can't go wild

A picture book has stirred up new waves.

Aino simply opened all the glove boxes and checked everything, every detail.Of course, the focus of the inspection is still on the album.

"The old man usually makes money by writing and selling paintings. He still has several such albums. Actually, I always find it strange that the paintings he sells are much worse than those he draws in private. He can draw better, but I would rather get paid a few hundred yuan for a painting than paint better."

At first Aino thought it was some kind of artist's eccentric persistence, just like the old man's weird temper, but now that he thought about it, he felt that the old man might not want to show himself in front of others, so he could only pretend to be himself.

"Are you sure the painting just now is Lu Ye?" He asked again.

"Many people from Luye have been caught by the murder arrest department, and this painting is similar to the scene they described." Xing Zhou said.

"Have you really never seen it with your own eyes?"

"That's a road of no return."

no return?

Xing Zhou continued to explain that the road of no return does not mean the road to hell, but a road that cannot be turned back.Not only people outside will never find Luye, but even those who leave Luye cannot go back the same way.To leave is to leave, and from now on, cut off the leading edge and never look back.

Aino: "Then how do you send the key back?"

Xing Zhou: "Sacrifice. They have a special ceremony, like offering incense to the dead. If the ceremony is successful, the key will return to the deer field."

It sounds like a ghost.When people die, they become ghosts, and if the living burn paper money for them, the ghosts will receive it.

Is the child whose bone was taken still alive?

Aino wanted to ask, but the words stuck in his throat and he couldn't ask.He turned to ask: "Where did the original key come from? You said that people in Luye and people outside have a child, and this child can have the characteristics of both worlds and become a key. Giving birth to a child should not meet this requirement, right?"

Duoshe, the body belongs to others, only the soul belongs to oneself, the child born under such circumstances may not have any characteristics from Luye.

However, if people from Luye want to go out, they must be destroyed, which is a paradox.

Xing Zhou said: "When Chu Lian was still at the criminal arresting place, he once said that there was a story circulating in Luye. I don't know how many years ago, it was still isolated from the outside world. I never thought of leaving Luye at all, because the way the body is destroyed is burning with fire, which is extremely painful. No one is willing to endure this inhuman torture for an illusory hope. But one day, a woman strayed into Luye by mistake. Here comes the message from the outside, depicting a whole new world, and henceforth—”

Aino said in a deep voice, "Pandora's box has been opened."

False Song Ling once said that Luye is a hellish place, Aino thinks that should not be a lie.Under such circumstances, one can imagine how tempting a wonderful new world is.

Aino could almost guess the development of the next story directly. The woman came to Luye and gave birth to a child with Luye's life.

This child is the first key.

With the key, someone can walk out of the deer field with all their beards and tails.He or she can have offspring with outsiders. Keys give birth to new keys, and sins are added to sins, endlessly.

Xing Zhou continued: "We haven't been able to find the way to Luye so far. We have interrogated many people, but there is no result. If the story is true, that woman is the only exception."

Aino frowned and thought deeply. After listening to Xing Zhou's story and then looking at the old man's painting, he always felt that something was wrong.The painting looked mysterious, more like an imaginary picture, but he felt absurdly real.

Xing Zhou looked at his expression, and said again: "The people you saw last night, most of them are ordinary people who have nothing to do with Luye."

Aino was slightly taken aback, but he didn't expect this to be the case. He subconsciously thought that those people belonged to the same group, and they must all be his own people who knew everything.

"As I said before, the price of getting through the door is terrible, so most of the people who leave Luye have keys. But the key is not easy to come by, and you have to give birth to offspring before taking the bones. Therefore, according to the data from the crime arrest department, leaving Luye There are no more than a hundred people walking outside," Xing Zhou said.

Aino thought about it along this line of thought, and probably understood.

It takes ten months to give birth to a child, back and forth, at least a year.It is impossible for Lu Ye to be all villains. There will always be those who are too ruthless to take bones, or who are not willing to do evil at all, so the number of keys will never overflow.

Coupled with the existence of the crime arrest department, this behavior has been curbed to a certain extent.

But thinking about it this way, the person who passes through the door with the key is nothing, and the one who can endure the pain of the fire and leave the deer field is the ruthless person.

Aino: "Then Brother Pei?"

Xing Zhou: "Thugs."

It turned out to be the case.

Aino looked down at the photo album again. In addition to the painting of Lu Ye, there were also some works that were partial to the stream of consciousness, and he couldn't see what the painting was for a while.

He then asked Xing Zhou for Chu Lian's photo, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became.

It was a gentle and fair young man, with half-length hair not short, about twenties, very bookish, with a smile on his lips, no real origin could be seen at all.

The more Xiangye looked at him, the more familiar he looked, but how could he know Chu Lian?And this photo was obviously taken many years ago, when Chu Lian was still young...

By the way, this is Chu Lian when he was young!

Aino immediately imagined his appearance as he grew older. If he grew up for another ten or twenty years and wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, wouldn't it be...

"I've seen him!" Aino recalled the day he sent the old man to be cremated. In the funeral home, this man was standing in the corridor with an umbrella!

"Are you sure?" Xing Zhou's expression became serious.

"I can't admit it wrong. There were very few people in the funeral home that day. The old man was the only one waiting to be cremated the whole morning. That person stood in the corridor for a long time with an umbrella, so I noticed him."

That was April 4th, Guyu.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the sky also began to drizzle.The old man has no other relatives, only Aino. He is a white-eyed wolf who is not familiar with his false parents, so of course he will not cry for him.

Aino just felt a little stuffy and wanted to go out to get some air.Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned around, he met a pair of eyes hidden behind the lens through the glass wall.

Slender phoenix eyes, smiling before saying a word, elegant and decent.He nodded to Aino, a strange man in a suit and leather shoes, with an umbrella under the porch.

Now Aino understands that he is wearing black clothes and holding a black umbrella, and he is going to see the old man off.

At this time, Xing Zhou received a call, and the new window arrived.He went out to get it, and Aino stayed alone in the utility room, continuing to search for clues.

In fact, this utility room was the old man's original room, and it was only after his death that Aino changed it into a utility room.The old man's relics are not many. Apart from painting and smoking, he is almost a person who wants nothing.

Is there anything else I'm missing?

Was there some information that he hadn't noticed, that had been ignored?

Aino thought hard.Before and after the old man's death, he was preparing for the college entrance examination, and the school required him to attend evening self-study, so he left early and returned late every day, and he was often surprised by the old man's situation.

If you insist on saying that there was something abnormal during that time...

The old man's health has deteriorated, but he has always been in poor health, and it did not suddenly become worse on a certain day.When Xiangye couldn't take care of it, Aunt Qian would sometimes come over to help deliver a meal, and she never heard anything unusual from Aunt Qian.

The more Aino thought about it, the more distracted he was, he accidentally inhaled a bit of dust, choked on it, and coughed again.

As soon as Xing Zhou arrived at the door, he heard a violent cough, rushed into the room in two or three steps, and supported Aino.

The album in Aino's hand fell to the ground, and he turned to a page of landscape paintings. He stared at the flowers on the painting, and suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He held Xing Zhou's arm tightly and said, "Flowers, they are flowers!"

In the days before the old man died, Aino had seen a glass vase with flowers on the window sill of the old man's room, that is, in this room.

The old man was bedridden by himself, so it was impossible for him to have the strength to go downstairs to pick flowers, and it was even more impossible for Aunt Qian to have the leisure and elegance, so guests could only bring them from outside.

Where do the guests come from?

Who is the guest?

The worker who brought in the new window stood stiffly at the door, not daring to move or ask.It was the first time for them to install windows in such a weird place, and it was still late at night. If the buyer hadn't paid double the money, they wouldn't have come.

After finally waiting for the tall man to come out again, he directed them to install the windows, and the two left quickly, fearing that they would run into ghosts.

Aino had recovered, stopped coughing, but his eyes were covered with a layer of frost again.

If he remembered correctly, then Chu Lian had already appeared.He was right under Aino's nose, he could come and go here freely, even arranging flowers leisurely, and Aino was the only one who was kept in the dark.

"Look at this." Xing Zhou handed over the phone and showed him the same information.

Aino only glanced at it, and his breathing was almost stagnant.Xiangqi's date of birth is there, as if mocking him brightly. In the first 18 years of your life, you lived in outright lies, and none of them were true.

Xing Zhou said: "There is a high probability that Xiangqi and Chu Lian are old acquaintances, but the specific situation needs to be investigated."

Aino clenched his fists tightly, but there was a smile on his lips, "Check, why don't you check him, check him thoroughly, let me see what else he is hiding from me."

After finishing speaking, Aino bypassed Xing Zhou and strode into the living room.He was stunned, and only now remembered that he left with his fake parents in a hurry yesterday, and the bug in the living room hadn't been removed yet.

Although this thing is second-hand, it also has a storage function.Aino exported the content inside and played it outside, and the thumping sound of electric current sounded again.

But there was only the sound of electric current, and after a while there was the faint sound of wind beating against the glass window, which was vague and unclear.

Aino adjusted the fastest double speed, just let it play, and then asked about Chu Lian's disappearance that year.But at that time Xing Zhou hadn't joined the police department yet, and the information he got was limited to archives.

"There was a big case back then, and the Criminal Investigation Department tracked down the whereabouts of a batch of keys and went to investigate. Chu Lian also participated in that operation, but in the end no one came back alive. Almost all the criminals from the Criminal Investigation Department and Luye died. When the other people in the anti-murder department realized something was wrong and looked for it, they only found a mobile phone video."

In the video, there are scenes of dead and injured all over the place. Chu Lian is the only one who is still standing. He is pulling the knife out of the chest of a member of the Murder Squad, picking up the bone key strung into a necklace on the ground, leave here.

Xing Zhou, as the next-generation successor of the Anti-Murder Department, of course has seen this top-secret video.He still remembers Chu Lian's last look, which was sad and penetrating, and there was even a hint of a smile on his blood-stained face, like a red lotus from hell.

"hello."

The sudden voice rang in the ears, so coincidentally connected with Xing Zhou's memories, as if Chu Lian who looked back in the video was greeting them.

What's even more frightening is that this is Chu Lian's voice.

Because the sound is from the bug.

The rustling sound remained the same, and Chu Lian's voice was getting closer and closer. He seemed to be in front of the bug, and greeted them with a smile, "I'm Chu Lian."

"You should know my name."

"I am back."

"I'm sorry for disappearing for so long. I know you must have a lot of questions in your heart, right? Kid Aino. Aqi said that you are wild and unruly like your name. There must be a lot of troubles. Let me ask you a lot. Take care of you."

"I saw you at the funeral home that day. I regret that I couldn't talk to you. Maybe you will be interested in listening to me tell you about Lu Yeyuan, although the scenery in that place is as monotonous as ever."

"Looking forward to seeing you next time."

"Oh, by the way, if you really want to know the truth so much, you can check Shen Yanzhi's bank account, and you may get unexpected gains. By the way, I will give you a piece of advice: practice running more, so that you can escape more easily."

Immediately afterwards there was the sound of a gust of wind and rain, as if a window had been slapped open, and the lamp and stove fell back and forth.After the noise passed, everything returned to silence, and there was no sound for a long time.

Aino repeatedly fast-forwards and replays, confirming that there is no more Chu Lian's voice coming from inside, and then he stops.

Chu Lian's return is undoubtedly an announcement, no one knows where he is, but he seems to be everywhere.Even Xing Zhou couldn't imagine that when he thought Chu Lian's news was a cover and was busy saving Xiangye, Chu Lian would actually appear in the unfinished building and leave such a passage.

What about him now, is he still in Jiangzhou?

"Cassia." Xing Zhou put on the headset again, ordered to go down and conduct a thorough investigation.

That night, neither Xing Zhou nor Aino could fall asleep.

Aino had that feeling of being spied on again, not because someone was actually watching him from the dark, but psychologically.He seemed to have fallen asleep in a daze, and when he saw the sunshine the next day, it seemed worse than not sleeping.

The aroma of breakfast relieved Aino's tense nerves. He walked into the living room and saw Xing Zhou was frying poached eggs in a pan on the stove.

After the snail girl incident last night, Aino accepts this scene well, even if Xing Zhou suddenly stands up and draws his gun to fight, he can still be calm.

"Have you found anything?" he asked.

"Two days before your parents' accident, someone transferred 50 yuan to your father's card, but no one has used it yet." Xing Zhou put the fried poached egg in a bowl and handed it over.

The elf was still chattering in the headset: "It's not enough to just eat poached eggs for breakfast. Aino is still growing, so he needs to drink milk. Do you know how to drink milk? Ton ton, drink milk..."

Aino couldn't hear it, so he held the bowl and thought.

His father is just an ordinary office worker, who will give him 50?Still at that juncture.Generally speaking, if you receive a huge amount of money suddenly, there is a high probability that some transaction has occurred.

Aino: "Who forwarded it to him?"

Xing Zhou glanced at him, but didn't answer immediately, and said after two seconds: "The people in Luye died in the matter of Chu Lian."

Lu Ye's people gave money to Shen Yanzhi, it's hard not to have some bad associations.

But if you have too many debts, you don't worry, if you have too many lice, you don't feel itchy. Xiangye is no longer the same as yesterday. He ate the poached egg in two or three bites, put down the bowl and chopsticks, and said, "I'm going to the funeral parlor."

Chu Lian had appeared there before, no matter if there was anything left, Aino had to go and see again.

After eight o'clock in the morning, the city funeral home.

Aino asked the staff about the situation on April 4. Although two months had passed, they still had a little impression of Aino.Firstly, Aino is very good looking; secondly, there is only one child in the family to send the old man to be cremated, such a situation is rare.

"When you say that, I do recall that there was indeed a man standing in the corridor for a while, quite a gentleman, wearing glasses, like a university professor, but I don't remember when he left. "

Aino didn't ask what was the name, so he stood where Chu Lian was that day.Looking out from here, you can see the big tree in the yard, and there is a small shop there, and Xing Zhou is standing in front of the small shop.

Xing Zhou bought a bottle of milk and handed it to Aino.

Aino was fucking confused.

Forget it.

"Seeing is not necessarily believing. Receiving 50 yuan doesn't mean anything, at least the 50 yuan is still fine. Chu Lian killed the person at the criminal arrest department, so it can't be concluded that he is a traitor. If he kills the person What about the traitor?" Aino asked.

"But he absconded." Xing Zhou said.

"So we have to find him and confront him face to face." Aino held the milk jug tightly.Judging from the eavesdropping content heard last night, Chu Lian will definitely appear again, but before that, it is the best policy to take the initiative to find him.

But the vast sea of ​​people, where to find it?