Chen Jiuyang asked, "What mission did you two take on, and what benefits can you get?"
Cao Qingqing replied, "We accepted a mission from the Six Gates, to investigate the truth and clues behind the disappearance of several constables here."
"Upon completing this mission, we can apprentice ourselves to an elite constable of the Six Gates and learn martial arts."
"Oh," Chen Jiuyang said, "That's fine, it's a convenient opportunity."
Cao Qingqing, Bai Shujuan, and Chen Jiuyang entered the small restaurant under the cover of deep night.
In the darkness, the small restaurant was silent and still.
Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan both wore helmet lights and recorders.
The restaurant door was ajar, and the three entered without obstruction. The room was pitch black.
Although the case had occurred not long ago, the room was covered in thick dust, as if it had been uninhabited for a long time, which was somewhat eerie.
There was no smell of rotting meat in the air, only the dust was so thick it was slightly suffocating.
After a sweep of the first floor, Cao Qingqing said, "There are no clues on the first floor, not even a trace."
"The police car is parked outside, and its lights are still on, but when we walked in, we found no signs of anyone entering. It's very strange."
Bai Shujuan frowned and said, "Let's go upstairs and take a look."
Chen Jiuyang spoke, "I suggest you'd better not go up. It's better to leave now and wait for my news outside."
The two women looked at Chen Jiuyang.
"Why?"
Chen Jiuyang smiled enigmatically, "You may not be able to bear it."
In Chen Jiuyang's perception, there was an uncomfortable aura upstairs.
Bai Shujuan said seriously, "If we are afraid of even this, then we are not qualified to practice martial arts. The elite constables of the Six Gates will not accept wimps like us."
How difficult was it for ordinary people to come into contact with true martial arts? They were willing to pay a great price for genuine techniques.
"Then let's go," Chen Jiuyang said with a faint smile.
"Creak, creak, creak—"
The three slowly ascended to the second floor.
"Ah!"
Cao Qingqing's eyes widened at the scene before her, her face turned ashen, her body trembled, and she let out a terrifying scream, hugging Bai Shujuan.
Bai Shujuan also trembled, her face pale with fright.
Only Chen Jiuyang watched the scene with a calm expression.
The bodies of six Six Gates constables were laid out in the second-floor living room. Each Six Gates constable wore a body camera, their eyes wide open in death, their expressions contorted, as if they had seen something extremely terrifying before dying.
Chen Jiuyang felt a dark, eerie aura emanating from their corpses.
However, he could not sense the source of this eerie aura.
Cao Qingqing's small face was pale, tears welled up in her eyes, and she trembled, "They were reported missing, and I didn't expect them to die here. How could this happen?"
They could not comprehend what was happening before them.
Chen Jiuyang said calmly, "This is the clue to your mission. They all died here."
Chen Jiuyang walked forward and squatted in front of a Six Gates constable's body, pointing to the body camera, "Perhaps this recorded what they encountered before they died."
"Stop standing there like fools. If you want to complete the mission, come and help."
Back then, Fang Bahua was willing to be a dog for a martial family for more than ten years to obtain the method to advance to the Earth realm, but in the end, it was all in vain.
Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan shivered slightly, their faces pale.
Five of the six body cameras were inexplicably unable to power on.
Only one body camera could be turned on normally.
Chen Jiuyang powered it on, connected his phone to the body camera with a data cable, and exported the video to his phone. The two women waited for a while, then stood together to watch the video from the body camera.
"Sizzle!"
The video played, and the screen showed them sitting in a police car, driving to the small restaurant.
"This time..." Chen Jiuyang frowned.
The two women glanced at the time on the body camera. It was indeed tonight, and it was only three hours ago.
Bai Shujuan looked at the constable in the body camera. Judging by his state of death and the lividity, he looked like he had been dead for several days...
How strange!
A chill ran down the spines of the two women.
Continuing to watch, the constable in the body camera and his partner entered the small restaurant. Just like when they entered, the room was covered in dust, as if no one had lived there for a long time.
Chen Jiuyang frowned, "Is this the influence of the ominous stolen goods that escaped from the forbidden zone?"
These two constables found no clues on the first floor, so they went upstairs and saw the bodies of four Six Gates constables.
"What's that smell, it's so foul!"
"Our colleagues ahead of us disappeared after coming here. This place is a bit sinister," another male voice said.
The body camera's lens quickly spotted flies and Chen Shengrong's body. A chill immediately surged into Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan's hearts.
There were no flies here! Why were there flies in the body camera?
Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan grew paler as they continued to watch.
The owner of the body camera went to open another door.
Then, the two women saw the body of a middle-aged woman lying on the bed in a bizarre posture, her expression terrifyingly contorted, and a knife nearby.
This scene was very frightening. Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan immediately glanced at the closed wooden door next to them with terrified expressions.
Chen Jiuyang, however, narrowed his eyes in thought, "These two constables opened the door, but they didn't close it."
"But now, the door to the room where the corpse in the student uniform is located is closed."
"Who closed the door?"
Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan were so scared they were almost out of their minds, and they didn't notice this detail at all.
The video continued.
After seeing the corpse of the middle-aged woman, the two Six Gates constables stood frozen in place. However, the camera suddenly shook, and then their voices were heard.
"Madam... are you alright?"
"Madam, may I ask..."
"How is that possible!"
"Ah!"
The two constables suddenly let out piercing screams, and then their voices abruptly stopped.
"Thump—"
The body camera's lens fell to the ground, and there was no further movement, as if the two Six Gates constables had just died.
Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan, watching the body camera, were filled with terror.
What exactly did these two Six Gates constables see that caused them to die so bizarrely?
The video was not yet over.
"Bang!"
Suddenly, two sounds of doors closing startled Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan.
Immediately, their expressions became even more terrified.
These Six Gates constables were already dead. Who made the sound of doors closing?
Cao Qingqing and Bai Shujuan's scalps tingled, but the body camera did not capture any useful information.
There was definitely another presence on the second floor of this small restaurant.
"How did they die?"
"What exactly did they see?"