On a cloudy autumn night with no moon in sight, a black car stopped beside a jungle mountain road in the southern suburbs of Yandu City, and a leaf was red under a maple tree. In the driver's seat sat a man less than thirty years old, with hair of three or seven points, no wax, so he looked a little messy, wearing a white shirt, black trousers and dark three-joint leather shoes, a dark blue striped tie, and a dark gray suit vest. He can't be said to look like Pan An, but he can also be regarded as a handsome and chic model, with a high nose bridge, full of heaven, especially a pair of deep eyes that have earned him the return rate of many girls. An autumn wind blew, and a few maple leaves fell on the windshield of the car. The man ignored that, just muttered, "It's cooling," in a low, magnetic voice. He pulled up the sleeves of his shirt, straightened his tie, and turned his head to look thoughtfully out the window.

At this time, the man's mobile phone rang, he answered the phone, and an anxious middle-aged man's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Is it Team Leader Xiahou?" ”

"Yes, it's me, what's the matter?" The man in the car was named Xiahoudun, and he was the leader of the first operation group under the Northern Operations Department of the Linglu Bureau. The purpose of the so-called Spirit Recording Bureau, the full name of which is the "Supernatural Event Recording Administration", is to investigate and deal with various supernatural events in the jurisdiction.

The mission was originally only commissioned to investigate the cause of the bizarre destruction of the factory at around 11 o'clock every Friday night, and the factory was in a mess the next day, and some machine tools were also destroyed or burned, which has been happening for more than a month. However, when Team Leader Xiahou accidentally captured the aura of the fierce spirit during the first survey of the scene, he decided with his client alone to replace the night watchman with a humanoid substitute developed by the Southwest Joint Development of the Spirit Record Bureau when the factory was less crowded at night in recent days. Sure enough, just last night, the murder happened, and the three "victims" were found in a dry corpse state, with their skulls torn open and their brains missing. At this time, it was the client who called this time, named Qian Tu, who was the owner of this factory. The place where they parked their car was right near this factory.

"Team Leader Xiahou, I've been watching it for a long time, why haven't I seen you take action? Is it going to work? There was a questioning voice on the other end of the phone, mixed with a slight tremor in his voice, I don't know if it was because of fear or because of the cold autumn night.

"I said I won't let you come with me", Xiahoudun smiled, his tone was mixed with ridicule, he glanced at Qiantu's car through the rearview mirror, and then looked down at his watch, "Wait a little longer, it's only eleven o'clock in a while." ”

"Summer ......"

With a beep, Xia Houdun hung up the phone and continued to stare out the window, calculating the possibility of the truth over and over again in his mind.

According to Boss Qian, two to three workers stay on duty at the factory every night, and Qian Tu would send his secretary Sun Gang to inspect them from time to time. There have been many cases of sabotage of factories, both before and after the capture of the ferocious spirit; There was only one "human death", which occurred after the appearance of the ferocious aura. Surveillance footage shows that the factory's machines broke down on their own, the chains broke off on their own, and the equipment suddenly caught fire. The fatalities occurred in places where CCTV was out of sight, in the bathrooms and in the rest rooms of employees. This inevitably raises the question of why the suspect should be selective about where he committed the crime if he could escape and become invisible. If the suspect was trying to suck the essence of people, then what was his purpose in destroying the factory?

"Big brother, I'm ready!" The voice from the walkie-talkie in the car shouted out of his deep thought. Xiahoudun looked at the time of his watch, and it was already past eleven o'clock. He looked out the window, and on the pavement of the mountain road, under the dim street lamps, there was a dark shadow moving in the direction of the factory. Xiahoudun smiled, "Let's act!" ”

He turned on the headlights and got out of the car, "Isn't it time for me to see who you really are?" As soon as Xiahoudun's words fell, the black shadow suddenly stopped where the headlights illuminated. Xiahoudun looked at the black shadow, and the black shadow also stayed there motionless, and it lasted like this for two or three seconds. Suddenly, the shadow retreated at a rapid speed in the direction it had come. Seeing that the prey he sent to the door ran away like this, Xiahoudun not only did not panic, but showed a smug expression on his face.

"Team Leader Xiahou!" Boss Qian and Secretary Sun, who was traveling with him, also got out of the car. Qian Tu stood behind Xiahoudun and said tremblingly, "Why did you let that evil go!" ”

Xiahoudun looked back at Qian Tu, patted him on the shoulder and said, "What's the hurry, Boss Qian." Just get in the car and follow me. ”

Secretary Sun on the side looked serious and spoke: "Team Leader Xiahou, we didn't invite you to take us for a ride!" ”

This Sun Gang only became a secretary more than a month ago, although he is a newcomer, but he has a good work attitude, and he will cater to his boss, and he has won the trust of Qiantu.

Xiahou was stunned, looked up and down at Sun Gang, who was talking coolly, and said, "Don't worry, you can't run away." ”

With that, he drove in the direction of the black shadow's evacuation. Boss Qian and Secretary Sun looked at each other, got into the car, and chased after Xiahoudun.

When the black shadow entered a village, it turned into a big man with a height of more than one meter and eighty, looking twenty-five or sixteen years old. The man was a burly man, with a face like a tiger, his hair was messy like a bird's nest, and his beard had not been shaved in a while. He wears dark gray loose pants underneath, mud-stained liberation shoes on his feet, and his upper body is shirtless, holding an iron hammer in both hands. The big man looked left and right, and when he saw that no one was chasing him, he came to a courtyard and began to knock on the door, "Mother! Mother! I'm back! Open the door! ”

The courtyard door opened, and an old woman came out on crutches, "My son, why are you out again?" The old woman let the big man into the courtyard, and looked at the big man with her eyes, and checked with her hands for any wounds on him.

"Mother, I was discovered, someone is chasing me!" The big man walked a few steps into the courtyard with the old woman in his arms, and was about to turn around to close the courtyard door, but was surprised to find Xiahoudun standing outside the courtyard, with his hands in his pockets, looking at their mother and son silently.

"As I expected," Xiahoudun spoke, "you're a shadow." ”

The big man was taken aback and asked in surprise, "How did you get here?" I've gotten rid of you for a long time. ”

Xiahoudun didn't seem to hear the big man's question, and continued to talk to himself about his reasoning, "So, you are neither teleporting nor stealth, but using your shadow escape ability to infiltrate the factory and carry out destruction. In fact, normal people can recognize your movement with the naked eye, but the CCTV frame rate in the factory is too small, and the picture quality is not clear, so people don't notice, right? ”

"Run! Tiger, run! When the old woman heard Xiahoudun's words, she was so anxious that her crutches fell to the ground, and she shouted tremblingly.

At this time, Boss Qian also rushed over, stood behind Xiahoudun with some trembling and said, "Team leader Xiahou, are they murderous ghosts?" ”

"It seems that it is, Team Leader Xiahou, get rid of these two demons!" Secretary Sun also chimed in.

As soon as Dahan heard Secretary Sun's words, he clenched the double hammer with both hands and shouted: "You dare to touch my mother, I will fight with you!" As soon as he finished speaking, he brandished a sledgehammer and rushed towards the three people outside the courtyard.

Seeing this, Xiahoudun hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, and the big man picked up his hammer and smashed it at Xiahoudun. Don't look at Xiahoudun wearing formal clothes, his skills seem to be unrestrained, his hands are not taken out of his trouser pockets, and a roundabout kick kicks the big man back into the yard, and the hammer in the big man's hand immediately falls to the ground.

The big man lay on the ground, clutching his stomach and screaming in pain. Seeing this, the old woman first leaned down and wanted to help her son up, and then she glared at Xiahoudun angrily, shouting "I fought with you" and staggered towards Xiahoudun. said that it was too late, but Xia Houdun unhurriedly opened the back door of the car that was parked not far away, and helped the old lady to the car and sat down with a teleportation. Before the old woman and everyone could reflect what was going on, Xia Houdun had already taken out the suit jacket he had put on the car and draped it on the old woman's body.

"You're all so excited!" Xia Houdun sat in the cab, turned on the hot air of the air conditioner, and tested with his hands whether the temperature of the position where the old lady in the back row was sitting was appropriate. Seeing this, the old woman didn't know whether she was blinded by Xiahoudun's behavior or what, so she sat there silent. Then Xiahoudun said in a ridiculous tone: "Let me ask you, Secretary Sun, what heinous crime did their mother and son commit, and as for you to kill them?" ”

"This ......" Secretary Sun paused for a moment, his expression changed from serious to confused, and replied, "Didn't you just conclude that they did all these things?" ”

Xiahoudun didn't speak, just smiled, walked to the place where the big man fell, stretched out his hand, and motioned to pull the big man up. With anger on his face, the big man fanned off Xiahoudun's hand and stood up by himself. Xiahoudun was not angry, but pointed to the big man's shoes and said: "Boss Qian, you see, this brother is wearing rubber shoes covered with dirt on his feet, presumably this is the result of wearing these shoes to the field for a long time. ”

"This ...... I guess so. Qian Tu walked over and looked at the shoes, and replied kindly.

The big man obviously hadn't calmed down yet, and said indignantly: "Yes, I'm a farmer farming around here. What's the matter! ”

Xiahoudun smiled and said, "The characteristic of the shadow is that it can turn into a shadow and attach itself to any non-living form to move or destroy, but if they want to hurt people, they still need to turn back into entities. ”

Although Qian Tu was confused, he still thought about this sentence carefully, "But what does this mean?" ”

"It's very simple," Xia Houdun smiled proudly and explained methodically, "Boss Qian's factory is a dust-free factory, and from the workshop to the rest room, workers are required to wear shoe covers and dust-proof clothing to enter. If it was Mr. Shadow who committed the murder in the factory, then there must have been traces of dirt at the scene of the crime. However, neither the police investigation nor our visit to the scene found any dust remaining. ”

"Yes," Qian Tu agreed, "but what does that mean? ”

"Maybe he will change his shoes when he commits the crime!" Secretary Sun on the side couldn't bear it.

Xiahoudun smiled at the two of them and asked, "He is also going to the factory to commit a crime today, why didn't you see him wearing a pair of clean shoes?" ”

"Team Leader Xiahou, if it wasn't him who committed the murder, then why did you bring us here?" Qian Tu is getting more and more confused.

"He wasn't the one who did the murder, but he was the one who destroyed the factory!" Probably because he couldn't stand Qian Tu's pig brain, Xiahoudun raised his voice, "The murderer is someone else." ”

"Someone else? Who is it? Not just because of fear but also because of the excitement that was getting closer and closer to the truth, Boss Qian began to tremble again.

"If it weren't for the dirt beneath the feet of this Shadowfish brother, I probably wouldn't have thought of this." Xiahoudun took a few steps in the direction of Qian Tu and Sun Gang, "Then, tell us about your crime, Secretary Sun." ”