The old dog's words made us all stunned, what did he mean he had seen it too? Could it be that the activation of the stone statue happened before this?

In our surprised eyes, the old dog said: "I met once when I was working with the six groups before, but because I was the only one present at the time, the leader of the six groups thought I was joking, and then I thought I had hallucinations, and there was something really wrong around me at that time, I really thought that I had fallen into an illusion, and after listening to Xiao Wang today, I reacted, this is not an illusion." ”

Wang Zhengqing and I exchanged glances, and then asked the old dog to tell the details of the time he encountered the stone statue before.

"Details."

The old dog thought for a while, and then said: "There are no details to say, I remember that it was the altar in the world, at that time they had already left, leaving me to finish at the scene, I was on the altar at the time, and suddenly felt something move behind me, and when I turned around, I found that the stone statue had smashed the entire incense case, not only that, but he also crushed all the things scattered on the altar, as if he was ...... As if destroying the evidence. ”

"Gone?" I hurriedly asked.

The old dog shook his head and said no, "Then he was back to his original state." ”

"And did you find anything on the altar, in those things he crushed?"

The old dog shook his head again.

"Nope." He said: "It's just some miscellaneous small objects, all of which are ornaments on the altar, these things should have been collected by them, the small villa near Bibo Lake you are talking about should be a temporary stronghold that they have set up a long time ago, at the beginning I was thinking about where so many exhibits were stored, and now I think about it, it should all be transferred to this stronghold where you went." ”

"They didn't explain it to you?" I asked.

"No, not even everyone in the six groups knows everything about this task."

Listening to the old dog say this, I feel that we are the ones who are caught in the middle, and the most difficult thing to do.

I can't agree with this way of the Spiritual Crime Team, of course, I know that they must have their own considerations for doing this, for example, for the secrecy of the mission, so that the possibility of the mission being leaked will be greatly reduced, but the agents who will carry out this mission will doubt the rationality of their own actions in their hearts, and even feel that they are being excluded.

I told me this idea, and the old dog told me that it was very common in them, and Wang Zhengqing also said: "Every mission, we receive a different briefing, and it is also forbidden to check each other's mission briefings, once found or reported, then they will be punished very severely." ”

"Isn't there no human rights?" I don't understand that.

However, Wang Zhengqing told me that after joining the case filing team, they swore an oath as early as the moment they joined, gave up their rights, and unconditionally obeyed the fate arranged by the organization.

"It's completely unequal, you stupid, why do you swear such an ordinance?" I asked.

The old dog disagreed with my statement, he said: "Zhang Yao, you only took into account human rights, but did not take into account that obeying orders is the duty of a soldier, and the situation of our spiritual case team is a little more complicated, so obeying orders is also our duty, although it is indeed violated in terms of human rights, but in general, this does help to solve the efficiency of the case." ”

"So if I join the spirit team in the future, I also need to take an oath like this?"

Hearing me say this, Lao Gou and Wang Zhengqing both nodded, and I suddenly began to hesitate, my original intention of joining the spirit case team was just to solve an unsolved case like this, but if joining is tantamount to selling my body, then I would rather choose not to join.

However, it is obviously not a question of whether to join or not to join in the future, and it is still one thing whether people want me or not, so I chose to change the topic and re-shift the topic to the revitalization of the stone statue.

We were all curious as to why the members of Group 6 didn't take the old dog's words at that time, and even took this as a starting point.

Lao Gou is also an experienced detective, not to talk nonsense, but still able to distinguish between fantasy and reality, when he was in the ghost market of Xinjiang, he could see it when he fought with the people of Tianquan.

"Could it be that there were already potential internal ghosts in the 6 groups at the beginning, so the news was not passed on?" I asked.

The old dog shook his head and continued: "This can be ruled out, because I told the leader of Group 6 directly, but he said that this must be my eyes, how can a good stone statue become a big living person." ”

Immediately after that, the old dog asked us what we saw at the research base in Bibo Lake.

I said that we didn't see the actual activation of the stone statues, but we saw them in the video footage, and when they scanned it with a scanner, they could see the location of the heart and brain, and there were signs of fever.

"I still think it's a bit like a dream." The old dog said, "Although I have seen it with my own eyes, it is too unreal, a stone is a stone, and man is flesh and blood." ”

Wang Zhengqing also shook his head and said that he didn't dare to believe it, but the facts were in front of us, so we couldn't believe it.

My attitude is the same, fortunately, now the estrangement between the three of us has been resolved, so there is no information not to share, but the snuffbox matter, since Wang Zhengqing did not mention it, I also did not mention it, after all, this matter is quite mysterious, so far there are no relevant signs on Tianquan's side and the spirit case team, so we don't need to look for trouble.

However, after discussing for a long time, I found that there is still no specific implementation method for this case, after all, we can't bring the old dog over tomorrow, depending on the situation, the old dog is not willing to have contact with the spirit team now.

I didn't like this attitude, so I asked, "Then we have to plan what we're going to do next, right?" ”

Wang Zhiqin said that he didn't understand the attitude of the headquarters now, so it was not easy to make a decision, and we would go to explore the tone tomorrow and talk about the old dog.

I looked at the old dog, and he didn't seem to have much of an opinion.

That's all there is to it.

Early in the morning of the second day, the 7th was the first to contact us and asked us if it was inconvenient for us to go over this morning, and if it was convenient, he immediately sent a car to pick us up.

I don't know if it was something that Gu Yi said when he walked for a long time yesterday, and today's other attitudes are much better, but they can't be described with a lot of use, it's just a day and a place.

Yesterday he just wanted to ask for our help, but today he was more like asking about our attitude, like the kind of superiors to subordinates.

The change was noticeable, and I could feel it clearly, so I immediately thought of the old one.

Yesterday, Wang Zhengqing didn't ask me what Chief Gu Yichang told me, so I didn't say anything, but since he knew that it was impossible for me to give up the case at hand, then he might indeed help me in secret, to be honest, I am quite grateful.

After we gave an answer from our side, a car was quickly sent from there, and the driver turned out to be Wu Dezhou, which confirmed my suspicion even more, it must have been something that was encouraged, so their attitude towards us changed so much.

Of course, it may not be because of me, but because of Wang Zhengqing, after all, he is Gu Yi's disciple, and his apprentice was almost arrested as a wanted criminal, and Gu Yi was also very angry when he thought about it, so the team leader of the headquarters should have thought of this when he asked Gu Yi to come out of the mountain.

Although Wu Dezhou came to pick us up, his face was not very good, and I guess he was arranged.

Wang Zhengqing obviously noticed this, and I met him and smiled, and I knew what was going on.

Wu Dezhou didn't talk much along the way, and I guess he wasn't in the mood to speak, after all, we had done it before, even if we were invited over yesterday to see if we could help, but today their attitude towards us was a 180-degree turn.

Soon we arrived at the research base of Bibo Lake, where No. 7 was already waiting for us.

Wu Dezhou estimated that he was a little older, and even if he was ordered to pick us up, after arriving at the research base, he would disappear and not sell us much face.

I don't really mind this, and I went up to ask No. 7, what's going on, today's attitude is a little confusing.

"We also do things according to the rules, or according to the orders of the above."

No. 7 said patiently: "There was news from the headquarters last night, if you are willing, you are welcome to join this operation, and the headquarters has canceled the wanted for Qin Pei, and now he is still the leader of the new 8 group." ”

When I heard the news, Wang Zhengqing and I were not particularly surprised, because when we were on the road just now, we thought that since their attitude changed so quickly, there must be some external factors, such as the ancient chief, if the ancient chief prompted the headquarters to change its mind, then the old dog should naturally be canceled from the wanted list.

After saying that, Number 7 looked at me again.

At this time, his expression was more complicated, but he still said: "As for you, Zhang Yao, although I don't know why, the headquarters said that if you are interested, you are welcome to join at any time." ”

When No. 7 said this, I was surprised, how big the face of the ancient one was, so that the headquarters of the spirit case team changed their attitude overnight, and even invited me, a temporary member who didn't even have a probationary period, to officially join, which is a bit too easy to talk about, right?

Then again, if they had invited me to join before last night, I would have chosen to join even if I had some doubts about the system of the Spiritual Case, after all, I thought that this was a place where my ambitions could be fulfilled.

But last night, after listening to what Lao Gou and Wang Zhengqing said, I changed my mind.

Thinking of this, I looked at No. 7 and said without hesitation, "I refuse to join." ”