"In the four corners of the four directions, each has its own qi, the yang of qi walks from the wind, and the yin of qi walks from the water. Reason is in the air, and the gas is confined to the form. After walking a few steps, the middle-aged Taoist priest suddenly turned to look at me and said with an unfathomable expression.

"What do you mean?" It's just that what he didn't expect was that Zhang Wei asked again.

"Heaven must not be divulged." The middle-aged Taoist priest shook his head, but had no intention of explaining.

"If I remember correctly, this sentence should be from the Book of Burial, written by the famous scholar Guo Pu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and his full theory is based on the search for the Yin Cave." I smiled and explained lightly.

"Oh, it turns out that you showed us the feng shui for the dead, I already knew that you had bad intentions, and I had to tell the director about this." After Zhang Wei heard my words, he suddenly realized and looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest with a fierce face.

I don't know if it was because I was exposed, or because I was frightened by Zhang Wei's appearance, I saw the middle-aged Taoist priest take two steps back in a panic, and pointed at me and said to Zhang Wei with some weakness: "Don't talk nonsense, you two little dolls are only a few years old, I haven't heard of any funeral books, what I just said is the secret mantra of my sect." ”

"Really? What kind of sect are you? Do you want me to contact the relevant authorities to find out? Zhang Wei looked at the middle-aged Taoist priest with a strange look.

"Hmph, if you don't listen to me, you'll regret it." Seeing that the matter has come to this, the middle-aged Taoist priest also knows that if the stalemate continues, he will only bring humiliation on himself, who let him learn his own arts, no, it is unfortunate to meet a policeman who even knows the funeral book, is it possible that the current police are idle all day long and have nothing to do?

So put down a cruel word, and he turned around and left, looking too lazy to be with me and Zhang Wei.

"Boss, that's it?" Zhang Wei looked at the back of the middle-aged Taoist priest and said.

"We're police, don't you want to take revenge?" I glared at Zhang Wei and told him not to mess around.

"But he is too arrogant, he dares to curse us, this kind of person should go out and be hit by a car and die." Zhang Wei watched the middle-aged Taoist priest slowly leave with hatred.

Hearing Zhang Wei's words, I glanced at him a little strangely, then patted him on the shoulder, didn't say anything, turned around and walked into the office building, leaving Zhang Wei stunned and confused.

Ten minutes later, when I was taking a copy of the case file to take a closer look, Zhang Wei hurriedly ran in, "Boss, that Taoist priest was really hit by a car, right at the door of our bureau." ”

"Seriously?" I asked without looking up.

"Broken leg and just got to the hospital." After Zhang Wei finished speaking, he looked at me strangely, he didn't think that his words made the middle-aged Taoist priest break his leg by a car, in his heart, I am afraid that I am the only one who can have this ability.

"Well, it's better to be honest with this kind of person, so as not to harm people everywhere." I nodded, and then forgot about the middle-aged Taoist priest, without the middle-aged Taoist priest's obstruction, Zhang Wei continued to be his supervisor, as for the director behind him, he never showed up from beginning to end.

I don't know if it's because of that car, or because of Bai Xiansong, my position in the criminal police team and even the entire bureau has become faintly detached, and Bai Xue no longer handed over those ordinary cases to me after knowing my ability, which caused me to have nothing to do all morning.

At noon, I was eating in the cafeteria, and I happened to meet Zou Haitao and Guo Jinquan coming to eat, and there was a young man I had never seen before, that is, twenty-four or five years old, with a slightly thin face, with a kind of wise coldness.

"Team leader, you're back." Zou Haitao and Guo Jinquan also saw me, and after the meal was ready, they led the young man over and sat down at a table with me.

"Well, what have you been busy with in the past two days?" Although Zou Haitao and Guo Jinquan are both members of my group, because of my absence in the past two days, most of the things in the group are directly under Bai Xue's direct jurisdiction, so I don't know what the two of them are busy with, and I haven't seen the two of them in the morning.

"It's a drowning case, but there are a lot of doubts in this case, and we are also investigating and collecting evidence, by the way, this is Su Chuan, the forensic doctor who just came to our bureau, used to be in the provincial department, and his ability to handle things is quite strong, and this case is thanks to Su Chuan's help." As he spoke, Zou Haitao introduced the grim-looking young man beside him to me.

"Hello, my name is Liu Yang." After I put down my chopsticks and shook it with Su Chuan, the latter just said coldly that my name is Su Chuan, and then there was no follow-up.

It can be seen that this is a person who does not like to deal with people, which may also have something to do with his profession, after all, forensic medicine is not something that ordinary people can do.

"It just so happens that I don't have anything to do, you tell me about the case, and I'll listen." I picked up the chopsticks again and took two bites of rice, looked at the two of them who were a little embarrassed, and said.

"Okay, team leader, here's the thing, at about ten o'clock the night before yesterday, our police center personnel received a call, saying that someone would be drowned by water ghosts in the Bailang River at ten o'clock in the morning the next day, our personnel thought that the other party was joking, so they didn't take it to heart, but at ten o'clock yesterday morning, we received the alarm again, saying that someone drowned in the Bailang River, and the people in the alarm center thought of the phone call last night, and they didn't dare to slack off, and immediately turned the case around, just as I was fine with Jinquan, and we took over the case."

"By the time I arrived with Jinquan, the drowning man had already been recovered, but we found a black handprint on the man's ankle, and the person who recovered the body said that it was left by a water ghost, and that the person was killed by a water ghost."

Zou Haitao said this, glanced at Su Chuan again, and continued: "After we transported the body back, we asked Su Chuan to help, and then let Su Chuan explain." ”

Hearing Zou Haitao's words, Su Chuan was stunned for a moment, but then cleared his throat and explained unequivocally, "According to my examination, that handprint is indeed caused by external forces, as for why the handprint is black, I think it should be related to the time he spent soaking in the water and his physique, and now I am extracting that part of the black blood, and the test results will come out before dinner at most." ”

I nodded, then looked at Zou Haitao and asked, "Is the recording of that phone call from the alarm center still there?" Also, has the identity of the deceased been clarified? Has the family been notified? ”

"I uploaded the recording to my mobile phone, the deceased's name is Zhang Zengbao, a native of Jiaohua County, a neighboring province, who came to Qingshan to work and work in a construction company, and has confirmed it with his fellow villagers." Zou Haitao said and put the phone in front of me, and then turned on the recording.

"Hey, hello, this is the Ancheng District Bureau." The first thing that came out was the almost uniform voice of the people in the alarm center.

"I'm going to report it!" At this time, another male voice came out of the recording, I listened intently, the voice was a little hoarse, as if deliberately pinching his throat, through which it can be seen that he doesn't want people to hear his voice, but on the other hand, it shows that this person must have a certain relationship with the deceased, otherwise there is no need to cover it up.

It's just that why did the other party make this call? Could it be that the murderer is not him? But he knew that someone was going to kill the deceased, but he didn't dare to stop it, so he could only hide his identity and call the police, hoping to save the deceased by the hands of the police.

"Tell me."

"Tomorrow at ten o'clock in the morning, someone will be drowned by a water ghost in the Bailang River, you have to rush over to save him." The voice said this, and the tone of the voice changed slightly, and it seemed to become rapid.

"What? Kelpie? You're not kidding, sir, are you? The staff of the alarm center was stunned for a moment and said.

"I'm not kidding, you must remember to arrive before ten o'clock in the morning, otherwise it will be too late." As soon as the voice finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

I pondered for a while, looked at Zou Haitao and asked, "Can you find out where this call was made?" Who is the owner of the number? ”

"I checked with the technical department, and the other party obviously has a certain anti-tracking method, and the owner of the phone has found it, but the other party has just lost the phone before, and the location is meaningless, and it is far away from the place where Zhang Zengbao works." Zou Haitao shook his head and said.

"Well, after eating, you take me to see Zhang Zengbao's corpse." After I said this, I ended my short inquiry, bowed my head and began to eat seriously.

But his mind turned rapidly and began to sort out the case.

If you look at it on the surface, this is just a very simple drowning case, but that phone call made all this unusual, and it is still unknown whether Zhang Zengbao was drowned by a water ghost, at least this point must be determined before it can continue.

Maybe it was because I was waiting next to me, Zou Haitao and Guo Jinquan's eating speed was obviously a lot faster, and even Su Chuan couldn't help but speed up, but looking at his expression, he was obviously a little uncomfortable.

If there is anyone here who doesn't know me, I'm afraid it's only this Su Chuan, he just came here in the past two days, maybe he hasn't heard too many legends about me, so when facing me, he didn't have the heartfelt fear of Zou Haitao and the others.

When I put down the chopsticks, Zou Haitao and Guo Jinquan also put down the chopsticks at the same time, as for Su Chuan, he was obviously a little slower, but he didn't eat anymore, and he reluctantly put down the chopsticks.

I glanced at Su Chuan and didn't say anything to let him eat again, and if I did, he wouldn't eat it even more, so in the face of the established results, it is better to be silent than to bother with words, there are some things that everyone understands in their hearts, and saying it will make you too naïve and immature enough.

Led by Su Chuan, we arrived at the forensic identification center, which was in a room next to the underground morgue.

After coming in, Su Chuan skillfully put on his work clothes, put on gloves and masks, and lifted the white cloth on the workbench in the middle of the room.