dragon hunter

Chapter 351 The Lost Man
When I woke up the next day, I was drenched in sweat, and my mind was full of the nightmare I had last night.

I sat up on my hands, changed out of my soaked pajamas, and was in a daze, thinking about the meaning of the scene in my dream.

With the improvement of my strength, the prediction of a certain segment in the future has become more and more accurate.

"The nightmare last night, could it be that the corpse plague will spread on a large scale?" I sat there thinking.

Some details in the dream have been blurred, but there is one scene that left a deep impression on me. It was a villa with a strange shape, the style was similar to the European Middle Ages, and it looked a little gloomy.

I thought about it, picked up my phone, and called Ghost Detective Xu.

"Old Xu, near our county seat, is there such a villa with a style similar to a European castle?" I asked hesitantly.

Ghost Detective Xu thought about it on the phone, and said with some uncertainty that this kind of villa is very expensive to build. If he has the financial resources to build that kind of villa, he probably would not choose to live near a small county town.

"Then ask your friends in the circle to help you pay attention." I reminded and hung up the phone.

As soon as I had breakfast, Ghost Detective Xu called. I wondered in my heart, could it be that there was a result so quickly?
On the phone, Ghost Detective Xu didn't talk about the villa, but something happened to Lao Liu.

"Where is Lao Liu now, let's go and see." I said hurriedly.

"Just wait at the door of your house. I'll drive over to pick you up." Ghost Detective Xu hung up the phone.

I just went back to the store to get some things, and when I was about to lock the door, Ghost Detective Xu appeared by the side of the road in that Popsang.

"Do you know what trouble Lao Liu is in?" I opened the passenger door and got in.

"It seems that one of his team members has lost contact." Ghost Detective Xu started the car.

"Where did it happen?" I asked, frowning.

"I heard from Lao Liu that the team member he lost contact with was staying near the ghost doctor's clinic." Ghost detective Xu said while holding the steering wheel.

I think of the ghost doctor with the goatee. The initial spread of the plague started near his clinic.

But what I can't figure out is that the goatee ghost doctor is the first and only unlucky ghost to die of corpse plague.

"That ghost doctor with the goatee really contracted corpse plague and died, have you confirmed it?" I thought of all kinds of secret techniques in the medical school, among which there were people who faked death.

"He has no relatives and no reason, so he was transported to be cremated on the same day, and a colleague of Old Liu personally went to deal with it." Ghost Detective Xu replied.

I recalled the goatee's oily face, and I still couldn't believe it. He was dead. If the ghost detective Xu didn't mention it, I wouldn't even know it.

The small clinic is located on the east side of the old city. The two areas are adjacent to each other. A little further away is the crematorium.

"The corpse plague infected people sent to the hospital last time were basically residents of this area. Old Liu Yizhen is investigating the reason." The ghost detective slowly slowed down the car.

Through the window of the car, I looked at the old streets around me, wondering if the clone of the ancient corpse was hidden here.

Old Liu stood at the door of the small clinic with an anxious expression on his face. He had not been going well recently, and his hair was about to turn white.

Ghost Detective Xu parked his car on the side of the road, opened the door and walked out, asking, "Old Liu, I can't tell you on the phone, what's going on?"

Beside Lao Liu, there was a young man standing. I saw him in the hospital last time. He was very capable.

Hearing Ghost Detective Xu's questioning, Old Liu pointed to the young man beside him, and said, "Xiao Li was also here at the time, let him talk about it, this matter is a bit evil."

I saw that there were a few more wrinkles on Lao Liu's forehead, and I felt a little pity for him. This series of things happened one after another. For a person with poor ability to withstand stress, he would have collapsed long ago.

"The missing person is Xiao He. I was in charge of this area with him at the time." The young guy standing next to Lao Liu began to talk slowly.

"It was originally a group of four, but you said that the villa and the crematorium should also be watched. If the staff is divided, there will only be two people left watching this side." Old Liu added from the side.

"Xiao He's disappearance is quite strange. We were watching in the rented house over there. I went to the bathroom, and when I came back, I found that Xiao He was gone." The young man said, pointing to the old building opposite.

"Have you ever called his cell phone?" I didn't miss any details.

"I didn't call at that time. I thought he was out on something. After waiting for more than an hour, I still didn't see him. I felt something was wrong, so I called his cell phone." Xiao Li said in a tone of reminiscence.

"No one answered the phone?" I guessed.

"No, someone picked it up. It's not Xiao He's voice over there, and he doesn't speak, just smiles eeriely." Xiao Li seemed to think of something terrible, and the muscles on his face trembled.

"Can you locate Xiao He's cell phone?" I asked Lao Liu sideways.

"No, his phone was turned off after removing the battery." Lao Liu shook his head.

I frowned slightly. It was indeed a bit strange that a good and living person disappeared under the nose of my companion.

"You stayed here, did you find anything special?" I pondered for a while and asked Xiao Li with a side face.

"Something special?" Xiao Li lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head, hesitating, "Does a very strange old woman count?"

"How strange?" My eyes lit up and I asked with interest.

"She passes by here several times a day, and every time she passes by, she sprinkles some millet on the ground, cooing in her mouth, just like feeding a chicken." Xiao Li looked at his captain, Old Liu, hesitantly Say.

"The old man doesn't have mental problems, right?" Old Liu analyzed.

When I heard Xiao Li's narration, a chill ran up my back, that old woman was not crazy, the other party's behavior like feeding chickens was actually recruiting little ghosts.

"Could it be a foster witch?" I thought to myself.

Raising ghosts is not a rare thing in the circle of eating yin rice. If the other party has nothing to do with the corpse plague, I don't want to cause extra trouble at this critical moment.

"By the way, I remembered. Before I went to the toilet, I heard Xiao He muttering there, saying that he planned to ask the old woman what she was doing. When I came back, he disappeared." Xiao Li turned his face in horror, his tone said hastily.

My heart sank, no matter whether the old woman was related to the ancient corpse or not, at least she couldn't get rid of Xiao He's disappearance.

"Then what are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and ask around, if anyone knows that old woman." Seeing Xiao Li in a daze, Lao Liu gave him a look.

Xiao Li trembled and ran away, going door to door asking if anyone knew that strange old woman.

"It's strange, Xiao He's fighting skills rank first in the team, what can an old woman do to him?" Old Liu muttered alone.

"Did you forget that the old criminal policeman like you can be knocked down with a sound of the gong?" I turned to Lao Liu and said.

Lao Liu recalled the last experience, with lingering fear on his face, he was stunned for a while, and then sighed, "Since I met you, I feel that I am powerless about many things."

"Don't think too much, our circle has its own set of rules, and we don't have much interaction with ordinary people." I comforted the other party.

Strictly speaking, the four sects of witchcraft, medicine, physiognomy, and blessing have their own methods, but on weekdays, we also live like ordinary people. Unless we need to exorcise demons and avoid evil, we generally don't use secret arts indiscriminately.

Xiao Li ran out to inquire around, and after a while, came back out of breath, "Finally, I got information about the old woman. She has no children and lives beside the crematorium. People around here think she is A madman."

When I heard the word "crematorium", my eyelids twitched. The place was a bit weird. Whether it was the perverted beautician who had lost his soul or the corpse that disappeared inexplicably, I was instinctively wary of that place.

"Go, you lead the way ahead, let's go and have a look." Old Liu ordered Xiao Li.

A group of us walked towards the crematorium without driving, because if we walked, we might be able to find a clue on the road.

My eyesight is better, and I found some millet scattered on both sides of the road, with some black air lingering on it.

Those grains that fell on the ground were processed by secret methods, and the black air lingering on them was the little ghosts that were attracted to them.

I noticed a detail, those millets are sprinkled in a shady and humid place, which can avoid direct sunlight.

There are many uses of the imp. If I guessed correctly, the old woman would come to collect the grains at 03:30 at night. Only at that time, the imp possessed by the grains would not escape.

From here to the area of ​​the crematorium, there is a nearby path, and it happens that Xiao Li is a local, knows that path, and took us through the alley.

As I was walking, I fixed my eyes and was attracted by a building on the side of the road. It was a European-style building, and it was almost the same as the gloomy house in my dream.

"Where is that place over there?" I seldom come here, and asked Xiao Li sideways.

"It's an old church, but it's been abandoned." Xiao Li glanced at the building.

I felt lucky in my heart. I thought the building I dreamed of was a European-style villa, but I never thought of it above the church. If I didn’t happen to see it, I don’t know how long I would have to look for it.

"This church is somewhat similar to the European-style villa you asked me to inquire about." Ghost Detective Xu said aside.

"It's this church, there's no need to look for a villa anymore." I stared at the church and said in a deep voice.

"What are you talking about? Is there any problem with this deserted church?" Old Liu walked in the front and asked curiously.

"I don't know either." I smiled bitterly, the picture in the dream was fragmented, who knows what the church that appeared represents.

Others think that a physiognomist can predict the future, but who knows, it's not that he has reached the level of a master, and even if he has a premonition occasionally, it's just a thread out of a mess.

I took a serious look at the church and paid attention to it secretly, but it is important to find Xiao He who is missing right now. Things about the church need to be slowed down first.

(End of this chapter)