Urban Night Returner

In Zhong Yi's mind, those who run a bar, especially that kind of bar, will at least dye their hair in various colors like his own son, have a row of pierced ears, and even wear jeans. The knees are exposed.He's even getting ready to see a ladyboy.Therefore, when he saw Kong Hua in white clothes and black trousers in Ji Lian, he was gorgeously confused—compared with his own son who even wore spiritual sand on his ears, which one did he look like?

Kong Hua was making tea on the bar counter, and the slightly bitter fragrance of the tea wafted in the air, making one unable to help but want to take a deep breath.Zhong Lecen called Zhong Yi to sit down on the seat by the window.In fact, Ji Lian has not been open for business these days, the room is slightly damp, but the table is wiped clean.Konghua served tea, each with a pastry, but the cup in front of Zhong Leyang was a bit strange, it was red in color, and the aroma of the tea contained the aroma of red wine.Zhong Leyang picked it up and took a sip, almost spitting it out: "What does it taste like?"

Kong Hua hugged the tray to his chest and looked at him: "It's hard to drink?"

Zhong Leyang blushed, said it was bad, because he was afraid that Konghua would lose face, and said it was good, it was too ignorant.Konghua smiled, and looked far beyond him: "Meduo's red wine, and the real Yuqian Longjing."

Zhong Leyang has heard of Murdoch, a famous wine producing region in France that only produces red wine.But even if it's Murdoch's red wine, it doesn't taste good when mixed with tea.

"Wine is good wine, and tea is good tea, but they just don't fit together."

Zhong Leyang heard something, and immediately became vigilant: "What do you mean?"

Konghua smiled: "You are a smart person, do you need me to say more?"

Zhong Leyang stood up loudly: "You say we are not suitable?"

Konghua smiled: "Do you think we are suitable?"

Zhong Leyang stared at him sharply: "Why is it inappropriate? Because my family objects?"

Konghua asked back: "Isn't that considered one? Or, you can live alone without society?" He glanced at Zhong Yi with a bit of sadness in his eyes, "Love will pass, only blood relationship lasts forever, you shouldn't let your family People worry about you."

Zhong Leyang clenched his fists tightly: "I just ask if you like me or not?"

Konghua asked again: "Is liking love? Then do you really love me?"

Zhong Leyang blurted out: "Of course!"

Konghua closed his eyes slightly, and smiled: "I don't think so. If we hadn't been drunk that night, would we be here today? So the love you mentioned doesn't exist, it's just that you misunderstood."

Zhong Leyang was angry: "You think I'm talking nonsense?"

"No." Kong Hua looked at his young face, "I believe what you said now is true, but that's just your misunderstanding. The relationship between us is not considered love, at most, it can be talked about between friends It's my confidant feeling."

Zhong Leyang stared at him closely: "Do you think we are just friends?"

Kong Hua spread his hands: "I think so. Of course, you have the right to have other ideas, but I also have the right to stick to my own ideas."

Zhong Leyang seemed about to get angry, but he restrained himself: "Are you afraid that I won't be able to persist?"

"That's right." Kong Hua smiled brightly, "How do you persist in feelings that don't exist at all?"

"Okay." Zhong Yi interrupted what Zhong Leyang was about to say, and stood up, "You heard everything he said, now, come back with me."

Konghua watched Zhong Leyang go out the door.The young child lowered his head, and his back, which was always straight, seemed to be bent a little.He smiled wryly, picked up the cup of tea and red wine mixture on the table, and drank it in one gulp.Really hard to drink.Zhong Lecen stood there looking at him, hesitating to speak.Konghua wiped the water stains on his lips with the back of his hand, and said lightly: "It's okay."

Zhong Lecen wanted to speak, but didn't know what to say.He did not agree with Le Yang and Kong Hua, but he also knew that Kong Hua's rejection so thoroughly had something to do with Le Yang being his younger brother.Although he keeps saying that he doesn't want Le Yang to hurt Kong Hua, in fact, he is also among the people who hurt Kong Hua.

"It's really okay." Konghua waved his hand, "Hey, this is my own snack, don't you want to try it? After they left, you can always sit down? Why don't you pack it and take it back?"

Zhong Lecen looked at Shen Gu and sat down again.Kong Hua picked up a cookie from the plate and threw it into his mouth: "Le Cen, do you want this bar?"

Zhong Lecen was slightly shocked: "What?"

"My former mentor sent me an email, saying that there was a project, and asked if I was interested in participating. Although I haven't made any mistakes in these years, I still feel that I know too little, and the country is indeed lagging behind. This This time this project is the latest one, I don’t want to miss this opportunity, so I might as well go and have a look. It would be a pity if the bar is closed, if you don’t want to take it, I’ll give it to Feifei.”

"Let's give it to Feifei. My clinic doesn't want to be closed. I can come here to help if I have the opportunity."

"Okay, then I'll give it to Feifei. By the way, that girl Xiaoxi would like to trouble you, anyway, she won't listen to her family. She seems to have a boyfriend a while ago. I wanted to meet him, but I heard that I came back after a business trip for a month or two, and I can’t wait, I have to leave as soon as I come back. You will also check on me at that time.”

"Then what about your hospital?"

"To Ning Yuan. He can support it. Of course, the investment is still mine. He doesn't have that much money."

Konghua thought for a while, and felt that there was nothing to say, so he smiled, and went back to the bar to get a bottle of champagne: "It will take at least a year before I can come back, let's have a drink, and see me off."

A glass of champagne drank Zhong Lecen down again.When Shen Gu carried him into the car, he was crying, holding Kong Hua's hand and saying sorry.Konghua drank more than him, and was a little tipsy. He also took his hand and said why the person I like is not you?Shen Gu's head was full of black lines, luckily there was a place to sleep in the bar, so he pushed Kong Hua down on the bed, and dragged Zhong Lecen away.It was past twelve o'clock, and there were not many cars on the road, so it was extremely quiet.With the help of the street light outside the window, Shen Gu saw Zhong Lecen leaning against the edge of the car window, with slightly shiny tears falling down one by one.He sighed and stretched out his hand to hug him: "Why do you like to pull on yourself in everything? If Konghua and Leyang really have feelings, would they reject you just because of a word from you? Besides, you haven't said anything yet."

"I just feel sad. Why is this road so difficult to walk. I was very lucky to meet you, but others are not so lucky. Konghua is, Yan Zhe is, and many people are also..."

Shen Gu didn't speak, just hugged him.This is a social reality. Since we have taken this path, we can only accept the reality.Konghua's depression is of course because of the hurt, but also because this society is like this.

The phone rang suddenly, startling Zhong Lecen: "Your?"

Shen Gu frowned.Most of the phone calls at this time are not good.Sure enough, it was Xiao Heizi's voice as soon as it was answered: "Brother Shen, there is another disappearance case, come here quickly, I think it is a bit similar to that one."

Shen Gu drove over directly with Zhong Lecen.The person who reported the crime was a young man, fidgeting, sweating profusely in the cold weather.Little Heizi's face was not very good-looking, and when he saw Shen Gu, he hurried up to meet him: "Brother Shen, I think this matter is very similar to the case we investigated during the day today."

The young man's name was Zheng Guangqiang, and he had a girlfriend named Wang.My girlfriend's family is quite rich, but he thinks his family is poor, and has always disagreed with this matter.Today's New Year's Day, my girlfriend's parents are in business, and they have a lot of relationships to run away. They went out to pay New Year's greetings, and my girlfriend took the opportunity to come out and live with him for a while.It was time to go home at night, and he took his girlfriend home, because he was afraid that her parents would see her, so he didn't dare to blatantly send them to the door, but the place where his girlfriend lived was relatively quiet, so the two of them went one after the other, and he Follow about 50 meters behind, watching the girlfriend enter the house before leaving.As a result, things happened on these 50 meters.At that time, seeing that his girlfriend was about to walk to the door of the house, his cell phone rang, so he lowered his head to touch the cell phone in his trouser pocket to read text messages.In just ten seconds, when he looked up after reading the text message, his girlfriend was gone, only her small bag was lying on the side of the road.

"There was no one else around at the time?"

"No. Her family lives in that kind of small villa, the environment is very quiet, and the people who live there are all driving, and there are not many people walking on the road."

"You didn't hear anything?"

"I heard nothing."

"Could it be that you were answering the phone too loudly?"

"It's because my mobile phone calls are louder, but it's only 50 meters away. I can't hear anything? And if someone robs or something, won't Xiaobin call? It only takes me ten seconds to read a text message Bell."

"Think about it again, was there any movement around at that time? It may not be what you saw with your eyes, it may be heard, or it may be felt."

Zheng Guangqiang tried his best to think back, but shook his head for a long time.Shen Gu comforted him with a few simple words, then turned around and took the notes into the office with Xiao Heizi and Zhong Lecen.Xiao Heizi was the first to speak: "I think this matter is actually very similar to the case we investigated during the day today. They all disappeared suddenly for no reason, and there was no one around, and there was no movement at all." He thought about it and added, "And the missing ones are all women."

Shen Gu nodded: "They are all women, is it a coincidence, or does the other party only pick up women? Zheng Guangqiang is only 50 meters away from his girlfriend, why is his girlfriend missing and not him?"

"Perhaps women are easier to deal with."

"I'm afraid this matter cannot be deduced with common sense. If it was done by someone, why is there no movement at all? According to Zheng Guangqiang, that road is not an alley. If someone was ambushing in advance, it would be impossible for them to be killed within ten seconds. Just make people disappear out of thin air.”

Suddenly there was the sound of firecrackers exploding outside, and Xiao Heizi was startled: "Who is setting off firecrackers at the police station?" There came a childish voice: "A message is coming, a message is coming." Then there was another burst of firecrackers.Zheng Guangqiang grinned at Xiao Heizi in embarrassment: "The sound of my text message. My family asked me what I was doing and I didn't go home."

Shen Gu said simply: "Can you go back later? We want to go with you to see where the incident happened."

"Okay." Zheng Guangqiang nodded quickly, "As long as you can find Xiao Bin, I don't have to go home."

Shen Gu drove four people straight to the scene of the incident.That area is full of small villas, many of which are bought by outsiders, and they only live in summer when they come to escape the heat, so more than half of them are vacant. Driving on this road in the middle of the night is eerily quiet.

"It's right there!" Zheng Guangqiang got out of the car and recalled as he walked, "I was walking here, and Xiao Bin had already gone there, and there were four or fifty meters to her door. That's right, it was here. At that time, the wind Blowing the shadow of the tree, the brick under my feet turned up and tripped me, and then the phone rang. Look, it’s just this brick.” He looked at Shen Gu helplessly, “I’ve said everything I can think of, Comrade police, think of a way."

Little Heizi sighed: "It's useless if you talk about tree shadows or something."

Shen Gu interrupted him suddenly: "Mr. Zheng, are you sure you were standing here?"

"That's right, isn't the brick here?"

Little Heizi turned to look at Shen Gu: "Brother Shen——"

Shen Gu pointed back: "The tree is over there." No matter where the light shines from, the shadow of the tree cannot cast the position where Zheng Guangqiang is standing.

"I can't be wrong! It's this brick. And there was indeed a tree shadow at the time, otherwise I wouldn't have missed seeing this brick tilted up, let alone tripped over it."

Zhong Lecen said suddenly: "Maybe you are not mistaken, but that shadow may not be the shadow of a tree."

"What kind of shadow is that?" Zheng Guangqiang's eyes widened. "It can't be the shadow of a person, and there is absolutely no one around. It can't be the shadow of a car, there will be movement."

Shen Gu didn't speak, just walked along the road until he reached the place where Zheng Guangqiang said his girlfriend went before she disappeared.It was also in the middle of the road, and the green belts on both sides were planted with holly. Shen Gu held up a miniature flashlight to observe the green belt for a while, and suddenly turned around and waved to Zhong Lecen.Zhong Lecen hurried over, and Shen Gu asked without looking back: "Are there any monsters that appear as shadows?"

Zhong Lecen was surprised: "Why do you ask that?"

"In the case I went to investigate during the day today, the old lady of a family kept talking about shadows eating shadows. Because she seemed to have some mental problems, her family didn't care. I didn't care at the time, but now that I think about it, from her Looking at the past from the window of my house, although I can’t see anyone, I can see the shadow cast by the street lamp. Maybe what she said about shadows eating shadows is the truth.”

"But the shadow was cast on Zheng Guangqiang first, why is it his girlfriend who disappeared while he was fine?"

"Of course, the possibility that Zheng Guangqiang is the real culprit is not ruled out. But if that is the case, he should not make up a statement with obvious flaws. He may not mention any bricks and shadows at all. Of course, it is also possible that he did not pay attention to revealing There are flaws, but he has no reasonable criminal motive, I will investigate again. But you help me think, is there any monster like this, and, moreover, it has hair. "

"Why is it hairy?"

Shen Gu turned around and put something in Zhong Lecen's palm.It was a small ball of hair, gray in color, but glowed with a moist golden luster under the light of the flashlight.With the other hand, Shen Gu took out a pocket of his clothes, took out a small paper bag, opened it, and there was also a ball of hair inside, exactly the same as the one he found in the green belt.

"What, what is this?"

"This group was just found in the green belt. This group was found in the green belt outside our community."

"But nothing happened in our community?"

"Maybe this thing didn't find a chance to start in our community."

"Shadows...with fur..." Zhong Lecen thought hard, "I really couldn't think of it at the moment. There are many beasts that eat people, but they appear in the form of shadows. It seems that there are none. No, I have to go back and check the information."

"Go to the last crime scene first, and I want to talk to that old lady again."

The men in Building 4 had a good impression of Shen Gu and Xiao Heizi, so they showed no resistance to their interruption again in the morning, and allowed them to talk to their mother, but kept muttering: "You can't ask me anything of."

The old lady was still in her room, and a sofa was placed by the window, which seemed to be convenient for the old lady to sit there and bask in the sun.The old lady is sitting there now, whispering something in her mouth, her eyes are always looking out of the window.Shen Gu walked over and asked with a smile, "Ma'am, what are you looking at?"

"Ah?" The old lady turned around with a little sluggishness, squinted her eyes and looked at Shen Gu for a while, then pointed out the window, "Shadow, eat the shadow."

Shen Gu looked out the window.Calculated based on the height of the girl who had the accident, she could not be seen from here, but the upper half of her shadow cast by the street lamp could be seen.

"Which shadow eats which shadow?"

"The big one..." The old lady struggled to organize her words, "Open your mouth, follow the small one, and eat..."

"Mom!" The man couldn't listen anymore, "These are the police, they are here to investigate the case, don't waste their time by talking nonsense to them."

"Eat it, really!" The old lady was a little anxious, and even gestured with her hands, "Follow the little one, open your mouth, and bite! Bite your head, and eat it right away."

The man sighed helplessly, and spread his hands to Shen Gu: "Look, my mother is..."

"No." Shen Gu nodded to him, "Auntie's words are very helpful for us to solve the case, thank you."

"Ah?" The man looked blank, "Oh good, it's good if I can help you."

Shen Gu glanced out of the window again, he could almost imagine the scene at that time from the fragmented words of the old lady: the girl was walking on the road while talking on the phone, but she didn't notice that there was another huge black shadow next to her own shadow. He didn't realize that this black shadow was gradually approaching him, and finally opened his bloody mouth, and suddenly bit down...