Chapter 111: Man-Eating Snake

At the ferry landing in the middle of the night, the pale light of a street lamp couldn't illuminate the pitch-black river surface. The raging river wind blew horizontally, and the river waves slapped the embankment crazily, as if in the next moment, a water demon lurking for ten thousand years would open its bloody mouth from the river to swallow everything.

In a house not far from the ferry landing, he heard the sound of a skull shattering. That was his own skull; he knew he was going to die.

His fat body fell with a bang, and countless snakes scattered under him, soon crawling all over his body again.

In this life, he occasionally thought about his ending, countless guesses, but never thought it would be today.

He opened his eyes wide, and the scene reflected in his pupils was incomparably terrifying. It was tens of thousands of snakes entangled with each other, wriggling crazily, spitting blood-red letters, and making hissing sounds...

"Brother Fei, what are you in a daze for?" Wu Shanqiu stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Qi Fei's eyes.

Qi Fei seemed to be startled by Wu Shanqiu: "Don't you have any sound when you walk?"

"Clearly you were distracted and didn't notice me," Wu Shanqiu said, showing a gossipy face. "Once Zhong Kui disappears, you are absent-minded. Brother Fei, I really didn't see it, you, this proud son of heaven, are still a sentimental person?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? It's working hours now," Qi Fei's ears turned red again unpromisingly.

"I say this Zhong Kui is also quite strange. At first, I saw her being various flirtatious toward you. You are being serious, and she seems to be reserved again. Tsk tsk tsk, charming and ambiguous. If I were a man, I would definitely be fascinated by her," Wu Shanqiu said as if she were intoxicated herself.

Qi Fei reached out and flicked Wu Shanqiu's forehead: "Sss, I say, why are you so keen on eating melons, you girl? Let me tell you, don't comment on my affairs next time. I was just recalling the previous two cases," he said, putting on a serious look.

"What's there to review? Didn't the bureau praise us, saying we acted quickly and handled it properly?" Wu Shanqiu said with a smile.

Qi Fei wasn't as happy as Wu Shanqiu, muttering: "Don't you think it's very strange..."

"Strange what?"

"Peaceful," Qi Fei said two words.

"Princess?" Wu Shanqiu answered without thinking.

"You idiot!" Qi Fei was speechless. "I mean, these two cases are closed, too peaceful. The recent two cases were too smooth."

Wu Shanqiu pouted: "Smooth what? Are you talking about Guiyue Apartment or Yun Shen Secret Realm? The ghost houses were one gloomier than the other. We spent so much effort, and it's smooth? The two new guys in the team are still receiving psychological counseling because Hong Mei's scene was too stimulating. Brother Fei, let me tell you..." As she said this, she put on a mysterious look and leaned into Qi Fei's ear and whispered: "Even if Captain Liu looks completely relaxed, actually he didn't sleep all night yesterday,"

"He was just reciting his draft!" As she said this, she giggled to herself.

However, she laughed twice and stopped because she found that Qi Fei didn't think it was funny at all.

"I'm not saying the case is simple, I'm saying that monster didn't appear," he said.

Wu Shanqiu finally discovered that the notebook Qi Fei spread on the desk was already covered with images of that monster, a body, and the monster image of two people.

Wu Shanqiu looked at Qi Fei and asked worriedly: "Brother Fei, are you possessed?"

"I'm not possessed, just very uneasy, as if that monster is brewing a big move. This is the crouching and energy storage before the move," Qi Fei was full of worries.

"Is it possible that he is just afraid that we will find his clues and hide?"

"No, Shanqiu, I have an intuition. I always feel that this person is nearby, always observing our every move, but he is too good at hiding himself, and we have no way to detect it."

Wu Shanqiu obviously didn't understand Qi Fei's feelings and shook her head slightly: "Brother Fei, have you been with Zhong Kui for too long, and started to be superstitious?"

Hearing Wu Shanqiu mention Zhong Kui again, Qi Fei couldn't help but sigh: "I haven't had news of her for a long time."

"Do you two really have something going on?" Wu Shanqiu asked.

Qi Fei looked at her sideways and raised his hand: "Do you want to be flicked on the forehead again?"

Just at this time, Liu Tong appeared. With a gentle smile on his face forever, he walked to them holding a thermos, but the words he said were not easy at all: "Have you rested enough these two days? It's time to go on duty."

"Who died?" Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu asked in unison.

"I don't know," Liu Tong said leisurely.

Liu Tong looked at the two confused people and said leisurely: "This matter is quite troublesome."

Qi Fei bent down and stared at a black snake in a glass tank. The snake seemed to have spirituality, raised its head toward him, and spat out a red letter as if expressing something. Anyway, no one understood.

Wu Shanqiu asked in disbelief: "Captain Liu, you said the reporter is this one?"

Liu Tong nodded slightly.

Wu Shanqiu said helplessly: "Leader, stop teasing me."

Liu Tong took out an evidence bag and said: "This is what this snake spat out."

I saw a finger in the transparent bag, which looked like it belonged to a human.

Qi Fei and Wu Shanqiu stared at it with four eyes, from confusion to surprise.

"Strange things happen every year, especially this year," Wu Shanqiu muttered.

"Snakes certainly won't report the case, the reporter is that one." Liu Tong ended the suspense. Following his words, an honest-looking villager was brought in accompanied by the police station officers.

"My name is Ying Shuiwang, I am an islander of Jiangting Island in Nancheng," the other party introduced himself. "I caught this snake in the field intending to soak it in wine, but this thing was twisting in my hand. I saw a bulge in its stomach and thought it had eaten a field mouse, so I shook it a few times. It suddenly spat out a black thing from its mouth. I looked at it and it didn't look like a field mouse, so I curiously picked it up to look. It was sticky, and there were fingernails on it. Isn't this a human finger? It scared me to death, so I hurriedly reported it to the police."

Qi Fei put on gloves, picked up the snake in the tank not very skillfully, and looked at it closely. I saw this snake had a black back and a white belly, but there was a red color vaguely in the gaps of the scales on the belly, which seemed to be residual blood. He picked up tweezers, scraped off the dried blood, and looked carefully. There were also white tofu-like objects on it. From experience, this looked very much like brain tissue. If confirmed to be true, the owner of this finger seemed to be in bad luck.

"These two days, whether it's Jiangting Island or the entire Nancheng, no one has reported a missing person." On the side, Wu Shanqiu had already contacted and asked about the recent police reports. "I don't know if there will be any results after the DNA sample comparison in a while..." ===== CHAPTER 112 =====