Urban Night Returner

Zhong Lecen sat at the table, drawing some pictures on the paper, frowning and thinking hard.Shen Gu watched from the side, and when he put down his pen in distress, he asked, "What is this?"

Zhong Lecen rubbed his eyes: "It would be great if I could get the design drawing of Jinyu. This layout is very strange. The bonsai fish tank sculptures in the building have some tricks, but we just looked at a little bit and couldn't connect them. But, this building It’s a talisman in itself, there’s no way it’s wrong. Moreover, this talisman seems to be an auspicious formation.”

Shen Gu picked up a knife and peeled an apple: "I'll go to see it with Xiao Heizi tomorrow, don't bother with it today, let's rest."

Zhong Lecen hummed, but still looked at the paper in a daze.Shen Gu handed him the apple: "What is that thing outside the elevator today?"

Zhong Lecen bit an apple and shook his head: "I don't know, but I think it's very dangerous. You know, my spiritual power is very weak, but I heard the voice today, which means that this thing is quite powerful and has already materialized. If it wasn't for that The woman stopped me, and I wanted to go to the elevator shaft right away. I was afraid that someone would have an accident if I delayed this night—but according to the talisman array, it seems that this kind of thing should not appear in the Jinyu Building."

Shen Gu was silent for a moment, then suddenly said: "I think she seems to know something. When you said there was a problem in the building, she panicked. It is very likely that she knows that there is indeed a problem in the building."

Zhong Lecen's eyes widened: "You know, why don't you let us see it? You know, if one person dies, the second and third will die. Maybe even she herself is in danger!"

Shen Gu shook his head and sneered: "For Xiao's reputation. If this kind of thing gets out, the media will hold on to it, and it will be very troublesome."

Zhong Lecen frowned: "What if they don't let us in? If they find out that I'm pretending, Xiao Heizi will be in trouble, right?"

Shen Gu smiled slightly: "I've inquired, that kid's father is from the Provincial Public Security Bureau, and the backstage is tough. As long as he doesn't do anything bad, no one will make things difficult for him if he goes a little bit out of line."

Zhong Lecen pouted, with a look of disapproval.Shen Gu smiled and rubbed his hair: "A fox pretends to be a tiger, haven't you heard of it? It's okay, let's take a rest, let's go and see it tomorrow."

Early the next morning, Xiao Heizi, wearing a police uniform, led Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen to the Jinyu Building with high spirits.As expected, they were stopped at the door.Xiao Heizi showed his ID: "I'm here to investigate the murder of your employee Xia Tian, ​​I hope you will cooperate."

The security guard looked embarrassed and made a phone call. After a while, Xiao Pingping came down on high heels. When she saw Shen Gu, her expression changed: "Why are you here again?"

Xiao Heizi stopped in front and handed over the documents: "We are here to investigate the murder of your company's employee Xia Tian, ​​please cooperate with the investigation."

Xiao Pingping stared at Shen Gu: "What is he doing here!"

Shen Gu had expected this question a long time ago, so Xiao Heizi answered confidently: "Xiamen died in his area, so he also needs to assist in the investigation."

Xiao Pingping choked for a moment, then turned to Zhong Lecen: "What about this man?" Shen Gu came in a police uniform, but Zhong Lecen didn't, just wearing a white coat.

Xiao Heizi still said neatly, "He's the intern forensic doctor we invited to assist in the investigation." In fact, the white coats of veterinarians and forensic doctors—well, they look similar.

Xiao Pingping had nothing to say, but it was obvious that she didn't want them to go in: "I remember that you have come to investigate a few days ago."

"Yes, but these days we have found new clues, so we need to do another search on the place where he works. Please understand and support our work."

Xiao Pingping's thin lips were drawn into a line, as if she still didn't intend to give in.Suddenly, two people staggered in from outside the door, threw themselves in front of Xiao Heizi, and cried loudly: "Comrade policeman, comrade policeman, please save my daughter—"

This startled little Heizi.These two people are both in their early fifties, a man and a woman, although they are wearing new clothes, they are somewhat rustic, and their accent is from Jiaozhou.The security guards were all paying attention to Shen Gu and Zhong Lecen just now, and they didn't let them in for a while, so they will come up quickly: "Why are you in again? Get out!"

Xiao Heizi raised his hand to stop him: "Wait a minute. Uncle and Auntie, please talk carefully, what's going on?"

The man cried and said: "My daughter is gone! I just lost it in this building!"

Xiao Pingping sternly said: "Don't talk nonsense! Who is your daughter, just say she lost it in our building?"

The man flinched and said in a low voice, "My daughter's name is Zhou Lan, and her boyfriend is the manager of this building, surnamed Xiao. My daughter went out with him the day before yesterday and never came back. Later we heard that We have come to look for people who are dead, but we are not allowed to enter!"

Xiao Pingping's face was livid.Xiao Heizi glanced at her and asked the two of them, "Which Manager Xiao are you talking about? There may be more than one Manager Xiao here."

The man shook his head in confusion: "My daughter just said that he is a rich boss, but she didn't say his name."

Xiao Heizi frowned: "If you've been missing for more than [-] hours, you should call the police first."

The man murmured, "But my daughter was lost in this building—"

Xiao Pingping sneered and said, "Is there any evidence?"

The man looked at her shyly, and Shen Gu suddenly asked: "What does your daughter look like, you must have a photo if you want to find someone?"

The woman hurriedly said: "Yes, yes!" Taking out a photo from his pocket, Shen Gu took it over and took a look. Although the girl on the photo was not wearing makeup, she was still young, which was not the same as the heavy makeup that sat in the sports car that day. The world is different, but Shen Gu can still tell at a glance that the girl in the photo is the one who entered the Jinyu Building with Xiao Yifan that day.

Xiao Heizi comforted Zhou Lan's parents, let them sit down in the reception room of Jinyu Building, then turned around and came out to ask Xiao Pingping: "Since someone called the police, I'm afraid we have to do a routine inspection."

Xiao Pingping looked at Shen Gu with a sneer: "With just a few words from you, can you search our Jinyu Building?"

Xiao Heizi looked at her seriously: "If someone calls the police, we have to deal with it. There are already three things related to the Jinyu Building. If you stop it, you will be obstructing the official business."

Xiao Pingping looked at him resentfully for a while, then turned her head and said to the assistant with a sullen face, "Go and call the general manager."

The assistant ran away in a hurry, and came back after a while and said: "The general manager said, let the police look at it, but please don't hinder the normal operation of the company."

Xiao Heizi nodded: "We only have three people here, and we won't disturb the work of your company's employees."

Xiao Pingping snorted and said to the assistant, "Then you take them there." Turning around and walking away on high heels.

The assistant is more than 30 years old and seems to have strong public relations skills. Although there was such an unpleasant period before, he can still maintain a decent smile: "Where do you want to start, comrade police?"

Shen Gu looked at Zhong Lecen: "The elevator shaft."

The maintenance team leader led them down to the bottom of the elevator shaft and looked at them suspiciously, not knowing what they wanted to see.Shen Gu stretched out his hands in his trouser pockets, tightly gripped the telescopic stick, and looked around vigilantly.Zhong Lecen walked beside him, with one hand in his pocket, Shen Gu knew that he was holding a written talisman.

But there was nothing unusual in the No. [-] elevator shaft, except for a wave of dampness.Shen Gu squatted down to look at the concrete floor and found water stains in the corner.But the ground is smooth and clean, and there is no fault.

"Take us to another elevator, please."

No. [-] elevator shaft is much drier than No. [-], maybe because of the ventilation problem, there is a warm feeling when you walk in, but there is also no gain. On the No. [-] ladder, there are a few moss growing in the corner, and the very small gray-green dots on the gray wall, which is hard to find unless you look carefully.The assistant stood outside, smiling very politely: "Have you found anything, Comrade Police?"

of course not.Shen Gu said calmly, "There is still an elevator."

The assistant turned around with a smile: "Please."

No. [-] elevator shaft.As soon as Shen Gu entered, his eyes were fixed on the cracks in the ground: "Here." Xiao Heizi knelt down and pulled it with his hand, a block of cement turned up, but there was nothing under it except the soil.

The maintenance team leader explained: "It's cracked somehow, but it doesn't affect the operation of the elevator, so we want to wait for the holidays to cast it again."

Shen Gu squatted down to take a closer look, and found that there was a gap between the soil. He slowly inserted his palm in to try, and whispered to Xiao Heizi, "It's about the size of a cigarette case."

Xiao Heizi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized: "Cigarette case? You said Xia Tian—" He swallowed back the words in time.

The assistant couldn't hear what they were saying: "Comrade policeman, do you still want to watch?"

Shen Gu stood up and patted the dirt on his hands: "Please show us all the floors."

The assistant walked in front and led the way, and sure enough, he went all the way from the first floor to the eighth floor.Zhong Lecen walked last, holding a small book in his hand, and drawing on the paper while reading.Turning around the floors, the assistant showed a professional smile again: "Comrade policeman, did you find anything? If not... I also have a job."

Zhong Lecen thought for a while: "Let's go down by No. [-] elevator."

The assistant shrugged: "Whatever."

Of course, there was nothing unusual in elevator No. [-] either.It was working hours at this time, and there were only a few of them in the elevator.The smile on the assistant's face was already a bit sarcastic, obviously determined that they would return empty-handed.The elevator stopped on the first floor, the door opened slowly, and his steady eyes suddenly fell on the rubber interlayer in the middle of the door—there was a little dark red there.

"The bloodstains belong to Zhou Lan."

Xiao Heizi put the test report on the table and scratched his head: "But why did the blood stains appear there? Could it be murder and abandonment? But Xiao Yifan is already dead."

Shen Gu looked at Zhong Lecen, who was lying on the table, circling and drawing, his face full of surprise and confusion.Shen Gu leaned over and asked softly, "What did you find?"

He got too close, and the warm breath sprayed on Zhong Lecen's ears. The latter woke up from his contemplation, stepped aside, instinctively covered his ears, and his face flushed instantly.Shen Gu was stunned for a moment: "What's wrong?"

Zhong Lecen came back to his senses, suddenly realized that he had overreacted, and stammered: "No, this building is a bit strange, I mean—that, it's really strange!"

Little Heizi couldn't figure it out: "What's wrong?"

Zhong Lecen looked at Shen Gu hesitantly, Shen Gu understood, and asked after a while: "Can you get in touch with Captain Zuo?"

Xiao Heizi was even more strange: "Not necessarily, Captain Zuo is on vacation. Do you want to contact him?"

"Contact him and tell him about the Jinyu Building. If he tells you to talk about it, you can ask us again. If he says there is no need to ask, then forget it."

Little Heizi was completely confused by him: "What the hell do you mean? How dare you cross the river and tear down bridges!"

Shen Gu smiled: "Not only cross the river to demolish the bridge, but also ask your bridge to take us to see the piece of jade that Xia Tian sold."

Little Heizi stared blankly and said bitterly for a long time: "Why should I take you there! Throw it away when you're done using it!"

Shen Gu said solemnly: "This matter may be very dangerous——"

Xiao Heizi interrupted him: "You pretend I don't know! I'm still here to be a criminal policeman because I'm afraid of danger?"

Shen Gu said seriously: "I know you are not afraid of danger, but some dangers may be beyond your ability to resist. In short, you can ask Zuo Jian. If he agrees with you, you can ask me again. Keep it. Now, you have to tell us, where is the jade in Xia Tian?"

Xiao Heizi muttered resentfully: "If Captain Zuo hadn't told me to help you, I wouldn't have cared about it—and besides, Zhou Lan might have been assigned to me. You obviously have clues, but if you don't say anything, how could I do it?" ?”

Shen Gu pondered for a while: "If Zhou Lan's matter is indeed assigned to you, I will help you investigate it. I will tell you the result."

Xiao Heizi looked at him distrustfully for a while, then reluctantly picked up the test report: "Wait a minute, I'll hand in the report and we'll leave. I just have to ask that person again, how did the jade fall?" If it’s in his hands, if it doesn’t work, you have to tell him that it’s about human life.”

He went out with the report, Shen Gu immediately asked Zhong Lecen: "What did you just say wrong?"

Zhong Lecen spread out the paper that he had been drawing for a long time: "Look at this. Judging from the layout, this should be the Four Spirit Formation."

Shen Gu glanced at it, and roughly drew the shape of the corridors and room arrangements on each floor of the Jinyu Building on the paper, and marked the fish tank bonsai in each place with black dots.Zhong Lecen drew eight layers of pictures on a piece of paper, overlapping one after another. At first glance, it looks like a "Hui" character composed of countless lines and black dots.

"Four Spirit Formation?"

"Qinglong, Baihu, Zhuque, Xuanwu, the four sides of the sky are called the four spirits. The four spirits are auspicious formations, which can preserve the inner vitality of the formation. This back-shaped shape absorbs all the external wealth and turns it into its own. Ordinarily Since there is this Four Spirit Formation in the Jinyu Building, everything should be going smoothly, and even the people who work in it will feel auspicious. At least there is nothing wrong in the building. How could there be a bloody disaster? ? There shouldn’t be any monsters appearing.”

Shen Gu's mind turned: "You said it was a formation of four spirits, but these four spirits actually don't exist at all—I mean, they can't be seen or touched, right? What kind of formation is this?"

Zhong Lecen pointed to the four corners of the word "Hui": "Carve out the shapes of the four spirits with spiritual objects, place them in the southeast, northwest and four directions as the eyes of the array, and then add charms. East Qinglong, West White Tiger, South Suzaku, and North Xuanwu— —By the way, the location of these four spirits should be the four elevator shafts."

Shen Gu patted his leg: "That's right! To put it this way, the white tiger must be buried underground in the No. 3 elevator shaft! The piece of jade in Xia Tian was probably dug out from here, because he took the jade away. Will the spirit array be broken?"

Zhong Lecen frowned and thought hard: "How would Xia Tian know that there is jade underground?"

Shen Gu shook his head: "Xiamen will not know that there is jade underground. Judging from the cracks on the surface, it is not excavated from above, but from the bottom. I am afraid that the ground cracked and exposed the jade. He happened to pick it up. However, the ground Why would it crack itself?"

Zhong Lecen unconsciously began to bite his lips again: "But the Four Spirit Formation is an auspicious formation. Even if it is broken, it will only leak vitality and wealth, and there should not be bloody disasters, let alone there are still spells. The auspicious formation turns evil—this, This is unreasonable. And it is also unreasonable why the white tiger was exposed when the formation was not broken."

Shen Gu couldn't stand it anymore: "Don't bother with your lips, let's go and see the jade first."

Xiao Heizi came back soon, but before they saw Yu, they waited in the reception room for three full hours.

This is a Korean-funded enterprise, and Xiao Heizi has already inquired about its background in detail.Although the owner, Kim Kwang-soo, is Korean, he is very fascinated by Chinese culture. It is said that his business was not going well in the past. Later, he found a Chinese Feng Shui master to redesign his house. Since then, things have gone smoothly and his business has grown The older he is, the more he believes in Chinese Feng Shui.This time I came to China to start a company, and I listened to my friends and bought jade to protect my house from evil spirits.Xia Tian's jade friends all said that it looks good, so he spent a lot of money to buy it, and put it in the office to attract treasures and exorcise evil spirits.Regarding the origin of jade, he didn't ask, and he didn't care too much. He heard that there might be problems, and he didn't want to get involved, so Xiao Heizi didn't ask anything when he came several times.This time, he simply said that he was in a meeting, and let the three of them hang out for three hours.

Although Xiao Heizi was a little anxious, he got used to it after bumping into nails a few times.Shen Gu can sit still no matter how long he sits, Zhong Lecen is more easy-going, and while waiting, he is still racking his brains about the Four Spirit Formation, so three hours later, the little girl at the front desk sees that these three people are still there Sitting firmly, I had no choice but to go in and notify the boss, so the three of them were finally able to enter the office.

The office is very big, there are fortune trees, time-traveling balls, and braves, everything that one expects to find, and he shakes his head deeply.The boss raised his head from the table and said in blunt Chinese, "Officer Wu, I have already talked to you, and I don't know what you want to ask."

Xiao Heizi said seriously: "Mr. Jin, I don't want to bother you, but this piece of jade has already been involved in a murder case, so you must tell me the origin of this piece of jade, so that we can solve the case."

Kim Kwang-soo was stunned for a moment, apparently he didn't expect it to be a murder case: "Why—" his eyes couldn't help but looked over the desk.His steady gaze followed him to the table.The piece of jade was indeed the size of a cigarette case, and it was placed in a crystal glass box with the front facing outward.The pattern is a running tiger, with two reddish-brown stains on it, just protruding from the tiger's back, like two wings.

Shen Gu was looking at it, but he heard Zhong Lecen say in a slightly trembling voice: "Mr. Jin, why did you buy this piece of jade at that time?"

Kim Kwang-soo was stunned for a moment: "My friend told me that this is a good lottery. There is color on this jade, like two wings, this is called - um, it's called like a tiger with wings, which indicates that my company is booming and my career is going well."

Shen Gu felt that Zhong Lecen's voice was not quite right, and when he looked back, he saw that his face was a little pale, and when he was about to speak, Zhong Lecen shook his head vigorously: "Mr. Come out, this piece of jade—not good."