The river rumbles like the sea.

The waves roll and there is no edge in sight.

Hui Lijing looked at the big river in front of her in a daze.

She could have sworn that twenty minutes ago, it was the entrance to the market, the asphalt pavement, and even the white arrows on the pavement were freshly painted, very new.

Can now?

It became a great river.

And the two stone pillars that originally blocked the car from entering, looking at it at this time, turned into wooden stakes on the dock to tie the ship, which seemed very coordinated.

But Hui Lijing felt very abrupt.

She was horrified and overwhelmed.

It took three or four seconds for Hui Lijing to come back to her senses.

She turned to look at Jason.

Jason unhurriedly put Ryosuke on the ground, and then, the whole person looked at the big river, as if looking for something.

Something on the river?

Hui Lijing thought, learning from Jason's appearance and looking at the whole river.

But the water on the river is so steamy that you can't see anything at all.

However, Hui Lijing did not interrupt Jason silently.

Professional things are left to professional people to do.

Hui Lijing knows this famous saying.

Moreover, it is like a holy decree.

Of course, there is also the next half sentence:

Do what you can.

Hui Lijing turned to look behind her, her gaze on the darkness behind her.

In the distance, the lights of Tongshou Temple are dotted with lights.

Instead of bringing light, it made the darkness around them even thicker

The river rumbled behind her, and Hui Lijing's hand involuntarily grasped the handle of the gun.

Her instincts told her that there was something in the darkness.

In fact, the same is true.

After only a few seconds, the sound of clear footsteps was heard—

Stomp, stomp!

The footsteps were very hurried and messy.

Even just listening to the footsteps can feel a sense of panic.

Hui Lijing subconsciously raised her gun.

"Don't shoot!"

The figure that rushed out of the darkness saw Hui Lijing holding a gun for the first time, and immediately raised her hands and shouted loudly.

This is a man in a suit, dressed like an office worker, his face is panicked at the moment, and his body is trembling.

And behind this office-worker-like man, there is a man and a woman.

The man was a middle-aged man, wearing glasses, not burly, wearing a shirt, trousers, and an apron, which was not used in the kitchen, but in the convenience store, and it was clearly written - Seven Days Convenience.

The last one to come out was a young girl.

Wearing a school uniform, shawl hair, a childish face, and wearing a school emblem with Tong Shou High School written on it.

All three were at a loss.

Then, they all looked at the gun in Hui Lijing's hand in fear.

Hui Lijing didn't put down her gun, and after her gaze swept over the three of them, she asked directly.

"Who are you?"

"I'm an employee of 'Dayuan Electronics Company.'"

"I'm a clerk at Seven Days Convenience."

"I'm a student at 'Tongshou High School'."

Facing the muzzle of the gun, the three of them were very honest and did not hesitate.

"Why are you here?"

Hui Lijing continued to ask.

"I'm here to eat, there's a good ramen shop here, I'm going to eat after work and then go home, isn't that how a bachelor lives?"

The office worker said as he wanted to relax the atmosphere.

But the effect was not good, and when he saw that Hui Lijing's muzzle did not mean to let go at all, he immediately closed his mouth wisely and raised his hand high again.

The clerk was the same.

The other party, holding his hands high, replied.

"The convenience store where I work is in the market, and I went to the back alley to smoke a cigarette when I was changing shifts, but before I could finish the cigarette, the whole alley went dark, and then I walked out of the alley and found that everyone was gone."

The clerk's voice trembled slightly as he said this.

With the appearance of the middle-aged man, he looks honest and reliable.

The schoolgirls were the last to speak.

"I need to pass through here to get home, but I don't know why, it gets dark as I walk, and then, I ran into them—at the gate of the temple."

"There's light there, I wanted to go there in the first place!"

"But, but ......"

The words of the schoolgirl became stumbling.

"But what?"

Hui Lijing asked.

"Corpses!"

"Right at the gate of the Tong Shou Temple, there is a corpse hanging!"

The schoolgirl plucked up courage and said.

The office worker and the clerk also nodded their heads together, confirming the words of the female student.

Hui Lijing frowned.

Corpse?

The mercenary who dreamed of becoming a detective as a barista was sure that when she and Jason left the temple, there would be absolutely no corpses, after all, the gate of the temple was not tall, and if a corpse was hung, it would be clearly visible.

"Are you sure it's the gate?"

To confirm, Hui Lijing asked again.

"Confirm!"

"It's at the gate!"

"I can see it clearly when I stand in the doorway!"

The schoolgirl nodded in affirmation.

"Yes."

"I can testify."

"Me too."

Office workers and clerks also chimed in.

"After we left, hung the body?"

Hui Lijing thought.

She and Jason hadn't been away for a long time, and there was no one in the temple before.

Apart from...... That old monk!

Could the other party be the murderer?

Hui Lijing thought subconsciously.

This is an instinctive cognition, although the old monk seems to be kind and kind, but the disappearance is too weird, which makes Hui Lijing very suspicious.

However, Hui Lijing was not immediately sure of her thoughts, and she turned her head to look at Jason.

Jason was still in his previous position, looking out over the river.

Under Hui Lijing's gaze, Jason turned around.

However, instead of looking at the three new people, he looked at Ryosuke.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.

Eventually, Ryosuke couldn't help it and opened his eyes.

"When did you find out?"

Ryosuke stood up with his intact hands on the ground and looked at Jason.

"When you just woke up."

Jason replied.

"Is it because of breathing?"

Ryosuke asked again.

"Hmm."

Jason didn't deny it, although he only found out when he heard the other person's heartbeat skip two beats.

"Sure enough, with a guy like you, you can't be careful enough."

Muttering similar words, Ryosuke first nodded to Hui Lijing, and then looked at the three people in front of him.

"Three, I'm a police officer."

"This is my police ID."

"Can you please take me to see the corpse?"

Ryosuke showed his police ID card.

Suddenly, the office worker, the clerk, and the female student were obviously relieved.

"Of course, officer."

The office worker said immediately.

The clerk and the female student also nodded.

Ryosuke turned his head to look at Jason.

"I don't know how the river came to be, but I think the corpse that just appeared is the key to our being, and if we want to leave, we have to see it."

Ryosuke said.

Jason didn't deny it.

Hui Lijing did not deny it.

However, Hui Lijing has this doubt.

She wondered why Jason had been watching the river for so long.

What's in the river, exactly?

Or rather, what makes Jason care so much?

Is it a fish in the river?

There's no way there's a monster in the river, right?

Hui Lijing thought.

Then, she inexplicably thought of the half-human, half-skeleton guy who called himself a little monk, and seemed to ...... It's not impossible, since dusk, the whole street has become strange.

If anything comes up again, Hui Lijing can also accept it.

Didn't go to the front of the line.

I didn't walk side by side with those three.

Hui Lijing stuck to Jason's side as far as she could.

'How do you survive on the battlefield?' ’

'Follow the veterans. ’

These were the words that the instructor told her when she was parting with her at the training camp.

And this sentence saved her more than once.

Now though it is not a battlefield.

But it also applies.

She is a rookie facing the 'mysterious side', so naturally she has to follow an old bird like Jason.

"Do I need to do anything in a moment?"

Hui Lijing looked at Officer Ryosuke, who was following the three of them, and asked Jason softly.

"Wait and see."

Jason said lightly.

"Okay."

Hui Lijing nodded immediately.

From three people to a group of six, Hui Lijing walked at the end with Jason with a lantern, female students, store clerks, and office workers walked in the front, and Ryosuke's portable flashlight illuminated them.

The market was not long, and soon they returned to the gate of Tong Shou Temple.

Then, at a glance, I saw the body hanging in front of the gate of Tongshou Temple.

The corpse was half-sunk into shadow under the temple light, and blood flowed from the body and gathered under the feet.

The moment he saw the corpse, Ryosuke's face changed drastically.

"Iwashita!"

The middle-aged police officer blurted out.

Then, the middle-aged police officer rushed over, and he needed to confirm the identity of the other party.

That bastard indeed!

After a few moments, the middle-aged officer had an accurate answer.

But......

Didn't he shoot at the other side before?

Later, he was not only shot, but also hit something in the back of the head.

Then he fell unconscious.

However, one thing is for sure, before he fell unconscious, Iwashita was still alive, and he shot the opponent in the chest, but did not penetrate the heart, and the opponent fell to the ground with serious injuries.

And after that......

He was not impressed.

When he woke up, he saw Jason and Hui Lijing.

Subconsciously, Ryosuke looked at Jason and Hui Lijing.

"It has nothing to do with us!"

"We just found you here!"

"Then, ready to leave, I took you with me!"

Hui Lijing said immediately in the face of Ryosuke's scrutinizing gaze.

"Sorry, just habit."

"Can you help me put the body down?"

Ryosuke said.

Hui Lijing looked at Jason, and after seeing that Jason didn't mean anything, she immediately said.

"Yes."

After Hui Lijing finished speaking, she stepped on the wall with a sharp step and climbed the wall, and then, half-squatting, came to the beam of the gate of Tongshou Temple.

Made entirely of solid wood, it is boxy and 20 centimeters wide, and is decorated with eaves and plaques.

From Hui Lijing's angle at this moment, she can clearly see that the corpse is knotted at the end of a rope and set around her neck, hanging on the beam of the gate of Tongshou Temple, and the neck is wrapped around it, and the beam is wrapped around it, and the rope is tied into a dead knot.

From the beam to the neck of the corpse, there was a gap of about 30 centimeters.

But the knot did not wobble.

There were no blood marks on the neck of the corpse.

Proof that the body was hung here after death.

But the blood on the ground is only here under your feet, but not around you.

And the reason for the massive bleeding of the corpse was not a gunshot wound in the chest, but a knife wound in the back.

A narrow, smooth, pierced knife wound to the heart.

"It should be that the injury to the chest was too severe, so that the other party fell into a coma or immobility, and then, the murderer appeared behind the deceased and killed the other party with a knife."

"There was no trembling, no hesitation."

"He is a good hand with a knife."

"It's just...... Why are there no traces near the beams? ”

Hui Lijing observed the beams, the Tong Shou Temple is very clean, obviously the monks inside are often cleaned, but there are also places that cannot be cleaned.

For example: house beams.

As a result, there is a fine layer of ash on the beams of the house.

But the strangest thing is that here, except for the ash under the rope that has been rubbed off, the ash around it has not been rubbed off at all.

It's as if the rope is automatically wound around the beam.

Can......

How is this possible?

From the ground to the beam, there is a height of 3 meters, what kind of rope can be wound automatically?

Even if it is thrown, how is the dead knot tied?

You can't just hit it out of thin air, right?

Out of detective instinct, Hui Lijing couldn't help but think.

"Can you put down the corpse?"

Ryosuke asked below.

"The rope is tied in a dead knot, and the rope needs to be cut."

Hui Lijing replied.

Ryosuke frowned.

If you don't destroy the scene of the crime, as a criminal policeman, you naturally know it.

You can't just put it down......

Ryosuke took a few steps back, and then, a dash.

Raising his uninjured arm, he struggled to prop himself up against the wall.

Since you can't put it down, go up.

Squatting on the wall, Ryosuke carefully examined the corpse and knots under the rock, and then, he also fell into the same confusion as Hui Lijing.

Hey!

The glow of a portable flashlight swept over the plaque at the temple.

The shadow behind the signboard catches Ryosuke's attention.

"What's there?"

Ryosuke asked.

"Looks like a box?"

Hui Lijing replied with some uncertainty.

Then, Hui Lijing stretched out her arm and wanted to take out the things behind the plaque, but because of the distance, Hui Lijing couldn't reach it at all.

Even if you hold on to the eaves with one hand and stick out with the other, you can't do it

Hui Lijing can't reach it, and of course Ryosuke, who is already injured, needless to say.

"I'll go find a ladder."

Ryosuke said this and jumped off the wall.

A temple like Tongshou Temple must have a ladder.

Office workers, shop assistants, and female students looked at Ryosuke who jumped down, and obediently stood in place without moving.

Seems to be overwhelmed.

It seems to be panicking.

Jason looked at the three of them, then at Ryosuke who came out with a ladder, and then at Hui Lijing, who had an inquiring face, and sighed slightly in his heart.

He also wants to find the murderer with extraordinary observation and meticulous logic.

But he can't!

The grave keeper's [Death Qi Perception] made him see at a glance who the murderer was.

Looking at Ryosuke, who was about to climb the ladder, Jason stepped out and stood in front of the office workers, store clerks, and female students.

After glancing around the three of them, he said—

"The murderer is ......"