In the narrow interrogation room, Xueming hurriedly wrote down the transcript and told the police officer all the facts.
Ye Bei accompanied him, fearing that this young and energetic young man would say something extreme.
Until the good brothers from the police station returned Xueming's mobile phone, Brother Ye Bei seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and walked into the interrogation room from the one-way glass room.
Xueming had no expression and his mood was very stable.
Ye Beisui asked: "Why do you beat people?"
Xueming said truthfully: "Because that guy wants to force girls into prostitution."
Ye Bei: "Where's the evidence?"
Xueming: "There was someone recording and videotaping the scene, and everyone at Table 16 is a witness."
Ye Bei sat nearby Xueming and pulled out an ashtray from under the table.
"What do you mean by forcing a good girl into prostitution? Please explain in detail."
Xueming answered immediately, speaking very fast.
"I and the two sisters from the Qian family left the rice noodle shop and arrived at the night market stall. Someone immediately came to harass them. The leader said that they were prostitutes and it was very easy to frame the two girls at 12:30 in the morning. Illegal prostitution sole traders under attack.”
His logic is clear and organized.
"They used provocative words to try to anger the Qian family's little girl Axiang, or stigmatized her, and used various reasons to block the road and stay."
There was anger in his eyes and ice in his heart.
"I thought this girl would be smarter. She is a greedy person. When I eat with her, she makes demands. She wants to go to a milk tea shop to make a video and check in. She wants me to accompany her to ride the Ferris wheel. She wants me to become a A tool in her video account, making money for her - I think she should be more sensible, and just ignore such unexplained names or provocations and just move on and ignore them. "
Ye Bei: "That's the truth."
Xueming: "But I didn't expect that she would dare to take action, and she couldn't defeat the enemy."
Ye Bei: "Enemy?"
Xueming: "I subconsciously regard these guys as enemies, Brother Ye Bei."
"Why do you do it? I told you before..." Ye Bei wiped the ashtray, put a wet towel in the ashtray, and poured some water. "You will hurt people if you take action. Most of the injuries caused will be..." It will leave scars for a lifetime. Like today, you pulled out all the teeth of this unlucky boy. Why did you do this? Did he insult you? Did he beat and scold you? Did he have a direct conflict with you? Did he want to extort your money? "
Xueming: "I don't care about this, Brother Ye Bei."
Ye Bei: "I know."
"I thought clearly in an instant." Xueming explained: "Why did Axiang do this? She seems to be really controlled by the love brain. She wants to say a few words for me. When she sees the person she likes being insulted by others, , of course she had to fight her way back. At that time, she didn’t think so much, and she didn’t even have the ability to protect herself, so she would fall into someone else’s trap.”
Taking out Sister Qianqian's cigarette from his pocket, Xueming pushed it towards Ye Bei.
"It's because of me that Axiang got into trouble. I must take responsibility."
Ye Beishu took out a cigarette, then began to tap the cigarette holder and pinch the tobacco tightly.
"The thirty-two teeth are also your sense of responsibility?"
Xueming said bluntly: "No, it's my selfishness. When this guy wanted to force women into the human flesh business, the anger burned through my heart. Drinkers everywhere started laughing, and I was so angry that I almost lost my mind. "
Ye Bei said with a smile: "You can't deal with these guys."
Xueming: "Yes, I'm still young."
Ye Bei handed over the cigarette casually: "Do you want to smoke?"
Xueming: "I never smoke, brother."
Ye Bei was silent for a long time while he was minding his own business.
"Xue Ming, how long have we known each other?"
Xueming: "Six years."
Ye Bei sighed: "Time flies so fast, you suddenly changed from a half-grown boy to a man who stands upright."
Xueming: "Not yet, not enough."
"Let's get back to this matter. I will pay for the medical expenses." Ye Bei put a cigarette in his mouth and packed up the documents on the table: "Don't worry, I won't pay this bastard an extra cent. At most, I will send him to you after the bleeding has stopped. A set of dentures.”
Xueming hesitated to speak: "Brother...I'm not short of money...I..."
"This is my territory. You will be a guest when you come back. I can't let the guests be wronged." Ye Bei said casually: "Today you stopped a rape, a wounding, a robbery and extortion, and made Thirty-two teeth, which is a good thing."
Xueming wanted to say something else: "I..."
Ye Bei lowered his head, like a tiger hunting, with yellow light shining in his eyes.
At that moment, all the smoke and dust went to the ventilation window, and Xueming couldn't smell any second-hand smoke.
At that moment, a strange spiritual pressure came over, stranger than any human being Xueming had ever seen in the underground world——
——Even Mary Stuart’s inhuman soul is not so grotesque.
His mind was shaken, and he could clearly feel that his benefactor smelled like a disaster beast.
It means bloody killing.
It’s the sweet smell of rust.
So Xueming immediately asked: "Brother Ye Bei! Have you been to Jiujie Station?"
"No." Ye Bei tilted his head, as if he was troubled by Xueming's detention period, and thinking about how to turn endangering public security into a righteous act. This required the confessions of the Qian sisters and the onlookers at the scene.
As for the kid who committed the crime, and his brother, they were seriously injured. One had a cracked metacarpal bone and a bloody hole with two iron tachyons, and the other suffered a mild concussion and a dislocated jaw. , all the teeth were pulled out.
Modern society rarely sees these bloody things. Usually there are only perpetrators and victims. Simple and easy-to-understand news newspapers cannot explain what actually happened at the scene.
Xueming then asked: "Then where does the spiritual pressure... in your body come from?"
Ye Bei told the truth, and then asked: "Your uncle Chen Fugui is a paper money seller and does business in the underworld, do you know?"
Xueming: "I know."
Ye Bei: "I sell milk tea during the day, and deliver food to spirits at night. Wealth is my arsenal. In this city, the police officers are in charge of the affairs of the world, and I am in charge of the affairs of the underworld."
Xueming recalled that her parents, a pair of human traffickers, also turned into ghosts after their death and were still wandering around the world. When he returned to his ancestral home with oil paper bags to give gifts, the ghosts transformed by these evil people disappeared. Without a trace.
Talking about the sea battle in the English Channel, those ghost ships that suddenly appeared were probably also such inexplicable things, super-large spiritual disasters that spanned the ocean and affected almost the entire world.
The disaster beasts encountered in the underground station, the beasts transformed into saints, the spiritual bodies and inspirations, including the ultimate explanation of the power of the soul - that is, seeing one's own undead soul in this world.
The existence of psychic energy is a fact -
——Its shape is ever-changing.
In Xueming's understanding, what Brother Ye Bei described and what he did were similar to a kind of local vigilante, very similar to the anonymous people in the underground world. It is no wonder that Brother Ye Bei was able to obtain Mingde's remains, and Transfer it back to Jiang Xueming.
Thinking of this, Xueming asked immediately.
"Brother, were you telling the truth about the stick you gave me?"
Ye Bei himself almost forgot——
"-Which stick?"
Jiang Xueming quickly explained: "You asked me to use it to guard against thieves and beat up enemies. If it didn't work, I would sell it for money. This is the stick. I asked you how you got it. You said it was from a benefactor. The reward in exchange for it.”
Ye Bei: "Oh..."
After thinking for a long time, Brother Beizi's expression suddenly changed.
"What is it? Let me see it? Maybe I can remember it."
——It seems that I forgot about it.
Xueming immediately turned on her phone and showed the photo of Mingde's remains.
Ye Bei blinked for a long time and finally recognized this cultural relic.
"It was dug up by a tomb robber. Six years ago, I was cleaning up disasters in the cemetery in the east city of Hengyin. I found two thieves who had no eyesight. They wanted to open the grave, uncover the coffin, and steal this stick. "
Xueming was surprised: "You actually help tomb robbers?"
Ye Bei disagreed: "Yes, isn't it a great kindness to send him to the police station and rebuild his life?"
——It turned out to be such a kindness.
Xueming then asked: "Didn't the stick return to its original owner later?"
"No one came to claim it." Ye Bei lit up a second cigarette and started puffing away: "We put up notices asking family members to claim the artifacts belonging to the ancestors of each family, and all that's left is this weird stick. No one wanted it. On-site inspection of the graves destroyed by the tomb robbers one by one could not confirm the origin of the stick. Finally, it was found in a dark corner of the East City - this is what our Feng Shui masters say. In this dark corner, it was originally We need to dig piles of thunderbolt trees and use anode electric fields to suppress spiritual disasters, but we couldn’t get thunderbolt trees in this cemetery, so we made a fake grave.”
Xueming couldn't understand and asked Brother Ye Bei to explain.
"Wait a minute...Brother...Wait a minute, it's a little hard for me to understand. I am a social talent trained in nine years of compulsory education with the Scientific Outlook on Development. I don't understand what you are talking about."
"Then let me put it another way." Ye Bei gestured and said vividly: "You see, when we are alive, occasionally our grievances will become bigger. When something bad and uncomfortable happens, we immediately want to have a quarrel with our neighbors. Yes. ?"
Xueming: "Yes."
Ye Bei continued: "Spiritual bodies are more likely to quarrel. They have lost their physical body and their form is always fixed at the moment when their thoughts were the strongest before death. It is normal for each other to dislike each other, like the wasteland behind Laoqian Institute. Tom, you have to listen carefully. On every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, you can still hear the chorus of the Soviet art troupe. It was a song from more than 80 years ago, and it is very exciting."
Xueming: "So?"
Ye Bei finally said: "So, modern cemeteries must keep pace with the times and make small boxes for the spirits. When setting up a small home, they usually install an anode tunnel in the dark corner, which is the due west corner, just like a battery. The two poles are used to regulate the tempers of the spirit bodies, so that they do not quarrel. They adjust their daily routine according to the way of working at sunset and resting at sunrise, just like an alarm clock. Over time, the energy of these spiritual bodies dissipates. No one in the world will remember them anymore, and they will disappear naturally.”
This statement is very fantasy——
——It’s like treating the spirit body as a purely natural phenomenon, rather than an undead body transformed from a human body.
These phantoms that have lost the support of their physical bodies are no different from corpses. They are a video tape of life left in reality, repeating various behaviors and diverging thoughts from life.
It's wrong to call them ghosts.
If the earth is compared to the human body, these spiritual bodies are like dead myotome cells. The brain of Mother Earth is still giving instructions to the cells to release bioelectricity, so this energy remnant is produced.
"Generally speaking, the lowest cost method is to plant thunderwood trees and graft new buds, and let the newly dead wood plants graft new buds. After the tree has grown for more than ten years, it can deal with many bad-tempered and capable spirits. , For example, a pig butcher died in the county last month. He worked overtime until two o'clock in the evening without sleeping - he died suddenly at the age of thirty-six." Ye Bei talked eloquently about this topic: "This guy's spirit body was He often stopped cars on the May 12 National Highway and ran more than 20 kilometers from the graveyard to stop pig trucks and help people kill pigs for meat."
Xueming couldn't believe it: "Is there such a thing?"
Ye Bei clapped his hands: "No, when I rushed to the scene, a whole truck of JD Logistics goods originally weighed twenty-two tons. The butcher's spirit Kakaka directly turned the logistics truck into a fresh food truck, reducing the weight by eight tons. , and even cursed and asked the driver to quickly add a cooler."
"This star really wants to retire"
Xueming: "Well...then what?"
Ye Bei: "Let's send him on his way. What else can we do, build a pork shop in the world and let him continue to work?"
Speaking of this, Xueming suddenly realized that Ao Mingde's works seemed to have this quality——
——Most of the sticks will guide passengers to learn a certain skill. The soul of the craftsman seems to reside in the stick, and there are strange fairies that will guide people to do things according to the shape of the stick.
Ye Bei lit up his third cigarette: "Hey, let's not mention that. The Chinese New Year is so scary. So, this stick of yours was originally inserted into the tomb without a tombstone in Dongcheng Cemetery. Three years ago, when this cemetery was designated, the city planning looked for an anode magic weapon made by a Feng Shui master - but I definitely can't find this Feng Shui master. I'm only in my early thirties this year, and they kill demons. When I was in trouble, I was still picking up betel nut flowers and eating them next to the brine jar in my ancestral home."
At this moment, a big white cat walked past the door of the interrogation room.
It looked very smart, as if it was waiting for Ye Bei.
To be specific, it's a bit too clever——
——It stands next to the door frame, and its eyes, ears, mouth and nose can even make expressions.
If it weren't for the fact that it was white, Xueming almost thought it was a BOSS for a moment.
However, BOSS's beard is longer, and he looks older, more serious, and more majestic, unlike this long-haired cat with bright hair.
Jiang Xueming decided to confess and tell everything.
"Brother Ye Bei, do you know that after I went to HK, I arrived at a station..."
Ye Bei immediately said: "Nine Realms, right?"
"Do you know this place? Have you been there?" Xueming scratched his head in confusion.
Ye Bei shook his head in denial: "I've never been there, I've heard of it. Our unit has talked about this place. It's named after the [Nine Realms] of Nordic mythology and Eastern mythology. It's neither foreign nor earthy. Like HK, it welcomes people from all over the world. Tourists, rescue people who are trapped in the surface world and have extraordinary vision."
Xueming was even more curious: "You haven't been there? How do you know? And brother Ye Bei, your unit? What unit?"
Ye Bei took out his ID——
——Submit a letter to [Tianshu General Administration·Special Operations Group]
[Operator: Ye Bei]
The certificate was only half illuminated and then taken back.
Ye Bei continued: "I have a serious job, and my home is here, so I can't be too far away from my wife. I have to go home to cook and eat every day - who would want to go to the underworld if they can stay in the earth. I heard that you That place, once you go there, you won’t be able to come back for months, it’s not a place for people to stay.”
I heard the cat at the door suddenly meowing several times, and the meowing became more and more urgent.
Ye Bei immediately stood up and went to take care of the cat owner.
"Come on! Don't rush, don't rush!"
Xueming followed him out: "What happened to it?"
Ye Bei translated the cat language: "I'm hungry. I was pulling at the door frame just now because I thought we talked too much."
Then he saw the cat jumping on Ye Bei's shoulder and roaring sharply at Ye Bei.
Ye Bei continued to translate: "It scolded me, and it scolded you too. Since it's so unhappy, just kill someone. It's just an over-defense thing, but it makes you smelly."
Xueming laughed awkwardly: "Brother Ye Bei...are you inciting me to kill someone?"
Ye Bei rolled his eyes: "No! That's what it said! I'm just a mouthpiece, don't talk nonsense - I'm very familiar with the brothers at the police station. Every time I go out to run a mission, they are the first to do anything. The first one to be caught is me."
Xueming caught a glimpse of the big cat's expression, which was three parts cold, three parts joking, three parts gloating, and finally a little bit naughty.
To be honest, Brother Beizi has never lied to Xueming, or there is no need to lie.
If what he said really meant what this cat meant, the cute thing on his shoulder would probably be a notorious evil beast.
Then I saw the big cat simply changed its posture, hugged Ye Bei's neck, and sat on his shoulders like a human.
Just listen to a meow meowing——
——Ye Bei followed.
"It smelled your scent and liked it very much. It said that you are a very real person, and it likes the real thing - just like Galio gives you some real ones first."
Xueming: "I don't play League of Legends... I don't have the time."
Following the cat's meow, Ye Bei continued: "It smelled a familiar odor from you, and thought your inexplicable sense of justice was unnecessary. It would affect your ability to survive, bring all kinds of trouble, and bring chaos to the world. It will never meet your standards. The stronger the light, the more solid the shadow."
Xueming looked at the big cat in shock, wondering several times whether Brother Ye Bei was joking.
His experience in the underground journey allowed him to see many disaster beasts that spoke human words or had human nature.
If these words were really spoken by the big cat, it would have almost become a human.
Ye Bei scratched the cat's chin: "It can hear your heart. There is no need to cover up or hide it. The history of Homo sapiens is to eliminate falsehoods and seek truth. All answers are wrong when they are spoken, because later people I will complete more correct answers, use clearer logic, and more straightforward words to tell truer truths."
When the cat meows, Ye Bei just says something.
"This is not historical nihilism, nor is it a very empty cliché. As far as what you are doing today, it likes this mode of expression, especially the moment you hand over the tooth bracelet, it is almost intoxicated. In this evil stereotype - you have the potential to be a bad person."
Walk out of the police station.
The two got on the milk tea shop's freight truck.
Ye Bei is preparing to continue being a cat language translator.
"It's better to join its camp..."
The big white cat immediately covered Ye Bei's mouth and was finally able to speak.
"Shut Up! Shut the hell up, slave! I will speak for myself!"
Xueming was so frightened that one soul ascended to heaven and two souls were born. Although it was not the first time that he saw foreign language and curse words coming out of a cat's mouth, it felt too scary.
Then the white cat smiled, his mouth almost splitting to the end of his eyes.
"Boy! You have the potential to be a bad guy. I think you are very handsome. You are a natural talent for kidnapping young girls and rescuing women who have lost their feet. You can hurt people with every move you take, and occasionally hit with fatal blows. How about we make a business deal, as long as you Promise me, save me from fire and water, and take me away from Ye Bei, who lacks great virtue, I..."
When the truck drove to the gas station, Ye Bei grabbed a pack of hot dogs and ham, and the big cat became as docile as a chicken.
Xue Ming was worried about Yu Ji and looked at Brother Ye Bei, waiting for an explanation.
Ye Bei threw the hot dog into the back seat, and the big cat jumped out. Apart from the sound of tearing the paper bag, there was no other sound.
Occasionally, a whistle can be heard.
"I want to eat a big hot dog!~"
Ye Bei and Xueming said——
"——The stick I asked your rich uncle to study about you should be a bone of Yongzhu. As for why I don't want to go to Jiujie Station? There is another thing that is particularly important."
Xueming saw Ye Bei roll up his sleeves, revealing a dark tiger-spot tattoo, which spread almost all the way to his neck. Even the collar of his shirt was covered with such tattoos.
Ye Bei squinted his eyes, and his eyebrow scar also showed a smile, which seemed to make him laugh or cry.
"Where is the noble master cat at the back? It loves evil people and harms good people. It is a big tiger with wings - on an equal footing with the evil beast in Nine Realms Station. It is one of the four ferocious beasts. I have become Its minions and minions are not considered alive—"
"——How could this happen?" Jiang Xueming was surprised: "No wonder I have never seen you grow older in the past six years, brother..."
As far as Xueming knows, the BOSS walks around the world in the form of a proud, ruthless and virtuous person, and the inspirational pressure emitted by his body can turn people into monsters and ghosts.
Brother Ye Bei also said that he was a demon and a minion of this big white cat.
But Brother Ye Bei is conscious and talks normally. Everything the cat says is evil, but Brother Ye Bei has never followed its wishes.
——I’m afraid there are some mysterious changes in it.
"Unfortunately, unfortunately, it doesn't have the life of a fairy like Yaozhu. I'm like the container that seals it." Ye Bei drove slowly away from the gas station: "It is Qiongqi, and its special spiritual pressure can Let people stop lying.”
Xueming has not yet realized how terrifying this power is.
Ye Bei then explained: "It's nothing, right? Do you think it's nothing? What if we extend this scope to the whole world? The Earth we know well, the Homo sapiens civilization will lose the ability to lie. What do you think will happen?"
Xueming's eyes narrowed and she saw the big white cat fighting with the hot dog in the back seat, but she felt extremely frightened in her heart.
This cat's ability is more terrifying than the thermonuclear button.
"The people at our unit's research institute learned this result through a supercomputer mimicry experiment. If this big cat is like Taozu, it has as much essence as in the abyss railway, or it is larger and can reach more than two hundred meters by eating. With the above size, the bioelectric field emitted from its skull and its spiritual pressure can affect at least 30 million people. If it is delivered to a provincial capital city, it will be a pollution-free nuclear explosion."
Ye Bei held the steering wheel with one hand and suddenly opened his other hand, pretending to be a firework.
"It's too early for humans. We simply can't bear a world without lies. So Tianshu, my unit, an organization very similar to the Abyss Railway, they used me as a container to seal this Plant a monster.”
There was surprise and admiration in Xueming's eyes. Perhaps earlier, he could vaguely feel that Brother Ye Bei was a very extraordinary person, because the business of the milk tea shop was really like that of a wealthy upstart doing charity. You can't make much money.
Brother Ye Bei must have a side job.
But I didn’t expect it to be this kind of side job.
"Can you imagine? Xueming?" Ye Bei asked: "When all sweet words turn out to be false, and lovers speak out their true thoughts immediately, when all family ties become calculable public accounts, when all Diplomatic rhetoric has become a transactional format. When all the slow, tactful, and romantic become fast, violent, and pale, all thoughts are like opening the skull and presenting the white brains to others. So terrifying - I think about what this disaster beast can bring to people every day. There is only one answer. It is like an extinct body, sent by Mother Earth to test the extinction factor of human beings. For the current Homo sapiens, it is It’s too early, just like you, your moral standards and legal concepts are too early for Hengyin and our hometown. Do you still remember our agreement? Take your time, it will be faster.”
In this passage, Xueming almost felt like she had missed hundreds of thousands of words.
"Yeah...take your time...take your time."
Ye Bei wiped the rearview mirror and carefully observed his big cat.
"The earth is very much like a living creature. Since ancient times, it has been testing the tiny creatures on its surface, trying to select the strongest races and civilizations through eras of extinction. I think these beasts with extraordinary abilities are Mother Earth sent us viruses to exercise and improve our immunity.”
"I just came home...I was just thinking about celebrating the New Year."
Ye Bei immediately stopped mentioning this.
"Okay! Let's go home and make dumplings."
The big cat in the back seat immediately appeared.
"Dear slave!~ I want beef stuffing!"
