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Chapter 99 Natural Enemies
Li Tianque walked on the desolate street, and the quaint buildings gave off bursts of decay, which made him feel a sense of desolation for no reason.

Li Tianque originally wanted to go back to the police station to rest, but at this moment, the doubts in his heart became more and more vigorous, far surpassing his physical exhaustion.

Li Tianque stopped and continued to think about the case.

Among the four suspects currently involved in the case, Bai Ruixue and Professor Lu are the most suspected, but both of them refused to accept further investigation under the pretext of scientific research.

No valuable information was obtained during the interrogation process, and it has reached a deadlock.

Therefore, if you want to crack the current mystery, you must start the investigation from another key figure.

This person is naturally the old patriarch Lodi Chaolu.

Now that Ma Baoguo has put down the pick, Li Tianque can only find someone else to help lead the way if he wants to find the old patriarch this time.

So, Li Tianque returned to the hotel.

The proprietress has already locked the doors of the hotel backwards.

After being woken up again by Li Tianque, the other party cursed and said some incomprehensible Kang language, angrily pushed open the partition in front of the counter, and buried his head in the bed.

Li Tianque ignored her and went up the stairs. Tudeng Nima raised her head wearily and looked at Li Tianque with some doubts.

"Why are you back again?"

Li Tianque didn't answer, and saw Liang Zhichao coming out of the laboratory.

Liang Zhichao was wiping the sweat from his forehead, as if he had just cleaned up for Professor Lu and was about to go back to his room.

"Liang Zhichao! Wait a minute!" Li Tianque shouted at him.

Liang Zhichao was planning to go back to his room to sleep, but when Li Tianque stopped him, he froze for a moment, and asked with a strange expression:

"Officer, are you looking for me... Is there anything else?"

"Well, I want you to do me a favor!" Li Tianque said.

Liang Zhichao didn't seem to be sleepy either, so he asked tentatively:
"Uh, I don't know what it is?"

"I want you to show me the way, can you take me to the old patriarch's house now?" Li Tianque asked.

"Okay, anyway, I can't sleep now." Liang Zhichao agreed very readily.

So, the two were about to go downstairs, but they were stopped by Tudeng Nima, who said to Li Tianque:

"Brother, don't embarrass me. The boss has just said, let me stay here and continue to watch. None of the four of them can go out now."

Li Tianque smiled and said:

"Brother, he asked you to stay here because he was worried about the safety of these four people. Then do you think, judging from the strength of the two of us, is it safer for Liang Zhichao to follow me, or stay here?"

"This..." Tudeng Nima scratched his head, "Then I'd better call the boss!"

Li Tianque suddenly pressed Tudeng Nima's cell phone, Ma Baoguo was angry now, and he was already playing the game of rats, so it was impossible for Tudeng Nima to let him go.

"You can call if you want, but wait until we leave here. If the accident happens to me, you can say that we forced our way there!" Li Tianque said, dragging Liang Zhichao out of the hotel.

Tudeng Nima didn't react too much, and just about to stop him, Li Tianque had already dragged Liang Zhichao down the stairs.

The two walked to the street, the moon was bright and the stars were thin, and the streets and alleys became desolate again.
At this point in time, most of the residents were already asleep, and the whole city seemed to have fallen into silence, with no lights in sight.

It is difficult to hear the sound of human activities around, but occasionally you can hear some insects similar to crickets.

In this situation, Li Tianque recalled what happened the night he first arrived in the ancient city.

Although the night in the ancient city is quiet and there are almost no people, it is also possible that the slightest noise may alarm the residents.

When Lin Ya was killed that night, the murderer chose to commit the crime in the street, completely ignoring the possibility of being discovered. Either the murderer was too courageous, or the incident happened suddenly.

Li Tianque is more inclined to the latter.

Liang Zhichao walked in the front and led the way, and kept silent all the time. This was not because of his deep personality, but because such a night seemed to make him fall into bad memories.

In the end, Li Tianque was the first to break the silence and asked a question that Liang Zhichao might be interested in:

"Did you see those velvet tiger beetles in Professor Lu's laboratory just now?"

"I see, Professor Lu said that you caught it."

"Have you seen this weird insect before?"

"I haven't seen it, but the main research direction of our scientific research team is Tibetan insects. This velvet tiger beetle is also one of the unique insects in the Siweiwei River Basin. I have some understanding." Liang Zhichao said absent-mindedly.

"Oh, this kind of insect should not be common."

"Yes, it's not common. This kind of insect is huge, known as the 'insect emperor', and has few natural enemies in nature.

Even those insectivorous birds have no advantage at all when facing them, and may even be counter-killed.and……

According to some local legends, when the insects appear in groups, they will even actively attack humans and animals. "

"Oh?" Li Tianque was a little surprised, and asked:

"Since this kind of insect is so powerful and has no natural enemies, it should have a huge number. Why is it so rare?"

Liang Zhichao thought for a while, the expression on his face suddenly seemed a little dazed, he opened his mouth, hesitated for a moment before speaking:
"Although the velvet tiger beetles have no natural enemies, in fact they are very picky eaters. Their main food is a kind of insect called Hessia chinensis, and they will only hunt for food as a last resort. humans and animals.

However, this kind of black-spotted beetle likes to live in the wet sand on the river bank, and its living habits are somewhat similar to ants.They have very high requirements on the living environment, and their own life cycle is relatively short.

They wake up from hibernation around May, and begin to breed offspring in mid-July in summer. The whole process only takes 5-7 days, and they will enter hibernation in September.

Because they hibernate in extremely deep rock formations, and the hibernation time is too long, often during this time, the velvet tiger beetle will face the problem of food shortage.

So... the velvet tiger beetle is the same as the black cord beetle, they are very rare, and they often live together. "

"Heisel-winged insect..." Li Tianque muttered to himself, the name of this insect seemed to be familiar, "By the way, the main target of your research this time should be this kind of insect, right?"

"That's right, but our scientific research team has been searching in the Siweiwei River Basin for a month and has not found any clues.

This time I heard that there was a strange incident of black shadows eating people by the river in Urkoluo Township, so I rushed here specially, hoping to find the velvet tiger beetle, and look for the black cord beetle. "Liang Zhichao said.

Li Tianque immediately realized a contradictory question, and couldn't help asking:
"No, I have already met the patriarch of the Eagle Department. He said that your scientific research team taught the patriarch how to defeat the downy tiger and then left. Why did you leave in such a hurry, and why didn't you catch the downy tiger yourself? ?”

Hearing this question, Liang Zhichao was not too surprised.

"Well, it's actually nothing, because we have already discovered the nest of the black-socked beetle in advance, and brought back some experimental samples.

Professor Lu Zuzhi is very enthusiastic about insect research. At that time, we came back early because we couldn't wait to conduct experiments. "

"So that's the case. No wonder Professor Lu kept himself trapped in his room for research that night. But I still can't understand, since he has already made such an important discovery, why did he study alone without asking you for help?"

"This... this may have something to do with Professor Lu's personal personality. Compared with other professors who like to order their students to help, Professor Lu likes to do everything by himself...but...

It's really weird this time, and I don't know why.But after Professor Lu came back from the river, he locked himself in the room and did not allow any of us to enter.Er..." Liang Zhichao said.

"what happened?"

"At the beginning, Lin Ya went in for a while to help Professor Lu prepare the medicine. I stayed there for about an hour, and everyone still complained about it.

Especially Xiaoxue, she has always been very interested in the study of the black-striped winged insect, but she was excluded from the research without even seeing the insect. Maybe it would be uncomfortable for anyone. "Liang Zhichao said.

Li Tianque hummed, feeling a little more suspicious of Bai Ruixue.

But since Liang Zhichao took the initiative to mention Lin Ya, Li Tianque immediately took advantage of the slope and asked:
"By the way, when Lin Ya chatted with you on WeChat that night, did you notice anything unusual? Or was there any abnormal conversation during the chat?"

"An abnormal conversation? Haven't you already read our chat records?" Liang Zhichao asked back.

"No, what I mean is that two people who often chat on WeChat should already be familiar with each other's way of speaking, or based on the feeling of chatting, they can probably tell whether the other party is chatting with themselves." Li Tianque explained road.

"Of course, Lin Ya has a characteristic, that is, she can type very fast. Her mobile phone uses the pinyin nine-key input method, but it is faster than Wubi, and she can type blindly. Once in your pocket, you can also quietly send a WeChat message. She replied very quickly that night, it must be her, and ordinary people can't do it." Liang Zhichao said with certainty.

Hearing what Liang Zhichao said, Li Tianque knew it.

It seems that Lin Ya must have been in danger that night, so she sent a WeChat message to Liang Zhichao for help.

but……

What does the "old patriarch" in this WeChat content mean?

Did he ask the old patriarch for help, or was the murderer related to the old patriarch, or even the old patriarch?

(End of this chapter)