The river is rumbling like the sea.
The waves are rolling, and there is no edge.
Hui Lijing stared at Dahe in front of her in a daze.
She could swear that twenty minutes ago, this was the entrance to the market, the asphalt road, and even the white arrows on the road were just painted, very new.
but now
It became a big river.
And the two stone pillars that originally prevented cars from entering, looked at this time, turned into wooden stakes on the pier to tie the boat, which seemed very harmonious.
But Hui Lijing felt very abrupt.
She was horrified and overwhelmed.
After three or four seconds, Hui Lijing came back to her senses.
She turned to look at Jason.
Jason, on the other hand, put Ryosuke on the ground in a calm manner. Then, he looked at the big river as if he was looking for something.
Something on the river
Hui Lijing thought about it, and looked at the whole river like Jason.
But the water on the river was so thin that nothing could be seen at all.
However, Hui Lijing did not interrupt Jason.
Professional things, let professional people do it.
Hui Lijing knew this famous saying.
Moreover, it is regarded as an imperial decree.
Of course, there is also the second half of the sentence:
Do what you can.
Hui Lijing turned around and looked behind her, her gaze was on the darkness behind her.
In the distance, the lights of Tongshou Temple are scattered.
Instead of bringing light, it made the surrounding darkness more intense
The big river behind him was rumbling, and Hui Lijing's hand involuntarily grasped the handle of the gun.
Her intuition told her that there was something in the dark.
In fact, it is.
Just a few seconds later, the clear sound of footsteps came—
Tread Tread!
The footsteps were very hurried and chaotic.
Even just listening to the sound of footsteps, one can feel a sense of panic.
Hui Lijing subconsciously raised her gun.
"Don't shoot!"
The figure rushing out of the darkness immediately saw Hui Lijing holding a gun, immediately raised her hands and shouted loudly.
This is a man dressed in a suit and dressed like an office worker. At this moment, his face is panicked and his body is trembling.
And behind this office worker-like man, there is a man and a woman.
The man is a middle-aged man, wearing glasses, not a burly figure, wearing a shirt, trousers, and an apron. The apron is not used in the kitchen, but in a convenience store. It clearly says - seven days convenient.
The last one to come out was a young girl.
Wearing a school uniform, shawl hair, immature face, wearing a school badge with Tong Shou High School written on it.
All three were at a loss.
Then, they all looked at the gun in Hui Lijing's hand in fear.
Hui Lijing didn't put down her gun, she glanced at the three of them, and asked directly.
"Who are you?"
"I am an employee of 'Dayuan Electronics Company'."
"I am the clerk of 'Seven Days Convenience'."
"I am a student of 'Tong Shou High School'."
Facing the gun, the three of them were very honest without any hesitation.
"Why are you here?"
Hui Lijing continued to ask.
"I came here for dinner. There's a good ramen shop here. After work, I'm going to have a meal before going home. Isn't that what a bachelor's life is like?"
The office worker wanted to relax the atmosphere while talking.
But the effect was not good. When he saw that Hui Lijing's muzzle did not intend to let go, he immediately closed his mouth wisely and raised his hands high again.
So did the clerk.
The other party, who raised his hands high, replied.
"The convenience store where I work is in the market. Just now when I was changing shifts, I went to the back alley to smoke a cigarette, but before I finished smoking, the whole alley was dark, and then I walked out of the alley , and found that everyone was gone.”
When the clerk said these words, his voice trembled slightly.
Matching the appearance of the middle-aged man, he appeared to be honest and reliable.
The female students were the last to speak.
"I need to pass here to go home, but I don't know why, the surrounding area became dark, and then I ran into them—at the gate of Tongshou Temple."
"There is light there, I wanted to hide there at first!"
"Yes, but..."
The female student's words became stammered.
"But what?"
Hui Lijing asked.
"Corpse!"
"Just at the gate of Tongshou Temple, there is a corpse hanging!"
The female student summoned up her courage and said.
The office workers and shop assistants also nodded together, confirming what the female student said.
Hui Lijing frowned.
corpse
This female mercenary who dreamed of being a barista and became a detective can be sure that when she and Jason left Tongshou Temple, there was absolutely no dead body. After all, the gate of Tongshou Temple is not tall. , must be clearly visible.
"Are you sure it's the gate?"
To confirm, Hui Lijing asked again.
"confirm!"
"It's right there at the gate!"
"I can see clearly from the door!"
The female student nodded very positively.
"Yes."
"I can testify."
"I can too."
Office workers and shop assistants also echoed.
"Did the body hang after we left?"
Hui Lijing thought.
It wasn't long before she and Jason left Tongshou Temple, and there was no one in Tongshou Temple before.
Except... that old monk!
Will the other party be the murderer
Hui Lijing thought subconsciously.
This is an instinctive cognition. Although the old monk looked benevolent, his disappearance was really weird, which made Hui Lijing very suspicious.
However, Hui Lijing didn't make up her mind immediately, she turned to look at Jason.
Jason still maintained his previous posture at this time, looking at the entire river.
Under Hui Lijing's gaze, Jason turned around.
However, instead of looking at the three new people who appeared, he looked at Ryosuke.
One second, two seconds, three seconds.
Finally, Ryosuke couldn't take it anymore and opened his eyes.
"When did you find out?"
Ryosuke stood up with his intact hands propped on the ground, looking at Jason.
"When you just woke up."
Jason replied like this.
"Is it because of breathing?"
Ryosuke asked again.
"Um."
Jason didn't deny it, although he only discovered it because he heard the other person's heartbeat miss two beats.
"Sure enough, with a guy like you, you can't be careful enough."
Muttering similar words, Ryosuke first nodded to Hui Lijing, and then looked at the three people in front of him.
"Three, I am the police."
"Here's my police ID."
"Can I trouble you to take me to see the corpse?"
Ryosuke showed the police officer's certificate.
Immediately, the office worker, the clerk, and the female student breathed a sigh of relief.
"Of course, officer."
The office worker said immediately.
The clerk and the female students also nodded.
Ryosuke turned to look at Jason.
"Although I don't know how this river appeared, I think the corpse that just appeared is the key to our being here. If you want to leave, you must see that corpse."
Ryosuke said.
Jason didn't deny it.
Hui Lijing didn't deny it either.
However, Hui Lijing has doubts about this.
She was wondering why Jason had been looking at the river for so long.
What exactly is in the river
Or, what made Jason care so much
Is it a fish in the river
It can't be that there are monsters in the river, right
Hui Lijing thought.
Then, she inexplicably thought of the half-human, half-skeleton guy who called himself a little monk. It seemed... not impossible. Since dusk, the whole street has become strange.
What happens again, Hui Lijing can accept it.
Not at the front of the line.
Not to mention walking side by side with those three people.
Hui Lijing moved forward as close as possible to Jason's side.
'How to survive on the battlefield? '
'Follow the veteran. '
These were the words that the instructor told her when she was parting in the training camp.
And this sentence saved her more than once.
Although it is not a battlefield now.
But also applies.
She is a rookie facing the 'mysterious side', so she naturally has to follow a veteran like Jason.
"What do I need to do in a moment?"
Hui Lijing looked at the police officer Ryosuke who was following behind the three of them, and asked Jason softly.
"Wait and see."
Jason said lightly.
"good."
Hui Lijing nodded immediately.
From three people to a group of six people, Hui Lijing walked with a lantern and Jason at the end, female students, shop assistants, and office workers walked in the front, and the portable flashlight in Ryosuke's hand illuminated them.
The market was not long, and soon, they returned to the gate of Tongshou Temple.
Then, at a glance, he saw the corpse hanging in front of the gate of Tongshou Temple.
Under the lights of the temple, the corpse was half-sinked into the shadows, and blood flowed from the body and gathered at the feet.
The moment he saw the corpse, Ryosuke's face changed drastically.
"Under the rock!"
The middle-aged police officer blurted out.
Then, the middle-aged police officer rushed over, and he needed to confirm the identity of the other party.
It was the bastard indeed!
After a while, the middle-aged police officer had an accurate answer.
But…
Didn't he shoot each other before
Afterwards, not only was he shot, but the back of his head hit something.
Then, he fell into a coma.
However, one thing is certain, before he fell into a coma, Yanxia was still alive. He shot the opponent in the chest, but did not penetrate the heart, and the opponent fell to the ground with serious injuries.
after that...
He has no memory.
When he woke up, he saw Jason and Hui Lijing.
Subconsciously, Ryosuke looked at Jason and Hui Lijing.
"It has nothing to do with us!"
"We just found you here!"
"Then, when I was about to leave, I took you with me!"
Facing Ryosuke's scrutinizing eyes, Hui Lijing said immediately.
"Sorry, it's just a habit."
"Can you help me put the body down?"
Ryosuke said.
Hui Lijing looked at Jason and said immediately after finding that Jason had no intention of objecting.
"Can."
After Hui Lijing finished speaking, she quickly stepped on the wall and climbed up to the top of the wall. Then, she squatted halfway and came to the beam of the gate of Tongshou Temple.
It is completely made of solid wood, square and 20 cm wide, with eaves, plaques and other decorations on it.
From Hui Lijing's angle at this moment, it can be clearly seen that the corpse is tied around the neck by a knot at one end of a rope, and hung on the beam of the gate of Tongshou Temple. The neck is wrapped around, and the beam is wrapped around After a circle, the rope was tied in a dead knot.
There was about 30 centimeters of space left between the beam and the neck of the corpse.
But the knot didn't wobble.
There was no trace of rubbed blood on the neck of the corpse.
Proof that the body was hung here after death.
But the blood on the ground is only here under the feet, but not around.
The cause of the corpse bleeding profusely was not the gunshot wound on the chest, but the knife wound on the back.
A narrow, smooth knife wound piercing the heart.
"It should be that the chest injury was too severe, causing the other party to fall into a coma or immobility. Then, the murderer appeared behind the deceased and killed the other party with one blow."
"There was no trembling, no hesitation."
"A good hand with a knife."
"Just... why aren't there any traces near the beam?"
Hui Lijing observed the beams, Tongshou Temple was very clean, obviously the monks inside cleaned it often, but there were some places that couldn't be cleaned.
Example: house beams.
Therefore, there is a fine layer of ash on the beams of the house.
But the strangest thing is that here, except for the ash under the rope being rubbed off, the surrounding ash has not been rubbed off at all.
It's as if the rope is automatically wrapped around the beam.
Can…
How can this be
From the ground to the beam, there is a height of 3 meters. What kind of rope can be automatically wound
Even if it is thrown, how is the knot tied
It can't be done out of thin air, right
Out of detective instinct, Hui Lijing couldn't help thinking.
"Can you put down the body?"
Ryosuke asked below.
"The rope is tied and needs to be cut."
Hui Lijing replied.
Ryosuke frowned.
As a criminal policeman, he naturally knows not to destroy the scene of the crime.
Can't just put it down...
Ryosuke took a few steps back, and then rushed forward.
Lifting his uninjured arm, he propped himself up to the wall with difficulty.
Since you can't put it down, go up.
Squatting on the top of the wall, Ryosuke carefully looked at the corpse and the knot under the rock, and then he also fell into the same doubts as Hui Lijing.
Huh!
The light of the portable flashlight skimmed over the plaque of Tongshou Temple.
The shadow behind the signboard caught Ryosuke's attention.
"What's there?"
Ryosuke asked.
"Like a box?"
Hui Lijing replied uncertainly.
Then, Hui Lijing stretched out her arm, trying to take out the things behind the plaque, but because of the distance, Hui Lijing couldn't reach it at all.
Even holding on to the eaves with one hand and reaching out with the other hand won't work
Even Hui Lijing couldn't reach it, so it goes without saying that Ryosuke was already injured.
"I'm going to find the ladder."
Saying so, Ryosuke jumped off the wall.
Temples like Tongshou Temple must have ladders.
Office workers, shop assistants, and female students looked at Ryosuke who jumped down, and obediently stood where they were without moving.
Seems to be overwhelmed.
It seems to be terrified.
Jason looked at the three of them, then at Ryosuke who came out carrying a ladder, and then at Hui Lijing with an inquiring face, and sighed slightly in his heart.
He also wants to find the murderer by virtue of his extraordinary observation and meticulous logic.
But he can't do it!
The grave guard's [Death Aura Perception] allowed him to see who the murderer was at a glance.
Seeing Ryosuke who was about to climb the ladder, Jason came out and stood in front of office workers, shop assistants and female students.
After glancing around at the three of them, he said—
"The murderer is..."