C48 (1/2)
”I …” I really didn't know how to ask her. She wasn't a criminal, and she wasn't even my girlfriend. Asking someone about their secret for no reason, and it was even a girl's secret.
”Eat the food!” I laughed helplessly. In that instant earlier, I had thought of one thing: The reason Liao Mengfann didn't tell me was perhaps because she had her own reasons, right? Why can't I wait? What about when she told me herself? Am I afraid of death?
When I thought about death, I thought about that organization called ”Spirit Realm”. I was certain that the illness on my back was caused by that God's Water, what kind of thing is that?
The dishes on the table were delicious, but neither of us had much appetite. There was news from the northeast on the television, but how much of it seemed to me to be true?
After eating half a bowl of rice, my hungry stomach couldn't fill up with anything else. I walked over to the checkout counter to check out the bill, but at that moment, an urgent news item suddenly appeared on the TV.
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, at around 5 a.m. this morning, a cut adult buttocks was found in a cornfield in the village of Huihe, our province. The buttocks were placed on a grave bag and the local police have been involved in the investigation, but so far they have not found the relevant witness. Because of the extremely bad nature of the case, the local police have decided that if anyone provides any important clues, the reward will be three thousand yuan.
”Three thousand yuan?” I said to Liao Mengfann, ”This kind of murder is only rewarded with three thousand gold. What do the local police think?”
”Look down!” Liao Mengfann shook her hand and said to me.
Then there was an interview. The video went directly to a small village. I saw a lot of people standing in the ground watching the scene. The local police were investigating the scene in front of a grave.
During this time, a woman in her fifties was sitting on the ground wailing, ”Oh my god, what the hell is this guy doing to my man's grave?” ”Damn your ancestors of eight generations …”
The woman's scolding was followed by some noise. The camera turned back to what seemed to be a house. The photographer purposely used the camera to scan the house.
The house was very old, almost the same as Lee Futian's home. Inside the house, there was an old-fashioned wine shelf, with large mirrors filled with photos. Next, the camera moved to the top of the room's door. The door was old, the blue paint on the door had been polished, and as the camera adjusted upwards, I saw that the top of the door was decorated with a glass light. On the light, I saw a sign that looked like a gossip.
Maybe it was the photographer's curiosity that prompted him to give me a close-up of the tabloid, which grew larger as my body began to tremble.
How is this a Eight Trigrams Board? Even though it is also constructed in an octagonal shape, I didn't see any symbol that belongs to the Eight Trigrams board. Instead, I saw the symbols that I didn't want to see the most in my life.
The rest of the time, my mind was a little muddled, I didn't even hear what the reporters were saying, I absentmindedly walked out of the restaurant with Liao Mengfann and got into the car.
”I didn't expect to see such a thing …” Liao Mengfann sat in the front passenger seat and said softly.
I lit a cigarette and took a long drag. ”Back to the Ministry. We'll take over this case!”
I started the car and quickly sped up the road. Liao Mengfann warned me to be careful, but my heart was already filled with impatience. The other reason was that I was convinced that the local police would not be able to solve the case, and I didn't want it to be an open case.
Originally, it was half an hour's drive, but I finished in 15 minutes. When I opened the door of Task Force office, I saw that everyone was sitting at the conference table and having a meeting.
Before I could even finish reporting the conclusion of the lotus seed corpse case, I hastily interrupted everyone. My father's expression was slightly unhappy as he asked me: ”Lu Xiaochuan, what do you think you are doing?”
I said to everyone, ”Stop reporting. I want all the information on the 12.1 case. I want it now!”
Due to my emotional state, my words were incoherent. Dad said angrily, ”You are messing around. Get out!”
Liao Mengfann tugged on my arm, and she said to my father: ”Department Head Lu, a perverted murder case occurred at Shanghe County in the Northeast. When we were interviewing the reporters, we found a Eight Trigrams Mirror with Spirit Realm Organization symbols on it at the house of a peasant woman.
The surroundings were completely silent …
After about two or three minutes, I saw Dad pick up the phone. When the call was picked up, he said, ”Immediately book today's flight to Northeast, and... Call me at once the Northeast Public Security Office, and at the same time bring all the information in the file A to Task Force's office! ”
Not long after his father hung up, the female secretary brought the case Wei Shijie took with him to the meeting room. After the secretary left, Dad opened the suitcase and a stack of photos appeared in front of me.
The photos were passed around one by one, and in my hands were three pictures from the basement. I remember that this place should be the place where the bones of the dead are piled up in Lee Shan's vegetable cellar.
Because of the urgency of the case, and because there were so many people in the cellar at the time, I didn't take a good look at the room. Now it seemed that this room was a completely different place.
The photograph I was holding was a picture of the roof of the room. I saw that there were many complex symbols drawn on the ceiling. There were many different types of symbols.
The roof was circular, but if you looked closely, perhaps because of the technology and environment of the building, the roof seemed to me to be octagonal too.