Chapter 41: Variables

The cigarette had burned out, and the cigarette butt burned Qi Xin's index finger before he woke up from that terrible memory and looked at Zhang Tianye with a guilty face.

"Monkey, it's all over" Zhang Tianye patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, and continued to ask: "What about later"?

Qi Xin asked for a cigarette from Zhang Tianye and lit it and continued: "That feeling is very mysterious, and then that demon appeared in my mind, that is, where you also entered later, when I felt that I was going to strangle you like this, if it weren't for the book wrapped in brown paper, it would have been shaken out of the backpack, and the consequences would have been really unimaginable."

At first, Zhang Tianye thought that it was the stone that saved his life, but he didn't expect it to be that book!

Qi Xin pointed to the Canghai Stone placed next to him and continued: "When you walked towards me with this piece of it, I could clearly see that I was very anxious there, the breath hidden in that book made that demon restless, and finally I passed out, and when I woke up, I had already returned to Ganges City, and let that person control my body."

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Zhang Tianye still didn't understand how Ye Xinxin got involved, after all, she only came into the room after the incident, and the two of them turned their eyes to her very curiously.

Unexpectedly, Ye Xinxin, who has always been not afraid of heaven and earth, seemed to have done something wrong, lowered her head and said: "Lying on your bed, I still can't sleep well, seeing you lying there asleep, I am also very curious about the stone, so I took it in my hand and observed it, and you will know the rest of the things."

After the two of them finished talking about the situation, they refocused on Zhang Tianye, they wanted to know what happened in the end, and they regained their lives and returned to the real world.

Zhang Tianye didn't plan to tell them directly, but said: "It was that book that saved us, there seemed to be something more terrifying in the book, which shocked the demon, and we were saved."

This can barely make sense, and the two of them didn't suspect anything, at this moment, Qi Xin suddenly got up from the bed, and said anxiously: "Last night, someone broke in, I saw a masked person in my consciousness, took the old pipe from the desk, and made an OK gesture when leaving, and the demon nodded with satisfaction, as if they knew each other."

The man in the mask, not long after he left, another person walked in wearing a mask, and the demon said to himself, "It's very interesting", and disappeared from my consciousness.

At that time, when the person saw that I was tied to the chair, and when he saw that the things in the desk were missing, he beat me up violently and asked me where the things went, "Where do you know" Qi Xin continued with a aggrieved face: "Later, that person, seeing that I never spoke, as if I had no soul, then put his hand between my eyebrows."

Qi Xin threw away the cigarette in his hand and continued: "When his hand just touched my forehead, I could feel that there was another person in my consciousness, but I didn't expect that this person's consciousness was bounced out in the next second, and that person crawled out of here, followed by a scream."

Ye Xinxin could also see everything Qi Xin had experienced, and nodded to Zhang Tianye with a serious face.

At this time, it was already more than eight o'clock in the morning, and the three of them cleaned up the study, Zhang Tianye urged the two of them to hurry up and deal with the injuries on their bodies, and after breaking away from the two people, he took out his mobile phone, and at this time it was the missed call of two police officers Liu.

Zhang Tianye was not in a hurry to reply to Officer Liu, and all the things on the phone would not be clear for a while, so he had to take a taxi to Lihua Hotel to clean himself up, and in WeChat he had already communicated with Manager Zhang, that is, Qi Xin's cousin, about checking in, and went upstairs when he arrived at the hotel front desk, directly took the room card, and went upstairs.

In the room, Zhang Tianye thought about it, this time was like acting, it seemed extremely unreal, what is this Canghai Stone, it would pull out so many fantastical things, where is there any legend of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods in the twenty-first century, but everything that happened in front of him made him unable to refute.

It was still early, Zhang Tianye took a shower, changed into clean clothes, and was ready to go to the public security bureau again to see what Officer Liu found so anxious.

Before leaving, Zhang Tianye thought about it or not to bring the Canghai Stone and the book with him, in case the matter leaked out, I am afraid that talking about these things will really cause a lot of sensation, so he had to take out his mobile phone and call Ye Xinxin, urging her to come out of the clinic and go back to the hotel directly.

After going downstairs, Zhang Tianye directly gave the room card to the front desk, and repeatedly told him that if it wasn't for the person on the mobile phone photo who came to ask for the room card, he must not give it to others, so he took a taxi and drove to the public security bureau.

On the way, Zhang Tianye called Officer Liu back, telling him that he was on the way to the Public Security Bureau, Officer Liu seemed very happy, and after hanging up the phone, Zhang Tianye felt wrong no matter what happened last night, but he couldn't say what the problem was.

The taxi stopped at the door of the Public Security Bureau, and after Zhang Tianye paid the money, he registered his personal information at the door as usual, and knocked on the door of Officer Liu's office.

Xiao Wu hurriedly snuffed out the cigarette and welcomed Zhang Tianye in, and after Officer Liu was helpless to greet Zhang Tianye to sit down, he said distressedly: "Xiao Wu, tell me the situation concisely."

Hearing the master's words, Xiao Wu talked about this matter endlessly, Zhang Tianye understood the cause and effect, according to the current situation of the police, Professor Lin did not have the motive to kill, because the deceased had already gone abroad for treatment before the accident, and now all the fingers are pointed at him.

According to the police's case-handling process, before the case is cleared, he is now unable to leave Ganges City, and he has to come over regularly to cooperate with the investigation, Zhang Tianye simply said very calmly: "Officer Liu, what you want to know from me, you must know everything."

Officer Liu didn't say anything, just took out an autopsy report from the file bag, handed it to Zhang Tianye, and after taking the autopsy report, Zhang Tianye looked at it seriously:

Deceased: Zhou Jianfeng, gender: male, age: 38 years old, household registration: Ganges City, cause of death: death by suffocation, time of death: around 15:00 on December 26, 2018.

From these materials alone, Zhang Tianye could not determine that Zhou Jianfeng was the person who appeared at Professor Lin's house, and Officer Liu took out some photos from the drawer, which were arranged in a very orderly manner according to time.

They entered Ganges City from Zhang Tianye, Lihua Hotel, Professor Lin's home, and there are photos of them going to Mayin Mountain.

"Dr. Zhang, now I have no reason not to suspect that you have nothing to do with this matter, let's talk about it, what are you doing in Mayin Mountain."

In the face of Officer Liu's direct accusation at Ma Yinshan and his entourage, Zhang Tianye said lightly: "Archaeology, in the archaeological world, there is an allusion that shocks China and the world, 'Twelve people are in trouble', and I came back this time to complete the final project."

"Twelve dooms"? Officer Liu nodded thoughtfully, not suspicious of Zhang Tianye at all, of course, this is the case, but Zhang Tianye just concealed some things, Officer Liu took a deep breath of cigarette and said: "In this way, the matter makes sense, Professor Lin is a well-known leader in the archaeological field in Ganges City, and the deceased Zhou Jianfeng is an underground cultural relics dealer."

Xiao Wu looked at Officer Liu cautiously and said, "Master, these things are similar to what we have in our hands, the point is who killed Zhou Jianfeng, and what is the motive for the killing?"

Officer Liu glanced at Xiao Wu and said, "Are you a master, or am I a master"?

Zhang Tianye knew that Officer Liu must have thought of something at that moment just now, and was interrupted by Xiao Wu, which is why he was so unhappy.

In order to avoid causing trouble for himself, Zhang Tianye came up with a trick, took out the note given to him by the community security guard last night from his pocket, left a phone number on it, and then added a license plate number to the note and handed it to Officer Liu.

"What is it"? Officer Liu looked at Zhang Tianye suspiciously.

Zhang Tianye didn't have any concealment about how he found this phone number, and he also felt that this matter was not as easy as it seemed, so he told Officer Liu the cause and effect.

"Is this a serial murder case"? Xiao Wu looked at Officer Liu excitedly, for Xiao Wu, who had just graduated from the police academy, he was still the same as other peers, he was so happy, and he hoped to handle big cases to show his extraordinary.

This time, Officer Liu did not blame Xiao Wu but nodded approvingly, and he also recognized that things were not so simple.

After all, solving the case is not an overnight thing, after Officer Liu took these clues from Zhang Tianye, he ordered Xiao Wu to quickly investigate the mobile phone number and license plate number.

After Xiao Wu left, Zhang Tianye saw that the matter was over, so he said goodbye to Officer Liu, after all, there were important things in the hotel, and as usual, Officer Liu drove Zhang Tianye back to the Lihua Hotel.

Before getting out of the car, Officer Liu said very meaningfully: "The sea is endless, life and death are boundless, and once some things start, there is no turning back."

This sentence revealed a lot of information, but Zhang Tianye could only pretend to be confused, and after laughing and teasing, he watched Officer Liu leave the Lihua Hotel.

When entering the elevator, Zhang Tianye thought secretly: "Officer Liu, you must still know a lot of things, why don't you just break it, it seems that this muddy water is really deep"!