Reasoning Notes

Chapter 54 Reasoning Notes 2: The Murder of the Fox Demon (13)
"That little worker is quite capable." I boasted.

Lao Zhang nodded: "Yes. Originally, I didn't intend to invite anyone, and the business here is not so busy. However, An Xiaobao said that he didn't want wages, so I let him stay. Come down and help."

"No wages?"

If this kind of person is not insane, he has other intentions.Sure enough, under my repeated inquiries, Lao Zhang told me that this boy named An Xiaobao came to Daicao Village only a month ago.He came here at exactly the same time as the Hooded Man, and lived in the same hotel.

I asked again: "The boy who fainted also came a month ago?"

"Yes." Lao Zhang was also surprised. "His name is Qi Mu. He said he collected folk tales and legends for a magazine. He heard the news about the fox demon and came to have a look."

I was silent.It seems that the resurrection of the fox demon has attracted many people of unknown origin.In an instant, I felt that everyone around me might be the murderer, and that he or she was hiding among us.

"Boss, that person is awake." An Xiaobao said as he came out of the room.

"Oh. Is he all right?"

"It's all right. Look, isn't he coming out?"

The boy named Qi Mu also came out afterward.He recovered quickly, his eyes were piercing, and he knew that he was only slightly injured just now, and he pretended to pass out.

"Lord Wu Zun, wait for me!" Xia Zaoan chased after the handsome guy like a bug, with a coquettish and flattering smile all over her face.

"Please, I'm not some kind of Lord Wu Zun!" Qi Mu was a little helpless by Xia Zao'an, "I'm really sorry just now, I didn't mean it..."

"Oh, it doesn't matter if you mean it."

Qi Mu's expression was a little twisted.I guess he must be trying to hit the wall now.

"Oh! I just know it!" Cheng Meini exclaimed triumphantly as if she had discovered something, "You and Mi Kaka are not dating, You are a liar!"

"This...haha, I don't understand English." Xia Zaoan immediately pretended to be "I'm so stupid and naive".

"You liar!" Cheng Meini rolled her eyes, then grabbed my arm nervously, as if someone would snatch me away.

God, send someone to rescue me, or kill me.

I decided to change the subject, so I said loudly to Lao Zhang: "Uncle Zhang, use your phone to call the police! Someone died just now!"

This trick really worked, and everyone's attention returned to this problem.

"Dead? Who is it?" Qi Mu asked curiously.

He was obviously not at the waterwheel just now, and An Xiaobao also showed an expression of ignorance.After I explained the matter clearly, the two boys opened their eyes wide in surprise.

"Ah? It's the same as that time!" They said in unison.

I remembered that Lao Zhang had said this before, so I asked, "That time, did you mean the case four years ago?"

"Yeah." Lao Zhang nodded, "At that time, one of the deceased had his eyes gouged out. Others had his nose and ears gouged out... In short..." He was recalling that horrible incident, his voice sounded like a It came out of his throat, trembling a little, and then he stopped talking.

"But, why did the murderer goug out the eyes, nose, and ears of the deceased... Is that man a pervert?"

"No, no." Qi Mu took up the conversation and explained to me, "The way those people died is the same as the legend of the fox demon. It is said that the resurrection of the fox demon must..." He narrated the long-standing song Tell me the ballad.

I immediately understood that the murderer deliberately arranged the death of the deceased to be exactly the same as the song.The same may be true of Huang Mingzhu's body this time. Could it be that there will be another victim, and it is more likely that the facial features will be cut off?

"An Xiaobao, hurry up and call the police." Old Zhang ordered.An Xiaobao quickly turned around and walked towards the table where the phone was placed.But he soon turned back again.

"Can't get through!"

"What? Impossible, I was able to fight this morning!"

"But, I just can't get through now, there is no signal at all." An Xiaobao hesitated for a moment, and expressed his worry, "Could it be that the phone line was cut by the murderer?"

"No way?" Lao Zhang walked over with a worried face, picked up the phone, dialed it a few times, and then hung up disappointed, "I really can't make the call."

Obviously, the murderer cut the telephone line on purpose.In this small mountain village with no mobile phone signal, if we want to contact the outside world, we have to go through the road we just entered the village.That was the only way, and it took nearly two hours to get to the nearest police station from Daicao Village.

Lao Zhang immediately said to An Xiaobao: "Xiaobao, go to the police quickly, ride my bicycle, and go to the police station in Qilipo as fast as you can!"

"Well, good!" An Xiaobao took the bicycle key, turned around and rushed a few steps.Qi Mu suddenly picked up a hatchet from the door: "Take this too!"

"Ah?" An Xiaobao widened his eyes in astonishment, but Qi Mu reminded him kindly: "Take self-defense. If the murderer intentionally cuts the phone line, then he might lie down on the road and attack the people who came out of the village to call the police. "

I didn't expect him to be so thoughtful, and I was a little impressed by him.An Xiaobao thought for a while, took the hatchet, ran out the door, got on a broken bicycle and left quickly.

As a result, An Xiaobao went away for a long time and never came back.As we later learned, he nearly died on the way back.

When we were in Daicao Village, two people came to the police station in Qilipo together.Several officers in the office had gone out to handle errands, and only the head of the office, Police Officer Li, was left leisurely listening to the radio drama.

The sunlight outside was too strong, and the cicadas singing in the woods poured into the house in waves.The fan whirred to dissipate the heat in the room.There were footsteps outside the door, and just as Officer Li raised his head, two figures appeared in his sight.The visitors were a man and a woman. The man seemed to have seen it somewhere.

"Hey, Brother Li!" The smart-looking man who was over fifty years old greeted him cheerfully.

"You are……"

"Oh, how the nobleman forgets so much! Didn't I cooperate with you on the case in Daicao Village four years ago? I'm Meng Jin."

"Ah!" Officer Li slapped his head, stood up quickly, and warmly held Meng Jin's hand, "Brother Meng, long time no see! Why are you so free to visit me?"

"There's something wrong. I passed by here, so I stopped by to see you. By the way, this is Doctor Ma. She was the forensic officer in that case four years ago. You should remember her too."

"Of course I remember. Beauty, I can never forget! Hahaha!"

Officer Li laughed unscrupulously, and Doctor Ma smiled back, and then Officer Li asked, "By the way, why did you two come together? Is there another case?"

"It's not a case." Meng Jin said, "We want to see the revived fox demon in Daicao Village. I heard that she is one of the deceased who died four years ago."

Officer Li said in a relaxed tone: "Why, you believe it too? This is just a trick of the villagers of Daicao Village."

"Oh? Why do you say that?"

"Because there seems to be a large real estate company that has taken a fancy to the hot spring resources in Daicao Village and plans to develop it into a resort, so I think this may be a hype method by those people. They deliberately announced the resurrection of the fox demon to the outside world, but in fact they did it for free. The resort advertises."

"Is that true?" Doctor Ma questioned, "As far as I know, that fox demon looks exactly like the deceased. If it's just a hype, it would take too much effort."

"Really? I haven't heard of this." Officer Li thought for a while, "However, it is impossible for a dead person to be resurrected anyway. Besides, wasn't Doctor Ma the forensic test done by you yourself? Are you sure that person died?"

"I'm sure." Doctor Ma replied in an affirmative tone.

"This means that the fox demon in Daicao Village is a fake." Officer Li said with a smile. At this time, he heard that there seemed to be another visitor outside the door.

I saw a boy riding a bicycle quickly, shouting loudly: "Police, police, dead... Dead! Dead!"

"What did you say?" Officer Li asked as he walked out.

Meng Jin made eye contact with Doctor Ma and followed him out.

The boy who came to call the police was An Xiaobao, a small worker at the Straw Village Hotel.He was in a hurry, with one hand busy wiping off the sweat from his brow, and the other holding a sharp hatchet.For a moment, Meng Jin and the others thought that the boy had surrendered himself after killing someone.After he had enough breath, he swallowed and explained in detail the murder that happened in Caocao Village.

His narrative made all three present jump up excitedly.

"Sure enough, something happened." Doctor Ma realized that what he was worried about had become a reality.

Meng Jin couldn't wait to grab Officer Li's arm: "Brother Li, let's go! Where's your police car?"

"The men went out to do errands and drove away. There are only two bicycles left here."

"Then let's go." The Doctor didn't wait for them, and jumped onto the back seat of An Xiaobao's bicycle first, patted An Xiaobao on the shoulder and urged, "Go, go!"

"Wait for us!" Two criminal policemen followed An Xiaobao on the same worn-out bicycles.

On the way to the straw village, it suddenly rained cats and dogs.It rained so hard that the four of them had to take shelter from the rain for half an hour at a farmhouse by the side of the road.They waited for the rain to subside before continuing on their way.

Along the way, the sky was still gloomy, with dark clouds covering the surrounding mountains, leaving only a gray outline of the verdant forests, showing dark and ominous colors everywhere.

(End of this chapter)