Chen Zhen said: "Do you think the ghost spirit foresaw that we are talking about it here?"
Neither Xiang Cheng nor Chi Xiaoduo spoke. Chi Xiaoduo looked around, as if an invisible force surrounded them.
"Don't be nervous." Chen Zhen said, "Chi Xiaoduo, what do you think?"
"I don't know." Chi Xiaoduo's voice trembled a little, Xiang Cheng's eyes narrowed, and he said, "The closing of the case that day means that you want to get the ghost fairy's attention away from us?"
"No." Chen Zhen spat out a word.
"The organization does have this intention." Chen Zhen said, "Through the order from Yan Fei, whoever meant it, I didn't say anything."
Xiang Cheng's expression changed a little.
Chi Xiaoduo thought for a while and said, "According to the book I read recently, the power of demons is limited, and it is impossible for them to foresee things for too long."
"Any power is limited." Chen Zhen said, "The key is, twenty days from that day, whether the ghost fairy's attention is still on us, its prediction and detection, from Yan Fei said 'closed case' 'Twenty days after the start of the extension, is there still an effect."
This is a very weird proposition, Chi Xiaoduo hesitated and said after some hesitation: "But if it has predicted from that day that you will come here today, August 17th, and tell us about it, it will have already known It's our whereabouts, isn't it?"
Chen Zhen nodded and said, "So I can only take a gamble. After that day, they will think that the investigation is over and turn their attention to other things."
Xiang Cheng: "Why did Yan Fei give this order?"
"This has nothing to do with you." Chen Zhen took a sip of Guozhen and looked away.
"You want us to investigate again." Xiang Cheng replied, "You have to make it clear."
Chen Zhen raised his temper, as if he wanted to argue with Xiang Cheng, but when the two looked at each other, Chen Zhen seemed to have given up on this plan, and said helplessly: "Okay, let me tell you, Yan Fei is one of the directors of affairs, I don't know why he did this , maybe it was the instruction of the people above him."
"Who?" Xiang Cheng asked.
"Yan Fei is the great-great-great-grandson of Lin Yurou from the Forestry Bureau." Chen Zhen said, "They call her Lafayette. I heard you report that day. Do you remember? There is a string of golden mirage beads hanging on her chest, with yin and yang eyes."
"Ah!" Chi Xiaoduo said, "I remembered, is she that old?"
"One hundred and fifteen years old." Chen Zhen replied, "Since the period of the Republic of China, she has been in the driving committee, and she is the predecessor of all of us."
"People in the exorcism committee colluded with demons." Xiang Cheng smiled incredulously, "Interesting."
"Not necessarily." Chen Zhen said, "Don't jump to conclusions, I need your assistance."
Xiang Cheng said in a deep voice: "This is very dangerous. What if the ghost god foresaw our current plan?"
Chen Zhen replied, "It's a gamble."
Xiang Cheng: "What if we lose?"
Chen Zhen said: "Then start Plan B."
"Assuming that the ghost knows that we will talk about it here, then the next series is under its control. Even if we change the arrest plan countless times, it will definitely have a corresponding plan to deal with it." Chen Zhen said.
"So from this moment until July 14th, we will simply give him the initiative. Until the last day, the night of the Ghost Festival, at that time, it is our chance to turn defeat into victory. Because our 'future' is for For them, it has become the 'past', the only meeting point, that is, the only thing that is really in our hands is the 'now'."
"The so-called 'now'." Chen Zhen took out a small notebook, opened the title page of the calendar, and drew a circle on the day of the Ghost Festival, "It's the Ghost Festival, the night when the ghost market comes, no matter what the ghosts predict, It was impossible to break through the powerful ghost power of that night in those few hours and see everything that happened in the ghost market."
Chen Zhen looked up at Xiang Cheng, and said, "Finish everything that needs to be done, and let's walk into the ghost's trap together."
Chi Xiaoduo frowned, but Xiang Cheng said, "I'm not interested in helping you, let's go, I don't want to get involved in your crap."
"That's fine." Chen Zhen said, "I'm leaving."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
Chi Xiaoduo remembered Tong Gu's divination that day, and winked at Xiang Cheng, but Xiang Cheng just pretended not to see. Chen Zhen nodded towards Chi Xiaoduo, opened the door and went out.
After Chen Zhen left, Xiang Cheng was silent for a moment, and looked up at Chi Xiaoduo.
"Aren't you going to help him?" Chi Xiaoduo said.
"Why help him?" Xiang Cheng asked back.
Chi Xiaoduo thought about it, he knew that Xiang Cheng didn't like to dismiss the committee, maybe there had been some involvement and hatred in the past, but this was beyond his ability to interfere, and he was not Xiang Cheng, he didn't understand his past at all, and he didn't dare to ask. This made Chi Xiaoduo a little sad.
However, he guessed that from the bottom of his heart, Xiang Cheng wanted to help, otherwise he would not have agreed to Zhou Wanyuan last time. Whether he would do this had nothing to do with his attitude towards dismissing the commissioner, but only with his principles of life.
Chi Xiaoduo tentatively said, "For world peace."
Xiang Cheng stopped talking.
Chi Xiaoduo didn't say a word, and flipped through the book for a while, Xiang Cheng sighed, nodded, and said, "You're right."
Chi Xiaoduo laughed, and Xiang Cheng said, "Let's go, first go to Koda and ask about the situation."
It was late at night, Xiang Cheng changed his clothes, asked Chi Xiaoduo to bring his belongings, opened the door and went out, and saw Chen Zhen sitting quietly looking at his phone in the dark corridor.
Xiang Cheng: "..."
"Changed your mind?" Chen Zhen said calmly.
"It's so hot." Chi Xiaoduo said, "You... Chen Zhen."
"It's not hot, but there are many mosquitoes." When Chen Zhen got up, the shirt on his back was soaked with sweat, and his back was showing. Chi Xiaoduo thought that Chen Zhen had worked very hard.
Xiang Cheng: "Go to Koda's house."
Chen Zhen went downstairs to drive. In the car, Xiang Cheng said, "You are so sure that I will agree."
"Sometimes, there is no conflict between adhering to ideals and accepting reality." Chen Zhen turned the steering wheel and said casually, "It just takes a little time. Time is the sugar that heals everything and the prescription to reconcile contradictions."
Chi Xiaoduo: "???"
Xiang Cheng said in a deep voice: "If it weren't for my father's instructions before he died, we would not be colleagues but enemies now."
Chen Zhen said gently: "So I believe that there are many things in the world that override interests and even personal emotions."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
At one o'clock in the middle of the night, Da Ke came to open the door for them sleepily.
Koda was wearing cotton pajamas and a tiger nightcap, leaning against the door, staring blankly at them.
"Air conditioner—" Chi Xiaoduo said ecstatically.
"Shh." Koda smacked his lips in boredom and said, "Auntie is asleep."
When Chi Xiaoduo went in, he poured ice water wildly and lay down on the dining table. Chen Zhen took out a stack of documents from his bag and put them on the table. Koda yawned and said, "Chen Zhen, you can't adjust your working hours to Is it daytime?"
"I think so too." Chen Zhen looked at the information and said absent-mindedly, "Do you want me to discuss the collusion between ghosts and organization members in the drive committee in broad daylight?"
Koda wasn't surprised at all, obviously he knew about this a long time ago.
"You are too risky, Chen Zhen." Koda said, "Now is not the time."
Chen Zhen didn't speak, but Koda looked at the information for a while like a big dog that hadn't woken up, and finally fell to the side in a chaotic state, pressing on Chi Xiaoduo's shoulder. Chi Xiaoduo wiped Koda's saliva, and pushed him to lie on the dining table.
The information Chen Zhen distributed was compiled based on the content of Chi Xiaoduo's last investigation. A while later, someone rang the doorbell again, and it was Zhou Wanyuan who came in.
"I just took off my make-up." Zhou Wanyuan said with a tired face, "Director Chen, can you stop convening team meetings in the middle of the night, or I will be caught by my own people as a female ghost when I cross the road."
Everyone laughed, and Chen Zhen said, "Look at the information first, and discuss it in ten minutes."
I have seen it all, and Chi Xiaoduo studied it in detail again. Four students died, and the ghost spirit appeared in the city of Beijing, predicting the future, and leading the investigators into a trap...
"Let's talk." Zhou Wanyuan said boredly, "Are you kidding us? You let the case be closed 20 days ago, and now you tell my old lady to continue the investigation. Why did you go so early?"
"Twenty days is the key to the progress of the case." Chen Zhen said, "Let me appoint a person in charge, Xiang Cheng. In this team, you are responsible for submitting a team report to me."
"I don't like teamwork." Xiang Cheng said coldly.
"Then Chi Xiaoduo, come on." Chen Zhen got up to pour water.
"Forget it." Xiang Cheng said, "It's still me."
Chi Xiaoduo laughed. Xiang Cheng put the materials away, leaned on the chair, pondered for a moment, and then said: "The case was closed 20 days ago. There are two reasons. One, the foretelling of the Gambling Demon only lasted until the day the case was closed... "
"It may have continued for a few days later." Chen Zhen added, "Now it is past zero, it is August 18th, and during the period from July 28th to early August, we assume Its ability to detect, and then go back, August 15th, maybe they won't observe anything that happened."
"Why such a guess?" Zhou Wanyuan raised her head, looked at Chen Zhen, and then at Xiang Cheng.
Chen Zhen didn't answer, Chi Xiaoduo asked: "Is there anything else that distracts them?"
"Maybe." Chen Zhen said.
Xiang Cheng loosened his fingers, and said thoughtfully: "The second reason is to bypass the head of the executive department, Yan Fei."
Chen Zhen: "Yes."
Xiang Cheng: "What about you? Say something."
Da Keda shrugged and looked at them innocently. Zhou Wanyuan said, "From the very beginning, Director Chen paid attention to this case abnormally. May I ask why?"
"Intuition." Chen Zhen replied.
Everyone looked at Chen Zhen, Xiang Cheng thought for a while, and said, "Okay, make a decision now, continue to investigate, do you have any opinions?"
Everyone had no opinion, with an expression of "If you have an opinion, you won't come here, aren't you talking nonsense?" Xiang Cheng said: "On the day the case was closed, Chi Xiaoduo had a chat with Tong Gu."
"Tonggu?" Chen Zhen frowned slightly.
Xiang Cheng nodded and said, "Divination in the commercial street..."
"I know her." Chen Zhen said, "She easily prevents people from entering the store, ignoring the specific details, what are you talking about?"
"The ghost fairy case." Xiang Cheng said, "We must find the ghost ghost's hiding place."
"But once you start digging out the ghost fairy, there will be a problem." Xiang Cheng thought for a while and said, "My guess is that the ghost fairy can predict the future time period, the longest is half a month, and the shortest is one day."
"They must predict what happens in a day. That is to say, from now on, follow the vines, touch the time around it, until the moment it catches it, it will definitely predict it in advance."
"So no matter how you search, how you find it." Xiang Cheng said, "In the last day, it will escape."
Chen Zhen said: "This is the most difficult part, even if it doesn't predict that we are talking about them here, it will be alerted the day before it is arrested."
"Is there anything that can interfere with its predictive ability?" Chi Xiaoduo asked, "Only on the last day."
Xiang Cheng was silent, Zhou Wanyuan said: "Instead of finding this way, it's better to find where it is hidden first."
"It's not difficult to find its hiding place." Xiang Cheng replied, "When fishing, prepare your soul as bait, and then use your own soul to chase it."
"Wait." Chen Zhen's face changed, and he said, "You already have a solution?"
Xiang Cheng replied: "I've thought of a solution on the day the case is closed, but you won't let me investigate."
"How to chase?" Zhou Wanyuan asked.
"Please Die Xian." Xiang Cheng said, "Just like them, use Die Xian's method of collecting ghost power and exchange it with your own soul."
Everyone was shocked.
Keda looked at Xiang Cheng and said, "Has it been proven that it works?"
"No need to prove it." Xiang Cheng said indifferently, "prove what? Obviously, a person trades his own soul, invite Die Xian to come, and drop blood as a contract. The contract is established, and Die Xian takes away a little bit of your soul. It's a business, compare the power of ghosts to money, it takes one piece from you, uses the fifty cents in it to help you predict the future, and then puts the remaining fifty cents into the bag to enhance your cultivation. The four The students who died in vain were just smoked too much by Die Xian."
Zhou Wanyuan was also dumbfounded, and said, "How do you know?"
"Is there a need to ask?" Xiang Cheng asked inexplicably, "I checked for so long before, that's it."
Chen Zhen also thought it was a bit unbelievable, but after thinking about it carefully, it was indeed the truth Xiang Cheng said.
"Forget it if you don't believe me." Xiang Cheng said.
"Letter." Chen Zhen said, "Why didn't you write it in the report?"
Xiang Cheng said: "I can't express it, that's probably how it is."
"So invite Die Xian once." Zhou Wanyuan said, "Give your soul to it a little, and then follow your own soul to find its hiding place?"
Xiang Cheng was silent and raised his eyebrows to show an affirmative answer.
Chi Xiaoduo had a feeling of ignorance, how did Xiang Cheng think of this? So smart!
Chen Zhen said: "This is a risky but feasible method. Divide the soul, track it, and find the whereabouts of Die Xian. But who will invite it? The soul power of an exorcist is different from that of ordinary people. Our soul power is very powerful. I can only find a mortal who has never invited Die Xian... "
Having said that, Chen Zhen looked at Chi Xiaoduo together with Keda and Zhou Wanyuan.
Chi Xiaoduo thought to herself that this is finally here. It's usually like this in movies. After talking for so long, do you want to use me as bait
"Okay!" Chi Xiaoduo said happily, "Let me go!"
"Fart!" Xiang Cheng said angrily, startling everyone.
Reachable: "..."
Zhou Wanyuan: "Don't be impulsive, no one talks."
"That's right." Chen Zhen broke into a cold sweat.
With a dark face, Xiang Cheng pointed at Chen Zhen with one hand, and said, "I warn you, don't think of him."
"Chen Zhen didn't mean that." Da Ke hurriedly smoothed things over, taking off the tiger hat and putting it on Chi Xiaoduo's head, "I just remember that it's usually done like this in movies."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
Chen Zhen said: "Then, I have a suitable person here, who is born with weak soul power, and has never seen Die Xian before."
"Do you have a candidate?" Xiang Cheng said, "A mortal?"
Chen Zhen pondered for a moment, then nodded.
"I'll go." Xiang Cheng said lightly.
"No." Chi Xiaoduo said, "It's too dangerous, and aren't you an exorcist?"
Xiang Cheng said: "Use the Falling Soul Clock, I know there is one in the Exorcism Committee."
Chen Zhen:"… "
Chen Zhen looked at Xiang Cheng and said, "I can't apply."
"Take the heart lamp to change." Xiang Cheng said, "Put the heart lamp in and take out the soul-destroying clock. It only takes one night."
Chen Zhen thought for a while and said, "Let's not mention this, how do you track it down? It all depends on your own induction? What happens after you find it? Won't the ghost spirit escape?"
Xiang Cheng said: "What the ghost spirit uses is ghost power, and the ghost power is universal, isn't that what you say?"
Xiang Cheng glanced at Keda, Chen Zhen, and Zhou Wanyuan, and then said: "To disturb the ghost power it depends on for survival, you must choose a night when the ghost power has the greatest impact. Chen Zhen, didn't you plan it a long time ago?"
Chen Zhen laughed.
Koda: "Oh."
Chi Xiaoduo: "Oh!"
Zhou Wanyuan: "Oh."
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
"Oh, what the hell!" Zhou Wanyuan said, "Can you explain it more clearly?"
Chi Xiaoduo: "You don't know what other people say and you say 'oh'."
"I think Koda understands it," Zhou Wanyuan said.
"I don't know." Koda said with a blank face, "I just feel that I should say 'oh' at this time."
Chen Zhen held his forehead with one hand.
"Are you interested in coming to the headquarters to work after completing the certificate examination?" Chen Zhen said, "There are exceptions for academic qualifications and files."
"Not interested." Xiang Cheng said coldly.
"Please explain clearly to me first!" Zhou Wanyuan said, "What kind of trouble is this?!"
"Oh!" Koda said, "I see!"
"This month is the ghost month!" Koda said, "The gate of ghosts opens on the first day of July, so it will disturb the ghost's ability to predict! Brother Xiang said that on the night of July 15th, we can catch ghosts! Because ghosts Xian uses the power of ghosts to see the future, and as soon as ghosts reach the ghost moon, the power will be disturbed... "
"Ah!" Chi Xiaoduo said, "I understand."
"You're very smart." Xiang Cheng said to Chi Xiaoduo approvingly.
Chi Xiaoduo said modestly, "No, no."
Zhou Wanyuan: "It's none of his business! It's obviously a big man who answered it! Don't put gold on your own face all day long!"
Chi Xiaoduo: "..."
Zhou Wanyuan looked at Chen Zhen again: "So Director Chen, in fact, you have already planned to come to give us IQ training in the middle of the night?"
Chen Zhen said: "I don't mean that, it's just my conjecture. Brother Xiang is from Fengdu. Only when he nodded, can I confirm that as the day of July 15 approaches, the power of ghosts using ghost power will weaken. "
"It's disturbance." Xiang Cheng corrected, "It's not attenuation."
Chen Zhen nodded, and Chi Xiaoduo asked, "But I still don't understand why the leader of the organization colludes with a demon who can predict the future?"
"We will know the answer soon." Chen Zhen said.
"Do you want them to guess the test questions? Hahaha." Chi Xiaoduo said.
Everyone: "..."
No one laughed, especially Chen Zhen.