Time, now. The day before Lian Jiuqi came to Harbin, in Bohai Bay, China, on a large cargo ship.

"This is the way this world is, where there is life, there are people who die."

In the bottom cabin of the freighter, Fan Meng knelt there, holding the jade bi high in both hands, listening to the words of Lian Jiuqi, who was standing in front of him in a suit and leather shoes.

Fan Meng was very scared, really scared, he had never been so afraid of a person, he had never seen a person without shortcomings, and he had never met a person who could see through his mind thoroughly at a glance.

Therefore, he didn't even have the courage to look up and glance at Jiuqi.

In the bilge, except for Lian Jiuqi and Fan Meng, there was no third party, and when Lian Jiuqi walked down the iron ladder, the other people who had originally imprisoned Fan Meng left directly under his gesture. Then Lian Jiuqi let go of Fan Meng's hands and feet tied to the iron chair, and then said that sentence.

After saying this, Fan Meng knelt down, raised his hands and offered the jade bi, as if a lowly grass farmer was knocking on the emperor.

After Lian Jiuqi finished speaking, he walked behind Fan Meng and slowly sat down on the iron chair paper he had sat on before.

Fan Meng immediately knelt on the ground and moved his body, facing Lian Jiuqi, but he still didn't dare to say a word.

"I've listened to the recording of what you said, you're smart, no, I should say, you're despicable." Lian Jiuqi looked at Fan Meng who was kneeling on the ground, "You should be the kind of person who dares to do anything except good things, for so many years, it is the first time I have seen a person like you, in order to achieve his goal, he can even ignore the life of his beloved woman." ”

Fan Meng trembled and felt his heart beat faster.

Lian Jiuqi laughed: "Don't be like this, don't be afraid, I'm complimenting you, you also knew my subordinates before, although they were ruthless outlaws when they were working outside, but when they returned home, they would all become good people, such as a kind father, a big brother who loves his brothers and sisters, but you are different, you are hypocritical, cheap, disgusting, despicable...... You're just a multicellular creature made up of all the derogatory terms. ”

Fan Meng nodded vigorously, really taking Lian Jiuqi's words as a compliment.

"Look up." After Lian Jiuqi finished speaking, he watched Fan Meng slowly raise his head, and the moment he raised it, he immediately moved his gaze to the ground, not daring to collide with Lian Jiuqi's sharp gaze.

Lian Jiuqi said: "It's rare to meet a person like you in a hundred years, so I won't let you have anything, you still have to help me do things, you know?" Would you like to? Answer me, would you like it or not? ”

Fan Meng, who thought he was dead a few minutes ago, nodded vigorously, and then began to kowtow, kowtowing while replying: "I am willing!" I do! I am willing to do everything for you, go to the soup and the sea, go up the knife mountain and go down the sea of fire! ”

Lian Jiuqi nodded after listening, looked around, and then looked at an iron bucket next to him, he got up and brought the iron bucket over, grabbed a bottle of water that the sailor had not finished drinking next to him, poured it in, and then lit it with a lighter.

After doing all that, Lian Jiuqi kicked the iron bucket in front of Fan Meng with his foot, and said lightly: "There is no sea of fire, there is one in the fire bucket, come, show me, how did you get off the fire bucket." ”

Fan Meng was stunned, his eyes slowly moved to the fire bucket in front of him, at this time, he was so frightened that he didn't even have the strength to swallow his saliva.

He knew that if he did this and did not show his loyalty, he would actually be killed by them and thrown into the sea to feed the sharks. Therefore, after hesitating for a few seconds, Fan Meng slowly approached the fire bucket, closed his eyes with the goods, gritted his teeth and prepared to put his hands in, at this moment, Lian Jiuqi raised his foot to block the hands he was about to put into the fire bucket.

"Thank you, thank you, boss, thank you, boss." Fan Meng immediately thanked and began to kowtow again.

At this moment, Lian Jiuqi grabbed him by the hair, pressed his face into the fire bucket, and pressed it hard, Fan Meng screamed and howled, constantly struggling, but he couldn't break free of Lian Jiuqi.

After more than ten seconds, Lian Jiuqi let go of Fan Meng, doused his burning hair with the mineral water next to him, and then grabbed Fan Meng, who was covering his face, and said coldly: "Put your hand down." ”

Fan Meng gritted his teeth and endured, slowly lowered his hand, and Lian Jiuqi looked at his face with a burn area of 80% and smiled.

"Good." Lian Jiuqi lightly hit Fan Meng's burned face with the back of his hand, Fan Meng trembled, and Lian Jiuqi said, "Now, your parents don't know you anymore, and in the next month, you only have two things to do on this boat, the first is to drink, the second is to smoke, the purpose is to make your throat inflamed, I will let the doctor drag you not to die, but will prescribe some medicine to permanently damage your vocal cords, after a month, I hope to see a new you, I hope that when the time comes, you will be more despicable, more shameless, and more cheap." ”

Fan Meng, who was so painful that he was about to lose his mind completely, actually squeezed out an ugly smile at this time, and said softly: "Thank you, boss, I will definitely not let down the boss." ”

Lian Jiuqi let go of Fan Meng and watched him slowly slide down against the hull wall, then tidied up his suit, turned around and strode away: "You really can't even count a dog hair, and your code name will be called dog hair in the future." ”

Fan Meng leaned there, raised his hand, touched his face gently, and said to himself: "Okay, Gou Mao, I will call it Gou Mao in the future." ”

As he spoke, Fan Meng also reached out to grab the piece of jade that fell to the ground.

Then, the footsteps and laughter of Lian Jiuqi continued to echo in the bilge, burrowing into Fan Meng's mind, and remained there forever.

Lian Jiuqi, who walked on the deck, looked at the foggy sea, raised his hand to look at his watch, and then said: "Prepare the boat, send me to the shore, and then book a ticket to Harbin, the sooner the better!" ”

……

It has been a month since the punishment technique learned about Lian Jiuqi from his master Zheng Cangqiong.

In the past month, in addition to finding friends to investigate the descendants of the Southwest Tietang family, the rest of the energy has been spent on investigating Lian Jiuqi.

However, no matter which channel the criminal investigation came from, no accurate information about Lian Jiuqi was found - the person in the police's household registration system had been cancelled, that is, in the official records, Lian Jiuqi was already a dead man.

The question then arises, who helped him close his account?

Xingshu took the phone and patiently listened to the sound of Fu Mingwei flipping through the information on the other end of the phone, and after a long time, Fu Mingwei continued: "The exact time of account closure cannot be found, it should be 1980, at that time, simple information needs to be reported before the account is closed, and the time of reporting is in the summer of 1980, but in the winter of the same year, the police station where Lian Jiuqi's household registration is located accidentally caught fire, and no one was killed, but the archives room was all burned down. It became a scandal at the local police station. ”

After listening to the torture, he asked, "Is there any other way to find out who canceled his account?" ”

Fu Mingwei said: "There were no computers in those days, so after the archives were burned, the follow-up materials were re-registered and recorded by the local police station, because Lian Jiuqi had been closed, and there was no other person in the family, his mother died during the Cultural Revolution, and his father disappeared after his death. ”

Torture asked, "Is he married?" ”

Fu Mingwei replied: "There is no official record." Torture, why are you looking into this person named Lian Jiuqi? What's wrong? ”

The torturer hesitated and replied: "It's not clear yet, I can only guarantee that when it is time to notify the police, I will tell the truth." ”

"Well, I believe you." After Fu Mingwei finished speaking, he originally wanted to hang up the phone politely, but his eyes fell on Wan Qingquan's information on the table, so he asked, "Torture, do you know a person named Wan Qingquan?" ”

Xingshu was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Why are you asking me if I know each other?" ”

Fu Mingwei smiled: "It seems that you know, this Wan Qingquan is a famous collector in Henan, it is your businessman, he was killed at home a month ago, the murderer's methods are very cruel and bizarre, I just thought, if you know, maybe you can provide me with some information." ”

After hearing this, he said calmly: "Officer Fu, I have already said it before, I can only guarantee that when I should notify you, I will definitely notify you." ”

Fu Mingwei knew the character of the torture technique, so he had to say: "Okay, I know, goodbye." ”

Fu Mingwei hung up the phone, and Wu Zhinan, who was sitting opposite him, immediately asked, "How is it?" ”

Fu Mingwei shook his head: "The criminal art must know this person named Wan Qingquan, they are very senior in this industry, Wan Qingquan should be regarded as his senior, maybe he has some contact and communication with his master Zheng Cangqiong, you immediately contact Chen Taidong and let him come for a trip." Also, you have to find a way to investigate the person named Lian Jiuqi, the more detailed the investigation, the better, it is best to visit his hometown, it is not far away, his hometown is in Hulan. ”

Wu Zhinan nodded: "I don't have skills, if even the matter of Jiuqi is not our public affair, I will let Wu Zhihai check it, anyway, he is idle." ”

Fu Mingwei said: "Okay, hurry up." ”

Fu Mingwei and Wu Zhinan divided their labor and cooperated, and while they were investigating, they were sitting in the pawnshop drinking tea, and after making several phone calls, they also fell into deep thought.

Lian Jiuqi suddenly appeared, did he come back to take revenge? And he has already shown that he is here for Qimen, otherwise, it is impossible for him to show those three things to the torture technique, the willow palm represents his identity, and the thousand-year-old black incense chopsticks fake represents the purpose of his chaser for Qimen, as for what the nine son picture is, the torture technique is not clear.

Without understanding the current situation, the torture technique did not tell Zheng Cangqiong that the Nine Sons Diagram was with him, and with his own experience, he judged that the "Nine Sons Map" was real and not a fake.

But what does "Nine Sons" have to do with Qimen? Also, the previous phone calls made him sure that there were not many survivors among the nine sons.

Foshan Finch Ye Suxin, Green Belly Ma Guiyuan, and Copper Great Wall Wu Zi'an have all died one after another, and it is rumored that Ye Suxin died in Hong Kong, for different reasons, and Ma Guiyuan and Wu Zi'an died of illness. With Wan Qingquan, who had just been murdered, four of the nine sons had already died.

The remaining five people, one is his master, the other is Chen Taidong, who has become a police consultant, and the other is Ye Suxin's husband, and Youzhou Wang Qian Xiuye is the person who proposed to compile the "Nine Sons" back then, and he is also the oldest and highest ranking among the nine sons, as for the little Qinglian Tang Sirong, it is even more strange.

Because when the criminal investigation of the descendants of the Tang family of the Southwest Railway, there was accurate news from a friend that the best way to find the descendants of the Tang family was to find Tang Sirong.

These people are more or less related to the "Nine Sons" and Qimen, and the torture is clearer, Master Zheng Cangqiong has something to hide from himself, the reason is very simple, Zheng Cangqiong proposed at this juncture that he was old and wanted to go out to travel, so he left alone one evening, and there has been no news so far.

Before leaving, Zheng Cangqiong left a note telling the torture arts, telling him that he could go to Mo Dui Bridge if he had something, and repeatedly told him that Mo Du Qiao and Ma Fei were the only people who could trust the torture arts at the moment.

Sitting in the pawnshop, he looked at the book of "Nine Sons" in front of him, and tried his best to calm down.

The criminal technique can now conclude one thing - by integrating all the people and objects together, it should be possible to put together a complete event, but he still has a lot of clues, and he still doesn't know how to make the first step, which is to continue to track down Lian Jiuqi? Or do you want to head to Sichuan right away?

If he wants to go to Sichuan, Xingshu already plans to go alone, but he still needs backup, strong backup.

So, a few hours later, Xingshu drove to the "home" of Moduqiao, this so-called home, just a small farm yard on the outskirts of Harbin, a main building with two small buildings, a flower shed and a pond, and a yard outside, plus a few acres of land.

The torture technique drove to this courtyard according to the instructions of Mo Duqiao on the phone, and after entering, he raised his eyes and saw the small building, knowing that it was the place of residence, and then heard the sound of livestock from the other two small buildings, and two or three figures swaying in the flower shed in the distance, and then someone came out of it, still holding the newly picked out-of-season vegetables in his hand.

Xingshu got out of the car, looking at the mixed birch, pine and some fruit trees in the yard, the pond next to it was swimming for ornamental koi, and the upland rice in the field in the distance, he was judging who this Moduqiao was?

He had never heard of such a person as Moduqiao from Zheng Cangqiong, and no one in the industry knew Moduqiao, this name was too unfamiliar to him and the people around him, but the key was that it was such a mysterious person who could be called a brother and sister to the elderly Zheng Cangqiong.

"Coming? Are you feeling better? Maffei stepped out of the main building and walked straight towards Torture.

Torture stopped, looked at Ma Fei, and felt that Ma Fei at this time was too different from the woman who would always hide her identity in the past, and there were many doubts, for example, she said that she was an undercover agent of Interpol, even if it was true, where did she learn her amazing disguise technique? Interpol wouldn't hire a Hollywood special effects makeup artist to teach them, would it? If that's the case, it's easier for the police to solve the case.

Torture nodded: "It's better, where's the Modui Bridge?" ”

Maffei turned to look inside the building: "I'm playing a game." ”

"Playing games?" Torture frowned, "He's quite idle. ”

Ma Fei smiled: "That's how he is." ”

Torture walked towards the house: "Listening to your tone, you seem to know him well, did you know him before?" ”

The tone of the torture technique made Ma Fei very unhappy, but she didn't refute the torture technique, just smiled and followed him into the main building.

As soon as Torturer entered the room, he saw Murky Bridge sitting in front of the TV, playing a game with a gamepad and headphones.

Ma Fei stepped forward and asked, "Torture, what do you drink?" ”

Xingshu shook his head: "I still have something to do, let's make a long story short, I'm going to ......"

Before he finished speaking, Mo Duqiao, who was sitting in front with his back to him and had been wearing headphones, took the lead and said, "You'd better not act alone." ”

Xingshu looked at Mo Duqiao, and became more interested in this person, before he could speak, he knew what he wanted to say, could it be that this kid had mind reading skills?

Mo Duqiao continued to play the game, without taking off his headphones or turning around: "Although I can be your backup, but I don't approve of you acting alone, I suggest that you still act with me, Ma Fei and other people you have selected, the number of people is better not too much, not more than five people, your good friend Yan Gang is quite reliable, and there is also a person named Bai Zhongzheng, even if you don't take him, he will find a way to follow you, so, this time to go to Sichuan, the best candidates are these five people." ”

Ma Fei nodded as she watched the torture technique, she very much agreed with Mo Duqiao's proposal.

Torture slowly crouched next to the Twilight Bridge and asked, "Why?" Or rather, why should I listen to you? ”

Mo Duqiao smiled: "Because I am calmer now than you are now." ”

Ma Fei said in the back: "Torture, you are now facing the Cusco company, they are not ordinary companies, they are professional treasure hunters, they have paramilitary personnel and equipment, and they have offices all over the world. ”

Xingshu stared at the TV and said coldly: "I didn't ask you, Ma Fei, don't forget, a few months ago, we were still enemies, and I still don't know if you are an undercover agent of the police." ”

Mo Duqiao finally put down the game controller and turned his head to look at the torture technique: "I know, you want to go to Sichuan quietly, because you judged that Fan Meng will find a way to get clues from the jade, and then go to the descendants of the Southwest Tie Tang family, your purpose is to follow them quietly, and your reason is that it is convenient for you to be alone, and it is not easy to be exposed." ”

Xingshu sneered: "Mr. Mo, you are so smart, why don't you tell me directly, where is Qimen?" I don't have to look it up anymore. ”

Mo Duqiao didn't answer him directly, but said, "Why do you think that you can't be found out if you follow them?" Are they fools or idiots? I believe that everyone up and down the Cusco company can memorize your appearance and information, they are professional, not ordinary street gangsters, you have to rush there, the only end is to evaporate. ”

The torture technique teased: "It's better for me to die alone than a group of people, right?" Besides, this is on our Chinese soil, if I can't hold on, I will call the police, there are heroic people's police. ”

Ma Fei, who was standing in the rear, finally couldn't help but say: "Torture, we all know very well that what happened in Xiangxi last time hit you very hard, but this is not a reason for you to go to death alone, we must have a well-thought-out plan and a team that can trust each other, otherwise, rush to ......"

Torture Shu got up: "It will evaporate from the world, right?" Although my Master told me again and again before he left that you two are trustworthy and the only one I can trust now, I don't think so, because I am transparent to you, but I don't know anything about you. ”