Chapter 42: Stones
"Why do I always do this kind of thing, what do you eat?"
"I know you have a leg injury, but you don't have a broken one, can't you come yourself?"
"Oh, that's it, why don't you buy me a wheelchair for you? Instructor and officer! β
"Yes, you used to be my instructor, yes, but that was before, and now you're just a ......"
"You're just a simple asshole."
Ye Tianlang put down the mobile phone held in his ear, and at the same time pressed the red hang-up button, looked at the door in front of him, and sighed.
Behind him was a courtyard overgrown with yellow vines crawling horizontally along the path, making the place even more desolate.
He raised his hand and knocked on the door a few times.
Predictably, there was no response.
"Last time it was a car with blood all over the place, what is it this time? The first murder scene? β
He asked to himself, tilting his head and looking out of the window by the door for a moment.
The glass of the window was covered with a thick layer of dust, and a few tiny cobwebs hung from the corners of the city.
How long has it been since no one has come to this house! How does it feel like there's a pervert living inside.
Or something more troublesome than perverted.
He recalled that after seeing Xia Beifeng this time, that person's series of chaotic and mysterious expressions, the sense of foreboding deepened.
"If there's something strange in there...... I'm going to beat you up when I turn around, just in time you're not crippled. β
While gritting his teeth and talking to Xia Beifeng, who now didn't know what he was playing with at home, he took out a magnetic card from his pocket and swiped it on the electronic door lock.
The red light on the door lock flashed, and then with a crisp "pop", the wooden door that was also covered with dust was slowly pushed open by Ye Tianlang.
The owner of this house, or "original owner", is probably a woman. The furnishings in the room are all very feminine light-colored decorations.
Although the whole room was covered with dust, it was not difficult to see how meticulous and patient the people who set up the room were in the first place.
He closed the door and searched the room carefully.
Nothing was found.
Not only are there no imaginary clues, but there are certain clues hidden in the corners. He hadn't even found anything that would prove the identity of the house's owner.
Although the furnishings of this house look warm and cozy, there is no trace of inhabitation. It's as if it's just been renovated and placed here. But no one has been moving in.
It's weird.
Ye Tianlang stood in the center of the living room and looked around the house again from the perspective of the beginning.
From the moment he entered the door, he intuitively felt that there was something unusual in this room. But now, after a few laps back and forth, he still can't figure out where that strong sense of disobedience comes from.
A few tiny spiders crawled around the webs in the corners, struggling to reinforce their home
He took out his mobile phone and dialed Xia Beifeng's number.
After the prompt to connect the phone sounded a few times, he heard the voice of Xia Beifeng over there.
"How's it going, what's there?"
"I've seen it a few times. Nothing. Ye Tianlang said, stretched out his hand and touched the wallpaper on the side, squinting his eyes and looking carefully at the patterns on the wallpaper, "There is ash everywhere, and there is not even a little popularity." If you want to say that there is a discovery, it is that her wallpaper is quite good-looking. β
"It shouldn't be." Xia Beifeng whispered something in a puzzled voice over there.
"What did you say?" Ye Tianlang shouted at the mobile phone: "I didn't hear clearly, can you be louder." β
"It's nothing, I was talking to Xiaotian just now." After Xia Beifeng said and whispered to him that he didn't know what to say, he hurriedly said to him: "Wait for you over there now, don't go out." I'll ask. β
"You're done, how long do you want me to wait in this house!"
He said helplessly to the phone that kept coming out of the busy sound. Put your phone back in your pocket.
He lowered his head in boredom and blew on his fingers, watching the thick layer of dust on his fingertips blow away.
Then I touched the wallpaper again.
The light purple wallpaper is dotted with tiny white dandelions, and after wiping off the dust on them, you can faintly see the silver light reflected on the dandelions.
The phone in his pocket vibrated again.
He took out his mobile phone and leaned into his ear and asked, "How is the question?" What the hell am I looking for here? β
"A stone." Xia Beifeng said calmly over there: "A black, irregularly shaped, half-sized stone. There are no cosmetic features. β
"Oh-" Ye Tianlang looked up at the window, "No problem, I'll go out and pick up a stone now, and go back and kill you." β
"I'm in the same mood as you right now." Xia Beifeng sighed bitterly on the other side of the phone: "Anyway, you just look at it and help find it." If you can't find it, forget it...... Seriously, who has nothing to do with a rock at home, and now they have to look for it......"
"Wait a minute." Ye Tianlang stared at the reflection on the glass window, and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, "Instructor, can you tell me what you are investigating now?" β
"I'm ...... now," Xia Beifeng suddenly reflected when he said this, and quickly asked, "What do you see?" Are you okay! β
"It's okay now." Ye Tianlang said softly, and slowly turned his head, "Just now, I seem to have seen something, and I can't say what it is, it passed in a flash, you wait for me to take a look." β
"Don't mess around!" Xia Beifeng's stern voice came from the phone, "You come out for me now, don't stay in that house!" β
"It's okay, I don't think it's a problem." Ye Tianlang said as he walked in the direction of the thing he had just seen in the glass reflection, "You wait for me to take a look." β
He stood still in front of a crimson cabinet and pulled out a knife.
The cabinet was about a meter high, and the door was inlaid with several large pieces of glass, so that the various decorations contained in it could be clearly seen. Many of these things are called "antiques" that at first glance are not affordable for ordinary people.
Ye Tianlang looked the cabinet up and down a few times, and finally found what he was looking for.
At the bottom of that cabinet. Near the ground, there is this row of small drawers.
The drawer was carved with intricate patterns, and there was not even a handle. If you don't tell carefully, you'll probably think it's just a decorative pattern on the bottom of the cabinet.
"Instructor, you say...... Something that comes out in broad daylight with green eyes. What should it be?" He crouched on the ground, stuck the knife into the gap in the drawer, and asked the other end of the phone, "I don't know if it's the eyes, but it feels like it's too fast, I can't see clearly." β
"Leave it alone!" Xia Beifeng said anxiously: "No matter what you are doing now, stop immediately!" β
"Why should I listen to you!" Ye Tianlang sneered, raised his knife and split the locking drawer.
He slowly pulled open the drawer.
"There's something." He whispered to the person on the other end of the phone, "The stone you're looking for." β
A prosaic black stone lay in a drawer.
The stone was black. A few sharp edges and corners are freely supported in all directions, whether they are silver or shaped, they are very ordinary. Indeed, as Xia Beifeng said, there is nothing that can be called characteristic at all.
"You're going to bring this back, aren't you? Anything else? He asked, pulling out a small, folded black plastic bag from his trouser pocket. He shook off the plastic bag, put it on his hand like a glove, and reached out and took out the stone in the drawer...... It's ugly...... What the hell do you want it for? β
"I don't know, Xiao Tian said he was looking for it." Xia Beifeng continued as if breathing a sigh of relief: "You take the stone and come back quickly, don't stay in that house." β
"Oh. Okay, I'll go. He wrapped the stone in a plastic bag. He raised his hand and closed the drawer before standing up again, "This place is so dirty, I don't want to stay longer." β
He took the stone and walked out of the house as quickly as possible, strode under the wall, and in a few strokes climbed over the wall. Walk in the direction you parked before.
The fox that had been white didn't know when it appeared on the cabinet just now, squinting at Ye Tianlang's departing back with a pair of dark green eyes.
It stood on the cabinet for a moment, then suddenly raised its paws, lowered its head and began to wash its face.
Where its paws had just stepped on, a few small spider corpses were lying flat there. Green spider blood painted a splattery pattern on the cabinet. It's like accidentally smashing an egg on the ground.
The fox washed his face and shook his head quickly. After seeing Ye Tianlang's back disappear from its sight, it quickly took a few steps to the side and disappeared out of thin air.
Until Ye Tianlang on the other end of the phone said, "I've already driven away." After that, Xia Beifeng suddenly sighed, leaned back on the back of the chair, looked up at the ceiling, and felt that his heart that had mentioned his throat had finally fallen back into the distance.
How easy it was to get it? Nothing happened?
He looked at the screen of his mobile phone that had been hung up in disbelief, and his mind was dazed for a moment.
Then he called up the WeChat interface, found Shen Luotian's avatar, and sent him a message.
"I've found a stone, I'll bring it later."
Shen Luotian replied with a "good" word in seconds.
Xia Beifeng put down his phone, looked up at the computer screen in front of him, and continued to click the mouse.
On his computer screen, there are three photos of Tao Tao side by side.
These three photos are all advertising pictures of Taobao sellers, although the clothes worn by Tao Tao are not the same, and the posture is not the same. But the big smile on her face didn't make much difference.
What is more similar in those three photos than her smile is that there is a faint black shadow behind her.
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Song Minghui stood in front of Mingmei, grabbed her hair, and lifted her up.
Mingmei was originally sitting limp on the cold ground of the ice, being pulled by her hair like this, and she didn't see her open her eyes, and there was even a hint of mocking sneers on her somewhat deformed face that was dragged away.
Song Minghui saw her expression and suddenly felt a nameless fire rise from his heart, and he raised his hand and slapped Mingmei twice on his face.
The crisp slap echoed for a while before it completely dissipated from Mingmei's mind.
So she smiled even more.
"Say!" Song Minghui lifted her up again, approached her face, and roared angrily: "What the hell is going on with that surnamed Shen!" Why didn't that thing work for him? β
"What surname Shen?" Mingmei sneered and said, "I know a lot of people with the surname Shen, how do you know which one you are talking about...... You stay away from me, saliva is spraying all over my face, isn't it disgusting! β
Song Minghui laughed angrily, he let go of his hand, let Mingmei fall to the ground, and said three or four "good" words in a row.
He stepped on her bright soft belly and watched with satisfaction as her reflexive bow took the shape of a shrimp.
Mingmei shrank on the ground and retched a few times before holding her abdomen, and her face was pale and relieved.
"The one surnamed Shen!" Song Minghui said with a smile: "It's the one with long hair and a little girl in a black dress by his side...... Do you have an impression of that? β
Under the brightly closed eyelids, the two eyeballs moved slightly.
"Sure enough, it's acquaintance." Song Minghui breathed a sigh of relief, squatted beside Mingmei, patted her face, and said softly: "Wouldn't it be good if you just told me honestly, you have to suffer so hard to be happy...... The person surnamed Shen, why didn't he get dizzy when he smelled the smell, didn't you say that as long as it was "that kind of person", he would smell that smell? β
"If you're talking about the person I think, it's normal that it doesn't work." Mingmei said angrily: "Because he is not "that kind of person" at all. β
"He can see the net in your house, how can he not be "that kind of person"? Song Minghui eagerly continued to ask: "Who is he, his eyes ......?"
He couldn't finish his words, because Mingmei suddenly laughed out loud, interrupting his train of thought.
Mingmei cowered in the corner of the wall, and after laughing a few times, she coughed here in the middle of laughing, probably because her body was too weak.
"I'll ask again!" Song Minghui shouted like crazy: "What the hell is going on with his eyes!" β
"Don't think about his eyes, that's not something you can get your hands on!" Mingmei said slowly, as if to arouse Song Minghui's curiosity, she even divided one sentence into three paragraphs and said, "Actually, I don't know him very well." But I know that he is not at all something that you half-bucket of water can understand. β
Song Minghui slapped her twice again without thinking about it.
"About the surname Shen, tell me anything else!"
"I don't know him very well, but I do know his brother well." Mingmei hoarsely spoke, and after only two words, she coughed violently again.
Song Minghui didn't have time to wait for her to finish coughing, so he simply grabbed her hair, took her head and body, and slammed it against the wall.
"Who is his brother? Does it work? β
"His brotherβ" Bright pauses mysteriously.
Song Minghui couldn't help but move forward a little distance.
"He is taller than you, handsome, good-tempered, and willing to spend money on women." Mingmei said intermittently: "The most important thing is that he is older than you, longer than you, and has more tricks than you." β
After Song Minghui heard this, his face suddenly turned blue.
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