Chapter 116

"What do you mean?" Qi Fei asked.

"Heh, this Golden Snake Immortal is an old hand in the world. His door is basically just for show; no one will come to open it even if you knock for half a day. That night, I saw the last ferry was about to arrive and was planning to leave when I saw someone walking toward this house. Coming to the door at that time, there must be something fishy. I immediately hid in the dark. This person didn't enter from the front door, but took a turn and went around to the north side. I followed quietly, and it turned out there was an inconspicuous little door on the north side. And they had a proper doorbell. That person pressed the doorbell three times before the door opened. It really was like a secret base."

"With such explosive content, you didn't post it to get traffic?" Qi Fei said this half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"I wanted to, but as luck would have it, after waiting all day, my phone and camera were both out of power. It pissed me off." Sha Gou said annoyedly. "The ferry stopped running, so I had to spend a sleepless night on the island. However, the biggest loss wasn't that night's event, but the next morning. That person never came out after going in that night. The next day, that little door opened as soon as it was dawn, but the person who came out wasn't the one from last night."

"There are so few streetlights in this place. Did you see that person clearly at night? How are you so sure it wasn't the same person the next day?" Qi Fei asked suspiciously.

"Ha, big brother, even if I couldn't see the face clearly, I can at least tell if it's a man or a woman, right? A man went in the night before, but a woman came out the next day!" Sha Gou said vividly. "That woman was quite pretty. Wow, this matter is quite paranormal, isn't it? A man goes in, spends the night, and turns into a woman?"

Qi Fei rolled his eyes. Linking it to the affairs of Hong Mei and Huang Daqiu, he had already guessed what was going on with what Sha Gou had seen.

It could be considered confirmed that this Golden Snake Immortal was using the guise of special abilities to engage in shady dealings.

As they were talking, a "Ya~~~" sound suddenly came from the courtyard. Judging by the voice, it was Liu Tong.

Qi Fei didn't dare to delay and ran over in two or three steps. Before he even entered the courtyard, he bumped into Liu Tong, who was running out.

"Captain Liu, what's wrong?"

When Liu Tong saw it was Qi Fei, he pretended to be calm and said: "Well, you said there were snakes, but you didn't tell me there were so many."

Immediately after, a police officer chased out, muttering: "There are too many, we can't catch them all!"

"What's going on?" Qi Fei asked.

When the police officer saw it was Qi Fei, he immediately said: "Brother Fei, you're finally here. This scene is a mess. We are professionals at catching criminals, but we really don't know how to catch snakes. We don't even know if there are poisonous snakes in here. I'm really afraid someone will get bitten."

Wu Shanqiu had already taken two protective suits and gave one each to Liu Tong and Qi Fei: "You should put these on first."

Soon, Qi Fei understood what the police officer meant by a mess.

Perhaps because someone had been catching them, the snakes they had seen crawling on their own before were now fleeing in panic. Some even darted several meters high, as if they could fly. The police were wearing protective suits and struggling to catch them, while also having to guard against being attacked by the snakes. It was a proper battle between man and snake.

These snakes darted very quickly, and no matter how they caught them, they couldn't finish.

"They're here, they're here, the reinforcements are here!" Someone shouted outside. Before long, an old man holding snake-catching tongs and carrying a bamboo basket was brought in.

"This Fu Bo is the best at catching snakes in our village." Ying Shuiwang followed him in and said. It turned out to be the person he had found.

They saw Fu Bo nimbly putting snakes into the bamboo basket with the tongs while muttering that he was old and had never seen so many snakes.

Professionals are indeed professionals. Before long, they finally cleared all the snakes in the room.

But the "spectacle" just now had truly frightened a group of police officers who had seen the world.

Without the interference of snakes crawling everywhere, they could finally examine the scene properly.

Qi Fei looked around, but Liu Tong was nowhere to be seen. He ran out to look and saw him standing outside the gate, with Wu Shanqiu pestering him to come in.

Qi Fei walked over and used his trump card: "Captain Liu, if this case isn't solved quickly and it gets out, you'll have to hold another press conference."

Sure enough, this trick worked, and Liu Tong entered the courtyard reluctantly.

The police officer who had completed the preliminary scene investigation stepped forward to report: "Through identity verification, it can be confirmed that in addition to Huang Daqiu, the other three victims are Ying Shuigen's wife, She Xiaohui, and their two sons. Currently, four victims have been found. Judging from the understanding of the villagers, it is similar to the information we obtained earlier. This 'Golden Snake Immortal' is named Ying Shuigen. He was originally just an idle unemployed person in the village. In the 1990s, special abilities were popular, and because Ying Shuigen had some ability to train snakes, he became a master of special abilities for some reason. We asked the surrounding villagers, and they didn't know what he was doing inside after he built this house. He never associated with other villagers, just sometimes saw very expensive cars driving in. They only knew that a rich person lived inside, that's all."

At this time, Xiao Tao arrived late with a toolbox. Seeing the look of lingering fear on several people's faces, he couldn't help but take a few extra looks.

"Forensic Doctor Xiao Tao, why are you so late?" Wu Shanqiu said immediately upon seeing him.

"I missed the previous ferry. Isn't this a routine scene? Why do you all look like you're on your first police duty?" Xiao Tao couldn't help but say.

As soon as this was said, everyone was unhappy, especially Liu Tong, who said to Xiao Tao with a smile: "A batch of snakes was just cleared from the scene. They must have stuck to a lot of biological traces of the victims and the killer after crawling on the scene for so long. The heavy responsibility of evidence collection will be handed over to you!" As he spoke, he deliberately put his hand on Xiao Tao's shoulder, looking like he was entrusting him with a heavy responsibility.

Wu Shanqiu, who was watching the show from the side, heard her phone "ding" with a message.

She took it out, looked at it, and said immediately: "The location where the Golden Snake Immortal sent the message has been found!"

When several people heard this, they asked in unison: "Where is it?"

"You wouldn't guess where he went." Wu Shanqiu shook her phone. "This Ying Shuigen actually ran to Sanwu Town."

The sky over Zizai Shan was getting late, and the mist in the mountains, wrapped in the last rays of the sunset, disappeared among the peaks.

Meng Apo closed the window of the small wooden house and muttered: "The night is deep and the dew is heavy. Great Immortal, your health hasn't been good lately, you can't get exposed to the night chill."

As she spoke, she took a stack of miscellaneous papers from the cloth bag at the door and placed them in front of Zhong Kui. "These are the slips from the merit box recently."

Zhong Kui leaned on the couch, stroking Luosha's fur with one hand and taking those wish papers with the other, looking at them listlessly.

"I still miss the peaceful days we had a few years ago." Meng Apo said from the side.

Luosha "meowed," echoing Meng Apo's words.

Zhong Kui seemed not to have heard. Her hand flipping through the slips stopped at one of them. She picked it up, looked at it, and the corners of her mouth lifted: "Interesting."