Monster 1

After leaving downtown Beicheng, it takes nearly an hour to drive to the toll booth of Lubei Expressway. On this section of the road, there is no surveillance video for a long distance.

This road connects different areas of Beicheng, and there are inevitably many forks. After checking the surrounding videos, Lu Yunli and the others found Sun Jing's car on a small road leading to the Town God's Temple.

Sun Jing's car was well preserved except for a layer of dust on the surface, and there was no trace of forcible damage. It can be seen that Sun Jing got off the car by herself at this place.

Looking at the barren fields around, Lu Yunli didn't know whether Sun Jing parked here unconsciously or on purpose.

It can't be to get off the car to solve the third emergency, that would be too careless.

"It seems that she should want to go to the Temple of the City God."

Because the clearing of the gravel in the tunnel has officially started, Hua Qi ran over to act as a 'supervisor'.Now it is Qiu Mingyuan and Lu Yunli who came to the place where the car was parked for inspection

Qiu Mingyuan came down with two small bright yellow bags he found out from the car in his hand, and said to Lu Yunli: "These bags are filled with small objects for warding off evil spirits, which are collected according to different zodiac signs in the Temple of the City God at the beginning of each year. The fortune of the new year is assigned. It cannot be opened within a year, and it will be burned in the big furnace of the Chenghuang Temple at the beginning of the next year and replaced with a new one."

Seeing that Qiu Mingyuan said the truth, Lu Yun raised his eyebrows: "Do you believe this?"

Qiu Mingyuan smiled: "This is based on experience."

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"We took the two bright yellow bags to the Temple of the City God to confirm, and the abbot in the temple said that they were indeed made." Lu Yunli reached out and touched the gap between the sofa cushions, and took them out as if by magic. He took out a small bag: "It looks like this. Before we left, Mingyuan bought one for each of us."

The bag full of small items was not kept well at first glance, the embroidery on the surface was torn and some of the threads were off, and his owner did not remember to replace it in the second year, but he remembered it. He was lost in the crevice of the sofa.

Xie Zhian stroked the surface of the bag: "I want to take it apart."

"Take it apart, anyway..." Lu Yun said indifferently, "It probably won't be really useful."

Hearing this, Xie Zhi'an immediately removed the strap on the top of the bag, dumped the contents on the table, and fiddled with the talisman paper, the small beads and the small bronze ax inside with his fingers: "Look I don’t seem to believe these things.”

"Actually, I can't tell whether you believe it or not. It's just because I'm a policeman. I believe this. What about those who believe in me?" Lu Yunli took the small ax inside and made a chopping motion: "It can't be treated as a case. It's time to beg the gods for help, isn't it?"

"For most people, gods are just a spiritual sustenance, right? Do you think that if you think about such illusory things when you have nothing to rely on, you will inexplicably gain the courage to live?"

"You may not believe it, but I also prayed to the gods." Lu Yunli tilted his head and looked in Xie Zhian's direction, but the focus of his eyes did not know where: "It's a complete waste of my time."

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""The Book of Parenting", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", a watch, a booklet recording the itinerary, a necklace box, a pack of tissues and cups." Lu Yunli flipped through the evidence on the table one by one, even the tissues He took them all out and checked them all, but found nothing. He looked at Qiu Mingyuan who was sitting opposite him dejectedly: "Brother Mingyuan, did you find anything?"

The corner of Qiu Mingyuan's mouth twitched, and he answered as calmly as possible: "No, but it's more valuable to look through the itinerary than to look through the tissue bag."

The atmosphere was so awkward.

Lu Yunlin gave a dry cough and picked up the itinerary, turned his chair around and looked at the wall alone, as if nothing happened just now.

So when Hua Qi came back, he saw his only two team members occupying a corner of the evidence room, not speaking, not knowing what they were thinking.

"Can you explain to me that you two... tsk, how should I describe it." Hua Qi rushed in with a gust of cold air outside the house, looking at the poor evidence on the table and the two teams with disgust. Member, asked hopelessly: "Did you find anything?"

Qiu Mingyuan gave Hua Qi a white look: "Guess?"

Hua Qi: "Can you guess me or not?"

"..." Lu Yun, who was about to speak, got stuck in his throat and really didn't know what to do in response, so he could only shut up and wait for the atmosphere to be less childish, before he said, "I found something thing."

"Say." Hua Qi patted Lu Yunlin's shoulder appreciatively, and rolled his eyes at Qiu Mingyuan by the way. Qiu Mingyuan was so angry that he almost lifted the bench to fight him.

"Brother Mingyuan and I found two amulets in Sun Jing's car in the morning, but from the beginning of January, every weekend morning, she will go to No. 58, An Dong Street."

Hua Qi asked puzzledly, "Where is that?"

Lu Yunli replied, "It's an abandoned Catholic church."

"Abandoned?" Qiu Mingyuan quickly searched out the 3D real picture of this Catholic church: "Are you sure? The buildings here are well preserved, and they are obviously taken care of by someone."

Lu Yunli turned the 3D model on the screen and shook his head: "My mother believes in Catholicism. There are only two Catholic churches in Beicheng. Relatively speaking, Andong Street is relatively close to my house, but my mother has never been here. , and the church she told me is deserted."

Hua Qi asked: "Did your mother tell you why the church was abandoned? If not, is it convenient for you to ask her now?"

Lu Yun was stunned for a moment, and then said: "She has settled in Iceland since the year before last, and I...have not had much contact with her. But my mother has a church friend with a good relationship, I can ask her. "

It was the first time I heard Lu Yunli talk about his mother, Hua Qi digested the content of Lu Yunli's words, and then said empathetically: "Yes, it is really inappropriate to disturb auntie at this time."

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"Is your mother settled in Iceland?"

"Yes, the reason may be that I think my father is not interested." Lu Yunzhi smiled: "She has always liked it there. Speaking of your mother? I don't think I have heard of it."

"When I was born, I died of dystocia." Xie Zhi'an's tone was calm as if he was discussing today's weather, without a trace of ups and downs: "I have never seen anyone in my mother's house, and my father put away all the photos about my mother at home. .”

"Why?" Lu Yunli asked in surprise, "Then you were..."

"Maybe it's because I don't have any emotional basis, and I don't know the details. It's just that my grandma brought me up, and there is also one of my younger sisters."

"Sister? Don't everyone say you are the only child?"

Xie Zhi'an explained: "It's not my sister, it's me... a child of a relative's family,"

Lu Yunzhang laughed and said, "I haven't heard that you have any relatives, but your sister must be a beauty, right?"

"Yes." Xie Zhi'an said, "Then you can go to your mother's friend and ask if there is anything useful?"

"The question came out." Lu Yunli rubbed his nose and said emotionally: "Because it is said that their original bishop fell into the arms of the devil and polluted the church, so the Lord does not want to hear the voices of the believers in this church. .”

Xie Zhi'an: "...Speak human words."

Lu Yunxi: "That bishop has been brainwashed by Fa/lun/gong."

Xie Zhian: "...???"

Lu Yunxi: "Really, anyway, that church has already become a gathering place for three religions and nine streams, but I don't know how Sun Jing knew such a place, and went to it several times in a row."

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"What about you? Why did you come back so early?" After making a phone call to inquire clearly, Lu Yunxi asked Hua Qi while making notes: "It was demolished so quickly over there?"

Hua Qi rolled his eyes: "It would be great if it was so fast, I don't know what those people think, the tunnel is full of gravel, and there is no reinforcement device on the top and bottom of the tunnel, so it hasn't collapsed for so many years It’s also those people who are dying.”

"Gravel?" Lu Yunli asked suspiciously, "Where do you get so many?"

"Yes." Hua Qi first agreed, and then slammed the table, almost knocking Qiu Mingyuan's water glass down: "They have to buy so much gravel in a short time! Mingyuan checks the surrounding area of ​​Beicheng. Stone crushing plant, see if there is an order to send a large amount of stones to the direction of Dalong Mountain!"

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"The news of the order has been found out that afternoon. There are two orders shipped to the direction of Dalongshan. One of the orders was ordered by a family user, and the other order was shipped to the place where Sun Jing disappeared. The driver who came to replace the gravel pit drove the car away."

Xie Zhian asked: "Even the car drove away?"

"Yes, the buyer paid a deposit for the truck, and the car was not returned in the end. It is obvious that we will start to check from the order after we know that things have messed up." Lu Yunli added: "The name on the order is a pseudonym, and there is no such thing. People. After all, the gravel yard is just selling stones, and there is no real-name purchase requirement."

"Then what were you going to do then?"

"What should we do? At that time, we must have been inclined to clear the tunnel first and then investigate, so that the chain of evidence would be much more complete. But unfortunately, it can't be cleared over there in a day or two, so we only If we can start the investigation from that church, at least we know what Sun Jing encountered there."

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The Catholic Church at No. 58 Andong Street is very beautifully built. In the garden outside, there are evergreen plants and flowers that bloom tenaciously in winter.

The gatekeeper of the church is an old lady in her 50s. After seeing the photo Lu Yunli and the others showed, she nodded and said, "I have seen this girl before. She has been here for several weeks. She is quite a rare visitor."

"Strange? What do you know about this church?"

The old lady was getting old, she couldn't stand for long, she turned around and sat down on the chair slowly, and said to them: "Don't look at me as the gatekeeper here, but I don't believe in religion. This church used to be quite prosperous, and there were many people who came here. , On Sundays, it was full of worshipers. It wasn’t until later that the bishop was brainwashed into a cult member for some reason, and tried to instigate the people to do bad things, that he gradually became depressed.”

Hua Qi asked, "Where's the bishop?"

The old lady sighed: "I've already run away, occasionally only some old people who are too old and can't travel too far come to worship in this church."

"Then do you know what Sun Jing usually does when she comes here?"

"I don't know much about this, but you can go to the homes of some old people who often come to church on weekends and ask."