The meeting of the group leaders was scheduled for half past eight in the morning, but Xia Houdun arrived at the conference room in the office building of the Northern Operations Office fifteen minutes early.

Northern Operations Division, codenamed "Mengde Division".

Xiahoudun thought that he was the first to arrive at the conference room, but he didn't expect that as soon as he pushed open the door of the conference room, he found that the other four team leaders were there.

The conference room is not large, with a circular conference table and six chairs, corresponding to the head of Meng De and the five team leaders. A large screen on the wall, next to which is a vertical whiteboard, and a projector hangs from the roof.

Xia Houdun looked over and saw a bald strong man with a height of more than two meters standing next to the round conference table looking at him. The strong man's eyes naturally revealed a thick murderous aura, and there was a trace of honesty on his face, and he looked incongruous in a customized suit, this person was Dian Wei, the leader of the evil group.

Dian Wei saw Xiahou come in, and said, "Team leader Xiahou is early!" ”

Xiahoudun smiled and greeted: "Early, Dian Wei, it's early enough." ”

"You're the latest," Zhang Liao, the leader of the Wenyuan group with a short pointed goatee and a pair of thick eyebrows and big eyes, said teasingly, "I'm afraid that your team leader Xiahou doesn't want to see us." ”

Hearing this, Xiahoudun smiled bitterly and said, "What are you talking about, I don't want to see you, I still came fifteen minutes early?" ”

Standing next to the whiteboard and chatting with Cao Ren, Cao Hong, the leader of the Zilian group, laughed, he stroked his thick beard with his right index finger, and said, "Zhang Liao is just joking, why is Brother Xiahou still serious?" ”

"Team leader Xiahou has always been serious and introverted, Zhang Liao, you are making a big joke." Dian Wei's voice was low and magnetic, and the entire conference room shook slightly as soon as he spoke.

"I'm too lazy to pay attention to you." Xiahoudun shook his head in embarrassment, muttered in a low voice, and sat down in his seat.

Cao Ren saw that Xiahoudun couldn't talk to them about this, so he changed the topic with interest, "You say, what is the meeting that you called us over this time?" ”

"I'm afraid it's been a lot of demonic activity lately, so you want us to come over and discuss how to deal with it." Cao Hong analyzed.

When Zhang Liao heard this, he showed an indignant expression, "The seat is also idle, and you can make it clear with a phone call, so you have to ask us to come all the way over." ”

"Demons have also appeared in your group's area of responsibility?" Xiahoudun asked curiously.

"What? Do you have that too? Cao Hong heard Xiahoudun ask this, his face showed a surprised and slightly panicked expression, he subconsciously stroked his mustache again, and said, "It seems that this is the matter." ”

Cao Ren nodded, and said to Xiahoudun: "Before you came, we were still talking about it, there have been unusual incidents in various places recently, and in the end, they were all demonic actions. ”

"I met demons not long ago," Xiahoudun glanced at Zhang Liao and Dian Wei, then turned his gaze to Cao Ren and Cao Hong, and said, "Encounter, and it's a pure demon." ”

"You didn't even tell me about it yesterday." Cao Ren looked at Xiahoudun in surprise.

"What are demons afraid of?" Dian Wei spoke again, startling Xiahoudun, who was about to speak, and then said half-to himself: "It's good to kill one by one, what will you do?" ”

"What you said," Cao Hong smiled helplessly, "Big brother also called us over for the sake of the overall situation." ”

Dian Wei pursed his lips and retorted: "What is the overall situation? The seat is the mother-in-law's, not decisive. ”

Zhang Liao nodded and agreed: "I'll just say that he is idle and panicked." ”

"'Decisiveness' and 'death' don't mean the same thing." A deep voice suddenly came from outside the door, and then the door of the conference room opened, and a person outside the door walked in with a steady step, holding a laptop and a stack of materials in his hand. The man looked to be in his thirties, mature, and did not have too many eye-catching features, but his aura was powerful, and the aura that was unintentionally revealed gave people a sense of suffocating oppression. With his hair parted, his nose high and his mouth wide open, he was scanning everyone in the conference room with sharp eyes. A dark blue suit was well chosen, which could not only make him in his thirties show some capable temperament, but also restrain some edge. This person is the director of Mengde's department - Cao Cao. Cao Cao walked up to Zhang Liao and looked at him with a smile, "Am I in a panic, it's not up to you to decide." ”

Cao Ren laughed and sat down in his seat, and said to Dian Wei and Zhang Liao: "Do you see it, this is called Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived." ”

"Take a seat!" Zhang Liao stood up and said, "I swear, I really didn't mean to let you hear it. ”

"Me too," Dian Wei chimed in, "if I knew you were standing outside the door, I wouldn't say anything." ”

"You still said you won't let me hear it......," Cao Cao said, sat down in his seat, began to prepare meeting materials, and then turned his head to look at Xiahoudun, and said: "You weren't there for dinner yesterday, you don't know, these two people are hurting me in different ways." ”

Xiahoudun looked at Cao Cao with a wicked smile and said, "Then it's fortunate that I'm not here." ”

"Yes!" Cao Cao nodded and said, "It's even more lively if you're there!" ”

Xiahoudun smiled proudly for a while, then slowly reined in a little, and asked Cao Cao directly, "Tell me, what is the matter with calling us over today?" ”

"Three things." Cao Cao also went straight to the topic, he handed the laptop in his hand to Cao Hong on the side, "Pick up the projection for me." ”

Cao Hong didn't speak, took the computer, operated a few times, and then connected to the projector.

"First of all, the first thing," Cao Cao sorted out the information in his hand, and took the time to point to Xiahoudun, "Xiahoudun is going to get married, and everyone will go when the time comes." ”

Xiahoudun listened attentively, and put a notepad and pen in front of him, and after listening to Cao Cao's words, he smiled helplessly for a while, "I'll go...... This can also be said as a matter......"

"That's a big deal!" Cao Cao sorted out the information in his hand, arranged them on the table in order, then patted the table with both hands, turned his head to look at Xiahoudun and said, "How many years have we been waiting here, but we can see that your life is on the right track." ”

"That's ......," Xiahoudun shrugged his shoulders and unconsciously tapped his fingers on the table a few times, "I didn't do my job before, did I?" ”

"Yes!" Cao Cao nodded vigorously, and then continued: "How long has Chen Xuan been waiting for you? You've been delaying people like this, and you're not doing your job? ”

"Yes!" Xiahoudun pursed his lips, thinking that he had indeed felt guilty about Chen Xuan all these years, but he didn't expect that these things would be seen thoroughly by others, and he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion, so he stopped speaking.

"And what's the second thing you called us here today?" Cao Ren saw that Xiahoudun's face was a little ugly, and hurriedly diverted the topic.

"The second thing," Cao Cao subconsciously glanced down at the information in front of him, "is about the escalation and deployment of the corpse demon incident. ”

"Haven't all the things of the corpses been dealt with almost well?" Cao Ren asked suspiciously.

"That's the appearance." Cao Cao opened the presentation on the computer and let a chart appear on the big screen behind him, "Our goal is to analyze the truth behind it according to the existing distribution of corpses and the division of the attacking population. ”

Cao Ren rubbed the wrench on his thumb a few times, and poked the table a few times with the pen in his hand, "You mean, the reason why the corpse eats people must also be followed by us." ”

"Deeper!" Cao Cao said, "Not only the cause of human cannibalism, but also the cause of the corpse, the mastermind behind the scenes, and its purpose must be investigated." ”

"Then why don't we entrust the institute to give us a report first, and then we will discuss it?" Cao Ren continued to ask.

"No way!" Xiahoudun suddenly interjected, "The appearance of the corpse is too weird, and combined with the recent successive demon incidents, it is difficult for us to study it as an independent case, so our top priority is to find the possible connection between the corpse and the demon, and it is best not to have more institutions involved in this process." ”

Cao Cao looked at Cao Ren and pointed his finger at Xiahoudun, meaning that Cao Ren's question was answered by Xiahoudun.

Cao Ren nodded and turned his head to look at the others. Although Zhang Liao, Dian Wei and Cao Hong on the side did not say a word, they listened carefully and all agreed.

Cao Cao saw that everyone present had no opinions, so he changed the presentation to another page, "So this involves the third thing that brings you here......"

"Gather the information of the demons and start investigating the demons!" Xiahoudun didn't wait for Cao Cao to finish speaking, and then picked up the conversation.

"That's right!" Cao Cao nodded, and then glanced at everyone present, "Next, let's ask the team leaders to report the situation of the demons one by one!" ”

The morning meeting lasted until 12 o'clock, and after the various action groups had finished their work reports, they were ready to go to lunch. Xiahoudun did not come with everyone, but came to Xun Yu's office alone, and wanted to call Xun Yu to have lunch together, and asked him some questions by the way, but Xun Yu's secretary told Xiahoudun that Xun Yu went to the welfare home of the Linglu Bureau next to him. Xiahoudun had no choice but to go to the welfare home to find Xun Yu.

Xiahoudun came to the welfare home, walked into the first gate, and found that there was a "non-enter" sign next to the second gate, so he said to the window of the communication room: "Hello, I'm looking for Xun Yu, Deputy Director Xun." ”

A middle-aged woman sat inside and said, "Wait a minute, I'll call to report." ”

When Xiahoudun saw that the woman had made a phone call, he stood aside and waited quietly.

"Deputy Director Xun said he would come down immediately." The middle-aged woman hung up the phone and said to Xiahoudun.

"Okay, thanks." Xiahoudun thanked the man, and paced in the hall between the first and second doors.

Suddenly, with the sound of footsteps getting closer and closer, a little boy ran from the building and fell down at the second gate.

Xiahoudun hurriedly stepped forward to help, and when he helped the child up, he was stunned. Xiahoudun did not forget that this little boy was the little boy who got down from the back seat and was beheaded by the curse spirit in the Beiqingshan Road murder video that day, and the clothes he was wearing were exactly the clothes in the video.

What's going on? Xiahoudun thought to himself, why didn't everyone remember this boy? Why is this boy standing here alive even though he was beheaded in half? Is the Beiqing murder case an illusion, or is what is in front of you an illusion now? He had too many questions to ask, but, in the face of a child, Xiahoudun could only squat down, looked at the little boy with a forced smile, and asked, "Little friend, tell uncle, what is your name?" ”

The little boy showed an innocent smile and replied, "Hello uncle, my name is Sima Yi. ”