Let Li Yi drive the car to the street behind the police station, and stop directly in front of the white and yellow signboard of the 24-hour convenience store "GGO", through the floor-to-ceiling glass window, I saw Shen Tangzhi, dressed in a white forensic uniform, sitting on the window seat of the convenience store. org

I sat down next to Shen Tang: "Section Chief Shen, what other secret instructions do you have?" ”

Shen Tang was not moved by my witticisms at all, her face was even a little solemn, she took out a book with a black cover from her arms and laid it flat on the table: "You take a look at this first." ”

"Hey, you also see bestsellers?" I couldn't help but smile when I looked at the book cover.

This is exactly a book that has recently swept the bookstores in Jinguan City, and it is also the most discussed in major forum posts-

"Black Town".

"This is what I found in Qiao Zhenbang's villa." Shen Tangzhi motioned with his eyes for me to pick up the book "Black Town" on the table, "Aren't you curious, why did I show you this book for no reason?" ”

"Huh?"

As soon as my hand touched the cover of the book, I immediately put away the smile on my face.

The book cover turned out to be made of wood, and I knew it as soon as I got my hands on it—it was locust wood.

When I opened the book, there was a text on the title page:

"For Detective - Mr. Yoshimitsu."

The payment turned out to be ......

Qiao Yu!

The material of the inner pages is also strange: like skin but not skin, like paper not paper, and you can feel the touch of paper between fingers, but it is very strong - I folded it in half, and it immediately bounced back like cowhide, and there was no crease left.

"How's that, do you see anything special?" Shen Tangzhi bit the straw in his mouth, and with his other hand, pushed another cup of hot milk tea on the table in front of me.

I said "thank you", took the hot milk tea and took a sip: "It's too sweet, I'm not used to it - the cover of this book is locust wood, and the inner page is even stranger, can you tell what the material is?" ”

"I minored in materials science when I was in college, but the material of the special paper on the inside pages of this book is completely outside my knowledge - if you don't like milk tea, then next time I invite you to drink tartary buckwheat tea."

"Thank you in advance - where did you find this book?"

"It's in the hole in the wall where Qiao Yu's body is hidden. Could it be that Qiao Zhenbang deliberately left it for you? However, I don't know if it's a hallucination, but when I carry this book with me, I always feel a cold breath coming out of the book......"

"The cover of this book is locust wood, locust wood is also known as ghost wood, the five elements belong to yin, and the legend can possess ghosts. Your feeling is not necessarily an illusion, because according to Feng Shui theory, it is used to tie up ghosts, if Qiao Yu's soul is attached to this book, then maybe Qiao Yu wants to say something to the person who holds this book. ”

Shen Tangzhi's face did not fluctuate at all, and he said "Oh", "Then it's no wonder." ”

I thought about it, Shen Tangzhi dealt with all kinds of corpses almost every day, and the corpses of many homicides were terrible, and if he was afraid of gods and ghosts, he wouldn't be able to do forensic medicine at all.

So I continued: "I suspect that Qiao Zhenbang was instructed by someone, maybe he felt that killing Qiao Yu was not enough to relieve his anger, and he still wanted to continue to torture Qiao Yu's soul." There is a saying that if you want to take revenge on a person, plant a locust tree next to his grave after his death, so that his ghost will never be reborn! Speaking of which, I remembered that my master once told me a story about locust wood, do you want to hear it? ”

"Is it long? Listen to it for a long time. ”

I told a story about a locust tree, which took place in a mountain village not too far from Jinguan City.

The specific location of that mountain village is unknown, but it is known that it is about ten miles away from the upper reaches of the Luochuan River, and that village is called Dahuaishu Village.

One summer, after more than a month of torrential rain, the Luochuan River was flooded, completely flooding the village, and almost all the villagers of Dahuaishu Village died in the flash flood. After the big locust tree village was deserted, the houses in the village collapsed, and only a big locust tree at the entrance of the village that had grown for an unknown number of years remained.

The village was deserted, and all the plants around the village slowly died, but only the big locust tree was still flourishing, and its growth was even better than before.

But for at least one or two decades after that, as long as you pass by the big locust tree in the middle of the night, you can often see a group of people with their heads down, circling around the big locust tree under the moonlight, these people are dripping with water and their faces are pale, like floating corpses that have just been fished out of the water.

And when it was dawn, they were gone.

"Those people are the villagers who died in the flash flood?" Shen Tangzhi blinked and took a few sips of milk tea, "What era is your story?" He also said that it was a real thing that happened near Jinguan City, but he couldn't tell the specific location - the Luochuan River is five or six hundred kilometers long and crosses several provinces. ”

"It's just a story, it's so true, your occupational disease is really not light. According to my master, it was the people in the village who drowned during the flash flood, and the souls of those people were suppressed by the big locust tree, and they would be chained when they died. In short, I say so much to tell you that locust wood is a very evil wood, if you don't believe it, you can go to cemeteries and cemeteries everywhere to have a look, and there will be no locust trees planted in any cemetery. ”

Shen Tangzhi almost sprayed me with a mouthful of milk tea, covered his throat with his hand and coughed a few times, his face was slightly red, and he said with a slight annoyance: "Do you think everyone is like you, it's not good to go anywhere when you have time, go to the cemetery?!" ”

I hurriedly apologized for my gaffe, Shen Tangzhi is not the kind of person who messes around, and when he saw my acquaintance, he waved his hand and said: "Although you are a bit nonsense, but then again, I also feel that this book is a little wrong, and ...... I have a hunch that this book will be closely related to your pursuit of Qiao Zhenbang. ”

This kind of premonition cannot be taken seriously, nor can it be ignored, and sometimes, it is a transparent silk thread in the dark, perhaps it is coherent with the whole event...... But more often than not, the so-called hunch, is nothing.

But Shen Tangzhi is indeed well-intentioned, there is no doubt about it.

"Okay, I'll borrow your good words."

I put away the weird copy of "Black Town" on the table, and then said goodbye to Shen Tangzhi.

Back in the car, Li Yi yawned and asked me, "What did you say to my cousin, for so long?" ”

"Serious job - drive your car, if you miss the meeting time, you know."

Cheng Chengde's original words were "outdated and not waiting", although he knew that it would not be really strictly implemented, but it was always very bad to be late, and Li Yi, this kid is now carrying a million debts, and the orders of the creditor Shen Tangzhi are equivalent to the golden rule, if he is finally kicked out of the pursuit detachment, it will be a big loss.

Thinking of this, Li Yi wailed and quickly stepped on the accelerator.

In the end, everyone was still on time, and no one was late.

Cheng Cheng gave an order, and we sat in two army-green BAIC warriors and set off immediately.

Among them, Li Yi and Lao Dao and I had a car, and Cheng Cheng and two other police officers from the Criminal Investigation Bureau had a car.

The two police officers, one named Zhou Ou, is a dark-skinned sturdy man, as soon as he opens his mouth, he has a northern accent and a very straightforward personality, and the other is named Liu Haijun, compared to Zhou Ou's reckless image, Liu Haijun looks white and clean.

Both of them have a background in being soldiers and have good skills - this is also considering that this operation may be dangerous, so the Criminal Investigation Department also sent elite soldiers.

The journey was smooth, but after dawn, we got off the highway, and after driving less than 20 kilometers, we heard several explosions, and when we got out of the car, we saw that both cars had a front tire blown up.

The old knife looked around, and suddenly became angry: "Turtle son's!" Who sprinkled the broken iron on the road? ”

Sure enough, on the two punctured tires, there was a half-palm-wide, triangular piece of broken iron, and on the asphalt road in front of them, within a range of about two hundred meters, there were no less than dozens of the same broken iron pieces scattered!

There are two possibilities, either it leaked from the car that recycled the broken copper and iron, or someone deliberately did it.

"Someone must be the devil! Hmph, if nothing else, there must be a repair station ahead. The old knife was indignant.

It's really infuriating, we just got off the highway and two cars broke down here!

Cheng Cheng was very calm, and after thinking about it for a while, he said to everyone: "In this way, Xiao Zhou and Xiao Li stayed here to watch the car, I checked before leaving, there is a township bus on this road, and we have a few people left to take the bus to go first, you can just catch up after you fix the car - how about this arrangement?" ”

Cheng Cheng said that Xiao Zhou is Zhou Ou, and Xiao Li is Li Yi.

Of course, the two police officers listened to Cheng Cheng, and the old knife had no opinion, but Li Yi, this kid, looked unhappy, I saw this and hurriedly pulled him down, and promised for him: "Okay, Cheng Team, this time I came out to listen to your command, so be it." ”

Then he whispered to Li Yi: "We are out to handle the case now, of course, we have to follow the arrangement of Section Chief Cheng, put away your unconvincedness, and don't forget in what capacity we participated." Besides, everyone wants to solve the case quickly, and everyone wants to rush to the front line, so who will do the logistics? ”

"Do you have to be here to do logistics?" Li Yi was still unconvinced.

"You think, if you are kicked out of the pursuit detachment because of such a trivial matter, how wronged is it?"

"But—"

I was a little impatient: "Which of the two of us is whose assistant?" ”

“…… I'm your assistant. ”

"Then shut up."

The six of us first cleaned up the nasty pieces of iron from the ground, and then squatted on the side of the road, smoking cigarettes while waiting for the bus.

When a group of us had finished smoking two cigarettes each, a wagged yellow bus came in the distance.