Chapter 9 Chapter Eight A Strange Fire

The fire officer said: "It's hard to say. According to the person who reported it, the fire was very intense from the very beginning!" A police officer said: "Is there a possibility of being set on fire?" Ruan Yao immediately said: "No, absolutely impossible, my servant here will never do such a thing." The fire officer glanced at me and said to Ruan Yao, "Is there anything important in that building?" Ruan Yao was stunned for a while: "The things inside are important, of course they are very important, but you can say that it doesn't matter much!"

The fireman pointed at me: "But this gentleman insisted on rushing in to rescue things when the fire was at its strongest. As long as I was half a second slower, he would definitely die in the fire pit!" Ruan Yao looked at me, I smiled wryly. For my behavior at that time, even I myself couldn't give a satisfactory explanation, so I could only smile wryly at Ruan Yao. From Ruan Yao's surprised expression, I can naturally know that he felt very strange in his heart. But Ruan Yao handled it very smartly, he said: "Mr. Wei is my best friend, he doesn't want the souvenirs passed down by my family to be lost!"

While talking, Ruan Yao said, "Can we go to the scene and have a look?" The fire officer said: "Of course!" A group of people walked out together and came to the scene of the fire. The whole building really disappeared overnight! Since this building has a large basement, the scene of the fire seems to be somewhat different from other fire places.On the ground, a huge pit appeared, many of which were burnt to pitch black, and its original appearance could not be recognized at all. There was still a lot of water in the big pit, which was the result of the watering last night.

Ruan Yao was in a daze: "It seems that there is nothing left!" I smiled wryly: "Yes, there is nothing left!" I paused for a while, and then said: "If someone hadn't saved me last night, I would have been burned to death. Ruan Yao, if I died, would I have died by accident or by that mysterious force?" Ruan Yao touched his own neck without making a sound.At this time, many firefighters were removing large charred objects and doing preliminary cleaning work on the fire site. Ruan Yao kept looking at the fire scene, while I half turned around, at this moment, Ruan Yao suddenly cried out, his voice was very high-pitched, all of a sudden, everyone looked at him.

I also looked at him immediately, only to see him pointing down, screaming: "Am I dazzled, look, this is a scorched human hand!" All the people present were taken aback, and hurriedly looked at what he was pointing at. And when everyone saw the place Ruan Yao was pointing at, they all froze and gasped. What Ruan Yao was referring to was a scorched round thing, which could still be vaguely seen to be a metal tiger's head. Of course I knew where the tiger's head was. It was on the mantelpiece. When it was turned, a bookcase moved away, revealing the iron cabinet hidden in the wall, which we had opened last night.

And at this time, on the round focal object, there was a human hand! It is not easy to tell if it is a human hand. It is better to say that it is a burnt monkey's paw than a human hand. However, as Ruan Yao mentioned, everyone can It can be seen that it is indeed a human hand, a part of the wrist bone is exposed in white, and the part below the wrist is completely buried under the charred things! The fire marshal immediately shouted: "When we arrived, everyone said that this building has been vacant and there is no one at all!" Ruan Yao's expression was pale, and he said, "It's true that there is no one there!"

I took a breath, as if I was talking to myself: "Who is this person? Ruan Yao, do you see that? It's that copper-cast tiger head!" Ruan Yao nodded his head in a daze. Several firefighters had already approached the terrifying human hand, and began to remove the burnt objects from all around. Gradually, we saw a charred human head. There is no doubt that a person was burned to death inside! If I use detailed words to describe the situation at that time, it is really terrible, or it is better to use the four words "horrible" to describe it in general. Ruan Yao and I were trembling all the time, we couldn't know who this charred body belonged to, but no matter who it was, it was really terrible to be burned like that alone.

After a full hour, the charred body was carried up and put on a stretcher. The police officer looked at Ruan Yao and me. Both of us shook our heads, expressing that we did not recognize who it was. The police officer said: "Mr. Ruan, you should gather all the people in your family and see if anyone is missing?" Ruan Yao nodded absently, said a few words to a servant behind him, and said, "Call them all!" The servant obeyed the order and left. After a while, the servants came one after another. In Ruan's house, there were more than one hundred people of various kinds serving Ruan Yao alone. All the workers on the rock formation were also called, but no one was missing.

Ruan Yao said: "This person is not from my family!" At this time, a servant suddenly said timidly: "Mr. Ruan, last night, I saw someone approaching here!" Several people asked the servant together, "Who is it?" The servant said: "I... I don't know him. He seems to be a good friend of the master. I have seen him several times. I saw him walking here with his head down, still muttering to himself— " Ruan Yao stamped his feet: "What does this person look like, tell me quickly!" The servant said, "He has a goatee—" As soon as the servant said these words, Ruan Yao and I cried out: "Dr. Le Sheng!"

These days, there are not many people with a goatee, and Ruan Yao only knows one person with a goatee, and that is Dr. Le Sheng! I immediately asked, "When did that happen last night?" The servant said: "It was about twelve o'clock, about half an hour before the fire started!" Ruan Yao sternly said, "Asshole, why didn't you tell the fireman that there are people in the house?" The servant said anxiously: "I didn't see him enter the house, I didn't know he was in the house!" I took a breath: "Half an hour ago, I had a phone call with Dr. Le Sheng, but no one answered."

The police officer immediately asked me about Dr. Le Sheng's address, and sent police officers to investigate. Both Ruan Yao and I were upset and went back to the living room. Ruan Yao and the police went through routine procedures. Sitting on the sofa, holding your head in your hands, thinking. If the person who was burnt to death was Dr. Le Sheng, then, like me, he came back after leaving last night, but he was about half an hour earlier than me. Why did he come back, did he think of the same thing as me? When I think of this, I can't help but shudder! How he was burned, I don't know. However, if this tragedy had nothing to do with that "mysterious power", I wouldn't believe it either. What I thought was, if I arrived earlier than Dr. Le Sheng, then, if the fire suddenly caught fire, who would be burned to death? I couldn't help panting, Ruan Yao sent the fireman away and came to me. Under the current situation, we have nothing to do but be relatively speechless! After a while, Ruan Yao smiled wryly and said, "Another one died!" My body trembled a bit. Ruan Yao's words were really shocking. There are four of us in total, and two of us have already died. If the death continues, the next turn will be either him or me! I had no choice but to comfort myself: "The deceased may not be Dr. Le Sheng!" As I said this, I really didn't believe my own words. Of course I couldn't convince Ruan Yao. Ruan Yao just looked at me and smiled wryly. After that, both of us became speechless. Not long after, the police officer came in, and Ruan Yao and I stood up together as soon as we saw him. After the police officer came in, he looked at us first, and then said, "I've been to Dr. Le Sheng's residence just now!" Both Ruan Yao and I know this, we nodded our heads and asked in unison: "How, what did you find?" The police officer frowned and said, "Dr. Lesheng lives alone, and there is a housekeeper. The housewife said that when she left last night, the doctor hadn't gone back to sleep." Although this was within my expectation, my heart still sank when I heard what the police officer said all the way. The police officer said again: "We checked Dr. Le Sheng's residence──" When he said this, he paused for a while, and then looked at Ruan Yao with a puzzled look: "Are the doctor and you a family friend?" Ruan Yao was stunned for a moment, and said, "What do you mean?" The police officer took out a note and said, "We found this note on the doctor's desk!" As he spoke, he handed the note to us. Both Ruan Yao and I saw that there was a line of scrawled words on the note: Ruan Yao's grandfather, why didn't we think of Ruan Yao's grandfather? As soon as I saw that note, I was shocked. As I expected, Dr. Lesheng came here because he thought of the same problem as me, but once he came here, he met with misfortune! The police officer said, "Mr. Ruan, what does this mean? The doctor knew Grandfather Ling? Or is there something else?" Ruan Yao and I looked at each other: "Mr. Police Officer, my grandfather has been dead for more than twenty years, but Dr. Le Sheng and I have known each other for nearly ten years. He doesn't know my grandfather." The police officer's expression was still very puzzled: "Then, what does Dr. Le Sheng mean by leaving this note?" The police officer's question is not unanswerable.But it is not an easy task to answer his question, one must tell the whole story exactly. All these things not only involve the secrets of Ruan Yao's family, but also are so weird that it's hard to believe. It's better not to talk about it. Therefore, I said: "I see, there is nothing special about this note." It means that Dr. Le Sheng suddenly had a whim and went to the family library of the Ruan family, or to check some information, but caught fire!" The police officer frowned, and I said, "Dr. Lesheng must have died in an accident. There is no doubt about it!" Maybe it was my answer that didn't satisfy the other party, or maybe the police officer had other ideas. Judging by his expression, he clearly disagreed with my statement, and he said a little bluntly: "We will investigate this point. !" I thought to myself, this police officer must have just come out of the police academy, it seems that he doesn't even know me, I just said: "Yes, but according to my opinion, if we want to investigate this matter in depth, Responsibility must rest on Colonel Jack." The police officer opened his eyes wide and looked at me: "Do you know the colonel?" I laughed: "You can ask the colonel, my name is Wesley." The police officer blinked, looked at the note in his hand again, and said, "Anyway, I think you two are hiding a lot of things from me about Dr. Le Sheng's death." I patted him on the shoulder: "Yes, you have good intuition as a police officer. We do have a lot of things that we didn't tell you, but you should also have good judgment as a police officer. You should know that we are hiding things from you." What you said has nothing to do with the death of Dr. Le Sheng!" The police officer blinked, and still didn't seem to believe my words. I knew he would tell Colonel Jack, and Colonel Jack would definitely come to find me and Ruan Yao. The police officer asked a few more words, then took his leave and left, Ruan Yao sighed: "Things are getting more and more troublesome!" I smiled wryly: "Also, the excavation project in your garden stopped at the same time as the fire alarm. Are you going to continue?" Ruan Yao waved his hands unconsciously, as if he didn't know how to make a decision. After a while, he sighed: "The digging must be done, but let's talk about it when this matter comes to an end!" I also know that it is useless to persuade Ruan Yao not to dig any further, but in fact, I have no intention of persuading him not to dig any further. When Ruan Yao didn't start doing that, I strongly opposed it because we didn't know the consequences of excavating this pavilion base at all. However, judging from the current situation, it seems that the excavation of the pavilion foundation did not have any special evil results. Two layers of granite have been dug up. The workers were not surprised either. The death of Dr. Le Sheng has nothing to do with the excavation of Tingji, because he was burned to death in that building! At that time, I walked back and forth a few steps, and sighed: "It seems that Dr. Le Sheng was about to open the dark cabinet when a fire suddenly caught fire and he was burned to death. How did the fire happen?" Ruan Yao frowned, and said: "He must have died in a fire, his hand did not leave the bronze tiger head. Do you know why he went and came back, and what did he think?" I smiled wryly: "He thought the same as I thought; in your grandfather's diary, the whole truth of this mysterious incident may also be found!" Ruan Yao kept blinking, and then he also sighed: "Now, there will be nothing left, it's all burnt, and it's burned more thoroughly than Rollo's relics!" I smiled wryly and shook my head: "If we can completely burn all of Rollo's belongings, nothing will happen!" Ruan Yao looked tired and wiped his face with his hands: "Wesley, you can't blame me for this. I think anyone who sees a map with a place painted in gold will inevitably ask?" I comforted him: "No one blames you, at least, I don't blame you, because with your question, we can gradually uncover an extremely mysterious truth." Ruan Yao still gave a very bitter smile: "You don't blame me, but Professor Tang and Dr. Le Sheng, don't they blame me?" I had nothing else to say, so I lowered my voice: "They're dead!" Ruan Yao raised his head and looked at me absent-mindedly: "If I hadn't asked that question suddenly, maybe they wouldn't have died!" I was also bitter and she laughed: "The most unpredictable thing in the world is life and death. If you feel guilty about it, you are really stupid!" Ruan Yao didn't say anything, just kept pacing back and forth, and after a while, he said: "I have a strange idea, this matter was discovered by the four of us, and we have been discussing it together , so I was thinking, if the two dead people died because of this incident, then you and I──" When he spoke here, he stopped, his lips were still trembling, but he couldn't make any sound. I took a deep breath: "You want to say that the two of us will not be spared, right?" Ruan Yao's body trembled a little, he nodded. I put my hand on his shoulder: "You don't have to worry about this kind of thing. The death of the professor was a heart attack; the death of the doctor was burned in a fire. We can all classify it as an accident!" Ruan Yao said with a sad face: "In the future, if one of us suffers misfortune, it will also be an accident!" I frowned. If a person firmly believes that he will die unexpectedly soon, that is really the most terrifying thing. Even if the accidental death does not happen, he will go crazy! Under such circumstances, I really couldn't think of anything to persuade him, so I could only say: "If you are really afraid, then stop now, there is still time." As soon as Ruan Yao heard me say that, he yelled: "What kind of talk is this? How can I stop? People are going to die!" He frequently mentioned the word "death", which really made me feel even more uneasy. I said: "Leave him alone, Dr. Le Sheng has no relatives, no friends, his funeral---"