Chapter 4 Section 4

When Carrot rubbed his hands and walked into the duty room, Xiao Wang just put down the phone: "Director, Da Shanzi called the police. He said something happened to the lakeside building. Shall we go and have a look?" Carrot was taken aback. Carrot, whose real name is Hu Weidong, is fifty-four years old this year. After being discharged from the army, he became a policeman at the Hulingzi Township Police Station, where he worked for more than thirty years.When he was young, he had a big head and a thick neck, but his lower body was thin, so he got the nickname "Carrot".Unexpectedly, after middle age, I don't know whether it's because of drinking too much alcohol or the bumpy car ride. Although my heart is not less troubled at all, my stomach is obviously bigger, making my whole body plump, so that when I go to the county meeting, the secretary Hu Lu Touching his belly, he asked, "When did your carrot turn into a water radish?"

It caused the cadres present to burst into laughter. Although Hulingzi Township is remote and impoverished, the villagers keep their own law and order, and there are few cases.In the police station in the township, there are only four police officers including him.There are also four other police officers, all local boys who have not worked after graduating from high school. In recent years, life has become better and better, but law and order have become more and more problematic.There are always some strange outsiders wandering in the village, or there are arrest warrants issued by the county, which are posted all over the township's telephone poles, making people nervous, and the police force seems to be gradually insufficient.He wanted to recruit a few more police officers, but the money allocated by the higher up was too little, so he had to make do with it.

The ones on duty tonight are Carrot and Assistant Police Officer Xiao Wang. Hearing from Xiao Wang that it was Zhang Dashan who called the police, Carrot felt something was wrong. He watched Zhang Dashan grow up. When he was in junior high school, relying on his strength, he made troubles all over the place and was often kicked by himself.Later, the kid didn't even pass the vocational high school entrance examination, and has been fooling around in the countryside for two full years. That day, Carrot went there and kicked open the door, "Dashanzi, you don't grow! Didn't you just fail the exam? Why can't you support yourself with such a big man, and stay at home like a turtle?!"

After saying a few words, Zhang Dashan was stunned to go to the city to learn the craft.Later, something happened to him and he was locked up in the county detention center. Carrot went to see him. As soon as they met, Zhang Dashan began to cry, the tears kept flowing, and he said "Uncle, I am wronged".Carrot felt sad for a while, "Cry ass cry! Make a good transformation, don't let it go bad, you hear me?! Three years later, Zhang Dashan was released after serving his sentence.That morning, Luo Luo deliberately drove the broken jeep of the police station to pick him up. Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the prison, he heard the prison guards say that Zhang Dashan had left by himself.

My heart sank.He looked into the distance, but there was no one in the field, but the dense branches and leaves of two rows of poplars woven into two rows of green ruts above the national road. Later, he also met Zhang Dashan a few times, and knew that he had built a Jinbei to run and transport between the county and several townships. But when they met, they just nodded and seldom spoke. He always felt that Dashan was avoiding him deliberately, and he tried to avoid Dashan as much as possible.Sometimes, he also wanted to take the initiative to go forward and ask the child if he was doing well, but every time he saw Zhang Dashan's cloudy eyes, he couldn't help but stop and swallowed his words.

In the middle of the night, why did he call the police?Thinking about it this way, the words came out of his mouth: "What happened to the lakeside building?" "He didn't say anything, but he was in a hurry." Xiao Wang said. "I'll go there." Carrot said, "You take a good look at the house, write down anything in your notebook, and wait for me to read it when I come back." Along the way, the broken jeep bumped violently on the grassland, and the light of the headlights jumped up and down like a sparrow in a net, but it couldn't break free from the huge and boundless fetters of the night.The wind howled, pouring into the compartment from the cracks in the door and windows, squeezing him into a ball.Just when he wondered if he was lost, a gust of extremely violent wind tore a hole in the darkness——

The figure of the lakeside building was instantly exposed in front of his eyes. Carrot got out of the car, covered the police cap that was almost blown away by the wind with one hand, and flashed the flashlight with the other, squinting, and walked towards the Jinbei parked at the door.With such a strong wind, how could this white box-like car not be blown away? When he came to Jinbei, he raised his flashlight and shone in the car window. The reflection of the glass dazzled his eyes, and he couldn't see anything for a while.He slapped the car door with his palm and shouted, "Dashanzi? Are you there? I'm your old Uncle Hu!"

The palms of the tentacles were icy cold. The car door slammed open, Shaoling jumped down, called "Uncle Hu" and burst into tears. Carrot hugged her shoulders, feeling her body trembling slightly, "What's wrong with you, Shaoling? Where's Dashanzi?" "I don't know. He entered the building just now and never came out again. I stopped him, but he didn't listen..." Shaoling sobbed. Looking up, Carrot couldn't help shivering.Seeing a woman in white sitting in the carriage, her pale face showed no expression, her upper body was straight, and he almost thought he had hit a ghost, "This... who is this?"

"We met on the road..." "You bumped into her?" Carrot was anxious, "Why is there blood on her body?" "It didn't hit me, it was almost there." Shaoling said, "She was standing on the national highway with her face pressed against the front of the car, she was so frightening... We saw that she was covered in blood and she didn't look like a local, so we wondered if it was There was an accident in the lakeside building, so he rushed here. Later, Dashanzi called the police... After waiting for a while, he rushed in..." "Nonsense, it's just nonsense!" Carrot muttered as he closed the car door and glanced at the dark lakeside building.Although he didn't want to go in at all, an ominous premonition forced the old policeman, who had been wearing a police cap for more than 30 years, to push open the erratic door.

one hand-- He grabbed his arm violently! Carrot turned around in shock, and found that it was Shaoling, who was following him closely, knowing that she didn't dare to stay outside alone, sighed, and let her enter the door with him. The door creaked and closed automatically behind him. The building was as dark as a cecum that was blocked at both ends. Carrot fumbled for a long time before he found the toggle on the flashlight.With a click, a straight beam of light shot out, shining on the reception desk opposite the door.Register books, calculators and the like, and a small TV were littered on the counter.There are bottles of white wine on the wine cabinet at the back, as cold as the specimen containers in the biology classroom.

one hand! A hand that swings up and down!A pair of round eyes!Suddenly appeared in the middle of the flashlight halo! Carrot shuddered all over and wanted to back away, but his legs and feet were so soft that he couldn't move.When he collected himself, he realized that it was just a beckoning cat.In this lifeless dark building, there is a beckoning cat smiling and beckoning, exuding a particularly weird atmosphere. Carrot's scalp tingled for a while. He touched the light switch in the hallway and flipped it twice, but the light above his head didn't turn on. The whole building was pitch black, probably not just the problem of the light bulb... He opened the distribution box on the east wall, checked it, and found that the main switch had tripped, so he quickly pulled the main switch. The lights in the hall finally turned on, yellow and sickly, not much different from when they were not on. As if boldly, he yelled Li Dazui twice, which made the small building buzz. No one answered. "Dashanzi! Where are you, Dashanzi?" Carrot shouted again, as if mocking him, but there was still a dead silence after the echo. "Uncle Hu..." Shaoling behind him made a weak and trembling voice, "I just watched Da Shanzi enter this building..." Carrot gritted his teeth, now it is not a problem of Dashanzi disappearing, but this small hotel that should have been lit all night, where you can see the smiling Li Dazui, tired guests and busy boys, Now it looks like a shroud shop at midnight, without the slightest breath of life. He clearly remembered that he came here the night before to randomly check the ID cards of passengers. Before going out, Li Dazui lit a cigarette for him, "Hu Suo, it's been very windy these two days, so don't come here." He also joked at the time: "Why, are you afraid that I will investigate? What is there to hide from me?" Li Dazui waved his hand quickly, "Look at what you said, what can I hide from you here? It's just because I'm afraid you'll be tired! If you don't worry, just come here, I'll take care of the wine and meat!" Wine and meat? Carrot remembered something, and took Shaoling along the corridor to the west.While walking, he turned the doorknobs of each guest room and locked them all.Go to the west end, pass through a door with a plastic curtain, and you will arrive at a hall that protrudes like a general's belly—the dining room.There are a few small square tables and chairs here, which are for individual guests to eat, and the table is clean at the moment.There are three private rooms in the south, Carrot opened the door one by one, and finally smelled a strong smell of food in the last private room.The flashlight swept away, and saw a few pairs of chopsticks and empty instant noodle boxes scattered on the big round table. The carrot is getting more and more confusing: count the chopsticks, there are six pairs, that is to say, there are six people eating.Judging from the level of food residues, they should have been removed after eating, but why didn't there be a guy to take away the empty boxes and tableware?This is not like the diligent Li Dazui's style. Go out of the dining room and go back to the corridor. To the north is the staircase leading to the second floor.He wanted to go upstairs to have a look, but remembered that he hadn't finished checking the first floor, so he went back to the hall by the same route. With the hall as the center, the lakeside building has a symmetrical pattern from east to west. Walking along the corridor to the east, there is a wooden door at the end, which opens into a hall that protrudes like a general's belly, but it is not a restaurant, but a ktv private room—— After all, the Hupan Building is just a small hotel, so there is only such a KTV private room, and the oily songbook is just a few old songs, such as "I Really Miss You", "Heart Rain", "I Quietly Blindfold Your Eyes" and so on. .The sound quality in the private room is very poor, and there is a harsh creaking sound when you sing a little high-pitched voice. You have to try several microphones before you can pick out the one that works. Luo Luo and Shaoling walked towards the east end of the corridor, still turning the doorknobs of the guest rooms smoothly all the way, and they were all locked.When I came to Dongtou, I stood still in front of the KTV private room, stretched out my hand and pushed the door, but failed to push it open.He pricked up his ears to hear if there was any movement inside. If the six guests in the restaurant were in the ktv room at the moment, it was impossible for him not to hear a little sound... But there was no sound at all, only the faint hiss of the torch light bulb. He was a little irritable, turned off the flashlight, and the light suddenly went out. His heart sank, and he felt like he was tied to a boulder and suddenly sank to the bottom of the lake, and his whole body was immersed in a cold darkness. The darkness also filters out all noise. It seems that there is no one in the ktv room.Carrot held back his breath for a long time, and then he took a deep breath... A smell instantly drilled into his nostrils! He was familiar with this smell: the floor of the Xiang slaughterhouse was full of bright red blood stains, hemp ropes, stumps, milky white fat, and the walls were stained black and yellow with layers of dirt.Livestock—whether pigs, cows, or sheep—were chained up in the air, and butchers in rubber jackets slit their throats open and bled them... It's the smell of blood!Only sticky blood can smell so strong! Something went wrong—in this ktv room! Carrot touched his waist, wanting to take out a pistol, but couldn't help being stunned, his waist was empty.Only then did he remember that he was in the quiet Hulingzi Township, where he hadn't carried a weapon with him for many years.It's too late to find other guys, so I have to rush in now!He pushed the door hard again, but it still wouldn't open.He was in a hurry, so he kicked the door loudly with a loud bang, but the door didn't open. He handed the flashlight to Shaoling behind him, took a few steps back, rushed forward, and slammed his arm against the door with all his strength. Bang - click! The door slammed open, and his body rushed in through inertia, almost falling. stand firm. The bloody smell suddenly intensified dozens of times.The entire ktv room was pitch black. "Flashlight!" Carrot yelled, "Shao Ling, turn on the flashlight!" Shaoling standing at the door hurriedly turned on the flashlight, and at this moment, the scene in the private room made Carrot dumbfounded—— One, two, three, four... human body. No, it's a corpse.Each one exudes a faint green light, the eyes are open or closed, without a trace of light or vitality, they have been frozen in death forever. Shaoling trembled all over, and the flashlight also trembled, and the light cut through every corpse like a saw.Carrot stood there blankly, at a loss.In the thirty years since he joined the police, he has never encountered such a major case.so many died... all of a sudden. "what!" Shaoling's scream made Carrot tremble, and he woke up suddenly.The flashlight in her hand pointed directly at the playback control room located at the innermost side of the private room. In the old-fashioned ktv room, an independent playback control room is usually set up separately. The guest writes the number of the song in the songbook on a slip of paper and passes it in. The staff inside operate the computer to order songs.Carrot followed the light and saw a hand sticking out from behind the door of the control room. He took a few steps forward cautiously, and was about to check when he suddenly heard heavy and hurried footsteps coming from the corridor.Turning around suddenly, I saw a huge black shadow covering Shaoling's petite body from behind... Shaoling turned around in panic, and the light of the flashlight swept away, and it was fixed on a broad square face, which was Zhang Dashan. Shaoling clutched her chest, "I was scared to death! Where did you go?" Zhang Dashan looked ignorant, "I saw that the rooms on the first floor were locked, so I went up to the second floor. I just ran down when I heard you calling, what's wrong, what happened—" The voice stopped abruptly, his eyes swept across the corpses in the private room, his mouth was open for a long time, and he couldn't close it. After a long time, he let out a groan from his throat: "My god..." With this hulking Zhang Dashan present, Carrot felt a little more at ease. He lowered his voice and ordered: "Shaoling, look for the light switch in this private room and turn it on. Dashanzi, check one by one to see if there are any live ones-be careful, try not to touch anything, protect Good scene." After speaking, he continued to walk towards the control room.The hand behind the door is open as if begging.He pushed the door of the control room lightly, didn't push it, and pushed it harder, the door gap was much wider, and the hand shrank back softly, which made him jump in fear. He calmed down, and through the glass window of the control room, he vaguely saw a body crouching behind the door—the control room was small, and the computer for ordering songs, the audio control panel, etc. were all on the right, and the door on the left faced It can be pushed against the wall at ninety degrees, so the space between the door and the wall is very narrow, and the body is just behind the door, so it cannot be pushed open. I don't know if it's dead or alive...Go in and have a look. Thinking of this, Carrot pushed the door hard, widened the gap a little, and then squeezed his chubby body into the control room, then squatted down, and helped the person who fell on the ground up. This is a very thin person, his face can't be seen clearly in the dark, and he can't even distinguish between men and women, but he can clearly feel his body is cold. A red light flashed across the face of the deceased, as if the skin had burst and blood spurted out, followed by the second, third, fourth... Shocked, Carrot blocked it with his hand, and the back of his hand was "scratched", but it didn't hurt.Looking back, it turned out that Shaoling accidentally opened the "starry sky" in the middle of the roof.In the blink of an eye, colorful lights came in through the crack in the door of the control room. In an instant, the incandescent lamp illuminated the entire private room, making it clear at a glance. There were six corpses in all— An old man with white hair fell down beside the door of the private room, his eyes were wide open, and his gold-rimmed glasses were broken on the ground next to his temples. He covered his stomach with his hands, and there was a pool of blood under his body, and a sharp knife was soaked in the pool of blood. Not far from him, a plump woman in her forties was sitting on the ground with her back against the wall, her head with short hair drooping on her shoulders, her arms hanging by her sides, her eyes closed and half-opened. With his mouth open, there was a streak of coagulated blood hanging from the corner of his mouth... On the sofa against the north wall, a young woman in fashionable clothes was lying on her back, her two thighs in black stockings stretched convulsively.The slightly parted lips were covered with blood foam, and the expression was extremely painful. One hand was clenched into a fist, and the five fingers of the other hand were digging at his towering chest, as if to dig it open. On the floor next to the young woman, lay a fat middle-aged man, wearing a well-made suit, with a colorful silk scarf tied around his stubby neck.The bald head, plump lips and swollen black eye bags all show that this is a person who has been hollowed out by wine.With his eyes closed, his hands curled up into claws, under the incandescent light, he was terrifying and abominable. The fifth corpse was the person curled up in the control room. It was a male, around thirty years old, with a thin build, a pointed and thin face, protruding eyeballs and buck teeth. The sixth corpse died the worst, a man with a stout figure, lying prone beside the glass coffee table.The back of his head was cracked, and blood and brains flowed all over the floor... Beside him, there was a broken glass ashtray, ash and a few cigarette butts scattered in a messy pile.