Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Eagle Pavilion

At 1:30 in the morning, Li Ming was walking alone on the road in Yuncheng, surrounded by dead silence. He was very nervous, not because he was afraid of the dark, but because there was a person following him all the time. From the company where he worked overtime to the intersection of Dovetail Street, the man in the windbreaker followed him for twenty minutes. Reflected by the glass wall of the street store, he saw the man wearing a white mask and holding something tightly in his arms. . It's not about robbery, is it?Li Ming thought frightenedly, walking faster and faster. Turning around the intersection of Yanwei Street, the street lights were getting dimmer, and he was walking so nervously that he was almost running, when a 24-hour convenience store suddenly appeared at the intersection with bright lights.Li Ming hid in immediately, the convenience store clerk had already fallen asleep on the table, Li Ming stood against the door, watching the man following him through the crack of the door.

Strangely, there was no one on the road late at night. It was empty outside, nothing. Li Ming slowly took a step to the left.He didn't understand that there was only one road on Yanwei Street, and the intersection was here, and the people behind him never passed him. Even if that person turned into a road in other directions, he would definitely be able to see him standing here. But there was nothing outside. Could it be that the man in the windbreaker and mask turned around and walked away after following him closely for twenty minutes? Li Ming poked his head out to see the empty Yanwei Street outside the door.Yanwei Street is very long, because it has been repaired and demolished by the government, so it is very straight and there are no forks.Even if that person really turned back halfway, he would definitely be able to see it standing here. How could he suddenly disappear?

Where did that person go?Although that person was always behind him, Li Ming remembered his appearance very clearly - a tall man in a windbreaker and a white mask, walking quietly. Li Ming was very confident in his memory, and didn't believe that he was hallucinating. He felt very strange in his heart. He quietly poked his head at the door, hesitated for a while, and walked back slowly. Where did that person go? Li Ming walked back with very light steps. In the middle of the night, the street seemed exactly the same when he went there, but after only seven or eight steps, Li Ming found that the road was completely different.

At the center of Yanwei Street, a large hole with a diameter of 50 to 60 centimeters suddenly appeared on the hard asphalt road, and the asphalt at the entrance of the hole was broken into pieces and piled up on the road next to it, like a huge groundhog got into it. Underground, and this hole, which looked a bit like a sewer mouth, was obviously not there when he passed by it ten minutes ago. How did it appear?Could it be that the man who followed him just now fell into this hole?Li Ming was very shocked. The lights in this place were not dim, not to mention that the hole was located in the center of the street, so how could it be impossible to see it?

If that man hadn't fallen into this weird hole, where was he? Li Ming plucked up the courage to take a step forward, and he looked down at the deep hole. Deep in the cave, something is moving. Recently, people in Yuncheng are paying attention to a piece of news.In the early hours of last Tuesday, a large hole inexplicably appeared in the center of Yanwei Street, the busiest commercial street in Yuncheng City, and a dead person was found less than ten meters away from the hole.The deceased Li Ming, 25 years old, was a planner of an exhibition design company. He left the company at 1:36 am on the day of his death and was found dead at 5:30 am. The cause of death is unknown.

This is an unsolved case. A young man sat cross-legged on a sofa in pajamas, reading the news comfortably with a newspaper; another was frowning at Logic.Suddenly the phone rang, and the young man who was watching "Logic" answered the phone: "Hi, hello, I'm Xiao An... huh? Oh..." The young man reading the newspaper on the sofa had a fair complexion, a slight smile on his lips, and a very relaxed expression.After answering the phone, Xiao An turned around, looked at him with a strange expression, and said, "Tang Yan..." Tang Yan turned over a certain page of the newspaper, raised his head and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiao An's expression became more and more strange, and he said: "Officer's phone call, he said that he will invite you to investigate the cave in Yanwei Street again." Tang Yan said "Oh", his eyes fell on the newspaper, and he continued to read it as if nothing had happened. newspaper.Xiao An waited for a while without waiting for Tang Yan's response, and couldn't help but said: "What does he mean by this? You are not a detective, how did you find you in the Huludao incident, and you in this incident?" "Probably because I behaved too well last time." Tang Yan replied seriously, turning the newspaper again.

Xiao An was so angry that he choked, and said: "Go ahead, Guan Qi will find out that we are not... hum..." Tang Yan didn't look up, and read the newspaper very intently, he said: "You have to learn not to care too much about human opinions." "How could I not care?" Xiao An muttered in his heart. Once humans find out that he is a shape-shifter, he will definitely try his best to catch him in the laboratory and lock him up. He will study it a hundred times and a thousand times. Live, live like a dignified person, how can you not care?He grew up as a human being, and did not learn a second way of survival other than "being a good person".But what Tang Yan, a heterogeneous species, thinks in his heart, he has no idea.

Yanwei Street is one of the largest and busiest commercial streets in Yuncheng City. The inexplicably appeared hole is at the junction of Yanwei Street and Qingning Road. Both streets are very lively, so even though the police have cordoned off the hole However, there are still many people surrounding the place layer by layer, wanting to see something strange. When Guan Qi took Tang Yan to Yanwei Street to watch the scene, there were also a bunch of people around, most of them were wearing black dresses, they were the service staff of the Eagle Pavilion, and they were the service staff of the Eagle Pavilion that morning After opening the shop, they found the hole and Li Ming, and called the police.Eagle Pavilion is a well-known private club on Yanwei Street. Its address is at the intersection of Yanwei Street and Qingning Road, very close to the site.

A pile of fragments of asphalt slabs were piled up on the tidy street. Next to the fragments was a hole less than one meter in diameter. It didn't look like a collapse, but it didn't look like anything. It was dark and seemed quite deep.At a distance of seven or eight meters from the entrance of the cave, white lines were drawn on the ground. Guan Qi stood there, lit a cigarette, exhaled, and said, "This is where the corpse was found." Tang Yan looked at the location of the corpse seriously, I looked around the environment around the cave again, and there was a puddle of water on the ground three or four meters away from the entrance of the cave in the opposite direction of the corpse.

Guan Qi noticed that he was observing the water stain, and said: "The technical department extracted a golden ring on that water stain, and we can't see what it is yet." Tang Yan looked thoughtfully at the pool of water stains, then at the dirt, and asked, "What's in the hole?" "The hole is very deep." Guan Qi spit out another puff of white smoke, "I led a team down once, and it took an hour and a half to explore the bottom with the equipment on my back. I found some rags, coins, keys, cans and other garbage , if it was dug by hand, it would be too deep.” The implication is that although the theory of collapse is a bit far-fetched, he is more inclined to believe that this hole was made out of Geological subsidence only appeared. Tang Yan walked slowly around the entrance of the cave and said, "How did Li Ming die?" "Just like what the newspaper said, I don't know." Guan Qi smiled wryly, "I also find it strange that after an autopsy, he didn't have any lesions or scars, but he just died." "Officer Guan." Tang Yan asked softly, "Is the time of Li Ming's death confirmed?" "About four o'clock in the morning." Sekisaki replied. Tang Yan raised his eyebrows, looked at him strangely, and said, "Li Ming gets off work at 1:30 in the morning, and he will pass by here at about 1:45. He didn't die until 4:00, so he just stayed here for two days. Hours and fifteen minutes? What is he doing here?" Guan Qi spread his hands, with a helpless and innocent expression: "That's why I ask you to help me think about what he did here, and why did he die here? Was he murdered, or did he suddenly die? Disease died?" "Is there no surveillance around?" Tang Yan asked. "The surrounding surveillance didn't take pictures in this direction, only that Li Ming did walk here at around 1:45 a.m., and there was another man walking with him at that time," Guan Qi said. Tang Yan looked at the hole thoughtfully, then asked, "Who is that other person?" "It has been investigated as a key suspect." Guan Qi said, "It's just that the man was never photographed in the surveillance except for the part where they walked over." He shrugged, "It might just be a passerby." Tang Yan looked from the asphalt ground all the way to the dry street trees around, and finally stopped on the pool of water on the ground, and said, "Officer Guan, have you noticed that the pool of water has been there since the day you collected the evidence? It's been three days, why isn't it dry?" Guan Qi smiled and said, "The samples have already been sent for testing, and the technicians have already thought of what you thought of." "Oh." Tang Yan smiled slightly, "I didn't think of any more clues, and maybe I didn't help Officer Guan much." Guan Qi was a little disappointed, laughed, and said, "It's okay, by the way, is your injury healed?" He remembered that Tang Yan was injured in the back on Huludao last month. "Not yet." Tang Yan smiled gently, "Then, if I figure out something, I'll call Officer Guan." Xiao An never expected that Shi Shiran would come back less than half an hour after Tang Yan left, and his pajamas were not even dirty, and he sat on the sofa and continued to read the newspaper.He took a sip of hot milk, endured and endured, and finally couldn't help asking: "What have you been doing?" "Nothing." Tang Yan said. "It's possible that Officer Guan has nothing to do with you. He's looking for you because of the strange incident in the cave on Yanwei Street, and it's not like he invited you to drink tea because of nothing." Xiao An said. "It's really nothing." Tang Yan read his newspaper intently. "What's so interesting about newspapers? The electronic version of "Yuncheng Daily" is available online. Why do you insist on reading those papers?" Xiao An complained, "Can't you tell me about the progress of the investigation?" "No progress." Tang Yan stared at one side of the newspaper.Xiao An couldn't help but stretched out his hand and snatched the newspaper, only to see that the page Tang Yan was reading read: "Hundreds of millions in financing, the banker mysteriously disappeared." It turned out that he was talking about a famous entrepreneur in this city who illegally raised funds and got a lot of money. The news that suddenly disappeared after 100 million yuan. "What's so interesting about this?" Xiao An was puzzled, "When did you start caring about this kind of thing?" "What a piece of news." Tang Yan smiled, "It's hundreds of millions of dollars." Xiao An frowned and said, "You also love money? Is money useful to omnipotent creatures?" In the afternoon of the second day, Tang Yan was in a good mood, and invited Xiao An to see the scene of the cave in Yanwei Street, and invited him to the Eagle Pavilion for afternoon tea. The tea and coffee in the Eagle House are shipped from Europe and are expensive.Tang Yan took a sip of the coffee and put it down, Xiao An drank it sip by sip, Tang Yan played with the exquisite coffee sugar bag on the table, Xiao An said distractedly: "Do you want to add more sugar? It's already very sweet , don’t need to add it?” "This is a very sweet cup of coffee." Tang Yan said. "That's right... the coffee in the Eagle Pavilion may not be delicious!" Xiao An complained, "So why do you go to this kind of place to drink coffee? Wouldn't it be good to drink the coffee I made for you at home? Save money! Don't you know how poor we are now?" "Because," Tang Yan smiled, "I want to know how Li Ming died." "Ah?" Xiao An's eyes widened, "What?" Tang Yan held the cup of coffee politely and said, "I'm investigating how Li Ming died." Xiao An opened his mouth wide and couldn't close it, so he just read newspapers and drank coffee all day long. What does this have to do with investigating how Li Ming died? "What did you find out?" He looked at him incredulously, "Did you investigate with Officer Guan?" "No." Tang Yan said. Xiao An was inexplicably happy, and asked, "Then how did Li Ming die?" "I don't know." Tang Yan said quietly, "If you want to know who killed Li Ming, you must first find out the secret of the Eagle Pavilion." "What's the secret in the Eagle Pavilion?" Xiao An looked around and asked in a low voice. "On the morning of Li Ming's death, people from the Eagle Pavilion found the body," Tang Yan said. "Yesterday was the third day since Li Ming's death. The people from the Eagle Pavilion were still watching, and there were a lot of people. Don't you think it's strange? ? Are there too many of them, so many that they have to come out in batches to watch the strange things, and it has not ended for three days, or are they just doing nothing, with nothing to do except to see the strange things, and no one cares about them?" "I don't think there are many waiters here." Xiao An's hearing is very sensitive, and he can recognize that there are at most a dozen waiters active in the Eagle Pavilion. "I also tend to be left alone." Tang Yan lowered his voice, "Look at the coffee they serve, this is not the espresso I ordered, it's a cup of three-in-one American instant coffee powder, so it's sweet in itself , and very sweet." "Why do they pretend to be coffee bags?" Xiao An didn't think about it at all. "Is it true that the Eagle House has been deceiving consumers like this?" "I guess they ran out of raw materials." Tang Yan whispered, "For some reason, they couldn't get raw materials directly supplied from Europe, so they used coffee bags instead." "Is it impossible to buy without raw materials?" Xiao An lowered his voice, "What do you mean?" "No one cares about them, and no one provides raw materials. Although this place looks normal on the surface, it has already existed in name only." Tang Yan's voice was as soft as a mosquito, "I mean, their boss is gone." "Even if their boss is gone, what does it have to do with Li Ming's death?" Xiao An buried his face behind the coffee cup, "Is his death related to the Eagle Pavilion?" "I think it's related." Tang Yan said, "The newspaper said that the owner of the Eagle Pavilion is Jiang Yunshen." Xiao An was taken aback, and said in a low voice, "The one who raised money illegally!" "Jiang Yunshen is gone, and they can't even make coffee. What are they still doing here? Does anyone pay them? So you should check." Tang Yan said as if nothing had happened. Xiao An's blood became hot for no reason, and he said, "Where do we start?" "From the raw material of coffee." With Xiao An, who has super hearing, it is very easy to sneak into any building. Many people are heard by him before they get close. Tang Yan walks behind Xiao An, his steps are very easy.The two walked down a long hallway to the storage room behind the kitchen in the Eagle Pavilion. It was three o'clock in the afternoon, when Tang Yan and Xiao An entered the storage room, there was no one in the kitchen, and the pots and pans were all clean, as if they hadn't been used at all.There is a list of waiters on the wall. There are twenty-six waiters with red disks pasted next to their names, but it seems that there are not that many people in the Eagle Pavilion. The storage room door is locked, which is strange, as if the waiters no longer need to get ingredients and ingredients out of it.Xiao An stretched out his finger, transformed it into the keyhole, twisted it lightly, and the door lock opened.As soon as the door of the storage room was opened, a gust of cold air rushed in, and the air conditioner was turned on very cold. Several four-door refrigerators were lined up in the corner, and they relocked the doors and looked at the refrigerators.Xiao An held his breath inexplicably, stretched out his hand out of nowhere, and opened the door of the refrigerator. A tightly wrapped paper bag fell out. Tang Yan picked it up and saw that it was half a bag of unused coffee beans. So they're not without ingredients. The coffee beans fall out because the fridge is full of other things. Xiao An stared blankly at the things in the refrigerator, feeling a little out of his wits for a moment.Although the coffee beans fell out, he already understood why the waiter didn't take it out to make coffee. The freezer was filled with huge, translucent plastic bags that filled the massive four-door freezer to the brim.Right in front of Xiao An, there was a black and round thing in the plastic bag from which the coffee beans were squeezed out. That's a human head. Tang Yan gently pulled the plastic bag out of the refrigerator. The plastic bag is about 40 centimeters by 60 centimeters in length and width. Of course, the things contained in such a plastic bag will not be a whole body, but it is not just a human head. organize. Xiao An's face was pale. He had seen dead people before, but he had never seen such an abrupt and terrifying one.The refrigerator was full of plastic bags, and he couldn't see exactly what part was in each bag, but, this was terrible, this was terrible... Within a few minutes of his brain froze, Tang Yan took out three bags and opened the doors of several other refrigerators.Unsurprisingly, there were such things inside, so he randomly picked up a few more, opened them and spread them on the ground. Spread out on the ground were two heads, five arms, and what appeared to be a sternum. There are at least three corpses hidden in the storage room of the Eagle Pavilion, and these corpses are all mutilated.Tang Yan squatted down to look carefully at the frozen remnants that had been divided into bags, and he found them strange. They are not cut. Their edges are uneven, thick or thin, crooked, and distorted. "Xiao An, do you think these things are strange?" Tang Yan asked. "Of course it's strange. Who are they? Who hid them in the storage room? How could the waiters outside not know?" Xiao An woke up suddenly, "How could such a thing happen?" "What's strange to me," Tang Yan pondered for a moment, "they don't look like they've been dismembered, but rather partially melted." "Huh?" Xiao An couldn't believe it, "They were melted? They're not made of ice." "That's like being digested." Tang Yan answered casually. Xiao An's hair stood on end again, he forced a smile, and said, "Don't talk nonsense..." While they were discussing in low voices, a voice suddenly came from outside the kitchen. A waitress went to the kitchen to look for cutlery. It was obvious that a customer had ordered a meal. She searched for a long time in the drawer. Xiao An looked through the crack of the door, she wanted to find two sets of tableware, but she was missing a table knife. Tang Yan and Xiao An were blocked in the storage room by this girl. If she didn't leave, they could only stay in the cold room full of corpses. "Sir," a little policeman in neat uniform knocked on the door of Guan Qi's office, "There is a new clue about the deceased Li Ming a few days ago." Li Ming's autopsy report was placed in front of Guan Qi. Hearing this, he raised his head: "Oh?" It was Shen Xiaomeng who came to knock on the door. He was always nervous under Guan Qi's nose. He continued to report: "Li Ming's neighbor said that Li Ming came back that night and left again for some reason." "I went back and left again?" Guan Qi frowned, "What's the use of this? That is to say, Li Ming didn't stay at the scene until he died. He went home, returned to the scene, and then die?" Shen Xiaomeng nodded, and said: "Also... And, the golden circle in the pool of water, Xiao Ke said it was 24K pure gold, it was a decoration for a gold watch." He took out a note from his pocket, " I copied down the model number, the official report and valuation have not yet come out, but the watch is very expensive." Guan Qi raised his eyebrows and asked, "Gold watch? Does Li Ming have a gold watch?" Shen Xiaomeng shook her head, and said: "Li Ming is still renting a house in Dongcheng District, so it is impossible for him to wear such an expensive watch, and his social circle can't touch this kind of expensive watch." Guan Qi knocked on the table and said, "Is that someone else's, the man who disappeared?" "Sir...sir, not only did the person in the monitoring disappear, even his watch...watch..." Shen Xiaomeng was a little incoherent, "his watch...only a pure gold circle..." "You want to say that he was corroded by something, even the watch made of alloy was corroded, leaving only pure gold uncorroded?" Seki Qi narrowed his eyes, "Well, there is progress, interesting." He stood up Get up, "If the people we listed as suspects actually died at the scene, then the deaths of Li Ming and the mysterious man are even more interesting—one was completely corroded, like being thrown into sulfuric acid; No injuries. No witnesses, no motives, no suspects, only Li Ming's corpse—" "Sir!" Xiao Ke from the technical department broke into Guan Qi's office from outside like a lunatic, "Li Ming's body is gone!" With a "bang", Guan Qi jumped up: "What?" "The body is gone! When I left, the doors and windows were locked, and I left for less than half an hour to report on the gold watch. When I came back, the body was gone." Xiao Ke's face was full of anger. Unbelievable, "The doors and windows are not opened, they are still locked, but the body is gone!" "It's impossible to walk out of the gate of the police station in half an hour, so look for it right away!" Guan Qi was furious. He was already very irritable when he received a case with no clues, yet another corpse disappeared!How should he explain this? At this time, the intelligence and information department of the police station was comparing the photos of the suspect in the surveillance video with all the photos in the photo library. The computer had been calculating for days and nights, but there was no result yet.Suddenly the system sounded an alarm, and the police immediately gathered in front of the screen, and the system jumped out the comparison result—the eyes of the man with a blurred face and a mask in the surveillance video were 62% identical to the eyes of another person similarity. Another person whose surname is Jiang. The people of Yuncheng have always been familiar with him. He has been repeatedly mentioned in the news recently. He is Jiang Yunshen, an entrepreneur who illegally raised hundreds of millions of dollars and disappeared suddenly last week. He is suspected of fleeing abroad. Xiao An and Tang Yan stayed in the storage room of the Eagle Pavilion until late at night. The girl looking for tableware finally found a table knife in the bottom drawer, cut a few slices of toast, buttered it, and sent it out.The kitchen phone rang, and she came back quickly, and stayed at the door of the storage room after pressing the phone. At night, the temperature in the storage room dropped even lower, Xiao An was so cold that he wanted to stomp his feet, but he was afraid of alarming the people outside.Time passed bit by bit, the guests of the Eagle Pavilion left one after another, and there was a sudden commotion outside, the girl answered the phone: "I am staying here, yes, there is no one around, hurry... send it in." When Xiao An heard this, he had an intuition that something was wrong, so he pushed Tang Yan and said softly, "There is movement." Tang Yan whispered: "You go behind the freezer." Xiao An was stunned for a moment, he is a shape-shifter, he can squeeze into the gap between the freezer and the wall no problem, but what about Tang Yan? Tang Yan took a few steps back and stood in a dead corner behind the door of the storage room. His body seemed to have discolored slightly, blending in with the dim light behind the door. As long as the door was opened, his position should be safe .Only then did Xiao An squeeze to the back of the freezer. At this time, with a "bang", a heavy object knocked open the door, and several people squeezed in together.From the gap, Xiao An saw that the person knocking on the door was a mobile bed, and the person lying on the bed seemed to be alone.After a few employees in the uniform of the Eagle Pavilion came in, they opened several plastic bags skillfully and began to pack the things on the moving bed.Xiao An turned his head and didn't dare to look. The people on the bed seemed to have been torn apart long ago, but there was no blood. After they were packed, the waiter began to slowly stuff them into the freezer. During this process, no one spoke, only the sound of rapid breathing and movements. It was not until the last body bag was stuffed into the refrigerator, and the refrigerator closed with a "bang", that someone let out a long breath. They stood in front of the freezer for a while, locked the door and went out. That kind of quiet, so quiet that it makes people feel creepy, as if what they were dealing with just now was not a "person" like them at all, but common goods. Tang Yan came out from behind the door without a sound, and Xiao An happened to witness his skin color changing rapidly, from mottled shadows back to normal fairness - this creature is really omnipotent! "That girl was talking about, or arranging for, that corpse on her phone all afternoon." Tang Yan narrowed his eyes and looked at the freezer. Ming's death must be connected." "Those people must know the inside story just now." Xiao An couldn't help but said, "They must know why their companion died, and they might also know how Li Ming died, but I don't know why they refused to tell the police without calling the police. It's so strange." "Therefore... there must be a reason." Tang Yan thought for a while, "There must be a secret in this room that makes them gather here and would rather endure death than ask for help or leave." He picked up the phone , Xiao An thought he was going to call Guan Qi, but Tang Yan slowly searched for "Yuncheng Eagle Pavilion" on his mobile phone, and began to look at the information of the Eagle Pavilion. This clubhouse has a long history. It used to be a private garden. The first generation owner threw himself into a well and died. A plague occurred in the house, and the family fell into ruin. Later, when the government demolished it for some reason, some buildings were kept and became the current Eagle. museum.Seeing this, Xiao An let out a "huh", why does he feel that this story is very familiar?Tang Yan was also surprised: "This is Yanwei Street. It used to be a private garden, but it was demolished by the government, but part of it was not completely demolished for some reason. Could it be that this was the old Fei family's house?" Xiao An thought exactly the same way, the two of them looked at each other, half a year had passed since the matter of the Fei family's ancient house, and the disaster caused by the black alien species had disappeared, no one thought that this matter would be related to that period of history again . "Could it be that the strange things that happened here are related to the black alien species on your body?" Xiao An looked at Tang Yan, Tang Yan shook his head: "I can't feel—" He suddenly shook slightly. Xiao An was startled: "Tang Yan?" Tang Yan stretched out his hands to support the wall and closed his eyes. "I don't feel there are black aliens here, but I've been a little dizzy." He opened his eyes and said, "It's rare for me." For an omnipotent creature like Tang Yan, it must be very rare to become weak, right?Xiao An inexplicably felt a sense of pride—a simple creature like him would not be affected at all because he couldn't feel any subtle changes, how wonderful!At this time, Tang Yan continued to say: "If this is part of the Fei family's old house, the danger inside may exceed expectations. Unfortunately, most of my memories of the Fei family have been blurred..." Originally, Tang Yan had integrated the memory of the Fei family. The same kind of person should be able to obtain the memory of the same kind, but because of individual defects, the more he fuses, the more blurred his memory becomes. "It's okay, there are two of us." Xiao An smiled at him, "Don't even think about it if you don't remember." Tang Yanbao smiled, pointed to the left, and said, "If you don't remember, you can just wander around, let's go." Three o'clock in the morning. Tang Yan and Xiao An walked to the center of the Eagle Pavilion—the atrium garden with the most fresh and elegant scenery. In the garden, there are several coffee trees that are very popular with modern young people. Behind them are old banyan trees and shrubs. Next to the banyan trees and shrubs There is a famous ancient well, which is the ancient well where the first generation Fei family master jumped into the well. Tang Yan's face became paler and paler, Xiao An was a little worried, it seemed that Tang Yan's condition became worse the deeper he walked, but seeing Tang Yan walking all the way in front of the ancient well, as if he was about to jump down at any time, he was startled Jump: "Hey!" Tang Yan glanced into the well, Xiao An didn't know what he saw, he just heard him say: "The oxygen content here is the lowest." "Ah?" Xiao An was dumbfounded, "What?" Tang Yan pressed his forehead and frowned slightly: "The oxygen content here is low, so I feel dizzy." There is no water in the ancient well, and the depth is unknown. There are some broken stones beside the well, which are newly broken, as if the wellhead was originally covered with stone slabs, but it was destroyed later. Tang Yan stared at the ancient well for a while, and the two gestured to the leftmost room in the atrium. There was nothing strange in that room, the doors and windows were closed tightly, as if they had been locked for a long time. Xiao An unlocked the door, they entered the room, and quickly locked the door. This room looks like a vacant warehouse, and it is very clean. There are several safes in the corners, and the doors are all open. There is a wooden chair next to the safes. It is a European-style ornate style unique to clubs. There were a few bumps and stains on the chair, as if it was a waste product, and several paintings hung abruptly on the wall.Tang Yan opened every painting, and the oil painting was indeed a built-in safe behind it. Only one of the cabinets was locked, Xiao An stretched out his hand consciously, his deformed fingers penetrated through the keyhole, and opened it after a while.But there is still a safe in the safe, which is an electronic combination lock.Tang Yan stretched out his hand, Xiao An thought he had guessed the password, but seeing Tang Yan forcefully opened the door of the small safe like a clam, Xiao An was stunned. But something even more jaw-dropping is in the safe. There was no money in the safe, nor gold or silver jewels. Hidden in the most remote room of the Eagle Pavilion, hidden in the most secure safe behind the murals, turned out to be a pile of dirty knives. The serrated knife used to cut steaks used in Western food has brown stains on the knife, much like dried blood. Twenty-six, bloody table knives. Tang Yan picked up a table knife, and the tip of the knife directly scratched the scar on the wooden chair. Subtle triangular notches, a tight fit, are fitted. Eight o'clock the next morning. Sekisaki was very angry. Li Ming's body disappeared. Guan Qi sent police officers to search around the police station, but there was nothing.When he looked back at the monitoring, the content of the monitoring almost pissed him off. It can be clearly seen in the monitoring that Li Ming on the autopsy table suddenly sat up after Xiao Ke left, and then turned around. With a "bang", sparks flew everywhere—he broke the monitoring of the autopsy room. How could a body that had been dead for three days and had its chest cut open come back to life?Sekisaki couldn't understand, but the "thing" that came back from the dead obviously had thinking and consciousness, otherwise it wouldn't destroy the monitoring.But the problem is that it didn't break the lock of the autopsy room, how did it get out?Is the resurrected Li Ming still Li Ming? It's gone, what is it going to do? Guan Qi has three heads, and what happened in front of him can no longer be understood with his experience and common sense. Suddenly he grabbed his cell phone and wanted to call Tang Yan. Monsters can only be dealt with by monsters. Tang Yan answered Guan Qi's call: "Officer Guan, I think I know where Li Ming went." "Where?" Guan Qi frowned, the monster really knew the monster, and Guan Qi's voice didn't sound surprised at all. "Eagle Pavilion." Tang Yan said, "Officer, you may need to bring some equipment that can make ice and refrigeration. There are some special circumstances here." Sekisaki sat up straight alertly, and asked, "Have you figured out what happened?" Tang Yan's tone seemed to be slightly smiling: "Well, officer, you should prepare the machine first, at least bring a lot of ice cubes, and I'll explain it when it arrives." When Guan Qi arrived at the Eagle Pavilion with a big bag of ice cubes, Tang Yan and Xiao An sat at the entrance of the Eagle Pavilion and drank coffee.It's just that this time they bought coffee at the milk tea shop opposite, and then sat at the entrance of the Eagle Pavilion to drink.Seeing Guan Qi driving over, Tang Yan waved to him with a friendly smile. "What's wrong? Ask me to bring a pile of ice where to put it?" Guan Qi was very annoyed, being directed around by such a little monster hurt his self-esteem as a master of detection. "Officer Guan, I think you can use the crime of murder to detain the people here first." Tang Yan said, "Then I will tell you where Li Ming is." "Murder?" Guan Qi frowned, "Who is the victim? Who is the suspect? I can't arrest people based on your words." "The victim is Jiang Yunshen." Tang Yan said, "The newspapers have been talking about him recently. He has many companies under his name, and one of them is the Eagle House." Guan Qi's brows loosened a little, and he said, "How do you know that Jiang Yunshen is dead?" Tang Yan smiled slightly: "I guess." Guan Qi gave a secret "bah", and the technical department spent several days and nights studying the gold watch and the samples of the liquid on the ground before matching the number with the gold watch in Jiang Yunshen's previous photo, and only then did they test out that the liquid in the liquid was indeed With Jiang Yunshen's DNA, this kid was fooled by saying "I guessed it"? "Who is the suspect?" He asked carelessly, he didn't even have a clue, could it be that Tang Yan guessed it again just sitting here drinking coffee? "The waiter at the Eagle Pavilion." "which one?" "All." Tang Yan said. Guan Qi looked at him in surprise, Tang Yan took a sip of coffee and repeated: "All." "All?" Guan Qi's face slowly became serious, "Where's the evidence?" Tang Yan thought for a while and replied, "Money." He instructed Xiao An to buy a cup of coffee for Guan Qiye, "Jiang Yunshen has a lot of money, which was raised illegally. He turned a considerable amount of money into cash. Everyone knows that illegal fundraising and usury are not long-term businesses, and he planned to abscond with the money early in the morning." He pointed to the Eagle Pavilion behind him, "There is one on the left in the atrium. There is a room full of safes, which is probably where Jiang Yunshen hides his money. I went to see it yesterday, and the money is gone. If he dies, the money will naturally go to the murderer. You can call first查一查服务生的账户在最近一两个星期内有没有存入大额资金。” 关崎真的打了个电话，并且摆好了姿势，说：“我等你将整个经过讲给我听，包括昨天晚上未经允许私自闯入鹰馆。” “可以。”唐研微笑得很善意，语气轻描淡写，“事情是这样的。李明死了，死得很奇怪，找不到原因。他死的地方旁边有个地洞，地洞旁边还有一摊水。如果这不是条柏油马路而是片海滩，我们会很自然地想，有个洞——哦，不是螃蟹挖的，就是气泡冒上来了，这很正常。而在柏油马路上我们对这个洞却百思不得其解，因为路面太硬了。” 关崎不耐烦地说：“它不可能是螃蟹挖的，也不可能是气泡冒上来，最有可能就是地层塌陷。” “先不说地洞是怎么出现的，李明当晚显然看到了地洞。”唐研说，“一个正常人的反应，在凌晨看到奇怪的事，应该被吓坏，然后立刻回家，不可能在现场停留那么长时间……” 关崎说：“他是回家了，他的邻居说李明曾经回家，不知道为什么又走了。” 唐研笑了笑，说：“那是因为他的钥匙掉了。还记得吗？警官曾经在那个地洞里找到钥匙。李明看到地洞以后，惊慌失措地赶回家，发现钥匙不见了，犹豫再三只能折回现场去找。一来一回的时间加起来，就到了凌晨四点那个关键的时间。” “你是说——他本来不该死，但是他折回现场找钥匙，撞到了不该看见的事，所以才死了？”关崎若有所思，“他看到了什么？” 唐研没有回答，过了一会儿，他另起了个话题：“鹰馆的咖啡变了味，蒋云深不见了，他的钱也不见了，却没有人报警。在他曾经藏钱的保险柜里，我发现了二十六把带血的餐刀。” 关崎震动了一下：“哦？” “鹰馆的服务生正好是二十六个人，”唐研说，“厨房里有名单。二十六把餐刀和二十六个人，不能算是个巧合，很容易让人联想到这会不会是一种团体行为——同时也是在建立联盟和分担风险。比如说，蒋云深即将出逃的秘密被人发现了，有些人作了计划，一起行动，抓住了蒋云深，得到了保险柜的密码，拿到了现金，并且在最后杀人的时刻，为了均摊责任，他们选择一人一刀，共同杀死了蒋云深。最后，把大家杀人的证据——那些餐刀收集起来，藏匿在某个地方，作为互相监督的法宝。关警官，这有没有可能？” “有。”关崎说，“但是有待查证。” 唐研微微一笑，继续说：“他们杀了蒋云深，把他扔进了花园里的那口古井，古井很深，里面没有水，上面放着石板，根本不可能被人发现。如果事情顺利，金钱到账，他们也就可以慢慢辞职，逐一消失。但是事情却没有这样发展。”他又指了指鹰馆，“这是个古怪的地方，在古井所在的位置，空气含氧量很低，这是不自然的现象。井下氧气含量很低，说明下面有什么生物一直在剧烈消耗着氧气，需求比别的地方多得多。他们把蒋云深的尸体扔进了古井，尸体掉进了那些生物所在的地方，意外就发生了。” 关崎似有所悟，唐研浅浅地笑：“你想到了什么？” “李明。”关崎说。 “对！”唐研把喝完的咖啡放到萧安手上，示意他拿去扔掉，继续说，“蒋云深身上发生了什么，看李明就知道。根据你的调查，蒋云深已经失踪一个星期，按照我说的故事，他应该早就惨死在鹰馆花园的那口古井下面，怎么会在三天前从监控面前经过呢？难道他死而复生了？而李明已经死了三天，已经被解剖完毕，怎么可能从验尸房走掉了呢？死而复生的关键，在哪里？”他调整了一下坐姿，看着鹰馆，“这是多漂亮的建筑，人来人往，但那古井下面剧烈消耗着氧气的东西是什么呢？鹰馆的前身是费家古宅，费家的第一任主人跳井自尽，后来家里发生瘟疫——或许蒋云深的意外并不是第一例，在很久以前，相同的意外就发生过。” 关崎哑然，问道：“以前费家发生的是瘟疫，可是蒋云深如果从井里爬起来，会做什么？” “杀人。”唐研说。 关崎大吃一惊：“什么？” 萧安扔了垃圾、买了薯片回来，插嘴说：“仓储室里都是尸体，他们服务生自己的尸体，都是残缺不全的。”经过了一个晚上，他已经适应了昨晚恐怖的经历。 “啊？”关崎差点被咖啡呛死，“咳咳咳……” “蒋云深掉进了井底，发生了异变。”唐研说，“那口古井井口的石板已经碎了，没有相当的力量不可能碎，蒋云深死而复生，从井底爬了起来。他被不明的生物寄生，可是没有忘记杀死他的凶手。他回到鹰馆，开始对服务生进行逐一报复，所以鹰馆的冰柜里塞满了尸体。” “蒋云深是怎么复仇的？”关崎紧紧皱眉，账户的调查回馈来了，沈小梦短信通知他，每个服务生都有了巨额资金入账。 “我不知道，”唐研说，“我只看到了尸体，每具尸体都像是被融化了一大部分，只剩下残缺不全的部分。”想了想，他看了正在发毛的萧安一眼，很善意地改口，“……被消化了一大部分……” 关崎立刻想起了地洞旁的那摊液体，技术人员说，那像是某一种消化液。 “如果说蒋云深的事只是谋杀和复仇，那李明呢？”关崎皱眉，“李明到底看到了什么？” “李明看到了复仇以后的事。”唐研回答，“他折回这里找钥匙，看到了蒋云深从地道里爬了出来。” 关崎哑然，追问：“然后？” “然后不知道出于什么原因，蒋云深袭击了他，把他变成了第二个蒋云深。井下的生物只需要接触就可以寄生，按道理，所有被袭击的人都应该被传染，但死去的服务生却没有。大概是因为他们的尸体被迅速塞进了冷柜，异生物在冰冷环境里会休眠或死亡。”唐研说，“但李明却没有被塞进冷柜，所以当我们发现李明尸体的时候，其实他已经完成了从被腐蚀到与异细胞融合自我修复的过程，所以迅速苏醒了。” “最后？”关崎突然有种不祥的预感，“他……他还记得是谁袭击了他吗？” 唐研耸了耸肩，说：“根据蒋云深的表现，李明应该记得。” “所以说，如果李明回来了，他应该会找到蒋云深，然后两个怪物进行一场大战，进行复仇？”关崎怪叫一声，“那我们坐在这里干什么？看奥特曼大战小怪兽吗？” “不是叫你带了冰块来了吗？”唐研似笑非笑，“把鹰馆里的人叫出来，然后往古井和通道里倒冰块吧！” 半个小时以后，鹰馆剩余的服务生被关崎以协助调查的名义请了出来，关崎和唐研开始往古井和门口的地洞两个方向一起往下倒冰块。 倒了三十几袋冰块以后，地表突然出现了一种奇怪的颤动，随即有几个地方突然被顶开，一些液体像喷泉一样地涌出来。关崎吓了一跳，一包碎冰就这么砸了过去，那些液体接触到冰块，很快凝固，变成了水晶样的结晶。喷出了几股以后，地下再也没有动静，唐研把所有的结晶塞进了密封罐，扔进了关崎的车，说：“李明和蒋云深没有出现，怎么办？” 关崎看着那些结晶，毛骨悚然，说：“他们不会冻死在下面了吧？” 唐研看了看萧安，又看了看关崎，问：“挖吗？” 关崎一拍大腿，说：“挖！” 关崎调来挖掘机，在鹰馆的花园里挖了大半个下午，却没有挖到蒋云深和李明。只在地下深处挖到一处崭新的洞穴，以及洞穴里两堆晶簇模样的大片结晶。 世界真是无奇不有。 关崎看向唐研，异生物能寄生在人类身上，但它们毕竟还是异生物，无论蒋云深和李明有多像人，他们的真身只是一堆晶簇。 而唐研呢？ 他也是一种寄生在人类身上的异生物吗？ 将鹰馆的地下翻遍以后，关崎回去审问那些服务生。基本上没怎么问，有一个叫杰克的男孩就承认，他们谋杀了蒋云深，将他扔进了古井。但蒋云深死而复生，袭击了六个人。 关崎这才知道蒋云深是怎么袭击人的——听说在袭击人的时候，蒋云深整个人会突然化成黑水喷射向被害者，往往只是一瞬间，被那些黑水沾上的人就化成了几块残尸。这大概就是蒋云深身上所有的东西都被腐蚀了，只剩一圈金表的原因，也就是在地下没有挖到人体、只挖到两堆晶簇的原因——大概这也是李明能直接从验尸房消失而不需要开锁的原因。 鹰馆杀人事件已经大白，可关崎依然觉得很烦躁。 蒋云深从古井出来，一直停留在鹰馆附近，袭击了六个人，可是李明死亡的那天，蒋云深却是从外面回来的。蒋云深不但是出去又回来了，他还化成液体在鹰馆门口的地上开了一个地洞。 那个晚上，他去做了什么？ 他为什么要开那个地洞？那个地洞那么深，真的是蒋云深挖开的？李明那天晚上到底为什么要返回现场，真的是为了找钥匙吗？ 一个星期后，关崎拿着他在地洞里捡到的钥匙去开李明家的门。 咯的一声，门并没有打开——这不是李明家的钥匙。 所以唐研错了，李明并没有丢钥匙，他不是为了找钥匙回去现场的。 关崎莫名地感到一阵毛骨悚然。 有些问题，在关崎这里将成为永远的谜。 十二月二十七日凌晨三点。 整个芸城市仍在安眠，灯火暗淡，树影摇晃。 一个男人在芸城的街道上走过，怀里抱着个睁着眼睛的小婴孩。 那个小小的婴孩没有眼白，一对杏眼都是墨一样的漆黑，在夜色中熠熠生辉。 他走过某条小巷，怀里婴孩的视线上移，望向身旁的一栋居民楼。 男人唇角极慢地勾起一丝弧线，月光之下，他生着一张异常美丽的脸。 楼上，唐研蓦然从睡梦中惊醒，一瞬之间，他的眼瞳急剧扩大，眼白几乎消失，减退很久的黑色就像潮水一样瞬间遍布了他十个指甲。那浓烟一样的黑色顺着十指往上急剧蔓延，片刻间，唐研的手臂就布满了藤蔓模样的黑色花纹。