Ye Jia stared at the box that was opened in front of him.
The blood is thick and sticky, and the two eyeballs float up and down in it, reflecting a faint light in the dim room, as if they are still alive, turning slightly in the blood, as if they are looking back quietly from the darkness.
In the darkness, Ye Jia and the eyes looked at each other.
It seemed to want to say something, but remained silent.
He combed that guess over and over again in his mind, comparing it with every clue he had gotten so far.
The more you think about it, the more those startling counterparts become.
Ye Jia's eyes narrowed slightly, and the light amber eyes reflected light blood, like a strand of blood sinking to the bottom of the lake.
Although the game crashes and the door to hell is wide open, but for some reason, the mother can't leave the game.
The ghost king is the mother's agent in the world, and other high-level ghosts are looking for her body parts - from the human leather clothes in M city, to the missing heart in the woman's chest, and then to the eyes in front of him beads.
There must be very strict restrictions on the organs to be collected, otherwise, it is impossible for the mother to have not collected all of them by the means of those ghosts.
And now, the most crucial question is...
How much does the mother need? And how far have the ghosts progressed? How far is it from completion
-Human, how much time is left
Ye Jia's brows were furrowed, and his heart was numb.
The fingers hanging on his side tightened slightly, the pale fingertips faded from the blood due to the force, and the neatly trimmed and smooth nails left a crescent-like finger mark in the palm of his hand.
Suddenly, a cold touch lightly fell on the back of the young man's hand.
It was like a snowflake falling silently, kissing softly on the warm skin.
Ye Jia was shocked and turned his head to look beside him.
Ji Xuan didn't know when he came to his side, and stood side by side with him, his red pupils drooping slightly, but his eyes did not fall on the eyeballs floating in the pool of blood not far away.
He gently held Ye Jia's hand, and carefully spread out the young man's clenched fingers. The pale and cold fingertips brushed the pinch marks in the palm of his hand, like a breeze passing by.
The young man's fingertips trembled.
Ye Jia instinctively shrank his hand, but he did not break free from the shackles of the opponent's fingers.
Ji Xuan raised his eyes, a pair of dark and deep scarlet eyes fixedly looked at Ye Jia, the blood-colored pupils flowed silently in the darkness, like a deep river of blood surging in the abyss, his voice was low , with a hint of cold dumbness:
"Brother, did you know? You have a talent you never knew you had."
He stretched out his hand and gently touched the young man's thin, warm eyelids with his fingertips.
Ye Jia was forced to close his eyes.
"You can always see the key." In the boundless darkness, the man's hoarse voice was close at hand: "Ignore all the confusion of irrelevant distractions, and accurately find the most crucial clues, the most source problems—every time, every time. A copy is like that."
Ye Jia was stunned.
He felt that the other's fingers that fell on his eyelids were gently withdrawn.
Ye Jia opened his eyes.
The tall man in front of him lowered his head, placed a cold kiss on his open palm, raised his eyes and looked at him, with a faint smile on his thin and sharp lips:
"If you can't solve this mystery, then no one in this world can."
Ye Jia fixedly looked down at the man in front of him, his eyes narrowed slightly, and the expression in his eyes was inexplicable.
Ignore all distractions...
He was startled.
Ye Jia's eyes widened little by little, and then he grabbed Ji Xuan's wrist with his backhand. The light-colored eyes flickered with compelling light. Frightened, as if excited, his breath was a little unstable, and he said word by word:
"Quick, we're going back to City M."
·
On the train.
Chen Qingye, Wei Yue, and BLAST sat opposite Ye Jia, and they were all equally puzzled.
The slight bumps and vibrations of the train's advance echoed through the deadly still carriages, drowsy, and the whole carriage was empty, and there was no one else but them.
Chen Qingye frowned. He pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and asked:
"Why are you going back?"
Wei Yue was also puzzled:
"If it's really what you guessed, the ghosts and the mothers of monsters are collecting bodies that can bring them back to the human world, then we shouldn't ask the whereabouts of other high-level ghosts and disrupt their plans now. , is it impossible for them to complete the task at all? What's the use of us returning to M City?"
There was no expression on Ye Jia's face, his eyes fixed on the table in front of him, as if he was studying the winding lines above.
He only raised his eyes when he heard Wei Yue's question.
Yeka said:
"Do you still remember the skinning case that was rampant in M City?"
The three nodded.
Ye Jia continued: "I remember, I told you just now that I saw a container full of victims' leather jackets at the port of M city."
The three nodded again.
Ye Jia tapped lightly on the table in front of him with his fingertips, making a regular humming sound, he said:
"Not one piece, but a box."
Chen Qingye was startled: "You mean...?"
"Yes." Ye Jia nodded:
"Although the organs that can be used as the mother's body must have strict restrictions, they are definitely not unique. This time, although we intercepted this pair of eyeballs, the mother can send other ghosts to find the same organs. If we follow a City by city, we'll always be a few steps behind."
The expressions of the other three gradually became solemn.
Ye Jia narrowed his eyes slightly: "To get ahead of them, we must find the key."
- Just like Ji Xuan reminded him that night.
So, where is the key point
That rainy night thirty years ago.
That was the only trace of "mother" in the world before the gate of hell opened.
Ye Jia looked up at the three people in front of him, and said, "I checked the police station's records, and the serial murder case of stripping human skins only happened in M City, and the case of the disappearance of the heart also happened after the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk. City M, even..." His voice paused slightly, but he continued to speak naturally: "Even the city where the ghost king Ji Xuan appeared is also here."
With his fingertips dipped in water, he tapped the unconsciously drawn map on the table, and said softly:
"Although we don't know the cause yet, City M must be in the middle of the storm."
Ye Jia's words were straight to the point, and the three people in front of them couldn't help but fall into contemplation.
Suddenly, BLAST said, "So..."
Several others turned to look at him.
"Why on earth did he come?!"
The red-haired youth was expressionless, and pointed to the not far away - I saw a tall and straight man standing at the junction of the carriage and the carriage, his scarlet eyes had already been transformed into night-like darkness. , holding a cup between pale and slender fingers, which is now receiving hot water.
Chen Qingye and Wei Yue: "..."
I know your kid can't ask any deep questions.
but-
In fact, they are also very curious about the answer to this question.
The two turned to look at Ye Jia at the same time.
At this time, Wei Yue seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked, "By the way, at the abandoned construction site that night, you said you could explain it, but what did you want to explain?"
Ye Jia: "..."
Chen Qingye nodded: "Now we are free, you can talk."
Ye Jia: "..."
Ah, is this what it's like to shoot yourself in the foot
At this moment, Ji Xuan had come back with a cup of steaming hot water, he naturally took a seat beside Ye Jia, his two long legs overlapped each other, and the space suddenly became cramped.
Almost instantly, the white steam in the cup decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye, from scalding hot water to warm water with a suitable temperature that can be directly entered.
Ji Xuan naturally pushed the water cup in front of Ye Jia:
"Are you thirsty?"
The three of them were stunned.
They looked at the terrifying ghost king who was very approachable in front of them, looked at the cup of hot water with a moderate temperature, and looked at Ye Jia with a stiff expression. The three pairs of eyes radiated a strong desire for gossip and curiosity.
Ye Jia: "..."
You are not helping at all! ! !
He took a deep breath and said dryly, "It's a long story..."
"It doesn't matter, we have time." Wei Yue Yue replied calmly.
Ji Xuan chuckled: "Oh, so you were talking about this."
He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a slightly malicious smile appeared on his lips: "We have known each other much longer than you."
The three of them were shocked at the same time.
What
"The relationship... it's quite complicated."
The man's voice was low and hoarse, with a hint of ambiguity that was not easily discernible. Pale fingers gently hooked the loose collar and pulled it down, revealing a clear-cut collarbone:
"Would you like to see the traces my brother left on me?"
Everyone: "!!!!!!"
What the hell! ?
Big melon! ! ! Shocking melon! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Ye Jia bent his elbows expressionlessly, and then gave a merciless and fierce elbow to the fragile waist and abdomen of the man beside him.
Ji Xuan bowed his body, grinned and sucked in a breath of cold air:
"... so cruel?"
Ye Jia raised his eyes and looked at the three people in front of them. They were all stunned by the overwhelming amount of information, and their minds were blank. .
Ye Jia had a headache, he raised his hand, rubbed his throbbing forehead, and said:
"Okay... Anyway, this is the kid who has been following me in the game."
Wei Yue was startled.
She widened her eyes suddenly, and pointed her trembling fingers to the man who smiled nonchalantly in front of her: "you you you..."
No way? !
The cute little boy they saw under the Dream Maker Building... was actually Ji Xuan? !
Ji Xuan raised his eyebrows, and his thin lips opened and closed, but what came out of his mouth was a hoarse and childish voice:
"What? You don't remember me? I'm so sad."
Wei Yue's pupils trembled: "!!!"
In an instant, her hair stood on end, and she got goosebumps.
Damn, this guy is so creepy! ! ! !
She slowly turned her head, looked at Ye Jia, and said dryly, "Then... he said he made you angry, did he mean... ??"
"Oh, this one."
Ji Xuan leaned back in the chair relaxedly, with a casual smile in his dark and dark pupils: "I wanted to kill him at that time."
Everyone: "!?"
Ye Jia's expression was the same: "Yes, he wants to turn me into a ghost too."
Everyone: "??!!"
and many more? What is this expansion
Ji Xuan hooked his neckline with his fingertips and pulled it down, revealing the horrible scars on his pale chest. His voice sounded a little regretful: "So I've been taught a lesson."
Everyone: "..."
Their expressions were blank, and for a moment they didn't know how to deal with such an unpredictable-strange relationship in front of them.
Ji Xuan seemed to suddenly think of something and said, "Oh yes, in fact, I'm still his..."
-girlfriend.
Ye Jia raised his feet expressionlessly, stepped on the other's feet ruthlessly, and even crushed them mercilessly.
At this moment, the speed of the train slowed down, and so did the sound of mechanical friction and shaking.
Ye Jia lifted the curtain and glanced out: "It's time to stop."
He stood up, slowly stepped over the lap of the man in front of him, and said calmly, "Get ready, we should go."
There are only three people behind who are eager to see through and thirsty for knowledge—
and many more! what is it? What is it!
What is Ji Xuan still his
The man in front of them gave them a slight smile, and the next second, before they could react, the tall and imposing Ghost King was replaced by a slender boy with dark pupils.
He jumped off his seat and quickly chased in the direction where Ye Jia disappeared:
"Brother, wait for me!"
Chen Qingye: "..."
Wei Yue: "… "
BLAST: "… "
I don't know who broke the silence first: "Do you think it's a bit scary."
"… Have."
"Very."
·
outside the train station.
Wu Su did not come to pick them up due to his busy business, but sent others to come.
Cheng Cezhi stuck his head out of the car and waved vigorously at the few people in front of him, with a bright smile on his face: "Here!!"
He was slightly taken aback, looked at the little boy who was closely following Ye Jia, and asked, "Hey, who is this?"
Ye Jia seemed to remember this, he lowered his head and glanced at Ji Xuan, and then said without changing his face: "Oh, my friend's child, come to M City to borrow for a few days."
"..." The expressions of the other three were slightly distorted.
The veins on BLAST's forehead jumped.
You don't have to blink your eyes when you lie, as expected of you, scumbag!
"Oh! Hello, kid!" The smile on Cheng Cezhi's face became more enthusiastic. He ignored the other three's more eccentric expressions, bent down and took out a few candies from the storage box in his car, and handed them over to him. Passed over: "Do you want candy?"
Ji Xuan: "..."
Ye Jia glanced at him coolly: "Why didn't you pick up?"
Ji Xuan's mouth twitched, and he reached out and took the candy.
Ye Jia: "Don't say thank you?"
Ji Xuan took a deep breath and said with difficulty:
"… thanks."
Cheng Cezhi smiled brightly: "Oh, you're welcome, just call me brother Cheng in the future..."
Before he could finish his words, Ye Jia reached out and picked up Ji Xuan's collar, threw him into the car, pointed to the long queue behind the car with a calm face, and said, "It's getting late. Now, don't block the road here."
"Oh, yes!" Cheng Cezhi woke up like a dream and hurriedly started the car.
inside the car.
Ji Xuan raised his eyes and looked at the young man sitting beside him.
From this angle, he could only see the cold and hard jawline of the other party, as well as the slightly pursed lips, which seemed very indifferent and inhumane.
The smile on Ji Xuan's lips deepened.
He peeled off one of the candies, put it in his mouth, then reached out his hand and quietly hooked the other's pinky finger.
For the first time, the opponent broke away.
Same for the second time.
…
It was not known how many times, Ye Jia was too lazy to care about him, so he let Ji Xuan's sneaky little moves.
Ji Xuan took every inch, from one finger to two fingers, and finally grabbed the opponent's entire hand.
He raised his eyes and looked at the expressionless face of the young man again. The candy melted very slowly in the cold mouth, but a mellow sweetness slowly spread from the hard candy and spread from the tip of the tongue little by little. When he opened it, his hollow body as a ghost seemed to have a hint of sweetness.
Ji Xuan raised his lips in satisfaction and stopped moving.
Soon, the car stopped downstairs at the Occupational Authority, and four four, one small and five people walked out of the car one after another.
Cheng Cezhi stuck his head out and said, "Go up first, I'm going to stop the car!"
Ye Jia looked at the three people in front of him and said, "What we are looking for now is how the mother screened her organs. Only in this way can we deduce her next move."
He looked at Chen Qingye: "Can you investigate all the victims of the skinning incident?"
Chen Qingye nodded: "Of course."
Ye Jia looked at Wei Yue: "Just go and see the case of killing his wife."
"it is good."
"As for you..." Ye Jia looked at BLAST and seemed a little hesitant: "How about you and Chen Qingye act together?"
BLAST frowned: "Hey what do you mean! Why are you hesitating?! Do you look down on me?"
He was so angry that he was about to roll up his sleeves to fight Ye Jia.
"No, no, it's just that there are a lot of people involved in the skinning case. I'm worried that without your help, Chen Qingye would not be able to handle it alone..." Ye Jia made up his face unchanged.
BLAST looked at him suspiciously: "Seriously?"
Ye Jia nodded: "Seriously."
"It's about the same." Although BLAST still had a straight face, the corners of his mouth rose slightly uncontrollably.
"Okay, okay, then we're off to work!" He took Chen Qingye and walked towards the gate of the Administration Bureau, and while walking, he used his elbow to pestle the other party: "Hey, did you hear, ACE said I... "
The backs and voices of the two people became farther and farther away, until they could no longer be heard.
Ye Jia: "..."
It's really coaxing.
Wei Yue, who stayed behind, turned to look at Ye Jia and asked, "What about you?"
Ye Jia raised his hand and showed her the iron box in his hand: "I'll go to the forensic doctor to see if I can identify this person."
"Why don't you identify it in the capital?" Wei Yue was a little puzzled.
Ye Jia paused, after all, he still did not express his doubts about the headquarters of the Administration Bureau, he smiled slightly: "After all, the M city is the key."
So I had to come back as soon as possible.
Wei Yue nodded: "Oh, that's right."
She waved at Ye Jia: "I wish you all the best!"
Ye Jia turned his head to look at Ji Xuan who was beside him, raised his eyebrows: "Do you still want to maintain this way?"
Ji Xuan sighed with some pity, and returned to the appearance of an adult man.
Ye Jia shook off the opponent's hand expressionlessly, and commanded lightly:
"Let's go."
Ji Xuan lowered his head, glanced at his empty palm, and sighed again.
He knew it.
Once it gets bigger, the previous benefits will disappear without a trace, damn it.
Ye Jia went to the forensic doctor first. He showed the pass of the Supernatural Administration, then handed the eyeball to the other party, and gave a few simple instructions to let them contact him as soon as they got the result.
However, after doing this, he did not leave.
"Excuse me, if I want to check the forensic identification report of a case thirty years ago, where should I go?" Ye Jia stopped the other party and asked.
"Thirty years ago?" The other party was stunned: "So long ago, I'm afraid it hasn't been entered into the electronic system, why don't you go to the paper data room to find it?"
Under the guidance of the other party, Ye Jia came to the data room.
It was dimly lit and smelled of old paper.
He walked slowly along the corridor between the shelves, his eyes swept over the unfamiliar dates.
Suddenly, Ye Jia's pace suddenly stopped.
His gaze fell not far away, on the top shelf - the date was written on the spine of one of the volumes with slightly blurred ink marks:
September 12, 19xx.
The date he will never forget.
Ye Jia pursed his lips slightly, raised his hand and took down the thick stack of documents covered in dust.
He opened the information and searched back page by page, but he didn't see the familiar name.
how come…
Ye Jia frowned and turned it over again carefully.
Indeed not.
— A few pages are missing.
And those pages happened to include the autopsy records of his father and mother.
Ye Jia's eyes narrowed slightly.
He found the duty record of this period from another shelf, and his eyes stopped for a few seconds on one of the very familiar forensic names.
Ye Jia secretly wrote down the address registered by the other party, and then inserted the information back to the original location.
He said to Ji Xuan who was at the door of the reference room, "Let's go."
·
In front of me is an old residential building, which seems to have a sense of age. The old brick walls are covered with green moss, and the open space outside is covered with various color sheets and quilts.
The tall and tall young man stood under the building, looked up at the residential building in front of him, and walked inward.
The hallway was dimly lit and smelled of dust and food.
Ye Jia stopped outside one of the doors, he paused, his eyes stayed on the mottled and faded 303 on the door for a few seconds, then he curled his fingers and knocked gently.
There was the sound of stumbling footsteps behind the door, and the sound of things being moved on the ground.
The old voice sounded: "Come come come..."
The sound of the metal lock being opened was particularly clear in the dead corridor. The old door panel in front of her was pulled open, revealing an old woman's wrinkled face. She looked very old, and every gully on her face looked like As if they were engraved with the traces of the years, a pair of cloudy eyes narrowed and looked out through the thick reading glasses: "Who is it?"
Ye Jia pursed his lips and said in a low voice:
"Hello Dr. Chen, I... I'm a deceased person in a case you once handled, a distant relative, I'm here to inquire with you about... "
"The case from the past..." Dr. Chen pushed the reading glasses on the bridge of his nose with his bark-like fingers, and shook his head shaky: "I'm old and useless, and I don't remember much about the past. , you're probably running for nothing..."
"Wait..." Ye Jia hurriedly reached out to the door that the other party was about to close:
"Qi Rou and Ye Huiyong's case, do you still have any impressions?"
Dr. Chen's movements stopped.
She raised her eyes, looked at Ye Jia steadily, then sighed slowly and released her hand: "Come in."
"It's miserable, it's miserable."
The old lady walked into the room with a cane and said tremblingly, "I have been in the industry for so many years, and I have rarely seen such a tragic case..."
She turned her head and asked:
"Eh... Since you are a distant relative of their family, do you know what happened to that child later?"
Ye Jia's voice restrained: "It is said that it seems to be missing."
Dr. Chen was slightly startled:
"A sin."
Although more than 30 years have passed, she can still clearly recall—
The little boy who was soaked by the rain had a pale face and blue lips. Sitting on the chair of the police station, he shivered uncontrollably. There was blood from the front of his clothes to his trousers, but there was not a single tear in his eyes. He stared at the open space in front of him.
He experienced a night of horrors that no one could have imagined.
In just one day-
bereavement.
kill father.