Zegu Town Police Station.

Interrogation room.

"How did you kill these cats?"

Fang Xuezhou lowered his head and did not speak.

His face turned pale.

Jiang You took out a bottle of mineral water and put it in front of him.

Then he pulled his chair back, took a cigarette out of his satchel, lit it, and looked at his phone as he smoked.

The smoke is ethereal.

Swiped the headlines of Weibo Zhihu Hup, clicked on the bell pepper app, Bi Ying of 123 was live broadcasting, Jiang You sent a small plane, and after listening to her sing for a while, he heard Fang Xuezhou's voice.

"The cat barks all the time."

"And then?" Jiang You put down his phone.

Fang Xuezhou unscrewed the cap of the bottle and drank several sips of water in a row.

"You're the police?" He asked.

"Obviously."

Fang Xuezhou hesitated.

"The sound was very high, I was afraid that the neighbors would hear it, so we used our phones to play songs, the volume was turned to the maximum, the sound became smaller and smaller, and then I died, I didn't seem to realize what I was doing, I was worried that there were not enough of them, they were all kittens, if they weren't enough, we had no money, so we had to catch wild cats, and after the last one died, it said enough."

"It says?"

"Yes."

"Can you communicate with it now?" Jiang You put the evidence bag with the bones on the interrogation table.

Fang Xuezhou closed his eyes and opened them again after a few seconds, he shook his head, he suddenly had courage, and his voice became louder, "I didn't break the law, I'm not a criminal, I will pay you money." ”

"Don't you run out of money?"

"I'll look for a job."

"You have to calculate the interest, and you will return to thirteen out of nine."

"Usury is illegal."

"Loan shark, at least those who have studied junior high school mathematics can calculate the interest clearly and know how much money they should repay," looking at Fang Xuezhou with a few blank eyes in his vigilance, "You want to avenge Chen Zikai?" ”

Hearing Chen Zikai's three words, Fang Xuezhou smiled bitterly, "I originally planned to come to Tangjiang to thank him in person after graduation, but as a result, the last news I received about him was that he committed suicide, I saw his suicide note, he said that he had read it, he didn't resent anyone, he just wanted to leave clean and alone, but I felt that I had to do something for him." ”

"Can't you smell the stench?"

"What?"

"At first, I thought it was the smell of cat corpses, but now I find that this smell is ......" Jiang You held up the evidence bag, "It's so stinky, where did you dig it up?" ”

"Yinyan Mountain, we went in April, it snowed a lot that night, we got lost, we walked in the dark for a long time, I seemed to hear some sounds, we followed the sound, and finally came to a cave, it lay on a stone platform, the next day the sun rose, we walked out, that night Yu Hong and I made a decision, we must avenge the benefactor."

"How to get revenge?"

"It says it can take revenge on us as long as we make regular offerings to it."

"Periodically?"

"Yes, rice, vegetables, fruits, and meat are fine, once every three days."

"I don't see a roomful of rice."

"But they are going to emigrate, I have to ...... before they emigrate," Fang Xuezhou's voice lowered, "So we rented a house, I helped my benefactor's mother do a little thing every day, and I found out from her that Chen Han's birth date was born, and he was related to them by blood......"

Jiang You looked into his eyes, "How was it before immigration?" ”

"Kill them."

After speaking, Fang Xuezhou covered his mouth.

"Rice, noodles and fruits, pretending to be vegetarian," Jiang You's voice carried undisguised mockery, he snuffed out his cigarette, "Are college students so easy to deceive now?" ”

"It saved us and taught us a lot."

Jiang You pushed his glasses noncommittally, "It just wanted to kill all three of us, did you forget?" ”

A trace of fear flashed in Fang Xuezhou's eyes, "Is it lying to me?" ”

"Rice, flour and fruit, let you feel that the transaction is real and equivalent, then cooked food, and then torture living creatures to death, the choice is all made by yourself, not forced by it, and when you repay the favor, probably you will not be too resistant to killing people psychologically, so you slide step by step to another world, become its slave, and help it descend ......"

Fang Xuezhou felt his scalp tingle, and he tried to deny it, "No, it won't, I'll just worship it rice noodles when it's over, and then, then I'll look for a job, I'll ......" His voice became softer and softer, "No." ”

"Have you read Wang Xiaobo's "A Maverick Pig"? I remember you read Chinese. ”

Fang Xuezhou nodded.

"It's a unique human trait to set up all kinds of things in life, and I agree with this sentence."

Fang Xuezhou looked at Jiang You blankly.

"There are rules in the world of the living, some are unspoken rules, but they are all rules, for example, if you rent my house, you must give me rent according to the contract."

"But the part outside of it is not like this, there are no rules, but there, some things that cannot be exchanged in the living world, there are easy to exchange, such as fortune life, short-term life change, all belong to simple routine operations."

"Why are you telling me this?"

"You're my tenant."

"That's it?"

"My last tenant was killed by a ghost and disguised as a suicide, and I hope that during the existence of our tenancy relationship, it is normal for you to die and die, so I will popularize a little common sense for you."

Fang Xuezhou glanced at Jiang You with a complicated look in his eyes.

Jiang You continued, "There are some great powers that try to establish rules there, such as the Netherworld and the Underworld, the Six Realms of Reincarnation, Heaven and Hell, etc., but more places are chaotic and unstable, and there are all kinds of unimaginable and indescribable existences there, which will enter the world of the living with the help of some medium. ”

He picked up the evidence bag again, "It is more common to get some believers, to get offerings, rice and noodles are really useless, the gods and demons are fed with blood, flesh and blood, souls, and emotional power, such as resentment. ”

Fang Xuezhou lowered his head.

"Then just let them go?"

"Before climbing the mountain, you shouldn't be ready to kill people, you just graduated from college, your life has just begun, you are looking for a job now or as a fresh graduate, Yu Hong has been an apprentice for four years, and he could have set up his own door."

A trace of shame flashed in Fang Xuezhou's eyes, "He saved 30,000 yuan, and he spent it all." ”

"Fortunately, you are renting my house, and your benefactor is in despair, so he wants to leave innocently, but as a result, he sponsored adult students, killed more than 100 cats in the name of repaying his kindness, and wanted to kill people......"

"I'll pay it back, out of nine."

"Forget the interest, don't think this is over......"

In another interrogation room, Yu Hong and Tang Butian sat opposite each other in silence.

Tang Butian's mobile phone was placed on the interrogation Zhuo, and Jiang You's voice came from the speaker.

"Don't think that this matter is over so easily, the bad luck brought by killing a hundred cats, you should do more good deeds, it may be useful to persist for ten or twenty years, it teaches you those methods, forget them all."

"The workers in the slaughterhouse kill hundreds of pigs, cattle and sheep a day, are they all haunted by bad luck?" Fang Xuezhou retorted in disbelief.

"Slaughtering is work, workers get money through this work, to live, the flesh and blood of pigs, cattle and sheep, nourishing the bodies of other living people and animals, and some are used as fertilizer, the soul enters reincarnation, everything is constantly circulating in the world of the living, endlessly, and what you do is to feed our energy to people outside the system, but you are still living in the system, and there is nothing to cover up your life expectancy fortune, of course the fortune will be affected."

The fingers of Yu Hong's hands were tightly pressed against the interrogation table.

"It's just luck now, if you slip a little further over there, it is estimated that the underworld will not accept you after you die."

"Then what price can they pay for doing such a disgusting thing......"

"Of course there will be a price."

Tang Butian picked up his phone and stood up.

She stood outside the door of the interrogation room next door, and Jiang You walked out a few minutes later.

"Common sense?"

"Isn't it?"

She looked up at him, "What are you enshrined?" ”

"A cute little spider, it's just a picky eater, and a little autistic."

The spider opened the door of the refrigerator and threw the Coke inside.