Chapter 27 Corpses

I kicked the corpse tied under the bed out next to the other one, while Lin Sihan screamed. Then I went back to the desk.

I nudged the desk a meter away from the wall with my toe, then stomped on the floor. Five or six bricks, along with the sand beneath them, flew into the air from the force of my inner energy. A pale face was revealed under the bricks.

A small duty room was hiding three corpses.

Lin Sihan squatted on the ground, too scared to move, as if she was afraid of stepping on the corpses.

I sat on the desk and said, "You weren't mistaken. When I threw you outside, there really were dead people following me, but it wasn't your soul, it was the dead people outside the window."

"The computer could see outside without a data cable because the dead person buried underground was playing tricks. His hand could just touch the computer case."

I stared at Lin Sihan intently and said, "But the story you told me over the phone doesn't seem to be coming from a dead person! You made it up, didn't you?"

Lin Sihan retorted, "Didn't you lie to me too, saying you were Zhang Qiang?"

I said in a deep voice, "Have you met Zhang Qiang?"

"I've seen his photo online!" Lin Sihan quickly said, afraid that I would throw her out again, "What I said is true. Some time ago, I saw a post online looking for the Warlord's Mansion..."

"I contacted the poster, who was Zhang Qiang."

I listened quietly to Lin Sihan's story and then asked in a cold voice, "Then who are you? Why are you looking for the Warlord's Mansion?"

Lin Sihan said, "I am a reporter for the city's Evening News, responsible for the 'Old Stories of Yecheng' section. I am very interested in the Warlord's Mansion. Because, when I was looking for information, I saw someone mention the Warlord's Mansion."

"Zhang Qiang said that the Warlord's Mansion had been turned into an archive, and people had disappeared in the archive... I thought this was a good subject, so I decided to follow him to explore it. Reporting to the archive was our code."

I said in a deep voice, "What kind of person is Zhang Qiang?"

Lin Sihan said, "He claims to be a descendant of a family of executioners... The executioner family became policemen in his grandfather's generation. He is a retired criminal policeman from Yecheng."

"Zhang Qiang found the past events of the Warlord's Mansion in his grandfather's notes. His grandfather was the one who was responsible for investigating the disappearance of the personnel in the Third Archive that year."

"Zhang Qiang's father was secretly collecting information about the disappearance of the archive staff back then, but he was using criminal investigation methods."

"Zhang Qiang also told me that he once suggested that his father try using metaphysics to investigate the case back then. But his father didn't believe in those things at all. He said: Any case is within the scope of scientific explanation. If you can't solve the case, it just means you haven't found the answer."

"Zhang Qiang couldn't convince his father, so he could only let him do these things."

When I heard this, I asked, "The people who investigated the disappearance case back then didn't disappear themselves?"

"They disappeared too! But not Zhang Qiang's grandfather!" Lin Sihan said, "Zhang Qiang's grandfather was a patrolman in the old days. He believed in ghosts and gods very much. It is said that he himself knew some metaphysical things. He was the only one who came out of the Third Archive."

"However, Zhang Qiang said that his grandfather also died later, died tragically, and very strangely. Zhang Qiang didn't go into detail about how his grandfather died. He only said that after his grandfather died, his body disappeared. Later, someone said they saw his grandfather walking towards the archive. He suspected that his grandfather had entered the archive."

Hearing this, I said in a deep voice, "You just believed him? Aren't you afraid he's making up stories?"

Lin Sihan quickly said, "I also suspected that Zhang Qiang was making up stories."

"After I repeatedly questioned him, he said that his grandfather had been writing notes shortly after he came out of the archive, detailing the things that happened in the archive."

"According to Zhang Qiang, his grandfather also left a message, in case one day he died for no apparent reason, he wanted people to look for his notes. He wrote three copies of his notes, which were hidden in different places."

"If someone can find one of them, it means that some of his original judgments were wrong. The secret hidden in the archive may be revealed."

"If not a single note can be found, then don't bother with the cause of his death. Because the archive is a place that shouldn't exist in the world."

"Zhang Qiang said: He found the last notebook. I was afraid that Zhang Qiang was lying to me, so I asked him to take pictures for me to see. He did send some photos. I read the first few pages of the notebook and was curious about what happened in the archive? So I asked him to bring the notebook to find me."

"Zhang Qiang said: He could only bring the notebook to the archive to find me."

Lin Sihan said aggrievedly, "I was originally thinking of waiting for Zhang Qiang to bring the information over, but I didn't expect to meet you here. So I gave you the code. As a result, you knew all the answers, so I thought you were Zhang Qiang."

I said with a bad look on my face, "Didn't you say that you saw Zhang Qiang's photo? How could you mistake someone else?"