Urban Night Returner

After the "Daughter of the Sea" closed the store, it never opened again.Shen Gu arranged for someone to watch over there, and after half a month of watching, no one showed up again.He also visited Taipingjiao many times, but he never heard the cry again.As for the phone number provided by Han Jinyue, it was found out that it was indeed purchased from China Unicom, but it has been shut down due to arrears.It can be said that until now, there is no clue at all.

"It is estimated that we went late, and they ran away."

"And what about your case?"

"Let's hang on for now. Qiu Feng's parents also had a quarrel, but Qiu Feng didn't have any trauma on his body. Even if the case is to be closed, it can only be said that he committed suicide or fell into the water in the end."

"I still find it very strange. Why did Yu Ling kill Qiu Feng? And if she wanted to kill Qiu Feng, she would just drag him into the sea and simply drown him. Why did the person you mentioned drown in the water? It took three or four days to die?"

Shen Gu shook his head: "I can't say that. At least now I can't find a reason."

Zhong Lecen sighed, holding the chopsticks in one hand, and resting his chin in the other: "But I heard the merman crying so sad that day, and I couldn't figure it out, she would kill someone."

"Sorrow has nothing to do with murder. And it should be Yu Yue who cried that day, while Yu Ling should be the one who killed. They are two different things, right?"

Zhong Lecen poked the rice in the bowl with his chopsticks sullenly, and Shen Gu pushed him with his shoulder: "What's wrong?"

"I heard from Heizi that someone in the team was talking about your case?"

Shen Gu smiled: "You are talking about this. Some people are talking about it, but let's ignore them."

Zhong Lecen pouted: "They don't know anything, but they talk about you here, what the hell are they talking about!"

Shen Gu hugged him and leaned on the back of the chair: "You know what I used to do, but do you know what I did?"

Zhong Lecen thought for a while: "I've read some novels about special forces."

Shen Gu smiled: "A novel is a novel after all, and there is still a gap with reality. At least, killing people is not as chic as in the book."

Zhong Lecen looked at him with wide eyes.Shen Gu buried his face in his neck and smiled: "In our line of work, there are honors and no honors. There are commendations, but they can't be published in the military newspaper. They have completed the task beautifully, and they can't be with the people closest to them. Say...compared to that time, at least I can tell you, can't I?"

Zhong Lecen didn't speak anymore, just reached out and hugged Shen Gu's shoulders.Shen Gu patted him: "I'll tell you something, the mentor Zhang Shengyi said he would send has come over in a few days."

"Really?" Zhong Lecen turned his attention as expected, "Did I contact you? Who is it?"

Shen Gu shrugged: "Not yet. But I was given a train number, and when the time comes, the person will naturally contact me when he gets off the train."

"Such a big picture?" Zhong Lecen was very dissatisfied, "I'll go with you then and see who it is?"

Shen Gu smiled, and was about to speak when Tangyuan suddenly jumped out of the nest and jumped onto Zhong Lecen's lap with a meow, and the claws that were too late to retract drew two bloodstains on the back of Zhong Lecen's hand.Zhong Lecen hugged it: "Tangyuan, what's the matter?" Shen Zhiyun originally took the Tangyuan back when she came back, but she recently joined some senior model team and was very busy, so she sent the Tangyuan back.Tangyuan likes to play with Zhong Lecen, but it is very careful and never stretches out its claws when playing. It is really abnormal that it would scratch Zhong Lecen's hand like this.

The glutinous rice balls plunged headlong into Zhong Lecen's arms and shivered, and the dog ghost stood up suddenly, with a disturbed expression.Zhong Lecen was wondering when the spoon on the table that was leaning against the soup bowl suddenly vibrated slightly and slipped into the soup.Shen Gu suddenly reacted: "Earthquake?"

There are very few earthquakes in Binhai, and the magnitude of the earthquake is so small that sometimes people can't feel it.But animals have much more sensitive senses than humans, so the glutinous rice balls reacted first.But there was no more movement after that, even the spoon stopped shaking. It seemed that it was another very slight earthquake, which could be ignored.Zhong Lecen patted Tang Yuan on the back: "It's alright, it's fine."

The glutinous rice balls still stuck their heads in Zhong Lecen's arms and could not come out, while the dog ghosts looked out the window and whined softly in their throats.Zhong Lecen was a little strange: "What's wrong? Could something have happened? Isn't this an earthquake?"

Before he finished speaking, Shen Gu's cell phone rang suddenly, and Zuo Jian was gasping for breath on the other end of the phone: "Hurry up and come to Bailing Garden. The space crack! Someone is using the space crack! There has been a line between Yin and Yang The crack, I am afraid that some evil spirits have come out!"

Bailingyuan was too far away, when Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen drove over, Zuo Jian was using a spell to repair the crack on the ground.In the night, the cracks were not very obvious, but Shen Gu could clearly see the black air coming out of the crack that had been mostly filled.The crack was in a group of tombstones. On the tombstone contaminated by black air, the photos of the deceased seemed to come alive, with flowing eyes and strange smiles.

Zhong Lecen took out a handful of charms and stuck them on the crack without hesitation: "What's going on?"

Zuo Jian was sweating profusely, and Zhong Lecen's spell made him feel more relaxed. He repaired and said, "I also passed by by chance, and suddenly felt the ground shaking. At first I thought it was an earthquake. The car was about to pass by, and I suddenly felt The remaining spiritual power of my spiritual power, when I chased here, the person had disappeared, only this crack remained. The crack is not small, when I came here, there were many ghosts squeezing out, although I had already crushed them I tried to go back, but I came too late, and I was afraid that some ghosts had already escaped."

"The one who robbed your family book?"

"It must be him! The cemetery is the most cloudy, and opening the crack leading to the underworld here is twice the result with half the effort. It's just that I didn't see anyone."

"Look at this!" Shen Gu couldn't get his hands in, and kept searching around, when he suddenly pointed to a tombstone.There is a bloody handprint on the surface of the white marble tablet, which has dried up and turned black. If you don’t look carefully, it is really difficult to find it in the night. Hmm? What does it smell like?"

Zuo Jian leaned over and sniffed it vigorously: "It seems that there is a clear fragrance." These two people have undergone systematic training. Of course, their sense of smell is not as good as that of a dog, but it is much more sensitive than ordinary people.

"This smell... I seem to have smelled it somewhere..." Shen Gu frowned and thought.Zuo Jian sniffed it hard again: "It's a bit like the smell of lotus leaves. Dried lotus leaves soaked in water seem to be this scent, very light."

When Shen Gu was reminded by him, he suddenly remembered: "That's right! Sanshengquan, this is the water of Sanshengquan! There are blue lotus flowers growing on Sanshengquan, that's the smell!"

"Three Life Spring?" Zhong Lecen was startled, "Could it be that this person stole the Zuo family's Taoist scriptures in order to open the underworld to get the water from the Three Life Spring? And looking at it like this, he should have already obtained the water from the Three Life Spring."

Zuo Jian Daqi: "Sanshengquan water? Apart from reminding people of the memory of the previous life, the Sanshengquan water doesn't seem to have any other uses? This person spent so much effort to get my book, just for the Sanshengquan water ?”

Shen Gu remained silent.He already had a vague idea in his mind, but there was no conclusive evidence yet.

The crack was finally repaired, Zuo Jian wiped off his sweat: "I'm afraid I have to report this matter to the Celestial Masters Association, and ask them to transfer the nearby Celestial Masters to assist in eliminating ghosts. It's troublesome to hang around people." Although he has outstanding talent, it is also very difficult to repair the cracks in the space. While talking, he feels that all his energy seems to be exhausted, and he will not be able to stand up.Shen Gu supported him and walked out: "Get in the car and make a phone call, Le Cen and I will search here first."

Zuo Jian was on the phone in the car, while Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen scanned the cemetery. Although there was black air, there were no ghosts yet.Shen Gu looked at Zhong Lecen: "Does this mean that there are no ghosts coming out?"

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "Not necessarily. Another possibility is that the ghost that ran out has already slipped away, so it's hard to find, so we can only search everywhere." They were talking, and they had already returned to the place where the space crack appeared just now, Shen Shen Gu looked at the handprint on the stele, and suddenly said, "Le Cen, who do you think this person could be?"

Zhong Lecen was startled for a moment: "How do you guess?"

"Could it be Zuo Mu?"

"Zuo Mu?"

"He took the water from the Sansheng Spring in order to let me retrieve the memory of my previous life."

Zhong Lecen suddenly fell silent.Shen Gu looked at him: "What did you think of?"

Zhong Lecen remained silent and did not answer, bit his lips hard, and shook his head vigorously for a long time: "No! Impossible, that would be too scary! Let's go, the most urgent thing now is to search for ghosts who slipped through the net. If it is really Zuo Mu, he It should be, will come to you."

The ghosts that slipped through the net were like the sand that fell into the rice bucket. They couldn't be found for a while, but the guides arranged by the special affairs department arrived at Binhai on time.

"The instructor's car should be here." Shen Gu looked at his watch, "But he hasn't contacted us yet."

Zhong Lecen looked at the exit, people were slowly coming out of it, but no one looked like a "guide": "This is the train, if no one calls you again, let's go home!"

Shen Gu smiled.When Zhong Lecen mentioned the special affairs department, he became very angry.Xiao Heizi said wittily, "Why don't I call and ask?"

"Don't go!" Zhong Lecen glared at him angrily, "Wait."

Little Heizi grinned.Shen Gu shook his head with a smile, and was about to speak when he suddenly felt movement behind him.He turned around sharply, and saw a girl walking towards them with a golden retriever on a lead. When the golden retriever sat down, the girl tilted her head and said softly, "Is that Mr. Shen Gu?"

Shen Gu looked her up and down.Very thin, and wearing a black suit, he looked like he was about to fall when the wind blows.In some places, she is a bit like a brook, but it is much quieter than a brook, even so quiet that there is no feeling of life.In winter, she still wears a pair of sunglasses, which seem to fall off at any time when pressed on the small bridge of her nose.Shen Gu asked cautiously: "Excuse me, are you—"

The girl nodded to him: "I'm Dongfang Chen, the leader of the Binhai Special Affairs Team."

"Guide?" Xiao Heizi yelled strangely, "You are the guide?" This girl doesn't seem to be more than 20 years old at most, is she a guide who is less than 20 years old?

With his strange cry, the girl seemed to be startled by him, and took a step back suddenly: "Who?" In a hurry, she actually tripped.

Little Heizi was depressed.You said that such a big person is standing here, this girl's eyes are used to vent her anger?Of course, he couldn't say this in person, he could only slander him.After all, she was a girl and a guide.Although - it seems very unreliable.

After Shen Gu heard the girl's name, he knew that she must belong to the Dongfang family, but the Dongfang family is so powerful that a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old can be a mentor?He glanced at Zhong Lecen, but found Zhong Lecen's serious face, took a step forward and nodded to Dongfang Chen: "Miss Dongfang."

Dongfang Chen turned to him: "You are Mr. Le Cen from the Zhong family, right?"

"I'm Zhong Lecen. I didn't expect that Miss Dongfang would come. Let's not stand here and get in the car first. Heizi, drive over here. Where is Miss Dongfang going to live? Do you need us to arrange a place to live?"

Dongfang Chen shook his head: "The Special Affairs Department has a long-term contract with Homeinn Hotel, and has already booked a room for me. Please just send me there. The place is not far from the police station, and it is convenient for us to carry out our work."

Xiao Heizi drove the car over, Zhong Lecen opened the door, and the dog jumped into the back seat first, barking twice softly.Dongfang Chen got into the car slowly, and gently patted its head.Zhong Lecen took the initiative to sit beside her, so Shen Gu had no choice but to sit in the co-pilot.Zhong Lecen asked slowly in the back seat: "Miss Dongfang is coming all the way, how is it?"

Dongfang Chen's voice was very soft and slow, and he was obviously not a talkative person: "It's okay, it's just a little wet."

Zhong Lecen nodded and stopped talking.Dongfang Chen leaned on the backrest and didn't speak.Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi in the front seat had nothing to say, so they remained silent along the way.When they arrived at the hotel, Zhong Lecen asked for the room number, and called Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi to leave: "Miss Dongfang, please rest first, we will come back tomorrow."

As soon as he got out of the hotel, Xiao Heizi complained: "Brother Zhong, isn't this little man too handsome? What kind of mentor, is there such a mentor? Do you think she looks like her? I am so old and standing alone On the other hand, what are her eyes for? As for me being so frightened when I say a word? Am I a ghost or a tiger!"

Zhong Lecen smiled: "If you were a ghost, she wouldn't be startled."

Little Heizi wondered, "What do you mean?"

"Dongfang Chen is 22 this year, but it is said that he has been an instructor in the special affairs department for eight years."

"What?" Xiao Heizi yelled strangely, "She looks like 22? No, the point is, she can be a mentor at 14?"

Zhong Lecen nodded: "She is an outlier in the Dongfang family. The Dongfang family is good at divination. It has been like this since the ancestor Dongfang Shuo. Only she has not learned much about divination. Her strength is shadow watching."

"Shadow watching?" Little Heizi was at a loss, "What do you mean? It's just watching ghosts? Isn't it just yin and yang eyes?"

"No. Yin-yang eyes can see both yang and yin, while Dongfang Chen only has yin eyes, that is to say, she can't see everything in the yang world."

Little Heizi scratched his head: "What does that mean?"

Zhong Lecen sighed: "It means, from the perspective of ordinary people, she is blind."

"Blind?" Little Heizi was taken aback, "Why didn't I see it? I saw her walking and getting into the car, it was normal."

"Didn't you realize that the dog she was leading was a trained guide dog?"

"Ah? Oh——" Xiao Heizi stroked his chin and began to think, "But even if there is a guide dog, her actions are too agile. Besides, the guide dog doesn't know us, why did she come behind us and open her mouth?" Is it Brother Shen?"

"She is looking at the soul of the previous life."

"Ah?" Little Heizi became even more confused, "Past life soul? What is this? How can I see it?"

"As I said just now, she can only see the shadows, so she can only see ghosts. To be more precise, she can only see people who were human in the second life, not people who were human in the first life."

Little Heizi heard that Monk Zhang Er was puzzled, but Shen Gu understood something: "I remember you said before that not everyone can be reincarnated, some can be reincarnated, and some will disperse after death. Those who can be reincarnated, Naturally, she used to be a ghost, so she can see. In the first life as a human, she has never been a ghost, so she can't see?"

Zhong Lecen nodded: "That's almost what it means."

Little Heizi was unconvinced: "Then I am the first person? But there are so many people on the street, and I haven't seen anyone frighten her."

Zhong Lecen smiled: "Then didn't you just speak? You are insulated from all evil spirits. In the eyes of ghosts, you are no different from the railing on the roadside, and the same is true in Dongfang Chen's eyes. Think about it, the railing around you suddenly Will you be startled when you speak?"

Little Heizi blinked and was speechless.Last time Zhang Shengyi said that he was no different from wood and stone in the eyes of ghosts, and he thought it was quite interesting before he felt anything; now that Dongfang Chen didn't see him very often, he felt awkward, and murmured: "She can be a ghost like this." What kind of guide? It’s hard to see, can you catch people with us?”

Zhong Lecen smiled: "People don't care about arresting people, they just look for ghosts."

Little Heizi was unconvinced: "Looking for ghosts? Brother Shen can do it too! Zhong, you can see ghosts if you put on your sunglass."

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "Shen Gu can see ghosts, but he can only see ghosts in the form of souls, and how far can ordinary people see? In places like cities, there are buildings everywhere. Almost? But Dongfang Chen is not hindered by these, she can see ghosts within a radius of 500 meters, and any buildings do not exist to her."

Xiao Heizi was dumbfounded, and stuck out his tongue: "Good guy, it's even better than a scope."

"So you know why you sent her to be a guide, right? A guide doesn't have to be able to exterminate ghosts and demons by himself. I have never been in contact with these things before, even if I meet them face to face, I may not know it is a ghost. Let alone you, no one can open your eyes. So Dongfang Chen is the most suitable, she can see all ghosts, Having her is equivalent to having a discriminator."

Shen Gu pondered: "But you just said that she can actually see people."

"All she can see is the soul of the previous life. The reincarnated soul who walked across the bridge of Naihe is slightly different from the ghost, and she can tell the difference."

Xiao Heizi thought for a long time, then sighed: "So in her opinion, there is nothing in this world except ghosts?"

Zhong Lecen was silent for a moment, then nodded: "That's right. To her, this is a world of ghosts."

Little Heizi opened his mouth wide, and it took him a long time to say: "This isn't—it's quite pitiful..."