Realistic Longevity

Before Cheng Chuhua could react, he was carried away to an open place.It looked like a square used for dancing, but there was no one around.

Coming to such a place from home in the blink of an eye, Cheng Chuhua relied on his concentration of living for 3000 years to not show any expression of ruining his image, but this did not prevent him from feeling strong vigilance towards the two people in front of him.

"you……"

Cheng Chuhua made a gesture to question, but before he could finish the question, he was held on the shoulder by Concubine Yun Xue with a serious expression, giving him a vivid, specific and clear ideological education.From the ideal of life to the universal meaning of life, from personal value to the importance of group unity, he cites classics and quotes from other sources, eloquently and eloquently.

After she thought about pure milk and the old hen soup for the soul, Cheng Chuhua became dizzy and answered several times in a daze, not knowing what he answered.When I came back to my senses and saw her satisfied and relieved expression, I realized that what I promised her just now was that I would not commit suicide again in the future.

He was so educated that he gave up the ideal of life that he had insisted on for more than 1000 years?

Cheng Chuhua clutched the end of the rope that bound his hands and became confused.

Tang Ran obviously didn't agree with his idea of ​​committing suicide. Seeing that he was persuaded by Concubine Yun Xue, he untied the rope that bound his hands, and wrapped the rope around his fingers: "Comrade, since you don't want to commit suicide, Then let's talk about business."

Cheng Chuhua pursed his lips, looked left and right, sat down in a fairly clean space, and put his arms behind his back: "Speak."

As soon as this remark came out, it seemed that he was the one leading the topic.

Tang Ran glanced at the ground under him, lifted the frame of the glasses, and used the movement of his glasses to cover up the flash of disgust on his face: "You just said that you are an immortal, tell me more about it?"

Concubine Yun Xue was not as sophisticated as her partner, she sat casually across from Cheng Chuhua, with her notebook spread out on her lap to record.

Cheng Chuhua looked at the two dubiously: "Can I trust you?"

Tang Ran and Concubine Yun Xue glanced at each other, and at the same time took out their documents and confronted him.Presumably, he was suspected a lot, and his movements were very skillful.

"If you still don't believe me, you can log in to this website." Concubine Yunxue poked at a website at the bottom of the certificate, "The website has a query function, and you can check our basic information by entering our number to verify the authenticity of our identity. If you still don't believe me , burning—”

"How many times have I said don't call me Ran Ran, you're called a dog." Tang Ran replied impatiently, grabbing forward casually, the place that was originally air suddenly collapsed into a black hole-like space, and the cold wind whistled Blow it from the inside out, making Cheng Chuhua sweat all over his body.

"This is one of the spells we use to arrest special prisoners. You don't need to know the specific principle, as long as you know that we have this ability." Concubine Yun Xue raised her hand and waved it. Cheng Chuhua didn't see how she operated it. , she restored the space Tang Ran grabbed to its original state, "Now you can always trust us, right?"

"...Mmm." Cheng Chuhua nodded, retracted his back-supporting arm, and placed it obediently on his coiled knee, "I am indeed a long-lived person, I should have... I was born at the end of the Dayue Dynasty, roughly calculated Well, maybe 3000 years."

"Hey." Tang Ran exclaimed involuntarily, crossing his hands in front of his chest, "3000 years, a thousand years older than the oldest one we registered."

Concubine Yun Xue was also surprised, but quickly put it away: "3000 years, continue."

"Continue, continue what?" Cheng Chuhua was taken aback, "Do you want me to tell you the whole experience of these 3000 years? The key is that this has nothing to do with my psychiatrist, right?"

"It does. The death of your psychiatrist, her identity change and related memory distortions are all related to a mysterious immortal." Concubine Yun Xue wrote a few strokes in her notebook, "Let me talk about your special ability first. .”

Cheng Chuhua continued to be in a daze: "What special ability?"

"It's your special ability." Concubine Yun Xue frowned, a little dissatisfied with his concealment, "No, brother, we have met so frankly, and you still don't trust us?"

Tang Ran also tilted his head slightly, looking at him suspiciously.

"No, I really don't have any special ability." Cheng Chuhua jumped up, and hurriedly explained: "Isn't longevity just my special ability? Do other immortals have other abilities?"

Tang Ran's suspicion and Concubine Yun Xue's dissatisfaction turned into surprise at the same time: "Huh?"

Cheng Chuhua looked at this and then at that, his expression was more confused than both of them combined.

"Yeah, although this guy is old, he really doesn't have much experience in metaphysics." After a brief surprise, Tang Ran took the lead to recover, shrugging his shoulders and breaking the deadlock, "Don't ask, just check. Sister Yun, I'll go Take the machine in the car and watch him."

As he said that, Tang Ran disappeared in a flash.

"Okay." Concubine Yun Xue agreed without looking back, then buckled back and tied Cheng Chuhua's hands again, "Sorry, we need to check whether you have other special abilities, this is one of the rules of our operation, Please cooperate. Don't worry, it's just an inspection, and it won't have any effect on your body."

The first time is raw and the second time is familiar, Cheng Chuhua glanced at the familiar rope and gave up struggling.

Soon, Tang Ran reappeared with an oddly shaped machine, and very skillfully turned Cheng Chuhua to face him, and habitually comforted him: "Relax, everything will be fine."

Cheng Chuhua nodded in a daze, and when the strange machine was attached to his forehead, he suddenly got excited and closed his eyes.

Concubine Yun Xue leaned forward and stared at the virtual information bar that popped up above the machine with Tang Ran. Most of the items in the bar were followed by a row of question marks, only the item in the special ability column said "none".

"Really not." Tang Ran took the machine away, and looked up and down Cheng Chuhua, who had closed his eyes because he still didn't understand, "So your ability is...to live a long time?"

"Brother, you speak like I'm a turtle." Sensing the coolness on his forehead subsided, Cheng Chuhua opened his eyes, just in time to hear Tang Ran's words, and looked at him helplessly.

Tang Ran, who hadn't smiled since we met, laughed, "You've positioned yourself very accurately."

Concubine Yun Xue didn't think this was funny, she looked at her partner who usually had a good laugh, and turned the topic back to business: "Since you don't have special abilities, why isn't your memory also distorted?"

"I don't know either." Cheng Chuhua shook his head. He really didn't know. Concubine Xue, why does she have the same name as you? Is this a coincidence?"

After all, he was a participant and victim of this case, and Concubine Yun Xue didn't hide it from him: "After investigation, your psychiatrist should have been this woman named Shen Dai, but another person named Concubine Yun Xue killed her." , took her place as a psychiatrist for a period of time, and you happened to be his patient during this time. It was not until last night that this person abandoned her identity as a psychiatrist that Shen Dai appeared in front of the world again. In fact, Shen Dai Dai died a long time ago, and Concubine Yun Xue is just that person's pseudonym, the reason why she has the same name as mine may really be due to a coincidence."

"So the person who counseled me was Concubine Yun Xue from the beginning to the end?" Cheng Chuhua understood, "But why did she take away Shen Dai's identity and your name?"

"Because she is a long-lived person, in order not to be discovered, she needs to change her identity constantly. You should know this best." Tang Ran tore off the rope from his hand and stuffed it into his pocket, "Okay, this matter should It has nothing to do with you, go back."

Concubine Yun Xue wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Tang Ran first: "Oh, by the way, you can go to the special department of Jianghai City to register your status as a long-lived person every 50 years, and the special department will help you change your legal status every [-] years." , you don’t have to worry about the ID card anymore.”

"How do you know..." I was worried about changing my ID card.

"Let's go, Miss Yun."

Before Cheng Chuhua could finish asking, Tang Ran pulled the corner of Concubine Yun Xue's clothes, turned around and disappeared on the spot.

Concubine Yun Xue watched Cheng Chuhua hesitate to speak, but in the end she didn't say anything, and left with Tang Ran.

Cheng Chuhua stared at the place where the two of them were standing, dumbstruck for a while, and suddenly shouted into the void: "Hey! You sent me back! Where is this place!"

No one responded.

……

Stepping out from mid-air, Tang Ran and Concubine Yun Xue returned to the special branch of Jianghai City.The two stepped on the boxes piled up on the stairs and walked to the ground. Just as they walked around other miscellaneous items, they caught a mouse trying to escape from the branch.

"Why are you going?" Tang Ran grabbed someone by the collar and dragged him in. There was a narrow door on the back of the debris, and there was no way to enter the door. "Sit down, I have something to ask you."

Behind the door is an extraordinarily spacious space, the walls are painted with new paint, and the smell of paint has not completely dissipated.There are all kinds of paintings hanging on the four walls, including spells that seem to be drawn with feet drunk, Taiji pictures of yin and yang fish, and common exorcism patterns in ancient and modern China and foreign countries. The combination looks very artistic.Surrounded by these hanging paintings, there is a silver-gray round table with a radius of more than five meters. Chairs of the same color are arranged at the same distance, and there are fifteen seats.

There are two identical bookshelves against the wall on the left side of the round table. One is filled with machines of various shapes and shapes according to the size, and the other is neatly arranged with thousands of books.The name and author of the book have been concealed, and only a numbered note is pasted on the spine of the book.A red peace knot is hung on both sides of the bookshelf, and occasionally, when the light passes by, it will emit a shimmer.

On the right is a fish tank made in the shape of a water tank, half of which is submerged in water, and lotus flowers float on the surface of the water, vaguely reflecting the fluorescent gravel inlaid on the ceiling for lighting.Under the water tank, there are golden scales jumping between the overlapping flower shadows. The speed is so fast that it is hard to tell if it is a fish or anything else.

A certain person fell down by the water tank, stood up in a panic holding his hat, his eyes wandered around, but he didn't dare to meet Tang Ran and Concubine Yun Xue.

"Let me ask you, why did you show up at the psychological clinic last night, and did Shen Dai's death have anything to do with you?" Tang Ran folded his arms around his chest, his eyes locked on him, the light flowing on the lens was cold and sharp.

"It has nothing to do with me! I just took a private job and accidentally... passed by there." A certain person was confident at the beginning, but when he talked about the content behind "by chance", he lowered his head guiltily.

"You don't think that you are a legal passer-by in all the extraordinary events because you are called someone?" Concubine Yun Xue was not as polite as Tang Ran, she kicked someone on the knee and kicked him back When it hit the fish tank, it made an extremely loud "bang".

A certain person stood up in a hurry and went to help the fish tank at the first time. After confirming that the fish tank was standing firmly and did not collapse, he stroked his chest and let out a sigh of relief: "I am a famous person, not a famous person on the road. I am a legal passerby wherever I go. Let me explain to you two. Yesterday I accepted a private job. A friend introduced me to that psychological clinic to help transfer Shen Dai’s body. But you two came just after I got there. I didn’t do anything, and I posted a small credit bonus of [-] yuan for nothing.”

Concubine Yun Xue became even angrier when she heard that: "So-and-so! You don't know that the special department does not allow private work!"

A certain person scratched his head and smiled dryly: "I know, but I'm short on money, so... I won't dare again in the future, so the two big brothers hold your hands high, let me go this time?"

"Let you go? You didn't just pick up private jobs. You broke into the crime scene at the wrong time. You are now a suspect in a special case, and because of your status as a non-staff member of the special department, you are a criminal who knows the law." , no matter who is found to be the real murderer in the end, your punishment will not go away." Tang Ran shook his head, with a mocking arc on his mouth, "What is a small ten thousand credit card? After the case is solved, you will not be compensated. Pants, you are the real father of those people from the Special Events Law Enforcement Department."

someone: "..."

Like being struck by lightning.

"Okay, let's talk about business." Concubine Yun Xue has a bean curd heart with a stainless steel mouth. Seeing that his expression is gloomy, as if he is about to jump into the sea in a second, her heart softens. Is the immortal all right?"

Tang Ran expressed his dissatisfaction with this title with a disgusted expression, but now he was talking about business, and he did not engage in unnecessary resistance: "It should be fine. I have observed him for a long time, and he is a gentle, pure and kind person. , Even after being interrogated by us for so long, tied up twice for no reason, he was not angry. In addition, I carefully watched his expression when he answered the question. He did not lie, and the results of the star finder test also showed that he lived a long life... ..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered what Cheng Chuhua said about comparing himself to a tortoise, and couldn't help laughing before continuing: "He has no special ability other than longevity, so he can basically be ruled out as a suspect."

Seeing his smile, Concubine Yun Xue unconsciously lost her mind: This is the second time Cheng Chuhua smiled.

"Brother Ran sees that no one has ever made a mistake. He said that if he can rule it out, he will definitely rule it out!" A certain person who had collected himself smiled and came to Tang Ran's side, wanting to help him beat his shoulders and show his courtesy, but he shot him away I had no choice but to turn my head to help Concubine Yun Xue pinch her arm, "Sister Yun, where should we investigate next?"

Concubine Yun Xue raised her eyebrows, shifted her attention away from Tang Ran's smile, and said with her chin in her hand, "The only clue we have is that the murderer is an immortal. There is no other way but to follow Jianghai City's instructions The list of immortals has been checked one by one."

Tang Ran pondered for a while: "On the list are only the names of the immortals registered with the special department. The murderer must have not been registered, otherwise she would not change her identity every once in a while. But, her special ability is 'existence' Substitution', that is, it can completely replace the identity of another person, and completely distort the memory of the relevant person after the replacement is removed, so it cannot be ruled out that she will replace the identity of other immortals in order to get rid of the crime, and then find a way to hide it during interrogation."

"But every immortal has its own special ability, and each of them has become an old monster-like existence. She can't completely replace it, right?" Someone asked while pinching Concubine Yun Xue's hand.

"No, there is one exception." Tang Ran tapped his chin with his fingers, "That incompetent immortal named Cheng Chuhua has been her patient for three years."

On the other side, Cheng Chuhua reversed three times on the bus and finally returned to the urban area from the open space in the suburbs.

Walking into the house with tired steps, he closed the door behind his back, and was about to order a takeaway to fill his stomach, when he turned around, he saw someone sitting on the sofa.

The man's face was blurred, his body was blurred, like a mosaic that had become fine, quietly looking at him standing at the entrance.

Cheng Chuhua's cold sweat dripped down.

He picked up the umbrella next to the shoe rack and blocked it in front of him. He swallowed nervously: "Who are you?"

Mosaic stood up slowly, his hoarse voice was like an old-fashioned radio with poor contact: "I am you..."

Before the words were finished, Mosaic suddenly approached, and his inflated body was like a sack, covering him with his head covered.