Urban Night Returner

"Brother Shen, I want to accompany Xiaochen back to Dongfang's house to get an eye treatment." Xiao Heizi ran to Shen Gu's office with the hastily rushed leave request report, and a pair of huge dark circles were in sight.

"Okay." Shen Gu took it over and approved, "But the time can't be too long. And-Le Cen reckons that Miss Dongfang's eyes may not be cured, if the doctor comes to a conclusion, you have to come back quickly. Even if the matter can be resolved, it may not be that simple. The person behind it may be a big trouble."

"I understand, I'll go for three days." Xiao Heizi hesitated, "I know her eyes may not be cured, but I'm afraid that her family will treat her badly."

Shen Gu understood exactly what he meant.Dongfang Chen's talent is unique in the Dongfang family, but apart from Yinyan, she has no ability to be a descendant of the Dongfang family. If Yinyan is gone, she may lose her value.What Xiao Heizi was worried about was that there would be someone in the Dongfang family who only valued Yin Yan.

"Well, you go. If someone puts face on you, you're welcome!"

"Yes!" Little Heizi turned and ran away.The door was shaken by him, and Liu Wu walked in, "Heizi is gone? The test results are out."

"What is it?" Shen Gu also came back to the office to make a hasty report to the special affairs department because of Dongfang Chen's injury, and he had to go back to work with Zhong Lecen to find a way to solve Bingbing's matter at night.

"Yes - human carbonized tissue."

"what?"

"To put it simply, it is the powder after the human body is burned at high temperature. For example, the skin and muscles will be carbonized after being burned, and slag will fall off when touched--"

"Okay, I understand." Shen Gu waved his hand to interrupt Liu Wu's "simplistic" explanation, "How could this happen? Was it burned by Samadhi fire?"

"Probably not." Liu Wu has always been eager to learn in Dongfang Chen's class, and unlike Xiao Heizi, he is insulated from everything, so he has learned a little deeper than Xiao Heizi. "Miss Dongfang said that most of the The samadhi fire burns the soul, not the body. If there is someone who can drive the samadhi fire to the body, then there will be no tissue left, and all will be burned, not even the ashes."

"What could that be?" Shen Gu thought for a while, but couldn't figure it out for a while, "I'm going back first, and I have to help Le Cen prepare things. Heizi is gone again, so keep an eye on him. If there is anything in the special affairs department, can you Just let it go and wait for me to deal with it." The instructor was injured, this is not a trivial matter, and I don't know how the special affairs department will react.

"I know. But, do you need me to look for it too? The Samadhi Fire won't hurt me. If those two people—or one person and one ghost run away, they might still commit crimes."

"Well, I want to search too, but you can't go alone now. I'm afraid those two things are not easy to mess with, and you can't get hurt again. When Le Cen and I settle the Bingbing matter, let's search together."

Zhong Lecen was tossing around at home, when Shen Gu went back, he saw a pile of red, black and black talisman papers on the table, piled up like a hill, and couldn't help asking: "Do you need so many?"

Zhong Lecen embarrassingly dragged all the piles into the wastebasket, leaving only the bottom few: "No, these are all broken and useless. I want to try to see how far I have recovered now." gone?"

"How far has it recovered?"

"It's better than before, but it's also limited."

"It's normal."

Zhong Lecen lowered his face: "That's right, it's normal... Forget it, that's fine. Fortunately, I can still draw the soul-trapping talisman. However, it's because Bingbing has been in a coma for several days and her soul is unstable, otherwise I wouldn't be able to."

"Are you here to arrest the soul?"

"Well. If those two people didn't realize that we already knew about them, they must still send that little ghost to follow Bingbing to get her soul. If I arrest Bingbing's soul first, the little ghost will definitely wonder where Bingbing's soul is. Go, will definitely show up and look for it, then we can follow it--"

"Then what are you doing now?"

"Doll." Zhong Lecen showed the crookedly sewn rag doll in his hand, "Bingbing's hair is stuffed inside, so I will trap her soul in this doll, which is safer and won't disperse. ...and wait for the matter to be resolved before bringing it back."

"Well," Shen Gu thought about it, and there was only this way, "The powder in the porcelain brand was tested by Liu Wu, and it was—he said it was carbide after burning human tissue."

Zhong Lecen was taken aback: "What? Human tissue? How could there be human tissue? Could it be that people are still being burned in the porcelain kiln--"

Shen Gu suddenly thought of what Zhao's father said: "Do you remember? Bingbing's father said that woman's skin is very dark?"

"You said she was burned to death?" Zhong Lecen immediately understood what he meant, and felt her hair stand on end. "Could it be that she was burned to death in a porcelain kiln?"

"How can a porcelain kiln burn people? Will it use a kiln for sacrifice like a sword?"

"I haven't heard of it...but there must be a reason, otherwise she wouldn't be angry and be a ghost. The porcelain plate is so beautifully fired, and so thin - there are human tissues in it - is it bone ashes? Is it bone china ? Human ashes were used?"

"Bone china?"

"There is bone powder in the raw material of bone china, so it is called this name. Now it is not good to hear the word ashes, so it is called bone china again. But bone china is mainly produced in Britain and Japan, and there are not many made in our country. .”

Shen Gu frowned: "Use human ashes to burn porcelain? How many people will it take?"

One sentence reminded Zhong Lecen: "That's right, bone powder is used in the raw material, but how much porcelain can be made from the burned ashes of a person, let's say an adult? Besides, it's not like before. It's not a trivial matter for a person to disappear. No, impossible, impossible!"

Shen Gu patted him: "Don't think about it so much, first catch that brat who fights, and you'll know everything."

"Yes!" Zhong Lecen tidied up the talismans on the table, "Is everything ready for Bingbing?"

"Ready. Fang Ningyuan asked someone to borrow a morgue in the hospital for us, but it can only be used for tonight."

"Then let's go there now, Yakumo, let's go! I'll have to rely on you later, and follow that brat for me!"

Even though there were no corpses in the mortuary, there was an indescribable eerie atmosphere everywhere, coupled with that strange smell, even if a living person entered, he would feel angry and feel cold all over.

Bingbing's hospital bed has been pushed into the mortuary, she is still sleeping, and the infusion tube has been pulled out, her face has become as white as a dead person's, the white is still blue, and the breathing is extremely subtle, if you don't look carefully, it will really make you feel sick. She was treated as a corpse.

Zhao's father was standing close to the hospital bed. Ever since he entered the mortuary, he was shaking, as if he was afraid that his daughter would never get out again.The past few days had already worn him down, when he saw Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen coming in, he wanted to go over and talk, but his feet were weak and he couldn't move a step away.Seeing him like this, Zhong Lecen sighed, walked over and said softly: "Uncle, don't be like this, we will try our best, if you stand here, it will affect us, let's go out and rest first. How can your body bear it, wait Bingbing woke up, if something happened to you, wouldn't she be sad?"

Han Jinyue has been accompanying him all the way for the past few days. After listening to Zhong Lecen's words, he saw that Zhao's father was no longer so stubborn, so he came over to help him: "Uncle, let's go, we will only hinder them in this way, let's go, let's go."

The two living people went out, and the room seemed a little more gloomy.Shen Gu didn't take it seriously, walked over to close the door of the morgue, took out a diaper from his backpack and spread it at the door, then opened a bottle of blue and black pen water, poured it all on the diaper , what was not absorbed flowed down and formed a small puddle on the ground.Zhong Lecen glanced back, and said in a low voice, "You bought a fake product, so you can't finish the fountain pen with such a small amount of water."

Shen Gu rolled his eyes: "Didn't you say you want to buy cheap ones?"

Zhong Lecen made a grimace, and pointed to the empty iron mortuary bed next to him: "You go up first." After Shen Gu took the dog ghost on the iron bed, he took out the doll, walked to Bing Bing's head, and put a The talisman was pasted between her eyebrows, and then she began to chant the mantra in a low voice.Standing in the talisman array, Shen Gu watched as the candlelight kept flickering, some bluish-black mist-like things floated out of Bingbing's head, and were sucked in by the doll in Zhong Lecen's hand.When the fog finally disappeared, Zhong Lecen used his free hand to lift the sheet covering her body and covered her face.

Shen Gu felt a chill down his back.Although he knew that Bingbing was still alive, but covering his face with a white cloth like this made people suddenly feel like Yin and Yang were separated.Zhong Lecen put away the doll, quickly ran to the iron bed, climbed onto the bed, pulled the sheet, covered the two of them and the dog under it thoughtlessly, and whispered: "Don't talk, don't gasp. Wait Don’t move when you see anything for a while, and we will follow after it leaves.”

The lights in the mortuary are always a little blue-yellow white, like the face of a dead person, which is indescribably weird.Zhong Lecen carefully lifted the bed sheet a small slit, exposing his eyes to look out.Shen Gu hugged his waist from behind: "Be careful not to fall." The iron bed on which the corpse rested could only accommodate one person, but now there are two people and a dog, it is indeed a bit crowded.

Zhong Lecen wanted to knock his hand down but didn't dare to move around. Just as he was about to speak, the two doors suddenly creaked softly, as if being blown by the wind, revealing a thin crack. In an instant, the two people under the bed sheet were both screened. Hold your breath.

The door was only a crack open and would not move.The poor-quality diapers on the floor were full of pen water and became fat. Shen Gu squinted his eyes slightly, and suddenly found that the slightly convex surface of the diapers sank slightly, as if something was on it Stepped on it.This change is very subtle, and under such dim light, if you are not very good-sighted and staring at it, you will not notice it at all.

The door was still at the position it was just now, and it was impossible for creatures fatter than earthworms to squeeze through that thin crack anyway.However, after the diaper sank slightly, two small footprints appeared on the ground in front of it.The footprints are narrow and small, only half of an adult.The floor tiles laid on the floor of the mortuary are black-gray, and the blue-black pen water is not very conspicuous on it, but Shen Gu can still clearly recognize that they are two with five toes but no heel marks.

After two footprints appeared, two more footprints without heels appeared alternately, extending from the door to Bingbing's hospital bed.Although nothing could be seen, and the footprints were not conspicuous, both people under the sheets knew that something had come in.

The sheet covering Bing Bing's face moved slightly and was slowly lifted up.Shen Gu felt Zhong Lecen's back tense all of a sudden. Whether he can succeed depends on whether he can fool this "thing" into believing that Bingbing is indeed "dead".

The bed sheet was suspended in mid-air, revealing a icy pale face.The temperature in the morgue is low, and the ups and downs of the chest and abdomen cannot be seen. Bingbing is indeed exactly like a dead person.

The sheet hung for a while, then fell off, covering Bingbing's face again.Footprints appeared scatteredly on the ground in front of the hospital bed, and the thing seemed to be confused and kept spinning.After a while, it seemed that he finally gave up, turned around, and the footprints stretched from the hospital bed to the door again. Finally, the diaper sank slightly again, and there was no more movement.

Zhong Lecen threw off the bed sheet and jumped to the ground, ran over and pushed open the door.After leaving the morgue, the floor tiles were yellowish-white that could not be wiped clean after a long time. Now, the blue-black footprints were very conspicuous.Shen Gu could tell at a glance that the distance between the footprints had increased. They turned around the corridor and found that the footprints disappeared in front of a window: "That thing was found! It's running away!"

Zhong Lecen pushed open the window and pointed to the ground: "Yakumo, hurry up!" The dog ghost sniffed the footprints on the ground, jumped onto the window sill, and took the lead to jump out.Outside the window is the garden of the hospital. At night, only the lights of the inpatient department can barely illuminate. Although it is not invisible, the shadow cast by the pine trees is shaky. It is not as good as no light at all.The dog ghost sniffed all the way through the garden to the back door of the hospital.The back door was locked, and the dog ghost shrank his body and easily passed through the iron fence that was only one fist wide.With an approach run, Shen Gu easily hopped on the flower bed, grabbed the iron railing with one hand, and climbed over the iron gate.Poor Zhong Lecen didn't have such good skills. The anti-theft iron bars on the top of the iron gate were still pointed. It was not difficult for him to climb up, but he was afraid that his pants would be ripped if he wanted to turn over. At the first sound of car tires rubbing against the ground, Shen Gu's expression changed: "Run away! I'll chase after him, don't worry!"

The dog ghost has already chased after him.But no matter how fast Shen Gu ran, it was impossible to catch up with the car with two legs.He saw a broken motorcycle parked by the side of the road at a glance, it was probably locked here by the plumber after get off work, so he raised Jin Tiezhiying to cut off the steel chain lock, started the car and followed.

In front was a black car. Shen Gu thought it looked like a BMW A6, but the license plate and logo had been removed.Shen Gu maximized the throttle of the motorcycle, booming like a tractor, but a broken motorcycle is a broken motorcycle, even if it sounds like an F1, it can never have the speed of an F1.If it weren't for the many illegally parked vehicles on both sides of the road, he would have been dumped long ago.On the contrary, the dog ghost is light and convenient, and he chases after the car, but the closer he chases.

The car passed a street light, and a cleaner's garbage truck was parked under the street light. The two handlebars stretched out from the curb, and the car directly hit it, knocking the garbage truck into the wall, but the speed of the car was also slowed down. The dog ghost took this opportunity to jump with all his strength, and had already chased after the car, jumped up and slammed into the rear windshield.

The car made a screeching brake sound, turned sharply, and turned sideways.Suddenly a little light flew out of the car window, and Shen Gu shouted: "Yakumo, get out of here!" Ever since he had Jin Tiezhiying, he didn't often carry double-edged daggers and telescopic sticks. He got off the rearview mirror on the motorcycle, shook his hand and threw it out.

The rearview mirror collided with the light, and there was a bang like a thunder. The golden light was dazzling, and the dog ghost was blown away, hit the wall heavily, and then fell to the ground.The car turned around sharply again, and Shen Gu, in a hurry, threw Jin Tiezhiying out with his hands.Jin Tiezhiying pierced through the air, made a sharp whistling sound, inserted it from the right side of the car trunk, passed through the tire, and completely split the right half of the car body.The tire was scrapped with a bang, and the car that had just started lurched to the right and rushed into a lane of cars on the side of the road. After a series of collisions and deformations, it was stuck.Jin Tiezhiying got out from the front of the car, unexpectedly turned a corner, and returned to Shen Gu's hand.

Shen Gu grasped Jin Tiezhiying instinctively, and was stunned for a while, never expecting that this treasure can automatically locate and return.After making up his mind, he cautiously walked towards the car.After taking two steps, the car suddenly shook a few times, but the door was completely deformed and could not be opened at all.Shen Gu took another step, the air suddenly fluctuated like water, a strong suction pulled him to stumble forward a few steps, and quickly stood firm.I saw that the entire broken car shrank inward and trembled because of this force.But it was only ten seconds before the power suddenly disappeared.When Shen Gu rushed to the front of the car and looked through the shattered glass, the car was empty, with no one left...