Chapter 139: Love Knot

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Upon hearing Chen Chuan's instructions, Secretary Wang felt a jolt of energy and immediately 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 members immediately became 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 somewhat alarmed and angry. He struggled and shouted, "What are you doing? What are you doing? Who are you? Let me go!" A security team member 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 someone who has been infected with the butterfly tattoo, not the real target we're looking for." At that moment, 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 methods. 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 some 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 meant that some 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 members, "Drag him to the car and check if he has a tattoo." The security team members immediately dragged the bald man to the car and checked him. They were surprised to find a colorful butterfly on his back. One of the members 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 immediately repeated the instructions to the team member, 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 moment, he was still a little worried and said somewhat 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 time, Chen Chuan made another discovery as soon as he arrived. Secretary Wang didn't need him to emphasize it this time. He immediately got out of the car and ordered the security team members to arrest that person as well. That person seemed to struggle violently, but was eventually grabbed by the collar and dragged into the car. After a while, Secretary Wang returned, he said with some 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 mean 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 moment, "Okay, I'll make arrangements." 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 department 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 members who saw this scene and smelled the smell, 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. Women weave ingenious knots to set a love token on the festival, but now except for some 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 immediately 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 me." 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 me, 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 came back from the night market that day, but I clearly remember that I didn't buy this thing, and it ended up in my pocket for no reason." "Where is it." The middle-aged man seemed a little hesitant, and finally said: "I gave it away." Secretary Wang said, "Who did you give it to?" The middle-aged man stammered and said it was a friend, but looking at his appearance, Secretary Wang could guess what was going on, and sneered a few times. Seeing this, Chen Chuan roughly made a judgment in his mind, and he said: "Secretary Wang, please ask those people who have been confirmed to have tattoos and have been detained whether they have seen or come into contact with similar things, and then ask them how they finally dealt with it." "Okay! Expert Chen, please wait a moment, it may take some time." Secretary Wang also felt that things seemed 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 members. Then he took out a nutrition paste, ate one, and then went over and chatted with the security team members. When he heard that he had an elder in the Patrol Bureau who was a captain, these security team members immediately became respectful, and immediately became a lot more enthusiastic. For these security members, the name of an expert is not easy to use, but the name of the Patrol Bureau is very useful, because in name they belong to the same government agency, and they need to become regular employees. In addition to the seal of the county government office, they finally need to go through the approval of the Patrol Bureau. Now, each of them came up to get close, trying to get Chen Chuan to remember him. More than an hour later, Secretary 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, this is a confession..." Chen Chuan took it and flipped through it. Although these people got the love knot at different times, they all had one thing in common, that is, they only saw it when they came back from the night market, and the thing was either lost or given away. He pondered for a moment 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 some 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 seemed to have thought of something, "Yes, that body, Expert Chen, the meat of that body..." Speaking of this, he gagged, "The meat 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 become a butterfly tattoo." Secretary Wang reacted, "Expert Chen means 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." S~eaʀᴄh the ηovёlFire .net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

Chapter 139: Love Knot

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