Chapter 240: line with translation of chapter title

Tushan Jiu and the others turned off the alarm, walking toward the parking lot while looking at the case information.

Wang Dongqing returned to the building and asked Zhou Yilan for the spare car key.

The case information was simple: it only noted that the reporter, Cong Bo, called the police, claiming there was a ghost in her home because her puppet had started speaking.

"A puppet speaking—could it be that a ghost is possessing it?" Maomao asked thoughtfully.

After all, such things easily attract some spirits.

If the owner also has some obsession, the chances are even higher.

Xiang Yichu also frowned, "I don't know; right now we only have this one sentence, with no substantive clues, so we still need to go to the scene to find out."

Tushan Jiu scrolled down, "The reporter is currently at the police station; her parents aren't home, she's too scared to go back, she even stayed at the station last night, and the surveillance caught the puppet moving around the house by itself, which is why it was transferred to us."

Wang Dongqing came over with the car key, excitedly asking, "What's the situation? Are we going to battle a fierce ghost?"

Maomao glanced at him, thinking he was like a fresh-faced rookie just entering the workforce, full of energy.

Tushan Jiu: "You're overthinking it."

Wang Dongqing: "......"

The four got into the car and drove to the police station to handle the handover.

They say history is always strikingly similar.

It was still that meeting room.

Sitting in the chair was his recent apprentice, He Mingrui.

He was currently scratching his head and cheek, muttering, "I looked at that puppet—it's just an ordinary one; the detection equipment found nothing special about it, so how could it move on its own and even speak?"

Zhang Xuefeng patted his shoulder and said, "Don't dwell on it; this case isn't something we can handle—superiors will send someone to take over soon."

He Mingrui turned to look at Zhang Xuefeng, "Master, which department is it?"

Zhang Xuefeng shook his head, saying nothing.

At that moment, the meeting room door was pushed open.

Zhang Xuefeng had expected it to be the same old Mr. Xu and company as last time, but who would have thought the leader would actually be Tushan Jiu!

After Tushan Jiu and Zhang Xuefeng exchanged a glance and smiled slightly, she pulled out her freshly issued credentials, unfolded them, and held them forward, saying, "Nan Cheng Office—this case is now officially ours starting today, Captain Zhang, shall we proceed with the handover?"

Zhang Xuefeng reacted for a moment, then nodded with a smile, "Okay."

Beside him, He Mingrui looked at these few people in casual clothes, who didn't look at all like members of some system, and his mind was full of questions.

Nan Cheng Office?

How had he never heard of such a unit before?

Moreover, it seemed his master was quite familiar with this department.

Zhang Xuefeng had nothing else to add; he simply put the surveillance footage from Cong Bo's living room on the big screen for everyone to see.

Tushan Jiu had a lollipop in her mouth, arms crossed, staring at the big screen.

After the surveillance finished playing, Wang Dongqing let out a sigh, his tone tinged with disappointment.

Maomao gave him a sharp retort.

Xiang Yichu then turned and asked Zhang Xuefeng, "Captain Zhang, where is that puppet? Also, we need to talk to the reporter."

It was obvious they had already taken that puppet as evidence back to the police station.

Zhang Xuefeng: "That puppet is over in the forensics department, but I heard you're coming to take over, so they've already taken it out and placed it in a separate interrogation room; shall I take you there?"

Xiang Yichu nodded: "Thank you for the trouble."

Zhang Xuefeng led the way, and the four followed him out of the meeting room.

Seeing everyone leave, He Mingrui hurriedly followed after them.

But just as he stepped out of the meeting room, he received a message: Zhang Xuefeng had assigned him another task, telling him to handle it first.

He glanced down the hallway where the few people had disappeared, then scratched the back of his head.

He didn't know why, but those four people gave him a really strange feeling.

Nevertheless, regardless of anything, he had to obey his master's order; he withdrew his gaze, turned around, and went off to attend to other matters.

Inside the interrogation room.

On the interrogation chair sat a puppet as tall as a baby's arm.

The puppet had no expression, but it was crouched there with its hands on its head, giving a rather gloomy feeling.

Not long after, it changed posture, stretching its legs out and sitting directly on the interrogation chair.

"Good grief, are modern humans always this overreactive? All I wanted was to ask her for a seal, and yet they had someone seize me!"

"By the way, what kind of place is this? The people who seized me are full of gang energy, and what Cong Bo meant by calling the police—I don't understand, I don't understand—but it's certainly novel."

"Oh dear, when can I get out of here? Why is there no one in this room?"

"Is anyone going to pay attention to me?"

As Tushan Jiu and the others just reached the door of the interrogation room, they heard the shouting from inside.

Naturally, the interrogation room is soundproof, so ordinary person Zhang Xuefeng didn't hear it.

Thus, when he directly opened the interrogation room door, he made eye contact with the puppet, which waved at him and said, "Ay ya, finally someone's here—let me out, I just fell asleep and just woke up, hehe."

Although Zhang Xuefeng had already experienced several supernatural incidents, facing something like this that greeted him was still a first.

Zhang Xuefeng felt his whole body was off; he stood straight but instinctively said, "Behave yourself!"

The puppet paused, then sat down slowly.

Seeing this, Tushan Jiu chuckled lightly, thinking, "This puppet spirit still has a rather small gall."

The four entered, and Zhang Xuefeng consciously did not follow.

The surveillance inside the interrogation room had been turned off in advance, and after just a few minutes, Tushan Jiu and the others got their answers.

This puppet was originally made a thousand years ago by a skilled artisan as a burial good for himself.

After a thousand years, and with the carpenter's tomb having superb feng shui, it awakened its spiritual intelligence and became a spirit.

But it is relatively lazy, doesn't train properly, often sleeps, so after a thousand years it still hasn't cultivated a human form.

Later, the carpenter's tomb was dug up by grave robbers, and it followed them into the light.

But after being unearthed, this guy was still sleeping; the grave robbers saw it was just a piece of wood worthless, so they didn't take it, and someone else picked it up.

After going around and around, when it finally fully woke up, it ended up in Cong Bo's hands.

After it woke up, every day watching Cong Bo's life, it felt many things were fresh.

Thus it saw Cong Bo also had good fortune, and wanted to ask her for a title, to become human and play in modern society.