late at night.
"Ah~~~~" Tang Xi directly lifted the drawing paper on the table, grabbed her hair with a broken face, "What the hell is this! Thirty minutes... I've fainted to death, Venus is popping up in front of my eyes, what? I can't even see clearly!"
Because the desk in the study room was not big enough, they moved the battlefield to the long dining table in the living room. The paper they used was the whole roll of uncut drawing paper they bought from the stationery store just this afternoon.
Cheng Huaying was drawing while thinking, and had finished drawing on a piece of paper more than four meters long.
"Xiaoxi, Mr. Cheng, Mr. Pei, eat some supper before continuing." Aunt Zhang came out with a pot, and Yueyue behind her was bouncing around holding a stack of bowls.
"It smells so good." Tang Xi moved her nose.
"Osmanthus Chestnut Soup." Aunt Zhang looked at the unoccupied dining table, and motioned for Yueyue to follow her to bring the supper to the tea table, serving three bowls.
"Just take a break." Cheng Huaying threw away the pen, moved to the sofa, sat down, took a bowl of chestnut soup, first smelled the fragrance, and then smiled, "The delicacy in the world is really good, I envy you Do not?"
Xie Changan floated behind the dining table looking at the formation map, although he was facing the sofa, he didn't even bother to look up at him.
Cheng Huaying felt bored, so she shrugged and buried herself in eating.
"Xiaoxi, don't read it either, let your mind rest for a while." Su Huang brought another bowl of chestnut soup.
"Thank you." Tang Xi took it and took a sip without taste, "Hiss—it's so hot!"
"Look at it too." Su Huang couldn't laugh or cry, "Is it burning your tongue?"
"It's okay." Tang Xi took two breaths and shook her head.
"This map is difficult?" Yun Qi walked out.
"It's very difficult, very complicated. I've never seen such a complicated array, and I'm not the best at runes, although it's much better than fortune-telling." Tang Xi muttered.
"Suppressing people with spiritual power all day long?" Yun Qi squinted at her.
"Don't you think it's stupid to have to go around and use tactics that I can easily crush to death with a single fist?" Tang Xi spoke eloquently.
"Then what are you struggling with now?" Yun Qi sneered.
"What I'm struggling with is... not just the difficulty, but where I seem to have seen similar runes!" Tang Xi sighed.
"Have you seen it? Where is it?" This sentence came from Cheng Huaying and Xie Changan's ensemble.
"Uh... I just don't remember where I saw it!" Tang Xi was helpless.
"Think about it, it's very important!" Xie Changan looked at her solemnly.
"Xiaoxi, don't worry, think slowly." Pei Qingzhi's voice was still gentle, which could calm people's restlessness.
"Hmm." Tang Xi frowned and thought hard.
Definitely seen it, but where
"It's logically impossible." Cheng Huaying muttered, "I can't remember this map even if I try to remember it. It's not just a complicated problem, but a problem of realm and level. If I force it to remember and understand, I will become more and more dizzy. In the end, it seemed that all the characters were spinning, and the whole soul was about to explode. If the adults hadn't used their own power to engrave the formation in my memory, I wouldn't be able to draw it, just like this... I feel like throwing up."
Tang Xi pursed her lips, and the warm chestnut soup slid down her throat, warming her stomach. She also wants to vomit...
"Ah, that's right." Cheng Huaying said suddenly, "The seal you showed me last time is a bit different, but..."
Before he could finish speaking, Tang Xi dropped the bowl, rushed into her room, and quickly took out the seal of the haunted house and the freezer of the funeral parlor.
"This rune... has similarities, but..." Xie Changan mused.
"If this map is the universe, then the rune on the seal is one of the planets." After careful comparison, Tang Xi said, "Although a planet is as small as a speck of dust in the air or an ocean It's a plankton in the ocean, but it's also really part of the universe."
"You are right." Xie Changan nodded and said, "It is difficult for someone who has not studied the formation diagram to draw such a rune."
"And made innovations." Cheng Huaying held a bowl in one hand, stood behind them at some point, pulled out a seal with the other hand, shook it, and said with a sneer, "Research can't get home, and the missing part can only be made up by self-research , and even used Western things, which is really embarrassing to the people of the country.”
"You mean 'familiarity', is this?" Yun Qi asked with some doubts.
"No." Tang Xi said with a bitter face, "I absolutely, absolutely, have seen others!"
This time, everyone and the ghost couldn't help but look at each other.
"Crack." Just then, the door opened.
"..." As soon as Chu Li entered the door, he received the gaze of a room full of people and ghosts, and couldn't help but stiffen, "Why?"
"No, do you want supper?" Tang Xi smiled dryly.
Chu Li looked at Pei Qingzhi suspiciously, and Pei Qingzhi directly brought him a bowl of warm osmanthus chestnut soup.
"What are you doing?" Chu Li asked.
"Save the world!" Tang Xi said with a serious face.
"Oh, when are you going to leave?" Chu Li replied in a nonchalant manner.
"Can't you cooperate!" Tang Xi glared at him.
"How old do you think you are?" Chu Li looked at her speechlessly.
Tang Xi gritted her teeth in dissatisfaction. Did you agree that I am your little princess? fraud!
"This..." Chu Li came to the dining table, glanced at the long array, and said hesitantly, "This is... a seal? It's so complicated, how long does it take to draw it?"
"You..." Tang Xi looked at him in surprise, and said after a while, "Aren't you dizzy?"
"Why do you feel dizzy?" Chu Li looked puzzled, "Although this drawing is a bit... But I don't have trypophobia. Didn't you memorize more books before the college entrance examination than this word?"
Tang Xi got up suddenly, pulled Pei Qingzhi over, pointed to the formation and asked, "Do you think this is dizzy?"
"Dizzy." Pei Qingzhi nodded with a wry smile, "I can endure it for ten minutes at most, and if it takes longer, the characters seem to come to life, drilling into my brain one by one."
"What are you talking about, isn't it just a painting?" Chu Li put the chestnut soup aside, picked up the drawing paper, and stared at it without blinking.
All the people and ghosts in the room looked at him nervously.
One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes...
"Is it enough?" Chu Li asked.
"You don't feel anything?" Tang Xi asked unwillingly.
"No." Chu Li answered simply.
"I think, I understand." Cheng Huaying finally said.
"What?" Tang Xi looked back at him.
"Because he is the only real mortal in this room, and the props are foreign objects after all." Cheng Huaying said.
"Ah?" Tang Xi looked at Pei Qingzhi puzzled.
Doesn't this count
"Permanent yin and yang eyes can't be closed, do you think he is still a mortal?" Cheng Huaying couldn't help but rolled his eyes, "And don't say you can't see it, he has merit protection on his body."
"Merit?" Pei Qing was puzzled.
"Oh, that's nothing important, it's probably because you saved the world in your previous life." Tang Xi shrugged, "If you didn't have meritorious body protection, the Doom Doll would not just make you lose a little bit of memory. "
"That sounds so mysterious." Pei Qingzhi murmured.
"Don't think about it too much. Although merit is rare, it's not impossible to see it." Xie Chang'an added, "It happened to be a war-torn era more than a hundred years ago. There are even heroes who are praised by thousands of people. If they are reincarnated, part of their merits will be converted into blessings in the next life, such as having a good pregnancy and a smooth life, and if the merits are too much to be consumed, they will continue to be retained in the next life.”
"However, your merits and virtues can be so profound in reincarnation, maybe you really saved the world in your previous life?" Cheng Huaying continued.
"So—" Chu Li interrupted, "This thing is just for me, a mortal?"
"It's not for ordinary people to read." Cheng Huaying looked at him with a hint of sympathy, "You look at this, it's like... How should I put it? It's like an old professor wrote a wonderful paper swearing at people by citing scriptures. But the one who was scolded was an illiterate who couldn't understand a single word and still praised how good he wrote hahahahaha... "
"Hey—" Chu Li's face turned dark.
"Hey, don't be angry, it's about the same, just understand it. Understand it." Cheng Huaying laughed.
Chu Li was speechless, turned his head and said, "This guy is possessed by a ghost? Why did his temperament change so much?"
"Pfft—" Tang Xi also laughed, "Isn't it just being possessed by a ghost, Mr. Heiwuchang?"
"No, I'm not possessing myself." Cheng Huaying said quickly.
It was Pei Qingzhi who explained it again.
"So, our cat is Heiwuchang... No, half of Heiwuchang, second uncle Cheng is the other half?" Chu Li thought for a while.
"It's correct to understand that." Tang Xi nodded.
"Okay, then who can tell, what is the purpose of this blueprint that only mortals can read?" Chu Li asked.
For a moment, all the people and ghosts were silent.
"It seems that this matter... only he is the most suitable to do it." Xie Chang'an said.
"But ordinary people don't have spiritual power, how can they draw a talisman formation?" Cheng Huaying retorted.
"A person with spiritual power can't hold on to the talisman array for a few minutes, and even Tang Xi can only last for half an hour. Could it be that it's a turn? The spiritual power doesn't connect." Xie Chang'an said.
"So this is a refutation at all!" Cheng Huaying gritted her teeth.
"So, Second Uncle Cheng, can't you draw?" Pei Qingzhi asked suspiciously, "No matter what the reason is, you are the only one who can draw a talisman."
"I don't have enough spiritual power." Cheng Huaying looked depressed, "My lord can only forcibly engrave the formation diagram in my memory, but it's fine to reproduce it on paper. I don't have the ability to actually arrange the seal."
As he said that, he looked at Xie Chang'an again, with a complicated expression: "Isn't it because she was special that you fell in love with Tang Xi back then?"
"Yes." Xie Changan nodded, "Xiaoxi's spiritual power is close to infinity, and she has infinite possibilities."
"Wait, wait." Tang Xi couldn't help interrupting their argument, "The problem now is that Chu Li can draw the formation but he doesn't have spiritual power, and I have enough spiritual power but can't finish drawing the formation, right? "
"You have a solution?" Xie Changan and Cheng Huaying stopped arguing and turned to look at him together.
"Then it's fine for me and him to add up. Give him my spiritual power, and he will paint." Tang Xi took it for granted.
"..." For a while, there was no sound in the living room.
"Xiaoxi, although there is a way to temporarily borrow spiritual power, if you lend the spiritual power to Team Chu, he will have spiritual power, and the formation map will also work for him." Xie Changan hesitated.
"No, didn't you say that external objects don't work? He can see ghosts with glasses on, and he's not affected by the array." Tang Xi answered easily.
"You mean, store your spiritual power in a foreign object and let him use it?" Cheng Huaying jumped up.
"It just so happens that we have an expert here who is dedicated to doing this kind of thing." Tang Xi laughed.
The principle of the spiritual power pen and the spiritual power gun is similar, I believe Mr. Wen can easily make it.
"So, which one of you should explain first, what exactly do you want me to do?" Chu Li said helplessly.
"It's very simple, just draw the formation on the blueprint on the seal, don't worry about the rest, we'll take care of it all," Tang Xi said.
Chu Li paused for a moment and did not speak. He knew very well that Tang Xi said it lightly, but what he really had to do would never be so easy.
It's not a reluctance to take responsibility, but a fear that if something goes wrong—what will happen next
This kind of pressure is too great, far greater than going undercover in overseas organizations back then.
At that time, he had just graduated from the Public Security University, and he still had the spirit and passion of a young man. He never thought about death or failure, but after experiencing the test of life and death, the death of his comrades, it is different now after all.
"It's okay, you can do it." Tang Xi said with a smile.
Chu Li took a deep look at her, and finally said: "Okay, I understand."
"I didn't expect it to be solved so easily." Cheng Huaying muttered.
Even if you know that mortals are immune to the influence of the array, how many people in this world dare to go deep into the underworld to seal the source of Yin Qi? Even if someone dares, can they really believe that he can do it
In the dark, the encounter between Tang Xi and Chu Li was also a kind of destiny.
"When will I set off, even if it's just a drawing, I have to familiarize myself with the picture." Chu Li picked up the drawing paper.
"Wait a minute!" Cheng Huaying shouted.
"Why?" Chu Li looked at him suspiciously, "Could it be that you want to say, let me memorize it? Impossible!"
"No." Cheng Huaying looked hopeless, pointing to the blank part of the paper, "I haven't finished drawing yet."
"..." Chu Li was silent for a while, "How much more?"
"Probably... half of it?" Cheng Huaying thought for a while.
"..." Chu Li really wanted to swear and curse again to disturb Lao Tzu and quit.
This is not writing, doubling... Eight|nine meters long and one meter wide drawing paper, the screen is full of so-called ghost symbols, can you be blinded by tracing them
There is a kind of fuck|fuck that got on a thief boat, but the boat has already sailed to the middle of the river and can't get off.
"I'll go find Mr. Wen tomorrow morning." Tang Xi smiled dryly, "By the way, send over what Mr. Wen needs."
"I'm going with you because I have something to do." Chu Li said.
"Speaking of which, when you entered the door with such a serious expression, what did you find out?" Pei Qingzhi asked suddenly.
"Checked the communication records." Chu Li sneered.
"Communication records... haven't you checked it before?" Pei Qing was puzzled.
"This time it's a private investigation." Chu Li glanced at him, if there was any deep meaning.
"The mole in the police station... have you found out who was the tipper?" Tang Xi blurted out.
"That's right." Chu Li's face was very calm, but he could see the flames deep in his eyes, "Before he didn't move, I didn't have a clue, but this time when we went to Qingjiang, he was anxious, and he inevitably showed his feet. Xiao Xiao used fake recordings as bait for fishing, and then hacked the network of China Telecom—”
"Captain Chu, know the law and break the law." Tang Xi made a black line.
"No." Chu Li swept across her face coolly, "I asked Wang Ling to give the order to Xiao Xiao."
"Huh?" Tang Xi was confused.
"Special departments like pei have a certain degree of 'legal and illegal rights', don't you know?" Chu Li asked back.
"I know—" Tang Xi could only nod.
It's not that she has never used the so-called legal right to violate the law. Otherwise, who would be within the scope of the law when they handle cases and arrest criminals? It's just a matter of grasping the proportions. If you use legal and illegal powers for private use, the punishment within pei will definitely be heavier than the law. It's just that she didn't expect that Chu Li would take advantage of this. Isn't he afraid that Pei's spy is Wang Ling? not right...
"If there is something wrong with Wang Ling, Xiao Xiao won't find anything." Chu Li saw that she understood, and then said, "Xiao Xiao can find that person, which means that Wang Ling did not report the news, in other words, Wang Ling did not question."
"Great." Tang Xi couldn't help admiring.
"So, who is that traitor?" Pei Qingzhi asked curiously.
"Ju Zhao." Chu Li spit out two words directly.
"This..." Tang Xi was startled and said, "The one I've seen?"
"That's right, you remember the meeting chaired by Director Zhao on the case we cooperated with Pei for the first time," Chu Li said.
"I remember it, but I'm not familiar with it. I only met him a few times at the City Bureau." Tang Xi hesitated.
"Yes." Chu Li paused before saying, "Before I came back, I just came out of Bureau Tan's house."
"Tan Bureau's retirement is really full of disasters." Tang Xi sympathized.
"Fortunately, Bureau Tan has not retreated, otherwise it would be more troublesome." Chu Li rubbed his temples, "Forget it, I really have a headache, and I have to think about what to do next, first..."
Before he finished speaking, the window suddenly lit up, and it was blood red.
"What's wrong? A natural disaster?" Tang Xi asked in shock.
Su Huang, who was closest to the floor-to-ceiling windows, pulled open the curtains.
Everyone and ghosts couldn't help being shocked.
I saw that the sky in the distance was fiery red, as bright as day, and the red light penetrated half of the sky, which was more brilliant than the Huoshaoyun at dusk in summer.
"Is this on fire?" Pei Qingzhi asked.
"Surely not!" Tang Xi gritted his teeth, "Didn't you notice? The red light lit up instantly. Even if the gas station caught fire, it couldn't burn to such a large area in a second. After all, the gas station building is low. It is short, and at that height, at least a dozen-story building was burned through."
"It's strange." Chu Li walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, frowned and said, "Such a big fire broke out all of a sudden, it was probably an explosion, but we didn't hear the sound of the explosion. It's impossible that there is no movement at this distance .”
"Compared to this, don't you think that direction is a bit weird?" Tang Xi said.
"Pei dormitory!" Chu Li was stunned and blurted out.
At this moment, Tang Xi's phone rang.
"Gu Ran?" Tang Xi took a look and connected the phone.
"Hey, where are you? Come here quickly!" Gu Ran's voice was a little annoyed.
"What happened?" Tang Xi's expression became serious.
"I was attacked cough cough cough cough... It was aimed at Lao Wen's laboratory!" Gu Ran coughed while talking, and he could imagine that the environment he was in was surrounded by fire.
"Hold on, I'll be right there!" Tang Xi said immediately with a change of expression.
Just before she was about to hang up the phone, Gu Ran said anxiously: "Wait! Mr. Wen said, let you bring those materials together, in case... beep..."
"Hello? Hello! Gu Ran!" Tang Xi yelled twice, but still only heard the busy signal, and almost dropped the phone in anger.
"Don't worry, we'll be there right away." Pei Qingzhi comforted him.
Because Gu Ran's voice is too loud, even if the hands-free is not turned on, the people next to him can hear everything.
"I'll go drive and wait for you downstairs." Chu Li turned and went out.
Tang Xi rushed into the room to get things, stuffed them all into her backpack and threw them over her shoulders, while dialing the phone.
Gu Ran's, Wen Lao's, Fang Tianchen's, Fang Tianyun's, and even Wang Ling's, but there is always a cold mechanical female voice reminding: The number you dialed is not in the service area, please try again later.
"Xiaoxi, it's okay. If you are too anxious, you will not be able to see the current situation clearly." Pei Qingzhi pressed her shoulder and said in a deep voice.
Tang Xi was taken aback, closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded: "I know, we can set traps for each other, and the other party can also design us against them, I will be careful."
"Yeah." Pei Qingzhi hugged her, and quickly let go, "Be careful."
"Don't worry, you'll wait for me at home. Second Uncle Cheng is safe." Tang Xi waved her hand and rushed out the door, while the ghosts in the house threw themselves into her bracelet one after another.
Pei Qingzhi looked at her back, feeling inexplicably regretful.
If he is not strong enough, Chu Li can fight side by side with her.
"Boy, don't look at it, there are things you can do here, and only you can do it." Cheng Huaying waved his hands with a serious face.
"Only, I can do it?" Pei Qingzhi pointed at himself, his face full of doubts.
"Yeah, maybe it's just you." Cheng Huaying looked at him with an unprecedentedly serious expression.
On the other side, Tang Xi rushed downstairs just as Chu Li's car stopped and the passenger's door popped open.
As soon as she jumped into the car, she was still busy fastening her seat belt. Chu Li had already kicked the gas pedal and rushed out, making the security guard at the door jump in anger.
Chu Li gave a "tsk", held the steering wheel with one hand, took out the police light with the other, leaned out the window, and placed it on the roof of the car.
Immediately, the shrill siren sounded across the long street, and the flashing red and blue police lights left an afterimage, which instantly disappeared at the end of the street.
"It's a case..." The security guard touched his head embarrassingly, then looked at the red light in the distance, and said to himself, "No matter where the gods and Buddhas bless you, you must be fine..."
"Is Pei's defensive magic weapon invalid?" Chu Li asked.
"Who knows." Tang Xi snorted coldly, grabbing her seat belt to prevent herself from being swayed by the centrifugal force, and said, "Last time, I thought that this thing must have a back door, and it's not reliable at all! , Something has happened, and I don’t know how many ordinary people will be affected.”
Along the way, several groups of fire trucks and police cars have been met, converging towards that area. Fortunately, it was midnight and the road was clear.
At this critical juncture, Chu Li did not consider the issue of traffic regulations at all. The pointer on the dial pointed to more than 180, and he did not even slow down when turning, completely in the posture of a road racing car.
"Anyone who says I'm driving too crazy must let him ride in your car once!" Tang Xi said angrily.
Chu Li didn't have time to talk, and focused on looking ahead, the community was already in sight.
More than a hundred people have gathered at the gate, and the number is still increasing. Most of them are wearing home clothes or even pajamas, and some people are holding valuables at home. The scene is chaotic. The only security guards and the police who arrived first can hardly maintain Stay in order. After all, in the middle of the night, the police are still sleeping, and only a few on-duty personnel are there, and it will take time for the others to arrive.
This is also thanks to the fact that during the year, because every year there are always people who set off fireworks and firecrackers privately to cause fires, so the firefighters have always been in full swing.
Chu Li parked the car outside, and as soon as he opened the door, he could feel the heat wave blowing towards his face.
Obviously it's winter.
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