Lao Fan then asked: "Actually, we have all imagined what you said, I need some new clues, don't you really remember?" ”
"There's only so much I can say, but your boss may have gained more than you."
"Su Qiong?" Lao Fan was stunned for a moment, he suddenly remembered that Su Qiong hadn't said which clue he was going to follow, which was indeed very strange, it seemed that she was hiding something.
Lao Fan had the heart to ask Boss Sun about Qi Yu's situation again, but Boss Sun had already lit a slender cigarette, which meant that he would not answer any more questions.
Su Qiong had a deep-rooted idea that the smartest person in the city could only be the old man Shentu.
Su Qiong was adopted by the old man Shentu when she was about five or six years old, and her childhood life was always vivid.
I remember when I was a child, every night I hid in the room on the second floor that resembled a church, heard some strange sounds, looked out of the window, and there seemed to be an unknown fire shaking in the graveyard not far away, because the fog of the night was very thick, the fire seemed to be far away and near, as if some life was swimming there, which made her very afraid.
One day, Su Qiong finally told the old man Shentu about his fears, the old man just smiled, and then personally took Su Qiong into the cemetery one night, from that day on, Su Qiong knew the reason for the ghost fire, and it was also from that day that Su Qiong thought that his grandfather was the smartest person in the world.
In Su Qiong's childhood, there was also a doubt about this abandoned church-like house. In her opinion, this dilapidated building must have hidden many secrets of her grandfather. The style of the house looks very strange, it does not look like an oriental building at all, the red façade and pointed roofs are different from the other houses in the city. There was also a secret door on the floor of the house that led to the basement, but Old Man Shentu never let Su Qiong pass through this door. As if there was some danger hidden in the basement, once Su Qiong, driven by curiosity, took advantage of her grandfather's absence and secretly walked in alone, the basement seemed to be a labyrinth, crisscrossed by tunnels, she quickly lost her direction, and finally the old man Shentu hugged the already desperate and frightened little Su Qiong out. After coming out, Su Qiong vaguely remembered that she had seen many novel things in the basement, but few of them could be named.
In her childhood memories, Su Qiong was most interested in a black cat. Su Qiong clearly remembered that when she was carried home by the old man Shentu, this black cat named Nietzsche already existed, and he was nearly twenty years old, but he was still very agile in action. The old man always gave the cat the best food, but it did not grow fat at all, as if it was born a thin cat, but its fur was extremely bright, and its eyes were like searchlights in the middle of the night, often glowing green, as if it could see all the things in the world. What's more, this cat is extremely humane and has a particularly good relationship with the old man Shentu. In Su Qiong's consciousness, she always felt as if this black cat had become a servant and a housekeeper of her grandfather. Whatever grandpa says, the cat will do his best to do it.
It was also because of the black cat Nietzsche, when Su Qiong heard that the nightmare was caused by the toxomorphic fungus on the cat's body, she immediately remembered her grandfather, who might know a lot about this.
It is indeed like a paradise in the world, with wild flowers and a house that looks very old, but the path and the well in front of the door are shrouded in the fog peculiar to the god, like a fairyland.
Old man Shentu seemed to have expected Su Qiong to come, he sat on the edge of the well, smoking a dry tobacco pouch, and the black cat was lying on the well platform, looking very leisurely.
Su Qiong hurriedly walked over: "Grandpa." ”
The old man Shentu raised his eyes for a moment, then lowered his head and stroked Nietzsche's smooth fur, and asked, "What is looking for me this time?" ”
Su Qiong looked at the gentle movements of the old man's hand: "Grandpa, do you know that I have something to look for you?" ”
The old man Shen Tu raised his face, his expression was still so serious, because of his ugly appearance, he always looked very scary: "If there is nothing, I am afraid you will not come." ”
Su Qiong smiled, but her eyes still didn't leave the old man's hand: "Grandpa is different, this time I asked you about it." As she spoke, Su Qiong pointed to the lazy black cat on the well platform.
The old man Shentu did not show any particular surprise, but the movement of his hand had stopped, and he asked, "Are you going to take Nietzsche away?" ”
Su Qiong smiled, then sat down on the edge of the well platform, stretched out her hand to stroke Nietzsche and said, "Of course not, how dare I?" Grandpa, I want to ask if you've heard anything about the Nightmare? ”
Old Man Shentu nodded: "I've heard that it is a very strange disease, and people who have this disease are not so much killed by germs as they are killed by their own delusions." But this disease has been extinct for hundreds of years, have you found it again? ”
It seemed that this was similar to what Old Fan Qiuqiu said, so Su Qiong told Old Man Shentu everything that happened on the night of Qingming Festival and everything he saw when he went to the deceased Qi Yu's house in the morning, and then added: "We now suspect that someone in the city of Huangdu is deliberately creating this germ. ”
Old Man Shentu thought for a while, and suddenly asked, "You said that there was the body of a black cat in that coffin, but it lost its tail, and the tail was on the body of the deceased Qi Yu?" ”
Su Qiong nodded.
The old man immediately asked, "Where did you put the body of the black cat?" ”
Su Qiong replied: "What about the inspection of our technical department?" ”
The old man's face immediately changed, and he said in a deep voice to Su Qiong: "Call immediately, you'd better not touch that corpse." ”
Su Qiong didn't expect her grandfather, who had always been calm, to say such a thing, so she asked curiously, "Why?" This is Sister Qiu's job. ”
Old Man Shentu sighed and said, "There is nothing wrong with the work, but have you ever heard of the 'Curse of the Spirit Cat'?" ”
Su Qiong was stunned for a moment and shook her head: "I haven't heard of it, grandpa, you won't be very superstitious, right?" ”
The old man Shentu smiled and said: "Actually, superstition is still a matter of whether you believe it or not, why do people always say that cats are more spiritual than dogs?" This is by no means groundless, there must be some strange things related to cats in history, one of the legends is about the 'curse of the civet', and anyone who is cursed by the civet will definitely be infected with the disease of the spirit cat. ”
"But you're still talking about superstition, aren't you?" Su Qiong said unconvinced, "There are only two kinds of diseases, or being infected or having low immunity or aging organs, how can you be cursed?" ”
The old man Shen Tu took a puff of dry tobacco and said: "If you know about that legend, I'm afraid you won't think so, the legend is sometimes very scientific, do you believe it or not?" ”
Su Qiong shook her head.
Old Man Shentu sighed: "You really don't call your colleagues?" ”
"Don't use it?" Su Qiong frowned and said.
Old Man Shentu nodded: "Maybe my worries are superfluous, there are many things in this world that we still don't understand." ”