Chapter 13 Chapter 12 The Terrible Dead

The night was getting darker and the chill was overwhelming. Most of the islanders have fallen asleep.Luo Fei lay on the bed, although the lights in the room were not turned on, his eyes were wide open.Too many things happened in the past day, and he had to sort out his thoughts. A fire and an unusual death didn't seem like much of a surprise.But the sudden appearance of a woman with a baby in her arms cast a strange color on the whole process.Zhou Yonggui's sighting, Guiwangpo's rumor, and Meng Shaohui's dream, these three have no detectable connection whether in terms of time, space or logic, but this mysterious figure appears frequently. What does it mean?

Luo Fei recalled the first night he spent in Nanming Mountain, which was also dark and cold.Then something terrible happened that night, drawing him step by step into a fatal crisis. So what will happen tonight? Amidst the chaos of thoughts, Luo Fei's consciousness gradually blurred, and his tiredness brought him to sleep. The night seemed to pass peacefully, and when Luo Fei opened his eyes again, he saw the first ray of morning light coming in through the cracks in the window.He sat up, stretched his muscles and bones a few times, then put on his clothes and went to the ground, ready to go to the courtyard to take a few mouthfuls of the freshest air of the day.

Suddenly there was a "click" of the courtyard door, as if it had been roughly knocked open, and then someone rushed into the courtyard in a hurry. "What are you doing? Going home?" Sun Fachao's reproachful voice immediately rang out. "Uncle Sun, does Police Officer Luo from the city live here?" The visitor's tone was a little flustered. Luo Fei hurriedly opened the door and came out, and recognized that it was the boy from Zhou Yonggui's shop who broke into the courtyard.There was a "thump" in his heart, and he had a bad feeling. Sure enough, the boy was crying, and what he reported to him was exactly what he was most worried about: "Officer Luo, Village Chief Jin asked me to come to you, so go and have a look, our boss, he... he is dead!"

Luo Fei immediately asked the boy to lead the way and rushed to the accident site.Along the way, the boy told Luo Fei some related situations. Last night, Zhou Yonggui did not go home.Guo Guizhi's mood changed from anger to worry, and finally to anxiety.As soon as it was dawn, she called the little boy up, and the two searched along the mountain road and village, and finally found Zhou Yonggui's body on the mountain road below Guiwang Slope.Guo Guizhi, who was blubbering on weekdays, was in a mess all of a sudden. He only knew how to cry and howl. The young man called the village doctor and the village head Jin Zhenyu successively, and then under Jin Zhenyu's order, he came to Sun Fachao's house and told the situation. Luo Fei.

While talking, the two had already arrived at the foot of Guiwangpo. On the mountain road not far away, Jin Zhenyu was comforting Guo Guizhi who was still snotting and crying, and another young man in his thirties was guarding Zhou Yonggui's next to the corpse. Seeing Luo Fei's arrival, Jin Zhenyu left Guo Guizhi for the time being, and went forward with an anxious expression on his face: "One more died, another died! Come and take a look, oh, by the way, this young man is the current doctor on the island, It's called Li Dong." Li Dong took the initiative to say hello: "Are you Police Officer Luo? I just checked. He was frozen hard, and the estimated time of death was about five hours. The cause of death, my judgment is the heart." sickness."

As Li Dong said, he pointed to a medicine bottle next to the corpse.The medicine bottle was toppled over, and the pills were scattered around the mouth of the bottle. Judging from the label, it was a bottle of Quick-acting Jiuxin Pills. Luo Fei didn't talk to him, and first bent down to observe the corpse.The deceased was lying on the steps of the mountain road, with no obvious trauma or blood stains on his body.He curled up slightly, covering his heart with one hand, and resting his other hand weakly beside the medicine bottle.And the expression on his face is unforgettable. It's hardly an expression that should be on a human face.His facial features are extremely distorted, his mouth is half open, and the muscles in his cheeks are tense, as if he is trying to yell out with all his strength, his eyes are wide open. But there is a kind of palpitating terror frozen.

Luo Fei looked at the dead man, trying to feel the last trace of emotion he left in the world.This kind of communication was very uncomfortable, after a while, Luo Fei had to look away. "The exact cause of his illness is still unclear, but it is obvious that he was suddenly stimulated by some kind of outside world." Li Dong said his opinion from the side, "Further speculation, he seems to have seen something. He was terribly shocked and horrified by the stuff, but for some reason he couldn't look away for a long time." "Can't look away for a long time?" Jin Zhenyu looked at the young man with some surprise, "How do you say it as if you were there at the time?"

"It's not difficult to explain. The deceased has already taken out the medicine bottle and even opened it. This shows that it took at least ten seconds from his onset of illness to his final death. But until the critical moment when he was about to take the pill, he still twisted his neck , Looking up into the distance, you can see that the situation before his eyes is not only terrifying, but also has a fatal attraction to him." After Luo Fei finished speaking, he nodded approvingly to Li Dong, "Your analysis is very good." Li Dong smiled modestly: "I have to thank my teacher, he taught me the method of careful observation, and also taught me how to feel a person's psychology."

"Your teacher?" The other party's words aroused Luo Fei's little interest, "Who is he?" "Doctor Xue is Xue Xiaohua's father." Jin Zhenyu helped explain, and Li Dong nodded in approval. Oh?Luo Fei couldn't help but look at the young man a few more times, he realized that he would be a very useful character.But for now, he had to focus on the case in front of him. Because the body had already been moved, Luo Fei had no choice but to ask Guo Guizhi who was the first to contact the scene in order to speculate on what the deceased had seen. "What did he look at when he died?" This question did not bother Guo Guizhi, because the gaze of the deceased was so special that no one could help but look for the reason for this gaze.Guo Guizhi pointed to the high place on the right rear with his finger: "Here, he just stared over there, with an expression like he saw a ghost."

Everyone looked in the direction of Guo Guizhi's finger, and couldn't help but be taken aback. What appeared in front of them was a 100-meter-high steep mountain wall with jagged rocks and dense trees and shrubs. This is the legendary "Ghost Watching Slope"! "There? What will be there... Impossible, impossible." Jin Zhenyu shook his head again and again, obviously he was negating some kind of absurd association in his mind, but his tone revealed that he couldn't hide it. confusion and fear. Luo Fei was deeply impressed by Jin Zhenyu's calmness and courage at the scene of the fire the night before, but now he has lost his position so quickly, which inevitably makes him a little disappointed.Thinking that he had ordered the other party to look for Zhou Yonggui yesterday, but there was no result, which led to such a passive situation, Luo Fei couldn't help asking in a dissatisfied tone: "Where did you go to find Zhou Yonggui yesterday? Where can he hide all day in such a big place?"

Jin Zhenyu defended slightly distressed: "I have traveled all over the island where there are residents. Some people reported that he appeared near the cave in the morning, but no one knew his whereabouts afterwards. Although the island is not big, he must be careful. It’s hard to find if you hide.” There is also truth to this statement, and there is no point in pursuing accountability now.Luo Fei refocused his thoughts on the case itself. He looked up at the "Ghost Watching Slope" not far away, and asked himself, "What is he doing here?" "It's not necessarily that I came here on purpose, maybe I just passed by." Seeing Luo Fei thinking hard, Li Dong reminded him beside him. pass by?It is indeed possible.Judging from the fallen posture of the deceased, he should have been heading east downhill at that time, and Zhou Yonggui's small shop was located on the east side of the island. Was he just getting ready to go home? Judging from the time of death, it was already late at night when he came here.If the answer to the first one is yes, another question becomes more relevant: Where did he come home from?In other words, where did he go before?What did you do? "Where does this road lead to on both sides?" Luo Fei is not very familiar with the terrain in the mountains, and he can only ask others for help when he is uncertain. "There is a fork in the road going up." Jin Zhenyu replied, "One leads to the village on the west side of the island, and the other leads to the mountain. Going down leads to the village on the east side. This road actually connects the villages on the east side of the island and the villages on the west side of the island. the only way to go.” Luo Fei nodded.When the other party said this, he began to have some concepts in his mind.He had walked this way yesterday when he went to the cave on the west side of the island. Did Zhou Yonggui go to the village in the west during the day yesterday, or hid in the mountains, or stayed near the cave all the time?Obviously, this question cannot be solved by standing and thinking, Luo Fei began to work according to the train of thought. He first said to Jin Zhenyu: "Go to the village to find out. You have to go to both the east and the west, and the scope should be as large as possible. One is to re-confirm whether anyone saw Zhou Yonggui yesterday. The other is to ask who walked away last night. Passing this road, did you find anything unusual during it?" After Jin Zhenyu left, Luo Fei ordered the boy to go to Zang Junyong to borrow the camera.The family members of the deceased were present. Of course, the corpse could not always be left to dry in the wilderness, and it was already broad daylight. After the news spread, it is estimated that it would soon attract onlookers from the islands.The information must be left as soon as possible, and the scene should be properly handled. Sure enough, not long after, busybodies in twos and threes came to this small road, watching the dead man talking about it.Perhaps none of them had ever seen such a terrifying expression of death. Upon hearing the news, Monk Deping and his young disciples also rushed over.It seems that Deping has a high status in the hearts of the islanders. Seeing his arrival, people stepped aside to let him approach. Deping first gave Luo Fei a salute with palms together, then turned to Guo Guizhi who was in great grief, and persuaded him: "Life and death are destiny, and when the doom comes, we can only be happy with fate. Sister-in-law, don't be too sad, some things are man-made. It can't be changed." "What fate? I don't believe it. I think it's all a man-made disaster!" Accompanied by these husky words, Zang Junyong squeezed into the crowd. He seemed very dissatisfied with Deping's idealistic views, and said angrily, "What doomsday is not doomed?" Try it on me, I'll see who can do anything to me!" Deping didn't argue with him, shook his head and took a step back, then read Buddhist scriptures to Zhou Yonggui's corpse.He closed his eyes, turning a string of beads in his hand, with a look of compassion. Guo Guizhi had already calmed down a little at the side, but at this moment, he was caught in the sad place by what the two said, and burst into tears again. Luo Fei didn't care about dealing with the chaotic atmosphere, so he took the camera from Zang Junyong, and after taking pictures of the deceased, he took a "click" at Guiwangpo. A few clever villagers had some kind of association with Zhou Yonggui's death, and couldn't wait to tell their findings, which immediately caused a small commotion in the crowd of onlookers.Everyone raised their heads one after another. Although they couldn't see anything special, an inexplicable uneasiness had shrouded everyone's heart.