Stargate: Lords of Time

Return to your seat from the chief's office.

Li Hao glanced at the calendar on the table, July 12, 1730.

"Almost a year!"

Whispered in a low voice.

On the opposite side, Chen Na asked curiously, "What's been almost a year?"

Li Hao smiled and explained: "I said that I have joined the inspection department for almost a year."

"Oh, you have a good memory."

Chen Na didn't pay attention anymore. Whoever remembers this doesn't make any sense.

Li Hao didn't say much.

He remembers!

Remember very clearly!

On August 1, 1729, he joined the Inspectorate.

And just a few days ago, on July 23, the day after the incident, Li Hao chose to drop out of school, and soon, Li Hao joined the inspection department.

On July 22, 1729, a case of self-immolation occurred in Yincheng Ancient Courtyard.

Zhang Yuan, a second-level student of the Ancient Academy, set himself on fire outside his dormitory and was burned to death.

In order not to affect the reputation of Yincheng Ancient Academy, and after the inspection by the inspection department, it was indeed an accident. The news of this matter was blocked, and very few people knew that a student died in Yincheng Ancient Academy.

Of course, there is another point that there is no trouble, Zhang Yuan's parents are both dead, and there are no relatives in the family, and there are no victims, so the matter was quickly suppressed.

Afterwards, Li Hao dropped out of school, and his tutor also speculated that it was related to Zhang Yuan. It is said that Li Hao and Zhang Yuan have a good relationship.

"Zhang Yuan!"

With a silent recitation in my heart, it has been almost a year since Xiaoyuan's death.

The scene of that day resurfaced in my mind again.

The red blood shadow seemed to hold Xiao Yuan's soul, and the blood-red flame burned Xiao Yuan's soul, pain, struggle, collapse, all kinds of emotions, other people didn't see it, but Li Hao seemed to see it clearly.

He wanted to step forward to stop him, but at that moment, Xiao Yuan's mouth kept opening and closing. Under such extreme pain and unable to make any sound, his mouth kept moving.

Others might think it was howling, but only Li Hao knew it was not.

"escape!"

Yes, that is letting yourself escape.

Li Hao is too familiar with Zhang Yuan!

Let yourself not come near, let yourself run away.

Zhang Yuan didn't die in the dormitory. When he died, he was only wearing a pair of underwear, which looked ridiculous, but Li Hao never thought it was ridiculous.

When Zhang Yuan died, he should have been ready to fall asleep, but he escaped from the dormitory in extreme pain. The direction he was going to go was Li Hao's dormitory!

Unable to make a sound, he broke a piece of tile almost with the greatest perseverance. This caused a lot of commotion in the dead of night, and many people went out to check, including Li Hao.

Is Zhang Yuan asking for help?

Outsiders think so, but Li Hao thinks...not.

He was warning himself that Zhang Yuan escaped from the dormitory, made a commotion, and attracted Li Hao, and finally said "escape" silently. This was not to ask Li Hao for help, but to let him escape.

"14 years."

Li Hao murmured again in his heart.

He and Zhang Yuan have known each other for 14 years, not just two years of classmates as others imagined, they have known each other for 14 years, classmates since childhood, or buddies?

It's just that both of them are taciturn people, and the friendship between men doesn't need to be talked about all the time.

Just like Zhang Yuan, at the moment before his death, he struggled to escape with extremely strong willpower, just to send a message to Li Hao, escape!

Zhang Yuan's self-immolation case was finally suppressed without a sound.

Li Hao, a close friend, naturally few people would investigate further.

"Xiaoyuan let me run away because of what he saw or heard, or because of pure fear? Or...Xiaoyuan knows that Blood Shadow's next target is me?"

This is also a question that Li Hao has been thinking about for a year.

He couldn't imagine how much pain Zhang Yuan had endured, but at that moment, he still warned himself. Li Hao felt that it was not easy, maybe... Xueying's next target is himself!

"Six people, plus me, maybe seven people, what do we all have in common?"

"It spans ten years, and time is getting faster and faster. If you include me, the seven people, except me and Zhang Yuan, have nothing to do with each other. Is it a random goal, or is there a clear goal?"

Li Hao rubbed his forehead lightly, and flipped through the documents in front of him. These were all the files of the six people, and they were also some clues he had collected through various channels over the past year.

It has been ten years since the first person died. There may or may not have been before that, Li Hao has no way of knowing.

With a time span of ten years, many things are actually difficult to query.

"Gender? Age? Occupation? Status? Common contacts?"

Li Hao has looked through the document in front of him many times, and Li Hao has never found out the common ground in the conventional sense. These are a few people who are completely irrelevant.

"Why did the blood shadow kill them? Did they threaten the blood shadow, or did they have other purposes?"

Countless doubts filled Li Hao's mind.

Of course, there is one more thing...revenge!

No one cares about Zhang Yuan's death, but Li Hao does.

On the side of the night watchman, there are full of uncertain factors. If it is not that he cannot get effective clues, or there is no good way to deal with a blood shadow that everyone cannot see, Li Hao will not hope that the night watchman will kill the blood shadow. Ying, he wished he could kill that guy himself!

"Li Hao, look at the profiles of those people again?"

On the opposite side, Chen Na couldn't help asking when she saw Li Hao opened the familiar document again.

In the past year, she has seen it many times. Li Hao has been reading this document, and the document is getting thicker and thicker.

But every time she wanted to take a look, Li Hao quickly closed it.

I just vaguely saw some personal data of several people.

Li Hao raised his head and showed a pure smile, "Sister Na, just take a look."

"cut!"

Chen Na dismissed it, just looked at it casually, can you see it for almost a year?

This kid is not honest sometimes.

"I've been looking at it for so long, Li Hao, what do you want to check? There are so many old patrol inspectors here, you don't ask, just check it yourself, you are a novice, what can you find? Why don't you show me, maybe I can I’ll give you some advice, don’t worry, I won’t let it out.”

Chen Na smiled and said, "How about it, show me?"

Really curious!

Li Hao didn't want people to know that he was investigating this before, because he was worried about attracting Hong Ying's attention, but now, he has been unable to find anything, and the case has been reported to Wang Jie, so it is not impossible to show Chen Na now.

But after thinking for a while, Li Hao still said: "Then you have a look, but don't bother others."

He doesn't want too many people to know that he cares about this.

Chen Na is also considered a newcomer, not that sensitive and sharp. Once other people see the materials of these people, they may soon think of those previous cases and know that Li Hao is investigating the self-immolation case.

Showing it to Chen Na, Li Hao looked at it for too long, but found nothing. I don't know if it was because he was too involved and the authorities were fascinated, or because there was really nothing to do with it.

Chen Na, an outsider, might be able to see something?

Well, Li Hao actually doesn't have any hope, but he is a little bit unwilling to get anything for a long time.

"Do not worry!"

Chen Na immediately beamed with joy, and finally had the opportunity to read Li Hao's little secret.

Fearing that Li Hao would repent, she hurriedly crouched over, snatched the documents from Li Hao's hand, and quickly looked through them.

After a while, Chen Na nodded and said, "Li Hao, what exactly do you want to find in these documents? I read it, and there are too many. You have recorded all the trivial things, and you can read them as memoirs. What result do you want?"

Li Hao thought about it for a while and said, "What they have in common! What the six of them have in common!"

Chen Na was speechless.

She looked through it carefully, and found that there were six people of different ages, occupations and identities, both men and women, and their circles were different.

And those who died early, have died for 10 years!

The last one, died for a year.

Where do these six people have in common?

For the past year of co-authoring, Li Hao has been watching this, it really is... quite free.

But after glancing at the profile of the last person, Zhang Yuan, a student of Yincheng Ancient Academy, Chen Na vaguely knew something. Li Hao's main purpose was because of this person, right?

"Zhang Yuan, died on July 22, 1729... It seems that it was not long before Li Hao dropped out of school, or did he drop out around that time?"

Chen Na looked carefully for a while, and thought of Li Hao's dropping out of school, she seemed to know something.

A student of the ancient academy, who did not drop out of school with a bright future in mind, has always been misunderstood. Seeing this file today, Chen Na felt that she might have a clue.

Thinking of this, Chen Na, who was looking at the file with a playful heart before, became a little more serious.

Did Li Hao suspect that Zhang Yuan was killed by him?

Six people, could it be that he killed them all?

Series of cases?

...

Chen Na was looking at the file seriously, and Li Hao waited for a while, but he didn't get any feedback, and he didn't care too much, and didn't care too much, but thought about his next step.

Now, the case has been handed over to the inspection department, which should investigate, but Li Hao didn't have much hope.

Unless the night watchman gets involved soon!

"The point is, if the next target is me, maybe I will encounter a blood shadow in the near future. The red shadow I saw vaguely a few days ago, is it a blood shadow? Is it looking for me? Or has it found me? Is it just because of my identity that I don’t dare to do it for the time being?”

The Inspection Department, after all, is a law enforcement agency. If a student burns himself to death, it may not cause much commotion, even for the students of the Ancient Academy.

But a third-level inspector died. As one of his own, the inspection department will definitely check and trace it carefully. This is more serious than the death of a student.

"According to the information I know, every time this blood shadow appears, there should be a time limit, it won't be too long, or even appear at a certain point."

"The few dead people actually have something in common, but... it's not clear!"

In the past year, Li Hao has not gained nothing.

At least he found out a little bit, including the day when Zhang Yuan died and six people died, the weather didn't seem to be very good.

What thunderstorm, spherical lightning, rainy day...

Not many people cared about this kind of weather, and Li Hao really paid attention to it because he couldn't find more clues.

On the day of Zhang Yuan's death, Li Hao clearly remembered that it rained lightly at night, which was not too heavy.

"It only appears when it rains, or only when the weather is bad."

Li Hao kept writing on the paper, and soon tore the paper up. After it was completely smashed, he put down his pen and fell into deep thought.

Just as he was thinking, Chen Na suddenly exclaimed in a low voice, "I found out!"

Li Hao was startled, and hurriedly raised his head, did he find it?

What did you find?

How can it be!

He didn't hold out any hope, Chen Na just looked at it for a while and found something, Li Hao felt that this guy was fooling himself.

Li Hao frowned, and soon Su Zhan frowned and smiled again: "Sister Na, what did you find?"

Chen Na vaguely saw the way Li Hao frowned before, and she was a little embarrassed. Then she remembered that Li Hao was very concerned about this matter, not when she was joking, and said a little embarrassedly: "That... Actually, I haven't finished reading it, there are too many materials .”

Li Hao's heart was at a loss, and he guessed it.

There is no disappointment, because there is no hope in the first place.

But at the next moment, Chen Na still said: "I haven't finished watching it, but... it really seems to be related, but I'm not sure."

As she spoke, she held up the paper beside her, "I have the habit of writing and drawing. I just looked at the document and wrote down the names of several parties involved."

Li Hao took a look and nodded slightly.

Six parties!

Li Hao can recite the names of these people fluently, so what can he discover?

Not the same name, not the same surname, some two words, some three words, it is completely irrelevant.

Seeing Li Hao's attention, Chen Na quickly said, "Zhou Qing, Hong Jiao, Wang Haoming, Liu Yunsheng, Zhao Shihao, Zhang Yuan, are these six people's names?"

Li Hao nodded slightly.

Chen Na looked at the name on the paper again, and suddenly became a little uncertain again. She was afraid that if she said it, Li Hao felt that it would be bad for her to fool him.

A little embarrassed, Chen Na coughed lightly and said, "Forget it, if I didn't say it, I'll take a closer look, it seems that something is not right, there are still two."

"What?"

Li Hao was stunned for a moment: "What's the difference between two?"

Chen Na became even more embarrassed: "If there is one more person surnamed Zheng and one more surnamed Li, then that's right, there is no...cough cough, I'll just say that, don't take it seriously."

She didn't want to say any more, it was too embarrassing!

Li Hao was shocked in his heart.

Why do we need two more?

The surname is Li... His surname is Li!

There is still one person surnamed Zheng missing... Li Hao can only find out some cases from ten years ago, because after more than ten years, some undisputed cases will destroy the files, because there are too many accidental cases, too many cases , all confidential rooms will not be preserved.

At this moment, Li Hao's heart was shaken, but his face remained unchanged, he smiled and said: "Sister Na, what do you want to say, what's the matter, let's talk about it, why do you need two more surnames? "

Chen Na looked at Li Hao and asked curiously, "Aren't you from Yincheng?"

"yes."

"That……"

As Chen Na spoke, she thought of something, nodded and said, "Understood, isn't your family... There are no old people?"

"My grandparents passed away early."

Li Hao became more and more curious, why did he get in touch with the old man again?

Seeing that he was interested, Chen Na was not embarrassed anymore, and said, "If there are old people in the family, some old people like to speak some local dialects. My grandma used to like to say these when I was a child."

Chen Na thought for a while, then recalled a moment before she said: "I used to live with my grandma, and my grandma liked to sing some local folk songs in Yincheng. I remember that there was a folk song that was sung like this..."

Chen Na imitated her old grandmother, cleared her throat, and sang in a low voice: "The Li family's sword, the Zhang family's knife, the Zhao family's fist, the Liu family's leg... the young master of the Zheng family is holding back!"

After singing a short section, Chen Na felt embarrassed herself, and said with an embarrassed smile: "It's not good to sing in Mandarin. In fact, my grandma used to sing in Yincheng dialect very well. Of course, it's just some local operas. I didn't listen to it If you pass, you will feel a little dirty."

But at this moment, Li Hao's eyes flickered wildly.

Soil song!

The sword of the Li family, the sword of the Zhang family...

There are eight surnames in this song!

Li, Zhang, Zhao, Liu, Wang, Hong, Zhou, Zheng!

He snatched the paper from Chen Na's hand, and immediately landed on the first name, Zhou Qing.

This is the one who died ten years ago!

He was also the first person involved in the self-immolation case that Li Hao found out.

Then came the salesperson Hong Jiao, and then Wang Haoming...

If, if the first person to die was not Zhou Qing, but a person surnamed Zheng, then Zhou Qing would be the second, Hong Jiao the third, and Wang Hongming the fourth...

In Yincheng Tuqu, the eight surnames are reversed, and the order is actually in line with the time of death.

The last one to die, Zhang Yuan, corresponds to the Zhang family's knife.

That said... there's one more!

There is another person who will die, the other party's surname is Li, the first one in the opera, the sword of the Li family!

Li Hao's expression changed.

He hurriedly looked at Chen Na, unable to suppress the shock and excitement, his voice was a little hoarse: "This song... When did it start to spread, and who spread it..."

Chen Na was startled by his eyes, and quickly calmed down, "Don't worry, Li Hao, many old people should have heard this song, and young people have heard this song, so you don't know, if you are interested, we You can check it slowly, don't worry!"

Li Hao took a deep breath and suppressed the impulse in his heart.

Don't rush!

He didn't expect that just by showing Chen Na a glance, the other party actually gave such an important clue. Li Hao had never heard of this song, and no one sang it. It should have been out of fashion many years ago.

Because with the popularization of Mandarin, these local rural songs have long been buried with the older generation and gradually lost.

Grandpa Li Hao's generation died early, and Li Hao had never seen it before, so naturally no one would sing it to him.

"Calm down!"

Li Hao yelled in his heart, what's the rush, there are clues, this is the key, don't worry.

The key now is that I want to make sure that the first person to die is Zheng.

Some of the case files from ten years ago were destroyed in the confidential room, but it was not that there was no place to check, and he didn’t need to check carefully. He only needed to find out whether he died because of self-immolation fifteen to ten years ago The deceased with the surname Zheng will do.

At this moment, Li Hao was both excited and frightened.

If they really match up, then the next... is me!

Xiao Yuan must have seen and heard something, so he let himself escape.

"The sword of the Li family..."

"The sword of the Li family!"

Li Hao thought in his heart, his eyes widened suddenly, the Li family...has a sword!

PS: The update time is around 4:00 pm and 10:00 pm. The new book period is tentatively scheduled twice a day. There is no way. The new book period is about 40 days on my side. It must be completed. There will be more chapters on the eagle in the new book issue, and this chapter will be five thousand.