Chapter 36：

Chu Li moved quickly, and the next day he settled the matter of a senior high school student who suddenly asked for a week of leave.

So Tang Xi reluctantly faced Yu Mingfan's death sight, and ran to the city bureau's crime team to report early in the morning.

After all, it was something that I had promised and had to be completed. As long as the action was fast enough, it might not take a week. Just look at the level of the special department in this world.

This time it was Chu Li who came out to pick her up in person, and went through the internal staff channel, and handed her a certificate: "Consultant ID, I have collected it."

Tang Xi opened it and looked at it. She had never obtained this kind of certificate before. When working with the police, her name was the signboard, and she could get it with a single phone call, but the certificate looked decent, and there was actually a photo of her. , It seems to be the one-inch photo of her going through the transfer formalities. She shook her ID and smiled: "Really?"

"Do I dare to apply for a fake certificate?" Chu Li had a black line. "It is indeed impossible for the bureau to approve a high school student as a police consultant, but the crime team itself does have a quota for hiring consultants, but the consultant's salary is from the funds. Out of it—you probably don’t care about this."

"This is what you mean by just asking me to work for nothing." Tang Xi smiled angrily.

"Funds are tight." Chu Li was very calm.

Tang Xi rolled his eyes and gave up communicating with him.

"You're right." Chu Li said suddenly, "This case is beyond the ability of ordinary people. I can't take the lives of my subordinates to joke, so I reported it, but... I want me to abandon my case. nothing!"

"How many are there?" Tang Xi asked.

"Two, one man and one woman." Chu Li paused, then said again, "I feel it, not as good as you."

"How is this judged?" Tang Xi was surprised.

"When you dealt with Yingling that night, your aura...even if it wasn't directed at me, it was stronger than the feeling they used to suppress me." Chu Li said indifferently, "regardless of your ability to deal with that kind of thing, If I fight them, I don’t know who will win or lose."

"That's natural." Tang Xi was not surprised, "The so-called celestial master in this world, Qicheng is a liar. Among the remaining 30% of the truth, more than half may be good at dealing with demons and ghosts, but they really run into vicious criminals. , Not necessarily comparable to ordinary criminal police."

"But you are very good at fighting, whether it is against people or ghosts." Chu Li said.

"Otherwise you can ask me to be a consultant?" Tang Xi raised an eyebrow.

"Yes." Chu Li smiled and pushed open the door of the small meeting room, "Everyone is here, we have a meeting."

There were three other people in the conference room. The first middle-aged man with a bald head. Tang Xi had seen him on the news. He was the deputy director of the Municipal Bureau and his surname was Zhao. The other man and woman should have been sent by the special department that Chu Li said. The two are not very old, they are twenty-five and sixty-five, with five similarities between the eyebrows, which shows that they are related by blood.

"Xiao Chu, why did you bring all your family members?" Zhao Ju was dumbfounded.

"Not a family member." Chu Li closed the door of the meeting room backhand and replied, "Tang Xi, consultant of the crime team."

"..." The three people in the conference room couldn't help looking at each other.

"Xiao Chu, you... when did you hire a consultant?" Zhao Ju asked.

"Last night." Chu Li shrugged, waved his hand, motioned Tang Xi to sit next to him, and then introduced, "You should recognize Zhao Ju. Those two police officers sent to assist in the case, Fang Tianchen and Fang Tianyun."

Tang Xi nodded, her expression unmoved and generous.

"Team Chu, this case is very dangerous. It is already dangerous if you are an ordinary person. We can't protect one more person." Fang Tianchen said with an ugly expression.

"I'm not an ordinary person." Chu Li raised his eyes, neither humble nor overbearing, "I am a criminal policeman. From the day I became a criminal policeman, I was not afraid of death."

"Shut up." Tang Xi did not deny that when she heard the phrase "I am a criminal policeman", she moved in her heart and interrupted coldly, "With me, you will still die when I don't exist?"

Chu Li shrugged and closed his mouth wittily.

"Little girl, are you a member of the Profound Sect?" Fang Tianyun chuckled lightly.

"In the world of profound arts, those who have a teacher are divided into generations, and those who don't have a teacher are respected. Do you think you must be better than me?" Tang Xi looked directly at her without evasiveness.

Fang Tianyun's face suddenly became dark, but could not speak.

Because what Tang Xi said is indeed true.

Of course, she didn't think that the girl who should still be in school in front of her was "respecting the strong." She just muttered in her heart, is this the closed disciple or granddaughter of which elder senior?

"Little Chu, don't mess around." Zhao Ju couldn't help wiping the sweat from his forehead.

He sits in this position, of course he knows the inside story of some "special departments", but he is a capable man... even if Chu Li brought an old Taoist priest today as a consultant, he would smile, but he was a teenager. Girl, looks thin and timid, this is a bit...unspeakable.

"Ju Zhao, she is the consultant I invited, and it complies with the rules and procedures of the crime team." Chu Li said solemnly, "If something goes wrong with her, I am willing to bear all joint and several liabilities."

"..." Zhao Ju was dumb, and had to swallow the rest of the words back.

"Forget it, let's start." Fang Tianchen said impatiently.

"Start the meeting." Zhao Ju said, turning on the projector.

Although there were only five people in the conference room, it seemed very empty, but as soon as the picture on the screen appeared, everyone looked over.

Those are contrast photos of some corpses. There are six groups in total, two in each group.

"So much?" Chu Li raised an eyebrow.

"Therefore, this case was not discovered by the crime team first. We have followed up since a year ago." Fang Tianyun said in a bad mood.

"I haven't had a clue for a year. On the contrary, there were three more victims. In the end, the suspect was caught by our crime team." Chu Li pointed out the facts.

"You!" Fang Tianyun was angry, her beautiful eyebrows furrowed, her chest undulating.

She is obviously for the good of the other party. The serious crime team fights wits and courage with the most vicious criminals every day. She is not without admiration. However, it is because of this admiration that she does not want him to be involved in this kind of case? After all, no matter how skilled the detective is, he is an ordinary person, completely powerless in front of monsters.

There is a feeling of kindly feeding the donkey's liver and lungs.

"Then this man." Fang Tianchen moved his hand and changed two pictures on the screen.

On the left is a man in his thirties. Behind him is a certain bus station. He is ordinary, not handsome or ugly. He seems to be honest, he belongs to the kind that can't be found in the crowd. The one on the right is much more handsome and handsome, with a pair of peachy eyes looking forward to affection, especially the kind that little girls like.

"According to the investigation, the victim broke up with her boyfriend before she disappeared." Fang Tianchen continued, "and those so-called boyfriends and fiances-after in-depth investigation, are all fake identities fabricated by various means. For example, the fiancé of the fifth victim, Lu Meihua, in Jiangbei City. The restaurant was not owned by him. He just gave the manager on duty 20,000 yuan as an excuse to earn some face in front of female classmates who had not seen him for many years. The two co-starred. It's a play. As for the parents, they are two 28-line little dragons who rely on group performances to eat on the set. There are many such people and the service is well-rounded. It is a regular business to play parents and hold parent meetings for their children. "

Listening to what he said, Chu Li's eyes fell on the screen, his eyes narrowed, and he suddenly said, "These two men are the same person, aren't they? Good makeup skills."

"Team Chu's vision is poisonous." Fang Tianchen smiled, "We still managed to intercept the monitoring of the two front faces, using skull imaging technology to determine that they belonged to the same person."

"If they are separated, I'm afraid I won't pay attention." Chu Li said indifferently, "However, when compared together, the overlap of the facial features is still very obvious. The police do not look at the appearance of the suspect, but the details of the facial features, which is similar to the skull imaging technology. ."

Fang Tianchen nodded, his tone improved a lot: "We have reason to infer that from beginning to end, these boyfriends are all pretending to be the same person. He is not indiscriminately killing people, but purposefully looking for a specific woman. It’s just that the identity, character, age, economic conditions, and educational level of these victims are not small in all respects, and there is no overlap in their resumes. So far, no commonality has been found."

Tang Xi lowered his head and flipped through the written materials in front of him, and suddenly said, "Although the birthdays of these victims are different, they are very close-what about the lunar calendar?"

"We checked this kind of thing the first time." Fang Tianyun said, "It's not the same day."

Tang Xi frowned. She was really not good at guessing, so she simply took out her mobile phone, opened the perpetual calendar, and looked it up directly.

"As I said, their birthdates do not overlap." Fang Tianyun said impatiently.

"Yes." Tang Xi only answered one word.

"What?" Fang Tianyun was stunned.

Tang Xi started writing quickly and copied the content in a blink of an eye. With a push, the A4 paper slid along the smooth table to the other side.

Fang Tianyun glanced, her eyes narrowed, and blurted out: "The Five Elements?"

"The fate of these people, judging from the eight characters, is that the five elements lack water." Tang Xi said.

The Fang family brothers and sisters looked at each other, their faces hard to look.

The eight-character five-element thing, even ordinary people who don’t understand numerology, will count it when naming a newborn, and then fill in the name. There are a lot of missing one, a lot of five elements, and six in a row. All the victims lack water in the five elements, which is absolutely an abnormal coincidence.

"Continue first." Fang Tianchen coughed dryly.

The slideshow switched to the next picture, which was an aerial shot of a barren mountain.

"We have already interrogated the suspects we caught. The method will not be disclosed, but we guarantee that the content of the questioning is true." Fang Tianchen said, "According to his account, this is a stronghold of their organization."

"Organization?" Chu Li frowned. "Find people organized, and kill them if they find it wrong. It seems that their purpose is not simple."

"Indeed." Fang Tianchen said solemnly, "This organization has a strict division of labor. Everyone only knows what he is responsible for. His original mission that night was to destroy the dead-Ruan Ling, it was them that was the last victim to be brought into the police station. Unexpected things, I have to say, Team Chu, you are very lucky, and you can get key clues by mistakes."

Chu Li sneered, without saying anything irritating.

Tang Xi glanced at him and raised her eyebrows clearly. This guy must say something like "Only incompetent people attribute their failure to the luck of others."

"So, Ayun and I plan to go to that stronghold first to explore the reality." Fang Tianchen said again, "Since the suspect has been arrested for a few days, we do not rule out the possibility of defeat. But even if there is a little hope, we have to go and see if there is No clues were left."

"Yes." Chu Li nodded in agreement. As long as the other party's opinion is reasonable, he doesn't mind who is in charge.

"I can go with Ayun." Fang Tianchen frowned.

"It won't hold you back." Tang Xi said calmly, "Our safety is our responsibility."

"Whatever you want." Fang Tianchen glanced at her.

"It's not too late, let's go." Chu Li got up first.

"Xiao Chu, you can take a moment." Zhao Ju anxiously asked, then looked at Tang Xi.

Jiangnan City is his territory, and Zhao Ju does not like the people sent from above interfering with their work, so he also hopes that Chu Li can give the municipal bureau a sigh, but if it is so dangerous, it is not a matter of arguing!

"Zhao Ju, don't worry, it's okay." Chu Li didn't care much.

At least he felt that after seeing the group of crawling infant spirits, even if another group of zombies came out, he could calmly rush up with a punch.

The four were divided into two groups, and they were very clear. They didn't plan to move together, but drove out in two cars separately.

"What do you think?" Chu Li asked.

"Your instincts are good, Fang Tianyun is quite weak." Tang Xi agreed, "If the abilities of the heavenly master are divided into one to ten stars from low to high, she will have at most two stars."

"What about Fang Tianchen?" Chu Li was startled.

"Fang Tianchen is a little weird." Tang Xi touched his chin, a little distressed, "He doesn't have any spiritual power, and he doesn't look like a heavenly master. Could it be that he has other special abilities?"

"He is better than Fang Tianyun." Chu Li concluded, "That woman obeyed him very habitually."

"Well, no matter, it's not the enemy right now anyway." Tang Xi stretched out and closed her eyes, "It's too early to get up, I'll take a rest."

Chu Li wanted to say that you usually go to school earlier, but after a glance at the faint cyan under her eyes, she didn't say anything, just closed the car windows.

Tang Xi didn't lie, she really didn't sleep enough, because after sending off the guests yesterday, Cheng Yihang left her with a thick document, and she stayed up late to read it.

The vaccine donated by Tang's pharmaceutical company really went wrong.

In the beginning, several children suffered adverse reactions after being vaccinated and died one after another. Because the vaccine itself is also a virus, there is indeed a chance of rejection. In addition, those who receive donations are from poor families in remote areas. Even if the children are gone, they are unable to petition for complaints and things will be suppressed. However, with more and more children experiencing adverse reactions, and children's hospital beds in several areas were full, the incident was finally exposed, but it was too late.

Now the government has ordered the recall of all unused vaccines, and the pharmaceutical company Down’s has been seized. Departments of health, epidemic prevention, and disciplinary inspection all entered the company to start investigations, and the Internet of public opinion spread likewise, and Tang Zhenying was so busy.

After reading it, Tang Xi realized why the Tang family seemed to have forgotten her for a while, and indeed there was no time to think about her when I wanted to come to them.

Hey, no wonder the bad luck. Sure enough, people are watching, and those expired vaccines don't know what virus they have mutated into, or the ones who are alive don't know if there is any rescue. It's a crime!

The car in front stopped in a small clearing at the foot of the mountain.

Chu left and parked next to him, just about to wake Tang Xi, before she spoke, she saw that she had opened her eyes.

"Here?" Tang Xi yawned, unfastened his seat belt, and put a small satchel on his back.

Today, she is dressed in a white shirt, light blue jeans, and light pink cardigan sweater. She is youthful and beautiful, as if she is coming for a walk. It is at the extremes of the Fang family brothers and sisters' style of tight leather clothing that looks bad at all.

"Well, there is no way, you have to go up, are you stamina alright?" Chu Li said.

"Can't you carry me?" Tang Xi rolled her eyes.

Although the physical quality of the original owner is far worse than her, but during this period, she has been eating and conditioning, spiritual guidance, and insisting on morning jogs every day, which is still much better than ordinary young people.

"It's okay." Chu Li felt that it was not a problem at all to climb over the mountains with a load of one hundred and eighty catties.

"Pig. Take it." Before he got out of the car, Tang Xi threw a little gadget.

"What's this?" Chu Li carried the shell sweater chain studded with rhinestones, which was obviously used by girls, with a look of disgust.

"Antiques are worth at least a few hundred thousand, just take it easy." Tang Xi said.

Chu Li shook his hand and almost threw it back to her.

"I borrow it from you. This thing can store spiritual power. I carved a defensive array on it. Before the spiritual power I have deposited is exhausted, no ghosts can approach it." Tang Xi said.

"Only guard against ghosts?" Chu Li noticed the loopholes in her words.

"Monsters and ghosts, in fact, only ghosts have no body at all." Tang Xi explained, "If you encounter a monster-Team Chu, even if you rush to fight, your attack can reach it. I am optimistic about you!"

"..." Chu Li got off the car immediately. But the chain was still wrapped around his neck and tucked into his shirt.

"According to the aerial photos, we are about to walk five or six miles on the mountain road, you follow me, be careful yourself." Fang Tianyun said.

"I know." Tang Xi responded.

People showed kindness, and she didn't know what was good or bad. As for who is strong, who is weak and who is holding back, this kind of thing, you will know when you meet the enemy, there is no need to rush to brag about how powerful you are.

So the group of people Fang Tianyun opened the way, followed by Chu Li and Tang Xi, and finally after Fang Tianchen broke off, the four of them aligned their directions and walked deep into the mountains and forests.

"It's quiet." Tang Xi said after walking for a while.

"There is a village on the back of this mountain, Jiahuaishan Village, with a population of more than 100 households, but there are no people on this side, of course it is quiet." Fang Tianyun said casually.

"Stupid." Chu Li endured forbearance, and finally said, "She's not talking about human beings, it's the singing of insects and birds!"

Fang Tianyun was taken aback, then reacted. She was not really stupid, but she had too little experience, which was incomparable to Chu Li, who had solved countless major cases, and Tang Xi, who had eliminated countless fairies and ghosts.

Such a large and inaccessible barren mountain, the vegetation is considered rich, even if there are any medium-sized animals infested, it is normal, but now, let alone rabbits and birds, even flying insects and ants have not been seen.

This is of course abnormal.

"Be careful." Fang Tianchen said solemnly.

At this moment, there was a sudden rustling sound from the bush in front.

"Who!" Fang Tianyun shouted.

Although she held a yellow cinnabar symbol in her hand, she didn't hit it out immediately. After all, it's still noon, and when the Yang Qi is at its peak, it's really not suitable for demons and ghosts.

No one answered, however, there was a faint noise in all directions.

"Be surrounded." Fang Tianchen turned around, facing the road.

After a long time, finally, the first figure appeared.

It was an old farmer in gray cloth, with a **** on his shoulders, and staggered down the mountain.

Villagers in Huaishan Village? Fang Tianyun murmured, raising her voice and asked, "Old man, what are you doing on the mountain road alone?"

The old man did not answer, but walked straight towards them along the rugged path.

"A Yun, be careful!" Fang Tianchen turned around and threw a wind blade over.

"Dang!" The **** raised by the old farmer was shot flying.

"Hey! You are crazy!" Fang Tianyun was startled.

"They are controlled." Fang Tianchen said coldly.

"What should I do?" Let alone Fang Tianyun, Chu Li didn't know what to do.

Even if it was controlled, this was a living person, an innocent citizen, especially at this old man's age, Chu Li was worried that if he stunned him, he would get sick.

In such a short time, many people slowly walked out of the mountains and forests, men and women, young and old, with dull eyes, like walking corpses without souls.

"Despicable and shameless!" Fang Tianyun couldn't help cursing.

Fang Tianchen waved his hand, and a strong wind blew up without warning, swaying these villagers.

However, soon, someone stood up again.

"Natural supernatural person?" Tang Xi was a little surprised.

"Yes." Fang Tianchen nodded, "A Yun is good at fire curses, I control the wind, and always act as a partner. I don't know what type of ability Miss Tang has repaired?"

"Fight!" Tang Xi raised her eyebrows, raised her hand and grabbed the shovel waved by a young man, swept her feet and staggered, then lifted her palm and fell, and a hand knife slashed the young man's neck. A series of actions are like moving clouds and flowing water, pleasing to the eye.

Facts have proved that even if it is controlled, the conduction function of the central nervous system can be cut off.

"Find a sturdier one to stun and drive a way out!" Chu Li's eyes lit up.

"Just to my liking." Tang Xi rushed out without waiting for him to finish.

The Fang family brothers and sisters froze for a moment, and hurriedly followed, extremely frustrated.

Their tactics are too destructive, and once they are used, the villagers will definitely be killed or injured, and hand-to-hand combat is not their strong point.

"How do I think this is a trap?" Tang Xi said.

"Don't worry about so many, if you want to control so many living people, you will definitely not be able to do it if you are too far away, that person is nearby!" Fang Tianchen shouted.

nearby? Tang Xi turned around and looked around.

There are lush trees everywhere. In this environment, let alone a person, even if you hide ten or eight, you will not be able to find it for a while.

"I'll rush up to speak." Tang Xi helplessly.

"Xiao Xi, shall I find someone?" Su Huang's voice came from his ears.

Tang Xi pondered for a while, nodded slightly, and said in a low voice: "Be careful, the two brothers and sisters of the other family should also take care."

"I see." Su Huang responded with a smile.

In the chaos, a faint shadow stuck to the ground and got into the woods without arousing anyone's idea.