Urban Night Returner

The investigation on Yan Ling reached a stalemate for a period of time.Xiao Heizi invited his senior brother to go out, but he couldn't find any traces of the existence of these three group numbers, so he had to temporarily run aground.Fortunately, Binhai City has been calm during this period of time, and there have been no more troubles caused by words.

Time flies so fast, almost in a blink of an eye, Christmas is here.In fact, when it comes to festivals, whether it's Christmas or New Year's Day, to criminal police, it's just floating clouds.You say this holiday, is it because thieves don’t steal or robbers don’t steal?Or all those who murder and set fire go home to rest?On the contrary, the more lively the festival is, the more things will happen. Although nothing has happened recently, on such a day, everyone has to take turns to be on duty and be on call at any time.Shen Gu had no family burden, so he and Zuo Jian were on duty alone, so even if Shen Gu wanted to spend Christmas Eve with Zhong Lecen, he could only regret it.

Three people on duty: Shen Gu, Zuo Jian and Liu Wu.Liu Wu is also a foreigner. She is single and doesn't have any shows. Anyway, she is still living in the dormitory, so it's better to come on duty.Zuo Jian bought a boxed lunch, and the three of them made a meal together, chatting while eating.

What can men talk about together?One answer is more representative-women.But among the three of them today, Liu Wu has weird hobbies, and has a perverted interest in corpses, even more than women; needless to say, Shen Gu, women will die with him; purpose, and did not bring up this topic, so the three of them chatted back and forth, and the topic was always inseparable from various deaths.Liu Wu came to work as a forensic doctor after graduating from university. Although he is young and has a long medical experience, he has passed through and heard of many cases. Let's start with some bizarre deaths and analyze them one by one. Holding a box lunch in his hand, he still said I was so excited that it didn't affect my appetite at all.Shen Gu's head pierced by himself has eighty if not one hundred heads, and he doesn't feel much when listening to such bloody topics.When Zuo Jian was fighting drugs, he saw a lot of inhuman drug addicts, not to mention that as a celestial master, he had to watch all kinds of ghosts who died without image, so he was also unaffected while talking and eating.So the topics of the three were full of words such as mutilated corpses, flesh and blood, bloodshot, and rot. If there was a fourth person listening and looking at the dishes in the lunch box, the custodian would spit them out.

Liu Wu usually doesn't talk much, but when it comes to corpses, he can talk endlessly: "...that's all. The strangest one is that I saw a deceased with a lot of blood in his stool, and he died when he was sent to the hospital The family questioned that the hospital did not rescue them in time, and strongly demanded an autopsy. After the autopsy, the stomach was gone." He stuffed a slice of fried tripe on the tip of his chopsticks, "Guess where did the stomach go? "

Zuo Jian shrugged his shoulders: "Wouldn't you be pulled out by him?"

Liu Wu laughed loudly: "That's right. His stomach was digested by his own gastric juice into a mass of erosive tissue, and it was indeed all pulled out."

Now, even if Zuo Jian and Shen Gu were tough, looking at the belly shreds in the lunch box would affect their appetite a bit.Shen Gu frowned slightly: "How could this be? Stomach ulcer?"

Liu Wu took a bite of his meal: "What kind of ulcer can even ulcerate the entire stomach? Gastric perforation is already serious. Moreover, it took only three hours from the time the deceased had bloody stools to the time he was sent to the hospital. What kind of ulcer do you want? Can you digest your entire stomach in three hours?"

Shen Gu felt unreliable.Zuo Jian's face changed slightly, as if thinking of something: "When did that happen? Where did it happen?"

Liu Wu thought for a while: "I was still an intern at the time, and I worked in the Shanghai Affiliated Hospital for six or seven years. At that time, I couldn't figure it out. You must know that everything from the mouth to the esophagus is fine. Pylori is fine again. I don’t know how the case ended, it’s probably vague because no one can explain it clearly.”

Zuo Jian watched him get up to fetch hot water, and whispered to Shen Gu, "It's a starving ghost."

"Huh?" Liu Wu's ears were so good, he immediately turned around, "What the hell?"

Zuo Jian gave a dry laugh.Although he was transferred not long ago, he also knew that Liugong in the laboratory did not like to hear about ghosts and gods. He didn't even have a catchphrase like "Damn", and he was an absolute materialist scientist.Sure enough, Liu Wu frowned: "Left team, you are also - a person with rich work experience, why do you say such things?"

Zuo Jian coughed dryly: "Liu Gong, there are indeed many things in this world that science cannot explain."

Liu Wu immediately said: "There are many things that cannot be explained by current science."

Zuo Jian laughed: "Then, how do you explain the case you mentioned just now?"

Liu Wu said solemnly: "That may be some kind of mutated virus that suddenly appeared."

Shen Gu suddenly said: "If Liugong regards ghosts as a virus, will he be able to accept it?"

Liu Wu was a little dissatisfied: "Why, you also said that? I heard that you used to be a special soldier. How many times have you seen ghosts when you were on mission?"

Shen Gu said lightly: "I didn't have it when I was on mission, but I have seen it a few times after I left the army."

Liu Wu showed a face of disbelief.Shen Gu glanced at him: "Admitting the facts is also a scientific working attitude."

Liu Wu snorted: "Well, if the two of you can find out a ghost for me right away, I will believe the truth."

Zuo Jian ate the last few grains of rice in the lunch box: "Liu Gong, you don't have yin and yang eyes, even if I pull a ghost out now, you won't see it."

Liu Wu sneered: "Take things that cannot be seen..."

Shen Gu continued: "If you can't see something, you say it doesn't exist. What's that called? Wasn't there some kind of idealist surnamed Wang in ancient times? What do you mean by someone who has nothing outside of his mind?"

Liu Wu choked and was speechless.After a long time, he said resentfully: "According to this, if you can't see a sentence, you don't need to say anything. Then, seeing is believing?"

Before he could finish his sentence, Shen Gu suddenly raised his head and looked out the window: "Who!"

Liu Wu was taken aback, and looked back.The window was originally closed, leaving a thin slit for ventilation, about two finger widths wide. Now when he turned his head, he saw a dog on the window sill with a pointed nose and snow-white hair. Liu Wu was taken aback, and blurted out: "Japanese silver Fox?" Then it occurred to me, this is the second floor, how did the dog get on the window sill?

Zuo Jian had a headache: "Why did you come here?"

Liu Wu was at a loss, and saw the "Japanese Silver Fox" jump lightly, from the window sill to the radiator, and from the radiator directly to Zuo Jian's lap, and snorted disdainfully: "How could I?" Can't come?"

Liu Wu was stunned for a moment, pointed at the "Japanese silver fox" with one hand, and hissed a few times: "Speak, speak!"

Zuo Jian smiled wryly: "You scare people."

"Cut!" The "Japanese Silver Fox" tucked its tail and lay down directly on Zuo Jian's knee, "The one who doesn't have long eyes is a Japanese silver fox. The young master is from the Qingqiu Kingdom of China's Shenzhou. It doesn't matter."

Liu Wu's eyes straightened.Shen Gu had already guessed that this was the fox Zuo Jian was talking about, and couldn't help asking: "Isn't it yellow-haired?" Otherwise, why would it be regarded as a Pomeranian?

The fox frowned: "Young master dyed his hair if he liked, can you control it?"

Liu Wu's eyes rolled slowly, looking at Shen Gu.Shen Gu smiled at him: "Liu Gong, is seeing is believing?"

Liu Wu murmured, "Isn't it a hallucination?"

"You are hallucinating, your whole family is hallucinating!" The fox wanted to spray, but Zuo Jian slapped his head, "Do you want to go back and rinse your mouth?"

The fox wilted.Liu Wu coughed dryly, and finally came to his senses: "This, this is—the vixen?"

The fox bristled, but didn't dare to say anything.Zuo Jian rubbed his straight ears and smiled: "Anyway, he came from Qingqiu country, please call him a fox fairy. Although this kid doesn't practice very well."

The fox flicked its tail triumphantly after hearing the first two sentences from him, then turned around and bit his hand when he heard the last sentence.Zuo Jian covered his mouth with his backhand, and slapped his ass with the other hand: "Honestly! Did you slander you by saying that you are not good at cultivation?"

The fox's mouth was covered, whining and struggling.Liu Wu was dumbfounded for a while, and stood up with the help of the wall: "I, I'm going to wash my face."

Shen Gu and Zuo Jian watched him go out and couldn't help laughing at each other.The fox finally broke away from Zuo Jian's hand, bit his wrist, and muttered indistinctly: "Bite you to death! How dare you bury me in front of outsiders!"

Shen Gu found it very interesting.Although Zhong Lecen had told him that some monsters could do things like the CEO of a large area, it was the first time he had seen a monster like this that kept the shape of a beast and could speak human language.The white radish last time was always in human form, so it can't make people feel like a monster.

Zuo Jian followed the fox's hair: "Okay, I'll beat you if you make trouble again. How dare you say that you can't take human form if you run out to scare people?"

The fox was not convinced: "If it is a human form, your police station won't allow anyone to enter."

Liu Wu rubbed against the wall and came back again, his hair was wet with a breath of cold air.Shen Gu glanced at him: "Wash your head with cold water in winter, do you want to catch a cold?"

Liu Wu sat still, his expression still a little dull, and after looking at the fox for a long time, he said, "So there are really monsters in this world?"

The fox bared his teeth in dissatisfaction: "You don't have eyes?"

Liu Wu's eyes gradually returned to normal, apparently the stimulation of cold water was very effective: "Can it transform into a human form?"

The fox pointed at him with its tail: "Yes, I won't show you."

Liu Wu looked at Zuo Jian: "No wonder you say that the Zuo team is not very good at cultivation. It turns out that it can't transform into a human form."

The fox was angry, and jumped up from Zuo Jian's lap: "What did you say!"

Liu Wu showed disdain, Zuo Jian held down the fox: "Stop making trouble, you are so careful that you will be seen by the dog-beating team. Be good, quickly transform into a human form."

The fox froze, and curled up on his lap again: "No."

"why?"

"... came without clothes."

Zuo Jian stopped talking.

Liu Wu's nerves were indeed exceptionally tenacious. After witnessing the existence of the fox, he began to rethink those unsolvable cases from the perspective of ghosts.He first focused on the case of the stomach being digested and asked: "What exactly are starving ghosts? People who are starving to death? Why do they digest their own stomachs?"

Zuo Jian pondered for a while: "Starved ghosts, not all of them are starved to death, most of them are souls who fell into the realm of hungry ghosts after death due to greed. Birds of a feather flock together. The dead person you mentioned must also have greed. That's why people are possessed by hungry ghosts. No matter how much food they eat, they will never feel full, so they are always hungry. When food can't satisfy them, they will start from inside the possessed person Digestion begins, of course the stomach first."

Liu Wu held his chin and thought for a while: "That person seems to be some kind of official. Well, according to what you say, he must be a corrupt official."

Zuo Jian smiled slightly: "Not all corrupt officials will be possessed by starving ghosts, but those who are possessed must be people with greedy thoughts. That's what the so-called demons are made of by people."

The fox opened one eye and said dissatisfiedly: "What are you talking about, what are you doing with us monsters?"

Zuo Jian patted it on the head: "Okay, I'm wrong, ghosts are made by people, okay?"

The fox snorted, covered his head with his big fluffy tail, and dozed off again.

Liu Wu stared at it with scorching eyes, and Shen Gu felt that those eyes meant to dissect the fox.Even the fox felt furious, and opened his eyes vigilantly: "What are you doing?"

Zuo Jian smiled: "Liugong, it can't be put on your dissecting table."

The fox frowned again: "What? How dare you play tricks on me!"

Zuo Jian patted it: "Okay, okay, before you become a corpse, you are not qualified to be on Liugong's dissecting table."

The fox glared at him.Zuo Jian was unmoved, and looked at his watch: "It's five o'clock, and the shift will come over at six o'clock, so, I'll wait here, you go home and sleep first, the phone is on."

Of course Liu Wu had no objection, he was too stimulated tonight and was about to go back to digest it.Shen Gu thought that Zhong Lecen was spending Christmas with Feifei in Konghua's house today, and he happened to pick him up home, so he made some excuses and left.

The lights in Konghua's house were already on, Shen Gu knocked on the door, and it was Zhong Lecen who opened the door: "Why are you here?"

Shen Gu smiled slightly: "It's off work, I'm here to pick you up. Woke up so early?"

"Wow!" Zhong Lecen rubbed his eyes, "I didn't sleep at all, Feifei said something about Christmas Eve, first he had to count the twelve bells and eat grapes, he ate grapes, let Pai Gow eat eggs—"

Shen Gu was startled: "Pai Gow is here?"

"Team leader, where are you coming to pick me up?" Pai Gow came out swayingly, with a sloppy smile on his face.

"Your boy came here rather quickly."

"That's right. Why don't you just resign? As soon as the old man said hello, he wanted me to get out of here. Hey, the team leader came in and sat down. Why don't you just take people away? What's the hurry?"

Shen Gu was helpless: "You boy, a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory. Have you been making a fuss all night?"

"No, there are really some novel methods. You have to bet with me that he eats grapes and I eat eggs. In the end, I eat them much faster than him."

Shen Gu laughed.Compared with the speed of eating, Feifei is no opponent, regardless of grapes and eggs, everyone eats one at a time, there is no difference.

"Come on, I won't go in. I'm on shift all night. I'm going home to sleep. I have to be on guard. Le Cen, let's go?"

The air outside was clean and cold, Zhong Lecen hadn't slept all night, and was also a little tired: "It's not really possible to make a fuss, but I just tossed all night. Fortunately, there is Pai Gow, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to accompany me."

"Then you won't find a room to sleep first, and just go through with it like this? Go, go back and catch up on sleep."

At five o'clock, it was still dark, and it was naturally darker in the corridor.Shen Gu was used to the underworld, Zhong Lecen was too lazy to turn on the light, the two just cuddled and walked upstairs, just halfway up the fifth floor, Shen Gu stopped suddenly, with a shake of his right hand, Jin Tiezhiying was already holding In the palm: "What?"

Zhong Lecen was startled suddenly, and opened his eyes to see that there were dark clumps in the corridor.Shen Gu protected him back a few steps and went down to the fourth floor and turned on the corridor lights.As soon as the lights came on, a black dog was lying there at the door on the fifth floor, looking at them.

"Ghost?" Zhong Lecen was stunned for a moment, "Why, didn't you leave?"

The dog ghost stood up slowly, looking at Zhong Lecen.Shen Gu saw the dried blood on its side at a glance, and frowned: "Are you injured again? No wonder you have to come back."

Zhong Lecen sighed lightly: "Are you hurt again? Then, let's open the door first."

Shen Gu frowned and looked at him: "Do you want to keep it?"

Zhong Lecen looked at him in embarrassment: "I can't... Isn't this already back?"

"Come back..." Shen Gu felt that this word was really inappropriate, but he still took out the key, "You click back, and I will open the door. By the way, is the talisman still there?"

Zhong Lecen thought about it: "I don't know where it is, I'll look for it..."

Shen Gu shook his head, and the dog ghost retreated to the side, leaving the door open.Shen Gu opened the door, and said angrily: "Come in." The dog ghost didn't move, still stood, looked up at him, then at Zhong Lecen.Zhong Lecen came up and turned his head to look: "Where is the injury again?"

The dog ghost looked at him for a long time, and when Shen Gu was about to get impatient, he wagged his tail slightly at Zhong Lecen. The movement was small, but it was indeed a tail wag.Zhong Lecen looked at it in surprise: "What are you doing?"

Shen Gu embraced him, staring at the dog ghost: "You consider Le Cen as your master?"

The dog ghost shook its tail again, this time, the movement was a little bigger.Shen Gu sneered: "Okay, since you recognize Le Cen as your master, then this is your home. If you just want to live here temporarily, I can tolerate it, but if you have any thoughts of devouring the master and want to treat Le Cen Unfavorable, then don't blame me for being rude! Don't look at you as a shikigami, I will still cut you open." The last four words were spoken calmly, but they sounded chilling in the silent corridor.The dog ghost looked at him for a while, grunted in his throat, stepped back a little, wagged his tail again, then stabbed and slipped into the house through the half-open door first.Shen Gu looked into the room, frowned and asked Zhong Lecen: "Is it reliable?"

Zhong Lecen raised his head and smiled at him: "Isn't there you?"

Shen Gu shook his head helplessly. Just as he was about to speak, his cell phone rang suddenly. He picked it up and saw that it was Zhou Wen's: "Lawyer Zhou? Why are you calling at this hour?"

"Mr. Shen, Mr. Xiao had a heart attack and is in the hospital now. Can you come here?"