Llorente's American joke was not told in the end, and Zhang Zhong's discussion about the research meeting did not produce a result.
But everyone didn't care, because they just had a fun attitude from the beginning.
Later, it turned out that in the battlefield of liquor, foreigners like Lin De could not defeat Chinese people like Zhuang Yu and others.
Llorente and the others drank quite vigorously at first. Although they found the liquor to be unpalatable, they still drank a lot. When Zhang Zhong finally sent them back to the hotel, they could no longer walk in a straight line.
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In the next two days, Zhang Zhong took a few of them around Jiangyang.
Zhuang Yu and the others left first because they had to attend the research meeting, so they said goodbye to Zhang Zhong and the others at noon on the third day.
After the research meeting is over, they will leave directly from the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and return to Yanjing.
It is not easy for Lin De and others to come here, and unlike Zhuang Yu, they have their own affairs, so they can stay in Jiangyang for a few more days.
They stayed in Jiangyang for five days before Linde and Llorente left.
In the past few days, besides playing, they also did some serious things.
Regarding the new plan, Zhang Zhong had reached an agreement with them, and even the copyright agreements for several works had been signed after their lawyers came over.
After they left, it happened to be the day when Zhang's new book was released.
However, this new book is not "Cat City", but "The Evil Hypnotist" which Zhang Zhongzhen has held in his hands for a long time.
"The Evil Hypnotist" has indeed been in Zhang Zhong's hands for so long that he almost forgot about it.
This book is a bit similar to "Blind Spot" or "The Devotion of Suspect X" in that it doesn't highlight the detective itself. When people read these novels, they pay more attention to the entire story.
The story of "Evil Hypnotist" begins with a zombie case.
Interpol Luo Fei received a case in which a fat man intentionally killed someone and was shot dead by the police.
This was an ordinary-sounding case, intentional homicide, and the murderer was shot dead on the spot.
But the way the murderer committed the crime was shocking. The fat man did not use any weapon, but directly used his teeth to chew off half of the deceased's face.
Such a weird way of committing murder makes people intuitively think that the murderer must be suffering from some kind of mental illness or taking some kind of hallucinogenic drugs, otherwise normal people would not be able to do such a thing.
The best thing to check is whether you are taking the medication.
The forensics department quickly gave the answer. The murderer's blood samples were very normal and showed no signs of taking drugs.
Is that mental illness?
But the murderer seems to have no history of mental illness, and what kind of mental illness would do such a thing?
Luo Fei began to investigate the murderer's experience before committing the crime, and finally found out that the murderer's change began in a hospital.
The murderer hurried to the hospital, and when he caught him, he asked if there was an antibody virus serum, but neither the doctor nor the nurse knew what the murderer was talking about.
Later, someone said that the murderer was not talking about antibody virus serum, but anti-T virus serum.
The so-called anti-T virus serum is actually just something in movies and does not exist in reality. The function of this anti-T virus serum is to prevent humans from turning into zombies when they are infected by zombies.
It was naturally impossible for the murderer to find this serum in the hospital. In the end, because the anti-T virus serum was not found within the specified time, he became a zombie.
This sounds weird, but it is true.
A fat nerd who usually likes to watch zombie movies thinks that he is infected with the T-virus for some reason. If he does not find the anti-T-virus serum within the specified time, he will be completely transformed.
Of course, the murderer didn't really turn into a zombie, he just felt that he had turned into a zombie, so he acted in a zombie's way, which ultimately led to tragedy.
But why do good people believe that they are infected with the zombie virus?
For a normal person, this kind of thing is simply unbelievable.
But no matter what, Luo Fei didn't believe that this was an accident. He firmly believed that this was a murder. However, Luo Fei couldn't figure out how the mastermind controlled the murderer.
At this moment, Luo Fei received another case.
Like the previous case, this latter case is also somewhat beyond the scope of ordinary people's cognition.
This is a "suicide" case.
There seems to be no doubt in the case, because someone testified that they saw the deceased jump from the building by himself, and there was no possibility that anyone else was pushing him down.
But based on the deceased's jumping posture and the testimony of witnesses, Luo Fei knew that this was not a simple suicide case.
The deceased jumped directly from the roof of the building without any hesitation, and he landed chest first.
Under normal circumstances, if it is suicide, the limbs should hit the ground first. If the chest hits the ground first, it is more like being thrown from a building.
However, the witnesses' testimonies were conclusive, confirming that the deceased jumped down on his own.
Later, by questioning witnesses, Luo Fei obtained some effective information.
Before his death, the deceased had been with a group of pigeons on the roof of the building, and his behavior was very much like a pigeon. Even his jumping downstairs was the same as a pigeon spreading its wings and flying.
He seems to be a dove without wings.
The so-called jumping off a building is actually not jumping off a building, but the pigeon tried to fly, but failed to fall. Because it believed that it could fly, it did not take any self-protective actions when falling, which resulted in the pigeon landing on its chest.
And according to eyewitnesses, when the deceased jumped from the building, they heard a whistle in the distance.
This time, two seemingly unrelated cases were linked together.
One thought he was infected with the T-virus and turned into a zombie, and the other thought he was a flying pigeon. They both fell into some kind of fantasy.
The hospital clock and the whistle heard by witnesses seemed to be key elements in triggering the case.
It seems that these two key factors are a button, and the deceased in the two cases are robots. After pressing the button, they act according to the prescribed pattern.
But the breakthrough in the case came from a post on the Internet with a very direct name - I can control your life and death.
In the post, the poster said that he trained a zombie yesterday and raised a pigeon today.
When this post was published, the zombie case was already popular on the Internet, but the pigeon case had not yet occurred.
This shows that even if the person who posted this post is not the murderer, he is definitely an insider.