1 The Mystery of Prison Visits

A man in a blue and white prison uniform stood in the middle of the room, motionless, his bloodshot eyes were looking out of the window, a morning light spread over his body, and the reflection of the metal cuffs on his wrist hit the side of his face, making the edges and corners of the man's face more and more distinct, as if he were a stone statue.

Suddenly, the cell door was pushed open, and a correctional officer came in and shouted, "0715 come out, the lawyer will meet." The man slowly turned around, dragged his feet in shackles and walked towards the door, and as he approached the door, his eyes swept to the sides, and several other people who were also wearing prison uniforms on the wall of the door hurriedly retreated.

Through two iron gates, the man came to an interrogation room, followed by the correctional officer behind him. In the room, Lawyer Song has been sitting here for a while.

"Can I talk to my client alone?" Lawyer Song asked the correctional officer on the side.

"I'm sorry, there are regulations in the law firm that key supervision objects are not allowed to meet alone."

"Okay then." Lawyer Song waved his hand lightly, turned to the man in front of him and asked:

"You're Qi Bing, right?"

"Yes." The man replied indifferently.

"I'm a lawyer at TXJ Law Firm, Song Ke. I met Mr. Zhang of your company yesterday, and he cares about you very much. I have come today to be entrusted with the task of understanding your current situation and to know the details of the case as a whole. In addition, you can consult me about the legal aspects of this case. ”

Qi Bing straightened his chest, suddenly sat down again and asked, "Why didn't Mr. Zhang come over in person?" He's a lawyer, too! ”

"Your Mr. Zhang is opening a company outside, and according to the regulations on the management of the lawyer industry, Mr. Zhang's lawyer's practice qualification will be suspended, so he can't come. Qi Bing, don't have any worries, tell the truth about the case that happened that day, so that we can know how to help you. After speaking, Lawyer Song took out the notebook and the old-fashioned black fountain pen from his purse.

Qi Bing's eyes lit up, his breathing became a little short, his chest rose and fell, he was silent for a moment, and suddenly said: "Please tell Mr. Zhang, I didn't do anything to be sorry for him and the company, but it's hard for me to explain it now." Alas, what a hell! ”

"What the hell do you mean?!" Lawyer Song hurriedly asked.

"Something is wrong with that house, and that woman! They didn't believe me! When Qi Bing said this, the hands whose scars were still visible couldn't help but tremble slightly. This made Lawyer Song also taken aback, in his mind, a man with excellent qualities like Qi Bing should be a fearless person with iron willpower, but the Qi Bing in front of him made him a little disappointed, and he was speechless for a while.

"Lawyer Song, do you believe that there are living dead people in this world?" Qi Bing suddenly asked at this time.

"What? The Living Dead?! This...... I don't know, can you be specific? Obviously, Lawyer Song was not mentally prepared for this sudden problem.

"It's useless to say it, no one will believe it." Qi Bing closed his eyes after speaking, as if he was pondering something......

"Not necessarily, just say it and see." Lawyer Song leaned forward, his eyes fixed on Qi Bing opposite.

"What time is it? Is SARS under control outside? Qi Bing opened his eyes, looked directly at Lawyer Song and asked.

"Today is June 6, and SARS is not yet fully controlled." Lawyer Song replied, and then said to Qi Bing: "Can you tell me in detail about the situation you encountered and the whole thing, and let me help you analyze it." ”

Qi Bing turned his head sideways and smiled bitterly, but did not speak. After a while, he lowered his head slightly, but his handcuffed hand suddenly moved, and I saw that the index finger of his right hand kept swiping back and forth on the back of his left hand....... It seems to be tickling, but it doesn't look like it, just when Lawyer Song was wondering, Qi Bing suddenly raised his head and said, "Lawyer Song, go back, I will tell Mr. Zhang when I have the opportunity, I can't tell anyone else about this matter." ”

"Qi Bing, you may not understand the provisions of the law, Mr. Zhang has no chance to see you now." Lawyer Song said with a frown.

"There's always a way for Zhang. Lawyer Song, please go back and tell Mr. Zhang, I want to see him, I can't hide from him horizontally and vertically, there is something to calculate, and if you want to calculate, you will know when I want to see him the most. Qi Bing looked at Lawyer Song with wide eyes, and said as if he had a deep meaning. At the same time, while using the index finger and thumb of his right hand to pinch and put down a small piece of skin on the back of his left hand, it seems that the strength is not small, and the color of the pinched skin is white, which is very conspicuous on a piece of scratched red skin.

"Oh well. Qi Bing, you should think carefully when you go back, time is precious to you and me, I will come back to you next time to understand the situation. You have to rest well, don't make yourself too nervous and tired, I'll go first. Lawyer Song got up and closed his purse, nodded to the correctional officer, and left the interrogation room.

Lawyer Song went out and walked through a corridor to the director's office.

"Oh? Lawyer Song, is it over so soon? Director Du asked.

"Lao Du, let me ask you, what is the crime that this Qi Bing is suspected of? As for shackling him? ”

"What's up? Is the suspicion of intentional homicide serious enough? Besides, you don't know, the person is too frog king (Guiyang dialect, very fierce meaning), he was put in the cell on the first day and beat people, the head in the room was kicked by him twice and the bones were broken, if you don't put it on him, you have to do it! ”

"Then did he explain everything clearly?" Lawyer Song asked.

"It's not very clear, I've heard that it's very stubborn." Director Du shook his head.

Lawyer Song returned to the lawyer's office, saw Zhang Chongbin and Duan Tao who were already waiting in the firm, and said, "Mr. Zhang, the stimulation of your subordinates is not small. ”

Zhang Chongbin was stunned when he heard this, and Duan Tao beside him hurriedly asked, "What's wrong with our captain?" ”

"What's wrong? Maybe you wouldn't even guess. Lawyer Song dragged a chair around as he spoke, and then said: "Mr. Zhang, it seems that we need to be a little mentally prepared for this case, Qi Bing's current mental state is a little unstable, and his affairs outside have not been resolved, and he has caused trouble inside." ”

"What? What's going on again? Zhang Chongbin hurriedly asked.

"Beat someone, and broke the head of a steward in the same cell."

Zhang Chongbin listened and frowned......

"Oh man, it's not a person to go into that place. The head of the steward there is generally a habitual offender who has entered the palace several times, and the new detainees must be bullied first, and those who do not understand the rules and disobey will be beaten, and your subordinates must not be able to stand this anger. Lawyer Song explained.

"Bullying our captain, then he is purely looking for death!" Duan Tao muttered.

"You didn't beat anyone to death, did you, then let's talk about meeting Qi Bing." Zhang Chongbin said to Lawyer Song.

Lawyer Song sighed and talked about the process of the meeting with a melancholy face. In his opinion, through this meeting with Qi Bing, he believes that this case is by no means an ordinary case of injury and death, and there is probably something incredible in it, the reason is: Qi Bing said that there are problems with the house and the woman, especially mentioning the "living dead". Moreover, Qi Bing also said, "No one will believe this when it comes out." On this unbelievable issue, both Zhang Chongbin and Lawyer Song invariably recalled the doubts about "corpse spots" that they talked about together last time.

"What does it mean to be 'living dead'? Is there a professional concept of such a phenomenon? Zhang Chongbin asked Lawyer Song.

Lawyer Song explained that there is no such professional term in forensic science, and he regrets very much that Qi Bing is reluctant to talk more to him, and he can think of a relatively close concept is the phenomenon of "fake death" of people. The so-called "suspended animation" refers to a person whose vital functions have fallen into extreme decline, and from the appearance it is almost completely the same as a dead person, if the examination is not careful, it is easy to be mistaken for a person who has died, or even treated and buried as a dead person, when in fact the person is still alive, but the breathing and heartbeat are so weak that the heartbeat, pulse and blood pressure cannot be measured by ordinary examination methods, this state is "suspended animation".

Zhang Chongbin had also heard of this kind of case, and he told Lawyer Song about such an incident: there is a remote rural village that has always retained the custom of burial, and some family members were buried in the soil after death, and it didn't take long for people to dig out the coffin and open the coffin for some reason, and they found that the person in the coffin had a hideous face, his nails had fallen off, and the top of the coffin was covered with scratches. Zhang Chongbin believes that this is the "dead man" at the time of burial, who found that he was buried alive after waking up close to the earth, struggling in extreme fear and suffocating pain, and finally died, but the death statue has nothing to do with the serene appearance of the remains. But this "fake death" and "living dead" are not the same thing at all!

"Suspended animation", as the name suggests, can be vaguely said to mean "a living person who is dead"; And the "living dead" makes people sound like some superstitious people, and sometimes there are "deceitful corpses" who preach.

"Is it 'fake death' or 'fake corpse'?!"

This strange idea suddenly popped up, and Zhang Chongbin's mind couldn't help but flash the zombie in the Hong Kong ghost movie wearing ancient costumes, dragging his tongue and turning pale, and walking only with one jump and one jump. But where is this kind of thing in reality, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if there is a living corpse in that house, then, how did this corpse suddenly run into the house at night? …… Thinking of this, Zhang Chongbin couldn't think about it anymore, where is this, he thinks that this kind of thinking is simply ridiculous!

However, why did even a tough guy like Qi Bing, who had experienced the test of life and death, tremble when he said it afterwards, what kind of treacherous and terrifying things happened that night?

When the three men analyzed like this in broad daylight, they couldn't help but feel a little chill even though they were sitting together. Think about it, whether it is a "dead living person" or a "living dead person", if you really meet suddenly in the middle of the night, who can enjoy this? Could it be that there really is a "deceptive corpse" in this world?!

Next, when Lawyer Song recounted Qi Bing's strange way of speaking and behavior at the end, Zhang Chongbin suddenly became alert, and intuitively, he thought that Qi Bing was conveying some kind of inconvenient disclosure to him through Lawyer Song. Although Lawyer Song had some doubts, he couldn't figure out what the meaning could be clearly expressed in that way, so he was more inclined to Qi Bing because he was nervous and tired, and his words were a little incoherent and his behavior was abnormal.

Zhang Chongbin did not directly refute Lawyer Song's opinion, he just asked in detail how Qi Bing's hand moved, watching Lawyer Song imitate the analogy, Qi Bing was using his right index finger to draw three parallel lines horizontally on the back of his left hand in a regular manner, and then drew three parallel lines vertically, intersecting each other, and the lines on the back of his hand turned red after a while, forming a "Tian" character, and finally Qi Bing pinched back and forth to loosen a small piece of skin at the lower left sharp corner of the word "Tian".

Zhang Chongbin and Qi Bing grew up playing together since childhood, and the feeling of understanding each other is incomparable to that of Lawyer Song. Although there were not many words left by Qi Bing, the more Zhang Chongbin pondered, the more he felt that the words that Qi Bing said, as well as the movements in his hands, would not be simple babbling and reckless movements, and there must be important meanings in them! Qi Bing did this because he didn't want Lawyer Song to clearly know his intentions, even if Lawyer Song was the person whom Mr. Zhang trusted and entrusted to help him, it could not be said, which meant that Qi Bing's intentions in his heart needed to be kept strictly confidential, and his true intentions could only be figured out by Mr. Zhang alone.

Thinking of this, Zhang Chongbin's face showed a slight smile that was imperceptible to others, "Okay, you stinky boy, you're giving me a problem again!" Although he couldn't guess the secret hidden in it for a while, Zhang Chongbin's mood improved, in his opinion, Qi Bing not only did not have a mental abnormality, but knew very well what he wanted to do and what he should do, but all of this was hidden behind the seemingly strange behavior.

Near noon, Lawyer Song asked Zhang Chongbin and Duan Tao to go to a nearby restaurant for a light meal. After the meal, Lawyer Song proposed that he would go to the event in the afternoon and find a way to see the autopsy report of the female corpse, so that the truth could be revealed.

After Lawyer Song left, Duan Tao began to keep contacting his familiar comrades-in-arms by phone. Zhang Chongbin said to Duan Tao: "Don't let your comrades-in-arms use too much energy in the detention center, the judicial network resources on Lawyer Song's side are still okay." It would be better to see if any comrades know about the real estate company, as well as all the news about the villa, including rumors that sound implausible. ”

Then, Zhang Chongbin called Kong Chao, the head of the company's business investigation department, and after learning about the company's current situation, he asked Kong Chao to temporarily stop undertaking all investigation business, prepare the necessary investigation tools, and wait for the order to go south to meet him at any time.

After deploying the task, Duan Tao got up and left. At this time, Zhang Chongbin decided to calm down alone and think about the meaning of this "problem" that Qi Bing gave him.

On the way back to his lodging place, Zhang Chongbin bought a transportation and tourism map of Guiyang City and found the approximate location of the villa on the map - near Duxi Forest Farm in the northern suburbs of Baiyun District.

"Duxi Forest Farm" ...... This place name is really not very good, the word group with the left and right restraint, look at this "Duxi" inside, there is the sun and water, this is water and fire; There are wood and soil in the "forest farm", which are also mutually restrained, together, and there is still a lack of "gold" in the five elements, so yin and yang are out of tune, no wonder strange things happen! To paraphrase what he had learned from his previous exposure to metaphysics, Zhang Chongbin was rambling in the taxi, and his brain began to gradually enter a state of excitement.

When he arrived at the guest house, as soon as he entered the room, Zhang Chongbin leaned straight on the stacked quilt stacked at the head of the bed and closed his eyes...... Slowly, in his mind, there was any connection between the word "Tian" drawn on his hand and the whitish corner of the skin that was constantly pinched in the lower left corner of the word "Tian"? "mouth" + "ten" can form "field"; The four "mouths" can also become "fields"; Together, the two "days" are also a "field". Why did the soldiers pull the corner of the word "Tian"? The lower left corner of "Tian" and the other three corners of the word or the figure should be the same except for the different directions, nothing special!

"No, this kind of analysis must be a dead end!" Zhang Chongbin adjusted his thinking and began to empathize: "Since Qibing is eager to see me, there are some things he just wants to say to me, and he should also know that it is difficult for me to see his actual situation immediately, so what does he want me to do most at this time?" Or, what does he most want to do right now? There is no doubt that he wants me to help him, and maybe, in his opinion, only I can help him, and I will have a way to do it. That is to say, all his hints, the difficult problems he has made, are within the scope of what his intellect can solve. In addition, Qi Bing is so sure, which shows that the 'solution' of this problem must be hidden in the field that he is good at or familiar with, so what is what he is good at or familiar with? Reasoning and analysis of criminal investigation cases, laws and regulations, fighting martial arts, Go player talks, astronomy, physics and mathematics and even some ancient books and metaphysics...... "Zhang Chongbin found that he really had a lot of hobbies, and "literature" and "martial arts" were all involved, but now it seems that this has become a troublesome thing.

"The answer is hidden in the question!" After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Chongbin's thoughts returned to the sentence left by Qi Bing: "Lawyer Song, please go back and tell Mr. Zhang, I want to see him, I can't hide from him horizontally and vertically, if I have something to calculate, I will know when I want to see him the most." Suddenly, the sentence "horizontal and vertical can't avoid fifteen" seems to make Zhang Chongbin feel something: Aren't these "horizontal" and "vertical" the three horizontal lines and three vertical bars of the word "Tian"? ! Then the "can't hide from the fifteenth" behind this should not be the meaning of "can hide from the first day of junior high school, can't hide from the fifteenth" at the beginning, "horizontal" is fifteen, and "vertical" is also fifteen...... Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in Zhang Chongbin's mind, showing a pattern, which is the "Nine Palaces Diagram"!

The so-called "Nine Palaces", also known as "Luoshu", is a mysterious map handed down in ancient China, and the same name as the "River Map", which has always been considered the source of Chinese civilization, and even believes that these two pictures contain "cosmic heavenly machines". About the origin of the "Luo Shu", according to legend, when the ancient Dayu, Luoyang West Luoning County Luo River emerged in the turtle, this turtle has a strange pattern on the back, Yu according to this figure to control the water successfully, then the world for Kyushu, and according to this to formulate nine chapters of the law, the governance of the community. The origin of the "River Map" is said to be that a divine horse appeared in the Yellow River in ancient times, and there is also a mysterious picture on the horseback, which was obtained by the sage Fuxi. This was described in the "Hanshu Five Elements Chronicles": "The Fuxi clan succeeded the sky and became the king, and the river map was drawn by it, and the gossip was also." As a result, these two pictures became the source of "Zhou Yi", and Confucius wrote clearly and clearly in his "Zhou Yi Dictionaries": "The river produces a picture, Luo produces a book, and the sage makes it." ”

The original pattern of the "Nine Palaces Diagram" is a diagram composed of a pile of points in black, black and white, which seems to be plain, but it hides the profound mathematical relationship that encompasses heaven and earth. The most mysterious and unpredictable magic techniques in ancient China, such as Qimen Dunjia, Xuankong Kanyu, Purple and White Flying Stars, and Sanyuan Geography, are mostly based on them and are widely used.

Zhang Chongbin because he likes some wonderful combination rules in mathematics, he has specialized in the number arrangement of the nine palaces, on this basis, Zhang Chongbin can also deduce the arrangement of the sixteenth and twenty-fifth houses, the figure can be a square, and even a circle can be arranged, which is really wonderful. Although Zhang Chongbin is not superstitious about metaphysics, this does not affect his interest in ancient arts, especially those with mysterious colors. Qi Bing was influenced by him, and he also looked at Qimen Dunjia when he was studying before, and when the two competed against each other, they would make handprints from time to time while chanting the Qimen nine-character recipe of "those who are fighting in the army are all moving forward in array".

The following is the order of the nine numbers that make up the "Nine Palaces":

4 9 2

3 5 7

8 1 6

As the so-called:

"The righteousness of the nine palaces, the law is based on the spirit turtle, wearing nine shoes one, three on the left and seven on the right, two or four for the shoulder, six or eight for the foot, and five in the center."

One of the many mathematical wonders of this graph is that if you add up three of these numbers, both horizontally and vertically, including diagonally, you will find an interesting phenomenon – they are all equal to 15. Isn't this "horizontal and vertical can't hide from fifteen"?

"If you want to do the math, you will know when I want to see him the most", Qi Bing's sentence and then the movements of his hands have now become a simple question that does not need to be calculated at all, "8" is the number implied by the ravaged skin in the lower left corner!

"Qi Bing, Qi Bing, good boy, you really have you!" Zhang Chongbin couldn't help but get excited, and the mystery was revealed!

However, this excitement did not last more than 2 seconds, and he suddenly realized a terrible problem and couldn't help but gasp......

2 Absconding "SARS patients"

Qi Bing wants to escape from prison!

This is the terrible feeling that suddenly frightened Zhang Chongbin's heart. Today is the 6th, and Qi Bing wants to see him on the 8th, but Qi Bing obviously knows that Zhang Chongbin can't see him now, so the "to calculate" in the sentence "If you have something to calculate, you have to calculate" is not a simple self-talk, this is a pun on the code word, in addition to the accident of calculating and thinking with good intentions, it is also a homonym for the numbers 1, 3, and 3.

Zhang Chongbin has a mobile phone number starting with 133, but he usually doesn't use it, unless he uses it in special circumstances, because this mobile phone number segment is CDMA, which can effectively prevent it from being monitored at that time. This number is only known to Qi Bing and Kong Chao in the company, and there has been an agreement between them that when there is a serious incident and needs to be kept confidential, they can only call his mobile phone number starting with 133 when reporting to Zhang Chongbin.

"It turned out that Qi Bing was not waiting for me to meet him, but he wanted to take the initiative to see me. No wonder he asked Lawyer Song, 'What time is it today?' Is SARS under control outside? 'That's the question. Recalling Lawyer Song's description of Qi Bing's entire performance, Zhang Chongbin understood Qi Bing's indescribable intention: on June 8, he answered the 133 mobile phone call and then met. Qi Bing wanted to let Zhang Chongbin know the truth about the events that happened that night in this way.

Zhang Chongbin hurriedly glanced at his watch, "On the 8th, that is, the day after tomorrow, Qi Bing only had the opportunity to make this call when he left the detention center on that day. However, he is now the subject of key surveillance with handcuffs and leg irons, how can he get out? Can't escape from jailbreak?! Qi Bing, Qi Bing, what are you anxious about?! Everybody's working hard for you. What are the consequences of this? Not to mention that forcibly escaping is very likely to cost your life, and even if you escape, the original innocence may really be difficult to clear up, and you will become a real criminal who is wanted to abscond! ”

Zhang Chongbin suddenly rolled over from the bed and sat up, he took a deep breath, trying to restrain the uneasiness in his heart...... There are less than two days left, which is too short! How can this be good?! You must know that the detention center is not a grass horse pen, as long as you can drill and run, you can be free! In fact, the detention center is on a similar level of security as a prison, surrounded by high walls with high-voltage power grids and manned armed police standing guard 24 hours a day. ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Chongbin hurriedly called Lawyer Song and asked him how it was going and if he had seen the autopsy report of the female corpse. But Mr. Song's reply disappointed him, and he still needed some time to find someone to do the work.

After sitting quietly and thinking for a while, Zhang Chongbin picked up the phone again and called, and the other party answered, "Captain Liu, I'm Zhang Chongbin, and I want you to know about a situation." ”

"Oh, it's Mr. Zhang, just talk about it if you have something." Captain Liu of the criminal police team replied unhurriedly.

"That...... I've already found out the identity of the female corpse, and if it's convenient, I'd like to explain something to you in person. ”

"Oh, we've found out who the female corpse is. However, Mr. Zhang, you must pay attention to your identity and investigation methods, don't leave nothing behind, and be right and wrong. ”

"This dead yellow fat man, the action of 'meritorious atonement' is really fast!" Zhang Chongbin scolded in his heart, and at the same time replied to Captain Liu: "Thank you for reminding me, please rest assured, Captain, we will be measured." However, I heard from the lawyer that Qi Bing is emotionally unstable now, and he really wants to see me, can you make an exception to provide convenience, I want to see him, so that he does not ......"

"Mr. Zhang, you have also worked as a lawyer in the past, and I don't think I need to say too much about some regulations." Captain Liu didn't wait for Zhang Chongbin to finish speaking, and then categorically refused. Zhang Chongbin also realized that his personal identity and background had been thoroughly explored by the police.

"Captain, please understand, I didn't mean to embarrass you, I just want to help Qi Bing clarify the facts as soon as possible, although I can't come up with strong evidence at the moment, but please forgive me, I think Qi Bing is innocent, and the cause of that woman's death will not be caused by ordinary intentional injury!"

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, the handling of the case will go through legal procedures, and everything must be based on facts and evidence, not unfounded speculation."

"So, may I ask Captain Liu, what is the conclusion of the autopsy report of the female corpse?"

"The relevant report has been reported to the relevant departments, so you don't need to ask more." After speaking, Captain Liu hung up the phone.

"Something really is going to happen!" Zhang Chongbin was so anxious that he threw down his mobile phone, pulled out the map he bought and spread it on the bed, his eyes quickly looked for the location of the detention center where Qi Bing was, and after locking the location, he checked the surrounding terrain and traffic routes......

At this time, lawyer Song called Zhang Chongbin and said that he wanted to meet and talk about things, and Zhang Chongbin told him the address and asked him to come over immediately. About 20 minutes later, lawyer Song came to the guest house, and as soon as he saw Zhang Chongbin, he asked him to hurry up and explain the situation. Lawyer Song said that he entrusted the relationship of his old classmate, and then he met Forensic Doctor Zhang, who performed the autopsy on the female corpse. According to the medical examiner, the female autopsy showed no mechanical trauma lacerations; There are no signs of rape and insult on hymen examination; There were multiple contusion fractures in the ribs on both sides of the body's chest, but the longitudinal basilar fracture of the skull appeared to be a direct fatal injury. In addition, what was very unfavorable to Qi Bing was that the residue in the nails of the corpse was only consistent with Qi Bing's genetic blood type and the traces of trauma on his body surface. The autopsy report concluded that the woman died as a result of violent injuries.

Seeing Lawyer Song with a gloomy face, Zhang Chongbin asked, "Didn't you question the question of corpse spots?" ”

Lawyer Song shook his head lightly and said, "Early corpse spots can form within 2 hours after death, and some can even appear earlier. People have been dead for so long, and it doesn't make much sense to raise this question now. ”

"What did you say?!" Zhang Chongbin suddenly felt an unspeakable anger in his heart, and he looked directly into Lawyer Song's eyes.

"Mr. Zhang, how to say it, there are some things that should not be said because of my professional requirements; However, if you used to mix in this workplace, you might as well tell you. Do you know what bad feelings I feel when I listen to the medical examiner? Lawyer Song lifted his glasses, and his eyes behind the lenses flashed with a gloomy cold light.

"What does it feel?"

"A conviction verdict may be made in Qi Bing's case soon."

"Why?"

The autopsy report has been submitted to the procuratorate for review, and Qi Bing may soon be formally approved for arrest. Besides, Mr. Zhang, you also know that such a case of wandering in different places, especially during this SARS period, it is the unanimous requirement of the public security and judicial organs in various places to close the case as soon as possible. ”

"I understand, Lawyer Song, you don't need to say more." After speaking, Zhang Chongbin lit a cigarette, took a hard breath of smoke and put it in his mouth, and then spit out the smoke ring with a grunt......

Lawyer Song looked at Zhang Chongbin with some surprise, he slowly approached and said: "Mr. Zhang, let's not give up, as long as the court does not make a final judgment, we will always have the opportunity to fight for it." ”

"Fight for what? We can't even fight for clarification of such an obvious suspicion as 'flaky corpse spots', what else can we fight for?! How can Forensic Doctor Zhang contact him, I want to see him immediately. ”

"I may not be able to see him, but after we met, he said that he was going on a business trip and left Guiyang immediately after catching a plane." Lawyer Song tried to dial the phone, and sure enough, Forensic Doctor Zhang turned it off.

Duan Tao came back at this time, and brought his comrades-in-arms who were at the airport to pick up Zhang Chongbin that day.

His comrades-in-arms saw Zhang Chongbin and stretched out his hand and said, "Mr. Zhang, hello! My name is Yu Zhiguo, I generally understand your affairs, Duan Tao is my comrade-in-arms and a good brother, I understand your feelings at the moment, I also admire your captain Qi Bing very much, I believe that he is innocent. If there's anything I need to do here, you're welcome, as long as I can do it, I'll do my best. ”

"Thank you for your understanding." Zhang Chongbin shook the other party's hand vigorously.

Duan Tao lifted a chair, Yu Zhiguo sat down and told everyone about the real estate company: it turned out that this real estate company called "Yongdu" was established three years ago, the boss's surname was Mao, and he used to be the owner of a mining plant in Hunan, and later transferred the mine to make a lot of money to engage in real estate development here. According to his friend, the company originally wanted to develop a commercial residential community in that area, because the boss took a fancy to the fact that the boundary was not too far from the city, with a high forest coverage rate, and a natural oxygen bar with green mountains and green waters. Later, during the development and construction, the project did not go smoothly because some matters of relocation compensation were not coordinated with the local villagers. The current villa was originally intended to be a façade room for the sales office, but after the project stopped, Boss Mao converted it into an independent villa, intending to sell it at a high price.

Duan Tao came over with a water cup at this time, Yu Zhiguo took the water cup handed by Duan Tao, took a sip of water, and then said: "When Duan Tao first came over, he said that he wanted to take care of this villa, but at that time I guessed that it might be because the contradictions left over from the construction project were not resolved, and someone deliberately sabotaged it. ”

"It is not excluded that there is such a possibility, the rich nowadays are not benevolent to the rich, and it is easy to offend people." Lawyer Song said.

"However, after listening to Duan Tao say what happened to you in the past two days, I am a little worried that there is really a problem with this house itself." Yu Zhiguo suddenly changed his tone, and his voice was low.

"Oh? What could be wrong with this house? Zhang Chongbin asked.

"I didn't believe it because I was a party member, an atheist. He said that when the house was being built, the boss had asked someone who knew feng shui to see it, but when the dragon was discharged, he found that the shape of the water mouth was not good, and the fierce dragon was discharged. This boss Mao has always had good luck in the past, so this time after listening to this, although he felt uncomfortable, he didn't believe in this evil and continued to build this house. In the process of building the house, there were many problems, after the house was built, his own family moved out not long after they lived, but his wife died in a car accident last year, and now it is said that the company is about to yellow. ”

What Yu Zhiguo said, Lawyer Song and Duan Tao were at a loss when they heard it......

Zhang Chongbin said at this time: "It is an ancient tradition in my country to look at feng shui before building a house. If Xuankong Feng Shui is viewed in the light of a modern, enlightened and inclusive scientific outlook, it can be regarded as a form of geography. But this science has been passed down for a long time, there are very few successors, and it was made public very late, and the true essence of it has been kept in the hands of the Zhongzhou faction. The so-called 'Zhongzhou', that is, today's Luoyang, has always been a generation of one division and only one disciple. However, later, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, a character named Jiang Dahong suddenly appeared, who braved the world's disapproval to write a book, so Xuankong Feng Shui gradually became known and widely used. The Zhongzhou faction looks at the feng shui of the yang house with the method of draining the dragon, which is the method of pushing and discharging the innate geological qi according to the recipe. It's just that this kind of side-door left surgery can be used as effective evidence to be brought to the court and told the judge? ”

"Mr. Zhang, doesn't the law talk about being based on facts? While some things are hard to believe, they may just exist. Did you know of an even more incredible incident that happened here in Guiyang ten years ago? ”

Yu Zhiguo looked more excited, but Zhang Chongbin was obviously not listening, although he was calm on the surface, his heart was restless, Qi Bing may be preparing for prison escape, once he takes action, he may be unpredictable, and he has not yet come up with a good way to relieve this urgent need, where is he still in the mood to listen to these "Arabian Nights". So, he said: "Brother Yu, although what you said is reasonable, you must know that legal and effective evidence must be based on conclusive facts. Anyway, thank you for coming over and helping us. It's not early, Duan Tao, you go out to eat with your comrades-in-arms and Lawyer Song, I'm a little tired, so I won't go. ”

Everyone left, Zhang Chongbin stood alone in the empty room, he quietly looked around at the old and simple furnishings around him, a kind of tired loneliness surged from the depths of his heart, this feeling of loneliness and helplessness made him unable to continue to stay in the room. So, he walked out of the guest house, flagged down a taxi, and told the driver to go wherever he wanted, as long as the car could breathe fresh air when it moved.

It was completely dark, and the car was moving fast and slow on the road in the city, Zhang Chongbin rolled down the window and browsed the neon street scene aimlessly, without saying a word all the way. The driver put down a cassette tape, and a blank and slightly hoarse voice sounded along with a sad melody:

…… I must go the other way（…… I've got to walk far away)

And my dream would carry me onward

Though my hear twould surely stay

Oh my hear twould surely stay…… (Oh, my heart must stay here...... ）

Parting and helplessness through the desolate singing, being sung calmly and sadly, sometimes the tragic drum beat gloomily stirred the heart that could not be calmed, accompanied by the roar of the wheels and tracks of the train away, the sadness of leaving home, the helpless frustration, and the desolation of the distance, invaded his heart, Zhang Chongbin's eyes gradually blurred...... "Qi Bing, my good brother, don't worry, no matter what, I will not let you become a lonely, helpless and homeless 'wolf'!" ”

When he woke up early the next morning, Zhang Chongbin asked Duan Tao to buy a ticket to go back to the company first, Duan Tao didn't understand, but seeing Zhang Chongbin's resolute attitude was only obedience, he slowly packed his luggage and left with tears in his eyes.

As soon as Duan Tao left, Zhang Chongbin immediately turned off the mobile phone he usually used and removed the battery. Subsequently, Zhang Chongbin pulled out the wireless network card on the laptop he was carrying with him to prevent remote tracking and eavesdropping. After finishing up, Zhang Chongbin walked out of the room to the front desk to check out, and then took a taxi to several shopping malls in the city, bought two sets of clothes and pants and shoes according to Qi Bing's figure, bought a few fancy metal ornaments at the women's accessories counter, and took out a sum of cash at the ATM. In the end, with these items, Zhang Chongbin found a small hotel on the outskirts of the city where he could live without an ID card, and paid to rent it.

In the cell of the detention center. Qi Bing was in a corner of the room, leaning against the wall on one side, his limbs contracted tightly together, while holding his breath and guiding his thoughts...... Suddenly, the body tilted and fell to the ground.

After a while, the prison doctor arrived, and several panicked detainees were quickly cleared out by the masked prison doctor and transferred to another cell.

Qi Bing curled up and trembled slightly in a corner of the room, coughing while breathing rapidly, the prison doctor took out the thermometer from Qi Bing's armpit and looked at it: 38.5 degrees. So he hurriedly walked out of the cell and informed the director that prisoner No. 0715 was suspected of having "SARS" and needed to be immediately sent to a specialized medical institution for isolation and diagnosis and treatment.

Soon, a 120 ambulance arrived at the detention center. Qi Bing, wearing shackles on his hands and feet, was carried onto the car on a stretcher by two medical personnel wearing third-level protective clothing and face shields, closed the door, and the ambulance started quickly with its horn, followed by a police car carrying two police officers, and went straight to the designated hospital where SARS was treated.

In a small inn. Zhang Chongbin took out the mobile phone SIM card in section 133 from the watch with the back cover opened and inserted it into the mobile phone card slot...... turned on the phone, and then dialed a mobile phone number that was copied down on the street to handle various documents, and told the other party bluntly that he needed to apply for an "ID card". The other party replied that there was no problem, and it could be done on the same day, as long as there was a photo of the witness.

Zhang Chongbin's computer has standard personal photos of everyone in the company.

Then, Zhang Chongbin used the landline in his room to call the local 114 information desk, asked for the contact number of the local car rental company, and then took his laptop and left the room.

In the SARS treatment ward of a hospital. The weak Qi Bing was lying on the hospital bed, the shackles had been removed, but the handcuffs were still on.

Two police officers in hazmat suits and face shields waited in the opposite care room across the hallway, pacing back and forth......

Qi Bing seemed to have serious symptoms, in addition to fever and cough, he also vomited constantly, and went to the toilet several times to vomit everything in his stomach and even bitter water.

At about 1 o'clock in the morning, Qi Bing got up and wanted to go to the toilet again, a medical staff helped Qi Bing, who was sluggish and weak, to the bathroom at the end of the corridor, where a police officer sat on a chair and took a nap, and another police officer got up with squinting eyes and followed him to the bathroom door and stood against the wall.

After the medical staff sent Qi Bing in, he walked out.

Inside the toilet, the sound of Qi Bing vomiting came from time to time......

After waiting for a while, it was much quieter inside, and Qi Bing still didn't come out. The medical staff couldn't wait, and walked into the inner room of the toilet ...... "Ah! It's not good, come on! ”

With a shout from the toilet, the police officer at the door rushed into the bathroom with a few big strides...... The toilet in the entire inner room was empty, and I saw that the aluminum alloy window on the wall was open, and there was a pair of slippers on the ground.

Two officers looked down from the window...... At the height of the four-story building, the dark and steep walls and the bare ground are empty; I looked up and looked around, but I didn't see anything!

A black "Hyundai" sedan was parked in an inconspicuous alley near the side of the road, the engine had been turned off, and there were no lights in the car. Zhang Chongbin lay on his back on the leather seat in the car with his eyes closed, occasionally opening his eyes to look at his watch, the hands moving minute by minute...... Although it was late at night, he was not sleepy at all.

When the hour hand of the watch coincided with the number 12 on the dial, Zhang Chongbin got up, picked up the mineral water on the side and drank a few sips, tried to step on the clutch and the accelerator with both feet, and moved his legs and feet, and at the same time looked through the car window at the detention center where Qi Bing was detained, more than 200 meters in front of him. "It's June 8 now, and if Qi Bing wants to come out, he may take action at any time."

After waiting for more than 1 hour, there was still no abnormal movement in the detention center, Zhang Chongbin couldn't help but be a little dazed, "Could it be that I didn't judge correctly?" Qi Bing had no plans to escape from prison? ”

The medical staff helped Qi Bing into the toilet and turned to leave.

Qi Bing was alone in the toilet, he looked around, and there was no one else. So, while coughing, he quickly came to the window, gently opened the aluminum alloy window with the sound of coughing, took off his slippers, pressed the windowsill with both hands, jumped up, and stepped on the windowsill with both feet. Looking down, the 10-meter-high vertical steep wall is covered with concrete, without any soft bedding on the ground, and there are no climbing facilities such as pipe racks on the surface of the wall.

Turning around, Qi Bing looked up, there was also an aluminum alloy window on the wall about 1.5 meters high, Qi Bing standing on the windowsill suddenly straightened his back outward, and then tightly hooked the frame of the aluminum alloy window above with his bare right foot, freed his handcuffed hands, and slowly raised his hands above his head along the wall attached to his chest and straightened it, but the tips of his fingers were nearly 30 cm away from the window sill above, and at this time his entire body was almost completely suspended outside the wall, and he could fall down at any time, which was extremely dangerous!

Qi Bing maintained this chilling posture for a full 5 seconds...... Suddenly, I saw him retract his right foot hooked on the window frame, and only the front half of the soles of his left and right feet stepped on the outer edge of the window sill, and his heels were completely suspended, and at the same time, his legs quickly bent his body and squatted down and then bounced upwards violently...... After the body stopped swaying and swinging left and right a few times, Qi Bing began to pull up his body against the smooth wall with his arm strength little by little, when his head crossed the edge of the window sill, his arms slammed again, and the palms of his hands were supported on the window sill, and then tightened his abdominal muscles to drive his right leg up on the window sill, and then his hands and feet worked together, and his body jumped up again, Qi Bing was already standing on the window sill, and this series of actions just now can be described as one go.

At this time, there was an exclamation in the toilet downstairs, and Qi Bing quickly opened the unlocked aluminum alloy window, and when the window downstairs poked his head out, Qi Bing had jumped into the bathroom.

Taking advantage of the chaos downstairs, Qi Bing quickly sneaked through the corridor into the unmanned medical duty room opposite, and closed the door casually.

By the moonlight, Qi Bing tore off one side of a cardboard box stacked on the ground, tore it into several pieces, and then stuffed these pieces of cardboard under the handcuff rings and pressed against the skin of his wrists, and tried to use a little strength with both hands, but the pieces of cardboard did not slip out. Qi Bing looked around again, stepped forward and pushed an iron frame for infusion erected by the door to the wall and pressed it with his knees, raised his hands, and aimed the chain hole in the middle of the handcuffs at a thick iron hook with a sharp head at the upper end of the iron frame...... He took a deep breath, bowed his back exaggeratedly, and suddenly, his body drove his arms to smash down violently and rapidly, and with a "bang", the chain between the handcuffs was torn alive.

Qi Bing shook his hands a few times to get free, walked a few steps to a group of disinfection cabinets in the room, opened the cabinet doors one by one, and found a set of protective clothing behind one of the doors, so he took it out and put it directly on the outside of the hospital gown, and put on a protective mask.

At this time, the walls of the house are illuminated by the light outside the window...... Qi Bing walked to the window and looked out of the building: he saw the roof lights of the police car on the ground swaying back and forth, the headlights illuminating half of the yard, and a group of people walking around and shouting, mixed with the noise of car engines, was noisy.

Qi Bing raised his hand and folded off a thin wire tied to the curtain above his head, wrapped it around his fist a few times and put it in his trouser pocket, turned around and put a piece of medical bamboo and wood tongue depressor from the sanitary box on the table into his jacket pocket. After doing this, Qi Bing walked to a table, stood quietly, calmed his breathing, and then picked up the phone on the table and pressed the numbers 1, 3, and 3......

The mobile phone in Zhang Chongbin's hand suddenly vibrate, he hurriedly answered, and a familiar voice came from his ear: "Chongbin, I'm Qi Bing, I want to see you now." ”

"You're out?! Where are you now? Zhang Chongbin asked in surprise.

"You go to the caretaker's villa, and when we meet there, I can see you."

"Okay, wait for me, I'll go right over."

The Hyundai sedan suddenly started, jumped out of the alley and sped off the main road......

Qi Bing hung up the phone, tidied up his mask and walked out of the duty room. When he came to the elevator, he pressed the button, the elevator opened, and Qi Bing dodged in. After a while, the elevator doors slowly opened again on the first floor...... A team of armed policemen wearing masks and several heavily armed armed policemen appeared, as well as two police dogs with tongues and eyes shining majestic, and the policeman headed by was Captain Liu of the criminal police team.

Qi Bing and Captain Liu looked at each other for a moment, and Qi Bing kept his composure and calmly walked out from Captain Liu's side. Captain Liu took several police officers and police dogs into the elevator, and the elevator door slowly closed.

In the corridor of the entrance hall and the courtyard outside the building, some medical personnel wearing protective clothing and holding flashlights are hurriedly going in and out, Qi Bing is mixed in, he goes around to the site where the vehicle is parked in the courtyard, observes around, and when no one pays attention to him, he quickly approaches a "Santana" parked next to the ambulance, according to the door on the side of the steering wheel, takes out a bamboo and wood tongue depressor from his pocket, inserts it along the rubber strip outside the window door, pries open a gap, and then takes out a thin wire from his trouser pocket, straightens the wire, Use your fingers to twist one end into a semi-circular arc of the hook, and then slightly fold the hook out of an angle, and then the wire along the top of the door was pried open, attached to the inner glass inserted in, until the hook hooked the bottom of the window a black raised round head rod, and then slowly pull the wire upward, while the other hand pulled the handle of the door outward, "click", the door opened.

Qi Bing got into the car and closed the door casually, he first found the horn wire, twisted it on the spot, and then pulled the steering wheel with a steel tong-like hand, tore open the outer sheath, pulled out the car ignition wire from the inside, connected the two wires, and the car started "suddenly"...... From unlocking to starting the car, everything is done in just 2 minutes.

At this time, the corridor on the fifth floor of the hospital building suddenly lit up, and a team of armed police officers quickly ran along the corridor on the fifth floor in the direction of the bathroom.

At the same time, Santana slowly slipped out of the parking space, and when several medical personnel and armed police in the courtyard turned their heads and looked into the car with surprised eyes, "Santana" suddenly accelerated out of the hospital gate with a bang and galloped away along the road......

After a while, three police cars whistled in the direction of the hospital.

Santana made a series of turns and lane changes at a high speed, and the sirens behind her became weaker and weaker......

3 Lost in the Night

At nearly 2 o'clock in the morning, in front of the still lonely and gloomy villa with a bleak moonlight like frost, a Santana and a Hyundai were parked head-to-head. The door of the Hyundai car opened, and Zhang Chongbin walked out of the car; Santana's car door opened, and a man in a hazmat suit stepped out of it.

"Qi Bing!" Zhang Chongbin shouted, walked a few steps and hugged Qi Bing.

Qi Bing patted Zhang Chongbin's back fiercely, and said in a somewhat hoarse voice: "Chongbin, I finally saw you!" ”

Through the hazy moonlight, Zhang Chongbin looked at Qi Bing carefully, Qi Bing's focused eyes were still shining with sharp light, Zhang Chongbin smiled: "How did you come out?" How do you dress like an astronaut? ”

"Came out of the SARS hospital. Chongbin, I'm afraid this will hurt you. Qi Bing replied.

"What? You don't really get SARS, do you? ”

"Not really."

"Then don't say that to me. You can't stay here for long, so get in the car with me! Zhang Chongbin patted Qi Bing's shoulder.

"Let's drive our own cars, first to the mountainous and forested area over there, I have something to say to you." Qi Bing pointed north with his hand.

The two immediately returned to the car, the engines of the two cars started at the same time, both cars did not turn on the lights, and traveled on the undulating mountain road, after crossing a railroad track, not far in front of them was a factory outer courtyard wall, along the road of the outer wall, the two cars went straight to the neighboring mountain forest......

After driving some distance into the forest, there is no road ahead. The car stopped, and Qi Bing ran out of the car and quickly got into Zhang Chongbin's car.

Zhang Chongbin asked, "Qi Bing, what kind of place is this?" ”

"I don't know very well, but when I passed by this factory just now, I saw that the sign on the factory gate seemed to say something 'vehicle factory'."

"There's the clothes you're wearing in the bag, you change them first. Is this place safe? Zhang Chongbin pointed to a travel bag in the back seat, and then asked.

"There should be no problem for the time being." AS HE SPOKE, QI BING QUICKLY TOOK OFF HIS PROTECTIVE CLOTHING AND HOSPITAL GOWN, AND CHANGED INTO A FULL SET OF ADIDAS SPORTSWEAR. Then, I began to figure out how to remove the handcuff rings from my wrists. Zhang Chongbin took out a pair of pliers and a small bag of metal decorations of different lengths and thicknesses for women from his trouser pocket and threw them to Qi Bing, saying, "Let's see if there are any usable ones?" ”

"Hey! It's so well prepared. Qi Bing was happy when he opened it, and his hands became busy.

Zhang Chongbin looked around through the car window, looked at his watch again, and then turned his head and said: "Qi Bing, at this time, it is estimated that all the road intersections have been set up for inspection, and the 210 National Highway, which is not far from here, cannot be on, if not, you can abandon the car and go into the mountain." ”

Qi Bing had already removed the handcuff rings on his wrists at this time, and after listening to Zhang Chongbin's words, he was silent for a moment, then leaned over to Zhang Chongbin and asked, "It should be more than 2 o'clock in the morning, right?" ”

"Yes."

"I don't plan to leave Guiyang tonight."

"What?!" Zhang Chongbin was taken aback, "Qi Bing, I have prepared the money, ID card, and mobile phone for you, you don't have to worry." ”

"It's not because of this. Do you know? I ran away like this, which only shows that I am a real murderer and a fugitive! But I'm not, I've been wronged! Qi Bing's eyes widened, looking a little excited.

"I know, I believe in you! But Qi Bing, now you are on the cusp of the storm, and your situation is very dangerous, and we heroes will not suffer immediate losses. Listen to me, stay out of the limelight for a while, and I'll help you clarify all this! Zhang Chongbin looked at Qi Bing's eyes and said.

"It's not that simple! My good brother, I will never forget your kindness to me. In this way, you drive back quickly, when you pass by that villa, just let me down, and I'll contact you 133 when I get back. ”

"Do you still have the leisure to go back to that place? What the hell do you want to do?! Zhang Chongbin was a little anxious.

"Don't worry, I also carried out arrest missions when I was an armed police officer in the past, and I know how to protect myself, but I didn't think about it now...... Shame on you! Chongbin, do you know? At this time, I had a ghost affair that night, and I wanted to find out what was going on in that house, and I was worried that I wouldn't have a better chance when I left here. ”

"You're not in a hurry, are you? Well, I was just like to hear from you about what the hell happened that night! Let's talk as we go. Zhang Chongbin started the car and quickly returned along the road he came.

In fact, after hearing Qi Bing's explanation, Zhang Chongbin was also moved. In the past two days, he has been looking for an opportunity to go to this terrifying "ghost" building in person to see what is strange in the house. Besides, isn't there a saying? "The more dangerous the place, the safer". At this time, Zhang Chongbin already had this judgment in his heart: Qi Bing's car is estimated to be discovered soon, which will make the arresters think that Qi Bing has run into the deep mountains and old forests. Since there will be a blockage check at the intersection of the national highway now, wouldn't it be safer to take a detour back to a remote place?

The car was moving in bumps, and Qi Bing, who was sitting next to Zhang Chongbin in a muffled voice, suddenly said: "Chongbin, do you say that there are 'ghosts' in this world?" ”

"If you believe it, you don't believe it, so let's talk about it, what happened to you that night?"

"That night...... Now that I think about it, if it weren't for my own experience, who would have said that there is such a thing in the world, I wouldn't have believed it at all...... These days, whenever I wake up, I think I'm having a nightmare! Qi Bing said in a low voice, and the person seemed a little in a trance.

"That woman, how could she be in the house?" Zhang Chongbin interjected.

"The woman...... No, that's not a normal person! Maybe she's not human at all! Qi Bing said with a sigh.

"Is it a 'ghost'? You got into a 'ghost' at night?! Zhang Chongbin turned his head and looked at Qi Bing with a puzzled face. Qi Bing didn't answer, he sat aside without saying a word......

Suddenly, Zhang Chongbin slammed on the brakes, and the car stopped suddenly.

"No, we seem to be on the wrong track." Through the car window, Zhang Chongbin found that the surrounding terrain was unfamiliar.

"yes, that doesn't seem right...... I remember coming over a railroad track. Qi Bing, who came back to his senses, looked around and said.

Zhang Chongbin felt very strange, he obviously drove along the road he came, why did he have no road after the car rushed over an uphill slope? If it hadn't been for the timely braking, the car would have crashed into a pine tree less than 2 meters away from the front of the car. The two of them got out of the car and looked around at their surroundings: the car was parked on a narrow downhill dirt road, which was suddenly blocked by a few masson pine trees in front of them, and behind the trees was an impenetrable black forest. Look to the left side of the road: not far away, there is a large woodland that appears to be empty, and it is covered with broken trees. The two of them walked over together to take a closer look, and it turned out that the broken trees were actually dead stumps without bark.

"Why is it so quiet?" Qi Bing muttered.

At this time, Zhang Chongbin also noticed that in addition to the "rustling" sound made by kicking and stepping on dead branches and weeds when walking, the entire mountain forest was surprisingly silent, as if the air had stopped flowing. He looked at the table below, and it turned out to be 2:32, and it was only 4 minutes since the last time he looked at the watch!

"Did it take only 4 minutes to drive for so long? No, there should be something wrong with this watch. Zhang Chongbin quickly made a judgment, and at the same time, beckoned Qi Bing to hurry back to the car.

"What's going on? The car didn't catch fire. Starting again, Zhang Chongbin found that the car was out of order, Qi Bing came over and tried it, but the car still couldn't start.

Zhang Chongbin glanced at Qi Bing and said, "Abandon the car!" Qi Bing hurriedly put the changed clothes and two handcuff rings into his travel bag, and jumped out of the car with Zhang Chongbin.

Zhang Chongbin stood next to the car and took off his jacket, spread it on the grass next to the left window, and then touched a stone from the grass not far away, and smashed it into the window when he came to the car, and the broken glass suddenly fell on the jacket on the ground with a "bang". After committing this act of sabotage, Zhang Chongbin crouched down and wrapped the broken glass ballast that had burst on the ground along with the stone in a jacket and put it in Qi Bing's travel bag.

Seeing this, Qi Bing immediately got into the car and pulled out the car key and handed it to Zhang Chongbin, then turned around and returned to the car, took out the iron pliers to tear open the outer packaging leather of the car lock, and then pulled out the ignition wire inside, and finally, he wiped the entire steering wheel and the inside and outside handles of the left and right doors with his cuffs.

At this moment, Zhang Chongbin looked up at the Big Dipper constellation in the night sky, and when Qi Bing returned to his side, Zhang Chongbin pointed to the handle of the constellation and said: "Qi Bing, we drove north from the villa to this side, and now we should go south, south...... It should be in this direction. ”

After locking the bearing, look south of the jungle, and not only will you pass through the wooded field, but also through the dark mountain forest behind the field.

Qi Bing picked up his duffel bag and took the lead in trotting into the woodland, followed by Zhang Chongbin......

After passing through the forest field and entering the dense mountain forest, the two of them felt that they had returned to real nature. These are two completely different feelings, in the broken forest site, as if you are trapped in a closed circle of seclusion, and there is no other living creature to be seen except these two large living people; The mountains and forests outside the circle have maintained a good natural wild form, the jungle is deep in the foliage, wild grasses are overgrown, and the sudden "visit" of strangers obviously alarmed the "masters" here, and from time to time there will be some small animals that can't see what they are around the two fast-moving figures.

After about 10 minutes of rapid travel, Qi Bing, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped. Zhang Chongbin hurried two steps to Qi Bing's side, and couldn't help but be stunned...... In front of the two of them, there was a large piece of broken tree stumps!

"Could it be that after walking for a long time, you actually went around in circles?!" Zhang Chongbin couldn't help but ask himself in surprise, but he soon found that this broken woodland was not the one he had just crossed, because there was no broken down abandoned car around. "Good woods, why are they cut down like this? If you want to cut it, you have to cut it from the root, how can you cut it from the waist more than a meter high? And it's not a series of regular felling! Although there were these questions at that time, but the time was pressing, Zhang Chongbin did not think about it, and according to the direction suggested by the Big Dipper, the two of them crossed this woodland again and continued to travel south.

The sky in the south is changing, the night sky that was clear just now was overcast unconsciously, a gust of mountain wind blew, the sky suddenly sprinkled a slight drizzle, and the clothes on Zhang Chongbin and Qi Bing gradually became wet......

After walking for about seven or eight minutes, I suddenly heard Qi Bing shouting in front of him: "Look, there it is!" Following the direction of Qi Bing's finger, Zhang Chongbin saw a lonely house sitting on the low-lying flat land not far ahead—it was the villa they were going to, and the two of them actually walked out of the jungle behind the back of the house.

4 Haunted house evidence

The rain was pouring down, and the gloomy villa ahead seemed to be shrouded in a wet and hazy mist.

When approaching the house, Qi Bing's movements became extremely cautious, he went around to the south side of the house, then put the luggage in his hand on the ground, and whispered to Zhang Chongbin: "Chongbin, I will enter through this upper window in a while, and you will wait for me outside." ”

"What are you kidding? I'm here to give you a look?! Zhang Chongbin said with a glaring eye.

"I'm worried about ......," Qi Bing hesitated.

"What is there to worry about! Why, do you think I'm a soft persimmon if I don't practice now? Tell you, Qi Bing, now that we are going to fight you alone, we really don't necessarily take advantage. Besides, I'm not more professional than you in this investigation? Listen to me and go in together. Zhang Chongbin waved vigorously at Qi Bing.

"Okay then, but, once inside, no matter what the unthinkable happens, we have to be calm and trust each other." Qi Bing admonished again.

"This is exactly what I want to say to you, Qi Bing, why are you so instigated, go in quickly, it will be dawn after a while." Zhang Chongbin urged.

Qi Bing stopped talking, turned around, and went up to the window on the second floor of the villa with the help of Zhang Chongbin's hand "rubbing" a few times, turned around and grabbed the window edge with one hand, and stretched out to Zhang Chongbin with the other...... Zhang Chongbin leaned over and took out the iron pliers from the luggage on the ground and pinned them to his waist, then grabbed Qi Bing's hand and climbed up.

Qi Bing tried to push the window, but he didn't push it open, and then climbed up again, and in a blink of an eye, he went to the roof, and Zhang Chongbin also followed. The roof is a regular triangle with a slope of about 50 degrees on all sides, and there is a square glass skylight on the northwest slope. Qi Bing walked over and put his feet on the frame edge on one side of the skylight, and then suddenly stepped down, and the other side of the skylight turned up, revealing a black hole...... Zhang Chongbin rushed over and leaned down to listen, but didn't hear any movement, so the two jumped down the hole one after another.

Suddenly entering the room from the outside, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything clearly, Zhang Chongbin asked in a low voice, "What is this place?" ”

"The attic on the top floor, follow me, there's a staircase in front to go down." Qi Bing replied, and after speaking, he tiptoed forward with his hands on the sloping wall...... At this moment, some of the structural outlines of this dark attic can be vaguely seen, and the two of them came to a wooden descending staircase on the side of the attic against the wall, Qi Bing said to Zhang Chongbin beside him: "Below is a living room. Saying that, he slowly stretched out his legs and stepped down, Zhang Chongbin followed closely, and when he was about to go down to the bottom, Qi Bing suddenly stopped, and at the same time raised his right hand backwards suddenly.

Zhang Chongbin reacted immediately, stopped moving, and remained in a stiff position, using only his wide eyes to try to navigate back and forth in the empty and dark room......

"Listen, is there any movement?" Qi Bing whispered.

Let Qi Bing say this, Zhang Chongbin couldn't help but hold his breath and listened carefully. Sure enough, something was faintly heard, first like the sound of someone moving a chair or bed rubbing the floor, and suddenly, a clearer sound came, like a large glass ball falling to the ground and rolling. Strange! How can there be such movement? And it looks like it came from the attic it just passed! Zhang Chongbin suddenly felt a chill in his back, his scalp began to tingle, and he slowly turned his head to look at the staircase behind him...... At this time, he was mentally prepared for this: when he turned around, he saw a person's head popping out of the staircase. What is fear? Zhang Chongbin really has a personal feeling now: he didn't see anything, and there was no bloody scene, but in such a fierce and unfamiliar environment, he vaguely felt that an unknown thing was around him, and he didn't know how dangerous it was, let alone how to defend it, this feeling of being helpless and not knowing what would happen was the most terrifying! At this moment, Zhang Chongbin regretted breaking into this "ghost house" so rashly.

When Zhang Chongbin looked back, his arm was pulled by Qi Bing, and when he turned his head, he saw Qi Bing shaking his head and whispering, "The voice is not from the attic." ”

"But how do I sound like an attic up here? It couldn't be that the skylight didn't close just now, right? Zhang Chongbin turned to the state of consciousness of rational thinking, and only in this way did his inexplicable sense of fear subside, which seemed to be out of instinct.

"Come this way." Qi Bing had already walked down the stairs and moved along the wall towards the diagonal opposite side of the room...... Zhang Chongbin followed and came to a door.

Qi Bing squatted down at this time, untied the laces of the sneakers on his feet, and then tightened them again. Zhang Chongbin took out the iron pliers from his back waist and asked, "You also heard this sound that night, didn't you?" ”

"Yes." Qi Bing stood up again and gently unscrewed the door in front of him, through the half-open gap, Qi Bing pointed to another door not far from the opposite side and lowered his voice and said, "See?" There was a ghost in the room opposite, and the woman was in the house......"

At this time, when I heard Qi Bing mention the "ghost" and that woman, I felt completely different from the daytime, and the coolness that had just diminished in Zhang Chongbin's heart hit him again.

At this time, the "squeak" sound of objects moving and mopping the floor came from some corner of the whole house, Qi Bing clenched his fists, his eyes were firmly fixed on the door opposite, and his chest rose and fell violently...... Suddenly, Qi Bing rushed out and went straight to the opposite door, and when he went up, he kicked it violently, and the door was kicked open with a loud bang!

Everything happened too suddenly, Zhang Chongbin was not mentally prepared at all, he couldn't imagine that Qi Bing would be so "violent". At this time, Qi Bing stood stiffly at the door of the black room, Zhang Chongbin came back to his senses and hurriedly ran over, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he saw a black thing with green eyes flashing from the house...... Zhang Chongbin was startled, and was just about to make a dodge action, when he saw that Qi Bing, who was not moving at all, suddenly popped out his right arm, and hit the black object with a straight fist, only to hear a miserable "meow" - it turned out to be a black cat, and the black cat rebounded directly as if it was hit by a high-speed car.

Immediately afterwards, Qi Bing broke into the house in a few big steps, and as if he was crazy, he punched and kicked in the house in an orderly manner, and all kinds of items in the house were suddenly shattered and fluttered around......

Zhang Chongbin woke up and saw that Qi Bing was endlessly crazy, so he rushed over and hugged him from behind, "What's wrong with you?!" Stop, stop fighting! ”

However, to Zhang Chongbin's surprise, Qi Bing not only did not listen to the persuasion, but slammed his left and right elbows to Zhang Chongbin's ribs, Zhang Chongbin felt a sharp pain in his right chest, and hurriedly jumped away to avoid the fierce elbow that went straight to his left chest. Before he could fully stand firm, Qi Bing turned around and flew up and kicked at Zhang Chongbin's head, Zhang Chongbin instinctively lowered his head, only to hear a "click" behind him, and a wooden stand for hanging clothes was swept away.

What a hanging! If this leg is eaten firmly just now, it is estimated that people will be wasted.

Dodging this fatal blow, Zhang Chongbin's body tensed and quickly rushed forward, close to his position to prevent the other party from pulling back and swinging his legs, and at the same time waved the iron tongs in his hand and smashed it hard at the back of Qi Bing's head...... When he was about to hit it, he suddenly withdrew his hand, and realized that this person couldn't fight!

Zhang Chongbin threw the pliers to the ground and shouted at Qi Bing: "It's me, Qi Bing, why are you really beating with a dead hand?" ”

Qi Bing stared at Zhang Chongbin tightly, as if he didn't know the other party, Zhang Chongbin suddenly sensed a strange murderous aura from this strange look, "It's not good, this 'person' is not Qi Bing!" He couldn't help but secretly clench his fists and confronted Qi Bing nervously...... Zhang Chongbin didn't dare to act rashly, he was worried that Qi Bing would be stimulated by anything else, and he would use himself as a target for violence and results. In the darkness, cold sweat gradually oozed from Zhang Chongbin's forehead and palms...... Suddenly, he remembered what Qi Bing said outside, "No matter what incredible circumstances occur, we must be calm and believe in each other", which meant this way......

At this time, a strange phenomenon that made Zhang Chongbin look at it but couldn't believe it suddenly appeared - the door behind Qi Bing actually swayed back and forth for no reason, and the amplitude gradually increased, and finally it seemed that someone pushed it slammed shut, but Zhang Chongbin did not see the shadow of any other person or animal. At the moment when he closed the door, his eyes were dark and he couldn't see anything, but his body was hit by an oncoming violent thing, Zhang Chongbin stood unsteadily, staggered back a few steps, and fell into a standing cabinet at once.

"There are really 'ghosts' in this house!" Only then did Zhang Chongbin really realize that there was indeed something wrong with this house, and he knew that the moment he was hit on the chest just now must have been given to him by Qi Bing, "Qi Bing must not know what he is doing now, his body and spirit are controlled by something, and he must find a way to take him out of this strange place as soon as possible!" ”

Thinking of this, Zhang Chongbin struggled to stand up, and suddenly his right hand touched a long thing, which felt like a flashlight when he picked it up, and hurriedly fumbled for the switch. A bright light shot out of his hand, and with the light, Zhang Chongbin saw clearly that he was lying in a narrow wooden vertical wardrobe, so he shone into the wardrobe, "My God! His hand shook and he almost threw away his flashlight, and at the end of the wardrobe turned inward, a pair of golden green eyes were staring at him—it was a black cat!

When Zhang Chongbin moved his body outward, the black cat jumped up with a "whoosh" and jumped out of his body......

Zhang Chongbin quickly stood up and hurriedly shone his flashlight into the room...... On the opposite wall, a larger "black cat" was reflected, Qi Bing was in the center of the room, turning his head and half-squatting and half-standing towards Zhang Chongbin, as if he was waiting for something, and was hit by a flashlight, he hurriedly covered his eyes with his hands.

Zhang Chongbin quickly ran past him, rushed to the door and pulled the door open, then turned around and shouted, "Qi Bing, get out of this house quickly!" Qi Bing paused, slowly straightened up, turned around and strode towards Zhang Chongbin......

As Qi Bing approached, Zhang Chongbin couldn't help but take a few steps back, and by the light of the flashlight, he stared at Qi Bing's expression. Qi Bing's expression looked a little painful, he gasped for breath and frowned, but his eyes no longer had that aggressive and fierce light.

Zhang Chongbin then spoke: "Qi Bing, you, are you okay?" ”

Qi Bing shook his head, didn't speak, and was about to turn his head to look into the room behind him, Zhang Chongbin hurriedly grabbed Qi Bing's arm, led him quickly over the black room with the door open, and ran downstairs without looking back. The two quickly rushed down the spiral ladder to the first floor, opened the main entrance of the house and ran out together. As soon as he went out, Qi Bing squatted on the ground in the courtyard and retched, but nothing spit out...... After a while, he got up and walked around to the back of the room with Zhang Chongbin.

"Chongbin, just now, was there something wrong with me, my head is swollen now, why is my body so uncomfortable?" Qi Bing raised his head and looked at Zhang Chongbin, who was standing on the side, and asked.

"You almost killed me, you know?!" Zhang Chongbin replied angrily.

"I ...... What's wrong with me?! Qi Bing's face was confused.

"Okay, let's not talk about Qi Bing. It's not too early, you should find a place to hide first, and you must not enter this house again in the future. As he spoke, Zhang Chongbin looked at the following table: 3:38. My 133 phone is tentatively scheduled to be turned on from 10 to 10:30 every night, you can settle down and tell me quickly, tell me if you need anything, and don't walk around. Also, bring this duffel bag with you, it contains what you need, and remember, hurry up and dispose of your changed clothes. Zhang Chongbin said as he took out the jacket from his travel bag.

"I don't know, when will we see each other again? I don't know when the truth will come out. Chongbin, I'm ......" Qi Bing choked up as he spoke, his eyes filled with tears.

"Qi Bing, don't worry, I will definitely help you clear your name, remember what I just said, and take care of yourself on the road." After hugging tightly again, Zhang Chongbin and Qi Bing went their separate ways......