"Are you telling you true?"

When Gu Man's house was downstairs, she opened the car door and closed it, and then asked me this question.

"Which ones?"

"What you said to Lao Ding."

"It's true."

She asked simply, and I answered simply, I have been painting gourds with my grandfather for so many years, and I believe in my own judgment.

"You come and pick me up tomorrow morning, and you can drive the car back."

After speaking, before she could say a word of goodbye, she got out of the car, and with a 'bang', the door was slammed shut.

This year, Gu Man broke cases of all sizes and almost three digits, so the bureau allocated her a car, and some old comrades in the bureau did not have this treatment.

I looked at her lonely back and felt a little sorry.

Well, she's out of luck.

Gu Man has the appearance of an empress in her life, although the monarchy has been abandoned in modern society, but with the momentum of the green dragon on her body, she has to be smooth sailing in her career, and finally rise to the top.

But I met this incident impartially, and I was broken by dirty things, not to mention my own fortune, and I almost drowned.

On the way back, she had a cold face, and I realized that something was wrong, after coming out of the scene of the crime today, the black gas on her seal hall was not weakened but aggravated a lot, how dare the person who arranged the altar dare to hold on to a criminal policeman, is he not afraid of the power of the state?

Forget it, a cloud of fog.

I started the car and slowly drove home.

All the way I was thinking about the altar, the statue of the Bodhisattva with a fierce face, and the spirit flag.

Sacrifice is a kind of faith activity in the outside world, but those who can explore the heavenly machine can use sacrifice to obtain supreme secret energy; However, in order for a sacrifice to take shape, it must meet many difficult conditions, such as sacrifices, which require sacrifices for spiritual ......

Wait, sacrifices...

I was clever and subconsciously stepped on the brakes, but fortunately, it was late, there were no cars on the road, and there was no danger after the car deviated from the main road.

But I broke out in a cold sweat.

Sacrifice, those three drowning incidents were sacrificed.

At this moment, the runes on the altar began to drill into my head one by one, and the sequence of those runes began to take shape.

But I don't have the complete altar rune yet, so I'll have to go back to the game.

Thinking of this, I quickly turned the head of the car.

Lao Ding was having a meeting with the old comrades of the serious crime team, and I didn't go to him, but went directly to the physical evidence department and printed out the photos of the altar.

As with the number of pieces cut, the altar was cut into sixteen pieces, and there are 16 photographs in total, A1 size, and when enlarged, the runes on the altar are clearly visible.

I was alone in the archives, and I closed the door and pushed my desk aside, making room for the photographs to be arranged in a circle in order.

I stood in the middle, and as soon as I turned around, I could see all the runes.

As mentioned earlier, the three cases of drowning are likely to be sacrifices to this sacrifice, and since they are sacrifices, or three in a row, distributed in different time periods, it means that this sacrifice has a certain process and order.

Just like Feng Shui, there is a fixed number, but it can also be adjusted according to the pattern, and this adjustment follows the five elements and eight doors.

The five elements refer to gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, and the eight doors are a bit exquisite.

The eight doors are open, rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, and shock, which correspond to Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, and Dui, and even communicate with each other with the eight facades in the gossip.

If the sacrifices were to follow this order, then the runes would not be so difficult to decipher.

I took out the information of the three deceased, the first, the golden life, the second, the wood life, and the third, the water life.

Gold, wood, water, sure enough...... This sacrifice is performed in the order of the five elements, which means that the next one must be the fire life and the earth life.

Fire Fate? Isn't this kind of fate a once-in-a-century occurrence, a one-in-a-million existence?

That Gu Man......

I hurriedly jumped out of the altar made of photos, the files of my colleagues in the bureau were all in this office, I looked for it and turned out Gu Man's files.

"August 15, 1996......"

I was halfway through the meditation, and I was startled.

Bingzi, Bingshen, Jiashen, Gengwu, this is Gu Man's birthday, the five elements lack wood, and when the water and soil are born, it is the fire life that is unique in ten thousand.

I frowned and looked around, what was it for, I needed five people with different lives as sacrifices? Thinking of the spirit banner I found in the reservoir, I couldn't help but think of a profession that my grandfather once told me: alchemist.

Only Fang Shi can make this kind of vicious altar, although I still haven't figured out what this altar is used for, but I know that the person who made this altar will definitely not give up, and Gu Man, who is a rare fire in a hundred years, is also in danger.

Gold, wood, water, fire and earth, Gu Man is the fourth candidate to prepare for sacrifice, which means that no matter whether Gu Man investigates this case or not, she will be stirred up, and then there will be a possibility of drowning.

With that out of my mind, I jumped back into the altar.

At this time, those runes were no longer obscure, and the rules were found out by me little by little, and among the runes in the fire line, I even found the runes representing Gu Man's eight characters.

As for the fifth goal to be sacrificed, it is not so important, the sacrifice must follow the order of the five elements, and without Gu Man, there will be no future.

But now that the reservoir has been drained, the altar has been destroyed, and even the Bodhisattva statue and the conjuring flag have been confiscated by the Physical Evidence Division, the mastermind behind the scenes will inevitably find another 'treasure land' to gather wind and gather qi, set up a new altar, and then make up two lives, the first is Gu Man!

Gu Man is in danger.

The first three drowning incidents attracted our attention, and the next mastermind behind the scenes is likely to use more extreme methods in order to complete the sacrifice as soon as possible, and even do not hesitate to directly kill Gu Man.

I was scared into a cold sweat by the conclusion I deduced, if this is the case, then Gu Man and even those who have recently come into contact with Gu Man will be in danger, who knows what kind of murderous evil the mastermind behind the scenes will be.

I put away the pictures of the runes and marked them, but for some reason, I always had a vague feeling that there were a pair of eyes staring at me behind me as I sorted things out, but when I turned around, I couldn't see anything.

This feeling of being stared at lasted all night and kept me awake all night.

I made do with it in the archives room for one night, and I wanted to wait for Lao Ding and them to finish the meeting to greet him about Gu Man, but their internal meeting seemed to have been held all night.

By the next morning, he had come to wake me up.

"You kid slept all night here?"

I rubbed my eyes wistfully and nodded.

"You also have to pay attention to your body when solving the case, don't burn your body at a young age, and I'll ...... your grandfather when the time comes. By the way, do you have a clue? ”

Lao Ding's words reminded me, and I hurriedly pulled out the photos of the marked runes.

"I figured out how that altar works."

After speaking, I put the photos of the runes and the information of the three deceased in front of Lao Ding's eyes, and told him about what I found last night.

After listening to this, Lao Ding froze, I could see the strong tiredness on his face, after all, he hadn't slept all night, plus he was a little old, after listening to me, his body shook a little, and asked me in a low voice, are you sure?

I nodded without hesitation.

"Do you want to ask your grandfather?"

"Uncle Ding, the eight doors and five elements, feng shui faces, I know a little bit about them, these superficial theories, there is no need to verify his old man, but there is one thing I must say."

"You say."

"According to the order of the five elements, the next target to be sacrificed is none other than Gu Man, if you want to stop the sacrifice, you can only protect Gu Man."

This is a disgraceful case, Lao Ding looked at me, and his eyes were certain.

"Okay, I'll call two experienced comrades to protect her secretly, and I'll leave it to you on her side, try not to let her lose control of her emotions, the bureau is ready to cultivate her."

I nodded, I naturally know that with Gu Man's merits and case-solving efficiency, who will be cultivated if the bureau does not cultivate her? Lao Ding didn't want the future flower of the serious crime team to die halfway.

"Also, what will happen if this sacrifice succeeds?"

Lao Ding turned around to leave, but suddenly turned back.

Truth be told, he stopped me.

Sacrifice is a very ancient belief that the main priest obtains the medium associated with it by offering sacrifices to the gods in order to achieve what the heart wants, and as for the sacrifice at the bottom of the reservoir, I don't know what will happen if it is successful.

I only know that if you follow the number of the five elements and sacrifice with human life, there must be an evil way behind the sacrifice.

"It's not a good thing anyway, the kind that hurts nature."

"Will there be deaths?"

"Hmm."

I was very sure that Lao Ding hesitated after receiving my affirmative answer.

To be honest, it's not like his style.

Then his words made me understand the problem.

He said that I should go and pick up Gu Man, first live in the guest house in the bureau, and then this case will be handed over to the superior in two days.

But what kind of profession are we, to say that we are servants of the people, and in terms of professional ethics, we cannot retreat, and it is our job to solve cases.

Can Lao Ding, as the director of the bureau, not understand this principle? The only explanation is that he is afraid that I will have an accident after Gu Man's accident, and he will not be able to explain to my grandfather at that time.

"Uncle Ding, it's impossible for me to ignore this matter, I will definitely give you an explanation in two days."

Lao Ding looked at me and sighed, only patted me on the shoulder and didn't say anything more, and then walked out.

I glanced at the time, it was time to pick up Gu Man.

On the way I bought hot buns, called her and asked her to wait for me downstairs

But when I picked her up downstairs at Gu Man's house, I was stunned.

The black aura on her hall was even thicker than last night.