late at night.
The city bureau building was completely dark except for a small dim light in the duty room.
The policeman on duty sat in front of the window, plugged in his earphones, and used his mobile phone to watch the recording of the program, rubbing his eyes and yawning from time to time. There is a cup of refreshing strong tea at hand, and in the cold winter night, the white smoke rising from the cup is gradually thinning.
"Crack. Crack. Crack." The sound of crisp footsteps was particularly obvious in the dead building.
The policeman on duty was also alert. The earphones were only plugged in on one side. Hearing the sound, he immediately pulled off the earphones and stood up.
"Squeak~" A side door was pushed open.
The policeman on duty was stunned for a moment.
Although the door would not be locked from the outside in consideration of fire escape when someone was on duty, but he clearly remembered that the door was locked from the inside when he was inspecting, and it would definitely not be able to be opened from the outside.
"Crack. Crack." The footsteps continued.
The policeman on duty was about to go out to have a look, when he was horrified to find a row of water-stained footprints on the ground.
He heard the sound of pattering rain in his ears, and only then did he realize that it started raining outside at some point, and small puddles had already formed on the ground.
However... the horror is that the footprints that appeared out of nowhere on the ground extended inward, but no one was seen.
The young man who had just joined the job was stiff all over, his pores burst, and he could even hear his own violent heartbeat.
"Bah!" His hand moved subconsciously and pulled the earphone cable, the earphone was pulled off the phone, and the sound of the program suddenly became public:
"Since this year, the Jiangnan City Police Department..."
"I'm a policeman. I'm a policeman. I'm a policeman." The policeman on duty recited a few words silently, as if hypnotizing himself, and finally felt that his strength returned and his body could move. He was not yet qualified to carry a gun, so he immediately grabbed his baton, walked out of the duty room cautiously, and approached the footprints.
Suddenly, he swung his baton and swiped towards the top of the last footprint without hesitation. He even staggered because of too much force, and stumbled a few steps before he stood still.
"No, no one?" He held the baton in surprise.
It didn't feel like hitting anything, it just hit the air, but if there was no one, what happened to the footprints? Just now he was wondering if there really was a nano-quantum invisibility cloak or something.
Suddenly, the footsteps stopped.
Illusion? The policeman on duty was stunned, and slowly turned his head to look over. That glance immediately made his adrenaline rush, and his pupils trembled.
I saw that row of clear water footprints suddenly changed direction, and the toes were facing me!
"Crack." Water Footprints turned a corner resolutely and walked towards him.
"Don't, don't come here! I'm a policeman, stop!" The policeman on duty shouted holding his baton.
The footprints approached step by step.
run? Still fighting
The young man's legs were still trembling. Seeing that the footprints were less than two steps away from him, he closed his eyes suddenly, turned on the current switch on the baton, adjusted it to the maximum power, and waved it in the air indiscriminately.
"Definitely!" Suddenly, a woman's cold voice came from behind.
"Who!" Hearing someone speak, the policeman on duty turned back his breath.
The most terrifying thing was the silent pressure. Someone opened his mouth, but it gave him courage.
I am a dignified people's policeman, if I can't deal with ghosts, can't I also deal with people
"Enough." A hand pressed down on his shoulder.
The policeman on duty was stunned for a moment, then turned his head blankly, looked at the person coming, and finally realized after a while: "Chu, Chu, Team Chu?"
Chu Li stood behind him, dressed in casual clothes, a brown single-layer jacket over a thin beige cashmere sweater, as if he couldn't feel the temperature below zero in the middle of the night.
Not far away, a girl wrapped in a white down jacket slowly walked over.
He recognized that this person seemed to be... Consultant Tang from the Serious Crime Squad.
"How?" Chu Li asked.
"Simon is right, they are still interested in Baker's body." Tang Xi put his hands in the pockets of his down jacket, said something, then yawned again, and complained, "I'm so sleepy, hurry up and go home to sleep. "
"You have no class tomorrow morning." Chu Li said.
"No class in the morning is not the reason for you to pull me to work the night shift! Turning day and night upside down is not good for your skin!" Tang Xi said confidently.
"Captain Chu, what is this..." What's going on
"Hmm." Chu Li scratched his chin and said suddenly, "That, I'm sorry."
"What?" The policeman on duty was at a loss. Did he do something that warranted an apology from the head of the serious crimes team
However, the next moment, he felt a pain in the back of his neck, his eyes went dark, and he didn't know anything.
Chu Li withdrew the knife in his hand calmly, supported the man, stuffed him into the duty room, made him lie on the table, and inserted the earphone plug back into the phone.
"It's so pitiful." Tang Xi shook her head, "But Xie Chang'an isn't here, so I can't modify his memory. It's better to let him wake up tomorrow thinking he's dreaming."
"Don't worry, today is a special case. I won't deduct his bonus just because he fell asleep on duty," Chu Li said.
Tang Xi smiled "puchi".
"What is this?" Chu Li asked.
In his eyes, it was a mass of black-smelling fellows, without even a human figure. If he had to say it, it should be the height of his head, and there were two red dots shining strangely. Eye.
"I don't know." Tang Xi tied the thing tightly with a spiritual power rope, walked around it curiously, and shook his head, "It's not caused by resentment, and I haven't been affected by the kind of things in the city bureau building at all." Scrub with awe-inspiring righteousness."
The monster was under control, screaming and struggling in a disorderly manner.
The spiritual power rope shone with aura, and it became tighter and tighter.
"It looks like there is no wisdom." Chu Li said.
"Well, if you don't have wisdom, you should be attracted by instinct. He... what!" Tang Xi said halfway, when he saw something flashing past the stairwell from the corner of his eye, he shouted immediately.
Faster than her was Chu Li's figure, like a vigorous cheetah, who had passed through the hall and rushed into the stairwell in a few seconds.
"Chu Li, you bastard!" Tang Xi cursed angrily, but she still had a monster in her hand, so she couldn't catch up immediately.
"Xiaoxi, leave this guy to me." Su Huang appeared beside her and took over the spiritual power rope.
"Bring it to me to the Serious Crime Squad." Tang Xi confessed, and quickly chased after him.
It's easy to know which floor Chu left. The city bureau building uses sensor lights in the stairwell. You just need to see which floor the corridor lights are on, and you will chase all the way to the serious crime team office.
Chu Li stood in the middle, holding the spiritual power gun in his right hand, the muzzle of the gun drooping.
"How is it? Did you catch up?" Tang Xi asked.
"I lost it here." Chu Li said "tsk", with a displeased expression on his face.
Tang Xi didn't speak, just tapped her finger, and a ray of spiritual power scattered in all directions, and then went straight to the forensic room without hesitation.
"Bah!" Chu Li directly kicked open the door of the forensic room.
"Ah~~~~" There was a scream.
"Who?" Chu Li shouted.
"Chu, Team Chu?" A hesitant voice sounded in the room.
With a "snap", Tang Xi turned on the light switch at the door, and the bright light immediately illuminated every detail of the forensic room, and the gloomy atmosphere was instantly diluted.
But I saw a movement behind an anatomy bed, and stood up alone.
"Sister Wanyi?" Tang Xi was dumbfounded.
Su Wanyi's coat was a little wrinkled, and her hair was messy. She brushed a couple of them casually, tidied up her short hair, and said with resentment on her face, "Captain Chu, Xiao Xi, you two don't sleep in the middle of the night, so you came to the office to catch the thief? You almost scared me to death, do you know that!"
"What are you doing here?" Chu Li was helpless.
"Oh, I just look at this corpse too strangely. I want to check some places again. After I finished it, it's all a little bit, so I don't want to go back." Su Wanyi yawned and said in a daze, " Anyway, I have to get up at 6:30 to go to work tomorrow, and I won’t be able to sleep for long after deducting the time on the way back and forth, so I might as well just sleep here.”
"Where did you sleep?" Tang Xi looked at the forensic room where the bottom could be seen at a glance.
"Here." Su Wanyi patted the dissection bed.
"..." Tang Xi had black lines all over his head.
Sister, that's the dissection bed in the forensic room, where the corpse slept! And there is Baker's body lying on another dissecting bed, less than two meters away from you, won't you respond! If you wake up in the middle of the night and open your eyes...
"There are corpses in the forensic room," Chu Li said.
Tang Xi looked over in surprise.
Originally thought this was the number one straight man in the universe, but did he still care about girls
Su Wanyi was obviously taken aback before answering: "Which forensic doctor would be afraid of corpses."
"I mean, there are corpses in the forensic room, so the heating cannot be turned on," Chu Li added.
Tang Xi felt her fist was hardened.
Could this be any more embarrassing!
"Of course I know, that's why I didn't turn on the heat." Su Wanyi said.
"I'll catch a cold." Chu Li sighed, then turned around, "Also, why are you staring at me?"
"Ahaha..." Tang Xi laughed dryly.
Well, at least it's not so hopeless.
"I have a quilt here." Su Wanyi said, quickly folded the quilt on the dissecting bed, put it into a cabinet, and then asked, "But you two, what are you here for?"
"Sister Wanyi, did you see someone coming in?" Tang Xi asked.
"Isn't it just you two? Sleepwalking?" Su Wanyi was puzzled, "Who else came to the city bureau in the middle of the night? Thieves are not so stupid."
"It's a child." Chu Li said.
"Child?" Tang Xi narrowed his gaze.
"Yeah." Chu Li nodded, indicating that she was right.
"I fell asleep just now. I didn't see anyone except you two kicking the door and waking me up." Su Wanyi shook her head.
Before she could ask any more questions, Chu Li grabbed her wrist and pushed her towards Tang Xi: "Follow Xiao Xi and don't go far."
"Hey, huh?" Su Wanyi was at a loss.
"Well, don't stay too far away from me." Tang Xi answered.
Su Wan thought that they went out in a tacit understanding, and while searching the office alone, they scratched their heads and followed Tang Xi.
After turning around for half a circle, they still met at the door of the forensic room.
"No?" Tang Xi frowned.
"Are you sure it's on this floor?" Chu Li asked.
"En." Tang Xi nodded.
"Look again." Chu Li said immediately.
"So, tell me, what are you looking for!" Su Wanyi inexplicably followed for a long time, and finally couldn't help being irritable.
"Hmm..." Tang Xi scratched her head.
Tsk, Xie Changan's absence is really troublesome, it's easy to use, I don't remember how I did things when there was no Xie Changan.
"Click." At this moment, there was a soft sound of something falling on the ground in the forensic room.
"Inside?" Su Wanyi suddenly felt creepy.
She was sure she didn't see anyone else coming in except Chu Li and Tang Xi after she woke up. The voice inside... Could it be that someone was hiding in it from the beginning? I just slept in it! It's creepy just thinking about it.
"Stay back." Tang Xi's face was serious, and she reached out to stop her behind.
The light in the forensic room was still on, but it seemed that there was some bad connection, with some slight flickering, jumping up and down, like the prelude to a ghost movie.
It's a pity that meeting Chu Li and Tang Xi, if it's really a ghost movie, the unlucky ones can only be ghosts, and even Su Wanyi won't be able to scare them.
In the empty forensic room, there was nothing extra that shouldn't be there. If there was anything, it would be... A pen on the table rolled to the ground.
"No one." Su Wanyi bent down and picked up the pen and put it back into the pen holder, muttering, "It's strange, I remember that the pen should be put in the pen holder, why did only one fall out? It can't be a fake corpse, right?" .”
"I think it's possible." Tang Xi said quietly.
Su Wanyi was taken aback, turned around and smiled helplessly: "Xiao Xi, you can't scare me like this."
"I'm quite surprised, Miss Wanyi, you were bitten by a corpse last time, why don't you believe in fake corpses?" Tang Xi asked curiously.
"The fish in the vegetable market, disemboweled and cleaned, will bite people after half a day. People... Although it is a one-in-a-million situation, it can't be completely explained. Anyway, the corpse didn't really come alive to talk or run. Get out." Su Wan agreed.
"..." Tang Xi gave up.
She has nothing to say to the corpse who can eat boiled meat in front of the giant, and even the woman who sleeps next to the corpse.
However, it doesn't matter if you don't believe it, if you believe it, the forensic doctor will leave a psychological shadow in the future, and the serious crime team can't lose such an excellent forensic doctor.
"Xiaoxi." Chu Li said suddenly.
"Yes." Tang Xi replied calmly.
"Hey, where is this child from?" Su Wanyi also saw the child curled up under the dissection bed, and said in surprise, "Captain Chu, isn't this the child you bumped into in the elevator of the deceased's house yesterday?"
The dissecting bed on which Baker lay was near the corner, and there were several cardboard boxes piled underneath. A six or seven-year-old boy was huddled in the gap between the two cardboard boxes.
Tang Xi raised her eyebrows. Sure enough, Su Wanyi, who was completely an ordinary person, could also see it.
"Little devil, you were the one who sneaked into the police station, right? No way." Su Wanyi bent down and stretched out her hand, "Okay, come out, my sister will take you downstairs to the duty room to find your family. You can enter, especially this room, children are absolutely not allowed to enter."
The boy looked up at her, then shrank silently into the shadows.
"Do I look so scary?" Su Wanyi touched her face.
Chu Li took a look at the phone, raised his head and said, "Xiao Su, a girl came down below and said she was looking for her younger brother. You should go down and have a look first. Xiao Xi will coax this brat."
"Okay." Su Wan nodded without doubt.
It's not that she doesn't know that her temperament is sharp, and she is not as good as Tang Xi, a soft and cute girl who pleases children, but it is a bit regrettable.
Seeing her hastily tidy up her clothes and go out, Tang Xi asked curiously, "Really?"
"Fake." Chu Li raised his eyebrows, tapped the ring on his wrist, and ordered, "Hold her."
"Understood." Xie Yan floated out, walked directly to the window, and rushed to the gate before Su Wanyi.
"Pay attention to the shadow." Chu Li reminded.
"Yeah." Xie Yan paused before saying, "I'll lead her to talk to a place without lights."
Tang Xi twitched the corners of her mouth and raised her head: "You are really... well adapted."
"As long as it works." Chu Li didn't care.
"Okay, now, do you come out by yourself, or should I catch you out?" Tang Xi squeezed the knuckles of his fists.
The child hesitated, and finally crawled out.
Under the light, it can be seen that he has a shadow, but his eyes are not pure black, with a hint of dark red.
"Chu Li, isn't it my illusion? Why does this child resemble the deceased?" Tang Xi wondered as he glanced at the corpse lying on the dissecting bed.
Chu Li lowered his face slightly.
I had a glimpse yesterday in the elevator, I didn't look carefully, and I wasn't mentally prepared to associate him with the corpse, but now the two are together, and it can be seen from the comparison that the child is the son of the deceased Baker, No one will doubt it.
Tang Xi turned on the camera function of her mobile phone and pointed at the boy. Sure enough, there was no figure on the screen, only the anatomy bed was photographed.
"What are you? Can you speak?" Chu Li asked in a relieved tone.
The boy shook his head, pointed to Baker, and then to himself.
"Can't talk?" Chu Li's thinking was running fast, and he guessed, "You have something to do with him? Are you his relative?"
The boy shook his head immediately.
"It's a part of him." It was Tang Xi who spoke.
"Part of it?" Chu Li felt a little terrified.
"To be precise, it's a part of the soul." Tang Xi closed the phone with a snap, a smile appeared on her lips, "The final piece of the puzzle is complete."
"You mean, this puppet was created by the dead?" Chu Li reacted.
"Well, if that's the case, then it all makes sense." Tang Xi said confidently, "The people who killed Beck should be the group of people who wanted to snatch the contract from Simon's house, and the magic circle should use Beck to summon a certain It is an evil thing that can be used, but what he didn't expect was that before that, Baker used a part of his soul to create this little ghost puppet. The sacrifices were incomplete, and the guy who received the sacrifice was It’s too short, but it may not be fully summoned.”
"That monster downstairs without sanity?" Chu Li understood.
"The product of failure." Tang Xi shrugged, "Because I have no reason, so I instinctively pursue the sacrifice that should belong to me."
"Didn't Simon say that no one in their family knows how to perform puppetry? I remember that this guy was sent by the Black family to protect him?" Chu Li was still a little confused.
"Who knows." Tang Xi sneered, "If he conceals the puppet art, it may be a third party who joined the Black family because he wanted to snatch the contract."
As she spoke, she stared at the puppet boy again, stretched out her fingers and squeezed his arm.
"What are you doing?" Chu Li was puzzled.
"It feels good, almost like a real person." Tang Xidao, "I have seen the introduction of puppetry in a book before, I remember... the book said that this kind of technique is illegal and dangerous, because it is your own soul that is split. Annihilation, that part of the soul is wiped out, is a devastating blow to the body. A person with an incomplete soul will collapse from rationality and become crazy and stupid at least, and become a vegetable at worst. However, it has never been mentioned in the book that if The main body of the puppet art is killed, and the small piece of soul that was separated can still continue to move in the puppet?"
"Although he can't communicate, he is indeed rational." Chu Li affirmed.
With a light bump, stuffing something in his pocket without him noticing, even few living people can do it.
"Xiao Xi, I dragged this guy up." Su Huang's voice sounded outside the door.
"Come with me?" Tang Xi stretched out her hand tentatively.
The boy hesitated, grabbed one of her fingers, and was led out of the forensic room.
Su Huang was holding the spiritual power rope in his hand, but the black energy on the monster seemed to be a little darker, much dimmer than the dense blackness just now.
"Too disobedient, I beat you up." Su Huang was confident.
"It's okay." Tang Xi glanced at the puppet boy who hid directly behind her, and waved his hand.
The monster seemed to sense that its prey was nearby, and immediately howled louder, showing signs that the spiritual power rope was almost broken again.
"It's so noisy!" Su Huang slapped her tail.
"I've figured out the origin of this thing, it's useless." Tang Xi said.
Hearing this, Chu Li raised the muzzle of the gun, and the pure white spiritual power penetrated the monster's head, aiming at a bright red "eye", and headshot it.
Immediately, the monster was like thin ice under the scorching sun, starting from the place where it was hit, it quickly melted away and disappeared without a trace, leaving only the rope of spiritual power hanging down on the ground.
Tang Xi waved his hand to dissipate his spiritual power, then turned around and said, "Okay, you threatened me and got rid of it, now it's your turn."
The boy hesitated, ran to a desk, jumped up and grabbed a pen.
"Can't speak, but can write?" Tang Xi suddenly understood the pen that had fallen on the ground in the forensic room, and took out a piece of A4 paper from the side of the printer and handed it to him.
The boy was lying on the ground, holding the ballpoint pen with a clenched fist, with an awkward posture, and wrote three words crookedly on the paper.
Chu Li and Tang Xi leaned over, barely making out the handwriting.
blood, nster, die.
"Blood, monster, death?" Tang Xi asked in confusion.
"This?" Chu Li took out the cuff of the blood crystal and shook it.
"The monster, it shouldn't be the defective product that was destroyed just now." Tang Xi rubbed his chin and pondered, "Could it be the contract in Simon's hand?"
"In the end, who is dead, or who is going to die?" Chu Li asked.
There was silence in the air for a while, the two looked at each other, and suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Oops!" Tang Xi gritted his teeth, picked up the boy and ran out.
Chu Li followed and walked away with the A4 paper. In a hurry, only the ballpoint pen fell to the ground.
However, they seem to have forgotten something.
Ten minutes later, Su Wanyi walked into the office of the serious crime team with a puzzled face, and shouted, "What the hell did you say for a long time to say that it was my sister or not my brother that she missed? It's the middle of the night! Chu..."
In the middle of speaking, she suddenly froze.
no one
"Gululu..." His toes seemed to kick something.
"Someone threw pens around again?" Su Wanyi bent down to pick up the ballpoint pen on the ground, feeling even more weird about what happened tonight.
It seemed, indeed, a little cold!
Or go home...
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