Urban Night Returner

It was past nine o'clock when Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen left Jilian.Jiang Quan's tongue was so big that he insisted on coming out to see them off, he patted Shen Gu's back desperately: "Brother, thank you! Wonderful! Awesome! Then what, Le Cen, a good guy, rare! Can you meet again?" Cooking, you have a good temper, brother, you made money—" He put his thumb up under Shen Gu's nose, but Wu Ning slapped it down, and while apologizing, he carried him back, and he was still there The wolf howled, "Le Cen, this is good! Then whoever is surnamed Su, kick him!"

Zhong Lecen blushed up to the neck and pretended not to hear that she got into Shen Gu's car.After the car drove for a while, he lowered the temperature on his face, and said embarrassingly, "I'm sorry, Jiang Quan drank too much."

Shen Gu glanced at the scar on his neck, and said lightly: "It's nothing. But Su Wan is so famous, it seems that your domestic violence is not a day or two."

Zhong Lecen explained weakly: "They all misunderstood, Su Wan is really not my boyfriend - he is not in this circle at all."

"If it's not your boyfriend, then you can't let him fight. Do you owe him?"

Zhong Lecen lowered his head and said softly after a long time: "I owe him..."

Shen Gu raised an eyebrow: "Owe him money?" No matter how you look at it, it seems that Zhong Lecen is raising Su Wan.

Zhong Lecen shook his head, but did not speak.After all, we don't know each other very well, and people don't want to talk about it, so it's not easy for Shen Gu to ask again.The car became quiet, Zhong Lecen rested his head on the window and was lost in thought.The lights in the car were not turned on, only the light of street lamps shone in from time to time.In the darkness, Zhong Lecen's outline became brighter instead, and his whole body seemed to be shimmering.

There were few cars on the road, and we arrived in Taitung soon.Shen Gu saw the tall billboard from a distance: "Here we are."

Zhong Lecen took off his glasses and looked around: "Where is the shop?"

Shen Gu stopped the car: "It's just behind the billboard." However, when he walked over with Zhong Lecen, he was speechless.Behind the billboard was a faded wall, not even a rat hole, let alone a facade.Zhong Lecen was not surprised, put on his glasses and carefully looked at the location Shen Gu pointed out for a long time, then took out a pen and a piece of yellow paper, and drew on the paper on the spot.Shen Gu smelled a strange smell, and the lines drawn were all dark red, obviously not some fountain pen: "What's in it?"

"Black dog's blood and cinnabar." Zhong Lecen folded up the talisman paper he had drawn, and lit it with a flick of his hand, slowly smoking it on the wall.After a while, the shadow of a door appeared faintly on the wall.Zhong Lecen frowned: "Ghost shop."

Now Shen Gu didn't have any special reaction when he heard what kind of ghost or demon: "What kind of ghost is it?"

Zhong Lecen tried to push the shadow on the wall, the shadow seemed to sway, revealing a crack, but it didn't open, instead a fruit core rolled out from the crack of the door.Zhong Lecen leaned over to pick it up: "Redberry core? Tiger head, general seal——ghost!"

Shen Gu frowned: "What?" Although there was a shadow of a door on the wall, the wall was still a wall, and the bayberry core just rolled down from the wall.If something pops out of the screen when you are watching a movie, it will feel awkward even if you are bold.

Zhong Lecen nodded affirmatively: "It's a ghost. You know the saying of being a tiger for a tiger. '伥' means a ghost. A person who is killed by a tiger becomes a ghost after death and is enslaved by a tiger. A ghost is acid-loving, Calling the tiger a general, the so-called seal of the general is the imprint of the tiger's soul. It is commonly said that the spirit of the dead tiger is buried in the ground and turns into amber for a thousand years, so the tiger's eyes are carved in amber, and it will flourish as a monster."

Shen Gu rubbed his chin, not quite used to this set of rhetoric.Zhong Lecen talked a lot when he talked about these things, and his expression was full of confidence and indescribable vividness.

"So, both Luo Wei and Luo Man were killed by ghosts?"

The brilliance on Zhong Lecen's face disappeared, and he lowered his head: "It's a pity that my spiritual power is too low. Since you have entered this store, there will be marks on your body. If I can detect it, maybe I can save them."

Shen Gu frowned: "This has nothing to do with you. What's the matter with you pulling it on yourself?"

Zhong Lecen lowered his head, twitched the bayberry core between his fingers, and smiled wryly: "If a person with deep knowledge can rely on this bayberry core, he may be able to trace the whereabouts of the ghost, I..."

Shen Gu took the fruit core from his hand and threw it far away: "It's nothing to do with you. Go, I'll take you back."

Zhong Lecen was dragged away by him, and turned around to pick up the bayberry core: "But the ghost will harm people again, so we have to find it."

Shen Gu suddenly remembered something: "There is a person, I know he has also entered this store, and he may even know that ghost—"

Pang Fengyun was alone in 502. When Shen Gu asked about Mai Mai's residence, he shook his head: "Mai Mai has only been here for a few days, and he only said that he lived in the area behind Fushan, but he didn't know the exact address. And he has already left. I can't go on anymore. Lily's parents told her to go home, Lu Wei found a photography job in a wedding company, and I also interviewed for a few places, and I might work in an advertising company." He looked disappointed, after all, "Allure" There is already a certain market, and no one will feel uncomfortable if the results of the construction by oneself are destroyed.

"Do you have Mai Mai's phone number?"

"Oh—" Pang Fengyun found out a PHS number.But when Shen Gu called the past, it was "the number you dialed is not in the service area".Pang Fengyun patted his forehead: "By the way, it seems that Mai Mai said that he would go back to his hometown to see his grandmother or something, and he may have already left Binhai City."

Shen Gu looked at Zhong Lecen, and Zhong Lecen also looked at him, with a look of worry and self-blame on his face.His hair was soft and fell limply over his forehead, covering his eyes.Shen Gu reached out his hand to brush his hair away, turned halfway through his hand, and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't look like this, let's go, I will take you back. Although he has seen that guy, he may not Something will happen. I've seen it too, isn't there nothing wrong now?"

Zhong Lecen shook his head: "You said that there is a tiger-headed mirror hanging on the door?"

Shen Gu nodded: "Yes. The mirror is in the tiger's mouth. If you see yourself in the mirror, it's like being bitten in the tiger's mouth."

Zhong Lecen said thoughtfully: "Maybe this is the key. Not everyone who enters the store can see the accessories with tiger heads, at least you didn't see it at the time. Maybe it's because you didn't see your own face in the mirror Related. I think the lady who bought the tiger head ring must have seen her own face in the mirror."

Shen Gu thought for a while: "What about Luo Man? She may not have been in that jewelry store. Besides, it is said that she was bitten to death by a dog raised in the orchard."

Zhong Lecen frowned: "Are you sure?"

Shen Gu shrugged.He is not the criminal policeman who handles the case, nor is he a forensic doctor, how could he know?

"I'll go find out."

Zhong Lecen nodded: "If ghosts kill people, they won't just kill one or two people, but if many people die inexplicably, they will definitely attract the attention of the police. Now there is no way to hide any secrets. It is impossible that there will be no news in the newspapers. news, so ghosts will definitely not blatantly kill people, but gradually absorb people's spirits. Just like Miss Luo Wei, who appears to have a heart attack on the surface, but is actually sucked dry by the minions bit by bit. But the tiger head If the ring has killed a person, it may have more power, so I think it is not the dog that bites the person..."

Shen Gu pondered: "That makes sense. It is said that there are not very few people in Laoshan. Although it is not yet the season for eating cherries, it is impossible for a few dogs to chase a person and bite such a big movement. None... But, if it's not a dog, could it be—" He thought of Luo Man's terrifyingly distorted face, and didn't say any more.

Zhong Lecen was thoughtful: "If we go to the scene to see, maybe we can find something?"

Shen Gu frowned: "Tomorrow I will take a shift. I will go to the bureau to inquire first. If I have any clues, I will come to you. By the way, give me a mobile phone number."

During the time the two talked, they had already reached their destination.The alley was still too narrow to drive in. Just as Zhong Lecen was about to get out of the car, Shen Gu suddenly pulled him back: "There is someone!" Before he could finish speaking, a man jumped out from the side of the road and grabbed onto the window of the car. ——The faint light of the overhead light illuminates Su Wan's alcohol-smelling face.Shen Gu frowned, got out of the car from the other side, and dragged Su Wan aside with his collar: "What are you doing!"

Su Wan stared at him drunkenly for a while, then laughed: "No wonder I came back so late, so I have a good friend! Well, rich man?" He wobbled and turned to Zhong Lecen, "Do you really think I don't know anything? When I was blind? I already knew, what bar did you go to, what lotus?"

Zhong Lecen's face turned pale.Shen Gu turned Su Wan to himself: "What are you talking about!"

Su Wan stared: "What are you doing? Do it?"

Zhong Lecen came over with a pale face and interposed between the two: "Su Wan, why don't you go home?"

"I didn't bring the key!" Su Wan wobbled and turned around, "What's the matter? Afraid I might see it?"

Zhong Lecen took a deep breath: "There is nothing to be afraid of, you know it when you know it, I am such a person. It's cold outside, go back."

Su Wan rolled his eyes and looked at him for a while, rolled his eyeballs with difficulty, and showed a weird smile: "Yes, go home, go home." While talking, he actually walked forward while shaking his head.Zhong Lecen lowered his head and quickly said "goodbye" to Shen Gu, and hurriedly followed him to support him.The alley was very dark, and the figures of the two quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Shen Gu went to the police station early the next morning, looking for the little policeman from yesterday.The little policeman seemed to have stayed up all night again, and his two dark circles were comparable to pandas. When he saw Shen Gu, his panda eyes widened: "Why is it you again?"

It's really hard for Shen Gu to speak, he can't come up and tell people that the murderer is a ghost, probably no one will believe it, right?

"Several friends of the deceased's sister heard about this incident and were very concerned. Let me ask, is there any conclusion? Why did the person die?"

The little policeman looked at him very vigilantly: "As I said last time, you are not a family member, so we cannot tell you."

Shen Gu frowned, and was thinking about how to persuade him, when someone walked in at the door: "Little Heizi, how are you?"

The little policeman looked up: "Left team, this is a friend of the deceased's sister, who came to ask about the situation—"

Shen Gu turned his head and looked: "Captain Zuo?" This is exactly the Zuo Jian he met in the institute.

Zuo Jian obviously remembered him: "Oh, it's Officer Shen."

"Leader Zuo can just call me Shen Gu. I don't dare to call me a police officer when I'm a police officer."

Zuo Jian smiled: "Then I will call you Xiao Shen. What? Do you know the deceased?"

"It should be said that he knew the sister of the deceased."

"Oh——" Zuo Jian hesitated, "Come to my office and talk."

Zuo Jian's office is very clean and ordinary, nothing out of the ordinary.Shen Gu looked around calmly, thinking of what that weird white radish said to Zuo Jian last time, he secretly became suspicious.Zuo Jian closed the door and poured a glass of water: "Sit down. I heard that you retired from the special forces?"

Shen Gu frowned.He doesn't want to talk to anyone about retirement.But Zuo Jian didn't seem to see his displeasure: "I heard that you retired because you accidentally injured innocent people during your mission?"

Shen Gu said lightly: "Captain Zuo, this should have nothing to do with the deceased's cause of death, right?"

Zuo Jian smiled: "It doesn't matter, I just inquired about it."

Shen Guyang raised his eyebrows: "What does Captain Zuo mean when he asks me?"

Zuo Jian smiled: "I just think that with such skills, it's too inferior to be a police officer."

Shen Gu didn't speak, and took a sip from the water glass.He didn't want to bring up the past in front of others, and it was only occasionally in the middle of the night that he couldn't stop thinking about the pride and glory of the past.After a long while, he said calmly: "Isn't Captain Zuo going to talk about that case? I heard that Captain Zuo is here to fight drugs. Why is this case also under Captain Zuo's control?"

"Actually, Luo Man is also selling drugs."

Shen Gu was a little surprised now: "Luo Man?"

Zuo Jian nodded: "The so-called classmate of Luo Man sold soft drugs. Luo Man also sold ecstasy in disco bars, but her death does not seem to have anything to do with drug trafficking."

Shen Gu hesitated for a moment, and went straight to the point: "Did Luo Man be bitten to death by a dog? Or by something else—"

Zuo Jian's eyes lit up: "What else?"

The two looked at each other, each wanting to see something in the other's eyes, and finally Zuo Jian gave in first: "Forensic examination, the deceased had scars from big cats..."

Shen Gu was stunned, Zuo Jian had already asked, "What do you know?"

Shen Gu pondered for a moment, then silently said a word: "伥."

Zuo Jian leaned forward with piercing eyes: "You also know?"

The two looked at each other again, and for a moment, Zuo Jian laughed: "I never thought that you, a special soldier, would actually—"

Shen Gu said lightly: "You are still the third-level police superintendent, isn't it the same? Besides, I don't understand these things. It was a friend of mine who said it."

"Can I meet that friend of yours?" Zuo Jian was a little excited, "If the ghost is not eradicated, it will continue to harm people. If your friend is also in this industry, we can meet each other and cooperate to get rid of this scourge."

Shen Gu pondered for a while: "I can tell my friend, but I can't guarantee what he said."

Zuo Jian nodded: "Okay. At least I know there are people who are like-minded."

Shen Gu glanced at him: "Since Captain Zuo understands this, why is he still a policeman?"

Zuo Jian smiled wryly, and took out a cigarette case from his pocket: "One?"

Shen Gu accepted it.Zuo Jian took out a lighter and lit it for the two of them, and blew a smoke ring: "My father is a celestial master, and he is very talented. He is the most talented in our family for several generations. However, he died of drug addiction. The celestial master Suppressing demons and catching ghosts, but the people killed by ghosts are far less than those killed by drugs. So I decided to become a policeman from then on, and handle drug cases. I worked on the border for four years, and was later After being injured, I went back to the city to handle the case."

Shen Gu nodded and said nothing.Zuo Jian raised his head and looked at him: "Are you interested in joining the criminal police team? I have asked about you, Sharpshooter. Wouldn't it be a pity if you don't touch guns in the future?"

Shen Gu smoked a cigarette and didn't answer right away.Zuo Jian pondered and asked, "Why did you use the gun at that time?"

Shen Gu stubbed out the cigarette in the ashtray at once: "He wants to shoot my brother! He took the gun because of my relationship, and wanted to use it to hit his own people. If I really want to hurt him, I won't Just blow his gun away."

Zuo Jian listened quietly, and also stubbed out the cigarette butt: "You guys are performing missions, why would you use your own guns?"

Shen Gu was silent again.Zuo Jian saw that he didn't want to answer any more, so he didn't ask any more: "Think about it again. And your friend, make an appointment for me. Just say that Zuo Jian, the 22nd generation of the Zuo family, wants to meet him, okay?"

Shen Gu nodded, stood up, and suddenly remembered something: "Captain Zuo, who is that Bai——Bai Lebo? What is the certificate he holds?"

Zuo Jian laughed: "He's not human. Speaking of which, you can see his security certificate—are you born with yin and yang eyes?"

Shen Gu frowned: "Not human? What is that?"

Zuo Jian smiled and said: "A rabbit. It's been a long time to transform into a human being. It's just that you can't practice the Tao, and you still don't know anything until now."

Shen Gu was speechless.Ganqing Bailuo looked like he was eighteen or nineteen years old. He turned out to be an old monster. No wonder the date of birth was written in 1480...

Said it was a rotation break, as soon as Shen Gu left the gate of the police station, he was called back by the phone in the police station. It turned out that a group of social youths had a fight, and several of them were injured.When he finished his work and came out, it was already dark, and the rain did not know why, but it was not light.Shen Gu took a taxi to go home. Just as he walked up to the fourth floor, he heard slight breathing sounds on the fifth floor. He walked up step by step, only to see a dark mass nestled in front of his house, like a person.Shen Gu put his hand into his trouser pocket, grabbed the telescoping stick that he carried with him, and turned on the corridor light with one hand, and was immediately stunned: "Doctor Zhong?"