Chapter 3 Chapter 2 The Scared Ostrich

The wedding held at Jinhua Hotel at noon today is a bit special. The couple is a young man and woman of Korean ethnicity, so the wedding ceremony has a strong ethnic style.The two tables of immediate family members sitting at the front of the hall were all dressed in Yishui Korean costumes, colorful red and green, very eye-catching. After drinking for three rounds, the atmosphere of the venue became lively.Encouraged by the guests, the bride and groom walked up to the front desk and danced hand in hand with the singing of relatives and friends.The singing and dancing seemed to have a strong appeal, not long after, several pairs of guests of the same race got up and left the table, dancing beside the couple.Joyful emotions spread and filled the entire venue.

The Han guests here are used to the vulgar wedding games and pranks, and they naturally felt a sense of joy in such a wedding atmosphere.Although they are not as good at singing and dancing as the men and women of the Korean ethnic group, they have a lot of fun drinking, talking and laughing. Everyone is very happy, and their physical and mental state seems to have never been better than today. People were singing, dancing, laughing, or drinking, and everyone was enjoying themselves, except Chen Bin. This is a young man less than thirty years old. He is the groom's college classmate. He came to Longzhou on a business trip and happened to be in time for the banquet.At this moment, he was looking around the crowd with a strange expression, his breath was short of breath.

He didn't drink too much wine, but for some reason, he felt depressed.This feeling is gradually getting stronger, and he can no longer control his emotions. If you stay any longer, you may lose your composure.Chen Bin propped himself up and walked quickly towards the bathroom. The people who attended the wedding banquet were not familiar with each other, and in such a noisy atmosphere, no one paid attention to Chen Bin's departure, and no one wondered: why did he never come back? Two hours later, the wedding banquet ended and the guests dispersed.The hotel's logistics staff found Chen Bin again when they were cleaning the bathroom. At this time, he had already turned into a cold corpse.

When he received the report from the Jinhua Hotel, Luo Fei was in his office staring at the photo of Yu Ziqiang's death scene in a daze.Hearing that there was another strange death, Luo Fei immediately called Zhang Yu and others, and went straight to the crime scene without stopping. The manager of the hotel had been waiting for the arrival of the police in panic at the door of the bathroom.Seeing Luo Fei and the others, he hurried forward: "It's so strange, so strange that such a thing happened!" He shook his fat head again and again, with an expression of disbelief. Luo Fei didn't need to waste time with him, he just nodded politely, and then asked straightforwardly: "Who is the first witness?"

"Me." A middle-aged man dressed as a cleaner replied. "You come in with us, the others are waiting outside." Luo Fei said as he walked into the bathroom first. The cleaner followed at the end, and he pointed to the close inner compartment and said, "There are people in there, you can see for yourself, it's quite creepy." Luo Fei stepped forward, gently opened the wooden door that was concealed, and a strange scene appeared in front of his eyes. A man half-kneeled in front of the toilet in the cubicle, his hands hugging the edge of the toilet tightly, his joints and muscles tensed, as if he was exhausting all his strength to complete something.

It is easy to guess what he wants to do from his posture, but the answer is incomprehensible. Luo Fei couldn't help turning his head to look at Zhang Yu beside him, and found that the other party's eyes were also full of doubts. "Could it be... Could it be that he wants to get into the toilet?" After a while, Zhang Yu murmured to himself. Zhang Yu's words sound ridiculous, but this is indeed the first feeling left by everyone at the scene. The man leaned over, his buttocks were raised high, and his head was deeply buried in the toilet. Although his muscles had already stiffened, it was obvious that until the last moment before he died, he was still trying to put his head Go deeper!

At this time, the cleaner began to describe the process of discovering the deceased: "The wedding party guests dispersed around two o'clock in the afternoon, and I came to clean afterward. The door of this small room was locked from the inside at that time, and I thought someone was using it." , cleaned all the other places, and then waited at the door. But more than half an hour passed, and no one came out. I was a little puzzled, so I went to try to knock on the door, but no one answered. I looked in under the foot of the door, and found a person kneeling on the ground motionless. At this moment, I knew something was wrong, and I quickly kicked the door open. The posture of this person was the same as now. I wanted to pull him up, but he got in He couldn’t pull it alone. Then our manager came over and said to me: Don’t pull it, people are already dead, so hurry up and call the police!”

When the cleaner said this, although Luo Fei didn't speak, his eyes were keenly moving around.First of all, he paid attention to the snap lock of the wooden door of the compartment.This is the most common bolt-type door lock, which can only be opened and closed from the inside.The enclosure around the cubicle is as high as a person, and there is no object to step on near the enclosure, so it seems difficult to climb.These on-site conditions, combined with the cleaner's description, may rule out the possibility that there were other people in the compartment at the time of the incident.

The assistant Xiao Liu did not wait for orders, and had already taken photos of the scene carefully.After this step was completed, Luo Fei and Zhang Yu entered the bathroom and came to the side of the deceased. The dead man's head was completely sunk into the toilet, so the only parts of his body that were directly exposed were his hands.Those hands alone are enough to impress! Although the skin has long been cold and the blood has stopped flowing, those ten fingers are still tightly clasped to the edge of the toilet.The joints on the back of the hand are protruding, and the veins are emerging. The hidden strength seems to be enough to crush anything held in it!

In fact, not only his hands, but his whole body was filled with a terrifying power. Even though he had been dead for a long time, the power still did not disappear. It made the body of the deceased firmly connected with the hard toilet, making it difficult to separate. . Not to mention the cleaner, Luo Fei and Zhang Yu worked together, sweating profusely from exhaustion, to finally loosen the stiff body. Slowly, slowly, as the body turned over, the head of the deceased gradually appeared. As a result of being soaked in the stagnant water at the bottom of the toilet for a long time, the skin on the face of the deceased showed a sickly pale white color, which made the wide open eyes extraordinarily blood red!

The extremely protruding, bloodshot eyes recorded the last emotions of the deceased in this world.The sewage in the toilet slides down the hairline of the forehead and the eye sockets, giving people the illusion that the dead are crying. Luo Fei's gaze stayed on this face for a long time, he seemed to be able to vaguely hear the dying sob of the deceased, it was an inhuman voice full of despair and fear. While Luo Fei was having an emotional exchange with the deceased, Zhang Yu was conducting a preliminary investigation into the cause of death of the deceased. When they first received the report, Luo Fei and Zhang Yu speculated whether it was an accident caused by drunkenness.Judging from the location of the incident and the environment of the scene, this is indeed the most likely hypothesis.Therefore, Zhang Yu deliberately brought a portable alcohol tester, which came in handy at this time. It was determined that the alcohol content in the deceased's blood was 12mg/100mL, which is equivalent to a glass of beer or about eight cents of liquor for a person with a normal drinking capacity.Obviously, this amount of drinking is far from intoxicating. However, the cause of death is not difficult to judge. There were mushroom-shaped foam in the mouth and nose of the deceased, and some bleeding under the conjunctiva. Combined with the situation at the scene, Zhang Yu gave a preliminary conclusion: "This person drowned." "Drowning?" This was obviously beyond Luo Fei's expectation. "Yes. He tried his best to get into the toilet, his whole face was submerged under the water surface, and he eventually suffocated himself to death." Zhang Yu shook his head gently as he said.He knew very well that the scene he described could be described as "absurd". But the various situations at the scene of the crime really reproduced this absurd scene in front of everyone's eyes. "What on earth is he trying to do?" Zhang Yu muttered to himself, and then smiled wryly at himself, "Is there gold in this toilet?" Luo Fei lowered his head slightly, his brows were furrowed into knots.His left arm was placed across his chest, his right elbow rested on his left wrist, his index finger and thumb of his right hand formed a "eight" character, and he lightly pinched his chin.Those who are familiar with Luo Fei know that this shows that he is in a state of deep thinking. Zhang Yu, Xiao Liu and others were all silent, for fear of disturbing his thoughts.In the silence, everyone waited anxiously. After a long time, Luo Fei finally raised his head, his eyes returned to the face of the deceased, and then he said a word slowly but solemnly: "Ostrich." "What?" Zhang Yu wondered if he heard it wrong. "Ostrich." Luo Fei emphasized again, "Ostrich of fear!" The others in the room looked at each other, still unable to understand Luo Fei's meaning. "When danger comes and I can't avoid it, the ostrich will bury its head in the sand. This way of self-help is undoubtedly full of sorrow and despair." Luo Fei sighed softly and returned to the topic, " This person is like a frightened ostrich." Zhang Yu understood Luo Fei's meaning: "You mean, he encountered something terrible, and when there was no way to escape, the extreme fear caused him to stick his head into the toilet?" "If possible, he would get his whole body into it." Luo Fei said lightly.His voice was not loud, but it carried a deep chill. The scalps of everyone present were slightly numb. In front of them, the dead man's face was distorted. A strange and terrifying atmosphere was spreading from his wide-open eyes, soaking into everyone's heart. "But what is he afraid of?" Zhang Yu looked around blankly. This is also what Luo Fei is thinking about.What kind of horrific scene happened in this confined space, so that a young man did not dare to expose his head until he was suffocated to death? In the bathroom now, apart from the dead body, there seemed to be nothing strange or abnormal.But that weird and terrifying atmosphere really exists in every corner of the space!