Both of them were lost in thought for a moment. Yin Zhaojing's own mobile phone was finally blistered, and when he wanted Sha Pingping's mobile phone to report this new situation to the police, he heard Sha Ping's "Huh".

Yin Zhaojing glanced at Sha Ping and saw that he was at the mercy of a Walkman.

The Walkman has been shattered and soaked in rain, and it seems that it has lost its playback function, but the cassette in the machine is still intact.

"Why is the record key being pressed?" Sha Ping took the Walkman and pointed to a red button for Yin Zhaojing to see. He tried again to see if he could press the rewind key, but he couldn't.

Sha Ping thought for a moment, and suddenly rushed to the motorcycle, as if he didn't have time to explain to Yin Zhaojingduo, just beckoned to him and let him get into the car. The two of them raced all the way and drove back to Hetou Village.

The two of them first went to the house where Sha Ping borrowed the car. The hostess was reluctant when she saw Sha Pingping, and scolded him loudly for being a liar. She said she had called the police station, but the police said they had not sent anyone at all. Sha Pingping hurriedly explained that he was a police officer from Sichuan who went to Hubei to handle the case, not a local policeman.

He first returned the motorcycle, asked for the high-imitation police officer card, thanked the hostess again and again, and took out 200 yuan to pay for the use of the motorcycle. After doing this, he asked the hostess if she had a tape recorder at home.

The hostess was very willing to cooperate with the police investigation, not only did she not ask for the 200 yuan, but she also personally found an old-fashioned VCR from the house where the miscellaneous items were kept. This kind of machine is rare on the market and is being phased out by new digital products, and this old machine has obviously not been used for a while.

Sha Ping plugged in the power supply and tried it, and the old VCR can still be used. Yoon was flicking the tape he had taken from his Walkman. Because the tape had been soaked in rain and had to be shaken dry to listen.

Sha Ping asked the hostess for a small screwdriver, took the tape from Yin Zhaojing's hand, carefully removed the fixing screws on the four corners of the tape, and then opened the plastic shell of the tape and wiped the water droplets inside with gauze. He borrowed a hair dryer from the hostess again and blew it on the tape.

After a while, the tape was cleaned up. Sha Ping poured the belt, glanced at Yin Zhaojing and solemnly pressed the play button.

The tape recorder first played a short piece of Yu Quan's "The Most Beautiful", and suddenly the song was truncated by the new recording, and Gan Yifu's voice suddenly appeared in the recorder speaker: "The scenery in this mountain can be painted even if it is taken arbitrarily!" "The sound is small and sounds a bit distant.

Sha Ping turned the volume of the VCR to the maximum.

Then Yin Zhaojing's own voice appeared: "Are you hungry, do you want to eat?" ”

Yin Zhaonan's voice replied: "I'm hungry and want to eat a hamburger." ”

Then there was the sound of tearing the package, the faint sound of chewing food.

The two looked at each other, both feeling a little incredible.

Sha Ping suddenly thought of the young man who was sitting on the stone at that time. Immediately, Yin Zhaojing also suddenly realized, and also thought that it must have been recorded by the child sitting on the side of the road listening to the song. Obviously, he and Huang Banxian knew each other, and communicated through this meeting. But how they did it, the two of them couldn't figure it out for a while. The two of them thought back to the child's appearance, because the distance was too far, and they didn't remember it very clearly. Sha Ping only vaguely remembered that he was wearing a black outfit.

"What color clothes is the body in the driver's seat wearing?" Sha Ping asked.

Yin Zhaojing thought for a while and said, "I don't remember." But the car was hit like that, and even if he was wearing a white dress, it was blackened with blood. ”

Sha Ordinary thinks about it too.

The VCR continued to play until the scolding of the proprietress came from inside, and the sound of everyone getting into the car entered a silent period, and after about three minutes, there was a "snap" and the singing voice of Yuquan was resumed. I think it was the person who recorded the recording, and only stopped recording after waiting for the car to go away.

In the original soundtrack, "Rainbow" is played this time. The two continued to listen. Seven or eight minutes later, the singing was cut off by a new recording.

"The people behind are chasing you, and they don't know that you are innocent, not my accomplices......."

"It's the guy I'm talking to on the intercom!" Yin Zhaojing said in a low voice.

There is the sound of rushing rain and the muffled sound of car engines in the background.

"Now that the money is in hand, you might as well let this kid go! Don't add mistakes to mistakes. Besides, after you let him go, those people won't chase you so desperately. ”

It was a voice that was completely unfamiliar to both of them, and the voice was distinctly Shandong-accented.

What followed was a quarrel between the two people in the car who couldn't let Yin Zhaonan go.

Sha Ping pressed the pause button, frowned and said to Yin Zhaojing: "Something is wrong! The person who is driving has a local accent, but he wants to put Xiaonan's person with a Shandong accent, what's going on? It's likely that the person driving the car is pretending to have a Shandong accent when talking to you on the walkie-talkie, but he is not from Shandong and may not have the surname Duan. ”

Sha Ping resumed playing.

Next, the man with a Shandong accent offered to get off the bus in Hetou Village. Flatly rejected by another person.

Then there was silence, and only the faint sound of rain could be heard.

Then there was another voice.

"It's for the money. Right! The Shandong accent asked.

"It's not! Maybe Master is in it for money, but I'm not! I am for my master. ”

"Then why don't you let me go? Do you want me to sin with you? When Wanted? ”

The driver did not answer, and the sound of braking and stopping could be heard in the recording.

Suddenly, the VCR came with "Ah! There was an exclamation, followed by a sharp wheez.

"Why?" Shandong asked weakly.

"Only you know who I killed. Besides, I want to borrow your body. Deal with pursuers and cops. Another voice became cold and high-pitched, as if coming from an ice cave.

The violent wheezing slowly became weaker and weaker, and finally fell silent.

"My master is dead! My brother is dead, too! I don't have any more relatives in this world. I just take the right path, and the master can't see it anymore, so why do I still follow the right path......

In a burst of muttering and sobbing from Xiao Nan, there was a "click", the tape came to an end, the magnetic head of the recorder bounced up, and the playback ended.

"Why didn't Xiao Nan resist? Only crying. It's like the children of our Yin family. Yin Zhaojing was suddenly dissatisfied with his brother's performance.

"Maybe it's Stockholm syndrome." Sha Ping explained to Xiao Nan.

"Oops! The corpses in the car belonged to the Shandong and Xiaonan! The killer found a stand-in and faked a car accident scene to confuse us. Then he ran away. Ran away with Xiao Nan's beads! Yin Zhaojing only understood at this time, jumped up, ran to the phone of this family, and dialed 110.

In the evening of the same day, the Wuhan police deployed personnel to begin a thorough investigation of Huang Banxian's personal circle, focusing on teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18. The proprietress of the small restaurant in Hetou Village was taken to the Shiyan City Public Security Bureau, and the police retrieved all the photos of minors between the ages of 14 and 18 in the city who had a police plan and asked her to identify them one by one. At half past eleven in the evening, she recognized Qi Yunsheng's photo. Sha Pingping and Yin Zhaojing, as people who had seen Qi Yunsheng from afar, also participated in the identification, thinking that Qi Yunsheng was very similar to the young man they saw on the road next to the restaurant.

The day after the incident, Sha Pingping, as a representative of the guild, participated in the pursuit of Qi Yunsheng in the name of overseeing the recovery of the Chongbao Colorful Beads.

It stands to reason that Sha Pingping, as an ordinary person, cannot participate in criminal investigation work, but at that time, the guild and the Ministry of Public Security were discussing how to arrest and punish the criminal acts of martial artists, so the police's attitude towards his participation in the criminal investigation was: did not agree but did not object.

So he came into contact with the relevant materials about Qi Yunsheng in the hands of the police. The materials show that Qi Yunsheng is an orphan secretly adopted by Huang Banxian, studying in a middle school in Shiyan City in the form of borrowing, usually absent from class, and has been punished by the police for many times for fighting, snatching and blackmailing students. He had been expelled from the school before the incident.

Two days later, the DNA extracted from the golden string was confirmed to be Yin Zhaonan's. It contains spinal cord components, and it should be that Yin Zhaojing broke Yin Zhaonan's spine when he pulled the line out. This essentially ruled out the possibility that it was still alive.

On the third day, the police received a report from a medicine picker who had seen a man in blue overalls hurrying through the mountains from a distance during a medicine collection two days earlier. The police preliminarily determined that Qi Yunsheng was running away wearing Duan or Gen's clothes. So the police searched the area and found a lot of traces, and then by a small river, the clues were broken again.

In the days that followed, the police mobilized a large number of police and civilian search forces to search the Wudang Mountains and the Shennongjia Reserve. However, due to the dense forests and vast area of the area, coupled with the limited manpower, the police did not and could not complete a carpet all-round search.

During this period, Sha Ping did a lot of investigation, evidence collection and reasoning work. Since his level is really high, the police are happy to have someone to help.

He lived in the house where Huang Banxian lived in the farm compound. found the thin quilt that had been dismantled into pieces of cloth by Huang Banxian. He felt that Huang Banxian might have used knots to convey information. But he did not report this to the police.

From the scene of the murder in the thatched hut, he assisted the police in simulating and deducing the entire process of Qi Yunsheng's murder. Everyone was shocked by Qi Yunsheng's ferocity. Of course, Hong Zhixing's death was also taken for granted on him.

He assisted the police in finding the internship class of Shandong Technical School and obtained Duan or Gen's information, which was confirmed by the proprietress that it was the teenager who was used by Qi Yunsheng.

Just as Sha Ping was participating in the investigation work with great enthusiasm, Yin Zhaojing found him.

Yin Zhaojing took out an application and handed it to him, and said, "Take a look, I want you to sign this application as a witness." ”

Sha Ping took it and looked at it, and saw that it was a request for a bounty in the name of the guild.

Reward target: Wanted criminal Qi Yunsheng.

Reward amount: 10,000,000 RMB.

Here's how the facts go by:

During the travel of the applicant's Yin Zhaojing Association's family to Wudang Mountain, they occasionally got a volume of the original "Xuanji Spectrum" in the early Ming Dynasty, which was identified by Mr. Gan Yifu, an expert in cultural relics identification, and was preliminarily identified as the authentic secret of Zhang Sanfeng.

However, when the applicant was out, Qi Yunsheng killed five people, including the applicant's own brother, and snatched the secret book. Also snatched away was the colorful beads of the applicant's younger brother Yin Zhaonan.

The applicant requested that a reward be issued in the name of the guild to all warriors in the community.

In the announcement, the applicant undertakes to:

1. Whoever captures or kills Qi Yunsheng and provides sufficient evidence to be found to be true and valid by the Panama-based Bounty Management and Determination Committee, the committee shall pay him a bounty of 10,000,000 RMB, or any foreign currency equivalent to 10,000,000 RMB.

2. For the seized items obtained from Qi Yunsheng, the applicant only requests the return of the colorful beads, and Zhang Sanfeng's secret note can be enjoyed by the winner, and the applicant has given up his ownership.

3. The Association shall guarantee the above terms with the assets of the Association. The first is to ensure its authenticity and reliability. The second is to ensure that as long as the winner completes the task, he will receive the above reward.

Sha Ping took the application and looked at it for half an hour.

Yin Zhaojing said: "After you sign and hand it over, as long as the guild approves it, you might as well resign from the guild." I also see that you don't like the work of the guild, so I'll arrange for you to enter the public security department and conduct criminal investigation work, how about it? ”

Sha Pingping still didn't speak.

Yin Zhaojing continued: "You and I are born and died together, you saved me, it stands to reason that I shouldn't force you to do such a difficult thing." ”

He paused for a moment, then said: "The surname Qi is fierce and cunning, I am afraid that conventional forces will not be able to catch him, so there must be martial artists involved, and there must be material stimulation." That's why I added a secret of Zhang Sanfeng, as long as you don't say it, I won't say it, who will know? I just feel that Xiaonan died too unjustly! He was the most innocent of the whole thing. ”

"I'm afraid the most innocent is the child surnamed Duan." Sha Ping thought to himself.

In the end, Sha Pingping signed as a witness. But he did not accept Yin Zhaojing's arrangement, but returned to his hometown and started as an auxiliary policeman. A few years later, he made a name for himself in the police world.

After the bounty was issued, Yin Zhaojing did not immediately go to hunt down Qi Yunsheng in person, but went to the mountain to enlighten. In the next few years, he also sometimes went into the mountains to practice, and sometimes came out to chase and kill Qi Yunsheng.

Three years after the incident, there was a severe drought in Hubei, and the wreckage of a passenger car was found in a lake 30 kilometers away from Hetou village. After being salvaged, it was confirmed that it was the nanny car that was the same as the tragedy in Hetou Village. The bodies of the two people in the car had already been eaten by fish and shrimp, and only a few bones were left to be carried by the rusty head of the car body, which had been blistered white by the lake.

Because it was too long to identify, the police sent all the remains to an authoritative agency in Beijing for identification, which first divided the bones into two copies of the relatively older and younger according to the bone age, and then carried out DNA identification respectively, the remaining bones of the young age matched the DNA of the Yin family, so they were handed over to the Yin family for burial, and the older ones were consistent with the Duan family in Shandong, and they were mailed to Shandong and buried by Duan or Gen's family.

The next ten years were the ten years when the whole people chased and killed Qi Yunsheng, Qi Yunsheng set off a hurricane-like bloody storm in the rivers and lakes, and as many as 1,000 people were killed by him, and after the accumulation of many victims' families who continued to offer rewards, Qi Yunsheng's bounty finally reached more than 200 million yuan.

And during this period, with the rise of the warriors, as they gradually came into the public eye, the pattern of the whole world also underwent major changes.

A glorious heroic era has begun!

(End of prequel.) Stay tuned for the second volume of "Hunting Qi")