Chapter 22 Chapter 21 Ghost in the Cemetery

Under Luo Fei's instructions, Hui Tong ran down the mountain as fast as he could, and went to invite the island's doctor Li Dong and the village head Jin Zhenyu successively. Luo Fei stayed alone in the cemetery, and used this time to investigate the crime scene in detail. The deceased sat facing the tall tombstone without words, and the overall shape still maintained the cross-legged sitting posture when performing rituals.The clothes on his body are intact, and there is no obvious trauma.His facial muscles were distorted, his eyes were wide open and protruding outwards, judging from the relevant conditions, he echoed the characteristics of death by suffocation.

It should be the strip of cloth wrapped around his neck that caused his death.The cloth is about three centimeters wide and about one meter long, with smooth and neat edges and two pointed triangles at both ends. It should be a ribbon-shaped textile made for some purpose.Judging from its fineness, it is very old and dirty, its original color can no longer be seen, and in some places there are even lint caused by decay. The cemetery is not big, with an area of ​​no more than fifty or sixty square meters.Except for the cement tomb and the stone base under the tombstone, it is all barren weeds.At this time, it was cold in winter, the ground was densely covered with withered and yellow grass roots, and the surface was frozen hard, making it difficult to find traces such as footprints on it.

To the south of the cemetery is the back room of the sacrificial hall, and to the north is a cliff, with a steep wall and a height of 40 to 50 meters. There will never be a road leading to the outside world in this direction. The east and west sides of the cemetery are surrounded by dense bushes. Starting from both sides of the wall of the back room, two bamboo fences one person high separate the cemetery from the bushes and reach the edge of the cliff.The fence is very dense, and the original purpose should be to prevent the beasts in the mountain from breaking in and harassing the undead who are resting in the tomb.The fence was intact at this time, showing no signs of being toppled or ripped apart.And the strength of the bamboo fence cannot withstand a person climbing over it.

From various indications, in such a space, if anyone enters or exits, he must pass through the two huts, and Luo Fei has been sitting upright in the front room, never leaving a single step. So, who strangled Monk Deping to death? Could it be that he committed suicide? Dr. Li Dong, who arrived soon after, firmly denied this hypothesis. "If a person commits suicide, he can do it by hanging himself, hitting a wall, jumping off a cliff, or cutting his veins, but it is absolutely impossible to strangle himself to death like this. Because the pain a person feels during the suffocation process is beyond the limit of the human body. Yes, no one can complete such a thing, that is to say, halfway through, you will definitely lose the ability to continue the behavior due to the extreme physical pain-you know, it takes a lot of strength to strangle yourself Therefore, the death of Monk Deping is undoubtedly homicide."

Luo Fei agrees with Li Dong's argument very much, but this means he has to face a difficult question: How did the person who strangled Deping enter this small cemetery, and how did he leave? "There is another place that is also confusing." Li Dong frowned, as if thinking about another problem, "Although Monk Deping did not commit suicide, he seems to have died willingly." Luo Fei actually noticed this too, but he was more willing to listen to the opinions of professional doctors, so he encouraged the other party to continue talking with his eyes. "Judging from the deceased's posture, he didn't make any struggle when he was strangled to death. He seemed to have been sitting so quietly, waiting for the arrival of death. This is also an incredible thing, but if you have The determination to die and the tenacity of perseverance are possible to realize." Li Dong said while looking at the corpse, as if he could read the mental state of the deceased from the eyes of the deceased.

"That's right, no matter who killed him, he really didn't resist at all. But why?" Luo Fei whispered to himself, his heart was full of doubts, remorse, and even a little bit of anger. Since the mysterious cases on the island happened one after another, this should be Luo Fei's closest investigation to the answer.He has pushed Deping to nowhere, and the secret that has been hidden for many years seems within reach.But at this moment, the mysterious "black hand" once again cut off the clues. What's even more annoying is that such a change happened under his nose, but he didn't notice it.After this round of confrontation, the situation that was already under his control has become extremely passive, which is really unacceptable.

"Officer Luo, judging from the condition of the body, Deping should have died not long ago. You were the first to arrive at the scene. Didn't you find any clues about the murderer?" Li Dong obviously didn't see Luo Fei's depression. Selfishly asked this embarrassing question. "Not only was I the first to arrive at the scene, it can even be said that I never left the scene." Luo Fei told Li Dong about the situation before and after the incident, then smiled wryly, and said helplessly: "And this murderer, But it comes and goes without a trace, as if it never existed.”

"What? There is such a thing?" Li Dong's eyes widened in surprise, "So, the murderer saw that the secret was about to be exposed, so he was eager to kill and silence him? But he wouldn't come out of the ground out of nowhere, would he? Even if he hid in the back room or the cemetery before, where did he go after the murder? Could it be that he has the ability to fly over the wall, or fly off the cliff?" Li Dong's words suddenly reminded Luo Fei, he recalled that in the case of the Dead Wood Temple, after Shun Ping scared the young monk Shun De to death, he escaped from the roof, so that no one could see any trace for a while.Will the murderer follow suit this time?

However, Luo Fei quickly gave up on this idea. Unlike the monks' dormitory in the Dead Wood Temple, the back room of the sacrificial hall was not only built tall, but also there were no windows or other structures on the wall facing the cemetery.To climb to the roof, you must have a ladder. Luo Fei was frowning and thinking, when he heard hurried footsteps in the front room, and then saw Hui Tong and Jin Zhenyu rushing over. "Why did another one die?" The anxiety and panic on Jin Zhenyu's face were obvious, and he no longer had the commanding demeanor he had at the scene of the fire that night.

Luo Fei first narrated the incident to Jin Zhenyu again, while Jin Zhenyu was listening, he looked around the body of the deceased, his face became paler and paler, and finally his eyes stopped on the cloth belt around the neck of the corpse, rather Asked worriedly: "What is this belt?" Luo Fei shook his head, expressing that he was not too clear about it, then he asked Huitong beside him, "Have you seen this tape before?" "I haven't seen it." The little monk replied very positively, "It's not something in our sacrificial hall." "It wasn't from the sacrificial hall? It was brought by the murderer." Li Dong analyzed unhurriedly, "I guess he picked it up from anywhere so that no traces will be left. Look at this The cloth strips were dirty and old, as if they had been buried in the soil for more than ten years and had just been dug out."

Li Dong's casual words sounded like a thunderbolt to Jin Zhenyu, and he shivered uncontrollably.Such an exaggerated reaction naturally couldn't escape Luo Fei's eyes, who immediately asked vigilantly, "What's wrong with you?" "No...it's nothing." Jin Zhenyu's expression was a little dazed, and he didn't know where his thoughts went, "I was thinking about it, no, it's absolutely impossible, it's all because I was thinking about it, and I lied to myself." "What did you think of?" Luo Fei continued to ask persistently. Jin Zhenyu smiled bitterly: "I...I thought of the...dead people underground." This idea is too bizarre.Luo Fei and Li Dong glanced at each other and shook their heads involuntarily. As a village head, it was really inappropriate to say such a thing on this occasion. The other person present obviously had a different feeling from Luo Fei and Li Dong.After hearing Jin Zhenyu's words, the little monk Huitong said tremblingly, "This backyard is indeed not clean, it is haunted by ghosts." "Oh, haunted?" Luo Fei immediately shot at the other party with his piercing eyes, "Tell me, how is it haunted?" "Haunted at night." Relevant memories originally made the little monk very timid, but Luo Fei's attention gave him an inexplicable courage, his words gradually became smooth and peaceful, and his thoughts became coherent, "I I and Master have always slept in the front room. It was normal before, but these few nights, every night after midnight, there are often rustling sounds from the back room, as if something is moving. I am a light sleeper , so it was easy to be woken up. The night before yesterday, when that sound appeared again, I couldn't help it, so I bravely looked in the direction of the back room from the crack of the door. As a result, I saw a ghost !" "What kind of ghost?" "A female ghost. At that time, the door between the back room and the cemetery was open. Under the moonlight, I vaguely saw a shadow standing motionless on the edge of the cemetery cliff, as if looking down the mountain. The shadow turned its back to me. I only remember that her long hair was blown up by the wind, she was clearly a female ghost!" "and after?" "I was terrified. I backed up a few steps, almost fell to the ground, and screamed. At this time, my master also woke up. I told the master what I saw, and he wanted to take me to the Check in the backyard. I didn’t dare to say anything, so the master opened the door and passed by alone, while I hid on the bed and covered my head with a quilt. After a while, I heard the master call me, saying that there was no ghost at all. Only then did I have the courage to get out of bed and came to the cemetery in the backyard. Sure enough, there was nothing there except the tomb. Master told me not to think about it and go back to sleep. But the more I thought about it, the more scared I became, you guys Say, what I saw a minute ago has disappeared in a blink of an eye, what is this ghost?" The little monk's words were clear and clear, thinking of the old and new rumors related to "Ghost Watching Slope", it was chilling. At this moment, a sea breeze blew by, and the bushes on both sides of the cemetery were rustling. There was a strange atmosphere. "A female ghost?" Luo Fei seemed to think that the atmosphere was not strong enough. After pondering for a moment, he asked again, "Then did she have a baby in her arms?" "I didn't see this clearly. Because her back was facing me, and I only took one look, and I backed away in fright." The little monk had already finished speaking, but suddenly thought of something, and quickly added, "But , I seem to have heard a baby crying from the backyard." "Are you sure?" Luo Fei narrowed his eyes and asked while thinking about something. "I can't hear it very clearly." The little monk replied honestly, "I just feel some faint voice, if there is nothing, it sounds very strange. Hearing what you said, I don't know. Suddenly I remembered that the sound was a baby crying." Hearing this eerie description, even Li Dong's back couldn't help feeling a little hairy, and Jin Zhenyu bit his lip nervously, his eyes flickering around, as if some ghost would come out of nowhere immediately . No wonder the kid seemed so afraid of the backyard.Luo Fei thought of Huitong's performance last night, and corresponded back and forth, the little monk didn't seem to be telling lies. But, do female ghosts really exist? The eerie cemetery fell into silence, everyone was silent, they were all troubled by the same problem. On the other side, after receiving the message from Jin Zhenyu, Zang Junyong rushed to the sacrificial hall with his camera without stopping.All the way on the road, he didn't believe that Deping was really dead.Not long ago, he thought that what happened before was the fault of Deping. If he died too, how could all this be explained? When he came to the scene, he had to accept the reality in front of him: not only was Deping dead, but he was undoubtedly killed by homicide. While Luo Fei was taking pictures of the deceased, Zang Junyong kept looking at the corpse in front of him with a complicated expression, and his thoughts never stopped for a moment. After the on-site inspection and related detainees were completed, how to deal with Deping's body became a problem.Deping has no relatives on Mingze Island, so it is obviously difficult for little monk Huitong to take on this responsibility.How to properly solve it? "It's better to put Xue Xiaohua's body together first." After pondering for a while, Jin Zhenyu made a suggestion. "Alright." Luo Fei first agreed, "I think the building is not too small, and it shouldn't be a problem to put two corpses in." Now that Luo Fei has spoken, everyone will naturally have no objections.So Luo Fei first untied the cloth strip that was the murder weapon from the neck of the deceased, and then Li Dong and Zang Junyong were responsible for lifting the body, and the group walked towards the back room. The library material is still parked in the middle of the room. I wonder if Monk Deping would have thought that the library material could play such a great role when he bought it, and even become his final destination? Jin Zhenyu and Luo Fei walked in front, and they pushed open the cover of the building materials together.Xue Xiaohua's body was lying on his back, and looking into his eyes was not a pleasant experience. But Luo Fei narrowed his eyes right now, looking at Xue Xiaohua's bloody and incomplete face with great concentration. In order to observe clearly for a longer period of time, he even waved his hand to signal Li Dong and the others not to take Deping away for now. put the dead body in. Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at Luo Fei with a little surprise, not knowing what his intention was. But they soon knew the answer: Luo Fei stretched out his right hand, gently stroking the area behind the ear of Xue Xiaohua's corpse, and found a hair. This hair is black and soft, thin and long, obviously from a woman's body.Some parts of the hair were stained with dried blood, and it seemed that it was because of the stickiness of these blood stains that this foreign hair remained with the body of the deceased. "The hair you've seen on Deping before, is it the same as this one?" Luo Fei turned his head and asked Zang Junyong. "Should be about the same?" Zang Junyong hesitated for a moment, unable to give a definite answer.Indeed, as long as it is a woman's long hair, how much difference can there be between each other? But Luo Fei let out a long breath, as if both his discovery and Zang Junyong's answer were important.Then he took a piece of paper from his pocket and carefully wrapped the hair up. After finishing all this, he ordered with satisfaction: "Okay, let's put the corpse in."