Chapter 21：

Although it is already on the outskirts of the city, there are always small restaurants open 24 hours near the hospital.

Tang Xi casually found a fast food restaurant, ordered a set meal, and found a counter facing the glass windows of the street to sit.

Coke French Fries Burger...Well, anyway, I have to exercise vigorously for a while, which can consume excess calories and won't get fat.

"Why did you suddenly think of looking for some urban legend?" Yun Qi appeared on the seat next to her, holding his chin in one hand, and tapping the tabletop with the jade flute in the other.

"Isn't that what you said, don't you ask for all the chores?" Tang Xi took a bite of the hamburger and looked at the empty street outside.

The bright floor-to-ceiling glass only reflected her alone, and in the distance, the flickering police lights were faintly visible.

"The person in the ward." Yun Qi pointed out coldly.

"Well, I have raised him for so long." Tang Xi poked the Hello Kitty doll on the table.

The doll fell on its back, but this time it won't get up by itself.

"Five days." Yun Qi corrected.

"Well, five days. Isn't five days long enough? I feel like I've come to this **** place for a lifetime!" Tang Xi scratched his hair anxiously.

"You used to see ghosts every day." Yun Qi said.

"..." Tang Xi bit out the hamburger fiercely, exhaling three words intermittently, "Shut up!"

Yun Qi sneered, and disappeared from his body shape. Only one sentence floated: "Too weak, too ugly, and disobedient, don't!"

"Where to find so many requests!" Tang Xi complained.

"Meow!" The phone on the table lit up, and her message sound was a recorded white cat's cry.

Tang Xi took the hamburger in one hand and swiped his left hand across the screen to unlock it.

A new WeChat message jumped out.

Cheng Yihang not only copied the famous urban legends of Jiangnan City to her, but also attached a map at the end, indicating those locations one by one, so that the distances can be seen at a glance.

Tang Xi looked down one by one:

"A brightly lit construction site in the middle of the night? A museum where the plaster statues are not in place every morning? I always see the former chairman who jumped off the office building in the middle of the night? Um... it doesn't look very reliable."

Tang Xi muttered to herself as she slid down, suddenly, her fingertips staying on a paragraph of text.

"Beicheng Industrial Park?" Tang Xi read this passage again.

Compared with the ghost stories above that can make a horror movie, the description of this industrial park does not reveal traces of spiritual events, but what caught Tang Xi’s attention was that this was the only document sent by Cheng Yihang that clearly had someone in it. Which is missing. Having a name, a surname, and a place of work is not like a gossip made up.

"Beicheng? It's not that far." Tang Xi swallowed the last burger, picked up the remaining half a glass of Coke, sucked it, and pushed the door out.

The time on the mobile phone already shows 9:30 in the evening. The Linjiang Private Hospital was originally on the outskirts of the city. In addition, the police announced that there were dangerous people escaping, and the streets were empty, not to mention pedestrians, even taxis were not visible.

Tang Xi walked along the street for almost 20 minutes without seeing a car passing by. When she turned on the taxi-hailing software of her mobile phone, it showed that there were no cars within three kilometers nearby, making her a little crazy. I would not let Cheng Yihang go back if she knew it a long time ago. Even if she can shrink to an inch, she must at least know the location. At the speed of shrinking to an inch, she can't even see the scenery passing by, let alone face it. The map recognizes the way. If it flashes back and forth on the street in the middle of the night, in case it is captured by the all-pervasive city skyeye camera, it will be on hot search headlines every minute. The title is probably "Jingxian! Aliens are coming to the earth, and the supernatural function is suspected of teleporting" and so on.

Just when she couldn't help but want to return to the prosperous area of ​​the city with a shrinking ground, and then get out of the taxi again, she suddenly saw a taxi parked downstairs by the residents of an alley, and someone was driving the trunk. It seems to be putting things in it.

"Uncle! Take a taxi!" Tang Xi shouted cheerfully.

"Bah!" The middle-aged man closed the trunk heavily, turned around, his face was a little embarrassed, "Little girl, look at this...I'm going to the airport to pick up people, it's not convenient."

"That's just right." Tang Xi thought of the map marked by Cheng Yihang, and said happily, "I'm going to Beicheng Industrial Park, just on the way, uncle, you don't have to waste time, and you don't have to go there with an empty car."

"This... Beidi Industrial Park?" The driver was stunned. "You go to that kind of place alone at this late? The place was abandoned the year before. I heard that the government is bidding for renovation. There is no one there."

"Thank you, Uncle." Tang Xi smiled obediently, and threw the empty Coke cup into the trash can before going to pull the rear door.

"Hey, things are piled up in the back seat, little girl, take the co-pilot," the driver shouted.

"Okay." Tang Xi didn't care, went to the front, fastened his seat belt, looked around, and curiously said, "Uncle, your car is not equipped with an anti-theft net. Is it not safe?"

"Hey, I'm not too busy yet, I'm going to install it tomorrow. I seldom go out at night, but today I was to pick up a relative. It's not so unlucky to run into a carjacking in broad daylight." The driver smiled slyly. laugh.

"That might be true." Tang Xi muttered vaguely, her eyes falling on the rearview mirror.

The driver adjusted the angle of the rearview mirror easily, started the car, and asked without giving up, "Little girl, what are you going to do in Beicheng Industrial Park? Does your family know?"

"I don't know, I quarreled with my family, I want to find a place to be quiet." Tang Ximan replied casually.

"The place you are looking for... is very special, hahaha." The driver gave a dry smile.

Tang Xi didn't answer the conversation, swiping her phone with her head down.

The driver glanced at the red light and found that she was actually dispelling Xiaole, so he couldn't help but twitched the corner of her mouth.

Soon, the traffic light jumped to the green light, and the car started again.

The driver did not deceive people. The farther north, the fewer cars were encountered on the road, the street lights did not turn on, and there was even a pile of construction waste on the side of the road.

Tang Xi cut the phone to the map navigation and looked at it, and said directly: "Uncle, please pull over and park ahead."

"Oh." As soon as the driver stepped on the brakes, he slowly stopped the car to the side of the road.

With a "pop", the car turned off and the lights inside and outside the car went out suddenly.

Tang Xi frowned, released the seat belt, and touched the dark with one hand to open the door.

"Don't move!" The original and honest driver changed his face in an instant, holding a boning knife in his hand and facing her, "Oh, throw the phone behind and tell me both the power-on password and the payment password!"

Tang Xi paused, sighed deeply, and looked up at him: "Uncle, the real taxi driver must be much shorter than you, so you can't stretch your hands and feet in the driver's seat, and the angle of the rearview mirror It’s not right. Temporary adjustments are needed. Of course, the most critical issue is that as a taxi driver, you have forgotten to take the plane and check the meter."

The driver glanced at the unturned meter, his expression suddenly cracked.

"Although you put a bag in the back seat, it's not crowded to the point where people can't be seated. The taxi driver will try to avoid passengers sitting in the front row, especially if there is no anti-theft net." Tang Xi continued. "Finally, what makes you think that a girl is not dangerous?"

"You..." The driver did not expect that a girl who looked like a rich girl would react like this when being hijacked by a knife. In a daze, a slender hand had grabbed his wrist and was in the pulse. With a strong pinch on the door, the sharp knife fell off.

"Smelly bitch! I did you!" The driver yelled, relying on his burly figure to have an advantage in the narrow space of the car, and the whole person pressed towards her.

Tang Xi sneered, holding his wrist with his left hand, bending his forearm, and slamming his elbow into his throat heavily. The right hand caught the falling boning knife, then got up, turned back, and pressed him against the co-pilot's. On the back of the chair, the knee of his right leg pressed the force of his back waist, and the cold blade was attached to his neck: "Don't move, you will die."

The driver struggled, and felt a slight tingling around his neck, as if being poured with a basin of cold water, so cold.

"This place is called broken throat and no one will hear it. I don't care if the fat sheep sits in the front or the back. You don't let me sit in the back because you have a murder weapon and stolen things in your bag for fear of being discovered in advance, right?" Tang Xi continued.

"..." The driver was about to cry.

So you are really a student who ran away from home, aren't you plain clothes for the police?

"Boom!" The sound of something crashing suddenly came from the trunk.

"Be honest!" Tang Xi stunned the fake driver with a hand knife, pulled out the car key, unlocked the trunk lock, and opened it forcefully.

"Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

"Uncle, it's okay." Tang Xi cut the knot with the grabbed knife and walked aside to hit 110.

Hey, is she particularly predestined with 110 today?

The driver hurriedly opened the rope wrapped around his body, tore off the tape from his mouth, and crawled out of the trunk. Because of the bloodline, he almost fell a dog and ate shit.

Tang Xi hung up the phone and came back. Seeing his appearance, he kindly asked, "Uncle, are you okay?"

"It's okay, thanks to you, the little girl." The driver who recovered his life rubbed his flushed wrist and exclaimed, "However, since you knew he had a problem from the beginning, why didn't you call the police and let him drive there? Come from such a remote place?"

"Uncle, I walked half of the street and finally found a taxi. If I miss him, when will I get here?" Tang Xi looked at it for granted, "Besides, what's wrong with being remote, you see, Even if we beat him up now, no one is bothering him when he yells and breaks his throat, right?"

Of course, she was sure that the real driver in the trunk was okay before she dared to delay the time. Otherwise, as soon as the police arrive, she won't think about doing anything tonight.

"..." The driver was speechless, just wanting to say who is the robber and the victim. Thinking of her previous words, the driver wondered again, "You said you want to come here?"

"Yes, the one who disappeared here half a year ago is my friend. I transferred all the way to Jiangnan City to study just to find him." Tang Xi said nonsense seriously.

However, the driver was moved to tears after hearing this. Perhaps it was because Tang Xi's method of bringing down the robbers was too powerful. It made people think that she ran into this abandoned industrial park because she was definitely a bold person, not because she was a second-degree sick man. .

"The police said it would take half an hour to get here. I'll go around and look for clues." Tang Xi said.

"Hey, it's so big inside, let's go with you, Uncle!" the driver said quickly.

"No, uncle, you have to take care of this robber, waiting for the police here." Tang Xi waved his hand and walked into the industrial park on his own.

The driver hesitated for a while, looked at her back, and looked at the robber who fell out of the car with his upper body in a coma, and his lower body was still stuck in the passenger seat. He slapped his head and hurried over, pulling the robber under his ribs. After a lot of effort, he finally dragged the person out of the car and threw him on the ground. Then he took the rope that he had untied from him, and tied him up sturdily, and even his mouth was sealed with tape.

Well, it's almost the same, otherwise if he wakes up, he can't beat his physique.

After all this, when he got up and looked around in the industrial park, Tang Xi could not be found for a long time.

Looking around, it was desolate, there was no street lamp, the night was windy and sandy, and I didn't know what was blowing, which made people panic.

The driver subconsciously rubbed the goose bumps on his forearm, crying without tears.

When Tang Xi walked into the industrial park, she felt a cold breath hit her face, and her face suddenly sank.

Punctuality.

No matter what is in it, 90% of this urban legend has dry goods.

It's just that the park occupies a large area and there is no light, which makes her a little irritable.

If it was in the past, she could release a group of low-level envoys and search the entire park every minute. She had no choice but to cross the Longyou Shoal, and the tiger fell in Pingyang. Although the master next to her was powerful, it would depend on his mood. Fate is obedient.

Hey, sure enough, I still need to catch a strong man.

After thinking about it, she fetched a coin from her pocket, flicked it in the air with her fingers, then she didn't even look at it, and snapped it in her palm.

National emblem, go left!

Tossing coins all the way to decide the direction, unknowingly, has already penetrated into the park.

Tang Xi stopped suddenly, looked at the building in front of him from a distance, frowned and said, "Yun Qi, don't you think it's a bit weird in this?"

"Just look at it or not," Yun Qi replied lazily.

"Yes." Tang Xi shrugged and walked in.

In the deserted park, the elevator can of course not be activated. I found the stairs, but found that the door of the safe passage was open.

"Footprints are a living person." Tang Xi looked at the endless stairs that hovered upwards, stepped on it, shrank and started, the next moment he appeared on the 13th floor.

"Stop." Yun Qi shouted.

Tang Xi didn't hesitate, kicked open the safety door and rushed into the corridor.

The internal structure of the 13th floor is a group of meeting rooms, the one at the end seems to have a flash of fire.

"Who!" Tang Xi chased directly, of course not forgetting to first lose two magical charms to open the way and test.

However, the magic talisman hit nothing, silently.

"It's late." Tang Xi looked at the empty office, a little annoyed. "There are no people around here, and you can see from the tall buildings. The taxi lights are so conspicuous."

"Axi, the things here are very interesting." Yun Qi beckoned while standing indoors.

"What?" Tang Xi walked in, and then his eyes froze.

I saw a rune array painted with red dye on the ground. It seemed that something had just been burned in the center of the rune array, and even the rune in the center was blurred a lot. Yun Qi picked up a piece of unburnt paper from the ashes and hesitated, "Is this a birthday character?"

"I haven't seen what this talisman array does." Tang Xi was a little surprised, but she quickly turned on the phone camera to take a photo, planning to take the birth date back to study it, and touched the talisman array again. He said, "Chicken blood, not human blood."

"Not necessarily." Yun Qi disagreed.

Tang Xi was stunned, removed a hairpin from her hair, scraped off a little red solidification, and tore a piece of memo paper to wrap it up.

She can distinguish between chicken blood and human blood, but if a little bit of human blood is mixed into chicken blood, it will not be able to tell at a glance, take it back and talk about it.

"Also, although it has been abandoned for a long time and is sparsely populated, I haven't seen a ghost. It's unusual." Yun Qi said again.

"I'm afraid it will be cleaned up. The level of the world of profound arts is not low." Tang Xi gritted his teeth.

My strong man! In vain!

"It seems that someone used this uninhabited ruin to do anything before, and only when they saw a car coming by, they hurriedly moved." Yun Qi said.

"Maybe people are still nearby, but now there is no clue, no tools, no time, even if I know there are people, I can't find it in such a big park." Tang Xi only thought for a second and gave up.

Also, it is rare for ghosts to hurt people after all. There are so many urban legends, but they are all man-made disasters. Most of the unlucky ghost who had disappeared here before saw something that shouldn't be seen was wiped out.

After all, although she hadn’t seen it before, this talisman made her feel very bad. Whether it’s chicken blood or human blood, it’s taboo to draw with blood, and it also requires the birth date character, which is definitely not used for good deeds. of.

"Speaking of which, this birth date is very young," Yun Qi said suddenly.

"Really?" Tang Xi leaned over and took a look, and then settled, "This year 24, it is really young...well, not dead? Not dead!"

To her surprise, the owner of the birth date actually showed that fate should not be extinct, but if you want to be clear, the secret is still blurred.

This person was calculated by a mysterious master, but he didn't die! This is very strange. The expert spent so much effort not to kill, is it just to teach people a lesson that is not serious or serious?

"Forget it, I haven't passed the fortune-telling subject, so don't embarrass yourself." Tang Xi anxiously stuffed the paper and the paper bag with blood foam into the interlayer between the phone and the phone case.

Far away, the silent night sky was torn apart by the harsh sirens.

"So fast?" Tang Xi was a little surprised.

For some reason, she thought of Chu Li, but Xiaoxiao's taxi robbery had crossed the districts again. The head of the serious crime team wouldn't be dispatched for this kind of small case.

Outside the industrial park, the driver's uncle almost burst into tears when he saw two police cars approaching.

He was not courageous, and it is true not to drive the night car. It is really insecure to leave him alone in the ruins of this legendary haunted and missing person, and there is a gangster who almost killed himself next to him!

"Where is the gangster?" As soon as the car door opened, two big long legs stepped out, and it was Chu Li.

"Here, here." The driver pointed at the robber who was tied into rice dumplings and wiped his sweat.

Chu Li's eyes were a little subtle: "Did you hit?"

"No, no, it's really not me!" The driver shook his head desperately.

Chu Li shook his head as he looked at him, then turned around and asked his subordinates, "Didn't it mean that it was a woman who called the police, how about people?"

"Here." Tang Xi walked out from behind the taxi, her face a little unsightly.

It takes a squeeze to get there in time, just say how the police station is so efficient, is the crime team so idle?

"Why are you again!" Chu Li blurted out.

"Team Chu, does the serious crime team even take care of the taxi robbery?" Tang Xi rubbed her eyebrows.

"Little girl, the taxi robbery you mentioned has committed four crimes so far. The drivers in the first three times did not survive. The car was parked in a remote place for several days. Someone should pay attention to the smell in the trunk... "

"Ah~~~" Before Chu Li finished speaking, the driver screamed while holding his head, then rushed to grab Tang Xi's arm, and said, "Girl, good girl, you really saved me." The lives of the young and old!"

"Uncle, calm down, I don't want to stun you." Tang Xi looked at him seriously.

"Yes, yes." The driver sneered and shrank his hands.

"I said Miss Tang, are you Conan's physique? What happened to where you went? I called the police three times tonight, right?" Chu Li hugged his arms, his tone somewhat mocking.

"As a law-abiding citizen, you should." Tang Xi took it for granted.

"I didn't praise you." Chu Li turned his head angrily and asked, "How about the suspect?"

"I'm dizzy." A policeman replied, "I have a good sense of action. I am practicing and I can't deal with any problems."

Chu Li raised his eyebrows: "Sanshou Seven Duan?"

"Team Chu, you have a good memory!" Tang Xi smiled.

"Forget it, tell me what happened." Chu Li had a headache.

"Oh, I just came out of the hospital and took a taxi. It just so happened that this uncle didn't have time to kill, so he pretended to be a taxi driver in a hurry. Maybe it was because a girl of me felt bullied and wanted to make another ticket. He pointed a knife at me while driving, and I reflexed for a while...Well, I started a little harder." Tang Xi stated clearly.

"Your little boyfriend didn't give you away?" Chu Li doubted.

"I don't have a boyfriend, I'm a classmate. Let's go to the hospital to see another classmate. I don't have the money to take a taxi, so why do I want a boy to send it?" Tang Xi asked in surprise.

"Then, why did you take a taxi to Beicheng Industrial Park in the middle of the night?" Chu Li asked directly.

Although the girl in the three incidents tonight was a victim, a witness, and a reporter, years of experience from the police always told him that nothing was right. Maybe it's because the girl's expression is too calm, or maybe... How much did you recite this idea when you reported three times in one night?

Tang Xi blinked and didn't say anything. He just listened to the driver's uncle rushing to say, "Comrade police, I can hear clearly in the trunk. This little girl is clearly going to the Jiangnan High School. It must be the one who killed him. Thousands of knives drove the car to such a place with unkind intentions in order to rob money and sex!"

"One high in the south of the Yangtze River?" Chu Li looked at Tang Xi's school uniform and was speechless.

The driver choked and said nothing.

"Uncle Police, if you go to check my ID, you should be able to find it. I grew up in a remote small town and I have been in Jiangnan for less than a week. How do I know that the high is in the south and the north." Tang Xi raised his hand. He smiled at the driver again.

The uncle driver straightened his chest immediately, and his heart was filled with a sense of accomplishment and mission.

This little girl saved her life but was suspected of being wronged by the police. Isn't she just taking a ride on the robbers before calling the police? Are they masters breaking the law?

"You don't recognize the way?" Chu Li didn't believe it instinctively. You two are eye-catching, when I am dead!

"Isn't I just looking for a taxi because I didn't recognize the way!" Tang Xi was confident.

Chu Li:...

What you said makes sense, but I was speechless.

However, even if Tang Xi said it more reasonable and reasonable, he just felt unreliable. This was an unfounded feeling. How many times did he find a breakthrough in confusing cases based on this feeling. He didn't doubt whether Tang Xi was the murderer or something. He just felt that she probably didn't tell the truth, and the part she concealed was crucial to solving the case.

Regrettably, in the three cases tonight, Tang Xi’s role in each of them is clear. Even if he knows that Tang Xi came to Beicheng Industrial Park for what purpose, he can’t force a confession. They are not criminals, so they should cooperate with the case. It is a citizen's duty, but it is not to explain the privacy that has nothing to do with the case.

"It's so late. It's not easy to take a taxi in this place." A little policeman suddenly interjected, "The taxi is an exhibit and cannot be driven away temporarily. Would you like Miss Tang to take our car back to the city?"

"Okay, trouble, I haven't been in a police car yet." Tang Xi nodded obediently.

"Don't take a police car for the rest of your life." Chu Li said meaningfully, opening the door and getting into the driver's seat, while saying, "Get in the car, I'll take you back, and Xiao Liu will stay and continue to inspect the scene."

"Yes!"

"Team Chu, I'm only sixteen years old." Tang Xi stood by the car and said solemnly.

"Then?" Chu Li didn't understand.

"If you want to soak me, it seems to be a little earlier, Uncle Chu." Tang Xi deliberately emphasized the pronunciation.

"Fuck off! A little kid, who wants to soak you." Chu Li had a black face in an instant, and scolded, "Hurry up and get in the car, do you want to go to class tomorrow? Students just study hard, what are they thinking about!"

"Yes~Uncle Chu~" Tang Xila yelled sweetly in a long voice, and quickly got into the back seat.

Chu Li gave a few more instructions to his subordinates, turning the key to start the car, and couldn't help but mutter: "I was called an uncle by a high school student, am I really this old?"