"Chen Wangyi, male, 51 years old, resident of 1303, Building B12, Lanwan, Tianshui. Born in the countryside, he is a self-made rich first-generation tycoon, now in charge of a listed company. In addition to his parents and wife, he also has a pair of children, both of whom are adults."

"Zhang Gaoli, male, 46 years old, dormitory employee on the first floor of Building A26, Tianshui Lanwan, community security guard, has been working there since 20 years ago, and is considered a veteran in the security team. He has no wife or children and lives alone."

"Xu Qingcha, female, 57 years old, resident of 1109, Building A17, Lanwan, Tianshui, retired teacher, husband passed away early, has the habit of morning exercise, usually in good health, in addition to the son and daughter-in-law, there is only a granddaughter who is less than five years old."

Jing Shen pasted the three photos side by side, then took out another one and pasted it under the third one: "This is her granddaughter. She happened to be next to her when the accident happened, and was photographed by someone nearby."

The girl in the photo is squatting, and a blue pet cage she threw away is lying at the door in the distance.

Jing Shen said: "After the accident, the three victims had blue and black marks on their faces, and blood and tears flowed from their eyes, which could not be removed by scrubbing."

The blue-black marks have no specific shape or size, and are not evenly distributed. They are mainly concentrated on the forehead, cheeks and chin, slightly lighter on the sides of the nose, and even on the sides of the shoulders.

As for blood and tears, it really means what it says.

The photos were taken by the police after the three people had gotten into trouble, when they were on stretchers or in hospital beds. Their eyes were closed, with red tear marks running down the corners of their eyes, and their faces were blue and black as if covered with a layer of charcoal.

When Xiao Wang first saw those photos, he was shocked by the faces of the people in the photos.

It was not until then that he understood why the big guys from above characterized this matter as a supernatural event.

Because everyone who has seen the photos knows that this situation would never occur in a normal person, and it cannot be explained by modern medical knowledge.

It could only be due to some evil force.

The place they are in now is not a police station, but a municipal public security bureau. The investigation team with a long prefix in their name borrowed the place of the municipal public security bureau. Jing Shen, as the captain of the municipal detachment, came to report the case and only called Xiao Wang and Li Yuanbao from the Yunyin District Police Station who had direct contact with the case to join him.

As for why he didn't bring other experienced people with him but two newcomers who had just finished their internship, Jing Shen's reason was that all the other capable people who could stand on their own were sent out to investigate, and they were the only ones free.

The leader of the investigation team, whose surname was Lian, took a cigarette out of the cigarette box with his fingers, twirled the lighter, and asked, "Do you mind?"

Depth of Field glanced at the two people at hand.

Apart from the investigation team members and the people from the Municipal Bureau, they are the only ones who have just joined.

Xiao Wang was stunned for a second before he realized that he was asking what they meant. He quickly shook his head and pulled Li Yuanbao beside him to shake his head as well.

The company leader lit up a cigarette and took a sip. He was born with a smoker's voice, and his voice had a metallic and cold texture: "Continue."

Jing Shen took out two more photos from Xiao Wang: "These are the locations where the latter two people had accidents. The first one had an accident in the bedroom at home, and someone has been sent to check it out."

He took off the pen cap and drew a straight line on the whiteboard with the marker, then marked three nodes vertically directly below the three photos: "This is the time when the three of them had accidents, all within these three days."

Mark the fourth node: "This is a report we just received today. According to the testimony of people around, the incident happened at 9:03 in the morning, also outside Lanwan Community."

The fourth photo was posted above the fourth node: "Jiang Yushan, female, 49 years old, resident of 2201, Building C14, Tianshui Lanwan. The specific interpersonal relationship is still being explored."

Four photos were lined up in a row, and the faces of the people in them were all gray and black with blood and tears, looking weirdly yet harmoniously neat.

All members of the investigation team looked at their team leader, but they only saw the team leader smoking a cigarette.

If he didn't give the order, they naturally wouldn't give the order, and the city police officers who were assigned to cooperate with him would definitely not give the order.

Jing Shen couldn't figure out what this big guy was thinking, and finally picked up the last photo: "We can't confirm the cause of their accident for the time being, but starting from their social relationships, they did a simple check on the people they had direct contact with in the past three days. They have only one intersection with the person they have met."

The last photo was posted on the whiteboard: "His name is Shi Yu."

Lian Gui blew out a smoke ring, looked up at the photo, and his gaze suddenly stopped.

Depth of field continued: "I live in Tianshui Lanwan B12 Building 23..."

"Give me the photo."

"……What?"

"That photograph," he repeated, "give it to me."

Depth of Field took the photo down and passed it over along the table.

Lian Gui held a cigarette in his mouth and picked up the photo, his eyes moving from the man's eyebrows to his chin and then to his collarbone.

Depth of Field asked: "Excuse me..."

Lian Gui asked, "Have you tried him?"

"Yes." Jing Shen observed his expression and considered it for a while. "He was taken to the Municipal Bureau by us not long ago. If you have any idea, you can go and confront him now."

"He is in your city police interrogation room now?"

"yes."

※

Shi Yu was detained for three hours this time, and until he left the interrogation room, the interrogator never revealed a single word to him.

Because this incident also involves the supernatural, the police wanted to use constant questioning to make the suspect reveal his true identity, but unfortunately the suspect never showed any flaws.

Without being able to confirm that he had anything to do with the whole thing, the police couldn't tell him what happened. After all, if he really had nothing to do with the whole thing, he would be an ordinary person who knew nothing about the supernatural. God knows how much panic would be caused if these things were told to ordinary people.

This directly led to the information gap between the two parties: apart from knowing that his imprisonment might be related to Lao Zhang, he knew nothing else.

After being taken to sign, Shi Yu was sent to the gate of the Municipal Bureau, where he ran into a team of uniformed police officers.

The leader had his coat draped over his arm, a half-smoked cigarette in his hand, and was talking to the police officer named Jing Shen.

Hearing the noise, the other party turned around and saw Shi Yu who happened to be walking to the last step. The question was obviously directed to him: "The witness they invited?"

Shi Yu listened: "Probably."

The other party put out the cigarette on top of the trash can: "Do you need someone to take you back?"

Shi Yu hasn't spoken yet.

The other party turned around and said, "I heard from them that you live in Tianshui Lanwan? Let's go."

“…”

※

A message came on his phone saying that the things he had bought at the shopping mall were ready to be delivered, asking him if he was at home now so he could receive them in time.

After Shi Yu replied, he turned off the screen, put the phone back in his pocket, and turned to look out the window.

The car happened to pass by a famous public high school in the city. Outside the school, there was a red awning more than ten meters long. The roadside was full of private cars, and armed police stood on both sides. On the sidewalk, parents were wearing cheongsams and holding huge banners.

Book on the left: The King of Heaven covers the Tiger of Earth, all are nine, eight, and five.

Inscribed on the right: The pagoda suppresses the river monster, everyone is on the second yaoyao.

Horizontal banner: Pass the imperial examination.

“…”

Lian Gui slowed down his driving speed: "You should have just graduated not long ago? Do they look nostalgic for the college entrance examination?"

Shi Yu leaned back in his chair: "Yeah."

...This answer was beyond his expectations.

Lian Gui thought for a while and said, "Why do I feel that high school is better than college?"

"Um."

“Do your classmates get along well with each other?”

"Um."

“Is the homework easy?”

"Um."

“…”

Lian Gui is confirmed.

The other party was just being perfunctory and probably didn't even hear clearly what he was asking.

We returned safely to Lanwan Community. The delivery employee sent by the mall parked his truck downstairs in the community and was checking the goods with the customers in the community.

Shi Yu opened the car door, thanked Lian Gui, and handed his cell phone message to the deliveryman.

All the purchased items were packed in a cardboard box with a printed order on it and were unloaded by the deliveryman.

Shi Yu had just bent down and touched the corner of the box when his hands were free and the box was picked up by someone.

Lian Gui easily carried the box on his shoulder, holding it in place with just one hand: "Do you need help?"

Shi Yu was about to speak.

Lian Gui walked past him and walked into the gate of the community first: "Which building? Lead the way."

“…”

When they arrived downstairs at the apartment building, Shi Yu opened the door and let him go in first. When he pressed the elevator button, he heard the other party calling his name.

Lian Gui took a cigarette from his pocket and held it in his mouth: "Have you heard of the temple?"

Shi Yu: “Which one do you mean?”

"The largest guild in the Upper Nine Heavens of the Divine Realm." Lian Gui looked at his profile and added, "It is the small group that Chi Feng, who died in your hands two days ago, originally belonged to."

“Yes.”

"I'll give you a suggestion," Lian Gui said, "If, I mean if, after you enter the Upper Nine Heavens, they come to invite you to join the temple, don't join them."

Shi Yu: "Is this the purpose of your diligence along the way?"

Lian Gui looked at him quietly for a while: "Am I being too proactive and too obvious?"

"The first thing you asked me when you saw me was if I was a witness." Shi Yu walked into the elevator. "But you know my address, which means you have been involved in a case involving me. It is impossible that you don't know that I am actually a suspect." He turned his head to look at him: "Are you from the Ninth Heaven in the Divine Realm?"

Lian Gui is indeed from the upper nine heavens of the divine realm.

When he heard Jing Shen read the other person's name at the conference table before, he didn't care and just thought it was a duplicate name. It was not until he saw the face in the photo that he was sure that the suspect in the supernatural case he had just taken over in reality was really the game player in the Divine Domain who was praised by thousands of people and ridiculed by thousands of people, but in fact he had just left the novice period of one month not long ago.

The requirements for entering the Upper Nine Heavens were too harsh, with less than a hundred players able to meet the requirements for the Lower Nine Heavens each month; yet, more than a hundred players for the Upper Nine Heavens failed to make it in the game each month.

To put it bluntly, the total number of players in Shangjiutian has been showing a negative growth trend.

Therefore, the organizing forces of the Nine Days will pay attention to the collective game at the beginning of each month, as it is related to the fresh blood they can absorb to fill the vacancies in the team.

At the beginning of the month, he topped the charts for both exploration and completion of collective game missions, and his overall rating reached S-level as determined by the system. Any experienced player could imagine what kind of attention Shi Yu would attract after entering the Upper Nine Heavens.

According to his original idea, Lian Gui thought about taking advantage of the opportunity that they happened to meet in the same province and city in reality to pull the other party into his own forces before the other party entered the Ninth Heaven. Unfortunately, he had no confidence that the other party would be interested, so he had to settle for the second best and prevent the other party from entering the temple.

Anyway, as long as the other party does not ultimately increase the combat effectiveness of the temple, anything is fine.

He ordered the police to release the man, and served as a driver and escort all the way. Now he followed him into the elevator and said, "You have been in the lower nine heavens before, and you don't know what the temple is, or what kind of people are in it. What I can tell you is that each of them can be directly stuffed back into their parents' stomachs and re-forged. You don't have to choose to integrate with them just because it has a good reputation."

Shi Yu stood in the elevator, listening to him chatter until she reached the correct floor, took out her key and opened the door: "I won't join them."

Lian Gui was stunned for a moment, then realized that his goal had been achieved, and then he smiled: "Since you promised, then remember, don't break your promise."

He put down the box and stood up and suddenly said, "Your colleague who got into trouble is now in Room 1606 of the Central Hospital Inpatient Department. If you have time, you'd better go and see him. I can't explain the details in a few words. I am a public official, and I cannot disclose a lot of information to you in violation of professional ethics."

Shi Yu raised his eyes when he heard this.

Lian Gui looked straight at him and said, "If you take a look, you will understand why the police are so obsessed with this matter."