Chapter 24 Chapter 23

Perhaps it was because he just had a good night's sleep the day before, or maybe it was because he had some kind of uneasy premonition, in short, Luo Fei didn't sleep well that night.So when there was a noise outside the courtyard door, he immediately woke up. Someone was knocking on the door, the sound was chaotic and hurried, Luo Fei's heart sank, and he realized: Something must have happened again. While getting dressed and getting up, he checked the time: it was one fifteen in the morning.Who could this visitor be in the middle of the night? The voice of the owner Sun Fachao sounded in the yard: "Who is it?"

"It's me, Huitong! I... I'm looking for Officer Luo!" The answerer's voice trembled faintly, apparently in a state of fear. Sun Fachao opened the courtyard door, and Huitong rushed in.His face was pale, sweat was all over his head, and he was panting violently.His forehead and hands were stained with dirt, and his clothes were scratched in several places, making him look miserable.All this, together with the obvious frightened expression on his face, made Luo Fei unable to help guessing: there was something terrible that chased him and made him escape here desperately.

"Officer Luo... Police Officer Luo." Seeing Luo Fei coming out of the house, Huitong calmed down a little, and panted, "Something...something happened!" Luo Fei narrowed his eyes and focused: "What happened?" "I... I don't know what it is, there is... a ghost!" Thinking of the situation just now, the little monk became flustered again, and even spoke incoherently, "That... that baby, even Zang Junyong was scared away by it !" "Okay, don't worry." Seeing that he was in this state, Luo Fei stepped forward and put his arm on the other's shoulder, "Let's go inside first, and then we can talk."

The warm and bright room gave Huitong a great sense of security. Sun Fachao poured a cup of hot water and asked the little monk to hold it in his hand.After Meng Shaohui next door heard the movement, he also got up, came to Luo Fei's room, and watched the scene blankly. "You don't need to be afraid when you get here. Take your time, what happened? Where? How did you meet Zang Junyong again?" Luo Fei asked in a calm tone as much as possible. "It's...in the sacrificial hall." Huitong held the warm water glass tightly in both hands, and after gathering his composure, he began to tell the story from the beginning, "Zang Junyong came to the sacrificial hall after dinner yesterday. He said he was afraid that I would not be able to sleep at night. , so I specially came to accompany me. I was very happy at the time. There were corpses in the back room, and there was a haunted cemetery in the yard. He served comfortably, for fear that he would change his mind. We lay down early, but didn’t go to sleep immediately. Zang Junyong always chatted with me and asked me a lot of questions.”

"What are the questions?" Luo Fei frowned, pursuing the details. "Basically, it's all about my master. Some of the questions are very strange. He asked me if my master has a wig for a woman, and if he has a relationship with any woman. It's really inexplicable, and even a bit rude." There was an angry look on the monk's face. It seemed that although Deping was dead, he still maintained his respect for the master in his heart. This did not surprise Luo Fei, he nodded and continued to ask: "What happened next?" "Later I got a little angry, so I didn't pay much attention to him. He gradually stopped talking, and after a while, I fell asleep." The little monk stopped talking suddenly, his pupils shrank, and his hands moved Subconsciously rubbing the cup in his hand.Luo Fei immediately realized that something unusual was going to happen next, so he pricked up his ears and waited.

Huitong brought the cup to his mouth and took a sip of water.Then he finally mustered up his courage, and continued: "After sleeping for several hours, it felt like it was late at night. I suddenly heard some noises in a daze. When I opened my eyes, I found that Zang Junyong got up at some time and was opening the door. The door leading to the back room went out. His movements were stealthy, and he definitely didn't want me to notice.But he didn't know that I was always a light sleeper, and would wake up with the slightest movement.After he walked out for a while, I also got out of bed quietly, and the cat was by the door, looking through the crack of the door to see what he was trying to do.

At first I was worried that he would do something bad to the Master's body, but I soon realized that I was completely wrong.He passed by the coffin without stopping, and came directly to the cemetery in the backyard.He first stood in front of the tombstone and thought about something, then he suddenly made a strange move. " At this time, everyone held their breath and looked at Huitong quietly, as if they were also in the scene.The little monk licked his lips nervously, and then began to describe Zang Junyong's action: "He put his hands on the left side of the tombstone, then bent his waist, kicked his legs, and began to exert force, as if he wanted to push the tombstone down."

"What?" Sun Fachao couldn't help interjecting, "I'm afraid the tombstone weighs seven or eight hundred catties? How can one person push it?" Meng Shaohui shook his head incomprehensibly. He had seen the tombstone and fully agreed with Sun Fachao's point of view. Luo Fei remained calm, still staring at Hui Tong: "Go ahead." "At first, I was also puzzled, and even thought that this person was a little crazy? But then something even stranger happened. He pushed the tombstone hard for a while, and it actually moved!" "Okay!" Luo Fei slapped his hands abruptly, stood up excitedly from the chair, and then he took a step forward, asking repeatedly: "How did the tombstone move? How much did it move? What happened after that?"

"The tombstone didn't fall down, it seemed... turned around, sixty or seventy degrees, right? Then Zang Junyong stopped, and seemed to want to look at something. Suddenly, from the tomb, there was a burst of baby crying!" "Baby's crying?" Even Luo Fei felt unimaginable at this moment, and was stunned there. "That's right, the baby's crying." Speaking of the situation at that time, although Huitong gritted his teeth, his body was still trembling uncontrollably, "And this is the sound I often vaguely heard at night a few days ago. It turned out...it came from the tomb, no wonder it was always faintly visible. This time, Zang Junyong must have opened the tomb, so the cry came out clearly, and it seems to be still in my ears even now It's echoing!"

Zang Junyong pushed open a secret door leading to the tomb. Not only Luo Fei, but also Sun Fachao and Meng Shaohui probably realized this.But the sudden crying of the baby made everyone feel a little terrified, Meng Shaohui's face was pale, and his reaction was particularly prominent. Luo Fei only looked at Huitong at this moment: "What is the crying sound like? Can you describe it?" "I can only say that it's very scary. That's not a baby's normal crying. The crying is extremely shrill and tragic. It pulls people's hearts one after another. No matter who hears it, they will feel horrified!"

Meng Shaohui's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, and he leaned weakly against the door frame.Sun Fachao noticed his abnormality, stepped forward to support him, and asked with concern: "What's wrong with you?" "I just feel very scared...but I don't know why." Meng Shaohui said, looking at Luo Fei for help. Luo Fei thought of the baby that appeared in Meng Shaohui's dream, thought for a moment, and said to Sun Fachao: "You can help him back to his room first." After Sun and Meng left, Luo Fei continued to ask Huitong: "What happened next?" "I was stunned by the sound... not only me, Zang Junyong was also stunned. He took several steps back and sat down on the ground. Then he got up and ran out desperately, as if in a tomb It was as if a ghost would come out at any moment. When he ran like this, I was even more frightened, so I just followed him and ran out of the house. We ran like this one after the other, and we ran for a long distance. Still not far behind us. Zang Junyong ran much faster than me, and gradually he disappeared. I ran a few steps and fell, and suffered a lot because I didn’t know where to go. Finally, I came to you Here it is." The little monk finished his words, and drank a few more sips of water, as if this would help calm his fear. After listening to Huitong's narration, Luo Fei couldn't calm down.First, he felt waves of rush and excitement.He is not afraid of frequent weird events. In fact, whenever such events happen, he can always find some clues to the truth.According to his hunch, the discovery this time is particularly critical, and many puzzles will be solved.For him, what he has to do now is to understand the situation first-hand, and he is faced with two choices: go to Zang Junyong or go to the necropolis for field investigation. After thinking for a while, Luo Fei made a decision: Zang Junyong must be found first.He can't let this happen again: the clues just come out, and the people involved are in trouble.Moreover, as a policeman, protecting people's lives is always his primary duty.Thinking of this, he asked Sun Fachao to rest Huitong first, and then set off immediately to Zang Junyong's home. Walking all the way, half an hour later, Luo Fei came to the high wall and wide door, he raised his hand and knocked heavily on the door panel a few times, after a while, someone rushed out from the house and opened the courtyard door .Luo Fei recognized that it was Zang Junyong's wife. She looked anxious and stared at himself for a moment: "Officer Luo? Why are you here?" "Is Zang Junyong there?" Luo Fei didn't bother to explain, and walked into the yard while asking. "Here!" Mrs. Zang led Luo Fei to the main room on the east side. The room was lit and the door was open. There were figures floating on the windows, and it seemed that there was more than one person inside. Luo Fei stepped into the room quickly, and saw a bed in the corner opposite to the door. Zang Junyong was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, as if he had fallen into a coma.A ten-year-old boy stood in front of the bed with his hands down. Judging from his appearance and demeanor, he should be Zang Junyong's son.Another person was sitting on a chair by the bed, concentrating on taking Zang Junyong's pulse.Seeing this person present, Luo Fei couldn't help feeling relieved—he was the doctor Li Dong on the island. It wasn't until the pulse was finished that Li Dong turned his face away, and greeted Luo Fei with a nod: "Officer Luo, are you here too?" Luo Fei didn't say any polite words, he pointed at Zang Junyong and asked, "How is he?" "I had a fever just now. I was confused and talking nonsense. I gave him a fever-reducing injection and a sedative, and let him sleep first." Li Dong stretched out his hand to feel the temperature on the patient's forehead, and said, "The temperature has subsided. It shouldn't be a big problem." The family members of the patient on the side were relieved when they heard this.Luo Fei wanted to continue asking: "What is the cause?" Li Dong looked at Zang Junyong's wife: "Please tell Officer Luo what happened before I came here." The woman nodded, and then recounted everything from the beginning: "After dinner today, our old Zang said that he was going to the sacrificial hall to help Monk Deping guard the spirit. I didn't think much about it, so I let him go. Anyway, our family He usually has the final say on things. And Deping saved Lao Zang's life..." "Wait!" Luo Fei immediately interrupted her, "You said that Deping saved Zang Junyong's life, when?" "It was the time of the tsunami. The couple of us were washed away by the flood. I was lucky and survived holding a wooden cabinet. Lao Zang was rescued by Deping on a raft." "Zhou Yonggui, he was also rescued by Deping, right?" Although the specific situation is not clear, Luo Fei has already keenly felt the connection between certain characters. "Yes." The other party's answer confirmed his judgment. "Other than that, who else has he saved?" Luo Fei asked without stopping. "Jin Zhenyu. In addition, there seems to be a child, I am not familiar with that child." "There's no one else?" "No." The woman replied with certainty, "I also drifted to the mountain where they took refuge, and the people rescued by Deping stayed there, just a few of them." correct!These few people finally have some kind of logical connection, Deping, Zang Junyong, Zhou Yonggui, Jin Zhenyu, Meng Shaohui, they stayed together during the tsunami, and they witnessed the hidden past together! Although the whole picture of the incident has not yet been glimpsed, the truth has already surfaced.Luo Fei told himself to calm down first, and then let the woman continue the narration from the previous topic. "After Lao Zang left, our mother and I had a rest early. About two hours ago, he suddenly ran back from the outside and slammed the gate of the courtyard. I quickly got up and opened the door for him, only to see that his face was pale. , was sweating profusely, and almost collapsed from running. I was terrified by his appearance, so I quickly supported him and asked him what was going on. But he was trembling and couldn't say anything. My son heard a noise Come out and help me take him into the house and lie down. After lying down, he started to yell and talk nonsense. I felt that something was wrong. When I touched his forehead, it burned terribly! So I quickly asked my son to take Li Dong The doctor invited me over." The woman had just finished speaking, and before Luo Fei could ask any questions, Li Dong immediately added, "I've been here for nearly an hour, right? When I first arrived, the patient's mood was very unstable, and he was in a semi-comatose state. He said a few inexplicable words. I gave him a sedative before calming him down. Judging from his expression and words at the time, he was probably frightened." "What did he say?" Luo Fei was more concerned about this issue. "It's very messy, one sentence to one thing, one sentence to another." Li Dong recalled for a moment and summed it up. "Sometimes he looked very frightened and said 'Don't follow me!', and sometimes he said in a guilty and remorseful tone. 'I'm not wrong, you can't blame me...', well, what else is 'I'm not afraid of you!', but he just said that he was not afraid, but his tone was very desperate." "Then he had a high fever because he was frightened?" "I can't say that completely. The run when he came home from the outside exceeded the limit that his body could bear, and in the process, he was also exposed to the wind and cold. However, in his situation, the mental factors It should be said that it is the most important thing, that is to say, it can be considered that he was frightened like this." Listening to Li Dong's rigorous analysis, Luo Fei was very satisfied.Zang Junyong's wife and son looked at each other with fear and embarrassment on their faces.They didn't understand what terrible experience their relatives had encountered, and they were actually scared out of their wits. And this kind of thing happened to "the bravest man on Mingze Island", which undoubtedly added a touch of irony. Given Zang Junyong's current situation, of course he couldn't get anything from him.Fortunately, he has already returned home and has relatives to take care of him, so there will be no accidents.Luo Fei's next move was naturally to rush to the backyard of the sacrificial hall, to find out what kind of terrifying secret was buried in that cemetery. "Do you need to accompany the patient here?" Luo Fei asked Li Dong. "Not for the time being. His high fever has subsided, and there will be no more danger. It is estimated that he will sleep at least until dawn before waking up." "That's good. I'm going to the sacrificial hall now. You go and call Jin Zhenyu, and join me in the sacrificial hall immediately." Seeing Li Dong's confused face, Luo Fei added, "When you arrive, I will Tell you what happened."