Before the Case Is Filed: Restricted Areas Under the Rules

On his first day on the job, Chen Shu received a special "New Police Manual". Rule 1: If you hear crying coming from the basement late at night, please immediately turn off all electronic devices and sit down until the crying stops. Article 2: If you feel someone breathing in your ear after the crying stops, don't open your eyes or look back. Just pretend it doesn't exist. Article 3: If someone chooses to go check it out, we will collect his scattered parts the next morning and put them into evidence bags. Chen Shu, who ranked first in the criminal investigation major at the police academy, was assigned to this police station where even the air violated the laws of physics. His colleague, forensic doctor Lao Zhou, complained during the autopsy: "Substances that do not belong to the earth were detected in the blood of this victim, but aside from this, the cause of death was ordinary mechanical suffocation." Trace examiner Xiao Wang can use the luminol reaction to make ghosts appear, but insists that this is "just a chemical phenomenon that has not been recognized by the academic community." Everyone told him: Don't delve into it, just follow the rules and survive. But Chen Shu is different. He has a "talent": he can profile "it"'s behavioral patterns, psychological state, and unspoken demands from the rules of ghost stories, the layout of space, and every weird detail. He discovered that behind every killing rule, there was a forgotten victim. The being who wandered the stairwell at midnight and plunged the entire residential building into terror was just a wife who had been domestically abused. She ran to every floor and knocked on every door, but everyone