Zhou Tong Detective Series

Chapter 51 Zhou Tong Detective Series III: Paper Burner (10)
Before Wang Ke could speak, Yan Yongjie waved his hand and said softly: "Let's not disturb him, let him think about it."

Wang Ke also nodded in agreement and walked aside.

Li Ying didn't take it seriously, she sat beside Zhou Tong curiously, looked left and right, but finally didn't move forward.

"Jin Dan, I have something to ask you." Yan Yongjie suddenly looked at Jin Dan and said softly.

Jin Dan was slightly taken aback, but he still followed Yan Yongjie and walked over.

The two walked about a dozen steps before Yan Yongjie stopped.

Jin Dan also stood firmly behind her, when a gust of wind blew, Yan Yongjie's beautiful hair rose up like catkins, with a faint fragrance that made people enchanted.

"Why? Why are you willing to help us?" Yan Yongjie turned around, looking intently at Jin Dan.

Jin Dan's heart suddenly beat violently, and he didn't even dare to look at Yan Yongjie directly.However, after a short period of embarrassment, he still raised his head, looked back at Yan Yongjie with somewhat sad but gentle eyes, and said, "What are you doing for?"

Yan Yongjie didn't expect Jin Dan to ask such a question, she suddenly realized the meaning hidden in Jin Dan's words, her face was flushed.

"You trust him because you like him, don't you?" Jin Dan decided to break the casserole and ask the end.

Yan Yongjie heard the words but said very firmly: "Because I know him well, I trust him!"

Jin Dan shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "If someone you knew better, would you do the same for him?"

Yan Yongjie has never thought about it this way, yes, if it were really not for Zhou Tong, what would she do?Thinking of this, she was insane for a moment.

But for Jin Dan, Yan Yongjie's expression had already told him the answer to the question.

Not far from where the two were standing, Li Ying and Wang Ke were crouching behind a bush and listening to their conversation.

Li Ying's smiling face suddenly became stiff, and her expression became a little unnatural, as if she didn't know where to put her hands.

Of course, all this fell into Wang Ke's eyes, and he immediately understood the reason, so he smiled and whispered in Li Ying's ear: "Girl, do you also like that brat!"

Li Ying, who is usually carefree, has a face like a kumquat in September, bright red, but she still said: "Who are you talking about? No!".

"Who?" Yan Yongjie and Jin Dan were both martial arts practitioners, and Li Ying's voice was immediately discovered by them.

"It's us." Wang Ke immediately stood up with a smile on his face.

Li Ying dawdled for a while before standing up.

Yan Yongjie was also taken aback when she saw them, and felt a little embarrassed when she remembered that the conversation she had with Jin Dan was overheard just now.

"Let's go back and see Zhou Tong." Jin Dan suddenly said with some worry.

The four returned to their original positions, but to their surprise, Zhou Tong, who was supposed to be sitting under the banyan tree, disappeared.

There was silence in the jungle, only a gust of cold wind blew by, making everyone shudder.

The barren weeds seemed to have popped up overnight, spreading all over the surroundings, and the hills piled up by the ferocious rocks in the distance seemed to be crumbling, and on the top of the hills, there was a huge boulder that looked like a sheep's head.There is a hut among the weeds in front of the mountain under the boulder, lying here in an uncoordinated manner.There is a fence on one side of the hut, but the inside is empty.The door of the hut was also open, and was blown by the wind in bursts, making a "pop" sound.

Zhou Tong searched for the direction of the sheep's head boulder and ran all the way, but at this moment he was standing in front of the hut, looking at everything in front of him.About ten days ago, he had also been here, but there were no weeds at that time, and the mountains were not as hideous as this. Outside the hut was lightning and heavy rain, while inside the hut was the warm light of fire. .But it was only a short ten days, weeds were overgrown outside the thatched hut, and cobwebs were everywhere inside the hut, as if a grandma and a woman named Chen Xiang had never lived here.

It was supposed to be a plot in "Liao Zhai", but Zhou Tong experienced it once.

Zhou Tong doesn't believe in ghost stories, he didn't believe it before, and he won't believe it now.He believed in his own head more, but now the memory in his head is a bit chaotic, but fortunately, he still remembers that night when the heavy rain poured down, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating the sky, and it was this lightning that made He could see clearly the sheep's head boulder on the hill behind the hut.

Now, he is here again, under the sheep's head boulder, in front of the hut, this is the end of his memory and the beginning of his amnesia. From now on, he must find all the lost memories little by little, except He needs to clear up his grievances, find out the missing Ai Chen, find out the murderer who killed Chen Xiang, and solve all the mysteries.

Zhou Tong took a deep breath, walked slowly into the hut.

There was no human breath in the hut.

There was a thick layer of dust on the table, rattan chair, coffee table, and wooden cabinet, and there was only a cold wooden board left on the bed.There are softly floating spider webs hanging around the roof, and one or two unknown insects crawl past on the ground from time to time.

Zhou Tong touched the rattan chair beside him with his hands. He was sitting on this chair that night, while Chen Xiang's grandmother was sitting on the edge of the bed. The rattan chair is still beside the bed, and has not even moved its position.Could it be that Grandma and Chen Xiang left here that night?He raised his head and looked into the inner room, but what appeared in front of him was a gray-white curtain.Zhou Tong suddenly felt an inexplicable grief in his heart. Didn't the graceful and beautiful Chen Xiang change clothes behind the curtain that night, but now he turned into a cold corpse lying in the autopsy room.

Zhou Tong almost opened the curtain with slightly trembling hands.

There was nothing behind the curtain, Zhou Tong was at a loss, and sighed softly.He was about to put down the curtain and exit the back room when his eyes suddenly lit up.One photo, one photo lying quietly on the ground, this photo was taken by Zhou Tong to grandma and Chen Xiang that night, when Chen Xiang saw the photo, his expression changed drastically, and he pushed Zhou Tong out of the hut.

Zhou Tong quickly bent down and picked up the photo on the ground.

This photo with Ai Chen's sweet smile returned to Zhou Tong's hands, but on the back of the photo, there were two lines of words:
Pigs eat piglets
duck eat duck eggs
Looking at the delicate handwriting, Zhou Tong was shocked and let go of his hand in horror. The photo fell to the ground in a beautiful arc like a fallen leaf...

"Zhou Tong!" Li Ying called Zhou Tong's name loudly.

"Stop screaming, he's gone." Wang Ke squatted down and said, looking at the dead branches in front of him that were broken by his feet.

Jin Dan didn't make a sound, just looked at Yan Yongjie, as if he had expected Zhou Tong to escape.

"Zhou Tong will never run away." Yan Yongjie looked back at Jin Dan and said flatly.

"Then... Could it be that something happened?" Li Ying's face was full of worry.

"No, except for Zhou Tong's footprints, there are no other people around." Wang Ke said with certainty.

"There are footprints everywhere here, how can you say it's only Zhou Tong's!" Li Ying stamped her feet in disbelief.

Wang Ke didn't compete with Li Ying this time, but just smiled.

But I heard Jin Dan say: "That's right, Zhou Tong ran out from here alone."

Yan Yongjie also looked in the direction Jin Dan pointed. As an elite of the special criminal investigation team, how could she not see this simple clue, but she really didn't want to believe that Zhou Tong would leave them alone and leave alone.

"This kid probably didn't run away on purpose. It's probably because his memory was fleeting, so he ran out in a daze." Wang Ke stood up slowly.

Jin Dan didn't know much about Wang Ke. Hearing what he said, he thought he was trying to excuse Zhou Tong, so he just hummed slightly.

And Yan Yongjie was unwilling to believe the inference that Zhou Tong would escape alone, but now Wang Ke explained the reason in one word, which made her feel relieved.

Li Ying, however, has a childish temper, and deliberately asked back: "Doctor Wang, are you just inferring what you said out of thin air, or is there some basis for it?"

Li Ying elongated the word "doctor" a lot.

"Girl, don't underestimate me. In addition to curing diseases and saving people, tracking and hunting can't trouble me!" Wang Ke didn't brag. He grew up in the mountains and forests since he was a child. Things, indeed, have a set.

"Uncle Wang, look at the cows are flying into the sky..." Li Ying put on an exaggerated posture and looked at the sky.

Wang Ke's face turned red and white, and he couldn't stand the fight between this half-century old man and this girl.

"Xiaoying, stop making trouble." Yan Yongjie finally couldn't help but persuade her.

If it was normal, Li Ying would definitely listen to Yan Yongjie's words, but since she overheard the conversation between Yan Yongjie and Jin Dan just now, she felt very uncomfortable and had a strange feeling towards Yan Yongjie.

"If you don't make trouble, don't make trouble, I'll go find Zhou Tong myself!" Li Ying pursed her mouth, and went away as soon as she said, following Zhou Tong's footsteps, and ran into the depths of the jungle.

Yan Yongjie also didn't expect how Li Ying would lose her temper so suddenly, so she was stunned for a moment.

"Hey, Zhou Tong is really a blessing." Wang Ke smiled strangely.

Yan Yongjie is also a sensible person, Wang Ke's joke made her suddenly wake up...

"Let's hurry up." Yan Yongjie looked at Li Ying who was going further and further away, and quickly followed up.

Jin Dan supported Wang Ke and followed behind Yan Yongjie.

In this boundless jungle, there is also a thin and shy young girl who is following a young Miao family in embarrassment, moving forward with difficulty.The girl's complexion was pale, and she looked a little fearful. She kept looking around while walking, as if she was afraid that something would suddenly emerge from the woods.The young man from the Miao family looked anxious, and kept turning his head, urging the young girl to quicken her pace.

"Xiao Jing, hurry up, it will be too late!"

The girl is Xiao Jing in the orphanage, but at this time she suddenly appears in the mysterious forest.

"Shi Da, Ai... Is Ai Chen really back?" Xiao Jing asked in a trembling voice.

The young man from the Miao family called Shi Da stopped when he heard the words, turned around, and looked at Xiao Jing with sad eyes.

"Chen Xiang is dead."

It's just that these four simple words floated out of Shi Da's mouth lightly, but Xiao Jing seemed to be struck by lightning, her legs softened, and she fell to the ground.

"It's them... Did they come back to take revenge? No, it's the paper man, the paper man, he's coming, he's coming to kill him!" Xiao Jing sat down on the ground, covering her face with her hands, tears flowing out mixed with fear.

Finding someone in the jungle is definitely not an easy task. There are slippery soil and tangled bushes under your feet, and protruding tree trunks and leaves that cover the sky and eyes. It only takes a while. Yan Yongjie, Jin Dan and Wang Ke lost Li Ying's figure.

"This... this stinky girl runs really fast." Wang Ke cursed out of breath.

"It's too easy for her to avoid us in such a jungle." Jin Dan looked around, not to mention looking, but he couldn't hear Li Ying's voice.

"Something is wrong, look here." Yan Yongjie suddenly pointed to the wetland not far ahead.

Wang Ke and Jin Dan immediately stepped forward, then squatted down and inspected carefully.

"More than one person has been here." Jin Dan found several pairs of footprints in the wetland.

"I see that apart from the footprints of Zhou Tong and Li Ying, there are two other people who have been here, but they all walked in different directions." Wang Ke gently stroked the footprints on the ground, and slowly added .

"Who could have been here?" Jin Dan frowned deeply.

"The most important thing now is to find Zhou Tong and Li Ying, and we will talk about other things later." Yan Yongjie was worried about the safety of the two of them.

"That's right, but Zhou Tong and Li Ying don't seem to be going in the same direction. This girl is really messing things up!" Wang Ke couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.

"It seems that we have to split up." Jin Dan looked at Yan Yongjie and said.

Yan Yongjie met Jin Dan's gaze and thought for a moment.

"I'll go find Zhou Tong, and you and Mr. Wang will go find Li Ying."

Jin Dan was troubled when he heard the words, and he didn't move at all. He took a great risk to let Zhou Tong go, but now Zhou Tong is gone. If he doesn't find Zhou Tong himself, how can he feel at ease.

At this time, Wang Ke stood up and said, "I'll go find Li Ying alone, I believe she won't run too far."

Yan Yongjie shook her head and objected, she was worried that Wang Ke was too old, what would happen if something happened in the jungle, but she couldn't say it in front of Wang Ke.

Wang could see Yan Yongjie's embarrassed expression, and he knew what she was thinking, so he went on to say: "That girl is just a temporary lady's temper, she will stop naturally when she is tired from running, and besides my physical strength, I am an old man. I'm afraid you two young men can't compare to me."

Jin Dan stood aside without saying a word, but his attitude was firm.

Yan Yongjie could understand Jin Dan's thoughts. She wanted to accompany Wang Ke to find Li Ying by herself, but she was worried about Zhou Tong. Besides, she was worried about letting Jin Dan go to Zhou Tong alone.For Jin Dan, she really has too many things she can't see through.

After thinking about it, Yan Yongjie finally gritted her teeth, took out a pair of walkie-talkies from her backpack, handed one of them to Wang Ke, and said, "Old Wang, hold this wireless walkie-talkie and contact us immediately if you have any problems. "

Wang Ke took the walkie-talkie and fiddled with it, suddenly blushed, and said with an embarrassed smile: "You have to teach me how to use this thing.".

Li Ying was able to follow Zhou Tong's footsteps at the beginning, but when entering the dense forest, where the bushes and weeds are overgrown, it is possible to find the traces of a person walking by very careful observation and rich jungle experience. arrive.Li Ying didn't have these two things. Later, she ran around in the jungle completely on her own will.

But when she was exhausted, she stopped in the end.Li Ying bent over, panting softly, the sweat on her forehead slowly slid down her face.Although it was still daytime, the huge trees and leaves in the jungle blocked out the sun. There was a faint mist in the dark forest, and there seemed to be some kind of wild animal roaring in the distance, which made people hairy.Li Ying began to regret running out alone. She wanted to call for help, but her throat seemed to be blocked by something and she couldn't make a sound. Finally, she couldn't bear it anymore. With a "wow", she fell to the ground and wailed loudly cry.

After Wang Ke bid farewell to Yan Yongjie and Jin Dan, he followed the traces left by Li Ying in the jungle and searched slowly.Although he boasted a lot, it was not easy to find that girl running wild in this jungle.

The terrain in the depths of the jungle is becoming more and more complicated, with long and messy grass, tangled tree roots, and traces of various animal activities, all of which make the search more and more difficult.Just when Wang Ke was at a loss, he suddenly heard a woman crying intermittently, and a smile appeared on his face immediately.

"Good girl, I finally know I'm afraid!" Wang Ke expected that the crying sound must be from Li Ying, so he followed the crying sound and slowly searched for it.

After walking for a while, the crying gradually became clearer. Wang Kexi raised his eyebrows, quickened his pace, and then violently tore away a bunch of branches blocking him.

A crying girl appeared in front of Wang Ke, sitting down on the ground.However, this girl was not Li Ying, and there was a young man from the Miao family beside her, holding a bow and arrow at Wang Ke who came suddenly with a terrified expression.

These two people are Xiao Jing from the orphanage and a young man from the Miao family named Shi Da.

Xiao Jing, who was sitting on the ground, was startled when she found someone rushing out of the dense forest suddenly, and her crying stopped abruptly.

"You... you..." Wang Ke squeezed out half of the words from his throat, but he didn't know how to continue.

"Who are you? Why are you here?" Shi Da raised his bow and asked.

(End of this chapter)