Yokai Atlas Remake Project

It was nearly midnight, and the Senate House was still brightly lit.

Zhou Che loosened his tie, leaned on the table, and looked at the sleeping Kui Niu in the interrogation room through the glass wall.

Footsteps could be heard at the end of the corridor, Assistant Fox Demon hurriedly opened the outer door with a huge bag, and nodded in greeting: "Mr. Long, Elder Zheng."

"Thank you." Zhou Che glanced back, "Send it in."

The assistant froze for a moment, then turned his head and glanced into the interrogation room: "Send it in?"

"Elder Zheng and I didn't go home in the middle of the night not because of this supper," Zhou Che glanced into his hand, "That barbecue in the snack street? The smell makes me a little hungry."

The assistant hesitated, "Then..."

Zhou Che smiled and waved his hands, "Just kidding, let's go in."

The assistant nodded in agreement, and carried the takeaway into the interrogation room.

"Do you really believe Kui Niu's words?"

Elder Zheng, who had been silent all this time, took a look into the interrogation room. Kui Niu had already woken up, holding his chin and watching the assistant put the takeaway boxes on the table one by one.

"We have all seen the corpse of the bear demon, and the wound is indeed not what Kui Niu can cause." Zhou Che replied with folded arms.

"Our people have searched the inside and outside of Lutai Mountain carefully, and there is no trace of other monsters." Elder Zheng frowned, "Besides, this Kui Niu is over a thousand years old, and he doesn't know anything about him. , what if he deliberately pretended to be weak?"

"Zhou Xie said that Kui Niu doesn't have that ability." Seeing Elder Zheng raising his eyebrows, Zhou Che smiled softly, "I know what you want to say, but I know Zhou Xie well, and I'm not completely sure that he wouldn't say that. A decisive word."

What Elder Zheng wanted to say, the outer door was suddenly pushed open vigorously, he turned his head and saw Zhou Xie who was not very good-looking at the door.

Being woken up from sleep in the middle of the night, anyone would be irritable.

Zhou Yan frowned and stared at Zhou Che for a while, then knocked twice on the open door with his hands back.

Zhou Che laughed: "I'm sorry, Xiaosing, for disturbing your rest."

"Speak directly." Zhou Xi shifted his gaze and saw Kui Niu who was eating and drinking in the interrogation room. "What's wrong with him?"

Elder Zheng replied: "Kui Niu does not admit that he killed the bear demon."

"You didn't kill it, would you admit it?" Zhou Yan glanced at Elder Zheng with impatience.

The other party's tone was really bad, Elder Zheng suddenly got up: "You want to vouch for him?"

"Why should I vouch for him? I said he didn't kill it. You believe it if you like. If you don't believe it, kill him to avenge that bear demon. What does it matter to me?" Zhou Yan rubbed his face and looked at Zhou Che. "Nothing else, I'm leaving."

"Yes," Zhou Che stood up straight, the smile on his face faded, "The bear demon's body has been transported back to the Council of Elders. I called you here because I want you to help look at the wounds on his body. So many monsters have escaped from the forbidden area. If there is really another one hiding in Lutai Mountain and killing the bear demon, only you can recognize it."

Zhou Yan did not agree with Zhou Che's words, but did not refuse: "Where is the corpse?"

Zhou Che curled up his lips, and glanced at Elder Zheng. Elder Zheng nodded knowingly, and coughed lightly: "I'll take you there."

Although the Presbyterian Church is located in an old residential area, the interior is a fully modern office environment.Zhou Yan followed Elder Zheng through the long corridor, through several glass doors, and finally came to a closed iron door.

Elder Zheng stepped forward and pressed his fingerprints, the iron door opened automatically, and there was a faint smell of blood blowing in with the air-conditioning.

Zhou Xi frowned, glanced at Elder Zheng, and walked in by himself.

The corpse of the bear demon was placed on a huge table, Zhou Sing walked over and lifted the white cloth covering it.

On the surface, there was nothing unusual about the bear demon's corpse. There was no sign of a fight on its body, and its fur was still shiny.His eyes were wide open, filled with horror.

Zhou Xi lowered his head to look at the wound on the left chest of the corpse. In other words, it was not a wound, but a hole.

The murderous monster didn't use any murder weapon, and didn't give the bear monster a chance to react. The sharp claws directly penetrated the thick fur and took away his still beating heart.

"Can you see it?" Elder Zheng also followed in, and refused to approach after a few steps.

He glanced at the corpse of the bear demon, "Do you have any impression of the hundreds of monsters in the forbidden area?"

Zhou Yan glanced at him, and gently touched the edge of the wound with his slender fingers: "How do you know that the monster who escaped from the forbidden area did it?"

"Except for the monsters in the forbidden area, who could do such a cruel thing?" Elder Zheng asked back with a frown.

"How do I know?" Zhou Yan finished looking at the wound, then flipped through the bear demon's fur.

"What do you mean? You want to help them clean up? You have been in the forbidden area for hundreds of years, and you have a common enemy with them?" Elder Zheng couldn't help but took two steps forward, "Don't you forget what your origin is?"

"It's so loud, shut up!"

After Zhou Yan finished his roar, he returned to his original form. Before Elder Zheng could be puzzled, his sharp claws directly penetrated the bear demon's fur.

"What are you doing!" Elder Zheng was stunned, and only had time to shout out this sentence.

Zhou Ling didn't answer, pulled out his finger and clawed for a look, and turned back into a human form to check the wound he just left.

Although the wound was not as exaggerated as the one on the chest, it was still very obvious.

Elder Zheng leaned forward and took a look, dissatisfied: "The body must be returned to his family, so that he can be buried. Now that you have done this, how can we explain to his family?"

"You can't even explain how you died, and you still care about such a wound?" Zhou Xi raised his finger, put it on the tip of his nose and sniffed lightly, "I have an impression of hundreds of monsters in the forbidden area, but I don't know who they are. I don’t know if they did it or not.”

"you……"

"I'm done reading, let's go back." Zhou Yan rubbed his fingers, and subconsciously wanted to wipe it with the skirt of his clothes, but suddenly remembered that the clothes on his body were prepared by Lin Yuan, so he rubbed his fingers, "Are there any wet tissues?"

"...there's a restroom outside."

Zhou Che still maintained the posture just now, leaning on the table and looking at the interrogation room, Zhou Yan stopped at the door, followed his line of sight, and found that Kui Niu simply returned to its original shape after eating and drinking. Falling to the ground and sleeping soundly, the fox demon assistant was cleaning up the mess in the house with the sound of snoring.

"I finally understand why some human beings like to watch food and TV broadcasts. It's quite satisfying to watch others eat and drink." Zhou Che finished speaking and looked back, "Have you finished watching?"

"It's over." Zhou Xi replied, "The bear monster is hundreds of years old, even if it has average spiritual power, but its fur is extremely thick. It is impossible for ordinary monsters to pierce through the fur and remove the heart in an instant."

"Yes, he struck very quickly. I guess, the bear demon even felt the whole process of his heart being taken out of his body before he died." Zhou Che sighed, and suddenly glanced at Zhou Xi's hand: "You can't do it either!" arrive?"

Zhou Yan squeezed his fingers, obviously washed several times, but still felt that there was still flesh and blood left on them.

He simply put his hands behind his back, "I can't do it."

"Any other judgments?"

"No," Zhou Xi straightened his back, looking straight into Zhou Che's eyes, "There are several thousand-year-old monsters in the forbidden area, but... I am not familiar with them, and I have never done anything with them, so I can't tell. Unless you can bring them to me for a fight."

Zhou Che nodded, looked away, and looked thoughtful.

Zhou Yan stared at the back of his head for a while, then suddenly said: "Tell me, does the monster want to kill the bear demon, or does it simply want his heart?"

Zhou Che turned his head and looked at him with a slight frown: "What can a demon bear's heart do?"

"How do I know?" Zhou Xi waved his hand, not wanting to talk about this topic anymore, and pointed to the glass in front of him, "How do you deal with him?"

"When he wakes up tomorrow, he can leave the Council of Elders." Zhou Che turned his head and smiled slightly when he saw Zhou Yan's surprised expression. That fairy mountain will eventually become a forbidden area. We have looked through the past files, but we can't find any information about him. It can neither prove that he is a murderer, nor can he prove that he has made a big mistake and was imprisoned in a forbidden area. The Council of Elders has no right restrict his freedom."

After Zhou Che finished speaking, he gave Zhou Yan a deep look: "Are you relieved now?"

"What does it have to do with me?" Zhou Xi covered his lips with his hands and yawned, "I'm leaving."

"It's already two o'clock, do you want to have a late-night snack together?" Zhou Che looked down at the time, "How about going to the barbecue restaurant in the snack street?"

Zhou Yan raised his eyes and met Zhou Che's gaze.

He suddenly found that he couldn't find the picture of the two of them sitting and eating together in his memory.

He was silent for a while, then shook his head: "I'm sleepy, I'm going back to sleep."

After saying that, he left without looking back.

Zhou Che stood where he was, and shook his head slightly when Zhou Yan disappeared from his sight.

Only then did Elder Zheng enter the room, and subconsciously looked at the time: "Mr. Long, after dawn, the bear demon's family will come to collect the corpse."

"I've seen everything that needs to be seen, let's give them a good burial." Zhou Che rubbed his eyes, "In addition to the pension that the Council of Elders should give, I will personally give out another one as compensation. Pass it on together."

"Okay." After Elder Zheng finished speaking, he hesitated again, "But just now, Zhou was stingy with him..."

"I'll try to see if I can repair the wound in a while." Zhou Che shook his head, "In his eyes, death is death, and there is nothing disrespectful about a corpse. If the family members mind, I will personally apologize to them. "

Zhou Che talked to this point, Elder Zheng couldn't say anything more, and nodded: "It's getting late, you should go back and rest."

Zhou Che stretched his body and smelled the lingering aroma of barbecue in the air: "Go for supper together?"

The author has something to say: Zhou Xi: who is not a worker monster!