Yancheng Special Office

Luo Wenxiu asked: "Sacrifice is a unique way of offering sacrifices after human civilization began to worship gods and Buddhas in ancient times. Could it be that there are also animals in the animal kingdom? Then who are they offering sacrifices to?"

"Maybe it's a beast stronger than me, or maybe it's for the purpose of offering mountains." Pei Mengfei explained with a serious face: "Some animals with higher intelligence evolution will have their own population rules. The prey you catch is dedicated to the stronger side, begging the other side not to hurt or eat you. This is also a way of self-protection, and it is like a bribe in human society.”

The rest of the people listened seriously and couldn't help but nodded.

Luo Wenxiu asked, "Then what does 'offer a mountain' mean?"

Pei Mengfei said: "The behavior of 'offering mountains' is very rare in the animal world, but once the truth is explained, it is not difficult to understand—just like in ancient times, the emperor would use all kinds of cattle and sheep as tributes in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, requesting The coming year will be as good as the weather. Animals rely on the mountains to survive, and any natural disasters such as wildfires, lightning strikes, and earthquakes will destroy them. Therefore, "Mountain Offering" is the worship of mountain gods by highly intelligent animals."

Hearing this, Qin Tianxiang couldn't help shaking his head, "What a goddamn mountain god, why haven't I seen him bless anything. But this turtle grandson catches so many wild game and refuses to eat it, what a waste."

This sentence did not know which fragile nerve of Su Jian was hit. He suddenly cleared his throat and said with a straight face: "...There is no mountain god, this kind of behavior is waste, waste is shameful, and should be blamed..."

So far, Su Jian and his party knew that Qin Tianxiang was an unreliable guy, so they knew that they could not pin their hopes of solving the case on him.

So Su Jian immediately proposed that he only wanted to ask them to borrow a car, and ask for some supplies to go into the mountains, and the rest of the affairs should be handled by the resident office in Yan.

As soon as Qin Tianxiang heard that he didn't need to trouble him to contribute, he quickly agreed, and immediately felt that the meal was very satisfying, which saved himself a lot of trouble.As for borrowing a car and asking for supplies, that's all a matter of lip service.

So in the early morning of the next day, two polished off-road vehicles and a whole trunk of protective materials arrived at the hotel entrance early.

Luo Wenxiu leaned against the hotel foyer, silently watching Su Jian go around the car and then showed a satisfied expression, then asked him: "Actually, your original purpose is to ask them for the car and supplies, You didn't intend to ask Qin Tianxiang to help you at all, did you?"

"There is no one who knows me better than you." Su Jian put her hand on Luo Wenxiu's shoulder, not caring about the embarrassment of being avoided by Luo Wenxiu, "Anyway, the way the office handles the case does not expect outsiders to intervene. Since it is unreliable, it is better Don't let them get involved in the first place."

Luo Wenxiu: "How do you plan to investigate?"

Su Jian glanced at him suddenly, and asked meaningfully: "I would like to ask the top student in the criminal investigation department, if this case were yours, how would you investigate it?"

Luo Wen corrected his expression and said: "According to the normal case-handling process, first of all, all monitoring should be obtained to lock the direction of the old man's escape, and at the same time obtain the identity and household registration information. If this is the hometown of the old man, start the investigation from the family members, if not If that’s the case, I can only use the most rustic but most effective method, sending people to the nearby villages to ask door to door..."

Su Jian listened with relish, and nodded from time to time to express her agreement.After Luo Wenxiu finished speaking, he followed up and asked, "What about following the abnormal case-handling process?"

Luo Wenxiu looked at Su Jian, and suddenly there was a cynical smile mixed with his serious thinking: "If I were you, I would first ask those weasels who moved to Dongting not long ago, and see what happened recently in the demon world. Is there any new gossip?"

After hearing this, Su Jian couldn't help clapping her hands while laughing: "Hey...you are really out of talent for being transferred to the resident office in Yan so late."

Luo Wenxiu: "Don't tell me, I still miss my criminal investigation department. At least the people I deal with are people, good or bad."

"Is it easier to get in touch with people than ghosts?" Su Jian rubbed her sore cheeks: "Why do I think that monsters and ghosts don't have thin, winding intestines like humans, and it's easier to get in touch with them. What in this world? , the most frightening thing is not some unknown force, but the human heart."

Luo Wenxiu raised his eyebrows: "It seems that you have been hurt by people's hearts?"

"Do I look like the kind of idiot who would be deceived?" Su Jian scratched her nose, and suddenly leaned forward and whispered in Luo Wenxiu's ear: "I'm sincere, I'm afraid that some people won't Willing to accept."

As soon as Su Jian's hot breath caught Luo Wenxiu's ear while speaking, she immediately threw him two meters away.

"There is a demon in my heart, and I see that people are demons." Su Jian suddenly stood up straight and put on a gentlemanly look: "Homophobia is a closet."

Luo Wenxiu looked like a furry feline: "What the hell are you talking about?"

Jin Yi came out of the hotel with his backpack on his back, passing through the gap between the two of them, and the rest of the people followed one by one, and they all happened to see Luo Wenxiu's red face, red ears, exasperation, and forced calm.

Qi Jun was expressionless: "It's so interesting to talk about love early in the morning."

Jin Yi turned around and raised her thumbs up: "It's very interesting."

Pei Mengfei sensed that the atmosphere was awkward, so he tried to smooth things over and said, "Where are we going now?"

Su Jian was in a very good mood, humming a little song and walked to the car: "Come on, listen to the top student, let's go to the mountains to find Lao Huang."

Su Jian originally planned to drive one car by herself, and let Qi Jun drive another.Unexpectedly, before the luggage was stuffed into the trunk, Luo Wenxiu took the initiative to ask to drive the next one, making it clear that he did not intend to sit with Su Jian.Qi Jun handed the keys to Luo Wenxiu as if he was watching a show, and Luo Wenxiu asked while opening the door, "Who will get in my car?"

Seeing that Su Jian didn't intend to stop her, Pei Mengfei hurried to Luo Wenxiu's side, muttering "I'll come, I'll come".Luo Ye knew that Qi Jun and Jin Yi must be in the car with Su Jian, so he followed Pei Mengfei into Luo Wenxiu's car.

The area of ​​deep mountains within Dongting is not too big. Two cars shuttled on the winding mountain road and arrived in the hinterland of the mountains and forests within a few hours.The dirt roads in the mountains were not neatly repaired, and the deeper you walked, the narrower they became, and the splashing stones kept knocking on the chassis, making crackling noises.

The weather in the mountains was cloudy and cloudy. It was sunny when we set off, but now a dark cloud passed by, and the weather instantly turned cloudy.Coupled with the intertwined branches of the surrounding trees, the scenery is dark and unclear, and from time to time people have the illusion of losing their way.

Pei Mengfei was sitting in the co-pilot of the back car. At first, she was busy playing with her mobile phone with her head down, but now she couldn't help being nervous, she raised her head to help look at the road conditions.

Luo Wenxiu drove very steadily. Even though the mud pits and gravels on the mountain road were deep and shallow, he didn't feel too bumpy.Seeing that Su Jian's car slowed down, Luo Wenxiu also slowed down.The two cars always kept the same distance and moved forward cautiously.

Walking to a clearing in the forest, the car in front finally stopped, and then turned on the double jump lights.Luo Wenxiu understood, and then parked the car in an open space not far behind.

A group of people got out of the car and saw that Su Jian was studying with an old yellowed map.

Qi Jun looked around, then folded his hands on his chest and said solemnly: "I'm sure this is where I sent Lao Huang's family last time."

Su Jian squinted at him, then put away the map in his hand, then he stretched out his hand, and grabbed a "black smoke" in the air in front of him. The "black smoke" came from all things in the world and gathered in his palm In an instant, it condensed into a black-gold trembling stick.

The ground trembled, and the mountain under my feet let out a muffled rumble like thunder.

Before Luo Wenxiu had time to take a closer look at the appearance of the stick, he saw three or five weasels coming out of the cave behind the pile of rocks, kicking their hind legs and standing up suddenly, and then walking all the way to Su Jian, like People also made a bow.

One of them has a gray coat and a long beard, and the old weasel, who looked older at first glance, said with trepidation: "It turns out that it is the mountain god... Your lord has come to the humble house in person, what are your orders?"

Su Jian coughed lightly, glanced at Luo Wenxiu unconsciously, and saw that there was no response from the other party, so she continued to ask the old Huang Weasel: "...Well, I want to ask you, old man, do you know what happened a few days ago? What happened to the bones of those beasts in the hole that the mudslide rushed out of?"

The old weasel pointed to a mountain on the opposite side and asked, "Are you talking about the cave on the mountain in front?"

Su Jian said, "That's right."

The old weasel lowered his head and said, "This...the adults should know better than the young ones. The ceremony of 'dedication to the mountain', when you were working in Taibai, didn't you..."

"I'm not asking you this." Su Jian immediately interrupted it, "I mean who are they dedicated to? All the mountains and rivers today have been excavated and lost, and there is no such thing as a mountain god. ?"

"This... there are indeed no serious mountain gods, but here is a mountain spirit who proclaims himself king."

"Yo, it's strange...there is such an arrogant thing these days?" Su Jian smiled contemptuously, "Which dared to pretend to be its grandfather? Tell me, what's the origin of that thing? "

The old weasel pointed to the opposite mountain and said: "It often haunts the opposite mountain, not far from the cave. For thousands of years when the spiritual veins of the mountains and rivers have been lost, there are always some demons with a heart who collect scattered spiritual power from the world to cultivate. But it didn't do anything bad, instead it tried its best to protect this land like the mountain god, so those little monsters around us who have no self-protection ability accept its existence."

Hearing this, Su Jian's expression softened a little.As if suddenly remembering something, he sighed with emotion and asked, "Have you seen it? What is the prototype?"

The old weasel said hesitantly: "I haven't seen it before. I heard from other animals around here that it has cultivated to the point of transforming itself, and often appears in the human world in different forms. As for the prototype...it might be a fox." ?”

Su Jian glanced at Pei Mengfei, only to see that Pei Mengfei was also bowing her head in thought.

"No one in the clan has ever told me that there is a fox who has grown up here..." Pei Mengfei muttered to himself, "Could it be that it came from somewhere else?"

Luo Wenxiu heard the general idea from the side, and because he had peeked at Pei Mengfei's file before, he knew that he was also a fox before he cultivated human form.Then he said abruptly, "Maybe it's your distant relative?"

Pei Mengfei tilted his head and glanced at him, and replied without punctuation in his voice like a mobile phone voice assistant: "There are seven or eight people in my family. Both parents are dead and lonely. Where are some distant relatives?"

Luo Wenxiu stroked the back of his head pitifully: "This kid...is too miserable."

Pei Mengfei flicked away for a second: "Don't touch my head, you young man, I can be your grandfather even at the age of a man, okay?"

Luo Wenxiu looked at his face, and couldn't accept that this colleague who looked like a fresh graduate was actually older than his grandfather, so he couldn't help asking a question that had been haunting him for a long time: "I have a question , Is the appearance of the human form randomized by the system or made by yourself? Why don't you choose an older look for yourself? Your face is too unconvincing to pretend to be a senior in front of others. "

Pei Mengfei: "My name is Eternal Youth, what the hell do you know?"