Despicable Games [lower part]

The clues Du Qianlin mentioned were the case files in the county government office.

Kang Wenwen flipped through the grassy paper and asked, "By the way, what does it mean that an NPC calls me 'Si Fang'?"

Du Qianlin tilted his head and thought for a moment, "I'm not sure, Sifang seems to be the one who recorded statements and organized case files in the Yamen during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. But I remember that 'Sifang' is not a department?"

Kang Wenwen raised his eyes and looked at the few basic files around him, and said, "Maybe... I am the only one in 'Si Fang'?"

Du Qianlin followed Kang Wenwen's gaze and looked at the small bookshelf in front of him, thinking so too.This is a very small county with few residents and everyone knows the basics, and almost nothing will cause trouble to the yamen.

"Found it." Kang Wenwen pointed to the case file in his hand, on which was written "ogre ghost" in delicate handwriting.

Du Qianlin always felt that the handwriting looked familiar.

"Three people went missing last month, and the bodies of two of them were found in the 'Bone Grove' less than three miles outside the city."

Kang Wenwen looked at the records in the case file seriously, "and the time when the body of the first deceased was found coincided with the time when the second victim disappeared."

"Another serial murder case?" Du Qianlin asked.

Kang Wenwen nodded, suddenly he didn't know what he saw, and his brows suddenly frowned, "And this is not the worst."

"The reason why this murderer is called an ogre is because he really eats people."

Du Qianlin was stunned, "It's just that these villagers are afraid of ghosts and gods. Let's not talk about whether there are ghosts or not. The most ghosts cannibalize people is to suck people. Essence. Qi and kill people."

Kang Wenwen handed the case file in his hand to Du Qianlin, "This ghost not only inhales people, essence, and energy, but also cooks with fire."

"Knock knock knock, knock knock knock..."

Du Qianlin was looking at the case file of the ogre when suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Because the place where the file is stored in the yamen is a small wooden room at the deepest part of the yamen wall, and the light is not good, so Du Qianlin and the others lit candles as soon as they came in. At this time, they heard the knock on the door and turned their heads to find that the sky outside had already darkened. .

But the knock on the door didn't sound like the door of this room, it seemed a little far away.

Du Qianlin and Kang Wenwen looked at each other, blew out the candles and bent over to the door.The two stared at the paper door and window from left to right.

The sound of "knock knock" sounded again, but this time it was closer to them.

The man outside seemed to be trying to make sure each room was occupied.

"knock knock"

The knock on the door had already reached the next door, and the yamen was as quiet as a pool of stagnant water after nightfall, not even the sound of insects and birds could be heard outside the house.

Kang Wenwen heard the man pause next door for a while, and then walked towards the room he was in.The footsteps of that person were not heavy, but they sounded like an old man staggering. He couldn't lift his feet too high, and the soles of his shoes rubbed against the ground very loudly.

The man walked to the room where Kang Wenwen and the others were, and there was a slight rubbing sound of clothes... "knock knock".

In the darkness, Kang Wenwen could still see Du Qianlin three meters away from him, squatting and staring at the shadow of the man outside the house.

Just when Kang Wenwen thought the man was about to leave, there was another knock on the door.

"Knock-knock-knock--"

This time it was heavier than before, and the rhythm was much slower.

In the previous few rooms, this person left after knocking once, why didn't he leave when he got here

"Knock! Knock! Knock!" This time the knocking was a little impatient, and the voice became heavier and heavier.

Kang Wenwen wanted to gesture to Du Qianlin, but Du Qianlin seemed to be unable to see him.Kang Wenwen was about to move to Du Qianlin's side, but he heard the heavy breathing of the man outside the room.

"Huh-huh, huh-huh--" the voice became louder and more urgent.

"Knock knock knock! Knock knock knock!"

This time he even knocked twice.

Du Qianlin also turned his head to look at Kang Wenwen. Kang Wenwen gestured to him and walked towards the back window.

When the two started together, the person outside didn't know whether he heard that they were going to run away, or he was getting impatient waiting outside.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the man kicked down the door.

"Wenwen!" Du Qianlin got up and rushed to Kang Wenwen's side, grabbed Kang Wenwen's arm, and quickly stepped back to the window.

With his right hand, he pulled out the knife at his waist and pointed at the shadow.

The surroundings were pitch black, and even Kang Wenwen could only see that the man was wearing a gray robe, but the robe was worn out, and in some places hung on the man like rags.

"Who are you? Why are you here at the county government office?" Du Qianlin asked, pointing at the black shadow with the tip of his knife.

"Huhu-hu-hu-hu--" The man's answer was more and more heavy breathing.

Du Qianlin pushed Kang Wenwen behind his back, motioning him to go out through the window.

Kang Wenwen glanced at the man, then at Du Qianlin, but he still turned his head and opened the window.

Here I will only get in the way and drag Du Qianlin back.

But Kang Wenwen hadn't run away yet, when he opened the window, the black shadow suddenly exploded and rushed towards Du Qianlin.

Du Qianlin did not hesitate, and directly stabbed the knife in his hand.

I saw that the black shadow didn't dodge much, and the figure swayed slightly, and the knife in Du Qianlin's hand pierced his robe.But Du Qianlin clearly felt that he was stabbed.

Taking advantage of this punch, Hei Ying punched the front of Du Qianlin's right arm. He didn't know if it was an acupuncture point or what. Du Qianlin felt his arm was sore and numb, and the knife came out of his hand.The black shadow did not give Du Qianlin a chance to react, and the other hand clawed towards Du Qianlin's left shoulder.

Although Du Qianlin saw the opponent's movements, his body's reaction was always half a beat behind, and he could only watch helplessly as the man's hand was about to touch him.

At this moment, an arm was placed in front of Hei Ying's hand, and the man grabbed that arm.

"Wen Wen!" Du Qianlin's face changed suddenly.

Kang Wenwen looked calm, retracted his arms, and rushed towards him with the man.And he charged his right hand towards the man's face.

Heiying didn't expect such a development, so he could only loosen his left hand and grab Kang Wenwen's face.

And when Kang Wenwen saw the black figure's face wrapped in a black cloth at close range, he relaxed his right fist and planned to pull the man's face scarf away.

The hands of the two reached each other's face almost at the same time.

"Oh!"

Kang Wenwen saw that he was about to grab the man's mask, but the man flew out in front of his eyes.

"..." Kang Wenwen turned his head to look at Du Qianlin who was holding back his feet.

Before Kang Wenwen could speak, Du Qianlin took the knife and rushed to the man first.But this time, the black shadow didn't seem to have any intention of meeting Du Qianlin head-on, so he sprinkled a handful of white powder on Du Qianlin, turned around and ran away

"Du Qianlin!" Kang Wenwen hurried forward to check.

"Ahem..." Du Qianlin waved the powder away, and when he got outside the door, he couldn't see where the black shadow went.

"Are you okay?" Kang Wenwen looked at Du Qianlin anxiously.

Du Qianlin grasped Kang Wenwen's hand that was groping around, resisting the urge to sneeze, "It's okay, it's just flour, non-toxic."

When he heard that Du Qianlin was fine, Kang Wenwen was relieved, and then he became angry.

"I was about to see his face just now, and you kicked him away with one kick."

Du Qianlin sighed, "Did you really not see it? His hand is about to catch you." At that time, the man was about to grab Kang Wenwen's jaw, although he didn't understand where he was attacking.But it was impossible for Du Qianlin to watch Kang Wenwen get hurt.

"Catch it, catch it, we will have clues to investigate after we see who he is." Kang Wen said dissatisfied.

Du Qianlin pulled away Kang Wenwen's left sleeve, and the scratches left by the man before were already bleeding, and the four bloodstains looked terrifying. "Finding clues is not for you to exchange for injuries."

Kang Wen pulled back his arm when he heard this, "Then if I don't block this blow, you will be the one who is injured now, so shouldn't I be worried?"

Du Qianlin looked at Kang Wenwen's questioning as a matter of course, and felt so soft in his heart.

He took Kang Wenwen's left hand and squeezed it, "Then let's not get hurt in the future."

Kang Wenwen glanced at him, really wanting to remind him not to set flags in the game.

The two walked out of the county government office and walked towards Zhang Zhengcai's house.

"According to this file, this ogre kills people, not only sucks human blood, but also peels off human skin and cooks it in a pot?" Du Qianlin was speechless, "The taste of this ogre is not ordinary heavy .”

"This dossier only records the 'cannibal' cases in the past three months. From one victim a month at the beginning to three victims last month." Kang Wenwen walked side by side with Du Qianlin "What happened in the middle that made this murderer suddenly decide to kill so many people?"

Du Qianlin thought, "Every time this ogre puts a pot to boil water, someone will see him. He must be there on purpose to wait for someone to see him."

"Someone can only report his evil deeds when he sees it, so that the image of 'ogre' can be strengthened."

Kang Wenwen understood what Du Qianlin wanted to say, "There are no ghosts in this world, only people pretend to be ghosts."

"It's just that the murderer is still unknown. What is the purpose of creating this 'ogre'?"

Du Qianlin also couldn't figure it out and couldn't answer.

Kang Wenwen didn't bother with this issue, and remembered the place where the body was found on the file.Ask Du Qian Lindao, "What is this 'bone forest'? Do you know what it is?" This place name seems very strange.

Du Qianlin nodded, "I heard them say it in the yamen today."

The bone forest was originally called the ancient forest.

I don't know when and what generation the tree was planted, but it has grown into a towering forest now.

In this era of food shortage and poor medical care, many children died at birth, many old people died of cold and disease, even young people often died of starvation.

In addition, miscellaneous taxes were exorbitantly imposed, and large-scale construction was carried out, which made the people miserable.The land is either used for planting or building temples for the mercy of God.

A child who died young was not included in the ancestral hall, and it was even more impossible to find land for him to be buried.Common people are wrapped in straw mats, carried to the ancient forest and tied to tall branches with hemp rope.There are fewer elderly people in ancient forests, but young people whose families cannot afford to bury them will also be tied to trees.

Over time, the corpses decomposed and the rain washed away, and the straw mats rotted, leaving only bones hanging on the treetops.Everyone gradually called that place the 'Bone Forest'.

Kang Wenwen frowned and said, "It's so miserable, didn't there be an emperor in ancient times? Did the emperor not care?"

Du Qianlin said, "Excessive taxation is the decision of the emperor of this dynasty. Although we don't know if we are in a dynasty that actually existed in history, there are no shortage of such brutal rulers who disregard the people in all dynasties."

"In fact, the reality we are in now is that because of land shrinkage, food shortages and resource shortages, this is also the case in the districts governed by some member states."

"It doesn't matter if a person dies. As long as he has young and middle-aged people to farm and work, the less people need them to supply food, the less food they will provide. Even some districts will brainwash some old people who have no labor force so that they will no longer live out of the country. Fade." Du Qianlin rubbed Kang Wenwen's head.

Kang Wenwen also knew about these things, but he always felt that those things were far away from him than he didn't have such a real and intuitive feeling.

"It's a good thing I wasn't born in those places, otherwise a non-contributing rice bug like me would have been beaten to death long ago." Kang Wenwen joked.

Du Qianlin stroked Kang Wenwen's hair, wondering what he was thinking.

After sending Kang Wenwen home, Du Qianlin bandaged his arm for him.

"Where do you sleep tonight?" Kang Wenwen asked.

"Go back to the Yamen." Du Qianlin packed up the small medicine bottle, because Kang Wenwen didn't want to take the 'recovery potion' bought in "71", so Du Qianlin could only take the cheapest and least effective 'healing ointment' ' Bandage Kang Wenwen.

Kang Wen asked, "You live in the yamen? Then you send me back."

Du Qianlin looked at him helplessly, "Can I rest assured that you will come back alone?"

"...." Kang Wenwen glanced at the time, "Don't go back tonight, it will be dawn in a few hours. Let's leave after dawn."

Du Qianlin raised his eyebrows and smiled, "Then if I stay, where will I sleep?"

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The author has something to say:

Kang Wenwen: You can sleep wherever you like.

Du Qianlin: Then I want to sleep...

Ye Ye: Cough, cough, driving is prohibited in Jinjiang, so be careful with your words and deeds.

Overhead Dynasty

Regarding the 'Bone Forest', it actually exists.And it's not far away from us.

At the beginning and middle of the last century, rural areas had no money to bury dead children, so they wrapped them in mats and carried them up the mountain and hung them on trees.At that time, brave children would run to that place to play, kick the tree hard under the tree, shake the 'mat' on the tree and fall from the branch, hit the ground with a "bang", and then those children would twitter Laughing and running away.

Sometimes those 'mats' are washed down the mountain by muddy water during heavy rains.The smell in the woods in summer is also something that people avoid.

The elders in the family mentioned it in a chat before. At that time, I was thinking that the kindness of children is pure and without impurities, and the malice is also without impurities, which makes people shudder.