Chapter 145

Following Old Yin's loud shout, "Jiao Jiao Laohan Jiao," who had been lying on the ground feigning death, obediently opened his eyes and sat up. Old Yin said, "Get up and squat right there!"

After he complied, Old Yin took out a pair of gleaming "silver bracelets," clicked them onto his right wrist, then hauled him into the pickup truck bed and handcuffed the other end to the railing by the rear window.

Having dealt with the thug disguised as "Cui Jiao Laohan," Old Yin saw that no other accomplices appeared, so he hurriedly drove back to the Cui residence he had just left.

Upon seeing the Cui couple, he always felt this Cui Jiao Laohan was somewhat different from the one he had met before. Old Yin had visited the elderly couple several times to work on them; he was a man of few words, but he had observed the couple closely. Cui Jiao Laohan worked the fields year-round, and the calluses on his hands were very obvious. Plus, he liked to have a couple of drinks, and those eyes had long been clouded and dull from inferior white liquor. Although he looked like an ordinary rural old man, he still gave people a feeling of being open and honest.

Yet today, when he brought Luo Fei and the other person to the Cui house, he felt Cui Jiao Laohan appeared particularly timid and cowering, as if he were deliberately hiding something. Especially when looking at people, his eyes darted around, not daring to meet anyone's gaze. At that time, he already had some doubts in his heart. It wasn't until Luo Fei said he wanted to open the box to take a look and asked him to get the key from Cui Jiao Laohan that Old Yin saw the hand Cui Jiao Laohan used to pass him the key and suddenly realized that this "Cui Jiao Laohan" before him was not the original one!

And the look of fear that appeared on his wife's face made him feel even more that something was wrong! In that instant, he suddenly understood: the new lock on that old box had been changed by someone on purpose, with the goal of enticing anyone who noticed it to open the box!

And there must be some harmful trap hidden in the box!

It took Old Yin only a fleeting moment to figure these things out, but by then Luo Fei had already opened the box and must have seen something he found truly incredible, and he would definitely call his companion over to take a look!

This trap was set extremely ingeniously; when both of them gathered at the opening of the box, the mechanism inside was triggered...

Seeing Luo Fei and his companion caught in the scheme, Old Yin didn't know how many people were still hiding in the Cui house. In the emergency, he tucked Zhang Qizhi under his arm and ran outside. At this moment, the condition of Luo Fei and his companion was unknown, the number of enemies was unknown, and what weapons the other side had or what other traps were set in this house was also unclear...

Therefore, under the circumstances at the time, Old Yin chose to flee and lure the other side out to chase him.

After subduing the person disguised as Jiao Jiao Laohan Jiao, Old Yin saw that no one else was chasing him, so he decided to turn back to check on the situation of Luo Fei and his companion.

The car quickly returned to the outside of the Jiao house. After Old Yin instructed little Qizhi to hide in the car, he got out, grabbed "Jiao Jiao Laohan Jiao" with one hand, held his gun in the other, and cautiously walked toward the house!

However, the scene inside the house at this moment shocked Old Yin!

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At almost the same time, far away in Zizhen, Gu Changzheng and the forensic expert Old Zheng returned to the basement and saw the symbols painted in the corner of the wall. A sense of oppression rose in the hearts of the few. Just as they were about to fall into a dazed feeling, Old Zheng suddenly shouted, "Quick, hold your breath! Get away from here!"

The group was startled by this loud shout and hurriedly retreated as told. After leaving the symbols by 5 meters, that sense of oppression slowly disappeared!

"Old Zheng! What is this thing? How is it so powerful?" Gu Changzheng had experienced it once before; he didn't expect that even in a state of high vigilance, he would almost fall for it again.

"Now it seems the symbols themselves are nothing special. I think there are only two possibilities: one, the symbols produce special power in the special environment of the basement, causing those who approach them to be controlled invisibly. Two, the symbols themselves are nothing, and it's possible there is something tricky about the raw materials used to paint the symbols!" Old Zheng analyzed calmly.

"Makes sense! Shall we scrape some off the wall and see if we can find any clues?" Gu Changzheng said.

Old Zheng put on a protective suit, wore a mask, and added another face shield on the outside. After such "arming," he took little Lin, who was dressed the same, and went over again.

After less than 5 minutes, the two returned to the group, and the glass bottle in little Lin's hand already contained some red powder.

Two hours later, at the Jiangdong Branch, Gu Changzheng listened to Old Zheng telling him the analysis results that had just come out: the symbols on the basement wall actually contained a large amount of mescaline (a hallucinogenic substance), and it was not synthesized artificially, but taken from an ancient plant native to the Americas called peyote!

Because this plant contains a high concentration of mescaline, a long time ago, local indigenous people used this plant in religious sacrificial activities to achieve the purpose of making people hallucinate.

And this hallucinogenic plant can also lower the brain function of the inhaler and cause them to lose their sense of time. The drug effect usually disappears on its own after 12 hours. But if inhaled too much, it can be fatal!

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Just as Gu Changzheng was stunned by such a result, Old Yin, who rushed into the Jiao house, found that Luo Fei, Gao Ye, and Jiao Jiao Laohan Jiao's wife were all gone!

He grabbed "Jiao Jiao Laohan Jiao" and shouted, "Speak! Who are you people? Where are your accomplices? What is the purpose of you doing this?"

The man looked terrified. He struggled hard, as if he didn't want to stay in this house for even a second. He muttered in his mouth, "The God Lord has manifested! The God Lord has manifested! Leave here quickly!"

Old Yin looked him over and saw him trembling all over, as if he were too scared, and the muscles on his face were twitching along with it. Old Yin felt his complexion was a bit off, reached out and pinched it, but the touch was ice-cold. His heart stirred, and he pulled hard on this cold skin, and it actually stretched out a long way!

It turned out that this person was wearing a mask on his head, but the mask was made too realistically, and Old Yin hadn't thought of it for a moment.

The mask was pulled off, revealing a bald young man inside. Old Yin continued to ask, "Who exactly are you people? Why set a trap to harm our lives! Don't you know our identities? Do you know what crime it is to kill a policeman?"

Seeing that Old Yin had seen through his face, the bald man laughed loudly, "Hahaha, I'm not afraid of you policemen! I am a person chosen by the God Lord, and you have offended the God Lord and are destined to be punished! Hahahaha!"

Hearing him mention the God Lord several times, Old Yin couldn't help but think to himself: Could this person be a believer in some evil cult? But what is their purpose in doing this? Could it be aimed at those two policemen from Zizhen?"

While thinking, he made the bald man, who was handcuffed behind his back, squat on the ground. He walked to the place where the box had just been placed and saw two faint drag marks left on the ground, as if after Luo Fei and his companion were dragged away, someone had cleaned up the remaining traces, but perhaps because time was tight or experience was insufficient, the traces were not cleaned thoroughly.