Urban Night Returner

"Merren?" Dongfang Chen frowned and shook his head, "This kind of spirit has no soul, I can't see it, so I don't know anything except what is recorded in the book."

"No soul?" Xiao Heizi couldn't help interjecting, "Could it be like in the fairy tale that after death, it will turn into foam in the sea?"

Dongfang Chen has been here in Binhai for the past few days, and he finally got used to the situation where the railing spoke. Although he was still unavoidably startled, he was able to cover it up well: "Although the fairy tale is a fairy tale, it also tells part of the truth. Shark It is said that human footprints are all over the four oceans, so Hans Christian Andersen may have seen it."

Shen Gu was a little disappointed.Zhong Lecen frowned: "No soul? Since there is no soul, what does Yu Ling want that man's soul to do?"

Dongfang Chen said flatly: "The ghosts who died in the water may stay in the water and never come ashore."

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "No. I can still tell whether the ghost left the body naturally or was taken away by someone."

Dongfang Chen turned his head to Zhong Lecen.Although she was wearing sunglasses, Zhong Lecen could still feel her scrutinizing gaze: "What's wrong? Is there any problem with me?"

Dongfang Chen was silent for a while, then slowly said: "Before I came, Grandpa told me that you are a person without spiritual power."

Shen Gu immediately became vigilant: "So what?"

"But when I saw you, you were not without spiritual power."

Zhong Lecen smiled calmly: "What's so strange about this? The so-called lack of spiritual power is because the children of our Zhong family are born with spiritual power, and their talents are shallow. The same has no spiritual power. Second, I have things from the Zhong family on me, such as Yangsui Mirror. I have no spiritual power, and things have spiritual power. What is so strange about it?"

Dongfang Chen shook his head slightly, thoughtfully: "No. Your spiritual power is very strange, I have never seen it before."

Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen looked at each other, but didn't speak.There was a moment of silence in the room, when Xiao Heizi's cell phone rang suddenly, breaking the silence.

"Oh, okay, I see, thank you, I'll buy you a drink next time." Xiao Heizi hung up the phone and turned to Shen Gu, "Brother Shen, the identity of the deceased on the river bank has been revealed, he is a foreigner, his name is Lu Jin , I arrived at Binhai a week ago, saying that I came to travel and stayed in a youth hostel."

"Lu Jin?" Dongfang Chen tilted his head, "Could it be that Lu Jin?"

"Which Lu Jin?"

"A stalker affiliated with the Celestial Masters Association."

"What's a hunter?"

Zhong Lecen explained: "It's a freelance celestial master similar to a bounty hunter. They will pick up tasks wherever there is a task. When there is no task, they can go anywhere."

"Lu Jin's age, appearance, height?"

Dongfang Chen smiled softly: "How would I know these things. But I know that his soul from the previous life was a wandering doctor."

"I'll check." Zhong Lecen skillfully entered an address online, and after a while Lu Jin's information popped up, Shen Gu exhaled: "It's him." The dead is exactly Lu Jin.

"Lu Jin's ability is quite good among hunters." Dongfang Chen recalled, "Jai Zi... the son of the ancient dragon, I have never seen such ancient spiritual power."

"Heizi, is the composite portrait out?"

"It's already come out. But... Those two little Japanese are really not special, and they will definitely not be able to pick them out if they are thrown into the crowd. Even if you look at the portraits, you may not remember them."

Shen Gu tapped on the table a little irritably.The two people from Tu Yumen's family had no clues, and Yu Ling dived into the sea again. The two cases seemed to have no clue at once.

"The man who was drowned by Yu Ling was Wang Tao, the sales manager of a silk export company. He had a fiancée named Zhou Bi who lived on Anshan Road. They were married on May [-]st. But from Wang Tao's phone call According to the records, he has been in frequent contact with Yu Ling's number since February, and has many text messages."

"Well, Heizi, go to the youth hostel right away, bring Lu Jin's luggage over, and check it in front of Miss Dongfang to see if you can find any clues. Le Cen, come with me to Zhou Bi's house."

Zhou Bi is a capable person in an accounting firm, with short shaved hair, wearing silver-rimmed glasses, and the image of a shrewd and capable strong woman. The lines on her face are inevitably sharp and stiff.She was completely unaware of the connection between Wang Tao and Yu Ling, and even when Shen Gu asked her if she knew Wang Tao's whereabouts, she just shrugged: "He has his job, and I usually don't interfere or ask."

Shen Gu looked at her speechlessly, thinking that she was married with such indifferent feelings: "We have some bad news to inform you that Mr. Wang Tao died."

Zhou Bi was stunned for a moment: "Dead?"

"Yes. He was found drowned by the sea at Shazikou."

Zhou Bi frowned: "He told me he was going on a business trip for the next few days, so why did he die in the mouth of the sand?" At this time, what she showed was not sadness, but annoyance at being deceived.

"The current situation is unclear, so we came to you, hoping to cooperate with our investigation."

Zhou Bi seemed to realize that Wang Tao was dead at this time, and he would never come back to see him again. A little sadness appeared on his face: "Why should I cooperate? I am very busy with work, and so is he, usually We will make an appointment to meet on weekends, and we are usually busy with our own time."

Shen Gu hesitated for a moment, and decided to get straight to the point. After all, seeing Zhou Bi and Wang Tao like this, they probably don't have any deep feelings: "Do you know that he often contacts a woman named Yu Ling?"

"Yu Ling?" Zhou Bi thought for a while, "Oh, the one who makes wedding dresses?"

"Do you know?" Shen Gu didn't look like she was surprised.

"What? Did Yu Ling kill him?"

"No. We just found out in his cell phone bill that he was closely connected with this woman. So, you know about it?"

"I know." Zhou Bi sneered slightly, "Yu Ling is pretty, man, how can there be a cat that doesn't eat fish? But Yu Ling is a foreigner, and there is nothing but that small shop, and Wang Tao will not talk to her. Married. And we haven't had a drink to get the certificate yet, so I just turned a blind eye. If he dares to do this again after marriage, then I will not be polite. "

Zhong Lecen suddenly said: "So, Mr. Wang Tao really has the intention of pursuing Ling?"

Zhou Bi said indifferently: "I guess there must be? Please eat, send ambiguous text messages, send flowers, these are indispensable. Wang Tao is a businessman, and he still knows these methods."

Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen looked at each other, both a little speechless.What's the matter?People who are getting married, is that right?

"So you acquiesce in such a thing?"

Zhou Bi shrugged: "Aren't all men like this now? He sent me a text message on Valentine's Day this year, and he also sent the same text message to Yu Ling, pretending that I didn't know about it. In fact, I had checked his phone long ago. "

Zhong Lecen's heart moved: "What is the content of that text message, do you still keep it?"

"It was deleted a long time ago. I still remember a sentence like 'you and my soul blend' or something, and I don't know which poetry collection he copied it from. If you want to ask about him and Yu Ling, I know That's all."

Walking out of Zhou Bi's house, Zhong Lecen couldn't help but said, "Why are they getting married like this!"

"Then who knows. Now these people..."

"I found out that there might be a little connection between the two deceased."

"The two dead? You mean Wang Tao and Lu Jin?"

"No. I mean Wang Tao and Qiu Feng."

"Aren't they all killed by Yu Ling?"

"It's not just this. The connection I'm talking about is—they all mentioned the soul to Yu Ling."

Shen Gu immediately remembered: "That's right. Xiao Nan said that Qiu Feng once wrote a love letter, saying that he would 'dedicate his soul to you'; now Wang Tao's text message also said that the soul blended...you mean, Yu Is Ling really collecting their souls?"

"According to what Xue Ming and the others said in recent months, Yu Yue should have been pregnant last summer."

Shen Gu thought about it for a while: "Yes."

"But the gestation period of a mermaid is six months, and she should have given birth by the time we saw her."

"Huh?" Shen Gu frowned, "What does this mean? Does it mean that the child is not Zhou Zhi's?"

"No. I want to say that perhaps the six-month gestation period refers to the fetus of a mermaid and a mermaid, while the gestation period of a human fetus is nine months or a little longer."

"The child of a human and a mermaid... so the pregnancy will be long?"

"Not only this, but the main reason is that I have never heard that humans and mermaids can combine to have children, so..."

"Is there any problem? Mermaids, at least they also have the character "Human"? Can't they have children?"

"No!" Zhong Lecen rubbed the center of his brows with a headache, "Have you ever thought about it? Humans have souls, but mermaids don't have souls, so what will the children born be like?"

Shen Gu immediately thought of it: "Then Yu Ling killed for Yu Yue's child?"

"I have an idea."

Shen Gu lightly returned his hand and gave him a shudder: "If you have an idea, hurry up and say it!"

Zhong Lecen touched the place where he was beaten and gave him a look: "I think, in Andersen's fairy tales, the little mermaid's sisters asked her to kill the prince with a knife, saying that letting the blood flow to her legs would make her The legs revert to become fish tails and return to the sea."

Shen Gu has never read fairy tales since he was a child, so he barely knows the general meaning of "The Daughter of the Sea", but he doesn't understand the details at all: "Well, what's wrong here?"

"Do you see that Yu Ling's legs need human blood to turn back into fishtails?"

"Of course not."

"Then why does the little mermaid kill the prince to return to the sea?"

Shen Gu has nothing to say.This is a fairy tale, right?But he immediately remembered that Zhong Lecen once found a way to kill Chaos from a fairy tale with only one sentence, and immediately began to think: "Maybe what she wants is not blood, but the soul of the prince. But mermaids don't have souls, what she wants is For children?"

"What if the little mermaid is pregnant with the prince's child?"

Shen Gu understood what he meant: "It's like Yu Yue is pregnant with Zhou Zhi's child? Does the child need a soul?"

"As I said, sharks still maintain some animal habits. Last time I said that animals will not harm each other between male and female, but I forgot that spiders and praying mantises maintain the reproduction of females eating males. Habit."

Shen Gu was taken aback: "You mean that males must be sacrificed for the reproduction of mermaids? No, I remember fairy tales saying that little mermaids seem to have a father."

"Perhaps the mermaids don't need to reproduce, and the mermaids don't need a soul. But humans do. If there is no soul, human beings are just a shell."

"Oh—so Yu Ling chooses Qiu Feng and Wang Tao to attack, because they have been courteous to her, and in her eyes, they are her males?"

"No. You didn't understand me. I just said that they all mentioned souls to Ling."

"Oh!" Now Shen Gu understood completely, "Because they all said that they were willing to give their souls to Yu Ling, so Yu Ling chose to collect their souls?"

"That's right. In the natural world, no male beast will pretend to be courteous to a female beast, so Yu Ling will not think that Qiu Feng and Wang Tao are just hypocritical, she will think that they are telling the truth."

"Or rather, they brought the blame on themselves." Shen Gu added, "Once a word is spoken, it is hard to follow. If you say something, you will be responsible."

"Yes. In fact, the mermaid's singing is also the same, those who wish to take the bait."

Shen Gu knocked on the steering wheel: "Although the wisher took the bait, killing is also a crime."

"They are mermaids, without human legal concepts."

"But you can't let Yuling kill people like this."

Zhong Lecen sighed: "I want to go back and check the information. The problem is that I don't know what happened to Yu Yue's child and I need a human soul. If I can find out and solve it, I think Yu Ling will not kill anyone again. gone."

"Can the Celestial Masters Association get in touch with the Merman?"

"The mermaids have no connection with humans. Sea people are all like this. They don't like the land, and they don't like to have too much relationship with other people. Generally speaking, there is only one chance to meet the sea people, and that is Haishi."

"A sea? A mirage?"

"The sea and the mirage are actually two concepts. The sea is a market opened by the sea race. Only in the sea are they willing to establish a little contact with the foreign race through transactions. The mirage refers to the illusion created by the mirage. It doesn’t actually exist. It’s just that very few people know how to enter the sea city, and they are often lucky enough to see it but have no chance to participate in it. Over time, they will think that the sea is also an illusion, and they will be confused with mirage.”

Shen Gu was a little curious: "How can I enter Haishi?"

"Oh, that needs a token from the Hai Clan. The token will be contaminated with the aura of the Sea Clan. Only in this way can it be accepted by Haishi, otherwise it will only be out of reach."

While the two were talking, Shen Gu's cell phone rang again, and it was Xiao Heizi: "Brother Shen, where are you? When are you coming back? We found some clues in Lu Jin's stuff, come back and have a look?"

Lu Jin is a hunter.Hunters are generally not too talented and are not valued by the Celestial Masters Association, so they generally don't receive too many tasks from the Celestial Masters Association and have to make a living by themselves.Ordinary hunters have their own jobs, and the celestial master may only be a deputy, but Lu Jin is a professional hunter, which is his main job.Because all the actions of the Celestial Masters must be reported to the Celestial Masters Association on time, so the content of all the jobs he took is stored in his laptop.Xiao Heizi found out the latest one, because a certain company wanted to build a resort in a certain place, but there were frequent accidents after it was built, so he was asked to clean it up.After Lu Jin went there, he found a nine-headed bird entrenched there.He killed the nine-headed bird, and traced the origin of the nine-headed bird all the way, so he chased it to Binhai.The record mentioned the accident of the Jinyu Building that year, and mentioned——

"White Tiger Jade?" Zhong Lecen's eyes widened, "Why did White Tiger Jade appear in the jade market?"

"That's what it said." Xiao Heizi pointed to the words on the computer screen, "Lu Jin saw this item being bought by someone on Wenhua Street. He didn't realize that it was Qiongqi, but he felt that there was something ominous about this jade. So I paid attention to it. I will stop here. Speaking of which, since he paid attention to Baihuyu, why did he die in the hands of Yazi in the end?"

Zhong Lecen was thinking about another thing: "Isn't the white tiger jade in the hands of that Korean Kim Kwang-soo? I told him that he must be careful, how could he sell it?"

Shen Gu was thinking differently from him: "Who is the person who bought that piece of jade? Do you want to die? Heizi, you should check right away. Who did you sell that piece of jade to?"

Zhong Lecen also jumped up: "I'll go ask Kim Kwang Soo, what's the matter with him!"

"You don't need to ask." Xiao Heizi scratched his head, "I've already checked, Kim Kwang-soo's business is bad, the financial turmoil has affected him a lot, he has already returned to China, and he probably disposed of everything in China. He spent a lot of money to buy that piece of jade at the time, and he probably sold it again because he was reluctant to waste the money."

"Then go to Wenhua Street and quickly find out the whereabouts of the jade. Le Cen and I will go, and Heizi, you can search carefully to see if there is any clue about the piece of Qinglong jade that Jai Zi has."