Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Vanishing Shadow
The driver tied Yang Xuewei to one side, and after scratching his feet for more than ten minutes, Yang Xuewei, who was already laughing and twitching, finally said three words - Tang Sirong.
The driver raised his eyes and looked at Lian Jiuqi, after Lian Jiuqi shook his head slightly, the driver stunned Yang Xuewei with a palm, the driver took off his hat and fake beard, and said to Zheng Cangqiong behind Lian Jiuqi: "Brother Cangqiong, what do you think?" ”
Zheng Cangqiong put down the magazine and said, "Obviously, these people are not killers, they are just here to make trouble." ”
The driver said: "I said Tang Sirong's three words so directly, which proves that they want us to rush to Qinglian Town as soon as possible." ”
Zheng Cangqiong grabbed his backpack, walked to Lian Jiuqi's side, pointed to the driver and said, "This is my brother Mo Duqiao, you can call Uncle Mo." ”
Lian Jiuqi was stunned for a moment, looked at Zheng Cangqiong, then looked at Modui Bridge, and turned his head to look at Zheng Cangqiong again: "What?" Your brother? ”
Zheng Cangqiong nodded: "Yes, is there a problem?" You and Torture are father and son, and you both react exactly the same. ”
Lian Jiuqi said: "Whoever encounters this situation should have this reaction, right?" Should you still kneel down and kowtow and shout that your uncle is blessed and healthy? This kid should call me uncle! ”
Mo Duqiao immediately smiled and waved his hand: "It doesn't matter, it's okay if I call you uncle, I admire you very much." ”
Zheng Cangqiong: "Isn't that generation chaotic?" ”
"Hey, old man!" Lian Jiuqi glared at Zheng Cangqiong and said, "It's obviously your fault for this matter, okay?" ”
Zheng Cangqiong shook his head and said expressionlessly: "Alas, it doesn't matter, whatever you want, you can do whatever you like, in short, Mo Duqiao and I have worshipped each other!" ”
Mo Duqiao turned his head to look at the people around him: "Almost, the real driver should also wake up, I will give him the dose of medicine to let him sleep for a maximum of three hours, the time is almost up, we should go, call the police before leaving, let the police come quickly, so as not to be in danger on the highway." ”
Zheng Cangqiong looked through the car window, looked at the dark outside, and asked, "Where are we now?" ”
Lian Jiuqi took out his mobile phone, opened the map and said: "There is still a period of time before Deyang, it is impossible for us to stop the car on the highway, let's walk, there is no way to get to Qinglian Town tonight, and we will talk about it tomorrow morning." ”
Mo Duqiao said: "If you want to rush over overnight, it's not impossible, I have already made arrangements in Deyang." ”
Even Jiuqi and Zheng Cangqiong glanced at each other and nodded towards the Mo Dusk Bridge.
An hour and a half later, the trio drove back onto the highway in the Jetta that had been prepared at the Ink Twilight Bridge.
In the car, Lian Jiuqi looked at the Modui Bridge driving in front of him and asked, "How did you target this person?" You happen to know him? ”
"I don't know." Mo Duqiao replied lightly, "This Yang Xuewei is very famous among the people in Chengdu, and they went to the bus station one step ahead of you, which shows that your whereabouts have long been exposed." ”
Zheng Cangqiong looked at Lian Jiuqi and asked coldly: "Jiuqi, could this not be arranged by you?" ”
Lian Jiuqi didn't pay attention to Zheng Cangqiong's questioning at all, and continued to ask Mo Duqiao: "Are you very well-informed?" When you see that Yang Xuewei, you immediately recognize it? ”
Mo Duqiao smiled, "You doubt me? ”
"Isn't it doubtful?" Lian Jiuqi asked rhetorically, "If these people are arranged by me, all these things are set up by me, isn't it redundant?" Originally, I planned to rush to Qinglian Town overnight, and I didn't need to find anyone to help the trouble. ”
Zheng Cangqiong frowned: "Is there a problem with Tang Sirong, now it has become another problem." According to common sense, Yang Xuewei can directly say Tang Sirong's name, which is unreasonable in itself, how could Tang Sirong tell Yang Xuewei what his name is? In case you get caught by the police, isn't this an extra personal ID? ”
Even Jiuqi speculated: "So, Mo Dui Bridge in the car said that it was the people from the Cusco Company who wanted us to rush to Qinglian Town as soon as possible. ”
At this time, Mo Duqiao said, "What if it's not someone from the Cusco Company?" ”
Zheng Cangqiong was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”
Mo Duqiao said: "Assuming that it is indeed the Cusco Company, they have nothing more than two purposes, either urging us to rush to Qinglian Town as soon as possible, or they really want to kill you." But at the moment, the first purpose is tantamount to taking off his pants and farting, and the second purpose is not valid, such a paramilitary international treasure hunting group, which knows very well what the strength of these social gangsters is, how can they be stupid enough to think that they can succeed, so, I think, this matter is not necessarily done by Cusco. ”
Even Jiuqi was puzzled at this time: "Who could it be?" ”
At the same time that Lian Jiuqi and others rushed to Qinglian Gou, Fu Mingwei had already rushed to Qinglian Town with Chen Fang and Dong Guozhi, and notified the forensic personnel of the Cultural Relics Investigation Department to rush over as soon as possible.
The villa was brightly lit, and although it was late at night, it was still full of people watching the excitement outside, many of whom were curious to inquire about what was going on here, and reporters from local TV stations and newspapers also arrived, and on the premise that they could not interview the police, they had to try to get some speculative news from the mouths of the people.
However, because this is Liu Baogu's villa, so naturally some people told Liu Baogu's experience back then, and for a while, there were different opinions, rumors spread, all kinds of theories, and the haunting also spread throughout Qinglian Town.
After inspecting the villa, the tired Fu Mingwei returned to the living room and said to Dong Guozhi, who was drawing the floor plan of the villa: "Guozhi, how is it?" Is there any difference between a two-storey villa above ground and underground? ”
Dong Guozhi shook his head: "Basically, it's exactly the same, there is not much deviation in the area, but downstairs, if it weren't for the advance notice of the torture, I'm afraid our investigation work would not be able to be carried out at all, not to mention, some colleagues would die because of this." ”
After a while, Chen Fang came with an attester.
The forensic staff handed the preliminary simple report to Fu Mingwei: "Team Fu, although the basement and kitchen have been cleaned, in the process of investigation, it was still found that there were residual blood stains in the cracks of the wall. ”
Fu Mingwei nodded, and after the forensic personnel left, he looked at his mobile phone: "The torture said that the owner of this villa should be the leader of an unknown cult, and also sent me a phone number, let us follow the clue to investigate, over there in Hashi, I have already sent someone to investigate, I want to ask you what you think of this case?" ”
Dong Guozhi continued to draw the picture, and did not raise his head: "Deal with the case together." ”
Chen Fang nodded: "I also agree, because Tang Sirong is from Qinglian Town, there is another accident here, plus the death of Cai Nayun over there in Foshan, I think all this is related." ”
Fu Mingwei pondered for a moment: "My biggest question now is, where did the torture technique go?" Why did he leave here? ”
Dong Guozhi finally raised his head: "That's not simple, it must be that he has a new clue and went to investigate it alone, wasn't it like this before?" Even if you ask him why, he will say that his line has rules for his business. ”
Chen Fangdao: "Team Fu, do you want me to take someone to find it?" ”
Dong Guoyu frowned and said: "Don't think about the torture technique so simply, it may be easy for him to find you, but you want to find him?" It's harder than climbing to the sky. ”
Fu Mingwei nodded: "What the national title said is, Chen Fang, rest here tonight, early tomorrow morning, you and your local colleagues will go to the town to visit and find more news about this villa, even if it is something bought in this villa, you have to record it." ”
"Yes!" Chen Fang glanced at Dong Guozhi and turned to leave.
Dong Guozhi put down his pen, rubbed the bridge of his nose and said, "Team Fu, you say, where will the torture art go?" ”
Fu Mingwei shook his head: "I don't know, but I have a particularly bad premonition, I think the cases we are handling now are beyond our ability." ”
Dong Guozhi was silent, just holding a pencil and continuing to draw with his head down, thinking.
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"Qinglian Town?" Holding a flashlight, the torturer struggled to identify the three words on the archway.
Chen Taidong looked up, and Ma Fei motioned for the torture technique to hold the flashlight and not move, set up the tripod, and took a picture.
She Caixiang and Sikong Yan were still standing at the end, but at this time, Sikong Yan was basically hiding behind She Caixiang, looking at the dark Qinglian Town.
"Torture, when we entered the mountain, did you feel that something was wrong?" Chen Taidong looked around.
The torture technique is to keep staring at the archway: "There are so many forks in the mountain, but every time we come to an intersection, we will see a sign, the sign is not old, it is obvious that someone wants us to walk in smoothly." ”
Chen Taidong took a deep breath: "These roads in the mountains are deliberately built by someone, although I don't know much about the art of feng shui, I also know that I use the geographical environment to arrange a wild maze, it is easy to come in, it is difficult to go out, in many places, even the appearance of the shrubs is very similar, and it has been deliberately pruned." ”
Ma Fei said: "Uncle Chen, you mean, there are still many people living here?" ”
"Hey! Don't scare people, okay? Sikong Yan, who was standing at the end, hid behind She Caixiang and said, "This kind of ghost place, there is no electricity, where can there be people?" ”
Chen Taidong turned his head to look at him: "If there is no one, who will build the road?" Who paved the way? The stones above can be seen at a glance that they are artificially laid, and they are paved regularly, but how to explain those pruned trees? ”
She Caixiang hugged her arms, shook her head and whispered: "No matter what, I think it's very evil, hey, torture, I've promised you to enter the mountain, and now you're not going to investigate here overnight, right?" ”
Sikong Yan immediately chimed in: "Yes, in the middle of the night, this ghost place will scare people to death during the day." ”
The torturer looked around, and as he was talking, he saw a person appear in the middle of the main road in the town behind the archway.
The torture touched Chen Taidong beside him: "Uncle Chen, look." ”
As soon as the torture technique said this, everyone else looked in the direction he was pointing, and Sikong Yan immediately hid behind She Caixiang, chanting gibberish words in his mouth, similar to what Amitabha God blesses or something like that.
The torture technique shines a flashlight on the bright light, but due to the distance, it is impossible to illuminate what exactly is there, and it is impossible to determine whether it is a person.
"Wait, I'll go and see." As he spoke, he stepped forward with a flashlight, and just after taking a few steps, the black shadow in the middle of the street suddenly raised his hand and waved it in this direction.
Ma Fei and Chen Taidong were stunned, and stood there staring at the thing. The torture technique also stopped, and said loudly: "Hello, we are here for a tour." ”
The man's hand was held there like that, and he didn't put it down, and he took a deep breath and slowly stepped forward, while shining his flashlight forward.
She Caixiang stepped forward, stood behind Chen Taidong, looked between Chen Taidong and Ma Fei, and looked over the shoulders of torture and looked at the black shadow in the middle of the street.
Sikong Yan closed his eyes, kept muttering something, completely unaware that She Caixiang had stepped forward, and when he opened his eyes, he found that She Caixiang was gone, he was stunned, raised his feet and was about to catch up, just when he just walked out of a step, he suddenly realized that there was something not far behind him.
Sikong Yan took out the flashlight with a trembling hand, who knew that as soon as his hand slipped, the flashlight fell directly to the ground and rolled in the direction of the thing.
Sikong Yan's eyes were completely focused on the flashlight, and he didn't dare to raise his eyes to take a closer look at what was there!
"I said......" Sikong Yan said softly, his legs trembling, "Hey, you guys come back and see if I'm okay." ”
She Caixiang heard Sikong Yan's voice, and subconsciously turned around, wanting him to be quiet, but the moment she turned around, she raised her eyes and saw a black shadow standing at the intersection when they came, and the most terrifying thing was that the black shadow also seemed to raise her "hand", that posture, that appearance, was exactly the same as the one in front of the torture.
She Caixiang grabbed the people around her, and didn't realize that she was catching Ma Fei.
Maffei shook off his hand impatiently, turned around at the same time, and the moment he turned around, he also saw the thing.
But Ma Fei was much calmer than She Caixiang, and after she glanced at it, she immediately turned to look at the front of the torture technique, and then shouted towards the torture technique: "Torture technique, stop!" ”
The torture didn't stop, because the bright flashlight could basically shine on the black shadow.
The torture technique gradually stepped forward with a flashlight, and just as the vague snapshot arrived, the black shadow suddenly disappeared.
At the same time that the black shadow in front of him disappeared, Ma Fei and She Caixiang also clearly saw that the black shadow behind him also disappeared without a trace at the same time.
Ma Fei and She Caixiang glanced at each other, Chen Taidong didn't pay attention to what they saw because his attention was completely ahead, so he walked straight towards the torture technique and asked, "What is it?" How did it suddenly disappear? ”
Xingshu shook his head: "I don't know, it's so strange, how could it suddenly disappear?" Let's go, go and see. ”
Xingshu and Chen Taidong slowly stepped forward and used a flashlight to shine a flashlight on the location of the previous black shadow, but Xingshu couldn't determine whether it was there or not, after all, it was pitch black around, and the distance was deviated by visual inspection, so it was not accurate.
The two searched around, but found nothing unusual, and when they were strange, they turned around and saw She Caixiang and Ma Fei in the back stunned, looking at the back, while Sikong Yan maintained the posture of leaning over to pick up the flashlight, and his legs were still trembling.
"Something is wrong." Torture turned and trotted towards Ma Fei and She Caixiang, "What's wrong with you?" ”
As soon as the torture technique spoke, She Caixiang was startled, but Ma Fei was still calm, pointed to the back and said: "When you went to look at the black shadow in front of you just now, there was also one behind you, and it seemed to raise your hand, but it suddenly disappeared." ”
Xingshu felt puzzled, took a flashlight, walked towards Sikong Yan, and asked at the same time: "Sikong Yan, what's wrong with you?" ”
Sikong Yan's face was pale, and it took a long time before he spoke: "Torture...... Torture, I can't move, there's something in front of me, I can see it clearly, there must be something, it's a person, no, it's a ghost, he must have used a spell to freeze me! ”
The torture technique pushed Sikong Yan, and Sikong Yan fell directly to the ground, fell to the ground and shouted pain again and again.
Torture kicked him again: "Why are you so daring? How could there be a ghost, it must be something else, maybe a balloon or something. ”
Sikong Yan got up, looked around, and took a flashlight to shine in the distance: "Balloon? ”
Ma Fei stepped forward and came to the torture technique who was holding a flashlight and looked around: "If it is a balloon, we should be able to hear the sound of the balloon popping, because it disappeared in an instant, so it is impossible to deflate slowly, and the theory of balloon is not valid." ”
Xingshu looked at Ma Fei: "That's weird, is there anything else besides pretending to be a ghost with a balloon?" ”
When he was about to go to the place he had walked before, he had already walked through the archway alone, and the voice of Chen Taidong, who had walked into the town, came: "Come here!" ”
As soon as Chen Taidong shouted like this, She Caixiang immediately ran over, and Sikong Yan also crawled over, unwilling to stay with Xingshu and Ma Fei anymore, as if there was something wrong with these two people.
Xingshu and Ma Fei also rushed over immediately, and before they could get to Chen Taidong, they saw that there was a tombstone standing at the door of the two-story building on the right side of the town, and the handwriting on the tombstone was very blurry, and it was completely impossible to identify what was written.
When Sikong Yan saw the tombstone, his legs were weak again, he grabbed She Caixiang, and was pushed away by She Caixiang, Sikong Yan fell, the flashlight fell to the ground again, rolled on the street, and then illuminated the door of the opposite room.
When Sikong Yan went to pick up the flashlight, he saw that the flashlight was clearly shining on the door of the house opposite, and there was also a tombstone.
"There's a tombstone over here, too!" Sikong Yan is about to cry.
The torturers and the others turned around, shone a flashlight, and then shook the flashlight around the houses on the left and right sides in front of them, and found that in front of each room, there were one or two tombstones, and there were obvious traces of things burning on the ground, including paper ashes and bamboo sticks left over from incense wax burning.
Sikong Yan ran directly to She Caixiang: "Let's go, this place is so fucking weird, we definitely can't stay here overnight, absolutely not!" Otherwise, we will die, even if we are not killed by ghosts, we will be scared to death! ”
Xingshu stood there looking at the tombstone, without saying a word, Chen Taidong squatted down directly and touched the tombstone with his hand.
Maffei set up the camera, adjusted it to recording mode, and began to shoot.
Sikong Yan looked at the appearance of the three of them, and said in a low voice: "Hey, don't you think the three of them are the most terrifying?" This guy is not a normal person at all, he is not afraid at all, where is there such a thing? ”
Sikong Yan watched the three of them talk for a long time, and found that She Caixiang had no reaction, he realized that something was wrong, subconsciously closed his eyes, and said in a low voice: "Don't scare me, I know you want to scare me, right?" I'm timid, Sister Xiang, really don't scare me! It's true! ”
After talking for a long time, Sikong Yan couldn't hear She Caixiang talking, and slowly opened his eyes, only to find that She Caixiang was gone, and the torturers continued to investigate there, seemingly completely forgetting him.
Sikong Yan trembled and turned a circle of three hundred and sixty degrees, and finally found that She Caixiang had slowly walked out of a room with an open door next to her, and then stood there, with her head down, motionless.
When Sikong Yan was wondering, She Caixiang suddenly raised her hand very mechanically and waved at him.
Sikong Yan was stunned.