Chapter 36: Raising Trees with Corpses
Wu Er handed a cup of tea to Ding Mian: "Brother Ding, I was taken care of by you and Uncle Ye in Sucheng last time, I don't know where Uncle Ye is going to be at this time?"
"Don't say. Ding Mian still replied the same unkindly, and still maintained an unfazed attitude.
Wu Er frowned, a little helpless, You Nian'an saw it in his eyes and asked softly, "Is there something you are looking for Uncle Ye?"
"Hmm...... A little personal matter to find him. "There are indeed some incomprehensible places about what happened to the thousand-year-old temple, why should he help himself? Or is he knowing that the thousand-year-old temple is the mound of Qili Yuntang, which is related to the Wu clan, and choosing to help himself is equivalent to helping the Wu clan, what is the connection between Ye Feisong and the Wu clan?
While contemplating, he suddenly felt a cold palm under the table, and a slender finger hurriedly wrote a word in his palm, Wu Er glanced at You Nian'an beside him quietly, slightly puzzled, just such a hidden inform, obviously You Nian'an had to do this.
And what she just wrote was a word that made Wu Er's second monk puzzled for a while: Gu.
After a meal, Song Pan was basically in liquidation, Ding Mian barely moved his chopsticks, and he didn't know if the dishes were unappetizing, Su Mijie had a lively temperament, and pulled You Nianan to talk from time to time, in Wu Er's opinion, the two were more like a game of questions and answers. Knowing that Wu Er and Song Pan also came to the city, Zhang Mengde happened to do something and came to meet them, You Nian'an successfully entered the next round, and the time for the re-competition was a week later, the instant messaging devices of the millennium had just been popularized, You Nian'an did not have a mobile phone, and Wu Er could only leave his phone to her. As for the meaning of the word 'valley', You Nian'an never mentioned it again, so he could only return to the suburban colleges and universities in confusion.
Coincidentally, Zhang Mengde just arrived on the front foot, and the old Liu Tou on the back foot contacted Song Pan and transferred him back to deal with another case, although suddenly, but Wu Er and Song Pan saw the clue from Zhang Mengde's gloomy face as soon as they met, and they didn't ask too much, Song Pan returned to the city bureau by himself, and Zhang Mengde continued to go back to the school in the suburbs with Wu Er, along the way Zhang Mengde didn't say a word, Wu Er sat in the co-pilot and wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask after all, and finally Zhang Mengde lit a cigarette and said: "Something big is going to happen......
"Huh?" Wu Er was stunned, judging from Team Zhang's serious expression, the so-called big thing may really be extraordinary.
"In the last year of Nanyu Prison in the southeast region, the criminals who were imprisoned have always disappeared inexplicably, the Celestial Empire attaches great importance to it, and requires the relevant departments to follow up and investigate for several months, and the latest investigation results show that they were found in Lunzhi Mountain, which is hundreds of kilometers away from Nanyu, but they have all become dead bodies. ”
"Who would take such a big risk to rob criminals and kill them all?"
"The organization is still inconclusive, but the report involves a large number of strange plants planted in Lunzhi Mountain, because the leaves and flowers are white, temporarily named white, this kind of tree is covered with red veins, the sap flowing from the branches is like lacquer, and many old white have traces of scraping, it seems that someone specially harvested those lacquer materials, as for the composition of the lacquer is still being identified for the time being, but from the distribution of dead bodies, some people are raising trees with corpses, and many corpses at the scene are connected with white rhizomes, the closer to the roots, the greater the degree of decay of the corpses。 ”
Wu Er didn't speak for a long time, speaking of which, Lunzhi Mountain is the closest and only big mountain in the east of Shanglu in his hometown, only more than a hundred kilometers away, there are few people there, it is located on the west side of the Zuohai Spiral Reef, and it can take the Great Celestial Empire several months of manpower and material resources to realize that this case is by no means ordinary people from the nature alone.
"What do you think?" Seeing that Wu Er had been silent, Zhang Mengde asked.
In fact, Wu Er's first reaction was the five major families, and he hesitated, but he heard Bai Yue's voice suddenly: "Don't talk about the five major families, avoid implicating yourself!", Bai Yue's worry is not unreasonable, Team Zhang, as a hidden agent in the shadows, has information and understanding that are not ordinary people's ideas, and the five major families are inextricably linked with the Wu clan. Being able to quietly complete such a big case within the scope of prison guards' monitoring is definitely not a personal act, there must be a rigorous and precise plan behind the case, and I prefer that the prison guards have internal inferences. ”
Zhang Mengde nodded: " The organization also believes that there is such a possibility, but the Nanyu prison management system is chaotic, it is estimated that the perpetrators also took advantage of this point to have an opportunity, Lao Liu Tou They were transferred to the case for the time being, and for the time being, they only claimed that it was a terrorist organization, but there are too many strange places in the case itself, which has attracted the attention of the Ministry of Obscurity, and now the investigation is still in progress。 ”
Wu Er no longer answered, his eyes turned to the car window, about the use of corpses to raise trees, I had indeed heard my grandmother mention that a long time ago there was a tree called 'Soul Shade', relying on the smell of flowers to lure prey closer, and then relying on the roots of the tree to entangle and kill them, turning the beast corpse into its own nourishment.
Back at the university, the agreed time to talk with Mr. Cheng was about the same, Wu Er and Zhang Mengde rushed directly to the direction of the teaching building, the weather in the afternoon was finally gloomy, the wind rose, and the dull rolling thunder was faintly heard, and there should be a rain falling soon.
There was no one else in the office, Mr. Cheng finished cleaning up his desk and looked at the slowly gathering clouds outside, the thumb and fingertips of his right hand clenched between his lips, and he was slightly relieved when he heard the knock on the door.
"Teacher Cheng......"
"Sit down first. Without waiting for Zhang Mengde to finish speaking, Cheng Xiaotian poured two glasses of water and handed them over first, and took the initiative to speak: "I know that you are looking for me, it must be for the dream ...... I said before" After a pause, she also sat down on the chair opposite the two, and it seemed that after a long ideological struggle she decided to say it:" The dream is about my mother-in-law, the year before last, my husband and I got a marriage certificate, and the next year we had a child, because we are busy with work, so there is a disagreement on the issue of taking children, I want to spend money directly to hire a nanny, but my husband is unwilling, he said that my mother-in-law is fine in his hometown on weekdays, just can come over to help take care of the child, both worry-free, but also save money, because my husband and his father died early, his mother has been living alone in his hometown, my husband also wants his mother to live with us, this is nothing, but since living together, after all, after a generation, my mother-in-law and I are very unhappy in raising children, every time something quarrelsUntil a few months ago, my mother-in-law took the child to a relative's house for dinner, and used chopsticks to tease the child with wine, but I didn't pay attention, and really let the child grab the chopsticks, the white wine choked the child's face, and I stayed in the hospital for three days, and I made a big fuss about it, and I was angry at the time, so I said cruel things to my husband, if I don't live separately from his mother, I will take the child to move out...... It was after this incident that I quickly had that dream, in which someone asked me if I had any troubles, as long as I told him, he could help me solve them, so I ......", Cheng Xiaotian's face turned red all of a sudden, his two hands kept rubbing against his knees, and his voice suddenly lowered: "I just said if I could ...... Let my mother-in-law die early......"