No. 7 Fish House

'Lanyue' is a western cafe in the tea city. Its decoration style is very unique, and it looks like a small castle from a distance.The top of the castle looks like a top hat painted in vintage blue, but the most striking thing is the person sitting in the hat.

Yang Mingzhen raised his head and looked at the 'blue hat', which was the highest seat in the entire cafe. It is said that no one sitting in it came to drink coffee.Because this 'blue hat' is the best place to overlook the whole tea city, and you can see the most beautiful sunrise and sunset, but it is raining heavily now.

Yang Mingzhen, who took a break from his busy schedule, came here not to watch the sunrise and sunset, but to meet the sitting man in the blue hat.

He spent a lot of effort, climbed the two hundred and eight steps, and waited for the dignified waiter to hand him a heart-warming cup of coffee.Holding the cup of coffee, Yang Mingzhen drank water like a cow, and frowned: "This is too bitter, you climbed so high just to enjoy this different kind of suffering?"

The young man sitting at the window of the blue hat turned slightly sideways, with a familiar smile on his lips, and his tone was gentle and polite, "Police Officer Yang has worked hard, I have to trouble you to make a trip in such a heavy rain."

This smiling and polite young man is naturally He Fu, the owner of No. [-] Fish Restaurant. He sat here all afternoon, but he didn't finish a cup of coffee.Just holding a spoon, gently swaying the brown water, as if watching a work of art, sitting quietly for an afternoon, the waiter next to him felt that this person could petrify at any time.

Yang Mingzhen walked over, pulled out the chair and sat down, panting and asked He Fu: "Why did you find me in such a hurry, don't you know that I am running to the scene?"

This morning, only a few minutes after Yang Mingzhen arrived at the scene, someone from the police station reported that a young man surnamed He was looking for him and asked him to come to Lanyue immediately after running the scene.

Yang Mingzhen knew that this young man surnamed He was He Fu, so he waved his hand and asked the messenger to step down.

The messenger said: "The man said that he can wait for you. Anyway, he has a lot of time. Anyway, you must remember to go to the blue appointment."

Yang Mingzhen has been busy until now and finally has time to rush to Lanyue Cafe.

He Fu blinked his pretty eyes, and said a not-so-funny joke: "I want Police Officer Yang to help me feel whether it is worth sitting in this seat and drinking coffee, but I gave a lot of money to their boss .”

"Are you rich people so idle?" Yang Mingzhen sat up straight and stared at him, "I wouldn't believe that you sat here for so long just to drink coffee, and you didn't drink any coffee in this cup, saying Well, what do you see sitting here?"

When Yang Mingzhen said this, he glanced out of the window, and he found that the seat He Fuxuan was in was really good, and he could see the murder scene where he was just now at a glance.This is why He Fu was able to send someone to report to him within a few minutes after he showed up at the murder scene today.

He Fu can sit in this place for half a day, which proves that there must be something attracting him in this place.

"I saw the same thing as Police Officer Yang. The second head of Qitian Restaurant died." He Fu clasped his hands, gently rested his chin, and said obediently, "I didn't see his body, and the rest will need Officer Yang to come." Replenish."

Yang Mingzhen's eyes were sharp, "Why do you think I will tell you this case? The suspicion in my heart has not been cleared, and you are still a monster that can kill people at any time."

He Fu nodded slightly: "That's true. I can eat Officer Yang anytime, but now I don't want to eat Officer Yang because I want Officer Yang to help me find a missing person."

Yang Mingzhen immediately asked, "Who?"

"Xing Ting, my clerk." He Fu said, "A few days ago, my clerk also sat in this seat."

Yang Mingzhen glanced at him: "Why did Xing Ting disappear suddenly?"

"Because he's a good man." He Fu still said with a non-smiling smile, "He wanted to help his friend, but he couldn't find the friend, so he lost himself in the end, so he is also a fool."

"Who does he want to help?" Yang Mingzhen asked.

He Fu looked at Yang Mingzhen, "You have met his friend, Xue Lingsheng."

Yang Mingzhen had indeed seen Xue Lingsheng, but it was just a soaked white corpse.Before the death of the second head of Qitian Restaurant, he received news that Xue Lingsheng, the accountant of Qitian Restaurant, had died at home.

He rushed to the scene with forensic doctor Yu Chung. Xue Lingsheng was lying on the bed, his eyes were wide open, his hands were still on the bedside table, and the broken glass on the ground seemed to tell them that this person died before his death. Seconds want to drink water.

After the autopsy, Yu Chung was very surprised, "Xue Lingsheng died of drowning."

Faced with this conclusion, Yang Mingzhen also expressed shock.Because Xue Lingsheng really died on his own bed. There was no water in his room, and there was no water even on his body, but he died of drowning.It felt like Xue Lingsheng was very thirsty when he was alive, and then he drank water desperately, and finally drowned himself to death.

Will anyone in this world drink water and drown themselves to death?

Yang Mingzhen felt that this was an impossible thing, until he saw the second same deceased, Qi Chen, the second head of Qitian Restaurant, died in the same way, and his heart was shaken a little.Perhaps this is another inhuman serial murder?

Both of them died on their own beds. They both struggled desperately to ask for help, but no one responded. Finally, they drank cup after cup of water and drowned in the bed...

This way of dying is really weird.

He Fu listened carefully to Yang Mingzhen's account of the cause of Xue Qi's death, with a calm expression on his face. He asked, "Does Officer Yang know that some praying mantises will die when they come into contact with water?"

"It's the first time I've heard the saying that a mantis will die when it encounters water." Yang Mingzhen expressed his curiosity.

He Fu smiled slightly: "If you catch a praying mantis and put it into the water, after a while you will see many black worms coming out of the mantis' buttocks. The worms are slender and long like iron wires."

"Ironworm!" Yang Mingzhen said.

"Yes." He Fu looked at Yang Mingzhen intently. He spoke softly, like a teacher in a school supplementing extra-curricular knowledge for a child, "For mantises, iron nematodes are the most deadly parasites. Once they After being parasitized by iron nematodes, it is doomed to be unable to reproduce offspring, because when the iron nematodes in the mantis belly mature, the iron nematodes must return to the water to complete the task of laying eggs. At this time, the iron nematodes living in the mantis stomach will seem to be manipulating Like a puppet, command the praying mantis to find water to drink, and the mantis will often drown in the water after searching for the water source."

He added very kindly: "Oh, if the praying mantis doesn't find the water in time, the iron nematode will come out of its stomach, causing it to die of thirst on land."

After hearing this, Yang Mingzhen's scalp felt a little numb. He suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he saw a praying mantis lying in a puddle on the side of the road. He picked it up and played with it in his hand.There was a black thread in the belly of the mantis, and he pulled that thread out curiously, thinking that it was the intestines of the mantis. It was not until today when he heard He Fu's words that he realized how much he owed back then!How dare you pull out the wire worm to play with? It's really a blessing.

"Can iron nematodes parasitize human bodies?" Yang Ming looked at He Fu intently, "The reason why those people died is because the iron nematodes manipulated them to drink water in their bodies?"

He Fu nodded slightly: "It can be said that there is a creature that needs water very much in their body. Once this creature gets water, it will break out of the body. Naturally, they will not be able to survive if the sojourner leaves. Will die like a praying mantis..."

Yang Mingzhen scratched his head and thought, "But I didn't see iron nematodes on the corpse at the scene?"

"Officer Yang, do you want to know where they were infected with this bug?" He Fu deliberately lowered his voice, pretending to be very mysterious.

"Did I come here to talk to you about your ideals in life? You've been talking about it for a long time, so put your fart away!" Yang Mingzhen hated this kind of talkative person the most, and he was so angry that he slurped his coffee I took a big sip.

He Fu pointed at the coffee in Yang Mingzhen's hand with his fair fingers, "Is the coffee delicious?"

Yang Mingzhen replied: "It's worse than the tea in my bureau."

"Oh, that's good. Fortunately, you don't drink much, so you won't be parasitized by bugs."

He Fu's light words caused the coffee cup in Yang Mingzhen's hand to drop to the ground, all the hot coffee spilled on his lap, and the coffee wrapped in his mouth was spit out on the table before he swallowed it. Fortunately, He Fu Dodge quickly, or this sip of coffee will burn his fair baby face.

"You did it on purpose!" Yang Mingzhen wiped the corner of his mouth viciously, wishing he could punch He Fu's bridge of the nose.

He Fu said: "I sat here for a long time without drinking a cup of coffee. Officer Yang came for a while and drank more than half of the coffee. It seems that I am really thirsty..."

He elongated the ending meaningfully, and Yang Mingzhen slapped his hand on the table angrily, "I immediately brought someone to seal up this shop, selling dog urine that seeks money and kills people, it tastes bad and kills."

Yang Mingzhen stretched out his hand to grab the coffee he drank just now, "Is there still time for rescue?"

He Fu pursed his lips and smiled lightly: "I lied to you."

Yang Mingzhen was furious: "Believe it or not, I poured this cup of coffee on your face!"

"Don't worry, in your capacity, you can't afford life-threatening coffee. The coffee you drank just now is very ordinary." After He Fu finished speaking, he lowered his head to stir the coffee in front of him, "This cup is also very normal. , nothing wrong with it."

"Then you mean that the story about the iron nematode you just told was also a lie to me?" Yang Mingzhen rolled up his sleeves and was about to hit someone.

"That story is true." He Fu explained slowly, "Their coffee is indeed faulty, but we are not qualified to drink faulty coffee."

Yang Mingzhen suddenly couldn't turn the corner, "Why aren't we qualified?"

He Fu stood up and looked at him with a smile, "Because Police Officer Yang and I are both lonely and not in a relationship, the owner of Lanyue Café is discriminating against us."

He said the last sentence close to Yang Mingzhen's ear. Yang Mingzhen turned his head and looked at him: "You can only drink coffee with problems when you are in love. Who would dare to have such a fatal love?"

He Fu said: "Xue Lingsheng and Qi Chen dared, so they died."

Yang Mingzhen suddenly realized, and after going around for a long time, He Fu finally got to the point.He asked, "Why are you so sure they're dating and drinking coffee here?"

"Because the 'Blue Hat' seat here is reserved for couples." He Fu answered truthfully, "Officer Yang and I are not a couple, so the owner of Blue Covenant Cafe didn't serve us death coffee."

Yang Mingzhen was at a loss for words and didn't know what to say for a moment.

"Wait, you just said that Xue Lingsheng and Qi Chen are in a relationship." Yang Mingzhen grasped this point, "I have investigated the two of them, both of them are single, and they are not married in their late thirties. I don't know the reason for not marrying a wife. Qi Chen didn't marry a wife because he..."

"There is a problem with fertility." He Fu said it very straightforwardly.

Yang Mingzhen looked at him speechlessly: "Yes, because of this situation, he has never been married, and he has never dared to find a woman. He is afraid that others will find out that he is not good at that..."

He Fu smiled and said: "Suppose Officer Yang, you are Qi Chen, a 30-year-old man who has never married a wife and had children. Because he is ashamed to reveal his physical condition, he has been single for so many years, and then suddenly one day there is a young, beautiful and very sensible woman." A woman who became your wife and told you that you already have a child, what do you think?"

"...Are you kidding me?" Yang Mingzhen said, "How big is this green hat."

"Suppose, that child is indeed your child. You have a wife and child in a short period of time, do you feel very happy?" He Fu guided Yang Mingzhen to imagine this question.

Yang Mingzhen said: "For me, it's not very happy. Who knows if the child is mine. Wait! Why should I assume this kind of question? There is no such thing as pie in the sky. How can people suddenly fall into love overnight? If you have a wife and children in between, isn't that a lie?"

He Fu smiled slightly and shook his head, "It's not a lie, it's true. My buddy Xing Ting, he heard this story from Xue Lingsheng."

"Xue Lingsheng got a wife and a child overnight?" Yang Mingzhen still felt incredible, "You mean the wife and child are iron nematodes, and they are controlling Xue Lingsheng and Qi Chen?"

"Well." He Fu nodded and said, "They are not wireworms, they are just puppets manipulated by others. This kind of puppets are called 'family graves', as the name suggests, graves specially made for relatives. The young and beautiful puppet woman lives Entering the home of Qi Chen and Xue Lingsheng, making them truly believe that they had wives and children overnight, and when the time is right, they will use the hands of puppets to bring the two men to Lanyue Cafe, where they sit This blue-hatted couple sits, waiting for that cup of dead coffee with wireworms in it."

Yang Mingzhen listened to He Fu's analysis in a daze, and asked, "Why do you have to take so much trouble to kill a person? If the mastermind behind the scenes can manipulate the puppet to fall in love with the deceased, why not just manipulate the puppet and kill him directly?" To kill them, but to bring them here to drink this cup of coffee?"

"I don't know." He Fu replied calmly, "So I need to find the missing Xing Ting."

A few days ago, Xing Ting knew the story of Xue Lingsheng. Xing Ting was a passionate young man who immediately ran out of No. [-] fish restaurant to save Xue Lingsheng when he heard that Xue Lingsheng would die.

He Fu knew that Xing Ting couldn't find Xue Lingsheng, so he naturally didn't take it seriously.

Later, when Xing Ting ran home, he borrowed a lot of money from He Fu, and he said that he would go to Lanyue Cafe for coffee.

"Xing Ting asked me to borrow money. After I gave him the money, I never saw him again." He Fu said, "The last place he appeared was Lanyue Cafe. I planned to go to Lanyue by myself. Asking out the owner of the cafe is important, but now I found something more interesting than finding Xing Ting."

Yang Mingzhen's scalp is numb, is this person so indifferent to other people's lives?

He Fu asked in a low voice: "Guess, what exactly did Xing Ting see in Lanyue Cafe that they took Xing Ting away?"

Yang Mingzhen shook his head, "I don't know, just arrest them and ask them."

"Officer Yang, you can figure it out. You don't need to use coffee to poison people if you use puppets to kill people. You understand such a simple truth. Why doesn't the owner of Lanyue Cafe understand?" He Fu said with a smile, "There There must be something more interesting than puppet killing, so I want to ask Xing Ting to clarify."

After He Fu finished speaking, he stretched out his right hand, the red line on the palm was about to move, and a drop of bright red blood fell into the coffee cup.

The coffee didn't change, he smiled with satisfaction, it seems that the owner of Lanyue Cafe didn't shoot him.So for him, it is safe for the time being.

The hunter's hunting season of October is coming soon, he doesn't have much ability to continue, he must find Xing Ting immediately.

Because Xing Ting is a life-saving medicine for him...

In the area of ​​aliens, it can be divided into two types, one is a lock and the other is a key.

There are many locks, but only one key.

Xing Ting is the key, if you swallow him, then this key will help unlock the lock with powerful power.

That's why he wants to raise Xing Ting, the relationship between them is like the iron nematode parasitic in the stomach of a praying mantis.

On the surface, it seems that Xing Ting is parasitic on him, but in fact he is parasitic on Xing Ting. As long as Xing Ting's life is taken away, he can escape from the mantis like a wireworm, and the mantis will die completely.

But now his praying mantis is gone...