Strangers

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The two got into the car and drove six or seven stops away. Xie Yu stopped at an inconspicuous place and handed her the newspaper.

"This is..." Mrs. Zhu went in without knowing.

"The hotel I stayed in yesterday, the explosion point was in my room." Xie Yu stated without a tone.

Mrs. Zhu read the report and slowly opened her eyes wide in shock.

"I wasn't there at the time." Xie Yu recalled yesterday's situation, "I arrived in Shanghai at nine o'clock in the morning yesterday, checked into the hotel at ten o'clock, and then went to the scene of the car accident and your house, and never went back there, which created a problem : How did 'certain people' know that I was investigating the cause of Feng Tie's death, and found out the hotel and room number I was staying in at the first time, and made this bombing in a targeted manner."

Mrs. Zhu put down the newspaper: "Have you been followed?"

"No one knows about this investigation but me. With that in mind, where do you think I was followed?"

Mrs. Zhu frowned.

"Let's just talk about my reasoning." Xie Yu said with a straight face, "My investigation of Fengtie can only be exposed in two places, one is the scene of the car accident, and the other is your home, in other words, when I checked into the hotel , have not entered the sight of "some people". On the other hand, I have not returned to the hotel after the investigation was exposed, which means that "some people" did not rely on tracking, but found the room number from my identity information. .After recollection, I think the only place where identity information might be leaked yesterday was your home."

Mrs. Zhu was completely out of shape: "Why is it my house?"

"I gave you a business card with my name and mobile phone number on it, which can be used to find out the ID card used for check-in."

Mrs. Zhu nodded.

"Then." Xie Yu stared at her, "Where is that business card now?"

Mrs. Zhu frowned: "I haven't touched that business card, it's still on the coffee table."

"Oh? This is interesting." Xie Yu said, "It turns out that the information was leaked from you."

"How is it possible." She immediately denied, "I didn't tell anyone about your visit yesterday, let alone your mobile phone number!"

"I didn't say you 'personally' leaked it."

"What does that mean?" she asked anxiously.

Xie Yu smiled imperceptibly: "I am very sorry to tell you that someone has installed surveillance in your living room."

"What?" Mrs. Zhu covered her mouth unconsciously.

"I'll tell you everything from beginning to end." Xie Yu lowered the temperature of the air conditioner in the car, "Because the "Mistletoe Project" involves some ulterior secrets, it threatens 'some people' Existence, so before the novel solves the mystery, Feng Tie was assassinated in a disguised car accident. In order to prevent someone from investigating this matter, they conducted 24-hour surveillance on Zhu's house. And yesterday, when I expressed my intention, they passed through the living room The surveillance in the hotel followed me, and found out the ID number from the mobile phone number on the business card, tracked the hotel information, and finally created the bombing that made the headlines.”

After Xie Yu finished speaking, he tapped the newspaper in Mrs. Zhu's hand with his fingertips, admiring her shocked expression without any surprise.

"I believe you have understood the seriousness of the matter." Xie Yu said coldly.

"Then what should I do, Officer Xie!" Mrs. Zhu was extremely nervous.

"I'm not police officer Xie, I'm just an ordinary novelist." Xie Yu shook the police/police/certificate, "I can make a fake by just dialing the license number, but unfortunately, without it, it would be difficult for me Earn your trust."

"You..." Mrs. Zhu stared at him in surprise.

"Do you want to ask me why I do this?" Xie Yu put his hands on the steering wheel and looked forward through the windshield, "Yu Si, I have competed with Fengtie on the sales list for four or five years, and I have cultivated some The friendship between the opponents, I don't want him to die in ignorance. Yu Gong, I don't believe that 'certain people' can cover the sky with their hands and seal the secret of "Project Mistletoe" forever. The truth is the truth and will never be buried , Facts are like iron, there will always be a day when it will be revealed to the world.”

After hearing this, Mrs. Zhu slowly lowered her gaze.

"It seems that this set of rhetoric is good enough." Xie Yu observed her expression, "But unfortunately, that is not my real idea, so I don't intend to use it to cheat your cooperation. In fact, these investigations are just out of For personal interest, if the process is exciting enough, I will write it into a novel." Xie Yu paused, "It's the same as what Fengtie did."

——Same as what Fengtie did.

Eight words, in exchange for Mrs. Zhu's long silence.

"Whether it's peace of mind to ensure the normal life of your mother and daughter, or cooperate with my bad behavior, I'll give you a day to think about it." Xie Yu turned the key, and the engine started with a bang.

"If it's really like what you said, the house has been monitored, how can our mother and daughter have a 'normal life'..." Mrs. Zhu said slowly.

"You can pretend that you don't know anything." Xie Yu stepped on the accelerator, "They won't have such good patience. I believe they will cancel the monitoring soon."

"How long is that..."

"Maybe a few days, maybe a few months, a little patience in exchange for the peace of the rest of your life, this deal is very good value." Xie Yu turned into the fast lane, "It is the easiest thing to protect yourself wisely. Compared with wars and famines, this is a very good deal." In an era where survival is easy, as long as everyone is willing, everyone can easily exchange for the right to live by giving up something.”

Mrs. Zhu raised her head and looked out the front window, and asked for a long time, "Mr. Xie, is your family well off?"

Xie Yu paused: "You can say that."

"Once..." Mrs. Zhu turned her head and looked out the side window, and the street view flew away, "Once Zhu Hai flipped through "Three Cities" and told me that the growing environment in this western region must be very good, because his articles often express Some very idealistic, almost naive views."

"Really." Xie Yu made no statement.

"Zhu Hai also said that he is likely to be very strict in life, and lacks some basic empathy and sympathy for the weakness or cowardice shown by ordinary people."

"That's right." Xie Yu readily admitted.

Mrs. Zhu looked out the window for a long time, and the car approached the gate of the residential area.

"Don't make me think about it." Her eyes were as still as water, without any waves, "The plots where evil prevails can only appear in your fictional texts. I am a living person, not the protagonist in detective novels. Passerby with a clue, what I can do for Zhu Hai now is not to inherit his unfinished business and let the truth be revealed to the world, but to protect our only daughter."

Xie Yu stepped on the brake in front of the door: "I'm sorry."

"I'm not like you, I'm just an ordinary person." Mrs. Zhu said firmly with her right hand resting on the car door handle, "Like countless other ordinary people, being wise and safe is how we survive."

"So disturbing." Xie Yu said, watching her thin back disappear into the crowd.

☆, spillover degree

Moon Garden.

Xie Yu pressed the doorbell, and Xiaotao greeted him warmly.

"The password for the courtyard gate is 789521." Xiaotao smiled, "Mr. Qi said that you may have to stay for a while, and asked me to give you a key. If there is no one at home, you can come in directly."

Xie Yu walked into the yard and suddenly remembered something: "Did he set the password?"

"Yes, when I moved in, I asked Mr. Qi what password to set, and he said this after thinking about it for a while."

"789521..." Xie Yu read in a low voice.

"Are you wondering what this string of numbers means?" Xiaotao asked.

Xie Yu looked at her expression: "You know."

"I also discovered it by chance, because I often have to keep accounts." Xiaotao jumped up the steps briskly, "The meaning of this string of numbers is actually the difference between a calculator and a phone."

Calculator and phone?Two objects flashed in Xie Yu's mind, and he grasped the difference between the two in an instant.

--Order.The calculator has 123 on the bottom and 789 on the top, and the phone is the same as the combination disk at the courtyard gate, with 123 on the top and 789 on the bottom.

So is it related to location?If you change to enter 789521 on the calculator...

"So it is." Xie Yu understood.

Xiao Tao giggled.

"What department of Tsinghua University did you apply for?" Xie Yu asked.

"Tsinghua University?" Xiaotao seemed surprised.

"Boss Qi said that you were admitted to Tsinghua University at the age of 16."

Xiaotao was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed loudly: "Mr. Qi is lying again! How can I get into Tsinghua University? It's just an ordinary secondary school!"

"Ms. Tao doesn't need to expose me so quickly." Qi Xie in the living room leaned on the sofa and saw the two of them come in and put down the newspaper.

Xiaotao shrugged mischievously, winked at Xie Yu again, and went into the kitchen to get busy.

"What do you want from me?" Xie Yu sat down on the single sofa.

"I'm looking for you to come back for dinner." Qi Xie bent his eyes.

"I made four phone calls in a row. Are you a full-time wife who urges your husband to go home?" Xie Yu said coldly.

"Don't give yourself money." Qi Xie changed his expression and snorted mockingly, "Assistant Qian came to my office today and asked you about your coming to Shanghai."

"I came to Shanghai to check on her."

"She said, the matter Mr. Xie's family wants to investigate involves certain people, and the interest groups behind these people happen to have something to do with Guixintang. The explosion yesterday was a warning, and I want you to stop here. Who would have expected you You have to push forward. Those people wanted to kill you, forget it, and they will start today, but found that you were driving Guixintang's car, so they came to your door. Assistant Qian asked me to persuade you to give up the investigation, and those people will not pursue it , the so-called stay a line in life, so that we can meet each other in the future. That's what it means, you can figure it out yourself. "

After Xie Yu listened, he didn't express his opinion: "What do you say?"

Qi Xie unfolded the newspaper nonchalantly: "I said I don't know you that well, so I don't care about you, they should do it as soon as they should, just don't damage my car."

"This is the best." Xie Yu said.

"However, this is just a scene." Qi Xie turned over the advertisement page, "To be honest, you alone have no right to fight against them. A detective working alone to bring down a large organization is too exaggerated to write a novel.— —Don’t be in a hurry to refute, I know you romantics, you disregard life and death when you are hot-blooded, but many things can’t be solved by the dopamine secreted by the nerve nucleus.”

Xie Yu was unmoved: "I'm sorry, but I don't accept this kind of compromise theory."

Qi Xie looked away from the newspaper and smiled at him: "I know an old professor in Guixintang, whose surname is Ouyang. She did a project five years ago called 'Spillover Fluctuation Control'. In short In other words, starting from a certain coordinate, the positive correlations of other coordinates are represented by spillover values, and how to eliminate the least coordinates in the case of the lowest disturbance to the system is studied to minimize the sum of spillovers.”

Xie Yu waited for the next sentence but couldn't find it: "So."

"So I asked her, what is the use of this theory? She said that it has a wide range of uses. For example, if someone has a piece of information, it can be regarded as the starting coordinate. With this theory, it is possible to calculate which individuals should be 'eliminated' at least when the sum of spillovers is the smallest."

Xie Yu instantly understood: "That is to say, this theory is to study how to kill the least number of people when a secret is leaked, so as to achieve the greatest degree of silence."

"Isn't it very scientific and humane?" Qi laughed, "Professor Ouyang also said that the variables introduced later must also be counted. Once a new disturbance factor appears, the entire system must be recalculated to eliminate more individuals. .Now, Feng Tie's personal death has brought the fluctuations of the system into balance. If you are determined to be that 'disturbance factor', you have to be prepared to meet the new dead.——But then again, you don't care about these , after all, the truth is the most important thing, isn't it?"

Qi Xie said ironically, and handed over the newspaper.

Xie Yu continued with some hesitation, and read a report in an obscure corner.

At about [-] o'clock this afternoon, in a certain residential area, a woman named Wang jumped from the top of the sixth floor and died.Neighbors said that Wang's husband died in a car accident a few months ago, which may have caused him excessive grief and suicide.It is reported that Wang has a daughter who is only five years old...

After reading this, Xie Yu closed the newspaper and put it back on the coffee table.His face remained unchanged, but the edge of the originally flat paper was wrinkled.

Qi Xie looked at Xiao Tao who was setting the table in the restaurant, and asked him, "Are you eating first? Or are you angry?"

Xie Yu threw his back to him: "I'll go back to my room first."

Qi Xie saw him go upstairs, followed by the sound of the door closing.The sound is not loud, not like falling; it is not too small, with enough restraint.

"Has Mr. Xie stopped eating?" Xiao Tao brought out the soup.

"It's enough for him to feel full." Qi Xie washed his hands and sat down, looking at the dishes with satisfaction, "Let's serve dinner."

Under the desk lamp in the guest room, Xie Yu looked at the open book, and the investigation notes that he was proud of had now become a kind of irony.He knew in his heart that Mrs. Zhu's death was not only a silence, but also a deterrent, which had the same nature as the bombing.

The difference is, this time it worked.

The opponent's intentions were obvious, if he made another move, the next one to die would definitely be Feng Tie's little daughter. ——A knife in the distance, placed on an innocent hostage, this is completely beyond his control, enough to give way to the desire to explore and the competitive spirit.

Slowly covering the pens and closing the notebook, Xie Yu left them on the table and sank himself into the chair.

Not long after, the door rang.

Before he got up, Qi Xie opened the door and came in, walked to the desk with a smile: "How is Young Master Xie thinking?"

Xie Yu threw out three words: "Not so much."

"Oh." Qi Xie understood, "That means you don't want to give up, and you can't find a way."

Xie Yu ignored his teasing, and asked instead, "Have you seen Feng Tie's "The Mistletoe Project"?"

"No."

"It's a science fiction novel. It's about a series of battles fought by humans in various countries in order to preserve themselves in the last days. Among them, the government of country A secretly implemented a plan, code-named 'Mistletoe', and the content of this plan is the entire story. The answer to the novel. In order to solve it, I searched for relevant information. Some anthropological views believe that primitive people found that the vegetation died in winter, and only the mistletoe was green as usual. In the winter of death, waiting for the recovery of spring. So I think the "Mistletoe Project" is a metaphor for the storage of human souls. In the novel, Feng Tie also mentioned clues such as human memory capsules and cell freezing technology many times, but there is still no Conclusive evidence is lacking."

Qi Xie played with the paperweight on the table while listening: "Where might this evidence be found?"

"Feng Tie's manuscript." Xie Yu picked up the notebook and flipped a page at random, "Feng Tie's character is relatively rigorous, I believe he must have the habit of saving manuscripts, if he can't find the following chapters, there are only two possibilities First, it was destroyed secretly, and second, it was hidden in a very hidden place by Feng Tie. Between the two, I prefer the latter, but under the current situation, I cannot continue to investigate at all."

"It's totally impossible...not necessarily." Qi Xie had intentions behind his words.

"How do you say?" Xie Yu asked.

Qi Xie smiled complacently: "I know where the manuscript is hidden."

Xie Yu raised his eyes in rare surprise.

"Let's go, Mr. Xie?" Qi Xie turned to the door.

"Where are you going?" Xie Yu sat up straight.

"Do you still need to ask? Take and save the manuscript."

Xie Yu stood still and asked cautiously, "Why did you help me?"

Qi Xie turned around and smiled: "Exercising late."

late at night.

Following Qi Xie's instructions, Xie Yu stopped the car in a remote alley near Zhu's house.

Qi Xie loosened his seat belt: "Wait for me here."

Xie Yu pulled out the car key: "I'll go together."

Qi Xie looked at him: "It's up to you."

"There are probes in the living room of the Zhu family, and there should be people watching around. Once they find out, Feng Tie's daughter will be in trouble." Xie Yu reminded in a low voice.

Qi Xie opened the trunk and took out a flower shovel: "Who said you're going to his house."

Xie Yu frowned: "Then where are you going?"

Qi Xie didn't answer, he got into a broken flower bed full of weeds, looked down, and dug up the soil with a shovel.Xie Yu watched the wind for a while, but still couldn't restrain his curiosity. Just as he stepped forward, he saw the shovel stop and pry out a black plastic bag from the soil.

"What is this, a corpse?" Xie Yu scraped off the remaining floating soil and picked it up.

"That's it." Qi Xie filled the pit and stepped on it a few times, so that no trace of turning over could be seen.

The two returned to the car, and Xie Yu drove absent-mindedly all the way. From the corner of his eye, he watched Qi Xie peel off the layers of plastic bags, revealing a small iron box. After opening the iron box, his eyes finally lit up.

An old USB flash drive was lying quietly at the bottom of the box.

It holds a secret, and the man who buried it is dead.

☆、Disturbance factor

Xie Yu resisted the urge to guess the contents of the USB flash drive: "How do you know it's there?"

Qi Xie closed the box: "You don't believe me when I tell you."

Xie Yu was relieved: "Okay, let me believe in the existence of nodding and shaking my head ghosts, but why did Feng Tie bury the U disk there."

"Otherwise where would he be buried?"

"At least it's not such an inexplicable place."

"Wonderful? I don't think it's amazing at all." Qi Xie took it for granted, "This flower bed is so hidden, and no one takes care of it. It won't be discovered after being buried for more than ten years, how safe it is."

Xie Yu felt that this logic was unreasonable, so he couldn't help shaking his head: "He buried the USB flash drive just to leave clues. What's the point if no one finds out."

Qi Xie understood it, and laughed mockingly: "According to your script, the deceased should bury the USB flash drive in a certain place, and leave a complex code next to the corpse, and then the detective will appear, discover the code, and solve it smoothly." , to find clues one step earlier than the stupid villain, to show your intelligence, right?"

"Yes." Xie Yu straightened the steering wheel.

"It's a pity." Qi Xie sighed obediently, "It's a pity that this Feng Tie didn't write detective novels, he must be thinking, if the detective is stupider than the villain, wouldn't the situation of the USB flash drive be worse? So he had an idea , and bury it where no one can find it, so that it is absolutely safe."

Xie Yu clicked his tongue speechlessly, and just about to refute, he suddenly realized the problem, and his heart rate rose instantly!

——The reason why Feng Tie did this is because he was sure that even if no clues were left, the USB flash drive would be discovered: by something other than human beings, by an all-knowing monster!

"No wonder you came to help with 'good intentions'." Xie Yu finally understood, "When you know by nodding and shaking your head that Feng Tie hid the U disk in a place where humans cannot find it, you understand that he has no hope at all. , but only issued a cry for help against monsters like you."

"Of course, I can also ignore him." Qi Xie said happily, "But it's interesting to think about it if you admit that there are monsters in the world."

Xie Yu snorted coldly and stopped talking.

Back in Yueyuan, I went straight to the study room, put the U disk into the computer, and after some automatic scanning, the file was finally opened.

The Mistletoe Project, finale.

"Did that Professor Ouyang you know ever say that if a certain 'disturbance factor' becomes too active, the spillover will reach a peak and cause the entire system to collapse?" Xie Yu stared at the screen intently.

"What are you proud of?" Qi Xie poured cold water, "So what if you get the manuscript, if you make these things public, Feng Tie's daughter will die."

"I won't do such a stupid thing." Xie Yu pushed his glasses conceitedly, "The Mistletoe Project always implies that there must be a certain prototype behind it. What those people are really afraid of is not this fictional novel , but thus involved a major conspiracy in reality."

"According to your temper, do you have to dig out this conspiracy?"

"It's not temper, it's interest." Xie Yu corrected.

"Whatever you want, I'm going upstairs to bed."

"Stop." Xie Yu said.

"What are you doing?" Qi Xie asked.

"You already know."

"what do you know."

"This conspiracy."

"I don't know." Qi Xie answered in one breath.

"Oh?" Xie Yu was a little surprised, "Nodding and shaking his head, didn't I tell you?"

Qi Xie smiled: "It will answer only if I ask, and I can't ask a question about something I don't know at all."

After several days of sleepless nights, Xie Yu finally finished reading the fifth volume of "The Mistletoe Project" with hundreds of thousands of words. After rubbing his temples, he turned off the computer, turned off the lights and went downstairs.

"Exited?" Qi Xie sat on the sofa and wiped a jade cong without raising his head.

Before Xie Yu could answer, the phone rang.

Qi Xie continued to study the patterns on the jade as if he hadn't heard it, and Xiao Tao put down the mop in the distance and came over.

"No need to answer." Qi Xie said.

"Oh." Xiaotao flattened her mouth.

The bell rang for a long time, then automatically cut off, and then rang again after a while, and it was completely quiet after repeating this several times.

Xie Yu passed by the telephone station, and glanced at the number on the caller ID: "What, there was a quarrel."

"You really care too much." Qi Xie put the jade cong back to Duobaoge, just about to turn around and come back, he picked up another blue and white dish.

Xie Yu sat down on the sofa and observed his movements with great interest: "It's rare to see you restless."

Qi Xie put the plate back: "I'm very calm."

"I broke up with Zhou Yuan because we were separated for too long."

"I don't care about your love history."

"The arrangement of 789521 on the numeric keypad is a T."

Qi Xie turned around: "What is the word T?"

"Ding Li's Ding character." Xie Yu said nonsense.

Qi Xie thought for a while, then smiled: "The imagination of novel writers is really rich."

"Otherwise what is that?" Xie Yu was full of confidence.

"It's the pinyin initials of my name."

"Qi's initial is Q." Xie Yu said.

"Jing's initial is J." Qi Xie said.

Xie Yu turned his gaze away, and said in a helpless tone, "Since you don't admit it, I can't help it."

"Why should I admit something that is unnecessary." Qi Xie walked towards the phone.

Then the bell rang again.

"Hello?" He finally took it slowly.

"Ah, hello? Lao Qi?" There was a voice on the opposite side, and Xie Yu immediately recognized who it was.

"What's the matter?" Qi Xie asked.

"What...you just got home?"

"No, it's always there."

"Na Dingli said that no one answered your phone call."

"I was feeding the fish in the yard, but I didn't hear it." Qi Xie lied casually.

"By the way, I just packed up and found a few pieces of paper..." The other person gradually lowered his voice, and Xie Yu couldn't hear him.

However, Qi Xie's answer gave a few important keywords.

——Chinese Academy of Sciences, biological and chemical weapons, national-level projects, zombies.

As soon as the phone was hung up, Xie Yu immediately asked, "What's going on?"

Qi Xie lightly shrugged his shoulders: "I'm talking nonsense, do you believe it?"

Xie Yu sneered: "It is a bad habit to know without speaking."

Qi Xie said without shame: "As friends, we should tolerate each other's faults."

He was waiting for Xie Yu's retort, but the other party was silent for a moment, and changed into a relieved expression: "That's true, you really have no obligation to know everything."

These words made Qi Xie pause for a while, leaned back into the sofa slowly, and raised his eyes to look at the ceiling: "Sometimes I also wonder how far I can interfere with this world without losing my sense of proportion. The world is not benevolent, Taking everything as a straw dog, if you were a monster, would you be responsive to human beings?"

Xie Yu thought for two seconds: "No."

Qi Xie smiled: "I can tell you what happened on Science Island, but you may not believe it."

Xie Yu sat up a bit: "I would like to hear the details."

Qi Xie took a sip of warm water: "If you ask Wei Yuanyang, he will definitely say that a virus appeared on Science Island two years ago, and the infected people would turn into zombies, and then the Chinese Academy of Sciences took measures to seal off the island, turning normal people into zombies. Collective isolation, and let the security personnel eliminate the virus. However, the truth is not like this, there are no zombies on the island, not a single one, it is just a large-scale experiment, and the whole process is under the control of the Chinese Academy of Sciences."

"What experiment?" Xie Yu asked.

"Monster experiment." Qi Xie lowered the water glass, "The researchers first secretly selected some employees and put hallucinogens in their diet. After a few days, they developed symptoms such as fever, nightmares, and hallucinations. At that time, the Chinese Academy of Sciences informed the staff that a certain virus had appeared on the island, and all "uninfected people" had to be isolated for observation. It stands to reason that these people were completely normal and could not be infected with any virus, but things changed overnight. Two 'infected' appeared, they first had a fever, then had hallucinations, and finally turned into extremely aggressive 'zombies'."

"Hysteria." Xie Yu immediately concluded.

"I haven't finished my sentence." Qi Xie interrupted, "Then the researchers took the blood of these two people, no, these two 'zombies', and injected them into a completely unaware subject. Soon after, He also developed the same symptoms. At this point, this blood is officially regarded as a 'virus', code-named UV-32."

"Impossible." Xie Yu said firmly.

Qi Xie had expected his reaction, and said with a smile, "I told you that you might not believe it."

"What does the 'national plan' refer to after that?" Xie Yu asked.

"Of course I lied to him, otherwise that idiot surnamed Wei would ask questions again and again, delaying my escape."

"Why do you insist on running away?"

"Are you stupid? My body temperature is lower than 37 degrees all the year round. If those scientific research madmen find out, wouldn't they be pulled for an autopsy in a blink of an eye?"

Although he was scolded, Xie Yu basically accepted his explanation because Qi Xie's reaction was sincere enough.

Seeing that the conversation between the two had come to an end, Xiao Tao obediently came forward: "Mr. Qi, Sister Qian asked me to tell you that I will leave for the airport at seven tomorrow morning."

Qi Xie nodded: "Understood."

"Are you going to another place?" Xie Yu asked.

"Go out and do something." Qi Xie said.

"Is it related to strange things?"

"Yes."

"Ding Li said that you entered Guixintang only as a civil servant, and you will not participate in any other cases." Xie Yu understood, "You are lying to him."

Qi Xiong smiled as an admission.

"Ah, there is more." Xiaotao turned to the side again, "Sister Qian also said that if Mr. Xie is willing, we can go together."

Xie Yu paused and frowned slightly: "Me?"

"Yes." Xiaotao nodded.

"Heh." Qi Xie knocked on the folding fan, "What kind of medicine does Assistant Qian sell in this gourd?"

"Interesting." Xie Yu said to Xiaotao, "It doesn't matter what medicine she sells, I'll buy it first, please tell Assistant Qian, I am willing to go together."

"Don't you have to think about it for a few minutes?" Qi Xie asked.

"No need." Xie Yu was firm.

Qi Xie sighed: "Climb a bamboo pole, and sooner or later you will fall down on your will."

Xie Yu leaned back on the sofa a little bit, crossed Erlang's legs, and looked at him through the lens: "This is not an act of will, I have wanted to see your method of solving the case for a long time. Maybe I haven't told you, except Project Mistletoe, I'm also very interested in you."

☆、monkey head

In the morning, Shanghai was smoggy.

Qi Xie and Xie Yu are both people who are used to getting up early. Master Zhang's car turned into Yueyuan, and the two happened to go out with their luggage.Upon arriving at Hongqiao Airport, Qi Xie easily found Qian Sining among the crowd without making any contact.

Dressed in a plain dress, simple yet charming, she greeted with a smile like a flower: "Morning, Mr. Qi."

Qi Harmony nodded.

Qian Sining turned his gaze and landed on Xie Yu: "Hello, Detective Cheng Yu?"

Xie Yuying: "Meet you again, Dilila."

Qi Xie glanced around: "Where are they?"

"Oh, Mr. Qi! I have known you for a long time, and it is a pleasure to meet you!"

Hearing the loud voice, Xie Yu turned his head and saw three men walking across.It was the leader who spoke, who was in his prime, wearing a dark blue double-breasted jacket, with gray hair combed back, and was walking forward with arched hands.The man in the middle was about the same age as Qi Xie, tall and strong, wearing a white slanted jacket, with a tuft of beard on his chin, pacing slowly, with an air of arrogance.The last one was a young man, dark and thin, wearing a modified Hanfu, pushing two suitcases, he seemed to be a follower.

Xie Yu watched the three approaching, and then took another look at Qi Xie, thinking that it is no wonder that he no longer wears those "extraordinary costumes" outside of the lectures in Guixin Hall, otherwise such a group of people standing together would be a costume performance convention.

"Master Lu." Qi Xie put on a smile and cupped his hands at the leader.

"Don't dare to act, dare not act!" The confused man waved his hands again and again, "How old am I? If Mr. Qi doesn't mind it, just call Brother Lu."

Qi Xie shook his head with a smile: "Qi is a newcomer to Guixin Hall, so you can't mess up your seniority. You can't bear the name of Mr. Wang."

"Brother Qi!" Master Lu patted his arm and pointed behind him, "Let me introduce you, Bai Deqi."

"Brother Bai, I have admired you for a long time." Qi Xie made a bow.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Bai De squinted his eyes and raised his hand casually.

Master Lu pointed again: "This is my assistant, Xiaoma."

"Hello, Mr. Qi!" Xiao Ma grinned and bowed firmly.

"Hello." Qi Xie nodded and turned around to introduce, "Master Lu, this is my friend, Xie Yu. Xie Yu, Master Lu of Guixintang."

The two shook hands.

"My lords, let's change the boarding pass first, and it won't be too late to exchange greetings when we get to the departure hall." Qian Sining reminded with a smile.

"That's right, it's Xiaoqian who is more thoughtful." Master Lu said as he took the lead and walked in.

After exchanging tickets, going through the security check, boarding the plane, and listening to a few people chatting along the way, Xie Yu probably grasped some information.The man surnamed Lu, whose full name is Lu Renda, has been with Boss Xun for more than ten years, is an old man in Guixintang, and is respectfully called "Lord Lu".The jobs of Bai Deqi and Qi Xie are similar in nature. They usually teach at the headquarters and deal with some weird things.This time, Boss Xun appointed Lord Lu to lead the team to solve an urgent case in Hubei.

The plane landed in Yichang, Qian Sining contacted a car, took the expressway, the national highway, and then the provincial highway, and finally arrived at Muyu Town, Shennongjia's tourist distribution center, after more than three hours.

It was dusk when we arrived at the hotel, Master Lu decided to go to the mountain in the early morning of the next day, and after dinner, they all went back to their houses.

"The place is small, there is no presidential suite, so wronged that Young Master Xie shared a standard room with me?" Qi Harmony teased.

"It's true that I'm not used to living with other people, so please make do with the bathroom overnight." Xie Yu put down his luggage, turned on the air conditioner, and said solemnly.

Qi Xie didn't continue this joke anymore, and took the electric kettle to fetch water: "Tomorrow we will live in the mountains, and the camping things have been prepared, so we have to carry them in by ourselves. There are six people going into the mountains, you and me, Lord Lu, Bai Deqi, Xiao Ma, and a local guide. Assistant Qian stayed in Muyu Town to facilitate contact with the outside world."

"What about the case?" Xie Yu asked.

Qi Xie put the kettle on and pressed the switch: "A team of college students who were hiking went to Shennongjia for training. Two of them disappeared in the middle of the night. The team sent three people to look for them, but they also disappeared. Later, some companions received a text message saying Some strange words, such as 'I know everything!', 'God is here!', 'Help! Down below!', 'My body is missing!', scared them and called the police. The local armed police searched for three After two days and two nights, no clues were found. It happened that the principal of this school had some personal relationship with Mr. Xun, so he asked him for help. Mr. Xun was righteous, saying that they were flowers of the motherland and pillars of tomorrow, and Guixintang would try their best to save them. , With a big wave of his hand, he threw the matter on my head."

Xie Yu sat down on the sofa: "Is that Bai Deqi's ability the same as yours?"

"Bai Deqi... Legend has it that he has been taught by a 'Wuyou Sanren' since he was a child. He was a psychic at the age of seven, and his eyes were opened at the age of nine. "Qi Xie couldn't help laughing when he said this, "But just listen to these words. It is also rumored that I am a closed-door disciple of the old man. I have been taught by the old man that I can call wind and rain into the sky and into the earth. As you know, what I really am."

The water in the electric kettle boiled, and the switch flicked.

Qi Xie opened the luggage and took out a bag of fried Chinese medicine