spirits in throat

In June, during the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River, a rare heavy rain fell in Dongyu City.

The raindrops fell on the ground paved with bluestone slabs, and the rose petals blown by the wind were rolled up by the water and gathered in the low-lying places, and soon rushed into the sewer and disappeared.

"I promised to get home before ten o'clock, and it's past eleven o'clock," a middle-aged woman in a black raincoat loudly scolded the girl huddled under the umbrella, while wiping the drops of water from her forehead with her hand. Full of blame and worry, "This kind of weather, how dangerous it is outside."

One side of the girl's clothes was wet by the rain, she jumped over a small puddle, her long ponytail swayed back and forth with her body movements, her skirt rippled in the rain, like a lively elf, unintentionally dispelling the rainy night Brings dark air.

"Oh, I got it," the girl pursed her lower lip, then pouted impatiently, "It's my first day of work and practice, and no one else has left. How dare I leave early."

The woman looked around vigilantly, pulled the girl's wrist, and told her as she walked, "Next time you encounter this kind of weather, go home early."

Since the beginning of May in June, there have been three appalling disappearances in Dongyu City.

The rainy night, the red dress, and the girl, all these elements made this case full of mystery and weirdness, and various versions of urban legends spread all over the streets and alleys.

Some people said that the murderer was not human at all, but a female ghost who ran out from the haunted house in the middle of the mountain to find a substitute.

Some people say that there is no murderer at all, it is an excuse made up by those women who ran away from home and directed and acted on their own.

Some people also said that they saw the murderer with their own eyes. It was a pale man who wandered the streets and alleys of Dongyu City all night long, picking beautiful women to follow, plunder, rape, kill, and dismember.

"Mom has a retirement salary, you don't need to save money, you have to eat enough, buy more clothes, just don't buy red..."

The chattering woman suddenly paused. Before she had time to speak, the words seemed to be stuck in her throat. The ending of the word "色" trembled slightly, as if someone had choked her throat, so she couldn't make a sound.

With her mouth half open and her eyes wide open, she looked fearfully at the man walking towards him in the heavy rain.

The alley was narrow and high, and the rain curtain shrouded the street lamps even more dimly. The man was holding a long-handled umbrella, and the splashed rainwater formed a faint arc of light on the black umbrella surface.

He was dressed in black, with deep and deep eyes, without any special expression on his face, like a lonely ghost wandering outside this world, but he was very harmonious with the endless rain in this long dark night, as if he was born .

The woman tightly clutched her daughter's wrist, the sweat from her palm mixed with the rain, her heart beat slowly and rapidly in a void.

She wanted to run away, but she didn't dare to disturb her pace, for fear of disturbing and angering some kind of hidden killing intent.Luckily, I hope that the other party is just a passerby.

The moment they passed each other, the man lifted his eyelids and glanced at them.

An unsuspecting young girl is always easily confused by a beautiful appearance, she slightly curved her lips, and smiled lightly at the man.

It was an extremely astonishing face, and the night couldn't dim his snow-white skin.His hair was black and his pupils were bottomless.The lips are a deep rose color soaked in spring water, with a cold and mellow temperament, like opening a wine cellar that has been dusty for thousands of years.

With just one glance, he is intoxicated.

The girl stopped, took out a pack of tissues from her satchel and handed it over with a pure and clear smile.She said kindly: "Your arm is wet, wipe it off."

The man looked down at the cartoon cat pattern on the packaging bag, then raised his eyes to look at the girl, his eyes were calm.It seems that everything around him, good and bad, good and evil, has nothing to do with him.

Humans have feelings and inductions, but lonely souls and demons do not.

A biting chill rose from the bottom of her feet. The woman grabbed her daughter's arm and ran forward, not even using the umbrella that fell on the ground.

"Mom, Umbrella Umbrella, the umbrella fell off." The girl was soaked by the heavy rain, brushed the broken hair on her forehead behind her ears, and turned her head to grab the umbrella on the ground, "Oh, the tissue also fell off. gone."

The convenience store at the entrance of the alley was broadcasting a nightly news, and the clear and powerful voice of the female anchor came through the rain curtain: "The police remind citizens to pay attention to safety when traveling on rainy nights, and be more vigilant..."

The woman suddenly raised her head, and saw clearly the missing person notice in front of her with a flash of lightning.

The paper was wrinkled by the rain and stuck tightly to the pole.The girl in the photo is wearing a red dress, her long black hair hangs behind her shoulders, the corners of her lips are slightly raised, and she tilts her head to look at the person outside the camera.

She clearly had a smile on her face, but this rainy night with lightning and thunder gave it a subtle weirdness.

In great fear, the woman mustered up the courage to turn her head and glance behind her.

The man stopped where he was, staring at them thoughtfully.

Reminiscent of the recent case of the disappearance of the woman in red that has caused a lot of trouble in the city, the woman finally collapsed.

"Ah!" A thunderbolt fell, piercing the night together with shrill screams, "Help!"

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After two days of heavy rain, the third day was sunny.

The snack street behind the Municipal Public Security Bureau building is bustling with people.Freshly baked fresh meat buns are steaming, with a sound of "sizzling", the egg liquid solidifies on the iron plate into an omelette.

On the side of the street, a big pot with small wontons was bubbling and bubbling.The rising white steam is like misty rain, adding a bit of mist to this old city in the south of the Yangtze River.

The owner of Lao Xu's breakfast shop lowered his head and struggled to write stroke by stroke on a book that was about to be torn apart: "Sunday night, June 28th, 16 yuan."

"Wrong, it wasn't this night." Zhou Ye held a steaming cage with one hand, raised his hand and clicked on the ledger, "Ye, add a word of brilliance next to the word fire."

"It's all the same." The boss didn't bother to change it. He closed the account book and threw it at the cashier, and said carelessly, "I just know what I know."

"How can it be the same?" Zhou Ye put the steamer on the table, poured some vinegar into the small dish, raised his eyebrows, "That is the night of the dark night, this one is the sunny night, it's not tasteful enough, add some ginger Silk."

The boss asked the waiter to cut up the shredded ginger and brought it over. After hesitating for a moment, he asked a question that had troubled him for many years: "Captain Zhou, why don't you even have money for breakfast every day?"

There are ten unsolved mysteries circulating in the public security system of Dongyu City, and the second unsolved mystery is why Zhou Ye, the criminal investigation captain of the dignified city bureau, is so poor.

Driven by curiosity, the boss simply pulled up a chair and sat opposite Zhou Ye, staring at him and asked again: "Why?"

Zhou Ye picked up a crab roe dumpling with chopsticks, dipped it in the vinegar butterfly, and bit off half of it in one bite.The fat of the crab paste yellow orange and the rich gravy are condensed together, mixed with the sourness of vinegar and the spicyness of shredded ginger.

He looked down at the phone screen on the table, only to see a handsome face reflected on it.He unconsciously raised the corners of his lips, "God opens a window for you, and will definitely close a door for you."

The boss didn't understand, and was called away before he had time to ask more questions.

Zhou Ye ate the second Xiaolongbao with his own face, and the taste was obviously better than the first one.

Beautiful and delicious, the ancients did not deceive me.

Two women at the next table discussed the recent disappearance of the woman in red while eating.

"I heard that someone saw the murderer on Jiufu Road the night before yesterday," a woman said vividly as she tore fried dough sticks into small pieces and threw them into sweet soy milk, "Really, a reporter friend of mine said it. It's a pity." Still haven't caught anyone."

Another woman was picking out the pickled mustard from the bean curd one by one, and said, "Don't you have a sky eye system now? There are cameras everywhere. The murderer will definitely be caught. Follow this line." If you don't check it, you can find it, it's such a simple thing."

"The policeman we can think of must have thought of it long ago." The woman rested her chin with one hand, "otherwise, what do you want the police to do? Why don't you eat?"

"Ah Choo", as soon as the words fell, the woman heard the man sitting behind him sneezed.

She turned to look.

The man was tall and straight, with deep features and a straight nose.He had a neat cropped cut, a light layer of stubble protruding from his chin, and he was wearing a white shirt with the cuffs slightly rolled up, revealing a small piece of vigorous wrist bone.

A ray of morning light squeezed through the door frame fell on his shoulders, complementing the half-smiling eyebrows and eyes.Quite cynical.

The girl's heartbeat missed a beat, and her cheeks flushed. By the time she could react, the man had already walked out of the store with long legs.

She sighed, and said to her companion very annoyedly: "I should ask for a contact information."

Zhou Ye sneezed again, knowing that he was either being muttered, or caught a cold from the rain.

When he rushed to Jiufu Road the night before when he received a call from the police, the suspect had long since disappeared, and the surveillance at the scene only captured a figure from his back at the corner.

Back at the City Bureau office, Zhou Ye turned on the video. He watched the five-second video over and over a hundred times.

"It's hard to tell from the testimony of witnesses that that person is the murderer of the serial case," Bai Xudong, the deputy team leader, stood behind Zhou Ye, took a sip of Wahaha AD calcium milk, burped milky, and continued after a pause. "It might just be a passer-by."

On the computer screen, through the night and the rain, a man in black was walking around the corner of the alley holding a black umbrella.

His footsteps seemed unhurried, and his pace and mood were not affected by the heavy rain at all.

This is not what a normal person should look like.

"Passerby?" Zhou Ye leaned on the back of the chair, turned his head to look at Bai Xudong, and curled his lower lip, "Do you deliberately avoid the camera when you walk?"

"One more thing," Bai Xudong bent over and held the mouse to step back the monitoring screen, "This girl isn't wearing a red dress either."

Zhou Ye: "There is not much difference between wine red and bright red in the night, and it is even more difficult to distinguish when it rains heavily."

"The reporter said that this person kept staring at them until she ran out of the alley with her daughter," Zhou Ye looked at the back of the screen, "except for perverts, who would stare at strangers in the dark until the other party Just run to the main road."

Zhou Ye is 28 years old this year. This is the most vicious case he has been in charge of since he was a police officer for more than five years.The murderer can no longer be called a human being, he is a demon wandering around the world in human skin.

The real situation is far more cruel and terrifying than the urban legends. The investigation of the case is in the confidential stage, and the details of the case have not been released to the public.

Three missing women, the first two have been killed and their bodies have been found.The deceased was dismembered after death, only the torso and limbs were found, and the whereabouts of the head is unknown.

Zhou Ye leaned against the corridor wall of the office door and lit a cigarette, the back of the man captured by the surveillance kept flashing in his mind.

With a "ding", the elevator stopped, interrupting his thoughts.

Zhou Ye took a breath of cigarettes, turned his head to look boredly, and several colleagues came out of the elevator talking and laughing as usual.

He took his gaze back.

In a blink of an eye, Zhou Ye suddenly turned his head again, put out the cigarette butt, and rushed over quickly.

Among a group of police officers, the back of a man dressed in black and about 1.8 meters tall overlapped with the video captured by the surveillance.

The murderer is cold-blooded and calm, meticulous in thinking, high in IQ, understands anatomy, and possesses strong anti-investigation skills.All the nets thrown out failed to catch him.

It's not that Zhou Ye didn't suspect that besides doctors, painters, butchers, and taxi drivers, the murderer was also very likely to be a soldier, policeman, or police cadet.

The detective's body muscles tensed up instinctively, Zhou Ye pushed aside the crowd and went straight forward.

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