Chapter 40: What Follows (4)
"Wait, I'll talk about Lin Xingcheng's matter later," Zhou Ji found that Wang Yao had skipped some details intentionally or unintentionally when he spoke, and immediately interrupted his narrative and quickly brought it up: "What did you and Yue Zhi do in the middle of the night?" At first, you said that you were following him out, but why did it turn out that the two of you decided to come back separately after discussing it? β
Wang Yao's eyes flashed, and he hesitated for a moment before opening his mouth, "... Let's put it this way. Yue knew that because of some personal things, he learned the detailed method of going to the Black Book Company from Lin Xingcheng, so he went to try. β
Zhou Ji's brows furrowed into a pimple and he said incredulously, "Do you mean... That kind of absurd approach, did Yue Zhi successfully find the Black Book Company?! β
"Yes. Truly. Wang Yao said lightly. He looked at the other party's expression of wanting to speak and waved his hand, "I know what you want to ask." You wonder why I didn't give any clues to the top, right? To tell you the truth, I haven't been able to track Yue Zhi far at all. β
Then Wang Yao recalled to Zhou Ji what happened that night:
It turned out that that night, when Lin Xingcheng recounted Li Tang's case of a female high school student to the other three, Wang Yao sensed that something was wrong with Yue Zhi. But how did Wang Yao find out? Speaking of which, we have to mention their relationship. Wang Yue and the two were students who graduated from the same police academy, Yue is a junior, and Wang is a senior. Before they joined the Security Bureau, they were already good partners in work and life, not only have they solved countless cases together, but they are also good buddies in private.
But that didn't last long, and everything slowly changed after the two were selected together for the Security Bureau seven years ago and assigned to two different departments. The source that led to the gradual collapse of everything that followed until Yue Zhi's death was that ββββ Yue Zhi contracted a serious gambling addiction during an undercover mission because he couldn't control his weak willpower. Of course, his problem was not discovered at the beginning, because his main task was to go undercover for various gangster organizations to crack pornography, gambling and drugs, so after taking advantage of his position, his gambling addiction became even more crazy.
But Yue Zhi said that he would not betray the organization if he gave him hundreds of millions, because he was not short of money, and the crazy gambling did not make him poor, because all the funds were borne by the superiors, after all, all the money could be recovered intact after the case was solved in the end. In this way, it seems that everything is not a big problem, but the main problem is that Yue Zhi's luck is not good. At the table, unless someone deliberately loses to him, he will not have any chance of winning. Yue Zhi, a northern man whose self-esteem was frustrated, was stimulated again and again and again and had a pathological pursuitββββ he wanted to win. He wanted to win. Not once or twice, but invincible.
Hearing this, Zhou Ji roughly understood what Yue Zhi was thinking about trying to contact the Black Book Company. He doesn't need anything to be given to him, and his excessive self-esteem and inability to improve his luck make him have the illusion that he relies on the crooked ways of evil to get a way to always be the winner, after learning that the Black Book Company has the ability to fulfill people's wishes.
Having said that, people who are addicted to gambling are not understood by normal people, they are like drug addicts, money is not the first priority, the important thing is to enjoy the spiritual victory. Then the reason for Yue Zhi's death is clear, and it is too common for people to retaliate for excessive gambling. And Zhou Ji also felt that it was too exaggerated to contact an unknown organization just to become a winner at the gambling table, so he showed disdain for this and urged Wang Yao to skip these meaningless topics and talk about the key points directly.
Wang Yao glanced at Zhou Ji with a strange look of 'I said this all made sense', but he didn't dwell on this topic. Continuing with the events of that night:
Wang Yao sensed the excitement on Yue Zhi's face after hearing that the Black Book Company really had supernatural abilities, and knew that he definitely couldn't resist the mood to try. It happened to be Wednesday that day, and sure enough, Yue Zhi took the initiative to ask to sleep alone in the living room. After an hour or so, after confirming that there was no movement in a few rooms, he took the opportunity to sneak out, and Wang Yao also secretly followed Yue Zhi who was sneakily piecing together the 'summoning conditions' at that time.
One of the main conditions, the unlit intersection, is still easy to find, but where to get the black book and red chalk? Wang Yao hid in the corner and stared at Yue Zhi busy with his work, thinking that he would give up just yet. Unexpectedly, not only did he not lose heart, but instead used dozens of black carbon pens to dye a very small notebook, cut out a piece of white lime from the corner of the wall, and bit his finger to dye it red to make red chalk. After everything was done, he drew a red seven-pointed star on the ground, dripped blood on the sticky notes according to the method described by Lin Xingcheng, and stood in place and began to wait.
Minutes and seconds passed, about 5 minutes, or 10 minutes. Nothing happened during this period. This is actually not too surprising to Wang Yao, Lin Xingcheng also said that they have tried many times, is this a method that simply does not work? But just when he wanted to step forward to greet Yue Zhi, he found that there was something wrong with Yue Zhi - he had been staring blankly at the full moon that had not changed. This made Wang Yao couldn't help but be curious, stretched out his neck and looked at the sky hard, but of course he didn't find anything. But when he lowered his head, he was surprised to find that Yue Zhi had mysteriously disappeared at some point.
This kind of unexpected situation was something that Wang Yao never expected. He hurriedly rushed to the location where Yue Zhi was just now, but it was very clean and wrong, not to mention the seven-pointed star painted and the small stones that could be seen everywhere, and when he reached out and touched it, there was not even half a dust left. It was as if just as he looked up at the sky, Yue knew that there was a silent small nuclear explosion here, which blew up all the objects in the seven-pointed star circle into a trace of powder and dissipated with the wind.
Clean and not even a little dusty?!
Zhou Ji's brain seemed to have been shocked.
After the accident at Wang Desheng's house, didn't the report of the on-site investigators also mention this abnormality? It seems that even if the Black Book Company is not the mastermind, all the cases will happen with them! Knowing this, though, didn't help them now, only to be more convinced that the opponent they were investigating had supernatural powers. Since Wang Yao saw it with his own eyes, then he must have understood the problem of all this. But not only did he not report to his superiors but continued to investigate, was it just to cover up his buddy's crimes?