Become a cat [Zhan Zhao]

In the short moment when several people looked at each other, as if stabbed by the gaze unexpectedly, the man in the cloak jumped up suddenly, and then swept out of the temple wall without hesitation.

"Stop!" Ouyang Chun shot out like a sharp arrow in the blink of an eye, and the strong wind even made Alan's hair sway slightly.He and the man in the cloak disappeared behind the temple wall almost at the same time, leaving only a dazzling blue sky without a trace of haze.

And Alan was still staring at the corpse on the ground in horror, her eyeballs trembled slightly, like a cat that was frightened without any precautions.In the deep part of the abdominal cavity, Ah Lan seemed to feel a continuous pain, as if a hole had been cut there abruptly, and it was slightly hot.

Suddenly, she vaguely felt that the corpse's hand moved, but the stiff fingers couldn't leave any mark on the ground.

That feeling was so real that she walked over step by step involuntarily, as if by magic.

Amidst the muffled wind, Ah Lan slowly knelt down beside the corpse.

The stark contrast formed by the dark red blood and the white monk's robe was almost dazzling. A sharp boning knife was pierced from under his side, only the handle wrapped with a few circles of white cloth was exposed.The area around the wound was completely soaked in blood, like a blooming blood plum.There was a strange fishy-sweet smell in the air.

The one who died was a very young monk, his slightly closed eyes somehow made his expression very peaceful, as if he was just asleep.

Alan's gaze finally fell on that hand, and the few slender fingers were bent in an abnormally stiff arc, and they had completely lost their vitality.

——So she must have read it wrong, Alan told herself silently in her heart.But she couldn't look away, and she couldn't even stand up from the corpse, and left as quickly as she thought.It was as if a strange, invisible force had tied her eyes to the corpse, to those slightly closed eyes...

Suddenly, those slightly closed eyes opened!It's as if the eyelids are pulled by two invisible threads, and the black and white inside is forced to be revealed.

Alan's gaze met those eyes.

A gust of cold air kept pouring out of his heart. Under a certain almost mysterious atmosphere, A Lan could only remain motionless, and at the same time, he felt a huge roaring sound beside his ears—the sound of blood rushing.

"The key..." An inaudible voice came from the barely moving lips, and a stiff, cold hand grabbed Alan's hand, "...go to the tower and find the key."

He was really dead, but he didn't know what kind of terrifying force manipulated the dead body, forcing the already stiff throat to make a sound.

This thought made Ah Lan terrified, she stared at the talking corpse with wide eyes, her whole body was stiff.

"The key..." As if he could not rest in peace without being guaranteed, the voice continued to be squeezed out from the corpse's throat, "Find the key..."

Alan was finally able to control his neck and nodded stiffly.

The next moment, as if the lifting thread was snapped, the eyes closed again, and the cold hands fell back to the ground.The corpse turned back into a corpse again, and Ah Lan felt relieved to have returned to the human world.

She sat down on the ground, and finally let out the breath she had been holding back before.

"Alan?" Ouyang Chun's voice startled Alan, "What's the matter?" He came back from the front of the temple, strode forward and lifted Alan up from the ground.

A Lan shook her head, concealed what happened just now from Ouyang Chun without hesitation, and then asked, "Did you catch up?"

"No." Ouyang Chun frowned, "That kid is very evil. I only followed him for three streets before I lost track of him."

Has it just been such a short time?Alan had the illusion that several hours had passed.She didn't dare to look at the corpse, she stared absent-mindedly at a dead tree in the yard and said, "Should we report to the police?" Those eyes seemed to still appear in front of Ah Lan in some illusory form, silently Urging her to do what she promised.

A Lan felt that she needed to know the identity of this man before his life.Keys, towers, what do these things mean?

"..." Ouyang Chun was stunned for a moment before nodding, and then said, "Yes, it's best to leave this matter to your master." Thinking about the appearance of the cloaked man just now, he always felt that things were strange. Strange, "Maybe someone deliberately disguised himself as your master, trying to play tricks on us."

Naturally, neither of them thought that the man in the cloak would be Zhan Zhao.

Ouyang Chun asked A Lan to stay here, and he went to the Yamen to find Zhan Zhao alone.Along the way, Ouyang Chun was thinking about the movement of the man in the cloak, and he became more and more sure that that man was definitely not Zhan Zhao.So who is it that would pretend to be Zhan Zhao to kill someone?What's more, if it wasn't for that weird pigeon, they would never have bumped into the cloaked man.

Is this a conspiracy, or a coincidence?

"The pigeon took you to a ruined temple, and found a dead body?" Zhan Zhao hurried out to meet Ouyang Chun, and heard such a bizarre incident, "The murderer is still a cloaked man with the same appearance as me?"

Ouyang Chun nodded seriously, and said, "Alan is still waiting there."

"It's not too late, let's rush over here." Zhan Zhao knew that Ouyang Chun would not joke about this kind of thing, and even if he asked a few government servants to follow behind, he and Ouyang Chun used lightness kung fu to rush over there. past.

For some reason, Zhan Zhao always had an ominous feeling in his heart, which made his fingertips tingle.

And this premonition was confirmed after rushing to the ruined temple.

Zhan Zhao didn't even notice A Lan who was standing far away from the corpse for the first time. The moment he passed through the moon cave gate, his eyes fell on the corpse not far away.His footsteps stopped suddenly, and after a while, he suddenly pulled his legs and walked towards that side, almost bumping into Ouyang Chun who was beside him.

An unbelievable feeling arose from the bottom of his heart. When Zhan Zhao squatted down beside the corpse, he even reached out his hand unwillingly to probe the breath of the man who had been sleeping forever, and then touched his neck, trying to find the trace of the other party pretending to be dead. .

Yet there was no such sign.He really died.

Dust died.

Staring intently at the other person's pale face, Zhan Zhao slowly withdrew his hand.After a while, he asked softly: "Brother Ouyang, did you see clearly that the murderer looks the same as me?" Yirong?To make Chen Yin relax his vigilance?

"En." Ouyang Chun saw that Zhan Zhao's expression was wrong, "Do you know this person?"

Zhan Zhao didn't know why he didn't want to answer this question, he pretended not to hear, and stretched out his hand to press the cold wound.The blood that flowed out was completely cold at this moment, sticky and slippery.

"One kill." Zhan Zhao muttered to himself, his voice low and inaudible, "Aren't you hiding?"

Chen Yin has never shown martial arts in front of him, but Zhan Zhao knows that Chen Yin will never be killed easily.

This is a bit sudden.A few days ago, Zhan Zhao wondered if he should go to see Chen Yin next year, so that he could finish the previous chores.Maybe because Chen is in a good mood, he will wash his hands and cook a table of vegetarian dishes.

He didn't expect to meet Chen Yin in this way so soon.

"My lord!" Several yamen servants arrived panting, and Wu Zuo was farther behind, also out of breath.

Zhan Zhao got up slowly, and ordered: "After the autopsy, put the corpse away, it's a vendetta."

The yamen servants breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that it was a feud in the rivers and lakes - yamen seldom really take care of such cases. It's Chinese New Year, and they don't want to be busy with another murder case.

But several people could see that Zhan Zhao's face was terribly gloomy, so they didn't dare to show it, and immediately started to search the ruined temple.

Only then did Zhan Zhao turn to Alan, who was standing at the farthest place with a pale face.With a move in his heart, he beckoned to her lightly: "Come here."

Ah Lan reluctantly took a few steps forward, but still asked: "Brother, this person...is this master's name Dust Cause?"

Ouyang Chun's face moved slightly.

"How do you know?" Zhan Zhao also frowned, "You recognize him?"

Alan shook his head.In fact, when she saw Zhan Zhao's dejected expression for a moment, she already guessed seven or eight points in her heart.Besides, if I remember correctly, on Zhan Zhao's map, the last place they didn't have time to go to was called "Six Dust Pagoda".

In this way, Chen Yin's last words are coherent: go to the Liuchen Pagoda to find the key.

But what is the "key"?Is it the things that Zhan Zhao ran to several places to find?Alan frowned slightly, and wanted to tell Zhan Zhao what Chen Yin said, but felt that he should wait until there was no one else around.However, there was a murder case, and although the murderer could not be found out for a while, Zhan Zhao was still busy, so it was already late at night when Alan saw Zhan Zhao alone again.

And it wasn't Zhan Zhao who came to look for her, but Ah Lan quietly waiting outside the place where Zhan Zhao lived.

"Alan?" Zhan Zhao sensed someone as soon as he entered the yard. He caught the familiar figure, relaxed his tired and numb nerves a little, and walked up to him and asked softly, "Why are you still here so late?"

Alan took two steps forward, walked from the shadow of the porch to the dim moonlight, looked up at Zhan Zhao.She found that although the other party was not obvious on the face, his whole body was covered with a kind of gloom.

"Alan?" Seeing that Alan didn't answer, Zhan Zhao absently raised his hand to lick her hair, but retracted his hand halfway.

Ah Lan came back to her senses suddenly, and then said: "Chenyin Master said a few words to me before he died."

Zhan Zhao's body froze, countless thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant, and after a while he asked calmly, "What are you talking about?"

"Go to the tower to find the key." Alan told Zhan Zhao truthfully, "It should be very important. He said it many times, 'key', 'tower' and so on."

Tower, key?Zhan Zhao couldn't help raising his eyebrows slightly——

He knew he couldn't have a good New Year's Eve.

The author has something to say: I really hope that my computer can develop self-awareness one day, and then type OTZ for me 24 hours a day