Doctor entering the police gate

Chapter 70

They crossed the uneven grassy slopes and the murmuring stream, and came to the opposite side of the narrow black stone bridge.Yan Junli first opened the car door and sat in.

"Settle down here today and stay overnight."

"The navigation said that there is a hotel at the intersection not far ahead." Li Hong said while looking at the mobile phone navigation, "It's just a little small."

"Did you expect such a luxurious place to live in such a remote place?" Yan Junli shrugged, "Let's go."

This small hotel at the intersection is only two stories high, next to a gas station.Yang Wenbin looked around, although the hotel was a bit small, but after walking in, he found that it was quite clean.An old lady with gray hair was sitting behind the counter, and a slim woman was standing in front of the counter.

The woman's back seemed a little familiar, and Yang Wenbin thought so for a moment.

"Hello, let's make a reservation." Yan Junli stepped forward and said to the old lady.

The old lady raised her head and pushed the reading glasses on the bridge of her nose with her fingers: "What room do you want to book? There are not enough rooms now, so there is only one standard room. This lady just booked a standard room."

Yang Wenbin and Yan Junli subconsciously turned their heads to look around, and the woman just turned her head to look at them.All of a sudden, both parties were stunned.The woman opposite them had no makeup on, a pair of willow-leaf eyebrows were properly bent, a pair of red phoenix eyes were piercing, long hair shawl, wearing a light-colored dress, with a natural charm.

This was completely different from the last time they met, but Yang Wenbin still recognized who it was at a glance.

"poppy!"

"Doctor Yang?"

Both of them were quite surprised, and Li Hong was even more stunned: "You, you are Poppy? My God, there is a big difference from the previous meeting."

"Why are you three here?" Poppy asked in surprise.

"Investigate the case. What about you?" Yang Wenbin asked.

"Work." Poppy replied ambiguously, "I didn't expect to meet you here, this is really..."

"It's really fate, isn't it?" Yan Junli raised his eyebrows and bumped Yang Wenbin's shoulder, and got the latter's unkind eyes.

"Well, how about booking your rooms?" The proprietress behind the counter probably got a little impatient and asked.

Yang Wenbin was about to speak, but was preempted by Yan Junli's loud voice: "We just want a standard room!"

Yang Wenbin stared at him: "A standard room?"

Yan Junli looked upright: "I'm sleeping with Xiaohong."

Li Hong obviously hasn't reacted yet: "Ah? What about Dr. Yang?"

Yan Junli laughed "hehe", took the room card from the proprietress, pulled Li Hong up and ran away: "Then I don't care! Please, Dr. Yang, find a way!"

"Hey, you!" Yang Wenbin stood there in embarrassment, as if he was leaving or staying.Just when he turned around, thinking about changing to another hotel, Poppy suddenly said from behind:

"Doctor Yang, where are you going? Let's go upstairs."

"Ah?" Yang Wenbin coughed dryly, trying to cover up his embarrassment, "But..."

"What's the matter." Poppy smiled slightly, less of the coquettishness of the last time we met, and more of a natural charm.She reached out and patted Yang Wenbin on the shoulder, "Standard room, two beds. What are you afraid of, I won't eat you again."

After Poppy finished speaking, she went upstairs without looking back, as if she was sure that Yang Wenbin would follow.Yang Wenbin looked at her back and followed her helplessly.

"Where did you go after the skeleton incident was over?" Yang Wenbin asked bluntly as soon as Poppy opened the door.

"You really have no interest at all. You look exactly the same as before." Poppy shook her head, went to the table and poured two glasses of boiled water, and handed one to Yang Wenbin, "What's wrong, I Did you miss me after I left?"

Yang Wenbin frowned, he didn't intend to flirt with the woman in front of him: "No. It's just because of the position of the person involved, I feel that I need to ask."

"Work." Poppy shrugged, not intending to explain, "You have your jobs, but I have mine."

"Then you came here this time for work. What kind of work requires you to come to such a remote place?" Yang Wenbin asked.

"Then what kind of case requires you to come to such a remote place to investigate?" Poppy raised her eyebrows and asked.

Yang Wenbin sighed in his heart, knowing that if he didn't explain the reason clearly first, the other party would not tell the truth.

"From this intersection to the east, there is a manor with a sense of age. The couple in that manor disappeared last week. At first, the police in city B took over, but no one was found. Then just yesterday, At the same time, Yan Junli and I received a call from a little boy asking for help. In addition, Yan Junli's director suspected that it was a murder case, so we came to investigate. We came back from that manor just now, and we did find some clues. We will come back tomorrow Going to visit once, there should be a greater harvest."

"But how did that little boy know the phone number between you and Yan Junli?" Poppy asked.

Yang Wenbin looked at Poppy from the corner of his eyes, hesitating whether to tell this woman the truth.Poppy's expression was very natural. Rather than saying that she was deliberately formulating words, it would be better to say that she was like a python with a well-thought-out plan, quietly and patiently waiting for Yang Wenbin to put the truth into her mouth.

"The boy told us later." Yang Wenbin said, "It was a young man named Xia Baiyan who called us."

Poppy's eyes lit up obviously, and she immediately turned her head to look at Yang Wenbin: "Xia Baiyan? Are you sure? Do you know who this is?"

Yang Wenbin sighed and nodded: "Well, we have dealt with him before, and we were played very badly."

"So, you also know that he is a clown?" Poppy asked.

Yang Wenbin nodded slowly.

"I don't know why it came to us, but since the first case I investigated with Yan Junli, this name has followed us like a shadow." Yang Wenbin took a deep breath, "That kind of feeling is not good, like-"

"It's like someone is watching you forever." Poppy said.

Yang Wenbin looked at her in surprise, and nodded heavily: "It's like...we don't know anything about it, but it already knows us well."

Poppy showed a smile and opened up the conversation,

"Clowns are a very strange existence in Western culture. Clown performances have appeared in Egypt as early as 2500 BC. Its purpose is to entertain the public, so the performances are simple and funny. But the strange thing is that 80% of people are right The first impression of a clown is not funny, but weird. Have you seen the face of a clown? White face, red lips, exaggerated eye makeup and a huge nose, like from another world. Some people say, this It is because clown performances are a dark reflection of social reality from the very beginning. Human beings’ own pathology, including overeating, lust, anger... So, this is what clowns have been doing all the time. It collects the darkness of human beings. , take advantage of these shadows, and become a kind of laughingstock."

Yang Wenbin felt a little creepy when he heard it: "...a joke?"

"Death, blood, corpses, the hatred in the human heart... To them, it's just a joke." Poppy didn't have any expression on her face when she made the statement, "They are happy criminals, killing or instigating others to kill just because They are happy for no other reason."

Yang Wenbin couldn't help but said, "How is it possible—"

But Poppy nodded, completely annihilating the little hope left in Yang Wenbin's heart: "There are indeed such people in the world, and with all due respect, there may be more people than you can imagine now. The clown is an internationally recognized person." There are active secret organizations. No one knows when they were established and who they are. What I know is also very limited, only that they like to be active behind the scenes of some murders, and communicate with each other through the deep web, that is, the dark net. connect."

"Dark web?" Yang Wenbin obviously has never heard of this term.

Poppy seemed to look at the doctor helplessly: "What age is it now, you should know a little about modern things."

This sentence made Yang Wenbin blush a little, but before he could refute, Poppy continued to talk.

"Deep web, we are also called dark web or deep web, which generally refers to the deep web on the Internet that cannot be searched by standard search engines." Poppy said while stretching out her hand and gesticulating, "Let me tell you this, if It is said that all the Internet in the world is a huge ocean. Search engines such as Baidu, Google, and Sogou are cruise ships on the sea. The cruise ship can help you grab any web page on the sea, but it cannot dive into the sea. .If we say that the web pages we can browse at will now are the surface of the sea, then the dark web is the bottomless deep sea under the surface of the sea.”

Yang Wenbin frowned, and nodded with a vague understanding.

"If you want to enter these hidden deep networks, you often need a specific 'key'. The same is true for the clown's network. If you don't get the 'key', you can't get in." Poppy sighed, "And this is what I do. work again."

"Get the key to the dark web?" Yang Wenbin asked.

Poppy nodded, and said: "The matter started more than ten years ago. We have been tracking down the clown organization since a long time ago, but it has been unsuccessful. The clown is very cautious and will never disclose any information easily, but Fortunately, we caught a woman who knew the 'key' at that time. But no matter how tortured she was, she refused to reveal any information. After half a month, she escaped without a trace. Then just a few days ago, I My boss suddenly learned that the last place where she disappeared was near here, so he sent me to investigate. The woman is probably dead, otherwise she would not easily reveal her whereabouts due to her prudence. But if she can be found, we will There is hope of getting that 'key' back."

(End of this chapter)