Chapter 7: Dragon Scales
The 328 office under the Ministry of State Security was established a few years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, formerly a non-governmental organization during the Republic of China, and the early members were some warlocks, who were good at subduing demons and eliminating demons, but they were not skilled in the work of clerks. Therefore, at the beginning of the establishment of the 328 Office, the rules and regulations were not perfect, there were not many cases that were actually archived and recorded, and the content of the records was not detailed enough.
These are all old files that are some years old, and they are locked in the innermost part of the archive room at the end of the second floor on weekdays, and ordinary people will not be idle to read them. However, as the logistics team, the six teams will regularly check and verify the files in the archives to check whether they are damaged.
Yan Yunkai has not been in the unit for the past few days, and the work of sorting out the archives will be handed over to Zhou Yi. Zhou Yi is a workaholic who is rare in six groups or even nine places, and his curiosity is also heavy, and the files that left and right the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China have been low for a long time, and his access authority is enough, so he has turned them all over.
The materials in the archives are not borrowed, they can only be consulted in the reading room, Yan Yunkai and Xie Zhi waited for a while, and Zhou Yi found the file that mentioned dragon scales.
"This case is very simple, in 1957, there was a weasel in a mountain village, and a Wong Tai Sin gathered people to occupy the houses of the villagers, well...... The method was a little cruel, and half of the village was slaughtered overnight, which was noticed by the nine. According to the suspect's testimony, he opened his mind when he was in the Republic of China, and later obtained two dragon scales, and after swallowing one, he cultivated the Taoist body. Although the weasel cultivated into a human body, he did not know the sinister hearts of people, and the remaining dragon scales were finally deceived by an old way in that mountain village, and the suspect was deceived and held a grudge, so he took revenge on the villagers of the entire mountain village. ”
Zhou Yi flipped through a few pages, pointed to an old photo in the list of evidence, and said, "This is this, oh, this scale in the photo is a dragon scale." ”
The photographs are well preserved, but in black and white, and the dossier also contains information about the dragon scales in writing.
"Two centimeters in diameter, white in color, and the center of the dragon scale surface pattern spreads out in all directions......" Yan Yunkai carefully compared, and then glanced at the author's signature at the bottom right, and said in surprise, "Chu Jun, Grandpa Chu?" ”
Zhou Yi nodded: "This is the case that Chu Lao was responsible for before, team leader, why don't you go back and ask Chu Lao to see if he still has an impression of dragon scales?" ”
"Then it's better to call Liu Zhenyan directly and apply for physical evidence." Yan Yun said, "It should still be kept, right?" ”
The physical evidence is stored in the physical evidence management office on the negative fourth floor, and is usually guarded by six groups of people, but the collection of physical evidence requires the approval of the deputy director.
"It's so late, Deputy Liu should be asleep." Zhou Yi said.
Yan Yunkai sighed, glanced at his watch, it was already more than two o'clock in the morning, and said, "It's okay, you go and call him, so that he knows that we are still working overtime." ”
The archive blocked the signal, Zhou Yi pushed his glasses and went out with his mobile phone.
Xie Zhi played with the scales in his hand and wondered, "Where did that weasel get the two dragon scales?" ”
Yan Yunkai swept through the file with a glance and ten lines, and replied: "What the weasel confessed is that he saw two dragons fighting each other when he was in the Republic of China, when he was affected and almost died, and after waking up from a coma, he found that there were scattered dragon blood and two bloody dragon scales on the ground. ”
Xie Zhi was silent for a moment, frowned, read the dossier himself, and muttered, "What kind of shit luck is this." ”
"Have you ever seen a dragon?" Yan Yunkai asked.
Xie Zhi nodded: "That was a long, long time ago, my clan is not as valued as the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin clans, and we don't often interact with them. When I was a child, I had seen dragons in the East China Sea, but I had never heard of dragons in the human world. Occasionally, I hear that someone finds a dragon, but in fact, it is just a Jiao. ”
Saying that, he was very puzzled, and turned his fingers to deduct the file, saying: "This weasel's description of the dragon is indeed correct, it should not be mistaken for a dragon." But as far as I know, the dragon clan is afraid of affecting the luck of the world, so they will not come to the world easily. ”
Yan Yunkai couldn't say why, at this time, Zhou Yi came in after making a call, glanced at the two of them, and said stupidly: "Vice Liu, let's just make up an application tomorrow." He also said that the work can never be done, so let's not work too hard. ”
Xie Zhi: "Original? ”
Zhou Yi whispered: "Some mortals should pay attention not to die of overwork. ”
Yan Yunkai sneered, and his eyes crooked with laughter: "Getting up and being angry is more compatible with Amitabha." ”
Xie Zhi: "...... Alas, I was in too much of a hurry. Why don't you get off work first? ”
"It's okay, let's find out if this scale on my hand is a dragon scale first." Yan Yunkai waved his hand disappreciatively.
The three of them walked out of the archives and prepared to go downstairs to collect evidence.
The door of Yan Yunkai's office was wide open, and when they passed by, Wang Qi squatted inside to play online games, and shouted without raising his head: "Are you off work?" ”
"It's nothing, you can do whatever you like." Yan Yunkai replied nonchalantly, and kept walking forward.
Zhao was sitting on the sofa, holding a book and reading, and when he heard this answer, the fingers that crossed the page paused slightly, and he naturally bent his fingers and turned a page.
He doesn't have any likes or dislikes, and the only thing he wants to do at the moment is probably to figure out what happened to him. But this is not something that can be figured out overnight, so many times, he is in a particularly idle state.
Occasionally, he would feel bored and dazed.
B4 Floor, Physical Evidence Management Office.
Yan Yunkai, Xie Zhi and Zhou Yi entered their fingerprints in turn, and the iron door was opened. Zhou Yi found the shelf at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China according to the year and date, and according to the number of the case on the file, he took out a dusty cardboard box and opened it carefully.
Xie Zhi took two steps forward, glanced at the cardboard box a few times, and took out a sealed bag.
"That's it." Xie Zhi said.
Yan Yunkai glanced at the scales in the sealed bag, there was a little dark red in the white scales, and then looked at the new one in his hand, and intuitively felt that the origin of the two scales was the same.
"Open it and take a look." Yan Yunkai signaled.
Xie Zhi put on his gloves, opened the sealed bag, poured the old scales into the palm of his hand, observed them carefully, and sniffed them under his nose.
The scale dug out of the water ghost's chest lost all its spiritual power as soon as it lost the warmth of the water ghost's soul, but the one the weasel got was different, and there was still extremely rare spiritual power left on this scale.
"This one is stained with blood, and it still retains a little bit of dragon breath." Xie Zhi, as a divine beast, was a little sensitive, and said, "It should be dragon scales." ”
Zhou Yi was a little excited: "This one from the fishing village is similar in color and texture, if it is also dragon scales, then from the Republic of China to the present, there are at least two places in my country where traces of dragons have been found." ”
Now that he can be sure that the water ghost's chest is embedded with dragon scales, Xie Zhi was not very happy, but said lightly: "I hope the water ghost picked up the dragon scales by chance." ”
According to the testimony of the weasel decades ago, there were two white dragons fighting, so what about these two dragons today? Are you still in the world?
Xie Zhi pressed his brows, and suddenly felt that Wang Xi's sentence of "wait until something happens in the future" was very reasonable. Dragons are different from other monsters, if they want to hide their tracks, as long as they don't make trouble and don't show their feet, even the pigs can't do anything. And, if they don't make trouble, then let them go.
Xie Zhi comforted himself, kept this incident in mind, and planned to let his colleagues pay more attention to this aspect of the movement on weekdays, and no longer drill the horns.
It was almost three o'clock in the morning, Zhou Yi couldn't stop yawning, and Yan Yunkai was also a little sleepy. Xie Zhi sent the two of them to rest and went back to write the dossier by himself.
In the office, Wang cut out of the game and asked Yan Yunkai: "Do you want to stay here to rest or go home?" ”
"Go home." Yan Yunkai took out the car keys from the drawer, "I'm going back to my parents' house tomorrow, do you want to come and eat?" ”
Wang Ju thought about it and refused with a twist: "Don't do it, every time grandma asks me if I'm happy at school and why I haven't grown taller, I don't know how to lie to her." She also bought me a lot of calcium tablets last time...... Alas. ”
Yan Yunkai's mother knows a little about his unit, but she doesn't have an in-depth understanding, and she doesn't know the specific identity of Wang Jie, and she has always been an ordinary person as a child.
Yan Yun smiled at the meeting, but no longer persuaded him, and turned his head to look at Zhao Thief.
He hesitated, not knowing what to call it. Although he has only known Zhao Theft for a few days, they are inseparable, and they have helped each other, and they have consciously become a little closer. If you still call it "Mr. Zhao", it seems too cold, and it is too kind to call it "pirated plane", "Xiao Zhao", people are more than a thousand years older than themselves, and "Lao Zhao" is not appropriate......
Yan Yunkai's thoughts were racing, and before he could make a sound, Zhao Thief noticed his gaze and raised his head to look at him.
"Let's go back together, and take a day off tomorrow." Yan Yun laughed, "But I have something to do during the day, so I can let Wangcai go out with you." ”
Zhao Thief had no choice but to bow his head and put down the book in his hand.
In the early hours of the morning, the streets were a little deserted, and Yan Yunkai slowed down his speed, for fear that he would have an accident while driving tired.
He parked his car downstairs and pressed the elevator upstairs impatiently.
This house is just two bedrooms and a living room, a bedroom, a study, and there is also a bed in the study.
Yan Yunkai missed his big bed very much, and he didn't even have time to sleep at home during the period when he returned to Beijing from Qingcheng Mountain and then went to Fujian. After taking a shower in a hurry, Yan Yunkai turned on the hair dryer to blow his hair, and then carefully applied the lotion.
He looked in the mirror for a moment, looking at the dark circles and sighing.
Zhao was watching TV in the living room, and when he saw him come out, he looked up.
"I'm going to sleep." Yan Yunkai said, "You can go to take a bath, will the hot and cold water be adjusted?" The toothbrushes and towels are all new, the pajamas bought for you are on the bed in the study, and the remote control of the air conditioning in the study is also on the bedside table. ”
Zhao turned off the TV, stood up, took off his blazer, and raised his hand to unbutton his shirt slowly.
"Well, you can rest."
"Suits don't need to be washed often, just put them in the basket." Yan Yunkai said again, glancing at Zhao Thief's thick and sturdy chest, "Good night." ”
He closed the bedroom door, turned off the light, and threw himself on the bed.
Zhao took out his pajamas from the study and calmly glanced at the closed bedroom door.