The old alleys in the afternoon are always favored by the sun in spring.

The light shines through the narrow and cramped space on the top of the alleyway, silently sprinkling on the green bricks on the floor, revealing a lazy and comfortable charm.

The blue brick lanes with a rich historical atmosphere can't stand the passage of time, and are stepped on by people who come and go, and even emit a strange halo in the sun, which looks hazy and illusory.

In the depths of the old alley, there is an antique blue brick courtyard.

The courtyard is covered with green bricks, the eaves are still dripping with the spring rain left over from last night, and a bamboo chaise longue beloved by the elderly is placed in the corner.

Chen Xian was lying on the bamboo chair and taking a nap, enjoying this rare comfort.

"Is Mr. Chen here?"

A sudden knock on the door broke the silence in the courtyard.

Chen Xian rubbed his eyes sleepily, yawned and sat up, got up and walked to open the door.

"You are?"

There was a strange fat man standing outside the door, with a kind smile on his face: "My surname is Huo, and I am looking for Mr. Chen Xian." ”

"I am, are you looking for me for something?" Chen Xian nodded.

Huo Fatzi was obviously stunned for a moment, his expression was a little incredulous, he looked at Chen Xian carefully, and there was a little more doubt in his eyes: "Are you Chen Xian?" ”

"This alley is my family's surname Chen." Chen Xian said.

"What's that...... I may have found the wrong ......" Huo Fatzi smiled a little embarrassedly and turned around to leave.

Huo Fatzi's reaction, Chen Xian was no longer surprised, after all, he had just graduated from Ningchuan University this year, and for those who came to him to do business, his face was indeed a little tender.

"Uncle, are you looking for something with me?"

Huo Fatzi didn't say anything, his expression was very tangled.

Chen Xian leaned forward slightly, sniffed carefully on Huo Fatzi's body, and asked curiously: "You have a dead man's smell on your body, it's quite fresh, have you encountered something dirty?" Did someone refer you to me? ”

Hearing this, Huo Fatzi looked at Chen Xian in disbelief and asked, "Can you smell it?" ”

"Come in first."

Chen Xian did not answer Huo Fatzi's question, but politely invited Huo Fatzi in.

The antique yard was kept in good order by the owner, and the most conspicuous of them was the hundred-year-old locust tree planted in the corner of the yard.

When the wind blows, the leaves rattle and the sunlight spills in through the canopy, giving the whole yard a lazy smell.

Chen Xian introduced Huo Fatzi into the living room, walked to the side and poured water for him, and said in his mouth.

"I don't have many friends in Ningchuan, and if you can come to me by name, nine times out of ten it is to do something with me, are you a private job introduced by someone else, or ...... Official? ”

Hearing this, Huo Fatzi hesitated slightly, and then replied, "I am the one who guards the secret bureau." ”

The Keeper of the Secret Bureau?

Chen Xian paused a little as he poured the tea, and couldn't help but look at the fat man a few more times before bringing him the hot tea.

"Let's talk about the case." Chen Xian sat on the chair opposite him, his face full of curiosity.

Huo Fatzi nodded and took a sip from the shelf, but he wanted to vomit it in the next second.

overnight tea!

"The content of this case is more complicated, and the level of confidentiality is very high, so whether you take this case or not, all information about this case must be kept confidential."

Huo Fatzi put down the teacup, not going to drink it anymore, and his tone of voice became serious.

Hearing him say this, Chen Xian didn't say much, and nodded quietly.

"Hong Jinxi, the thief king of Ningchuan City, you should have heard of him as a local, right?"

"I know, I've seen his reports on TV, but I haven't seen him." Chen Xian said with a smile.

Huo Fatzi nodded a little dullly, and said slowly: "He stole a national treasure." ”

"A national treasure?" Chen Xian was slightly stunned, but he was not surprised.

Over the years, under the rendering of the media in Ningchuan City, Hong Jinxi is almost equivalent to a thief in the eyes of the citizens, and even the vault of Lin Dafu's rich man has been moved by him, and he really doesn't know what he can't steal.

"What kind of national treasure?" Chen Xian asked curiously.

Huo Fatzi glanced at Chen Xian deeply, and only said after a while: "A bronze key." ”

Seeing that he didn't want to say more, Chen Xian didn't ask any more questions, and continued to wait for his next words.

"The key was in our hands at first, but then it was lost due to an accident, and it wasn't until 1998 that we got a tip, saying that the key was in Hong Jinxi's hands......." Huo Fatzi sighed, with a tired face, "We looked for him, but we have been looking for him for twenty-one years!" ”

When Huo Fatzi said this, he was in a frustrated voice, and he was simply spitting out his heartfelt words, so that others would definitely feel full of emotion, but Chen Xian just nodded.

"And then?"

“......”

Huo Fatzi was silent for a few seconds, and then said: "He went to the police station to turn himself in, and after preliminary interrogation, we got a lot of useful information." ”

"Hong Jinxi turned himself in because he was threatened, and the group that threatened him has taken the key, and according to Hong Jinxi's confession, those people are a little strange...... They eat people. ”

Hearing this, Chen Xian's action of drinking tea paused slightly, and the expression on his face rarely changed a little.

"Are you sure they eat people?" Chen Xian asked.

"I'm not sure, that's why I'm coming to you." Huo Fatzi replied.

Strictly speaking, Chen Xian and Huo Fatzi belong to the same department, and they are both under the investigation department of the Secret Bureau, although Chen Xian is only a temporary worker, but when dealing with some special cases, he has to come forward if the internal staff can't handle it.

The same is true of this case.

"Can you smoke here?" Huo Fatzi asked.

Chen Xian nodded, took out an ashtray from the coffee table and gave it to him: "It's okay, let's smoke." ”

Lighting a cigarette, Huo Fatzi took a few puffs, and his mental state was slightly better, and the tiredness in his eyes was also dispelled a lot by nicotine.

"During the interrogation, Hong Jinxi died, and according to my preliminary judgment, it should have been a myocardial infarction, and he was scared to death."

Huo Fatzi smoked a cigarette while recalling the scene that appeared in the interrogation room before.

"He seems to have seen something strange before he died."

"Something unclean?" Chen Xian thought for a moment and asked tentatively, "Is it a spirit?" ”

"I don't know." Huo Fatzi shook his head and said, "I am the only one in the interrogation room besides him, but I did see three other figures in the reflection of his eyes, maybe they are spirits." ”

Death is not the true end for humans or other creatures.

After death, consciousness and spiritual energy will be separated from the body and continue to "live" in another state, which should be an immaterial special energy body in scientific terms, but it is actually the so-called soul, which is also called a spirit body in the industry.

If Hong Jinxi's death is related to these spirits, or even a direct result of them, then it is certain that they are very different from ordinary spirits.

Because ordinary spirits can't kill, and they leave after the first seven days, and they won't stay in the Yang world.

Chen Xian thought without saying a word, lowered his head slightly, and looked at the teacup in his hand a little distracted.

"Do you need me to help you find out the cause of Hong Jinxi's death?" Chen Xian asked.

Huo Fatzi shook his head and said that there is no need, there are special internal personnel to do this, and in this case, Hong Jinxi is an insignificant existence, and the most important thing is the key.

"The one who threatens him to turn himself in is the one who took the key...... Who are they? Chen Xian asked curiously.

"Do you know about the Kiriyama Mental Hospital?" Huo Fatzi asked, "It's the one on the outskirts of your city that is close to the Foggy Mountains." ”

Chen Xian recalled it and said that he didn't know, he hadn't heard of it.

"That psychiatric hospital bought a batch of gold bricks some time ago, about a ton." Huo Fatzi said, "It's because of this that they were targeted by Hong Jinxi." ”

A ton of gold bricks?

Chen Xian couldn't believe it, what kind of psychiatric hospital could have such a big hand?

"That night, Hong Jinxi sneaked into this mental hospital with his gang, intending to quietly transport away the gold bricks, but they were all planted."

Huo Fatzi said, and couldn't help but shake his head.

"Except for Hong Jinxi, the rest of them were killed by the doctors of the mental hospital, and it seems that they were ..... Eaten. Huo Fatzi smoked with a calm face, his brows furrowed, "Hong Jinxi is the only living mouth, and they deliberately released it, saying that they won't kill him if they see the face of the key, but I can't figure it out, aren't they afraid of exposure?" ”

Chen Xian took a sip of tea and didn't speak.

"This mission may be a bit dangerous, you ......"

Huo Fatzi glanced at Chen Xian, and felt a little drumming in his heart, although he knew that in this kind of special case, the contact person Lao Zhou would not randomly stuff temporary workers into him, and people who had no skills could not enter Lao Zhou's eyes at all, but ...... Isn't this temporary worker a little younger?

"How old are you?" Huo Fatzi couldn't help but ask.

"Twenty-three." Chen Xian replied.

Huo Fatzi's hand holding the cigarette trembled, and his gaze at Chen Xian was a little surprised.

In their department, there are nearly 1,000 certified temporary workers.

The age of these temporary workers varies, ranging from eighty or ninety years old to seventeen or eighteen-year-olds, but temporary workers also have job titles, which are divided into senior, intermediate, and low.

These three distinct job titles represent their personal ability, which also means that they have different salaries and benefits, and the cases they can access are also different.

If I remember correctly, Lao Zhou called before and said that Chen Xian, who is registered, is a senior temporary worker?

Are senior temporary workers so young?

I remember the senior temporary workers I saw before, and the youngest had to be forty years old or older!

Although Huo Fatzi thinks so, he also knows very well that the department never raises waste, since Chen Xian can get the senior title of a temporary worker, it naturally means that he has this ability.

Thinking about it, there is only that possibility.

"Xiao Chen, are you an alien?"

Hearing this question, Chen Xian glanced at Huo Fatzi and smiled: "If I wasn't a stranger, this case wouldn't have been arranged for me here, right?" ”

Huo Fatzi smiled self-deprecatingly, feeling that his question was a little redundant.

The concept of aliens was first proposed by Huo Fatzi and their department in the 80s, especially those who have special abilities and are different from ordinary people.

To put it simply, it is a person with special abilities.

In recent years, under the influence of science, special functions have been dismissed as metaphysics, and some have even become the subject of science fiction, resulting in ordinary people have long lost the ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

But what the truth really is, only a very few people know the truth.

The phenomenon of qigong craze in the 80s in history is just a carnival feast of falsehoods and lies for modern people, and the era is full of liars and fake masters, but it is undeniable that that era full of farce is also prolific aliens.

The 507 institute established by the state was used to study these aliens in the 80s, and the official statement was to study human science and supernatural phenomena, and to carry out a scientific revolution, but over time, this institute also silently faded out of everyone's field of vision, and the qigong fever became a grand farce.

Even now, many people are curious, does the special function really exist?

Especially after some people have watched American comic movies, they often have this question, but soon they will get the answer from their hearts, it can't exist, movies and graphic novels are fictional, and reality is not so sci-fi.

But what about the facts?

Inhumans are indeed not as exaggerated as in the movies, but they do exist, and they are inseparable from real society, and many people have even heard of such people.

For example, Taoist priests, monks, feng shui masters, fortune tellers, horse disciples, etc.

As long as you have real skills, you can use some supernatural powers, or cause supernatural phenomena, you can call them inhuman.

At present, there are two types of Inhumans in China.

One is the acquired alien, born with no singularity, born to be the most ordinary ordinary person, but through the systematic practice of religion, he has obtained certain supernatural powers, which is the case for most Taoist monks.

The second is the congenital alien, which is also an extremely rare group of aliens who can be treated special by Huo Fatzi and their department.

Their special abilities are innate, most of them will awaken before adulthood, and the abilities of each alien are different, the most common of which is the yin and yang eyes, which can be scientifically observed with the naked eye, which is the so-called yin qi, so that they can directly see the spirits in the air.

In addition to having unique abilities, Innate Inhumans have a higher ability to sense yin and yang particles, and if they carry out religious systematic cultivation, their cultivation progress will be more than a hundred times faster than that of ordinary people.

Because of this, congenital aliens can be said to be fragrant and sweet in the department, and in Huo Fatzi's department, there are only nearly 100 people who are full of calculations.

And those temporary workers who have obtained senior titles are almost all born aliens.

"You can be a senior temporary worker at such a young age...... You're a congenital alien, aren't you? ”

Huo Fatzi glanced back and forth in the living room, but he didn't see any clues, there was no tablet for worshipping the ancestor here, and there was no tablet for worshipping any gods, it was as clean as an ordinary person.

"Which vein are you practicing?" Huo Fatzi asked, whether it is congenital or acquired, aliens need to practice to increase their strength, after all, special functions are not a panacea, and they may not be used in many cases.

"None of them." Chen Xian smiled and touched his nose, "I'll say okay first, I don't know fortune telling, looking at the words of feng shui, I will only clean up those unclean things, and I will only do this job." ”

"Just clean up the dirty?" Huo Fatzi was stunned and asked suspiciously, "Which sect are you?" ”

"There is no sect."

Huo Fatzi thought for a while, and asked tentatively: "Ancestral huh?" ”

"Self-taught." Chen Xian said with a smile.

"it."

Huo Fatzi was blocked back and choked, as if he had been choked by the neck, his face was red, and he said for a long time.

"You cow. Force. ”

Chen Xian just smiled a little shyly, and his youthful and unworldly appearance also made Huo Fat Man happy.

"Pack up those things and be self-taught?" Huo Fatzi asked playfully, asking him like a child, and a rare smile appeared on his face, "How do you clean them up?" ”

Hearing this question, Chen Xian replied without hesitation.

"Scold when you meet, beat you when you catch it, and eat it if you don't listen."

“......”

Huo Fatzi was silent for two seconds, and asked cautiously, "Are you sure we are talking about the same thing?" ”

Chen Xian didn't make a sound, but nodded affirmatively.

"Have you eaten them?" Huo Fatzi was more careful when he asked.

Chen Xian smiled, revealing two rows of bright and dangling big white teeth, smiling cleanly and beautifully, but what he said next made Huo Fat Man a little nervous, and the fat man felt furious when he heard it.

"I've eaten a lot, but most of them don't taste good, so I might as well eat white rice."

Seeing that Chen Xian didn't seem to be joking, Huo Fatzi was also silent.

After smoking the cigarette in his hand, Huo Fatzi pinched off the cigarette butt, got up and said.

"The mental hospital has been targeted to death by our people, and there is no phenomenon of people fleeing for the time being, you can go with me now to see, if what you said before was not joking with me...... I can only rely on you to protect me when I handle this case. ”

"Yes, bodyguard." Chen Xian Yile.

"Almost, you're ...... anyway"

Without waiting for Huo Fatzi to finish speaking, an old-fashioned mobile phone ringtone came from his pocket, Huo Fatzi took out the phone, glanced at it, and connected the phone.

"What's wrong?" Huo Fatzi asked.

On the other side of the phone was Huo Fatzi's subordinate Zhang Dahai, and he was solely responsible for the operation of stalking in the mental hospital this time, which can be regarded as a small leader.

"Boss! Something happened here! ”

Zhang Dahai's broken gong voice came out through the phone, almost like a broken horn specializing in bass, and even Chen Xian who was standing on the side could hear it.

"The psychiatric hospital is on fire!!"