Well of Mystery

In the afternoon, the hot and humid air enveloped the skin, and it was so sticky that it made people mad.

Putting aside the painting that was just beginning to compose, Bai Xiuqi looked down at the time restlessly - it was clearly only around three o'clock in the afternoon, but the window was already clouded.There is obviously a puff of water vapor in the sky, like a baby who is about to cry, and may cry anytime and anywhere.

Jiang Chenglu, who was out for inspection, came back halfway and had lunch.It also said that a water leak was found on the top floor of the West Building, and now it needs to be repaired urgently.

By the way, Bai Xiuqi told him that Li Kun would come over tonight, and Jiang Chenglu slapped his thigh, saying that he should remind him to pay for the maintenance fee of the last accident when we meet this time.

About an hour or so after explaining this way, Li Kun suddenly called.

Could it be that the dish you ordered is out of stock?

Bai Xiuqi really couldn't think of what else Li Kun could do, so he decided to answer the phone first.

"Hello? Why?"

"..."

The phone was quiet for about a second, and then Li Kun's voice was deliberately lowered.

"Hush—keep your voice down! I'm right outside Xuanjing's apartment right now."

"Why don't you come in when you're outside?" Bai Xiuqi felt puzzled: "Could it be that Jiang Chenglu is at the door? Don't let him see the food you brought!"

"No, it's not Jiang Chenglu. It's that man...that murderer!"

Li Kun's voice was obviously trembling: "Listen to me first, I'm hiding in the abandoned underground passage opposite the apartment. Can you come out and pick me up? I'm afraid that the dishes I brought are too fragrant and will be caught If that guy smells it, he's screwed!"

The dishes are too fragrant, what is the reason?

Bai Xiuqi had to wonder if Li Kun was joking again.

"In that case, wait a minute, I'll call the police first."

"Don't! Don't don't!"

Li Kun really yelled: "Actually... I was afraid that I was wrong. The man followed me all the way from Jiulihuai, and he was still carrying a hoe. I felt scared."

There are vegetable fields all around here, and the vegetable farmers of Jiulihuai come here to prepare the field with hoes, what's so strange about it!

Bai Xiuqi resisted the idea of ​​complaining, and asked seriously, "Don't you have a car? Why did you come from Jiulihuai?"

Li Kunyi said that he was still angry: "Didn't you treat me to dinner? I was afraid that I would not be able to drive if I drank too much. I didn't dare to find another driver, so I just took a taxi here! I didn't expect the driver to leave me behind. People! Oh my hands, the vegetables you asked me to buy are really heavy..."

Bai Xiuqi couldn't help interrupting him: "Isn't it because you think the things are heavy that you asked me to pick them up?"

"Oh, I said, will you die if you just come and pick me up? Bingtang's elbow is so big, oh my waist, my hands..."

Li Kun on the other end of the phone also seemed to feel that his statement was untenable, so he simply changed it to nonsense.

Coincidentally, when they were talking on the phone, a few drops of rain finally squeezed out of the gloomy sky.

Now Li Kun yelled even more fiercely, saying such stupid things as "If you don't bring an umbrella, you will be drenched in water", "If you go back to get sick, you will be grounded by your father".

Bai Xiuqi also knew that this guy had a bit of a young temper, so it was only a few steps away after thinking about it.So he said "you wait".Just grabbed the key and umbrella and went out the door.

Because I was in a hurry.He didn't notice that the Absolute Electric Sword resting on the sofa was emitting an unusual black-purple flash.

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Jiang Chenglu was also a little restless today.

Is it because of the rainy season?He thought wistfully as he nailed tarps to the leaky ceiling.

Strange to say, living so many years.He is rarely negatively influenced by the outside world.The humid environment is of course nothing to him as a real dragon.So, is it because of staying with Bai Xiuqi for a long time?Assimilated by sentimental humans or something.

Jiang Chenglu let out a chuckle, and almost swallowed the nail biting at the corner of his mouth.

Bai Xiuqi, oh Bai Xiuqi, my old dragon has followed your lead in this life, no, I must ask you to be responsible to the end.

With that said, he drove another nail, deeply.Wedged into the very marrow of this old apartment building.

Just as Jiang Chenglu was fixing the leak, he also received a call.

A phone call that suddenly made him even more uneasy.

The call was from Tao Chuan.This guy who cherishes ink like gold may not be able to say a few complete sentences even in front of Wei Xiangtu, but today he called Jiang Chenglu twice in one breath.Obviously, the situation is a bit special.

"Last night. The guy who kidnapped Jiang Chao was also found."

The place where the kidnapper was found was not far from the place where Jiang Chao's body was found. In fact, it was the upstream and downstream of the same river.The kidnapper was stuck in the angle between the bridge pier and the river bank, and of course he was out of breath when he was picked up.

"Wait a minute!"

Jiang Chenglu noticed a bit of paradox: "Since the kidnapper's body was found last night, why didn't you say anything when you called me this morning?"

"Because at that time we didn't know that this guy was a kidnapper." Tao Chuan said with a hint of fatigue in his voice, "To be correct, we didn't even know that the kidnapper was not a human being."

What was picked up by the police from between the pier and the river bank was a large boa constrictor.

When the local villagers reported the case, they said that they saw a snake head looming on the shore, and finally fished it up to see a three-meter-long Burmese python.

Since this kind of python is not a native species in the south of the Yangtze River, the police who caught the snake originally thought that some irresponsible owner had discarded the pet's body, and even people from the TV station came to report this anecdote.

The dead body of the boa constrictor was taken by the Natural History Museum to be prepared as a specimen, and that was the end of the matter.Unexpectedly, at 110:10 that night, he received an inexplicable call to the police, saying that after watching the evening news at [-]:[-] midnight, he insisted that the big python on TV was the real culprit who kidnapped Jiang Chao.

The 110 operator is an ordinary person with rich experience of being harassed. In the dead of night, drunken people often call in to harass.Although the young man on the other side of the phone sounded articulate and sane, no matter how sane a person said that kind of thing, he would be considered mentally ill.

In the end, the operator did not issue a dispatch ticket for the call.When the shift was handed over this morning, all the strange police cases that had not been dealt with the day before were brought together to Tao Chuan's department.After a second screening by professionals.The call got the idea of ​​the special police.

"Around nine o'clock in the morning, our people called the alarm's mobile phone, but what they heard was a notification that the phone was turned off. At the same time, another team rushed to the Museum of Natural History and detained the body of the giant python. And inspect and dissect on the spot."

"Spirits like boa constrictors are no different from ordinary animals at first glance except for the slightly abnormal shape and color after death." Jiang Chenglu frowned unconsciously: "Except..."

"Except that it has an inner alchemy." Tao Chuan completed what he wanted to say: "But unfortunately, that python has no inner alchemy. Maybe it was taken away by someone. Anyway, the result of the preliminary inspection is that it is an ordinary snake. big snake."

"..."

Tao Chuan's words made Jiang Chenglu a little impatient: "What reason did you find me here. Tell me directly."

Tao Chuan on the other end of the phone paused for two seconds.

"We found a finger in the python's stomach. A human finger. We just compared his DNA with the people involved in this case."

"Whose?" Jiang Chenglu took a deep breath.I vaguely felt that something was wrong.

Sure enough, Tao Chuan reported a person whom both he and Bai Xiuqi knew.

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Bai Xiuqi walked out of Xuanjing's apartment holding an umbrella.

Thick clouds were covering the top of the head, but the distant sky beyond the clouds was shining with light, which looked like a huge black and white eyeball.She shed tears because she saw the misery in the world.

The subway aisle that Li Kun mentioned is not far across the street, and the dusty entrance has been wet by rain and has become extremely muddy.Bai Xiuqi stood at the entrance and looked down. There was darkness underneath, and it was impossible to see if anyone was hiding for a while.

Why did Li Kun hide in such a place?

Bai Xiuqi felt a lump in his heart, and was thinking about not going down, when suddenly he heard the rustling of plastic bags coming from the tunnel, followed by Li Kun's nervous questioning.

"...Is it Bai Xiuqi?"

"It's me." Bai Xiuqi stopped when he heard the voice: "I'm here, come up quickly and follow me back."

"No!" Li Kun said with a trace of anxiety in his voice: "There is still someone here. I'm dizzy, and I can't get up by myself."

"Who? How could it be there?!"

"Hey, that's really hard to describe."

Li Kun sighed, then took out his phone and turned on the lighting function.Although the mobile phone's camera flash is not as good as an ordinary flashlight, it can still barely illuminate himself and the person lying at his feet.

"...Gongping?!" Bai Xiuqi's eyes widened.

as a painter.Bai Xiuqi has always been quite confident in her ability to recognize faces.The young man lying on his back at Li Kun's feet is obviously the son of the owner of the jewelry wholesale shop that Le Yaochun took him to that morning, and also the actress Su Xue's stand-in.

But didn't he leave without saying goodbye a few days ago?How could it suddenly appear here? !

A series of question marks suddenly floated in Bai Xiuqi's heart.But he did not continue to think deeply.

Li Kun was still yelling non-stop, and impatiently urged by him, Bai Xiuqi finally decided to go down to help, first carry the person out before talking.

So, he ran down three steps at a time, until he was also surrounded by the darkness in the tunnel, and then he vaguely remembered that it was here that the little red girl was murdered by a traitor.

Thinking of this, Bai Xiuqi couldn't help but feel a little trembling.In order to strengthen his courage, he began to urge Li Kun to quickly help lift Gong Ping, who was unconscious.

However, Bai Xiuqi did not wait for Li Kun's answer.