Chapter 2 Chapter One

Something will occur if it belongs to your life, if not, do not push it. You can see that the sky is full of sunset clouds, and the name and interest seem to be atomized. Although there are only a few short words, these two sentences can express the heart of the prodigal son.Human nature is kind and simple, but in the dangerous world, it is inevitable to be tempted by money and carnal desires and become depraved.There is a saying that "money is not exchanged for the return of a prodigal son". When a person wanders through this dangerous world, has worked hard, obtained, and fallen, and finally can still get back spiritually and return to his good nature, it is of course worthless.It's just that among the many prodigal sons, how many of them understand the preciousness of "turning back"?

I, Mu Shenyu, am a different kind of criminal policeman. The reason why I say different is because the department I belong to is under normal circumstances, and it is impossible for outsiders to know about it.Even if someone complained to the procuratorate that day, at most they could only know that I belonged to the Criminal Investigation Bureau, but in fact the department I belonged to was not under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation Bureau.The "Curious Crime Squad" I belong to was established by the director of the Public Security Bureau, and I directly obey the director's orders to investigate some supernatural incidents.Because there may be some factors that may cause panic among the citizens in these cases, our team has the right not to go through the normal interrogation procedures and not to disclose any information in the case to the public during the process of handling the cases.

Now, what I want to tell you is a story about a prodigal son. Of course, this is not an ordinary prodigal son, or what he encountered is not something that an ordinary prodigal son can have. Group". I saw our boss——team leader Liang Zheng walking into the office early this morning with a half-smile. I thought there was probably another job for us to do.Sure enough, as soon as he came in, he threw a file on my desk, and said with a sly smile: "There is a strange case in Yuanming New Village, you and Zhenzhen go in and investigate." Zhen Zhen was bored at first, when she heard the boss's words, she immediately jumped up and asked excitedly: "What kind of strange case did you find a monster?"

"Could it be haunted again?" Viagra interjected in a strange way, Zhen Zhen trembled immediately, and after glaring at him, she asked the boss a little timidly: "Shouldn't it be haunted?" The boss reprimanded with a straight face: "I think you watch too many horror movies and talk about ghosts all day long. How can there be ghosts in this world? So many people have died since ancient times. If they all turned into ghosts, the earth would have already died." The ghost stands are full, and there is no place for you to stand." Zhen Zhen smiled foolishly: "That's right, it's all Amu's fault. He's been ghosting and ghosting all day long, which made me think that there are really ghosts in this world."

Viagra interjected again: "That can't be said. Although we haven't seen it, we can't deny the existence of ghosts and gods. For example, an induction cooker uses a magnetic field to induce current to heat food. Although we can't see the current, it can heat food. But it's a fact." This time it was the boss's turn to stare at him: "Have you done what I told you to do? There are still several file cabinets waiting for you to enter the data into the computer, and you still have time to brag. If you don't enter all the data into the computer, you will Don't even think about going to get off work!"

Viagra flew his hands over the keyboard, glanced at the mountains of files on the desk, and muttered to himself with infinite emotion: "The dragon swims in the shallow water and is beaten by shrimps, and the tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by dogs. A successful cat is better than a tiger, and a successful cat is worse than a tiger. Mao Fenghuang is not as good as a chicken..." He shook his head and sighed as he said, with the meaning of a hero in distress. "Okay, don't talk about ghosts and gods, Amu, have you finished watching?" The boss raised his hand and looked at me.

I put down the file and frowned: "It's really unbelievable. The deceased in this case was only twenty-eight years old. He was alive and well the day before yesterday, but he died suddenly yesterday morning, and he looked like an old man in his eighties. What's more Strangely enough, the cause of death was natural aging." The boss looked at me and smiled slyly: "What do you think is the reason why the deceased changed from a twenty-eight-year-old youth to an eighty-year-old man in a very short period of time?" After thinking about the prescription, I replied: "I heard from Fleeting Time that lead poisoning can cause people to show signs of premature aging, but it also takes a long time. And the deceased in this case did not have any abnormalities on the day before his death, but But he died of old age overnight, it seems difficult to find an explanation in medicine, the only possibility is..."

"What is it? Don't say half or half." The boss glared at me. "You told me to say it, and I said don't scold me." I spread my hands and said, "The only possibility is that I have been cursed by Maoshan technique or lowering my head." "There is no outstanding guy! You can only talk nonsense, and I don't see anyone cursing you." The boss really started scolding. "I knew you would say that a long time ago." After I said that, I ignored the boss, raised my hands at Zhen Zhen, and went out to investigate with her, and the first place we were going was the forensic department.

When I came to the forensic office, I saw that Liu Nian was writing a report, and it seemed that the autopsy had been completed, so I asked him how the deceased in Yuanming New Village was doing?He scratched his head with an expression of not knowing what to say: "I'd better take you to the morgue first." When he arrived at the morgue, he opened the freezer and untied the body bag.In the body bag, I saw the face of an old man, with hair as white as silver, skin as shriveled as bark, and wrinkles deep enough to trap a fly.The most terrifying thing is the slightly sunken eye sockets, as if there is a dark hollow under the tightly closed eyelids.However, the lips of the deceased were completely different from the eye sockets. Usually, the elderly would have sunken lips due to tooth loss, but this did not happen to the deceased, apparently because the teeth did not fall out.Other than that, the deceased was no different from an eighty-year-old man no matter how he looked at it.

"As you all have seen, the deceased was obviously an old man in his eighties. But according to the information I have, it proves that he is a young man in his twenties." Fleeting Nian handed over a genetic identification report and related information to I.After reading these materials, I learned that the deceased had been confirmed to be Qi Chengtian, the president of Chengtian Metal Products Co., Ltd., but his actual age was only 28 years old. The 80-year-old draws an equal sign, but this is the truth. "The deceased died of severe failure of multiple major organs due to natural aging. This is a common cause of death for an 80-year-old man, but it is unbelievable for a young man." Fleeting Years looked at the corpse in the freezer , with a puzzled look on his face.

I gave the information to Zhenzhen and said to Liu Nian: "The deceased was still no different from ordinary people before the accident. His relatives, friends and subordinates didn't find anything wrong with him, but he turned white overnight. Fat old man. Is this medically possible?" "Well, this..." Fleeting Nian frowned and pondered, but couldn't give me an answer right away. Zhen Zhen flipped through the information and suddenly interrupted: "It should be possible to have white hair overnight, I have read it in novels, for example, there are such plots!" I smiled helplessly: "Yang Guo will still secretly ecstasy, you read too many novels." Zhenzhen was embarrassed by what I said, but fortunately, Fleeting Years helped her out: "It can't be said that the plot in the novel must be fictional, there is actually a basis for white hair overnight, and there is indeed a record in history that Wu Zixu's gray hair overnight. " I also have a little impression of this history, but it seems to be very different from the deceased in the Zong case, so I said: "As far as I know, Wu Zixu turned gray in order to escape from Zhaoguan, but his body is not the same. No problem, at least he can continue to escape after getting out of Zhaoguan." Fleeting Nian nodded: "Well, that's true. You can still find historical records for a night of gray hair, but there seems to be no precedent for a night of old age and death." "Since there is no reasonable explanation in medicine, there is only one possibility." I smiled slightly. Zhen Zhen glanced at me and said disdainfully, "You don't really think that the deceased was cursed, do you?" I shrugged and said, "I do think so. Until a more reasonable explanation is found, this is the only hypothesis that holds." "Boss won't listen to your bragging." Zhen Zhen gave me a blank look. "Then we have no choice but to find evidence to convince him." After I finished speaking, I said goodbye to Liu Nian, and went with Zhen Zhen to the place where the accident happened——Yuanming New Village. The deceased Qi Chengtian died in his own home, and his house was located in Yuanming New Village.This is a noble residential area with very strict security. Although we are the police, we must register our names and IDs when entering. This shows that it is very difficult for idlers to enter this area.We came to the doorbell of the deceased's luxurious villa and rang the doorbell. Not long after, a woman about forty years old opened the door for us.After expressing her intentions, the woman told us that her name was Shun Sao, and she was a servant hired by the deceased. After Mrs. Shun invited us into the house, she served us hot tea and told us that her boss was dead and that she would leave after packing up her things. Maybe no one would open the door for us next time we came.Since she was leaving soon, of course I had to quickly ask her some questions, hoping to get clues from them: "Can you tell us about Qi Chengtian's situation?" "Boss Qi is not an easy person to get along with..." Judging from her tone, her boss usually doesn't treat her very well.However, the dead are the most important, and she didn't speak ill of the other party, but told us some of Qi Chengtian's daily situations in a relatively pertinent way—— I have been working for the boss for more than three years. Since he bought this villa, he has invited me to do daily cleaning.Originally, when he invited me, he said that in addition to cleaning, I had to cook for him, but I have been doing it for several years, and he never ate at home once.He usually eats out, and he is usually not at home during the day, only coming back to sleep very late at night. The boss has a bad temper. Every time I come back, he calls me around, and sometimes scolds me for no reason after drinking too much wine.But he rarely spends time at home, and he pays me relatively high wages, so I have been working for several years, and I have never thought of quitting.I didn't expect him to leave so suddenly and so strangely.I heard that he is going to get married soon. That girl has been here before. She looks pretty good, but her temper is similar to that of the boss. She looks down on me as a servant.But no matter what, they had already reached the point where they were talking about getting married, and it would still be a pity that the boss left suddenly. Although he often eats out and drinks a lot, his body doesn't seem to have any serious problems. At least I didn't find anything wrong with him before he left.However, he seems to have a bad relationship with his relatives. I have worked here for more than three years and have never seen his relatives come to see him, but often bring a young woman named Lily back to spend the night.Of course, Lily is not the girl I just mentioned. I thought she was the boss's girlfriend, because they are really close.It turned out later that she was a prostitute, but she didn't seem to mind being known to be in such a disgraceful profession. The night before the boss left, he brought Lily back to spend the night. It was only when I heard her scream the next day that I knew something had happened to the boss.At that time, she was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she kept yelling. I rushed in and asked her what she found. She was speechless for a while, and just pointed to the bed for me to see.I was terrified when I saw it. There was a white-haired old man lying on the bed, and he seemed to be dead.I was wondering why an old man would suddenly run onto the boss's bed, but after a closer look at his face, he looked more and more like the boss, so I called the police... After listening to Mrs. Shun's narration, I asked, "Does Qi Chengtian often bring prostitutes home for the night?" She nodded: "It should be said that they often bring Lily back. Apart from her, I have never brought other prostitutes back." "Then his girlfriend doesn't know about this?" I asked again. "I'm not sure about this. We can't control so much at the moment. However, since the boss talked about the current girlfriend, he seldom brings Lily home." She paused and said: " Having said that, Lily is indeed very beautiful, much more beautiful than the boss's girlfriend. And she has a good personality, and she doesn't have the slightest airs when dealing with me. She will say thank you if I pour her a cup of tea. If it weren't for this kind of business, she would definitely be a good daughter-in-law." "Since Qi Chengtian likes Lily so much, why don't he just take care of her? With his family background, it shouldn't be a problem to take care of a prostitute." Zhenzhen expressed the doubts in my heart. "You don't know about this. Although the boss seems to be very close to Lily, he will also speak bad things about her behind Lily's back. I have heard a lot of people here. The boss doesn't seem to like Lily very much. It’s just because she can help the boss get business. I have heard the boss tell the person on the phone more than once to ask Lily to sleep with the other party. And Lily is also very strange. She doesn’t seem to like being taken care of. Last week, I heard the boss tell her that there was a director or something who wanted to take care of her, even if it was a million or hundreds of thousands, but Lily didn’t agree. Don’t you think it’s strange that a woman in this business Don't you just want to make money? But Lily doesn't seem to care about money..." She was silent for a moment, and she was a little embarrassed when she spoke again: "To tell you the truth, in fact, Lily once lent me money. Once for my son's I was worried about tuition fees, and was thinking about how to ask my boss to borrow some wages. Lily saw that I was troubled and asked me what was wrong. I told her the truth, and she gave me all the money on her body. I knew it was the boss. I was embarrassed to ask for the money I gave her, so I said I didn’t know when I could pay it back to her. She even told me that I don’t have to pay it back, and if I refused to accept it, she asked me if I looked down on her, so I had no choice but to accept it.” "Does Boss Qi have any feuds with others?" This is a very important question, because I think he probably died of a curse such as Maoshan technique or lowering his head. "To be honest, the boss is usually very aggressive, maybe because he is too rich! So he should have offended many people unintentionally." She seemed to suddenly think of something, paused and said: "Didn't I just say But his relationship with his relatives is not very good, I remember when he called once, he seemed to say that a relative who was doing business with him fell out with him, and then became a monk or a Taoist priest or something." After listening to Mrs. Shun's words, I suddenly became very interested in this prostitute named Lily, and I also had her contact information on hand.However, before visiting her, I would like to visit the company of the deceased first, because I am more interested in the relative that Mrs. Shun mentioned had become a monk or a Taoist priest. Maybe he was the one who cast a curse on the deceased.