Upon hearing Chen Chuan's instructions, Secretary Wang felt a jolt of energy and imdiately ordered the driver to stop the car. He then leaned out of the window and gave loud instructions, pointing towards the bald man in the distance.
The security team mbers imdiately beca excited. They had been growing restless after searching for so long, and now they finally had a target. They jumped out of the car and rushed towards the man, pinning him to the ground.
The bald man was sowhat alard and angry. He struggled and shouted, "What are you doing? What are you doing? Who are you? Let go!"
A security team mber said fiercely, "Don't you know what you've done?"
The bald man looked bewildered.
Seeing this, Chen Chuan said to Secretary Wang, "No need to be so rough. He's probably just soone who has been infected with the butterfly tattoo, not the real target we're looking for."
At that mont,
Secretary Wang was still uneasy. "This, Expert Chen..." He looked outside and tentatively asked, "These people, will they..."
Chen Chuan said, "Don't be afraid. Supernatural entities aren't transmitted through common infection thods. Otherwise, this large county would have been overrun long ago. The fact that it hasn't spread widely suggests that those who have acquired the tattoo have done so due to so special reason."
In fact, the fact that he hadn't found such people after driving around for a few laps was a good thing, indicating that the supernatural entity hadn't spread on a large scale yet. This ant that so people acquired the tattoo due to specific reasons.
Secretary Wang was relieved, but he still didn't get out of the car. He instructed the security team mbers, "Drag him to the car and check if he has a tattoo."
The security team mbers imdiately dragged the bald man to the car and checked him. They were surprised to find a colorful butterfly on his back. One of the mbers ran over and said, "Secretary Wang, he has it! He really has it!"
Secretary Wang quickly looked at Chen Chuan.
Chen Chuan said, "Ask him where he's been recently, and where he's been in the past two days."
Secretary Wang imdiately repeated the instructions to the team mber, then said to Chen Chuan, "Expert Chen, rest assured, these security brothers are experts at interrogation."
Chen Chuan nodded and said, "Make sure it's the truth."
Secretary Wang cleared his throat and said, "Yes, it will definitely be the truth." After thinking for a mont, he was still a little worried and said sowhat awkwardly, "I'll go take a look."
After a while, Secretary Wang returned. He said, "Expert Chen, I've asked him..." Because he knew Chen Chuan didn't know the roads here, he held a map in his hand and specifically marked the locations on it. "Expert Chen, please take a look. This person has been to these places..."
Chen Chuan looked at it, then took out the previous map and compared it with the routes taken by those who had grown butterfly tattoos before. Of course, this only ensured it for the past few days, as it was impossible to trace back any earlier.
He circled the area where these people converged and marked it with a pen. "Let's go take a look around this place."
Secretary Wang looked at it and suddenly his expression changed slightly, because he found that there was a bus station in the center of the area. He said worriedly, "Could these people be from other places?"
If that was the case, the scope of the investigation would be much larger.
Chen Chuan said, "That's not necessarily the case. Let's go take a closer look first."
"What about the person we just caught?"
Chen Chuan said, "Take him with us for now."
Under normal circumstances, if the source of the supernatural entity is resolved, the remaining people would likely be fine, but they would be more or less influenced. He couldn't control this, all he could do was find the root cause as quickly as possible and eliminate it to prevent more people from being infected.
"Okay."
Secretary Wang returned to the car and instructed the driver to drive there. The security vehicles behind followed with the bald man.
Because the location was not far from here, they arrived in less than a few minutes.
This ti, Chen Chuan made another discovery as soon as he arrived.
Secretary Wang didn't need him to emphasize it this ti. He imdiately got out of the car and ordered the security team mbers to arrest that person as well. That person seed to struggle violently, but was eventually grabbed by the collar and dragged into the car.
After a while, Secretary Wang returned, he said with so doubt: "We checked, Mr. Chen, but this person doesn't seem to have that kind of butterfly tattoo on him."
Chen Chuan said, "Not having it on his body doesn't an it's not inside his internal organs."
Secretary Wang shuddered when he heard this, and said, "Then I'll go ask again."
Chen Chuan thought for a while and said, "I'll go with you." He also got out of the car and was about to walk towards the back, but his steps suddenly slowed down.
He glanced around.
No, there's more!
He looked around. The security team's arrest of people had startled many passers-by, and now there was no one else but them.
He looked up at the higher places. There were no tall buildings around, at most only a few flying birds. With that in mind, he looked down at the street and finally focused on a manhole cover. This is, underneath...
He walked over and said a few words to Secretary Wang, who was stunned and said, "Is Expert Chen sure?"
Chen Chuan nodded.
Secretary Wang hesitated for a mont, "Okay, I'll make arrangents." He looked around and found a shop with a telephone next to the street and made a call.
In just over half an hour, maintenance personnel from the municipal engineering departnt arrived, opened the manhole cover, and went in to investigate. More than an hour later, they used tools to hook up a swollen, rotten, black-green corpse, on which worms could be seen wriggling.
The security team mbers who saw this scene and slled the sll, even though they had masks on in advance, all went to the side to vomit.
Chen Chuan asked for a pair of gloves, walked up, calmly observed, and reached out to rummage through the corpse's clothes, finally finding a pale, discolored rope knot.
When he grabbed this thing,
He walked over with it and asked, "Secretary Wang, do you recognize this thing?"
Secretary Wang endured the nausea and looked at it, "Love knot?"
Chen Chuan asked, "Is it common?"
Secretary Wang thought for a while, "It's a custom from our Qiaoshen Festival in the past. Won weave ingenious knots to set a love token on the festival, but now except for so older people, no young people make this," he tried to ask: "Expert Chen, is this related to butterfly tattoos?"
Chen Chuan said, "It's not clear yet, we need to ask again, call those two people over and ask."
Seeing that he didn't want to examine the corpse anymore, Secretary Wang breathed a sigh of relief and imdiately called the two people who had been caught and showed them the love knot, asking if they had seen anything similar recently.
The bald man who was caught earlier looked at it and nodded and said: "I've seen it, I've seen it. I went out to the night market the day before yesterday, and when I went back, there was this thing in my pocket. I don't know who stuffed it for ."
Secretary Wang followed up and asked, "Where is it?"
The bald man touched his head, "I threw it away, I'm a big man, my son is as tall as , what do I need this thing for?"
The middle-aged man looked at the bald man, hesitating to speak.
Secretary Wang stared at him, "What do you want to say?"
The middle-aged man said: "I've seen it too, and I only found it when I ca back from the night market that day, but I clearly rember that I didn't buy this thing, and it ended up in my pocket for no reason."
"Where is it."
The middle-aged man seed a little hesitant, and finally said: "I gave it away."
Secretary Wang said, "Who did you give it to?"
The middle-aged man stamred and said it was a friend, but looking at his appearance, Secretary Wang could guess what was going on, and sneered a few tis.
Seeing this, Chen Chuan roughly made a judgnt in his mind, and he said: "Secretary Wang, please ask those people who have been confird to have tattoos and have been detained whether they have seen or co into contact with similar things, and then ask them how they finally dealt with it."
"Okay! Expert Chen, please wait a mont, it may take so ti." Secretary Wang also felt that things seed to be on the right track, and he was very motivated and hurried to make a phone call.
Chen Chuan told the company driver who followed, and the man nodded, went to buy drinks and cigarettes, and handed them to the security team mbers.
Then he took out a nutrition paste, ate one, and then went over and chatted with the security team mbers.
When he heard that he had an elder in the Patrol Bureau who was a captain, these security team mbers imdiately beca respectful, and imdiately beca a lot more enthusiastic.
For these security mbers, the na of an expert is not easy to use, but the na of the Patrol Bureau is very useful, because in na they belong to the sa governnt agency, and they need to beco regular employees. In addition to the seal of the county governnt office, they finally need to go through the approval of the Patrol Bureau. Now, each of them ca up to get close, trying to get Chen Chuan to rember him.
More than an hour later, Secretary Wang ca back sweating profusely. He handed a list to Chen Chuan and said excitedly: "Expert Chen, I've asked everyone, everyone has seen this thing, this is a confession..."
Chen Chuan took it and flipped through it. Although these people got the love knot at different tis, they all had one thing in common, that is, they only saw it when they ca back from the night market, and the thing was either lost or given away.
He pondered for a mont and said, "After this thing was lost, butterfly tattoos appeared on them... Well, this shouldn't be lost, but the love knot got on them."
Secretary Wang was stunned, and then he said in fear: "Then, then the love knot is a butterfly tattoo?"
Chen Chuan said: "It's very likely that this is the case, Secretary Wang, the number of people known to have died because of this is eight, and the earliest can be traced back to ten days ago, right?"
"Yes, yes."
Chen Chuan nodded and said: "In this case, one person should die every day, which also conforms to so of the laws of the Supernatural Entity. If we start counting from ten days ago, then ten people should have died one after another, that is to say, there are probably two..." He thought of the body just now, "There is one more person who died and has not been discovered, or has not been reported."
"No, that's not right." Secretary Wang seed to have thought of sothing, "Yes, that body, Expert Chen, the at of that body..."
Speaking of this, he gagged, "The at is still there, it hasn't turned into a butterfly and flew away, the love knot is still there."
Chen Chuan said: "It is precisely because he died in advance that the love knot is still on him, and has not beco a butterfly tattoo."
Secretary Wang reacted, "Expert Chen ans that he died for other reasons?" He murmured, "Yes, that should be the case..."
As for how he died in the sewer, maybe the manhole cover wasn't there that day and he fell down, and then it was covered again? Thinking of this, he suddenly felt uncomfortable, and quickly banished these thoughts from his mind, and asked again: "Expert Chen, what should we do next?"
Chen Chuan looked up at the sky and said, "I've been thinking about it just now. If my deduction is correct, then maybe there is a way to deal with it."
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