Chapter 46: Strange and Mysterious

  I consulted with Panzi, he stayed in the house to take care of the mother and child, I ran to the front door of the courtyard, half-opened the door like the woman just now, looking up and waiting eagerly.

  Half an hour later, a black sedan drove over. The road here is not easy to drive on, and the black sedan was still driving so fast that I thought the driver didn't care about scratching the chassis at all.

  The car stopped in front of the farmhouse gate, and Lu Yifeng and another man got out of the car together. I looked at the man with curiosity.

  I thought he was a doctor, but when doctors come to the countryside to see patients, they should at least carry a medical box, right? He didn't even bring anything and looked like a bodyguard.

  I asked A Feng a sentence. Lu YuFeng said it's not the time to talk, and asked me for help. He let me pretend to understand, and led us two to rush into the tile house again.

  He and another man each carried one of the mother and son. I saw the situation and quickly cooperated, going ahead to open the door. Pan Zi then went to get our two luggage bags.

  I kind of get it, this must be Ah Feng taking the mother and son to the town hospital for a check-up. Although the woman said she had been to the town hospital before, Ah Feng has many connections, maybe he knows some important people.

  After we all came out, Lu Yifeng was busy putting the mother and son in the car. Panzi and I didn't rush to get on the car, but stood aside and looked around.

  During this time I turned my head and saw a man standing in front of the neighbor's door.

  He wasn't sleeping either, probably woken up by our commotion. He looked over 40 years old, sloppy and unkempt, especially when he saw me staring at him, he even smiled with a silly grin, his hands constantly rubbing back and forth on his thighs.

  I think this guy is a bit silly, but I really want to ask him something, so I walk over with big strides, calling out to him and handing him a cigarette.

  The silly guy looked at the cigarette with excitement, hastily took it over, but he didn't know how to smoke, after taking two puffs, he coughed and choked.

  I took advantage of the break in conversation and asked, "Older brother, what's hiding in this orchard, is it a big dog?"

  I'm referring to that strange thing we saw when Panzi climbed over the back wall. The silly fellow thought for a moment, and without even bothering to smoke, clapped his hands and laughed, saying, "You're asking about 'Guiguai'? It's really fierce, it helps us guard the orchard, and when it's hungry, it goes to the mountain to eat wolves. But it's especially good to people, and doesn't easily bite them."

  This is completely off the point. I was thinking, if something can eat a wolf, it's definitely not a dog. Could it be a leopard? But leopards don't look like that either?

  I also want to ask, at this time Lu Yifeng invited me to get on the car, I had no choice but to bid farewell to the silly fellow.

  There were six of us sitting in this car, a bit cramped. A Feng sat in the front passenger seat, his friend drove and we sped off to Muss Town.

  At first nothing seemed out of the ordinary, but after entering the town, his friend drove around a roundabout several times. We all felt something was off, and Lu Yifeng even asked a question.

  His friend took out a suspicious attitude and said, "Since entering the town, I have a feeling that someone is following us."

  I hastily looked around, but there was no rearview mirror on my side, so I couldn't see anything.

  A Feng did the same thing, and his final conclusion was that there was nothing unusual. Then, with a friend who was still feeling uneasy in her heart, we continued on our journey.

  I thought we were going to a hospital, but in the end, we stopped at a very remote street corner and turned our heads to see another storefront across from us.

  The shop is called Autumn Water Printing House, and the storefront isn't big either. However, I'm clear in my mind that this absolutely isn't an ordinary printing house, it should be a secret base for some special agents, and inside there are also some medical facilities.

  Lu Yifeng and his friend got off the car, they cautiously looked around, then took the mother and son to a printing house. The printing house was originally closed, when they arrived in front of it, the door opened, and there were people waiting inside.

  I especially wanted to follow up and take a look, but after thinking about it again, I didn't have the identity, so I could only wait honestly in the car like Panzi.

  About a minute later, Lu Yifeng came out himself and sat in the driver's seat.

  It's clear that the sedan belongs to us now. I also didn't want to squeeze in behind with Panzi, so I climbed into the front passenger seat.

  Lu Yufeng continued driving. I glanced at my watch, it was already past 3 am, and with dawn approaching, we had been tossing about for a whole night, so we should find a place to rest for a while.

  I just made a suggestion to find a nearby hotel, and Panzi nodded in agreement. But Ahfeng was playing a trick on us, after we left the printing company far away, he stopped the car again at the side of the street, turned off the engine, smiled at us and said goodnight.

  I was stunned and thought to myself that he's such a cheapskate, is he trying to save money by having us spend the night on the bus?

  I thought I'd pay for the accommodation, take them to sleep in a big bed, but Ah Feng curled up on the seat and started snoring soon after, I don't know if he was really sleeping or pretending, I didn't dare disturb him, so the idea of going out to sleep had to be abandoned.

  Pan Zi made a profit again, and he lay down in the back. I let out a sigh, thinking to myself that if I had known earlier, I wouldn't have crawled into the passenger seat so eagerly.

  I adjusted the car seat and fell asleep in a daze. However, when it was past six o'clock, I woke up.

  Sleeping on a car seat is not a crime that ordinary people commit. I quickly got off the bus and stretched my waist and kicked my legs.

  I did it like this and woke them up too. The two of us didn't have the condition to wash our faces, so we just wiped them with our hands and considered it a dry wash.

  It just so happened that there was a breakfast stall by the side of the road, selling rice porridge and tofu brains. We were all hungry, so we went over together and found an empty table to eat at.

  I didn't think there was anything, but when I ate halfway through, Lu Yifeng kept looking around from time to time. What he did was very strange, so I asked what's wrong?

  Lu Yifeng lost interest in continuing to eat, and while unintentionally stirring the porridge in his bowl, he replied to me, "Yesterday Heizi said someone was following us, I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but now I have this feeling too?"

  Hei Zi should be his friend, they both thought so one after another. I think it's not just about being sensitive, Pan Zi and I also want to take a look around, observe for a bit, but this way, our actions would be too obvious.

  Lu Yifeng gave us a signal and we didn't care if we were full or not, immediately settled the bill and left.

  The road is empty now, after getting on the car, Lu Yu Feng drove very fast, I suspect how much fine we will have to pay for running the red light like this.

  After shuttling through several streets, Lu Yifeng took advantage of the empty space to make a phone call. I found this phone call very strange, and what he said was almost incomprehensible to me.

  What's with the food, bread and that kind of thing, I think it's a code word. After hanging up the phone, he took us to a supermarket in the suburbs again.

  I'm used to it, looking at this supermarket and thinking it must be another stronghold.

  After entering, Lu Yifeng made a few obvious gestures to the shop owner when he saw no other customers. The shop owner knew our identity, but he still didn't reveal anything and led us silently to the backyard.

  There was already someone sitting in the backyard house, over 50 years old, wearing a windbreaker, looking like a writer. However, Lu Yifeng introduced him to us as our contact person. Although I don't know his specific position, it's absolutely unrelated to writing.

  We chatted casually for a few sentences before getting to the point. The contact person told us, "A government official came to Mushtown recently to investigate a case of police corruption, but before he could finish the case, he died mysteriously. The higher-ups are highly concerned and have ordered the police to catch the real culprit as soon as possible."

  As soon as I heard it was about police corruption, I immediately thought of the Lingmei curse case. Although Mus town is far from Longzhou, I think there might be some connection here, and even with Suifang village, it's hard to rule out a relationship.

  Lu Yifeng found what the contact person said to be very sensitive and didn't want me and Panzi to know too much, so he hastily changed the subject, letting the contact person mainly talk about the doubts surrounding the official's death.

  I thought the contact person would show us photos, but instead came a close encounter.

  There was a big bed in the room, and Panzi even sat on it when he came in. The contact person came to the bedside, touched the edge of the bed, pressed a button, and the bed opened like a cabinet.

  I was shocked and stared blankly because there was a freezer in the bed, and inside it lay a corpse.

  Panzi just sat on the coffin board, his face looked particularly bad, and he slapped his buttocks hard.

  At this juncture, I didn't have the nerve to advise Panzi either. We both went over together and stared at the corpse.

  The corpse should be that of an official, and it was frozen particularly well, with no signs of rotting. There were no wounds on his body, but the skin had turned red, somewhat like a cooked crab. A large bruise could also be seen on his forehead.

  I remembered that woman from last night. She said her husband's whole body turned red when he died, and her son had a black spot on his forehead too.

  Lu Yu Feng and I looked at each other, although we didn't say a word, but the exchange of our eyes told me that he had thought of the same thing as me.

  The go-between gave us a buffer time, and then said, "The province specially sent forensic doctors to inspect the body of the official. They found a strange virus on his body that invades the heart, lungs, and digestive system, making people breathe weakly and die slowly with hunger."

  I can imagine how torturous this way of dying is, and at the mention of the virus, both of us involuntarily took a step back, especially Panzi, who started slapping his buttocks vigorously.

  Lu Yifeng nodded, seeming to have a preliminary understanding of the official's death situation. He then asked about the situations of Xigu and Dao Ke.

  These two special informants have not been heard from so far, and the contact person has nothing to say, but he took out a recorder and said that this was the recording of their daily report after completing the task, let us listen.

  We were all interested and went over together.

  This recording is divided into five sections, which are reports for five days. The contact person plays them in chronological order one after another.

  Just by listening to the recording, I can tell that Xiao Gui is a very logical person. He first talks about the situation he encountered that day, then mentions the doubts he has and how he plans to deal with them, and finally talks about his plan for the next day.

  At first I just listened casually, but after broadcasting a few recordings, I heard the problem.