Chapter 12: A Strange Murder

For past lives and reincarnation, as a me, it's hard to imagine. You and He Naively put forward the statement about "split", which is even more incomprehensible, and even the edges can't be outlined.

As human beings, there are always things that you can never figure out. For example, life and death, such as the underworld and the yang world, don't look at me I know so many strange people and strange people, and I have experienced a lot of strange things, but the occurrence of these things belongs to the appearance, and no one can really completely dissect the secret of life and death and explain it in popular language.

These strange people I know are all using appearances. No one can say the essence, including the unraveling. It's like primitive people, who didn't know about aerodynamics, but the chain hammer they invented was very effective in capturing prey.

I feel that He Tianzhen said the concept of "separation", I am afraid that even she herself can't explain clearly, she can feel the existence of these things, but she can't describe them accurately. This is also understandable, beyond life and death, beyond reincarnation, beyond the life of things have gone beyond the scope of human language, even if a writer has no way to understand.

But we all understood the general meaning. Copperlock's face was ugly, and now things are not clear. Instead, it introduces a fog of greater complexity.

The only clue he got was the inexplicable picture of a man in his hand, and the conclusion that there might be a group of people in this world who were also separated from himself.

The brass lock staggered, almost unsteady, and I went over to help him. He waved his hand. Clenched the piece of paper tightly.

"Luo Dao," he said, "I am not me, but a split of a certain person, you say it is not ridiculous." ”

My heart has been sinking, and the so-called growth of a person is actually a process of constantly reinforcing the concept of "me". The child is innocent, has no sense of independent personality, and plays crazy every day. Adults do whatever they tell them to do, they don't have the concept of "me". As people grow up, the feeling of "me" begins to become more and more intense, and the cultivation of independent personality, and even every pleasure or pain in the physical senses, can deepen people's strong feelings of "me".

But now, these things that Copperlock has experienced are beginning to destroy the "me" he has formed over the years. This is the foundation of a person's survival between heaven and earth, which is different from other animals. If a person doesn't even know who "I" is, it's no different from a brute. This most important thing, in the heart of the copper lock, began to crumble. It's even more terrifying than destroying his **.

Walking out of the "innocent pharmacy", the copper lock patted me on the shoulder: "Lao Luo, stop here, you can accompany me all the way here, I am already very grateful, I have to sort out my thoughts for the rest of the things, think about where to start." I don't have much time, two months to complete. Perhaps, let's say goodbye ......"

I hurriedly said, "Don't say these frustrating words. ”

Copperlock's face was like ashes, sighed, and staggered away.

"It's his own choice." Qin Dan stood next to me and said, "Let him go, he has the right to choose what he should do in his last days." ”

After returning home, I was relieved that I couldn't get rid of the copper lock, but when I thought of his resolute eyes when we parted, I had to give up. I told the situation on the phone and told the bell, and the bell said that he knew, and the whole thing was mysterious. I asked him how he was doing, and his voice was no longer hoarse, and he said lightly that it was okay, and he would go back in a few days, and we would get back when the time came.

Time flies quickly, and half a month has passed in a blink of an eye. The copper lock did not fall, and the phone call was not answered, as if the world had evaporated. And Xie Ling didn't go home at all, and was discharged from the hospital after a week, I don't know where I went, and my whereabouts are unknown. However, Xie Nanhua came back and invited me to a meal, and he told me that I couldn't stay still, and my injury was slightly better, so I took the task and left.

I was very interested, and someone gave him a task and asked what it was. Xie Nanhua smiled and shook his head, without saying anything.

As the days passed, seeing that the New Year was coming, I didn't have the heart to go out to find a job, pinched my fingers to count the days, and it was time to go back to my hometown Pantao Village for the New Year.

On this day, I was sleeping lazily, and the phone rang, and after connecting in a daze, it was actually a copper lock.

The phone signal is not very good, and the background sound is very noisy, like the sound of the wind. The copper lock spoke in a loud voice: "Luo Dao, can you hear me?" ”

"Hear, where are you?" I asked.

"I'm in Qi Town."

I was stunned: "What is that place?" ”

"In the vicinity of Yangzhou." Brass Lock shouted. Indulgence and reversal.

Why did he run away to Yangzhou, I suddenly flashed, damn it, this kid won't really go to the field to investigate his dreams. The place where the strange dream he had happened was in the Jiangnan Water Town.

I was hesitating, and the copper lock said: "I sorted out some investigation materials and sent them to your mailbox, you can take a look at it first, help me keep a copy, and it will be regarded as a backup." ”

"When are you coming back?" I asked.

"It's coming, it's getting a little eyebrow, and things are getting more and more interesting." Tongsuo said that he suddenly coughed, coughing out of breath, panting like pulling bellows, it took a long time to stop, hehe laughed: "Damn, I'm vomiting blood again, okay, let's not talk about it, wait for me to go back and talk." ”

After hanging up the phone, I rolled over and got out of bed, quickly turned on the computer, and entered the mailbox.

Sure enough, there is a piece of information in it, which was sent yesterday, and the sender is the copper lock. I downloaded the data to the local hard drive, unzipped it and opened it, most of it was the text of the text, and there were some audio and pictures, I opened them one by one to see, and gradually connected into a context map in my mind.

Qi Zhen is the place where the copper lock dream took place, and it is thanks to He TiannaΓ―'s help to find it. The dream of the copper lock was entangled with the young man's previous life, and He Tianzhen gave the young man several hypnotis through his previous life. During the last hypnosis, the young man said Qi Zhen's name.

According to the clues gathered, Copper Lock went to Jiangnan non-stop and began to investigate in that area.

Among his materials, there is a text marked No. 1, which is dedicated to the portrait of the mysterious man. Copper lock said in the text that when he came home with the portrait, his father accidentally saw it and said in surprise, I seem to know this person. After thinking for a moment, he told SΓΉ Copper Lock, this person was the mysterious man who appeared in the hospital corridor when Copper Lock was born. The copper lock, which was already a little familiar, was suddenly inspired and recognized this man, he was the man on stilts who was poisoned by Miss Qi in his dream.

It is certain that this man did not die at that time, somehow survived, and appeared in the life of the copper lock several times in the future. At the time of Copperlock's birth, he arrived at the scene; Copperlock saw him in a dream; There is still a deep shadow of him in the reflection of the bronze lock's previous life.

This man seems to have an extraordinary relationship with Copperlock.

The copper lock arrived in Jiangnan, but at first I didn't hear about a place called Qi Town, and I couldn't find it when I looked up the map. Later, he entrusted a local friend, when the library archives to consult, and then visited a few old people, only to know that there is indeed such a place in Qi Town, in the fifties of the last century, the local development of water conservancy projects, the whole town relocated, the original site has become a vast ocean, become the country at the bottom of the lake.

After so many years, the insiders at that time are almost dead, and it is very, very difficult to find accurate information.

That's all for the information, I took a look, and there was nothing of value other than the information that Qi Town was flooded. Copper lock collects everything in every detail, and even one of the audio recordings is a local playword tune, which may have been recorded by copper lock in the teahouse, and the singing is quite clear, but unfortunately I can't understand a word.

Copper lock once said on the phone that things are a bit eyebrow-raising, and there may be some important information that he did not pass on to me. If you want to know the truth of the follow-up, you can only wait for him to come back.

After another three days of waiting, Copper Lock finally returned, and he invited me to a private room in a teahouse in the center of the city. I haven't seen him for so many days, he is thinner than before, and his whole body is out of shape. The original little fat man turned into a skinny monkey. We ordered a pot of tea and chatted while drinking.

I asked him how he was doing, and he waved his hand: "Lao Luo, don't be polite between the two of us, now that time is limited, let's do it directly." For the next step, I need your cooperation. ”

Anyway, I don't have anything to do, the copper lock is now on the line of life and death, and I have an obligation to help him.

Speaking of this trip to Jiangnan, Tong Suo really had important information on hand.

He went there this time and investigated two very important pieces of information.

"Luo Dao, remember the rituals in that town I told me in my dream, right?" Copper Lock asked.

I nodded. The whole ceremony is relatively simple, everyone gathers on the shore, sprays a golden ball from the bottom of the water, and then someone fishes it out and collects it behind the plaque.

"When I arrived at that place, I first investigated and entered a dead end, and the oldest people didn't remember the exact information about Qi Town. Fortunately, an old man told me that after the town of Qi was flooded, a local scholar once published a booklet recording the local customs and customs to remember the lost town of Qi. This booklet was out of print very early, and it took me a lot of effort and with the help of a friend to find the remnants at the home of a local middle school teacher. I paid for it, you see. ”

He pulled out a delicate vacuum plastic bag from his briefcase, which contained an old book. The book is torn and incomplete, and the cover on it is gone, and it looks like this, and it almost falls apart at the touch of it. I hurriedly waved my hand and said, "I won't look at it, you can say it." ”

Copper Lock said: "I flipped through it, and probably sorted out two important clues. One is about that ceremony, and the other is about the bizarre murder of the local big family Qi. ”

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