Chapter 5: Preparation and Infiltration
"Federal Huaguoduo Insurance Company... I don't remember buying insurance from your company," the middle-aged woman said suspiciously.
Wen Wen pushed up his glasses, smiled, and handed over a document, saying, "You haven't bought it, but Green Source Middle School has. We compensate for any accidents involving students at Green Source Middle School if it is ultimately proven to be the school's fault."
The document was something Wen Wen had casually printed at a roadside copy shop, and the seal was carved out of a radish by himself. Being a detective, after all, required mastering some peculiar skills.
After looking at the document, the woman let Wen Wen into the room, where he finally saw the first 'inside case' experiencer, Pan Dapeng, a middle school sophomore.
Pan Dapeng sat on the sofa, a hot cup of tea in front of him, wrapped in a thick blanket, but he was still shivering slightly.
"Mr. Pan Dapeng, could you talk about what happened to you in the dormitory of Green Source Middle School?"
"The dormitory?"
Pan Dapeng shook his head and said, "That night, the three of us went to play near the school's cold storage, and accidentally got locked in there for several hours..."
"Just that? Didn't anything else, anything special, happen?"
Wen Wen leaned forward, unable to help but ask, as what Pan Dapeng had described did not match the various materials he had collected.
"What? Isn't that enough? Do you still have any humanity? How pathetic is it that a child was locked in a cold storage, yet you show no sympathy at all?"
Pan Dapeng's mother was angered by Wen Wen's words and questioned him.
"No, no, I didn't mean that. I just wanted to ask if anything else happened in the dormitory apart from the cold storage incident. Is your current condition really caused by the cold storage?" Wen Wen asked, furrowing his brow.
"What else but the cold storage could have frozen my child like this?" Pan's Mother said defensively, hugging Pan Dapeng's shoulders and showing no kindness to Wen Wen.
Wen Wen's words seemed to imply that her child's condition was not serious at all.
She suspected that Wen Wen was asking such questions to avoid paying the insurance money, especially since she naturally had a hot temper and thus showed no good expressions towards Wen Wen.
Wen Wen asked a few more questions, but was eventually driven out by Pan's Mother...
In Pan's Mother's view, the facts were crystal clear, but Wen Wen kept hinting at something else, which made Pan's Mother, already irritable due to Pan Dapeng's ordeal, somewhat unbearable.
After leaving Pan Dapeng's house, Wen Wen was not upset by Pan's Mother's attitude. As a detective, he had encountered such situations often and was used to them.
But why would Pan Dapeng hide what happened in the dormitory? If it was an act, he was performing it too well...
"I didn't even see any signs of lying..." Wen Wen muttered to himself.
Then, he went to meet another student and Li Wenliang, who was still in the hospital. The answers he got from both were consistent with what Pan Dapeng had described.
They had all accidentally gone to the school canteen's cold storage and then got frostbite.
However, according to Wen Wen's investigation, the school canteen's cold storage was not a place that three students should have been able to access.
So, either the internal data Wen Wen had accessed was all false, or the three students were conspiring to lie.
"No, perhaps neither side is incorrect," Wen Wen thought.
Back at the hotel, Wen Wen began further investigations to uncover the true identity of the entity causing trouble in the dormitory.
As a detective who had not been practicing for long but had shown remarkable achievements, Wen Wen easily obtained some internal documents. Within one of them, he almost confirmed the identity of the entity in the dormitory.
Three years ago, a boy named Qin Shuang started flirting with girls online...
"Huh, so young and already dating? Kids these days," Wen Wen said, shaking his head.
He arranged a meeting with a young woman and went to a hotel with her. However, her boyfriend caught them, and he was then dismembered by the couple and stuffed into a refrigerator. The case was solved a year later because the couple surrendered.
"Online dating is risky indeed," Wen Wen remarked.
"So, this Qin Shuang probably became a ghost and returned to his original dorm, while Pan Dapeng and the others were just unfortunate victims,"
This part had gone smoothly, if not for the setbacks during the home visits, Wen Wen would definitely feel a sense of accomplishment now.
"The ghost I need to deal with... Sanctuaries, how should I deal with a ghost?"
The Catastrophe Containment Facility had no response.
"Ah, this plugin is like a mute gourd, I have to guess what functions it has, unlike other systems that can chat with their hosts," Wen Wen complained.
Of course, his complaints were just that. Given his personality, if this thing actually had its own intelligence, he might imagine all sorts of terrifying possibilities, like possession or plotting something using his body.
His biggest help was still the internet, through various channels, he found many seemingly reliable traditional ghost-catching methods.
Hmm... the most reliable was to learn Taoist magic, but unfortunately, he didn't have the connections for that.
Cow's Tears, Tip of the Tongue Blood, Boy's Urine, Table Salt, weapons with malevolent Qi, and items stolen from the church like Creation God's Quotations and a Cross.
Originally, to deal with a vampire, he really did steal quite a bit from the church...
He wasn't sure if these items would truly work against ghosts, but they should at least have some effect, as that was how he operated when dealing with vampires.
At nine in the evening, it had become completely dark, the weather just like the day of the incident.
After arming himself fully, Wen Wen stepped out of the hotel, his face covered with a mask, clearly not looking like a good person.
When he reached Green Source Middle School, the dorms had all turned off their lights, perfect for his stealthy entry.
He didn't go through the main entrance, his outfit would make it strange if the security guard let him in.
He went to the wall, gripped the top, and with a slight effort, jumped over.
"The physical abilities of a vampire really aren't for show, catching one myself is pretty awesome."
After a little self-admiration, Wen Wen found Dormitory Building Number Two and peeked at the entrance, spotting a young security guard sitting upright in the supervisor's room.
"This is a bit tricky, I need to take care of him."
The trouble Wen Wen mentioned was not that he couldn't enter because of this guard, but that dealing with the ghost might cause disturbances, and having this guard around would make many things difficult.
He tapped the bracelet, turned off the prison point of Calamity-0001, and then moved it to his middle finger.
Wen Wen's body quickly weakened, returning to normal, but his eyes became slightly red. He now felt he could control others with his eyes.
He carefully pushed the door open, and though he no longer had the vampire's physical strength, he easily sneaked up behind the security guard.
Being a detective, knowing some sneaky tricks was normal.
Once ready, Wen Wen snapped his fingers at the guard, who immediately turned his attention and faced Wen Wen's eyes.
A pair of slender eyes, as if they held many mysteries.
The guard got lost in them instantly.
"You didn't see me... and tonight, no matter what you hear or see, you won't go to the second floor, understood?"
The guard nodded blankly and sat still in his chair, as if he hadn't seen Wen Wen at all.
Wen Wen breathed a sigh of relief, it looked like the Primary Hypnosis worked; if it hadn't, he would have had to knock out the guard.
Activating the ability on the ring required a snap of the fingers. Luckily, as long as he wore these gloves and made the motion of snapping, the sound would be produced, no need to worry about being unable to activate the ability if he couldn't snap his fingers.