Xiao Hai said to me while eating: "The thing in the closet, it's not paper, it should be some kind of animal skin, it's very textured, probably after special embalming treatment, it looks like a very old yellow, it's very soft to the touch, and the eyes on it are not painted, it may be the kind of tattoo that you people in the city play with, tattooed." ”

I didn't make a sound, for fear that if I opened my mouth, I would ruin her appetite for breakfast.

She didn't notice anything strange about me, and she said to herself, "It doesn't smell anything, you have a good nose, I don't know if you can smell the skin of any animal." ”

I imagined the picture of the skin resting under my nose, my stomach churning, and I was so sick that I really didn't want to eat this breakfast.

What makes me uncomfortable is not the real material of the skin, but the eye on the skin, which is definitely related to the murder of Lily Road half a year ago, and now this thing suddenly appeared in my house, and instantly pulled me into something that felt very serious, very bad and very complicated.

Xiao Hai ate happily, and continued: "There is a note attached to the back of that skin, with a sentence written on it, saying that there is no malicious intent, and I just want to ask Su Mosen about something. Look at the crooked word, like a child's handwriting, there are two typos, and a traditional Chinese character, I put it on the table in the study, and you can go up and read it for yourself later. ”

I let out an "um", still not wanting to say anything more.

But the sentence written on the note made me suddenly feel a lot of relief, it turned out that the person had invaded my home several times and left such a terrible thing, in the final analysis, it was not for me, but for Su Mosen. Therefore, related to the murder case with unknown status more than half a year ago, it was also Su Mosen, not me.

Then should I find a way to send a message to the intruder, telling her that Su Mosen has been missing for several years, and I don't know where he died? When she got the news, she probably wouldn't have anything to do in my house to play.

But how do you get the message to her?

Could it be that you put a piece of paper on the gate and write: Su Mosen is dead, something to burn paper?

Seeing that I didn't speak, Xiao Hai said to himself: "I opened your closet last night to get a new towel, and after seeing that thing, I immediately checked it up and down, and I didn't lose anything, and I didn't find anything else." I guess it's the same person who broke in before. ”

I nodded slowly.

She asked, "Do you smell the smell you've smelled before?" Herb flavor? Last time you said there was a strange smell of herbs on the man's body. ”

I nodded slowly again: "When I just went home yesterday, I was thinking about Lou Mingjiang's affairs, and my attention was too concentrated, so I didn't hear it." Later, when I saw the things in the closet, I noticed that there was indeed the faint smell of herbs in the air from last time. ”

Xiao Hai finished eating, licked the bottom of the bowl, raised his eyes and stared at me hard, and said, "You know what that thing is, right?" ”

I bit my lip, looked at her, looked at her again, and then nodded, "Not sure, but it's most likely human skin." ”

She said "um", got up with the bowl and went to the kitchen, not long after, and then came out with a bowl of porridge, sat down again, and continued to eat, not affected at all, which made me quite stunned, thinking that her hand had touched the strange human skin, and put it under her nose to smell, but she didn't feel disgusting, or what to do and what to eat, I had a little goosebumps. I hesitated to tell her because I was afraid that she would be angry with me, and I was angry that I didn't remind her earlier, and the result was purely superfluous.

I've found that a lot of the usual worries with her are unnecessary, because she's not one to play by the rules at all.

I waited for Xiaohai to eat and drink enough to wash the dishes, and then went up to the second floor with her and walked into the study.

The human skin lay quietly in the middle of the table, a resentful light in his red eyes. I couldn't ignore the texture of its real possibility, so I didn't want to put on the thin rubber gloves first, and at the same time, I remembered her reaction when I told Xiaohai that it was most likely human skin, as if I was a little surprised, so I turned my face and asked her, "Did you guess that this thing might be human skin?" ”

She replied indifferently: "I guessed." ”

Ask her how she guessed.

She said: "The eye is not properly drawn, and the lines in it seem to convey some kind of information, and in addition to bamboo slips and paper, it is usually used for this purpose, but cowhide and sheepskin." I've seen old cowhide and old sheepskin, and the color and taste are different from it, so I guess it's probably human skin. ”

Human skin.

I think what I care more about than human skin is Xiaohai, she has lived to the point of being a human spirit, but she is basically silent, it feels a bit like a person has experienced all the ups and downs that the world can experience, including life and death, and then matured too much, living a ruthless and emotionless life.

I pinched the piece of skin, looked at the light, looked at it with my back, and then put it under my nose and sniffed it, but I didn't smell anything special, I was sure that the texture of the piece of skin that I had turned out of the middle drawer of the guest bedroom desk four years ago was the same, the human skin, of course, the contents on it were different.

Looking at the color on this piece of skin, as Xiao Hai said, it is integrated into the skin, presenting a natural state.

However, the color is not implanted into the skin from the outside, like a tattoo, but should grow from the human body, in the words of Professor Lin Qiliang four years ago, genetic science.

This is a scientific project that was discovered thousands of years ago and applied to real life, in the words of the time, called "hidden grain technology".

I turned on my computer and found out the paper that Lin Qiliang published on the Internet four years ago that mentioned "hidden grain technology", and looked at it word for word, leaving aside the technical terms of biology or genetics that I couldn't understand, this thing was simply telling a fantasy story.

It is said that in the last years of the Shang Dynasty, there was a group of aliens who cracked part of the code of human genes, and put it into the most practical application, treating diseases, prolonging life, and improving the function of various organs, of course, this project was secretly carried out with the support of the royal family, with the slaves at the bottom of the society at that time and the prisoners sentenced to death in prison to do experiments, and after reaching the conclusion that it was indeed beneficial to the human body, it was applied to the nobles and royal families, and the "hidden pattern" technology was the least valued one, only when the king of Wu fell, the Shang Dynasty fell, it was officially used once. They put two very important and very precious things into two special boxes, buried them in two different places, and then drew a concise map, painted on the human scalp with the "hidden pattern" technique, relying on the hereditary nature of genes from generation to generation, it is said that during the Warring States Period, there was a diner surnamed Ba under Lü Buwei's door who specialized in this matter, he searched through the historical manuscripts, visited all kinds of people who may be related to it, etc., and obtained several carts of materials, and in the third year of Yingzheng's accession to the throne, I really found the person with the hidden treasure map on my scalp and dedicated it to Qin Shi Huang as a birthday gift. Qin Shi Huang found one of the boxes in Yitu, but unfortunately because he opened it in the wrong way, he triggered a message about the mechanism in the box, killing the person who opened the box and destroying the contents inside.

The text said that the exact recorded materials can be found from the ancient books, so far, and then the matter, all the opinions are wild history miscellaneous materials and the like, some say that the first queen of Qin came to find another box, but unfortunately the two boxes are specially made by the same craftsman, and they are related to each other. But some people say that Qin Shi Huang not only found another box, but also found the descendants of the craftsman who made the box, and successfully opened the treasure box to obtain the treasure in it.

The more I look at it, the more I feel.

As for what shape the so-called treasure box is, what material, how much size, and what kind of rare treasure it contains, Lin Qiliang has not written a word in this article, and more space is used to explain the scientific, feasible and practical fields of "hidden pattern" technology.

Four years ago, the reason why I was interested in this paper, which had nothing to do with my life, was because I found a mezzanine in the drawer of my desk in the guest bedroom, and in the mezzanine I found a palm-sized piece of skin, with straight lines on it, clearly showing a road map or something, and the texture of the leather was strange, unlike pigskin, sheepskin, or cowhide, and the color on it did not look like it was painted or tattooed, and the content of the picture was obviously missing several parts, so I spent some effort studying it. I found a lot of relevant or only possible relevant information from the Internet, and the paper I just cited was just one of them, plus some other fragmented and unsystematic supporting materials, which made me naïve and fanatical think that the thing in my hand at that time was the drawing that recorded the location of the treasure in the legend, so I found the unit where the author of the paper, Lin Qiliang, was located, and the car went to visit, and then something happened that made me gnash my teeth and annoyed until now. He knocked me unconscious with a stun gun when I was completely unsuspecting of him, took the piece of skin, and disappeared without a trace, and only now did he finally faintly make a move.

I had a human skin before, it was Uncle Chen or Uncle Xiu, of course, it could also be Su Mosen carefully hidden in the mezzanine of the drawer, and then I turned it out, it recorded a mysterious message, it was snatched by Lin Qiliang, it was four years ago.

Then, four years later, last night, we were followed by a man named Lou Mingjiang, both professionally and in terms of employment, he has an inseparable connection with Lin Qiliang, maybe I was instructed by Lin Qiliang.

Immediately afterwards, I found a second piece of human skin in the closet of my bedroom, the information on it was different from the last time, but it seemed more mysterious and weird, it was left by a strange woman who broke into my house several times, and also left a note, saying that she had no ill will towards me, but just wanted to ask Su Mosen about something.

After a big circle, he went back to Su Mosen.

Suddenly I felt that maybe Su Mosen was the key to all the mysteries, or rather, a key to solving all the mysteries.

But he disappeared.