In the cellar, Tang Qianlin, Ni Xiaowan, and Li Yunfan stood in front of Xiao Tianjun, watching him throw the piece of meat cut from the charred corpse into the beaker.

Xiao Tianjun watched the reaction of the charred meat in the liquid, and then said, "I can't find it unless you bring the corpse to me." ”

Li Yunfan crossed his waist and said, "How is that possible?" ”

Xiao Tianjun raised his eyes again and asked, "Did the epidemic prevention and water supply unit go to the scene?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "No, no, I should say I don't know." ”

Ni Xiaowan asked, "What?" Do you suspect that this case has anything to do with that unit? ”

Tang Qianlin turned around and sat down: "I made a bold guess......"

Ni Xiaowan and Li Yunfan gathered around Tang Qianlin, and Li Yunfan asked, "What speculation?" You talk about it. ”

"The 016 project is indeed done by the Xuan Ministry, but we don't know what the motive is, and we can't guess according to the clues at hand, but they have a way to burn people to death on the premise of keeping their original appearance unchanged, and the Kwantung Army is very interested in this, after examining the body, what was found, so they immediately started experimenting, and the object of the experiment was Guan Xinyue and the guys in his shop." Tang Qianlin sat there and speculated, "But they failed, so they moved the bodies of Guan Xinyue and his companions back to their original places, and let us investigate." ”

Ni Xiaowan pondered for a moment and asked, "Why did you choose Guan Xinyue?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "At this point, I am also very puzzled, is it because Old Tang went to look for Guan Xinyue before?" ”

Ni Xiaowan said: "There's no reason, just because Uncle Shi went to find Guan Xinyue before, do you have to kill him?" Guan Xinyue knows a lot of useful information, and the Japanese have to rely on my uncle, isn't killing him equivalent to digging a pit and burying it by yourself? ”

Li Yunfan looked at Tang Qianlin and asked, "Old Tang, what do you think?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "I think the key point is still the fellow who helped the Japanese, I think, this person must also know Guan Xinyue, he knows that I can't get more news from Guan Xinyue, in order to kill people and kill people, and in order to quickly advance the whole thing, so he killed Guan Xinyue, so Guan Xinyue will not have a chance to tell me who is the mastermind behind the scenes." ”

Ni Xiaowan said: "Why do the Japanese trust the mastermind behind the scenes? Led by the nose by him? ”

Tang Qianlin shook his head: "On the premise of not knowing his motives, we can only be led by his nose." ”

When the three of them were discussing, Yi Mochen led Xia Shuang down, didn't greet the others, didn't speak, just led Xia Shuang into the secret room below.

"Yunfan, accompany me to the horse club, and I'll pick up Zicheng back." Tang Qianlin got up and walked out, then stopped and turned to look at Ni Xiaowan, "You wait here, don't go anywhere." ”

Saying that, Tang Qianlin glanced at Xiao Tianjun intentionally or unintentionally, and left with Li Yunfan.

On the way to the Jockey Club, Li Yunfan asked while driving: "You seem to be a little strange in the past few days." ”

Tang Qianlin looked ahead and said, "Do you think Quan Qianzhang and Fu Beixue are still alive?" ”

Li Yunfan glanced at Tang Qianlin: "I'm still alive, I said, I'm an atheist." ”

"I used to be too, but after that incident, I was a little skeptical." Tang Qianlin's brows tightened, "I'm wondering if some of my thoughts and opinions in the past are correct, and I've even thought about whether to go back to the Seven Star Cave and find out what's going on?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "Didn't you say that? There are a lot of unexplained things in this world, and I'll give you an example, if I tell anyone on the street that I've seen a centipede bigger than a horse, and I was almost killed by a ghost lantern, do you think they'll believe me? ”

Tang Qianlin was silent.

Li Yunfan shook his head and said: "In their eyes, what we have experienced is already inexplicable, just like someone told us for sure that he had seen ghosts and zombies. The reason why people are superstitious is because there are so many things that cannot be explained. ”

Tang Qianlin just said lightly: "Maybe." ”

When the car arrived at the door of the Jockey Club, Tang Qianlin raised his eyes and saw He Chenxue hurriedly walking out with a group of Baxiangmen disciples.

Tang Qianlin hurriedly got out of the car, greeted him and said, "I'll pick up Zicheng." ”

"I'm in a bit of a hurry to do it, you can come to Liufu to pick him up later." He Chenxue was about to get into the car, but stopped again, "Don't worry, he's fine, and he's gained weight." ”

Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan stood there, watching He Chenxue's car drive out for a distance, and then reversed.

He Chenxue opened the car window and looked at Tang Qianlin: "If I'm not mistaken, you are now a member of the Security Bureau, right?" ”

Tang Qianlin nodded: "Sort of." ”

He Chenxue stretched out his hand: "Do you have any documents?" ”

Li Yunfan took out his documents, but He Chenxue said, "I want him." ”

Tang Qianlin hesitated and took out the certificate that Park Byung-jung gave him.

He Chenxue carefully identified the documents: "The photo on it doesn't look much like you?" ”

Tang Qianlin looked into the distance and said, "What are you going to do?" ”

He Chenxue returned the documents to Tang Qianlin: "I want to report the case, the homicide case, the two of you will go to the scene with me." ”

As she spoke, He Chenxue closed the window, and the car drove away.

Li Yunfan was stunned: "What do you mean by your wife?" ”

"She said there had been a homicide, she wanted to report it, and let's go to the scene with her." After Tang Qianlin finished speaking, he remembered something again, "I repeat it again, she, no, yes, I, wife!" ”

Li Yunfan and Tang Qianlin drove to follow He Chenxue to a warehouse by the river.

Outside the warehouse, there were many disciples of the Eight Phases Gate, many of whom were still wearing leather uniforms from the Security Bureau, and when they saw Li Yunfan getting out of the car, these people subconsciously turned their heads and pretended not to see.

Although they belong to the people of the Security Bureau, their nature is similar to that of supernumerary secret agents, and they also do some things that are in line with the interests of the Eight Phases Gate under the banner of the Security Bureau on weekdays.

Tang Qianlin stood there and said, "I'm very strange, what is the relationship between Baxiangmen and your Security Bureau?" ”

"Exchange of interests." Li Yunfan said in a low voice, "Although most of the sources of funds for the Security Bureau are from the government, many of them have been deducted and taken away by the Japanese, so we will obtain funds from other channels." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "For example, it is said that it is in the same stream with the Eight Phases Gate? ”

He Chenxue walked over: "You wait here, I'll go in to see the situation, if you need it, you can go in, if you don't need it, you can go back." ”

After He Chenxue finished speaking, without waiting for the two to say anything, she turned around and walked into the warehouse.

Tang Qianlin looked at He Chenxue's back: "The gold lord speaks in a loud tone, and he can directly order the people of the Security Bureau." ”

Li Yunfan lit a cigarette: "This warehouse is a smoke house under the eight-phase gate. ”

Tang Qianlin said: "I remember that the puppet Manchurian government seems to have announced a ban on opium since last year, right?" ”

"Many years ago, the Japanese set up a place in Dalian called Hongji Shan Tang, which was ostensibly a charity, but this place was divided into two departments, the Ministry of Charity and the Department of Smoking Cessation, but in fact, it was a legal opium trade under the sign of charity." Li Yunfan smoked his cigarette, "Later, after they supported Pu Yi to get out of the puppet Manchu government, they promulgated the so-called "Opium Law" ......."

The "Opium Law" promulgated by the puppet Manchu government has a total of 22 articles, although at first glance it appears to be to prohibit opium, but in fact it is to legalize opium and even encourage the people to smoke opium. For example, the ordinance stipulates that opium smoking is not restricted by the opium if the government deems it medically necessary; Opium may not be manufactured except in the government, except for those who have been permitted to grow opium poppy, and so on.

Because of the huge benefits brought by opium, the Japanese implemented a special opium system, designated the Police Department of the Ministry of Health of the puppet Manchurians to be responsible for the formulation of opium policies, and designated the security departments, police stations, police sections, health departments, health departments, and health departments of the provinces, cities, and counties of the puppet Manchurians to be jointly responsible for the opium monopoly policies in their respective regions.

Li Yunfan said: "Five years ago, opium accounted for 0.2 percent of the fiscal revenue of the puppet Manchu government, and now, it has accounted for 5 percent of the fiscal revenue, and the number of registered smokers is as high as more than 800,000. There are more than three thousand, large and small, and what you see is just one of them. ”

Tang Qianlin said: "After the ban policy came out, it was inconvenient for the government to come forward to operate, so it was handed over to these gangs of Baxiangmen?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "Yes, that's what it means, give us protection money on schedule, don't underestimate it, think about it, it accounts for 5% of the revenue of the Ministry of Finance, even if it is distributed to the local security bureau, the amount is not small." ”

At this time, He Chenxue walked out of the warehouse and waved his hand at Tang Qianlin.

"Let's go, go in and see what's going on." Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan walked towards the door of the warehouse smoke house.

As soon as he walked into the smoke house, Tang Qianlin smelled the unique sweet smell of opium, which was mixed with other stenches, which made people sick to their stomachs.

In the huge warehouse, there are dozens of beds and floor bunks, divided into three areas, the area on the left is all ground bunks, and the beds on the right are all earthen kangs, according to the money of different people, different areas are allocated.

But at this moment, the warehouse was eerily quiet, and the smokers were all curled up on the kang and on the floor, not making a sound or lighting a cigarette.

He Chenxue walked up to the nearest earthen kang to her: "Everyone here is dead. ”

Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan immediately stepped forward and found that the person on the kang showed the same posture as the dead on the 016 special train, looking like he had been burned to death.

Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan glanced at each other, Li Yunfan put on gloves and examined them, while Tang Qianlin walked to the side bunk to check on another corpse, and at the same time counted the number of dead smokers here.

He Chenxue stood by and looked at him strangely, and asked, "How do you seem to know what happened?" ”

The two of them didn't answer, and they went about their own things.

Ten minutes later, Tang Qianlin returned to Li Yunfan: "There are 32 dead, and the posture is the same as the last time I saw it, it looks like they were all burned to death." ”

Li Yunfan looked at the corpse on the earthen kang beside him: "I have to confirm it again." ”

Tang Qianlin turned to He Chenxue and said, "President He, please take your people out first." ”

He Chenxue didn't move the place: "This is the place of the Eight Phases Gate, and we also have an agreement with the Security Bureau, there is an accident inside the Eight Phases Gate, and the Security Bureau cannot avoid us to investigate alone." ”

Li Yunfan nodded towards Tang Qianlin, indicating that what He Chenxue said was indeed the truth.

Tang Qianlin had no choice but to say, "Then let your men go out first." ”

He Chenxue turned her head to look at the disciples, and the disciples nodded and turned around to leave the smoke house, closing the door casually.

Tang Qianlin pressed the mechanism, ejected the hidden phoenix blade, flipped the corpse on the earthen kang to one side, and then cut the knife from his chest to the lower part of his abdomen.

After the knife, only a small amount of blood flowed out, and when his chest and abdomen were fully opened, they saw that the man's internal organs had been burned black and completely charred.

When He Chenxue saw this scene, she was stunned and didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

Li Yunfan frowned and said, "Sure enough." ”

Tang Qianlin wiped the hidden phoenix blade and took it back: "It's exactly the same." ”

Li Yunfan said: "I'm completely confused now, what's going on?" ”

The two were talking, when they suddenly heard the sound of something being knocked down in the dark in the distance of the smoke hall, Li Yunfan immediately pulled out his gun and walked slowly with Tang Qianlin.

In the dark corner, Li Yunfan saw a skinny smoker who looked like a dry corpse.

The smoker looked at them with a look of horror.

Li Yunfan held a gun and asked, "Who are you?" What is your name? What for? ”

"Wang Dacai, why are you here?" He Chenxue stepped forward and looked at the person who looked like a smoker, "I'm sending people to look for you everywhere." ”

The smoker named Wang Dacai swallowed his spit and said, "President He, it's none of my business, I'm just having diarrhea, so I'll go to the thatched house, and when I come back, everyone is dead, I'm scared, I don't know what happened, so I ran away." ”

Tang Qianlin asked, "Ran away?" So what are you doing when you come back? ”

Wang Dacai didn't speak, He Chenxue stepped forward and kicked him to the ground, and when Wang Dacai fell, a few cigarette pieces rolled out of his clothes.

Wang Dacai smiled awkwardly, bowed his head and didn't dare to speak.

Tang Qianlin squatted down and picked up a cigarette paste and asked, "You recall the details and tell me." ”

Wang Dacai looked at He Chenxue, and He Chenxue said, "I will answer whatever I ask you." ”

Wang Dacai slowly helped the kang next to him to stand up: "I was squatting in the corner, and suddenly my stomach was a little uncomfortable, so I went to the thatched house, and when I came back from the thatched house, I continued to squat there......"

Tang Qianlin asked: "Everyone else is lying down, why are you squatting?" ”

Wang Dacai smiled awkwardly and didn't explain.

He Chenxue explained on the side: "He used to be a smoker here, but then he had no money and didn't work, so he came to rub cigarettes every day, and sometimes squatted there to smell." ”

Opium has plagued this country for hundreds of years, and it is still like this. Tang Qianlin thought to himself, looking at Wang Dacai's appearance, and then looking at the almost dry bodies of those dead smokers here, it was extremely chilling.

Li Yunfan said: "You continue." ”

Wang Dacai said: "After I came back, I saw those people and began to struggle and scream there, I was so scared that I quickly ran away." ”

He Chenxue said on the side: "After my people found out that they couldn't save those smokers, they quickly notified me, and when I asked if there was any life, my subordinates remembered Wang Dacai who was present, but the others were gone." ”

Saying that, He Chenxue looked at Wang Dacai and said, "You are so bold that you dare to come back and steal cigarette paste." ”

Wang Dacai swallowed his saliva, looking like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water.

Tang Qianlin and Li Yunfan both know that once they become addicted to smoking, let alone come back to steal tobacco paste, you let him cut off his hands and feet, and he will dare to sell his wife and children.

Li Yunfan looked around: "The key question is, how did the murderer kill people?" ”

Tang Qianlin stood there and thought for a long time, and said to He Chenxue, "Call the person in charge here." ”

He Chenxue turned around and shouted towards the door, "Call the old turtle in." ”