Ring of Seven [Publication Edition]
Chapter 19 Two Graves
Zhou Jue put down the book, they have persisted for a long time, and what is very difficult is that they are all safe and sound.Seeing that nothing strange is happening now, but they always feel that strange things will happen in the next second, and maybe they will enter some weird space or something incredible will appear in the next second.
Zhou Jue wiped off his cold sweat, put down the book and said, "You're all right?"
Fat San let out a sigh of relief, and said, "It's good, it's good to be fine? Go ahead."
And Chen Hao waved his hand and said, "No, what's wrong with this story."
Zhou Jue really didn't continue.Chen Hao said, "Why did they make that choice?"
Everyone didn't understand why Chen Hao asked such a question. Although he encountered many unimaginable things in the past, he faced all of them with an extremely calm attitude, as if he had guessed everything, but this time he began to feel a little nervous. Panic.
Zhou Jue was also infected by his nervousness, and asked uneasily, "What's going on? What went wrong?"
Ye Wei, the animal protectionist who only teases cats and does nothing, said quietly: "From my analysis, we now focus all the problems on Guo Pu's tomb, but if they finally enter Guo Pu's tomb , so why is it still affected? More importantly..."
Zhou Jue frowned, he understood Ye Wei's meaning, if all the accusations in the book were directed at Guo Pu's tomb, then why did Chen Rulan go to the princess' tomb?According to Chen Rulan's consistent style and ability, if she didn't have a clear goal, she would definitely not give up on Guo Pu's tomb, and instead go back to find Gongwen's tomb.There must be some reason for Chen Rulan to choose to enter Princess Tomb.
Recalling the content of the story, the whole story is about what happened after Lin Xu met those tomb robbers, and now they are sure that this story is not fictional.Both Feng Laojiu and Chen Hao are the descendants of those tomb robbers, so it would be foolish to think of luck.And Chen Rulan, this smart woman, probably wanted to enter the Princess Tomb to get the Soul-fixed Amber, and then go to Guo Pu's tomb, but why didn't she succeed?
Feng Laojiu, who had been silent all this time, said, "I have to continue reading the book. I don't know whether Chen Rulan has finished reading this book, but she didn't go where I went, and she didn't take Guhunpo away."
The thin monkey said, "What does that poem mean?"
Among these people, Shouhou was the only science student, so that poem seemed to him like a bible.
Just when Zhou Jue wanted to translate, Fat San became excited, after all, he is also a liberal arts student.He coughed vigorously and said: "This is actually a five-character poem. The literati in Guo Pu's time were good at writing similar poems, mainly because they were influenced by Jian'an style, and they were mostly in the form of five-character poems. The charm of Han Yuefu folk songs It lies in the feeling of desolation..."
The thin monkey said, "Let's get to the point."
Chen Hao glanced at it and said: "The general meaning of this poem is that Guo Pu feels that the world is the most chaotic time now, but he is going to die. He is the first person who proposed underwater burial, so the following 'submarine wave' "Resent Qingyang, Lingu Yu Bandit Song" pointed out the location of his tomb, which coincided with the tomb of Guo Pu in Xuanwu Lake in the text, and revealed his expectations and worries about what happened later. He foresaw all this before his death, so Save the method of saving future generations in your own tomb, and the last sentence, "Long makes the road to death far away, and the knot of yin and yang double evils"... That is to say, as long as you find the release method in Guo Pu's tomb, you can make the two kinds of yin and yang The injustice is settled. My personal understanding is that Guo Pu’s tomb is in the water, so it is Yin, while the Princess Tomb is on land, so I think it is Yang. As long as you enter Guo Pu’s tomb with a clay tablet, he will have a way I will solve the crisis for you and end the debt of these two graves."
The thin monkey suddenly realized, he nodded his head and said, "No wonder you say it's strange, indeed. It's a lice on the bald man's head. It's obvious that it should enter Guo Pu's tomb."
Zhou Jue said: "Yes, Chen Rulan probably died in the Princess Tomb, she must have encountered a change."
Fat San suddenly said: "It's very simple, you guys think it's complicated!"
Zhou Jue said, "What do you mean?"
Fat San said a little excitedly: "They must have encountered some mechanism in the Princess Grave, and then they were all wiped out."
Zhou Jue frowned and said, "It's possible. She gave so much information, and the last hint she gave us was in the ancestral hall of Yinbing Village..."
Chen Hao suddenly said: "It's the order, the order of the clay tablets. The clay tablets hanging on the wall of the Seven Souls are going well. Rulan knows that the clay tablets are arranged in a certain order, so she must know the original order. And she finally The destination should still be Guo Pu's tomb, but I couldn't get there..."
Seeing Chen Hao going down in silence again, Zhou Jue immediately changed the topic, and asked Feng Laojiu, "Have you seen the order of the clay tablets?"
Feng Laojiu shook his head and said: "I didn't understand what that thing meant at all. I only know that the seven copper pillars are integrated into one, but the holes on them are indeed high and low."
The thin monkey said: "Then we can only go back?"
Fat San said with a guilty conscience, "But that's where Chen Rulan died in the end, why don't you go? Didn't you say it was all oil?"
But Zhou Jue said: "Not necessarily, I think the fire was a bit strange. Do you still remember that they encountered a flood in the first part of the novel, and then returned to the Seven Star Copper Pillar?"
Feng Laojiu said excitedly: "Then what I met, maybe it was a certain ancient formation?"
Zhou Jue smiled awkwardly: "I don't know..."
Suddenly the hotel's phone rang, and everyone was startled by the ringtone.Chen Hao answered the phone and said a few words, he was stunned for a moment, and then hung up the phone.He looked at the others and said, "Mr. Ma wants to see us, and he said he has something important to tell us."
Zhou Jue said: "Didn't he say everything he should say? What else can we say?"
Chen Hao hesitated and said, "Let's talk about it later."
Mr. Ma belongs to the kind of people who want to learn more than die. He is so serious at a lot of age.In addition to his own home, he also rented a room next to the university. It was a bit worn out, but it was fine as long as he could sleep.
A group of people went in and found that this dilapidated house was like a waste recycling bin. There were books everywhere, and most of them were old books. In addition, there were a lot of bottles and jars and old boards.
The old man's hobby was simply recycling.Chen Hao yelled twice at the door, and Mr. Ma's voice came from the room.Chen Hao led a group of people into the house.Mr. Ma said with gloomy eyes, "What's your relationship with Guo Pu?"
The old man's expression was too serious, but the few people who should have asked the question looked at each other in blank dismay, without understanding the situation.Chen Hao asked vigilantly, "I don't understand what you mean."
This time, the old man was a little speechless instead. He thought for a moment, as if he was organizing his words, but his brows became more and more wrinkled.As if he had made up his mind, he sighed and said, "Stop it, it's beyond your reach."
Zhou Jue asked: "Zhi clan?"
The old man was silent again for a long time, he shook his head and said, "No..."
Chen Hao smiled slightly and said, "It's the amber that fixes the soul."
Mr. Ma looked up at Chen Hao, and said: "You call it this name... It's not easy for people to live, so more people hope to live their lives in a normal way. Such an idea is reasonable, but if there is a chance, Let you really get in touch with that impossible possibility, what will you do?"
Chen Hao looked at Mr. Ma and didn't answer.Mr. Ma's expression was a bit complicated, and he continued: "I will try to implement it... This is the driving force for the inheritance of the Zhe clan. The Zhe clan has no so-called family concept. Anyone who wants to continue to study them is their clansman. Relying on ideas to pass on to future generations."
Chen Hao said calmly: "But a monster was created..."
Mr. Ma nodded and said, "Yes, a monster. In the end, the closer you get to that possibility, the more you look like a monster. Maybe for a person, breaking through life and death is already a complete monster."
After saying this, Mr. Ma stood up, looked at them and said, "So the Zhe people have been researching how to turn people into monsters all this time, and the existence of this kind of people without ghosts or ghosts is a mistake in itself. "
Mr. Ma kept his eyes on Chen Hao: "No matter what your reason is, I want to tell you that anyone who tried to dig out the secrets of the Zhe clan in the past and present has nothing to say in the end, and some weird things must follow. That intense frustration..."
Mr. Ma closed his eyes and pursed his lips in extreme fear.Zhou Jue still didn't give up, and asked lightly, "Professor Ma, what's going on with Guo Pu? Why did you ask us about Guo Pu?"
Chen Hao glanced at Guo Mei coldly, and Guo Mei immediately avoided his gaze.
Mr. Ma waved his hand and said, "Don't blame Guo Mei, if she hadn't told me, maybe you would have gotten deeper and deeper."
Chen Hao said: "Do you think that we also came here for the art of immortality?"
Mr. Ma paused, and said, "Isn't it? Five years ago, Chen Rulan came here for this."
Zhou Jue found that they had a different understanding from Mr. Ma. Maybe Mr. Ma had misunderstood them and regarded them as the heirs of the Zhe clan, and they went there to obtain the spells in Guo Pu's tomb.Mr. Ma looked at Zhou Jue, then at Chen Hao, as if he wanted to read something from their faces, and finally he shook his head in confusion and said, "Your sister wanted documents related to Guo Pu's tomb. Knowing the existence of the Zhe clan, I have come to this conclusion through the collection and speculation of various materials in the past five years. Finally, I found in Guo Pu’s family tree that Guo Pu also joined the Zhe clan, but in the end he became a king. Pure, defeat is also Jingchun. According to the literature, he found a piece of tribute in the tribute to Emperor Jin and Yuan, which is said to be similar to the soul-returning incense that appeared in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Through this object, Guo Pu learned to sting The extremely complicated magic of the clan, including the method of exchanging yin and yang, uses the yang evil on the male corpse and the yin evil on the female corpse to form a battle, and finally revives the dead. But the whole process is extremely complicated and very dangerous , if there is a slight mistake, it will be lost forever. In addition to the caster will be imprisoned forever, the resurrected person will not be able to rest in peace. As the only person who knows the secret art, Guo Pu only told his son the essentials of this method, and then maybe There can no longer be an alchemist with such supernatural powers as Guo Pu, and finally this spell was buried in history. Later, in the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, that god seemed to predict that the world would be in chaos, and unexpectedly reappeared in the world. Helplessly, there was another bloody storm, and everyone None of the people I came into contact with had a good end, some died, some disappeared, and even those who survived were crazy, extremely miserable."
Having said that, Mr. Ma paused for a long time, during which no one interrupted, only the sound of heavy breathing.Everyone knew that what Mr. Ma said was true, and it was completely consistent with the clues they had now.
Seeing that none of them spoke, Mr. Ma lowered his head thoughtfully, then sighed, "I didn't stop Rulan at the beginning because I didn't know it was so terrible. Although you asked about Chen Rulan, But I think the most you can do is to check. With your ability, you should not be able to get in touch with such confidential things. The Zhe Clan is not something that ordinary people can find out. Even if you find the Zhe Clan, you may not be able to find Guo Pu. I don't want to say too much, I'm afraid you will fall into it instead. But I didn't expect you to find out..."
As Mr. Ma talked, it seemed that he was praising Chen Hao's professional academic ability.Chen Hao breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Zhou Jue, and then said: "Teacher, we are definitely not descendants of the Zhe clan. We are not interested in resurrection from the dead. The investigation we are doing now is for my sister. At least... as her Brother, I don't want her to just disappear without knowing why."
Seeing Chen Hao's assurances, Mr. Ma was too embarrassed to say anything more, but repeatedly explained that the Zhe clan was extremely dangerous, and anyone who came into contact with them would end badly.Chen Hao nodded humbly: "In this case, let's go first. Teacher, don't worry, we really didn't think about inheriting the mantle of the Zhe clan. We just came here for Rulan and ourselves."
Mr. Ma wanted to say something more, but Chen Hao and Zhou Jue had already left the house.Before Chen Hao left, he took another look at Guo Mei. Guo Mei smiled at him embarrassedly, but Chen Hao turned his head expressionlessly.
Old Man Ma suddenly called Chen Hao's name, and when Chen Hao turned his head, Old Man Ma looked at him with painful eyes, as if he couldn't bear him to leave.Chen Hao bowed respectfully and left Mr. Ma's room.
After leaving the room, Fat San said, "Second brother, you almost got rid of us. Luckily, brother Chen is smart."
Zhou Jue rolled his eyes at him and said, "I was careless, but I think Professor Ma really has no malice."
Feng Laojiu said coldly: "Who knows, everyone wears a mask these days, and maybe even I don't know the sincerity behind the mask."
Zhou Jue said: "Hey, at least we know from the other side that the clues we have at hand are all right, and the right way is a good start."
The thin monkey said worriedly: "But we don't know the address of Guo Pu's tomb, and we don't have any clues. According to this situation, Professor Ma will definitely not tell us."
Chen Hao lit a cigarette, took a sharp puff and said, "The records of Guo Pu's tomb are very messy. According to historical records, Guo Pu was killed in Nangang, Wuchang, and it was also said that he was buried in Zhenjiang. But to be honest, he As a feng shui master, the technique of acupressure is already the top among the top ones, and one must be cautious when setting up a grave for others, and even exaggerate one’s own estimates. I think there is only what we can’t think of, and there is nothing he can’t do.”
Fat San sighed and said, "I have to ask Old Man Ma again? Listen, he seems to know some clues? I always feel that this old man is hesitant to speak."
Chen Hao nodded and said: "That's right, because he is the top goldstone research expert in the country, he can read many confidential documents, and in addition, he will also come into contact with many undeclassified texts and clues."
Chen Hao suddenly looked back at the apartment, Zhou Jue asked him what was wrong, he shook his head and said, "I seem to hear the old man calling me again..."
The thin monkey walking at the end said, "No, I didn't hear that. Brother Chen, you are tired."
Chen Hao stroked his forehead and nodded, Zhou Jue patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, let's go back first. Let's ask for help tomorrow, maybe there will be a turnaround."
Chen Hao patted Zhou Jue's hand. Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, recalled his expression when he said about Chen Rulan earlier, and felt that this person's feelings were too repressed, and he always buried everything in his heart , until those things broke his heart.Zhou Jue secretly clenched the hand that patted Chen Hao's shoulder, thinking that perhaps the buddy had reached his limit, and what he needed most was all his trust.Zhou Jue asked himself, can I give it?He found that he had no way to answer.
Zhou Jue felt that the only reason why Chen Hao worked so hard was because of Chen Rulan. He started to compare himself with Chen Rulan, then paused, and suddenly became uneasy. Why did he think so?It's so stupid to do that.He followed behind Chen Hao expressionlessly. Looking at Chen Hao's back, he gradually became irritable.
At this time, he suddenly found that Ye Wei had been staring at him with great interest, and Zhou Jue was a little embarrassed.Ye Wei still smiled calmly, and said softly: "Interesting, frustrated..."
Zhou Jue frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
Ye Wei didn't answer, but just passed Zhou Jue and walked forward.The thin monkey looked at Ye Wei's back in disgust, and said, "This man is simply a zombie, he doesn't feel like a living person."
Zhou Jue nodded, he thought so too.Ever since he had this magic stick, even the half-dead Feng Caijiu looked more like a normal person.As soon as the thin monkey finished saying this sentence, he found Feng Laojiu walking past him eeriely, and there was always a faint stench coming from Feng Laojiu's body.Zhou Jue and the thin monkey looked at each other, coughed awkwardly, and quickened their pace.
Back at the hotel again, the sky was already slightly pale, and it would be dawn in more than an hour, and no one felt sleepy.Zhou Jue filtered everything back and forth in his brain, and felt powerless and irritable every time, even if he wanted to watch "Ring of Seven" again, he didn't have the energy.Feng Laojiu was the first to say that he wanted to go back to his room.
Then, Ye Wei smiled and said: "If there is nothing else, I will go to sleep for a while."
Chen Hao said: "Everyone is tired now, why don't you sleep for a while and rest, so that I have time to think about what to say to Mr. Ma."
Fat San looked at his watch and said, "Succeed, I really can't take it anymore. After such a toss, I guess I will either be scared or driven crazy in the end."
The thin monkey glanced at him, interrupted his complaint and said, "It's meaningless to say that now, the more you talk, the more tired you are, it's better not to think about anything, anyway, one day is a day, and two days are a day."
Zhou Jue nodded in agreement and said, "That's right, the most important thing now is to stay awake and physically strong. The more chaotic it is, the harder it is for us to see clearly."
After finishing speaking, Fat San and Thin Monkey sighed at the same time. Everyone knew that it was simple to say. We were all ordinary people, not special forces. Where did they come from such a good psychological quality, so they went back to their rooms listlessly.Zhou Jue was about to enter the room following Chen Hao, when he suddenly felt as if the door of the innermost room of the hotel was opened, but no one came out of it, and there was no movement, as if it opened suddenly and automatically.
Zhou Jue stroked his forehead and quickly walked into the room and closed the door.Chen Hao asked him what was wrong, he shook his head and said, "It's okay, I seem to be getting nervous too."
Chen Hao rubbed his temples: "I don't know whether what happened to us people is real or not. Now I finally understand why Rulan was so uneasy before. She carried all the uneasiness and doubts by herself."
Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, since he told Mr. Ma about Chen Rulan during the day, he became very depressed.Perhaps in a sense, Chen Hao still couldn't accept the fact that Chen Rulan was dead, he hoped that these were all fake, his fantasy.
Zhou Jue didn’t think so, maybe when he woke up the next morning, he found him in the dormitory, Feng Laojiu was memorizing his economics by rote, Fat San was still sleeping soundly, and the thin monkey was lying on the ground Do the 120th five push-ups.He wiped the sweat from his forehead and told them with a smile that he had a very real nightmare in which there was a very strange book.They could laugh at him, and it was all a joke.
However, every time after half dreaming and half waking up, Zhou Jue was disappointed to find that they were still in the nightmare, he still hadn't gotten rid of it, and his partners were also struggling in the nightmare.Which is real and which is an illusion?
The most frightening thing is not a nightmare, but a nightmare that cannot be woken up, people can never wake up, and are always on the verge of nightmares.
Chen Hao was still sitting on the edge of the window sill smoking, Zhou Jue turned over, wanting to sleep for a while, but sleepy couldn't overwhelm those complicated thoughts.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door.Chen Hao jumped out of bed and opened the door. When he opened the door, he found that it was the waiter of the hotel and two policemen wearing big caps.The two policemen looked very serious, and they couldn't see why they came.Zhou Jue also followed.One of the older policemen glanced at the two and asked, "Do you know Ma Zhujian?"
Chen Hao said: "Yes, he is my teacher."
The policeman glanced at Zhou Jue next to him and said, "Some people saw you coming out of Ma Tujian's house. What did you go to his house for?"
Chen Hao replied: "Professor Ma asked some of us to go and asked some doubtful questions about Guo Pu's tomb. We are also researching."
The policeman asked suspiciously, "Research?"
Chen Hao took out his ID and said: "I am a teacher of folklore, and these are my students. I took them to Nanjing to investigate the folklore of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in Jian'an period, so I came here yesterday to say hello to my mentor. , By the way, I asked some questions about folklore and history."
The policeman looked at the documents, then looked at Chen Hao and the two, nodded and said, "Ma Tujian is dead, we hope you will follow me back to the police station for investigation."
Chen Hao glared at the policeman, but the policeman still said blankly: "Before he died, he left a suicide note, which has your name and a person named Chen Rulan on it."
Chen Hao looked at the policeman with pursed lips, and said, "Teacher...how did you die?"
The police said: "According to preliminary speculation, it was a suicide. He hanged himself on the gate of his house, and according to the playback of the community surveillance, you are the last group of people who have seen Ma Zhujian."
Chen Hao clenched his fists, resisting the overwhelming emotions, and continued to ask: "What about the suicide note?"
The policeman said with a look of embarrassment: "At present, this suicide note is properly preserved by our police, but we don't understand the meaning of those words. This suicide note is very strange."
Zhou Jue glanced at Chen Hao, but Chen Hao still had a pale face and said, "Then, can I take a look?"
The two policemen looked at each other, and the old policeman thought for a moment and said, "Okay, please come back to the police station with us. We still have some questions to ask you."
After coming out, Zhou Jue discovered that Fat San and Thin Monkey had also been interrogated. It is estimated that everyone tacitly insisted that Chen Hao led the team to study, so they did not cheat.And according to the young policeman, the autopsy report showed that the time of death was within an hour of their return to the hotel, so they had ample alibi.Although they are suspicious enough, it is too creative for a group of people to travel from Shanghai to Nanjing just to murder an old man.
Chen Hao suddenly thought of something, so he turned around and asked the old policeman, "Then besides us, has anyone else been there?"
The policeman paused, and he said: "No, according to the situation captured by the community camera, you were the only ones who went to Ma Tiaojian's house and walked out last night, and no one else went in or out except you."
Zhou Jue's heart skipped a beat, as if a piece of ice had hit his heart.According to the information given by the police, how can Guo Mei, who was beside Professor Ma last night, explain it?But out of caution, Zhou Jue just glanced at Chen Hao, but this subtle move was caught by the old policeman."Any questions?" he asked.
Chen Hao said: "At that time there was another student of the teacher named Guo Mei."
The young policeman opened his notebook, wrote down this clue, and then said: "Okay, if you still have any clues in your memory, please tell me right away, maybe it will be helpful to find out about Professor Ma's death."
The six people were brought into the police station. Chen Hao asked to see Professor Ma's body, and the police agreed.But because there were too many people, everyone discussed it in the end, and let Chen Hao and Zhou Jue go with the police to see the body, and the others waited in the reception room of the police station.
Zhou Jue's state of mind is a little subtle, after all, it always makes people feel a little chill to see the dead body of a person he doesn't know very well, and the death of this person is still unclear.
Zhou Jue adjusted his mentality repeatedly. At this time, the young policeman had already led them into the elevator and arrived at the basement floor.What surpassed Zhou Jue's imagination was that the lighting here is very sufficient, the corridor is very neat, the pale walls and milky white marble floor are illuminated by the same white light, as if the whole passage is glowing.
The little policeman led the two of them straight into the registration office of the mortuary.There was a small window, and an old man with a gloomy expression sat inside. He nodded at the little policeman, and then the little policeman asked Zhou Jue and Chen Hao to sign respectively.Only then did the old man stand up slowly, and lead the two of them to an iron gate.Compared with the aisle in front, this iron door looks a bit old, with yellow rust spots on it.After the old man opened the iron gate, he led three people in.As soon as he entered, Zhou Jue felt a bone-piercing chill coming towards him from the front, as if strangers were denied entry here.
The old man held the registration book and looked at a row of cabinets against the wall, on which the name of the deceased was written in the card slot.He hummed, opened one of the drawers, and immediately Professor Ma's body appeared in front of Zhou Jue and Chen Hao.The corpse was as pale as white paper after being frozen, and the white cold air vaguely surrounded the corpse.There was a deep strangle mark on Professor Ma's neck, and the body was covered with a white cloth, covering Professor Ma's entire body.The professor at this time is like a dummy model, without any sense of reality.
Chen Hao kept looking at Professor Ma's body, without looking away, but said to the police, "Can I see the body parts?"
"Yes." The old man opened the plastic bag after he finished speaking, and there was a very frightening knife mark on the stomach of the corpse.The old man explained: "Because the cause of the deceased's death was strange, I performed an autopsy to see if there were any signs of medication."
Chen Hao nodded, and then said: "Okay, can we read the suicide note again?"
The little policeman said: "Yes, and I hope you can provide clues."
The old man suddenly said: "The deceased had been taking sedative drugs for a long time, so he should be suffering from some hallucinogenic mental illness."
Chen Hao stopped in his tracks and asked, "Illusion?"
The old man said: "That's right, he took a lot of sedatives before he died, and the dose is a bit exaggerated."
Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, Chen Hao moved his lips, but couldn't hear what he was saying.The old man urged the two impatiently to leave.The little policeman said, "I'll show you the suicide note first, maybe you can understand it."
Just after they walked out of the gate, the old man suddenly snorted and said to himself: "It's strange, where did the note on the corpse's foot go? Which bastard is so careless, if the corpse is mistaken, how can I get up?" Tell me?"
The little policeman said flatteringly: "Hey, no one dares to mess around in your old place. Maybe they accidentally dropped it when pushing in."
The old man glanced at him and said, "I hung the sign and pushed the corpse in. What do you think?"
The little policeman shut his mouth in embarrassment, turned his head to Zhou Jue and said, "Let's go first, go to Lao Chen to get the suicide note."
The three of them left the morgue and walked towards the elevator. Zhou Jue vaguely heard the old man talking to himself in the morgue: "Why did the sign fall off? The rope has the effect of warding off evil spirits...how did it fall off? "
Zhou Jue turned his head suddenly, and the old man had already come out with them.
Back in the reception room, the old policeman had already taken the suicide note from the evidence department, and everyone else was waiting for Chen Hao and the others to come back.The little policeman approached the old policeman and whispered a few words. The old policeman was stunned for a moment, then looked at them with some doubts and said, "This is the suicide note, take a look."
Chen Hao picked up the suicide note in the plastic bag, and found that there were very few words, and it was written in seal script.Among these characters, Chen Hao discovered several weird characters of sting.In addition, there is a very weird hand-drawn drawing in this suicide note. The lines on it are very complicated. Many lines outline a shape similar to a peony flower. If you look closely, it is not a flower in the simple sense.
Fat San tutted, "It's a bit like a topographic map."
Zhou Jue bumped into Fat San, meaning to keep quiet, as there were policemen behind him.Chen Hao ignored them, picked up the suicide note and muttered silently, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.
The little policeman said: "This suicide note has no legal meaning. But when Professor Ma died, his eyes were still fixed on the suicide note, so we think this suicide note is very important, but we can't understand its meaning at all."
Feng Laojiu said: "Can we take this suicide note?"
The old policeman shook his head: "No, because Professor Ma died unnaturally, and there are still many doubts in it. We haven't investigated the woman named Guo Mei." Chen Hao returned the suicide note to the policeman: "It's okay, we will actively cooperate Police investigation."
It was already noon when the six people walked out of the police station.The sun hit everyone's faces, making them feel extremely dazzling, and their hearts were as cold as ice.Everyone knows that Professor Ma's death must be related to the ring of seven people. To be precise, the cause of his death is because Guo Pu's tomb was involved, but why did he die suddenly at this juncture?
Seeing that Chen Hao was habitually fumbling for cigarettes in his pocket again, Zhou Jue handed him one and asked, "Brother Chen, do you remember?"
Chen Hao took the cigarette: "Well, the teacher's suicide note is actually a map riddle, and the seal characters on it are actually the annotations to the riddle, but we have no conditions to solve it now. I can only say that maybe this is the correct location of Guo Pu's tomb. .”
Fat San struggled and said, "What do you think is going on? The old man drank five bottles of rice wine last night. How could he commit suicide if he said he committed suicide? It's not crazy."
The thin monkey couldn't help but said, "Where did Guo Mei go? Who is she?"
Chen Hao replied: "She is a student of Professor Ma, she is probably Ru Lan's younger sister, and I have no deep friendship with me. Actually, I always thought that this time it would be Li Fang who came to pick us up. I don't know why it was Guo Mei in the end. Come out."
Zhou Jue rubbed his nose and said, "Now that Professor Ma is dead, and Guo Mei is missing, there is only one person who can find out. Well, let's go find Li Fang."
Fat San said disapprovingly: "Can you find it? I said that this man and woman are abnormal, even that Professor Ma is very strange. Have you forgotten the original purpose of our coming to Nanjing? Now we are like headless chickens Flying around in Nanjing."
Feng Laojiu coughed unnaturally, and looked away.Fat San didn't care, he probably got bolder in broad daylight, he said: "From the very beginning, this book is so fucking weird, I'm so desperate to find my second child, and my second child is so desperate to show us again... "
Zhou Jue corrected it immediately after hearing it: "It's wrong, you insisted on reading it, why did you tell me to show it to you? I said from the beginning that this book came from a strange source."
Thin Monkey diverted the dispute between the two of them: "Actually, this matter has never been according to our plan. At first we thought this book was a ghost book, but we didn't expect to pull out some stingers, and they even had a relationship with Guo Pu. Related. But then again, what the hell does that have to do with the book? What a fucking mess.”
Zhou Jue raised his eyebrows when asked, even if he had ten mouths to answer this question, he couldn't answer it.He could only sigh in frustration and say, "I don't know!"
The thin monkey was quite calm, and said: "I always feel that we are always led by the nose, as if we can only accept the clues given to us."
Zhou Jue and Fat San also calmed down after hearing this. After calming down, Zhou Jue lowered his head and said to himself, "We follow the prepared route every time. This route...wasn't Chen Rulan pointing it out to us?"
The thin monkey said: "But she failed. I wonder why she failed with this woman's ability."
Zhou Jue looked at Shouhou, and Shouhou looked at him seriously, then glanced at the people present and said, "I feel like the clues Chen Rulan gave us are impure, I don't know how to explain this feeling, I just feel like ..."
Zhou Jue continued his words and said, "It seems that there are other things mixed in these clues."
The thin monkey nodded heavily, Zhou Jue stopped talking, and before he could recover, Fat San pointed excitedly across the road.Zhou Jue took a look and found the four-eyed King Kong brother running over from across the road.Fat San clasped his fists: "Say Cao Cao Cao Cao will be there, that's great, save me the trouble of going to Skinny Monkey."
Zhou Jue hurriedly grabbed Fat San and said, "What the hell, do you think it's the century showdown between Skinny Monkey and King Kong? Ask carefully, and you can always find something."
Zhou Jue wiped off his cold sweat, put down the book and said, "You're all right?"
Fat San let out a sigh of relief, and said, "It's good, it's good to be fine? Go ahead."
And Chen Hao waved his hand and said, "No, what's wrong with this story."
Zhou Jue really didn't continue.Chen Hao said, "Why did they make that choice?"
Everyone didn't understand why Chen Hao asked such a question. Although he encountered many unimaginable things in the past, he faced all of them with an extremely calm attitude, as if he had guessed everything, but this time he began to feel a little nervous. Panic.
Zhou Jue was also infected by his nervousness, and asked uneasily, "What's going on? What went wrong?"
Ye Wei, the animal protectionist who only teases cats and does nothing, said quietly: "From my analysis, we now focus all the problems on Guo Pu's tomb, but if they finally enter Guo Pu's tomb , so why is it still affected? More importantly..."
Zhou Jue frowned, he understood Ye Wei's meaning, if all the accusations in the book were directed at Guo Pu's tomb, then why did Chen Rulan go to the princess' tomb?According to Chen Rulan's consistent style and ability, if she didn't have a clear goal, she would definitely not give up on Guo Pu's tomb, and instead go back to find Gongwen's tomb.There must be some reason for Chen Rulan to choose to enter Princess Tomb.
Recalling the content of the story, the whole story is about what happened after Lin Xu met those tomb robbers, and now they are sure that this story is not fictional.Both Feng Laojiu and Chen Hao are the descendants of those tomb robbers, so it would be foolish to think of luck.And Chen Rulan, this smart woman, probably wanted to enter the Princess Tomb to get the Soul-fixed Amber, and then go to Guo Pu's tomb, but why didn't she succeed?
Feng Laojiu, who had been silent all this time, said, "I have to continue reading the book. I don't know whether Chen Rulan has finished reading this book, but she didn't go where I went, and she didn't take Guhunpo away."
The thin monkey said, "What does that poem mean?"
Among these people, Shouhou was the only science student, so that poem seemed to him like a bible.
Just when Zhou Jue wanted to translate, Fat San became excited, after all, he is also a liberal arts student.He coughed vigorously and said: "This is actually a five-character poem. The literati in Guo Pu's time were good at writing similar poems, mainly because they were influenced by Jian'an style, and they were mostly in the form of five-character poems. The charm of Han Yuefu folk songs It lies in the feeling of desolation..."
The thin monkey said, "Let's get to the point."
Chen Hao glanced at it and said: "The general meaning of this poem is that Guo Pu feels that the world is the most chaotic time now, but he is going to die. He is the first person who proposed underwater burial, so the following 'submarine wave' "Resent Qingyang, Lingu Yu Bandit Song" pointed out the location of his tomb, which coincided with the tomb of Guo Pu in Xuanwu Lake in the text, and revealed his expectations and worries about what happened later. He foresaw all this before his death, so Save the method of saving future generations in your own tomb, and the last sentence, "Long makes the road to death far away, and the knot of yin and yang double evils"... That is to say, as long as you find the release method in Guo Pu's tomb, you can make the two kinds of yin and yang The injustice is settled. My personal understanding is that Guo Pu’s tomb is in the water, so it is Yin, while the Princess Tomb is on land, so I think it is Yang. As long as you enter Guo Pu’s tomb with a clay tablet, he will have a way I will solve the crisis for you and end the debt of these two graves."
The thin monkey suddenly realized, he nodded his head and said, "No wonder you say it's strange, indeed. It's a lice on the bald man's head. It's obvious that it should enter Guo Pu's tomb."
Zhou Jue said: "Yes, Chen Rulan probably died in the Princess Tomb, she must have encountered a change."
Fat San suddenly said: "It's very simple, you guys think it's complicated!"
Zhou Jue said, "What do you mean?"
Fat San said a little excitedly: "They must have encountered some mechanism in the Princess Grave, and then they were all wiped out."
Zhou Jue frowned and said, "It's possible. She gave so much information, and the last hint she gave us was in the ancestral hall of Yinbing Village..."
Chen Hao suddenly said: "It's the order, the order of the clay tablets. The clay tablets hanging on the wall of the Seven Souls are going well. Rulan knows that the clay tablets are arranged in a certain order, so she must know the original order. And she finally The destination should still be Guo Pu's tomb, but I couldn't get there..."
Seeing Chen Hao going down in silence again, Zhou Jue immediately changed the topic, and asked Feng Laojiu, "Have you seen the order of the clay tablets?"
Feng Laojiu shook his head and said: "I didn't understand what that thing meant at all. I only know that the seven copper pillars are integrated into one, but the holes on them are indeed high and low."
The thin monkey said: "Then we can only go back?"
Fat San said with a guilty conscience, "But that's where Chen Rulan died in the end, why don't you go? Didn't you say it was all oil?"
But Zhou Jue said: "Not necessarily, I think the fire was a bit strange. Do you still remember that they encountered a flood in the first part of the novel, and then returned to the Seven Star Copper Pillar?"
Feng Laojiu said excitedly: "Then what I met, maybe it was a certain ancient formation?"
Zhou Jue smiled awkwardly: "I don't know..."
Suddenly the hotel's phone rang, and everyone was startled by the ringtone.Chen Hao answered the phone and said a few words, he was stunned for a moment, and then hung up the phone.He looked at the others and said, "Mr. Ma wants to see us, and he said he has something important to tell us."
Zhou Jue said: "Didn't he say everything he should say? What else can we say?"
Chen Hao hesitated and said, "Let's talk about it later."
Mr. Ma belongs to the kind of people who want to learn more than die. He is so serious at a lot of age.In addition to his own home, he also rented a room next to the university. It was a bit worn out, but it was fine as long as he could sleep.
A group of people went in and found that this dilapidated house was like a waste recycling bin. There were books everywhere, and most of them were old books. In addition, there were a lot of bottles and jars and old boards.
The old man's hobby was simply recycling.Chen Hao yelled twice at the door, and Mr. Ma's voice came from the room.Chen Hao led a group of people into the house.Mr. Ma said with gloomy eyes, "What's your relationship with Guo Pu?"
The old man's expression was too serious, but the few people who should have asked the question looked at each other in blank dismay, without understanding the situation.Chen Hao asked vigilantly, "I don't understand what you mean."
This time, the old man was a little speechless instead. He thought for a moment, as if he was organizing his words, but his brows became more and more wrinkled.As if he had made up his mind, he sighed and said, "Stop it, it's beyond your reach."
Zhou Jue asked: "Zhi clan?"
The old man was silent again for a long time, he shook his head and said, "No..."
Chen Hao smiled slightly and said, "It's the amber that fixes the soul."
Mr. Ma looked up at Chen Hao, and said: "You call it this name... It's not easy for people to live, so more people hope to live their lives in a normal way. Such an idea is reasonable, but if there is a chance, Let you really get in touch with that impossible possibility, what will you do?"
Chen Hao looked at Mr. Ma and didn't answer.Mr. Ma's expression was a bit complicated, and he continued: "I will try to implement it... This is the driving force for the inheritance of the Zhe clan. The Zhe clan has no so-called family concept. Anyone who wants to continue to study them is their clansman. Relying on ideas to pass on to future generations."
Chen Hao said calmly: "But a monster was created..."
Mr. Ma nodded and said, "Yes, a monster. In the end, the closer you get to that possibility, the more you look like a monster. Maybe for a person, breaking through life and death is already a complete monster."
After saying this, Mr. Ma stood up, looked at them and said, "So the Zhe people have been researching how to turn people into monsters all this time, and the existence of this kind of people without ghosts or ghosts is a mistake in itself. "
Mr. Ma kept his eyes on Chen Hao: "No matter what your reason is, I want to tell you that anyone who tried to dig out the secrets of the Zhe clan in the past and present has nothing to say in the end, and some weird things must follow. That intense frustration..."
Mr. Ma closed his eyes and pursed his lips in extreme fear.Zhou Jue still didn't give up, and asked lightly, "Professor Ma, what's going on with Guo Pu? Why did you ask us about Guo Pu?"
Chen Hao glanced at Guo Mei coldly, and Guo Mei immediately avoided his gaze.
Mr. Ma waved his hand and said, "Don't blame Guo Mei, if she hadn't told me, maybe you would have gotten deeper and deeper."
Chen Hao said: "Do you think that we also came here for the art of immortality?"
Mr. Ma paused, and said, "Isn't it? Five years ago, Chen Rulan came here for this."
Zhou Jue found that they had a different understanding from Mr. Ma. Maybe Mr. Ma had misunderstood them and regarded them as the heirs of the Zhe clan, and they went there to obtain the spells in Guo Pu's tomb.Mr. Ma looked at Zhou Jue, then at Chen Hao, as if he wanted to read something from their faces, and finally he shook his head in confusion and said, "Your sister wanted documents related to Guo Pu's tomb. Knowing the existence of the Zhe clan, I have come to this conclusion through the collection and speculation of various materials in the past five years. Finally, I found in Guo Pu’s family tree that Guo Pu also joined the Zhe clan, but in the end he became a king. Pure, defeat is also Jingchun. According to the literature, he found a piece of tribute in the tribute to Emperor Jin and Yuan, which is said to be similar to the soul-returning incense that appeared in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Through this object, Guo Pu learned to sting The extremely complicated magic of the clan, including the method of exchanging yin and yang, uses the yang evil on the male corpse and the yin evil on the female corpse to form a battle, and finally revives the dead. But the whole process is extremely complicated and very dangerous , if there is a slight mistake, it will be lost forever. In addition to the caster will be imprisoned forever, the resurrected person will not be able to rest in peace. As the only person who knows the secret art, Guo Pu only told his son the essentials of this method, and then maybe There can no longer be an alchemist with such supernatural powers as Guo Pu, and finally this spell was buried in history. Later, in the Boxer Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty, that god seemed to predict that the world would be in chaos, and unexpectedly reappeared in the world. Helplessly, there was another bloody storm, and everyone None of the people I came into contact with had a good end, some died, some disappeared, and even those who survived were crazy, extremely miserable."
Having said that, Mr. Ma paused for a long time, during which no one interrupted, only the sound of heavy breathing.Everyone knew that what Mr. Ma said was true, and it was completely consistent with the clues they had now.
Seeing that none of them spoke, Mr. Ma lowered his head thoughtfully, then sighed, "I didn't stop Rulan at the beginning because I didn't know it was so terrible. Although you asked about Chen Rulan, But I think the most you can do is to check. With your ability, you should not be able to get in touch with such confidential things. The Zhe Clan is not something that ordinary people can find out. Even if you find the Zhe Clan, you may not be able to find Guo Pu. I don't want to say too much, I'm afraid you will fall into it instead. But I didn't expect you to find out..."
As Mr. Ma talked, it seemed that he was praising Chen Hao's professional academic ability.Chen Hao breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Zhou Jue, and then said: "Teacher, we are definitely not descendants of the Zhe clan. We are not interested in resurrection from the dead. The investigation we are doing now is for my sister. At least... as her Brother, I don't want her to just disappear without knowing why."
Seeing Chen Hao's assurances, Mr. Ma was too embarrassed to say anything more, but repeatedly explained that the Zhe clan was extremely dangerous, and anyone who came into contact with them would end badly.Chen Hao nodded humbly: "In this case, let's go first. Teacher, don't worry, we really didn't think about inheriting the mantle of the Zhe clan. We just came here for Rulan and ourselves."
Mr. Ma wanted to say something more, but Chen Hao and Zhou Jue had already left the house.Before Chen Hao left, he took another look at Guo Mei. Guo Mei smiled at him embarrassedly, but Chen Hao turned his head expressionlessly.
Old Man Ma suddenly called Chen Hao's name, and when Chen Hao turned his head, Old Man Ma looked at him with painful eyes, as if he couldn't bear him to leave.Chen Hao bowed respectfully and left Mr. Ma's room.
After leaving the room, Fat San said, "Second brother, you almost got rid of us. Luckily, brother Chen is smart."
Zhou Jue rolled his eyes at him and said, "I was careless, but I think Professor Ma really has no malice."
Feng Laojiu said coldly: "Who knows, everyone wears a mask these days, and maybe even I don't know the sincerity behind the mask."
Zhou Jue said: "Hey, at least we know from the other side that the clues we have at hand are all right, and the right way is a good start."
The thin monkey said worriedly: "But we don't know the address of Guo Pu's tomb, and we don't have any clues. According to this situation, Professor Ma will definitely not tell us."
Chen Hao lit a cigarette, took a sharp puff and said, "The records of Guo Pu's tomb are very messy. According to historical records, Guo Pu was killed in Nangang, Wuchang, and it was also said that he was buried in Zhenjiang. But to be honest, he As a feng shui master, the technique of acupressure is already the top among the top ones, and one must be cautious when setting up a grave for others, and even exaggerate one’s own estimates. I think there is only what we can’t think of, and there is nothing he can’t do.”
Fat San sighed and said, "I have to ask Old Man Ma again? Listen, he seems to know some clues? I always feel that this old man is hesitant to speak."
Chen Hao nodded and said: "That's right, because he is the top goldstone research expert in the country, he can read many confidential documents, and in addition, he will also come into contact with many undeclassified texts and clues."
Chen Hao suddenly looked back at the apartment, Zhou Jue asked him what was wrong, he shook his head and said, "I seem to hear the old man calling me again..."
The thin monkey walking at the end said, "No, I didn't hear that. Brother Chen, you are tired."
Chen Hao stroked his forehead and nodded, Zhou Jue patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay, let's go back first. Let's ask for help tomorrow, maybe there will be a turnaround."
Chen Hao patted Zhou Jue's hand. Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, recalled his expression when he said about Chen Rulan earlier, and felt that this person's feelings were too repressed, and he always buried everything in his heart , until those things broke his heart.Zhou Jue secretly clenched the hand that patted Chen Hao's shoulder, thinking that perhaps the buddy had reached his limit, and what he needed most was all his trust.Zhou Jue asked himself, can I give it?He found that he had no way to answer.
Zhou Jue felt that the only reason why Chen Hao worked so hard was because of Chen Rulan. He started to compare himself with Chen Rulan, then paused, and suddenly became uneasy. Why did he think so?It's so stupid to do that.He followed behind Chen Hao expressionlessly. Looking at Chen Hao's back, he gradually became irritable.
At this time, he suddenly found that Ye Wei had been staring at him with great interest, and Zhou Jue was a little embarrassed.Ye Wei still smiled calmly, and said softly: "Interesting, frustrated..."
Zhou Jue frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"
Ye Wei didn't answer, but just passed Zhou Jue and walked forward.The thin monkey looked at Ye Wei's back in disgust, and said, "This man is simply a zombie, he doesn't feel like a living person."
Zhou Jue nodded, he thought so too.Ever since he had this magic stick, even the half-dead Feng Caijiu looked more like a normal person.As soon as the thin monkey finished saying this sentence, he found Feng Laojiu walking past him eeriely, and there was always a faint stench coming from Feng Laojiu's body.Zhou Jue and the thin monkey looked at each other, coughed awkwardly, and quickened their pace.
Back at the hotel again, the sky was already slightly pale, and it would be dawn in more than an hour, and no one felt sleepy.Zhou Jue filtered everything back and forth in his brain, and felt powerless and irritable every time, even if he wanted to watch "Ring of Seven" again, he didn't have the energy.Feng Laojiu was the first to say that he wanted to go back to his room.
Then, Ye Wei smiled and said: "If there is nothing else, I will go to sleep for a while."
Chen Hao said: "Everyone is tired now, why don't you sleep for a while and rest, so that I have time to think about what to say to Mr. Ma."
Fat San looked at his watch and said, "Succeed, I really can't take it anymore. After such a toss, I guess I will either be scared or driven crazy in the end."
The thin monkey glanced at him, interrupted his complaint and said, "It's meaningless to say that now, the more you talk, the more tired you are, it's better not to think about anything, anyway, one day is a day, and two days are a day."
Zhou Jue nodded in agreement and said, "That's right, the most important thing now is to stay awake and physically strong. The more chaotic it is, the harder it is for us to see clearly."
After finishing speaking, Fat San and Thin Monkey sighed at the same time. Everyone knew that it was simple to say. We were all ordinary people, not special forces. Where did they come from such a good psychological quality, so they went back to their rooms listlessly.Zhou Jue was about to enter the room following Chen Hao, when he suddenly felt as if the door of the innermost room of the hotel was opened, but no one came out of it, and there was no movement, as if it opened suddenly and automatically.
Zhou Jue stroked his forehead and quickly walked into the room and closed the door.Chen Hao asked him what was wrong, he shook his head and said, "It's okay, I seem to be getting nervous too."
Chen Hao rubbed his temples: "I don't know whether what happened to us people is real or not. Now I finally understand why Rulan was so uneasy before. She carried all the uneasiness and doubts by herself."
Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, since he told Mr. Ma about Chen Rulan during the day, he became very depressed.Perhaps in a sense, Chen Hao still couldn't accept the fact that Chen Rulan was dead, he hoped that these were all fake, his fantasy.
Zhou Jue didn’t think so, maybe when he woke up the next morning, he found him in the dormitory, Feng Laojiu was memorizing his economics by rote, Fat San was still sleeping soundly, and the thin monkey was lying on the ground Do the 120th five push-ups.He wiped the sweat from his forehead and told them with a smile that he had a very real nightmare in which there was a very strange book.They could laugh at him, and it was all a joke.
However, every time after half dreaming and half waking up, Zhou Jue was disappointed to find that they were still in the nightmare, he still hadn't gotten rid of it, and his partners were also struggling in the nightmare.Which is real and which is an illusion?
The most frightening thing is not a nightmare, but a nightmare that cannot be woken up, people can never wake up, and are always on the verge of nightmares.
Chen Hao was still sitting on the edge of the window sill smoking, Zhou Jue turned over, wanting to sleep for a while, but sleepy couldn't overwhelm those complicated thoughts.
At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door.Chen Hao jumped out of bed and opened the door. When he opened the door, he found that it was the waiter of the hotel and two policemen wearing big caps.The two policemen looked very serious, and they couldn't see why they came.Zhou Jue also followed.One of the older policemen glanced at the two and asked, "Do you know Ma Zhujian?"
Chen Hao said: "Yes, he is my teacher."
The policeman glanced at Zhou Jue next to him and said, "Some people saw you coming out of Ma Tujian's house. What did you go to his house for?"
Chen Hao replied: "Professor Ma asked some of us to go and asked some doubtful questions about Guo Pu's tomb. We are also researching."
The policeman asked suspiciously, "Research?"
Chen Hao took out his ID and said: "I am a teacher of folklore, and these are my students. I took them to Nanjing to investigate the folklore of the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in Jian'an period, so I came here yesterday to say hello to my mentor. , By the way, I asked some questions about folklore and history."
The policeman looked at the documents, then looked at Chen Hao and the two, nodded and said, "Ma Tujian is dead, we hope you will follow me back to the police station for investigation."
Chen Hao glared at the policeman, but the policeman still said blankly: "Before he died, he left a suicide note, which has your name and a person named Chen Rulan on it."
Chen Hao looked at the policeman with pursed lips, and said, "Teacher...how did you die?"
The police said: "According to preliminary speculation, it was a suicide. He hanged himself on the gate of his house, and according to the playback of the community surveillance, you are the last group of people who have seen Ma Zhujian."
Chen Hao clenched his fists, resisting the overwhelming emotions, and continued to ask: "What about the suicide note?"
The policeman said with a look of embarrassment: "At present, this suicide note is properly preserved by our police, but we don't understand the meaning of those words. This suicide note is very strange."
Zhou Jue glanced at Chen Hao, but Chen Hao still had a pale face and said, "Then, can I take a look?"
The two policemen looked at each other, and the old policeman thought for a moment and said, "Okay, please come back to the police station with us. We still have some questions to ask you."
After coming out, Zhou Jue discovered that Fat San and Thin Monkey had also been interrogated. It is estimated that everyone tacitly insisted that Chen Hao led the team to study, so they did not cheat.And according to the young policeman, the autopsy report showed that the time of death was within an hour of their return to the hotel, so they had ample alibi.Although they are suspicious enough, it is too creative for a group of people to travel from Shanghai to Nanjing just to murder an old man.
Chen Hao suddenly thought of something, so he turned around and asked the old policeman, "Then besides us, has anyone else been there?"
The policeman paused, and he said: "No, according to the situation captured by the community camera, you were the only ones who went to Ma Tiaojian's house and walked out last night, and no one else went in or out except you."
Zhou Jue's heart skipped a beat, as if a piece of ice had hit his heart.According to the information given by the police, how can Guo Mei, who was beside Professor Ma last night, explain it?But out of caution, Zhou Jue just glanced at Chen Hao, but this subtle move was caught by the old policeman."Any questions?" he asked.
Chen Hao said: "At that time there was another student of the teacher named Guo Mei."
The young policeman opened his notebook, wrote down this clue, and then said: "Okay, if you still have any clues in your memory, please tell me right away, maybe it will be helpful to find out about Professor Ma's death."
The six people were brought into the police station. Chen Hao asked to see Professor Ma's body, and the police agreed.But because there were too many people, everyone discussed it in the end, and let Chen Hao and Zhou Jue go with the police to see the body, and the others waited in the reception room of the police station.
Zhou Jue's state of mind is a little subtle, after all, it always makes people feel a little chill to see the dead body of a person he doesn't know very well, and the death of this person is still unclear.
Zhou Jue adjusted his mentality repeatedly. At this time, the young policeman had already led them into the elevator and arrived at the basement floor.What surpassed Zhou Jue's imagination was that the lighting here is very sufficient, the corridor is very neat, the pale walls and milky white marble floor are illuminated by the same white light, as if the whole passage is glowing.
The little policeman led the two of them straight into the registration office of the mortuary.There was a small window, and an old man with a gloomy expression sat inside. He nodded at the little policeman, and then the little policeman asked Zhou Jue and Chen Hao to sign respectively.Only then did the old man stand up slowly, and lead the two of them to an iron gate.Compared with the aisle in front, this iron door looks a bit old, with yellow rust spots on it.After the old man opened the iron gate, he led three people in.As soon as he entered, Zhou Jue felt a bone-piercing chill coming towards him from the front, as if strangers were denied entry here.
The old man held the registration book and looked at a row of cabinets against the wall, on which the name of the deceased was written in the card slot.He hummed, opened one of the drawers, and immediately Professor Ma's body appeared in front of Zhou Jue and Chen Hao.The corpse was as pale as white paper after being frozen, and the white cold air vaguely surrounded the corpse.There was a deep strangle mark on Professor Ma's neck, and the body was covered with a white cloth, covering Professor Ma's entire body.The professor at this time is like a dummy model, without any sense of reality.
Chen Hao kept looking at Professor Ma's body, without looking away, but said to the police, "Can I see the body parts?"
"Yes." The old man opened the plastic bag after he finished speaking, and there was a very frightening knife mark on the stomach of the corpse.The old man explained: "Because the cause of the deceased's death was strange, I performed an autopsy to see if there were any signs of medication."
Chen Hao nodded, and then said: "Okay, can we read the suicide note again?"
The little policeman said: "Yes, and I hope you can provide clues."
The old man suddenly said: "The deceased had been taking sedative drugs for a long time, so he should be suffering from some hallucinogenic mental illness."
Chen Hao stopped in his tracks and asked, "Illusion?"
The old man said: "That's right, he took a lot of sedatives before he died, and the dose is a bit exaggerated."
Zhou Jue looked at Chen Hao, Chen Hao moved his lips, but couldn't hear what he was saying.The old man urged the two impatiently to leave.The little policeman said, "I'll show you the suicide note first, maybe you can understand it."
Just after they walked out of the gate, the old man suddenly snorted and said to himself: "It's strange, where did the note on the corpse's foot go? Which bastard is so careless, if the corpse is mistaken, how can I get up?" Tell me?"
The little policeman said flatteringly: "Hey, no one dares to mess around in your old place. Maybe they accidentally dropped it when pushing in."
The old man glanced at him and said, "I hung the sign and pushed the corpse in. What do you think?"
The little policeman shut his mouth in embarrassment, turned his head to Zhou Jue and said, "Let's go first, go to Lao Chen to get the suicide note."
The three of them left the morgue and walked towards the elevator. Zhou Jue vaguely heard the old man talking to himself in the morgue: "Why did the sign fall off? The rope has the effect of warding off evil spirits...how did it fall off? "
Zhou Jue turned his head suddenly, and the old man had already come out with them.
Back in the reception room, the old policeman had already taken the suicide note from the evidence department, and everyone else was waiting for Chen Hao and the others to come back.The little policeman approached the old policeman and whispered a few words. The old policeman was stunned for a moment, then looked at them with some doubts and said, "This is the suicide note, take a look."
Chen Hao picked up the suicide note in the plastic bag, and found that there were very few words, and it was written in seal script.Among these characters, Chen Hao discovered several weird characters of sting.In addition, there is a very weird hand-drawn drawing in this suicide note. The lines on it are very complicated. Many lines outline a shape similar to a peony flower. If you look closely, it is not a flower in the simple sense.
Fat San tutted, "It's a bit like a topographic map."
Zhou Jue bumped into Fat San, meaning to keep quiet, as there were policemen behind him.Chen Hao ignored them, picked up the suicide note and muttered silently, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.
The little policeman said: "This suicide note has no legal meaning. But when Professor Ma died, his eyes were still fixed on the suicide note, so we think this suicide note is very important, but we can't understand its meaning at all."
Feng Laojiu said: "Can we take this suicide note?"
The old policeman shook his head: "No, because Professor Ma died unnaturally, and there are still many doubts in it. We haven't investigated the woman named Guo Mei." Chen Hao returned the suicide note to the policeman: "It's okay, we will actively cooperate Police investigation."
It was already noon when the six people walked out of the police station.The sun hit everyone's faces, making them feel extremely dazzling, and their hearts were as cold as ice.Everyone knows that Professor Ma's death must be related to the ring of seven people. To be precise, the cause of his death is because Guo Pu's tomb was involved, but why did he die suddenly at this juncture?
Seeing that Chen Hao was habitually fumbling for cigarettes in his pocket again, Zhou Jue handed him one and asked, "Brother Chen, do you remember?"
Chen Hao took the cigarette: "Well, the teacher's suicide note is actually a map riddle, and the seal characters on it are actually the annotations to the riddle, but we have no conditions to solve it now. I can only say that maybe this is the correct location of Guo Pu's tomb. .”
Fat San struggled and said, "What do you think is going on? The old man drank five bottles of rice wine last night. How could he commit suicide if he said he committed suicide? It's not crazy."
The thin monkey couldn't help but said, "Where did Guo Mei go? Who is she?"
Chen Hao replied: "She is a student of Professor Ma, she is probably Ru Lan's younger sister, and I have no deep friendship with me. Actually, I always thought that this time it would be Li Fang who came to pick us up. I don't know why it was Guo Mei in the end. Come out."
Zhou Jue rubbed his nose and said, "Now that Professor Ma is dead, and Guo Mei is missing, there is only one person who can find out. Well, let's go find Li Fang."
Fat San said disapprovingly: "Can you find it? I said that this man and woman are abnormal, even that Professor Ma is very strange. Have you forgotten the original purpose of our coming to Nanjing? Now we are like headless chickens Flying around in Nanjing."
Feng Laojiu coughed unnaturally, and looked away.Fat San didn't care, he probably got bolder in broad daylight, he said: "From the very beginning, this book is so fucking weird, I'm so desperate to find my second child, and my second child is so desperate to show us again... "
Zhou Jue corrected it immediately after hearing it: "It's wrong, you insisted on reading it, why did you tell me to show it to you? I said from the beginning that this book came from a strange source."
Thin Monkey diverted the dispute between the two of them: "Actually, this matter has never been according to our plan. At first we thought this book was a ghost book, but we didn't expect to pull out some stingers, and they even had a relationship with Guo Pu. Related. But then again, what the hell does that have to do with the book? What a fucking mess.”
Zhou Jue raised his eyebrows when asked, even if he had ten mouths to answer this question, he couldn't answer it.He could only sigh in frustration and say, "I don't know!"
The thin monkey was quite calm, and said: "I always feel that we are always led by the nose, as if we can only accept the clues given to us."
Zhou Jue and Fat San also calmed down after hearing this. After calming down, Zhou Jue lowered his head and said to himself, "We follow the prepared route every time. This route...wasn't Chen Rulan pointing it out to us?"
The thin monkey said: "But she failed. I wonder why she failed with this woman's ability."
Zhou Jue looked at Shouhou, and Shouhou looked at him seriously, then glanced at the people present and said, "I feel like the clues Chen Rulan gave us are impure, I don't know how to explain this feeling, I just feel like ..."
Zhou Jue continued his words and said, "It seems that there are other things mixed in these clues."
The thin monkey nodded heavily, Zhou Jue stopped talking, and before he could recover, Fat San pointed excitedly across the road.Zhou Jue took a look and found the four-eyed King Kong brother running over from across the road.Fat San clasped his fists: "Say Cao Cao Cao Cao will be there, that's great, save me the trouble of going to Skinny Monkey."
Zhou Jue hurriedly grabbed Fat San and said, "What the hell, do you think it's the century showdown between Skinny Monkey and King Kong? Ask carefully, and you can always find something."
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