monster's bride

Yang Li sat down in front of him and leaned back into the office chair. "It's not like me. I'm still relaxed and safe now."

Shi Yu raised his eyes to look at him and smiled lightly, "If you really feel relaxed, you won't keep following up on the cases I'm handling."

Because he didn't want to be alone and sad, Yang Li had been trying to find something to do for himself. His thoughts were too easy to guess.

"Okay, okay, I also want to help." Yang Li raised his hands in surrender and hummed: "So, what's wrong with the autopsy report?"

Shi Yu said: "The report shows that he picked up an ax and split his own head open."

Yang Li suddenly saw the relic bag on the table and felt that it looked familiar. He stretched out his hand and took it over to look at it. "Really? That means he is possessed by a curse."

"Yes." Shi Yu looked at the document and said, "But if you really want to possess someone to save people, the curse can be used to possess Lu Zhizhi when he is in danger."

Yang Li: "Are you saying that jumping off a building is unnecessary? It won't act in front of Lu Zhizhi, such a cunning guy."

"No." Shi Yu said firmly: "It won't beat around the bush when it comes to things that can be eliminated directly. Have you ever seen any of these murder cases that are roundabout? It just does what it wants to do."

Yang Li touched his wrist with a thoughtful expression on his face, then suddenly pulled up his sleeve, revealing a string of Buddhist beads.

He took off the bead string on his hand and examined it, then picked it up and compared it with the beads in the relic bag. After examining it for a long time, he made an unexpected discovery.

"From the beginning, I thought the items left by your father looked familiar. Look at the difference between the two."

Shi Yu took the bead string from him and compared it with the scattered beads. After a brief comparison, he found that the two beads were exactly the same in terms of appearance, feel and material.

"It's very similar, but what's the point?"

Yang Li recalled the night when he shot Bai Ji with a gun, witnessed his process from death to rebirth, and remembered that little bit of doubt.

"I'm not possessed either."

He looked at Shi Yu and said: "That night, I thought Bai Ji had killed my family. I brought a gun to find him. If it could easily possess me, there was no need for it to go out of its way to get shot. He was injured, and Lu Zhizhi discovered something unusual."

After saying this, Shi Yu also discovered something was wrong.

If it could possess him, it would have killed Yang Li long ago, why would it wait until now.

Shi Yu rubbed the string of Buddhist beads in his hand, "You mean, this string of things protected the lives of my father and yourself, because it was torn off and lost its effectiveness, so it was possessed by the curse."

Yang Li: "It's almost the same, right? What do you think?"

Combining the causes and consequences, it is really possible that this is the case.

After all, the curse is an evil thing, and it should be something that is not contaminated with Buddha nature.

Shi Yu said: "Where did it come from? Which local master has blessed the beads?"

Yang Li: "My wife brought it back from Japan before. I need to go back and check the purchase receipt for the specific origin. She said that this thing is not cheap."

He put the string of beads back in his hand and said with a smile: "I laughed at her at that time for actually going to worship the Buddha in Xiaoli. Is it because we have too few temples at home? She even chased me and scolded her for saying this. No matter where you are, just be sincere, I didn’t expect..."

He sighed softly, "I didn't expect it to be true. She begged for me with all her heart and saved my life, but she didn't save herself and her child."

As he spoke, Yang Li's eyes turned red again and he buried his head. Shi Yu stopped the topic in time, packed up his things and said, "Let's go, we can't invite you outside. Let's go to the cafeteria and I'll treat you to dinner."

When he returned home that night, Yang Li informed Shi Yu of the origin of the beads by phone, "This string of beads was obtained at Honganji Temple. As for how many such temples there are in Japan, I don't know. You can check the origin of the temple online." , I just took a look, their teachings are really simple and crude, no wonder they are so popular and are regarded as tourist attractions."

At the same time, Lu Zhizhi spent the weekend with the beads and visited several temples in Beijing alone to ask the local monks what they knew about the beads.

When they explained that they might be from Japan, Lu Zhizhi felt relieved.

If the threat to Bai Ji crosses the country, he will be safe, but I don't know if Shi Yu is aware of the origin of the string of beads.

Within two days, while waiting for Bai Ji to get off work, Lu Zhizhi called Shi Yu.

The call was quickly connected.

She said with the words she had thought of: "Are you free recently? I was thinking about Mr. Bai and your mother. I was too harsh on my words at that time. I want to treat you to a meal and apologize to you."

Yang Li was driving Shi Yu on his way to the airport.

Shi Yu was sitting in the passenger seat and answered after hearing this: "I've been away from home for the past few days. Just wait until I come back."

Lu Zhizhi frowned and asked subconsciously: "Where are you going?"

Realizing that she was too impatient, she calmed down and said, "Have you settled the matter in Fox Village before you go out?"

Shi Yu said vaguely, "My work requires arresting people across the border and going abroad."

Lu Zhizhi's heart suddenly sank, feeling that he was lying, "Okay, then you should pay attention to your own safety and always keep..."

She had just finished speaking when she heard a sharp brake sound coming from the other side of the phone, followed by a violent crash.

Her ears were overwhelmed, and she held the phone farther away. After the noise disappeared, but before the phone was hung up, she heard the voices coming one after another, all of them calling for help.

"There was a car accident! Someone was killed! Call quickly! Call the emergency phone!"

Lu Zhizhi frowned and looked at the screen of his phone. Was Shi Yu in a car accident again? Kill someone? Was he hit?

She called his name several times into the phone, and finally it was Yang Li who answered the phone. His breathing was rapid and he said briefly: "Shi Yu is okay, he was scared."

"Officer Yang, are you there too? What happened?"

"A man suddenly crossed the traffic and ran in front of our car to commit suicide. He died on the spot." Yang Li said: "Shi Yu was a little scared. We are on the airport road now. I will talk to you later. I have to deal with the immediate situation first. thing."

The call was quickly cut off.

Just as Lu Zhizhi was deep in thought, the tall man came up from behind and held her hand, "You are calling Shi Yu again."

She was startled and suddenly turned her head. She calmed down when she saw the familiar face, "How long have you been eavesdropping in the corner?"

Bai Ji's eyes narrowed, "Only a few minutes."

"Okay, I guess those people from Fox Village found Shi Yu again and committed suicide in front of him." Lu Zhizhi led him out of the school gate and went to the milk tea shop across the street to order a cup of hot milk tea.

Bai Ji paid the money silently, bought another small cake, held it in his hand, and explained again: "This matter has nothing to do with me."

"I know, I just don't understand how they managed to unite and fight to the death to resist the government from demolishing the Fox Temple. And it's a coincidence that Shi Yu's whereabouts are always controlled by the uneducated villagers. They seem to I’m trying to drive him crazy.”

Lu Zhizhi inserted the straw and took a sip of the hot milk tea. He then raised his hand to pull open the lower edge of Bai Ji's mask and put the straw in. "Try it, the sweetness is just right today."

Bai Ji took a sip in cooperation, and licked all the traces on the straw with his flexible tongue, showing a satisfied smile, "Maybe he has been being followed from the beginning."

Lu Zhizhi agreed: "It's very possible."

She asked again: "Then do you know what happened in Fox Village back then? What happened to that stone when it was left outside."

"I really do not know."

Bai Ji shook his head. He was indeed not lying about this. "Its body is enshrined by those people. Only it knows what it does, and it will not synchronize its memory with me."

How could the misty curse come to explain the past to him like a human being? Of course it does whatever it wants and does what it wants. It doesn’t need to explain to anyone. Even if you ask it why it does what it does, it won’t necessarily Can give a reasonable answer.

Lu Zhizhi thought that this was the case. She was also more curious about the past of Fox Village and how many mistakes those officials who died committed there, which led them to act in such extreme ways.

"Now that something happened to Shi Yu, are you going to visit him in the hospital again?" Bai Ji asked.

"Go and observe his current situation. This will be good for you too, right? He is the only one who has control and has the mentality to kill you."

When he got home, Lu Zhizhi took off his shoes, put half a cup of milk tea on the table, turned around and took out two packs of instant noodles from the cabinet, "I don't know why I want to eat this today, do you want it?"

Bai Ji nodded, "Yes."

"Then I'll cook three bags."

"I just need one pack."

Lu Zhizhi looked at him and said, "I'm starving. I need to eat two bags."

Bai Ji took off his mask and followed her into the kitchen with a smile on his lips, "It's good to eat."

If his tone wasn't so sincere, she would have thought the words were sarcastic.

Lu Zhizhi took down the instant noodles, put the lid on the pot, and stood aside to wait.

Bai Ji habitually put his chin on her shoulder, put his hands around her waist and rubbed her, and suddenly said: "This afternoon, Zhong Yun was sent to my infirmary by his classmates."

Lu Zhizhi's classes today were all in the morning, and he didn't know what happened in the afternoon. "What's going on? She was bullied by her classmates again?"

"No, someone threw sulfuric acid on my face."

The water for the instant noodles was boiling and overflowing to the edge. Bai Ji helped open the lid. Lu Zhizhi, who had come back to his senses, used chopsticks to poke around and put the seasoning packet inside. "This is not a trivial matter. I saw her in class this morning. She was normal." Were you injured when you went home at noon?"

"It should be." Bai Ji said: "She was sent to the hospital by her family for treatment...