The Rebirth of the Cultivation Leader Qin Zhao as a Celebrity
Chapter 256 - 253: Something is Guiding Them

Chapter 256: Chapter 253: Something is Guiding Them

The location where the body was discovered this time was in a hotel kitchen.

After the Criminal Police Team reviewed the surveillance footage, they found that the condition of this victim and the previous one were similar before their deaths.

They were both drunk.

Staggering into the kitchen, they located the freezer and crawled inside.

The cause of death for both was hypothermia, and after death, their faces bore satisfied smiles.

If once could be an accident, but how could it be an accident twice?

The first victim could be explained as a coincidence, finding the kitchen’s freezer due to the heat in their body, seeking a cool place, so she crawled into the freezer.

But why did the second victim, after getting drunk, end up in the same situation?

How did she find the kitchen?

And why did she choose a time when no one was around?

The surveillance footage showed that when the second victim entered the kitchen, there was no one there, but the door was ajar, and the victim precisely located the kitchen’s position.

When the first victim entered the restaurant kitchen, the cleaning lady had just gone out to take out the trash, and the kitchen was also empty; moreover, when the lady returned, she didn’t notice that anyone had come in.

Huo Xun compared the two videos side by side for a long time and finally noticed what was amiss.

"Have you noticed something that seems to be guiding them to the kitchen’s freezer? Otherwise, how could they find the kitchen so accurately from so far away?"

People who are drunk have vague consciousness and don’t know where they want to go. Even if they think they know where to go, they could walk the wrong way.

Therefore, it’s quite eerie that these two victims were able to precisely find the kitchen and crawl into the freezer.

"And also, in this segment of surveillance video, there is no footage of the victims opening the freezer doors."

A police officer remembered the doubt Qin Zhao had raised before.

With this comment, everyone felt a chill run down their spine.

"But not only that, the doors of the freezer closed themselves."

Both freezers in the kitchens were positioned horizontally, with the doors opening upwards.

The victims hadn’t opened the doors very wide, and at first, they thought that after the victims crawled in, due to gravity, the doors naturally fell shut, hence they were closed before the victim could come out.

But in the second case, there was a frame in which both doors of the freezer were shut closed, indicating that the door that was opened had reached a 180-degree position.

It’s impossible for a door positioned that way to close on its own!

And in the surveillance footage, not long after the victim entered the freezer, the scene flashed to the doors of the freezer shutting.

Everyone in the Criminal Police Team closely observed these frames, growing more and more startled.

"Captain Huo, Miss Qin is here."

Hearing his colleague’s voice, Huo Xun took a deep breath.

"Let her come over quickly."

The officer who had greeted Qin Zhao hurriedly brought her to the security room.

The outside of the hotel was sealed off as was the kitchen scene, with all related personnel kept within the hotel, and the members of the Criminal Police Team were comparing surveillance footage of the two cases in the security room.

Qin Zhao’s arrival in the security room revealed the grave faces of everyone present.

"It seems this case is quite thorny," she said with a smile, her demeanor rather relaxed.

Seeing Miss Qin so at ease, everyone else gradually relaxed as well.

Huo Xun spoke to her, "Let me first share with you our findings."

He asked a colleague to play two surveillance clips simultaneously, then pointed out several doubts.

"I can now be fairly certain that neither case was an accident, but the monitors only captured the victims alone, which is truly bizarre. It must be that they failed to capture the critical footage."

Qin Zhao watched the flickering parts of the two videos very carefully.

This time she was certain, "There was something wrong with the magnetic field at that time. And you said something was luring them to the walk-in freezer in the kitchen, but it wasn’t captured on the surveillance footage.

It’s very possible that it couldn’t be captured at all!"

Everyone was silent. If it had been earlier, they might have thought that Qin Zhao was spreading superstitious beliefs.

But after so many incidents, they all knew each other well. They knew that Qin Zhao wouldn’t intentionally scare them.

"What should we do?"

Someone asked with deep concern, feeling an innate fear of things unseen.

If it were a human committing a crime, they could apprehend them, but how could they deal with something invisible and intangible like that? The police had no means to handle it!

"If it indeed was the work of ghosts or spirits, then the souls of the two victims should not have departed to be reincarnated,"

Qin Zhao said thoughtfully, given that she found no trace of their souls near the corpses either time.

Ghosts harm people, often for the living’s yang energy.

After a person dies, a ghost can devour their soul to strengthen itself.

The world of ghosts is like that of wild beasts, survival of the fittest. Souls wandering in the world often start by devouring their own kind, then, like cultivators, they slowly ascend and grow stronger.

Souls consume each other, and the Heavenly Masters do not intervene.

If a ghost directly devours the soul of a living person, it becomes increasingly fierce and bloodthirsty, killing more and more people. This disturbs the order of the Human World, and then both the Heavenly Masters and the underworld must step in.

If they truly had encountered harmful ghosts, the souls of these two victims might have been directly consumed.

"Take me to see the victims. I need to confirm my hypothesis."

Hearing this, Huo Xun promptly took her to the hotel’s kitchen.

This time, the corpse was still on site. The body from the previous case had been taken away, and the family had claimed it; not wanting it to remain at the police station, they wished for the deceased to be put to rest as soon as possible.

The family of the previous victim said that she loved to party at nightclubs, often coming home drunk, but they never imagined she would drunkenly crawl into a freezer and freeze to death.

The police had yet to contact the family of this victim.

This victim was not a local; she had checked into the hotel alone a few days prior. The staff mentioned that she seemed in low spirits when she arrived and later brought a lot of beer back to her room.

The staff thought she might have been drinking to drown her sorrows, wandering out drunk from her room, resulting in the accident.

Without the first case as a reference, Huo Xun might have believed it was truly an accident.

Qin Zhao and Huo Xun arrived at the hotel’s kitchen, where police were guarding all the doors.

The death of this victim was exactly like the last. Qin Zhao glanced at the body and then took a silver needle from her bag, piercing the victim’s forehead.

After extracting blood from the forehead of the corpse, she showed Huo Xun an incredibly astonishing scene.

The drop of blood floated in mid-air.

As Qin Zhao chanted, streaks of golden light enveloped the blood.

Huo Xun could only see this much, but in Qin Zhao’s mind, the scene from just before the victim’s death unfolded.

She used a rather special spell, but it had many restrictions.

It had to be used shortly after death and also impacted the victim’s soul.

It was very likely that this victim’s soul was gone, and since the period from death to discovery was shorter than the previous victim’s, and Huo Xun had called her over in time, she could use this spell.

Seeing the scene from before the victim’s death, Qin Zhao’s expression instantly became grave.

Because she saw that thing!