Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 57 Zhou Tong Detective Series III: Paper Burner (16)
Although Li Ying's words were full of loopholes, Yan Yongjie did not point them out, and continued following her words: "Yes, we must find the 'bastard' and Ai Chen as soon as possible, find out the real murderer, and restore the 'bastard' to be innocent. The dead Zhaoxue!"

Li Ying knew that Yan Yongjie was deliberately teasing her, but she still smiled and said, "Well, let's go quickly!"

"I hope Mr. Wang is right, and I can find Zhou Tong by going upstream."

Yan Yongjie pulled Li Ying and explored towards the source of the river.

But it didn't take long, as if at the end of the river, a burst of thick black smoke ignited.

"Sister Yongjie, there seems to be something on fire ahead." Li Ying pointed to the front in surprise.

"Let's hurry up, maybe it's Zhou Tong's signal to us." Yan Yongjie is a martial artist, if it wasn't for Li Ying, she would have been flying fast, but now she just hugged Li Ying's waist and walked quickly to the place where the black smoke rose run away.

However, Yan Yongjie and Li Ying did not expect that the ruins appeared first in front of them.

"What... what happened here?" Li Ying looked at the large abandoned and dilapidated houses, covered with plants and chaotic weeds under her feet, and a gloomy cold air came over her face.

Yan Yongjie touched the remaining part of the wall in front of her with her hand, and then said: "There was a big fire here. If I guessed correctly, it should be the Daqingzhai that Xuan Jingyi mentioned."

"Daqingzhai, that is the starting point of the map last night." Li Ying said happily.

"That's right, Zhou Tong and the others should have come here, let's go to the place where the fire started." Yan Yongjie pulled Li Ying to run to the place where there was faint smoke.

The fire has been extinguished, leaving only the collapsed and charred houses, a few wisps of smoke and the occasional flash of sparks.

"Zhou Tong!" Li Ying shouted loudly.

But no one answered her.

Yan Yongjie looked around, shook her head, and said, "Don't shout, there is no one here.".

"No, Sister Yongjie, what do you see over there?" Li Ying didn't know when she turned to the back of the house.

Yan Yongjie heard Li Ying's trembling tone, fearing that something might happen to her, she immediately ran to her side.

I saw Li Ying staring at the front with dull eyes, her lips were still trembling slightly.

Yan Yongjie stepped forward to hug her, and then followed her gaze.

In the distant jungle, among the swaying leaves, there was a dead body hanging from the tree trunk, swinging back and forth with the wind.

"That dress...is..." Yan Yongjie's brain suddenly became bloodshot, and an ominous premonition came to her heart.

"It's a police uniform...could it be a golden pill?" Li Ying closed her eyes and hugged Yan Yongjie in fear.

"Don't be afraid, let's go over and see clearly." Yan Yongjie was worried about letting Li Ying wait here alone, so she dragged her hand and walked towards the place where the corpse was hanging.

This is not the farthest distance, but it is the most difficult one. Even Yan Yongjie's hand holding Li Ying is already sweating.

"Crack"..."Crack"..."Crack", the sound pierced Yan Yongjie and Li Ying's ears like a bayonet with the rhythm of the wind.

Pushing away the lush leaves, the two finally came under the hanging corpse.

But what surprised them the most was not the corpse, but a person lying under the corpse. This person was none other than Zhou Tong whom they were looking for so hard.

Section 18 Pathfinding
Zhou Tong lay flat on the ground, holding a gun in his hand, but he was unconscious.

Yan Yongjie and Li Ying were worried that something was wrong with Zhou Tong, and they ran to Zhou Tong's side nervously, regardless of who was hanging from above.

"Zhou Tong, Zhou Tong, wake up!" Li Ying slapped Zhou Tong's face and called him nervously.

"Let me do it." Yan Yongjie picked up Zhou Tong with one hand, and pinched him with the other.

Zhou Tong slowly woke up in Yan Yongjie's arms.

He opened his eyes and looked at Yan Yongjie and Li Ying who suddenly appeared in front of him in a daze.

"You...why are you here? I...where are my things? Xuan Jingyi, where is Xuan Jingyi?" Zhou Tong struggled to stand up from Yan Yongjie's arms.

"What are you looking for, what happened here?" Yan Yongjie grabbed Zhou Tong who was in a trance, and asked loudly.

"Sister Yongjie, it's really... really Jindan!" Li Ying was concerned about Zhou Tong just now, but she didn't notice the corpse hanging on the tree. Now she finally saw that the corpse hanging on the tree was Jindan.

Yan Yongjie jumped up, pulled the rope and broke the rope, and carried Jin Dan down.

"He was shot to death." Yan Yongjie saw the gunshot wound on Jin Dan's chest, her eyes were full of grief and indignation.

"Zhou... Zhou Tong, did you kill him?" Li Ying asked in surprise, pointing at the gun in Zhou Tong's hand.

Yan Yongjie also raised her head, looked at Zhou Tong, and waited for his answer.

"Even you don't believe me?" Zhou Tong was rarely so angry.

"It's not that I don't believe it, but I want to know what happened." Yan Yongjie walked slowly to Zhou Tong's side, and gently took the gun from his hand.

Zhou Tong knew that he couldn't do it if he didn't make it clear this time, so he told the whole story.

"You mean that Jin Dan prevented you from continuing to look for Ai Chen, and Xuan Jingyi shot and killed Jin Dan by mistake, and then?" Yan Yongjie asked in disbelief.

"Then I secretly made some tricks, trying to leave you with clues to find us, then set fire to the house, and took Xuan Jingyi to find Ai Chen. But I didn't expect... Xuan Jingyi took advantage of me not paying attention, Hit me from behind." Zhou Tong touched the back of his head, feeling a dull pain.

"Xuan Jingyi has a gun in her hand, and what she said is full of loopholes. Since you already have some doubts about her, why don't you be careful?" Yan Yongjie said with some reproach.

"When he sees a beautiful woman, he might lose his life. Remember to be careful?" Li Ying sneered.

Zhou Tong knew that he was too careless this time, so he changed the subject and asked, "By the way, where is Mr. Wang?"

When Li Ying heard this, her eye circles immediately turned red, and tears welled up in her eyes.

"Old Wang was killed." Yan Yongjie said helplessly.

"How is it possible? Although Jin Dan hit him, I checked his injuries and he just fainted, and there was nothing serious."

"It's not Jindan, Mr. Wang was shot to death by a poisonous arrow, and the murderer was not caught, but you should read this document first." Yan Yongjie took out a document from her backpack.

Zhou Tong quickly took it and read it.

Li Ying also moved to Zhou Tong's side curiously, and stretched her head to look.

"It turns out that Wang Ke's original name was Liu Shuhai, and he is also from Daqingzhai. It seems that Xuan Jingyi didn't lie to me." Zhou Tong handed the information back to Yan Yongjie, and then turned to look at the stretched neck. Li Ying said, "Do you understand?"

Li Ying didn't expect that Zhou Tong would still taunt her at this time, she immediately kicked Zhou Tong's ass in anger, and scolded: "You are still arrogant, you were knocked out here by a little girl, if it wasn't for us, you would have Feed the dog."

Zhou Tong got kicked on the butt, but he didn't show weakness, and opened his mouth to refute, but Yan Yongjie stopped them immediately.

"You guys are still making trouble at this time!"

"He provoked me first." Li Ying felt aggrieved.

Zhou Tong raised his head, pretending not to hear.

"Zhou Tong, before Mr. Wang died, he said that Chen Xiang's death was his fault, but he died before he finished speaking. Do you still not remember anything about those seven days?" Yan Yongjie suddenly said seriously.

Zhou Tong shook his head a little discouraged upon hearing this.

"Before he died, Mr. Wang said he wanted us to find a pill to restore Zhou Tong's memory." Li Ying who was on the side suddenly remembered this matter.

"Didn't you just say that you found a cloth bag with a pill in Jin Dan's body?" Yan Yongjie asked.

"Yes, but now even the map has been taken away by Xuan Jingyi." Zhou Tong also began to hate himself for being careless.

"It seems that Xuan Jingyi is lying. The pill that Jin Dan snatched from Wang Ke is not an antidote to save Ai Chen at all, but a medicine that can relieve Zhou Tong's heart failure."

"Whether it's Jin Dan or Xuan Jingyi, they don't seem to be in the same group, but they don't want to restore your memory, Zhou Tong, what did you do in those seven days?" Li Ying thought of the hospital. As for the results of Chen Xiang's autopsy, her big eyes stared at Zhou Tong non-stop.

Zhou Tong couldn't understand the meaning of Li Ying's words, but he couldn't remember it himself, so he had no choice but to stay silent.

"One more thing, I find it very strange!" Yan Yongjie suddenly looked at Zhou Tong with a strange look.

"What's the matter?" Li Ying asked curiously.

Yan Yongjie walked up to him step by step, and said, "Why didn't they kill you?"

Zhou Tong was stunned by Yan Yongjie's question.From the moment I received the letter until now, if the other party wants to prevent me from investigating this matter, the best and most direct way is to kill myself, but whenever I am about to make a breakthrough, the other party is willing to go to great lengths to kill myself The people around me have never attacked me, why?
"It's not easy. The murderer would have killed him relentlessly. I wouldn't have done it otherwise. I just dirty my hands!" Li Ying said angrily.

Zhou Tong didn't seem to hear Li Ying's words, and rarely did not refute.

"There is only one possibility..." Yan Yongjie paused at this point.

Zhou Tong continued very naturally: "I still have the value of being used."

"Xuan Jingyi shot and killed Jin Dan, knocked you out, and took the map and pills, so what's your use for?" Li Ying shook her head in disbelief.

"If I could answer your question, I wouldn't be so passive now. I also can't guess what purpose Xuan Jingyi did. She hung Jin Dan's body here and left me behind. It's obvious I just want to lead you to find me." Zhou Tong did not argue with Li Ying, but calmly analyzed.

"I checked, when Chen Xiang died, Xuan Jingyi was staying in the orphanage, she couldn't have time to commit crimes." Yan Yongjie said.

"That's right, when Shi Da's accident happened, Xuan Jingyi was by my side, and she didn't have time to do the crime, but it's useless to say anything now, Chen Xiang, Shi Da, Wang Lao and Jin Dan are all dead. Xuan Jingyi also took the map and the pills and disappeared, all the clues have been cut off, what else can I do?" Li Ying was a little discouraged.

"Not necessarily!" Zhou Tong showed a sly smile.

"You just said that you did some tricks..."

Before Yan Yongjie finished speaking, Zhou Tong walked up to Jindan's corpse, followed him with clasped palms, and bowed to Jindan's corpse with a serious expression.

Yan Yongjie and Li Ying didn't know what he wanted to do, and they all looked at him inexplicably.

But Zhou Tong then made an even more unacceptable move.

He squatted down, untied Jin Dan's belt, then turned Jin Dan over, and took off his pants without hesitation.

"Rogue! Pervert!"

"Zhou Tong, what are you doing?"

"Don't get excited, watch carefully." Zhou Tong turned sideways, exposing Jin Dan's buttocks in front of Yan Yongjie and Li Ying.

"Map!" Li Ying called out first.

"You actually printed the map here, thanks to your thinking." Yan Yongjie couldn't laugh or cry.

"I have no other choice. I originally wanted to print it on my back, but I was worried that people would find it easily, so I had to take a gamble and make this bad plan. I hope that Jin Danquan will not blame me. Now let's make a new copy of the map, and then find Xuan Jingyi and Ai Chen." Zhou Tong came up with this method in a hurry in order to leave clues to Yan Yongjie and the others.

Yan Yongjie walked to Jin Dan's body, sighed, then looked at the map carefully, and said: "You printed it with charcoal, and the whole map is upside down, and it's not clear now, you need a map." Those who know how to draw, draw it again as soon as possible."

"When I found the map, there were no tools nearby, so I had to use burnt black charcoal to draw it, but I didn't expect that it would be convenient to print the map elsewhere." Zhou Tong said helplessly.

"But if you can't find someone who knows how to draw, it will be difficult to restore the map." Yan Yongjie shook her head helplessly.

Zhou Tong was not worried at all. He walked up to Li Ying, put his arms around Li Ying's shoulder ambiguously, and said flatteringly, "Beauty, I heard that you have recently taken a major in drawing."

When Li Ying heard what he said, her face immediately turned pale, and she pushed him away, saying firmly, "No, I don't want to draw such things!"

"Then I won't force you. The three of us will go home. You can move the bench and grab a good seat when the time comes, and then watch me be shot as a murderer and fugitive." Zhou Tong said in a tone Just a little bit of a joke.

"Li Ying, if you really know how to restore the map, it's up to you to find Xuan Jingyi and Ai Chen." Yan Yongjie also said seriously.

Li Ying looked at Zhou Tong, then at Yan Yongjie, and then at the corpse lying on the ground. The expressions on her face changed, but finally she reluctantly nodded under the expectant eyes of Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie.

Yan Yongjie seemed to have been prepared for a long time, she immediately took out a piece of paper and a pen from her backpack like magic, and handed them to Li Ying.

Li Ying's face was extremely ugly, and she squatted next to the corpse with a pen and paper.

Yan Yongjie then took out another printed photo, held it in front of Zhou Tong and said, "Zhou Tong, do you know her?"

Zhou Tong took the photo casually, but soon his eyes showed surprise.

"Grandma, you can't be wrong, this person is Chen Xiang's grandma, why do you have her photo?"

"It does seem to be related."

Yan Yongjie was afraid of disturbing Li Ying's copying of the map, so she took Zhou Tong a little further away, and then slowly told Zhou Tong what Sun Yaoming told her.

"The drug trafficking group is actually involved in the drug trafficking group. The situation is getting more and more beyond my imagination." Zhou Tong couldn't help taking a deep breath after hearing this.

"So we have to find Xuan Jingyi and Ai Chen as soon as possible, otherwise we don't know what will happen next?" Yan Yongjie was worried.

"Yong Jie, I want to ask you something." Zhou Tong suddenly said very seriously, "Take Li Ying out of here first."

"Understood, I don't want her to have any accidents, I will take her to a safe place..."

"I'm not going back!" Li Ying stood behind Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie with the map she just drew in her hand.

Zhou Tong and Yan Yongjie did not expect that Li Ying would suddenly appear behind them.

Yan Yongjie looked at Li Ying's resolute expression, and knew that he could not persuade her. The one who could make her come was Zhou Tong, and Zhou Tong was the only one who could let her go now.

"I'm going to bury Jin Dan, you guys talk first." Yan Yongjie walked away after finishing speaking.

Zhou Tong looked at Li Ying, and Li Ying stared at Zhou Tong, but neither of them spoke.

No matter it was those weird, bizarre and thrilling cases in the past, or the terrifying and bloody jungle today, this willful girl did not back down. Although Zhou Tong was arguing with her all day long, looking at her now, she really said Can't say a word.

"It's very dangerous, and you will die at any time." Zhou Tong finally said a cliché.

"I'm not afraid!" Li Ying answered simply and neatly.

"I'm afraid!"

"What are you afraid of?"

"I'm afraid you will drag us down!" Zhou Tong hardened his heart and said viciously.

But Li Ying laughed instead.

"You want to send me away with this kind of words? In short, you don't need to say anything. I won't go. You think the road is yours, you think you are great, can't I check it myself?"

Li Ying's series of overwhelming words immediately choked Zhou Tong to the point of being speechless.

Zhou Tong knew that there was nothing to say, but to do her best to protect her.

"Forget that I'm afraid of you, let's help Yan Yongjie first."

"That's more or less the same!" Li Ying strode towards Yan Yongjie in a victorious manner.

Zhou Tong followed her dejectedly, preoccupied.

Zhou Tong, Yan Yongjie and Li Ying buried Jin Dan, but now is not the time for them to be sad, there is still a difficult and dangerous journey waiting for them.

Li Ying really has a talent for drawing, and her redrawn map is almost indistinguishable from the original map.Following the signs on the map, the three hurried through the jungle, hoping to catch up with Xuan Jingyi and find Ai Chen.

(End of this chapter)