In the short ten-minute video, Gao Cheng was stripped of his shirt and hung with his hands hanging above his head, and a long whip slammed into his chest one by one, dragging out a long trail of blood with each blow. His eyes were closed, but each time his body twitched with being whipped, and later on...... Blood spilled out of his mouth, one drop, two drops, a big mouthful!

It was shocking and made my heart tremble! Later, I could scarcely dare to look at the bloody body, and the head that hung down and no longer moved, and I didn't dare to think about it...... He still breathes?

This video is specially shot and specially processed, the scene is completely black, and only the most ordinary incandescent light is lit on top of him. In the video, only the long black whip appears, and the hands of the person who whipped it are not even seen. I can't judge and analyze the environment or the scene at all, and get any information.

When I opened my eyes, the picture was still frozen, and I wanted to go backwards, because my mind was confused, and I was afraid that I would miss any details, but my hand could not reach out. The thought of watching him again and again as he was whipped to the point of spurting blood made his hands tremble weakly.

Eventually, I reached out, but instead held the mouse and clicked on the x in the top right corner. When the picture was turned off, I felt my breath return to my body, but the next moment it froze again. Staring at the computer screen, when I opened the USB flash drive, there was only one video file, when was there another text file?

Without the visual impact, even though my heart still hurts like a knife, at least I can still control my emotions. The remaining space in my head will think, apparently this text file is encrypted, and when I click on the video, it will come out. There's no reason not to click on it, already anticipating what it will be.

Someone sent me this USB flash drive and presented this video in front of me, how could it not reveal the purpose? If you call again, it will only expose more information.

Remember that tree? Come alone.

This is the only sentence in the text file. It was a dumb riddle, but I understood it almost immediately. The tree was engraved with the L&K mark, and it appeared for the second time, and I unlocked the original form of this mark for the first time, Huya Mountain.

If it weren't for Jiang Yan dying in front of me, I would have thought that this was another game that she had carefully arranged. Whether it is the way or the technique, it is extremely similar to her, or, it is arranged by her. In the time she was talking to Ning Ransheng, no one knew what they talked about, or she made up her mind to die and finally gave Ning Ransheng a psychological hint, or maybe Ning Ransheng had always been the last chess in her hand, and it was also the trump card of her psychological helmsman.

So, this bureau is for me, and she wants me to not be able to escape even after she dies.

In a few thoughts, I seem to have captured her thoughts, and since I began to see her psychological portrait from Huya Mountain, let's end here.

I will definitely go to Huya Mountain, but before I go, I made a phone call to Xu Jianglun, reported the order number of the courier to him, and asked him to help find out where the courier was sent from and in whose name. The reply was very fast, this was a local courier, and the source and sender could not be checked. The courier company receives thousands of pieces a day, and then distributes them manually, and even the staff themselves don't remember who took the order first.

Xu Jianglun asked me why I wanted to check the courier number, and I hesitated and only replied that I asked for a friend.

When I walked out of the apartment, I looked back at the place where I had lived for more than two years, and my thoughts condensed slightly, and I secretly said that maybe I wouldn't come back this time. But when he got downstairs, he was blocked by Xu Jianglun, and he actually stayed at the bottom of the community. He looked me up and down and asked, "Xia Zhu, where are you going?" ”

I couldn't lie in my outfit and tell him that it was just a walk downstairs, and I replied, "I'm going to meet a client of a publishing house." But Xu Jianglun was not so easy to deceive, he stretched out his hand to stop me, "Tell me which publishing house is a customer?" Seeing that I frowned and looked gloomy, he hurriedly explained: "Xia Zhu, although Jiang Yan has been subdued, the water in Guangping is still deep, and even ...... Even he can be smuggled away in the hospital, so I have applied to Zhang Ji to protect you twenty-four hours a day. ”

His heart sank slightly, "I don't need protection." The voice was already cold, but Xu Jianglun didn't pay attention to my attitude at all, and said to himself: "You go to see the customer, I won't interfere with you, just stand by from afar." It's just," he paused, "is it really meeting a client?" ”

My eyes shrunk and didn't show any expression on my face. But today's Xu Jianglun is particularly difficult: "On the way back from Guangping, your whole person is sluggish, and the reason is ...... I won't talk about it, I don't think you're in the mood to meet clients at this point. ”

I don't want to talk to him anymore, this person can't make sense at all, not to mention that my reason can't stand. But an anxiety rose in my heart, like a balloon gradually inflating, and it grew bigger and bigger, especially when I tried to bypass him several times and walk alone, but he blocked the way, and stubbornly asked, "Tell me what happened?" Where are you going? Is it related to the courier number that I just checked? ”

After engaging in the criminal police industry, even the upright Xu Jianglun has become sensitive, or rather, it is not that he is keen, but it is not long after I returned to H City, and this move of asking him to check the express delivery is too abrupt. Yes, after watching that video, I didn't even have the ability to control myself, and I just instinctively did what I did.

Suddenly, as if my tense and fragile nerves had been crushed, I slumped my shoulders, lowered my eyes and said weakly: "Let's go to the car." Xu Jianglun acquiesced to me, and after sitting in the car, the small space suffocated me, and every word that came out of my mouth felt that it was pressing a wound, and it hurt one by one.

When I stopped, I barely had to raise my eyes, and I could imagine Xu Jianglun's shocked expression just from the sound of gasping. "Xia Zhu, are you really sure it's him? Also, how do you know the hint is on Tiger Cliff Mountain? Just because you say, 'That tree'? ”

"Yes...... A kind of psychological tacit understanding. "Jiang Yan has been studying me, she has set up one game after another for me, in fact, people's psychology will change subtly, when her every thought is because of me, in fact, she has already integrated herself into me, what kind of misunderstanding must be created to make me go into the fog, and at what moment can I get out.

So when the dumb riddle came out, I could easily think of the cliff mouth of Huya Mountain, and I could sense Jiang Yan's final psychological changes.

Xu Jianglun shook his head again and again: "No, this is too dangerous." I called Zhang Ji. After speaking, I went to touch the mobile phone in my pocket, but when I reached in, I held it down, stared into his eyes, and said word by word: "Don't hit." If this is the last game that Jiang Yan has set for me, then she must have eliminated any possibility for me to find someone to help, even if she didn't make arrangements, the ending would be ...... The jade is burned. Xu Jianglun, her target is me, you should not know about it, give me the car keys, and then you push the door and get out of the car. There were people who fell into darkness for me and didn't want a second time. ”

Xu Jianglun's pupils shrank, his grip on the steering wheel was extremely tight, and he was silent for half a minute, he finally withdrew his hand, turned his gaze that had been fixed on my face and stared ahead, and said in a decisive tone: "Xia Zhu, I won't let you go alone." If you really have to go, I'll be with you. Every time I say I want to protect you, but in the end it's always hard to do, and this time, I won't break my promise. ”

With that, he turned the key, started the car, and slowly drove into the driveway.

I looked at him in amazement, and for the first time realized that this usually ordinary face was actually very resolute. It seems that fate has always pulled me and him together. The first time I met him, when I first came to H City, he introduced himself as a film police officer in this Qingcheng District, and then occasionally came to the gallery, knowing that he didn't really like to paint, but he bought no less than ten paintings in the gallery, which is one of my "loyal customers". Later, there was a murder in the community, and he, as the person in charge of the area, had to get involved, and I shouldn't have much to do with each other, but I didn't ...... But because of Gao Cheng, he also entered the world of criminal investigation by mistake.

I stumbled on Tiger Cliff Mountain, but he was one step faster than Gao Cheng and found me and jumped down in spite of the danger, so as not to be bitten by a poisonous snake and took my place; may be because of this, in the labyrinth case, he was chosen by Jiang Yan to be the person who was placed on the same day as Gao Cheng on the surface; When I went to the underground city of Qinnan Normal University in Guangping, he spoke for me several times, but he couldn't protect me. But this can't change the fact that he is good to me and has always been by my side, and at this moment, this fool still wants to accompany me to death.

Yes, I use the word "to die" to describe this trip to Tiger Cliff.

Jiang Yan is dead, she hates me so much, how can she tolerate that I am still alive in a world she doesn't have? The game I led her to kill was within her expectations, and she was prepared for not succeeding, because she still had hole cards and was holding my life.

If there really is a ghost after death, then her soul must be smiling at me, ostentatious, gloomy, deliberate. She's laughing, even if she's dead, I can't fight her, because ......

While thinking about it, the car was already driving up the mountain, and the atmosphere in the car was very suffocating. No one spoke, and I didn't look at Xu Jianglun anymore, staring at the moment and letting my thoughts go away. When the car stopped, I gurgled and even my heart was silent, and I was dazed for a moment, the strange and familiar mountain scenery, the shade of the trees overhead, the sheltered cliff mouth, and the towering trees.

It's just missing the car that was parked there and almost to ashes. <