Chapter VI

After leaving the teahouse, Luo Qi and Du Zhengyi were silent. When he was in school, he thought that the investigation should be very simple, maybe some careless or irresponsible mage was witnessed by a human while using his powers, and they just needed to understand the situation step by step, record it into a detailed report, and then submit it.

But now it's different, judging from what Guan Xinyue said, someone crossed the line.

Sometimes there will be some scum among the mages to tease and even torture humans for fun. Roach didn't know how to describe them, some of them were probably equivalent to human perverts, and some of them had other purposes. And among those acts that torment human beings, there is nothing more excessive than interfering with the human mind, human beings do not have any ability to actively merge their minds, they can see the world and at the same time they are blind like a blind man, they may be in agony and drowning in frustration and fear, but they cannot see where the source is.

The mainstream of mage society is spurned against this kind of behavior, and there are also regulatory measures, especially for mages with mind control abilities. But these problems, like the problem of human crime, can never be eliminated.

They later asked Guan Xinyue in detail about some fragmentary details, and it was almost nine o'clock in the evening when he left the teahouse, although Luo Qi wanted to go to the old country house that Guan Xinyue said immediately, but it was too late, Du Zhengyi seemed to be a little tired, and his spirit was obviously a little lacking. Besides, he was starving.

They had a makeshift dinner at Burger King, and Rocky felt that Du Zhengyi had either never eaten fast food, or was not used to it, and ate very slowly. Luo Qi had already finished eating, staring at Du Zhengyi with a straw in his mouth, and suddenly realized that Du Zhengyi was eating slowly because his spirit was too poor.

He thought for a moment and hesitated to ask, "You're going to run out of power?" ”

Du Zhengyi just raised his eyes and glanced at him, automatically ignored his divine words, and soon returned to standby.

Luo Qi looked at him carefully, ignoring the aura on Du Zheng's body, only to think that this person had escaped death three years ago. Roach remembers that day very well, his father's night shift was dragged into the day shift, and it was only in the evening of the next day that he came home exhausted. Many of the injuries that a mage will suffer are irreversible, and if a mage is on the verge of death and it takes as much effort as a doctor to save him, it is almost impossible not to leave a bad sequelae. He didn't know what was wrong with Du Zhengyi's body, if only Du Zhengyi could take the initiative to say it, then he could still pay attention to it. After all, looking at the current situation, I am afraid that the two people will be tied together for a long time.

Sensing his gaze, Du Zhengyi raised his head again and glanced at him inquiringly.

Rocky coughed awkwardly, embarrassed to ask directly how he was doing. One is that this is privacy after all, and my father was also ordered to keep it secret back then-although my father was an out-and-out debtor, and he said it at the dinner table when he got home. Second, he didn't want to say that his father was his attending physician, as if he could get some light.

He thought for a moment and turned his attention back to the current matter, "Guan Xinyue said that her uncle has a lover, I think this is a key point, murder is not a love kill or a vendetta, since there is indeed a motive, then her aunt may not have died of a violent illness." Besides, Guan Xinyue's experience later allowed her to see the impossible with her own eyes, which only a mage can do. Connecting the two things, no matter how you think about it, she feels that her uncle is entangled by a mage lover. ”

Du Zhengyi's expression looked a little like a toothache, "It really doesn't sound like a warm love story." ”

"Why do you say it so painlessly, unsympathetic, boss." Roach said protestingly.

Du Zhengyi snorted, "I just hope it's best not to be so troublesome, do you want to provoke a crazy mage lady?" ”

Roach shuddered and quickly shook his head.

Du Zhengyi put down the fried chicken strips in his hand and wiped his hands with a frown. "And it doesn't make sense, if there really is such a crazy girl, she has to deal with a heart disease person is really simple, maybe a little bit of mind control can do it. Then after she murdered her rival, she could live happily ever after with her lover, why would her lover die in a fire a year later? What is the change in the middle? ”

Luo Qi had already thought about this, and opened his mouth to analyze, "Guan Xinyue's grandfather has always believed that his son-in-law killed his daughter, and he must want to avenge his daughter." From Guan Xinyue's words, it is not difficult to see that this old man's suspicion of murdering his wife's ex-husband is not small. Since he has the ability to kill, it's not difficult to find a way to kill another person, right? He killed his wife's ex-husband, and he can get along with his wife's family for decades without incident, his intelligence level is definitely not low, and his emotional intelligence is also quite high. So this time it took him a year to prepare, and he finally found an opportunity to kill his son-in-law. After he avenged his great revenge, he recalled his life, when he was young, he was interested in lust, harmed people's lives, and when he was old, his family was ruined, and he ended up with a white and clean land, and finally he was depressed and died of alcoholism. ”

When he said this, his eyes were shining, his mind was immersed in it, and he sighed a little, and he deeply believed his speculation. "His former son-in-law's mistress, the mad witch, was dead when she finally guessed that it was the old man who had killed her lover. She had no revenge for the end, so she had to torture the old man's granddaughter. ”

"But that granddaughter is not a granddaughter," Du Zhengyi said, "You can hear that girl's voice, she keeps calling him stepmaster, which can be regarded as sour, it can be seen that there is no love between them." If the crazy woman wants revenge, she should also take revenge on the old man's wife. ”

"The mistress is an outsider, how can she understand it so clearly? Maybe she just reasoned according to common sense and felt that her grandchildren were the lifeblood of the old man. Roach immediately thought of the answer.

Du Zhengyi laughed when he heard it, and looked at Luo Qi lazily, "You said that your talent is wasted if you don't tell the story." If you are a county official, there will definitely be no unsolved cases in your territory, and out of 120 cases a year, you can solve about 129 cases with your brains. Let me ask you a question, does a mage who wants to harm someone need to wait until the person goes to a specific place before he can start? If Guan Xinyue doesn't return to the old house for ten years, won't she be able to retaliate against her for ten years? ”

Roach was asked, and he couldn't think of a satisfactory answer after thinking for a while. "What do you think?"

"Maybe Guan Xinyue's aunt died of illness, her uncle died in an accident, and her stepfather didn't do anything, he just drank and drank himself to death." Du Zhengyi said, but his expression was very subtle, and Luo Qi couldn't grasp his meaning.

"Then how do you explain what Guan Xinyue saw in the old house?"

Du Zhengyi shrugged, "Like you said, it may be the same as what happened to your sister, you have a ghost." ”

"Damn!" Luo Qi only realized that he had spoken out after speaking, he blinked slowly, and looked at Du Zhengyi with forced composure. "There was a ghost who seemed to want to express his opinion through my mouth."

"Ha-ha." Du Zhengyi laughed dryly twice, "I don't need to recruit a lightning bolt to electrify it from you." ”

Luo Qi laughed, and suddenly turned a thought, "Is Teacher Liu Li particularly good at weather control?" ”

"Yes." Although Du Zhengyi was surprised by the bizarre changes in his brain, he seemed to be used to him, and had the patience to answer his completely nonsensical questions at any time.

Roach nodded earnestly and yawned half-heartedly, "Let's go, I'm sleepy." ”

Du Zhengyi sighed, "I really don't know if you're stupid, or you're particularly good at changing the subject." ”

Roach pretended to be deaf and dumb, and asked him as he stood up and walked out. "If it's true that a mage is torturing that girl, will you be able to see the traces tomorrow?"

"It's not easy to test energy in an uncertain environment, especially after such a long period of time." Du Zhengyi said, "Let's look at luck." Wait, aren't you my mascot, you're sure to be able to measure the energy residue tomorrow. ”

Roach ignored his teasing, "If we really find out that a mage has committed a crime, do we need to report it to the Supreme Council?" And then we'll wait for them to send someone to deal with it? ”

Du Zhengyi looked at him meaningfully, "Otherwise?" Don't report? Waiting for you to show your hand in front of the little beauty? ”

Roach's face was a little hot.

"Your little sister's story is good, are you very good at making up stories, or are you very good at talking when you see beautiful women?" Du Zhengyi continued to tease him.

He said angrily, "Or you will go up next time." ”

"Don't." Du Zheng smiled and said, "I can appreciate your advantages more and more now, Mr. Liu Li is a master key in my hand." ”

Roach was still a little scared of him, so he didn't know what to do with him for a while. In fact, it is rare for him to do things seriously, and he still played so well today, he is very satisfied with himself. However, when he thought about it, Du Zhengyi was an indecent person, and he should actually be praising him when he said this, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud.

The two came to the hotel to open a standard double room, and Du Zheng closed his eyes after washing up in the room, and fell asleep under the quilt not long after. Luo Qi couldn't sleep and was embarrassed to toss too much, it was inconvenient to turn on the TV, so he took out his mobile phone and searched for the keywords he got today, searching back and forth for ghost stories, and finally he was scared and worried, and his eyes were blazing in the middle of the night, and he was worried in the middle of the night.

At six o'clock in the morning, Luo Qi got up and went to see that Du Zhengyi was not moving. At seven o'clock, Luo Qi decided to go to breakfast, and when he returned to the room at eight o'clock, Du Zhengyi was still motionless in the quilt. It was only then that Roach realized that something was wrong.

His first thought was that Du Zhengyi was the heart and liver treasure of the two great mages Liu Li and Pei Shu, even if he didn't expect him to really help this heart and liver baby, but if something happened to the heart and liver baby, he didn't find out in time, then it would be strange if the two of them didn't kill him. After this thought flashed, he thought that he should hurry up and check Du Zhengyi's pulse and breathing.

Luo Qi recalled all the medical knowledge his father had taught him, and anxiously opened Du Zhengyi's quilt, stretched out his hand to probe the major artery in Du Zhengyi's neck, and his fingertips not only felt Du Zhengyi's warm skin and pulsing pulse, but also the eardrum was greatly impacted.

Du Zhengyi "" him at that time, and afterwards Luo Qi was embarrassed every time he thought of Du Zhengyi's unbearable and helpless voice, although there were only three words, "Luo Qi, you ......"

At that time, he was still distracted by the thought that he had defeated the most outstanding mage of his age, and Du Zhengyi obviously had nothing to do with him.

Of course, Du Zheng, who was angry in the back, scolded him as soon as he relieved himself, plus "I won't get up until eleven o'clock, you get out of here" and so on, balabala.

Luo Qi retreated to his bed, completely wilted, and all the wisdom that he had shaken up in the past two days had retreated, who would have thought that Du Zhengyi was really sleepy? Judging by his serious and thoughtful appearance, he thought that they should be killed early in the morning, no later than six o'clock in the morning, to the old country house. Who would have thought that Du Zhengyi, a legendary god, is no different from a young man, and he can still be lazy even if his butt is burned. Luo Qi's rare gathering of spiritual power receded like a tide, and he couldn't get up anymore, he broke the jar and fell, he didn't sleep well, he was guarding a lazy boss, and he was infected with sleepiness after a while, and it was almost twelve o'clock at noon when he woke up.

He slept for too long, and his head hurt, his eyes got up blankly, and he turned his head to see Du Zhengyi also with a disgusted expression of sleeping too much, sitting on the edge of his own bed to wake up.

Roach was in no hurry to get down to business. The book says that one blow up, then decline, three exhaustion, and so on. Roach's heroic complex, which was aroused by the girl in distress, could no longer be condensed after he had slept himself. He followed Du Zhengyi in a daze, and the two went out to find a good restaurant to have a meal first, and it was already past two o'clock after eating, Du Zhengyi actually went to a bookstore and bought a bunch of books, saying that he wanted to learn about human culture.

Luo Qi had already arranged whatever he wanted by this time, and after flipping through the bookstore for a while, he suddenly remembered that Teacher Liu Li had left him a punishment homework, and when Du Zhengyi came to tell him to leave, he carried two books on the Analects and followed with his head down.

This time, they finally drove out of the city, and according to the address given to them by Guan Xinyue, they successfully found the village. It is said to be a rural place, but in fact it is not too far from the city, and it is almost there to go out of the city and bypass a reservoir. It can be seen that even if Guan Xinyue's step-grandfather is attached to the leisurely lifestyle in the countryside, in the end, it is still inseparable from the various conveniences provided by modern cities.

It was exactly a quarter past four in the afternoon when they saw Qijia Youfang Village from a street sign, and they drove into a village road, and willow trees were planted on both sides of the road.

It was a sunny day, but the sky was gray and white, and there was not a single blue in sight. The cold smoke is deserted, the old trees are bald, and the remnants of snow with soot are reflected. There were no crops in sight in the fields behind the bushes, and there was still loess and residual snow.

This idyllic picture is full of indescribable gloom and loneliness.

Luo Qi looked at the scenery in front of him, and he was almost not interested in talking, wondering how the old man in Guan Xinyue's family would be willing to live in such a village. There was not even a ghost on the country road, Du Zheng sped up his speed, and in a blink of an eye, he reached the end of the road, and the village appeared in front of him after a bend. Dozens of almost identical bungalows and courtyards are arranged horizontally and vertically in a flat valley in front of the mountain forest. All the houses are about the same height, and the roofs are all flat roofs made to make it easier to dry the crops. As far as the eye can see, there is only one roof above dozens of flat roofs, and a bright red cross protrudes abruptly into the sky.

Roach, who had just gotten out of the car, opened his mouth wide in surprise, and he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief. "Oh my God, that's ...... Christ Church? In the country? China's countryside? ”

"Do you ask me?" Du Zheng put his hands in the pockets of his pants and looked up in the same direction as him, "Then you might as well ask your own knees." ”

Luo Qi closed his mouth, remembering that Du Zhengyi did not understand human life, and there was really nothing to discuss with him in this regard. He looked at the bright red cross again, which was striking against the gray background of the winter countryside.

Du Zhengyi had already taken the lead in entering the village, and Luo Qi hurriedly followed. Last night, Guan Xinyue told them that her family's old house was very easy to find, because the gates used by the people in the village were all green with four consecutive gates, which were enough for agricultural carts to pass through when the gates were fully opened, and their house had two black wrought iron doors, so they could be distinguished by just looking at them. There are not many people in the village, and it is not difficult to see the doors of all the houses. The road in the village was very quiet, and no one bumped into the two outsiders, which saved a lot of tongue.

However, Luo Qi found that Du Zheng was walking north as soon as he entered the village, and he seemed to know the location of Guan Xinyue's old house. He asked Du Zhengyi curiously, and the latter glanced at him, "Guan Xinyue said once that their house is near the woods in the north of the village. Do you listen to people and only listen to the lively part? ”

Roach stuck out his tongue and looked up to see that the village church was to the north.

It is said to be a village church, but it is not a church at all, and when you look closely, you will find that it is just a private house. It seems that there are still normal people living inside, and through the wide open courtyard gate, you can see that there are still stacks of firewood in the yard, and a guard dog is on a leash. The red cross standing on the roof of the house is actually a cheap plastic product, probably custom-made by the owner. Directly above the door, under the eaves, a large Chinese character is painted with red paint - love.

Roach stood and watched for a long time, thinking it was funny, and took out his mobile phone and took two pictures. "This is interesting, the combination of soil and foreign has a good effect."

Du Zhengyi shook his head, "Even I can see that it is nondescript." After he finished speaking, he was suddenly stunned for a moment, raised his hand and touched Luo Qi, "Do you see a temple in front of you?" ”

Luo Qi looked back, and sure enough, he saw that the eaves not far away were a little strange, not the reconstruction of ordinary houses, it was really a small temple, and there was a string of colorful cloth strips hanging on the eaves, some of which looked like prayer flags.

"The clash of religions in this small village is quite intense." Roach said.

Du Zhengyi was also very interested in this, the two of them quickened their pace and went straight to the small temple, at this time the sky was already slightly dim, the temple door was closed, and a small plaque was hung on it, with the words "Pure Land Temple" written.

"Jodoji." Du Zhengyi read it out.

"Probably the Pure Land Sect, it's really suitable for a country temple." Luo Qi said, seeing that Du Zhengyi was interested, he had the intention to show off and continue to explain to him. "The Pure Land Sect is a sect of Buddhism in China, and if you want to achieve positive results and survive the suffering of the Western Elysium, you just need to recite the six words 'Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha' and add more releases."

"That's low enough." Du Zheng commented after hearing it.

"Yes," said Roach, "so there are many believers. ”

Du Zheng stabbed him.

"How?" Rocky said, "Think I'm foolish? I'm a big fan of human culture. ”

"No, look at that."

Roach turned around and saw the house sandwiched between the church and the temple, and couldn't help but be stunned, it was clearly two black iron doors. When they came over just now, their attention was focused on the church and the temple, and they didn't even notice the door of the house in the middle, and they actually skipped it directly.

"Damn, there's a temple on the left, and a church on the right, what kind of feng shui is this? Didn't the Bodhisattva fight with Christ on top of their heads? It's not haunted. ”

The two looked at each other and walked back in a daze.

There was an old-fashioned lock hanging on the iron door, Du Zhengyi took out the key given to him by Guan Xinyue from his pocket, tried it, and opened the door lock.

"It's weird." Luo Qi muttered, and couldn't help but look left and right again in confusion, "There is only one church and one temple in this village, and there is such an obvious landmark, so the girl directly said that their home is in the middle of the church and the temple, isn't it?" ”

Du Zhengyi didn't speak, almost puzzled, shook his head with an unclear meaning, and stretched out his hand to push the dark door tentatively.