Chapter Twenty-Three: The Divine Stick
In the dark of night, a faint light came from the bar, and the shadow covered his face and expression. Tiny pieces of locust flowers fell on his face, shaken off and melted into the crevices between the dirt and stone slabs under the trees.
Yan Ning couldn't describe what it was like, the other party's gaffe was just a moment, he regained his old-fashioned expression, and leaned lazily against the tree.
But she felt that the other party was either mentally ill or a god. If it was the former, she should have kept Pei Ruyu away earlier, and if it was the latter, she should have stayed away.
Yan Ning asked him in a deep voice, "Are you a Taoist priest?" Or is it a god stick? ”
"Daoist? As early as 800 years ago, the Taoist priests lost the ability to communicate with heaven and earth and talk to ghosts and gods. ”
Yan Ning noticed that when he said this, the corners of his lips lifted slightly, and he looked very disdainful.
If you are not a Taoist, you are a god.
A locust flower fell on her shoulder, a big handful, Yan Ning sniffed deeply, it looked good, but it was not fragrant, but there was a fishy smell, which strangely coincided with the human/flesh smell emanating from the body in the center of the dance floor.
Quickly threw away the flowers, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and saved a little to test the other party's meaning, Yan Ning briefly recounted the events of the night.
"Thank you for your business card, I was in the hotel, I saw a gray shadow, and the bathroom door wouldn't open. After that, the waiter came knocking on the door, and the door was open again. ”
Yan Ning continued: "When I went out, I felt that there was someone behind me. He should be more than a head taller than me because I can feel his breath right on the side of his neck. The waiter didn't notice anything, but I didn't dare look back. ”
Yuan Shaojun squinted, and the tip of his nose shrugged/moved twice, like a big dog that encountered food.
"On the way here, I met a ghost driver who would turn into a little boy, and he was going to eat me, at a critical moment," Yan Ning showed him the bracelet: "It was this thing that saved me." ”
"I did encounter some supernatural things, and I was deeply disturbed by them, how much do you know about them?"
After she finished speaking, she took a closer look at Yuan Shaojun's expression, but he stood up as soon as he shook his hand, but his mouth opened and his expression was slightly panicked.
It turned out that Pei Ruyu came out.
Along with him, there was Xiao Jian and another old policeman/detective who interrogated her.
Pei Ruyu didn't hear the conversation between the two, pursed her lips, and her expression was very solemn, "You live in my house first, I still have to go to the team to work overtime, and I'll bring you breakfast tomorrow morning when I can." ”
She wanted to ask, but the little policeman/Cha Xiaojian shook her head, and some police officers carried the body into the police car.
Yan Ning also noticed that the deceased's male companion was following behind in despair, and the police/car soon whizzed by.
Three watches in the middle of the night, the moon in the middle of the sky.
She asked Yuan Shaojun if he knew the two, but he went into the bar with his hands behind his back and didn't answer, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was very unhappy now.
Come to think of it, this kind of life in a good bar must have a great impact on the follow-up operation.
Yan Ning was half a step behind him, she didn't have to follow, but so many things had happened, she didn't want to be alone, even if it was Pei Ruyu's home.
The witnesses had long since run out, most of the staff in the bar had dispersed, and the alley was quiet, and the police/inspector had sealed/locked the line to prevent them from approaching the scene.
Yuan Shaojun ignored Yan Ning, went to the back kitchen to tinker for a while, and when he came out and saw Yan Ning sitting on the sofa, he was stunned: "Why are you still here?" ”
The bar was empty, with a cordon in the middle of the dance floor and blood on the floor.
Yan Ning slowly got up from the sofa, sitting for too long made her legs dull and painful, she opened her lips, her legs trembled unconsciously, obviously Fang Fang was not so afraid.
"I ......" His gaze suddenly fell on the food box he was carrying, and Yan Ning asked, "Where are you going?" ”
Yuan Shaojun suddenly smiled clearly. He easily locked the door of the back kitchen, turned off the lights, and the hall suddenly fell into darkness, and she could hear her breathing alone.
Yan Ning couldn't see anything, which made her heart beat faster, she heard footsteps, Yuan Shaojun walked over in three or two steps, and slowly approached her.
Yan Ning took a deep breath, "Are you sure you want to take me to Pei Ruyu?" ”
"I'm going to lock the door. But I don't want you to sleep in her house, oh, or her bed. Yuan Shaojun smiled coldly, "She had just gotten off work when she came to pick you up, that is to say, she hadn't eaten dinner yet, and she went back to work overtime." ”
His tone made Yan Ning tremble up and down. She knows that Pei Ruyu has a bad stomach - how can anyone who does this business not have a sick body? But I didn't expect it to be unexpected.
"Have there been so many cases lately?" Too busy to eat? Yan Ning was puzzled and a little guilty, but she also knew what place Pei Ruyu was staying, the serious case team, in the middle of the night, how could unrelated personnel enter so easily.
I definitely have to go, but it's still a question of whether I can get in. He mysteriously didn't allow Yan Ning to say much, only followed behind him.
Yan Ning was helpless, so she ran to the police/procuratorate/bureau together.
She thought that the other party was just a small owner of a bar, but the next second she was unsure.
The police/bureau was brightly lit and there were many people coming and going, Yan Ning was the first time to come to this kind of place, and her legs even had some fights, but the two of them entered the dissection room on the third floor all the way unimpeded.
There were even many people on the road who hurriedly greeted Yuan Shaojun. A bar owner is so familiar with the police/detective, Yan Ning can't help but feel very magical.
But she quickly agreed with the idea, and Yuan Shaojun graduated from the Police/Prosecutor's College, and knew Xiao Jian, and of course other colleagues.
Someone else squeezed their eyebrows at Yuan Shaojun and asked him when he had an extra follower, Yuan Shaojun smiled, as if he was half warning: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm afraid that people will misunderstand." ”
The man smiled ambiguously and hurried away.
The dissection room was located at the end of the corridor, and Yan Ning followed behind Yuan Shaojun and saw Pei Ruyu with a tired face.
My friend was studying the cause of death, and she was a little surprised to see Yan Ninglai, but she quickly complained and asked why she came.
This is probably not the first time that I have such a familiar appearance.
Yuan Shaojun smiled and said: "With people, so it's a little slower." ”
Pei Ruyu pressed her eyebrows, pointed to the face of the female corpse and said, "This person is weird, you come and help me take a look." ”
"What's so nice about this thing." Yuan Shaojun pursed his lips, grabbed his friend's waist, and said reservedly and restrainedly: "I heard Xiao Zhang say, do you think I'm hiding from you?" ”
Xiao Zhang is the waiter at the bar. Pei Ruyu glanced at him, and was noble and cold, "I quarreled, deleted my friends, I came to you three times, Xiao Zhang said that you were on a business trip, this is not hiding, what else can it be?" ”
Yuan Shaojun opened his mouth, and finally said a few words vaguely, but Yan Ning didn't hear clearly. Pei Ruyu snorted, opened the lid of the lunch box as usual, and devoured the dessert brought by Yuan Shaojun.
As she ate, she could still make a sound of "delicious" and "really fragrant", as if this was not an autopsy room, but a small restaurant on the corner. Yan Ning couldn't help but look at the cold workbench in the center of the room.
"She" was lying on the cold stainless steel dissecting table, her belly was mostly broken, and "her" facial features were still deeply sunken, which made "her" look very funny.
Unexpectedly, Yan Ning didn't vomit, she just had a rapid heartbeat, exhaling/inhaling/hurrying/hurrying for a moment, and then slowly calmed down.
"She" exudes a strong smell of formalin, and is already a dead person who can't die anymore.
From the very beginning of entering the dissection room, she did not appear to be uncomfortable. Seeing that Yan Ning was so calm, Pei Ruyu raised her eyebrows and explained to her while drinking milk tea.
"I smelled her at the bar."
Yan Ning looked in the direction of Pei Ruyu's finger, "her" lower/body was cut open, and there was a residual white sticky/thick substance, people with a little physiological common sense understood what it was.
"Then I found out that she had a broken bone."
Her clothes were also taken off, and her limbs were bent to varying degrees, especially her legs, which were exaggeratedly wide open, like a frog testing her knee-jerk reaction on the experimental bench in junior high school science.
One of the legs, sharp leg bones piercing straight out of the bruised knee, did not look like a scar from a two-meter-high steel pipe, but like a fake doll, rubbed flat and rounded.
"I realized that this was very wrong, seeing that your face was heavy, I thought you were scared, so I asked Lao Yuan to take you to Xiao Jian to make a record first."
"You know, you've always been curious, but if you watch this thing too much, you'll have nightmares at night." Shrugging her shoulders, Pei Ruyu raised her eyebrows jokingly, "Now it seems that your receptivity is very good." ”
Yan Ning pretended to be relaxed: "Actually, I'm also scared." "It's just that in Lujia Village, she has seen more terrifying ones, so she has a little rare resistance.
"I'm not afraid of that, that's weird!" Pei Ruyu said, "I asked Xiao Jian to show Zhao Yulin a photo of the corpse, and he was so scared that he was about to pee." By the way, Zhao Yulin is the male companion of the female corpse. He was also the first to discover the tragic condition of the deceased. ”
And after the interrogation, he insisted on following the police/inspector back to the police station, saying that he was afraid that the deceased would be too angry and would come to him to ask for his life.
"I also think this is not an ordinary fall from a height, only two meters, can you fall people like this? But well, I don't understand this kind of thing, look for Lao Yuan, he is professional. ”
Isn't Yuan Shaojun a god? Yan Ning was surprised: "You believe it?" ”
"Don't look at me like that." Pei Ruyu blinked and laughed clearly: "I didn't believe it originally, but I saw it a lot, so I believed it." ”
Yan Ning couldn't help but think of that conversation under the tree, so, is there really another power in this world?
Yuan Shaojun waved his hand, "You do have dirty things on you, but tonight's incident should not be directly related to you, so don't worry too much." ”
"It's her fate, and if you don't come tonight, she'll meet her sooner or later."
"......" Yan Ning asked faintly, "So this matter is still related to me?" ”