Chapter 117 Brown Monster
Tu Lanxun sat up suddenly, went downstairs to pour herself a cup of coffee. The ice cubes knocked against her teeth, and her thoughts gradually returned to her mind.
"The brown weirdo stalking incident?" Tu Lanxun asked, "Is it related to the weirdness?"
N nodded slightly and gestured to the police car outside the door, "It's here to pick you up."
Tu Lanxun then picked up her phone with a dizzy head and found that Wen Chong and Li Ao had sent her two messages respectively. She was asleep at the time and didn't hear anything at all.
"Let's go now." said Tu Lanxun.
N didn't comment. As he followed Tu Lanxun out the door, he suddenly asked, "What game did you play so late last night?"
Tu Lanxun laughed a few times and quickly changed the subject. He couldn't possibly say to N, "I went to 'harass' you when you were little."
However, no matter whether it is the small N, medium N or big N in the game, none of them are as popular as the N in front of us.
As soon as he got into the police car, Tu Lanxun heard Xiao Zhang exclaim, "Why are your dark circles so heavy?"
But that didn't stop Xiao Zhang from stepping on the accelerator and speeding off. Tu Lanxun resisted the other party's driving style in the wilderness and tried to close his eyes for a while.
"You know why, right?" Xiao Zhang still had time to speak. "Let me tell you something. Don't go in blindly. Three people reported being followed by something strange today. The suspect was wearing brown clothes and followed them for a while before disappearing."
Tu Lanxun hummed, nodding his head as the car swayed. Xiao Zhang continued, "I originally thought it was nothing, but when three people were followed by the same suspect, something was off. Director Wen sent Durian Cake to the scene, and they did detect ghostly activity."
Tu Lanxun listened to Xiao Zhang's clear and logical explanation, but suddenly realized something was wrong and looked up. "When did you become so familiar with the Tourism Administration's scope of business?"
Xiao Zhang smiled smugly. "Hey, Director Wen invited me to take the entrance exam for the Tourism Management Bureau. Durian Cake said the pay is better than at the South Branch, but I haven't decided yet. But Captain Li is furious, so angry he can't say anything."
Tu Lanxun laughed. Li Ao was, of course, furious. Xiao Zhang was the best talent in the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Lucheng South Branch, a man of both literary and military abilities. If the Tourism Administration poached him, the brigade would be short of talent for a while.
"I think Captain Li is really interested in training you." Tu Lanxun clutched his coffee cup sleepily. "You have unique competitive advantages in the South Branch."
Little Zhang was incredibly clever, so of course she understood the underlying meaning. She, Zhang Nuli, was a promising young talent in the Criminal Investigation Brigade, but compared to the Tourism Administration Bureau, Lu Lianbing, Zhao Kuanqiao, and the others, she wasn't as prominent.
She turned the steering wheel, and the hustle and bustle of the city gradually spread out in front of the car. "I thought so too. I have feelings for the South Branch."
The police car drove into the South Branch compound, and Tu Lanxun was dragged out of the car by Xiao Zhang. He was carried softly all the way to the building. When Xiao Zhang saw Li Ao, he shouted, "Captain Li, I finally brought him back to you!"
Li Ao looked at Tu Lanxun, who looked half dead, and asked with concern, "Why do you look like that? What has Consultant Tu been doing these past two days?"
Tu Lanxun was embarrassed to say that he was so exhausted from playing games that he laughed it off and quickly turned to the case of the brown monster stalking him.
"Something's really happened." Li Ao's expression changed as he led them forward. "While Xiao Zhang was looking for you, a fifth person came to report the crime. This time there were casualties."
The conference room was already filled with police officers. Old Wei was explaining the case up front. He said, "The fifth victim fainted on the spot. They had a palm-shaped contusion on their abdomen, accompanied by dark purple bruises. They've been taken to the hospital but haven't regained consciousness. According to the victim's younger brother, who reported the case, they had just left the mall when they were bumped into by a brown, masked figure. After the physical contact ended, the victim immediately fell unconscious."
Old Wei glanced at Tu Lanxun, and after Li Ao slowly nodded, he said to all the police officers present, "According to the report of the Tourism Bureau's investigators, there is a ghostly aura at the scene, and the victim's soul has disappeared."
Another vanishing soul.
Tu Lanxun's sleepiness was swept away. Could it be that the Tianguo Group had a new trick up its sleeve?
The previous industry chain of using souls as medicine and organ transplants has been eradicated. Leaving aside the turmoil, now the bigwigs in Lucheng and its surrounding areas go abroad if they want to get medical treatment.
Why is that brown thing holding other people's souls?
Lao Wei and Xiao Zhang led the police officers to investigate and visit respectively, Li Ao and Tu Lanxun came to the information technology room, and the surveillance videos of the five scenes had been collected and played.
"Look." Wen Chong didn't say a word and directly gave up his seat next to the computer.
The five scenes were shot in suburban fields, residential areas, downtown intersections, gas towers and shopping malls. The victims were just ordinary farmers and citizens, either farming, going home or going to work. Behind them in the distance was the same shadow.
——The stalker was wearing a tattered brown coat and brown trousers, the fabric was all stiff and wrinkled, and he had on his head an extremely old and dirty woolen hat, and a wrinkled thin scarf of indecipherable color, which covered his entire face and neck, with his hands tucked into his sleeves.
Even homeless people wouldn't look so disheveled. It's hard not to suspect mental illness when they're dressed like that.
"The person is very thin, about 1.81 meters tall and weighs about 55 kilograms. He is probably a male. His gait is a bit strange." Wen Chong said, "There may be an oversight in the fourth clause. We can't tell if the person is the spirit itself, or a living being 'herding' the spirit to do evil."
Tu Lanxun leaned over in front of the screen and said slowly, "What shoes is he wearing?"
"From the field ridge to the suburban residential area, his feet were probably wrapped in black cloth." Wen Chong paused the video and analyzed and judged: "After entering Lucheng, he seemed to have found another pair of shoes, but they were a size too large."
The picture was enlarged, revealing that the brown monster had a pair of old leather shoes on his feet, but the back of the shoes was two inches away from his heels, almost hanging on his feet.
"He's very thin, and his gait and body shape are very much like a drug addict." Li Ao pondered.
In the surveillance video, the brown man followed the victim from a distance. When the victim turned, he also turned. He just hung behind silently with a clear target until the victim turned around and found him. He left the scene quickly the first four times, and only rushed directly towards the victim the fifth time, which made everyone almost shudder.
Tu Lanxun was a little confused, "What is his purpose?"
Li Ao pondered, "According to common criminal logic, the first four attempts were more like selecting targets, and the fifth time he was finally ready to strike, and the result was a perfect hit. Perhaps he's not an experienced criminal."
Because the mysterious brown man covered his face, the facial recognition system was unable to make a judgment.
Finally they decided to go to the scene and drove straight to the nearest gas building, which was also the scene of the fourth stalking incident.
People were coming and going around the gas building, constantly casting curious glances at the isolated area. Tu Lanxun, standing at the dividing line, asked N next to him, "Do you feel anything?"
She didn't feel anything, only vaguely sensed a tiny bit of residual strange aura, but it was not enough to form a connection.
"No." N frowned slightly, "But I smell a strange smell of grass and soil."
Tu Lanxun then invited Yan Hailing and Yu Yehua out. Yan Hailing could only say from her own perspective, "I didn't sense any violation of the Fourth Treaty."
The most urgent task now was to find the trace of the strange man and the soul of the last victim. Before going to the fifth scene, Tu Lanxun took out the pocket watch, and Yan Hailing said, "Try it yourself first."
Closing his eyes and thinking about the face of the fifth victim, Tu Lanxun once again saw thousands of candlelight points in the darkness. After observing them one by one, a faint candlelight with a faint green hue became clear in the distance.
The other party was moving at high speed, constantly turning, as if avoiding something.
"Over there." Tu Lanxun pointed in a direction, and Wen Chong immediately got in the car and turned sharply forward.
Tu Lanxun was like a blind human compass, guiding the car forward, but the target was constantly moving, and they failed several times when trying to catch up.
But she discovered a pattern.
"Drive that way!" At an intersection, Tu Lanxun pointed in a direction far away from the candlelight.
The car turned sharply, and a few minutes later, they stopped the ghost who had suddenly turned around at the next intersection.
The guy's face was exactly the same as the fifth victim. He was fleeing frantically at the moment. There was no doubt that there was a pursuer following him, a vague black shadow.
The two of them raced through the city like hounds and rabbits.
N grabbed the ghost of the fifth victim, and Yan Hailing pounced on it, fighting with the dark shadow.
Yu Yehua also followed, but the power of the two of them had no suppressing effect on the dark thing. After the other party let out a few hoarse and sinister laughs, it disappeared on the spot.
Yu Yehua said: "He ran away."
Yan Hailing's expression was also very serious. "The other party is something beyond the scope of the Fourth Treaty."
Tu Lanxun took a deep breath. He didn't expect that the brown monster was so powerful, but fortunately the fifth victim was rescued.
They took the soul back to the hospital, and the victim soon woke up to her brother's excited voice. She had forgotten everything about the soul period and just covered her bruised and stinging abdomen.
Tu Lanxun observed her with a monocle and found no ghost fingerprints.
"It only means one thing, that the ghost may not be in the form of a soul when committing the crime, or he may have avoided skin contact." Tu Lanxun said.
Wen Chong sighed, "They won't know that you can see soul fingerprints, will they?"
If this is targeted, then Tu Lanxun is extremely dangerous.
Tu Lanxun glanced at N standing in the corner and said, "I've memorized his scent. Let's search again tonight when it's quiet."
This was the only way to go on. Li Ao reluctantly pressed the progress of the surveillance video along the street. He had to confirm the traces of the strange man on the physical level. Only Wen Chong and Tu Lanxun were left in the room, and there was also N floating outside the window.
Wen Chong turned his head and asked, "What's going on?"
She was talking about games. Tu Lanxun sighed, "It's okay."
Wen Chong smiled and asked a question that completely surprised Tu Lanxun, "What's behind the director's office at Bluebird Metropolitan Hospital?"
Tu Lanxun was shocked: "You don't know?"
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