Fang Yuan's eyes widened suddenly, a look of fear appeared, her hands trembled, the kitchen knife fell to the floor with a clatter, she woke up like a dream, holding her chest with her hands, jumping on her feet, screaming in shock, "Toad, so many toads, come on, help-"

I hurriedly reminded her, "Don't be afraid, you were dreaming just now, and now the dream has woken up!" ”

"Dreaming...... Dream...... I'm dreaming......" Fang Yuan hugged her shoulders in fear and muttered to herself.

Under our constant reassurance, she gradually calmed down, opened the classroom door, and walked out safe and sound, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Ren Yanzhe asked me why I was so sure that I could wake up Fang Yuan.

I said, I'm not sure, it's just that I've had nightmares and being woken up.

The way he looked at me, it became strange, as if he was distressed, and I laughed at myself for thinking too much, how could he look at me with that kind of look.

In the teacher's office, Fang Yuan held a cup of hot coffee, her face turned white, and she told us about her recent experience intermittently.

Three days ago, she suddenly felt that she could hear a strange sound, a croaking sound, like a toad, and then she saw a room full of toads, jumping around, and she told others that they laughed at her for hallucinating.

After that, she often had nightmares about countless toads coming at her to eat her, and she was tormented by the nightmares. She said that she was eating in the cafeteria just now, eating and eating, and found that she was eating toads, and sitting around her were all toads, she was frightened, rushed to the kitchen and got a kitchen knife, trying to hack these toads to death.

But when we asked her colleague, her colleague said that when she came back from eating in the cafeteria, she rested in the office, fell asleep, and suddenly stood up, she was expressionless at that time, who called her, she didn't answer, and went straight outside, as if sleepwalking, and after a while, they heard that Fang Yuan took a kitchen knife to cut people, but fortunately, the classmates ran fast, and no one was injured, otherwise Fang Yuan would have a big problem.

Obviously, Fang Yuan's "illness" is already very serious, and she can't tell the difference between dreams and reality. Keeping her in school is not only likely to hurt others, but she may also hurt herself.

Officer Zhou called Director Ren, and after discussing, it was decided to send Fang Yuan home temporarily and send two policemen to monitor her twenty-four hours a day in case she had an accident.

After following Fang Yuan to her house, I asked her if she had ever bought yellow cypress orchids from an old lady, she said yes, and I drew the face of the old lady selling flowers on the spot for her to identify, and she said without hesitation that it was this old lady.

Then, we confirmed to Pan Wenjing that she and Du Fangfang also bought flowers from the old lady in the portrait. We asked her if anything strange had happened lately, and she said no, everything was normal.

It's strange, why did Du Fangfang and Pan Wenjing buy flowers from the old lady at the same time, but one died, and the other didn't have anything?

Officer Zhou sent the portrait of the old lady selling flowers to the bureau and asked his colleagues to track down the details of the old lady.

I took out a small box containing Huang Juelan from my schoolbag and said to Officer Zhou, "This is the bunch of flowers that my grandmother gave me when I bought Huang Julan, and it has been several days, and there is no sign of wilting, I think it is the most special, so I put it away, can I send it to the identification department with a few other bunches of flowers, and see what mystery this thing hides?" ”

Officer Zhou said he meant that.

After a day of running, it was dark, Director Ren said that he was the east, invite us to dinner, I am a flat-headed commoner, the first time I sat at a table with the police chief to eat, not to mention how nervous, Director Ren probably saw it, smiled and said, "Classmate Lin, I will call you Xiaonan in the future, you and Yanzhe are friends, and you will call me uncle in the future, don't be so restrained." ”

I called him Uncle Ren stiffly, he smiled and agreed, Ren Yanzhe teased me, "Aren't you usually quite bold, you are not afraid of ghosts, how can you see that my uncle is so timid, is he more terrible than ghosts?" ”

I said seriously, "Uncle Ren is not more terrible than ghosts, but he is afraid of him when he sees ghosts, because he is upright." ”

Director Ren laughed, "Xiao Nan, you're quite good at talking." ”

The atmosphere at the dinner gradually warmed up, we were eating, while talking about the case, Ren Yanzhe said, "Du Fangfang bought Huang Juelan with her classmate Pan Wenjing, but why, only Du Fangfang had an accident, but Pan Wenjing was fine?" Could it be that the old lady who sells flowers is harmful, and there is a criterion for selection? ”

The question he raised was exactly the question in my heart.

When Officer Zhou heard this, he put down his chopsticks and said with a solemn expression, "Just now in the car, I looked through the victim's information again, and found that Wen Ting and Xie Xiaoyan were both born on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. On a whim, I sent the dates of birth of all four victims to a friend of mine who knew the I Ching, and he replied to me that the four victims were all born on the lunar year. ”

My heart was shocked, and I quickly said, "I was also born on a lunar day in a lunar year!" ”

Officer Zhou nodded clearly, "In this way, the old lady who sells flowers may have selected the victim according to the eight characters of birth." ”

Ren Yanzhe was surprised, "But, how did the old lady know their birthdays?" ”

Officer Zhou pondered for a moment and said, "Perhaps, as the superstition in our hometown says, people born on the lunar month and the lunar day in the lunar year have heavier yin qi, and although the old lady doesn't know their birth dates, she can sense the yin qi on their bodies. ”

After saying that, he probably felt that he was a dignified people's policeman, and it was a bit outrageous to believe these things, and he shook his head again and said, "I also guessed randomly." ”

Director Ren is quite tolerant and receptive to new things, he said, "The case we encountered is quite weird, and we can't think about the problem according to the traditional way of thinking. ”

Ren Yanzhe picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, "I just have an idea, you see, Wen Ting, Du Fangfang, Xie Xiaoyan, Fang Yuan, and Xiao Nan, the five of them all have auditory hallucinations and hallucinations, and when each of them hallucinates, they see different things, Wen Ting sees a spider, Du Fangfang sees a poisonous snake, Xie Xiaoyan sees a scorpion, Fang Yuan sees a toad, that is, a toad, and you, Xiao Nan, you see a centipede." Spiders, poisonous snakes, scorpions, toads, centipedes, don't you think they are very similar to the five poisons mentioned in Jin Yong? ”

Officer Zhou nodded, "That's really the case, you don't mention it, I haven't thought about it yet." Five people saw five different poisons, and there might be some connection between them. ”

Director Ren thought for a while, tapped his fingers on the table, and said in a deep voice, "Hallucinations, nightmares, poisonous insects, these keywords make me think of the two major evil arts in Southeast Asia, the head lowering technique and the Gu technique. ”

I don't know much about the head-lowering technique, but I know a little bit about the Gu technique. I still remember that Zhao Xiaoke and I tracked Ren Haoxuan to the broken temple, and was discovered by the Qingpao Daoist, who released the Yin Snake Gu and bit Zhao Xiaoke, fortunately we met an old doctor who knew how to save Zhao Xiaoke, otherwise he would have died in the Gu.

Ren Yanzhe didn't know how to lower his head, so he asked Director Ren what the head lowering technique was.

Director Ren said, "Let's talk about Gu art first, which is mainly prevalent in Sichuan, Yunnan and Miaojiang, that is, put poisonous snakes, scorpions, toads, centipedes, spiders and other poisons in the jar, let them fight each other, and leave the most powerful one, which is the Gu King, the Gu King bites people, or, grinds Gu worms into powder and puts them into other people's food, which will make people mentally confused, physically painful, and even die." As for the head-lowering technique, it is actually a kind of witchcraft, which is very popular in Southeast Asia. It is mainly divided into three types: medicine drop, flying drop, and ghost drop. The medicine is similar to Miao Jiang's Gu technique, using drugs to poison people. Flying down is a little more advanced than pill dropping, as long as you take anything on the opponent's body, such as clothes, shoes and hats, you can cast a spell to fall. The last kind of ghost descent, as the name suggests, is to raise a little ghost and help the head descender do things. ”

Ren Yanzhe said, "Thinking about it this way, Xiao Nan and the others really seem to have been surrendered or poisoned, so how to solve it?" ”

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