Chapter 18 Boring Topics

After Jack found that someone was watching him, his heartbeat accelerated for no reason, which was immediately reflected on the monitor next to him. He had no choice but to cough twice and slowly opened his eyes. The first person he saw was a middle-aged man with a slightly sallow face and a thin body. He was the one who spoke just now. The man had messy hair and wore a gray jacket and trousers. The jacket on his body had turned yellow, but he was still reluctant to throw it away. However, the guy looked at him calmly and deeply, as if he could see through what Jack was thinking.

 "So you're awake?" Lily came over. Then she shrugged again, "Actually, it's nothing to hear. You have already encountered an abnormality, and we can't hide it from you." After speaking, Lily looked at the middle-aged man sitting next to Jack: "Brother Zheng, what do you think?" The middle-aged man was called Jamal, the leader of the special case investigation team of the Cloud Police Department. When Lily first met Jack, he did not show up because he had other cases in his hands. This time, the commotion was so big that even though Jamal had not finished the case, he had to come over to take a look.

 In fact, he had just entered the ward with Lily, Ted and others, but he had not spoken and moved lightly. He sat next to the bed as soon as he came in. Seeing Lily asking him, Jamal did not speak, but just nodded. Lily seemed to have been instructed and looked at Jack: "Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?"

Jack paused, and slowly spoke with a hoarse voice: "I didn't believe it before..., but now, I believe it." The young man sitting on the other side of the bed said: "In fact, the people in our investigation team don't believe it even now." After hearing his words, Jack was stunned.

 Lily pointed at the young man, then pointed at Jamal, and introduced: "His name is David, this is the head of our investigation team, Jamal." "Why don't you believe it?" Jack asked. David smiled and shook his head, without saying anything, as if this was a secret, or it could not be explained clearly at all. Lily said, "Because what we encountered was very bizarre, so bizarre that these bizarre events cannot be accurately and effectively defined."

 Jack nodded thoughtfully. "The mangy dog ​​that died in your bedroom, was it the one you told Lily about last time, the one you encountered in the garbage alley behind the community?" Jamal asked. "Lily?" Jack didn't react for a moment, then his face became awkward and he nodded, "Yes, that one."

 "Is there any difference when you see it the second time?" Jamal asked without thinking about anything else. Jack tried to withdraw his attention from the picture of Lily that emerged in his mind and recalled carefully: "I didn't pay attention to the dog the first time, and it even stained my pants, and the second time I found that the eye was wrong, as if Fiona's blood pupil appeared in its eye socket."

 Jamal nodded slightly and looked at Lily and David. They seemed to have guessed it a long time ago, but only now did they get confirmation from Jack. "Then did you see the blood pupil?" Later, the police officers did not find the blood pupil in Jack's bedroom, except for the sculpture that looked like a blood pupil. As for this sculpture, together with Allen's bust sculpture, it is still placed on Jack's workbench. It is just a handmade work and cannot attract the attention of the case handling team members.

 Jack seemed to be recalling, but in fact he was quickly thinking about how to answer in his mind. After a pause, he replied: "In a hurry, I seemed to stab the dog's eyeball with an arc knife, and then pulled it hard. Later, I saw that the dog seemed to fall to the ground, but I couldn't support it anymore and soon fainted. Later, I felt that my body was lifted by someone. It should be you who came."

 "In other words, after you dug out the eyeball, you never saw it again?" Lily asked suspiciously. Jack smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I'm not even sure whether the eyeball was dug out. You have to know that everything was in a panic at the time, and my shoulder was bleeding a lot. I thought I was going to die and had no time to care about anything else."

 "Why did you dig out the pupil instead of stabbing the important organs of the dog with a knife?" Jamal asked this key question. Jack looked at Lily and smiled bitterly: "You can ask Lily about this. When Fiona's body appeared, I found that the blood pupil was wrong, which caused me a great shock of fear. I also carved an unfinished eyeball sculpture for this, and Lily knew this."

 Jamal looked at Lily, who nodded. Jack said again: "So when I was chased and bitten by the vicious dog, I grabbed the arc knife and almost subconsciously poked at the eyeball." At this point, Jack basically explained the matter clearly, but for these investigators, the whereabouts of the blood pupil was what they cared about most. Of course, their focus was not within Jack's consideration.

 He only knew that he had already harvested two ghosts, one was Allen and the other was Blood Eye. After talking for a while, the investigation team left, leaving Ted to come to Jack's bed. "Ted, you also know about ghosts?" Jack asked first without waiting for Ted to speak. Ted nodded: "I am from the homicide team. In the process of contacting cases, I have more or less encountered some strange events."

 "Does every homicide case have ghosts?" Jack asked curiously. Ted smiled and said, "Where can there be so many ghosts! Very few, very few encounters. And you just heard David say that even the members of the special case investigation team don't really believe that these strange events are related to ghosts."

 Jack probably understood and nodded: "Although it cannot be fully confirmed at present, let's call it 'ghost' for the time being." To be honest, the scene of the blood pupil crawling through the optic nerve appeared in his mind. Now Jack is not sure whether that thing is a ghost or not. Maybe it is some kind of strange power, or maybe after Fiona's death, the resentment accumulated in the eyeball caused a special change. In short, he also couldn't find the answer to something that even the special case investigation team couldn't be sure of.

 "Ah!" Jack sighed. The experiences and changes in the past few days made him feel exhausted. He was ready to close his eyes and rest. "You should take good care of your injuries first. Before they find the strange eyeball that Lily mentioned, you must always pay attention to safety." Ted saw that he wanted to sleep, and while speaking, he took out a red hard shell certificate from the briefcase in his hand.

 "This is the "Good Citizen" certificate issued by the police station. The bonus is 10,000 yuan, which will be directly deposited into your account to reward you for helping the police station catch the murderer." "Hey, if you talk about this, I won't be sleepy anymore." Jack opened his eyes and saw the red certificate at a glance. Ted laughed and put the certificate in the drawer of the bedside table, and reminded: "Remember to take it with you when you are discharged from the hospital. You are losing too much blood now, so you will be fine after a period of rest. In fact, the wound is not serious."

 Jack thanked him and asked casually: "The medical expenses for my hospitalization this time..." "The police station will take care of it, so don't worry." Ted said. "Then I am relieved." Jack said frankly, looking relieved. He is a small businessman, and suddenly he has to bear such expensive medical expenses. It would be a lie to say that he is not worried.

 "Is the door of my house closed?" Jack suddenly remembered. Ted smiled and said: "It is closed, and our police station's cooperative unit has replaced a security door and bedroom door for you. The door locks have been replaced with new ones. The keys will be delivered tomorrow at the latest." "Yeah, thank you!" Jack patted his chest, and the obsessive-compulsive symptoms disappeared instantly. He closed his eyes and went to sleep peacefully.