Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 1 Zhou Tong Detective Series I: Death Tarot Cards (1)
Section 1 Deadly Tarot Cards

The red blood slowly overflowed, staining the entire iron nail red, and slid down from the center of the eyebrows along the bridge of the nose, like mercury in an ancient timer, falling drop by drop until it ran out.A gust of wind blew, and her kneeling, withered body finally fell down. Her left hand was still tightly holding a card, a tarot card with the smile of death...

The wind whipped up the fallen leaves, and made a strange sound like a beast whispering in the silent night.Under the pale blue moonlight, a slender woman wandered aimlessly in this deserted wilderness.Suddenly, she stopped in front of a huge banyan tree, and two lines of teardrops leaked from her empty eyes.After a while, she knelt down on the ground as if involuntarily, then mechanically took out a six-inch long iron nail from her bosom with her right hand, and inserted it between her eyebrows without hesitation.The red blood slowly overflowed, staining the entire iron nail red, and slid down from the center of the eyebrows along the bridge of the nose, like mercury in an ancient timer, falling drop by drop until it ran out.A gust of wind blew, and her kneeling, withered body finally fell down. Her left hand was still tightly holding a card, a tarot card with the smile of death...

A huge Boeing plane shot high into the sky like a sharp sword, the thick clouds gradually became the ground, and the sky became a clear blue.

Song Xin sat in the first-class cabin, the comfortable seat and the soft music from the earphones made her body gradually relax, but she still remembered her son in her heart.This kid was mischievous since he was a child, and he was even more difficult to control when he was in high school. Almost every teacher could only shake his head and sigh when talking about him, and then said to himself earnestly: "This kid is very smart, but I really can't teach him. ..." As long as it was the school he attended, within three months, almost all the teachers unanimously asked the principal to let him withdraw from school, otherwise they collectively went on strike.This time is already the seventh time for him to transfer schools. Seeing that the college entrance examination is approaching in another semester, he has to go to the UK to participate in an academic research project for a year. If no one takes care of this son, what will happen? It's unimaginable.

"If Zhou Tao was still here, I wouldn't have to worry so much." Song Xin said softly to herself, looking at the white clouds outside the window, feeling a burst of sadness in her heart.

As a last resort, the day before boarding the plane, Song Xin had to find a former student of hers to help take care of her son.

Song Xin couldn't help laughing when she thought of her favorite student. She really was the best person to take care of her precious son.Thinking of this, she showed a naughty look that rarely appeared at this age.

A white kitten jumped onto Zhou Tong's bed with a "whoosh", then crawled to his pillow with graceful steps, stuck out its reddish tongue, and licked his face like cheese .

"Stop making trouble, Elizabeth!" Lai Zhou Tong pushed the kitten named Elizabeth away with one hand on the bed, then turned over and covered his head with the quilt.

Just when he was about to continue sleeping with his head covered, there was a hasty knock on the door.

"Damn it, my mother has finally left, can't people sleep peacefully!" Zhou Tong stuck his head out of the quilt helplessly.

"Not good!" Zhou Tong suddenly jumped up from the bed, "Isn't the powerful character sent by my mother here?"

Zhou Tong hurriedly got up, put on a coat indiscriminately, and ran out of the bedroom.

"Come, come, don't knock!" Zhou Tong opened the door while thinking about how to get rid of this "God of Plague".

When Zhou Tong opened the door, his eyes lit up. What he saw was a "God of Plague" completely different from what he had imagined. A fair-skinned, tall, glamorous girl dragging a large red suitcase stood at the door. outside.

"Hello, my name is Yan Yongjie, a former student of Teacher Song." Yan Yongjie introduced herself with a smile.

"Hello, my name is Zhou Tong, Mr. Song's former and current son." Zhou Tong immediately put on a playful smile, deliberately imitating Yan Yongjie's tone, and stretched out his hand to help this Yan Yongjie. Beautiful Woman Holding Suitcase.

Of course Zhou Tong didn't really want to help carry the luggage, when he lifted the luggage behind Yan Yongjie with one hand, he boldly touched her thigh with the other hand.

Yan Yongjie didn't expect Zhou Tong to be so bold, she looked at Zhou Tong's hand, her expression remained unchanged, she just stepped slightly sideways to avoid Zhou Tong's salty hand, then quickly grabbed his wrist and threw him away. out.Zhou Tong only felt a numbness in his wrist, and then a sharp pain came, his whole body was thrown up by a force, and he fell heavily onto the sofa in the living room.

"I...my hand..." Zhou Tong felt that his left hand was completely numb, and he broke out in a cold sweat.

"I forgot to tell you that I was entrusted by Teacher Song. I will be the master from now on. If you dare to mess around again..." Yan Yongjie smiled when she said this, and pointed to Zhou Tong's arm. It won't be that simple anymore."

"You... you monster... this is my house, you leave immediately, otherwise... otherwise I will call the police!"

"Monster?" Yan Yongjie's smiling face immediately froze, "If you dare to say that again, I will take off your other arm."

"Monster! Idiot! Pig's head!..." Zhou Tong yelled unrepentantly as if dying.

Yan Yongjie has never been scolded like this since she was so old, and she has never seen such a big man act like a child.

"Well, you brat, you really aren't afraid of death!" Yan Yongjie rushed towards Zhou Tong with a face full of anger.

"Wait!" Zhou Tong roared, raising a hand in pain.

Yan Yongjie stopped for his sudden change, and asked: "How, do you know that you are afraid?"

"It's not that I'm afraid, it's just...just...it was just a joke just now. We are all adults, so we can talk about things slowly. Besides, my mother also told me that I should take good care of you...no, I want you to take good care of me." Me." Zhou Tong straightened up with difficulty, changed his rascal behavior just now, and put on an appearance of over eighteen years old.

"Talk slowly?" Yan Yongjie showed a disdainful smile on his face, "Okay, in another 10 minutes, if you don't take your arm back, you can pass it by."

"What do you mean?" Zhou Tong asked without knowing why.

"One-armed hero!" After Yan Yongjie finished speaking, she sat down gracefully opposite Zhou Tong with a smile.

Zhou Tong felt like a deflated ball when he heard this sentence, but he didn't dare to take his own arm to get angry with her. The so-called good man doesn't suffer immediate losses, and he will find a way to drive her away when he has a chance in the future.

"Hehe..." Zhou Tong laughed dryly, and then said flatteringly, "Just now, my younger brother was just playing a joke with the beautiful sister Yongjie, and my mother has already explained it to me. In the future, sister Yongjie will treat this place as her own home." Come on, don't be shy."

Yan Yongjie ignored his words, but couldn't help asking curiously: "Are you really Teacher Song's biological son?"

"Yes, it's guaranteed to be exchanged." Zhou Tong said with a helpless wry smile.

Yan Yongjie shook her head unavoidably, thinking to herself that Teacher Song asked me not to be polite to her son before leaving, it seems that it is not an exaggeration at all.

"Sister Yongjie, you should connect my arm first, and then we can talk slowly."

"Who wants to chat with you slowly!" Yan Yongjie gave him a white look, then got up and walked to him, kicked him hard on the arm without any explanation.

"Oh!" Zhou Tong screamed in pain, but after the severe pain passed, his arm regained consciousness and moved freely.

"Okay, now you start cleaning the room immediately." Yan Yongjie looked at the mess in the room and ordered Zhou Tong.

Zhou Tong was unwilling in every possible way, but the dominatrix in front of him didn't know if she was human, and she could throw me, a 1.8-meter tall man, a few meters away with just a single shot, and what was even more terrifying was that my arm was like a toy. Disassemble like building blocks.Thinking of this, I can't help but sigh secretly, my mother is really cruel enough to send such a person to "look after" me.

"What are you doing sitting in a daze, why don't you go!" Yan Yongjie pretended to do it again.

Zhou Tong didn't dare to be negligent, he immediately bounced up and went to clean up the house.

At this moment, Yan Yongjie's cell phone rang, and she took it out to see that it was the call from Team Leader Sun of the Special Criminal Investigation Team.

"Hello, Team Leader Sun!"

"Yong Jie, there is something new, come to the team immediately."

"Okay, I'll be right there." Yan Yongjie finished speaking and hung up the phone.

Zhou Tong at the side cleverly approached her and said, "Sister Yongjie, do you have something to go out?"

Yan Yongjie gave him an angry look, took out a stack of things from her bag, and said, "Here are two test papers. You should finish them before I come back. If you fail the transfer test tomorrow..." Speaking of this, Yan Yongjie raised her pink fist.

"No, no, I'm going to study now." Zhou Tong immediately took the test paper, turned around, stuck out his tongue, and ran into his room.

Looking at him, Yan Yongjie couldn't help laughing, but when she thought of the case she was currently dealing with, she frowned again.

The office building of the Ministry of Public Security is located on the bustling section of West Street in Dongcheng District, with a construction area of ​​12 square meters, and the special criminal investigation team where Yan Yongjie is located is the most secret place in this huge building.The Ministry of Public Security has established this special criminal investigation team in order to deal with some unconventional, bizarre and extremely difficult cases.This team is not affiliated with any department in the Ministry. All team members are only responsible to the team leader, and the team leader is directly responsible to the Minister of Public Security.Yan Yongjie was called into the special criminal investigation team a year ago because of her excellent performance and strong working ability in the police force.

Yan Yongjie drove to the Ministry of Public Security, trotted all the way into the building, passed through a remote side door with an IC card, and then came to a special elevator, and boarded the elevator after passing fingerprint and retina authentication.Yan Yongjie urgently entered a series of numbers on the elevator button, and after a while, the elevator took her to the office of the special criminal investigation team.

The office was busy.

"Xiaojie!" Yan Yongjie's colleague Gu Tiancheng saw Yan Yongjie coming in, immediately got up slightly, and greeted her with a reddish face.

Yan Yongjie nodded slightly to him, and then walked towards the team leader's room.

dong dong...

Yan Yongjie knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Yan Yongjie pushed open the door, and saw that the bald-headed Team Leader Sun was not sitting on his office chair, but was standing at the desk with a case file, waiting anxiously for her.

Sun Yaoming is nearly fifty years old. As the leader of the special criminal investigation team, his personal experience is even more difficult to understand than this mysterious department, and he can't even find it in the database of the Ministry of Public Security. There is no relevant information about him, so his subordinates sometimes call him the invisible man in private.

"Yongjie, another Tarot 'suicide' case happened." Sun Yaoming said immediately when he saw Yan Yongjie.

"How is this possible?" Yan Yongjie asked in disbelief after hearing this.

"The deceased was also a woman, aged 24, a clerk of a company. The body was found in the suburbs this morning. The time of death did not exceed 12 hours. According to the on-site investigation, the deceased also committed suicide by piercing his eyebrows with an iron nail. Still holding a Tarot card tightly." After Sun Yaoming finished speaking, he handed the case file in his hand to Yan Yongjie.

"Also..." Sun Yaoming suddenly remembered something, and said, "As far as I know, today is the wedding day of the deceased..."

Yan Yongjie took the file and immediately began to open it. The more she looked at her, the more frightened she became. The suicide method of this suicide was exactly the same as that of a suicide case that happened a month ago, just as weird and bizarre.

"Yong Jie, this is the second time. Frankly speaking, do you believe that both of them committed suicide?"

When Yan Yongjie heard Sun Yaoming's question, she just shook her head.

"Do not believe?"

"No, I don't know." Yan Yongjie finally withdrew her gaze from the file in her hand, sorted out her thoughts, then looked at Sun Yaoming with a puzzled face and continued: "Based on the information currently available, the two deceased , there was no evidence of homicide at all, and the only murder weapon on the iron nail was the deceased's own fingerprints, and the details of our first "suicide case" were strictly sealed and not disclosed to the outside world, but someone would say The same bizarre way of 'suicide', and holding a tarot card in his hand before death, is really unbelievable."

Sun Yaoming nodded and agreed with Yan Yongjie's words, but he still said in a commanding tone: "Please find out the truth as soon as possible!"

"Yes, team leader!" Yan Yongjie saluted, then turned and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute!" Sun Yaoming stopped her again, telling her, "Be careful!"

Yan Yongjie was a little surprised by Sun Yaoming's words, but she still nodded.

Watching Yan Yongjie walk out of the room, Zhou Tong finally breathed a sigh of relief, threw away the test paper Yan Yongjie asked him to do, and fell on the bed.Thinking of his arm that was removed just now, Zhou Tong, who was lying down, couldn't help shivering.

"No, I have to call my mother!" Zhou Tong got up from the bed again, thinking that this terrifying woman would stay here to take care of him in the future, it really makes people shudder.

Zhou Tong took out his phone and quickly dialed Song Xin's cell phone.

"Hey, mom."

"Xiaotong, what's the matter?"

"Mom, you've arrived in England, are you all right?"

"Stinky boy, when did you start caring about Mom so much? Don't hesitate to talk to Mom. Tell me something!"

"Hehe, Mom is really wise. It's like this. Isn't it inconvenient for the big sister you found to live here? Your son is an adult, and..."

"What are you talking about? I can't hear clearly, the signal here in the UK is not good... I have a meeting, I will call you when Mom is free..."

Before Zhou Tong could close his open mouth, Song Xin robbed him and hung up the phone.

"Mom, listen to me too!"

Angrily, Zhou Tong held the phone and hurriedly dialed Song Xin's cell phone again.

But Song Xin turned off the phone a long time ago, avoiding her precious son.

"Okay, you don't care, I'll figure out a way myself!" Zhou Tong threw the phone away angrily.

The so-called "know yourself and know the enemy, win a hundred battles", Zhou Tong first thought of finding out who this woman was, and then trying to find a way to kick her out.With an idea in mind, Zhou Tong immediately started to act.

The red suitcase Yan Yongjie brought became Zhou Tong's first target.

The refined red suitcase stood up to Zhou Tong's waist, it can be seen that it is quite large, and there is a set of three-digit combination locks on the top of the box.

"Meeting me, such a simple combination lock is useless." Zhou Tong looked at the red suitcase with no regrets, and smiled happily.

"Father, I really have no choice but to use this unique skill of yours. If you know it, don't blame me." Zhou Tong closed his eyes and pretended to be devout after saying this, and immediately jumped to the lockbox, Hold the suitcase with one hand, and then gently put your ear against the combination lock, while the other hand carefully and slowly turn the combination, which looks like a skilled habitual thief.

After less than 5 minutes, only a "click" was heard, and the lockbox was opened by Zhou Tong.Looking at a box full of items, Zhou Tong did not show any excitement, he took out the contents lightly and meticulously, and recorded the position and order of each item extremely carefully.

"It's full of useless things...this is a t-shirt...well, pants...inside...underwear..." Zhou Tong held a pair of pink women's underwear in his hand, "This female monster is also wearing So sexy, but...well...she looks not bad, if she is not so fierce..." Zhou Tong's thoughts uncontrollably started some boring fantasies.

Fortunately, after a short time, Zhou Tong returned to normal, because he found that one of his arms was still aching.

"This woman hates her too much, and I don't know if there will be any sequelae!" Zhou Tong complained, while continuing to search for useful things.

Finally, he finally found a folder with a thick stack of things on the bottom floor.

(End of this chapter)