Despicable Games [lower part]

Du Qianlin was still thinking about what Kang Wenwen said, when he was interrupted by a voice from outside the yard.

"Butou Lu! Butou Lu is here." An unknown passer-by shouted from outside the courtyard.

When Du Qianlin saw someone calling him, he got up and walked out of the yard. Before he could ask what was going on, he saw a person running wildly from a distance.

"Captain Lu! Catcher Lu!"

It was getting dark now, Kang Wenwen stood in the yard and before he saw that person, he heard that it was the little policeman who shouted for Du Qianlin in the yamen this morning.

Kang Wenwen walked to Du Qianlin's side, and said interestingly, "It's this kid again."

Du Qianlin was also a little helpless, "Maybe he trots fast because of his age?"

Before Kang Wenwen could speak, the little policeman ran to Du Qianlin.

"Catcher Lu! Another person is missing!"

"The missing person is a farmer in the south of the city. He went to the west of the city today to cut firewood and would usually go home at [-]:[-] at the latest. His wife came to report to the police when he didn't arrive at You hour today." Du Qianlin talked about the situation of the missing person this time.

"Does he usually chop wood alone?" Du Qianlin asked.

The old policeman quickly said, "No, they are all neighbors who meet to go back together, but sometimes one or two people will leave first and lag behind, and everyone doesn't take it seriously."

"Has anyone who went with him asked about it?" Du Qianlin asked.

"This..." The old catcher quickly glanced at the sky.

"Catcher Lu, it's...it's getting dark, let's go back and talk about it tomorrow."

Du Qianlin wanted to say something else, but the old arrester said slowly, "Even if you are not afraid, those people are too. No one would dare to open the door for you to listen to your question when you go."

Although Kang Wenwen and Du Qianlin didn't believe in this ogre, but the people in the yamen were all afraid and couldn't force him to work.

Watching the servants go home in a panic, Du Qianlin turned to look at Kang Wenwen who was sitting still, "Are you still going back?"

"Huh? I'm going back. Good night." After saying that, Kang Wenwen got up and waved to leave.

"Wen Wen." Du Qianlin said suddenly.

Kang Wenwen stopped and turned around, "What's wrong?"

"Are you planning to hide something from me again?" Du Qianlin asked.

Kang Wenwen shrugged innocently, "I don't."

"Then..." Then why did the other servants in the yamen look at Kang Wenwen strangely.

"Where are you going now?" Du Qianlin still didn't ask, thinking that those people came because of what happened last night.

Kang Wenwen raised his hand and stretched his waist, and said lazily, "Where else can I go? Go home and sleep."

Saying that, he waved to Du Qianlin and Zhang Dengjin and left.

Everyone walked out of the Yamen, Du Qianlin was still staring at the door, Zhang Dengjin had no choice but to close the door.

"When you come back to your senses, you will almost become a husband-wife stone."

Du Qianlin pouted and looked away, picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip, "Why are you still here?"

Zhang Dengjin immediately pursed his lips and looked aggrieved, "Lin Zai, I was kicked out by the rich man because of you, so you didn't plan to take me in for a night?"

Du Qianlin remained expressionless, "I don't intend to."

"Lin Tsai!"

Kang Wenwen walked out of the yamen, and there was silence at the end of the street.The evening sprinkled on the ground with an inexplicable sense of desolation.

"The ogre will cook meat in the east of the city every time..."

The case was sorted out in his head.

"Every time someone goes missing, the body of the previous missing person will appear in the Bone Grove..."

Kang Wenwen stopped suddenly, turned around and walked quickly to the Yamen.

Hua'er disappeared outside the city wall last night, and no body or blood was found outside the city today.But the body of the last missing person appeared in the bone grove. The farmer disappeared at five o'clock in the afternoon...

The corpse of Hua'er should also appear.

"You are blinded by love." Zhang Dengjin's voice sounded in the room.

Kang Wenwen silently withdrew his hand on the door.

"You don't know, don't talk nonsense." Du Qianlin replied helplessly.

"What nonsense, I heard it all!" Zhang Dengjin said, "He pretended to pull you and said that he should respect the dead, but as far as I know, he never respected the dead during the autopsy. On the one hand, he thought that NPCs were human beings, And treat those dead as meat on a cutting board, pretending to be a fake saint."

"Bulb, you don't know Wenwen. He's just superficial. He entered this game to make money. Does he want to stay away from corpses like you?" Du Qianlin said.

"Okay, I can't say enough about you." Zhang Dengjin sniffed, "Then let's talk about something else."

"Last time Qin Da said that he would treat us to a hot pot, and when we got there, Kang Wenwen didn't know what happened and insisted on going back. Then..."

"Wen Wen just woke up that day, feeling unwell."

"Damn it, then why will he be fine after returning to your house?" Zhang Dengjin muttered.

"I think he is hypocritical. He just took the opportunity to pretend to be weak to make you soft-hearted and let him stay. He has neither education nor job, and he can climb up to you in that slum..."

"Enough." Du Qianlin's voice was flat, but it sounded like he was angry.

Zhang Dengjin didn't speak any more.

Kang Wenwen stood outside the door. He didn't want to hear it, but he couldn't walk away.

"Lin Tsai, I'm afraid you will be cheated." Zhang Dengjin whispered.

The room was silent for a while, but Kang Wenwen's heart was raised tightly. He wanted to know what Du Qianlin would say, and hoped that Du Qianlin would not speak.

"I see, don't say these words in front of Kang Wenwen." Du Qianlin's voice could not detect any emotion.

"Hey, I'm not stupid."

Kang Wenwen looked up at the sky...

After a while, there was no sound in the room, and Du Qianlin and Zhang Deng went into the yamen dormitory in the backyard.Only then did Kang Wenwen realize that it was completely dark.

Dragging his numb legs, he took a lantern and walked out of the yamen with his back still straight.

The city gate was already tightly closed, but luckily no one was stationed on the city wall.Kang Wenwen found a relatively low place and put down the hemp rope.

Tie one end of the rope to the pile of the city wall, tug twice to make sure it is tight, and then throw the other end off the city wall, take out the glove belt from the item bar, and wrap the palm of the hand with a piece of sackcloth.

"Huh—" There was a strong wind on the city wall.

Kang Wenwen stretched his head to look at the outer city wall. Although the city wall here is not very high, it is more than six meters long.

It's nothing to look at during the day, but the inability to see the foot of the wall at night inexplicably increases the fear.

Looking through the items in my inventory, I found that I don't know when there was another fire book at the end.

I don't know what's going on, but going down with a lantern will come in handy now.After blowing out the lantern, Kang Wenwen turned over and climbed onto the city wall.

"Clap."

Kang Wenwen's feet fell to the ground, and his heart also fell.

Clapping his palms, he put the gloves and other things into the inventory, took out the torch and lit the lantern.When I took it back, I found that the fire folder was worn out too quickly. After using it only once, it was obvious that it had returned a small space.

Kang Wenwen carefully guarded the flame in his hand, but he didn't dare to extinguish it casually.

Patting the hemp rope still dangling on the wall, Kang Wenwen glanced at the time.It’s almost summer now, and it’s almost dawn at six o’clock in the morning, and I have to be back here at five o’clock at the latest.

There is silence in the city, and there is a dead silence outside the city.

Spring is supposed to be the time when frogs are singing and birds are singing and insects are singing.But there was no sound at all here.

Only Kang Wen could hear the sound of shoe soles falling to the ground, and the sound of burning wicks in the lanterns.

Following his previous memory, Kang Wenwen first went to the place where "ogre ghosts set up pots" two miles away.Not to mention ogres and cauldrons, they didn't even have any footprints.

Kang Wenwen squatted down and grabbed a small handful of soil and twisted it. It seems that no one has been here since he and Du Qianlin came the day before yesterday.

It may be that no one dares to come out now, so the ogre doesn't have to come out to pretend to be a ghost.

When I walked to the bone forest, I saw a pair of small round light bulbs on the tree from a distance, which were crows on the tree.

They all looked at Kang Wenwen vigilantly with wide eyes, but none of them made a sound, only a faint "cuckoo" sound came out of their throats.

There was a rotten smell all around, but Kang Wenwen endured and did not cover his mouth and nose.

I don't know if there are other people here. Kang Wenwen must ensure that he can respond to emergencies as soon as possible.And covering your mouth and nose to your own breathing will affect your hearing of the surrounding movement.

Breathe lightly, step lightly, and the lantern is also extinguished outside the woods and put into the inventory.

He only held a piece of dead wood for self-defense in his hand.

The whole journey was smooth, and Kang Wen walked to the branch where the corpse was thrown after a short while.

Although he was mentally prepared, Kang Wenwen couldn't help gasping when he saw it with his own eyes.

A bloody, drenched, bloody corpse was lying on its back under the tree.

Kang Wenwen looked around first. It was still too difficult to see things only by moonlight. He could only listen to the sound and felt that there should be no one around.

He squatted down and examined the corpse with gloves on.

The deceased was a woman, and the only person missing recently was the farmer who disappeared this afternoon, so this corpse was the flower that fell off the city wall last night.

The girl who hugged her leg last night and cried and said she didn't want to die is now lying in front of her like this.Kang Wenwen was so sore in his heart, he took a long breath and closed his eyes to ease his emotions, and when he opened them again, it was as usual.

There were also two blood holes in the left neck of the deceased just like the previous one, and blood would even bleed when pressed by hand.

Kang Wenwen frowned and got up, the body was not completely cool.That meant that the murderer had only placed the deceased here not long ago.

There's a good chance the killer is still around.

After hesitating for a moment, he still took out the lantern and lit it, although it would not help to find the murderer.But it can help the murderer find Kang Wenwen.

There is only one way from the city gate to here. When Kang Wenwen came, he didn't meet anyone, and he didn't hear any noise in front of him, which proved that the murderer should have set off half an hour to an hour earlier than Kang Wenwen.

It is impossible for the murderer to commit the crime outdoors, and it is impossible for the murderer to calm down and do such a meticulous work of skinning if he is too conspicuous.It could only have been shipped here from somewhere else.

Not to mention whether there are other places outside the city that Kang Wenwen doesn't know about, if the murderer committed the crime in the city, he must wait until it is dark and make sure there are no pedestrians on the road.

It was eight o'clock when Kang Wenwen came out of the yamen, the genius was so dark, and it was only around eight forty when he got out of the city.

It is very likely that the murderer hid at the city gate at dusk, and set off with the hidden body when it got dark.It's definitely not as fast as Kang Wenwen walking out with a person, so the corpse was only put down a few minutes before he arrived.

The murderer must be watching him nearby.

Kang Wenwen didn't take the initiative to look for it, but was easily in danger.Although it was a bit reckless to light the lantern, since he had already entered the forest, if that person really wanted to kill him, he would not be able to escape.

It's better to just wait here and see if he can bear it, or the murderer cat can bear it.

Kang Wenwen stood on the spot and listened carefully to the sounds around him, watching the movement around him vigilantly.

"Crack-"

As expected, there was the sound of crushing leaves behind the tree where Hua'er's corpse was standing.

Kang Wenwen didn't rush over quickly, he had to be vigilant if the murderer turned the tiger away from the mountain and ran away behind him.

However, Kang Wenwen was very vigilant, but that person was not as smart as he thought.

Seeing Kang Wenwen approaching, the man turned and ran.

The man in a gray robe was the one who attacked him in the yamen last time.

Kang Wenwen chased after two steps, but stopped.

The man had some skills, and he still ran in a direction that Kang Wenwen was not familiar with deep in the woods. If he lost his way and was taken away by that man, he would be wronged.

Although it was a pity, Kang Wenwen remained rational and returned to Hua'er.

Looking at the flowers in front of him and the rotting corpses hanging beside him, Kang Wenwen sighed.

Suddenly remembered Zhang Dengjin's words.

In fact, I used to be afraid of corpses and dead people.

It's just that he gritted his teeth in front of Nie Fei and never showed any timidity. Until Nie Fei died and Lu Ziyang died, Kang Wenwen was really not afraid of life and death.

If there are really ghosts in the world, then he hopes that Nie Fei will come back and talk to him, or any lonely ghost can help him with a sentence.

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The author has something to say:

Zhang Dengjin is not a bad-hearted person, he said those words because he was worried that Du Qianlin would be cheated.From the perspective of God, we naturally know that Wen Wen is not that bad, but for other people in the book, it is right to be wary of knowing people and knowing their faces.

Just like a friend falling in love, you will also remind him to be careful of being cheated of money, sex and feelings.

After all, in the eyes of outsiders, Wen Wen was disrespectful to the deceased, and there was no serious person during the autopsy.

Crenels: On the concave and convex places on the city wall, the sunken ones are the crenels, and the raised ones are the crenels.