Chapter 144: Sounds at Midnight

At midnight, Cen Lian was lying in bed when he suddenly heard a strange sound from afar.

The sound was on the street near the hotel, like crying and laughing, and it was quite noisy.

He picked up his phone to check the time and found that it was already two o'clock in the morning.

After leaving the county bureau, they had a simple meal together and went back to their rooms to rest. The specific situation of the case would have to wait for Yang Hong's blood test results to come out before they could be determined.

He played with his phone until nearly twelve o'clock before he fell asleep, and it was just over two hours later.

Cen Lian looked down from upstairs in the moonlight, but saw nothing.

The place where the sound came from should be the street behind the hotel, which he could not see from this angle.

Generally speaking, it is best not to pay attention to such a sound in the middle of the night, but as a people's policeman, Cen Lian was still worried that something might have happened to the masses.

So he quickly dressed up, pushed open the door of the hotel room and walked out.

In the corridor, he met Qi Yan and Yuan Chenxi who were also awakened by the sound.

"Where is Tang Hua?" Yuan Chenxi asked.

"He sleeps so deeply that he can't be woken up by this decibel." Cen Lian knows Tang Hua's sleep quality very well.

This guy can fall asleep to the sound of a deafening snore, and now this little noise means nothing to him.

"Should we call him?" Qi Yan glanced at Tang Hua's room.

"Forget it, let's go over and take a look first, maybe we are just overthinking." Cen Lian was not sure if something really happened.

The three of them walked together and found that the lights were on when they arrived at the hotel lobby, but the front desk had gone back to the lounge to sleep.

There are few people staying in this kind of hotel in a small county town at night, so it is normal for the front desk to be lazy.

"The sound came from the back, and I can't hear anything from the lobby," Qi Yan confirmed again while standing in the lobby, "I remember there is an old-fashioned tube building and an abandoned office building of an old state-owned enterprise behind it."

This is Qi Yan's habit after arriving in every city.

The place where they ate was not far from the back of the hotel, so Qi Yan subconsciously observed the buildings behind it at that time.

Cen Lian didn't have a deep impression of these, but he was very confident in Qi Yan.

"Let's go over and take a look." He made a decision quickly.

Yuan Chenxi couldn't help but ask, "Does our behavior resemble the cannon fodder in the horror movies who are courting death?"

"Believe in science," Cen Lian said, but he was actually a little worried in his heart, "We must adhere to materialism."

Qi Yan didn't say anything, he was really not afraid.

As a person who often goes out to hike in the wild mountains, he used to live in a tent in the mountains late at night, which was much scarier than the current situation.

The three of them walked along the street to the backyard of the hotel.

The sound became clearer and clearer. This time they all heard it clearly. It was a groan mixed with other sounds, and wrapped in the groan was some strange chanting.

In the middle of the night, is there someone performing a ritual here?

The more Cen Lian listened, the more he felt that something was wrong with his body. This sound made people very uncomfortable.

"It seems to be in the yard in front," Yuan Chenxi looked at the sky and said in surprise: "Today's moon is so round."

Qi Yan took out his mobile phone to check and told them that today was the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar.

"I always feel that this kind of scene should appear in some fantasy stories," Yuan Chenxi took a picture of the moon, "I have another question, did you all bring law enforcement recorders when you went out?"

"Don't worry, I won't forget anything." After saying this, Cen Lian quietly approached the wall of the yard, dozens of meters away from the half-open iron gate.

This yard used to be the office building of the timber factory. It was built very early. There was a layer of white paint on the outside, but the stone bricks inside could be clearly felt.

"What are these people reading here in the middle of the night?" Yuan Chenxi was also listening to the movement inside, and the more he listened, the more he felt scared.

The moaning gradually turned into a faint scream. Cen Lian frowned immediately after hearing this sound, thinking that something must have gone wrong.

But they couldn't go in directly from the main door.

So he looked up and found that the windows of the old building were basically without glass, so he could find a way to climb up from below.

Yuan Chenxi also noticed that Cen Lian was looking at the window.

"It's a bit difficult to climb this with bare hands." Yuan Chenxi was not suitable for you to confirm whether you can climb up.

Cen Lian estimated the height and motioned Qi Yan to come over to help.

Qi Yan took a horse stance and dragged Cen Lian up like a stake.

Yuan Chenxi watched Cen Lian gradually approach the window and confirmed that she could also climb up at this distance.

So she followed Cen Lian after he went up.

Qi Yan waved his hand when they were about to come over to pull him, indicating that he would stay at the door to guard.

"Okay, call us if there is any situation." Cen Lian was not sure what was going on inside.

Yuan Chenxi took this time to touch the window on the other side.

This was a former office with a locked door.

She pushed open the window and confirmed that there was no one around and came to the window near the courtyard.

Cen Lian followed.

The chanting sound gradually became smaller. Cen Lian and Yuan Chenxi looked down together and saw a group of people with their backs to them chanting something, and the person surrounded by them was a person wearing a white robe and dressed like a priest.

There was a naked woman next to the man, also kneeling in front of him.

"What is this, a cult?" Yuan Chenxi's eyes widened, and he turned on the law enforcement recorder as quickly as possible.

Perhaps they arrived a little late, and those people had already started to stand up, as if they were going to end the rally.

Yuan Chenxi was still trying to figure out who was here, but the only thing that caught Cen Lian's eyes was the text bubble that popped out of the white-robed man's head.

[Name: Cai Jiewei]

[Gender: Male]

[Age: 44 years old]

[Criminal record: instigated the killing of Zhang Yun 5 days ago

instigated Lu Xingjia to intentionally injure others 21 days ago

instigated others to rob a house 55 days ago

...

Organized cult activities for a long time

Sexually assaulted multiple women for a long time

Possessed and sold banned drugs for a long time

Engaged in fraud for a long time]

[Imprisonment record: Imprisoned for fraud 3065 days ago]

This person has a relatively long criminal record among the criminal suspects he has seen.

"They left." Yuan Chenxi whispered.

Cen Lian nodded, and waited until he was sure that they had all left before going downstairs.

There was nothing left here except some footprints.

Yuan Chenxi squatted on the ground and felt that he should bring the survey box with him.

"What on earth are they doing here in the middle of the night? Is it some spiritual practice or something like that?" Yuan Chenxi saw such a strange scene for the first time.

"It should be related to the naked woman," Cen Lian suddenly thought of the books he had read before, "It looks a bit like 'Joy Zen' or something like that."

"But the man just dressed more like a priest?" Yuan Chenxi was stunned.

"This kind of cult is always out of place," Cen Lian was quite disgusted with it, "He just made up a story, and the purpose is still to cheat money and sleep with women."

Qi Yan also walked in from the door at this time.

"Are all the people gone?" Cen Lian asked him.

"Well, they dispersed after going out. I looked around and most of them lived in the old residential area in this area." Qi Yan observed very carefully.

"Tell Mr. Gu that our law enforcement camera has captured the organizer's face." Cen Lian thought of the criminal records he had seen and confirmed that Zhang Yun's death was indeed related to Cai Jiewei.