(Four)
When the two arrived at the crime scene, they understood why Cui Yongle was in such a hurry—because a new and significant discovery had been made there.
lime.
Lime is a very common thing, and in theory there is nothing special about it. In fact, since the crime scene was an abandoned old house, lime was something that should have been there. So why did it become a major discovery?
Zhou Ziqiu and Wen Su looked at the instrument in Cui Yongle's hand, which was beeping. Nearby, there were scattered bits of lime powder on the ground and grass.
Because this place is located in the southern suburban area, which is still an abandoned area, the houses are surrounded by waist-high weeds. It is not surprising that lime would fall on the ground, but it fell on the grass blades, especially on such tall grass blades. There can only be one reason - someone was carrying lime and stood in the grass, so some of the lime on their body was carried away by the grass blades and fell on the blades.
This deduction was not unfounded, because when Wen Su parted the blade of grass, the three of them did see the marks of someone having trampled on the soil.
In addition, Zhou Ziqiu also smelled a faint, almost imperceptible odor of blood in the air, which did not resemble human blood.
Therefore, the following deductions are logical. Everyone here is knowledgeable and can tell at a glance what happened here—they have been misled all along.
No, it wasn't that I was misled, but rather that my attention was drawn to the soul-collecting hole and the Sun family, causing me to overlook another possibility regarding the hanging corpse.
Corpse refining.
Presumably, the five corpses discarded by the forensic doctor were also used for corpse refining.
This didn't happen without warning; the last time I went to the forensic institute, two bodies were missing.
Suddenly, Wen Su recalled the gaze from last night. That gaze was sinister, and the highly vigilant Wen Su immediately sensed it. He stood up and said, "The one standing here wasn't made from a child's corpse."
"What is that?" Cui Yongle asked, but Zhou Ziqiu remembered Wen Su's abrupt question from last night: "You mean... Sun Junlie?"
Wen Su nodded.
Cui Yongle exclaimed incredulously, "Sun Jiao? Isn't his body at the police station? No, I have to ask."
However, after inquiring by phone, it was indeed as Zhou Ziqiu and Wen Su had thought: Sun Junlie's body had been claimed by the Sun family after his death. The police did not know what would happen if they handed over a body to someone who knew magic. Of course, the main reason was that it was their legitimate right.
Cui Yongle cursed under his breath.
“I’m afraid Sun Junlie is after us,” Zhou Ziqiu said, relaying what Gui Tong had said last night to the two of them. “There must be some connection between the Sun family, Sun Junlie, and the so-called 'them'.”
The two nodded, and Cui Yongle asked, "Then what should we do?"
"Wait." Wen Su looked up. "Like waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump."
That night.
The area, which had been cleared in advance, was empty of cars, except for two boys sitting idly on the curb. Zhou Ziqiu noticed that Wen Su would take out a cigarette to smoke when he was bored, and the way he smoked was just like his usual style, casual and carefree.
Wen Su was casually scrolling through his phone with a cigarette in his mouth when he caught someone staring intently at the cigarette in his mouth. Wen Su smiled, took the cigarette out of his mouth, and asked, "Want a smoke?"
Zhou Ziqiu shook his head.
"Want to try it? It'll really refresh you." Wen Su reached out and held a cigarette holder to Zhou Ziqiu. Seeing that Zhou Ziqiu didn't move, he belatedly realized, "You don't want me to bite it? I'll light you a new one?"
Zhou Ziqiu quickly shook his head. He didn't care about those things. But in all his years, no one had ever invited him to do such a thing. He carefully moved closer to Wen Su's hand, trying his best not to let his face touch Wen Su's hand while lightly putting the cigarette in his mouth.
The movement didn't look like biting a cigarette; it looked like biting something else.
Zhou Ziqiu, oblivious to this, even glanced at Wen Su, making him look even more like him.
"Inhale." The blockhead Wen Su didn't notice, or rather, he didn't even have such a thing in his mind. He only saw Zhou Ziqiu biting the cigarette but not inhaling, and he corrected his mistake, "Smoke, smoke, inhale back."
Zhou Ziqiu did as Wen Su said, taking a deep drag, but instead of putting the smoke into his lungs, he held it in his mouth. Perhaps it was the smoke, but Zhou Ziqiu felt a cool sensation in his mouth, which was quite nice.
Wen Su raised an eyebrow slightly. "Inhale, inhale into your lungs."
Zhou Ziqiu responded sullenly, and as soon as he did as Wen Su said, he was choked by the smoke and coughed. He even coughed so hard that a few tears were forced out.
The heartless Wen Su was laughing loudly beside him.
Zhou Ziqiu coughed for a long time before he recovered, and then rolled his eyes at Wen Su several times.
As they were playing around, a very strong stench wafted over, forcing the two to cover their noses and even sting their eyes. When they looked in the direction of the smell, they saw a person standing not far in front of them.
That person was none other than Sun Junlie.
Just by looking at him now, one can imagine how painful Sun Junlie's death must have been. Now turned into a zombie, Sun Junlie's body was covered with wounds stitched up with needles and thread, green pus dripping from the wounds, all his hair had fallen out, and spots of lividity were visible.
"They're here."
Wen Su drew his dagger and activated it in his palm, while Zhou Ziqiu also revealed his black longsword, holding it horizontally in front of him.
The battle seemed imminent. Although Sun Junlie was a zombie, he was extremely agile. Wen Su dodged his attack and leaped behind him, plunging a dagger into his skull. The dagger burst out with golden light, and then, as Wen Su pulled it down, the golden light slashed his head open.
Zhou Ziqiu stood in front of Sun Junlie, bending down to dodge Sun Junlie's sharp five claws while slashing upwards with his long sword. The even more solid black blade severed Sun Junlie's hands.
He was slightly startled; had his blade ever been this sharp before?
Wen Su didn't notice Zhou Ziqiu's momentary lapse in movement. As Sun Junlie froze for a split second after being attacked, he swiftly stuck the talisman he had prepared beforehand onto Zhou's face, simultaneously performing a series of ritualistic steps and chanting:
"The profound origin of Heaven and Earth, the root of all Qi. Through countless eons of cultivation, I attain divine powers. Within and beyond the Three Realms, only the Dao is supreme. My body is enveloped in golden light, invisible to the eye and inaudible to the ear. It encompasses Heaven and Earth, nurturing all living beings. Recite this ten thousand times, and your body will radiate light."
Guardians of the Three Realms, welcomed by the Five Emperors. All gods pay homage, thunder and lightning are commanded, demons and monsters tremble in fear, spirits forget their forms. Within lies thunder and lightning, the Thunder God conceals his name. Penetrating wisdom and insight, the Five Elements surge forth. Golden light swiftly appears, protecting the True Man. Hasten, hasten, as the law commands!
The Golden Light Divine Incantation recited by Wen Su was incredibly powerful. Golden light descended instantly, piercing the night sky and illuminating a patch of heaven. At the same time, a huge roar resounded, and the dazzling golden light enveloped Sun Junlie. Without a sound, Sun Junlie's body was annihilated between heaven and earth.
Nowadays, corpses are not as easy to find as they were in ancient times, and it is extremely difficult for zombies to form naturally in the world. Therefore, zombies have rarely appeared in the human world since modern times. Hence the saying that Taoist priests are good at catching ghosts but not zombies. Presumably, Sun Junlie's desperate gamble of turning his own corpse into a zombie originated from this.
However, Wen Su and Zhou Ziqiu were not ordinary Taoist priests.
Zhou Ziqiu put away his long sword, and Wen Su also put away his dagger. The precious blades that had just cut down evil spirits were very excited, making a slight buzzing sound.
"Your dagger is a good weapon," Zhou Ziqiu praised.
Normally, people would be happy to be praised for their weapons, but Wen Su's expression remained indifferent. He casually replied and pointed to Sun Junlie, who had turned into dust and scattered into the air, "Look."
Sun Junlie appeared before them again, but unlike before, he was not covered in wounds and reeked of death. Instead, he was pale and sickly, looking like he would soon die. Sun Junlie was lying on the bed, with two people standing beside him. One of them, Wen Su and Zhou Ziqiu, knew him as Sun Yang, but they did not recognize the other person. The other person had very short hair, wore a vest, had a gold chain around his neck, wore sunglasses so that his face could not be seen, had dark skin, and spoke in a strange rhythm.
"After I die, it will be up to the two of you," Sun Junlie said breathlessly. Clearly, the three of them had reached a consensus.
Sun Yang smiled. "Of course, my good brother, your death will bring about the future of the Sun family."
The unfamiliar man took a puff of his cigar, completely ignoring the fact that Sun Junlie started coughing violently after smelling the smoke. "Of course, we are all people of integrity."
"I want...those two people's lives..."
Sun Junlie on the bed coughed violently, but his expression was sinister. At this point, even a fool could understand that the two people he was referring to were Zhou Ziqiu and Wen Su.
The scene then disappeared, leaving Zhou Ziqiu and Wen Su looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Let's go back and find out who that man is."
The person's skin color was very similar to the skin color of the hand that Zhou Ziqiu saw when he recalled the last scene before the deceased died.
The two didn't investigate for long, because the next day, news came from Cui Yongle's side that the rune that Wen Su had discovered earlier had been identified by Qingdeng as the style of drawing it. When they heard the result, everyone was incredulous.
"Although this talisman is a Chinese talisman, the way it is drawn is the Southeast Asian style."
"That's what the staff at Qingdeng said."
"Southeast Asia?!"
Why is this related to foreign forces?!
What exactly did Sun Yang and Sun Junlie agree to?
Cui Yongle let out a long sigh and slumped onto the stool. No one could have imagined that a serial murder case would be related to foreign forces, and it was now beyond the scope of the Special Investigation Team's authority.
"That's fine then." Cui Yongle wiped his face, stood up from the stool, and patted the documents in his hand. "I'll go submit the documents. You guys stay in Guanxing for now; they might retaliate at any time."
Wen Su and Zhou Ziqiu nodded, while Fatty and Glasses were taken along because Cui Yongle had been following them around a lot lately and had become quite accustomed to their company.
When Cui Yongle handed over the compiled materials to other groups, the other group members were also shocked. The group leader in charge quickly consulted with his superiors and handed them over to the International Department, instructing the embassy to investigate Southeast Asian nationals in China. At the same time, the police also had a legitimate reason to arrest Sun Yang and had already dispatched personnel to apprehend him.
The investigation into the switch of the bodies at the forensic institute began on the same day Zhou Ziqiu discovered the switch. Strangely, the head of the forensic institute was found dead in his office that same day, with the time of death not exceeding one day. No suspicious persons were found in the surveillance footage. As for the reason why the head of the institute died in his office and was not discovered in time, the staff explained that the head of the institute often stayed in his office, so it was not strange that he had not been seen to come out all day.
The incident became increasingly perplexing. The team tasked with apprehending Sun Yang quickly reported back that Sun Yang and most of his family members had disappeared. The police then contacted the Department of Transportation to try to find their travel information, but the Department of Transportation reported that they had not been able to locate them and that the Sun family members were still under surveillance.
But this is no longer relevant to the Qingdeng group. Since submitting the documents, Cui Yongle has been taking them to play in Guanxing, making it seem like a business trip.
This case has far-reaching implications. No one knows what the Sun family was planning, where the stolen corpses are now, or what the children turned into ghost children will be used for. But the only thing that is certain is that with the disappearance of the Sun family, no more children have been killed in Guanxing.
Since the Sun family has not yet been found, the Qingdeng team cannot stay with the group until they find them, so they returned to Luoqi first. They will be notified again when there are new developments in the case.
Life returned to its usual tranquility, as if the previous murders had never happened. 18:56:44
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