In fact, I still have a lot of doubts about the mysterious underground space under the Yellow River, but at this moment, in addition to physical and mental exhaustion, there is also a deep sense of relief, and I don't want to rush to find the answer, perhaps just like the four famous words written by Zheng Banqiao in the Qing Dynasty - "rare and confused".

Liu Xili said that the results of the DNA test will not come out until tomorrow, and we do not want to stay at the police station overnight.

Wu Jinghan took my arm and slowly walked out of the gate of the police station, it was already night, looking at the bright lights around me, I had never felt that the night scene was so beautiful.

"Where are we going?" She asked me softly.

"Feel free to walk around!" I replied.

The two of them just walked along the street, without a goal and without looking at the road.

Yao Liguo and Tian Zhen called me several times, but I still didn't answer after thinking about it, so as not to break the quiet feeling in my heart.

In addition, I have a deep worry in my heart: among the nine people who were killed that year, was there really a father?

The current evidence and rational analysis tell me that the body that was buried and dug up was him, but before the final test results came out, I still had a little luck in my heart.

At the same time, it is difficult to self-controlly wonder: if it is a father, why was the body dug up after it was buried?

The two of them walked to the middle of the night before they found a hotel to stay, and before they got up the next day, they were awakened by the rapid ringing of their mobile phones.

"Hey, Viagra? Is there a result? ”

Liu Liwei, who was on the other side of the phone, said in a very low voice: "Brother, Xili has been tinkering in the laboratory all morning, and the results are ...... There are some things that I know are hard to accept, but they are true! ”

Suddenly I was completely sleepy, my scalp seemed to be electrified, and I thought I was mentally prepared, but at this moment I still felt like a lightning strike.

"Viagra, if you have anything to say, just say it! I...... I already expected that. ”

Liu Liwei, who was on the other side of the phone, was silent for more than ten seconds before he spoke again: "The test results have come out, and the similarity with your DNA chromosome is more than 99 percent."

I just felt that it was dark in front of me, and I was stunned.

"Lu Dong, Lu Dong?"

Liu Liwei called me several times over the phone, and Wu Jinghan on the side also gently stroked my face, I couldn't feel it, and I was already in tears at this time.

"Viagra, I ...... I'm fine. ”

Forcibly holding back the incomparable pain in my heart, I replied slowly.

"Brother, there's another thing, I'm really afraid you won't be able to hold it...... So be it! You come to the group. ”

At 7:15 in the morning, Wu Jinghan and I rushed to the Hekou District Police Station.

Liu Liwei and Liu Xili stood in front of the office of the Forensic Science Section on the first floor, their expressions solemn and whispering something.

At this point, I already had a premonition that something worse was coming.

"Brother, here!"

I nodded: "Viagra, Hiligo, what's going on?"

Liu Liwei stretched out his hand and motioned to enter the office.

The four of them walked into the office of the chief of the forensic section, Liu Liwei locked the door casually, and waited for us to sit down before he spoke:

"Yesterday's body was autopsied......"

I nodded, expectantly.

"But the autopsy results shocked us."

"Oh? What's wrong? ”

"This person's chromosomes are more than 99 percent similar to yours."

As if struck by lightning again, I stood up with a "poof": "This...... How is this possible? I don't know him! ”

In a panic, I was at a loss for words.

"This man is a man, between the ages of 35 and 40, with type O blood and a broken left arm......"

Before he finished speaking, I couldn't control my emotions and shouted: "This is impossible! It's impossible! ”

What he said was exactly in line with my father's characteristics, and at this moment, the luck psychology with the nature of self-deception in his heart was driven away.

A mouthful of blood spat out, and I lost consciousness as soon as my eyes went dark.

It was very dark, and I first saw a glass bottle hanging upside down, and the clear liquid was dripping down the needle, very slowly, very rhythmically.

What's the situation? I just feel a little dizzy.

Everything in front of me gradually became clearer, and when I blinked and looked again, I saw Wu Jinghan lying on my side, and only then did I notice that I was lying on a white sheet with a white futon on my body...... Is this a hospital?

Wu Jinghan's eyes were red and swollen, and her hands were still holding my left hand tightly.

It may have been that I woke up and moved and woke her up.

She raised her head slowly, and her face suddenly showed joy: "Lu Dong, are you awake?" How does it feel? ”

I just felt a little tired and shook my head gently: "It's okay, I'm fine."

After sitting up, I felt that my breathing was much easier.

"Thank you...... How long have I been in a coma? ”

"It's been a day and a half, Brother Yao, Tian Zhen, they have all been here two or three times, and everyone is very worried about your ......"

As she spoke, Wu Jinghan's tears flowed down her cheeks.

"I'm fine, you've been by my side for more than a day, right?"

Wu Jinghan whimpered: "I...... I'm really not worried, you vomited a lot of blood at that time, and your face was whiter than paper, which was terrifying. ”

I was so excited that I pulled her hand to my mouth, kissed her, and took her into my arms.

After dawn, Liu Liwei and Yao Liguo both came to the hospital.

"Viagra, the case...... Is there any progress on the case? ”

Liu Liwei nodded: "Don't worry!" Brother, I will use all my strength in this case, and I will definitely make your father vary. ”

After lying in the hospital for half a morning, he couldn't lie down, so he coaxed and scared Wu Jinghan to go through the discharge procedures.

After leaving the hospital, I went directly back to the Hekou District Police Station, and the police on duty said that Liu Liwei was organizing a case analysis meeting.

Without waiting for the police officer on duty to finish, I trotted to the conference room.

I didn't care so much, I pushed the door open, and I was greeted by a choking smell of smoke, and then I saw two rows of dozen people sitting on either side of the conference table, all turning their heads to look at me.

"Lu Dong, why are you here?"

Liu Liwei, who was sitting in the "C" position, hurriedly stood up with a look of surprise.

"Viagra ...... No! Director Liu, everyone...... Are you discussing my dad's case? ”

Liu Liwei nodded, and asked the little policeman who was responsible for recording the minutes of the meeting to move a chair: "Since you're here, let's sit down and listen!" ”

I turned around and patted the back of Wu Jinghan's hand, and whispered, "You go and sit in the hall for a while!" ”

Wu Jinghan turned over his hand, patted me in response, nodded slightly, and turned around and walked towards the hall.

"Alright, everyone, let's continue to analyze the case!"

After I sat down, I noticed a familiar old man sitting across from Liu Liwei, and when I looked at him, he smiled and nodded at me.

Meng Lao? Sitting on the other side turned out to be Meng Lao, who had entered the mysterious space under the Yellow River with us. How is he sitting here in a meeting? He is a master of Kanyu, and he also knows Feng Shui, looking at Yin and Yang Zhai, to be precise, he is known as "Mr. Yin and Yang with Preparation".

Liu Xili said: "Everyone, according to the results of DNA testing, it is preliminarily concluded that the deceased is Liu Mengyun, the father of the Ludong brothers, who has been missing for more than ten years. ”

Soon there was a picture on the screen that brought tears to my eyes.

Liu Xili continued: "This is a photo of the scene, the deceased was skinned and wrapped in two layers of nylon bags, and these three things were found together with the body. ”

Then appeared on the screen: bronze mirrors, iron nails, and yellow paper that had rotted so much that only traces remained.

Liu Liwei turned to look at Meng Lao: "Next, please ask Meng Lao to help us analyze the case!" ”

Meng Lao slowly stood up, nodded slightly to everyone, and then turned around and pointed at the big screen with his withered hand: "Everyone! Before I start my analysis, let me tell you a story! ”

Originally, when they saw Meng Lao speak, most of them were ready to pick up the pen and prepare to record, but as soon as they heard that he was going to tell a story, more than a dozen pairs of eyes all looked at him in unison.

It is said that five or six hundred years ago in the Yuan Dynasty, the entire Yellow River Valley was occupied by the Mongols, because of racial discrimination and national hatred and family hatred and many other reasons, the northern Han people lived in dire straits, and the Mongols divided people into several classes, among which the Han people were called "southern people", belonging to the lowest people, and their status was only higher than that of pigs and dogs raising cattle.

In this atmosphere, a group of bandits who robbed houses and houses appeared in the Yellow River area, calling themselves "river gods", of course, dealing with high-ranking officials and nobles, and also put forward the slogan of robbing the rich and helping the poor, which won the support of the local Han people.

The leader is a crazy Taoist priest, according to legend, this Taoist priest has a bit of Taoism, but also knows a lot of Taoism, and some people even say that Zhang Sanfeng of the Ming Dynasty once worshipped him as a teacher, and only founded Wudang Taoism after learning Taoism for a month.

The other "river gods" also know some Taoism.

Over time, the local people rose up a kind of "sacrifice to the river god" sacrifice activities, at the beginning everyone knew that the so-called sacrifice to the river god is nothing more than a disguise, in fact, it is to praise and praise the "bandits" who helped them rob their homes.

Who would have thought that the invincible Great Yuan Dynasty would be replaced by the peasant rebels led by Zhu Chongba's leadership in less than a hundred years, and the country would be re-ruled by the Han people, and the "river gods" would also be severely suppressed, and their power would weaken a lot, and they could only exist in a more hidden form among the people.

In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the original river sacrifice ceremony underwent a qualitative change, and the ordinary people who organized the sacrifice ceremony became the "river god", and the river sacrifice ceremony also changed from bright and really big, to secret.

At this time, the ritual of sacrificing the river became a little bloody and terrifying.

First of all, it must be sacrificed with a living person, and the person who is used for the sacrifice must be carefully selected, and it must be a man with a pure yin life.

In order for the man's soul to be loyal to the so-called river god, in addition to stripping off the person's skin, he had to lock his soul with three things before the sacrifice.

One is an inch-long iron nail, commonly known as the "soul suppression nail".

The second is a palm-sized bronze mirror, commonly known as the "soul mirror".

The third piece is the Dao Talisman with a spell drawn.

Legend has it that when the river god receives the soul of the person who sacrificed it, if he is satisfied, he will grant the request of the river sacrificer, such as returning the souls of the other drowned people.

It is said that after a rich family drowns someone, if they can find the "river god", they can spend a lot of money to let them make a river sacrifice ceremony, and through the way of "human sacrifice", they can exchange the soul of that person for the real river god in the Yellow River.

After Meng Lao paused for a moment, he talked about a specific case.

It is said that at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the matter of a landlord's family in Henan, whose surname is even impossible to verify, his son accidentally drowned, and the person has been put into the coffin, ready to be buried.

At this time, an old servant of the landlord said that there might be a way to save the young master, but it would cost thousands of taels of silver.

The landlord's family has only one son, not to mention thousands of cars, even if the family is bankrupt!

Later, the old servant really found the river god, bought a boy from a poor family that day, and secretly held a river sacrifice ceremony at night.

Many residents in the vicinity heard strange shouts from the river, but they didn't know what was happening. The next day, people in the vicinity saw a landlord with a spring breeze on his face, leading his already drowned son for a walk......

When Meng Lao said this, I basically understood what he meant.

"Ladies and gentlemen, when I saw the corpse and a few things next to it, these were the first things that came to my mind...... As for whether it is feudal superstition, I can't judge whether it is old and decayed. After saying that, he sat down slowly, and said nothing more.

In the following time, several other people also expressed their opinions, but they did not seem to be tenable.

After the case analysis meeting, Liu Liwei called me and Meng Lao to the director's office.

"Brother, it's come to this, you have to look away!" Liu Liwei handed me a cigarette.

I waved my hand, didn't answer, and whispered back, "It's all right...... Now I just want to solve the case as soon as possible, which can be regarded as the end of a heart, in fact, I have long been mentally prepared...... "This is easy to say, but in fact, it is not easy to say if you can really let go, after all, he is my father."

After the three of them sat down separately, Liu Liwei spoke again: "Some things are inconvenient to say at the conference table, I have communicated with Meng Lao in advance, he has carefully looked at the deceased - that is, your father, the skinning technique is very skillful, it should be the life sacrifice in the legendary river sacrifice ceremony, because considering the social impact, this case cannot be investigated openly." ”

"What do you mean?"

"Secret check! Once there is conclusive evidence, we can ......" Liu Liwei changed his words: "Of course, at the same time, we will start with the other eight corpses, and maybe we will find a breakthrough." ”

"Secret investigation? How to secretly check? I asked, confused.

"Have you forgotten what you said that night by the Yellow River?"

"What?"

"More than a decade ago, you saw it with your own eyes...... And that man is your uncle! ”

I suddenly realized, nodded and said, "You don't want me to go to Donghu Village and ask my uncle directly!" We haven't been in touch for years, so it's not certain if he knows me! ”

"I have a solution! According to the information we have, there have been at least 17 or 8 boats in that area in the past 10 years, and the local people have rumored that there are demons in the river, and they can once again pretend to be reporters and go to Donghu Village to live for a few days. ”