Realistic Longevity

it's dark.

The night when the clouds cleared was high and vast, and stars were sparsely dotted in all directions. Standing on the ruins of the special department building, it looked extremely bright, like lanterns hanging on the branches.

Coming out of the tent, Cheng Chuhua rubbed his stomach after drinking several cups of warm water, asked Bi An to stay beside the tent temporarily, and then ran to the toilet.When he came back, before he could say anything, he was relieved to see Bi An staring at him.

"What's wrong?" Cheng Chuhua became nervous, "Did something happen while I was away?"

"Nothing." Bi An sat upright on the stone, raised his chin slightly, and said in a serious tone, "I'm just worried that you will drown in the water. It's fine if nothing happens."

Cheng Chuhua: "..."

I heard that modern cats are worried that their excrement shovelers will drown themselves when taking a bath or going to the toilet. So did cats in ancient times do the same?

"Ahem, thank you for your concern."

Coughing twice, Cheng Chuhua thanked him in embarrassment but gratefully, let Bi An jump back on his shoulder, and took it around.

When talking with Zhang Fang just now, I heard him mention that the matter of the branch building in Chuhuai City being struck down by lightning will be temporarily covered up for them, and relevant information will not be released, but there is a time limit.They must complete a series of tasks such as cleaning up the ruins and rebuilding the branch within one month, and at the same time find out the reason for the thunder disaster. If these three things cannot be completed within one month, the Chuhuai City branch will be removed.

Zhang Fang also said that the first two things are simple. The branch is full of people with special abilities, and he can complete the cleaning and reconstruction work by himself without even hiring an additional engineering team.But the third one was a little troublesome because he didn't trust the people in the branch.

"My deputy minister only took office last month. The old team is all at the headquarters, and no one who can be used has been brought in. In fact, the headquarters sent me here for the purpose of inquiring about the overall situation of the branch. So the branch I don't trust any of the people here."

Zhang Fang sorted out the sundries that his subordinates had just moved in, put them into categories next to the pile of sundries that had been sorted out before, and explained his plan to Cheng Chuhua gently and calmly like a retired veteran cadre.

"I would like to ask you to help me investigate this matter in the name of the Chuhuai City Branch. The reward will be tripled as Yang Chu said, plus Shu Luo's letter." He bent down and put down a teapot, and skillfully Smoothing out the wrinkles on the clothes, "Don't worry, I won't let you investigate alone. Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai are already on their way, and you will join their investigation team as a special consultant."

"Do you know the truth about Shu Luo's death?" Cheng Chuhua watched him busy for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking.

"No, I'm also investigating, but so far I've only found out that he joined the Chuhuai City branch for a promise. This promise involves the foundation of the Yun family's inheritance to the present, and it is also related to the joint arrangement of the Yun family and the Chuhuai City branch. It's a 'game'. I'll tell you about the specific situation when Tang Ran comes."

After Zhang Fang finished speaking, he asked Cheng Chuhua to come out of the tent to see if there might be some useful clues hidden in the ruins.

Cheng Chuhua knew that he couldn't ask anything from him, so he followed his instructions and left the tent to look around the ruins.

It has been five hours since the building collapsed, and most of the materials and items that can be found in the ruins have been cleared out. The more important ones were handled by Zhang Fang himself, and the rest were cleaned, sorted, and cleaned by several branch members. recovery.

In addition, there are two groups of people in the ruins who are simultaneously rebuilding.One group was responsible for cleaning up the ruins, and the other group was restoring the original branch building on the original foundation. Since the materials had not yet arrived, their work efficiency was not high.

It may be that Zhang Fang greeted the members of the branch, but no one came forward to ask Cheng Chuhua as he walked around the ruins.Yang Chu looked at them more, especially Cheng Chuhua for a while, but he didn't go over to talk to them, and continued to work on the matter at hand after watching.

With Vice Minister Zhang's acquiescence, Cheng Chuhua and Bi An walked around the huge ruins and took a good look at the scene of Lei Jie.

Cheng Chuhua walked along the periphery, stepping deep and shallow on the gravel, stopping at places he thought were suspicious from time to time to look through and take notes.

He walked around the densest area of ​​tents, climbed over a half-collapsed wall, stepped on something when he landed, and almost slipped. He held up a flashlight and looked down. It turned out to be a half oval black bead.

Next to this half of the beads, there are other half pieces of fragments scattered. There is also a footprint on the fragments, which was stepped on by Cheng Chuhua.

Cheng Chuhua Dun stood aside, picked up the half of beads and fragments, put them in his palm, and moved closer to examine them carefully.

The beads absorbed the light of the flashlight, and slowly turned from black to silver gray, like a stone but lighter than a stone, with a texture of jade, icy and cool.

"This thing..." Cheng Chuhua wrapped the beads and fragments with the tissue paper he carried with him, his face was a little ugly, "It's very similar to the stones I just mentioned were used to make the garden of King Zhao's Mansion."

Bi An raised his claws to press on his face, and his usual calm and cold voice became serious: "I think of something, which may be related to this bead."

"What?" Cheng Chuhua asked quickly.

"Underworld Stone." Bi An said, "This is a material for arranging formations. It is not naturally generated, but is refined from the soul of a living person. Therefore, the law is harmful to the harmony of heaven, so my disciples of the Dharma School destroyed it in the ancient times. The method of refining, and punish the people related to it."

Cheng Chuhua frowned and asked, "Are you sure that all the ghost stones were destroyed at that time?"

Bi An pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "I'm not sure. Since Taoism and Yin-Yang School separated into two rituals and created Taiji, Qimen Dunjia became very popular. At that time, countless formations were born in a blowout style. There are as many as a hundred kinds. Although the person who created the ghost stone died at the hands of the disciples of the Fa school, these formations have spread widely, and a considerable number of ghost stones have been refined and scattered everywhere, and cannot be completely destroyed."

"It seems that this bead, as well as the stones I saw in the Wei Dynasty, are either ghost stones left over from the ancient times, or they were made by someone who restored the refining formula of ghost stones." Cheng Chuhua said solemnly, " I think it's the latter."

Bi An nodded calmly: "I also feel the same."

Cheng Chuhua put away the ghost stone: "Relying on the ghost stone alone, can you tell what kind of formation was set up in the branch building?"

If you can find out the type of formation, maybe you can use it to find out more things, it is always a direction.

"No, more evidence is needed." Bi An sought truth from facts, not even saying a word of speculation.

"Ok."

With the search direction, Cheng Chuhua no longer needed to walk around randomly like before, but started searching in all directions centering on the place where the ghost stone was found.

A formation that can cover the entire building and withstand part of the thunder calamity must be a large formation, requiring a lot of materials, and other materials must be found nearby.

Soon, Cheng Chuhua found seven pieces of formation materials in the other seven directions, plus the northern ghost stone, and placed one formation object in each of the eight directions, which was exactly the number of gossip.

Cheng Chuhua wrapped the eight pieces of materials in paper towels, and returned to the area where tents were piled up, which could barely be called a camp. He was about to find a corner for Bi Yan to see which formation they belonged to, when he heard Tang Ranhe calling.

"Cheng Chuhua——" Tang Ran sat by a bonfire, the warm light softened his usual indifferent temperament, and when Cheng Chuhua looked over, he smiled, "Here—"

Seeing him, Cheng Chuhua subconsciously relaxed, and ran to his side with a smile: "Tang Ran, Zhuang Shuai, you are here!"

"sit."

Tang Ran patted the position on the right, and Cheng Chuhua took a closer look, only to find that he had spread a coat on the ground, he took up half of the coat, and left the remaining half for Cheng Chuhua.

As for whose coat belonged to him, Zhuang Shuai, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt, didn't want to talk.

Cheng Chuhua was also not polite, and almost sat down next to Tang Ran's shoulder, and Tang Ran, who had always been shy with people, showed no sign of avoiding him.The two sat side by side, and the warmth of the campfire was blown by the night wind, dispelling the coolness of the night.

The corner of Zhuang Shuai's mouth twitched, and he suddenly began to wonder if Tang Ran really had contact phobia.

"It's rare to have such a sunny night in the rainy season. Let's learn from the ancients tonight and have an evening conversation around the fire." Tang Ran hung a kettle on a shelf set up over the campfire, with hot water bubbling inside, and beside it There were also a few paper cups of the same style as Zhangfang’s—it was probably taken from Zhangfang’s tent.

Cheng Chuhua rubbed his hands, stretched out his hands to warm himself by the fire: "You are the team responsible for investigating Lei Jie, right? Fang Zhang has already told me, but he hasn't told me the specific situation yet."

"Zhuang Shuai, tell me." Tang Ran didn't bother to give a summary of the previous situation, and asked Zhuang Shuai to explain directly.

"Okay." Zhuang Shuai took over the task skillfully, "The headquarters of the Chuhuai City branch is very serious about being struck by lightning, but there are also busy tasks there, so let the cities closest to Chuhuai City The members of the Jianghai City branch with the strongest comprehensive strength, that is, Brother Tang and I, came to investigate this matter. Before starting the investigation, Vice Minister Zhang sent us a document, which is something he investigated before. Specifically, Brother Tang you say."

After speaking, he reached out to take down the kettle, poured half a glass of water into the paper cup in front of him, and warmed his hands.

Seeing this, Bi An habitually put his two paws in place, and looked at Tang Ran with his quiet eyes and Cheng Chuhua's eyes.

"It's like this. Vice Minister Zhang doesn't know the reason for the thunder disaster, but he found some information related to the minister during the month he came to the Chuhuai City branch." Tang Ran fiddled with the fire and said solemnly, "Minister His surname is Yun, his name is Yun Shenmeng, and he is Yun Shuxia's cousin from the Yun family. The person in charge of this generation of the Yun family is Yun Shuxia's father, and Yun Shenmeng, as his right-hand man, has a very high status in the Yun family, not only that , He also has almost terrifying control over the Chuhuai City branch."

Tang Ran paused, and added a description: "Basically, it's a position where you can't refuse to follow what you say."

Cheng Chuhua thought of Zhang Fang saying that he didn't believe what the branch members said, so he nodded suddenly.

Tang Ran went on to say: "I remember I told you that the Yun family has no contact with the special department. In fact, this is true, because the only one that has contact with the Yun family is the Chuhuai City Branch. The Chuhuai City Branch has only 19 years of history, before that, Chuhuai City did not have a special branch, only a secret organization, secretly controlling all special abilities in Chuhuai City, the Chuhuai City Branch was born out of this organization Come on, all the accumulation today comes from this organization.”

"This organization is the Yun family?" Cheng Chuhua understood.

"Yes." Tang Ran twitched the corners of his mouth, but there was no smile in his eyes. "Vice Minister Zhang's investigation found that the actual controllers of the organization have always been the Yun family, but only one or two members of the Yun family have joined it. This traditional After the organization was merged into the Chuhuai City Branch, it was also retained, and the Yun family's generation that entered the Chuhuai City Branch is only Yun Shenmeng and the dead Yun Shuluo."

"Vice Minister Zhang suspects that the Yun family is using this organization... now it should be using the Chuhuai City branch to do something, but just when he wanted to investigate in depth, a resistance from nowhere stopped him. He No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't continue to search until he received a letter two days ago..."

Tang Ran glanced at Cheng Chuhua: "It's from the dead Yun Shuluo."

Cheng Chuhua's expression remained unchanged: "I guessed it. What's in the letter?"

"A map with several locations marked." Tang Ran took out the Universe Astrolabe from his bag, and showed him the map.

Cheng Chuhua leaned over and leaned against his head to look at the map on the screen.

Zhuang Shuai looked at the two heads stuck together and drank water calmly.

This is a map of Chuhuai City. On the map, the Zhuque Street in the city center is the axis, and it is divided into the East District and the West District.The structure of the two areas is almost axisymmetric, each building and each scenic spot can be seamlessly aligned, and outside Chuhuai City, a Yujiao River surrounds Chuhuai City, and the overall view is A perfect circle.

The marks on the map are also arranged on the left and right with Suzaku Street as the axis. There are a total of six marks, which just form an "S" shape when connected together, separating the perfect circle from it.

Cheng Chuhua blurted out: "Is this a Tai Chi?"

"Yes." Tang Ran turned off the universe astrolabe, "Zhuang Shuai and I plan to go to the marked points on the map one by one tomorrow to see what's weird there. Apart from that, we have no other information."

Cheng Chuhua nodded: "Okay, then I'll tell you about my discovery."

Hearing this, Tang Ran and Zhuang Shuai looked at him in unison.

Cheng Chuhua smiled bitterly and said, "I probably know how the thunder calamity came about."

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