After listening to Xu Yan's words, Li Hui was stunned: "We can contact Shuchuan Lianhua Hospital, they have psychiatric qualifications." However, Director Xu, do you really believe what Zhang Nan said?

In my opinion, this is clearly made up by him to exonerate himself! Director Xu, this person, we have seen a lot when we are handling cases, those suspects who have been arrested by us, they often talk nonsense, they like to make up some ethereal and illusory things, for example, there is an old man with a white beard who instructed him to do it, and he often says that some evil ghost has confused them, and he says that he is drunk and does not remember anything -- in short, these are all common quibbles they use, and they are not worth delving into. Anyway, the facts of this guy's crime are very clear, and there is no obstacle for him to admit guilt or not. ”

In Li Hui's view, Zhang Nan's remarks were nothing more than a quibble after the murderer was arrested, and this kind of confession was of little value. A confession like this, any front-line criminal policeman can see his falsehood, and teach him to be a new person in minutes, but Xu Yan is still very patient listening to his nonsense, and is still seriously considering who that woman is - alas, this Director Xu, I heard that he has a big background, and he is the person in charge of the central investigation team, but after all, he is still too young and inexperienced, and he is so easily fooled by the nonsense of criminals!

Xu Yan shook his head, and he said simply: "It's not that simple—Officer Li, you also worked in the task force before, right?"

"Yes, I am also a member of the bureau's task force and the deputy head of the criminal police detachment. At that time, Huang Tou was the team leader, and I was his assistant. Now that Huang Tou has died in his post, Boss Deng asked me to temporarily take charge of the work of the task force - Director Xu. Do you have any instructions?"

Xu Yan nodded: "I know, your public security organs have a procedure for identifying suspects. It is to put the photos of the perpetrators in the photos of more than a dozen people and let the witnesses see them. Let's see if we can pick the right suspect - this procedure, Captain Li, you know, right?"

Li Hui laughed - for a front-line criminal police officer like him, this identification procedure is as simple as 1 plus 1 equals, and he doesn't know how many times he has operated it. He smiled and said, "Of course I know, Director Xu, do you think it's necessary to do it?"

"Captain Li, I have a guess that needs to be confirmed-I want the murderer Zhang Nan to conduct a testimonial evaluation to identify who the woman he met was...... Belch. Captain Li, don't have such a strange expression, I do doubt that what Zhang Nan said is true. ”

Li Hui shook his head again and again, in his opinion, Zhang Nan's statement had too many flaws, how could a normal healthy adult not be able to remember what he had done an hour ago? Zhang Nan's performance was nothing more than an attempt to pretend to be a mentally ill person who could not control himself in order to get away with it. How could Director Xu believe such an obvious and absurd lie?

But the other party is the person in charge of the case investigation, Boss Deng is polite to others, and Li Hui is not good at hard topping. He reluctantly said, "Okay, since Director Xu insists on this, then I'll arrange a testimony—uh." However, Director Xu. Who's the suspect? Whose picture are we going to put in there?"

"Huang Dan, put Huang Dan's photo in. That's it. ”

"Huang Dan? Who is that?" Li Hui was stunned for a moment, and then realized: "Oh, I remember, isn't that the girl who disappeared in the murder case of Zhang Jingwan?

The matter was too complicated, and Xu Yan didn't bother to talk to Li Hui, so he said bluntly: "Li Zhi, how about it, can you find a photo of Huang Dan? I remember, there are some in the files of the task force." ”

Li Hui's face changed slightly: "Director Xu, are you kidding me? What is the point of putting a photo of a dead man in the identification and forensics? Are you saying that Zhang Nan has met a dead man? Isn't that a hell?"

Xu Yan said lightly: "Is it a hell, let's let Zhang Nan admit it first." ”

Seeing Xu Yan so calm and confident, thinking that the other party insisted on putting a photo of a dead man into the identification forensics-Li Hui couldn't help but be awe-inspired, he suddenly felt that the temperature in the early morning was surprisingly cold, he shivered, but he couldn't help but look around for a while, looking at the dark night, he faintly palpitated, but wrapped his clothes tightly.

According to Xu Yan's request, Li Hui found a photo of Huang Dan - the file of the task force already had information about the victim - and then, he put Huang Dan's photo into eleven other photos of girls, and the twelve photos were all pasted on a piece of paper, and he took them to Xu Yan: "Director Xu, this time we will arrange a group of twelve people to identify Zhang Nan, is this okay?"

Xu Yan glanced at it and replied casually: "No problem, so be it." Then, he casually clicked on the photo numbered three and asked, "Captain Li, this is Huang Dan, right?"

Seeing Xu Yan casually point out Huang Dan's photo, Li Hui was secretly surprised, and he asked, "Director Xu, you haven't seen Huang Dan, how do you know that this photo is her?"

Xu Yan was stunned for a moment, and then, he smiled bitterly and waved his hand: "Because I'm also a hell - you take this to Zhang Nan first." ”

As soon as the identification paper full of photos was delivered to Zhang Nan, he immediately pointed to the photo numbered "3" and shouted: "This is this person! The person I met is her!"

Zhang Nan shouted like this, Li Hui's face immediately turned pale, and he asked, "Zhang Nan, are you sure? Do you want to take a closer look?"

Zhang Nan nodded resolutely: "Don't look at it, what I met is this woman!"

Hearing Zhang Nan's resolute attitude, including Li Hui, several police officers of the special task force present all looked at each other with strange expressions. There was a faint taste of fear in their eyes - worship ghosts and gods and stay away, the fear of this dark realm, that is the mentality of ordinary people, even the police are not exempt from vulgarity.

Compared with the shocked criminal police, Xu Yan seemed quite calm and calm - such a result was originally expected by him, but now, it is just that his expectations have been confirmed.

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The progress of the investigation here quickly alarmed the higher-ups. Hearing the report of his subordinates, Deng Bonan quickly came over, and he asked politely, "Director Xu." I heard, there's been progress here? Found something weird?"

Xu Yan was sitting on a stone chair with his head down and smoking. Seeing Deng Bonan coming, he politely moved out of the way: "Director Deng." Please take a seat—Officer Lee has already reported to you, right?"

"Well, Xiao Li just told me, he said that the murderer Zhang Nan claimed to have met a ...... before committing the crime He also said, Director Xu, you seem to have estimated this—"

Deng Bonan sat down next to Xu Yan, he also took out a cigarette, borrowed fire from Xu Yan, but asked lightly: "Director Xu, Zhang Nan recognized the missing person in a case." It seems to be called Huang Dan, right? What the hell is going on?"

Deng Bonan didn't know what the results of the verification meant, but Xu Yan understood: it meant that he was going to face a most terrible enemy.

If "Huang Dan" is still like the previous monster spirit, fixed "possession" on a person and cannot be transferred casually, then it is nothing, as long as he destroys the possessed puppet, the monster will also be destroyed, and it can't be a disaster.

But the problem is that the horror of "Huang Dan" lies in. Not only can it "possess" humans, but it can also leave freely. Even if he exterminated the possessed humans, he would not be able to do the slightest harm to the spirit of "Huang Dan" - just like Zhang Nan, when he failed to assassinate and was captured by the police. The spirit of "Huang Dan" immediately left his body, and even if he shot Zhang Nan a hundred times, it would be harmless to "Huang Dan" at all.

The enemy can be separated by tens of millions, and it is impossible to prevent it. But he couldn't find an enemy at all. From now on, he not only has to guard against Huang Dan's spiritual attack. You should also be wary of your comrades-in-arms around you—just like Zhang Nan, those soldiers and policemen who are supposed to protect themselves. At any moment, you may turn around and shoot at yourself, and you will never find a safe place again, and you will never have peace.

Thinking that he was under the threat of the enemy and wanted to fight back, but he couldn't find the enemy at all, Xu Yan was upset. He wiped his face tiredly and asked, "Director Deng, have you seen the story of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai"?"

"Strange Tales of Zhai? That seems to be writing about ghosts and monsters, right? I haven't paid attention to these ghosts and monsters - Director Xu, why did you suddenly mention this?"

"Then, Director Deng, have you ever heard of the word 'seizure'?"

"Snatching away?" Deng Bonan repeated the word, his face changed slightly: "Director Xu, didn't you mean that those ghosts were there...... You mean, 'borrowing the corpse to resurrect the soul', right?"

"Resurrection of the soul? Well, that makes sense. Xu Yan took a puff of cigarette, and he said bluntly: "Let me say it simply, the missing girl Huang Dan, on that night, she should have been killed - she was either dead, or not dead, I can't be sure, and then, there is a very evil thing, it occupies Huang Dan's soul and seizes control of Huang Dan's body, so Huang Dan is completely transformed into a puppet of that evil thing-uh, Director Deng, you said "borrowing corpses to return souls", probably similar to that. ”

Listening to Xu Yan's explanation, Deng Bonan's face changed-no one who can be the director of the public security bureau has a bad IQ: "Director Xu, you mean that the reason why Zhang Nan did the thing of shooting and killing people is because he was also manipulated by that evil thing...... That one is in control?"

"For now, that's how it should be. I think the situation should be like this: when Zhang Nan went out, he ran into 'Huang Dan' - of course, in fact, he encountered the evil object that controlled Huang Dan's body, and the evil thing briefly occupied Zhang Nan's soul and controlled his body to complete the action of shooting at me. Then, when Zhang Nan was arrested by us, the evil thing left again, and Zhang Nan returned to normal - in a sense, this is also a kind of sacrifice. ”

Deng Bonan's eyes narrowed, he sat next to Xu Yan, smoking a cigarette motionlessly, and the cigarette butt was extinguished in the dark. After a long time, he nodded slowly, and then shook his head again: "Director Xu, I probably understand what you mean, but I can't accept it." According to you, the real murderer of this shooting murder case is Huang Dan?——Oh, no, should I say it's a ghost?"

"It can't be called a ghost, it should be said that it is some kind of powerful psychic power, this being exists in the form of a soul, it is good at psychic attacks, it can occupy the human body, it can control the human to do what it wants - well, that's pretty much it. ”

"But how is this possible?"

Xu Yan turned his head to look at Deng Bonan, and he said in a deep voice: "Director Deng, why didn't Huang Dan, who should have died? Why did Zhang Nan, an officer who had no grievances with me, shoot at me? Director Deng, how do you explain this?"

Listening to Xu Yan's questioning, Deng Bonan was silent.

He had to admit that Xu Yan did have a point: an honest and down-to-earth and diligent grassroots platoon commander, a lieutenant officer who graduated from a military academy and had a simple background, has always performed well, and has no grievances with Xu Yan and Huang Shan, and he has never even met before, but he just committed such a vicious case as shooting the head of the central investigation team, this matter is too weird, and Huang Dan's mysterious appearance......

He nodded: "Yes, there are too many things in this case that cannot be explained." But, Director Xu, I still don't understand, even if what you say is true, there is an evil existence that controls Zhang Nan's body and carried out an assassination operation against you, Director Xu, but that evil existence has no grudge against Director Xu, why does it want to kill Director Xu?"

"I don't understand why that guy assassinated me. However, Director Deng, if you say that I have no grudge against it, you are wrong. Xu Yan turned his head, and he glanced in the direction of the woods, where the majestic figure of the giant snake's corpse was lying horizontally in the woods.

Following Xu Yan's gaze, Deng Bonan suddenly understood, and he was dumbfounded: "Director Xu, do you mean that the evil thing that can take away the evil sect is a companion with this monster......? It's here to seek revenge, Director Xu......? Impossible, right?"

In Deng Bonan's view, although this giant snake is terrifying and shocking, it is something he can barely accept - this huge snake animal is not without precedent, it is said that a giant python with a length of more than 100 meters has been found in the Amazon jungle, and there is also a giant snake called "Ba Snake" in ancient Chinese legends of the Classic of Mountains and Seas - but in the final analysis, it is still an animal.

According to Xu Yan, this monster not only has a terrifying size and strength, but even knows how to use clever tricks to assassinate specific targets - this level of intelligence has caught up with humans, right?

Deng Bonan's face was cloudy and changeable, and after a long time, he slowly shook his head: "Director Xu, you said that it was the companion of this giant snake who sent someone to assassinate you? ”

Xu Yan smiled bitterly: "Director Deng, you will believe it - next, the facts will prove me right." ”

"Huh?

Looking at the dark woods, Xu Yan's expression was gloomy, and he said word by word: "If my expectations are not bad - Zhang Nan, he is just the first, and soon, more Zhang Nan will appear." ”

~~~ (To be continued.) )