When Wang Shiqi and his entourage arrived, there was a rare dispute in the clean mountain col.

Tang Rulan, a 32-year-old local resident, runs a stargazing grocery store at the entrance to the mountain from Fenghuangling, and rents out camping equipment such as tents and barbecue grills. Recently, the weather has been bad, the business is light, and it is easy to catch up with a sum of money, but who knows that she was stolen again, when Xu Ye parked the car, she was copying a mountain opening stick for three sessions. "It's not over if you don't beat this filthy thing to death today! I usually secretly take money and cigarettes, I don't care about you, but today is good, you dare to steal my ancestral treasure! Don't say yes, if I don't chop off one of your hands today, I'll tell you! ”

A yellow-haired killer Matt was pressed into the dirt, his face was bruised and purple, and the corners of his mouth were already covered with blood foam. Wang Shiqi didn't expect to follow the clues and actually bump into such a one, so he hurriedly went up and pulled it away: "What's going on, what's going on?" If you have something to say, it's good to say. ”

Tang Rulan was angry, and the wooden stick in her hand immediately turned the dock and poked the tip of Wang Shiqi's nose: "What do you say, who are you?" ”

Qi Kexiu was startled, and hurriedly went up to stop people, Wang Shiqi raised his hand to signal him not to move, and quietly blocked it with his police officer card: "The police handle the case." Who are you? ”

"Oops! Police, yes, just in time, this damn man stole my stuff! Tang Rulan's face changed faster than turning a book, and she immediately pushed Wang Shiqi forward crying: "You have to administer justice to me!" ”

After asking, I found out that this man was Tang Rulan's ex-boyfriend, and he was able to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, but he couldn't make money. After the breakup, the man unilaterally broke the thread, and as soon as his hands were tight, he went to the shop for petty theft, Tang Rulan beat and scolded and scolded, but because the loss was not large, there was no way to treat him. Who knew that this kid suddenly ran to Tang Rulan's house this morning and smashed the door, saying that her façade had been burglarized. Tang Rulan rushed over to take a look, the façade was wide open, and a piece of meteorite locked in the cabinet to attract guests was gone-it was said to be a meteorite, looking at it was a piece of dirty glass, Tang Rulan pinched her fingers, only this dead man knew that the meteorite was worth a little money, it must have been his dog jumping off the wall in a hurry and smashing his own glass. Sure enough, I searched on the ground, and there were two bags of Hongta Mountain in my pocket, which were missing, and everyone was stolen.

"Silly! Still playing thief with the old lady and shouting to catch the thief? The old lady even counts a grain of sand at home, let me tell you! Tang Rulan showed the cigarette packaging to Wang Shiqi, it turned out that in order to prevent someone from buying it, they turned around and returned the fakes, and each pack of cigarettes had a secret mark on it.

"Wronged, comrade policeman, I copied it by hand, but that broken stone really has nothing to do with me!" The man rolled on the ground with a handful of snot and tears: "I just came back from playing cards early in the morning and passed by, and saw that the lock was opened, and the glass was also smashed, thinking that the horizontal and vertical were also stolen, and no one knew about it, and no one knew about it, I was still kind, thinking that I wouldn't let this woman suffer a big loss before I came to report the news......" He knelt up and slapped himself with a bow left and right: "It's my hand!" It's my hand! But I really didn't steal that! ”

Wang Shiqi touched his chin, paced over to look at the lock, and then stretched out his head to look at the stolen glass cabinet. A fist-sized hole was carved out of the front, and a lot of debris was scattered on the counter, and he took out the evidence bag and carefully packed a piece and walked back: "He didn't do it." ”

"Huh?" When Tang Rulan heard this, her eyes almost rolled to the sky: "Can the police talk nonsense, I have all the human and material evidence here, why do you say it's not him!" ”

"The lock is not broken, it should be opened by the key, does he have the key to your shop?" The man shook his head in confusion, and the woman touched the keychain on her waist, rummaging back and forth twice, and her face suddenly changed.

"Also, the person who smashed the glass cut his hand, it is estimated that the crime was committed at night, the environment is unfamiliar, the light is not good, and blood stains can be seen on these fragments." Wang Shiqi shook the physical evidence bag at her: "Look at his hand again." ”

The man stretched out his hand, and although it was stained with mud, it was indeed flat and neat, without a single external injury.

"It was already morning when he reached out to dig out something, he could see it clearly, he was familiar with the location of the property, and he could see that he was afraid of injury, so he only dared to take out two bags nearby, otherwise according to his temperament, there was still a blue box of Hibiscus King in it, and the cabinet was willing to smash it, so he didn't take it?"

"That's strange, if it's not him, who else can there be?" Tang Rulan had no idea when she said this, and her arrogance disappeared a lot. Wang Shiqi took advantage of this stall to take out the wanted warrant from his pocket: "Don't be busy, I'll inquire about something first, have you seen this person yesterday?" ”

"What? I'm going to say I've seen it, can you still pay my baby? ”

"Twenty thousand yuan for providing important clues, I don't know how much your baby is worth, but it's better than nothing." He shook off the A4-sized color printing paper, Tang Rulan looked at it, and her lips turned white in an instant.

He ...... What did he do? ”

"Killing, kidnapping, and maybe continuing to kill."

Tang Rulan's legs weakened and fell to the ground.

***

Zheng Yuan thought he was back in that nightmare.

The dark, oxygen-deprived, cold, hard walls huddled together in pain and hypothermia. Death is not terrible, what is terrible is waiting for death to come, the other boot never falls, he is scared, but he can't faint.

Although he knew no, he had been rescued, miraculously survived from that coffin buried alive, and spent six months at Wang Shiqi's house, and now it was just a little boring trick from Wang Hao, let him stay in this secret room for a little longer, as long as he sent out that scoop.

But when he closed his eyes, he could still hear the sound of shovels of dirt smashing against the top of the crate.

The body trembled uncontrollably. The psychiatrist said that after experiencing this kind of thing, it was already a miracle that he did not go crazy, and only he understood how difficult it was to stay sane. - Calm down! His thin consciousness shouted in the corner: Don't collapse! Don't throw in the towel!

He knew that Wang Shiqi would find him, last time, and this time, this belief supported him, like a thin wooden stick supporting the towering building.

The phone is gone. His hands pulled out of his pockets, propped himself up and groped around, the rough concrete wall rubbing against his fingertips, left, right, back, the door should be on the right-hand side in front of him, he tried to stand up, but was dragged back to the ground by a whirlwind, and the strong feeling of vomiting made him lie on his stomach for a little more - damn, a second concussion would have killed someone. Zheng Yuan scolded while feeling ridiculous, he remembered a news report he had read in 1998, saying that a Frenchman decided to commit suicide, he hung a rope on a branch on the edge of the cliff, poured kerosene on himself, and hung himself while **, while struggling to shoot himself in the head, but he didn't expect the missed bullet to break the rope, he fell into the icy seawater, the flames on his body were also extinguished, a fisherman picked him up and sent him to the hospital for rescue, as a result, in the end, the person died of hypothermia.

If I had insisted on committing suicide before, I would have thought it would be ridiculous. He laughed nervously and dragged his body forward on his elbows. In the dark, he could smell the fresh air, and the subtle air flow slid towards him, which meant that the other party at least didn't close the door, he tried to straighten his fingers, and he had already touched the rusty door frame, good! That's it! He got up and stretched out his hand violently, but he pounced again, the sound of jingling bells came from behind him, Zheng Yuan realized that a chain was put on his ankle at some point, and the lock was a very ordinary three-ring padlock, but at this moment, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't shake it at all.

He was trapped within a centimeter of the door.

Despair came up like a tidal wave and overwhelmed him once more.

***

There are many forks in Fenghuangling, the terrain is complicated, Wang Shiqi has suffered a loss of getting lost here after graduating from high school, and he never dares to slack off this time, and honestly drives the car to listen to Tang Rulan's command. "Eh, you can't hear it to the left." Tang Rulan was in a hurry, seeing that he was slowly and leisurely eager to grab the steering wheel by himself, Wang Shiqi was so annoyed by her that he slapped the handcuffs on the dashboard: "Don't be too arrogant!" It's been three turns and the crime scene hasn't been found, and the charges of your accomplice haven't been cleared yet! ”

"My accomplice? What a crime I am guilty of! Seeing that they pity me, I kindly took it in, this is doing a good deed, you know! Tang Rulan's mouth was unforgiving, and her body had shrunk back from the goodness, and she began to babble and complain about her bitterness: "It is said that knowing people and knowing faces do not know their hearts, I look at such a good young man, who would have thought that he was a criminal?" Besides, who doesn't do the business delivered to the door, I didn't get into the account, he gave the money happily, and he was willing to fight and suffer......"

"Oh, I'm quite willing to fight, and the business has gone home." Wang Shiqi sneered: "How does he know where your family lives?" ”

"There was my phone number on the deposit slip, and he sent me a message and I replied, whatever." Tang Rulan's chest straightened: "Anyway, he is a convenient person who borrows land, and I am not afraid of shadows!" ”

"Oh? Didn't sleep? ”

"Nope. He came over and took a shower, I just opened a bottle of beer, so I asked him to drink two glasses together, and then ......" Tang Rulan's eyes were in a trance, the man had hugged her last night, his eyes were charming, his body was warm, and his tendons and flesh were one after another, lingering like the mountains in front of him. He said he was going to have one drink, and eventually drank three glasses, and when he woke up in the morning to find that he hadn't done anything, she still had a little vague chagrin in her heart: "Later, I don't know why, I fell asleep in a daze." I woke up by the slamming of the door with a thousand knives. ”

"Good young man, the situation is straight, you can still sleep, who are you fooling?"

"Don't believe me? Do you want to inspect it, officer? Tang Rulan turned her head and squeezed her chest into Wang Shiqi's elbow: "It's not bad to look at your little appearance." ”

The bridge of Wang Shiqi's tall nose wrinkled: "I don't beat women, but sometimes there are exceptions." ”

Tang Rulan wanted to say something, Wang Shiqi's walkie-talkie rang, and Xu Ye, who went to Tang Rulan's house to collect evidence, came with the news that the beer in the cup had been tested for tranquilizers, and the gas pipe had been punctured (deleted, and the motive did not match). "There is one more thing," the signal in the mountains is not very good, and an intermittent voice comes from the earpiece: "There is a vacant place on the knife holder, ask her how many knives there are at home?" ”

"Three, kitchen knife, fruit knife, boning knife......"

"The boning knife is gone."

"Thank you for that ex-boyfriend." Wang Shiqi hung up the phone and looked at Tang Rulan meaningfully: "You are almost dead." ”

"I thank him? I thank his ancestors! Tang Rulan's mouth was still stiff, but she had already retracted and unconsciously hugged her shoulder. I told you don't scare me, I came out to do business at the age of eighteen, I haven't seen any scenes, don't think I grew up as a vegetarian, you ......"

Halfway through her words, she suddenly snorted as if she was choking in her throat, and raised a trembling hand and pointed out the window: "Then what is that?!" ”

Wang Shiqi turned his head to take a look, and the soles of his feet braked suddenly, and the whole person almost hit the windshield. On the right is a raised cliff, with a lonely tree, its branches half-withered, revealing a charred black undertone, probably struck by lightning. The grass is swept up by the wind, and a man can be seen sitting against the trunk of a tree with one lying in his arms, and the whole scene looks like a clumsy parody of Michelangelo's "Mourning Christ".

However, there is not so much blood in the genuine sculpture.

The mountain road in front of him was broken, the car couldn't drive over, Wang Shiqi slammed the door and ran away, his temples thumped, the good news and bad news were like Schrödinger's cat at the moment, taking turns to scratch his heart - Gu Tianqing had someone around him, proving that the kidnapped hostages really existed; But looking at the current situation, it's hard to say whether you are alive or not.

When he rushed to the front, the shock did not disappear as the answer was revealed, but even greater.

Someone was indeed dead, the corpse was leaning obliquely, and Tang Rulan's boning knife was straight into his chest, and the blood was dripping all day and there, but it was not a hostage, it was Gu Tianqing.

Serial killer, kidnapper, family killer, Gu Tianqing, who absconded in fear of crime after several murders, died.

The young man holding him had his eyelids drooping and his consciousness was confused, but his chest was still heaving. Wang Shiqi sent a message to his colleague to call the gathering, and then squatted down quietly, looking at his shirt that was dyed black and red - fortunately, although it looked miserable, it should be Gu Tianqing's blood, and there was no external injury with the naked eye. He patted the other party cautiously: "Hey, wake up, can you speak?" ”

The eyelids barely lifted, and the pupils dilated. The corners of the young man's mouth twitched twice, and he said in a vague voice: "No...... No...... Mirror...... Halter...... Mirror...... Raincoat...... Cup...... Cup......

"What did you say?" Seeing that people were about to move, Wang Shiqi was worried about destroying the scene, so he hurriedly took out his gloves, "Don't be afraid, I'm a policeman, you calm down first, tell me who you are and what is your relationship with this person?" ”

"I ...... I am ......" His confused eyes gradually focused, and after seeing the blood stains on his hands, his delicate face instantly distorted into a ball, as if he was about to cry, but he couldn't control his expression: "Don't come here!" Stay back! ”

The screams were higher than one another, but the more he shouted, the more vague he became, and finally turned into a hoarse dry howl, the boy jumped up as if he was a demon, he pushed Gu Tianqing's body away, and threw himself crookedly towards Wang Shiqi, knocking him straight to the ground. Wang Shiqi reflexively touched the gun, and when he opened the insurance, he suddenly remembered that it was the victim in front of him, and in the blink of an eye he hesitated, the other party had already raised his hand at him in a sharp scream, and it was Tang Rulan who lost the meteorite!

Seeing that it was about to be opened by the bricks of outer space, Wang Shiqi had no choice but to dodge and protect his face, only to hear a muffled sound, but the expected pain did not invade for a long time, but a body pressed up softly, he opened his hand and saw that the person was already fainted in his arms, and he was faced with Tang Rulan who was carrying a mountain opening stick.

was saved by a woman at a critical moment, Wang Shiqi was a little embarrassed: "Thank you...... Thank you for saving me. ”

"Wow, who's going to save you." She was panting, but her face was resolute: "If you dare to touch my family heirloom, don't blame me for being rude." ”