Chapter 124：

"Floating!" Suddenly, someone shouted.

I saw a string of bubbles in the center of the river, and the black shadow under the water gradually expanded.

"..." Everyone was dumbfounded.

"It's weird, I couldn't pull it just now, but now it's floating by itself?" The frogman murmured to himself.

"Is it because you made a mistake?" The other team member couldn't help but asked.

"How is it possible?" The frogman retorted unconvincedly.

"Don't quarrel," the captain interrupted, "Go and get the body ashore!"

"Oh." The salvage team moved immediately.

Chu Li frowned, and whispered a few words to Su Wanyi.

Su Wan was stunned, then gave him a blank look, turned around and trot away.

Under the water, Tang Xi watched the female corpse gradually float up, and her doubts became more serious.

Obviously the grievance is so heavy, but the obsession is very shallow, and it will dissipate as soon as it is dispelled.

It's too unreasonable.

"Yun Qi, can you still find the source of Yin Qi just now?" Tang Xi asked.

"No," Yun Qi replied calmly, "Yin Qi is completely dissolved in the water, or that the river is the incarnation of Yin Qi."

"Xiao Xi, shall we go out first?" Shaoyao also said, "I still think that female corpse is even stranger. Anyway, the moat is here and can't run away."

"Okay." Tang Xi nodded, and walked to the shore in the same way and floated up.

"Wow!" The policeman who happened to search here was taken aback.

"Sorry." Tang Xi wiped the water off her face.

She can stay underwater for a long time without breathing, but she can't avoid the water. Only then did she find that she just went into the water just now, as if... very bad?

"Xiao Xi!" With Su Wanyi's voice, a thin absorbent blanket covered her as a head.

"Sister Late?" Tang Xi was a little dazed.

Su Wan quickly wrapped her in a blanket, carrying a big bag in one hand, and pulling her away with the other, "Quickly, don't catch a cold. There is a public toilet next to her, so change your clothes first."

Tang Xi was taken away by her when she was confused.

The public toilet was more than ten meters away, and it was still clean and tidy. Su Wanyi asked her to quickly undress and dry, while taking things out of the bag.

I bought clothes from the inside out, even footwear and socks, with tags.

"I bought it casually. I haven't used the water before. You can just take it and go home and take a hot bath to change it." Su Wanyi said, took out the key, and cut the tag with a nail clipper that was used as a pendant. The piece rests on the arm.

"Sister Wanyi is really thoughtful." Tang Xi said with a smile.

"Team Chu asked me to buy a piece of clothing. How can I just buy clothes?" Su Wanyi looked at her up and down, then complained, "You just jumped into the river like this? Take off your shoes anyway?"

"..." Tang Xi couldn't explain that she didn't use it to swim but to walk. If she didn't wear shoes, it would be easy to scratch the soles of her feet by the **** at the bottom of the river, so she had to go on like this.

Fortunately, Su Wanyi was more careful and bought everything that should be bought.

Putting on dry clothes, Tang Xi continued to wipe her hair half-dry with a blanket, put it on her shoulders, and stuffed all the changed clothes into the bag.

"Let's go, I'll go see the corpse first." Su Wanyi said.

When the two returned to the shore, the salvage boat came to shore again.

The frogman looked at Tang Xi with a look of entanglement. He also saw the girl coming out of the water. Could it be...Is she the one who got the female corpse up?

"Are you okay?" Chu Li walked over.

"Something is going on." Tang Xi pulled him aside by his sleeve, lowered his voice and said, "You'd better inform the reporters and the media to report on this case right away."

"Why?" Chu Li said in surprise, "The case has not been solved yet. If public opinion is raised in society, it will put a lot of pressure on the police."

"It doesn't need to be too detailed, as long as most people, especially those living near the moat, know that a corpse is fished out of the river," Tang Xi said.

"Is there a problem with the river?" Chu Li's reaction was quick.

"Well, if someone enters the water again, they will not be as lucky as Ding Peng. Even the fish and shrimps in the river will have problems and they will be too much to eat." Tang Xi nodded.

Chu Li thought for a while, then picked up the phone: "Xiao Xiao, immediately published a message on the homepage of major portal websites in Jiangnan City: The police recovered a female body from the moat. She was more than 20 years old, with long hair and wearing a blue sling. Dress and carry a cross necklace. If anyone knows the identity of the female corpse, we call on the masses to immediately contact the crime team. Then hand the news to the cooperating reporters and broadcast it on tonight’s news. Finally, notify the people along the moat At the police station, print out more notices and post all the nearby neighborhoods. The sooner the better."

"Understood." Xiao Xue agreed.

"That's it." Chu Li hung up the phone and turned around to explain, "You don't have to specifically report that this is a homicide, as long as you publicize that there is a corpse in the river, at least these days, everyone feels like it. Swimming and fishing in the river."

"You still have experience." Tang Xi also reacted.

"Now tell me, what do you see below? Ghost?" Chu Li asked.

"Um..." Tang Xi touched her chin, and said in deep thought, "It's not certain whether it's a ghost or not, it doesn't feel like...but it's dangerous."

"How dangerous is it?" Chu Li asked.

"Well..." Tang Xi thought for a while, "As long as it is a human, there will be a dark side in her heart. How can someone who has never experienced anything uncomfortable since childhood, but most people can adjust their mentality in time. , Live optimistically. However, being able to adjust does not mean that these dark sides do not exist. It has always existed in the depths of people's consciousness, but it is usually locked by a lock called reason. However, I met today The thing that arrives can destroy reason, open the door, and completely release the dark side. Once the long-suppressed darkness gets out of control, it is unpredictable what people will do."

"So Zhang Wei would go crazy and take a kitchen knife to chop the nurses and patients who made him line up, but the doctor who didn't save his son?" Chu Li confirmed.

"Zhang Wei's case, that's exactly what happened." Tang Xi nodded and hesitated for a while before saying, "How would he... measure the sentence?"

"Public security agencies are only responsible for arresting prisoners. As for sentencing, it is the court's business." Chu Li said after taking a look at her.

"Oh." Tang Xi was a little depressed for no reason.

"Do you sympathize with Zhang Wei?" Chu Li said.

"No. I sympathize with Nurse Zhang more." Tang Xi sighed.

As long as the person is not dead, it can always be solved. But Zhang Wei killed someone, even if he was pushed by external forces, after all, he was the one who killed him, and sympathized with him... and where did he kill him.

There is only life, and there is no way to compensate.

"Don't think too much." Chu Li pressed her shoulder, "When you have gone through more cases, you will be able to adjust your mentality. But only then did you realize that you are really only eighteen years old. "

Tang Xi couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Hell, eighteen years old, she's twenty-five in her two lifetimes, okay!

However, she used to deal with all kinds of demons and ghosts, and she also followed Chu Li into the crime squad before she came into contact with all kinds of "people".

"Master is right. In this world, people are much more complicated than ghosts." Tang Xi sighed.

"But people are much more exciting than ghosts." Chu Li sneered and turned to the temporary autopsy station.

Su Wanyi has finished the preliminary autopsy, frowning tightly.

"How is it?" Chu Li asked.

"There was no trauma, and no poisoning reaction appeared on the surface. The specific cause of death requires anatomy and toxicology experiments." Su Wanyi said while taking off his gloves.

"What about the time of death?" Chu Li asked strangely.

Usually forensic doctors report autopsy results. The first one is the time of death. Even if it is a time that cannot be accurately determined immediately after flooding and roasting, at least an approximate time period will be given. But this time, Su Wanyi only The word was not mentioned.

"Before the autopsy, I can't tell you the time of death, for fear of misleading you." Su Wanyi said with a stern face.

"Is there any approximate time period?" Chu Li asked.

"Looking at the condition of the corpse, there are no plaques, and the skin is full of elasticity. I tried it with a needle. The blood in the veins was quite fresh, and it didn't even coagulate." Su Wanyi said helplessly, "I must judge according to the knowledge of forensic medicine. , I can only say that she died within five minutes. Normally, we should call 120 for rescue. Maybe it is possible to get it back."

"..." Chu Li had a black line.

Five minutes... From Ding Peng's discovery of an underwater corpse to Su Wanyi's autopsy, there were more than ten five minutes in between.

"So, if I write this in the autopsy report, I will be scolded to death by Tan Ju?" Su Wanyi spread his hands.

"Yes, transport it back first, let's dissect it." Chu Li waved his hand.

"Okay, let's take the team first." Su Wanyi turned and ordered his assistant to put the body in a body bag and put it on the car.

The salvage team completed its mission and retreated.

Chu Li ordered the crime team to leave a group of people on the shore to search again, and emphatically warned that they were not allowed to enter the water, and ordered the team to be closed.

"I also went back to the city bureau. I asked Xiao Xiao to check something out before." Tang Xi said.

"Okay." Chu Li agreed.

Such a weird corpse, compared to Su Wanyi, the other thing he wanted to hear was Tang Xi's judgment.

When he returned to the Municipal Bureau, Tang Xi's hair was basically dry.

"Drink." Chu Li brought a cup over.

"What?" Tang Xi stepped back in horror and pinched his nose.

"Banlangen, it's not bitter." Chu Li said with no good air.

"I don't have a cold, so I don't need to take medicine!" Tang Xi protested.

"If you have a cold, you won't be eating Banlangen!" Chu Li was unmoved, "You drink by yourself, or should I drink it?"

"..." Tang Xi gritted her teeth and snatched it over, frowning and pouring down her stomach, and put the cup on the table heavily.

"Here." Xiao Xue dared to deliver the prepared documents.

"Sooner or later let you drink it back!" Tang Xi threatened, and rushed into the team leader's office holding the documents.

Chu Li paused, then turned his head and said, "Xiao Xiao, the office next to me is empty, right? You ask the logistics staff to count the piles of materials, move a place, sort it out as a consultant office, and save her from robbing them all the time. My place."

"I see." Xiao Xue said with a suffocated smile.

Chu Li walked into the office and saw that Tang Xi had taken his place, and several documents were spread out on the table. He closed the door with his backhand and asked, "Anything?"

"Yeah." Tang Xi pushed the document without raising her head. "Look, in the past three months, a total of seven medical accidents occurred in the first hospital in the city. Every time it was the same as Zhang Wei, it was a conflict. A few hours to half a day later, the suspect suddenly rushed into the hospital to commit the crime."

Chu Li quickly scanned it and said in deep thought: "It's really similar. It's just that there were no dead people in the previous six times, and even three times the suspect was subdued before he was injured. So he didn't alarm the serious case team, just ordinary doctors and patients. The local police station dealt with the dispute. Most of the suspects had a good attitude afterwards, saying that it was impulsive and reached a settlement with the hospital and the injured."

"Yes, impulsively." Tang Xiruo said with deep meaning.

"Looking at it alone, nothing special." Chu Li said solemnly, "but the same thing, seven in three months, this can't be accidental."

"Um...so annoying." Tang Xi lay down on the table.

"What do you think of that female corpse?" Chu Li asked again.

"You've been dead for a long time." Tang Xi shrugged and said casually, "At least a few months. The female corpse is protected by grievances, will not be corrupted, will not rise, if it is not for the wild swimmers just to see it, even if it's a few months later. Months may not be discovered, but..."

"But what?" Chu Li asked.

"I don't think the female corpse is the culprit." Tang Xi meditated. "Rather, it is the existence of the female corpse, which checks and balances with the Yin Qi in the river. Therefore, the moat hasn't shown any abnormality before, or else a few months ago. In the summer, there are more people swimming wild, and something has happened long ago."

"You mean, that female corpse is protecting humans?" Chu Li said in surprise.

"Yeah." Tang Xi nodded, "I vaguely felt wrong when I dispelled the grievances and let her float up. It was too easy to dispel. Think about it again, if the grievances are not her own, then it makes sense."

"Boom boom boom."

Just then, the office door was knocked.

"Come in." Chu Li said.

"Team Chu, consultant." Xiao Liu said excitedly, standing at the door, "Someone has come to recognize the corpse."

"So fast?" Tang Xi blurted out.

At this point in time, I'm afraid that the notices of nearby communities have not been posted yet.

"The one who came to identify the body was a doctor from a city hospital." Xiao Liu's expression was a little weird. "He said that he saw the emergency news sent by his mobile phone, and he felt like his girlfriend who disappeared three months ago."

Three months?

Chu Li and Tang Xi looked at each other and got up together: "Go and see."

In an interrogation room, sitting in a man in his thirties, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, wearing a white hospital coat, holding a disposable paper cup, his expression a little nervous.

The sound of Chu leaving the door also shocked him.

"Are you, Doctor Gao?" Chu Li and Tang Xi sat down across the table.

"Yes, I am Gao Ruming from the Department of Internal Medicine of the City No. 1 Hospital." The man said immediately.

"Have you just been to see the corpse? Is it your girlfriend?" Chu Li asked formulaically.

"Of course! Her appearance is exactly the same as before." Gao Ruming choked. "It is my girlfriend Han Jia. She is a nurse in the emergency department of a city hospital. She suddenly lost contact three months ago... By the way, I have reported the case, but the police station only made a record, saying that Jiajia was an adult. If there is no confirmed evidence of the murder, it is difficult to find. I have asked several times and there is no news."

"Are you sure she has been missing for three months?" Chu Li said.

"Of course!" Gao Ruming said without hesitation, "Three months and six days-I record the days in the diary every day."

"Do you know how she disappeared?" Chu Li could only ask.

"She followed the ambulance to rescue the patient the night before, and did not come to work the next day." Gao Ruming said, "The police station also asked the driver and doctor who went out of the car, and they all said that Jiajia went home by herself after get off work. . In the middle of the night, I’m afraid she had an accident on the road... but the surveillance has taken pictures of her returning to her home, so..."

Chu Li immediately understood that it was an adult who was missing. Since she has returned home, it is hard to say that there is a possibility of being killed. The emergency nurses were under a lot of pressure. To say that Han Jia couldn't bear it because of psychological problems, it was understandable that he would run away. In such cases of disappearance, the police station will not invest too much police force.

"I, can I take Jiajia's body back?" Gao Ruming asked.

"No, the cause of her death has not been clarified. The possibility of a criminal case is not ruled out. If it was a homicide, the police must pursue it. Currently, the body cannot be taken away." Chu Li said calmly, "Also, we will contact Miss Han's parents. Family, if you have a phone call, please provide it. After all, you are just a boyfriend and you are not married. You do not have the right to sign some documents. Even if the body is returned later, we can only give it to her family."

"Okay, okay." Gao Ruming stunned for a while before responding, "but Jiajia's hometown is very far away, and it will take a few days to get over after contacting him."

"That's troublesome, thank you for your cooperation." Chu Li said.

Chu Li didn't turn around until he went out and walked far away: "You were very silent just now, did you see that it was wrong?"

"Um... let's talk about it." Tang Xi recovered and stopped.

"What do you want?" Chu Li looked at her warily.

"No, it just thought of a little bit suddenly, and I want to go to the moat again." Tang Xi said.

"You?" Chu Li said.

"And you." Tang Xi looked at him seriously.

"..." Chu Li wanted to say, I think you lack a driver.

"Will you go?" Tang Xi was helpless.

Chu Li shook his head, took his gun handcuffs, and raised the car key: "Go."

"Hey!" Tang Xi followed with a smile.

"Team Chu, consultant." Xiao Liu quickly said, "Now that the team has been closed over there, should you two go?"

"It's just right to close the team. It's useless if there are too many people. Don't come." Tang Xi left a word far away.

"What do you mean?" Chu Li asked curiously.

"The yin of the moat." Tang Xi narrowed his smile, with a solemn expression, "Even I almost got the trick, if it wasn't for my ghost pupils--anyway, ordinary people would cause chaos."

Hearing this, Chu Li didn't say much, went downstairs, got in the car, and returned to the scene.

This time to toss, the sky has darkened.

Chu Li bought two scallion pancakes and hot milk tea and brought them back to the car. The two quickly settled for dinner.

"Yin is getting heavier." Tang Xi stood on the bank of the river, stretched out his hand to feel the blowing wind, and frowned slightly, "Sure enough, it's because of the loss of checks and balances."

"What are you going to do?" Chu Li asked.

"The water is its territory, it is difficult to completely eliminate it, I will push it up --" Tang Xi said.

"Understood." Chu Li's spirit gun turned around his fingers.

"Okay, I'm going down." Tang Xi smiled.

As a result, the clothes that had just been changed for less than half a day were soaked in water again.

Chu Li gave a "tsk," his eyes fixed on the calm river surface.

When he returned to the bottom of the river again, Tang Xi was already mentally prepared, and opened the ghost pupil directly, and the dark bottom of the water suddenly became delicate.

"How?" Yun Qi asked.

"Play with a big one." Tang Xi raised her eyebrows, and the guqin floated in the water, "Let me use the qin."

"Oh." Yun Qi had no objection.

"Can't you let Yunqi bomb?" Xie Changan couldn't help but said.

"That's right!" Peony said, "Or you can seal the bracelet first, okay?"

"What's wrong with Xiao Xi playing the piano?" This is Su Huang in the ancient tomb who escaped a catastrophe by catching the tomb thief and never heard of Tang Xi playing the piano.

"I want to play!" Tang Xi said angrily.

"Yun Qi, take care of her." Xie Changan didn't believe that Yun Qi and Tang Xi had been together for so long, and he would not know her level of playing the piano.

"It doesn't matter." Yun Qi said calmly, "This is underwater."

Both Xie Changan and Shaoyao were taken aback.

Underwater? What happened underwater?

"Under the water, there is a lot of noise, and I basically can't hear the sound of the piano..." Su Huang, a modern person, explained.

"You hate it!" Tang Xi was very angry, so he vented directly to the target with the sound wave of anger bonus.

Sound waves are invisible and qualityless, but because in the water, you can clearly see the torn waves of the water.

Suddenly, the calm water surface began to have no wind and waves.

Chu Li watched the river churn up, even ignoring the gravitational force to form a turbulent flow. One after another, one after another, fountains appeared irregularly. Fortunately, this section of the cordon was still there, plus the dead people had just been fished out, the citizens did not dare. Close at night.

Suddenly, a dark shadow on the other side flashed.

"Who?" Chu Li shouted, his sight was blocked by the splash of water. When the water fell back into the river, the opposite bank was empty and there were no people.

illusion? No, he is still very confident in his own eyesight, then...

Tang Xi's hands kept plucking the strings of the piano, stirring the moat up and down.

The Yin Qi that was originally dissolved in the water seemed to be unable to resist, and it reunited little by little.

Tang Xi sneered, adding a bit more spiritual power.

Her purpose is to force the thing to stay underwater and run up.

"Be careful." Suddenly, Yun Qi's warning sounded.

Tang Xi held Guqin in a flash, and a water arrow swept past him.

"I'm going! That thing just now, is it a crossbow arrow?" Su Huang asked in shock.

"Someone." Tang Xi was furious.

There are not only people, but the kind who want to put her to death! Who is it from?

"Over there." Following Yun Qi's voice, the guiding string quickly glued on.

Tang Xi didn't hesitate, and a thunder curse was transmitted along the guide string. As for whether or not to electrocute people, you will kill me, so I will show mercy?

"Swish--" It was another change of two currents.

This kind of entity's attack will slow down underwater, and the current of the surrounding water will change. This distance is enough for her to react and evade.

With a soft "pop", it seemed that the crossbow arrow had hit the river bank.

"This is...hook and lock arrow?" Su Huang asked in surprise.

Behind the crossbow arrow inserted into the river bank, there was a thin piano wire, plus the one in front, three murderous wires had been opened in the water. Tang Xi has no doubt that if he hits this kind of special piano string hard, not to mention the head is cut, it is not impossible to cut it in the middle.

This kind of thing...Who is the other party?