Chapter 128: The Informant
I was completely annoyed by his Tang monk-style preaching.
"Can you shut your foul mouth! Who was sexually assaulted?! β
"You- look at your ass, it's so dirty, so smelly......"
"I accidentally fell and sat in the mud!"
"Oh, that's right...... Alas, it's boring......" He looked particularly disappointed.
"Where are you going?" I asked him.
"Yuntang Town, there has been a strange talk of a ghost in a flower there recently, and I have been secretly visiting for several days!" He was excited again.
I suddenly remembered that someone once told me that he seemed to have been paying attention to the strange case in Yuntang Town for a long time, and he still wrote about it in an online novel.
Could it be that he knows any special clues?
"Oh? What a coincidence! I also want to go to Yuntang Town. I struck up a conversation.
He was still immersed in fantasy, extremely second-in-class, and extremely excited.
"Hehe, let me tell you, now I've figured out the trick, which is to process the bizarre and weird things in reality, and then put them into the novel, how to exaggerate and how to write. Dig the pit first, dig as deep as possible, and then I'll go investigate and dig up some insider information. Hey! Readers love it! β
"The heroine of the novel is still called Shen Yu?"
"Of course, she's my wife in the story - this is also a processing of reality!"
I thought to myself - process your uncle! Later, I thought about it again, no, his uncle is also my uncle......
Alas, it is not so convenient to meet such a second relative, and it is not so convenient to greet his whole family.
"Okay, you've found something, can you tell me about it?"
"Roar, roar, it's not a secret, in this case, I can be regarded as finding a shortcut to solve the case."
"Oh? Come, tell me about it. "It seems that he must have unearthed a lot of truth.
But at the critical moment, this guy wanted to speak and stopped.
"Are you still with 'Xian'er Detective', the woman who almost has the same name as the heroine of my novel?" He suddenly looked at me warily.
"yes......"
"Then I can't tell you the truth. This time, I'm going to be the first person to solve the case - mystery novel writer and Wei Yangshen detective Yan Yan, this title is enough gimmick, right? Ha ha! β
"I don't know if the gimmick is enough, but the dog's head is about the same." I deliberately used the agitation method, "I don't know you yet, in fact, there is no stone hammer at all, just nonsense!" Who are you looking for in Yuntang Town? Is it like a headless fly, casting a net aimlessly? Are you chasing uncles and aunts in the streets and alleys, crying and begging people to tell you a few words of gossip? β
He glared at me, unconvinced, but it looked like he had found some clues.
"Who doesn't have a head fly? I spent a lot of money to make an appointment with an 'informant', he is the 'master of the story' in Yuntang Town, and now, even the grievances of the early years are clear. β
"In the early years? Are you saying that this case has something to do with the early years? I asked in surprise.
"Yes, everything has a reason. How about I'll show you? The people I looked for are not usually serious people, so when you see the police, you hide, and you can't get in touch with the criminal investigation team. He said more and more proudly.
Yan Yan parked his car on a street in the old town. He took me into the alley, and then turned around, the alley became narrower and narrower, and the doors of people on both sides were hung with rustic signs, some of which read "Health SPA", some said "Beauty Salon", some said "adult products", and some said "Casual Dining Bar".
"Don't look at the road is not wide, this is actually the center of the old town, not to mention how lively it is at night." He said as he walked.
"So you're a regular customer here, aren't you?"
"Don't talk nonsense, I've only recently grown old for the sake of the ghost in flowers."
Yan Wei led me into a narrower alley, which was hung with signs with the names of the second middle school - what "across the sea", what "brothers", what "king of rock and roll", at first glance it was those small bars in the urban-rural area.
He looked at the signs as he walked, and finally stopped at the door of a bar called "Haoqing".
This bar sounds familiar, but I can't remember where I heard about it for a while. The bar has an iron door closed, and the door is painted with red and green lattice paint, which has a special visual impact, and you can't help but feel proud at first glance.
Yan Wei knocked on the iron door, and there was a cough from inside, and then he heard the sound of slippers. I saw that the door was not firmly covered, and I was about to peek through the crack in the door, but who knew that the iron door was suddenly pulled open with a clang.
A lean man looked at us with his round head outstretched, his face wrinkled, probably freshly shaved, still shining in the slanting sunlight.
"Who is this?" He glanced at me, and then said to Yan Huan.
"Brother, reliable man." My cousin patted his chest in response.
"Come in!" The man let the crack in the door, and I slipped in sideways, and Yan Yan followed.
The bar is not open yet, only the counter is dimly lit. The bald man walked over to the bar, took out three glasses, put half a glass of ice cubes on them, and then took out half a bottle of "Captain Morgan" rum and poured it into the glass.
"Drink!" He pushed two glasses of wine in front of us brothers.
"I don't drink......" I was about to wave my hand when I was kicked from below. He grinned and picked up the cup, made a particularly exaggerated "sizzle" sound, and took a sip vigorously.
"Wow - that's hard enough!" He puffed his breathβin fact, when he had just drunk, his mouth had not touched the wine at all, so the wine in the glass had not gone down at all.
"in." I cursed inwardly, though the word seemed a bit out of place for him.
"Brother Canner, I asked you to inquire about it last time...... he took the initiative to talk. I just found out that this bald man is actually called Canned Brother.
"Don't worry! In Yuntang Town, there are still things I can't inquire about! The canned man finished the glass in one gulp, and then filled it up again.
This time, he was not in a hurry to drink, but lit a cigarette, took a hard puff, and continued to speak.
"Let's start at the beginning with a few things you asked. First, let's talk about the fact that the electric poles in Yuntang Town fell to the ground with brushes, according to the information I heard, this thing seems to have been blown up by ball lightning. β
I almost laughed out loud - this was originally an excuse made by Shen Yu, but I didn't expect it to really spread.
Yan Wei took out a small blue notebook and wrote it down seriously.
"Ball lightning, this explanation makes sense." "There is a science fiction novel of the same name, which is about ball lightning, and the protagonist also encountered ball lightning in his childhood, and the reason for this thing is still unclear." However, it is quite in line with the strange phenomenon of falling to the ground. β