Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 4 Zhou Tong Detective Series I: Death Tarot Cards (4)
Although the case has made some progress, Yan Yongjie's brain can't relax at all, because there are still too many questions about this case that need to be answered one by one.

Zhou Tong didn't expect Jia Jia to react so strongly after seeing Wang Hong's photo.

"Do you know her?" Zhou Tong patted the stunned Jiajia.

"I don't know, I don't know her... I'm sorry, I'm a little drunk, excuse me!" Jiajia pushed Zhou Tong away in a panic, then turned and left in a hurry, and ran towards the "safety exit".

Seeing that Zhou Tong had a clue, how could he let her go away so easily, so he immediately followed her and chased after her.

But at this moment, the waitress from just now came out from nowhere and stopped Zhou Tong.

"Sorry, sir! You haven't paid the bill yet." The waitress blocked Zhou Tong with her body.

If it was normal, Zhou Tong would definitely take the opportunity to lean towards this plump waitress, but right now he doesn't have such a leisurely mind.He quickly took out his only 500 yuan from his pocket and stuffed it into the hand of the waitress, saying, "You don't need to look for it." Then he pushed the waitress away and walked towards the "safety exit" without looking back. Chased out.

Coming out of the "safety exit" is an alley back to the street, and the surroundings are deserted, except that occasionally a few drops of sewage drip from the upstairs, making a "click" sound.Zhou Tong looked around, but there was no sign of Jia Jia.

Zhou Tong still did not give up, and continued to pursue along the dark alley.But just after running about a dozen steps, a man in black flashed out from the corner of the alley.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is a man in black. He is dressed like a thief in a movie, and even his face is covered with a black mask.The sudden appearance of such a weird person caught Zhou Tong by surprise and was taken aback.

"Who are you?" Zhou Tong boldly shouted.

The man in black didn't answer, but approached Zhou Tong step by step with even and vigorous steps.

"Come closer, don't blame me for being rude!" Zhou Tong raised his fist and said threateningly.

The man in black still didn't speak. He was not affected by Zhou Tong's threats at all, but approached further, only a few steps away from Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong stepped back subconsciously. He didn't know who the man in black was or what his purpose was, so he didn't dare to rush forward to make a move.Just when Zhou Tong was at a loss, the man in black suddenly pulled out a long sword with a peculiar shape from his wide sleeve and stabbed him.

Zhou Tong never thought that the man in black would draw his sword to attack him, let alone that he would strike so viciously, as if he wanted to take his life.In fact, even if Zhou Tong knew that the man in black was going to stab this sword, he would absolutely be unable to avoid it, because the speed of the stab was so fast that Zhou Tong had no time to react at all.

At this critical moment, a wooden stick suddenly flew out and hit the side of the long sword, causing the sword to deviate from its original course and slip past Zhou Tong's side.

The man in black was obviously also shocked by this sudden change, and couldn't help but let out an "uh".Only then did Zhou Tong realize that he had escaped a catastrophe, so he gasped.A familiar and beautiful figure jumped in front of Zhou Tong's eyes.She turned her head slowly, while Zhou Tong slowly opened her mouth wide. The person with this beautiful and familiar figure was Yan Yongjie.

It turned out that Yan Yongjie came down from the manager's office on the second floor and planned to go to Hu Fangli's box last night, but when she passed the lobby, she saw Zhou Tong and saw him chasing a girl in a hurry, so she followed him out out of curiosity Take a look.However, what she never expected was that a mysterious man in black wanted to take Zhou Tong's life.

"I'll chat with you slowly later." Yan Yongjie said this to Zhou Tong in a lukewarm tone, and then turned her gaze to the man in black in front of her again.In fact, now she really wants to question Zhou Tong, why did he appear in the "Pink Lovers" bar?And why did this mysterious man in black want his life?All this is really unbelievable.If the man in black in front of her was not a formidable opponent who needed her full attention, she would have tortured Zhou Tong long ago to extract a confession.

Yan Yongjie stared at the man in black with piercing eyes, but the man in black was unmoved, still holding the sword in one hand, and looked back at her indifferently.In an instant, the whole world seemed to be quiet for it.

At this moment, a cold wind suddenly blew up.The wind lifted Yan Yongjie's beautiful long hair, and at the same time lifted the murderous look of the man in black.Taking advantage of the wind, the man in black flew towards Yan Yongjie like lightning and thunder, raised his long sword and slashed down mercilessly.Yan Yongjie had been prepared for a long time, and she jumped forward without avoiding or dodging, parrying the long sword with her left hand, and turning a fist with her right hand, hitting the face of the man in black.The man in black never expected that the weak-looking woman in front of him would dare to attack his long sword empty-handed, and the strike was quick and accurate, and he could not take advantage of it.As a last resort, the man in black had no choice but to retreat quickly, and at the same time withdrew his long sword, cutting towards Yan Yongjie's wrist.And Yan Yongjie immediately turned his fist into a palm, avoiding the sword's edge, and attacked the waist of the man in black.For a moment, the figures of the two intertwined together, sword light and fist shadow, you come and go, it is hard to tell the winner.

Standing behind the two, Zhou Tong was dumbfounded. The scene in front of him was like a martial arts movie. In the 21st century, he could still see such fighting scenes in person, feeling like he was in a dream.

But Yan Yongjie and the man in black were extremely shocked. Both of them couldn't believe that they would meet a first-class master at such a time and such a place.

With a yell and a muffled groan, the figures of the two finally separated.Yan Yongjie's face was pale, both arms were scratched by the long sword, bleeding profusely.And the man in black was also punched by Yan Yongjie in the lower abdomen, spewing out a mouthful of blood, which stained the black face scarf red.

"Zhong-guo-secret-zong-quan!" The man in black said every word with a stiff voice.

"Who are you? How do you know this boxing technique?"

Nowadays, there are only a handful of people who know their family-inherited Tantric boxing method, so why did the man in black blurt it out?Yan Yongjie was very surprised!

The man in black seemed to turn a deaf ear to Yan Yongjie's words, and turned around to leave.

"Stop! I'm a policeman... don't move..." Yan Yongjie seemed to realize that she was a policeman with a gun at this moment, but when she took out the gun, she found that she was no longer capable of holding it.

"Zhou Tong, what are you doing standing there, go and stop him!" Yan Yongjie had no choice but to ask Zhou Tong for help.

Zhou Tong came back to his senses after being yelled at by him, took the gun from Yan Yongjie's hand and pointed it at the man in black, shouting, "Don't leave, if you leave, I'll shoot."

But the man in black ignored him, instead speeding up his pace and leaving, losing his figure in front of them.

Zhou Tong had never touched a gun, let alone fired a gun. It was okay to say a word of intimidation, but the man in black didn't take him seriously at all, so he had to watch the man in black run away.

"Are you okay? I'll take you to the hospital!" Zhou Tong turned around and saw that Yan Yongjie was seriously injured, so he immediately stepped forward to support her.

Yan Yongjie wanted to scold Zhou Tong, but seeing his concerned expression, she swallowed the words again.

"It's okay, it's just a skin injury...I'm asking you..." Before Yan Yongjie finished speaking, a burning pain came from his arm.

"You still said it's okay, your complexion is a little bit wrong!" Zhou Tong saw Yan Yongjie's pale face, which was not as simple as a skin trauma.

"There is poison on the sword..." Yan Yongjie couldn't hold on any longer and passed out.

In the morning of early spring, the sun shines softly on Yan Yongjie's delicate face through the bright windows.Zhou Tong sat beside her quietly, but his thoughts never stopped for a moment.What is the origin of the martial arts man in black, and why did he kill himself?Where is Jiajia now, and what is the relationship between her and Wang Hong?Why did Yan Yongjie also appear in the "Pink Lovers" bar?Things seem to be getting more and more complicated, can you find out the truth on your own?Zhou Tong hesitated at first, and couldn't make up his mind whether he wanted to tell Yan Yongjie everything.

Just when Zhou Tong fell into deep thought, Yan Yongjie woke up and found himself lying on the hospital bed, and the mischievous boy was sitting beside him.

"You bastard! What were you doing at the bar yesterday? Why would someone want to kill you?" Yan Yongjie stretched out her hand and pinched Zhou Tong's ear involuntarily as soon as she woke up.

"Ouch! Let...let go...I said...I said..." Zhou Tong was thinking about something, and suddenly Yan Yongjie pinched his ears, and couldn't help crying out in pain.

Yan Yongjie was exhausted from the battle with the man in black last night, and she lost blood and was poisoned before she fell into a coma. Fortunately, the poison on the man in black's sword was only ordinary venom, not strong, and Zhou Tong sent her to the hospital for treatment in time. Now after sleeping for a night, my physical strength has recovered, the poison has been removed, and my body is not in serious condition.

Yan Yongjie felt a little embarrassed when he saw Zhou Tong yelling like killing a pig in the ward, so he let go of his ears and let him speak.

"Of course I went to the bar to have fun. As for why the man in black wanted to kill me, no one knows!" Zhou Tong rubbed his ears and replied casually.

Yan Yongjie knew that what he said was incomplete and untrue, but he couldn't find any questions, so he didn't know how to continue asking.Seeing that she was silent, Zhou Tong immediately seized the opportunity and continued, "Aren't you a policeman? You have to help me find out about the fact that the man in black wants to kill me!"

"Of course I will investigate this, but if you let me know that you are hiding something from me, I will not forgive you!" Yan Yongjie was not joking when she said this.

"It's about my life, how dare I hide it from you!" Zhou Tong put on a hippie smile and moved to Yan Yongjie's side, "Besides, don't tell my mother about this matter, she knows that she will probably be worried and affect her. She's not working well."

Yan Yongjie faintly felt that the matter of the man in black was not simple, and Zhou Tong refused to tell the truth. Even if he wanted to tell Teacher Song about this matter, he didn't know how to explain it clearly. It's better to wait until everything is clear.

"You don't need to talk nonsense about this, I have my own measure." Yan Yongjie suddenly remembered something and asked, "What time is it?"

"Eight forty-five." Zhou Tong raised his hand and looked at his watch.

"You have an entrance exam at nine o'clock today." Yan Yongjie thought of this incident.

"Yeah, I almost forgot, if I don't take the exam, my mother will kill me first!" Zhou Tong hurried out of the ward immediately after speaking.

Seeing his befuddled look, Yan Yongjie just thought it was funny, but suddenly remembered that he carried her to the hospital last night and stayed by her side all night, and she felt a touch of emotion in her heart.

On the day Yan Yongjie was born, her mother died of dystocia. When she was nine years old, her father died in a car accident. After that, she has been living with her grandfather.Grandpa is a farmer, but he is also a martial artist with great knowledge, but Yan Yongjie has never seen his grandfather show himself in front of outsiders.Even after Yan Yongjie learned her grandfather's kung fu, her grandfather also urged her to practice martial arts only to strengthen her body, and not to fight with others unless necessary.The environment of her grandfather's family was not well-off. When Yan Yongjie was admitted to university, she had almost no money to pay her expensive tuition fees.If Song Xin, who was in charge of recruiting students at the school at the time, knew about the situation and helped her pay the tuition fee out of her own pocket, Yan Yongjie might not have the chance to go to college.

A pleasant cell phone ringtone awakened Yan Yongjie from her memories.

"Yong Jie, I found some information about the Tarot card case!" Gu Tiancheng's voice on the phone seemed a little excited.

"What content?" Yan Yongjie asked with concern as soon as she heard the new information.

"I can't tell for a while, come to the group, I'll wait for you here."

"Okay, I'll go right there."

After Yan Yongjie hung up the phone, she immediately jumped off the hospital bed. Although she still felt a dull pain in her left arm, she was fine in other aspects of her body.She couldn't help thinking that if something went wrong last night, she might have died by the sword of the man in black.The swordsmanship of the man in black is fast and ruthless, and his moves are eccentric. I have never seen it before. I really don't know where he came from?Such a master wants to kill a powerless Zhou Tong. The reason behind this is really puzzling.

If Zhou Tong knew that in Yan Yongjie's heart he was nothing more than a helpless waste, he didn't know how he would feel.

When Yan Yongjie came to the special criminal investigation team, Gu Tiancheng was already waiting for her at the door.

"Yong Jie, the information I found will definitely surprise you!" Seeing Yan Yongjie, Gu Tiancheng immediately took her to his desk and took out a stack of old files, "Look, this is the file I was working on. It was dug up from the old archives."

Yan Yongjie looked at the date on the file, and it turned out to be [-], a file that was ten years old.

"I read this file, and it turned out that such a bizarre suicide case happened ten years ago, and the police officer who was in charge of the case at that time also committed suicide." Gu Tiancheng was a little excited when he said this.

"There will be such a thing?" Yan Yongjie took the file in Gu Tiancheng's hand in amazement, and started to read it.

The file records that ten years ago, eleven bizarre cases occurred across the country in which they committed suicide with iron nails while holding Tarot cards. At that time, a police officer who was in charge of investigating these incidents also adopted this method in the end. Suicide in the office.But what is even more strange is that after the police officer committed suicide, the tarot suicides also miraculously stopped.Later, the Ministry of Public Security also continued to investigate for a period of time, but to no avail, and finally had to let it go.

"Zhou Tao?!" Yan Yongjie read out the name of the police officer who was in charge of the Tarot suicide case in surprise.

"He is an amazing person!" Gu Tiancheng called up the file about Zhou Tao in the computer, and then continued: "Zhou Tao was the top criminal investigation expert in China at that time, and the major and important cases solved in his hands are probably more serious than those of Zhou Tao. All the cases that our entire special criminal investigation team has solved since its establishment are more..."

However, Yan Yongjie at this time did not listen to what Gu Tiancheng said, she just paid attention to the other two names in the information about Zhou Tao on the computer: Song Xin and Zhou Tong.

"It turns out...it turns out that Zhou Tao's wife is Teacher Song, and Zhou Tong is his son...this kid really has a problem!" Yan Yongjie suddenly realized, and said softly to herself.

"What did you say?" Seeing Yan Yongjie talking to himself, Gu Tiancheng asked curiously.

"Oh...it's nothing, I just didn't expect such a case to happen ten years ago... Ah, by the way, thank you for helping me find these materials." The one thing Yan Yongjie wants to do most now is to arrest Zhou Tong immediately. Torture to extract a confession.

Gu Tiancheng's face was a little red when he heard the words, and he lowered his head and said: "It's nothing, but I see that you have been worrying about this case recently, and I hope I can help you a little, but I actually found these old files. Useful for you, actually I..."

As Gu Tiancheng was talking, when he raised his head again, he found that Yan Yongjie had already left with the old file.

Zhou Tong's mind was not on the exam at all, he finished writing in a daze and handed in the paper.Of course, he didn't dare to be too arrogant, and he didn't leave immediately, but stayed obediently at the door of the principal's office and waited for the result.In fact, he didn't know that his mother Song Xin was an old acquaintance with the principal of this school, so no matter what the result of the exam was, he would be admitted.

"Zhou Tong, you can go in now." The principal's secretary sitting beside Zhou Tong said in a sweet voice after receiving the principal's call.

"Thank you!" Zhou Tong replied with a very charming smile, and then gently pushed open the door of the principal's office.

Appearing in front of him was a fat old man in his 60s. His bloated body was tightly pressed against the chair, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses were sandwiched under his white and black hair. He looked very kind.

"Hello, principal." Zhou Tong was completely clueless about his exam just now, so when he said hello, his voice was unavoidably rough.

"Zhou Tong, ah, he looks very handsome and gentle!" The chubby headmaster said something rambling.

(End of this chapter)