sincerity of lies

The two were quite satisfied with Xu Xinran's acquaintance, and they made an appointment to meet at Juanshan at ten o'clock tomorrow morning.

On the second day, the two arrived at Juanshan a little earlier.

There is still some distance between Juanshan and the urban area, so when you arrive here, the land is vast and sparsely populated, the mountains are behind you, and the sea can be seen in front of you. The fishing ground is connected to the sea.

Ji Xun stood on the pier popular with fishermen, facing the sea breeze for a while, thoughtfully: "I'm thinking about a question."

"what is the problem?"

Huo Ranyin said that he did not stand with Ji Xun, but walked up and down the road, and looked up at the surveillance cameras distributed here after a while.

"Zheng Xuewang said that we can get there in half an hour after getting on the bus. It took more than half an hour for us to drive here from the city in a straight line. Adding in the time the casino detours back and forth to confuse the gamblers in the car, it can be easily concluded that One conclusion - the real stronghold of Lucky Casino is actually nearby."

"But why did the casino arrange its base near here?" Ji Xun said, "There are few people here. If there are few people, everything is eye-catching, which also means that the possibility of being discovered increases, and what's more, it is even less It is good at attracting customers, but it does not meet the site selection requirements of a casino hidden in the city.”

"It's still hidden in the city." Huo Ranyin sneered, "correspondingly, staying away from the urban area means that it is not easy to be discovered by doing some small actions, such as turning the direction of the cameras distributed here, moving a Monitoring blind spots is also very simple."

"Have you been moved out of the monitoring blind spot?" Ji Xun turned around after hearing this.

"The blind spot is huge." Huo Ranyin gave an example at random, "A row of elephants walking by here may not necessarily be photographed."

"That's understandable." Ji Xun nodded.

They walked back and forth and analyzed the current situation. It was only a little after nine o'clock, and there was still nearly an hour before the time they agreed to meet with Xu Xinran.

"Are you tired?" Ji asked Huo Ranyin.

"Not tired. Are you tired? Get in the car and sleep for a while." Huo Ranyin replied.

However, Ji Xun has already arranged a better place to rest.He rented a piece of beach cloth from the open bar in front of him, found a good place to spread it, and the lucky cat beckoned Huo Ranyin to come over:

"I wanted to rent a fishing barrel or something..."

"Work." Huo Ranyin had a straight face.

"So I just rented this one. You can get some sun and sleep, and you can take calcium supplements and rest."

"Is it really necessary to take care of yourself from now on?" Huo Ranyin couldn't hold back his face.

"This is called preparation beforehand, don't panic afterwards." Ji Xun said, "Lie down together for a while?"

Huo Ranyin shook his head and just sat down.

Ji Xun first lay down comfortably, and after lying down for a while, he felt that he should have a pillow, so he moved his head, and quietly moved it to Huo Ranyin's lap.

He opened his eyes to the sky.

The sun is still not strong at nine o'clock in the morning, but it has already swayed thousands of rays of light towards the bottom.

Ji Xun blinked, and the light spots in his pupils blurred like rainbow edges.

"Huo Ranyin."

"What?"

"Give me your hand."

He pulled one of Huo Ranyin's hands, put it in front of his eyes, and adjusted the position so that the slender fingertips on the palm were right on the edge of the rainbow he saw.

It's like magic.

Just like Huo Ranyin——

In the dark and cold night, a small but exquisite, gorgeous, and refreshing magic.

Huo Ranyin pressed down with his fingers.

Cover Ji Xun's eyes, cover the sunlight that troubles those eyes.

A short nap under the sun is like time slipping through your fingers, somewhat unaware.

In short, when Ji Xun seemed to come back to his senses suddenly from contemplation, the sound of the car engine in the distance had been blown to his ears by the sea breeze with a slight salty taste. He opened his eyes and looked ahead. At the end of the road, blue The color Jetta is getting more and more eye-catching.

At ten o'clock in the morning, not one minute earlier, not one minute later, Xu Xinran arrived at the meeting place on time.

A few people did not talk nonsense and set off directly.

Xu Xinran's car took the lead, took Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin, and drove up Juanshan in a familiar way, and then made seven turns and turns in the road of Juanshan. After only a while, they drove completely from the monitored main road. A mountain trail that has not been officially developed.

But on this weedy road, there are indeed traces of repeated rolling by the wheels.

Naturally, there is no monitoring at all here.

After driving along the bumpy mountain road for five or six minutes, Ji Xun heard a faint sound coming from ahead.But the distance was too far, and the noise was small and chaotic, and he still couldn't distinguish it: "What's in front?"

"The vegetable market." Huo Ranyin gave the answer.

The sharp-eyed captain of the criminal police did not solve the wrong puzzle. After the car left the road completely, the front suddenly became clear, and an open-air vegetable market appeared in front of him.

At this moment, Ji Xun murmured, "It's a small village."

Not far ahead, in an open-air vegetable market as big as a basketball court, the sounds of hawking, chickens and ducks, talking and laughing all converged into the noise that Ji Xun heard from afar just now; further away, there is the dirt road in the countryside And one-story, two-story bungalows and small buildings.The houses are sparsely populated, and there are no stores in sight. They look backward and dilapidated.

This is a small seaside village hidden on the back of Juan Mountain.

At this moment, the blue Jetta stopped suddenly.

Huo Ranyin's cell phone rang, and he picked it up. Then, Xu Xinran's voice rang in the carriage.

"It's here."

"What do you mean?"

"Literally..." After one night, Xu Xinran seemed to have calculated the pros and cons clearly. At this moment, he analyzed the pros and cons slowly, "The police officer also saw it. There is a small village in front of it. Outsiders go in. It is very eye-catching. I used to I have been here before, and I am a familiar face. If I follow you in now, not only will I not be able to help you solve the case, but it will hold you back and increase your risk of exposure, so we might as well separate here."

"The specific location of the casino." Huo Ranyin was not annoyed, but he pointedly asked the most critical question.

"I am a law-abiding citizen..."

Xu Xinran's words were interrupted by Ji Xun's mocking sneer.

However, talking on the phone from a distance, without the oppression to face directly, Xu Xinran seemed much more comfortable.He picks up the words he was interrupted on his own:

“…There’s no reason to go door to door to find out where the casinos are. All I can say is, I’ve been smelling something.”

Obviously, Xu Xinran kept a hand.

Even if the word "gambling" appeared in his call, he said it from the perspective of a bystander. He never really connected himself with gambling. He was very cautious and worried that the police would use his words to record him and convict him.

"What is the taste?"

"The smell of the vegetable market." Xu Xinran said, "By the way, the house is a one-story house, and the windows are covered by dark blue floral curtains, which are nailed to the wall."

Ji Xun and Huo Ranyin met each other.

almost.

The village is so small.Xu Xinran first said that he could smell the vegetable market, which proved that the casino was installed near the vegetable market. The exact location of the casino.

"That's all? Brother, you don't take the initiative to cooperate with the police now. After the police have gone through all kinds of hardships and overcome all difficulties to find the casino and get the evidence, you criminal gambler..."

However, Ji Xun still sneered and threatened.For a fox like Xu Xinran, if he had a date or not, he would hit him twice more, but he wouldn't hurt himself anyway.

"The police officer needs to tell the evidence. When did I participate in gambling?" Xu Xinran denied it, but he quickly dropped a new clue, "But after you say it like this, I remembered one thing..."

There are really dates.

The two were speechless.

"You didn't say it just now?" Huo Ran was dissatisfied.

"It's not that I didn't mention it on purpose, it's that this one is a bit different..." Xu Xinran pondered for a moment, "One time...it wasn't normal, but one time...I smelled a bad smell over there."

"The vegetable market smells every day." Ji Xun said.Even now, before they entered the village, they could smell the stench coming from the vegetable market.

"The vegetable market was closed that day." Xu Xinran said, "That smell is also different from the stench of the vegetable market."

"What's that smell like?"

"I think," Xu Xinran said, "it's the smell of corpses."

The abrupt words aroused the vigilance of the two of them.

Huo Ranyin said: "The body smells?"

"Well, the vegetable market also smells of rotten fish, rotten shrimp, dead pigs and sheep, but the smell of the vegetable market is mixed, not as good as the pure smell of rotting organic matter."

"When did you smell it?" Ji Xun asked, "Do you think someone was killed in a casino and is hiding his body?"

"I smelled it last Sunday." Xu Xinran said, "As for whether it was someone from the casino... I don't think so. Out of professional sensitivity, when I smelled this smell, I was very careful to observe the people around me. But from the top to the Next, everyone was very puzzled, and even discussed where the smell came from when the vegetable market was not open."

"Of course," Xu Xinran said after a while, "Maybe this is not necessarily the smell of corpses, but the smell of large animals after they rot. They are all rotting organic matter, and the difference in smell is not that big."

The two of them asked a few more questions back and forth, and they were satisfied only after they squeezed out everything Xu Xinran knew.

When the blue car turned around and left, Ji Xun crossed his arms and stared directly at the windshield of the car.

Huo Ranyin: "What are you looking at?"

"Look at the village." Ji Xun, "Do you think this village looks familiar?"

Huo Ranyin looked forward and said objectively: "I have never been to this village."

"It's not a question of whether you've been here before, but a question of feeling—" Ji Xun, "In terms of feeling, I feel very familiar, what do you think?"

Huo Ranyin looked ahead, with pairs of eyes, eyes from the market, vegetable sellers, vegetable buyers, the eyes that seem to be there, passed through the distance between them, and even penetrated the car's glass and Iron sheet.

Sudden.

"Snapped!"

A mass of iron-gray black mud skimmed across the retina, and slammed heavily on the windshield of the car. First, it slid down the dirty water, then scattered mud spots, and finally, the bodies of dead fish and the heads of dead shrimps were also in the mud. slide out gradually.

Huo Ranyin's eyes met the gray eyes of the fish and shrimp for a while, then moved away, and moved to the direction where the mud ball was thrown.

Down the road from the edge of the beach a tanned child was looking up at them.

His eyes met them.

He grinned, showing his white teeth, and pulled a malicious smile.

Of course familiar.

Huo Ranyin looked at the child in front and the adult in the distance, thinking calmly.

Although he has never been here before, this village is not only like the village Xi Lei lived in, but also like the drug village he once entered when he was fighting drugs.

Probably every village with a secret, in order to protect its secret, has shown very similar malice towards outsiders who come to the village.

The author has something to say: Correct a small bug: the previous Juanshan Reservoir was changed to Juanshan Fishing Ground.