After a short time, Old Man Wang walked down from upstairs and took a wooden box in his hand: "Lao Lin, don't worry about this, Xie Ling had something to say at that time, saying that this thing was only for the people he found to see." I was entrusted with the matter of loyalty, and I didn't see the righteous lord, how could I take it out. ”

"What's in there?" I asked.

"I haven't opened it." Old man Wang said.

I took the box and opened it slowly, and the bottom of the box was a shallow layer of translucent liquid, which shook gently and felt very viscous. There was a black silk thread soaked in the liquid. The thread was thin and long, and at this time curled up in a ball, and at first glance it seemed that it was a woman's hair, and the shape was very similar to that of a roundworm.

When I was a child, I was in biology class, and the teacher explained the worms in the human stomach, and I didn't know where to find the specimens of roundworms and soak them in a petri dish. It looked like a long, thin thread, almost exactly like the one I saw at this point.

"What is this?" Lin Faguang asked beside him.

Old man Wang was thoughtful and did not speak.

I carefully put my fingers in, gently pulled the silk thread out, and the old man Wang shouted, "Don't move." "It was late, I took this black line out.

There was a silky smooth sensation on the fingers, not like a synthetic industrial product, this thing should be a biological product, probably secreted by silk or other animals.

Because I felt a trace of life on the black silk.

As Old Man Wang shouted, the black silk quickly contracted and curled at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye, and finally shrank smaller and smaller, like a frightened insect. I shook my hands in fright, and the last piece of black silk fluttered in the air, gradually shrinking and finally disappearing, as if it had evaporated in the air.

The three of us were dumbfounded. Old man Wang sighed and said, "When Xie Ling gave me this thing, he instructed me not to take this thing out of the box. I'm so confused, I didn't even warn you in the first place, and I deserved it. ”

"What the hell is this?" Lin Faguang asked.

Old man Wang said, "I probably guessed it. If you want to talk about this thing, you have to talk about the murder scene of the college student. ”

Old man Wang first gave a brief introduction to his work. This reservoir often kills people, in addition to fishing and swimming here without knowing the depth and drowning, there are also murders and corpses, suicides, all kinds of people, how do you have to die more than a dozen people every year, old man Wang is responsible for the security of the perimeter, patrol and watch. Old man Wang doesn't look like a bad old man, he is still a contract worker in a subordinate unit of the Civil Affairs Bureau, he is eating imperial grain, and the unit has allocated several boats for the reservoir, and the old man Wang is okay to go boating on the water, cleaning up the barrage, fishing for garbage, protecting the ecological environment, or something.

The scene of the college student's murder is on the other side of the reservoir, a barren mountain with a water tower at the foot of the mountain. As the reservoir gradually fell into disuse, the water tower also lost its role and was abandoned there. That night, the old man Wang patrolled the night as usual, rowing around the reservoir in a boat, preparing to call it a day and go back to drink old wine, the moonlight was very bright, and then he faintly saw a shadow on the opposite bank shaking.

It's already past the wee hours of the morning, it's the big night, who is full and has nothing to do? He thought about it, rowed over to check, went ashore and looked for a flashlight, but found nothing abnormal, and when he was about to leave, he suddenly heard the sound of "click and click", as if something fell from a high altitude and fell to the ground.

He looked up suddenly, and when the flashlight shone through, he saw a person hanging from a tall branch of a big tree next to the water tower. At first, Old Man Wang thought that someone was so naughty, climbing high and dying, but after taking a closer look with his eyesight 2.0 eyes, he gasped. The man was dead, and the death was strange.

Speaking of this, Old Man Wang pointed to the box and said, "Xiao Luo, the black silk thread you saw was the one who hung this corpse at that time. ”

I looked at Lin Faguang in surprise, didn't he say that it was the rope that hung the corpse?

Lin Faguang also said: "No, how did I hear that it was a rope that hung the corpse?" ”

Old man Wang shook his head: "I don't know much about this, I did look at it carefully at that time, it was this kind of black silk thread, a lot, tied to the corpse, and hung the corpse's hands, feet and neck in the air." I suspect that after the body was taken away by the police, there may have been some hidden details that could not be revealed to the public, such as the black silk thread. ”

I suddenly had an idea: "Uncle Wang, you said that when you found the corpse, the black silk thread was tied to the corpse?" ”

"I don't know, the tree was too tall, it was late at night, I couldn't see the details. I was not there when the police collected the body. Why do you ask this? Old man Wang said.

"When I pinched the black silk just now, I thought it was sticky, and if as you said, there are a lot of these threads that are condensed together to hang the corpse in mid-air, then is the connection point between the silk thread and the corpse bolted, or is it sticky? I think it's an important question. ”

Neither of them spoke, Lin Faguang touched the long hair on his chin and said, "Why do I feel like a spider spirit committing a crime." The big spider becomes a sperm and uses spider silk to entangle people. ”

"This black silk also has a property," I said, "and it seems to be able to only store in some kind of liquid." I shook the box, and the liquid at the bottom of the box was flowing gently: "And once exposed to the air, it disappears immediately." ”

Old man Wang was puzzled: "But I saw the corpse hanging from a tree at the scene of the murder, and it was hanging by this kind of silk thread." Why didn't the thread disappear at that time? ”

I groaned, and couldn't figure out why.

Lin Faguang said: "This is not simple, these black threads that hung the corpse at that time must have been coated with a layer of this liquid to prevent it from disappearing." I guessed why the police kept this detail a secret, and after they collected the body, they took the silk thread back to study it, but the liquid on the silk thread somehow volatilized and the silk thread disappeared. They were too busy to talk about it in vain, so they deduced it as a rope. ”

I sighed, "This misunderstanding is misleading, and the details are so far from wrong." ”

Old man Wang nodded: "Xie Ling has been to the scene three times, and this precious black silk must have been taken by him from the scene." It's a pity that it's gone. ”

"It's all my fault, otherwise I can find a real room to test the ingredients, maybe I can get a clue."

Lin Faguang patted me: "If it's gone, it's gone." Old man Wang, it's not early, let's not rush to the night, it's dangerous to see badly, let's go to the scene now. ”

The old man put on his military coat, lifted the lid of the furnace with a fire hook, poured some water into it, extinguished the coal fire, and then sealed the lid. I said, "Uncle Wang, how is the airtightness of the old stove, pouring water on the coal is dangerous enough, it can produce carbon monoxide." ”

Old man Wang put the kettle on the stove lid, shook his coat and said, "I've been playing for many years, it's okay." The leaders of the unit also lack morality, and if I had pressed the gas stove and heating, there would not have been so many things. Damn, I've got to burn my own stove now. ”

We chatted and walked out of the house, it was already afternoon, the sky was overcast, the reservoir was so cold, wrapped in several layers of clothes, I felt the chill invaded the body. The old man hummed a little tune and came to the shore. There is a very simple little pier with a wooden bridge over the water and a few small sampans docked below.

Old man Wang was as light as a swallow, and jumped onto the boat with a swish. The boat is not big, enough for three or four people, and there are oars, artemisia, and a few large fishing nets in it, which are stained with mud and water weeds, which should be tools for scooping up garbage. Old man Wang stood at the bow of the boat, holding my hand, and I jumped onto the boat, and then he took Lin Faguang to the boat.

I build a pergola with my hands and look into the distance, looking at the water on the hillside, and looking at the water in the water, it feels absolutely different. The surrounding is silvery and misty, the gentle waves rise and fall, the boat draft is particularly deep, it is almost not to the boat gang, it looks very scary, I am really afraid that the boat will flip accidentally when it sways.

The most unstoppable thing is the cold, and I don't know if it's because I'm nervous or if the temperature is too low. The cold breath drilled into my skin, and a white breath came out of my mouth, freezing me to my shoulders.

Now my net worth and life are on this bad old man, I quickly took out a pack of cigarettes, took out two cigarettes, and handed them to Old Man Wang and Lin Faguang respectively.

Old man Wang has walked in this water many times, holding a cigarette and untying the cable, his expression is leisurely, just like going out to make soy sauce.

He propped up his oars and rowed the boat away from the shore, the water was calm, except for the sound of the rushing waves. After a while, the reservoir was foggy, and I squinted at the opposite bank, which was estimated to be hundreds of meters, not too far.

I suddenly remembered something: "Uncle Wang, there is one thing you just said about the experience of finding the body of a college student, I don't quite understand. ”

"What?" He asked as he paddled.

"You said that you didn't find a body at first, and suddenly you heard the sound of 'popping' falling from a high altitude, what is it?" I asked.

"I don't know. At that time, it was dark, and I didn't think about it. Later, the police cordoned off and conducted an on-site investigation, and even if they found anything, they were taken away as evidence. Later, I went there once, and I searched for it, but I didn't find anything. ”

"Could it be something falling out of the corpse?" I asked.

"Who knows, maybe it's just a lump of wood. Something was wrong, I was about to leave, and it was this voice that led me to the discovery of the body. Maybe in the dark, ghosts and gods have spirits. Old man Wang said.

"Ghosts and gods have spirits," Lin Faguang suddenly smiled: "Luo Dao, do you believe in retribution?" ”

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