"I believe it." I don't know how long it took, until Xu Chong's hands were scratched a little numb, and Zhao Zimai said these two words.

"You believe it?" Xu Chong's eyes lit up, and his face showed relief for the first time, but soon, his face changed, turning into a touch of panic, "Zimai, do you know? If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have been a general judge, and I wouldn't have been a quick catcher. That thing...... It had been on my mind for twenty-eight years, and it wasn't until recently that I felt that I might have to carry it for the rest of my life, and it was a dead knot that I couldn't untie. ”

Zhao Zimai had never seen Xu Chong's appearance before, if he could empathize with the fragility he revealed just now, but now his frightened appearance made him frightened.

Xu Chong, this fast arrester who has solved countless strange cases, what kind of case can make him so frightened?

"Twenty-eight years ago, you should have been eight or nine years old, what kind of case is it that you still can't let go?" Zhao Zimai frowned and asked.

"I saw something that didn't belong in the human world...... It eats people, eating people until only a puddle of blood remains......" Xu Chong buried his head in the crook of his arm, "Ho Ho" smiled, "I kept telling myself that this was a nightmare, that thing was my imagination, not real." But I know that this is nothing but self-deception, and I dream about it every night, every night, every night......"

"It's not that I haven't checked, I have searched through the records of county offices in various places, but I haven't found any similar records...... The monster's mouth is like a crooked tube, stretching out and sucking when it eats people......"

"My best friend, my only friend, should be to die in his mouth......"

"Someone I know might be able to help you, but now that you're really drunk, go back and rest first, and we'll visit you tomorrow." Zhao Zimai saw that he was shaking so badly that he couldn't explain things clearly, so he broke free of his hand and went to pull Xu Chong's arm again, but he pushed him away.

He was laughing, but Zhao Zimai seemed to see tears in his eyes.

"Zimai, it's good that you have this heart, this heart has been nested for so many years, I have never mentioned it to others, I am afraid that people who know it will also treat me as a ...... Monster. Now that I can confide in, I feel comfortable...... It's much more comfortable," Xu Chong's eyes seemed to focus for a moment, but quickly dispersed again, his lips trembled, and he sneered, "But I also know that after twenty-eight years, this case can't be solved......"

He slapped Zhao Zimai on the shoulder, nodded at him again, didn't say anything more, stumbled towards the door, and almost collided with Sang and Mu Cripple who pushed the door in.

"What kind of person, drinking so much, smelling of alcohol," Mu Cripple looked at Xu Chong's back and muttered, but his eyes suddenly lit up, "Shang Fang's sword, the one in his waist is Shang Fang's sword, right?" It's a gift, and that's it. ”

"Xu Chong, why is he here?" Sang looked at Zhao Zimai, but saw that he was walking towards him in a hurry, his eyes were full of panic, so he continued, "What are you panicking about?" What the hell? ”

It smiled at him, the usual mocking look on its face.

"Xu Chong is drunk, I'll send him back." Zhao Zimai answered its question succinctly, and when he walked to the door and looked out, he found that Xu Chong was gone, and there was a bustling crowd outside, but inside, there was only a lonely figure missing.

"Broken, where did it go?" He was so anxious that his eyes scanned the crowd.

"A world-famous catcher, even if he eats too much wine, can he still lose himself?" Sang snorted and walked into the house.

***

Nanshan Hall has always been famous for its large number of people, Xu Chong rarely comes to this kind of place, coupled with the drunkenness and haze, he was hit by the flow of people several times, and he got lost, and he didn't find an exit several times, but went with the flow and came to an unknown courtyard.

There was a boxy carved wooden table in the courtyard, and there were more than a dozen people around the table, obviously also drinking high, and all of them were ugly. There are those who lie on the table to see Zhou Gong one step earlier, some who are on the chair with one foot and pick their teeth, and even more, they have already gotten under the table, but they have not forgotten to make fists, and they shouted the sound of the earthquake in their mouths, but they didn't know that the other party had already fallen asleep.

Xu Chong leaned on the courtyard gate, with a faint smile on his face, "When you sing about wine, how much is life!" For example, the morning dew is bitter in the past. Be generous and unforgettable. How to solve the problem? Only Du Kang. Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart. But for the sake of the king, he groaned...... ...... still moaning"

"What kind of crepe, go and go, read it elsewhere," a drunken voice came from the courtyard.

Xu Chong didn't laugh angrily, "Then you can talk about it..... Tell a funny story. ”

The people inside were also really drunk, so they put down the wooden teeth in their hands and asked Xu Chong one by one, "I said...... Tell me something...... Don't be surprised to hear this...... "He knotted his tongue and slurred a sentence, "Ah, is there something about it...... There is a ...... about a celebrity in our city You guess...... Who is it? ”

Xu Chong crouched on the door and smiled, "Celebrity? Could it be that the hot hand catches Xu Chong? ”

"Positive...... It was he who ......"

"What's wrong with him?" Hearing his name, Xu Chong's head seemed to sober up a little.

"He caught the wrong person, what a hot hand detective, I see...... He's just a vain...... Reckless ......"

Xu Chong felt a string tense in his head, and the drunkenness seemed to dissipate in an instant, and in front of him, only the unfamiliar figure was muttering some intermittent drunken words.

"I ...... that day That...... I've seen Li Yong, and I'm in ...... At the foot of Ailao Mountain on the outskirts of the city, he ...... Wobbling and unsteady, it seems to be ...... It's hurt...... I called him by name and asked him what was wrong, and he answered me...... said, 'Hu Bing, that kid actually wanted my life and gave me a knife', and said ...... And he was gone...... I don't know if I was in a hurry to seek medical treatment or report to the police. I was ...... At that time, I also ate too much alcohol and didn't take it to heart...... Who knew that a few days later, I heard that Li Yong died outside Hu Bing's house, and Hu Bing was stripped of his face. Isn't that weird? When I saw Li Yong, it was almost dawn, I remember...... I remember that it should be the time at that time, Li Yong will never return to the Hu family, right? It's not ...... Isn't it a sheep in the mouth of a tiger? Take a step back and say, if Hu Bing chased after him and killed Li Yong, he would ...... Why did he drag Li Yong's body to the forest in front of his house, was he afraid that others would not know that he killed him? That's why I said, this hot-handed detective Xu Chong must have made the wrong decision......"

Xu Chong "chuckled" in his heart, and he was sober up: Hu Bing died in prison yesterday due to a sudden serious illness.