The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 138: Pointed Red Lips (2)

Ji Mingmei and I stood not far from him, so we could clearly see the blood flowing from his ears, nose and mouth, the blood was twisted and twisted, like a bloody bug struggling to crawl out, it was shocking.Seeing this, Shopkeeper Qi and the others hurried to catch up.

Mrs. Qi was standing beside us, seeing that Lao Yan was "shot" to death by herself, she was also a little silly in fright, with a look of horror on her face.Ji Mingmei shivered, but quickly reached out to hold Madam Qi's hands, and said softly, "You didn't beat him to death."

Mrs. Qi turned her head to look at her blankly, and murmured: "It's not me...it's not me..."

She was so frightened that she lost her mind, so she spoke incoherently.Hearing this, Ji Mingmei clenched her hand, nodded in affirmation and said, "It's not you."

In broad daylight, someone died in the Qi family, and it was still under our noses. Even if the shopkeeper Qi was right in front of our eyes at this time, we couldn't ask for anything.Shopkeeper Qi checked Lao Yan's situation at this time, and hurriedly said to behind him: "Please invite the doctor, what are you doing here in a daze?"

The three people behind him were still dazed, they all came back to their senses after being yelled at by him, and hurried out of the yard to invite the doctor.They all left, and shopkeeper Qi was taken aback for another moment. After a while, he stamped his feet and said: "These people are stupid. It's just a matter of going to invite the doctor alone. Why did all three go? This... how can I do it alone?" He moved into the house?"

"Since the cause of Mr. Yan's death has not been found out, it's better not to move the body for now, so as not to damage the scene and make it difficult for the police to investigate when they come." I said aloud.

Shopkeeper Qi noticed me at this moment, hesitated for a moment and asked, "This is..."

"He's a city watcher, and he said...he wants to ask you something." Mrs. Qi regained her composure and answered for me.

"What's the matter?" Shopkeeper Qi asked in a surprised tone.

Since he had already asked, I had no choice but to respond: "Over the years, Shopkeeper Qi has been going to a place called Wenling Town every year. What I want to inquire is, who entrusted Shopkeeper Qi to go there?"

"Wenling Town?" Shopkeeper Qi asked strangely, "Where is it, I haven't been there before."

At that time in Tantou Town, the boatman mentioned four people who participated in the Wenling landslide, and one of them belonged to the Yanzhi shop of the Qi family, but the boatman did not say the name of that person.Now that shopkeeper Qi doesn't admit it, we naturally have nothing to do, but since the Qi family has lost his life, he can't stop the police from investigating the case.

Although Bu Ying looks like a gangster, he is a policeman to the letter.After we left Heshang Town, we originally came towards Yanzhi Town together, but after entering the local county, Bu Ying went to the county to find out the situation, first to find out the background of Yanzhi Town and the Qi family, so this Shi did not come to Rouge Town with us.

As long as Bu Ying comes, we can follow him to investigate the Qi family, and then we can check things related to the Wenling landslide by the way.But right now we are just visitors. After the shopkeeper Qi replied to me, he said that something big happened to the Qi family, and he might be a little hectic, so forgive him for not being able to entertain us.

Our teacher came out of no name, so naturally it was not easy to force us to stay, so we left.At this time, the guys in the front shop probably also knew that something happened in the backyard, so they all rushed to the yard.Madam Qi called the guy from before to send us out, we thanked her, but Madam Qi called us again when we got to the courtyard gate.

We stopped and turned to look at her. She walked quickly to Ji Mingmei, stuffed the box of rouge into her hand, forced a smile, and said, "Something happened to the Qi family, so I have no time to take care of other things. If the two of you don't leave in a hurry, Go, please wait in the town, and come back after the Qi family has finished handling the matter at hand, and the Qi family will naturally know what to inquire about at that time."

Ji Mingmei took the rouge box, thanked her and left Qi's house with me.The guy sent us to the door of the Rouge shop, and gave us directions to the hotel in the town, and let us go to the lodging by ourselves.We strolled down the street, and when we were some distance away from Qi's rouge shop, Ji Mingmei suddenly said, "Mrs. Qi was just pretending to be afraid."

"Huh?" I was taken aback, "How can I see that?"

"People who are afraid of nervousness usually have cold hands and feet and tense body. But when I held her hand just now, I found that her hand was not only warm and dry, but also very stable. In short, it doesn't look like a person who is nervous and scared. .”

"You held her hand just now, just to make sure that she is not pretending to be afraid?" I suddenly realized, and I respected her.The carefulness and meticulousness of the girl's family are indeed incomparable to me.

"What are you talking about?" Ji Mingmei said with watery eyes, "She is so considerate, why do you think so badly of her! I really wanted to comfort her, but only after holding her hand did I realize that of these."

"Oh," I was stunned again, not sure if what she said was true or not, "The shopkeeper Yan was shot dead by her feint. It is difficult for ordinary people not to panic when encountering such a thing. If she neither Nervous and not afraid, it can only show one thing - she knows that her false shot can kill people. In other words, killing people is her goal!"

"That's right." Ji Mingmei also nodded and said, "But the question is, how did this false shot kill someone?"

I carefully recalled the scene just now, and found that during the time we saw Lao Yan, no one had any contact with him.In other words, if Lao Yan's death was a homicide, then the murderer did it without touching him at all, which is simply amazing.

We each frowned, unable to figure out the key to this, so we had no choice but to keep walking forward.After a while, Ji Mingmei suddenly called me in a trembling voice, "Hello!"

"Huh?" I turned to look at her with doubts in my eyes.

Ji Mingmei swallowed her saliva, seemed to be extremely nervous, and stretched out a hand towards me, beckoning me to hold it.Although I was a little embarrassed, seeing that she was not quite right, I also reached out and held her hand.Ji Mingmei's hands were cold, her palms were slightly sweaty, and she was still shaking at the same time.

She was terribly frightened.I was stunned, she was still acting coquettishly to me just now, why did she suddenly change her appearance, as if she had seen a ghost?
"What's wrong?" Seeing that the situation was wrong, I hurriedly squeezed her hand, signaling her not to be afraid.

Ji Mingmei almost shrank into a ball, her eyes shone with horror, and said to me in a trembling voice: "Didn't you notice? This is not the street we came from, nor is it Rouge Town!"

I didn't understand for a while, Qi's family is obviously in Yanzhi Town, and we just came out of Qi's house, how could we go to the wrong place?Just as Ji Mingmei finished that sentence, I looked over her shoulder and looked behind her.With just this one glance, the whole body suddenly became cold, and the back of the spine felt chills.

Ji Mingmei is right, this is indeed not the street we came to, nor is it Yanzhi Town.Because the whole street is obviously different from when we came, it is extremely dilapidated, and some houses even have their roofs collapsed.There are ruins everywhere on the street, where is the bustling and noisy street when we walked by just now!

There is a town stele beside the street, which is dilapidated, and the words "Caoxi Town" can be vaguely seen written on it.

Therefore, when we came, we did pass through the streets of Yanzhi Town and went to Qijia Yanzhi Shop.But after leaving Qi's house, Yanzhi Town suddenly disappeared, and we came to this place called Caoxi Town.The town was obviously deserted, and there was no sign of people looking up, only a mouse was seriously thinking about life by the side of the road, and it would not dodge when it saw people.

The scene in front of her was so weird, no wonder Ji Mingmei panicked.At this time, I saw clearly where I was, and I couldn't help but chattering between my teeth, but since one of the two had lost his mind, I had no choice but to brace myself, grabbed Ji Mingmei's hand, and pretended to be calm: " It's okay, since we came to this place after leaving Qi's house, then we should turn around and go back to Qi's house."

"But, where is the Qi family?" Ji Mingmei glanced back and said bewilderedly.

I followed her line of sight, and there was an empty street behind me, where there was no Qi family rouge shop.The mouse Shi Shiran walked to the middle of the road, its two small eyes were shining with wise light, looking at me thoughtfully, finally got some kind of enlightenment, and suddenly jumped into a nearby abandoned building. House.

Right now there is no way out and no way out, I took a deep breath, tried my best to calm myself down, and said, "Since there is no way out, let's go forward."

Ji Mingmei nodded, and whispered: "Where are you going, I will go with you."

I was apprehensive at first, but I felt that I was also at a loss, and I just took one step at a time.Hearing what Ji Mingmei said at this time, and seeing her trusting eyes again, I couldn't help feeling in my heart that no matter what, I had to take her out of this weird place.

We held hands tightly and walked forward together.Ji Mingmei whispered to me: "Have you ever heard of a saying? It is said that not only people and animals have souls, but also some places. After these places are destroyed, people often accidentally enter them by mistake. But the fact These places no longer exist, only the souls are left."

"You mean, Caoxi Town may be the previous life of Yanzhi Town, and we are walking in the soul of Caoxi Town?" I couldn't help shivering when I heard the hairs on my back.

"I don't know, it's just a guess." Ji Mingmei said in a low voice, then raised her head, suddenly pointed to the front and said, "There is someone!"

As soon as I heard someone, I immediately lifted my spirits and looked along her hand.Sure enough, the front should have reached the entrance of the town, and a large group of people gathered there, talking excitedly to the outside of the town.But the strange thing is that the voices of those people should be quite loud, but we couldn't hear a word, only saw them moving their lips quickly.

I thought we were a little far away, that's why I couldn't hear, so I pulled Ji Mingmei closer.But until we got behind the group of people, we still couldn't hear a sound.What was even more weird was that we had clearly walked beside a person, but that person didn't even look at us.

My whole body started to feel weak. If it is true as Ji Mingmei said, this Caoxi town is the soul of Yanzhi town's previous life, then what about these people?Ji Mingmei obviously also noticed this problem, her face became paler and it hurt my hand.We looked at each other, hesitating whether to call the person in front of us.

Just when we were hesitating, this man suddenly turned around and faced us face to face.Ji Mingmei and I were startled at the same time, our hearts pounded in our throats.But after the man turned around, he didn't seem to see us, but raised his foot and stepped towards a place.

As he stepped down, a small gray figure flashed past.We took a closer look, only to realize that it was the mouse just now, and it followed us here at some point.What's also weird is that the mouse was running away all the way, and its mouth should be creaking, but we still didn't hear any sound.

The whole world in Caoxi Town is like a silent movie, without any sound.

And the people and animals here don't seem to see us either.So that mouse wasn't looking at me just now, but didn't see me at all?In this way, rather than saying that Caoxi Town is a ghost town to us, it is better to say that to Caoxi Town, we are more like two ghosts!
In order to test this idea, I tremblingly stretched out my hand towards the person in front of me, and shook it in front of him.As expected, the man turned a blind eye to me, stomped his feet bitterly in the direction the mouse was fleeing, then turned his head to look ahead, muttering something in his mouth.

Ji Mingmei was shocked: "They can't see us!"

I nodded and walked with her into the crowd to see who they were talking to out of town.But not long after we walked into the crowd, we were surprised to find that there were people we knew among the crowd.The two standing at the front of the crowd were Shopkeeper Qi and Lao Yan!

The three people who went to find a doctor for Lao Yan also stood beside them, but they didn't see Mrs. Qi.Ji Mingmei and I looked at each other, why did shopkeeper Qi and others appear here?

(End of this chapter)