me.I took a cursory look at the file, and the content of the file was that the Daily News Building was haunted frequently, causing people to panic, and calling the police no less than ten times.I closed the file, shrugged and said, "Boss, I'm not a magician. I can't do ghost hunting."

"Don't you often bring cases to ghosts? I will give you a chance now to see if you have the potential to be a magician." The boss said and picked up the newspaper to read stock reviews. "What if I can't catch the ghost and get eaten by the ghost instead?" I joked. "You can rest assured that I will declare a martyr for you and make your funeral a splendid one." The boss is also ruthless enough. "Boss, I haven't rested for a long time..." I complained.I haven't had a single day off since I was transferred to the Mystery Squad. He covered his face with a newspaper, and muttered to himself: "It has already fallen below 2,000 points, it seems that there is still room to go down, and the decline should not stop before 1,800 points..." He has already ignored me .

As soon as I walked out of the boss's office, Zhenzhen asked me if I had a new case, but when I told this over-energy girl that her job this time was to catch ghosts, her enthusiasm flame was immediately extinguished.Although this crazy girl has dealt with many weird cases with me, she still has an indescribable fear of illusory ghosts.This is no wonder for her, although the title of Sanda champion can make her not afraid of any real opponent, but her fists are useless against ghosts without physical bodies. When I was about to go to the Daily News Building with her to investigate, I found that Miaomiao was eating breakfast, and I hadn’t had time to eat it this morning because of my snooze, and now my stomach was croaking, so I tricked her into eating soy milk and deep-fried dough sticks to sacrifice the five internal organs temple.Zhenzhen is very disdainful of my behavior, but Miaomiao doesn't care, anyway, her backpack is full of snacks, and I usually trick her into eating them.In fact, I have always found it very strange that this little girl can eat snacks all day and not gain weight. She has already reached the age to be a mother, but her body is still like a middle school student, and she is still a junior high school student.

The Daily News Building is located at the junction of the main roads and is shaped a bit like a rocket.Standing outside the building, I felt something was wrong, why it seemed so dazzling here.Looking around, I found a shocking and spectacular sight-almost every household in the nearby residential buildings hung a mirror in front of the windows, and some even hung the windows of the entire building.Looking at those residential buildings shining brightly because of the reflection of the sun in the mirrors, I couldn't help thinking, is it really so noisy? According to the information given to me by my boss, there was a murder case during the construction of the foundation of the Daily Building, because the public generally believed that its Feng Shui was not good.After the completion, some inexplicable things happened. For example, the elevator would go up to the 13th floor at night for no reason. Some employees working here claimed that they often found inexplicable things shifted, or heard strange sounds, and some even saw female ghosts appearing.Later, at the request of the owner, the property management company invited Mr. Feng Shui to give advice, and placed a pair of stone lions at the gate.After having this pair of stone lions, it was indeed normal for a while, but after a while, strange things continued.And these strange things mainly happened in the city daily office on the thirteenth floor, and it was the employees of the newspaper office who frequently called the police.

The City Daily is a regional newspaper with a small circulation and average influence. Since the haunting incident, people have been panicked, the quality has dropped significantly, and the sales volume has of course been even worse.We found Lin Shangwen, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper, and he told us about the haunted situation with a sad face: "There have always been rumors of haunted buildings in this building, but they were just rumors before, and no one really saw ghosts. About a month ago, someone A new security guard found that the elevator stopped on our floor for no reason. He thought a thief had slipped in, so he went up to check, but saw a female ghost covered in cement slurry, and fainted on the spot. After that, The employees of our newspaper office have encountered strange things one after another, causing everyone to lose their minds about work, and if this continues, the newspaper office will soon be unable to continue."

Next, editor-in-chief Lin planned to introduce the staff of the newspaper to us, and asked them to tell us the strange things they had encountered.However, maybe the breakfast cheated from Miaomiao's mouth was not clean, my stomach was in a revolution, so I had to go to the bathroom first to solve this urgent problem. I usually like to choose the innermost space when squatting in the pit, because I feel safer and more at ease in my heart, and this time is no exception.Fortunately, there is no one in the bathroom, so I can squat wherever I like.It is actually a very pleasant thing to get rid of the shackles, put on a horse, light a cigarette, and then go for a thousand miles.However, when I put the cigarette in my mouth, I found that the lighter was left in the car.Alas, the most painful thing in the world is this!

I was smoking an unlit cigarette, wondering if I should call Zhenzhen and ask her to get me a lighter.However, I immediately dismissed the idea, because she would probably bring a gas canister to me, but instead of handing it into my hand, she would smash it on my head. When I was suffering from smoke and no fire, I suddenly heard the sound of water outside, as if someone had entered the bathroom, so I asked, "Brother, do you have a lighter? Can you lend me a use?" The other party didn't answer, so I just asked Heard hurried footsteps. Could it be that I entered the women's bathroom? Why did the other party run away as soon as they heard my voice?Hastily solved the problem of convenience, and came out to find that I hadn't gone anywhere. There is a urinal here, so it's the men's restroom.I didn't go to the wrong place, so the other party should have gone to the wrong place. A Lancome brand lipstick left on the wash basin also verified my idea.Maybe if I come out earlier, it will be the beginning of an affair.But it is not too late, this lipstick may let me know its owner.

Back to the editorial department, editor-in-chief Lin introduced everyone to us.There are more than 20 employees in the entire editorial department, and three of them are the family members of editor-in-chief Lin. Ann.It's no wonder that the benefits are so poor for being so close to others. Among the many employees, four caught my attention, namely Xiao Jianfeng and his wife, proofreader Huang Jing, and photographer Ning Yuyi.Among them, Huang Jing was the weirdest one. He just nodded to us when Editor Lin introduced him, and he didn't even look at us or say a word.Xiao Jianfeng and his wife seem to be in harmony with each other, while Ning Yuyi is a weird sissy.Xiao and Ning were going out to cover an unexpected incident, and I didn't have time to observe them carefully, so I planned to ask Lin Yiyi and Huang Jing for information first.

I don't know if it's because Lin Yiyi encountered strange things the most, so she was a little nervous, and she was nervous when talking to us. "This building is a ghost!" This is the first sentence she said to us, and then she told us how ghostly this building is—— About a month ago, a security guard on our floor was frightened and fainted by a female concrete ghost. After that, strange things continued, and I was the first to suffer. We in the newspaper industry, once there is breaking news, we usually have to work overtime, which is often the case.An old party member of the city passed away that day, so we had to work overtime to make an album for him, telling his life story.

Although we have a lot of information about this old party member, it takes a lot of time to organize it into an album, and we have been busy until the early hours of the morning to sort it out.At about 0:20, I felt a little sleepy, so I went to the tea room to pour coffee.Just as I was about to leave, I felt something fall on top of my head.I reached out to touch it, and found that what fell on my head turned out to be grout. I couldn't help being surprised. This floor has not been renovated recently, so how could there be grout? I looked up unconsciously, and the air outlet of the central air conditioner was right above my head, and the grout seemed to be falling from it.When I was wondering why there was cement slurry falling from the air outlet, I suddenly found two eyes staring at me... There were several similar encounters after that, but the most terrifying one was the night before yesterday.I also had to work overtime that night, because strange things had happened before, so I tried to avoid being alone.But that night my stomach was a little uncomfortable, and I went to the bathroom frequently, and An An could accompany me once or twice, but I can't ask her to accompany me to the bathroom all night without doing other things, right?So, then I had to go alone. There was no one in the bathroom, so I deliberately chose the innermost one because I felt scared (weird, as I am used to).Nothing was wrong at first, the bathroom was very quiet, there was no sound other than the slight whir of the exhaust fan, so I wasn't too nervous.However, when I started to walk, I heard some strange footsteps. The person who came in seemed to have mud on his feet. His steps were very light, but there was a sound of mud splashing every step he took.I was just wondering who walked in, when there was a strange rattling sound above my head, and then a lot of mushy things fell on me-it was cement slurry!Countless grout splashed in all directions, falling to every corner of the bathroom... Perhaps because of embarrassment, Yiyi's subsequent narration was a little awkward, but I can understand what she meant.She was about to go crazy with fright, and rushed out with her trousers in a hurry. Once she got out, she was even more frightened, because there was a row of grout shoe prints on the floor, but there was no one there. Because of her terrible experience, no one dared to go to the women's restroom these two days, and even the cleaners dared not go in to clean the grout all over the walls and floors.As far as the police are concerned, this is a good thing. The crime scene has not been cleared, which means that the evidence has not been destroyed. I called Yuetong and asked the technical team to come over to help collect the evidence, and she said she would come right away.Before she arrived, we went to the women's room to observe it.The mottled cement blocks painted an abstract painting like a geometric pattern on the wall. The image spread spirally around the exhaust fan, plus the strange rattling noise Lin Yiyi heard at the time of the incident, as well as the The solidified cement on the air fan, I think a lump of cement slurry was thrown onto the exhaust fan at that time. Throwing grout onto the exhaust fan may have been a contrived hoax, but the shoe prints on the floor puzzled me.There is a line of cement shoe prints on the floor, starting from the door of the bathroom to the center of the bathroom. Stand at the position of the last pair of shoe prints and throw the cement slurry onto the exhaust fan. The angle and distance are very suitable.However, what puzzles me is that there are only shoe prints coming in from the outside, but not leaving.That is to say, the perpetrator did not leave after entering the bathroom, but Yiyi said that she did not see anyone when she rushed out.The perpetrator appears to have disappeared immediately after committing the crime. I asked Yiyi to bring a ruler, and measured the size of the cement shoe print on the floor as size 36.The normal shoe size range for adults is 35.5 to 47 for women, and 38.5 to 48 for men. Those not within this range are basically custom-made, such as Yao Ming’s big feet of 55.Based on this inference, the owner of the shoe print should be a woman. The calculation method of shoe size and barefoot length is (shoe size + 10) ÷ 2 = barefoot length, and the barefoot length of a person wearing a size 36 shoe should be 23 cm.Based on the barefoot length × 6.876, it can be concluded that the height of the owner of the shoe print is about 158 ​​cm.However, the accuracy rate of this calculation method is about 80 to 90%, and it cannot be absolutely certain.And after I used a ruler to measure the stride distance, I found that the shoe size was not in proportion to what it should be, so I walked along the shoe prints, and let Yiyi and Zhenzhen walk again. There are three ways to calculate height by stride length: 1. The single step length is more than 166 cm - single step length + barefoot length 1/3 2. The single step length is between 148 cm and 165 cm - single step length + barefoot length 1/2 3. The single step length is less than 147 cm - single step length + barefoot length 2/3 The single step length of the shoe print is 168 cm, plus one-third of the barefoot length, the height is 176 cm.However, the stride of the shoe print is longer than the three of us, that is to say, the owner of the shoe print is taller than us, so its actual height should be about 180 cm. The owner of the shoe print is a woman with a height of about 1.8 meters. This conclusion makes me feel baffled.And Yiyi also said that the tallest woman in the entire newspaper office is only about 1.72 meters. No other valuable clues were found in the bathroom, so I asked Yiyi to take us to the tea room.There is a central air-conditioning outlet in the ceiling of the tea room, and a small amount of cement has solidified on the grille, which proves that Yiyi is not lying.The ceiling is not high, and it took me a little effort to remove the grille while standing on a chair.Because I wanted to see what was going on inside the tuyere, I found two more chairs and stacked them up in a zigzag shape, so that there was enough height for me to put my head in and out of the tuyere.However, it is also dangerous to do so. Although Zhen Zhen helped to support the chair, she always felt that it would fall easily. I stuck my head into the air outlet and found that it was very dark inside. Although I couldn't see the end of the air-conditioning duct, I couldn't see anything.The pipe is much narrower than I imagined, and it is impossible for people to get in, but Yiyi said that she saw a pair of eyes here.And the cement on the grid also shows that cement slurry once fell from here. I checked carefully for a while, and there was no dust or cobwebs in the air-conditioning ducts that I could see clearly, but there were a small amount of cement blocks, and it seemed that objects stained with cement slurry had crawled here.Is it really haunted?The image of a female ghost covered in cement gradually formed in my mind...