Nocturnal

When Qin Mochi went out, he made up his mind to spend the whole day outside, and he had to wait until the old man was about to rest before going back.But he didn't expect that on this day Li Yedu would take him up the mountain to pray for the Tai Sui, and then go to a nearby academy to see the painting exhibition. It was almost dinner time when he went down the mountain.The two ate vegetarian food at noon, and wandered around the mountain for a long time. They felt hungry when they went down the mountain. As soon as they entered the city, Qin Mochi directed Li Yedu to drive directly to the hot pot restaurant he frequented.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, there were a lot of guests, and the two of them waited in line for a while before getting a vacant seat.At the next table are a few young people who are discussing the religious affairs of Faguang Temple.Qin Mochi listened for a while, and felt very curious. He hadn't noticed these things before, and he didn't expect the temples and Taoist temples near Linhai City to be so prosperous.

Li Yedu guessed what he was thinking, and asked casually, "Don't your family believe it?"

"My grandfather would read books like Tao Te Ching." Qin Mochi thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "He likes traditional cultural things very much, but to him, these are just things for self-cultivation."

Li Yedu pointed to the Buddhist beads on his wrist.

For some reason, Qin Mochi suddenly became nervous, "This...well, fate. I happened to meet Master Faming."

Li Yedu raised his eyebrows slightly, "Fa Ming?"

"You know him too?" Qin Mochi was a little surprised. He had heard Li Yedu say that he was a Taoist disciple.

"I've heard of it," Li Yedu said, "he is very famous, and people outside say that he is an eminent monk with great powers."

Qin Mochi thought of the thin white light attached to the Buddhist beads Fa Ming gave him, and secretly agreed with this.

After eating, the two walked towards the parking lot, and heard a dog barking in the distance, followed by laughter.Li Yedu's expression changed, he put his finger between his lips, and gave a long whistle.

Qin Mochi also became nervous when he made trouble, "What's wrong?"

Li Yedu didn't make a sound, just silently staring in the direction of the sound.After a while, Qin Mochi saw something running towards him indistinctly.A dark mass, four legs, two small bulb-like eyes...

"Is it... a walnut?!" Qin Mochi asked Li Yedu uncertainly.

Before Li Yedu could answer, he saw the black dog running around them twice, howled a few times, then turned around and ran away again.Li Yedu hurriedly followed, and Qin Mochi didn't know why, so he chased after him in a daze.After bypassing the green belt in front of the hotel, Qin Mochi suddenly realized, "Hey, Li Yedu, wait for me to pick up the car, how long are you going to chase with two legs?"

Li Yedu looked at the walnut running wild in front of him, and nodded helplessly, "Okay."

The two got into the car and chased in the direction Walnut ran away.Unknowingly, there was a tacit understanding between the two of them. Qin Mochi sat in the passenger seat spontaneously, and Li Yedu drove the car, as if no matter where this person took him, it was a thing for him. Nothing to worry about.

The cry of walnut came from the front suddenly, and in the night, there was an illusion as if it was howling a wild beast.Qin Mochi didn't know if Li Yedu could hear what Walnut was saying, but the cry sounded very urgent, and there was a faint sense of sadness in it, which made Qin Mochi couldn't help wondering if something bad had happened. .

The car crossed the commercial street in the southern district and headed straight for Binhai Road.

Linhai City is close to the sea, and the booming tourism industry has driven the development of the Binhai Road business district, especially the beach and nearby scenic spots have been developed one after another in the past few years, and the supporting facilities in all aspects are also in place, which is second to none in Linhai City mature attractions.But now it is winter, and it is late at night, basically no tourists will come to enjoy the scenery.As soon as their car turned onto Binhai Road, Qin Mochi saw a small black figure running wildly forward on the empty road from a distance without looking back.

"What exactly is it trying to do?" Qin Mochi was curious all the way, and now seeing that Walnut was still in a hurry to put out the fire, he couldn't help asking: "Can you understand it... woof woof?"

The car was driving too fast, and the light and shadow of the street lamp outside the window quickly passed over his face, blurring Qin Mochi's vision, but he felt that Li Yedu smiled.

"Walnut is very smart," Li Yedu said with a little anxiety in his voice, "it's nothing like this."

As they got closer, Qin Mochi also saw that Walnut probably couldn't run anymore, and his speed slowed down significantly, his tongue stretched out long, and the foam flew straight from his mouth.

Li Yedu stopped the car and wanted to greet Walnut to get on the car.Unexpectedly, Walnut stood on the sidewalk and yelled at them twice, and slipped under the railing. Behind the railing was the wooden plank road by the sea. Walnut ran two steps, and flew down the steps on the other side.

Li Yedu parked the car, jumped out of the car and chased after him.Qin Mochi stood by the car for a while, a little helpless, and followed.

Coming down from the steps is the sandy land by the sea. It is a bit far from the road, the lights are dim, and there are no stars and moons. It took Qin Mochi a while to see Li Yedu's figure appearing beside the reef not far away.Qin Mochi chased after two steps, then stopped suddenly.He smelled a strange smell mixed in the sea breeze.It has a very light taste, but it has a weird fishy smell that makes people feel stuffy in the chest.

An inexplicable chill rushed up the cerebral cortex along the tailbone, and the hairs on Qin Mochi's body stood on end at this moment.He stood stiffly on the beach where the night wind was howling, looking at the figure slowly walking not far away, and swallowed in fear.He saw Li Yedu on the phone with his head down, his voice was very low, intermittently drifting into his ears with the night wind, "...injury...the people of the Sima family...the exorcism talisman..."

Qin Mochi thought blankly, what are these things?

Li Yedu hung up the phone and walked towards him with his head down.With sharp eyes, Qin Mochi saw a black mass moving around his feet, and when he got closer, he saw a tail wagging back and forth.

"...Walnut?" Qin Mochi originally wanted to talk to Li Yedu, but he didn't expect to call out the dog's name first.

Walnut ran over shaking his head, Qin Mochi patted its head, not knowing what to ask.

Li Yedu stopped in front of him, with a tired voice, "I'm afraid I can't send you back, something happened here, you'd better..."

Qin Mochi heard that he meant to let himself go first, and felt a little uneasy, "I'll drive back, what about you?"

"I'll think of a way," Li Yedu paused for a moment, then thought of something else, and sighed slightly, "Don't be afraid."

Qin Mochi suddenly felt dumbfounded.Well, he was indeed a little nervous just now, although he didn't see anything.But Li Yedu's clumsy words of comfort were very effective in dispelling his panic, "What happened?"

Li Yedu was not sure whether to tell him.

Qin Mochi changed the question, "Is it related to you? Why did Walnut find you?"

"It doesn't really matter much," Li Yedu explained carefully, "Walnut came to me because it was there when I met this person last time. As for how it came here... I can't say no." good."

Qin Mochi shuddered, and the familiar feeling from before crept into his heart again.He said "this person", and it was a person who had the accident. Thinking of the strange smell he smelled... Qin Mochi suddenly felt nauseous.

"...Murder case?!"

Li Yedu grabbed his shoulder and patted him, "Why don't you go back first?"

Qin Mochi really didn't want to appear cowardly in front of Li Yedu, who was also a man, but he really didn't want to stay in this place.Growing up, he has never even played a game of fighting on the Internet, let alone seeing blood.Qin Mochi struggled for a few seconds, and honestly confessed, "I think if I just go back like this, even if I don't see anything, I'll still get more and more scared the more I think about it."

Li Yedu's hand on his shoulder tightened, as if he wanted to comfort him, but he didn't know what to say.

"It's okay." Qin Mochi found a step for himself, "I'll be fine by myself."

Li Yedu looked at him hesitantly, "Wait until someone from the police comes to deal with it, if you're here..."

"It's okay." Qin Mochi really felt that it was okay, but he felt safer because he heard that the police were coming.In this dark night, the dark clouds are low above the head, and the sea water in the distance seems to melt into the dark sky, only the winding waves wash the winter beach tirelessly.As far as the eye can see, every frame of the picture makes people palpitate.And the vague smell of blood in the sea breeze was more like a sinister and malicious reminder to him, reminding him of the terrible danger hidden in the environment he was in.

Li Yedu probably also felt Qin Mochi's uneasiness. He lit a cigarette and took a puff, then squeezed the cigarette holder and stuffed it into Qin Mochi's mouth.Qin Mochi didn't care too much about it, so he took a deep breath with his hand.The dry breath of tobacco permeated his mouth, comforted by the familiar smell, and the fear in Qin Mochi's heart gradually calmed down.

Qin Mochi let out a sigh of relief, "Who is it? Do you want to call an ambulance first?"

Li Yedu shook his head with a solemn expression, "The soul is gone, what's the use of calling an ambulance?"

"Soul?!" Qin Mochi was startled again, wondering if he had heard something wrong, something like a soul...how did he see it?

Li Yedu patted him on the shoulder, motioning him to look at the road in the distance.A black commercial vehicle drove over like lightning, and before it stopped, several people in black uniforms jumped out, hurried across the plank road, and ran towards them.Qin Mochi rubbed his eyes, and once again suspected that there was something wrong with his five senses: He actually saw Xia Zhifei in it? !

Xia Zhifei was also taken aback, "Mochi?! Why are you here?"

"No disaster." Qin Mochi spread his hands, "I just went out to have dinner with my friends..." He looked at Xia Zhifei's meticulous uniform, and it was hard to imagine that a person who was always fooling around was actually engaged in... a criminal?

Xia Zhifei pointed to the tall and straight young man beside him, and said to Qin Mochi, "Our captain is Qu Zhi. Brother Qu, this is my younger brother, Qin Mochi. I told you about his situation a few days ago."

The young captain with sharp eyes glanced at Qin Mochi quickly, nodded slightly, and then said to Xia Zhifei, "Leave it to Yu Qing."

Xia Zhifei knew what he meant to say that Qin Mochi's statement would be made by Yu Qing, so he hurriedly said to Qin Mochi, "Wait a while, my colleague will take the transcript for you."

Qin Mochi nodded, thinking that this was probably the meaning of relatives avoiding suspicion.

Xia Zhifei beckoned a young girl over, gave a brief introduction to the two of them, and told Yu Qing, "This is my brother, he doesn't know much..."

Yu Qing made a gesture, signaling him to get out of here, and turned to wave to Qin Mochi, "Hey, handsome guy, let me introduce myself. Have you brought your residence permit?"

"..." Qin Mochi didn't understand what she said, but he knew that she was asking for a certificate, so he took out the ID card from his wallet and handed it to her with the light of the phone screen.The policewoman seemed to be taken aback when she took the ID card, "ID card?"

Qin Mochi was also a little confused by her reaction, "The driver's license is in the car... Do you want to check it?"

The flashlight in Yu Qing's hand lifted up and landed on Qin Mochi's shoulder. She took advantage of this brightness to look at Qin Mochi very carefully, and asked again, "Where's the residence permit?"

"Luo... what?" Qin Mochi had never heard of such a thing.

"You just entered the city?" Yu Qing's tone became a little harsher, "Who recommended it?"

Qin Mochi was a little dazed. He looked at the reef not far away. A group of people surrounded the reef. The intertwined light of the flashlight and the emergency light illuminated the place very brightly, which was also mixed with the light of the flashlight.He saw Xia Zhifei checking something with white gloves on, and the young captain standing beside him.Li Yedu was standing on the periphery of the crowd, with a cigarette dangling from his mouth, his upper body was hidden in the shadows, and his head was drooping slightly gloomy.

Yu Qing asked next to him, "Where is your origin?"

Qin Mochi sighed. He thought it was probably because he had always been a good citizen and had never dealt with the police, so he could not understand their work process at all.As far as the current situation is concerned, in his opinion, he is nothing more than an eyewitness. Is it necessary to trace his origin?If you want to ask, you should first ask him what he saw at the scene, right?

"Officer," Qin Mochi shook his phone helplessly at her, "Can I call my lawyer?"

Yu Qing was stunned for a moment.Qin Mochi felt more and more helpless. Isn't it normal to find a lawyer when dealing with the police?Why did he feel that the policewoman's eyes seemed to say: Do you still know lawyers? !

Qin Mochi murmured in his heart, are these people really policemen?

Yu Qing coughed twice, with a slightly uncomfortable expression, "Then what... I may have made a mistake. Can Mr. Qin briefly introduce himself?"

"Qin Mochi, male, 25 years old, jewelry designer." Qin Mochi looked at her, "Don't you ask me what I saw at the scene?"

Yu Qing looked puzzled, subconsciously followed his words and asked, "What did you see?"

Qin Mochi said honestly, "I didn't see anything."

Yu Qing, "..."

"I really didn't see anything," Qin Mochi pointed to Li Yedu in the distance, "My friend didn't let me go there."

Yu Qing asked again, "How did you get here?"

Qin Mochi didn't know if the police could believe the truth, but for a while he didn't know what kind of nonsense to make up to pass the test, so he hesitated for a while before saying: "When we came out of the restaurant after dinner, we saw our friend's dog barking all the time. followed out."

Yu Qing glanced at Walnut wandering around behind the crowd, and hummed.

Qin Mochi felt that this was all there was to ask, and he didn't know anything else, so he glanced at the female police officer with a strange expression, and asked tentatively, "Is there anything else I want to ask?"

I don't see anything. What else is there to ask?Yu Qing secretly rolled her eyes, stretched out her hand to stop him, "Hey, wait a minute. Is the ID card really your own?"

"Of course." Qin Mochi was taken aback by her question, "I have never done anything illegal, and I have no record of traffic violations. I get full marks every year. If you don't believe me, go check it out."

He said this a little loudly, and it happened that the group of people on the other side of the reef were silent, so several heads turned towards them together.As soon as Li Yedu took a step, Xia Zhifei pulled away another colleague standing in front of him, and waved at Yu Qing from a distance, "Sister Yu, he is really my younger brother, he grew up with me! Darling!"

Yu Qing let out an "ah", showing a horrified expression, "Impossible..."

Qin Mochi folded his arms and sneered, why did he think these policemen were so unreliable?Or he should call the lawyer first...

"It's absolutely true!" Xia Zhifei emphasized, "His father and I are brothers!"

Yu Qing retorted, "Even if what you said is true, you have to feel it for yourself... the beads will definitely have an effect, but at such a short distance, this is what we do... My detector is still flashing around Where is the red light?"

Xia Zhifei stopped her, "He doesn't know anything."

Yu Qing was surprised, "How is it possible?"

Xia Zhifei showed a headache expression, "It's true...these are all recent changes. I told the captain a few days ago that I wanted him to show me what's going on."

Yu Qing looked at Qin Mochi with weird eyes, Qin Mochi was puzzled, and felt a subtle discomfort in her heart, feeling that the female policeman looked at people like looking at some animal exhibited in a zoo through a cage.