Chapter 33 Return

Time flows and the sails are raised.

I passed by your eyes and ran aground several times.

But you are still silent, my eighth ocean, my forbidden fruit.

——Zhen Zhen’s diary, February 14, 2011.

Getting on the high-speed train to Liaocheng City, Zhang Sheng lowered his hat and leaned on the seat in the last row of the carriage, looking through the clues sent by his client.

Unlike the green trains of a few years ago, there is no annoying smoky smell in the carriage. The air conditioning is sufficient and it will be very cold if you stay there for a long time. What is flying past the window is the great changes that have taken place in his hometown in recent years.

I still remember that the first time he left his hometown was on a bumpy and drowsy bus. The second time he slept in a sleeper berth. He and others changed to the lower berth and slept until dawn. But this time, only Get off himself.

This short poem without beginning or end is comparable to reading in high school. It is the type of subject he is least good at. The words are in a fog, and what is written is the unfathomable inner thoughts of a seventeen- or eighteen-year-old girl.

And he, a person who has been engaged in detective career since graduating from college, would not understand.

He is still a "pauper" who is burdened with high daily office rent!

"The Eighth Ocean...forbidden fruit..." Zhang Sheng frowned and sank into his seat, his thoughts confused. Maybe he would not know the trouble she was in until he met the girl named Zhen at Maoming Middle School.

His firm usually takes on cases involving dead people, and this pattern was given to him by Tu Minglang.

For example, travel agencies or companies in the construction industry are particularly taboo about encountering any evil things on weekdays. Before going out or doing construction, they must find an experienced ghost exorcist to tell their fortunes and cast spells to prevent new customers from getting into trouble. I was so scared that I lost my life and money.

But this time, the girl mentioned by the client in the letter seems to be still alive, but she was involved in some strange incident and became delirious. She applied for a month-long vacation from the school, plus the information leaked from the computer room of Maoming Middle School. Weird legends are even more suspicious.

In his fifth year in this profession, Zhang Sheng is considered a well-known figure in the circle of ghost exorcists. He successively solved the forest maze case and the art wall swallowing case in Wangcheng, and assisted the teacher in the police academy to deal with the aftermath of the ghost. The possessed veteran police officer incident was once listed as one of the top ten safety models on campus.

Some old ghost exorcists living nearby teased him: "Ji Gang, you are a good candidate to enter the National Mystery Department. You are a top student and you are very lucky. Why can you run into any ghost first?" !"

Zhang Sheng's sporadic memory fragments continued to be restored, and he still used his original name. It was not until he was expelled from the school due to unexplained mental depression and nightmares that he returned to his real name.

What else could it be because of?

Am I lucky?

Zhang Sheng bit his fingernails hard and thought angrily: "It's not like I was resurrected from an stillborn fetus and attracted ghosts. They all look forward to my death! And that grandson... Ni Shisan..."

Five years later, Zhang Sheng no longer needs anything. The magic weapon can also contact the messengers from the underworld.

He is also proficient in 72 conventional formations, more than 300 runes and spells, can sense the location of ghosts with an average degree of evil spirit from a hundred miles away, and the Tu family's shield technique is different from other families. He can learn all spells.

Growth is a good thing, but such significant growth often comes at a price, and his price was being forced to come out to his mother, and then he broke up with his then-boyfriend only a week later.

Because he often sits in an office, he is accustomed to answering landline phones. Even his mobile phone is only remembered before going out, and he opens the drawer and puts it in his briefcase.

Just now when he touched the back of the phone, he felt that it was bumpy and irritating. Then he looked down and saw a photo with his ex-boyfriend inserted at the back.

There were three photo stickers, and the one in the middle had a heart drawn with a pink marker. It was like a bottle of dichlorvos poured into his throat, burning... a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out!

"Wipe it! -"

He cursed, opened the phone case and tore off the photo. He didn't want to look at it for a second and quickly stuffed it into his bag.

The mobile phone he wanted to take was not this one. This was an old mobile phone from three years ago. He had to charge it every day to ensure that it was turned on so that he could see the screen saver and content set for him at that time: A gentleman's revenge is never too late in ten years.

His ex-boyfriend was his high school classmate and his partner in exorcizing ghosts. To put it more specifically, half of the honors among the security pacesetters should belong to that man. He was handsome and considerate, but...he was good and evil. Not at odds.

He had talked about the wayward patriarch of the Zhang family for five years, but now he discovered that Xun Baishan was him.

The last time I met Thirteen was the day I broke up.

After he retired from the police academy, he sat at the bus stop and watched the rare heavy rain in Wangcheng sweep across the entire city, with sewage flowing over the road. His mental state was so bad that he actually saw his mother's body floating in the river of blood. Corpse...

"I... I can't stand it anymore! Cui Yu... Who are you? Don't lie to me again!"

After they went to college, Cui Yu studied international trade at University M, while he studied police courses at University A. Both of their schools are in the same university town, so it's not difficult to go to different schools in the same city.

Zhang Hua criticized Cui Yu for seducing his grandnephew with his glib words, but he fell in love and didn't know that Cui Yu's next actions were more and more beyond his expectations. Even though the two moved out of the dormitory and rented a house to live together, Cui Yu The sense of security never seems to increase, but becomes more morbid.

At that time, there was another suitor for him in A Dali, named Ma Li, who was a silent and humble young man from a rich family, which was already considered a rare quality among rich people.

He couldn't guess why Ma Li was interested in him at first, but later he learned from his roommate that because Cui Yu didn't often show up at University A, Ma Li thought he was single and launched a fierce pursuit.

"Stop mentioning Ma Li. Do you admire him very much?"

"Ji Gang... when will you make me public? We are already dating, and your mother also knows me."

"I didn't do enough... Baby... I want you, stop saying you're busy..."

He didn't have the courage to come out to his mother, and used excuses to prevaricate Cui Yu many times. In the end, he connected to the video call his mother opened, and he had to avoid it subconsciously. , because there were red marks from suction on his neck and behind his ears, and he felt guilty.

Quarreling seems to have become a compulsory course that every couple must face, but quarreling with Cui Yu often develops into an uncontrollable situation. After all, the two of them never give in to the bottom line of persistence.

Cui Yu accidentally bumped into Ma Li giving him tickets to an art exhibition in the evening, and he had just finished his internship. Just once, Cui Yu imagined in his mind that he had accepted Ma Li ten thousand times.

"Zhang Jigang, I tell you I've had enough! You can only be mine..."

He was forcibly dragged by Cui Yu onto the train back to Liaocheng. Along the way, the man who was out of control accused him and belittled him: "Ah... you can see him, but you can't see me. Why did I give up my place at the A University Police Academy?" Give it to you? I'm so damn stupid! -"

"Ayu, I can't tell my mother... Ayu!"

After being degraded, the man forced him to do something to his mother. He was in the same room in the next room. When he was having difficulty breathing and felt dizzy, he curled up in the quilt and bit his lip and sobbed. He didn't dare to breathe even until the end.

After that, he frequently saw his mother, Ma Li, and the victims he had met before... appearing in front of him with strange postures and numb expressions, staring at him with hatred.

"Jigang."

Ma Li finally found him, who was soaked all over, and handed him an umbrella. The man took off his glasses, wiped the water stains with his sleeves, then put them on, and said flatly: "Your boyfriend wrote to me. Threatening letter, telling me not to get close to you again, or... you'll kill me."

Ma Li's white lips trembled slightly, and he looked at Ma Li with dull eyes, not even thinking that the content in the letter was a joke.

Cui Yu never jokes and takes things seriously as long as they are related to him.

This was not the first time that he had doubts about Cui Yu's motives. Even Cui Yu's ghostly smile at the scene of the hostage shooting incident became a lingering haze in his heart.

Over the years, no matter how hard he tries, there have been more and more mysteries around Wangcheng, as if bad luck has been brought from Liaocheng City to Wangcheng.

Cui Yu also went from full trust at the beginning to countless quarrels and quarrels in the middle, and in the end, he was no longer sure whether he could trust his boyfriend who he had been with day and night.

Uncle Grandpa has been living in Wangcheng since his college entrance examination, teaching him high-level spells so that he can handle more difficult cases. However, since he and Cui Yu established a romantic relationship, the number of times Uncle Grandpa appeared in Wangcheng gradually decreased until he disappeared again. trace.

The rain fell slowly, frame by frame, and finally stopped.

The man's eyes were scarlet, and he teleported to the station, grabbed Ma Li's neck with one hand, and raised it into the air. He was stimulated to kill by those words.

"Bastard, in addition to killing ghosts, do you want to kill people now?"

The man looked aggrieved and said in a low voice: "...What did you call me? Baby, I will not threaten him at all, who is he..."

He slowly said Slowly lowering his eyes, he felt that the man had become very strange.

His palm covered half of his face, and warm liquid seeped and flowed from his fingers.

His lips moved: "...Cui Yu, I beg you, let's break up."

Without waiting for the man to plead, he resolutely said the words buried in his heart: "You will make me miserable, you are very selfish, very Dangerous, very hypocritical... No one will love a being like you. You are not even a ghost, just a useless magic weapon."

"Stop hurting me and the important people around me. ."

He used up the last of his strength for every word, his heart ached, and he bit his lower lip to finish speaking cruelly.

"I don't want you anymore, get out."

After his sophomore year, Cui Yu applied to study abroad and acquiesced to their breakup.

At this point, three years after the breakup, he still dared not read all the information about that person.

"The station ahead is Liao Chengdong Station."

Zhang Sheng took out a piece of chewing gum, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.

He behaves like this when he's nervous, always wanting to eat something to relieve the stress. It's obviously not a big deal, just a group photo.

After arriving at the station, he first dialed the number given by the client.

"Hello, T Detective Agency..."

"Ji Gang? That's Ji Gang's voice! I... I'm your high school teacher, Teacher Pei Lan! -"