Yancheng Special Office

It was an ordinary woman in her early thirties.He wears a brown wide-brimmed hat and holds a backpack on his chest.Her face was haggard, and she was full of worries, and she was looking around uneasily.

It was such an ordinary person who followed Su Jian for a day, standing in the crowd like a transparent existence, he really didn't notice it.

Five minutes later, a man wearing a peaked cap sat down on the empty seat opposite her. The man took off his cap and nodded slightly to her.

"Hello."

The woman recognized him as Su Jian, but she didn't expect why the other party knew that she was the one who contacted her, which made her a little panicked.But Su Jian didn't intend to tell her the answer to this question.

"you……"

As soon as the woman asked her doubts, she was interrupted by Su Jian. "Tell me, what do you want to trade Gao Bo's cause of death with me?"

Su Jian's voice was cold, revealing an aura of not being close to strangers.The only little fantasy of the woman was extinguished - she thought that the other party would not be so indifferent when talking to a helpless woman like her.

"Your Kunlun Mountains Yan Office is a place that specializes in handling such special cases, right? I know how Gao Bo died, but..."

The woman's voice became lower and lower, as if she was talking about something unspeakable.

Su Jian waited for a while, seeing that she was still hesitating, she turned her eyes to the other side and smiled, "Since you asked me out in this way, you can't just want me to come and listen to you squeeze toothpaste like this Do you want to stop talking?"

The woman was provoked so suddenly, but her mood was much more stable than before. She said: "It's the will-o'-the-wisp, he was burned to death by the monster in the will-o'-the-wisp!"

She thought that the other party would at least show a hint of surprise or disdain upon hearing this remark, and she even made plans for the other party to ask her to check her mental state.

But Su Jian's reaction was too flat, as if he already knew the answer.

Su Jian asked, "Did you see it with your own eyes, or did you hear about it?"

"I saw it with my own eyes."

"So you were there when the incident happened?"

"...That's right."

This answer surprised Su Jian, because it was nearly half a month since Gao Bo's death, and they hadn't found anyone else at the scene before.

If she deliberately concealed that she was there, then this woman has a very high awareness of anti-investigation, which made Su Jian re-examine the other party.

Su straightened his body and asked, "Who are you?"

"I'm his ex-wife."

Su Jian's mind quickly flashed the photo of the case file under the glass of the dining table at the scene of the incident, and the woman next to the deceased did resemble her somewhat.It's just that the person in the photo in my memory has a brighter temperament than her, and looks younger.

The person in front of him looked as if he had experienced something and suddenly aged ten years.

"Your name is Xu Meng, right?" Su Jian had investigated the files of the deceased and vaguely remembered the name.

"That's right, do you believe what I said?" Xu Meng asked eagerly.

"I believe." Su Jian nodded, her voice was beyond doubt. "Tell me, what's going on."

Xu Meng breathed a sigh of relief suddenly, and she began to slowly say: "Gao Bo and I have been married for six years, and we don't know what went wrong. We have never had any children. He is an alcoholic. Hit me...you don't know how I survived all these years."

Once Xu Meng spoke, he couldn't stop, as if the suppressed flood in his heart suddenly found an outlet, and he wanted to find someone to speak out all at once. "He also thought about going out to do business with others, but then he lost everything and his family's savings were gone, so he came back to ask me for money every day. If I didn't give it, he said that I was raising a bad boy outside... Later I asked him When I filed for divorce, he smashed all the things in the house, chased me to my unit and threatened to kill me... In the end, I escaped and rented a house by myself. He also came to me, but every time he came to me, he always asked I just want money."

Xu Meng babbled a lot, and Su Jian listened for a long time, only to feel like an emotional mediation aunt of the neighborhood committee.In order to prove that he was listening carefully, he interrupted the other party at the right time and asked, "Did he become like this after he got married? Then why did you marry him in the first place?"

Xu Meng said: "Hey, who hasn't met one or two scumbags when they were young... When we were in love, he was very kind to me..."

Su Jian thought to herself, I have never encountered it before.

"Okay, Ms. Xu, from what you said, I already know that Gao Bo is a scumbag. So what did he do on the day when the incident happened?"

Xu Meng said: "He might have thought about it that day, and suddenly said that he would invite me back to talk about divorce..."

"Good thing, you're finally free."

When Xu Meng said this, he suddenly laughed. This smile was not good-looking at all in Su Jian's eyes, and it was even a little scary.

"I went back to see him with great anticipation, but it turned out that he didn't want to divorce me at all...he locked the door behind him, lit the brazier, and wanted to die with me!

"In order to survive, I mustered up the courage to fight him, but I couldn't beat him at all. After fighting, the fire in the brazier suddenly rose to a high level, and an animal with a whole body of fire jumped out from it. Gao Bo rushed over... I was terrified at the time, I was really terrified..."

"But the monster only attacked Gao Bo, but not you?" Su Jian asked.

"I don't know why. After Gao Bo died, the monster jumped out of the window... I ran as fast as I could, lest the police suspect that I had killed him. Some blunt force injuries on Gao Bo were caused by me using scissors in a hurry. But I just want to divorce him, I really don't want his life. I'm really not a murderer... For the past half month, I've been running away all the time, and I'm afraid that the police are looking for me when I hear the knock on the door , I really can't bear to live in fear like this."

Xu Meng's expression wished that Su Jian would kneel down on the spot. Fortunately, this is a downtown area, and there are surveillance cameras everywhere, so Su Jian didn't have to worry too much that she would suddenly kneel down and perform a blackmail trick for herself.

"Okay, Ms. Xu, the part about monsters you provided is roughly the same as what we have investigated so far. We will investigate and find out the truth and give the public a satisfactory answer." Su Jian said calmly: "As for your personal grievances, since Gao Bo is dead, do you want to pursue any further lawsuits with the deceased? For example, mental damage compensation for domestic violence, lost wages, etc. If you have any needs in this regard, you can talk to me."

Xu Meng said with a wry smile: "Is there anything he can pay me back, no more, nothing..."

"In that case... Ms. Xu, don't worry about going home. You have my phone number. If you have anything to add, please call me." Su Jian was just about to get up when Xu Meng took out a notebook from his bag and read it from above. Tear off a page and hand it to Su Jian.

"I used to teach children to draw in a private studio. I drew the appearance of that monster based on the appearance in my memory. There may be something wrong, but I can only remember so much."

Su Jian took the paper, on which a black animal with a thin body was drawn with colored pencils or other pens. Its appearance was between a wolf and a dog.Su Jian took out her mobile phone and took a picture, then folded the paper and put it in the breast pocket of her shirt: "The painter is good, thank you."

He sent the photo to the work group without saying a word.After a while, a message popped up.

Pei Mengfei: "Did you draw a picture of Qi Jun? The picture is thinner, and the face and stomach should be fatter."

Qi Jun: "...Stinky vixen, just wait for me."

When Luo Wenxiu woke up, he found that the morning sun was shining on the quilt from the window, and the clock on the wall was just past 09:30 in the morning.His hangover head was dizzy and he rubbed his eyes, but suddenly remembered that today is not the weekend.

Luo Wenxiu jumped up from the bed immediately, fumbled for his mobile phone everywhere, and finally found it in his coat pocket, and found that the battery had run out and it had automatically shut down, no wonder he didn't hear the alarm.

He turned out of bed to find the charger, reconnected it, and turned the phone back on as quickly as possible.Then I sent an apology message in the work group for being late today, and Luo Ye, who was in charge of attendance, replied: "Someone has asked for leave for you."

Luo Wenxiu thought for a while, last night Su Jian seemed to have said to herself that she would ask for leave if she couldn't get up, her memory was blurred after she was drunk, as if she had talked to him at length in the car Many words that are particularly embarrassing when I think about them afterwards.

He wished he could find a crack in the ground and drill down.

But it's shameful, it's shameful, some things are said clearly while drunk, and the class still has to continue.Luo Wenxiu washed his hands hastily, took a piece of toast in his mouth, and was about to rush out the door.As soon as he walked out of the corridor, a red jeep stopped right in front of him.

Su Jian leaned on the door of the driver's seat and lit a cigarette, and greeted him naturally when she saw him coming downstairs. "morning."

A tendon twitched on Luo Wenxiu's forehead, "..."

"Get in the car."

"I have a car, leader. We don't live in the same direction. It's not good for you to come here to pick me up."

Luo Wenxiu shook the car keys in his hand, but made Su Jian laugh. "What are you thinking about early in the morning? The case is progressing. I want you to go to the city library with me."

Luo Wenxiu: "...Oh."

As soon as he got in the car, Su Jian handed Xu Meng's picture to him.Luo Wenxiu immediately recognized that it was the monster that appeared in the fire that day.

Su Jian succinctly described what happened last night, and added at the end: "I have asked Jin Yi to check the records of monsters, and there is no record of this monster. So now we go to the ancient books library to look up the classics of mountains and seas and so on. Books, see if there are any clues in the legend."

Luo Wenxiu said: "Is what is written in the Classic of Mountains and Seas true? I thought they were all things that the ancients made up in their idleness."

"Why do you think those are fake? Before you came to the office in Yan, did you think that you would encounter these unimaginable things in your opinion?" Su Jianyun said calmly, "The knowledge known to human beings only accounts for it." How much truth is there in the universe? Science is just an existing theory. If you use existing scientific knowledge to forcefully explain everything, or even define unknown areas, if you can’t explain it, stand up and step on it with science. A superstition of science."

Luo Wenxiu suddenly found that what Su Jian said was very reasonable, and nodded in admiration: "I found that your nonsense still makes sense..." Suddenly he remembered something: "Have you experienced it?"

Su Jian didn't understand, "What did you experience?"

"Those things written in the Shan Hai Jing." Luo Wenxiu said: "Tell me, what is your prototype? Is it an ancient beast or something?"

Su Jian almost rolled her eyes, "You play too many games, right... Besides, why must I be a beast instead of some ancient god?"

Luo Wenxiu said disdainfully: "There is no god like you..."

Su Jian didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "What should an immortal be like?"

Luo Wenxiu couldn't say it, but vaguely felt that his judgment could not be wrong.