Outside, there was a rumbling thunder in the sky, and the air had become unusually hot and humid.

Su Lin followed Qin Xue into the county office, and the civilians who had gathered in the county office during the day had all been dispersed by Ma Yong, leaving only his colleagues who came from the Inspector's Mansion with him.

Su Lin's arrival broke the stagnant atmosphere, and the expressions of everyone present were very strange, and one of the catchers glanced at Su Lin, then looked at Ma Yong, and hesitated:

"Team leader, do you really want to tell him? This kid isn't from the Inspectorate's after all. ”

Ma Yong raised his hand to interrupt the other party's words, picked up the box on the table, and walked in front of Su Lin.

"Xiao Lin, I'll just say it bluntly, I'm very optimistic about you, are you interested in joining the Inspector's Mansion? Follow me as a catcher, I heard Snow Night say a long time ago that you want to be a catcher too. Ma Yong asked.

The eyes of the others around were focused on Su Lin, and Qin Xueye gently pushed Su Lin behind his back: "What about you, when I asked you if you wanted to be a fast catcher, didn't you say that you wanted to be a fast catcher?" ”

Su Lin glanced at Qin Xue Ye and stood silently in place.

He did say this, after all, the income he got from entering the Inspector's Mansion was far higher than the income from farming and hunting, if he hadn't met Wang Xiucai later, which made him full of confidence in gaining fame, he would have recommended himself a long time ago.

But today's situation is a bit abnormal, Ma Ye must have encountered something abnormal, and felt that this kind of thing must not be known to ordinary people outside the Inspector's Mansion, so he was invited to join so urgently.

"I do."

Su Lin thought about it for a while, and finally agreed.

Now that he has become a believer in Tianzun, the choice of entering the court as an official is naturally invalid, after all, he needs greater freedom to do things for Tianzun.

And the identity of the Inspector's Office is much better than his current status as a farmer, no matter what he does, it is more convenient, and his resignation is not as many rules and regulations as court officials, I really don't want to do it, just hand it over.

Ma Yong patted Su Lin on the shoulder vigorously to express his appreciation.

"Very good, now you can open the box, but be mentally prepared, to be honest, this is the first time I have encountered this kind of thing in so many years."

Su Lin's eyes fell on the wooden box in front of him, and through the thin wooden plank, he heard that there were living creatures crawling around in the wooden box, and the sound did not sound like insects.

The creepy sound of the thing crawling was like a human fingernail scraping on a wooden board, which was creepy.

Su Lin clasped both sides of the lid with both hands, slowly lifted it, and a pale hand came into view.

It was a woman's hand, its skin pale and bloodless, and it was constantly constricting its five fingers, groping around in the wooden box, as if trying to find out its own environment, like a self-aware spider with human hands.

Su Lin looked at the dead man's hand without the slightest expression on his face.

The other catchers gasped when they saw Su Lin so calm.

"Lao Li, you're not even as good as a child."

"! Don't talk about me, didn't you scream out in fear when you saw that thing just now? ”

Most of them were frightened when they saw this severed hand that could only move, and everyone was as calm as Su Lin.

Ma Yong looked at the calm Su Lin in front of him, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, thinking that this kid was really a good material for catching fast, and he was worthy of being a person who had retreated from the battlefield in the east, and his psychological quality was strong.

Seeing that Su Lin had already seen the strange severed hand, Ma Yong opened his mouth and said to everyone:

"Although Gaozu set the law that officials should not be superstitious or promote false things, this hand is real, and naturally it is not a false thing. I think Liu Xianling's death may be related to the demon behind this thing. ”

Su Lin noticed that Ma Ye had begun to calmly use the "superstitious" word demon.

"Can it understand people?"

Su Lin asked, reaching out and touching the severed hand.

Qin Xue Ye hurriedly said, "Eh, don't move!" This hand will catch people! ”

But it was too late, Su Lin's hand had already touched the severed hand.

The moment the weird severed hand touched Su Lin, it seemed to feel something, and grabbed Su Lin suddenly, refusing to let go.

Everyone held their breath and stared at the scene in shock.

Su Lin still didn't have any expression, he observed the severed hand that was holding him tightly, and asked seriously: "If you can hear me, let go." ”

The severed hand did not let go.

Yes, how could it be let go, they had tried this kind of thing before, when Qin Xueye was caught by the severed hand, he jumped up and down in fright, and finally knocked it down after knocking it off with the handle of the knife for a long time.

"We tried, and it doesn't understand human speech, and of course it's not harmful, it's scary." Li Zhukuai said.

Su Lin nodded, raised his left hand, put it on the back of the severed hand and stroked it gently.

Su Lin first patted the back of the broken hand soothingly, and the strength of the other party's grip really relaxed a little.

Seeing this, Qin Xue Ye said excitedly: "There is a reaction!" It seems to have taken the initiative to let go of Su Lin! ”

"How is that possible! I didn't let go of it before I smashed it with my fist. Li Zhukuai said in surprise.

Su Lin took the initiative to shake hands with the broken hand, as if he felt Su Lin's kindness, and the broken hand kept sliding his fingers on Su Lin's back, as if he wanted to convey something.

"It's like it's writing." Su Lin said.

Ma Yong: "Quick! Bring the paper and ink! ”

Qin Xueye immediately brought the paper and inkstone, Su Lin took a piece of paper, rubbed it on the back of the severed hand, made it feel the touch of the paper, and then slowly raised the index finger of the severed hand, put it in the inkstone, and dipped it in a little ink.

The severed hand seemed to understand Su Lin's intentions, let go of the hand that grabbed Su Lin, and let Su Lin put it on the paper.

Everyone gathered around to see what the severed hand would write on the paper.

The index finger danced on the paper, wrote the word "person", and drew a little under the word "person", then paused, and gently tapped the paper with his little finger that was not dipped in ink, as if urging others to change his position.

It seems to know that if it doesn't move its position, the ink will be stacked on top of each other, making it difficult to distinguish.

Su Lin gently picked up the severed hand, changed a position and put it down again, after the severed hand moved the position, the index finger was put back on the paper, and just as it was about to continue writing, suddenly the five fingers of the severed hand suddenly clenched and pinched the rice paper into a ball.

Everyone was startled and took a step back.

After grasping the rice paper, the severed hand suddenly opened its five fingers again, trembling like pain, convulsing and struggling on the ground, like a poisoned and dying spider, scratching and crawling indiscriminately, the scene was extremely weird.

The green tendons on the back of the severed hand were protruding, and crystal beads of blood-colored sweat oozed from the surface of the skin, as if he was enduring great pain.

After a few seconds of struggle, its five fingers opened violently, and then its index finger slowly wrote a "one" on the ground at an extremely slow pace, and then the muscles of the whole hand suddenly relaxed, and there was no more movement.

"It's ...... Dead, dead? Qin Xueye lifted the saber and gently poked the severed hand with the scabbard.

Everyone waited for a while, and suddenly smelled a foul smell, and then, the skin of the severed hand quickly shrank and blackened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in just a few breaths, it expanded and oozes corpse fluid, and finally rots and collapses, leaving a complete hand bone.

The disgusting stench spread in all directions, and the headhunters covered their noses and watched in disbelief.

In the blink of an eye, the hand of the fresh dead corpse became a bone hand, and this kind of thing they had lived for most of their lives, and it was the first time they had seen it.

"Hell, what's going on?" The deputy squad leader shouted angrily.

Ma Yong's expression is like iron casting, making it difficult to see the emotion.

Qin Xue Yedai's eyebrows were tightly locked, and her expression was extremely solemn.

As for the other catchers, they seem to be still immersed in the shock of this strange phenomenon, and have not thought about the meaning behind it.

Su Lin covered his mouth and nose, squatted on the ground and looked at the severed hand that had lost its vitality, and thought of Luo Huainan.

For some reason, he felt that Luo Huainan was somewhat similar to this hand, although his physical body was dead, he retained the ability to move like a living person.

Now that this hand has turned into white bones, after a while, will Luo Huainan also become a carrion like this hand?

In addition, the hand just now obviously wanted to convey some information, but was stopped by a mysterious force.

"Team leader!" A hurried shout came from the door of the yamen, and several catchers ran into the county yamen sweating profusely.

Ma Yong's expression changed slightly, and he asked, "Have you brought all the words back?" ”

"No, I didn't bring it back! Something is wrong, we seem to be in a ghost! One of the catchers panted.

Another catcher quickly dragged his companion hard and corrected: "We can't go back, as long as we pass Xiqiu Village and walk a few miles east, no matter how we go, we will eventually return to Huaiyang Village."

Team leader, it's not that we scare ourselves, it's that this thing is really weird! ”