can't go wild

Chen Junyang asked Xiangye for the second time: "Go back?"

Aino asked, "What did you notice?"

Chen Junyang put away his phone, "The smell of blood."

He rushed out of the courtyard gate at a stride. At this time, the evening wind was bleak and there were no people in the village, but there was a little light in the forest in the distance.If you look carefully, the light is nothing but the light from the temple on the pool, faintly passing through the gaps in the woods.

"Follow me." Chen Junyang turned his head.

Aino followed.He failed the 500-meter test, not because he couldn't run fast enough, but because he didn't have enough endurance.The two walked quickly along the path in the village to the direction of Tanshui, and within a few steps, they ran into an old man head-on.

This was the first living person they met in the village.

The two looked at each other and stopped quickly.The old man walked quickly, the sky was dark immediately, and he was wearing a big pu hat, so he didn't notice them for a while, until Aino opened his mouth suddenly, he was suddenly startled.

The brim of the hat was lifted up, revealing a face as old as withered tree bark, but the shock in those cloudy eyes was too strong, "Oh, where did this young man come from, people scare people to death!"

So Aino brought out that set of fooling rhetoric again.

After all, the old man has lived most of his life, and Aino is not a full-time liar, so it is difficult to ask him to smile with him, it is so easy to fool people.But he didn't seem to want to talk to Aino, and said: "Whoever is a writer or not, let's go, someone died in the front, and everyone in the village went to help with the funeral. You can't find anyone right now. Our official There is nothing to write about in the water pool, you didn't see that there are no young people here, the young people are all out, you should go too."

After finishing speaking, the old man walked around the two of them.

Chen Junyang stared at his back.

Aino instantly understood what he meant, "The smell of blood is on him?"

Chen Junyang nodded, but Xiangye felt that the old man was just an ordinary old man, not to mention that he also revealed a very important information, there was a funeral ahead, so he asked, "Can you smell other bloody smells?"

Chen Junyang wrinkled his nose and shook his head.

If you can't smell it, it may also be a matter of distance.

Aino said: "Go ahead and have a look first."

The village is built along the water and surrounds the east side of Guanshuitan in a crescent shape.The Shen family's old house is at this end of the crescent, and the funeral is at the other end of the crescent. They are far apart, so it's no wonder that they couldn't see anyone just now.

The closer the distance, the louder the human voice, and Chen Junyang's dog nose finally responded, "Fresh blood, just died not long ago."

He was still a little awkward when speaking in front of Aino, and his voice was unnatural.But he had to speak again, so his ears turned red, much like the "shyness" that Cassia Ming said.

At this time, the sun had completely disappeared, and the people who held funerals lit up their lights.Because most of the villagers gather here, only this part of the village is bright, and the rest of the village is dark.

Aino and Chen Junyang hid in the dark, vaguely hearing the word "water ghost".

Hearing the word "ghost", Chen Junyang's expression changed.He is from the murder arrest department, and the people in the murder arrest department know best that there are no ghosts in this world, and there are also "evil ghosts" from Luye.

"I'll wait for you here, you go quietly." Aino resolutely gave up the columnist trick and decided to lurk.However, Chen Junyang was a little hesitant, the boss had told him not to leave Aino for half a step, but he seemed to be bewitched by Aino's light-colored pupils, and he nodded in agreement with Aino playing Holmes in his mind.

Chen Junyang went quietly and came back quietly. It took only 10 minutes before and after, "Someone fell into the pool and drowned, and the villagers said that it was caused by the water ghost. Now the body is put in the coffin, and the funeral will be held tomorrow."

Aino: "No, where does the drowning ghost get its blood from?"

Chen Junyang also felt strange, the closer he was to the place where the coffin was parked, the more bloody smell he could smell.The smell may not be obvious to ordinary people, but Chen Junyang is the most sensitive to the smell of blood, he can smell it, such a strong smell must have caused a lot of blood.

Even if the person in the coffin died, he must have suffered serious trauma or vomited a lot of blood.

Aino asked: "Is Xing Zhou coming soon?"

Chen Junyang pressed the headset, "Qingshui City has discovered the whereabouts of Lu Ye and his group, and is tracking them."

Shimizu City?Why did Xing Zhou go back to Qingshui City again?

Aino felt a little strange, but couldn't grasp anything, so he just focused on what was in front of him.The most sensible thing to do now is to pretend that you don't know anything, and stay out of your own business.But since Chu Lian was suspected to have appeared here before, and the incident happened so coincidentally, why did Xiangye catch up with him as soon as he arrived?

He quickly made a decision: "Go and throw a few stones into the water, the bigger the movement, the better."

Chen Junyang looked sideways, wondering what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd.But Aino didn't have time to explain, so he took out his mobile phone to search for the audio. Chen Junyang looked at the word "ghost cry" he typed in the input box, and looked at his calm, fair face, feeling inexplicably creepy.

The two acted separately.

Aino bypassed the funeral home and arrived at the back of the house.He looked left and right to see if there was no one there, took a deep breath, climbed up the courtyard wall in three steps at a time, turned over hard, and looked at his hands—the skin was broken.

Why so delicate?

Because he may have been the princess and the pea in his previous life.

Ah.

It wasn't the first day that Aino complained about his physique, the cat waist was close to the window, and the room where the coffin was placed was inside.He calmed down his breathing, and soon, the sound of falling into the water came one after another in the distance, "plop, plop", which was especially loud in the silent night.

There were rumors of water ghosts, and people in this family died of drowning again. The scalps of the villagers were all numb, and suddenly someone shouted, "The water ghost has appeared again."All of a sudden, people were panicked. Some of the brave ones went to investigate the situation with their flashlights, while those who were too timid to go ran outside. Even if they didn't dare to go to the edge of the pool, it would be embarrassing for everyone to stay together.

Suddenly there was only one family left beside the coffin, a woman in her 60s and [-]s, clutching paper money anxiously, chanting words, as if she was chanting scriptures.

The movement by the pool was still coming, and Aino was sure that Chen Junyang had temporarily attracted everyone, so he moved his phone to the window, turned on the audio and started playing.

The gloomy ghostly cry appeared without warning, like a drop of ice water suddenly dripping on the back of the neck, which made the woman beside the coffin startled and tore the paper money into pieces.

She looked at the coffin in horror, "Yes, yes—"

The voice was stuck in his throat, but the ghost cries continued intermittently, becoming more and more frightening.

"There's a ghost!" The woman finally lost her composure and hurriedly stood up and ran outside.

Aino took the opportunity to climb through the window and go in. Fortunately, the window was open, otherwise he would have to smash the window.This was climbing over the wall and climbing the window. Aino's physical strength was already weak, but he had no time to stop and rest, so he gritted his teeth and pushed the coffin lid away.

The face of the dead came into view, the widened eyes seemed to fall out of the eye sockets, the hair was messy, the back of the head was stained with blood, and the death could not rest in peace.More importantly, this person knew Aino.

This is the old lady who drove to Qingshui City with him that night!

The grandma of the little girl with the braids!

But they didn't go to Qingshui City, how could they die here? !

Aino got goosebumps, and he no longer had the strength to push the coffin.But at this time the coffin had been opened, and he boldly pushed the old lady's head away, and saw another corpse under it.

This is the real owner of the coffin, a drowned man with a pale face.

At this time footsteps approached, it was a woman shouting that a ghost had brought people in, Aino immediately returned the same way, but the coffin was left open.

The visitor rushed to the side of the coffin and saw the pile of corpses inside, and was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

"Tang, the old lady of the Tang family, why is she here?!"

"God—"

"Come on, someone died in the coffin!"

"..."

People turn their backs.

Aino kept going back outside, but the movement inside did not stop.When he heard the word "Tang", he felt that something was wrong, he stopped in his footsteps, and suddenly turned his head.

The watchmaker, also surnamed Tang.

The old lady is dead, what about her little granddaughter?

"Damn it." Aino couldn't help cursing secretly, and immediately took out his mobile phone to call Xing Zhou, but he couldn't get through.He hurriedly ran to the edge of the pool, met Chen Junyang halfway, and hurriedly asked, "Can you get Xing Zhou?"

Chen Junyang wondered why it was suddenly a topic again, but Xiangye asked hurriedly, urging him to call into the headset too.Fortunately, Xing Zhou didn't have time to answer the phone, the headset was turned on, and there was an answer soon.

"Give it to me." Aino stretched out his hand directly.

Chen Junyang tried not to speak as much as he could, and simply took off the headset and handed it to Aino.Aino put it on and explained the situation as quickly as possible.The voice was urgent, sudden, and cold, and the person on the call was still Xing Zhou, as if pulling him back to the public toilet at the long-distance bus station in Nanshan District, Jiangzhou City.

It's just different from last time, Xing Zhou had a clear response: "Got it."

Aino: "What are you looking for?"

Xing Zhou: "I thought it was Brother Pei and his group who were still in Qingshui City, but now it seems that it is another wave. They have different goals and work independently, but they may reach the same goal by different routes. It should not be accidental that the grandparents and grandchildren appeared on the long-distance bus , I immediately went to investigate their whereabouts after they arrived in Qingshui City. From now on, you take the headset, and Chen Junyang is at your disposal, but you can't act impulsively."

But what is the standard of impulsiveness?

If a couple is in dispute, a slap is considered impulsive; on the line of life and death, killing someone by mistake is also called impulsive.

Aino took a deep breath to calm himself down first.It is now known that the old lady of the Tang family went to Qingshui City with her granddaughter, and now she suddenly appeared in Guanshuitan. The cause of death was probably a blunt trauma to the back of the head, obviously.

Either she sent her granddaughter out and came back by herself; or she brought her granddaughter back together.

Who is the murderer?

Judging from the reactions of those people just now, they obviously didn't know that there was another corpse in the coffin.So it was the murderer who killed someone and had no time to throw the body away, so he hid the body in the coffin nearby in desperation.But people were coming and going in that house just now, and it was too difficult to kill people and hide corpses there.

"I want to know where the coffin has been parked." Aino said.The scene of the crime must be one of these places.

"Temple." Chen Junyang answered him unexpectedly.

Aino subconsciously glanced at the lit temple in the pool. Chen Junyang knew that he couldn't explain a word, so he held back his breath and said: "The person by the pool just said that the corpse was picked up near the island. So stop in the temple, and pass through by the way."

"Let's go." Aino hurried to the water pool immediately.

At this time, everyone gathered around the coffin, exclaiming to call the police, but the pool was empty instead.Chen Junyang quickly found a small boat, and the two quietly went to the island without anyone noticing.

The island is small, but it can accommodate a small temple.The temple doesn't even have a wall, and the incense burner is placed in the open space in front of the temple, with smoke curling up from it.

Where the boat docked, a palm-sized field was reclaimed to grow seasonal vegetables.

Is there anyone living on the island?Is it the guardian of the temple?

"Is anyone there?" Aino asked, but his footsteps didn't stop, looking from room to room, there was no one there.But in a small room on the far side, he found traces of human habitation.

Picking up the photo on the table, it was the old lady of the Tang family and her little granddaughter.Looking around, there are obviously some things belonging to the little girl in the house, and there is even a certificate from the kindergarten posted.

Chen Junyang knocked on the door frame, and he found blood.

Aino put down the photo and followed him to look at it, and sure enough, he saw blood stains in the corner of the incense table on schedule.The bloodstains had been wiped carelessly, and the incense table was vermilion, so at first glance it seemed nothing.But Chen Junyang has a dog's nose, he can smell it just by smelling it.

Aino raised his head and looked at the ancestor of the Shen family enshrined. It was the face of an official who was not angry and majestic. He wondered if he could be regarded as a half-earth god after being incensed for so many years.But if he is really effective, Aino should be able to live a smooth life without illness and disaster at this moment, and he will not appear here again.

Closing his eyes, Aino began to reorganize the context of the incident.

The drowned person was salvaged, and the body was parked in the temple, where he was rescued.His family found a coffin for him, so he was put in the coffin, but soon, the old lady of the Tang family returned suddenly. She may have had a dispute with someone, and she died unexpectedly by smoking the back of her head on the incense table.

There are a lot of things to do after a person dies, and there are a lot of things to do. When the murder happened, there should be no one near the coffin.The murderer could have thrown the corpse into the pool, but at this moment someone came, and the murderer hid the corpse in the coffin in desperation.

The only question now is - when the family carried the coffin back, didn't they find that the weight was wrong?

"Water ghost." Aino said in a deep voice.

Chen Junyang cast a puzzled look, and Xiangye uttered two more words: "Carry the coffin."

Chen Junyang: "???"

Aino: "That person might really have been killed by a water ghost."

It's just a ghost from Luye.

At this time, Xing Zhou's voice came again from the headset: "Shen Ningxiang took her granddaughter back from Qingshui City early this morning, and her daughter is gone now."

Shen Ningxiang is the old lady of the Tang family. Her husband's surname is Tang, and her surname is Shen.

It was followed by Jue Ming's voice, "I'm very sorry to interrupt a piece of bad news. I found out about Chen Ningxiang's son-in-law. He passed away unexpectedly three years ago, and I followed the clues to look up his details—"

Xing Zhou: "Tell me the key points."

Jue Ming: "The detailed information is just that there is no information. Like Song Ling, his origin is unknown, so it is very likely that he is from Luye. He did not take the house, but came out of the door directly. The little girl is his and Tang Wan's child. , she is the key!"

Xiangye's face changed suddenly, and at this moment, Chen Junyang suddenly drew his sword and rushed out.He followed up immediately, and saw that the small boat they rowed over had drifted to the center of the pool at some point, and the small island under his feet had become a veritable isolated island.

The boat is tethered, and it is impossible to drift so far for no reason, so there must be something weird in the water, that is to say-the water ghost is still there.