Passing through the outermost high concrete wall of the housing area, what Chen Xian saw was a deep alleyway.
In addition to the natural cracks that can be seen everywhere on the dark and old walls, there are also various small advertisements that are common in the streets and alleys. Those mottled traces that can only be left after years are enough to set off the antiquity of this housing area. Old Luoguxiang is even longer...
"Boss, what do you smell?"
Lu Yisheng followed behind Chen Xian, seeing that he was wrinkling his nose and sniffing something, he couldn't help asking curiously.
"There are many flavors."
As Chen Xian said, he looked around calmly, took a flashlight to illuminate the alleyway in front of him, led Lu Yisheng forward, and said to Lu Yisheng as if talking to himself, "The smell of mold here is very bad. Heavy... there seems to be some kind of smell of heavily rotten meat... like people... and the smell of rust... "
Hearing Chen Xian's intermittent words, although Lu Yisheng was a little confused, he instinctively shrank his neck, because he could feel that something was wrong with this place.
It's quiet here, eerily quiet.
From the time when Chen Xian and the others entered the housing area until now, there has been no known danger on the way, but the more this happened, the more uneasy Lu Yisheng felt, and he always felt that there was something strange lurking in the dark nearby.
"Boss... are you sure about this case..." Lu Yisheng followed behind Chen Xian, holding on to the strap of his backpack tightly, and said in a very low voice, "I think this case is quite tricky... we're afraid we have to deal with it Not coming… "
"It's okay, let's see." Chen Xian said softly.
"How are you going to solve this case? Do you have a clue?" Lu Yisheng asked cautiously.
"It's hard to say." Chen Xian turned his head to look at him, and his tone of voice was uncertain, "Anyway, no matter what is behind this strange case, if you want to solve the case, you have to wipe out these abnormal beings."
"Those paper figurines?" Lu Yisheng's heart tightened, and fine beads of sweat ooze from his forehead, "Just now I heard from Section Chief Tu that there are so many paper figurines here that we can't kill them all, just the two of us... Will it not work out?"
"Try it." Chen Xian turned his face away, and continued to lead him into the depths of the alleyway, "If you don't try, how will you know?"
Lu Yisheng grinned, his smile was a little unnatural.
Although Chen Xian's tone of voice was very calm, without the slightest hint of nervousness or uncertainty, such words did not seem to convince Lu Yisheng, because in Lu Yisheng's view, such a risky attempt like the one now is Totally unnecessary.
Since the failure rate is so high, why take the risk
"No one dares to say that they are 100% sure about this strange case, not even the people at the headquarters." Chen Xian seemed to know what Lu Yisheng was thinking, because he had seen many students who were similar to Lu Yisheng. Such young people, "Even if we don't come in now, they will come in after the support from the headquarters arrives. They have to try to find clues. If you want to solve the case, you have to start with trying."
"Then let them come in. The Detective Department of the General Bureau is no better than our branch bureau. They have a large number of people. It is easy to send dozens of members in at a time... It must be better than the two of us coming in." Lu Yisheng muttered.
"Let the headquarters do everything, so what should our branch office do?" Chen Xian asked suddenly.
Hearing this, Lu Yisheng frowned and said nothing.
"I don't know what to do if I'm not in my position. I don't understand so many twists and turns, but I feel...some things can't be pushed to the headquarters." Chen Xian said without looking back, "If we tried All the methods still can't solve this strange case, so it should be handed over to the headquarters for support, but haven't we tried it yet?"
"Didn't Section Chief Tu try it?" Lu Yisheng asked in a low voice.
"I don't care if they tried it or not. Anyway, I haven't tried it, so I want to try it." Chen Xian said, his pace slowed down a little, and asked Lu Yisheng abruptly, "Do you think I'm taking Are you going to die?"
Lu Yisheng hurriedly shook his head and said no.
"Don't worry, you won't die." Chen Xian said, his tone was very calm, as if he was describing a matter of course, "As long as you stay close to me, I should be able to keep you."
Without saying a word, Lu Yisheng hurried forward, and almost stuck his whole body on Chen Xian's back like a ghost behind his back.
"I didn't mean that close."
"Oh, then I'll go further!"
Being interrupted by Chen Xian, Lu Yisheng seemed to calm down a lot, at least not as nervous as before, and the expression on his face became relaxed.
"Boss, I heard that you are a lone wolf, and you handle strange cases by yourself?"
Although Chen Xian likes to handle cases alone, it is undeniable that under the premise of the rigid requirements of the General Administration, he has also been forced by his teammates several times, but only a few times, and the rest of the cases are handled by him alone, so in When Lu Yisheng asked about this, he answered truthfully.
"No, I have cooperated with people from the General Administration several times."
"Oh, so..." Lu Yisheng was a little curious, with undisguised admiration in his eyes, "What do you do when you handle a case by yourself? I heard that there were several cases where even the investigation department couldn't find a clue. But in the end it was broken by you!"
"I?"
Chen Xian paused, looked up at the gray sky, as if he was remembering.
"Actually, I won't solve the case."
"You won't solve the case?"
"No." Chen Xian said, and continued to walk forward with Lu Yisheng, "Many times I don't know what the target is, and I don't know how to target it, because my basic knowledge is too lacking. Can't compare to you."
Lu Yisheng listened quietly, with more curiosity in his eyes.
"Before I became a temporary worker, I was an ordinary student. My major was literature, and my family was also an ordinary family, so I didn't have the opportunity to learn those special knowledge." Chen Xian suddenly showed a self-deprecating smile. Talking a lot, I chatted with Lu Yisheng, "Criminal investigation, forensic science, religion... I have never been exposed to any of the things that members of the detection department should study, and no one has taught me. You can take me as a teacher." Ordinary people see."
"Then how did you deal with those strange cases?" Lu Yisheng couldn't help asking, the look of gossip in his eyes became more and more obvious, "Boss, I heard that you are a congenital and different person who came out of the religious system like us. Acquired people are different... You have natural supernatural powers, right?"
Supernatural powers
Hearing the name of metaphysics, Chen Xian couldn't help being stunned for a second, then nodded and said, "That's right."
"Did you rely on magical powers to handle those cases?" Lu Yisheng asked.
"Almost." Chen Xian thought for a while, and then said truthfully, "But I think intuition is more important than special abilities, maybe because my way of solving crimes is different from those members of the detection department... I think intuition is better than the magic you said It works better."
"How to say?" Lu Yisheng asked hastily.
"My general knowledge is less than yours, so many times I don't study the origin of mission objectives, and I don't have the ability to analyze the opponent's weaknesses from the very beginning..." Chen Xian shrugged, "I just need to think about it to solve the case." One thing is enough."
"What are you thinking about?" Lu Yisheng asked, and began to take notes in his mind.
"How to find out the mission objectives." Chen Xian smiled, and his tone was very frank, "The cases I am most afraid of encountering are the cases with vague mission objectives. It is really troublesome to find them, but as long as I find them, This case will almost be solved.”
Perhaps to some people, what Chen Xian said was a bit arrogant.
Finding the target counts as solving the case? What goals can you achieve? Do you really think you are a fairy
Of course, Chen Xian is not a god, but judging from the strange cases he has solved so far... he is indeed no different from a god, because he has never lost.
As long as you find the mission target, you can fight it if you can, and eat it if you can't. Anyway, whether you kill or eat it, as long as the mission target completely disappears from this world, won't the case be solved
As for why the target appeared at the scene of the crime, and what purpose it has... These are not factors that Chen Xian considered.
Therefore, compared with those members of the detection department, Chen Xian seemed to be a bit of an idler. He didn't look like a temporary worker in the traditional sense at all, but more like a killer.
To put it simply, he only cares about killing but not burying. Except for solving the mission objectives, he doesn't get involved in any trivial matters related to the case, and he doesn't have the ability to get involved.
Compared with those detectives who have lost their hair, Chen Xian's mental work is limited in each case, and he pays more "manual work".
"What are you good at?" Chen Xian asked suddenly.
"Me?" Lu Yisheng was taken aback, and quickly responded, "I am best at Luban Zuoshu, followed by Qimen Dunjia and..."
"Speak simply." Chen Xian said in a low voice, as if he was a little embarrassed, "I'm not a gentleman in your field, and I feel a little headache when I talk about so many technical terms."
"Is that so..."
Lu Yisheng thought for a while, and said as simply as possible: "In general, I am better at dealing with spirit bodies, but the Luban Zuoshu I practice is mainly to create strange objects, so it is more auxiliary."
"A strange thing?" Chen Xian became interested and looked at him curiously, "What kind of strange thing?"
"Hey, I have to talk to you carefully about this." Lu Yisheng smiled mysteriously, reached into his pocket and took out a wooden figure full of talismans.
The height of this wooden figure is about 15 centimeters, and the proportion of the body structure is very coordinated, which is similar to that of a normal human being. However, there are no facial features on its face. It looks like a rough egg face. There are three fine talismans engraved on the face. The strange fragrance emanating from those rune grooves can be vaguely smelled.
"This is one of the wonders I kept at the bottom of the box. I named it Luban No. 8."
Chen Xian looked away from the wooden man, and looked at Lu Yisheng without saying a word, with a complicated expression on his face.
"What's the matter, Boss? Do you think this name is not good?" Lu Yisheng scratched his head, not understanding why Chen Xian looked at him this way, but he is an open-minded young man who likes to listen to other people's opinions, so he asked Chen Xian again, "How about I change the name to it? What do you think of the first machine?"
"..."
"Oh, don't look at me with such eyes!" Lu Yisheng said with a playful smile, "Don't look at it, it's my natal magic weapon. It took seven years to refine it. Don't you I know how much effort I have spent...but I can tell you carefully!"
Seeing that Lu Yisheng was about to show off, Chen Xian shook his head hurriedly, put on an expression that you want to say and I don't want to hear it, then pointed to the wooden man in his hand, and asked him in as gentle a tone as possible, for fear of Hurt his young self-esteem.
"You have practiced for seven years... and you have produced such a thing?"