Chapter 5 5. Red Jacket
When Jiang Xiaolou arrived at the unit, it happened to be exactly eight o'clock. He had just put on his police uniform, and someone came to report the crime immediately, as if he had made an appointment with him on purpose, and he still knew the reporter——Liu Chao's family nanny, Zhang Caolan, is also "Aunt Zhang" in Liu Chao's mouth.
Aunt Zhang also recognized him, and held his hand tightly while sobbing. "Xiaolou, help Auntie, my daughter Xiaochun has been missing for several days, I have searched everywhere, but there is no news..."
Another missing case!Jiang Xiaolou frowned secretly, and comforted Aunt Zhang calmly on the outside, led her to the reception room, and asked Liu Momo to take notes for her.
After hearing some inquiries, Jiang Xiaolou basically understood the disappearance of Aunt Zhang's daughter Wang Chunli—like the previous missing persons, they all disappeared without a trace without warning, and they all disappeared at night. So he blurted out and asked, "Aunt Zhang, is it convenient to tell me the date of your daughter's birth?"
"Oh, she is twenty-three years old, born in the year of Tiger, born on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 1986. Why do you ask this?"
Jiang Xiaolou and Liu Momo looked at each other, and they both sighed secretly: even the date of birth is the same as the first three missing girls, obviously, she is the fourth.Although everyone expected that the fourth missing girl would appear sooner or later, things happened too fast, right?
Jiang Xiaolou asked Liu Momo to ask Aunt Zhang some more information, went to the office to find Gao Fei, and told him the situation. Gao Fei also had a headache, and immediately called the provincial department to report the situation—because the case was serious. Well, the provincial department has long been eyeing this serial disappearance case and asked them to report everything in detail.
"Yes, yes, yes, don't worry, I will do it."
Jiang Xiaolou listened beside him, knowing that Lao Gao must be being trained again, and of course it will be their turn to be soldiers next. As expected, after hanging up the phone, Gao Fei lit a cigarette. Zhong stared at Jiang Xiaolou and said, "Didn't you claim to be the second detective and Sherlock Holmes when you were in college? How can you lose your brain when you really become a policeman?"
"That's a nickname given by a classmate, and I haven't admitted it." Jiang Xiaolou spread his hands, not wanting to argue with him. Half a year of police experience made him feel very tired. I can't use it, the position is too low in a word, there are team leaders, deputy team leaders, deputy team leaders, team leaders, etc. leaders above him, and they can't talk about any issues during the case handling process. If you insist on expressing your opinions, He is often considered pushy. If Gao Fei hadn't been secretly supporting him, he would have quit his job long ago.
Jiang Xiaolou deliberately said sourly: "Besides, you can't blame me if you can't solve the case. The team leader and deputy team leader usually arrange the work. Of course they have to take full responsibility if you can't solve the case. I'm just a submissive Little policeman."
"You mean, I didn't give you a chance to show off?"
"I thought you didn't know."
"Well, you start working in the second group from today, and investigate the 8.3 drowning case. I'll say hello to Lao Li and ask him to give you more opportunities to give you opinions. Is that okay?"
Jiang Xiaolou thought for a while, and immediately understood what was going on, and said, "Does the higher-ups want someone to take over the disappearance case?"
"Your brain is not slow to react." Gao Fei shrugged and said helplessly, "You guessed right, the provincial department will send people down to set up a task force immediately, and the leaders are all from the provincial department, let alone your performance." It’s an opportunity, instead of making up the numbers here, it’s better to do other important things, the drowning case is also more complicated.”
"Is this good news or bad news for me?"
"Whatever you think, the most important thing is to solve the case." Gao Fei came over and stretched out his hand to help him straighten his epaulettes, "I am optimistic about you both in public and in private, so if you have meritorious service, I will give it to you right away." How about a promotion?"
"I hope you can still remember what you said today."
"Of course, but you have to show yourself first, right?"
"Does it need to be said?" Jiang Xiaolou looked at him and smiled.
In the afternoon, the people from the provincial department really came down, and set up a direct-administered task force on the "serial girls' disappearance case". Veteran police officers with many years of experience in the police force, and some young police officers who were originally in the task force were all transferred out to deal with other cases.Liu Momo was also assigned to the second group of the original criminal investigation. When he and Jiang Xiaolou went to report, he was sent on a foreign business trip to the home of the deceased Cui Bo to learn about the situation.
Although both of them felt that it was meaningless to do so—the family members of the deceased had already reported the situation, so why would there be new clues now?But the leaders think it is necessary to do so, and they only have to carry it out.
Because the two had just arrived, in order to help them grasp the clues of the case quickly, the team sent them a case file and asked them to make up for it before they set off.After leaving the police station, Liu Momo walked slowly, reviewing the materials while explaining to Jiang Xiaolou: "...the deceased Cui Bo, 23 years old, unemployed, lived in Lantian Community, Jinhua Avenue, Xuyou City, his parents divorced, My father is the owner of a certain clothing company, and his family is rich—"
"Don't read these useless things, I already knew about these situations," Jiang Xiaolou interrupted her. "Just talk about what you have found out recently, such as how people die."
"Well, let me take a look." Liu Momo turned the material to the back, looked at it for a long time and said, "It's strange that this person died—the forensic examination said that the sudden death was caused by cardiac arrest, but the specific cause was not found out, and The deceased had no history of heart disease..."
Jiang Xiaolou frowned and thought for a while and said: "As far as I know, many situations can cause sudden cardiac arrest. For example, people experience or see some extremely terrifying scenes without psychological preparation. It is not surprising that fainting or shock will occur, and if the rescue is not timely, it is easy to die."
Liu Momo nodded thoughtfully, looked at the materials for a while, and said: "It also said that the deceased sank into the water after death or suspended animation. Judging from the situation at the scene, it should be caused by human beings. Treat it as a homicide investigation." After a pause, he continued: "This group of people is so stupid. After so long, no progress has been made at all. The only clues were provided by a few people, including your friend. I have seen the man in black many times, and everything else is the introduction of the deceased’s relationship and living conditions before his death, so there is nothing suspicious.”
Jiang Xiaolou looked at him in surprise: "They didn't follow the line my friend provided?"
"It says to investigate, but there is no substantive evidence that the deceased is related to the man in black, so I gave up, and now I am still investigating according to the usual way, even the last public toilet the deceased visited before he died, but Nothing."
Jiang Xiaolou sighed a little irritably, "If this continues, I'm afraid we won't be able to solve the case until we retire."
Liu Momo looked at him and blinked: "Then what do you want to do now?"
"It's not up to me to decide what to do. You should call the family of the deceased first and tell us that we are going to visit again."
Liu Momo shrugged, took out her mobile phone, entered the number given to her in the group, dialed it and waited for a while, then put down the mobile phone and said, "I didn't get through."
Jiang Xiaolou thought for a while and said, "Forget it, I'll take you to my friend and see if I can find out something."
"Ah? Didn't someone follow this line first, saying that nothing was found?"
"Maybe the investigation was not deep enough, let's go." Jiang Xiaolou quickly walked to the side of the road and stopped a taxi.Liu Momo caught up and said, "But...the task given to us by the superior is not this!"
"I just said that I couldn't find the family members of the deceased, and I didn't want to be idle, so I went to do things by myself." Jiang Xiaolou held the open car door with one hand, turned around and made a "please" gesture to Liu Momo.
Liu Momo had no choice but to get in the car, pouted and said, "Okay, I hope our trip was not in vain."
"If it wasn't for the Zaomu sword, you might be attending my funeral now." Lao Ma looked at Liu Chao and Qin Nalan with a wry smile and said. This is in the study on the third floor of Liu Chao's villa. Ma just finished telling how he encountered the man in black at home.
"Now I completely believe it. These guys are really extraordinary. They can actually make me immobilized." He stroked his messy long yellow hair with one hand, and sighed, "It's simply unbelievable. Experience, it is really hard to believe that such a miracle can happen.”
Liu Chao took a look at Qin Nalan and said, "Nalan and I also saw the men in black again recently, and they appear more and more often. This is not a good thing..."
The old horse nodded thoughtfully, "By the way, I asked you to seal up the information on Gate Village. How did your investigation go?"
"I'm just going to discuss this matter with you." Liu Chao first told about how he met Song Qing on the Internet, including how her boyfriend died because of investigating the secrets of Fengmen Village. "The information must have been deleted maliciously," he said at the end, "So, Song Qing suggested that we go to Fengmen Village again..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qin Nalan waved his hand: "No, no, I don't even want to go to that place."
"I don't need you to go." Liu Chao glanced at her, then turned his gaze to the old horse, "To untie the bell, the person who tied it has to be untied. I think it's better to go there. Let's not go into the village, but go to the surrounding areas to inquire. That man used to do that, even though he died in the end...but we just sit here and do nothing, it’s no different from waiting to die, even if the man in black doesn’t do anything, it’s not a solution for us to be so worried every day, Ma, what do you think?"
"You're right, I'll go with you, when will we leave?"
"Anytime."
At this time, the doorbell downstairs rang suddenly, Liu Chao went to the window and took a look, it was Jiang Xiaolou standing outside the courtyard door, accompanied by a beautiful woman in police uniform, he couldn't help feeling strange, turned around The head said to the two: "You guys talk first, I'll go down."
Going down to the first floor and opening the door to the yard, Liu Chao heard a female voice with an exaggerated tone coming from outside the door: "Xiaolou, you are not enough friends, and you have such a rich friend who would not have introduced me to you earlier, by the way, he Are you married?"
Liu Chao shrugged amusedly to himself, and opened the door.
"Student, what are you doing at home?" Jiang Xiaolou greeted him first, and looked at him with a smile.Liu Chao has always hated (or rather feared) him like this. When he smiles, it seems that he has seen through all the secrets hidden in the other party's heart, a little cynical and a little hidden.
"Nothing," Liu Chao looked at him, then at the policewoman behind him, she was indeed a beautiful woman. "What are you doing here?"
"Of course there is something to do, let's talk about it when we go in." Jiang Xiaolou pushed him unceremoniously and waved to the policewoman.When passing by Liu Chao, the female policeman smiled at him a little embarrassedly, and said softly, "My name is Liu Momo. We came to find out about you. It's a pleasure to meet you."
Find me?What do you know?
Turning around to see that Jiang Xiaolou had already entered the living room, he quickly chased into the house.Jiang Xiaolou sat down on the sofa without any fuss, and then called the policewoman named Liu Momo to sit down.
"Can you pour us some water first? I'm so tired after walking for a long time." Liu Chao rolled his eyes at him, went to the kitchen to make two cups of green tea, and said, "My nanny has been missing since yesterday afternoon. I can't get through, I don't know how to make a fruit plate, so you can just drink some tea." He mainly said this to that beauty, and most men are like this, no matter what mood they are in, when a beauty—especially a strange beauty It is the nature of male animals to always want to express yourself in front of you.
"She's not missing, it's her daughter who is missing." Jiang Xiaolou briefly told about Aunt Zhang's report to the police station in the morning and the process of her daughter's disappearance. Liu Chao was stunned and murmured after a while:
"No way, why did Duan Duan disappear suddenly? Could it be...you misunderstood, maybe you were angry with your family and ran away from home or something like that?"
Jiang Xiaolou shook his head: "Same as the previous three missing persons, she was born on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar in 1986. This is a serial disappearance case. Don't you usually watch the news?"
"It's almost impossible to save my life. I still have time to watch TV?"
"Oh?" Jiang Xiaolou took out a cigarette and handed him a cigarette, and said slowly: "Is it something related to that village?"
Liu Chao didn't want to hide anything, nodded and said: "Of course, since Cui Bo's death, those men in black have appeared to harass us one after another—not only harassing, I have a friend thanks to someone who gave him a jujube that can ward off evil spirits." Wooden sword, otherwise...hey, you wouldn’t believe it.”
Jiang Xiaolou and Liu Momo looked at each other, then looked at Liu Chao and said, "Do you suspect that these things have something to do with Cui Bo's murder? Then let me tell you, I'm investigating this case now, and I'm here to find you this time." I just want to know something about this, this should be good news for you, right?"
Liu Chao looked at him in disbelief, and said slowly, "Are you finally willing to believe what I said?"
"That's not true. I'm still saying that there are no ghosts in this world, but it doesn't rule out that some people pretend to be ghosts."
The fire of hope that Liu Chao had just ignited was extinguished again, and he snorted coldly and said, "Then tell me, how can we explain the strange things that happened to us?"
"I haven't experienced it myself, so it's hard to comment."
At this time, a series of footsteps sounded from the stairwell, and the three of them looked up together, only to see a man and a woman walking down the stairs side by side - Lao Ma and Qin Nalan.
The old horse walked straight towards the living room, but Qin Nalan stood motionless at the stairs, staring blankly at his side. Liu Chao followed her gaze and found that Jiang Xiaolou was also surprised. endless expression.correct!He suddenly remembered that Qin Nalan had just told him not long ago that she and Jiang Xiaolou used to be lovers...
Jiang Xiaolou was the first to break the deadlock, and said to Qin Nalan with a slight smile, "Long time no see, Nalan, I didn't expect to meet you here."
After a brief greeting with Jiang Xiaolou, Qin Nalan said he was going out to do something, and Liu Chao went to the yard to open the door for her.
Before going out, Liu Chao found that she was peeking at Jiang Xiaolou sitting in the room through the glass window. Although her expression was as calm as water, her eyes could not deceive anyone. Liu Chao could see a complex complex in her eyes ——This kind of feeling is indescribable. In short, Liu Chao feels that she still has some feelings for Jiang Xiaolou. Does she still like him?
What kind of story happened between the two?
Liu Chao didn't understand why he was so interested in other people's private affairs. He smiled self-deprecatingly, and when he returned to the house, Lao Ma was chatting with Jiang Xiaolou about Japanese mystery novels, as if they hit it off.
"Are you still in the mood to talk about this?" Liu Chao didn't shy away from Jiang Xiaolou's presence, turned to the old horse and said, "Let's discuss the business. When you are free, we'd better go there as soon as possible."
The old horse nodded, "I'm free anytime, but before I leave, I have to meet with that Taoist friend. He hopes that I can bring the wooden sign to him. If you are worried, we will go there together. .”
"Of course I don't worry, but I also want to hear what he said on the spot. I'd better go with you."
"Okay," the old horse looked at his watch, "I told him to look for him at 3:30, it's almost there, if you have nothing to do, let's go now?"
Liu Chao looked at Jiang Xiaolou and the beautiful policeman with some embarrassment. Before he could speak, Jiang Xiaolou said first, "If you don't mind, how about counting me in? As I said just now, I am currently in Any clues might come in handy in this case."
"Of course no problem." The old horse said with a smile.
After the group went out, Jiang Xiaolou asked Liu Momo to go back to the unit first, and Liu Momo said hesitantly: "This is inappropriate, I'm afraid it will be difficult to explain to Lao Li."
"I'm not idle, so you just say that I went to investigate the case by myself, and go to report to him personally when I go back."
"But--"
"Don't worry, there is no crime of shooting. If he blames you, you will blame me and persuade me to go back and refuse to listen. Is that okay?" Jiang Xiaolou patted her arm with a smile, Get into Liu Chao's "BYD".
"Is this woman your partner?" Liu Chao finally had a chance to ask this question.
Jiang Xiaolou shrugged his shoulders as a statement.
"That's great, no wonder you work so hard every day." Liu Chao smiled jokingly, inserted the key, started the car, and just after driving less than a hundred meters, the old horse suddenly yelled: "Hey, Look over there—”
Liu Chao turned his head and found that the old horse was staring at the left front of the car with wide eyes. He quickly moved his gaze over and saw a man-made forest next to a villa. There was no one in the forest on a hot day.
"What's wrong?"
The old horse collected himself and said, "I seem to have seen the man in black, and he went to the middle of the woods, didn't you see it?"
"No way?" Liu Chao was stunned for a moment, then turned his head to look towards the woods again, but there was still no one there, so he thought for a while and said, "Do you want to get out of the car and go take a look?"
"Forget it, this place extends in all directions. If someone wants to hide, you won't be able to find it if you're exhausted." Jiang Xiaolou said lightly.
"You saw it too?"
"I should have seen a black shadow, which disappeared in a flash. I'm not sure if it's the man in black you mentioned."
"It can't be wrong! I saw him once, he was dressed so strangely, I can recognize him even when he turns into ashes!"
After the old horse said these words, the atmosphere in the carriage gradually became dignified. After a while, Liu Chao broke the deadlock and said, "But... shouldn't ghosts come out in the dark?"
"You're not a ghost, how do you know? Besides, the trees over there are so dense, there's no light in the middle, and it's no different from Heitian."
Liu Chao took a deep breath, looked into the depths of the woods and murmured, "It seems that they have been watching us from the dark..."
A white and tender young man opened the door, and before the three of them entered, a girl ran out with her mouth covered and her eyes red. The old horse watched the girl go blankly, and asked the young man: Chen, did you do something bad? We happen to have police here..."
The young man called "Old Chen" glared at him, "Don't talk nonsense, this is my classmate, who just fell out of love, and came to cry with me." As he spoke, his eyes swept towards the faces of Liu Chao and Jiang Xiaolou , "They are all handsome guys, do you two have girlfriends?"
"I'm getting married soon." Jiang Xiaolou said without expression.
"Old Chen" didn't answer, but turned to Liu Chao: "What about you?"
Liu Chao didn't know why Qin Nalan's shadow appeared in his mind, so he could only answer vaguely: "I... have no plans for this at the moment."
"I'm not afraid of this, how do you feel about that girl just now?"
"what?"
"Old Chen" laughed, showing his trademark white teeth, "She just broke up in love, and she wants me to introduce a handsome guy to comfort him. If you can fancy her, let me introduce you?"
Liu Chao never expected to encounter this kind of thing when he came here. He didn't know what to say, and the old horse said from the side: "Okay, old Chen, we will talk about the pimping later. We have business with you." Liu Chao pursed his lips, "He is Liu Chao, I mentioned it to you. The other one is called... Jiang Xiaolou, right? He is Liu Chao's buddy, a policeman." Then he turned around and introduced this to the two of them." "Old Chen": "His name is Chen Peiqi, he is the friend I just mentioned, he is not a bad person, he just likes to joke, just don't take offense."
Jiang Xiaolou showed his trademark smile at Chen Peiqi: "I really can't tell, you are a Taoist priest."
"I study Chinese medicine, and my father is a Taoist priest. He was killed during the Cultural Revolution and left me with a lot of medical skills. That's why I did this job. Since ancient times, witch doctors have not separated families." After finishing speaking, he stared at Jiang. Xiaolou's forehead looked like, "You have a strong thinking ability and are smart, but you are a bit pretentious. Let me just say don't get angry."
"Do you know how to read?"
"The appearance is born from the heart, and it is shown on the outside. In fact, this is a scientific technology." Chen Peiqi stepped aside, "Let's talk about it first."
After arranging a few people to sit down in the living room, Chen Peiqi went to the kitchen to pour a few glasses of water and brought them over. Then Lao Ma went straight to the point, took out the wooden sign and handed it to him. Chen Peiqi looked over and over for a while, and the smile on his face disappeared. .
"This is indeed a Taoist thing. Judging from the words on it, it should be taught by Maoshan."
Liu Chao stepped forward to point out to him the secret of the Pisces Picture, opened the wooden sign, and the small characters in seal script were revealed again, "It's Tianshi Weimeng." Chen Peiqi read it again, and said: "It must be related to Xiamao Mountain, but You can’t see much from this wooden sign alone, so let me tell you something else.”
He said and glanced at the old horse, "Since this idiot told me about you, I entrusted a brother--a student who lived in Henan that my father had accepted to take a trip to Fengmen Village. Of course, there was no risk. When I entered the village, I just looked at the terrain and feng shui of the village from a distance. He called me back yesterday and said that the feng shui of this village is "five yin and one character", which means that the building complex looks like a "one" from a distance. , you have been there, do you have this feeling?"
Lao Ma looked at Liu Chao and said, "We don't know Feng Shui, so we didn't pay attention to these things at the time, you can just say it."
Chen Peiqi said eloquently: "The five-yin and one-character grid is a very different kind of Fengshui layout. One represents yang in the number of spells, but it is not completely yang, because nine or nine are endless, and one yin is the only one. It looks like pure yang, but it is actually yin.” He turned the wooden sign to the back, pointed to the picture of Pisces and said, “In the picture of Pisces in Tai Chi, there is white in black, black in white, white is yang, and black is yin. Yin is this black spot in Baili. In the shade, the wind enters from the northwest and exits from the east. The trees grow slowly. The water is deep and the pool is not cold. Injustice, the moonlight shines all over and gathers yin, the kidney water is full but depleted..." When I looked up and saw a few people who were dumbfounded, I smiled a little embarrassedly: "Well, I said so much in one breath, you guys Do you understand?"
Liu Chao and Lao Ma looked at each other, the latter shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's just a book from heaven, Maverick, can you be more straightforward?"
"Well...to put it simply, this feng shui pattern is an auspicious place for burials-because it is yin, life is yang, and death is yin...but it is very bad for living people. Use this feng shui pattern to Building a village is prone to problems, and... More importantly, this Fengshui pattern is a Taoist secret, and the general Fengshui masters don’t know it, and even if they know it, they won’t use it.”
"What do you mean?" the old horse asked.
"That is to say, the construction of this village has been related to Taoism from the very beginning, but..." He shook his head, and said to himself: "Many Taoists can show people Feng Shui, but no matter how hard a Taoist is, I would not use this pattern to build a house for a living person, unless I have a grudge with someone..."
"This is really not possible," the old horse rushed over and said, "I heard that people in the past were very particular about Fengshui. No matter they built a house or anything, they would invite a Fengshui master to come and see. If something goes wrong after entering, the feng shui master will be responsible, so even if the feng shui master really has an enmity with the owner, he won’t dare to do it, right? Besides, if your family builds a house and hires a feng shui master, you will hire yourself Is your enemy coming?"
Chen Peiqi glared at him: "I just said it casually, why are you talking so much? I also know that this is impossible. The problem now is that according to the data, the houses in this village were built uniformly when the immigrants moved in. For such a large project, Feng Shui will definitely not be taken care of, so there is only one possibility—this village was built like this on purpose earlier!"
"Ah, why?"
"Maybe there is some special purpose, I don't know about it, and I haven't visited the site."
The old horse said with a smile: "It's easy to handle, you just run with us."
Chen Peiqi was surprised: "Are you planning to go to Fengmen Village again?"
"That's right, you can come too. There is a Taoist priest at the side, so we can feel more secure, how about it?"
Chen Peiqi smiled and shook his head: "This is definitely not possible, besides, I am not a Taoist priest."
Chen Peiqi told the two that they should inquire about the situation in the surrounding areas when going to Fengmen Village this time. It is best not to enter the village. Strange things will inevitably happen if you are too angry.The two agreed, got up and said goodbye.
Chen Peiqi sent them outside the store, and suddenly stopped Jiang Xiaolou: "Student, be careful recently."
Jiang Xiaolou looked back at him, "What do you mean?"
Chen Peiqi put his hands behind his back and looked at him with a smile.
"You are covered by dark clouds, and there will be bad luck in the near future. You can think of me as a crow's mouth, but believe it or not, you will definitely have a catastrophe in the next two weeks, either you or your relatives."
Jiang Xiaolou was silent for a while, and said blankly: "Thank you for your reminder." Then he opened the door of "BYD" and got in first.Obviously, he didn't believe Chen Peiqi's words at all.
But Liu Chao heard it in his heart, and hesitantly asked Chen Peiqi: "What you just said...is there any way to resolve it?"
"He has to break through this barrier by himself, and no one else can help him."
Liu Chao wanted to say something else, but Chen Peiqi waved at them and went back to the store.Liu Chao had no choice but to get in the car. At this time, Lao Ma claimed that he was going to the street to buy something, and left on foot alone. Liu Chao started the car and asked Jiang Xiaolou, "Where are you going?"
"I'll go back to work, just take it to the entrance of the cinema for me."
The car drove forward for a while, and Liu Chao felt a little bored, so he turned on the air conditioner and asked tentatively, "You don't seem to believe what the Taoist said just now?"
"Of course," Jiang Xiaolou said without thinking, "he is not a Taoist priest either."
"Anyway...you'd better be on guard, be prepared."
Jiang Xiaolou didn't answer, but diverted the topic elsewhere: "When did you meet Qin Nalan?"
Liu Chao absolutely did not expect him to ask this question, he was taken aback and said, "The last time we went to Fengmen Village, we were together, what's the matter?"
"Nothing, I haven't seen her for a long time."
"Oh, I heard...you dated her in college? Why didn't I know about it?"
After waiting for a long time, Jiang Xiaolou said calmly: "It's all in the past, why mention it? By the way, where is the wooden sign?"
Liu Chao touched the pocket of his jeans, "It's inside, what are you doing?"
Jiang Xiaolou stretched out his hand in front of him: "Bring it to me."
"What's the meaning?"
"Didn't you say that Cui Bo was killed by the man in black because of this thing? Then you give it to me, and let those men in black come to find me. I'm worried about where to find them. This is a Nice opportunity."
Liu Chao glanced at him with some reproach, "You should investigate the case, don't make any grudges with them, Cui Bo is an example, they...are not human, we can't afford to mess with them!"
"I don't know if it's a person, but I'm a policeman, and I have to solve the case. Besides, if you give me the things, you will be less dangerous, isn't it?"
Liu Chao smiled helplessly: "To be honest, if it were someone else, I would wish to send the wooden sign out quickly, but you are different, and I don't want you to get involved in this matter."
Jiang Xiaolou shrugged his shoulders and said nothing.At this time, Liu Chao's cell phone rang. He picked it up and saw that the call was from Qin Nalan. He subconsciously glanced at Jiang Xiaolou, and then connected the phone.
After greeting each other, Qin Nalan asked him to go to the subway station to have a barbecue, Liu Chao agreed without thinking, hung up the phone, he said to Jiang Xiaolou with some hesitation: "Qin Nalan asked me to go to the subway station to find She eats, do you want to go?"
"No, you put me at the intersection ahead, I'll take a taxi back."
"Actually... it doesn't matter if we have a meal together?"
"It's okay, but I don't have time. I don't have as much time as you, and I don't have to do anything. I eat and wait until I'm hungry every day."
Liu Chao was too lazy to quarrel with him. As early as his student days, he was used to Jiang Xiaolou's banter and ridicule, and he regarded it as the price he had to pay for making friends with him; I have always been full of admiration for him, and I am often impressed by his wisdom and unique views on some things or phenomena. In his opinion, Jiang Xiaolou is almost omnipotent. The only shortcoming is that he is too lustful. , or too casual, never knowing how to refuse girls' pursuit, which caused him to owe a lot of peach blossom debts outside.
Thinking of this, Liu Chao asked casually, "When do you and Xuanxuan plan to get married?"
"I originally planned to go to her house to talk about marriage in the near future, but so many big cases happened one after another, and I wasted all my energy on it, so I have to wait until the case is solved."
"I believe you have a way to solve the case!"
"I also believe it, but the unit system is too bad, you are not allowed to use your brain as a little policeman," Jiang Xiaolou smiled helplessly, "Okay, just stop here, don't delay your business by sending me off. "
"There's nothing serious about it." Liu Chao smiled sarcastically, but pulled the car over and stopped.
Jiang Xiaolou got out of the car, and when he turned around and closed the door, he said something inexplicable: "Be nice to Nalan, this girl is much more innocent than your Li Jie." After he closed the car door heavily, Liu Chao was stunned, and turned his head He stretched out the window and said, "Don't get me wrong, I have nothing to do with Qin Nalan!"
"Never mind you, let's go!" Jiang Xiaolou waved his hand at him, and walked into the distance.
A plate of crayfish, a plate of snails, two grilled chicken legs, two skewers of green peppers, one grass carp, two skewers... "What is this?" Liu Chao asked, pointing to the two skewers that looked a bit like pork liver.
"Pork kidney." Qin Nalan picked up a skewer and ate it. "It doesn't taste much, and many people in the Northeast love it."
"No wonder who said that he has a pig's kidney face, ha ha."
Qin Nalan also laughed, "Don't you often eat barbecue?"
"I don't have many friends, and I rarely go out to eat."
"Oh, I used to love barbecue, but I haven't eaten it once when I came back from that place. I can't stand it today. I don't work and I don't have any friends, so I have to find you." Qin Nalan was a little uncomfortable. Said with a smile of embarrassment.
"Are you not going to look for a job anytime soon?"
Qin Nalan put down the half-eaten pork kidney, brushed his hair, and said, "I'm really not in the mood to go to work recently, I want to wait until this matter is over."
Liu Chao nodded, "Me too. I planned to choose another project to do some business, but now the plan has also been shelved."
After these words, the scene was silent for a moment, Qin Nalan picked up a bunch of roasted pig skin and handed it to Liu Chao: "Stop talking about this, let's eat, this is what you ordered, and you are responsible for destroying it."
This night, the two ate a lot and drank a few bottles of beer. During this period, Qin Nalan was more active and clinked glasses with him frequently. This surprised Liu Chao, and he realized that she also had a lively and cheerful side. , but this is very good. If a person keeps a sullen face all the time, it looks good and reserved at first glance, but when you really get along with it, you will inevitably feel that this person is too dull one day.
After eating, the two walked in the garden near the square again.At that time, the bright moon was in the sky, and the cool breeze was blowing around. Couples were whispering in the depths of the grass. Feeling such a scene, accompanied by beautiful women, Liu Chao couldn't help feeling a little flustered. He peeked at Qin Nalan and saw her. With lowered eyelids and a contented expression on his face, half of his side face glowed brightly under the moonlight. Liu Chao suddenly had the urge to reach out and hold her delicate body in his arms. Of course he didn't dare to do so, but Said in a half-joking tone: "You are so beautiful tonight."
"Ah, is that so?" Qin Nalan lowered his head slightly, and stretched out his hand to brush his hair.This action aroused Liu Chao's pity even more. In order not to let himself sink deeper and deeper, he deliberately turned his face to the other side. Unexpectedly, he saw a man in the grass in the distance putting his hand into the woman's clothes...
"It's a bit cold, let's go back." This sentence was really a relief for Liu Chao at the moment, he nodded quickly, turned and walked back.
When returning to his "BYD", Liu Chao suddenly became sad for some reason, and for no reason thought of a person he didn't want to think of: Li Jie.
At this moment, where is this person who once fell in love with him deeply, and what is she doing?Is it also unreasonable but can't let go of thinking of myself?
After being silent for a few seconds, Liu Chao turned on the car stereo and played a very different song called "I Can't Sit Next to You Sadly". When Haoshi listens to this song, Liu Chao can feel the comfort of releasing his emotions, so that he can calm down.
When the song was nearly halfway through, Qin Nalan finally couldn't help but looked at him timidly and said, "Who sang this song, what's it like?"
"It's ugly, isn't it, everyone says so."
“也不是难听，就是感觉……我说不好，反正不太像歌。”
刘超笑道，“这歌是蒋小楼推荐我听的，本来我也不爱听，但听习惯了之后还真是别有一种味道呢，一种……心灵上的抚慰吧。”
秦岚兰点点头，表情变得有些不太自然，刘超这才意识到自己说错话了——准确说是提到了不该提的人名，正在想法子补救，突然听见秦纳兰一声惊叫：“啊，快停车！”
刘超连忙踩下刹车，“怎么了？”
秦纳兰傻了一样瞪眼望着汽车正前方，抖抖索索地说道：“你……你轧到人了，快、快下车！”
how is this possible!刘超暗叫一声，飞快打开车门，来到汽车前头一看，并没有人，他又不放心地弯腰往轮胎下面望去，只见左前轮后头压着一件大红色的衣服，好像是一只夹袄，刘超伸手想拽出来看看，但被车轮压的太紧，没拽出来，他只好回到车上，望着一脸紧张的秦纳兰说道：“只有一件衣服，没有人，你是不是看错了？”
“不是啊，我明明看到一个小孩从路边冲过来，被你轧在车下面了……那小孩穿的是一件红色衣服！”
刘超一惊，一种凉丝丝的感觉爬上心头。“真的没人，你不信自己下去看看。”这句话更像是自我安慰。
“我不下去。”秦纳兰连连摇头，“也许真是我看错了，赶快走吧！”
刘超也不想在此地久留，于是加大马力往前开去，大约行进了半个车身的距离时，车子不太明显地晃了一下，刘超凭经验知道一定是车左后轮轧到什么东西了，难道是那件衣服？但是，一件软软的衣服又怎能将汽车硌得晃动起来呢？
刘超紧张地瞅了眼后视镜，但见后方路面上的确只有那一件小小夹袄，在月光映照下焕发着血一样的色彩。
躺在自家卧室床上，刘超仍在为路上发生那件怪事耿耿于怀，他实在想不通纳兰为何会把衣服看成是人，而且还是个小孩，难道真的是她看花眼了？还是另有什么原因？更难以解释的是：这件红衣服是从哪里来的呢？
刘超百思不得其解，但是内心里已经认定这件事不同寻常，没准……是跟那些黑衣人有关呢？这个猜想让刘超陡然感到一丝紧张，目光在空荡荡的卧室里来回巡视起来，虽然不大的空间能够一览无余，但他还是隐约觉得屋里有人，或者说有一双隐形的眼睛，正在不怀好意地注视着自己……
当然也可能是心理作用，为了赶走这种想法，刘超下床打开了电脑，打算借上网来转移自己的注意力。连上宽带后，他刚把QQ打开，便收到了妖妖发来的信息：你来了，吃过饭了？
刘超点了一根烟，然后回复道：是的，好几天没见你了，听老马说你出院了？
不到一会儿，妖妖发信息说道：抱歉，这几天一直没联系你们，因为我真的怕了，我这几天老是梦到崔波……
刘超一惊，等着她往下说，但却半天没有动静，忍不住打字问道：然后呢？
又过了五、六秒钟，那头回复了：把东西交出来吧，你别无选择。
刘超：这是他跟你说的？
妖妖：是我在跟你说。
刘超：什么意思？
刚发过去信息，他忽然又想起什么，忙问：你是谁？
片刻之后，那头回复了一句话：一个打算要你命的人。
刘超缓缓张大嘴巴，他已经明白了，与自己说话这人不是妖妖，而是……他努力控制着情绪，用颤抖的手指在键盘上输入道：你不是妖妖，你是谁？
“妖妖”没有回答，反而说道：快没时间了，我在地狱等着你们。
刘超嘴角微微抽动起来，怔怔地望着屏幕上最后出现的这句话，尤其是“地狱”这两个在平时看起来很平常的字眼，此时此刻，却令他浑身发冷。
他想要逃避似的用力按下了电脑电源，看着变成漆黑的电脑屏幕，终于缓缓透过一口气来，拿起手机，给妖妖拨去了电话，连着响了好几声，电话才被接通。
"Hey?"
是妖妖的声音，刘超长出了一口气，有气无力地说道：“你在上网？”
“是啊，”停顿了一下，她接着说道：“不过刚才突然停电了，也不知怎么回事……”
“那……你现在还在线上？”
“停电了啊，我怎么在线，我用台式机上的，你问这干嘛？”
“没什么……”刘超整个身子都缩在了椅子里，他已经完全明白了，刚才使用妖妖的号跟自己说话的确是那个鬼——那个从封门村出来、无时无刻不在纠缠自己的鬼，可是……鬼也会上网吗？
手机听筒里不断传来妖妖焦急的声音，她似乎也意识到一丝不对，一个劲地问刘超究竟发生了什么事。
刘超明白如果把实情说出来的话，妖妖今晚肯定要失眠了，于是撒谎说道：“没什么事，我看你突然不说话了，怕出什么事情，就打电话问一下，你睡觉吧，我挂了。”
放下手机，刘超对着漆黑的电脑屏幕怔怔地发起了呆，思维又回到先头那个问题上面：刚才妖妖那头不是停电了吗？那个黑衣人——那个鬼，他又如何能通过妖妖的号与自己联系的呢？鬼是无形的，他用什么东西在键盘上打字呢？看不见的手也能打字？
这些诡异的问题早已超出了科学能够解释的范围，刘超当然想不明白，于是不得不放弃思考，心烦意乱地从电脑桌上拿起香烟，刚要点火，突然想起一个人来——一个下午才见过面的人，假如自己认识的人中真有人能对那些问题做出解答的话，那非此人莫属了。
这个人不是蒋小楼，尽管蒋小楼是个了不起的侦探，但对于一切“怪力乱神”的事情，他也无能为力，更重要的是，他根本就不相信鬼神。所以，刘超根本不指望他，他所想起的是老马那个叫“陈沛其”的朋友，那个道士。尽管他一直不承认自己是道士，但他的一言一行，无不让刘超觉得他是一个对鬼神之事了如指掌的“高人”。好在下午分手时刘超记下了他的手机号，抱着病急乱投医的心态，刘超拨通了他的电话。
陈沛其略带着几分慵懒的声音从遥远的地方传来：“刘超？”
刘超急忙说道：“是我，不好意思，这么晚了还打扰你，你睡觉了？”
"yes."
“啊，你睡得挺早。”
“困了就得睡觉，没什么早不早的。”停了一下又说：“你找我有事吗？”
"Well, it's like this..."
刘超战战兢兢地将事情经过讲了一遍，陈沛其听罢久久没有开口，刘超生怕错过任何字句似的，一只耳朵紧紧贴着听筒，紧张而耐心地等待着。少顷，陈沛其的声音终于传了过来：“如果你说的是真的，那这东西太可怕了。”
“……怎么说？”
陈沛其叹了口气，“你会武功吗？”
刘超一愣，“当然不会，怎么了？”
“你不会，但有不少人会，但会跟会也不一样——世界上只有一个李小龙，是不是？”不等刘超回答，他又接着说道：“所以，鬼跟鬼也是不一样的，说什么修炼都是扯淡，一个鬼有多可怕，取决于他自我意识觉醒的程度。”
“自我意识？”刘超越听越糊涂了。
“比如婴儿，刚出生时什么都不懂，一切事情都要从头开始学，这就是他作为人的自我意识的觉醒，当他认识到自己是一个人时，他已经学的差不多了；鬼魂也一样，一个鬼魂如果能够通过网络与人对话，甚至完整地表达自己的想法，说明它的自我意识已经觉醒到了一定程度，所以我才说这样的鬼可怕。”
刘超握着手机那只手已经微微颤抖起来，他万万没有想到，原来做鬼也有这么多学问，沉吟良久，他道出了心中最大的疑问：“可是，它们究竟是如何上网的呢？难道跟我们一样用键盘打字？”
“当然不是了，简单说来，它们是将自己的意识转化成数字形式的信息，通过网络传递给目标人，电脑只是一个媒介，无论开着关着都是一样的。”
刘超深吸一口气，喃喃说道：“这也太不可思议了吧。”
“不可思议的事情多了，比如咱们现在之所以能够通话，是因为无线信号的存在，但你能看见这信号长什么样子吗？你看不见，但是它确实存在。”
刘超想想的确是这样，怯怯问道：“那这个……它是不是很厉害？”
“我不想骗你，的确是这样，因为自我意识觉醒到这一步的鬼魂并不多。”
刘超一颗心完全凉了下去，耳中听见陈沛其接着说道：“不过，它既然通过网络与你联系，虽然是威胁，但也说明它暂时不会找你麻烦。所以你还有时间。”
刘超叹气道：“有时候真想把木牌交给他们算了……”
陈沛其轻笑一声：“也许他们要的不止是那东西呢？”
“嗯？”刘超愣了愣：“什么意思？”
“我也是随口一说，因为我感觉木牌应该不是什么多么重要的东西。”刘超张了张嘴，刚想开口，陈沛其又接着说道：“不管怎么样，木牌现在不能给他们，你把它藏好在一个地方，然后你跟老马就进村吧，没准真能发现什么秘密。”
“是吧，眼下也只好这样了。”待心情稍稍有些平复下来，他便问道：“你刚才说的那些事情，你是怎么知道的，你又没有……”
“我又没有当过鬼，”手机那头传来陈沛其的笑声，“我家老爷子当年留下不少关于玄学的书，当然那时候还没有电脑，所以我告诉你的这些，都是我的猜测和推测，事实未必一定就是这样，你姑妄听之吧。”
沉默片刻，刘超缓缓说道：“我相信你。”
“无所谓的……”陈沛其似乎还想说什么，但声音却突然中止，过了五、六秒钟之后才再次开口，但声音变得十分低沉：“我家门外好像有东西来了……”
“啊？”刘超霍地从椅子上站起来，心在瞬间提到嗓子眼。
“我过去看看，挂了啊。”
“哎，你——”
“别担心，我倒希望来的是不是人……”
刘超一愣，瞬间已明白了——这深更半夜的，有人来到你家门口站住，此人多半是不怀好意，一旦发生冲突，凭陈沛其那副羸弱的只怕难以对付，但若来的不是人……陈沛其是道士，随便一把枣木剑就能将“黑衣人”吓走，他本人自然还有别的对付这些东西的办法，所以，他根本就不用怕。
可是，令刘超想不通的是，如果来的真是那些黑衣人，他们的目的是什么呢？难道仅仅因为陈沛其帮助了老马和自己等人，而对他有所记恨吗？如果真是这样，他们既然敢上门找麻烦，自然是有备而来，想到这里，刘超又开始为陈沛其担心了，正要提醒他小心一点，那头又传来陈沛其冷静淡然的声音：“来的不止一个人，但已经走了。”
“……走了？”
“对，没事了。”
“是不是……黑衣人？”
“不知道，我没开门。”
刘超本想问你没开门怎么知道他们走了，但想到陈沛其能这样说，肯定有自己的理由，于是便换了个问题：“那你打算怎么办？”
“不怎么办，睡觉去呀，我快困死了……”他打了个长长的哈欠，“真的，我要睡了，你也睡吧，放心你目前不会有事。”
“嗯，你也小心点，今晚麻烦你了。”
“没关系，我喜欢跟你们这些小孩打交道。”
“小孩？你不比我还小？”
“小不小不是看年龄的，呵呵，不说了，我挂了，再见。”
放下手机，刘超还沉陷在刚才那番长达二十分钟的通话内容里，他越想越觉得，这个陈沛其真不是一般人，他突然想起自己的好朋友蒋小楼，陈沛其与他虽然性格、所在行业，甚至信仰完全不同，但刘超觉得他们身上共有一种不同于常人的东西，具体是什么刘超也说不清楚，但他已决定了，如果自己能够安然无恙地活到这件事情结束，他一定要交上陈沛其这个朋友，并且撮合他跟蒋小楼交朋友。但是，自己真的能闯过这一劫吗？
想到这里，刘超似乎感到身边的黑暗渐渐浓了起来，夜到了最深的时候，却离天亮还远着。
即使没有刘超那通电话，妖妖仍感到今晚上有点不大对劲，具体哪里不对劲她也说不上来，也许仅仅是女人特有的第六感吧，从入夜起她就感到房间里的气氛有点沉闷压抑，先前上网的时候，她甚至觉得有人站在自己身后，但是回头却什么都没看到。
除了自己，卧室里当然不会再有别人，但这奇怪的感觉却一直纠结在她心里，直至停电之后，这种感觉竟尤为强烈起来，躺在宽大的双人床上，妖妖的身体竟然控制不住地微微颤抖起来，双眼圆睁，目光在漆黑一片的室内来回转动。
忽然，她的目光触及了位于卧室另一侧的卫生间，此刻它的门开着，里头那小小的空间更是一片漆黑，妖妖不知为何突然对它产生一种强烈的恐惧感，好像有什么东西藏在那里头，并且随时会跳出来似的。
妖妖甚至听见了一阵奇怪的声响从卫生间里传出，像滴水声，又像是脚步声，一声声敲打在妖妖心上，她的神经一下子绷紧了，就在这时，她听见客厅方向传来钥匙开门的声音，妖妖猛地从床上坐起来——这套房子的钥匙除了自己就只有两个人有，有可能这么晚过来的，就只有一个人，来的到底是不是他呢？如果是，为什么之前不通知自己一声？如果不是……那又是谁呢？
妖妖伸手按了按电灯开关，没亮，还在停电中，她咬咬牙下了床，轻手轻脚地来到客厅——不管来的是谁，她都想要在对方开门后的第一时间内看到他。终于，黑暗中响起门锁打开的声音，紧接着门被推开。
妖妖下意识向后退了两步，看见敞开的门外出现一个高大的人影，面对自己站着，一动不动，似乎没有要进来的意思。
“马……”声音轻得连妖妖自己都听不清，但对方没有答应，还是那么直勾勾地站着，妖妖一下就明白了——此人并不是自己心中期待的那个人，他绝不会有如此奇怪而可怕的表现，但是，明明只有他才有自家房门钥匙，不是他又是谁呢？难道……妖妖的心猛地颤了一下——难道自己心中的他出什么意外了？
眼泪瞬间流了下来，她的双腿再也支撑不住，后背擦着光滑的枪毙一直往下，直到坐在地上，这一刻，也许是过分恐惧到身心麻木，也许是别的事情出现挤占了恐惧的空间，她反而不为自己的命运担心了，面对黑影幽幽叹道：“你是谁，你把他怎么样了？”
黑影终于缓缓向前走来，但即使在万籁俱静的深夜，他的脚步也是无声无息的，像是一个幽灵——不，他本身就是幽灵！
妖妖看着他靠近自己，又问了一句：“你究竟是谁？”
来人还是没有开口，但妖妖已经用不着他回答了——黑影已一步步来到自己对面，尽管屋里漆黑一片，使妖妖看不到他的容貌，但是，她明明看到了他身上那宽大的衣袖和能够遮住头脸的连衣帽子，妖妖瞬间便认出了来者的身份，是的，正是那些来自无人村的无所不能的黑衣人，他们不是人，而是勾魂使者……
黑衣人在离她四、五米处停住，缓缓抬起左臂，指着她，一阵飘渺低沉、不似人声的声音紧随而来，妖妖听在耳里，感觉像是一串诡异的咒语，她一个字都听不出。莫非，这并就不是人所能听懂的语言？
眼前突然一点点明亮起来，但只是一个人脸大小的光点，等有足够亮度的时候，妖妖才看清那的确是一张人脸，就在黑衣人身边，她看到了死去多年奶奶的脸，她皱纹遍布的脸上带着一抹慈祥的笑容，眼睛里带着怜爱的光芒，望着她昔日的孙女。
妖妖幽幽叹了口气，她曾听人说过，人在濒死前能够看见已经死亡的亲人，她现在算是相信了，并且明白自己接下来的命运，但奇怪的是她此刻没有一点悲伤，也没有恐惧，怀着无比平静、安详的心情，她缓缓站起来，朝奶奶走了过去……