Yancheng Special Office

A red jeep was parked less than 50 meters away from the residential building. When Su Jian and Luo Wenxiu arrived, Pei Mengfei and Qi Jun were already beside the car.

Su Jian: "How is it? Have you caught up?"

Qi Jun shook his head angrily, and slammed his fist on the door frame, causing the car body to vibrate. Su Jian gave him a disgusted look, and bared his teeth in pain.

"I chased it into the woods and disappeared. It was just a little bit. But I hurt it, so it shouldn't be far away. I sent the children into the mountains to chase it."

Su Jian nodded: "That thing is very cunning, we don't know what it's capable of, so don't work too hard, lest your children will be thankless."

"Don't worry, that bastard was bleeding when he ran away. Following the smell of blood, he will definitely be able to catch up. He just tore up his bones to feed the children." Qi Jun gritted his teeth when he said these words, he seemed to be interested in these evil spirits. I hate it so much, I can't wait to see one kill the other.

Seeing Luo Wenxiu's head full of question marks, Su Jian lightly explained: "It's not real children, but the little ghosts that Qi Jun raised by his side."

Luo Wenxiu felt a chill.

The dormitories of several people in the office are basically in the same community. On the way back, Su Jian was driving, and Pei Mengfei and Qi Jun tacitly occupied the back seat of the car, one left and one right, and Luo Wenxiu could only hold back Scalp opened the co-pilot's door.

He found that Su Jian, who was looking at the driver's seat from this angle, happened to be the angle of view of his work group avatar.The street was empty in the early morning, and the red jeep was frantically testing the accelerator and the speed limit of the road.

The street lamps were shrouded in dew in the air, and they looked hazy and drowsy.While waiting for the red light, Su Jian turned on the car radio, and after changing a few advertising channels for health care products, she finally stopped at the column of late-night ghost stories.

The male radio anchor is reading a ghost story in a mysterious tone. The protagonist in the story is walking into an uninhabited deep house compound. After he enters the door, the door is closed behind him, and a female ghost stands silently. behind the protagonist.

Luo Wenxiu: "..."

Su Jian couldn't help smiling, and reached out to turn off the car radio completely.

After sending Qi Jun and Pei Mengfei to the gate of the community, Su Jian parked the car on the side of the road.I lit a cigarette, then rolled down the car window and took a breath: "Where do you live? Why don't you go back to rest today, I just have to go back to the office to deal with some things, and I will be on duty for you in the middle of the night."

Luo Wenxiu glanced at Su Jian, his face was a little tired, and his hair was messy, probably because he had been working overtime a while ago and didn't have a good rest.

"...I live quite far away. I didn't drive today. The subway stopped early at this point. How about I go back to work with you, and I can help you if you need anything."

Luo Wenxiu's attitude is very sincere, it is true that he has no means of transportation to go back, and it is true that he wants to go back to the unit honestly.Luo Wenxiu really wanted to do something sincerely to make up for it. After hearing this, Su Jian pinched the cigarette butt, and a faint smile appeared on her face.

"Okay, back to work."

He kicked the accelerator, hummed a little tune and set off on the road.

The alley at the entrance of the office was even more invisible at night. Su Jian pushed open the gate of the front yard, and the wind blowing in from behind rustled the fallen leaves on the ground.

Su Jian has a separate director's office in the unit, but due to negligence, the inside is much more chaotic - finished cans are piled on the table, expired documents and various half-recorded documents Paper piles are everywhere.

Su Jian threw the briefcase and coat casually on the sofa next to the desk, went to the bar to pour two cups of warm water while starting the computer, handed one of the cups to Luo Wenxiu, and then nestled on the chair with both feet Stretched out under the table.

"Sit down wherever you want. There are cans of coffee in the refrigerator at the back. If you want to drink, take it yourself."

Luo Wenxiu sat on the reception chair opposite Su Jian, and watched him change a pair of black-framed mirrors from the drawer. The anti-blue light mirror just reflected the light of the screen. It seemed that there were documents open on the screen, filled with densely packed words.

The room suddenly became quiet, gradually only the sound of Su Jian typing on the keyboard was left.

Luo Wenxiu originally wanted to help him with some work, but after seeing him concentrating on his desk, he couldn't bear to disturb him after all, so he casually flipped through the magazines on the coffee table.When Su Jian finished typing a report and looked up at him, Luo Wenxiu had already fallen asleep on the chair.

Luo Wenxiu's eye sockets were deep, and when he was asleep, his thick eyelashes drooped down, leaving a small hazy shadow under his nose and eyes.His breath was very slow and light, and he didn't realize that anyone was looking at him intently.

Su Jian stared at this picture for a long time, until the computer screen in front of him automatically entered the screensaver program, and he came to his senses after a while.

He really couldn't remember where he had seen Luo Wenxiu before, but he felt very familiar for some reason.It was as if the two hadn't met for the first time, but had known each other for a long time.

What Luo Wenxiu said was right, he, an old monster, had lived in this world for too long, so long that he couldn't remember his own age.

After thousands of years of vicissitudes, Su Jian has long been tired of seeing the mountains and rivers in this world, and things are different.When I was young, I had the same impulsiveness as him, and I also wanted to make a career on my own.But in the end, whether friends or relatives, they all turn into the dust of this mountain and river.

Only he was left alone in this vast sea of ​​people for thousands of years.

11 years ago, if it wasn't for an overzealous guy who found himself like a savage from the cave of Taibai Mountain in the Qinling Mountains and asked him to be the director of this office, he would have spent his entire life there. Spend in panic.

The reason why Su Jian fell in love with clubbing after returning to the world is because it is a humane place, even if most of the people there have blatant hypocrisy, it is better than being alone for a long night without being accompanied .

After dawn, Luo Wenxiu was woken up by the sound of birds chirping outside the window, only to realize that he had been lying on the sofa in Su Jian's office all night.

There was a piece of clothing covering her body, and the smell of nicotine still remained on it—it was the coat that Su Jian left on the sofa when she entered the door yesterday.

But Su Jian was no longer in the office, and she didn't know when she left.

After the series of tossing and tossing last night, Luo Wenxiu recharged frantically during the few hours of sleep left before dawn, and it is basically fully charged by now.At this time, there was more than half an hour before the normal working time, Luo Wenxiu stood up and stretched, and went to the bathroom to finish washing.When I came out, I saw the fallen leaves falling all over the courtyard, and suddenly I was so lucky that I picked up the broom in the corner and became a floor sweeper.

After a while, those with bread in their mouths and those who were still awake and ready to order takeout stepped into the yard of the office one by one. Pei Mengfei sighed as if seeing something strange: "Hey, someone is learning from Lei Feng!"

Qi Jun: "Good colleague, I will definitely remember you for this year's newcomer evaluation."

Su Jian was the last one to park the red jeep at the entrance of the unit, holding a big bag of hamburger, fries, fried chicken and coffee just bought in her hand. to.

Jin Yi snatched a whole piece of fried chicken and sat in front of the computer desk, poking his head out of the window, "The iron rooster is bleeding a lot today, let me see where the sun rises today."

Luo Ye had just lost to Pei Mengfei in the scramble for the last piece of fried chicken, and was sighing, when he turned his head and saw Su Jian handing the prepared one to Luo Wenxiu in the yard.

Luo Ye: "Hey, why, why?"

Pei Mengfei glanced at Qi Jun knowingly, and the latter shrugged, "Just because someone smiles for Bomei, Luo Ye, you have to know yourself when you are ugly, or you go to the whole thing first..."

Su Jian didn't bother to explain to them, so she said to Luo Wenxiu, "Come with me to the file room after you finish eating", then swaggered back to the director's office and closed the door.

So Luo Wenxiu, who stepped back into the office, ate his first exclusive Overlord meal under the envious, jealous, and gossip eyes of everyone.

The archives room is next door to the director's office. The door is usually locked, and Luo Wenxiu has never entered it.As soon as Su Jian led him to open the door, there was a smell of paper in the closed environment that is unique to storing files.

Su Jian knew exactly where all the files were placed in the archives, which was in stark contrast to the piles of rubbish everywhere in his office.

"Three rows of cabinets on the second floor, those books with red labels on the side, go and have a look."

According to his description, Luo Wenxiu successfully found two dossiers with red labels on the side. The paper was still very new, and it seemed that it should be a new case not long ago.

Randomly opened one of them and found that it was an accidental death case two months ago.The most important thing is that the cause of death of the deceased was an accidental burn at home, and there were also strange scorched footprints of unidentified beasts left at the scene.

Luo Wenxiu opened the second book again, and it was still an accidental death case.The car driven by the deceased spontaneously ignited on the highway, and there was an unidentified animal charred footprint on the body.

Luo Wenxiu's brows were furrowed. He had two files in his hand, including last night's, a total of three cases of the same nature, all related to fire and scorched footprints.

"We have been fighting with it for several months." Su Jian said, "Do you see any patterns in these cases?"

"The dead are all men, and they are all about the same age. The death conditions are the same, so there is reason to suspect that it was the same person or the same gang..." Luo Wenxiu paused, thinking of something, "It may not be a person..."

"These cases are all karmic fires. In fact, there is another related case that you are familiar with, the Jiefang Road bar bombing."

Luo Wenxiu was a little surprised: "The dossier is in an office outside. I have already read it, but why didn't they be classified as related cases?"

"The bar bombing did not cause human deaths. We were deceived by the appearance and thought it was just a simple fight between little demons. Afterwards, several wounded at the hospital reported that they had hallucinations before being discharged from the hospital, so I paid attention again. It’s about the fire itself. Not long ago, I sent someone to the scene again, and only then did I discover the traces of the fire hidden under the explosion of the gas tank.”

Su Jian leaned on the door frame, looked into Luo Wenxiu's eyes, "You are also one of the victims of hallucinations, right?"

Luo Wenxiu nodded: "Is there a solution now?"

Su Jian shook her head, "Except for you, all the other victims we followed have recovered on their own. It can also be said that you are the only one who has experienced two karmic fires so far and is still alive."

Luo Wenxiu suddenly felt a little panicked, as if he was already being watched by someone.Su Jian smiled and said, "That's why I suspected that Yehuo was chasing you last night. If you think about it carefully, have you offended anyone? Even a ghost won't let you go."

Luo Wenxiu wished he could raise his hands above his head and recite the party oath on the spot: "I swear to God, since I was a child, I have kept myself safe, worthy of my parents, and worthy of the common people. I have never done anything that harms nature or morality."

Before she finished speaking, Pei Mengfei pushed the door open and walked in. She was so frightened by the scene that she let out a "huh" on the spot, "Swearing a poisonous oath so quickly, the director is forcing her into prostitution again."

Su Jian: "When did I 'again', I was always aware of it with reason and emotion—by the way, what are you holding in your hand?"

Pei Mengfei handed him the email that had just been printed out, "The autopsy report just arrived, you guessed it right, the deceased was killed by homicide."