Is it because I am dazzled? Or are you hallucinating? Yang Xiao stood in the drizzle in a daze, looking at the alley in a daze.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou, what did you see? What do you see? ”

Jiang Meimei also jumped out of the car, came over and grabbed Yang Xiao's arm, and asked like a repeater.

Yang Xiao turned her head to look at Jiang Meimei, only to see that her face was frighteningly white. At the same time, a thin stream of sweat ran down her cheeks.

Did she see something she shouldn't have seen? What the hell is wrong with this woman? Sometimes laughing, sometimes crying, sometimes terrified?

No way! You can't just walk away like that!

Yang Xiao didn't give up, shook off Jiang Meimei's hand, and walked straight into the alley. The rain had basically stopped, only occasionally raindrops were blown down by the wind and slid across Yang Xiao's cheeks. The alley is paved with red bricks, and under the gloomy sky, it looks red. Nearby, the road is flanked by high and low brick houses, and there seems to be smoke curling from the roofs. In the distance, the mountains are stacked, and the clouds and smoke are misty, making this alley slightly mysterious and deep.

Yang Xiao walked slowly, observing the fence gates of the houses on both sides of the road.

The doors were all open, and there were some wooden halberds piled up next to the door to make a fire.

As he walked, Yang Xiao suddenly had a feeling of being like a dream, yes, Snake Cave Ridge Village, he was too familiar.

In the winter of five years ago, he was framed and his classmate Xiao He came here several times, and it was the police officer Xiao He who helped him clear his suspicion and crack the serial case of rape and murder of young girls. He also adapted the horror into a novel called "Blood Erotician", which was serialized in Wancheng's "Morning Post", and later published as a single book by Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House. In a flash, it's been five years.

So, now, is it a bit too coincidental that I actually came to this village inexplicably and let myself be caught in an unexplained murder case? Could it be that in the dark, he has some kind of relationship with this village? Xiao He, who was the deputy director of the Shuncheng Road Police Station back then, is now the deputy captain of the Criminal Police Brigade of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, should he give him a call?

Yang Xiao stopped in hesitation. Just now, the shadow of the woman he suddenly saw was the figure of the decapitated waiter named Xiaoyan in room 024 of the Northern Snow Hotel! Ever since Yang Xiao saw her that night, her figure has been circling and traveling through Yang Xiao's mind, making her miserable and depressed. Especially thinking about the moment when he woke up in room 024 and held the human head, it made him tremble even more.

He kept wondering who had cleaned the room afterwards and where the bodies and heads had gone.

Was it really a hallucination? No, absolutely not! Yang Xiao believes in his eyes! At the moment of passing by the entrance of the alley, he saw that the person was standing in the middle of the alley, the speed was not fast, and he could clearly see her face. At the same time, she was still wearing a light blue waitress uniform, and her body was motionless, just standing like that! But why is it missing now? Is it a human or a ghost? Why is it in this village?

The setting off was sunny and sunny with a storm crashing down the road and the road was closed due to fallen trees and debris. It's really in the dark, is it not providential to come here by yourself?

Yang Xiao is a standard materialist, but, at this moment, he is a little at a loss.

Now, the place where Yang Xiao is standing is the same place where he saw the figure standing just now. At the end of the alley, there is a dense grove of more than one person high, and the road leading to the woods is a stone road more than one meter wide, and the stone path leads straight to a huge mound on the mountainside, on which sits a red brick house. Yang Xiao raised his wrist and looked at his watch, then ran over quickly, and in about twenty seconds, he walked through the woods and stepped on the stone path, standing at the edge of the grove, he took a closer look and found that there was a path in the woods, which stretched to the foot of the mountain.

At this moment, Yang Xiao recalled the time he braked, stopped, and reversed just now, which was about twenty seconds or so. In other words, it is unlikely that the shadow will run into the grove in such a short time, unless it is a martial arts master. However, the weak and slender appearance of the No. 024 waiter who claimed to be called Xiaoyan immediately appeared in front of Yang Xiao's eyes. Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Then she must have taken refuge in a private house in the alley.

Yang Xiao turned around, looked around for a while, and began to walk back slowly. He wanted the figure of the little waiter named Xiaoyan to appear again, no matter whether she was a human or a ghost, he had to talk to her well. Will she show up? Perhaps, she didn't die? And whose corpses and heads are in room 024? Could there be two people who look so alike?

At the mouth of the alley, there is indeed a woman's figure. She is the soulless Jiang Meimei!

"Teacher Yang, Brother Zhou, something is wrong, something is wrong! We should go to the Big Duck Mountain Psychiatric Hospital! Ah! ......"Jiang Meimei greeted her, maybe she was too anxious, she slipped under her feet and sat on the ground with her ass. The thin heels of her high heels had broken in the bricks. Yang Xiao hurriedly ran over to help her, but she couldn't stand up anymore, and her originally thin left foot and neck were a little red.

Yang Xiao was in a hurry, picked her up and sent her to the back seat of the car. Jiang Meimei clenched her teeth, her face turned even paler, and small beads of sweat hung all over her cheeks. Yang Xiao found a towel in the car, opened a bottle of mineral water and drenched it, and put it on her ankle. Then, he broke off the heel of her other heel and said, "You won't break your foot again if you wear it like this." ”

"Oh, Brother Zhou, these shoes are a famous brand!" Jiang Meimei watched Yang Xiao put the shoes without heels on her feet, and shouted distressedly.

Yang Xiao ignored her, and just asked, "What's wrong?" In such a hurry? ”

"Brother Zhou, Dong Yuhu is running!"

"What, Dong Yuhu ran away?! Why did she run? How do you know? Yes? Yang Xiao was completely blindsided.

"I just called Vice President Wang, and he said that Dong Yuhu has stabilized a lot after he arrived at the Big Duck Mountain Psychiatric Hospital. When he and Vice President Wang went to go through the formalities, they asked her to sit in the lobby on the first floor of the hospital and wait, but when he came back, Dong Yuhu was gone, and all the rooms were searched, but there was nothing, and someone saw it and said that she ran up the mountain......"

"What? Is it the hospital that Wang Jingyao accompanied Dong Yuhu to? Give her back the formalities? Yang Xiao was almost shouting. He knows Wang Jingyao very well as a person, and always regards himself as the successor of the president, and has always ignored the ordinary staff of the department. How could he be so interested in an intern journalist today? It can only be said one thing: this ordinary staff member is extremely important to him!

Dong Yuhu, Dong Yuhu! Where are you now?

"Yes, it was Vice President Wang who accompanied her. Yes, this morning, it was also a coincidence, Vice President Wang went to the hospital to do business, and it happened to happen. Jiang Meimei sat on the back seat, covered her neck with her hands and said.

"How do you know?" Yang Xiao asked casually.

"Oh, I, yes, I just called Vice President Wang and listened to what he told me." Jiang Meimei stutters a little.

"This Vice President Wang still cares about the staff!" Yang Xiao thought to himself, what did Vice President Wang tell you? I saw you coming out of the hospital this morning. Didn't I come here after you? But, no, how did this Jiang Meimei find out that she was following her? Why did she say that her car broke down and was waiting for her on the highway? Is it intentional or unintentional?

"Huh? Ah, yes, the leader should care about the employees, should care, like you, you are a good leader. Jiang Meimei heard that there was something in Yang Xiao's words, and she looked a little embarrassed.

Yang Xiao ignored her, just closed the rear door, sat in the driver's seat, and started to start the car. However, after starting for a long time, the car just couldn't catch fire. He had no choice but to get out of the car and lift the lid of the machine.

"Isn't it, Brother Zhou, your car broke down too? I beg you, it must be repaired, it must be repaired! Jiang Meimei opened the window and shouted at Yang Xiao with a crying voice.

Yang Xiao still didn't speak, just tinkered behind the lid of the machine.

After a while, Yang Xiao walked back and said to Jiang Meimei: "No, I really can't get it, you wait for me a little, I'll go find someone to help, what about you, open the window, see if there are any passing vehicles, stop one." ”

"You—you're going to leave me alone in the car? Yes? Jiang Meimei continued to cry, and with it, the tears really came down.

"No, I'll be back right away, right away!" Yang Xiao raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of Jiang Meimei's eyes, and hurriedly ran towards the alley.

Jiang Meimei looked at Yang Xiao's back, folded her hands, closed her eyes, and muttered: "Amitabha." Then, like a frightened bird, he shrunk into the car.

Yang Xiao walked into the alley again and stood where the shadow had once stood. He pondered for a while, took out his mobile phone, found Dong Yuhu's number, dialed it, and a woman's voice on the mobile phone told him: "The user you are calling is not in the service area, please dial again later." Yang Xiao scratched his head, thought about it, and finally made up his mind and dialed Xiao He's phone.

"Great writer, why do you have so much time to call me today? Hehe, I guess, looking for me, it must be no good! Hehe......" Xiao He laughed on the other side of the phone.

"Go, why is it not good? It's to give you a clue to solve the case. Do you think it's a good thing? Yang Xiao weighed in his heart, thinking about how to pass the information to Xiao He,

"Okay, I'm welcome to this! Tell me, what is the clue? Sure enough, Xiao He became interested.

"Do you know the 'Northern Snow Bath Hotel' in the western suburbs?" Yang Xiao pretended to be mysterious.

"I know, how don't I know? Where are we not familiar with the streets and alleys of the city? Besides, the 'Northern Snow Bath Hotel' is an entertainment venue and a place of concern for us. Isn't that nonsense when you ask me that? ”

"Okay, I know you're a great cop. It's just that recently, our newspaper received a report from a reader that this hotel connived at prostitution...... Shouldn't you go and look it up? ”

"Oh, that's the clue? Let me tell you Yang Xiao, such cases are under the jurisdiction of the public security brigade of the district bureau and the police station in the jurisdiction, and our criminal police are only responsible for criminal cases. However, now I can't check the North Snow Hotel, and I can't find it......"

"Why can't you find out? Is there an umbrella? Do you have to expose it in the media to pay attention to it? Yang Xiao was a little anxious.

"Brother, you still don't know? The North Snow Hotel was closed seven days ago......"

"What do you say? Seven days ago? That is, it was closed a week ago? How so? Yang Xiao's head "Weng" to the ground, he went there four days ago, that is, on Saturday night! How could it be closed seven days ago? Yang Xiao's mind once again resurfaced the scene of that night: when he went in, there was no one on duty at the bar opposite, only a waiter standing at the door, and then met the waiter No. 024, and then saw the tall and thin old woman. Oh my God, from beginning to end, just these three people, are they waiting for their arrival? Why? I definitely didn't tell anyone about going to the Northern Snow Hotel! Is this a glorious thing? Thinking of this, Yang Xiao's cold sweat came down.

"What do you mean by that? Have you been there in the last few days? Xiao He pretended to be serious: "Yang Xiao, you give me an honest explanation, is it that my sister-in-law is not at home when she goes out?" ”

"No, what am I going to do there? It's just strange that our newspaper received a report from a reader three days ago and asked us to report it. Now, could you please tell me the reason for the closure of the Northern Snow Hotel? I would also like to have an explanation with the reader who reported it. Yang Xiao wiped the sweat from his cheeks.

"Ahem, you're still in the news, you don't know? The city is going to build an economic development zone in the western suburbs, and the bungalows and old buildings in that area will be demolished and rebuilt, and the crematorium will also be moved to a distant place. After you finish printing the newspaper, don't you even read it yourself? ”

Yang Xiao didn't want to be verbose any longer, so he turned off the phone hard, he felt that the world was spinning, and he thought that he was going crazy.

At this moment, he heard the sound of "popping" stampede on stagnant water behind him.