Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 54 Zhou Tong Detective Series III: Paper Burner (13)
"Just go, it's nothing, the big deal is that you will be punished by your parents if you find out." Chen Xiang finally plucked up the courage and said.

The night seemed to come faster than usual, and the village surrounded by thick fog seemed extraordinarily peaceful.Under the cover of the thick fog, the four children trembled towards the residence of the great wizard.

Strictly speaking, the great wizard did not live in the stockade, his house was still some distance away from the stockade, and from a distance, it seemed to be a small satellite floating outside the planet.

Although blocked by thick fog and jungle, for these four children, even with their eyes closed, they can travel within a radius of ten miles. If they are not afraid of disturbing other people in the village, they may arrive in less than 5 minutes.

"Now... what should we do now?" Shi Da was full of confidence before he set off, but when he arrived at the gate of the Great Wizard's house, he seemed more nervous than the others.

"Looking at you, you're so ridiculous." Ai Chen was older than them, so she patted Shi Da on the head without any scruples.

"I know there is a ventilated skylight on the roof behind the house. Let's climb up the tree first to see what's going on inside."

When the other three children heard that they didn't need to enter the great wizard's room, the tension in their hearts eased a lot, and they immediately agreed.So they didn't wait for Ai Chen's orders, they bypassed the wizard's big house one by one, and climbed up the tree nimbly one by one.

Although it was foggy, the children could still see the situation inside the house through the light of the fire from the room.

Blood, red blood flowed on the floor of the house, it was the blood that flowed from the body of the great wizard.

The great wizard fell beside the big iron box.

The lock of the large iron box fell to the ground, and the lid was lifted, but what was in the box could not be seen.Because there is another person, and a paper doll, who stands in front of the iron box.

"Wow!" Seeing this scene, the timid Xuan Jingyi finally couldn't bear the stimulation and cried out.

The cry startled the paper figurine, and he turned his head. Those black eyes drawn with a brush seemed to be alive. Through the skylight, he stared blankly at the four children on the tree.

Shi Da's crotch was soaked in an instant, and the four children's faces were pale. They couldn't take it anymore, screamed and fell from the tree, and then ran to the distance like crazy, with no direction, only one thought, that is to leave The farther out here the better.

But when they stopped, they found that the entire village was on fire, and the flames shot up into the sky. People's screams of pain, cries for help, and the neighing of livestock intertwined together, creating a vivid picture of hell on earth...

Xuan Jingyi slowly narrated the past, leaning against the tree and trembling slightly, her face was already filled with fear and tears.

"Then... what happened then?" Zhou Tong asked with concern.

"Later?" Xuan Jingyi was stunned for a moment, raised her head, looked at Zhou Tong with her miserable eyes and continued, "We have all become orphans. Except for the four of us, no one in the village can survive."

"But Chen Xiang has a grandma?"

"That grandma is not Chen Xiang's own grandma, Chen Xiang was adopted by her."

Zhou Tong didn't continue to ask questions immediately, he wanted to find out from Xuan Jingyi the reason for Ai Chen's disappearance and the death of Chen Xiang and Shi Da, but after listening to what Xuan Jingyi said, apart from the "bizarre" two A word, he could no longer find any clues.

"Do you know where Ai Chen is now?" Zhou Tong pondered for a long time, and finally asked again.

"Shi Da knows, but he..." Xuan Jingyi couldn't help but shed tears again.

"How did Shi Da find you? Did he say anything to you?"

"I don't know how he found me, he didn't tell me too much, he just said... said... that we are very dangerous, and only by finding Ai Chen can we have a chance to survive." Xuan Jingyi thought of Shi Da's life Died tragically, couldn't help shivering.

"Don't be afraid, think about it carefully, did Shi Da say anything about Ai Chen's whereabouts?" Zhou Tong tried his best to keep his tone calm.

"Yes, he once gave me a piece of paper, saying it was the key to finding Ai Chen." Thinking of this important matter, Xuan Jingyi took out a somewhat torn piece of paper from her pocket in a panic.

On the piece of paper was a monster with a dragon body and a bull's head. Under the monster, there were two lines of writing:

Pigs eat piglets
Ducks eat duck eggs.

When Zhou Tong saw this piece of paper, some fragmentary pictures appeared in his head. He was sure that he had seen this pattern, but he couldn't remember where he saw it.

"Where is it? Where is it?" Zhou Tong held the piece of paper tightly in one hand, and held the head that seemed to be split with both fists. His body was almost bent into a ball, and he groaned in pain in front of Xuan Jingyi.

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In the autopsy room on the basement floor of the Phoenix Ancient City Public Security Bureau, Director Pan looked at Yan Yongjie who suddenly appeared with a strange look.What made him even more unbelievable was that the female police officer of the special criminal investigation team was carrying a charred corpse.

"Officer Yan, where did you bring this corpse back?" Director Pan tried to hold his breath while speaking. He was very unsuited to such an occasion after sitting in the office for a long time.

Yan Yongjie was not in the mood to answer the director's question, she just stared at every movement of the coroner, and she anxiously waited for the result of the autopsy, what was it that caused this young Miao family to end in pain in an instant? life.

Seeing that Yan Yongjie didn't respond to his question at all, Chief Pan immediately coughed twice in embarrassment, then raised his voice, and continued to ask: "Officer Yan..."

"Director Pan, this is a secret from the Ministry of Public Security. If you want to know more details, you can directly contact my superior!" Yan Yongjie interrupted the chief without any politeness.

Director Pan didn't expect Yan Yongjie to have such an attitude, and his face turned red for a moment.

"You...Okay! Even if it's a secret, you won't be ignorant of Zhou Tong's escape from prison, right?" Director Pan changed the subject. In fact, this is what he cares about the most. If Zhou Tong can't be caught, he will die. The way is to cross over to the top.

"Director Pan, what do you mean?" Yan Yongjie asked back.

"What I mean is that as Zhou Tong's friend, you don't know anything about his escape, do you? As a police officer, you should understand the law. Prison escape is no joke. If you know something, you'd better tell it! "Although Director Pan had a smile on his face when he spoke, his tone was a little threatening.

"Director Pan, as the leader of the bureau, you should also know that evidence is required in everything. If you have evidence that Zhou Tong's escape is related to me, you can arrest me immediately. If there is no evidence, please don't get in the way here." I'm doing business!" Yan Yongjie's attitude was still blunt.

"You..." Director Pan finally "hummed" and walked away with a livid face.

At this time, the coroner put down the scalpel in his hand, and then took off his gloves and mask.

"It's strange, it's really strange, it's impossible at all!" The coroner looked at Yan Yongjie while talking to himself and asked, "Officer Yan, are you sure there was no external source of fire?"

"No!" Yan Yongjie's tone was very certain, "Coroner, what's so strange?"

The coroner shook his head and continued to explain: "It is not uncommon for the body to spontaneously combust. Such cases were first recorded in medical reports in the 21th century. By the [-]st century, there were more than [-] cases. From the current research See, people don't catch fire for no reason. In most cases, scientists have found that there are different sources of external fire, including candles, oil lamps, stoves, cigarette butts, etc., and the fire is definitely not for no reason. Clothes become combustion aids. Accidentally burning combustion aids, the high temperature melts the fat in the human body and the yellow bone marrow in the bones, and the fat slowly seeps into the burning clothes to provide new fuel, resulting in continuous burning. After a long period of burning, the muscles, internal organs and bones finally burn Burning to ashes, scientifically interprets this phenomenon as the "wick effect", which is also the basic feature of "human spontaneous combustion". But when I dissected the corpse just now, I found that the deceased's outer skin was only burnt, which is even more serious. Like the dead perish in a raging fire."

"Coroner, I saw him spontaneously combust with my own eyes, and the flames covered his whole body in an instant, even if I tried my best to help him save him, it didn't help." Yan Yongjie couldn't help trembling slightly when thinking of the situation at that time.

The coroner fell silent when he heard the words. He thought for a while before he said: "There is also a possibility that some kind of flammable chemicals were painted on the body of the deceased. The temperature of the body will increase accordingly, which will cause a chemical reaction and cause the body to burn."

"This means that the deceased did not combust spontaneously, but was killed premeditatedly?"

"Yes, that is the only reasonable explanation."

"Who could apply this chemical to the victim without anyone noticing it?" Yan Yongjie frowned and said to herself. For some reason, she suddenly felt very uneasy.

"No, I have to go back right away!" Yan Yongjie suddenly opened the door and ran out in a panic.

"What did you do to him?" Li Ying, who heard Zhou Tong's wailing, was the first to run over, pointing at the panicked Xuan Jingyi and asked.

"I... I... have nothing..."

Jin Dan and Wang Ke followed closely behind, and they worked together to help Zhou Tong who was kneeling on the ground.

"No... none of her business... I just remembered something..." Zhou Tong's forehead was covered with sweat.

"Although the Gu poison on your body has been removed, they have already caused damage to your brain, so the memory cannot be completely restored in a short while. Don't force it too much, or it will backfire." Wang Ke said with concern.

"I understand." Zhou Tong managed to squeeze out a smile after standing still.

"Really, you're still trying to be brave!" Li Ying stepped forward to support Zhou Tong with heartache.

"As long as you are fine, I was really scared to death just now." Xuan Jingyi was indeed frightened by Zhou Tong's reaction just now.

"What did you think of?" Jin Dan asked eagerly.

Li Ying immediately stared at Jin Dan angrily, and opened her mouth to curse, but was stopped by Zhou Tong.

"I think I know where Ai Chen is." Zhou Tong looked past the crowd and cast his gaze into the seemingly endless jungle.

After Yan Yongjie came out of the Phoenix Police Station, she jumped into the car in a hurry, but when she was about to start the car, she found a person sitting in the back seat.

"Sun... Team Leader Sun, why are you here?" Yan Yongjie looked at Sun Yao's shiny bald head in the rearview mirror with some surprise.

"Then I want to ask you, if I cause such a big trouble, can I still sit still in Beijing?" Sun Yaoming was furious.

Yan Yongjie knew that she couldn't hide it from the team leader, so she had to put on a girlish appearance, turned her head, and said pitifully: "Zhou Tong can never kill someone, don't you even believe him?"

Sun Yaoming folded his hands on his chest helplessly, and wanted to reprimand Yan Yongjie, but finally he sighed.

"It's not that I don't believe him, but your way of doing things is too outrageous. Maybe it's self-defeating and hurts him instead."

"But I really can't think of any other way, so I have to do this." Yan Yongjie felt aggrieved.

Sun Yaoming unexpectedly nodded, and his attitude changed 180 degrees.

"Zhou Tong's matter is not easy. Before you find out the truth, you must protect his safety!"

"I knew Team Leader Sun was the most humane." Yan Yongjie immediately smiled upon hearing this.

"You girl, talk to me too." Sun Yaoming laughed himself, but after laughing, he said seriously: "Zhou Tong has helped us a lot, I believe in his character, but we have to be careful when we do things. Evidence, to clear his charges, you also need to find the real culprit as soon as possible, otherwise I won't be able to help you for long."

"Team leader, I will definitely find out the truth of the matter." Yan Yongjie also knew the seriousness of the matter, so she absolutely did not dare to play tricks.

"If you say that, I'm relieved. In fact, I have another reason for coming this time." Sun Yaoming seemed to have remembered something difficult, and his brows were furrowed together.

"What's the matter, you even the team leader came out of the mountain yourself?" Yan Yongjie's heart skipped a beat, knowing that something big must have happened, otherwise the team leader would never have come out by himself.

"One of our secret scouts has disappeared here, I'm afraid..." Sun Yaoming didn't finish his sentence, but his expression was obviously very worried about the scout's situation.

"What is he doing here? How could he be missing?" Yan Yongjie asked curiously.

"Recently, a new type of drug has appeared on the market, which is extremely harmful. According to the investigation, it was found that this drug is likely to come out of here, so our special criminal investigation team sent a scout to investigate, but within a week A few days ago, our scouts suddenly lost contact with us."

"We have rarely been involved in the anti-drug work. Why did we use the special criminal investigation team this time?"

Sun Yaoming didn't look surprised when he heard Yan Yongjie's question, but he didn't answer the question right away, but took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "This is not a place to talk, go to the east gate tower."

Dongmen Tower is located in the east of Fenghuang City, close to the Tuojiang River, formerly known as "Shengheng Gate", and is one of the four major city gates of Fenghuang Ancient City.

The East Gate Tower was first built in the 54th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. The lower part of the city gate is made of purple sandstone, and the upper part of the tower is built of ancient bricks.The roof of the city gate is covered with waist eaves, and the cornices are upturned, which is exquisite and magnificent.

Yan Yongjie parked the car not far from the east gate tower. She really couldn't figure out what kind of tricks this team leader was playing to bring herself to such a lively tourist attraction.

But after Sun Yaoming got off the car, he didn't go to the east gate tower, but turned into a small road and entered an inconspicuous small building.

"I didn't expect our special criminal investigation team to have a secret base here." Yan Yongjie said with a smile.

Sun Yaoming also laughed, looked at the young team member and said: "You have only been in the criminal investigation team for a few years, and there are many things you can't think of!"

"Originally, I wanted to take this opportunity to learn from the leader, but time is running out, Zhou Tong may be in trouble, and I need to go to him right away." Yan Yongjie was really anxious. If the team leader hadn't appeared suddenly, she would have been in a panic. Into the jungle.

Sun Yaoming knew that Yan Yongjie couldn't make jokes, so he nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll show you something first, I always feel that Zhou Tong's case has something to do with the case we're investigating now."

After speaking, Sun Yaoming quickly went up to the second floor, opened a small room, and quickly got in.Yan Yongjie didn't dare to be careless, and followed closely behind.

There are several monitors and some video equipment in the room. Sun Yaoming skillfully took out a miniature video tape from a file box and put it into the player.

A shaking picture immediately appeared on the monitor. This video was obviously shot in a very extreme state.

In the flickering picture, an old woman from the Miao family was beating a gong, and in front of her was a strange man with stiff movements. The camera zoomed in several times and aimed at the strange man in front of her.The strange man's face was blue and black, his eyes would not move, and his hands and feet could be raised and lowered like a robot.At this time, the screen shook violently again, and it seemed that the person who was filming was also taken aback.But the next scene was even more terrifying. The old lady who had been beating the gong suddenly stopped, turned her head, stared at the camera in a daze, and then showed a weird smile. At this time, the strange person in front also suddenly turned around , rushed towards the photographer's position at an unimaginable speed.

The screen began to shake violently, the photographer let out a horrific cry, and then splashed red blood, staining the entire lens...

Sun Yaoming pressed the playback stop button, and there was a snowflake on the monitor.

Yan Yongjie was still staring at the monitor, as if she hadn't recovered.

(End of this chapter)