1

Zhou Zeming is a typical diamond king.

After graduating from a prestigious medical university, he went to Europe to study for a master's degree in medicine, and after graduation, he returned to Rubik's Cube City to enter the "Fulian Biotechnology" company, and it took only five years to sit in the position of an executive, with an annual salary of more than seven figures. Moreover, Zhou Zeming himself is personable and talented.

He is a child who was admitted in the mountains of Rubik's Cube City, and his parents died early, and he has no close relatives at home. So after working for two years, I bought a duplex apartment in Beishang City. In his early thirties, he had an innocent background and talked to several girlfriends, but he didn't get too close and died without a problem. is currently single, judged by a despicable standard, "has a car and a house, and both parents are dead". It is really the first choice for young women of appropriate age to choose a mate.

The second floor of Zhou Zeming's apartment in Beishang City is a living room, and the first floor is decorated as a leisure space. Occasionally, on weekends, he would invite a few friends over for a small gathering, so that he had many friends not only in the medical system he was exposed to, but also in other fields.

Everyone agrees on him, this person lives a very clean life, and he can be used as an example for outstanding young people.

However, the role model has been in very poor form lately, because he has encountered something that is difficult to explain.

2

This year's New Year, Zhou Zeming was at a summit forum of the medical system in the old capital, and then drove back to Rubik's Cube City the next day, at the gate of the Beishangcheng community, a hot pot restaurant opened by a friend ate something, drank a small bottle of liquor, and went back to the apartment to sleep.

That night he had some strange dreams, so much so that he woke up late the next day. Although today is a rest day, he still blames himself for being self-disciplined. After taking a shower, he went downstairs with a bath towel, turned on his mobile phone, and first habitually read a certain letter.

There is nothing particularly important, but a business representative of a well-known pharmaceutical factory in southern China who I met at the summit forum yesterday asked him for a group photo of yesterday's afternoon tea.

Recalling the business representative with the Internet celebrity face in his mind, Zhou Zeming opened the photo album on his mobile phone with a smile, ready to send the photo to her, and hinted at this year's cooperation commission by the way.

As a result, I suddenly found that my mobile phone album was emptied.

Of the thousands of photos, only one remains.

This is a picture of myself sleeping in bed. It was obvious that after falling asleep, someone used his mobile phone to stand at the head of the bed to take pictures.

However, I obviously live alone!

3

Zhou Zeming's hairs stood up in an instant!

Standing up from the living room couch, he ran to the door and checked the security of the room.

He was a materialist, an atheist. So the first thing he thought was that it was a prank.

Security in the room is normal and no one is allowed to enter or exit. He checked every corner of every room again, and there was nothing out of the ordinary.

Turn on your phone again, make sure your account is okay, and then call the security company and ask the other party to confirm whether there is a vulnerability in the security system at home.

Everything he did was calm and rational.

In that photo, my pajamas and bed sheets, it can be judged that this photo was taken after I fell asleep last night. The phone is unlocked by face recognition, but if someone enters their bedroom, then unlocking the phone is naturally not a problem. So on the premise of confirming that there was no one in the room, Zhou Zeming concluded that there must be a security problem.

But in the afternoon, after the self-inspection and external inspection of the three security companies, the surveillance video of the building, the corridor, and even the community was retrieved, and the three companies gave him clear investigation results-

He came back last night and to this day, no one has been in or out of his apartment.

……

4

"Have you ever tried sleeping in a different place?"

Yuri asked, holding her chin in her hand. Under the effect of the steam of the hot pot and two glasses of red wine, two blushes appeared on her face, making her look more coquettish.

Even in a place like the Institute of Unknown Events, and at the hot pot table, Zhou Zeming still maintains just the right amount of self-discipline and neatness. He smiled a little self-deprecatingly, took out his mobile phone directly, opened the photo album, and turned the screen in front of Sang Xiaoge and Yuli.

In the photo, Zhou Zeming is lying on the white sheets, lying sideways, his brows are slightly furrowed, even in his sleep, he still has no grace.

"This is last night, I slept in the Shanggari Hotel. As a result, this is what happened to the phone. ”

Although Zhou Zeming's voice is slightly tired, he still maintains the voice and tone of a magnetic baritone that makes people easily trust:

"Every day from the second day of the new year to now, my phone's photo album will be emptied and replaced with the latest one. Whether I'm at home or outside. ”

"Except for the phone album being emptied and then being taken a bed photo, there are no other weird things to do?" Yu Li and Sang Xiaoge looked at the photo side by side, frowned slightly and asked.

"Nope. I've suspected hacking, and even this phone isn't the same one it was a month ago. But apart from repeating this every day, nothing else is out of the ordinary. ”

"Hmm...... Well, it's weird. You Li frowned beautifully, rubbed her head, turned her head to Sang Xiaoge and said, "Hey! Ge, tell me what you think! I've been blowing with Huzi for a long time, and you've subdued demons and eliminated demons! Huzi and Mr. Zhou are good friends, and besides, isn't what Mr. Zhou encountered happen to be an 'unknown event'? Right on the road to your business! ”

"Uh-huh? Yes! ”

Sang Xiaoge seemed to have suddenly woken up from his contemplation! He replied twice, and looked at Zhou Zeming's eyes for some reason. She took a sip from her glass, but accidentally choked and coughed several times in a row.

You Li reached over to help Sang Xiaoge stroke his back, looked at Sang Xiaoge and then at Zhou Zeming, and the corners of his mouth curled imperceptibly.

"Wait a minute, I'll go see if Xiaolan is awake."

Sang Xiaoge stood up in a bit of a panic and walked into his room.

5

Later, Sang Xiaoge walked out with the fat cat in his arms, and before he could sit down, he was snatched into his arms by Yu Li.

"Blue Blue! Blue blue? Yuri reached out and stroked the fat cat's smooth fur, pinched its fat face, then shook its body vigorously, rolled its eyelids, and even reached out and pulled her tongue out of its mouth.

"This guy seems to be fatter than before, and he still can't wake up every day?"

Yuri is completely defenseless against this cat, and her face is full of maternal radiance.

"Except for the occasional meal and drink, I sleep all day." Sang Xiaoge said a little helplessly, knowing in his heart how many catties and taels he had, and wanted Mr. Lan to help judge what was going on with Zhou Zeming, but this guy just squinted and glanced at it and continued to sleep, without saying a word.

Yu Li's new boyfriend, Fang Xihu, the owner of the hot pot restaurant, rubbed his hands and said tentatively:

"What's that...... Master Sang, you and Lili are good friends, I am friends with Zeming, and I also heard Lili tell you some of your deeds......"

"If Miss Sang isn't interested, then we're presumptuous. Xihu is used to being warm-hearted, don't be surprised! I've encountered this, in fact, except for the fact that the album can't save the photos, there is no other damage, so it's not strange. ”

Zhou Zeming interrupted Fang Xihu's words and said to Sang Xiaoge with a calm face.

"Huh? Mind? How could it be! Sang Xiaoge's face was embarrassed. She glanced at the cat with a little resentment, and then said to Zhou Zeming: "I'm not doing well when I've been resting for the past few days, I'm a little infocused, I'm sorry." Mr. Zhou's matter, give me some time, and I'll check the information. Follow up later. Here are my contact details—"

She handed over her business card across the table, and Zhou Zeming also neatly took out a business card of her own from her vest pocket and exchanged it with Sang Xiaoge. During this period, Zhou Zeming's extremely clean and slender fingers inadvertently touched her hand, and Sang Xiaoge's face instantly turned red.

6

"Hey! I brought him to you to see the unknown, not to see the future Kaizi! You give your sister a little self-respect! ”

When it was time to say goodbye, Yuli stayed at the end and teased her in a whisper against Sang Xiaoge. Then she dodged the claws of Sang Xiaoge reaching out to her armpits, and ran to the two men's cars with a smile.

Standing in the corridor on the second floor, watching the two cars drive away from Xinlingwan Square, Sang Xiaoge was in a trance for a while. Until Xiao Dezi said beside him: "Sister, everyone is gone, hurry back to the house!" ”

"What do you mean?" Sang Xiaoge asked puzzled.

"Even I can see that you see that the man is obviously a little ...... That one. Xiao Dezi pouted slightly.

"Which one?" Sang Xiaoge's voice suddenly brought out a cold murderous aura.

"Nothing, nothing. I'm going to clean up the table, and you can continue to enjoy the night view. Xiao Dezi's chubby face shook, and he quickly flashed into the Institute of Unknown Events with the speed of his two-hundred-pound figure.

……

After a series of work such as washing, masking, patting, and applying skin care products, Sang Xiaoge closed the bedroom door, sat on his bed, rubbed the fat face of Mr. Lan, who was sleeping on his back, with his two feet, and said to it full of resentment:

"You said that you didn't wake up every day, but you woke up just now, and you didn't say a word?"

"You can't rely on me for everything, you can solve this kind of trivial matter by yourself."

Unprecedentedly, the cat actually lazily responded to her.

"So, do you know there's still something going on here?" Sang Xiaoge sat up on his knees all of a sudden, grabbed Mr. Lan's two front paws with both hands, shook them vigorously, and asked excitedly, "What is it?" You've got to see it, tell me! ”

7

In the end, the blue cat still didn't give Sang Xiaoge any hints, although it must have understood what was going on.

It only said that if Sang Xiaoge made a living from this, he should have the ability to "handle cases independently".

"About forty years ago, there was a pair of boundary guards in a certain place, and they would also take on some supernatural cases, similar to what you are doing now."

Mr. Lan's head rested on Sang Xiaoge's calf, snoring, and muttering to himself in a leisurely tone:

These two people divided the cases they had handled and heard about, coupled with their imaginations, to divide the supernatural cases that occurred in the human world into several levels. The highest level is called 'God Annihilation', that is, the destruction of the heavens and the earth, the collapse of the Three Realms, and the difficulty of the survival of civilization; the second level is called 'Earth Slaughter', which refers to the kind of disasters that can cause the extinction of most human beings; the lower level, called 'state collapse', refers specifically to those events that cause thousands of miles of red land and implicate the death of several cities; the fourth level is 'city fall', which leads to the life and death of a city and millions of people; and the next level, it is 'Wu Wei', which can cause thousands of people to be affected; and the sixth level is ' The River of Blood', which endangers dozens to hundreds of lives, but the outbreak is tragic, such as the one you experienced in the night of the hundred ghosts...... The seventh level of 'poisonous resentment' often harvests life covertly through spells, possession and other means, and is not easy to be discovered; The eighth level is 'Destroying the Gate', which is mostly created by those evil spirits who are too obsessed with having an indelible hatred for a family, and the ninth level is 'Yin Killing', which is generally a soul's endless entanglement with a person's grudge. ”

……

"What about the tenth level?" After waiting for a long time and not seeing the fat cat speak, seeing that it was snoring and about to get up again, Sang Xiaoge couldn't help but shake his calves and woke it up to ask.

"There is no tenth level, no death, such as just possessing and talking nonsense or scaring people or something, at most getting sick, or living a few years less, those who are not classified as dangerous. This is the kind of thing you encountered this time, so you can study and play by yourself, I'm sleeping, I'm so sleepy, meow......"

8

The next morning, the word came.

At that time, when they entered the warehouse guarded by Fang Cheng, everyone was staring at the shelves at the end of the warehouse, and there were indeed a lot of good things on it. Several people immediately distributed it, although everyone also knew that Sang Xiaoge got the umbrella and raincoat and iron rod. But everyone didn't think how powerful those things were—they were all people from the Yin and Yang Realm, and weapons and equipment still depended on how to use them after all. Sang Xiaoge's combat performance that night was truly impressive. And Chang Youdao can see that there must be some powerful existence hidden in the depths of this girl's soul.

It is precisely because of this that after everyone's injuries have been effectively recuperated, Chang Youdao chose a few small things in this acquisition and sent them to the Sang Xiaoge sisters and brothers.

Of course, the older generation always doesn't say it directly. Sending these little things is just a reason to come to the Institute of Unknown Events, and when he was about to leave, Chang Youdao asked very vaguely, Sang Xiaoge was interested in being the new Fangcheng Boundary Guard.

Sang Xiaoge directly refused, after all, she understood that she was a few pounds and a few taels. Relying on that cat is obviously not very reliable.

However, Chang Youdao still asked her to think about it again, and at the same time proposed that she was willing to spare a few hours every night to train Xiao Dezi - after all, everyone can see that the strength of that little fat man is basically between "helper" and "cumbersome" direct, I'm afraid the latter is more.

For this, Sang Xiaoge was very happy and expressed his willingness and gratitude. After all, no matter how hard the training may be, it is not your own hardship.

And she also took out the consistent attitude of traditional parents sending their children to school: You can manage this child hard, hit when you should beat, scold when you should scold, that is for the good of the child, I am grateful for this.

I didn't notice the change in the face of the cousin next to me.

9

The unconscious cat appeared at the table on time when the aroma of coffee was filling. Xiao Dezi is also accustomed to preparing a cup of coffee for this cat every day, watching its movements become more and more like a human and slowly drinking.

After drinking coffee, Xiao Dezi went to wash the coffee set, and Sang Xiaoge grabbed the back of Mr. Lan's neck, left it, and put out the small things that Chang Youdao brought to give it to the "palm eye".

"When you wear these glasses, you can see the soul body, but you can't see the parasitic spirit; This bracelet, the black one is a kind of clams made of shellfish in the yellow spring, which will change color and heat up when it is approached by a yin spirit; Is this ring the same function as the bracelet...... A bunch of garbage, functional chicken ribs! It's a good fit for you...... Oops! ”

With a bag on his head that had just been chiseled out by Sang Xiaoge, Mr. Lan drooped his tail and went back to his room to continue sleeping.

And Sang Xiaoge played with those little things excitedly for a while, then picked up his mobile phone and added the contact information of Mr. Zhou last night.

The other side quickly passed.

The two chatted for a while, and then agreed that Zhou Zeming would come to Xinling Bay to pick her up in the afternoon and go to his apartment in Beishangcheng to check it out.

After lunch, Xiao Dezi was horrified to find that the old lady began to put on makeup.

It took more than an hour for Sang Xiaoge to get dressed, and at this time, there were still a few minutes left before the agreed time. She picked up her bag, walked out of the Institute of Unknown Events, and stood in the corridor to look east, where a silver Mercedes happened to slowly drive into Xinlingwan Plaza.

10

Zhou Zeming, dressed in a light gray casual suit and snow-white shirt, went around to the co-pilot position to help Sang Xiaoge open the car door.

Along the way, Zhou Zeming didn't mention his own affairs again, but just casually chatted with Sang Xiaoge about her friendship with Youli, and asked her about the daily life of the "research institute", which appropriately expressed interest and appropriate laughter. This is a person who is very good at chatting, although in fact, it is Sang Xiaoge who is talking all the time, but I feel that he is a good person to talk to.

When the car arrived in Beishang City, it drove directly into the underground parking lot, the parking space was very good, and it only took more than ten meters to the elevator entrance.

At this time, the elevator was very free, and it went straight to the thirtieth floor, and the two entered Zhou Zeming's apartment.

Zhou Zeming was very gentlemanly and helped Sang Xiaoge take the coat and hang it on the coat rack, asked her to sit down on the sofa downstairs, walked directly to the bar on the balcony, and asked, "Miss Sang, what are you drinking?" ”

"Whatever."

Sang Xiaoge replied casually, got up from the sofa, and looked around at the decoration of this apartment.

The downstairs part of this apartment is all dismantled into a large room except for the bathroom, so although it is only more than 50 square meters, it looks very spacious. The design style is minimalist "frigidity", on the left is a group of sofas, and on the wall behind the sofa is a large abstract oil painting; Under the stairs on the right side is the bookshelf, in addition to medical books, there are many literary books, and then there are various trophies, there are medical fields, as well as equestrian, bowling, golf trophies, it can be seen that the owner is not only excellent in his own professional part.

"Orange Chocolate Latte, this is one of my best coffees, you can try it."

Zhou Zeming, who took off his suit, came over with two cups of coffee and handed Sang Xiaoge a cup: "I like to drink pure black coffee, and I have to drive for a while. ”

"Oh, okay. I'll taste it. ”

Sang Xiaoge took the coffee a little ignorantly, after all, she didn't drink much coffee, and it was the siphon pot brought by the cat that changed the pattern of her instant coffee. I took a small sip of the coffee in my hand, the light cream flavor blended with the aroma of the coffee, and was pressed under the rich orange flavor, and it was really mellow and comfortable to drink in this season.

"Drink well!" Sang Xiaoge couldn't help but curl his eyebrows and said with a smile.

11

While drinking coffee slowly, Sang Xiaoge verified the layout of the room with his poor knowledge of feng shui, and did not notice any problems. And in the inconspicuous fish tank and green plant direction, it can be seen that this house was adjusted by a feng shui master at the beginning of the design.

After asking Zhou Zeming to take himself upstairs to the living room and looking at it, Sang Xiaoge can basically judge that there is no feng shui problem in this apartment - this is redundant, after all, I said last night that even if I change places to live, Zhou Zeming's mobile phone will still appear in that photo.

Still, she remembered some details.

The furniture in the room is basically SAuao FIRMINO brand, and the soft furnishings are another European brand. There are a few authentic works of art at home, just right; The decoration of the bathroom on the second floor is Victorian, but the extravagant taste does not conflict with the overall style; I don't know the smell of perfume on Zhou Zeming's body, but the road to the underworld perfume bottle seen on the bathroom shelf; On the dark green carpet in the living room, the fluffy and soft bed, it must be very comfortable to sleep on—Sang Xiaoge couldn't help but think so, and his face couldn't help but blush.

12

The two returned to the living room and sat on the sofa, and Sang Xiaoge roughly said what he thought.

"First of all, you can rule out feng shui, and you don't have anything in this house that retains yin qi." Sang Xiaoge's right hand subconsciously stroked the bracelet on his left wrist, and the temperature of the black clams the size of a pigeon's egg has not changed, and the color has not changed.

"You've ruled out almost all of the possibilities that are man-made, so let's push back with the assumptions that accept the absurd."

Zhou Zeming sat opposite Sang Xiaoge, pressed his rich brows, nodded and said, "Okay, please deduce." ”

"Whether it's at home or in a hotel. When you're asleep, someone or something picks up your phone, unlocks the lock screen, deletes all the photos in your album, and then takes a picture at your bedside. After putting down the phone, this person or something, disappears......"

Sang Xiaoge stood up, learned the tone of the detectives on TV, and paced back and forth while acting:

Then you wake up and find that all the photos in the album are gone, only the one from before. This person or something, he or she or it, must want you to notice it, so this is the only photo left in the album. What is the meaning of this message? ”

……

The inference of the matter came to an abrupt end. Zhou Zeming shook his head blankly, and Sang Xiaoge also shook his head.

"This inference came here first, the same situation happened for more than a month, thirty or forty times, and you still went to bed on time every night, which is unreasonable."

Zhou Zeming sighed and said: "Actually, I have insomnia most of the time, and even I once pretended to be asleep, but nothing happened when I woke up." ”

"Then you fall into a deep sleep, and you also fall into a dream...... That's right, dreams! Dreamland! ”

Sang Xiaoge clapped his hands, and there was a hint of shining luster in his eyes: "What did you dream of?" Talk about your dreams! ”

When Zhou Zeming heard her say the word "dream", his glasses squinted obviously, and through the skin on his cheeks, he could see that his masseter muscles quickly bulged and disappeared......