Chapter 2: Ghost Eye Zhang Lin

  Sz City Train Station.

  Ouyang Xuan wore a white casual outfit, carrying a large backpack, and stood at the station entrance with a dazed expression: amidst the sea of people in front of him, where was the person who came to pick him up?

  Suddenly, Ouyang Xuan's phone rang.

  "Hey, I'm Ouyang! Yeah, I've arrived. Where are you? Under the tree across the street? Is that a police car?" Ouyang Xuan looked up and saw a Cherokee police car parked under a big poplar tree, with a slightly chubby young man smiling and waving at him from beside the car.

  Ouyang Xuan smiled, turned off his phone, slung his backpack over his shoulder and walked away with big strides.

  "Hello, I'm Ouyang!" Coming to the side of the car, Ouyang Xuan stretched out his right hand with a bright and cheerful smile, sizing up the young man in front of him: about 1.7 meters tall, slightly chubby, relatively sturdy, with a round face like Maitreya Buddha, full of warm and gentle smiles, looking very harmonious.

  "Hello, I'm Zhang Lin, but everyone in the group calls me 'Ghost Eye'!" Zhang Lin also smiled and stretched out his right hand, shaking hands heavily with Ouyang Xuan.

  It's hard to imagine that such an ordinary-looking young man is also a member of the mysterious Dragon Squad!

  Ouyang Xuan secretly thought it was strange, and humbly said: "I've heard Dan Feng mention you before, you entered the group before me and have rich experience, I'll have to ask for your guidance often in the future!"

  "Haha, I don't dare to accept that! I've heard of your heroic deeds, and although you're new here, among the Dragon Squad, you might be the strongest in terms of individual combat power! In the future, who knows, maybe I'll even need you to cover for me!" Zhang Lin smiled, his expression full of admiration - this was the mutual appreciation between strong individuals.

  Ouyang Xuan smiled awkwardly and scratched his head: "You're overpraising me, I'm not that amazing!"

  "Haha, don't be modest, get on the car, we're in a hurry!" Zhang Lin patted Ouyang Xuan's shoulder with a smile.

  "Good!" Ouyang Xuan nodded and opened the car door, then got in.

  Zhang Lin quickly started the Cherokee and navigated through the endless stream of people, heading deep into the city.

  "Ouyang, let me tell you the general situation!" Zhang Lin said while driving: "The thing is like this: since the beginning of this month, in just over half a month, there have been seven consecutive murder cases in SZ, resulting in 17 deaths."

  "Wow——, with so many people dead, it should be a shocking case, but why is there no news about it in the newspapers?" Ouyang Xuan couldn't help but feel shocked: China's social security has always been good, and he had rarely heard of such vicious serial murders!

  Zhang Lin's face turned solemn, and he shook his head with a bitter smile: "Because the deaths of these seventeen people were extremely cruel, it's feared that they were not caused by human beings. Therefore, in order to avoid causing great panic in society, the police have strictly sealed off the news!"

  "So that's how it is, no wonder they wanted our Dragon Team to take the lead! Zhang Ge, you first, have you found anything important?" Ou Yang Xuan's face also turned serious: having killed seventeen people in a row, this murderer, whether human or demon, must be an extremely ruthless character and not easy to deal with.

  "Ouyang, you might not have guessed: the identities of these seventeen people are all the same, they are all members of the Tianlong Gang, a Shenzhen underworld organization - from the leader to ordinary thugs! Fortunately, it's a mysterious and elusive underworld, otherwise this news would be really hard to keep under wraps!" Zhang Lin suddenly turned his head and gave Ouyang Xuan a meaningful glance.

  "Black society!? How strange! Could it be that these ruthless guys have offended something they shouldn't have?" Ouyang Xuan was puzzled.

  "The seventeen people all died in the same way, completely penetrated by sharp objects through various parts of their bodies! I saw it myself: each body had at least a dozen holes, with blood and flesh blurred and rotten like a beehive; and everyone's face was extremely terrified, as if they had seen something very frightening. What's even more strange is that after careful examination, I couldn't see what kind of sharp object caused the injury from the wound!" Zhang Lin's face turned solemn, and his previous warmth and smile were nowhere to be seen.

  "Hiss——" Ouyang Xuan couldn't help but take a cold breath: "The murderer's methods are so brutal and terrifying, it doesn't seem like something a human would do. Zhang Ge, what could it be?"

  "It's hard to say for now! However, judging from the wound, it's filled with an evil and eerie aura, definitely not human, either a ghost or a demon!"

  Ouyang Xuan smiled: "I've only seen zombies, I don't know what ghosts and demons look like?"

  "This time the murderer shouldn't be a zombie, but ghosts and demons also come in all shapes and sizes, who can say for sure!" Zhang Lin shrugged.

  "Heh heh!" Ouyang Xuan laughed and said confidently, "No matter what it is, as long as it comes out to harm people, we must get rid of it! Right, Zhang Ge, where are we going now?"

  "Go to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the main leaders of the bureau are waiting for you. After analyzing the case in detail, we will think of a way to cooperate and capture that despicable thing!" Zhang Lin said.

  "Uh, although the underworld isn't anything to be proud of, you can't just go around killing people, it's time to put a stop to this!" Ouyang Xuan nodded, suddenly remembering something and laughed: "Right, Zhang Ge, why do they call you 'Ghost Eye'? Is this your special ability?"

  Zhang Lin was taken aback, smiled wistfully with a mix of bitterness and pride: "Yes! Ouyang, just like you, I'm also an oddball in the eyes of ordinary people! In that year when I was 17, my special ability suddenly awakened. You can't imagine how terrifying my special ability is!"

  Ouyang Xuan found it somewhat strange and couldn't help but ask: "Zhang Ge, what exactly is your special ability?"

  "There's a strange legend that has been circulating in the world for a long time, which says that there are extremely rare individuals among humans who can be born with ghost eyes. Not only can they see ghosts and demons, but they can even communicate with them! Unfortunately, I'm one of those people!" Zhang Lin suddenly fell silent, his expression filled with an unspeakable sorrow.

  Ouyang Xuan suddenly understood and remained silent for a moment before saying, "I suppose this terrible ability has brought countless suffering to you and your family, hasn't it?"

  "Yes!" Zhang Lin exclaimed, "You can't imagine how terrifying it is for a 17-year-old to suddenly see those frightening spirits. The fear was enough to drive someone mad! My parents were ordinary people and couldn't understand my fear. Just as they were about to send me to a mental hospital, the Dragon Team appeared. So I was lucky enough to become a member of the Dragon Team instead of a mental patient!"

  Ouyang Xuan was silent for a moment, then patted Zhang Lin's shoulder comfortingly and said understandingly, "Zhang Ge, who made us freaks? By the way, how are Uncle and Aunt now?"

  Zhang Lin's expression brightened, and he smiled: "In the Dragon Squad, after a period of psychological treatment, with the help of many eccentric people, I walked out of my psychological shadow! From then on, I no longer regarded this special ability as a nightmare, but rather as a blessing from heaven! After the heart demon was eliminated, I recovered normally and joined the Dragon Squad. My parents thought I had been cured and lived very happily!"

  "That's great!" Ouyang Xuan was also delighted: "But it's also true that there are many weirdos in the Dragon Group, you've seen a lot and you don't feel like you're weird yourself!"

  "Haha, exactly!" Zhang Lin also burst out laughing.

  "Oh, right, I heard from Dan Feng that you seem to be good at dealing with demons and ghosts, but not good at dealing with zombies. Why is that? Aren't they all just monsters?" Ou Yang Xuan asked in puzzlement.

  "Yao, ghosts and zombies are different!" Zhang Lin smiled and shook his head: "Yao, ghosts are all spiritual objects with three souls and seven spirits. My ghost eye can refine their three souls and seven spirits, making me a natural nemesis of these yao and ghosts. But zombies are just a lump of resentment that forms a walking corpse, although they have some spirituality, they don't have three souls and seven spirits. Once the physical body is destroyed, it's dead, so my 'ghost eye' is powerless against them."

  "So that's how it is!" Ouyang Xuan suddenly enlightened and nodded, thinking: I've gained a bit more insight!

  Suddenly, a Cherokee turned into a large courtyard and stopped near the east wall.

  Zhang Lin extinguished the fire and turned back with a smile: "Ouyang, the city bureau has arrived, let's go up!"

  "Alright!" Ouyang Xuan opened the car door and jumped out with his backpack.

  "Wow, what a magnificent office building!" Ou Xuan couldn't help but exclaim as he gazed at the over twenty-story police headquarters in front of him.

  "Sz is one of the richest cities in the country, there's a lot of money! Let's go!" Zhang Lin smiled and pulled Ouyang to walk inside.

  ……

  In the conference room on the top floor, smoke was swirling around, four police officers were sitting silently, each smoking a cigarette, their faces somewhat gloomy.

  Suddenly, the door of the conference room opened and Zhang Lin and Ouyang Xuan walked in.

  Four police officers immediately extinguished the cigarettes in their hands and stood up together - to them, Ouyang Xuan and Zhang Lin were imperial envoys with special privileges, who could not be treated carelessly!

  "Comrades, let me introduce you to my colleague, Ouyang Xuan! The number one master of the Dragon Team!" Zhang Lin suddenly winked at Ouyang Xuan.

  Ouyang Xuan's face suddenly turned red, and he hastily said: "I'm not the number one master, Zhang Ge is overpraising me, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed!"

  "Hello, Comrade Ouyang, I'm Director Su from the Municipal Bureau. It's an honor to work with you!" A man in his fifties, a veteran police officer, came up and shook hands with Ouyang Xuan, beaming with enthusiasm.

  "Director Su is being too kind, we all just worked together!" Ouyang Xuan hastily said with humility.

  "Comrade Ou Yang, let me introduce you!" Director Su pointed to a slender and spirited police officer on his right: "This is Deputy Director Li of the Municipal Bureau!"

  "Hello!" Ou Yang Xuan and Deputy Director Li shook hands with each other.

  "This is Deputy Director Zhao of the Municipal Bureau!" Director Su pointed to a slightly chubby and gentle police officer.

  "Hello!" Also a casual greeting!

  "And finally, this is our city bureau's head of criminal investigation, a tiger general, Liu Jun!"

  Ouyang Xuan sized up the head of the criminal investigation team: about 1.8 meters tall, with a sturdy build and a fierce face; probably over 40 years old, but still exuding an unyielding and uncompromising aura; his eyes were extremely sharp, seeming to carry a hint of iron-blooded battle-hardened air.

  "Is Captain Liu from a military background?" Ouyang Xuan asked suddenly, grasping Liu Jun's hard and powerful hands.

  Liu Jun was also sizing up Ouyang Xuan, who was known as the "top master of the Dragon Group", and smiled faintly: "Yes, I used to serve in the 14th Army Reconnaissance Company and participated in the Sino-Vietnamese War!"

  "Oh, the 14th Army was the ace army at that time, with brilliant military achievements. No wonder Liu Captain has an inexplicable aura of killing intent on him!" Ouyang Xuan smiled!

  "It can be seen from your sharp eyes that you are not ordinary either!" Liu Jun smiled slightly, and his right hand suddenly burst out with a powerful force, tightly grasping Ouyang Xuan's right hand.

  Ouyang Xuan remained expressionless and exerted his strength, the powerful force within him also responded in kind - he knew this was the "greeting" between strong individuals, admitting defeat was not allowed!

  Liu Jun's face changed instantly, and he immediately let go of his hand, saying with admiration: "I've long heard of you, and it's indeed true to your reputation!"

  "Captain Liu is being too generous, and you're not bad either!" Ouyang Xuan also replied calmly.

  Director Su seemed to have realized something and glared at Liu Jun fiercely, smiling politely: "Comrade Ouyang, please take a seat! Comrade Zhang, you too!"

  Zhang Lin secretly winked at Ouyang Xuan, and they smiled knowingly at each other before sitting down.