Chapter 12 Reincarnation Sundial Eleven...

"That's it, go back to me."

After Zhao Yunlan separated from Guo Changcheng, he drove back to No. 4 Guangming Road. The first thing he did was go straight to the office and replayed the surveillance video of the university intersection three times from beginning to end.

During the day, the office looked a lot depressed, and there was only one policewoman on duty in the Criminal Investigation Department's room.

The policewoman looked like she was in her twenties. She simply wore a ponytail and light makeup, revealing a smooth and beautiful forehead. Her eyes were half-open and half-closed, and she looked lazy, as if she was about to fall asleep. The work at hand is very neat.

The policewoman was wearing a uniform on her upper body, but her legs were covered with a long blanket. She always sat on the chair and didn't move. If her face wasn't rosy, she looked like she was just recovering from a serious illness.

Maybe the blanket was a little long, one end was hanging on the ground, Zhao Yunlan accidentally stepped on it, and lifted the other side up. Under the blanket, the tip of a giant python's tail flashed abruptly, and then quickly shrank again. When they went back, the policewoman didn't lower her head, still focusing on the video, and flattened the blanket that was stepped on.

On the corner of the desk is her name tag - Zhu Hong.

The surveillance video is not very clear, it is disturbed by some unknown magnetic field, intermittently, and sometimes snowflakes appear. There is not much information in it. After all, the place where the murder happened is actually in the small alley next to the side entrance of the university, and the surveillance equipment was installed at the intersection of the university road. Only the deceased Lu Ruomei and Li Qian met on the university road. .

The time display was around 10:20 the night before. Li Qian, as she said, walked out of the main entrance of the school, walked into the small supermarket across the road, and came out of the supermarket five minutes later. The deceased Lu Ruomei passed by and nodded politely to the other party.

The video freezes at the moment when the deceased Lu Ruomei had already crossed the road and was about to walk into the small alley after the two separated.

Li Qian glanced at Lu Ruomei casually. Due to the problem of clarity, she couldn't see her subtle expressions clearly, but then she seemed to be greatly frightened, and she took a big step back.

Zhu Hong stared at the screen for a moment, her half-closed eyes finally widened, but a pair of inhuman vertical pupils appeared in the standard Xinghe eyes, which looked very strange.

"Did she look under the streetlight?"

Zhao Yunlan nodded: "Can the location of the street lamp be clearer?"

Zhu Hong started to zoom in a bit, but the picture quality improvement was limited: "No, I tried my best."

"...Send you to an on-the-job postgraduate study in two days, and give me a good level of technical improvement."

Zhu Hong patted her "thigh": "It takes two or three years to read it. I am once a month. How can I explain the problem of asking for leave every three days?"

Zhao Yunlan said without blushing, "Don't you say you have dysmenorrhea? Stupid woman."

"..." Zhu Hong was silent for a while, "You always break my charming fantasy about you, leader."

"Knowing that it's the leader who dares to say anything," Zhao Yunlan pressed on her head, "Don't want the bonus?"

Zhu Hong narrowed her eyes, stretched out her slender tongue like a snake letter and licked her lips: "If you are willing to let me sleep for the night, I don't need the salary, and I will work for you in vain."

Zhao Yunlan lowered his scalp and looked at her with a smile: "Really?"

Zhu Hong: "..."

She suddenly had a feeling that their shameless leaders could really figure it out.

"Mothering the leaders during working hours," Zhao Yunlan laughed, "I wish you good wishes, Comrade Hong, this year's party class quota for our department has been given to you. Get ready to improve your ideological awareness."

Zhu Hong regretted that it was too late to shut up, so he had no choice but to say: "If the surveillance camera can't capture it, it means it doesn't want to be seen, unless the eyes of the sky are open - this girl can see that thing, probably because she moves Because of the reincarnation sundial."

Zhao Yunlan tapped the table lightly with his fingers on the table: "I know the reincarnation plate. It is usually a sundial with a proverb engraved on it. The symbolic meaning is greater than the practical meaning. What's so special about this thing?"

"Actually, when you mentioned the old sundial in the afternoon, I thought of it," Zhu Hong bent down to open the drawer under the desk, and took out an old-style thread-bound ledger from it, "I borrowed it from the underworld. You can take a closer look when you have time. It is rumored that its bottom bracket was made of pieces of Sansheng stone, and the scales on the back are a kind of black fish in Wangchuan, three feet three inches long. pregnancy."

Zhao Yunlan nodded to signal her to continue.

Zhu Hong opened the old account book: "It is said that when Pangu opened up the world and divided Yinyang, the boundary between Huáng Spring Road and Wangchuan Water was used as the boundary. Later, because there were more and more living beings and it was inconvenient to manage, the rules of the gate of hell were established. , Before the gate of hell was closed, Netherworld had these four sacred artifacts, and then all the four sacred artifacts fell into the world for various reasons, and the reincarnation sundial was one of them."

Zhu Hong's slender fingers slid between the pages of the book, Zhao Yunlan followed her fingers and saw the words "Borrowing Life" marked in small letters under the words "Reincarnation Sundial".

"Borrowing your life?" Zhao Yunlan frowned and immediately thought of the unusual new soul behind Li Qian, "Where is the Li Qian I asked you to investigate? Are there any people around her who have died before the first seven?"

"Yes, Li Qian's grandmother passed away at the end of August."

Zhao Yunlan leaned back and slowly lit a cigarette: "That should be right, no wonder the old lady's soul can appear in broad daylight, and the soul is separated by the Sansheng Stone, I said that little girl Why are you talking nonsense, borrowing your life from the old man, and losing her..."

"The reincarnation sundial represents the rising of the morning and the setting of the evening, and the black fish and fish scales in Wangchuan are only born to one side, so only the elderly borrow the life from the young, and it is impossible to reverse it. Zhao Chu, you are actually misunderstanding others, right?" Zhu Hong As she said that, she stretched out her hand out of thin air, and a piece of rice paper slipped in her palm, with Li Qian's name written on it, followed by the eight characters of her birthday in small print, followed by two vague lines. Clear words, I can't see what was written in detail, I can only barely see the altered handwriting.

Zhu Hong said: "The underworld has checked it for me. Li Qian's birth and death years have indeed been artificially revised. Yangshou is not lengthened, but shortened."

Zhao Yunlan raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"The sundial of reincarnation, the sundial of reincarnation, the three-life stone turns three times, you have been in my life for half your life, and you don't want the same life and the same death." Zhu Hong said, "It means that if you have the reincarnation holy artifact, you can use what you have left. Half of her life is exchanged for someone who has already died, and she will live and die with him from now on. Two years ago, Li Qian's grandmother reached the end of her life. It should be at that time that this little girl exchanged half of her life for her."

Zhao Yunlan listened without saying a word.

"When you didn't come back, I checked some of her relevant background. Although this Li Qian is from the city, she has never lived here. She used to live out of town with her grandmother. I called the village department where Li Qian's original household registration is located. , they told me that Li Qian was brought up by her grandmother when she was a child. Her parents were probably busy working outside, and she never went back. She also had a younger brother. At that time, it happened to be the most strict family planning period. , parents are for super life, so...you understand?"

Zhao Yunlan gave a "um", and Zhu Hong continued: "The village department said that the old lady had a sudden cerebral infarction two years ago, and others thought she was going to die, but for some reason, she was miraculously good again. Yes, but there are still some sequelae. Later, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which is called Alzheimer's disease in the past. I guess it was caused by nerve cell damage caused by cerebral infarction. , people can't recognize it well, and her intelligence has deteriorated severely, and half a year later, Li Qian just happened to be admitted to the city's graduate school, and her parents had to pick up the mother and the child together."

"In other words, the 'life-for-life' incident should have happened when Li Qian's grandmother was seriously ill." Zhao Yunlan flicked the ashtray, "She lived in her hometown at that time and found an old ancestral object in her hometown. It also makes sense - but I don't see what's so hard to say about it, why is she talking nonsense to me?"

"Maybe there is a secret," Zhu Hong turned the chair around, resting her elbows on the handle of the chair, and looked at Zhao Yunlan with those vertical pupils. The cold-blooded animal's frightening eyes grew on her. Let people see an unusual tenderness, she said, "You think, if there is such a person in the world, if you love him so much, you would rather spend half your life for him, but he doesn't know why, once again in front of you No, what's it like?"

Zhao Yunlan frowned indifferently, as if he was still hesitant.

Hearing this kind of tear-jerking story, not only did he not feel moved at all, but he continued to research it, as if he would not stop until he found something tricky. Zhu Hong couldn't tell who the two of them were cold-blooded animals. , had to sigh softly.

Zhao Yunlan shrugged: "Okay, Madam Zhu, give me some advice."

"Li Qian often buys some things online. I checked her purchase records. Most of them are health care products for the elderly. She doesn't have much pocket money. This little girl is not even beautiful, but she seldom fills in things for herself. I think, just for this, she is a good child. If it is verified that it has nothing to do with this case, if she doesn't want to say something, it's fine, you It's enough, why should there be too many people?"

Zhao Yunlan: "Material doesn't explain the problem, and sometimes it's just that you don't have feelings, so you use material to make up for it..."

His words were lost in Zhu Hong's silent accusation of "you are ruthless and cold-blooded".

"Okay," Zhao Yunlan said. "Suppose, as you said, she gave half of her life to the old lady. Why is she still alive now that the old lady is dead?"

"There may be an accident in this situation. For example, the old lady Taiyang left before her birthday." Zhu Hong said, "Lin Jing passed me the list of souls that were lost yesterday. I checked and she was indeed not there. , she was wandering outside, and it's very likely that she didn't know about it. The old lady's soul was connected to the living by the reincarnation sundial, maybe that's how she escaped the bad."

Zhao Yunlan thought for a while: "Well..."

Zhu Hong asked, "What?"

"I suddenly remembered a question, I don't know if you noticed it, Li Qian and Lu Ruomei look very similar at first glance, and have similar hairstyles. Strangers can hardly tell them apart when they look at them from behind, and they happened to be wearing the same clothes that day. , and Lu Ruomei died just after meeting Li Qian—you think, Li Qian used the reincarnation sundial, and her body must have been contaminated with the smell of a sacred object. "

"You're saying that the target of the starving ghost may have been Li Qian!"