Lao Du smoked several cigarettes in a row without saying a word, and then said slowly: "I have checked all the people that Wanqiao often comes into contact with. There are only three people of the opposite sex, and the one who has the most contact with them is a calligraphy and painting teacher. ”

"Wanqiao likes to draw very much, and her level of fine brushwork is very high. The only person in the entire Sanxi City who can be her teacher is a professor at Sanxi University, He Yang. That man was very decent, even a little old-fashioned, I don't think it should be him. ”

Lao Du took a step forward to rule out He Yang's suspicion, but I retorted: "People in the art of doing things are not in the same thinking as you. Someone you think isn't a murderer is probably a murderer. Anyway, let's find that teacher first. ”

"Okay!" Lao Du said, "The last time I looked for Teacher He was eight years ago. I don't know his exact address now, so I'll have to check it first, and you can wait for me for a while. ”

When Lao Du went to contact his colleagues, Monk Shi said that he didn't bring a guy with him, and he was afraid of losing money if he did it with someone, so he also left the clinic.

Almost an hour later, both of them returned. Monk Shi was carrying a rectangular box wrapped in yellow cloth, and it seemed that there should be some kind of long weapon in it.

Lao Du's face has never been very good-looking, and he has not said a word since he left the clinic, until he was about to rush to He Yang's studio, and then he spoke: "If I can't control myself for a while, you will pull me out." I'm a police officer and I don't want to break the law. ”

I couldn't help but ask, "What's going on?" ”

"That's a rascal!" Lao Du's face turned pale. I knew I couldn't ask any further, so I turned my head and explained to Xie Wanhua, told her to wait in the car, and pushed the car door and walked into the gallery on the corner.

As soon as we entered the house, a waitress greeted us: "Are you here to buy paintings, or are you ......?"

I interrupted: "Let's see He Yang." ”

The waitress said, "Teacher He Yang is painting, and I don't want to be disturbed. If you have something important......"

I interrupted again, "Then I'll wait here for him to finish." ”

The waiter wanted to say something more, but Monk Shi said in a deep voice: "Sister, we didn't kick in the door, we were already very polite, don't say anything more, okay?" ”

I have to say that if Monk Shi doesn't smile with a straight face, with such a bald head, it is really scary. The girl suddenly turned pale with fright: "That...... Then I'll pour you some water. ”

"Thank you!" I simply pulled up a chair and sat down.

After a while, the waiter walked out with three water glasses: "Sir, please drink water." ”

"Thank you......" When I was about to pick up the water glass, the waiter's palm suddenly retreated, I subconsciously straightened up, and my hands moved forward a few points with the water glass.

Wrong! A sense of impending crisis suddenly hit me. The waiter was obviously frightened by Monk Shi, and in less than half a minute, she had the courage to trick me?

I'm half-sitting in my chair now, and the other person is looking condescendingly above my head, and I want to look up and meet the other person's eye, and I must be a step slower. This step may only take less than a second, but the slightest battle is enough to divide life and death.

I didn't know what the other party wanted to do, so I could only hold my current position and stalemate with her.

After only two or three seconds, Monk Shi shouted: "Wu Zhao, what are you doing?" ”

From Monk Shi's point of view, I must have lowered my head slightly, raised my hands and remained motionless, and it would be strange if he didn't react.

Before Monk Shi finished speaking, I heard a sound from his direction like snake scales cutting across the cloth. I grew up on the side of the mountains, and I am very sensitive to snakes, especially the sound of snakes crossing the meadow, which I can hear from afar.

The other party's target is Monk Shi?

No sooner had the thought crossed my mind than I saw a brown snake head emerge from the waiter's cuff and bite my finger with his mouth open.

The moment the snake's fangs suddenly approached my fingers, I flipped my palm suddenly, and the right hand in the air changed from sideways to flat extension, palm up, erected the index and middle fingers, and sandwiched the snake's seven-inch position.

I'm not slow to strike, but the serpent is a step ahead of me. The cold head of the snake rushed into my palm and then burst into the palm of my hand by half a foot, and my outstretched fingers were only clipped to the snake's tail.

The most taboo thing about fighting a snake is to hit the tail, unless you can pick it up from the ground at once, otherwise as long as you take a little slower, it is easy to be bitten by a poisonous snake, and I just committed a big taboo at that time.

The snake suddenly wrapped around my wrist in severe pain, and the head of the snake went straight to the part of my forearm and bit it, and I thought it was too late to catch the snake with my left hand.

In the nick of time, Lao Du's gunfire suddenly erupted from my side, and a volley of bullets flew through the air and hit the snake's head without bias. I watched as a puddle of blood exploded above my arm, and a snake flew out of the other cuff of the waitress.

Just a second ago, instinctively trying to catch the viper, I had raised my left hand and aimed it in the direction of my right arm. When the second poisonous snake appeared, I happened to put my hand in the air, which was equivalent to sending my wrist to the other person's mouth.

At the same time, the waiter who was blocking in front of me also turned around and moved to the right side of my body, just in front of Lao Du, who wanted to shoot again, but could only shoot the other party first.

When the crisis came, I shook my wrist violently and shook the frog dart wrapped around my wrist backwards. Before the frog dart stopped sliding, the fangs of the poisonous snake bit firmly on my hand, and when the sound of the fangs rubbing against the bronze suddenly started, I had already freed my hand to grab the tail of the snake and tear off the poisonous snake that had bitten me. Until I threw the snake out, the two broken snake teeth were still on my sleeve.

From the appearance of the poisonous snake to the time I got out of the crisis, it was only a dozen seconds. But just a dozen seconds later, the waiter, who was still turning around quickly, seemed to lose support and fell to the ground in an instant.

My first reaction was not to save people in the past, but to look at Monk Shi. The latter had already dragged a poisonous snake that came out of nowhere into two, and casually threw the snake body that was still writhing to the ground and smashed it.

By the time I turned over the waiter who had fallen to the ground, black blood had already flowed out of the other party's seven orifices......

"People are not saved, find He Yang......" As soon as I got up, I heard a scream outside: "Help-"

Xie Wanhua! I was shocked and hurried out of the door, but I saw a poisonous snake scurrying up and down on the windshield of the car, and Xie Wanhua, who was hiding in the car, was so frightened that she hugged her head and screamed.

"Go back!" I threw a frog dart out of the window, but I didn't bother with the result, I turned and rushed into the gallery, kicking open several studios one after another, only to see a middle-aged man lying on the ground in one room. The other man was still holding a paintbrush in one hand, and it looked like he was just painting there.

When I grabbed the other party, I couldn't help but feel half cold. There was a headless snake falling from the man's side, and the body of the snake that was still bleeding was still writhing on the ground, but the blood was not stopping at the corner of the man's mouth.

I pulled out the dagger and pried open the man's closed teeth, and only then did I pull out a bitten snake head from his mouth - it seems that the man was frightened and screamed when he suddenly saw the poisonous snake, but before his voice could come out, he was bitten on the tongue by the poisonous snake that flew up in the air, and although the other party bit off the snake's body under severe pain, he was also poisoned alive in a moment.

I pointed to the corpse on the ground and said, "What is this?" ”

"He is He Yang." Lao Du's face finally looked a lot better. This He Yang can't be the target of Xie Wanqiao's cheating. A murderer who has been hiding for eight years will never kill himself.

I got up and said, "Look again for any snakes in the house." ”

"No need to look for it, it must be gone." Monk Shi said, "Do you remember how many bugs there were on the painting we received?" ”

"Gojo." I subconsciously replied and couldn't help but exclaim, "You mean to say that the poisonous snake that attacked us this time was according to the drawing?" ”

Monk Shi said: "If my estimate is correct, that painting should be part of the composition of the incantation." We've got a rival this time. The other party will not only cast a curse, but also control the Gu. ”

I turned to Lao Du and said, "Lao Du, you quickly check if Xie Wanqiao had close contacts with southerners before his death, especially people from Miaojiang and Yunnan." ”

The climate of the Northeast is cold, which is not suitable for the growth of poisonous insects, and there is no poisonous insect activity that is too toxic. Take the belt of Sanxi, the most poisonous snake is the iron bark of the Yangtze River short-tailed pit pit tree, and other species of poisonous snakes will not appear here if no one deliberately domesticates them. As for poisonous insects such as centipedes and spiders, they cannot be said to be the same as those in Yunnan and Xiangxi. Therefore, there are few masters of poison in the Northeast Technique.

The vast majority of poison masters come from the south, and they will not pass on the ability to use poison to outsiders.

Although those snakes just now were the iron bark of the Northeast, they had obviously been domesticated, otherwise, the way of attacking would not have been so tricky, and the time would not have been so accurate.

After listening to me, Lao Du couldn't help but shake his head and said, "When I investigated the people Wanqiao came into contact with before, I never found that she had close contact with any southerner. Could you be mistaken? ”

"No way. You check it again. I shook my head, but Lao Du said, "I really can't find out, and it's been eight years...... Hey, Xiao Wu, don't you know how to count? Do the math for me? ”

"Hexagrams are not omnipotent." I reluctantly said, "I'm not at the level of extrapolation out of thin air." If all fortune tellers have the ability to pinch the fingers, then there is no need for the police. ”

Monk Shi suddenly said: "You are stupid, you won't calculate it in a different way?" ”