No. 7 Fish House

Tea City Police Station.

Yang Mingzhen was doing an experiment. He asked Cui Liang to help him find two praying mantises, and then poured a basin of water to press the abdomens of the two praying mantises into the water. After a while, black iron nematodes came out of the mantis' buttocks. This worm is extremely disgusting to squirm.Yang Mingzhen watched them come out of the mantis belly one by one, and the mantis died.

"Is this a wireworm?"

Forensic doctor Yu Chung passed by at some point, saw Yang Mingzhen's interesting experiment, and leaned over and said, "The iron nematodes can live freely in water. They are 300 to 1000 mm long and shaped like ropes. Why did Police Officer Yang suddenly remember this? Do this kind of experiment?"

Yang Mingzhen looked at the dead praying mantis thoughtfully, still thinking about the story He Fu told himself yesterday. He asked: "The iron nematode penetrates into the praying mantis, and the mantis will go to find water and then drown. What about Xue Lingsheng?" Could it be possible that the bodies of the two of them, Qi Chen and others, were also invaded by iron nematodes, so they wanted to drink water all the time but ended up drowning?"

The eyes under Yu Chung's gold-rimmed glasses suddenly lit up, as if he had discovered some interesting news. He said, "Officer Yang's idea is very strange. Iron nematodes can indeed infect the human body. As for whether it can kill two big men?" I've never done this kind of experiment."

After finishing speaking, he asked again: "May I ask Officer Yang, how did you come up with the idea of ​​iron nematodes?"

Yang Mingzhen picked up the teacup and took a sip, then replied casually: "It was a friend of mine who told me the story about the iron nematode and the praying mantis."

"Is it that amazing friend?"

Yu Chung became interested. He had long heard that Yang Mingzhen had a friend. The last time the Zhang family was haunted, it was this friend who helped him settle the matter. He never dreamed that one day he would be able to see a living monster. They are still being held in the Tea City Prison for Repeated Offenders.On the first day that Shadow Fish was imprisoned, he went to see it. If it wasn't because Shadow Fish was still alive, then the scalpel in his hand might have dug up Shadow Fish's body for a monster autopsy.

Yang Mingzhen looked at Yu Chung's excited face, and rubbed his forehead helplessly, "It's him."

"After a person is infected with iron nematodes, it is at most intestinal infection or bladder inflammation, and the iron nematodes can only grow to a few centimeters." Yu Chung analyzed seriously, "According to your friend's thinking, you can control two big men to drink water. It may not be iron nematodes that died in the water, but mutations."

"Mutation?" Yang Mingzhen was stunned.

Yu Chung suddenly thought of something, "Captain Yang, do you still remember Xu Yuan's mystery case of bones? There are only bones left in the whole Xu Garden. The bones don't need to eat, but the firewood burning in their kitchen tells us that someone is doing it." Cook medicine with rice, I have also carefully checked those medicinal materials, and there is a human heart inside."

Yang Mingzhen couldn't help but feel nauseous when he heard about Xu Yuan's bone case, and the picture of a group of bones eating corpses once again came to his mind.

"I checked the bones you brought back from Xuyuan, and found that they had already been infected by something. The infection accelerated their aging, and only a piece of human skin was left hanging on the bones. Although they only had one bone left, their bodies Another creature inside will make them eat like a living person. To find out what they are infected with, I went to Xuyuan."

Yu Chung gently pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose with his hand, "There is something wrong with the water in Xu Garden, that kind of water can't support plants and animals, because there is an unknown creature in the water, they can live in it like parasites. The human body manipulates people. There are some adult bugs whose IQ is equivalent to that of a child..."

"Wait, if there is a problem with this kind of water, why do the people in Xuyuan still eat it? Shouldn't they be able to see the bugs in the water?" Yang Mingzhen said, "Unless the bug is completely transparent, transparent bugs you can eat." How did you see it? "

"I couldn't figure it out at first, and it wasn't until my pen leaked ink and the ink dripped into the water that I saw the pot full of worms wriggling." Yu Chung recalled that scene, his eyebrows frowned, "It's really hard Believe it, there will be such a magical creature.”

After hearing this, Yang Mingzhen felt that he could not hold the water glass firmly in his hand. He carefully put it back on the table, only to hear Yu Chung happily say: "I think this is a great discovery. There must be many such things in the tea city." There are different kinds of creatures, their IQ may be much higher than that of humans, and maybe these creatures will completely invade the human body in the near future."

Upon hearing this, Yang Mingzhen slapped the table hard, "Fart! I will never allow this to happen, I will stop it, find out these disgusting things, and kill them. In the human world, how can we tolerate bugs running wild? .”

Yu Chung picked up Yang Mingzhen's pen with a smile, and gently picked up the iron nematodes in the water basin. The long iron nematodes were swinging their bodies on the tip of the pen.

"Captain Yang, if even you can't kill these horrible bugs, what will you do?" After Yu Chung asked lightly, he put the pen into the water basin, and a little bit of ink surfaced in the water. A small black flower bloomed in the pot.

No. [-] fish house is very quiet, the black cat walks back and forth under the fish tank, and its eyes glance at the six fish in the fish tank from time to time.

It has been eating porridge for several days, and it is really hungry.If it can jump into the fish tank, it will definitely eat up those few fish in an instant, leaving only fish bones.

He Fu, who was sleeping on the sofa, suddenly stretched out his hand, pointed at the little black cat with his fair fingers, and it immediately sat obediently on the spot and looked at He Fu, "Meow."

"I know you're hungry, but he didn't come back." He Fu lazily stood up, and he put his right hand close to the little black cat. The red thread on his palm gave off a faint red light, and the little black cat backed away seeing it.

He Fu whispered: "Don't be afraid, I just want to take you out to bask in the sun."

At this moment, the wind chime hanging by the door of the No. [-] fish house rang, and the little black cat escaped from under his feet and ran to the door.

The door opened, and a tall man appeared in front of He Fu.

"Good afternoon, Officer Yang." He still greeted politely.

Yang Mingzhen was a little unhappy, he strode towards He Fu and threw the document in his hand on the table.

"I searched the police station for a day to find out what the connection between Xue Lingsheng and Qi Chen was, and that's what I found out," Yang Mingzhen said.

He Fu picked up the document, leaned on the sofa gently, and raised the corners of his mouth slightly, summing up the text on the document, "Xue Lingsheng and Qi Chen are both from Qitian Restaurant, Qi Chen is Xue Lingsheng's boss, but Xue Lingsheng does not belong to In charge of Qi Chen, in September of this year when the head of Qi Tian Restaurant fell ill and Qi Chen took over the management, he had conflicts with Xue Lingsheng."

Yang Mingzhen rubbed his temples with a headache, and said: "Xue Lingsheng is a man of few words. He usually stays at home except for settling accounts in Qitian Restaurant. Although Qi Chen has hidden illnesses, he is a very caring person." , There is very little interaction between the two of them, the only intersection is this quarrel."

"After a quarrel ended, both of them died one after the other." Yang Mingzhen continued, "It can't be that after Qi Chen killed Xue Lingsheng, he committed suicide again?"

He Fu took the document, read it several times, and asked, "Why does Police Officer Yang think that Qi Chen killed Xue Lingsheng?"

Yang Mingzhen said: "Because I really don't believe what you said before, such as wireworms killing people and puppets manipulating them, it's just nonsense, so I decided to start investigating from the relationship between the two of them."

"Then why did you come to such a conclusion that Qi Chen went back to kill an accountant who had no threat to him?" He Fu held up the document and asked Yang Mingzhen, "Is there a page missing here? Captain Yang, what is important?" hidden something?"

Because the missing page must have written about Qi Chen's detriment to Xue Lingsheng, that's why Yang Mingzhen insisted that Qi Chen killed Xue Lingsheng.

"It seems that Captain Yang still doesn't trust me very much." He Fu said a little aggrieved, "Since you don't trust me, then take these things away, and I can get Xing Ting back by myself."

After all, Yang Mingzhen couldn't help but said: "Qi Chen once spent a lot of money to buy a puppet bride, but I checked his house carefully, and I didn't see that puppet bride, and I didn't see it in Xue Lingsheng's house either."

"If you really follow the story you said before, there was indeed a woman who was between the two of them. Because the quarrel between them was because of the woman."

He Fu's eyes stayed on the sentence on the document: The staff of Qitian Restaurant once clearly heard that Xue Qi and Xue Qi were arguing in the office: that is my wife, not yours.

But everyone in Qitian Restaurant knew that Xue Qi and Xue Qi were hard-core bachelors, and they didn't even have any female friends, let alone wives.

So that quarrel, they thought it was just a joke.

He Fu smiled slightly and looked at Yang Mingzhen, "It seems that Captain Yang has already thought that the puppet has turned into a woman, confusing Xue Qi and the other two."

Yang Mingzhen didn't deny it, at first he absolutely didn't believe in these supernatural things, but now he had to believe it.

He carefully searched Xue Qi's home twice, but found no trace of a woman, but found a second person, or even a third person, in their house in the bowls and chopsticks.

It's like a happy family of three, eating and sleeping together every day.

Yang Mingzhen still didn't give up and asked: "Is there a possibility that the two of them got hysteria and imagined that they have wives and children?"

He Fu shook his head: "No, that day I asked the waiter in the Blue Yue Cafe, and he told me that Xue Lingsheng and Qi Chen appeared in the 'Blue Hat' couple seat with a woman with the same appearance."

Yang Mingzhen said, "How can you be so sure that what he told you is the truth?"

"Of course it's true." Human life was threatened with death. How could it be possible that what he said was not true.He Fu looked at the palm of his hand and thought, it is not a pity that the waiter died at all.

After hearing this, Yang Mingzhen got up and wanted to leave.

He Fu asked, "Where are you going?"

"Lanyue Café is arresting people. Instead of guessing here, it's better to go and find out." Yang Mingzhen is a very straight-minded person.

"It's no wonder that you are still a captain in the police station after so many years. It's hard to say what your IQ is." He Fu shook his head with emotion, "If you hadn't been successful in encircling monsters back then, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be a captain."

When one sentence touched Yang Mingzhen's sore spot, he stared at He Fu angrily.He Fu was lazily leaning on the sofa with the little black cat in his arms. He looked at the smiling He Fu, and suddenly thought of what Yu Chung said before. Many strange creatures suddenly appeared in the tea city. Humans are much taller, and perhaps in the near future these creatures will completely invade human bodies.

For a moment, Yang Mingzhen felt that the laughing He Fu in front of him was this kind of alien creature with high IQ, and he even knew many things that ordinary people couldn't do.

"Are you a different person?" When Yang Mingzhen asked this sentence, his right hand had already touched the gun at his waist, "or in other words, after He Fu's death, you occupied the real He Fu's body and replaced him. He lives in this world, what is your purpose?"

He Fu looked at the movement of his hand and pursed his lips into a smile: "I am a stranger, so do you think your gun is still useful to me?"

Yang Mingzhen didn't speak.

"My purpose is very simple, to find out the truth about He Fu's death."

Yang Mingzhen looked at him in surprise: "Didn't he be bitten to death by a monster?"

"No." He Fu said, "Actually, after you shot at him, he didn't die. He fell off the cliff and met me. He told me that you were not the only one who shot that day."

"Is there anyone else who shot that day besides me?" Yang Mingzhen said, "It shouldn't be. Everyone in our team died, and only he and I were left. I was afraid that he would turn into a monster and attack me. In order to save my life, I had no choice but to kill him."

He Fu said with certainty: "He is different from you, he is a different person, but he wants to be a good person, so he always hides his abilities in your police station."

"You said Captain He is a different person?" After so many years, Yang Mingzhen finally called out the captain. He had always respected the dead He Fu so much that he always wanted to kill the fake He Fu who appeared later.But now, the fake He Fu actually told him that the dead He Fu was also a different person...

"Well, his ability is to communicate with the dead, but it is limited. So the high detection rate in your police station is because he can communicate with the dead."

Yang Mingzhen asked: "So the gun that killed him back then may not be the gun in my hand, maybe it was someone else?"

"He actually doesn't blame you. People choose to protect themselves in danger, and he understands you." He Fu said.

"If He Fu is his name, then what's your name?" Yang Mingzhen has always been curious about the real identity of He Fu, because he is too mysterious.

"I don't know. I lost my memory the day I met He Fu. After he died, I became He Fu."

Yang Mingzhen was silent, and a person who had hit him by mistake appeared in the police station instead of the real He Fu, just to investigate the truth of the real He Fu's death.But because of his fear, he shot He Fu again...

"You don't have to feel guilty about it. If I saw the man who came back from the dead appear in front of me, maybe I would have shot him too."

Is this He Fu comforting him?Yang Mingzhen smiled bitterly, "You see it very openly."

He Fu gently smoothed the fur of the black cat in his arms. He said very calmly: "It's always been like this. I have lived a long time and died many times. If I can't bear to see each death, then I have been killed. I'm so mad."

It was a lazy joke, but Yang Mingzhen couldn't laugh.

If a person lives a long life and has experienced many deaths, will he still be afraid of death?

When he was facing himself shooting at the beginning, did he feel afraid in his heart?

Is the indelible trace of the bullet that hit his chest still there?

Yang Mingzhen didn't ask all kinds of questions, and some words seemed hypocritical, not to mention that he was still a pure man.

He stood up and patted He Fu on the shoulder: "You helped Captain He, then I will help you retrieve your memory."

After saying this, Yang Mingzhen walked out of the No. [-] fish restaurant.

The night is very quiet, and the street lamps stretch his shadow very long...

This night was very similar to the night when he killed He Fu for the first time. He walked home alone, and finally couldn't help crying bitterly after returning home.

He killed Captain He, whom he respected the most, because he was cowardly.

"Captain, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

"I will never be so timid again."

and also……

He Fu, I'm sorry.

In No. [-] fish restaurant, after Yang Mingzhen left, He Fu put his right hand on the place where Yang Mingzhen's bullet had hit him.

He can be resurrected from the dead, and he can also endure death again and again, but the pain is doubled on him.

Therefore, he has always been afraid of death, because death really hurts him.

The bullet is still in his chest and cannot be removed.

He sighed: "Xiao Mi, don't be afraid, Xing Ting will be back soon."

Xiao Mi stuck out her tongue and licked his left hand lightly, "Meow."