Shen Qian finished a breakfast that was not so pleasant to him, put on his coat and prepared to go out on a mission.

Before going out, he stood behind the open door and turned around and asked Lu Li, "Boss, have you really decided to take over the commission of the next ghost?" ”

"Hmm."

Shen Qian shrugged his shoulders, didn't say anything, and closed the door and left.

The footsteps disappeared behind the door.

Lu Li finished breakfast alone, methodically cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and returned to the desk.

He turned on his computer and looked up information on the Internet about the drowning victims in the Tang River.

There is very little news that can be found, and in the few drowned news, the age and identity cannot correspond to the water ghost.

Maybe he was wrong, the ghost's death had nothing to do with the Tang River, and it might not even be drowning - everything was subjectively guessed by Lu Li through the water stains on the water ghost's body and standing by the river.

In any case, it will be clear when Shen Qian comes back.

Lu Li did not doubt Shen Qian's business level.

And that wait is hours.

At dusk, the sky is full of burning clouds.

The remnant sun shone obliquely into the detective agency, and the clock was plated with a layer of blood.

The hour hand has fallen to its lowest point.

Time passed silently, blood roamed the ceiling, and finally disappeared behind the other buildings with the setting sun, and disappeared in an instant.

The room was darkened.

The figure in the boss's chair seemed to come to life at this moment, and turned on his mobile phone to dial a number.

"Any news?"

A steady voice sounded in the darkening detective agency.

"With the boss, I'm on my way to Shaoyun Township." On the other side, Shen Qian's voice was noisy.

"Where is the clue?"

"Well, it's not convenient for me to say on the bus, probably the victim's family is here, and the situation is very similar to what you said, so I'm going to verify. Not...... It's about two hours away. ”

"Understood."

Hanging up the phone, Lu Li stood up and stretched his slender torso.

It's getting dark, it's time to do something.

Walking to the coffee table, Lu Li picked up the kitchen knife on the coffee table and held it in front of him.

Flipping the blade, the curved blade flashed with a chill, and no one would underestimate its sharpness.

The threat of guns to ghosts has been tested, as for whether knives are useful......

Find a ghost and stab a few times.

For example, a certain disgusting water ghost.

……

On Guluo Street after sunset, street lamp signboards are lit up one after another. It is still bustling, and the merchants and pedestrians have not dispersed.

In the river below the pedestrian street, five young people gathered in front of the sewer fence, and from time to time a conversation was blown into the air by the wind.

"Why are we here to explore this dirty sewer......" Lin Yu, who had delicate makeup, hugged his shoulders with disgust.

When her roommate mysteriously comes to her to hang out and claims that there are three boys, she dresses up for an hour thinking it's a sorority. After coming out, I realized that I was actually going to the sewers to explore the supernatural event.

One of them, in particular, was breaking the chains on the fence gate.

"Actually, it's not dirty, this sewer is an underground passage connecting the Tang River and the reservoir in the west of the city, and there is no connection to the domestic sewage area, you can watch the water flow." The bespectacled youth explained.

"The underpass plays a role in balancing the water level, and whichever side has a low water level, the one with the highest water level will pass."

There was nothing wrong with this explanation, but he guessed the girl's mind wrong.

"Is that the point?" Lin Yu stomped his feet in annoyance.

A weak voice behind him continued, "We're going to explore...... You don't have to go here, do you? Is it bad to go to a newly opened haunted house? I've heard that that's scary too. ”

"O mortal wisdom." Chu Xi, the young man with glasses, raised his finger and pushed his glasses. "Those are all pretended by the staff, what's scary?"

A white arm affectionately wrapped around Lin Yu's neck, and the girl with short dark red hair smiled: "He's right. The trick of the movie haunted house can't scare us anymore. Except for real ghosts, there is nothing to be afraid of. ”

Chu Xi didn't have a clear understanding of himself, and continued to explain: "And the sewer is the conscience of a city, let's take a look at the heart of Pingling City, is there a problem?" ”

"The angle is tricky, and I am speechless."

Whoop -

There was a sound of chains shaking, and Deng Yunfeng, who had dark red rusty water in one hand, spread his palms and approached the crowd.

"The door is open."

After saying hello, he squatted down by the river and washed his hands.

The dark red rust was like a ribbon in the river, and it drifted away.

After washing his hands, he raised his eyebrows at Chu Xi, turned on his phone and flashed into the sewer first.

Sun Yan hugged the reluctant Lin Yu, and followed behind him.

The hustle and bustle above the river disappears, and the only sound of water flowing down the sewers leading to the depths is there.

The underground passage is nearly three meters high, and the damp and uneven walls reflect the light of the water. The slightly murky water flows quietly in the river, while the wind that opposes the current blows from the depths ahead.

Surprisingly empty and clean.

There is still some way to go before the flood season, when the underpass will be mostly submerged and the water will not be as calm as it is now.

Walking a few dozen meters along the underpass, they could no longer see the entrance behind them.

The sound of empty footsteps echoed, and a group of five people walked out of a hundred meters and saw a door appear on the wall in front of them.

"How is there a door here?" Sun Yan was surprised.

"This is the workshop, and a lot of garbage will float in along the current, and the staff will come in every once in a while to dredge it." Chussey replied.

Lin Yu suddenly asked: "Then the question is, why do we want to explore this kind of place?" ”

Deng Yunfeng smiled, and his voice was a little lower: "Several people drowned in the Chengxi Reservoir a while ago, and two bodies have not been found so far, do you think it is possible to follow the ......?"

"Ahh You're going to say that I'm going back with Yinyin! ”

Lin Yu screamed, and the echo shook his eardrums.

"Okay, I'll shut up." Deng Yunfeng rubbed his ears with a painful face, obviously you asked him to say it......

……

The open fence gate, rusted iron chains tossed aside.

The sound of noisy talking drifted down the pedestrian street above, and the sound of water drifted behind him. Lu Li squatted down and carefully observed the shoe prints near the fence gate.

The footprints are clear and messy, ranging from 44 to 37 in shoe size, and the spacing is on the short side.

Lu Li raised his eyes and looked into the depths of the sewer. It seems that not long ago, a group of young men and women were talking to each other and entering the sewers.

What are they doing here?

Lu Li frowned slightly, unable to guess.

It was not far from the water ghost that night, and Lu Li, who was searching along the river, found something strange about the fence gate.

After thinking about it, Lu Li took out his mobile phone and called Shen Qian.

Toot –

"Hey, boss, I was about to call you."

"Get down to business."

"Okay, I'm in Shaoyun Township. The water ghost's family was also found, and what I found was that the water ghost did not die in the Tang River, he drowned in the reservoir in the west of the city, and I think he must have used some method to run from the reservoir to the Tang River! ”

Lu Li raised his eyes and looked at the deep underground passage.

If you remember correctly, this underground passage is connecting the reservoir to the Don River.