At the end of the year, the entire Jiangnan City and Qingjiang City experienced an earthquake.
The grievances of wealthy families, fighting for property and even killing each other have been seen a lot in film and television works, but looking at the reality, ordinary people say that it is really a big melon of the year, enough to eat with relish after dinner.
First, the serious crime teams of the two cities jointly attacked and searched the Fu family's mansion to the bottom. Finally, they found a few things from the safe, a USB flash drive with a dim video in it, which seemed to be a bar. It was Pei Yuanqing, the youngest of the Pei family, and another man in his thirties. The noise in the bar was very loud, and their voices could not be heard. Only the man who was talking to Pei Yuanqing looked very nervous and kept wiping his sweat. However, even though the conversation could not be heard, the video captured the faces of the two clearly .
The police invited lip-language experts to restore all the conversations, and they were shocked to find that the man was the captain of the plane that crashed that year, and Pei Yuanqing kept persuading how important the contract was, and if he lost it, he would definitely lose his job. But everyone gets a big bonus if they get there on time. Threats and lures go together. The most important thing is that when the captain turned his head, Pei Yuanqing threw a pill into his wine glass - this is not just drunk driving, this is drugging!
Drugging the captain is definitely murder.
There are also several videos, basically the young Pei Yuanli and his wife, and Pei Yuan are present, it seems to be a small gathering before departure, and after comparison, all the crew members from that year were also present. The only people on the plane who were not there were Pei Qingzhi's parents. Looking at it this way, they probably didn't know how dangerous the crew of this plane was. It's a pity that it's been so long that it's hard to find out what medicine Pei Yuanqing prescribed.
And the Fu family saved these videos from the bar surveillance system, it was really well-intentioned.
Chu Li rushed back to the police station with the video and showed it to Pei Yuanli without saying a word. Sure enough, Pei Yuanli, who mistakenly thought that Fu's family was in trouble, angrily reported the password of a bank safe, and took out a recording pen. Back then, the Fu family wanted to buy back the shares that Pei Qingzhi had inherited from their mother, but Mr. Pei refused, claiming that "the grandson will make his own decisions when he grows up." So the Fu family threatened the plane crash and asked Pei Yuanli to cooperate in the kidnapping of Pei Qingzhi. It was that conversation. If you want to play with your mind, the two sides are really each other.
The matter has come to this point, the two families can be said to have refreshed the lower limit of everyone in the city bureau, and those who have been exposed and those who have not been exposed are bitten by the other party one by one, which profoundly interprets the principle of "the one who knows you best is your opponent". It is not even necessary for the police to find a way to pry their mouths open. The suspect is afraid that if he does not say enough, he will be sentenced more severely than the other party.
Pei Qingzhi was not idle either. Even if the two families said that they had no evidence, the actual evidence was not particularly sufficient, but the Pei family was rich, a lot of money, and the Pei family's legal department kept a group of elite lawyers. At this time, This is the stage for lawyers.
It's just that such a big case won't come to a conclusion in a year or so.
Until then, the New Year slips away quietly.
This year was still spent at Tang Xi's house, the Pei family was still in chaos, and Pei Qingzhi also let the old man spend the New Year safely on the small island, in case someone jumped the wall in a hurry. And Pei Qingzhi has been living in the guest room of Tang Xi's house. Anyway, he will be alone when he goes back. It is safer to live together until he finds the old man.
Three people and a group of ghosts, a table of delicacies, a table of joss sticks and paper money, plus various fireworks.
It's just that both the atmosphere and the way of getting along are different from last year after all.
On the morning of the first day of the new year, there were snowflakes in the sky.
Tang Xi stood on the terrace, looking at the whitened world, frowning slightly.
"Don't worry, it's a good thing." Xie Changan appeared behind her.
"Good thing?" Tang Xi raised an eyebrow.
"Well, the low temperature makes it easier to keep calm." Xie Changan replied, "Look at the hot summer, isn't there a lot of bleeding incidents caused by impulsive brainwashing?"
"..." Tang Xi gave him a hard look, unable to tell whether he was serious or joking.
"So early?" Chu Li pushed open the patio door on the other side.
"I'm going to visit the new city in a while." Tang Xi said, "Where's Pei Qingzhi?"
"I'm making breakfast." Chu Li replied casually.
"So free?" Tang Xi's eyes widened.
"It's New Year's Eve, why don't you be free?" Chu Li sneered, and said, "Then go, it's best to solve it during the New Year. After all, during this period of time when migrant workers return home, the population of Jiangnan City has dropped sharply." , especially in the new city, there are no people in sight.”
"Together?" Tang Xi smiled.
"I'll call out Yan Shifei. After all, it's his territory. He always wants to say hello. It's up to him whether he comes or not." Chu Li said again.
"It won't disturb him during the New Year, will it?" Tang Xi said.
"Lonely and widowed, what year is it?" Chu Li said bluntly.
"..." Tang Xi realized, this is how Chu Li lived in the past few years, right
Facts have proved that Yan Shifei immediately said after listening to it: I sent you the location, and I will go right away!
more positive than myself.
Tang Xi shook her head, she really deserves to be single forever! At any rate, Chu Li has a bit of humanity now... It's better to help him take down Sister Wan Yi, otherwise where can I find a second stupid woman who likes him and can tolerate his workaholic attitude. Although... Sister Wanyi was actually no worse than Chu Li when she became a workaholic.
In the living room, Pei Qingzhi happened to serve breakfast on the table.
Seeing his appearance, Tang Xi was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed out loud.
Aunt Zhang is a ghost, so of course she doesn't need an apron. The one Pei Qingzhi found out to wear was a pink Hello Kitty lace girly apron that Tang Xi bought casually and never used, but it wouldn't look ugly on Pei Qingzhi.
"I only found this." Pei Qingzhi smiled helplessly, "Hello Kitty is quite cute."
"Yes, yes, I knew that no one would dislike Hello Kitty!" Tang Xi nodded repeatedly.
"I've been bothering you for a long time. I've been busy before. It's rare that I'm free. Let's have a try." Pei Qingzhi said, put away three breakfasts, took off the apron, and put it on the back of the chair.
"Hey, why take it off, I still want to see it." Tang Xi sat at the table waiting to be fed, smiling while holding her chin.
"I'll wear it next time." Pei Qingzhi smiled and sat down, "Eat it while it's hot, don't you want to go out?"
"Oh." Tang Xi looked at the breakfast in front of him: milk oatmeal, ham, omelette, toast, fruit salad, colorful, pleasing to the eye, and couldn't help admiring, "I didn't expect Mr. Pei to have such a skill?"
"You should see that there is a small refrigerator and an induction cooker in my lounge." Pei Qingzhi put down his rolled-up sleeves and said casually, "Sometimes the company is busy and I don't go home for a few days, and I don't want to eat the winter relationship in the cafeteria all the time. I will make something simple, convenient and nutritious by myself, especially when the canteen closes when I am hungry in the middle of the night.”
Tang Xi tasted everything and nodded with satisfaction.
The sweetness of the oatmeal is just right, the fried egg is half-boiled as she likes, golden egg liquid flows out when poked with a fork lightly, the toast is burnt just right, and the fruit combination is also perfect, the top is not mayonnaise, but Passion fruit jam.
"You... your heart has grown sideways." Chu Li poked the fried egg and shook his head again and again.
"You don't like to eat?" Tang Xi asked curiously.
"We're both busy. We always fry the eggs until they're cooked for breakfast. If we work like this, it will drip onto the documents while eating." Chu Li explained.
"So, it was made for me." Tang Xi smiled.
"Is it delicious?" Pei Qingzhi looked at her nervously.
"Well... not bad, keep up the good work." Tang Xi nodded seriously.
"Okay." Pei Qingzhi also had a smile in his eyes. It was really useful to observe Tang Xi's eating habits during the days when they lived together.
"Let's go to the new city later, what about you?" Chu Li asked.
"That's what I said before, going down the sewer?" Pei Qingzhi said.
"That's right. Luckily, it's winter. If it's summer, it will really kill people." Tang Xi complained.
"Do you want me to help?" Pei Qingzhi asked.
"Not for now." Tang Xi shook his head.
"Okay, tell me what you need." Pei Qingzhi didn't force it.
Even if you can't help, at least you can't hold back. For those idiots who say "I'm going with you because I know the danger", maybe the person they like died just to save him. I know what I can do best, and I still need others to teach me
However, on the other hand, you can follow up and see.
After breakfast, Aunt Zhang cleared the table, and Pei Qingzhi continued to watch the progress of the case between the Pei family and the Fu family, and held a video conference with the lawyer.
Chu Li and Tang Xi went out.
Today's car was driven by Tang Xi, and the royal blue Lamborghini ostentatiously drove through the empty street and entered the new district.
"Turn left ahead." Xie Changan floated in front of the car to lead the way.
During the Chinese New Year, the industrial park in Xincheng seems to have been hit with a pause button, and everything stopped.
The car passed through the streets and alleys, and finally stopped at the gate of an unfinished construction site.
"Here?" Tang Xi asked curiously, "Whose project?"
"It's not from Pei's family anyway." Chu Li said, opened the door and got out of the car.
Not far away, a police car was parked. A thin layer of snow had already accumulated on the car. Yan Shifei leaned beside him. There was already a pile of extinguished cigarette butts above the roadside garbage bin.
"Are you here early?" Chu Li walked over.
"Come on, let's walk around the neighborhood first." Yan Shifei said something, then turned to look at Tang Xi, "I didn't make it clear on the phone, what do you want to do?"
"To put it simply, there is an explosion source underground here, and you can't deal with it. I have to go down and check the situation." Tang Xi said.
"The planning of the new city is not long ago, and the sewer is relatively clear. If it is in the old city, it will be more troublesome." Yan Shifei opened the door, took out the laptop, wiped off the snow on the hood of the police car with his sleeve, put the computer on it, and turned it on.
"Did you bring the plan?" Chu Li's eyes lit up.
"Yeah." Yan Shifei clicked a few times, called up a blueprint, and explained, "It happened that I encountered a murder case here a few years ago. After the murderer was arrested, he confessed that he threw the murder weapon down the sewer, but he couldn't remember which one to throw. The sewer is down, so I used this as an excuse to take the planning drawings."
"Thank you." Chu Li patted him on the shoulder.
"Xie Chang'an, do you understand?" Tang Xi turned around and asked.
"Here." Xie Changan pointed to a location on the screen.
Tang Xi immediately made a mark, and said, "Team Yan, please help me plan a route that can reach this point as quickly as possible, and send me your mobile phone."
"Okay." Yan Shifei agreed, and asked while operating the computer, "Who were you talking to just now?"
"You really want to know?" Tang Xi looked at him innocently.
"..." Yan Shifei was silent for a second, and said decisively, "No, I don't want to!"
"What a pity." Tang Xi shrugged.
Soon, the map is loaded into the phone.
"Just the two of you going down?" Yan Shifei couldn't help but said, "Or else I will..."
"Team Yan should be on top to respond. If anything happens, they can ask for help in time." Chu Li said.
Yan Shifei frowned, but nodded reluctantly, and said, "Don't mess around."
"I know, I didn't want to solve it today, I just went to see the situation first, so I can think about countermeasures." Tang Xi waved his hand and checked his clothes and backpack.
Because she was going to drill into the sewer, her hair was tied into a bun and coiled behind her head. She was wearing a neat and waterproof leather jacket and leather pants, and on her feet were a pair of high boots with the bottoms of the trousers tucked in.
Chu Li was similar, after opening the manhole cover, Xie Changan got in first.
"Me first." Tang Xi gestured and climbed down first.
"Take it easy." Yan Shifei said.
"I know." Chu Li tightened the holster around his waist, and nimbly slid down the metal pistol.
Of course, there was no light under the sewer, and it was dark after a few steps.
Because the year is not long, and there was little rain in Jiangnan City in the past one or two months, the water level was not high, and there was a dry road on the side that people could walk on, so I was very lucky.
"This sewer is not bad? It's much better than I imagined." Tang Xi said with emotion.
Although there are traces of sewage soaking on the ground, all kinds of domestic garbage and silt everywhere, dead mice and cockroaches, and the smell of dampness and stench in the air, but compared to what she expected, she had to bend over to walk and swim in the sewage. The scene, the environment is really good.
At least Chu Li could stand upright at his height.
The key is that the space is spacious, so that there will be no constraints when you are in danger.
"I'll lead the way." Xie Changan floated ahead.
Tang Xi took out the Spike flashlight and turned it on. This was when she went to Chang'an. Because she was going to the grave, Pei Qingzhi prepared supplies for her. Military products. The light beam was concentrated and could illuminate a hundred meters away. It is really overkill to use it in the sewer .
"Wait." Chu Li suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?" Tang Xi turned around.
"Look." Chu Li beckoned, motioning her to look at a dead mouse.
"Uh..." Tang Xi pinched her nose with disgust.
Chu Li picked up a branch that floated over from nowhere, and slightly opened the dead mouse's eyelids.
"Red!" Tang Xi blurted out with a tense expression.
"Well, it's not the first time we've met." Chu Li threw away the branch.
"Sure enough, those mutated animals are all related to this place." Tang Xi looked at the top and thought about it, "Is this location not far from Yang Qingrong's neighborhood?"
"It's not far." Chu Li nodded to confirm.
"Animals are more sensitive than humans, and are more likely to be infected." Tang Xi felt a little depressed, "Let's go."
The two continued to move forward in silence. On the road, they saw the corpses of many animals, even stray cats. Without exception, their eyes began to turn red. The only difference was that some were dark red, and some were just bloodshot.
"Xie Chang'an, are you sure it's okay for the past few months?" Tang Xi asked.
"How could it be that there is no problem at all." Xie Changan smiled wryly, "It's just that the problem is not serious. Although these animals were slightly infected by Yin Qi, they haven't reached the point of berserk, but it's hard to say after a long time. Yes. The sewer, in the darkness that you can’t see, is inhabited by countless creatures, let’s say rats, if the rats in the whole city go crazy and attack humans together, it will be a disaster.”
Thinking of that scene, Tang Xi couldn't help but shudder, and her face was extremely ugly.
"It's just ahead." Xie Changan stopped.
The position was fairly spacious, so Chu Li also stepped forward and stood beside Tang Xi.
I saw the entrance of the passage in front, a gap in the space, like a black hole, a deep vortex swirling, I don't know where it leads.
Chu Li raised his hand to cover half of his face, and looked with eyes without contact lenses. He could only see ordinary passages. In the bone marrow.
Tang Xi pointed, and threw a thunder curse over.
However, nothing happened.
The thunder curse entering the black hole is like a mud cow entering the sea, gone forever.
After thinking about it, she released a wisp of yin energy from the Soul Cultivation Pearl, which was exactly what was collected in the moat back then.
The yin energy became active as soon as he got out of trouble, as if the wanderer had finally found his way home, happily plunged into the black hole, and merged into one.
"Sure enough, they come from the same source." Tang Xi murmured.
"Xiaoxi, look here." Chu Li squatted down, his face a bit dignified.
"What?" Tang Xi bent over and leaned over.
"The shoe prints are very new." Chu Li said in a deep voice.
"Someone has been here?" Tang Xi asked in surprise, "Are you sure it's not a sanitation worker?"
"No. It's New Year's Eve, sanitation workers don't have to go down the well, and the sanitation workers wear rain boots, and these footprints are men's leather shoes." Chu Li said.
"So, someone found this place ahead of us?" Tang Xi frowned.
A man who wears leather shoes will never wander in the sewer with nothing to do.
"Besides, the shoe prints only come in, not out." Chu Li said again, "The road just now was not very obvious, but the terrain here is low, it seems that sewage has just poured up, and the moss and silt on the ground are heavy. more clearly."
"Still here?" Tang Xi looked left and right, his eyes finally fell on the crack like a black hole, swallowed, and said dryly, "It's not...in it?"
"Do you think living people can survive inside?" Chu Li asked.
Tang Xi didn't answer, and walked forward slowly, hesitated for a moment, then cautiously stretched out a hand, and inserted it into the crack.
"Be careful!" Chu Li looked at her nervously, "How is it?"
"In it, all pure energy such as spiritual power and resentment will be dissolved." Tang Xi retracted his hand after a long time.
"Ghosts will be swallowed in an instant when they enter. Even ghosts of the same origin can only persist for a while." Xie Chang'an said in a deep voice, "But what's the matter with dissolving spiritual power?"
"I wrapped the spiritual power in my hand first, and it was eroded." Tang Xi spread his hand and said helplessly, "I thought about it, and I just dispersed the spiritual power, but then I found that the Yin energy inside was not good for me. More aggressive."
"So, ordinary people can walk in, but celestial masters can't?" Chu Li concluded.
"Probably that's what it means." Tang Xi nodded.
"But, if there is no spiritual protection, will living people become like those red-eyed animals?" Chu Li asked.
"That's not what I said." Tang Xi shook her head and said seriously, "The reason why human beings stand at the top of all races is because they are rational. Animals act on instinct, so they are easily bewitched by various evil thoughts. Especially the abandoned stray cats and dogs, the rats and cockroaches that everyone yells and beats, they are full of malice and violence, as long as they are provoked a little, they will become aggressive. However... Chu Li, I think, there is nothing in this world I am afraid that the evil thoughts that bewitch you have not yet been born."
By the moat, that shot without hesitation made her understand how strong this man's heart is.
"In that case, the matter is simple, I'll go in." Chu Li said without hesitation.
"It's so simple!" Tang Xi grabbed him and said angrily, "Do you know who the one who went in? What if it's the bastard we're looking for? Can you deal with it alone?"
Chu Li frowned slightly and asked, "Then what do you want to do?"
"Come on, get out first, let's go somewhere." Tang Xi said.
"Where are you going?" Chu Li followed her.
Xie Chang'an took a last look at the crack, made a few more seals, and then followed.
On the ground, Yan Shifei contributed a few more cigarette butts to the dustbin.
On the notebook, the two red dots stayed at the mark for a while, and then began to return the same way.
Chu Li's and Tang Xi's mobile phones have positioning systems embedded in them, and Yan Shifei, who is also a police officer, is most convenient to use this to monitor the situation.
Sure enough, the red dot returned to the entrance, and Tang Xi and Chu Li climbed up one after another.
"How is it?" Yan Shifei closed his laptop and walked over.
"It's troublesome, I have to seek help, and solve a problem by the way." Tang Xi smiled.
"You don't want to tell me again?" Yan Shifei rolled his eyes.
"Captain Yan, it's no good knowing too much." Tang Xi waved his hand.
"Little girl." Yan Shifei muttered, put down the last cigarette, took his laptop and got into the car.
The police car and the Lamborghini pulled out of the small road, one east and one west, and left in two directions.
"Did you say hello to Gu Ran?" Chu Li asked.
"Let's talk when we get there." Tang Xi narrowed her eyes, "I asked Sister Yun before, and she said that she and Brother Tianchen went back to their hometown for the New Year. There are not many pei people staying in the dormitory this year, but Mr. Wen is here."
"The person you want to ask for help is Mr. Wen?" Chu Li said.
"Yeah." Tang Xi said while driving, "I don't know how that guy got in, but for me, spiritual power is my instinct, even if I don't use it, it will circulate freely in my body, and the whole person will go in. It's not as simple as just one hand. It's like forcing a normal, conscious adult to stop thinking and empty the brain, it's too difficult."
"You want Elder Wen to help you find equipment that can isolate spiritual power?" Chu Li was stunned.
"Yeah, by the way... Taking advantage of the lack of people, I want to study pei's magic weapon enchantment to see if it really can only be broken with brute force." Tang Xi said again.
"You still think that Pei has a traitor." Chu Li was sure.
"Isn't it the same for you?" Tang Xi sneered, "It just so happens that Gu Ran has been investigating for so long, so there must be some progress. In such a dangerous place as Jiuyou Dique, you have to clean up your own troubles before going. If the key Being stabbed in the back all the time is a lot of fun."
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