Prologue: Man and Spirit

Man lives for life, and dies for spirit. And the spirit can be divided into many kinds, the visible and unaware are the corpse, the knowing and the invisible are the soul, the half-aware and half-form are the spirit, and the ignorant and formless are the ghosts. For thousands of years, ghosts have been invisible and harmless to people, but one day due to the confusion of the Heavenly Dao, there is a gap in the Three Realms, and the soul has not moved because of its conscience, but the ghost has accidentally entered the Heavenly Realm and has become a special kind of substance. It is invisible but can harm the Three Realms, so it is known as a powerful ghost. For 10,000 years, because humans are unable to do magic, and the spiritual root is the strongest, the ghosts have worshiped human blood as a sacred object for cultivation. Although people can't do it, they have a very strong body protection qi, so that the ghost can't get close, for this reason, the ghost comes up with all kinds of strategies, a struggle between people and ghosts, thousands of years, has not stopped. ………………………………

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On a starry night, Zhang Shaojiao stood alone in front of the window, looking at the stars in the sky, and frowned. On the other side, the four young men took advantage of the dark night and quietly crawled to the hut of the grave keeper Lao Liu Tou by the moonlight.

"Big brother, this is where I said that the old Liu Tou who watched the grave lived, this old man has no relatives, he should have some savings."

As he spoke, a young man pointed to the hut in front of him. The young man at the head looked at it and asked for a cigarette, put it in his mouth, lit it, and enjoyed the happiness brought by the cigarette comfortably. It was a long time before he said it

"That's it, ready to do it."

Suddenly, a young man next to him patted the shoulder of the young man who was the leader, and the young man who was the leader shook and turned around angrily

"What are you doing, ** want to scare Lao Tzu to death!"

"Big, big brother, let's go, why do I always feel that this place is gloomy!"

"What are the old men afraid of, if you're afraid, hurry up!"

The timid man didn't dare to say much, so he could only follow and crawl forward a few steps. Suddenly, his eyes gathered, he stood up suddenly, and rushed back along the same road, and the other three people froze for a moment, and then turned around and lay on the spot, waiting for Lao Liu to fall asleep.

"Squeak" suddenly, the door opened, and the hairs of the three people stood up in fright, Lao Liu slowly stretched out his head, but there was only one head, looking at the position of the three people, and said faintly.

"It's getting late, the cemetery is not a park, I still have to guard the three of you if I can't get it, that coward is very wise."

The leader stood up suddenly, rushed over with a brisk step, and punched Lao Liu's head with a heavy punch, and said angrily

"The young ** pretended to be a ghost with Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu ** was scared."

Immediately afterwards, there were two bursts of laughter, one from the young man and the other from Lao Liu's head.

The next day, Zhang Meng mentioned that the grave sweeper called the police, and the three young men looked hideous and violent corpses in the cemetery.

Zhang Meng immediately rushed to the scene, assigned people to open the cordon, and walked to the corpse, and when he saw the corpse, he was shocked, "Dry corpse?" Dead for a long time? Or ......"

He gently closed the eyes of the corpse with his hand, and touched the neck of the deceased with his hand, frowned, stood up, wiped his hands, and found his assistant Xiao Wang.

"Let the forensic doctor identify it later, report it to me, and now accompany me to find Lao Liutou."

Saying that, he walked to Lao Liutou's garden hut, it was obviously summer, but Lao Liutou's hut was cool, although it was cool, people could not feel the pleasure of coolness, but gloomy, and Lao Liu Tou was lying in the rocking chair with an expressionless face, smoking quietly, as if nothing had happened.

"Uncle Liu, there are dead people outside, don't you know?"

"Dead to my door, I don't know!"

"Aren't you afraid, which three people died very bizarrely!"

"What are you afraid of, Lao Tzu has been guarding here for decades, and the dead people I have seen are much faster than the living people I have seen, I am afraid that I will leave early!"

"Do you know something?"

"I only guard the dead, I don't care when I'm alive, it doesn't matter to me how I die, what do I know?"

Zhang Meng couldn't ask anything, so he exchanged a few words with Lao Liu, and finally was blasted out by Lao Liu's cold words, and when he returned to the office, Zhang Meng planted himself on the chair and quietly thought about what happened when he was in the cemetery

"Xiao Wang, do you know when I first met Lao Liu?"

The assistant Xiao Wang was puzzled, why did the team leader ask this question, Zhang Meng continued.

"It was twenty years ago, when I was only five years old, although I just remembered it for a short time, but I remember very clearly, it was in that year, my grandmother passed away, that is, buried in that cemetery, that is, at that time, I met Lao Liu Tou, he was very concerned about people, that is, he, helped me out of the shadows, only to get to today, twenty years, his appearance has basically not changed. That is, his attitude and voice are different from before.

"You say he's been guarding the cemetery for twenty years?"

"Twenty years? My father said that Lao Liu Tou guarded the cemetery when he was a child, not to mention twenty years, forty years is more! ”

Before he finished speaking, a young man gently pushed open the door and took a document and came to Zhang Meng.

"Team leader, the autopsy results are in." Zhang Meng picked up the coffee from the table and took a sip, looking sideways at the people who came over.

"Tell me about it."

"It is very strange that the deceased did not have a single wound on his body, and there was no swelling caused by the blunt object, and the body tissue biopsy was not poisoned."

"What do you mean...... Sudden death? ”

"It can only be a sudden death, but it's too strange for three people to die suddenly together."

Zhang Meng seemed to have an understanding, smiled strangely, and asked.

"Time to die."

"Judging from the corpses, it must have been nearly fifty days since they died."

"Fifty days? How can it be so simple, it seems that my brother has to be invited. ”

"Your brother?"

"The chairman of Time Group, a famous philanthropist, and an internationally renowned detective, Zhang Shaojiao, will immediately prepare a car to take me to his company."

As he spoke, Zhang Meng took off his police jacket, changed into a casual suit, and drove straight to the company.

In the office, Shao Miao was checking the customer files one by one, and suddenly, the secretary came over and handed Zhang Shao Miao a tablet.

"Boss, this person wants to see you, do you want to meet you?"

Zhang Shaojiao glanced at it, and the corners of his mouth curled. Shook his hand and said.

"Let him wait for me in the lounge in the back room, make a pot of good dragon wells, and I'll be there right away."

The secretary left, Zhang Shaojiao also sorted out the files, put them away gently, got up and came to the lounge to see Zhang Meng who was waiting.

"Mengzi, you don't want to go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, you didn't come to see me this time!"

"My cousin really knows my heart enough, this time I came to ask you to go out of the mountain and help me investigate a case, my Taoism is too shallow, and this case is quite wrong, their death is not so simple."

Zhang Shaojiao picked up the teacup, blew it, and took a sip.

"Interesting, it seems that we have to go back to our old ways."

Zhang Shaojiao called the secretary, told him about the situation, and then left the company with Zhang Meng, went directly to the morgue, and looked at the bodies of the three people. Zhang Shaojiao found one casually and opened the white cloth. He pressed the neck of the deceased with his hand, took out his saber, took the hand of the dried corpse, and made a cut in the joint

"Sure enough, this matter is really not as simple as imagined, Mengzi, take me to remove last night's surveillance video immediately."

As he spoke, he took out his handkerchief, wiped the blade of the knife, and motioned to the idlers to leave with his eyes.