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"I …" I really didn't know how to ask her. She wasn't a criminal, and she wasn't even my girlfriend. Asking someone about their secret for no reason, and it was even a girl's secret.

"Eat the food!" I laughed helplessly. In that instant earlier, I had thought of one thing: The reason Liao Mengfann didn't tell me was perhaps because she had her own reasons, right? Why can't I wait? What about when she told me herself? Am I afraid of death?

When I thought about death, I thought about that organization called "Spirit Realm". I was certain that the illness on my back was caused by that God's Water, what kind of thing is that?

The dishes on the table were delicious, but neither of us had much appetite. There was news from the northeast on the television, but how much of it seemed to me to be true?

After eating half a bowl of rice, my hungry stomach couldn't fill up with anything else. I walked over to the checkout counter to check out the bill, but at that moment, an urgent news item suddenly appeared on the TV.

Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, at around 5 a.m. this morning, a cut adult buttocks was found in a cornfield in the village of Huihe, our province. The buttocks were placed on a grave bag and the local police have been involved in the investigation, but so far they have not found the relevant witness. Because of the extremely bad nature of the case, the local police have decided that if anyone provides any important clues, the reward will be three thousand yuan.

"Three thousand yuan?" I said to Liao Mengfann, "This kind of murder is only rewarded with three thousand gold. What do the local police think?"

"Look down!" Liao Mengfann shook her hand and said to me.

Then there was an interview. The video went directly to a small village. I saw a lot of people standing in the ground watching the scene. The local police were investigating the scene in front of a grave.

During this time, a woman in her fifties was sitting on the ground wailing, "Oh my god, what the hell is this guy doing to my man's grave?" "Damn your ancestors of eight generations …"

The woman's scolding was followed by some noise. The camera turned back to what seemed to be a house. The photographer purposely used the camera to scan the house.

The house was very old, almost the same as Lee Futian's home. Inside the house, there was an old-fashioned wine shelf, with large mirrors filled with photos. Next, the camera moved to the top of the room's door. The door was old, the blue paint on the door had been polished, and as the camera adjusted upwards, I saw that the top of the door was decorated with a glass light. On the light, I saw a sign that looked like a gossip.

Maybe it was the photographer's curiosity that prompted him to give me a close-up of the tabloid, which grew larger as my body began to tremble.

How is this a Eight Trigrams Board? Even though it is also constructed in an octagonal shape, I didn't see any symbol that belongs to the Eight Trigrams board. Instead, I saw the symbols that I didn't want to see the most in my life.

The rest of the time, my mind was a little muddled, I didn't even hear what the reporters were saying, I absentmindedly walked out of the restaurant with Liao Mengfann and got into the car.

"I didn't expect to see such a thing …" Liao Mengfann sat in the front passenger seat and said softly.

I lit a cigarette and took a long drag. "Back to the Ministry. We'll take over this case!"

I started the car and quickly sped up the road. Liao Mengfann warned me to be careful, but my heart was already filled with impatience. The other reason was that I was convinced that the local police would not be able to solve the case, and I didn't want it to be an open case.

Originally, it was half an hour's drive, but I finished in 15 minutes. When I opened the door of Task Force office, I saw that everyone was sitting at the conference table and having a meeting.

Before I could even finish reporting the conclusion of the lotus seed corpse case, I hastily interrupted everyone. My father's expression was slightly unhappy as he asked me: "Lu Xiaochuan, what do you think you are doing?"

I said to everyone, "Stop reporting. I want all the information on the 12.1 case. I want it now!"

Due to my emotional state, my words were incoherent. Dad said angrily, "You are messing around. Get out!"

Liao Mengfann tugged on my arm, and she said to my father: "Department Head Lu, a perverted murder case occurred at Shanghe County in the Northeast. When we were interviewing the reporters, we found a Eight Trigrams Mirror with Spirit Realm Organization symbols on it at the house of a peasant woman.

The surroundings were completely silent …

After about two or three minutes, I saw Dad pick up the phone. When the call was picked up, he said, "Immediately book today's flight to Northeast, and... Call me at once the Northeast Public Security Office, and at the same time bring all the information in the file A to Task Force's office! "

Not long after his father hung up, the female secretary brought the case Wei Shijie took with him to the meeting room. After the secretary left, Dad opened the suitcase and a stack of photos appeared in front of me.

The photos were passed around one by one, and in my hands were three pictures from the basement. I remember that this place should be the place where the bones of the dead are piled up in Lee Shan's vegetable cellar.

Because of the urgency of the case, and because there were so many people in the cellar at the time, I didn't take a good look at the room. Now it seemed that this room was a completely different place.

The photograph I was holding was a picture of the roof of the room. I saw that there were many complex symbols drawn on the ceiling. There were many different types of symbols.

The roof was circular, but if you looked closely, perhaps because of the technology and environment of the building, the roof seemed to me to be octagonal too.

Liao Mengfann took the photo, and said to me: "The photo you're holding is taken after the fact, there's even that photo here!"

While speaking, Liao Mengfann handed over the photo in her hands to me. I saw that all of the bones in the photo were dried up, densely packed into four or five layers, and all of the dried bones had faces that charged down, overlapping one after another.

The dried bones were stuck to the wall. Since the cameraman was outside when the photo was taken, the photo had almost reached half of the room.

I saw that not only were these bones placed against the wall, but their positions were also orderly. It was as though they were gossips placed in eight different locations. On top of each pile of bones, there was an azimuth. From the looks of it, it seemed like a formation.

I pointed at the photo, then said to Liao Mengfann: "Could this be a type of formation?"

Liao Mengfann nodded and said to me: "Maybe. I hypnotized Liu Lee and Cui Hongliang back then, but they did not reveal this information."

She continued, "The board that I saw at the village woman's house was very similar to this roof structure. Could it be that the Lower River Village is also a lair of Spirit Realm?"

I said, "It's very possible. Look, the 12.1 major case also happened in the Northeast region. This case also happened in the Northeast region. There must be a connection!"

Liao Mengfann thought for a while, then said to me: "I think the incident in the Lower River village should have nothing to do with Spirit Realm Organization!"

She continued, "When I hypnotized Liu Lee, I found out many secrets, and the members of Spirit Realm Organization had already been brainwashed. They wouldn't inform the authorities about what they saw, as this is considered apostasy."

"Traitor?" I interrupted, "So, is it a coincidence?"

Liao Mengfann nodded his head, and said: "If you think about it, it really may be a coincidence, but this matter is very thorny. If you encounter a case with Spirit Realm, it is very possible that it would involve the authorities, and that would bring us a lot of trouble in solving this case! Liu Lee will be the previous example! "

Just as we were discussing, Dad said to everyone, "Consider this case as two investigations. On the surface, we are investigating the case of Shanghe County, secretly investigating the case of Spirit Realm Organization!"

His father continued, "Spirit Realm Organization has their own organization and discipline, so their methods in committing the crime are extremely terrible. I have specially approved that everyone be equipped with guns, and that they don't need to go to the local police to obtain the guns. They can be directly taken away from the Ministry."

When I heard that they could be equipped with guns, I discovered that Brother Huang's eyes were filled with anticipation. Dad continued to speak, "I just learnt that the Shanghe County belongs to a poverty-stricken county, and there is an extreme shortage of resources. The Ministry of Public Security Sect is also extremely lacking in manpower, so … "Comrade Wang Meiqing, please put in a bit of effort. I'll help you push away the matters regarding the international mission."

Auntie Wang laughed, then said: "I also have the same intention, I am not going to the front lines, I don't even know how to wield a blade!"

Hehe …

"… …"

Seven hours later, we arrived at the provincial capital airport. After we got off the plane, we sat in the car for another five hours. When we arrived at the entrance of the police station, it was already seven o'clock in the morning.

The people from the Shanghe County and Public Security Bureau personally stood in front of the door to welcome us. Towards this kind of welcome, I felt really unhappy from the bottom of my heart. No matter what, our Task Force is still considered to be under the Central Committee. Last time, the Director Ding of Yongan City personally welcomed us at the airport.

When I got out of the car, I saw a man in his fifties wearing a black Chinese tunic and a lot of silver hair walking towards me. He was a strange man, and he wasn't wearing a police uniform.

The strange person walked in front of Elder Liang and extended his hand out, saying: "Greetings, I am the county elder of Shanghe County, Mu Shangfeng. Welcome to Task Force, everyone!"

"Heh …" I laughed in my heart. Isn't this county magistrate too interesting? You can't even speak prettily in public.

I was a little displeased. Perhaps it was due to the illness. I looked at him and asked, "Why isn't the Chief of Public Security here?"

That young man smiled at me, but looking at his expression, he seemed to be slightly unhappy, and said to me: "County Head Mu is the acting police chief of the Public Security Bureau, our place … "Heh …"

The young man did not continue. County Head Mu smiled at me and said, "Everyone, you should go to the office to discuss this in detail!"

While we were talking, the County Head Mu led us into the courtyard of the Public Security Bureau. I looked around and saw that this place was dilapidated. Even the Public Security Bureau's office building was made of red brick. It looked like it had been here for a long time.

The Public Security Bureau's courtyard wasn't too big. There were a few old police cars parked, and many flowers and plants were harvesting around the courtyard. A thick and crooked tree was standing in the middle of the plants, looking very strange.

I stopped walking. I remember that this tree should be called a locust tree. Some desperate people use this tree to hang themselves. Isn't it nonsense for the Public Security Bureau to grow a locust tree?

I walked to County Head Mu's side and asked: "Why do you still plant locust trees here?!"