There was a rumble of thunder in the sky outside, and the air became extremely humid and hot, making me feel uneasy.

Su Lin followed Qin Xueye into the county government office. All the civilians who had gathered in the county government office during the day had been dispersed by Ma Yong, leaving only his colleagues who came from the inspector's office with him.

Su Lin's arrival broke the stagnant atmosphere. Everyone present had very strange expressions. One of the detectives glanced at Su Lin, then looked at Ma Yong, and said hesitantly:

"Board leader, do you really want to tell him? After all, this kid is not from the Inspectorate."

Ma Yong raised his hand to interrupt the other party's words, picked up the box on the table, and walked to Su Lin.

"Xiao Lin, let me tell you straight. I am very optimistic about you. Are you interested in joining the Inspectorate? Become a detective with me. I heard Xue Ye say a long time ago that you also want to be a detective."

Ma Yong asked.

The eyes of everyone else around were focused on Su Lin. Qin Xueye pushed Su Lin gently on the back: "I'm asking you, when I asked you if you wanted to be a police officer, didn't you say you really wanted to be?"

Su Lin glanced at Qin Xueye and stood silently.

He did say this. After all, the salary he received from entering the Inspectorate was much higher than the income from farming and hunting. If he hadn't met Wang Xiucai later, which made him full of confidence in obtaining fame, he would have recommended himself long ago.

But today's situation is a bit abnormal. Mr. Ma must have encountered something abnormal, and he felt that this kind of thing must not be known to ordinary people outside the inspector's office, so he was invited to join so urgently.

"I do."

Su Lin thought for a while and finally agreed.

Now that he has become a disciple of Tianzun, the choice of becoming an official in the court is naturally invalid. After all, he needs greater freedom to work for Tianzun.

As for his status as a police officer in the Supervisory Office, he is much better than his current status as a farmer. It is more convenient for him to do anything, and there are not as many restrictions as there are for resigning as a court official. If he really doesn't want to work anymore, he can just hand over the job.

Ma Yong patted Su Lin hard on the shoulder to express his appreciation.

"Very good, you can open the box now, but be mentally prepared. To be honest, this is the first time I have encountered this kind of thing in all my years of work."

Su Lin's eyes fell on the wooden box in front of him. Through the thin wooden board, he heard something alive crawling around in the wooden box. The sound did not sound like insects.

The sound it made when it crawled was like human nails scraping on a wooden board, which was horrifying.

Su Lin clasped both sides of the lid with both hands and slowly opened it, revealing a pale hand.

It was a woman's hand, with pale skin and no blood. At this moment, it was shrinking its five fingers and groping around in the wooden box, as if it wanted to explore the environment it was in, like a

A self-aware human spider.

Su Lin looked at the dead hand with no expression on his face.

The other detectives took a breath when they saw Su Lin being so calm.

"Lao Li, you are worse than a child."

"Damn it! Don't talk about me either. Didn't you scream out in fright when you saw that thing just now?"

Most of them were frightened when they saw this moving severed hand. No one was as calm as Su Lin.

Ma Yong looked at the calm Su Lin in front of him. The more he looked at him, the more he liked him. He thought that this boy was indeed a good material for being a police officer. He was worthy of being a man who had retired from the battlefield in the East. He had a strong psychological quality.

Seeing that Su Lin had seen the strange severed hand, Ma Yong said to everyone:

"Although Emperor Gaozu has made a law that officials must not be superstitious or promote false things, this hand really exists, so it is naturally not false. I think Magistrate Liu's death may be related to the demon behind this thing.

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Su Lin noticed that Ma Ye had begun to use "superstitious" words like demons openly.

"Can it understand people speaking?"

Su Lin asked, reaching out to touch the severed hand.

Qin Xueye said quickly: "Hey, don't move! These hands will catch people!"

But it was too late, Su Lin's hand had already touched the severed hand.

The moment the strange severed hand touched Su Lin, he seemed to feel something. He grabbed Su Lin suddenly and refused to let go.

Everyone held their breath and stared at this scene in shock.

Su Lin, however, remained expressionless. He observed the severed hand that was holding on to him tightly and asked seriously: "If you can hear me, just let go."

The severed hand did not let go.

Yes, how could they let go? They had tried this kind of thing before. When Qin Xueye was caught by the severed hand, he jumped up and down in fright. In the end, he knocked it off with the handle of the knife for a long time.

"We tried it. It can't understand human speech. Of course it's not harmful. It's just scary." Agent Li said.

Su Lin nodded, raised his left hand, put it on the back of the broken hand and stroked it gently.

Su Lin first patted the back of the severed hand in a comforting manner, and the opponent's grip was indeed a little looser.

Qin Xueye saw this and said excitedly: "There is a reaction! It seems to have let go of Su Lin on its own initiative!"

"How is that possible! I hit it with my fist before and didn't let go." Agent Li said in surprise.

Su Lin took the initiative to hold hands with the broken hand, as if he felt Su Lin's kindness. The broken hand kept sliding his fingers on Su Lin's back, as if he wanted to convey something.

"It seems to be writing." Su Lin said.

Ma Yong: "Quick! Bring the paper and ink!"

Qin Xueye immediately brought the paper and the inkstone. Su Lin took a piece of paper and rubbed it on the back of the severed hand to feel the touch of the paper. Then he slowly raised the index finger of the severed hand and placed it in the inkstone.

Dip in a little ink.

The broken hand seemed to understand Su Lin's intention, and let go of Su Lin's hand, letting Su Lin put it on the paper.

Everyone gathered around to see what this severed hand would write on the paper.

His index finger danced on the paper, and he wrote the word "人", and then drew a little under "人", then paused, and tapped the paper lightly with his little finger that was not dipped in ink, as if urging others to change his position.

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It seems to know that if it does not move its position, the ink marks will be stacked together, making it difficult to distinguish.

Su Lin gently picked up the broken hand, changed the position and put it down again. After the broken hand moved, the index finger was placed on the paper again. Just when it was about to continue writing, the five fingers of the broken hand suddenly clenched tightly.

, knead the rice paper into a ball.

Everyone was startled and took a step back.

After grabbing the rice paper, the severed hand suddenly opened its five fingers after a while, trembling continuously as if in pain, twitching and struggling on the ground, like a poisoned and dying spider, scratching and crawling randomly. The scene was extremely strange.

The veins on the back of the severed hand were bulging, and crystal beads of blood-colored sweat oozed from the surface of the skin, as if he was enduring great pain.

After a few seconds of struggle, its five fingers suddenly opened, and then the index finger slowly wrote the word "one" on the ground at an extremely slow speed. After that, the muscles of the entire hand suddenly relaxed, and nothing happened again.

There was movement.

"Is this...death? Death?" Qin Xueye picked up the saber and gently poked his severed hand with the scabbard.

After everyone waited for a while, they suddenly smelled a stench. Then, the skin of the severed hand quickly shrank and turned black at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few breaths, it expanded and oozed corpse juice, and finally rotted and collapsed.

A complete hand bone was left behind.

The disgusting stench spread in all directions, and the catchers covered their noses and looked at this scene in disbelief.

In the blink of an eye, the fresh corpse hand turned into a bone hand. This was the first time they had seen this kind of thing in their entire lives.

"What the hell, what's going on?" the deputy head yelled angrily.

Ma Yong's expression is like cast iron, making it difficult to see his emotions.

Qin Xueye's eyebrows were furrowed and her expression was extremely solemn.

As for the other detectives, they seemed to be still immersed in the shock of this strange phenomenon and did not think carefully about the meaning behind it.

Su Lin covered his mouth and nose, squatted on the ground and looked at the lifeless severed hand, thinking of Luo Huainan.

For some reason, he felt that Luo Huainan was somewhat similar to this hand. Although his body was dead, he retained the ability to move like a living person.

Now that this hand has turned into white bones, will Luo Huainan turn into a rotting corpse like this hand after some time?

In addition, the hand just now obviously wanted to convey some information, but was blocked by a mysterious force.

"Team leader!" A hurried shout came from the door of the yamen, and several detectives ran into the county yamen dripping with sweat.

Ma Yong's expression changed slightly and asked: "Take all the words back?"

"No, I didn't bring it back! Something's wrong, we seem to have hit a ghost!" One of the detectives gasped.

Another detective gave his companion a hard tug and corrected him: "We can't go back. As long as we pass through Xiqiu Village and walk a few miles eastward, no matter how we go, we will eventually return to Huaiyang Village."
Chapter completed!