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How many people will die in a city in one day?

Shentucheng did not expect that the funeral parlor would also be besieged.It is not an exaggeration to describe the crowds of people coming and going as a crowd of people.

Lian Qiao was speechless: "So many people die every day in City Z!"

"So, death is not a big deal." Liu Xia said lightly.

People who have never been to a funeral home will not know that the halls of the funeral home are divided into categories and varied.According to the area, the hall of Mingshan Funeral Home is divided into small hall, middle hall and hall.The small one can only accommodate about 30 people, while the large one can accommodate more than [-] people.According to the different facilities, the auditorium is divided into Chinese style and Western style.Among them, the Chinese-style ceremony hall is divided into Yongle Hall and Anle Hall according to the cause of death of the deceased.

Bai Lu's funeral was held in the "Yong'an Hall" on the second floor of Building No. [-]. When the three of Shen Tucheng arrived, the ceremony was already halfway through.Liu Xia saw Gao Cong at the entrance of the auditorium. Gao Cong was leaning against the glass door with an indifferent expression.Liu Xia touched his shoulder: "Captain, what's going on?"

Gao Cong glanced at Liu Xia: "I don't know."

"The police sent it back?" Liu Xia looked disbelieving—the matter has not been investigated clearly, how could the police station send Bai Lu's body back so easily.

"Xiaolu informed me that the Bai family is holding a funeral." Xiaolu is the person sent by the police station to follow the Bai family.Bai Lu's body disappeared, and there were only two places where she could go, one was her school and the other was her home.Liu Xia was in charge of the school, and he chose to confess to Lian Qiaoye and others.As for Bai Lu's family, Xiaolu is in charge. The daughter's misfortune has already made the Bai couple heartbroken. If they are told at this time that the police lost Bai Lu's body, the consequences will be disastrous.Therefore, Xiaolu chose the method of surveillance.And under such day and night surveillance, Xiao Lu didn't know when and how Bai Lu's body returned to the Bai family.Panicked, he notified Gao Cong immediately.

In fact, Gao Cong came only ten minutes earlier than Liu Xia and the others. Bai Lu's body was lying quietly in the center of the auditorium, and Gao Cong walked around her without gaining anything.

After briefly explaining the situation, Gao Cong motioned Liu Xia to go to the Bai family to find out more about the situation.Shen Tucheng and Lian Qiao also looked at each other and walked into the auditorium.

The social circle of Bai Lu's parents is very simple, most of the people standing in the hall are Bai Lu's former friends, and most of them are boys.Therefore, Zhou Ying and Lin Bingbing were particularly conspicuous in the crowd.Zhou Ying looked like she had just cried, her eyes were red and her face was haggard.Compared with her, Lin Bingbing seemed much colder.They stood in an inconspicuous corner, Lin Bingbing looked at Bai Lu from afar, with no sadness or regret on his face.She just stood so far away, as if she was just here to fulfill a responsibility.

Shen Tucheng asked Lian Qiaoye in a low voice: "Is the relationship between the people in your dormitory very bad?"

Lian Qiao also shrugged, after all, she has been in 308 for less than a week.However, even if you don't observe, you can see the dark waves among the girls, she thought.

"Go and have a look." Shen Tucheng said.

For the arrival of the two, Zhou Ying seemed very wary.

Shen Tucheng smiled: "Don't worry, Deputy Team Liu is not here." He pointed to Liu Xia who was talking with the Bai family in the distance.

"What are you doing here?" Zhou Ying didn't completely let go of her guard. In her understanding, neither Shen Tucheng nor Lian Qiaoye should have any friendship with Bai Lu.

"We're all classmates, so we should come and see." Lian Qiao didn't show any weakness, "Besides, she and I almost became roommates."

Zhou Ying was about to push back when she caught a glimpse of Shentucheng's profile, snorted, and finally stopped talking.Shen Tucheng tilted his head slightly, and fixed his eyes on a man who was about to leave.The man was very thin, and even though he was wrapped in a thick cotton coat, his thin body still felt like it was crumbling in the cold wind.

"Shiwei!" Shen Tucheng called to stop the man, and walked towards him quickly, "Why are you here?"

Wang Shiwei, a third-year student in the Department of Archeology at Z University, was the one who was grabbed by Die Xian's ankle that day.On the second day after they encountered Die Xian, Wang Shiwei packed his luggage and went home.Afterwards, Shentucheng and others tried their best to contact him, but Wang Shiwei's home is in W City, which is far away from Z City. When he cut off contact with his classmates, how did he get in touch with him? Did you know the news of Bai Lu's death?

Wang Shiwei turned his back to the glass coffin in the center of the auditorium, with a bitter expression on his face: "I'll come and see her, you know, I used to be so..."

Shen Tucheng patted the other party's shoulder comfortingly, although he was puzzled by Wang Shiwei's unreasonable obsession with Bai Lu, he never said anything.

"You...how are you doing recently?" Shentucheng asked Wang Shiwei's pale face like a ghost.

"As you can see, people are not like people, and ghosts are not like ghosts." Wang Shiwei smiled wryly, "I think it is after me."

"Shiwei," Shentucheng couldn't help consoling when he saw his old friend become like this, "some dungeons are often drawn by people themselves, you...don't go all the way to the end."

"How to go back?!" Wang Shiwei jumped up hysterically, "It haunts me every day, and it follows me all the time. As long as I turn around, I can see it... Tell me, tell me, this dead end, I can't see it. How to go back?!"

Shen Tucheng was startled: "Shiwei?" In less than two months, what happened to Wang Shiwei that forced him to be like this?He stretched out his hand to hold Wang Shiwei who was almost jumping violently, "Calm down!"

Wang Shiwei stopped moving for a moment. He looked around nervously, raised his index finger at Shentucheng, and said softly, "Shh...keep down...it will hear..." Then he squatted on the ground. On the ground, he buried his head in his knees and muttered to himself.

Shentucheng squatted down, trying to keep his voice down so as not to scare the other party: "Shiwei, tell me, what happened?"

Wang Shiwei looked up at Shentucheng, then lowered his head again.

"Shiwei..." Shen Tucheng lightly touched Wang Shiwei's shoulder.

Suddenly, Wang Shiwei howled and rushed over, held Shentucheng down, opened his mouth and bit Shentucheng's neck.Shen Tucheng was startled, something flashed in his mind, he seemed to see a ferocious beast rushing towards him.Without the slightest hesitation, Shen Tucheng bent his knees and kicked vigorously. Seeing Wang Shiwei covering his stomach in pain, he stretched his palms and grabbed the other's thin neck.The palms tightened more and more, Shentucheng's face was expressionless, and there was pain in his neck. He squinted his eyes and looked at the person in his hand who dared to bite him. There was only one thought in his mind - kill him!

There was a lot of commotion here, which alarmed the people in the auditorium. Liu Xia ran over and separated the two of them with one hand.Wang Shiwei lost his mind, Liu Xia turned to Shentu City and asked, "What's going on?"

Shentucheng opened his mouth and was about to answer when Wang Shiwei suddenly screamed.

"Go away! Go away! Don't pester Shentu!" Wang Shiwei yelled at Shentu City. While shouting, he wanted to pounce on Shentu City.

Liu Xia hurriedly held down Wang Shiwei, and cast a questioning look at Shen Tucheng.

Shen Tucheng first made an expression of not knowing the truth, thought for a while, and then said to Liu Xia: "His mental state is very poor."

"Get out! Get out!" Wang Shiwei struggled desperately, still yelling, "Don't follow me! Get out!"

Liu Xia had no choice but to increase his strength, even through the thick cotton clothes, he could still feel Wang Shiwei's thinness.Wang Shiwei's deeply sunken eye sockets gave Liu Xia the illusion that what he was pressing was just a handful of bones.Wang Shiwei screamed frantically, punched and kicked Liu Xia.Liu Xia frowned, grabbed Wang Shiwei's fist, and a very small needle fell into his eye—the needle pierced Wang Shiwei's wrist, and dark red blood flowed out from the flesh in a thin strip, running along Wang Shiwei's eye. His hand dripped on Liu Xia's.Liu Xia's expression changed, and he quickly grabbed Wang Shiwei's sleeve - on his skinny arm, there were dense rows of needle holes.

Naturally, Shentucheng also saw it. Looking at Wang Shiwei's sickly pale face, Shentucheng seemed to understand something.

At this time, Bai Lu's parents pushed aside the crowd of onlookers and came up.Bai Lu's father stood straight in front of Liu Xia, exhausted, but with deep anger in his eyes: "Deputy Captain Liu, you want to solve the case and dissect my daughter's body. I said a word 'no', today, it was your police station who sent Bai Lu home, let me ask you, what did we feel sorry for you?" Without waiting for Liu Xia to explain, Bai's father said again, "Bai Lu loved you the most when she was alive. She is beautiful, but now she has become like this..." Bai's mother couldn't help but burst into tears, and Bai's father patted his wife, holding back tears, "My daughter has been lying in the police station for a whole week, today she Back home, the two of us always want to give her half a beautiful funeral and let her go well, tell me, is this too much?"

"No," Liu Xia wanted to explain, "it's not like this..."

"There's no need to say anything." Papa Bai waved his hand, "Let's go."

"Mr. Bai..."

"Please leave!"

"Hand." Wang Shiwei, who had finally calmed down, stared at Papa Bai with extremely resentful eyes, "Hand."

Seeing the resolute attitude of the Bai family, Liu Xia sighed helplessly, and winked at Shen Tucheng.The two set up Wang Shiwei and prepared to go out.

"Hand! Hand!" Wang Shiwei pushed the two away and ran towards the glass coffin in the auditorium, "Die Xian! Die Xian's hand!"

"What are you doing?!" Dad Bai yelled, stopping Wang Shiwei.

"It's not her! Die Xian! Die Xian!" Wang Shiwei stretched out his hand to push Papa Bai, stubbornly wanting to go to Bai Lu's side.

Mother Wang broke down in tears: "Officer Liu! What do you want?! Please do me a favor and let us go, Lulu..."

Someone in the crowd spontaneously blocked Wang Shiwei's way, Liu Xia and Shen Tucheng looked at each other, and stepped forward to restrain the restless Wang Shiwei.

"It's not her! Face!" Wang Shiwei yelled at Shen Tucheng, "Die Xian!"

He clearly saw it, Wang Shiwei looked angrily and fearfully at Bai Lu in the glass coffin.She was wearing a little white dress, with light makeup on her face, and she looked like a little fairy.

But, that wasn't Bai Lu!

It can't be wrong, that hand is Die Xian's hand... Wang Shiwei stared at Bai Lu's hand quietly placed on his chest, he couldn't be wrong, that kind of touch, it was Die Xian!Only a Die Immortal can have such cold and biting hands!

He looked around angrily - these people would not understand, only he who was caught by Die Xian once understood that the person in the glass coffin was not Bai Lu.

She is Die Xian.

Wang Shiwei raised his head, and a line of tears rolled down his eyes.Only Die Xian can have such a cold hand, that person is not Bai Lu.Because, when he passed the glass coffin just now, a hand passed through the glass and grabbed him tightly.

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