At four o'clock in the afternoon, Zhao Da and I left the old street and returned to the car. Zhao Da took two bottles of mineral water from the trunk and threw one to me. Sitting in the car, Zhao Da unscrewed the mineral water and poured it into his mouth, the water overflowed from the corner of his mouth, drenching the police uniform on his body.

We didn't drive right away, and Zhao Da hadn't reacted from what the old lady had just said, he held the steering wheel with both hands, and kept shaking. Zhao Damu sat dumbfounded, staring blankly ahead, not knowing what he was looking at. I opened the window and the car stopped at the corner of the old street, and we could still feel the shade in the old street.

I'm still thinking about the conversation I just had with the old lady in the old street. When the old lady talked about the room next to Shen Nuo's house, I confirmed it again with the old lady, and everyone said that the two wooden houses next door to Shen Nuo's house were also uninhabited early, and that day, the criminal policeman Xiao Gang and I clearly saw the old man open the door and walk out of the small cabin.

After careful questioning, the old lady told me what the old man looked like, with white hair, blind in one eye, and a very hunched back, and everyone called him a blind camel. The blind camel failed to get a daughter-in-law because of his ugliness, and he has lived in this old street all his life, and there is no one who does not know him.

The blind camel had a very bad temper, and after the fire, the master of the practice persuaded him for a long time to let him move out, but the blind camel was unwilling to live or die. The master had no choice but to walk away, and after a few days, the blind camel suddenly had a strange disease, at first, the blind camel could still go out on crutches, but later, the blind camel did not come out.

When the neighbors saw that the blind camel had not come out of the house for several days, they all thought of what the master said, and they were afraid that the blind camel had also made a mistake, so no one dared to go to him. Finally, a young and bold man knocked the door open, and the neighbors watched from afar.

After a while, the young man carried the blind camel out of the house, but the blind camel had already swallowed his breath, and in the summer, the corpse was stinking, and he was afraid that he would die for several days.

The more the old lady spoke, the more astonished I became, for this blind camel was indeed strikingly similar to the old man we had seen that day. After listening to what the old lady said so much, Zhao Da was completely stupid at that time, I could still keep calm, and asked the old lady about the so-called master.

In the fire incident fifteen years ago, this master was also a key figure, and I always felt that this master was not just a charlatan. Sure enough, the old lady's next sentence made Zhao Da and I open our mouths in shock. The old lady said that the master was a Taoist priest, and no one knew where he came from, she only remembered that the master's lips were very strange, they were cracked lips!

Professor Lee...... You say, is this Shen Nuo a human or a ghost? I was still thinking about what had just happened, and Zhao Da interrupted my thoughts. I turned my head and saw Zhao Da crying with a sad face, I didn't tell Zhao Da that I met a person suspected of being a blind camel with the criminal policeman Xiaogang that day, otherwise he would definitely be scared even worse.

I also took a sip of water, and the car stopped at the junction of sunlight and shadows, the sun was so strong that the mineral water was hot in the trunk. After coming out of the old street, Zhao Da immediately issued a notice to let people focus on the Taoist group of patients with cleft lip.

"Captain Zhao, we have been with Shen Nuo for so many days, can't you tell if it's a human or a ghost?" I asked Zhao Da rhetorically, this is not to blame Zhao Da, after experiencing so many strange things in a row, most of them will think about this aspect. There are a lot of things that I can't figure out for the time being.

For example, how the 330 bus drove into the open space surrounded by tight trees, and why the scarecrow suddenly disappeared twice in a row, as well as the serial murder case of the woman in red, there are even more inexplicable things one after another. I know very well in my heart that everything started with a scarecrow, and although there is no evidence yet, there must be some unknown connection between the 330 case and the woman in red case.

Zhao Da sighed, "But, Shen Nuo was like that last night......

Indeed, Shen Nuo's behavior last night was very strange, if Xiao Nan had sleepwalking alone, he would still say the past, but Shen Nuo also suddenly sleepwalked, which was too coincidental. However, I didn't think about the ghosts and gods, this Shen Nuo may not be Shen Nuo who was burned to death in the fire more than ten years ago, and the old man we saw may not be the blind camel who died of a strange illness more than ten years ago.

Everything will have to wait until Shen Nuo's identity is found out. The surveillance camera has basically ruled out the suspicion that Zhao Da is a ghost, and now, we can only start the investigation from Shen Nuo. I could see his worry on Zhao Da's face, the strange experience again and again, and his confidence in me was getting less and less.

For the first time in years, I was so helpless in a case that my authority was seriously challenged.

I didn't know how to answer Zhao Da, but Zhao Da's mobile phone rang. It was the criminal police from the hospital who called, and after Zhao Da put down the phone, he was pleasantly surprised to tell me that Shen Nuo woke up!

But immediately, Zhao Da hesitated again and asked me if I wanted to see Shen Nuo, he was afraid.

"Drive, if you want to solve the case, just go!" At my urging, Zhao Da still started the car. I poked my head out of the window, and the old street behind the car was still so quiet......

More than half an hour later, we hurried to the hospital again. Zhao Da and I rushed over, and the criminal policeman who was guarding at the door immediately greeted us anxiously, and he told us that Shen Nuo had been awake for a while, but he behaved very strangely, but the criminal policeman was so spitting that he didn't dare to say anything more.

I immediately ran into the hospital room and saw Shen Nuo sitting on the bed, his hair disheveled, and his whole face buried behind a black hair. Shen Nuo sat motionless, but he was muttering something to himself. Zhao Da didn't dare to follow up, so he only stood at the door and looked into the ward.

I took two steps closer and finally heard what Shen Nuo was saying, but I couldn't understand it, Shen Nuo seemed to be speaking a dialect somewhere.

"Ms. Shen." I called Shen Nuo softly, and Shen Nuo immediately stopped talking. She slowly raised her head, revealing her whole pale face, the lipstick on her mouth had been wiped clean, and the red clothes on her body had been replaced by the female nurse into a blue and white hospital gown.

Compared with the previous few days, Shen Nuo looked haggard. Just when I was worried that Shen Nuo was in a bad state of mind at the moment, Shen Nuo suddenly laughed out loud, Shen Nuo lifted the quilt and jumped off the bed. She had no shoes on, and her white feet were on the ground.

"Professor Li, are you worried about me?" Before I could react, Shen Nuo grabbed my hand.

I was dumbfounded, Shen Nuo's abnormal performance just now turned out to be pretending again. Zhao Da saw that Shen Nuo had returned to normal and his courage was stronger, he walked in with a big grin, and shouted angrily at Shen Nuo: "Say, are you a ghost arranged by the murderer in the police station!" ”

Shen Nuo glanced at Zhao Da, shook his head bluntly, and said no. Zhao Da thought that Shen Nuo would defend something, and waited for Shen Nuo to speak with his hands on his hips, but he didn't expect that Shen Nuo didn't say anything.

Zhao Da was angry: "Do you still dare to quibble? Then tell me, on the day of the accident at Lao Zhang's house, you clearly heard the conversation between Professor Li and Lao Zhang, why did you sneak out again? ”

Shen Nuo refused to take advantage of it at all, she walked towards Zhao Da with a fierce look, which scared Zhao Da a few steps back.

"I'm in a hurry to pee!" Shen Nuo stood still, held back for a long time, and spit out these three words from his mouth fiercely. Don't talk about Zhao Da, even I was stunned. I have to say that although this is a lame excuse for the student to be late to deceive the teacher, we can't prove that Shen Nuo is lying.

Zhao Dazhiwu was speechless for a long time, and finally said that Shen Nuo had deceived others and couldn't fool him. Shen Nuo glanced at Zhao Da with disdain, saying that he didn't want to talk to him anymore. Shen Nuo turned his head, and immediately seemed to be a different person, staring at me with a smile: "Professor Li, I want to talk to you alone." ”

Zhao Da was very angry, and just as he wanted to say something, I stopped him. I pulled Zhao Da aside and told him to go and find the split-lip Taoist priest first. This so-called master, which we also involved in the course of the investigation, told me intuitively that the cracked lip print on the cup was probably related to this split-lip Taoist.

Zhao Da glared at Shen Nuo viciously, and went out first after listening to my words. Shen Nuo didn't mean to eavesdrop at all, he sat on the edge of the bed, dangling his two bare feet, and looked at me with a smile. Shen Nuo has a lot of personality changes, at first I thought she was just a playful person, but when she went to Lao Zhang's house, she behaved very seriously, just now, her aura even the hot-tempered Zhao Da didn't take her seriously.

I went to close the door, pulled a stool and sat in front of Shen Nuo. Before I could speak, Shen Nuo asked me again if I was worried about her.

"Ms. Shen, I don't think this kind of joke is funny." I said directly, "I have a few questions for you, please tell me truthfully." ”

Shen Nuo shrugged, "Why?" I don't seem obligated to tell you, do I? Shen Nuo was still smiling, and she told me that she had the right to remain silent, and if the police force really suspected her, they could take her back to the police station. Shen Nuo was very smart, she seemed to see that I was against the arrest for lack of evidence, so she was blinking her eyes and staring at me with a smile, as if she was expecting how I would answer.

"Ms. Shen, you have the right to remain silent, and I won't force you, but you have to think clearly, paper can't hold the fire, and now you can confess your guilt, which can be regarded as surrendering......" Before I finished speaking, Shen Nuo suddenly jumped out of bed again, she squatted in front of me, and put her hands on my knees.

Shen Nuo raised his head to look at me, and at this moment, Shen Nuo suddenly became very serious: "Professor Li, do you really doubt me?" ”