"Little doll, I'm here for your good. You are not born a bad seed, but you were controlled by demons and refined into a dark child. You've lived for 100 years, why aren't you civilized? Lao Chen said to the child corpse in his hand.

The dead child, who was originally motionless, opened his eyes when he heard this, his eyes quickly rolled twice, jumped to the ground, turned his head to look at me and Dashuang, reached out to hold Lao Chen's hand, lowered his head, and looked like he was resigned to his fate.

I looked at him and nodded: "Stop my car when you come, it's you who scratch me under the car!" ”

The white-faced imp's thumb was shortened, so it's no wonder that it only scratched four marks on my ankle.

Hiss...... Fingers shortened?

I suddenly remembered Lao He and the third child in the photo, and the thumbs of these two people are also shorter than ordinary people, can you say......

Before I could think about it, Lao Chen suddenly said to me in a deep voice:

"Go back, when you go back, go find Du Hanzhong."

"Looking for Du Han Zhong?" It seems that this is the second time that someone has asked me to go to Du Hanzhong.

Juanzi conveyed two things to me for Bai Mengdie, one of which was: If someone wants to kill me, let me go to Boss Du.

I still have a lot of questions in my heart to ask, but Lao Chen waved his hand impatiently: "I should go, this place is about to collapse, if you don't leave, do you want to go with me?" ”

As he spoke, the ground began to tremble slightly.

I was startled, pulled my big pair and ran out.

ran to the door, turned around, and saw Lao Chen leading the little ghost into the coffin......

The sky was bright, and the sun that had not been seen for a long time finally appeared.

Dashuang looked at half of the collapsed building and the large stone monument that sank into two-thirds of the ground, and asked me a little abruptly:

"Old man...... Just bury yourself like that? ”

I looked at the exposed stele and asked, "When did you learn to carve?" ”

Dashuang scratched his head, pointed to the stone tablet and said:

"My dad was a stonemason, but I don't know much. But I traced the pattern on the stele with my fingers...... That's it. ”

I nodded, not skeptical of his words.

Most of the ancient craftsmen's skills are very wonderful, and since he has a background in stonemasonry, when he traces the patterns on the stone tablet, most of them have mastered some concepts of form and god that cannot be explained in words. It is not surprising that Lao Chen's class became a stele engraver.

Before leaving Chen Pigou, Dashuang and I went to the house where we met Zhou Scar.

There, we met an elderly couple.

After asking, they learned that a man with a scar on the corner of his mouth had given them a sum of money, saying that he was going to rent their house for a few days. On the day that Dashuang and I met Zhou Scar, the old couple was 'chic' in the county......

On the way back, Dashuang asked me, what is Lu?

I said that the drought is a legendary monster that can cause drought, and its earliest source can be traced back to a zombie that was differentiated from a calf in ancient times.

Later, the zombie drought was destroyed, and his form and spirit flew to various places.

Some buried young children will not be gone, and if they come into contact with the drought-shaped gods, they will become another kind of existence that can dry up the land.

The legend about the drought was told to me by a blind man. When I heard him, I was still unimpressed. Now it seems that it is not his invention or groundless.

The green-haired monster I saw in the tank turned out to be the Drought God. In the tangerine peel ditch, there is really the existence of a fish.

In this way, at least one thing is proven.

That is, there is at least one thing true about the legend of the three hurdles of Chenpigou, that is, the water and fire hurdles.

……

On the second day after returning to Pinggu, as soon as I arrived at the bureau, I was called into the office by Gao Zhan.

Gao Zhan gave me a cigarette, lit one himself, took a deep breath and said:

"I've checked in the past few days, but I haven't found any trace of Xu Jie."

I lit a cigarette and took a puff and nodded silently.

"One more thing."

Gao Zhan rubbed his head vigorously, looked at me with a knotted bum, and said, "I carefully checked the information of your landlord again and found a ...... A very, very interesting thing. ”

"What?" I was stunned.

"I found out through a colleague in Chen Jinsheng's hometown that he had re-registered his household registration in '72."

Gao Zhan said as he picked up a file bag and handed it to me: "You take a look first." ”

I took it, took out the information inside, and was stunned after just one look.

On the registered black and white photo, it is Lao Chen.

In the photo, he looks exactly the same as the old Chen in my impression.

"The photo was taken in '72, and his appearance hasn't changed much. At that time, although the household registration system was not very regular, I still found some information about him before the change of registration. ”

Gao Zhan's eyes blinked twice, and he suddenly lowered his voice:

"In '72, he changed his age from seventy-four to fifty!"

My body shook, my hands trembled, and the file fell on the table.

Gao Zhan nodded at me: "If that's the case, he's at least one hundred and twenty years old this year." ”

Suddenly, I unconsciously remembered the beetle that flew out of Lao Chen's mouth when I was in the stone factory.

Zombie worms? What does that mean......

When I came back to my senses and thought of something, I asked Gao Zhan, could I find out Du Hanzhong's contact information?

Gao Zhan looked at me puzzled and asked me what I was looking for him.

I couldn't explain it, I just said that I needed to meet with him. It's just that people are big bosses after all, and it's not so easy to see.

Gao Zhan stared at me for a while, and suddenly smiled, "It's not easy for others to see Boss Du, but it's not difficult for us." We're the police. ”

He made two phone calls, and then said to me that it just so happened that Boss Du had been in Pinggu for the past two days, and he could go to him with me now.

When I got out of the police station, I asked him to drive to the ghost building first.

When I arrived at the ghost building, the door was closed, and no one responded to the knock.

"Where's the old janitor?" Gao Zhan muttered.

I said, "Go straight to Du Hanzhong." ”

What I didn't expect was that Du Hanzhong also lived on Nanguan Street in Pinggu, Wang Xizhen lived on the street, and he lived in the middle of Nanguan Street.

Compared with Wang Xizhen's 'mansion' in Pinggu, Du Hanzhong's house is more civilian.

Ring the doorbell, and the person who opened the door was actually Du Hanzhong himself.

He was dressed like an ordinary old man, and he was carrying a watering kettle in his hand, and he didn't look like a big boss at all.

Du Hanzhong glanced at Gao Zhan, his eyes fell on my face, and he stared at me for a while before he said slowly, "Come in." ”

When he entered the courtyard, he walked to the flower stand in the corner of the wall, and asked without looking back while watering the flowers:

"Two officers, what's the matter with me?"

When I saw the famous Boss Du himself, I didn't know how to speak for a while. Bai Mengdie and Lao Chen just asked me to come to him, but they didn't say what they were looking for him.

Thinking of what Bai Mengdie asked Juanzi to convey, I gritted my teeth and said:

"Someone is going to kill me!"

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Gao Zhan choked on saliva and coughed, squinting at me in disbelief.

Du Hanzhong's movements slammed, and his shoulders twitched obviously.

After a while, he still didn't look back, but asked in a deep voice, "Who wants to kill you?" ”

Gao Zhan and I were stunned.

Although his tone sounded flat, Gao Zhan and I could feel that his words were clearly squeezed out between his teeth.

I hesitated for a moment and said, "A man with a scar on the corner of his mouth, and the janitor of the ghost building!" ”