Chapter 20: Lighters and Sticks

Carefully put the bloody ear into a transparent plastic bag, and put it back into the pocket of his clothes together with another transparent bag containing the bloody ear in his hand, Sima Bei stared at the soft rubber prosthetic ear in Ren Cai's quilt, shook his head and said, "No, this is just a tricky ear, these two are chess pieces in my pocket, and the type doesn't match." ”

The Taoist priest glanced at Sima Bei, and said with a pout, "I told you a long time ago, 9527 lost one ear, and you have two here, obviously not his." ”

"It's better to be cautious, there is no harm in verifying more," Sima Bei touched the plate on the table that was still warm, and sighed lightly, "We're still a step late, but they shouldn't have gone far, and the plate is still hot." ”

"Don't tell me anything about caution!" The Taoist priest gritted his teeth and said, "Just because of your prudence, you have wasted a lot of time for Daoist Master I!" If it weren't for your prudence, 9527 would be lying at this table right now! ”

The priest drew a cross on his chest, closed his eyes and muttered, "Merciful Father, forgive me for my blindness, I followed this evil Taoist priest only for the transition, may you always protect my chastity...... Amen! ”

Sima Bei looked at the Taoist priest and the priest with a strange expression, coughed lightly, squatted down, touched the huge fish skeleton on the ground, picked up some matchstick-like fish bones from the ground, turned his head to look at the tiny fish bones on the plate on the table, frowned and said, "There are three corpses here, judging from the traces of the bones, this guy with the largest physique was the first to be killed, and he was grilled on the fire by the murderer at about four or five o'clock in the morning today, and then the victim on the plate, who was killed at about eight or nine o'clock in the morning, Finally, this medium physique should have been cooked fifteen minutes before we got here...... In terms of the method of murder, the autopsy of the deceased on the plate is slightly different from that of the other two victims, and the murderers should be two people. ”

The priest was shocked, "Sister, you can actually see so many things from the fish bones, you deserve to be a professional ......."

"Professional yarn!" The Taoist priest sneered, picked up a note pressed under the bottle of Black Star Erguotou, and read word by word, "Colleague! We went out to look for you, if we found it, we will come back with you, if you don't find it, you just wait here, my friend Zhang Tao came, killed a sea bass of more than three catties, grilled very fragrant, more sour and spicy than my fish, the meat has been eaten by us, you have a tail left, hot in the pot, you go and get it yourself...... Isn't this written! The murderers are 9527 and his friend Zhang Tao, what are you tossing around there! ”

Sima Bei stood up, glanced at the message on the note, and smiled awkwardly, "My analysis is still useful, judging from this message, the person who really killed your fish should be the person named Zhang Tao, not the security guard, the truth of this case is likely to be that Zhang Tao wore the shoes of the security guard, and then went to the pool to steal your fish...... You see, if you act recklessly, you will almost create an unjust case! ”

The Taoist priest angrily stepped on a few fish bones that broke off the huge fish bones, and said with a pale face, "I don't care if 9527 kills my fish, or his friend kills my fish, this account must be counted on the head of the 9527 bastard...... Without this meal, no one would want to eat grilled fish, no one would want to eat grilled fish, and my big fish is still swimming happily in the pool! ”

Sima Bei smashed his mouth, "Your logic is a bit loophole, it may be that someone else wants to eat grilled fish, and then came to 9527 to rub wine...... It is still necessary to investigate again, and it cannot be arbitrary. ”

The Taoist priest rolled up his sleeves and strode towards the courtyard, saying hatefully, "That's right! I'm going to hang that bastard first, and then slowly insert it, and not a single fish bone can be wasted! ”

Sima Bei and the priest glanced at each other, shook their heads and sighed, "It's too violent", and then quickly followed.

The three of them went around the village in a big circle, looking for all the places where security guard 9527 might go, but they still couldn't find any trace, and finally came to the forest closest to the barbed wire wall.

Sima Bei touched his rumbling belly, sat on the ground, and gasped, "Take a break...... We should also find something to eat, otherwise we will starve to death before we find the security guards. ”

The priest also sat down, nodded, and said, "The Lord said that the coming days are long, and there is no need to panic. ”

The Taoist priest looked at Sima Bei with hatred, raised his right hand and pointed in a certain direction of the forest casually, turned his head and said to the priest, "There is a shoal over there, and there are some small fish I picked up from the fish pond surnamed Zhi, you go and catch two, and we can also eat a meal of grilled fish!" ”

The priest pouted, "Why am I going?" I haven't caught a fish......"

The Taoist priest glared at the priest and said coldly, "You have to exercise more if you haven't caught it, you have the longest leg here, the two of us went, and the water can flood the buttocks, it's too inconvenient!" Don't be verbose, go quickly, or don't want to huddle with me tonight to keep warm! ”

The priest bit his lip, "But I don't have the tools, so I can't catch fish with my bare hands, so let's lie here and starve to death, anyway, it's all in vain......"

"Don't worry, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, I'll help you make a sharp weapon for catching fish......" Sima Bei laughed, picked up a long wooden stick on the ground, took out a small knife from his pocket, pulled a few sticks of dry grass, rolled them into a thin rope, quickly tied the knife to the wooden stick, handed it to the priest, waved his hand, and said, "Go, with this spear, you will definitely be able to kill all sides in the shallows!" ”

The priest took the wooden stick with the knife tied to it, blinked his eyes and said, "This knife looks a little familiar, why does it look so similar to my fruit knife......

"The knives all look the same," Sima Bei touched his nose, of course he wouldn't admit that he took it from the fruit bowl last night when the priest and the Taoist priest ran out to fight the fire first, and it was intended to be used for self-defense, but at this moment, for the sake of his stomach, he had to dedicate it, cleared his throat, squinted at the priest, and urged, "Don't grind here, go and go back quickly, it's time for you to help me find someone together in the afternoon...... As I said before, I will help you find the fish in the morning, although now I only found the body of the fish, and the murderer did not catch it, but there is a result after all, and it is your turn to help me find someone in the afternoon, and no one can regret it! ”

"The Lord is right, people live in the world, they are always running around for other people's affairs, and they have no self-......," the priest sighed again, stood up, dragged his long stick, and slowly walked towards the shallows.

The Taoist priest looked at the priest's back, and felt that he was indeed a little unkind to be idle like this, coughed twice, took a handful of leaves, and picked up a piece of rotten wood the size of a watermelon, grabbed a thin short strip of wood, spread the dry leaves on the rotten wood, and began to drill wood hard to make fire.

"Don't think that only you have the skills to survive in the wild, on this small island, who doesn't have any real skills......" The Taoist priest was sweating profusely and rubbing the short wooden strips, while looking at Sima Bei triumphantly, his nostrils turned to the sky and said, "I'll raise the fire later, you can go to the forest to find some dry firewood, everyone can't eat white food, if you want to get it, you must pay first, this is fair!" ”

Sima Bei sighed softly, took out a cigarette case from his trouser pocket, took out a crumpled cigarette, groped around his body for a while, took out a lighter at the corner of his coat, lit the cigarette with a snap, took a sharp breath, spit out a smoke ring, and said with a melancholy look in his eyes, "Sometimes you can't get it if you pay, such as love......"

The Taoist priest's eyes suddenly flickered, and his expression was stiff as he stared at the lighter in Sima Bei's hand, and said in surprise, "What is that?" ”

Sima Bei looked at the lighter in his hand and replied indifferently, "Lighter...... Any questions? ”

The Taoist priest continued, "Can that thing light a fire all at once?" ”

Sima Bei snapped the flames again, and smiled slightly, "Of course you can!" ”

"How did you have that?"

"Lonely men always carry cigarettes, and when there is smoke, of course there is a lighter...... Before my clothes were stripped away by Li Jing, I thought that these things were confiscated by her, but fortunately, the clothes were torn and the lighter fell into the corner of the clothes, and it was estimated that Li Jing found cigarettes, but because there was no lighter, I felt that the cigarettes were useless, after all, smoking was harmful to health printed on the cigarette box. ”

"I'm talking to you about whether cigarettes are harmful to your health?" The Taoist priest threw the short wooden strip in his hand on the ground heavily, bared his teeth and grinned, "If you have that thing, can't you take it out earlier?" If you have to hide it, you can't take the initiative to share it! It's so unfriendly! ”

Sima Bei shrugged his shoulders innocently, pressed the lighter again, slowly brought the small flames to the dead leaves on the rotten wood, and only after the flames were raging did he take back the lighter, pointed to the forest behind him, and said with a smile, "Now, it's time for you to go to the forest to collect firewood......

The Taoist priest glanced at Sima Bei with indignation, got up and left stupidly, scolded and walked to the depths of the forest, bent down to pick up dead wood and branches, and soon his arms were full of dry firewood, and he was about to turn back, but suddenly he caught a glimpse of a person not far away who was picking up dry firewood in the forest, and when he looked at it, he found that the person was missing an ear, and immediately roared, "9527!"

Ren Cai, who was originally weak and bent over, heard this roar, suddenly raised his head and saw the Taoist priest running towards him angrily, first stunned slightly, and then subconsciously threw away the dry wood in his hand, turned his head and ran towards the shallows!

Seeing this, the Taoist priest even more determined that Ren Cai was a thief, so he immediately threw away the dry firewood in his hand and quickly chased Ren Cai to the shoal.

In the center of the shoal, the priest held a long wooden stick with a knife tied to it, and his expression nervously scanned the water around him.

Under the surface of the water at the other end of the shoal, Chen Yang, who had just caught two small fish, faintly heard the roar of the Taoist priest, and wondered if Ren Cai was in any trouble, so he quickly turned around underwater and swam quickly to the shore.

The priest felt a surge swimming by, although he couldn't see it carefully because the water was too turbid, but he still vaguely saw a large white flower, and his face suddenly turned happy, and he grabbed the long wooden stick and stabbed it down, and excitedly spit out two words, "Big fish!" ”