Urban Night Returner

Shen Gu rushed out to stop the man.The man was startled by him, and took a step back: "What are you doing?"

"We've seen it. In Taitung's 'Daughter of the Sea' bridal shop."

The man looked Shen Gu up and down: "I don't remember. What can I do for you?" He looked quite impatient. It seemed that if Shen Gu wasn't wearing a police uniform, he would turn around and leave.

"Have you met the owner of that bridal shop recently?"

The man frowned slightly, and shook his head: "No. Why did I see her. I only knew her because my girlfriend asked her to make a wedding cheongsam. The cheongsam has already been made, so of course I have no contact with her."

Shen Gu didn't speak any more, the man turned around and left.Zhong Lecen stood behind Shen Gu and asked: "Is he telling the truth?"

"Definitely not." Shen Gu turned around and sneered slightly, "It's trying to cover it up! He must still be in touch with Yu Ling." He said and asked the proprietress directly: "The guest just now lived at your place?"

The proprietress nodded: "I just came here yesterday."

"one person?"

The proprietress hesitated: "Alone."

Shen Gu raised his eyebrows slightly: "Really?"

The proprietress quickly surrendered: "He came alone, but he booked a double room, saying that he would surprise his wife for the wedding anniversary. His wife is coming tonight."

Shen Gu nodded, and walked out with Zhong Lecen: "Let's come over tonight to see who the wife he mentioned is. Since he just said that he was making cheongsams for his girlfriend, he must not be married yet. Where does a wife come from!"

"Maybe it will be Yu Ling?"

"It's very possible. Maybe I came to this place for a date."

"By the way, he said that the cheongsam is ready for the wedding. What about Han Jinyue's wedding dress? I think we should call and ask."

Shen Gu was reminded by his words, and immediately called Han Jinyue's cell phone.When the phone was picked up, Han Jinyue seemed to be angry, and said angrily: "Hello? Who is it?" Then he probably suddenly remembered that this was Shen Gu's phone, and quickly changed his tone, "It's Brother Shen, I It's not for you, don't worry about it!"

Shen Gu only listened to the mess on the other end of the phone, and frowned slightly: "Do you have something to do? If it's inconvenient, I'll call later."

"No, no." Han Jinyue breathed out, "I was bothered by something just now, but I'm fine now. Brother Shen, I just wanted to call you. This morning, someone took the wedding dress I ordered delivered."

Shen Gu frowned: "Here? Who sent it?"

"I don't know. It was delivered to my company. The lady at the front desk is so confused that she can't remember the delivery person's face. I've already brought the item home. Would you like to come and have a look?"

Shen Gu looked at his watch and it was still early before dark: "We'll go there right away."

The wedding dress was spread out on the bed, with a high collar, sleeveless waist and mermaid shape, with simple and smooth lines.The pure white base is embroidered with blue patterns, like seaweed and waves, which reminds people of the mysterious ocean, and the nose seems to be lingering with the breath of sea water and sea breeze.There is a ring of pearls on the neckline, and small mother-of-pearls are also inlaid on the hem of the skirt. Zhong Lecen took a closer look: "Very beautiful deep-sea pearls. This material is also crocodile."

Han Jinyue took out another card: "There is still this in the box."

Shen Gu took it over, the card was very thick, like some kind of mineral cut, the color was bright red, the words on it were inlaid with white shells: I wish the lovers grow old together.Zhong Lecen came over and took a look: "This card is made of red coral. It really is something from the sea..."

Xiaokang followed Han Jinyue, with a slightly unhappy expression on his face.Shen Gu looked at them: "Have you had a fight?"

Han Jinyue let out a sigh of relief: "Xiaokang makes people feel bad!"

"how?"

"Today, a friend of mine called me and said that Xiaokang sent her a courtship text message. I was arguing with Xiaokang, but his client also called to ask him why he sent a courtship text message as a joke. After we checked, we don't know Someone took his mobile phone and sent all the numbers in his phone book! Now we're in big trouble! We didn't do anything all day, just call people to explain. Just like that, I offended several people Customer! We are discussing how to investigate this matter!"

"Someone actually did this? Xiaokang, did you offend your colleagues? Did you throw your phone on the table and go out when you were in the company?"

Han Jinyue patted his leg: "Brother Shen, you got the point! There is no one else but colleagues! Xiaokang mentioned the deputy manager of the technical department a while ago, and someone must be jealous! Fortunately, today is April Fool's Day, and there are a few foreigners The customers all took this as a joke, otherwise it would be troublesome! Brother Shen, how can we find this person out? Can we sue him?"

Shen Gu pondered for a while: "Actually, it's not difficult to determine who it is. Xiaokang thinks about the time when he threw his mobile phone on the table, and then thinks about which colleagues were present at that time, and he can understand. Is this kind of thing really going to be sued? No, but is there any definite evidence to prove that it is a problem. And to be honest, even if you sue in the end, the compensation is not enough for the time and energy you spent. If this matter does not cause too much loss, you might as well in the future Be careful."

Han Jinyue nodded again and again, bitterly: "In fact, Xiaokang knows who did it, and he is really cheap!"

Zhong Lecen smiled: "He chose April Fool's Day to do this, obviously he is also guilty, thinking that if he is caught, he will have an excuse. Since Xiaokang knows who it is, it is better to put a higher attitude, so that he can't figure out the truth and don't know you. How do you retaliate? Aren’t you already the deputy manager of the technical department, and you still can’t control him? Put a sword over his head and see if he can live a good life?”

Han Jinyue laughed loudly: "Brother Zhong is right! Hmm, I have to think about it, yes, I have to make this kid sleep well at night! Brother Zhong, you don't know, this text message sent How disgusting. What 'I love you more than my soul', oops, sour!"

Zhong Lecen said with a smile: "Actually, it's good like this. The more sour it is, the less people will believe it's true, and your explanation is also credible. I'm afraid it's the kind that's so plain that you won't be able to explain it clearly."

Han Jinyue's anger came and went quickly, and now he was laughing and joking again: "Brother Shen, I'm really sorry I didn't help you. The person at the front desk is too confused, not many people go there early in the morning , she can't remember what the person who delivered the things looked like!"

Shen Gu waved his hand: "Forget it, I'm sorry to bother you. Now, give me this box. I'll go back and see if I can get my fingerprints detected. Don't worry about other things. If you see Yu Ling or Yu Ling again Man called me immediately."

After leaving Han Jinyue's house, Zhong Lecen was thoughtful: "There are not many people in the morning, and the lady at the front desk can't remember people's faces, maybe it's not because of a bad memory."

Shen Gu immediately remembered what Zuo Jian once said: "The art of obsession..."

"But mermen are special creatures. I have never heard of them being obsessed."

"Isn't it a kind of psychic art that they use their voices to attract people?"

"This one is different...it's hard to explain clearly, but the mermaid's voice is innate, and the obsession technique is an acquired Taoism."

Shen Gu shrugged: "I don't understand. Well, let's go to the resort tonight to watch and see who is here."

After all, it was still early spring, and it was still quite cold at night with the sea breeze blowing.Shen Gu wrapped Zhong Lecen in his arms: "Is it cold?" At this moment, he felt that the resort was too close to the sea, and the wind was cold and hard, with salt and sea smell.

"It's okay." Zhong Lecen put his cold hands into Shen Gu's arms, and yawned a little, "What time is it?"

"It's almost twelve o'clock."

"Still not here……"

Shen Gu glanced at the window of the room: "I don't think Yu Ling may come over. This place is so close to the sea, as long as she sings, I guess that guy will go find her by himself."

Zhong Lecen raised her head and listened carefully: "But there has been no movement so far. And if she sings by the sea, everyone in the resort can hear her, how many people would have to go there?"

As soon as he finished saying this, he vaguely heard the man "Hello" in the room, his voice was urgent, as if he couldn't wait, but after he was fed, there was no movement.After a while, there was another crash as if something had been knocked over, Zhong Lecen was refreshed and stared at the door.But there were several rustling sounds in the room, and there was no movement again.The two waited for a while, Zhong Lecen asked strangely: "Why is there no movement?"

Shen Gu suddenly understood: "Not good! Go in and have a look! The person may have run away!"

The hotel owner was about to close the door and go to sleep, but before he could react, the two people who came in suddenly rushed past him like a whirlwind.Shen Gu kicked open the door, and sure enough there was not even a ghost in the room, the windows were wide open, and the cold wind came in gusts.Shen Gu jumped out of the window, and the seaside was in the distance: "Go!"

Zhong Lecen followed and climbed out of the window, and suddenly realized: "It's a mobile phone! Yu Ling used the mobile phone to lure people away!"

The sea is not far away, but the road is not very smooth, and there are no street lights on both sides, Zhong Lecen stumbled and almost fell, so he had to stare at Shen Gu, ran for a while and then raised his head, the sea water was close at hand.Today is a high tide, the water level rises, and only the tallest reef is exposed on the sea.The moonlight shone down coldly, sprinkled on Ling's body, reflecting a circle of bright silver light.It is definitely a beautiful but weird picture: Yu Ling's long black hair is wet on her body like thick seaweed, setting off her shell-like white skin, below her waist is a huge golden fish tail, each scale is shining With a warm shimmer.She propped her right hand on the reef, but held a mobile phone to her lips in her left hand.Probably because of the mobile phone, her singing voice is not loud, it sounds very light and vague to Zhong Lecen and Shen Gu, like a dream that is hard to catch but tempting.

The man had already stepped into the chest-deep icy sea water, was washed up by the waves so that he could not stand still, but still held a mobile phone to his ear in one hand.A wave came over and overturned him. The phone was probably soaked in water and there was no sound anymore. He seemed to wake up suddenly from a dream, struggling to float up and swim.Shen Gu let go of his voice and shouted: "Come back! This is the shore!"

Yu Ling looked up at them, then suddenly jumped into the water, hugged the man directly, and led him to swim in the deep water.Her movements were quick and powerful, and with a swing of her long fish tail, she moved forward more than ten meters.Shen Gu pulled out his gun with a bang, and with a bang, Yu Ling's tail slapped on the water surface, reflecting a little blood, and then disappeared.Shen Gu tossed off his coat and was about to jump into the water, but Zhong Lecen jumped up and grabbed his waist tightly: "What are you doing!"

"You can't let her take people away!"

"It's too late! That person is dead. You are no match for her in the water!" Zhong Lecen dragged his whole body on the beach, desperately trying to prevent Shen Gu from entering the water. The strength and speed of a human being underwater is equivalent to that of a shark of the same length, and they breathe with their gills! Without a speargun and respirator, no matter how powerful you are, you are no match for her!"

Shen Gu paused, and punched hard on the beach.In fact, Yu Ling will find no one at all after she dives, the black sea is endless, where can he find it?

Zhong Lecen got up and said, "This matter has to be reported. The mermaids generally live in the deep sea, and although they will come ashore, there are almost no incidents of killing people on their own initiative. In fact, the mermaids still retain the habits of animals in some aspects. They mainly kill In order to hunt for prey, or to be encroached on the territory or provoked by attacks. It is extremely rare for Yu Ling to actively kill consecutive people in a short period of time. Humans are not food for mermaids, and neither Qiu Feng nor this man has violated her. The possibility of being territorial, not to mention that she is a female, the sense of territoriality will not be too strong. This thing is too strange."

"Could it be that Qiu Feng pestered her endlessly and angered her?"

"Impossible." Zhong Lecen vetoed, "Do you know the way animals court? Males start pursuing, but females have the right to choose. Males can think of any way to attract attention, but they can't use force. And even if females don't accept its pursuit , just to avoid it, it is never possible for females to kill males because they do not want to be pursued, and of course males will not harm females. This kind of mutual harm between males and females only occurs in human beings .”

Shen Gu had other ideas: "What if Qiu Feng wants to be strong against Ling? Besides, since he is called a mermaid, he has some human habits, right?"

"That's even more impossible. As long as Yu Ling hides in the sea, how else can Qiu Feng find her? There is no need to kill her. And in today's incident, it is obvious that Yu Ling took the initiative to call and use her singing to attract this man to kill her." Dead. At least as we have seen just now, the man did not intend to entangle or attack. On the contrary, Yu Ling took him away after we came, indicating that she intended to kill someone. This is very abnormal. And carefully said Come to think of it, it is abnormal for Yu Ling to take the initiative to leave the sea for a long time to open a shop on land."

"Wait, since sharks refer to sharks in ancient times, aren't sharks ferocious animals?"

"You're not right. There's no such thing as cruelty or non-violence in animals. Sharks attack humans with exactly the same motives as other animals. One is to hunt for food and the other is to maintain territory. Besides, it will not attack humans casually. And there is basically no such thing as cruelty in the records of sharks in the books. When sharks give birth, they need to come ashore. Kill the owner's family."

Shen Gu frowned: "Then why did Yu Ling kill people? You said last time that there are very few records about mermaids in ancient books, and they must be incomplete. Maybe you don't know about other habits of mermaids."

Zhong Lecen pursed his lips in thought, Shen Gu squinted his eyes and took a final look at the sea, and suddenly took a step forward: "Look!"

Zhong Lecen looked up, and there was something floating on the surface of the water, which was gradually pushed to the shore by the waves - it was the body of the man just now.Shen Gu rolled up his trouser legs, waded into the icy sea water and dragged the corpse up.This time, the corpse didn't have a calm expression like Qiu Feng's, but looked completely drowned, with fear and despair still frozen on his face.Shen Gu watched with a heavy heart, but Zhong Lecen suddenly exclaimed: "Where are the three souls and seven souls?"

Shen Gu didn't understand what he meant: "Isn't a person dead?"

"After a person dies, the body is not cold, and the soul will not leave immediately. But the three souls and seven souls of this person are all gone, it seems to be taken away by someone!"

"Is it Yu Ling?"

"Sharks can also collect souls? And what does she want souls for?"

"Yeah... what does she want a soul for? Could it be that the mermaids really have habits that we don't know about?"