Urban Night Returner

"Xiao Qingfan is really missing?"

"Well. No one in the Xiao family knows where he has gone. Originally, the Xiao family would not ask where he went, but the day before yesterday, the Xiao family held a board meeting. It seemed that there was a need for some kind of vote due to the business downturn. As a result, Xiao Qingfan didn't attend. He There is also 15.00% of the shares, and he can’t make the resolution unless he attends the resolution. Only then did the Xiao family find out that he was missing. The mobile phone has been shut down, and no one knows where he has gone. The Xiao family is ready to call the police.” Xiao Heizi After finishing what he knew, he looked at Shen Gu anxiously, "Brother Shen, what happened? Did you meet Xiao Qingfan that day? What's going on?"

Shen Gu shook his head and said nothing.In fact, Xiao Qingfan—or he knew the news of Zuo Mu's disappearance earlier than Xiao Heizi.When he rushed out of the villa that day, he immediately called Zuo Jian.Because he was already sure that Zuo Mu was the one who took away Zuo Jian's Taoist scriptures, and he needed a space rift to get the Sansheng spring water.But when Zuo Jian rushed over, the villa was already empty.He guessed that Zuo Mu must have tried to find Suqin's soul.

Little Heizi was a little disappointed that he didn't get an answer.Shen Gu patted him: "Don't worry about it, we still have to make sure if any evil spirits came out of the crack in the space that day. You still have to pick up Dongfang Chen and go around to check around."

Little Heizi muttered: "Why is this job always assigned to me? That Dongfang Chen couldn't speak three words a day, she was lifeless, and if I spoke, she would act startled, as if the stone had blossomed." Seems like it made me so embarrassed! Brother Shen, why don't you let Liu Wu go?"

"Isn't Liu Wu busy? There are few forensic doctors in the bureau these two days, so he's busy! Well, why don't I go pick her up with you?"

"That's good!" Xiao Heizi was a little happier, and ran to drive.When the car arrived at the entrance of the hotel, Xiao Heizi let out a snort: "Brother Shen, is that Brother Zhong?"

Shen Gu looked up, but it wasn't Zhong Lecen standing across the road, staring at the hotel thoughtfully.Xiao Heizi honked the horn and stuck his head out: "Brother Zhong——"

Xiao Heizi was very sensible, he took the initiative to go to pick up Dongfang Chen, and gave up the space to Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen.Shen Gu looked at the hotel gate and said softly, "Come to find Dongfang Chen?"

Zhong Lecen pursed his lips and said nothing.Shen Gu sighed: "I'm afraid that Dongfang Chen will report that I'm gone? They sent Dongfang Chen, and they have this task in the first place, right? You already knew about it, right?"

Zhong Lecen nodded slightly, but still did not speak.Shen Gu smiled: "Then, you know who I am, right?" After leaving Zuo Mu's place, Zhong Lecen always looked preoccupied, and Shen Gu hadn't talked to him yet.Originally, Zhong Lecen didn't want to talk about things, and he didn't want to force them, but after several days, Zhong Lecen still had no intention of slowing down, so he had no choice but to speak up, lest this guy always like to go into a corner.

Zhong Lecen hesitated for a moment: "You are Luo Jing."

"You're lying, right?" Shen Gu stretched out his hand to rub his hair, "At that time you asked Zuo Mu when he collected the soul, and Zuo Mu said it was when the funeral procession just arrived at Luo's house. But we were inside Luo Jing was clearly not dead when he heard the sound of blowing and beating coming to the door."

Zhong Lecen looked around, Shen Gu turned his head back to face himself: "I'm that devil, right?"

Zhong Lecen looked at him pitifully: "Stop talking."

"Don't say no." Shen Gu held his face in both hands, "You summoned the devil from the gate of hell, right? I remember you said before that those who can stay in the gate of hell are either fierce ghosts or evil ghosts, so you are worried It’s actually this, right? You’re afraid that the special affairs department will kill me if they find out that I’m a ghost, right? Otherwise, I didn’t leave on purpose, and I didn’t harm anyone. Why are you so nervous all day long? "

Zhong Lecen stared at his calm face, and pouted for a long time: "Who said that, I was afraid that you were an evil spirit, in case one day you ate me..."

Shen Gu laughed loudly, and trampled his face with his hands unceremoniously: "Are you afraid of this?" He leaned close to Zhong Lecen's ear and whispered, "You seem to have been eaten by me a long time ago?"

Zhong Lecen's ears turned red all of a sudden, and he saved his face fiercely: "You are still having fun! Dongfang Chen will really report it! What will we do then?"

"What will the special affairs department do? Just send someone to kill me?"

"That's impossible." Zhong Lecen said with certainty, "Because of that piece of Yin jade, Dongfang Chen didn't see that you are the soul caller of two generations. If we say that you are Luo Jing, then your leaving is entirely because Zuo Mu's illegal operation, this fault is Zuo Mu's fault, not yours. The special affairs department can't ignore the facts and only attack you."

"Then what are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid one day they'll know..."

Shen Gu shrugged: "How would they know?"

Zhong Lecen was still worried: "There is no impenetrable wall in the world." He grabbed Shen Gu's hand, "Anyway, we will say that you are Luo Jing, so we must say so!"

Shen Gu smiled: "Okay. But speaking of it, why did you think of summoning a ghost?"

Zhong Lecen huddled himself into a small ball sullenly: "At the time, I thought I lost Luo Jing's child, so I wanted to give him back one. At that time, I didn't know much about it. I didn't know that only evil spirits can be called back from the gate of hell..."

"By the way," Shen Gu had a sudden thought, "If I were an evil ghost, what kind of evil ghost would I be?"

Zhong Lecen looked at him speechlessly: "You still want to know this?"

Shen Gu bared his teeth on purpose, showing a fierce look: "What if I regain my nature and eat you one night?"

Zhong Lecen dismissed it with disdain: "Cut! Just you? I was born with a fierce life, maybe you didn't eat me, I already crushed you—" He swallowed the last word.

Shen Gu saw that little face getting depressed again, sighed and leaned over to kiss him: "What are you worried about? Look, I'm an evil ghost, I'm not as worried as you are."

Zhong Lecen put her arms around his neck: "I'm a little scared. Should we be together?"

Shen Gu's face darkened: "What nonsense?"

Zhong Lecen pouted: "Why don't you worry?"

Shen Gu sighed again: "What should I worry about? Worrying about being an evil ghost in my previous life? Didn't you say it all? I committed crimes in my previous life and retribution in this life. Then I will just follow the retribution. Whether you worry about it or not, the days are not all. Get it? I can’t even remember what happened in my previous life, and I still have to think about it every day? Just live this life well.”

Zhong Lecen hung on his neck, thoughtful: "What you said is actually a bit Zen. The Buddha said that life is only in the breath, which means to grasp the present, then the previous life and the future life are actually empty..."

Shen Gu laughed: "Didn't you say that you have no destiny with Buddha?"

Zhong Lecen hung on to him: "But I was very familiar with Buddhist scriptures in my previous life."

"Well, it must be because you gave the Bodhi Pearl to Luo Jing. In other words, after Luo Jing's reincarnation, he must have a predestined relationship with the Buddha."

Zhong Lecen poked his chest: "Remember that you are Luo Jing now!"

Shen Gu grabbed his hand: "I remember. But," he touched his chest, "it turned out that this birthmark was pierced by Luo Jing's sword. No wonder I felt pain at that time."

Zhong Lecen reached into his clothes and felt a little distressed: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."

"What's your fault?"

Zhong Lecen was a little dazed: "Many things..."

Shen Gu was angry and funny: "I said, what are you thinking in your head? You are all to blame for what you call it? You are living at the foot of Zhongshan Mountain. Luo Jingfei brought you out, right? Luo Jing's child, is that Bi Yan insisted on getting rid of it with you, right? That ghost fetus—cough, Luo Jing’s wife insisted on pretending to be pregnant, right? Otherwise, she would have a child, how could she have gotten pregnant?”

Zhong Lecen was still a little disappointed: "But I was not sensible at that time, if I could understand, maybe there would not be so many tragedies later..."

Shen Gu snorted: "Then it's your master's fault, he didn't teach you how to understand the ways of the world, and he had to lock you up in the mountains, how could this be possible?"

Zhong Lecen defended: "Master is also doing it for my own good."

"Okay, okay, I know he is doing it for your own good." Shen Gu calmly kissed him, "But he doesn't know how to educate people, you can't deny that? Well, Dongfang Chen is out, we have to patrol the city, you What? Take you back to the clinic?"

"No." Zhong Lecen slumped on the backrest as if he had no bones, "I'm with you, there's nothing to do in the clinic today."

Shen Gu leaned over to fasten his seat belt on him: "Then let's go together."

Dongfang Chen led the guide dog over, and the guide dog followed her and jumped into the back seat as a matter of course, leaving only half of the buttocks for Xiao Heizi.Grinding his teeth, Xiao Heizi squeezed up and sat down, gestured to the guide dog with his hand like a gun, but was only treated by the other side turning his butt to face him.

The police car drove slowly on the road, Dongfang Chen leaned on the back seat, and seemed to be asleep.Xiao Heizi cautiously stretched his head over to look at her, Zhong Lecen saw it in the rearview mirror, and waved his hand to signal him not to disturb Dongfang Chen.Xiao Heizi was thinking that she must not be able to see him, Dongfang Chen had already said flatly, "Don't block me."

Little Heizi was startled: "Can't you see me?"

Dongfang Chen raised his head slightly: "But I can still see a stone in front of my eyes."

Xiao Heizi choked, and sat back listlessly.Shen Gu looked amused, and was about to speak when the cell phone rang suddenly, and Liu Wu's voice rang in a hurry: "Team leader, where are you?"

"Inspection. What's the matter?" Liu Wu appeared on the scene today because a corpse was found there.

"Come and see, something is wrong."

The corpse was abandoned in the sand pit on the bank of the river, because the sand mining here is basically illegal and sneak mining, even if someone saw the corpse, they would not take the initiative to call the police, so it was already rotten when it was finally found, fortunately It's cold, but not too bad.Liu Wu squatted there solemnly, Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen got out of the car and walked over together: "What's wrong?"

Liu Wu took off the white cloth from the corpse and pointed it out to them: "Look at the wound on this back—"

The back of the deceased could hardly find its original appearance, as if the whole back had been overturned by something, and with the rotten flesh, it was almost impossible to see.Zhong Lecen frowned tightly: "It's like being hacked several times..."

Liu Wu stretched out his hand: "Five knives. From top to bottom, one of them broke the spine. However, it doesn't look like a knife. It should be something with a sharp bottom and a wide top, and it seems to be cut at the same time. It was pulled down for a while, and the skin on the entire back was flipped off." He raised his hand and gestured in his imagination, "This person should be running away, and then someone chased him and cut him five times on his back. Knife. But these five knives are basically cut in parallel, and it is not easy to cut so artistically in the process of chasing and fleeing."

Shen Gu looked at his gesturing hand, and suddenly something flashed in his mind: "But you don't feel like a knife wound, do you?"

"It really doesn't look like a knife. If you let me say it, it looks like a large awl inserted in and cut down. It's the kind of thing with a thick back and a sharp front—"

Shen Gu bent down to look closely at the wound of the deceased, and then took a deep breath: "Do you smell a fragrance?"

"Fragrance?" Liu Wu was speechless.This has been dead for several days, the smell can kill a person, can you still smell the fragrance?

Shen Gu looked up at Zhong Lecen, and said with certainty: "There is a scent, although it is very faint. It is like the scent on Xiao Yifan's body last time. Liu Wu, do you feel that this wound is scratched by an eagle's claw?"

Liu Wu was surprised: "Where is there such a big eagle claw? But—don't say it, if the golden eagle's claws are enlarged ten times, it may have the same effect when it is grasped."

After hearing what Shen Gu said, Zhong Lecen already understood: "Are you talking about Yazi?"

"Didn't we never find the person who took the Azure Dragon Jade?"

"At first, I suspected that Ichiro Kuritaguchi used the Dapeng Mingwang Curse to arrest Yazi, but he never released Yazi until he died, so I'm not sure."

"Why do you suspect Kuritaguchi?"

"Do you remember the black fur we saw outside elevator number one?"

"You said it was the fur of a dog ghost?" Shen Gu immediately remembered, "Yes, the blood-stained sunspot at the entrance of the sewer has also been tested for me, it is dog blood."

"Then we can go back and ask Yakumo. Could it be that Yazi fled after Kuritaguchi died? But it has been so long, why did it not move before?"

Shen Gu narrowed his eyes slightly: "Do you remember the small piece of paper on Wang Jingjing's body? You said what kind of pentagram it was."

"Seimei Kikyo!"

"Could it be that someone from the Tuyumen family arrested Yazi?"

"Then why is Yazi showing up again now?"

"Maybe it escaped. How can I find it?"

Zhong Lecen pondered for a moment: "I should bring Yakumo to see the scene."

The dog ghost was picked up quickly, and just leaned in front of the corpse and sniffed it, the hair on its back was all blown up, and a low growl sounded from its throat, and it kept circling around the corpse.Zhong Lecen asked it: "Is it Yazi?"

The ghost dog nodded and leaned towards his legs.Shen Gu was surprised: "Scared like this?"

The dog ghost growled lowly, with hatred in fear.Zhong Lecen suddenly understood, bent down and asked: "Is there anyone from Tu Yumen's family?"

The dog ghost moved closer to his legs, and gently wagged its tail.Zhong Lecen gently stroked its back, smoothing down the fur that had blown up: "Don't be afraid, we are here."

Shen Gu frowned: "A member of the Tuyumen family? They released Yazi?"

Zhong Lecen looked around: "No one comes to this place during the day, right?"

Liu Wu replied: "Most of the people who come here are stealing sand. Who will come during the day!"

"Perhaps, they want to train Yazi here."

"train?"

"They detained Yazi probably because they wanted to train him to become a shikigami."

Shen Gu raised his eyebrows: "Shikigami? What a big tone!"

Zhong Lecen knelt down and hugged the dog ghost to comfort him gently, thoughtfully: "Dragon Ming Wang cursed, the strength of the Tuyumen family should not be underestimated. It is estimated that they will never give up on the ten-handed sword, arrest Yazi, It’s just a windfall of coming to China.”

Shen Gu said coldly: "No matter who they are, if you kill Chinese people on China's borders, don't even think about escaping! Yakumo, can you find them?"

The dog ghost purred a few times.Zhong Lecen shook his head: "It's impossible to track it from the smell, it's been a long time, and it rained two days ago."

"Then look for witnesses and investigate from the surroundings. Heizi sent Miss Dongfang back, and then checked the identity of the deceased. Le Cen followed me to investigate nearby."

There were no people living near the river bank, but there was a resort farther away near the sea. During the day, people who lived in the resort would wander here by chance, and they found the body.Although it is not as lively as summer, the number of people staying is not too small.When Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen asked about the fourth house, the proprietress said that there were indeed two Japanese guests staying in the shop, but they left two days ago.

"What do those two people look like, please recall, what are their characteristics?"

The proprietress thought again and again in embarrassment: "It's nothing special. Don't all Japanese look like that? They are not tall, and they bow when they go in and out... One is in his twenties, and the other is older, about forty." The registered names are here—Kazuo Tsuchimikado, Jiro Tsuchimikado. Oh, by the way, my daughter said that there is a sticker of a five-pointed star on their luggage, maybe it is Yin and Yang—it is Mr. Fengshui type of."

Zhong Lecen didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Are you talking about Onmyoji and Pentagram?"

"That's right! My daughter said she had read a novel, and that's all it said in it. Comrade policeman, have you read it too?"

Shen Gu interrupted her: "You still think about the appearance of these two people, they may be involved in murder."

The proprietress was startled, she didn't dare to talk anymore, she scratched her head and thought for a while, then patted the counter: "That's right, that young man named Jiro has a birthmark next to his neck, right here. They came down for dinner that day, and I went to deliver the soup, and I saw it standing next to him. It’s a big piece of purple, and I guess I have to wear a high collar in summer.”

Although this birthmark is basically invisible to outsiders, it is better to have clues than no clues.Shen Gu was thinking whether to ask the bureau to come over and make a composite portrait, when he suddenly saw someone walking past the yard.That person looked familiar to him, and after thinking about it for a few seconds, he suddenly remembered that he had seen it in "The Daughter of the Sea", the man who claimed to come to see the cheongsam but invited Yu Ling and Yu Man out for dinner.