Urban Night Returner

Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi walked over and realized that, unlike the shop opened by the ghost, which could only appear in the dark, this "Daughter of the Sea" they had actually seen just now.The door is very small, sandwiched between two small shops. On the front is a large cross stitch, embroidered with a mermaid sitting on a stone, and next to it are four small characters - the daughter of the sea.Xiao Heizi stared blankly: "Ganqing is such a 'daughter of the sea'..." Just now they mistook it for selling cross-stitch.

At first glance, the shop really doesn't look like a wedding dress shop, with cross-stitch and small accessories hanging all around, only two models are placed in the back, one is wearing a cheongsam and the other is wearing a wedding dress.The cheongsam is bright red, but it is not embroidered with the usual peony or dragon and phoenix patterns, but many small golden fishes; the wedding dress is pure white, and the fishtail-like hem is embroidered with light blue silk thread that looks like sea waves. Novelty and fine workmanship.A little girl dozed off on the counter, rubbed her eyes and raised her head when she was startled: "What do you want? Hey, are you from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau?"

Both Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi were a little speechless.Are the police uniforms similar to the uniforms of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau?

"We are the police."

"Police?" The little girl showed a curious expression, "Are the police also coming to check the store? Do you need to see the business license?"

Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi were speechless again.Look at the business license, it is said that it is not from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau!

"Xiaoman, what's the matter?" A pleasant voice came from the back room, and then the curtain was lifted, and a young woman came out.Nearly 1.7 meters tall, with long hair hanging down to his waist, he still wears a long skirt in winter, a black sweater makes his skin fairer, and his eyes are big and bright.Little Heizi poked Shen Gu quietly: "You are so beautiful, you are a model?"

Shen Gu squinted at him from the corner of his eye, and said in a low voice, "Wipe the drool."

"Ah?" Little Heizi hurriedly reached out to wipe it off, only to realize that he had been duped, "Brother Shen!"

Shen Gu ignored him, and looked the young woman up and down: "I'm sorry, we are the police, we are here to investigate the case, and we need to ask you about someone. Have you met this person?"

The woman looked down at the photo Shen Gu handed over: "I haven't seen it before."

The little girl tugged at the woman's clothes: "Sister Yu, what do the police do? Aren't they checking licenses?"

The woman patted her on the head: "No, they don't check the license, they are looking for someone."

Shen Gu was speechless to her explanation.After the woman finished talking to the little girl, she stood and looked at them with a cold face, and said nothing, obviously she didn't welcome them very much.At this time, another person came in from outside: "Miss Yu—hey, what's the matter? Are there police? Is something wrong?"

Shen Gu glanced at him.It was a 35-year-old man, well dressed, with a beer belly from too much drinking and entertainment, but his figure was not out of shape.It is the so-called white-collar elite nowadays.The woman glanced at him and said lightly, "It's okay, these two are here to find someone."

"Oh." Hearing what she said, the man ignored Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi, and took two steps forward, "Let me see how the cheongsam is doing?"

The woman's voice is very pleasant, even if there are no ups and downs or emotions, it is very pleasant: "Didn't you and Ms. Zhao just come to see it yesterday? This is a hand-embroidered cheongsam, and it is impossible to finish it so quickly."

The man chuckled: "I'm just here to see. Something just happened to pass by, drop by, drop by. By the way, it's past five o'clock, why don't we go have dinner first? Will Miss Yu give you a favor?"

The woman lowered her head and thought for a while, then nodded: "Xiaoman, tidy up the store and close it."

The house was about to close, so Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi had no choice but to hurry out.Watching the woman close the shop door, she took the little girl into the man's car.Xiao Heizi curled his lips: "Something just happened to pass by, so I stopped by. Tsk, I'm here to see people, so return the cheongsam!"

"You take care of others!"

"Hey, Brother Shen, isn't this really beautiful? And the voice is so nice, like singing."

"Is it that exaggerated?" Shen Gu felt that although a woman's voice was pleasant, it lacked emotion. He preferred to listen to Zhong Lecen's voice.As for being pretty, it's really pretty.

"Like a fairy, a cold beauty, a wedding dress..."

"Ah?" Xiao Heizi was startled, "Brother Shen, do you doubt her? Really, it fits what Xiao Nan said."

"It's a bit like it, but we can't doubt it. Check her first."

Shen Gu asked about the two stores on the left and right. The one on the right just opened and didn’t know anything. The middle-aged woman who looked after the store on the left was very talkative: “Oh, this store has been open for two years, but before She didn’t open it, it was another little girl, she was also quite beautiful, not as pretty as this one, but she was not bad. Later, it seemed that the girl was pregnant, so she changed to this one. The store didn’t move much, it still sold cross-stitch and small Jewelry, I don’t know if it belongs to the same family. Heck, we are all busy with our own business, and we just talk when we have time. I don’t know much about other people’s affairs, but I think the girl is not. Married, there is a young man who often comes to her, but it doesn’t look like a husband and wife. It’s just different between married and unmarried. Anyway, it looks a little different, and you can tell. The girl was—— It's not very pregnant, but it was summer, and I could see it when the belly was bigger. Maybe it was a pregnancy out of wedlock. Then she stopped coming suddenly, and the man didn't come, so I changed to this one. This beauty is It's so beautiful, but it's so cold that people can't even talk about it."

Shen Gu took out Qiu Feng's photo: "Is this the person you're talking about?"

The woman glanced at it and shook her head: "No, no, it's not this one. That young man looks gentle, but this one looks very slippery. But that one's body is probably not very good, his face is sallow and sallow, and he is still very thin .”

"Then have you seen this man?"

The woman thought about it carefully: "Oh, I've seen it before. I didn't feel very well once, and I came to open the door after ten o'clock. It seemed to be on the other side of the street, next to the station on the corner. Oh, yes, it's just this person , I took a large bouquet of roses, the blue ones, the blue enchantress, the very expensive ones, a large bouquet, I stood there waiting for someone. That’s when I saw this large bouquet , I thought whose child was so willing to spend money, so I took a second look."

"Did you see the man he was waiting for?"

"No. It's cold and I'm not feeling well. Who's going to stand there and see who he's waiting for?"

Thanks to this talkative aunt, Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi walked out of the store, and Xiao Heizi spread his hands: "It seems that it won't be."

"That's not necessarily the case. If Qiu Feng is waiting for someone at the station, it means that he doesn't know where the girl lives or works, but she must be nearby. So she can't escape the suspicion now."

Xiao Heizi scratched his head: "If it's really her and she says she hasn't seen Qiu Feng, then the suspicion of murder will be high. But... you can't be suspicious just because he is beautiful..."

Shen Gu was about to talk, when the phone rang suddenly, he picked it up, and Zhong Lecen's voice came over: "Where are you, are you off work?"

Shen Gu looked at his watch, it was already 05:30, and it was already dark: "Soon. What's the matter?" Zhong Lecen usually wouldn't call to urge him to get off work.

"Captain Zuo is here, at home."

"Oh? Then I'll go back right away."

Zuo Jian looked a little thinner than before he went back, and his face was a little haggard, with black and blue circles around his eyes, and he was eating noodles.Shen Gu frowned: "What happened?"

Zuo Jian smiled bitterly: "The book is lost."

Shen Gu was stunned: "The book handed down from your family?"

Zuo Jian choked on eating too quickly, and stretched his neck to free his mouth: "To be exact, I lost half of it. I fought with that person, and I snatched the first half, and the second half was torn away by that person." .”

"What do you remember in the second half of the book?"

"I don't know. But in the first half of the book, there is no space crack that I told you about."

"What kind of person is it?"

"Wearing a mask, I can't see his appearance. There is nothing special about his figure, 1.7 meters six, about [-] kilograms. His skills are average, but his spells are good. He can use the Five Thunder Talisman." Zuo Jian stretched out his hand, and there was a red scar on his left arm "It was struck by a lightning strike. Fortunately, it was in the basement, and its power was limited. That's it, let him grab half of the book. However, I also shot him and hit him in the leg. The bullet was specially made by me. The kind of damage to his spiritual power should not be small."

"Could it be that people have come to the seaside?"

"Yes. I can sense my bullet. But after chasing him all the way to Binhai, he probably healed the wound and completely forced out the spiritual power contained in the bullet, so I can't feel it anymore."

Shen Gu thought about it: "How can we help you find it?"

Zuo Jian sighed: "I didn't think of it now either. My bullet only damages spiritual power, and it can't be seen from the outside."

Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen looked at each other in blank dismay, but this couldn't be helped.Zuo Jian smiled wryly: "I'll figure it out myself, and find out about it from my colleagues in the Binhai area. There are not many people who can use the Five Thunder Talisman in the Binhai area, so I should be able to find out. Hey, yes, I heard something special The people from the department are looking for you? How is it?"

When talking about the special affairs department, Zhong Lecen's face darkened.Shen Gu smiled: "I've found it, let me set up a special team in Binhai. Heizi and Liu Wu will help me."

"Who is the guide?"

"It hasn't been sent yet." Zhong Lecen said angrily.

Zuo Jian was taken aback: "Why? You started working without a mentor?"

"Yes. I just took a case."

Zuo Jian became serious: "How can this work? It's irresponsible to let you start working without a mentor."

Shen Gu smiled: "Don't you have to handle the case without a mentor? It's not clear whether this is an extraordinary case yet, but it's true that it's a bit weird."

Zuo Jian looked really tired.Zhong Lecen tidied up the study: "You go to bed first, you look tired like this."

Zuo Jian is also not polite: "Then I interrupted. I really can't stand it after chasing him day and night."

Zuo Jian fell asleep, and Zhong Lecen served Shen Gu a meal: "What case is it again? If there is danger, let's contact Zhang Shengyi first, and we can't be careless. Things like the Nian Beast last time can't happen again."

Shen Gu smiled and touched his face: "It's impossible to be so dangerous every time. This time it's a bit strange. The deceased seemed to have stayed underwater for three or four days before dying. Do you think there is such a person? Liu Wu didn't Trust your own test..."

Zhong Lecen held his chin and listened to him finish today's events, and asked, "Do you doubt the girl who made the wedding dress?"

"Every aspect is more in line with Xiao Nan's statement, and Qiu Feng has indeed appeared in that area. But it is just a suspicion, without any evidence. Please help me think about it first, can people live underwater?"

"Impossible. And according to Liu Wu, the corpse rotted so fast, it should have been dead for several days."

"But it was really fresh when I found it." Shen Gu subconsciously used what Liu Wu said.

Zhong Lecen was eating, when he heard the word fresh chopsticks stopped in mid-air, he finally put them down: "You—"

Shen Gu quickly stopped talking: "Eat, eat, let's talk after eating."

Zhong Lecen picked up the rice bowl again and said, "Grandma called today and said she would be back in two days, and then let us pick her up at the airport. Also, she said let me remind you, don't Forgot about tomorrow's day. I asked her what day is tomorrow, but she didn't say anything."

Shen Gu's hand stopped for a moment: "Tomorrow is my mother's death day."

Zhong Lecen also stopped: "Huh? I don't even know. Shall we go to the cemetery to see my aunt tomorrow?"

"My mother doesn't have a cemetery. Her ashes were scattered in the sea, just over the corner of Taiping."

"Ah?" Zhong Lecen was a little surprised, "Sea burial?"

Shen Gu nodded: "At that time, I didn't say that I would have a sea burial. My mother asked for it. She said she wanted to be buried in a place with the best memories, but in fact..." He laughed at himself, "My mother is too romantic gone."

Zhong Lecen patted the back of his hand lightly: "Then let's buy a bunch of flowers and go to Taipingjiao together tomorrow."

Taiping Cape is actually a part of the sea, but there is a place that protrudes slightly. Walking down is a large reef, which can reach far into the sea when the tide is low.Shen Shuqin's ashes were the ones that Shen Zhiyun took the urn to the innermost side when the tide was low and sank the box into the water.When the tide is high today, Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen can't go in, so they have to take a look at the beach and express their feelings.

The path leading to that place is fenced off.In the past, no one cared about it, but now it is probably because the beach below has been contracted to raise abalone or something, and people are also arranged to watch at the intersection.Shen Gu told them about the situation, and the guards agreed for them to go in, but they had to press their ID cards.So they put down their ID cards, and the two walked in.

There is also a barbed wire fence on the edge of the beach, and there is a gap in the middle that can be drilled through.Inside are knee-high weeds that have withered and yellowed in winter.There is fog on the sea today, and the places a little further away seem to be covered with a light veil, and nothing can be seen clearly.Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen walked to the edge of the reef and found that there was already someone standing there on the beach, and they turned their heads to look at their voices.It was a woman with a big belly and a very young age. She didn't wear much clothes, and her long hair was draped over her shoulders, fluttering slightly in the sea breeze.Zhong Lecen said in a low voice: "Why are pregnant women here? They still wear so little. The road is so difficult, what if they fall?"

Shen Gu has good eyesight, when the woman turned her head to take a look, he had already seen the red and swollen eyes and the tear stains on her face, he gently pulled Zhong Lecen around and said in a low voice: "She is crying, maybe she is also here to worship Who is it?" In recent years, Binhai City has advocated sea burials, and has even specially organized group sea burials.However, some people do not want to scatter the ashes of their relatives so far away, so they come to the sea and sink the urn among the rocks like Shen Zhiyun.Taipingjiao is a suitable place, so there must be more than one or two urns placed here.

The two walked lightly around the woman, and the sea water rose quite high, leaving the outermost reefs unsubmerged.Shen Gu didn't let Zhong Lecen go up, stepped on the rocks to the innermost part, threw the flowers into the sea, and watched them being carried away by the waves and disappeared.He didn't have any impression of his mother, and Shen Zhiyun didn't talk about it with him very much. Although he came here every year, he didn't feel too much sadness in his heart.Maybe my mother would be happy if she died like that. If she lived, knowing that Xiao Yifan was such a bastard, maybe it would be even more painful.

The sea wind was hard, Shen Gu was worried that Zhong Lecen didn't wear much, and came back after seeing the flowers drifting away.The two walked back, only to find that the woman had disappeared, leaving a large puddle of water where they had stood.Because the beach is dry, it can be seen very clearly.Shen Gu thought to himself, could it be tears?Impossible?

Zhong Lecen was always worried that the pregnant woman would not fall into something, so she looked around, but she didn't see anyone: "Walking so fast? The family is also relieved to let her come out alone. It seems that it has been six months. What if I fall down?"

He looked around patronizingly and stumbled on the sole of his foot.Shen Gu hugged him: "Take care of yourself first!" Having said that, he couldn't help but look back at the beach.Although he was far away, with his eyesight, he could still see the water stains on the beach.The clothes on the woman's body are all dry, why is there such a big puddle of water under her feet?

They had just passed through the barbed wire fence when two more people approached them, a couple in their 50s, both dressed in black, the man was holding a bouquet of flowers, and the woman was holding an urn with a picture of a young man on it , thin, wearing glasses, gentle look.The woman's eyes were red and swollen. When passing by, Shen Gu heard her muttering: "Xiao Zhi, don't you like the sea the most? Mom listens to you and sends you to the beach. Are you happy? Happy If so, it would be good to entrust mother with a dream at night..."

Zhong Lecen couldn't help but stop, watching the couple walk through the barbed wire to the beach, sighed softly, and whispered: "So young..."

Shen Gu put his arms around him, and the two stood there looking at the beach.The fog got thicker, and the figures of the husband and wife quickly disappeared in the fog.Shen Gu patted Zhong Lecen lightly: "Let's go?"

Zhong Lecen nodded, and just as the two turned around, a faint voice suddenly came from the wind, like crying, and also like singing, broken and continuous, sad, but extremely pleasant.Shen Gu turned around abruptly: "Did you hear that? What's the sound?" This kind of sound doesn't seem like a human voice can sing, it's too clean.

Zhong Lecen's reaction was even more intense than his: "Merman! This is the cry of a merman! My God, there are merman in the sea!"

The fog was thicker now, and it was difficult to see people a few steps away.The crying sound is like this mist lingering around, beautiful, but tear-jerking.Zhong Lecen listened in a daze, and suddenly called out: "Oops! Where were those two people just now?"

Shen Gu also stopped listening, and asked in a daze, "Who?"

Zhong Lecen reached out to cover his ears: "Don't listen!"

Shen Gu was stunned for a moment, pulled his hand down and held it in his hand: "Don't listen to what?"

"You don't feel anything?" Zhong Lecen looked at him with wide eyes, "Do you have the urge to find this voice?"

Shen Gu shook his head: "I just feel a little uncomfortable."

Zhong Lecen breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, you are not affected by the shark's voice. But those two people just now don't know if they will be affected, let's go find them quickly! I am also confused, how did I forget the shark's voice It is very attractive to people! If those two people are attracted, they may jump into the sea!"