Chapter 139 Concentric knot

When Secretary Wang heard Chen Chuan's instructions, he was shocked and immediately asked the driver to stop the car. Then he leaned out of the window and gave orders loudly, pointing at the bald man who passed by.

The members of the Public Security Bureau immediately became excited. They had been walking around for such a long time and were getting annoyed. Now that they had finally found their target, they jumped out of the car one after another, rushed forward and pinned the man to the ground.

The bald man was somewhat shocked and angry. He struggled and shouted, "What are you doing? What are you doing? Who are you? Let me go!"

A member of the Sheriff's Department said viciously, "Don't you know what you did?"

The bald man looked bewildered.

Chen Chuan saw this and said to Secretary Wang, "Don't be so rude. He should just be someone with a butterfly tattoo, not the real target we are looking for."

At this moment, the degree of virtuality of the second self is very slight, so this person should not be the root cause.

But Secretary Wang was still a little uneasy. "This, Expert Chen..." He looked outside and asked tentatively, "Will these people..."

Chen Chuanshuo said: "Don't be afraid. Strange stories are not spread through the usual means of infection. Otherwise, such a large county would have spread throughout it long ago, and would not have waited until now."

In fact, he had looked around for a few times but didn't find such people. That was actually a good thing, because it showed that the strange story had not spread widely. Some people got tattoos for some special reasons.

Officer Wang was relieved, but he still didn't get out of the car. He said to the members of the Public Security Bureau, "Drag him to the car and check if he has any tattoos."

The members of the Public Security Bureau immediately dragged the bald man to the car for inspection. They saw a colorful butterfly on his back. Everyone was shocked. One of the members ran over and said, "Officer Wang, there is, there really is!"

Secretary Wang quickly looked at Chen Chuan.

Chen Chuan said: "Ask him where he went just now and where he has been in the past two days."

Officer Wang immediately repeated it to the team member, and then said to Chen Chuan: "Expert Chen, don't worry, these brothers from the Public Security Bureau are best at questioning."

Chen Chuan hummed and said, "Make sure it's true."

Secretary Wang coughed and said, "Yes, it must be true." After thinking about it, he felt a little worried and said awkwardly, "I'll go down and take a look."

After a while, Secretary Wang came back and said, "Expert Chen, I asked..." Because he knew that Chen Chuan didn't know the way here, he took the map in his hand and specially marked the places on it, "Expert Chen, please look, this person just went to these places..."

Chen Chuan took a look, then took out the previous map and compared it with the routes of those who had grown butterfly tattoos. Of course, this only guaranteed that it was within the past few days, and it was impossible to trace back to those who had grown butterfly tattoos earlier than that.

He circled the area where these people overlapped, and tapped on it with a pen, "Go to this area again."

Secretary Wang looked at it and suddenly his face changed slightly, because he found a station in the center of the area. He said worriedly, "Could those people come from somewhere else?"

If this is the case, then the scope of the investigation will be much larger.

Chen Chuanshuo said: "Not necessarily. Let's go take a closer look first."

"What about the people we just caught?"

Chen Chuanshuo said: "Take it with you first."

Generally speaking, once the source of the strange story is resolved, the remaining people will most likely be fine, but they will be affected to some extent, and he has no control over this. All he can do is find the root cause as quickly as possible and eliminate it to prevent more people from being affected.

"it is good."

Officer Wang returned to the car and told the driver to drive there. The police department's vehicle followed behind with the bald man.

Since the place is not far from here, it only takes a few minutes to get there.

This time, Chen Chuan made another discovery as soon as he got here. The shadow above me had obviously changed again. He looked at a middle-aged man standing on the side of the road, carrying a briefcase and preparing to unfold a newspaper, and said, "That person."

This time, Director Wang didn't need his special attention. He got out of the car immediately and ordered the security officers to catch the man. The man seemed to be struggling violently, but was finally grabbed by the collar and dragged into the car.

But after a while, Secretary Wang came back and said in confusion, "We checked, Mr. Chen, but this person doesn't seem to have that kind of butterfly tattoo."

Chen Chuan said: "Just because there is nothing on the body doesn't mean there is nothing in the internal organs."

Secretary Wang shuddered when he heard this and said, "Then I'll go ask again."

Chen Chuan thought for a moment and said, "I'll go with you." He also got out of the car and was about to walk to the back, but after taking only two steps, his pace suddenly slowed down.

He glanced at the second me and found that there was some faint blurring on it.

No, there is more!
He looked around. Because the Public Security Bureau was arresting people nearby, many passers-by were scared away. Now, apart from them, there was no one else around.

He looked up. There were no tall buildings around, and at most there were only a few flying birds. He lowered his eyes and looked at the street. Finally, he fixed his eyes on a manhole cover. This was, underneath...

He walked over and spoke to Officer Wang, who was startled and asked, "Are you sure, Expert Chen?"

Chen Chuan nodded.

Secretary Wang hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it." He looked around and found a store with a phone on the street and made a call.

Just over half an hour later, a maintenance worker from the municipal engineering project arrived, opened the manhole cover, and went in to investigate. More than an hour later, he used tools to hook up a swollen, rotten, black-green corpse with worms crawling on it. When the members of the Public Security Bureau saw this scene and smelled the odor, they all went to vomit nearby, even though they had worn masks beforehand.

Chen Chuan asked for a pair of gloves, walked up, observed calmly, reached out and rummaged through the clothes of the corpse, and finally found a knot that was soaked and turned white.

When I caught this thing in my hand, the signs of blurring on my body became more obvious. I could see that it was two symmetrical double circle knots, one large and one small, which looked like a butterfly.

He walked over with it and asked, "Secretary Wang, do you recognize this thing?"

Secretary Wang suppressed his nausea and looked at it, "A knot of love?"

Chen Chuan asked: "Is it common?"

Secretary Wang thought for a moment, "In the past, it was customary for women to weave knots as gifts for the festival, but now, apart from older people, young people don't do this anymore," he tried to ask, "Expert Chen, is this related to the butterfly tattoo?"

Chen Chuanshuo said: "It's not clear yet. We need to ask more. Call those two people over to ask them."

Seeing that he was not going to check the body again, Officer Wang breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately called the two people who were caught over. He showed them the love knot and asked them if they had seen anything similar recently.

The bald man who was arrested earlier took a look and nodded, saying, "I've seen it before. The night before yesterday I went out to the night market, and when I came back I found this thing in my pocket. I don't know who gave it to me."

Secretary Wang immediately asked, "Where are the things?"

The bald man touched his head and said, "Just throw it away. I'm a grown man and my son is as tall as me. What do I need this thing for?"

The middle-aged man looked at the bald man and hesitated to speak.

Officer Wang stared at him, "What do you want to say?"

The middle-aged man said, "I have seen it too. I found it when I came back from the night market that day. But I clearly remember not buying it. It somehow ended up in my pocket."

"Where's the stuff?"

The middle-aged man seemed to hesitate, and finally said, "Give it away."

Secretary Wang asked, "Who did you send it to?"

The middle-aged man stammered and said that he was a friend, but looking at his expression, Secretary Wang could guess what was going on and sneered.

Chen Chuan saw this and made a rough judgment in his mind. He said, "Secretary Wang, please ask those people who were arrested for having tattoos whether they have seen or touched similar things, and ask them how they dealt with it in the end."

"Okay! Expert Chen, please wait a moment. This may take some time." Secretary Wang also felt that things seemed to be working out, so he was very motivated and ran to make a phone call in a hurry.

Chen Chuan said something to the company driver who followed him, and the man nodded, went to buy drinks and cigarettes, and handed them to the members of the Public Security Bureau.

Then he took out a tube of nutritional paste, ate it, and then walked over to chat with the members of the Sheriff's Department.

When they heard that he had an elder who was a captain in the police bureau, the members of the Public Security Bureau immediately showed respect and immediately became much more enthusiastic.

For these members of the Public Security Bureau, the title of expert is not very useful, but the title of Patrol Bureau is very useful, because nominally they belong to the same government department. They need to be regularized, and in addition to the stamp of the County Government Affairs Office, they also need to go through the approval of the Patrol Bureau. Now they come up one by one to get close to Chen Chuan, trying to make him remember them.

More than an hour later, Officer Wang came back sweating profusely. He handed a list to Chen Chuan and said excitedly, "Expert Chen, I've asked everyone. Everyone has seen this thing. Here's the confession..."

Chen Chuan took it and flipped through it. Although these people got the knot of love at different times, they all had one thing in common, that is, they saw it when they came back from the night market, and in the end, the thing was either lost or given away.

He pondered for a moment and said, "After this thing was lost, butterfly tattoos appeared on their bodies... Well, this should not be lost, but a knot of hearts attached to them."

Secretary Wang was stunned for a moment, then he said in fear: "So, the heart knot is the butterfly tattoo?"

Chen Chuan said, "That's probably the case, Director Wang. Now we know that eight people have died from this, and the earliest one can be traced back to ten days ago, right?"

"Yep."

Chen Chuan nodded and said, "In that case, one person should die every day, which is consistent with certain rules of ghost stories. If we start counting from ten days ago, then ten people should have died in succession. In other words, there are about two more..." He thought of the body just now, "and one more person has died and has not been found, or has not been reported."

"No, that's not right." Secretary Wang seemed to have thought of something. "Yes, that corpse, Expert Chen, the flesh of that corpse..." At this point, he retched. "The flesh is still there, it didn't turn into a butterfly and fly away. The knot is still there."

Chen Chuanshuo said: "It is precisely because he died beforehand that the knot of love is still on his body instead of becoming a butterfly tattoo."

Secretary Wang reacted, "Expert Chen said that he died of other reasons?" He murmured, "Yes, that should be the case..."

As for how he died in the sewer, maybe the manhole cover was not there that day, and he fell in, and then it was covered again? Thinking of this, he suddenly felt uncomfortable, and quickly drove these things out of his mind, and asked again: "Expert Chen, what should we do next?"

Chen Chuan looked up at the sky and said, "I just thought about it. If my inference is correct, then there may be a way to deal with it."

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(End of this chapter)

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