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    Chapter 9 Reincarnation Sundial Eighth...

    Zhao Yunlan leaned back, crossed Erlang's legs, crossed his knees with both hands, and raised his head to look at Li Qian: "So excited? If the death of the deceased has nothing to do with you, and you didn't know her before, why are you afraid now? Why did you take a detour last night? What is it that you would rather take a detour than take that path?"

    Li Qian suddenly let out a short scream, she sat down, put her fingers in her hair, and covered her face tightly.

    Zhao Yunlan involuntarily pulled down one of her wrists and asked in a very oppressive voice, "It's useless to escape, look at me and tell me what you saw?"

    Li Qian threw off his hand with force, and with a violent struggle, the hospital patient moved a bit, and the iron frame rubbed his feet on the ground, making a hoarse rubbing sound.

    "I don't know!" she cried hysterically. "I don't know! I don't know! Don't ask me! I don't know!"

    "Your campus is not big," Zhao Yunlan said in a low voice, "Maybe one day, you passed her by at breakfast at school, or you happened to use the same study room and borrow the same This book... Do you want to know how she died? When we found her, her body was lying alone in a small alley, her abdomen was torn open by a sharp weapon, and most of her internal organs were taken away. There were teeth marks on the remains of a piece of intestine, so I personally deduce that her internal organs were probably eaten by the murderer. The blood was... tsk, all over the floor, and now the blood is not clear, and you know what …”

    Li Qian screamed, "Ah—"

    Zhao Yunlan's heart was as hard as stone, and she was unmoved at all, and had no intention of letting her go at all, and continued on her own: "When her stomach was cut open, she was still alive, watching herself helplessly. Her liver, kidneys, stomach... were taken one by one, she listened to the sound of chewing, but it was her own internal organs that were eaten, can you imagine that feeling?"

    Li Qian's voice was hoarse, and she squatted down slowly, forming a ball, clasping her head with both hands.

    The school doctor on duty here heard the movement and walked over quickly: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"

    Zhao Yunlan handed his work card under his nose, and involuntarily reached out and closed the door, blocking the school doctor from outside: "I'm sorry, the police will ask questions, give me another five minutes, thank you."

    Zhao Yunlan put his hands on his chest, leaned against the door of the ward, turned to look at Li Qian, and repeated his words for the third time: "Tell me, what did you see?"

    "...Shadow." Li Qian suddenly spoke.

    Zhao Yunlan's smiling face suddenly became very solemn. He strode over and crouched beside Li Qian: "What kind of shadow?"

    "You all be careful." Shen Wei couldn't help reminding him. He picked up the broom from the corner and swept the glass fragments on the ground to one side. Then he hesitated and asked, "Should I avoid it? That classmate? Why don't I go and pour you a glass of water?"

    Zhao Yunlan waved his hand: "No, you're here just right, don't leave first, I came out today without a female colleague, and it's illegal to ask her alone."

    As he said that, he lifted Li Qian, who was limp to a ball, and grabbed a pack of tissues from the small table next to her and handed it to her: "What kind of shadow, you can talk slowly."

    "She and I passed by the wrong way. I saw the t-shirt on her body and found out that it was a classmate. Although I didn't know each other, I greeted her. She said 'borrowed' and hurried past me. At this time... ..." Li Qian raised her eyes, her eyes were bloodshot, and she shivered fiercely, "I saw her shadow the moment I lowered my head... She has more than one shadow."

    Shen Wei said softly: "The unused light source will cause a lot of shadows, maybe you..."

    "It's not like that, it's not like that!" Li Qian interrupted him with a trembling voice, "It's not the kind of shadow you mentioned, it's created out of thin air where there is no light, it's much deeper than other shadows, the most, the most The important thing is that the shadow... that shadow doesn't match the movements of people!"

    The ward was frighteningly quiet for a while, and Li Qian almost broke her bones. Shen Wei paused, bent down, and patted her head in a soothing way: "Classmate, please calm down."

    "I really saw it, Professor Shen, I really saw it," Li Qian grabbed the corner of his clothes and burst into tears, "I saw it following her all the time, and the moment she walked into the alley, suddenly , suddenly stood up from the ground, like a real person. I was scared to death, and ran desperately all the way, desperately running... I thought I was dreaming, hallucination, do you understand? But you have to ask me, To tell me that girl...that person she has..."

    She said this, probably thinking of Zhao Yunlan's description, she jumped up suddenly, pushed Shen Wei away, rushed to the corner and vomited.

    Shen Wei glanced at Zhao Yunlan with some reproach.

    Zhao Yunlan rubbed her nose and commented, "Uh, don't worry, her reaction isn't really violent. You didn't see it. At the scene in the morning, a rookie on our side almost vomited himself into a sea cucumber."

    Shen Wei's eyes turned helpless, he shook his head, and went out to find a bottle of mineral water from the school doctor who had been looking inside, rinsed Li Qian's mouth, and helped her sit down.

    Li Qian couldn't stand still, she staggered and sat on the sick bed with Shen Wei's hand paralyzed, and looked at Zhao Yunlan with dull eyes: "It kills people, and it also kills me, I saw it, It won't let me go, will it?"

    Zhao Yunlan didn't answer, and took out a small notebook and a pen from his pocket: "Describe to me what 'it' looks like?"

    "I didn't see it very clearly, but it's... it's a human shape, and when it stood up from the ground... it was... so tall," Li Qian gestured, "it's dark and a little short, so it looks a little fat..."

    Zhao Yunlan stopped writing, frowned and asked, "A little short and fat?"

    Li Qian nodded.

    "Is it possible that it's not short, but that after you saw it, you turned around and ran away, so that it didn't have time to stand up completely from the ground?" Zhao Yunlan asked.

    Li Qian was stunned, her reaction was a little slower than before, then she lowered her eyes, avoided Zhao Yunlan's gaze, and nodded again: "Yes... and yes."

    Zhao Yunlan looked at her with a strange look: "Then what?"

    Li Qian lowered her head and said, "Then I ran away."

    Zhao Yunlan didn't speak, just stared at her.

    Li Qian's ten fingers were pinched together, and the belly of her fingers turned white.

    After a while, Zhao Yunlan let her go, tore off a piece of paper from the notepad, and wrote a series of numbers on it: "If you have any clues, or think of something, please contact me as soon as possible, and start the machine 24 hours a day. , thank you in advance for today."

    After he finished speaking, he stuffed the note into Li Qian and stood up.

    Shen Wei: "I will send you."

    "Don't, don't," Zhao Yunlan said. "Then why don't I go outside to smoke a cigarette first, and you can talk to her. I was a little anxious just now. It may have scared this little classmate. I'm really sorry."

    Shen Wei looked at Li Qian, who didn't know what Li Qian was thinking, and didn't respond to Zhao Yunlan's words.

    After Zhao Yunlan went out with a cigarette in his mouth, Shen Wei asked Li Qian as gently as possible: "Are you hungry? I'll go to the cafeteria later to buy you something to eat."

    As soon as Zhao Yunlan left, the sense of oppression he brought was suddenly relieved, and Li Qian seemed to be relieved immediately, feeling that her whole body had collapsed a lot, she shook her head weakly upon hearing this.

    Shen Wei asked again: "Then I'll call the school doctor in to accompany you for a while. You can rest here and go back when you feel better, okay?"

    Li Qian nodded.

    Shen Wei took two steps, remembered something, and turned around again: "Is there any money on me? If not, do you want me to give you some and use it first?"

    Li Qian heard his good intentions, and finally forced a smile to him: "Thank you teacher, I really don't need it."

    Shen Wei looked at her and sighed, and seemed to be hesitant to say anything. After a while, he said implicitly: "Classmate, some lies are intentional, some are not intentional, the former is to deceive others, the latter is to deceive yourself... ...anyway, it's sad."

    Li Qian was stunned for a moment.

    Shen Wei lowered his eyes: "Forget it, you better do it yourself."

    After that, he went to the school hospital pharmacy to get a small bottle of potion, and quickly chased it out.

    Zhao Yunlan was still in the corridor when he answered a call.

    "I've made it clear, this time it's not actually our side's problem, it's something that happened 'over there'," a female voice different from Wang Zheng was on the other end of the phone. Deliberately, with a hint of provocation, "Last night, when the gate of hell opened, there were less than a dozen souls registered in the underworld, but most of them were new mourners who had not passed the first seven. They don't understand the rules, it's nothing, they can't make a lot of wind, and the most troublesome thing is that it is said that a starving ghost ran away."

    Zhao Yunlan almost suspected that he heard it wrong: "What did you run away from?"

    "Hungry ghost."

    Zhao Yunlan suddenly became angry, the phone was an old subordinate, so he didn't bother to hold it, looked around to see that no one was around, lowered his voice and opened his mouth, scolding: "This is all a fucking mess, Even a starving ghost can be brought into the world? Which fucking ghost doesn’t want to be gān?”

    "No matter how tight the lock is, you won't be able to guard against a jailbreaker. Besides, look, the 'over there' has not yet achieved a paperless office, and the group of ghosts on the top of the mountain are still using the management model from the beginning of the last century. Dead ghosts, I've been locked up for a long time, and I've been locked up stupidly. If it was me, I might be able to escape eight times a day." The woman on the other end of the phone paused, "Oh yes, this time it's out. Human life, 'that person' has come to pay his respects, he will probably come in person, come back and have a look, I dare not open his call."

    Zhao Yunlan frowned: "Well, I see, I'll be back here, take advantage of this time to help me with a few things - the place where the dead man is facing Daxue Road, I remember that there should be surveillance at the intersection over there, maybe it was filmed. What do you want, you call it out first; then let me find out Li Qian, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Foreign Languages ​​of Longcheng University, and by the way, ask me about the old sundial with the reincarnation disc engraved on the back, what is it? object."

    At this time, he caught a glimpse of Shen Wei chasing after him, and said to the phone in a low voice, "Let's do this first, I have something to do, hang up, and synchronize with me at any time when there is progress."

    After speaking, Zhao Yunlan turned around, and in the blink of an eye, the expression on his face disappeared. The old hooligan changed into a literary youth in a second, and said gently and politely: "Stay, stay, Professor Shen is so polite."

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