Decided to live by pretending to be a cat after being unemployed

When Lang Er and his brother went to look for Ge Ziming, Ge Ziming had just woken up. After sleeping this time, his physical fatigue had almost disappeared, but he was hungry again. The three of them went to the restaurant immediately without delay, and took whatever food they wanted. The box lunch provided in the bureau is ready to eat.

I also ran into Luo Bo when I was getting lunch boxes. Luo Bo is a ginseng plant, and he doesn’t need to eat.

Now it can be said that the whole situation is mobilized for this case, down to ordinary employees, up to leaders like Lu Zhengdong, no one is idle.Luo Bo couldn't go out to work, so he always wanted to help in other logistical aspects, such as ordering and sharing meals for everyone.

When they met in the restaurant, they chatted casually, talking about Guan Lin whose whereabouts are still unknown, and also talking about the case where there is no new evidence to advance the case.After chatting, they separated again. Luo Bo continued to busy with sharing meals, while Lang Er and the three of them ate.

Although it is just a box lunch, it is also very rich. There are crispy stewed chicken legs and braised pork with rich sauce, which are Lang Er's favorites. He should have buried himself in cooking, but this time he ate with a little absent-mindedness.

He frowns, looking worried.

Ge Ziming asked Lang Yi with his eyes: what's wrong with your brother?

Lang Yi didn't answer, but just shook his head, indicating that he didn't care.

He said it was nothing to worry about, but Ge Ziming still couldn't help being curious in his heart, wanting to know what made such a silly and happy dog ​​have something on his mind.

No one spoke during the meal, until after the meal, when the three of them were about to change the guard, Lang Er suddenly said: "Are we leaving now?"

"Otherwise?" Ge Ziming glanced at the time: "It's seven o'clock, and it's time to change the guard in one hour. Although it's a bit early to go now, it's okay to change shifts earlier, and the others are also working hard."

Lang Yi didn't speak, but he had the same attitude as Ge Ziming.

"But..." Lang Er struggled to think about the reason: "The case has not progressed, why don't we look for some new clues? For example, go to see Director Miao and his body."

Looking for clues is definitely necessary, but Ge Ziming's proposal to Lang Er is a bit inexplicable: "What's so interesting about it? It's not like I haven't seen it before, do you think so?"

He turned his head and asked Lang Yi. He and Lang Yi went to see it together. The two of them had searched very carefully, but they couldn't find any clues. It stands to reason that going there again would be of no use.

But Lang Yi looked at Lang Er's guilty and nervous eyes, pondered for a moment and said, "Go and have a look, let's check."

Ge Ziming was a little surprised by Lang Yi's answer, but since the current vote was two to one, he didn't say much and followed.

The guard at the door of Room 6018 knew Ge Ziming, and let him go after saying hello.

The three of them entered the house, and Lang Er was the fastest. He wanted to jump on the bed where Director Miao's body was placed to see what happened, but Ge Ziming quickly grabbed the back of the neck and reminded: "Don't touch it blindly." .”

Lang Er blinked his eyes, whispered "owwow", and said, "Understood."

Only then did Ge Ziming let go, and Lang Er restrained his eagerness a little this time, and walked slowly to the bed where the three of them were lying at a normal pace.

Although he didn't want to come, but now that he came, Ge Ziming looked at it seriously again, and poked Lang Yi with his arm: "How is it? Do you have any new ideas?"

Lang Yi didn't speak, he just looked at Lang Er.When Ge Ziming was talking to Lang Yi, Lang Er was running from one bed to that bed, and from that bed to this bed. He was running back and forth between the two beds, looking back and forth, but he didn't know what he was looking at. something.

Lang Yi observed where Lang Er's eyes fell, and he gradually realized that Lang Er seemed to be looking at...the sheets?No, it's the shadow on the bed sheet.Lang Yi suddenly realized.

Although Lang Er was told by Guan Rin to see if there was any abnormality in the shadows of the three victims, he looked back and forth so many times, but he didn't see anything wrong.

This is just an ordinary shadow. It is produced along the direction of the light. When the owner does not move, the shadow does not move. There is no abnormality at all.

Just when he felt lost and thought that he would return in vain this time, Lang Yi suddenly said: "This shadow is wrong."

Lang Er and Ge Ziming turned their heads to look at Lang Yi, with the same question written in their puzzled eyes: "What's wrong?"

"Color, pay attention to the color of this shadow!" Lang Yi pointed out.

Ke Lang Er and Ge Ziming looked along and saw the intertwined black shadows under the three of them lying on the bed.

The shadow is originally black, this color is very right!One person and one dog think at the same time.

But soon, Ge Ziming came to his senses. He looked at the shadows under his feet, and then at the shadows of the three lying on the bed. He frowned: "Why are their shadows lighter than mine?"

Lang Er heard the words and immediately compared them, and exclaimed: "Really, why are their shadows lighter?"

"Is it because of the distance from the light source?" Ge Ziming tried to guess.

Lang Yi didn't know, so he stretched out his hand to prove it. He put his hand next to Zhang Jiajun, keeping the distance between himself and Zhang Jiajun the same as that of Zhang Jiajun, and then compared his own shadow with Zhang Jiajun's shadow again.

Ge Ziming and Lang Er also went to find Miao Qianzi and Miao Xin respectively. They used the same method to compare and finally came to the same conclusion.

"Their shadows are a little lighter than ours. Is this related to the way they were killed?" Lang Yi asked.

Lang Er didn't know, Guan Rin only asked him to pay attention to the shadow, and didn't tell him anything else, he was also confused at the moment.

Ge Ziming has some ideas, he was born in a family with profound knowledge, he has a lot of ancient books in his possession, and he has read a lot when he was practicing. Now when he talks about shadows, he thinks of a few legends.

"There are indeed ways of harming people through shadows." Ge Ziming touched his chin, and gave a well-known example: "Do you know the word insinuation?"

"I know, I know," Lang Er hurriedly replied, "It means to secretly attack or satirize others."

Ge Ziming shook his head: "This is an extended meaning, but the original meaning of this word is actually about a strange animal named 'Shen' recorded in "Sou Shen Ji". , can shoot people with sand, and those who are caught will suffer from physical agitation, headaches, fever, and even death.'”

"There is also a record in "Mao Poetry, Plants, Trees and Insects", and the description is more detailed: 'In the Jianghuai water, people are on the shore, and when they see the water, they will be killed when they cast their shadows, so it is called shooting shadows. Or it is called shooting people with sand. , into the skin, the wound is like scabies.'”

"Combining it means that there is a kind of animal called 'Shen', also known as 'Short Fox', which hides in the water and shoots sand at people, and when it hits the person's body, the person will get sores, have a headache, fever, and even die, while Even if it doesn't hit the human body directly, but only hits the shadow of the person, it will have the same effect."

"This proves that the shadow is related to the human body. It is a part of the human body, just like the soul. People lose their souls, become stupid, stupid, or unconscious. But what happens when people lose their shadows or their shadows are injured? , I don’t know, I haven’t seen relevant records, but it will definitely cause some damage.”

"But," Lang Er half-understood, "Isn't director Miao and his shadows still there? They haven't been lost or injured, it's just that the color is a little lighter."

"Not necessarily." Ge Ziming said inscrutablely: "Have you ever heard a saying called 'the figure counts to nine'?"

Lang Er shook his head honestly, he hadn't heard of it at all.

Lang Yi has never heard of it, but he can roughly understand: "You mean that people have nine shadows?"

"Yes." Ge Ziming affirmed: "This sentence comes from "Youyang Miscellaneous Cu", a Taoist named Guo Caizhen said that people will appear at most nine shadows under different light sources, and these nine shadows also have their own names. It is Youhuang, Yaoyao, Xijieshu, Chifu, Suoguan, Ponu, and Hailingtai. The ancient books recording the remaining two names have been gnawed by insects and have been lost, but there are indeed nine shadows. "

"How about it? Try it?" Ge Ziming gestured to Lang Yi with his eyes.

"Try." Lang Yi replied.

The two did what they said, and Lang Er stood there stupidly, not knowing what they were going to try. The two had already gone outside to borrow a dozen or so rechargeable desk lamps and came back.

The statement that the number of figures reaches nine is only what Guo Caizhen said in ancient books, and it may not be true. Therefore, in order to verify this statement, Ge Ziming and Lang Yi first conducted an experiment with Lang Er.

"Squat where you are, don't move." Lang Yi instructed.

"Oh." Lang Er still didn't understand, but he listened to his brother very much, and immediately sat on the ground obediently and didn't move.

Ge Ziming went to draw the curtains of the room, and turned off all the lights. After confirming that there was no light source in the room, he greeted Lang Yi: "Let's get started."

With a sound of "click", Lang Yi turned on the first desk lamp, and he placed the light source in front of Lang Er. Under the light, Lang Er's shadow with his tail was projected behind him.

Lang Yi then turned on the second lamp, this time it was placed on Lang Er's left side, and a second shadow appeared on Lang Er's right side.

From the third to the fourth, until the sixth, it was easy for Lang Yi to place, and the shadows that appeared were clearly discernible, but when it came to the seventh, it was a bit difficult.

Shadows still appear, but they are blurry and difficult to identify.The phrase "figure counting to nine" refers to clearly identifiable shadows, and does not include the shadows that are vague and indistinguishable.

Lang Yi tried several positions, but failed to make the seventh shadow clear.

Ge Ziming thought for a while, and said: "The book says 'Jianyi torch is not to be missed', move slowly to increase the light source, don't worry."

Lang Yi let out a "hmm", he tried for a while, and finally found the position of the seventh shadow.The remaining eighth and ninth ones were even more difficult to find. Lang Yi and Ge Ziming worked hard together for more than half an hour before finding the exact location.

As for whether there will be a tenth shadow?They also tried, and it took so much effort to find the last two shadows, and they couldn't really find the tenth one.

When you're done, Ge Ziming let out a "hush" breath. He looked at the nine clear shadows around Lang Er. The number of figures up to nine has been proved. In order to prevent monsters from being different from humans, he asked Lang Er to go out and stand by the light source by himself. The center tried it, and it was also true that there were nine shadows.

The rest was to verify the three victims. Ge Ziming and Lang Yi shared hands to lift Zhang Jiajun on the bed and put him in the center of the light source.

After the release, they both backed out, counting the shadows on the ground with Lang Er, one, two, three, four, five, six... and then they disappeared. Whether it was Lang Er or Ge Ziming, they both had nine shadows, but Zhang Jiajun only had six shadows right now. indivual.

For the missing three directions, the ground is a pure white halo, without any trace of shadow.

"His shadow is really lost!" Lang Er exclaimed.

Ge Ziming and Lang Yi glanced at each other, each of them took out their mobile phones to take a photo to record their certificates, and then stepped forward tacitly, and moved Zhang Jiajun back to the bed, and they moved Miao Xin and Miao Qianzi to experiment.

In the end, just like Zhang Jiajun, there were only six shadows, and the other three shadows disappeared.

Moreover, the parts of the missing shadows of the three of them are different. Lang Yi and Ge Ziming looked at the photos they took just now and compared them. It can be clearly seen that the nine shadows lost by Zhang Jiajun and Miao Qianzi and Miao Xin The corresponding parts are different.

"Is this the murderer's intention?" Lang Yi frowned.

"It should be, there won't be such a coincidence." Ge Ziming analyzed: "These lost shadows just fit together into a complete figure. If the murderer did it on purpose, what is he going to do to make up such a complete shadow? ?”

Lang Yi didn't know either, so he asked again: "Besides the 'creature' you mentioned, is there anything else, or a technique that can attack shadows?"

"Let's think about it," Ge Ziming began to recall, the spells or legends related to shadows are very remote, so that few people know about them, and there are none at all who practice them.He thought for a while before pulling out another one from the corner of his memory: "Yes!"

"I've also seen a saying in a fragment of an ancient book whose name and author are unknown, and it also talks about 'snake', but this 'snake' no longer refers to animals that harm people, but to shadows. , also known as the shadow domain, the domain of the territory, which means a shadow world."

"Shadow world?" Lang Yi heard this for the first time.

Ge Ziming nodded: "Yes, just like ghosts. Ghosts are the world where ghosts live, and shadows are the world where shadows live. Those of us who practice can see ghosts, but we can't touch ghosts. If we stretch out our hands, we will directly touch them. Penetration, because ghosts are essentially in ghosts, what we see is only the superimposed projection of the two worlds, and shadows are the same, our shadows, "

Ge Ziming raised his hand to compare, he wanted to touch the shadow, but in essence he could only touch the wall where the shadow was: "We can't touch shadows in this world, and we can't attack other people's shadows, but if we are in the shadow If you are inside the mythical creature, you can touch and attack the shadows of others at will, just like I can attack you, because we belong to the same world and the same dimension.”

"Then how do we get to Shadow Creature?" Lang Yi asked.

Ge Ziming spread his hands: "I don't know. We all know that ghosts are the place where dead souls go, but shadows are just the stories recorded in this fragmented scroll. I'm not even sure that it really exists, and I don't know how to get there. .”

"But..." I don't know whether to return or not, Ge Ziming still tried to give his own speculation: "It stands to reason that this kind of shadow world relies on the real world to exist, and it should be in the cracks of the world, and it shouldn't be able to be manipulated." It is easy to go, because it will disturb the balance of the two worlds, and it is only possible to enter under extremely special circumstances."

As for the extremely special circumstances, Ge Ziming couldn't figure it out.

Lang Yi pondered for a while, and felt that they could not find any results in the discussion so far, so he simply skipped thinking about it and said instead: "Let's notify Bureau Lu as soon as possible."

Their discovery is great progress. Although there is no direct evidence to prove that Guan Rin is not the murderer, they continue to follow this clue and the truth will be revealed sooner or later.

Ge Ziming naturally had no objection, he picked up the phone and prepared to dial.Before he dialed the number, Lang Er, who had been quiet all this time, suddenly interrupted: "I'm going to the bathroom, I'll be right back!"

"Go, go." Ge Ziming waved his hand casually, not taking Lang Er's departure seriously.

But Lang Yi kept watching Lang Er's back as he ran away, and watched his brother go to report the news.

To ventilate the news, it is natural to find a hidden location.Most of the rooms in this hotel are occupied by people. Lang Er didn't dare to act casually in the corridor. He ran all the way downstairs and went to the small garden downstairs where there was no one to turn on his phone. Report the omission to Guan Lin.

Including the nine shadows that the three were missing, and the story about the ghosts that Lang Er didn't quite understand that Ge Ziming told.

Guan Rin looked at the messages and was silent for a long time before replying: "I see."

"Then what are you going to do? Is there anything else I can do to help?" Lang Er asked while typing on the keyboard.

"You don't need to worry about it." Guan Rin's answer was very cold: "I will solve this matter myself."

Solve it by yourself... It's not that Lang Er doesn't believe in Guan Rin's ability, but that the orange cat can fight back and forth, but based on his experience in handling cases in the past two rounds, he actually doesn't have much talent for investigating cases.

There are still many things that are not clear about this case, such as who the murderer is and why these shadows were taken away. It may be difficult for Guan Lin to investigate alone.

So Lang Er tapped on the keyboard and continued to sell himself, hoping that he would be useful again, but before he could send out half of the words, Guan Lin sent a sentence first.

"Don't reply to text messages again. I'm going to return this phone."

This is Guan Rin's last text message, and Lang Er tried to send a message again, but it reminded him that he had been blocked.

Lang Er looked at the rejection notification on the phone and drooped his ears for a while. He felt that the orange cat had helped him so many times, but he couldn't help the other party now, so he was a little disappointed.

He was secretly lost. Anyway, there was no one in this small garden, so he would not be noticed.

He didn't realize it at all. Ever since he started texting Guan Lin, Lang Yi had been watching him from the balcony on the sixth floor.

Even Ge Ziming, who had finished reporting to Lu Zhengdong, was standing on the balcony. At first he didn't understand what Lang Er, who was going to the bathroom, was doing with a dog in the garden, but he looked at the lit phone screen, and Lang Er was sneaky, looking up from time to time to see if anyone was coming, he probably guessed it.

He bumped into Lang Yi with his arm, raised his eyebrows and said, "Your brother seems to be a spy?"

Lang Yi's reaction was indifferent, he only said "hmm", as if he was not surprised at all.

Ge Ziming recalled it, and he asked curiously: "Is this the Director Lang I know? Aren't you always stern and selfless, and follow the rules? You didn't even let your brother go to Haicheng where you were in order to avoid suspicion, but Send him to Jiangcheng. Now you know that your brother is tipping off fugitives, but you don't care?"

"You can report it." Lang Yi still said in a flat tone: "Report me, Lang Er, and Guan Lin's current position. This is what you should do. It is your duty. I will not stop you."

"What do you mean I should do?" Ge Ziming didn't understand why Lang Yi said that: "Shouldn't you do it? You are also the director of the Special Investigation Bureau."

"But I'm a monster at the same time." Lang Yi looked at the night in the distance, and he was looking at his hometown: "For people like you, it may be difficult to understand, but for the monster clan who came from Hulaoguan, we have a deep understanding of the blood of the gods." Bi An has such admiration for the master chosen by the sharp gun, even if we didn't find any clues about the shadow just now, I believe that Guan Rin is not a bad person, and I believe that he did not do these cases."

Ge Ziming frowned upon hearing this.This reaction was normal. Lang Yi expected that he and Ge Ziming would disagree on this, and he was prepared to do what he said and not stop it.

He believed in Guan Lin, so he did not report, but as the director of the Special Investigation Bureau, he would not prevent Ge Ziming from reporting.

Lang Yi looked sideways at Ge Ziming's frowning eyes. He felt that Ge Ziming would not understand him, and would even quarrel with him because of it.

Ge Ziming did look unhappy and wanted to get angry, but what he said was: "What you said is too much, what do you mean by treating people like you?"

"Don't think I don't know, Zhang Jiajun discriminates against monsters on his face, but you monsters secretly discriminate against humans in private, thinking that people are hypocritical and have no loyalty. Last time, we fought together in the case of the evil Guanyin It’s been a life-and-death friendship, you can all believe in Guan Lin, why can’t I believe it?”

Ge Ziming slammed Lang Yi on the shoulder while talking, but Lang Yi didn't hide.

The punch was so hard that Lang Yi's shoulder felt a little painful, but his face didn't show any pain. Instead, he was smiling, a rare smile for a person who is usually indifferent like him. .

He sincerely apologized: "It was my mistake."

Ge Ziming shook his own hand that was also aching, and still had that angry face, but after a few seconds, he couldn't help laughing.

He stretched out his fist to Lang Yi. Lang Yi looked at the fist for a while, and then stretched out his fist to touch him.

The two reached a tacit understanding with Wu Sheng.

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