Chapter 200: [Gold Medal Salesperson] Obtaining the Information
Truth be told, no one particularly held an appetite for food, but food had a way of helping people unwind.
After looking around, they selected a noodle shop located quite a distance away from the residential compound.
It was currently peak mealtime, and the noodle shop bustled with lively activity.
Though they would have to wait a rather long time, they had deliberately sought out a bustling, noisy spot in the first place, so no one minded the wait.
Amidst the savory aroma of food, the rising curls of steam, and the bustling chatter of the crowd, the expressions across all four of their faces relaxed in tacit unison.
“Ahem, you can go ahead and speak now.”
The time spent along the way had allowed them to digest the initial shock as well; if they brought an affair like this back to share with their colleagues, surely no one would believe them.
Consequently, as far as Bai Cha was concerned, if even they refused to lend her a hand, her plight would truly be tragically miserable.
“It’s like this: I want to ask for your help to look into something… specifically, what I did after my mother fell ill.”
The three officers froze briefly.
Why would someone need others to investigate what she herself had done? Yet on second thought, theories involving ghost possession and forced actions naturally crossed their minds.
“Sure, we can help you look into that once we get back.”
Bai Cha looked as though a massive boulder crushing her chest for the longest time had finally been lifted; her rimmed eyes turned red, and raising her hand to cover her face, she casually wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes.
“I’m truly so sorry about today! But I was genuinely on the brink of a complete mental breakdown.”
“Yes, yes, don’t worry, we completely understand!” The female officer raised her arm to drape around Bai Cha’s shoulders, offering gentle comfort.
Truth be told, back when they were inside her apartment today, every single one of them had nearly failed to hold their composure as well.
Bai Cha cast a deeply grateful look toward her.
“There’s one more thing.”
Knitting her brows and biting her lip tightly, Bai Cha pulled out two screenshots.
One was the transaction record for the Reincarnation Stone purchased by Li Yun, and the other showed Li Yun’s membership in the Reincarnation Cult.
In an instant, the three officers caught sight of a domain intimately familiar to them.
They even experienced an illusory impression that everything had suddenly clicked into place.
“I don’t know when I bought this, nor do I know when I joined that group. There are numerous items inside my phone that I hold zero personal memory of—do you understand what I mean?”
As Bai Cha spoke, tears welled up and trickled down her face once more, her entire face consumed by pure terror.
“I… I genuinely have no idea when any of these things happened. I have zero memory of them! Furthermore, I paid a visit to Uncle Zhao’s place today—he’s my adoptive mother’s ex-husband.”
“Uncle Zhao has already remarried, and his current wife threw me out. Yet I have zero clue what I ever did to wrong Uncle Zhao? I don’t know when I harmed him either. Could I trouble you to look into his current situation as well?”
The three officers took note of all these details.
“Alright, rest assured, we will investigate. Is there anything else? Anything you find strange, particularly regarding this reincarnation affair?”
Bai Cha shook her head.
“If I hadn’t checked the records, I wouldn’t even have known I had actually joined this cult.”
“Alright, don’t worry too much. We will look into this for you as well.”
“Could you please make it as quick as possible? I feel time is running out. In the past, she actually stayed inside her bedroom all the time without coming out, showing zero difference from when she was alive.”
Feeling deeply uneasy, Bai Cha smoothed her hair, her knitted brows failing to relax for even a single second.
“However, when I came home last night, she materialized right behind me. When I supported her up the stairs, I already felt something was bizarre, and then when I opened the door, I discovered another version of her sitting inside the house…”
An expression bordering on emotional collapse flared across her face, looking as though she were about to burst into tears.
“I was genuinely scared out of my mind right then and there, but I didn’t dare make a sound, so I had to pretend I knew nothing.”
Goosebumps broke out over the female officer’s skin as well, yet she continued patting her shoulder to offer comfort.
“In any case, I feel that if this isn’t resolved soon, it might be too late. Oh, as for that dog, I genuinely have no idea where it came from. In truth, an odor was only smelled in that room starting today; yesterday, there was merely a faint, stale smell typical of elderly people.”
“Even without… her, it’s completely normal for her to have resided in that room for so long anyway, and I didn’t dare step inside to tidy things up either.”
The officers nodded in thorough understanding.
Who would dare step inside after something like that happened? Even if the entity involved was one’s own mother, it was still out of the question.
After all… if it were under normal circumstances, returning to visit one’s own child would be considered a touching, heartwarming story.
Yet what transpired in the kitchen today…
The noodles were soon served up to the table.
Pretending to lack an appetite, Bai Cha ate a couple of bites, only to find the taste quite delicious. She simply continued sobbing and venting her grievances aloud, sneaking bites of food along the way as she spoke.
“There’s one more thing—specifically regarding our boss, at the new job I just found. I feel that boss is somewhat problematic as well.”
The three officers knitted their brows tightly.
“What’s wrong with the boss?”
Bai Cha ate her noodles with hesitant slowness, speaking only after a long moment: “He took us to a location today under the guise of special training, and there were ghosts inside.”
The three officers felt a sharp, throbbing headache coming on.
Why did it feel as though ghosts were lurking everywhere across the world?
“I can’t say for certain either, but in any case, several of us new recruits ended up giving the boss a thorough lesson…” Bai Cha displayed a hint of embarrassment.
“Truth be told, we were simply far too terrified. Looking back now, our behavior was somewhat inappropriate, but I shared my personal ordeal with a few colleagues, and they believed me and were willing to help. A few colleagues are currently keeping tabs on the boss downstairs.”
This behavior indeed wasn’t particularly sound, yet it was understandable enough, so the three officers refrained from offering criticism.
“Alright, we’ll look into things on this end for you as well. It’s almost one o’clock now, so let’s aim to send you a preliminary batch of whatever information we manage to gather before 5:30 PM, sounds good?”
Bai Cha nodded, offering a deeply moved smile, unable to resist slurping up another mouthful of noodles.
“Thank you so much! Thank you for going through all this trouble!”
“It’s nothing. If you feel it’s inconvenient to go back and live there, do you have friends you could stay with?”
Bai Cha shook her head.
“It’s better not to alert the enemy prematurely. I’ll go back and stay there for another night.”
After a brief thought, the three officers found it difficult to press her further.
It was genuinely hard to offer advice regarding an affair like this.
Once the meal concluded, Bai Cha naturally expressed that she held zero desire to return home just yet due to fear. After a moment’s thought, the three officers simply brought her back to the police station.
This way, any information uncovered could be shared with her immediately; furthermore, a police station naturally imparted a sense of security to everyone.
An affair like this indeed proved difficult to share with colleagues outright; they simply stated that a few strange details had emerged and they intended to look into them, so naturally, their colleagues held zero suspicion toward anything paranormal.
Upon hearing that a cult-like organization was potentially involved, everyone cooperated in the investigation as well.
Before long, around three o’clock in the afternoon, a wealth of information was delivered to Bai Cha’s hands.
First were the answers to the questions she had raised.
Today was April 28, 2020. On the 25th of last month, Li Yun’s mother fell ill and was rushed to the hospital for medical treatment.
Upon completing hospital examinations, however, it was discovered that Li Yun’s mother wasn’t suffering from an ordinary minor ailment as initially displayed, but late-stage cancer that had completely metastasized throughout her entire body.
If chemotherapy were to be pursued, the medication costs during the treatment period were astronomically expensive.
Li Yun went everywhere borrowing money, yet her mother refused treatment, returning home alongside Li Yun.
On April 20, Li Yun’s mother suffered respiratory failure and was rushed to the hospital once again for emergency resuscitation, yet the resuscitation failed and she passed away.
Afterward, Li Yun used the borrowed money to purchase a cemetery plot, settling her mother’s final arrangements.
Yet the bizarre anomalies began precisely from this day onward.
Because among the events uncovered through the investigation, certain details harbored direct contradictions with one another.
