Chapter 21 Pupa (9)

June 16 at 9:20 am Zhuang Qiushui came to the archives again, as agreed with his cousin. Last night, I received a text message from Shang Xiaodie, saying that I would never meet again.My heart was flustered and I didn't know how to respond.I can only look down at the file on the table, which my cousin found with great pains—the massacre at Ekaterina Hospital in 1935. Due to the complexity of this murder case and the great social influence at that time, the file had hundreds of pages, all of which were densely packed in small letters, and even mixed with many foreign languages.There are a large number of murder scene photos in the file.Although so many years have passed, these black and white photos have long been blurred, but the horrifying scene is still frightening to see - and these murder photos on the "Butterfly Cemetery" website come from this!

Looking at the dead faces, it seemed that they would open their eyes at any moment and say a few Russian words to Zhuang Qiushui.He hastened to skip these pictures, otherwise it would become his nightmare for the rest of his life.No wonder there is a young policeman in charge of the case in the following file. Because he couldn't bear the brutal scene at the scene, he swallowed a gun and committed suicide after returning home! Zhuang Qiushui also discovered the confession record of the only witness in this case—Irina.She is the unmarried daughter-in-law of the wealthy Shanghai businessman Li's family, and the Li family sent a car to pick her up on the day of the incident.After that, the police could only go to Li's house to question Elena.The wealthy son of the Li family invited the best doctor to treat Yi Lianna, and it took two months for her memory to recover.

After Yi Lianna regained her memory, the police immediately took notes on her, and recorded all the facts in the file. It turned out that the unfortunate Yekaterina Hospital still hides many shocking secrets! The hospital was built in 1925 on the original site of a Russian Orthodox church. Later, the church was destroyed by fire, leaving only a dilapidated high wall and the Orthodox cemetery beside the church. In 1929, Kashenfu discovered the legendary "ghost beauty" butterfly in a valley near Lijiang.He caught several pairs of butterflies alive and brought them back to the hospital, and has been obsessed with the study of butterflies ever since. The scales on the wings of "ghost beauty" are poisonous, and the breeding must be secret and careful.Kashenfu set up a fully enclosed courtyard behind the hospital and planted oleander flowers.He made a canopy with thin mesh wires to cover the whole yard.Wear special masks and gloves every time you go in and out, and wear anti-bee clothing to protect your whole body.Apart from Kashenv, only Elena had ever entered the courtyard. "Ghost Beauty" likes her very much. Whenever she is "fully armed" wearing protective clothing and giving birth, the butterflies gather around her and regard her as their princess. "Ghost Beauty" has been extremely successful in breeding and has continued to reproduce to the next generation.Kashenfu secretly blocked the news, and no one knew the secret.

There are still rumors of ghosts in the hospital - there is a young female patient named Liu Ba, her father is a Belarusian expatriate, and her mother is a Chinese.Fang Ba suffered from severe tuberculosis and had been in the hospital since he was sixteen. He was only eighteen years old when he was killed.Elena is the only friend Liu Ba relies on, and she discovers that Liu Ba has some kind of psychic ability, which is commonly known as "yin and yang eyes" among the people. Liu Ba said that in the middle of the night, she saw the ghost of a patient in another ward and broke into her ward to say goodbye to her.The next day, Dean Kashenfu found out that the patient had indeed died on the hospital bed, but the patients in the same room didn't know it.Another time, Liu Ba said that a man who was so thin that he had only a few bones left came to her bedside in the middle of the night and said that his wife had poisoned him to death.A few months later, the Belarusian Overseas Chinese Mission uncovered a murder case in which a widow admitted that she colluded with an adulterer and poisoned her husband.The victim had been buried in a Russian cemetery outside the hospital half a year earlier.These unbelievable performances by Liu Ba made her the loneliest person in the hospital. None of the patients dared to talk to her, fearing that she would also be caught by those souls and finally sent to the cemetery outside the window.

But the most astonishing discovery by Liuba is: there is a vampire buried outside the hospital! She said several times that she saw a vampire, crawled out of the cemetery after midnight, dressed in black, with a handsome fair face, and walked lightly through the corridors of the hospital.He would occasionally climb the outer wall and enjoy the moonlight on the roof for a long time.Yi Lianna couldn't quite believe her words, but one day at noon Liu Ba took her to the cemetery and found a round tombstone with the date of birth and death of the deceased engraved on it, which was actually: 1428-1476.

Born in 1428, died in 1476?Vampires from hundreds of years ago are actually buried in this tomb?Elena said in her confession that a Romanian coffin was brought here in the 1920s, because both Romanians and Russians believed in the Orthodox Church, so they could also be buried in this cemetery.In the end, Yi Lianna also believed Liu Ba's words, and locked herself in the room at night and dared not go out. Zhuang Qiushui's eyes couldn't take it anymore, these tiny characters turned into black bug eggs, it seemed that bugs would hatch at any time... June 16 at 16:30 pm Today is Friday, the day students go home.

Shang Xiaodie packed up her things, including the flute and my bell, as well as the lock of Elena's hair, and left the school alone. The sky was overcast, and she returned to the back door of her community, where an oleander forest was planted. It was these bright flowers again, she took a deep breath of the breath among the green leaves and flower buds, and her thoughts couldn't help but go back to the year when she was twelve years old - she, who was still wearing a shofar braid, dived into this bamboo to chase a black butterfly peach grove.Dad had warned her long ago that these beautiful flowers have venom hidden in their branches and leaves.The leaf was broken by her, and the turbid mucus flowed from the broken branch. Then she ran around in a panic, with a petite body of twelve years old, shuttling among the dense oleanders.Under the bushes is another dark world, she is like a deer in the forest escaping from the hunter...

Suddenly, the golden bell in her pocket rang, interrupting her memory. Walking up the stairs was heavy again, and she knew that Dad would come home early today.But she was afraid of seeing her father again, so she stayed at the door for two minutes, and finally rang the doorbell. Dad opened the door, glanced at her and asked, "Who are you looking for?" I didn't expect my father to talk like this. Could it be that because the teacher called and complained, he was so angry that he didn't let his daughter in? "Dad, it's me!" "You are--" Dad stared at Xiaodie's face carefully, his eyes were full of suspicion, he nodded and shook his head for four or five minutes.Finally, he asked in a suspicious tone: "Are you Xiaodie?"

"Of course, I am your daughter, my name is Shang Xiaodie!" "What is my name?" Unexpectedly, her father would ask such a stupid question, she almost fainted, and then she said her father's name: "Dad, I just took off my glasses, you don't know me anymore?" Dad nodded in surprise, "Yes, you are Xiaodie! I don't know you anymore." Xiaodie finally returned to her home, and lay down on the sofa exhaustedly: "Dad, have I become ugly?" "No, no, no!" Dad shook his head again and again: "Xiaodie, you've become more beautiful! Oh my god, it's really a big change for a girl, she's completely changed after not seeing you for a week. When I opened the door just now, I thought a stranger had come Well, I thought to myself, why is such a pretty girl knocking on my door?"

"Am I really beautiful?" In fact, Shang Xiaodie didn't realize that she was beautiful at all. Dad seemed to admire a miracle: "You have grown taller! Your face has also lost a lot of weight. You used to have freckles and acne on your face, but now you have lost more than half of them. By the way, why did you take off your glasses? Your eyes It’s big and bright, and it looks better than before.” "Really?" Xiaodie immediately looked in the mirror, her face was indeed much cleaner these days.But because I look in the mirror every day, I don't feel much change.But Dad only saw her after a week, so he naturally felt that there was a big difference.

Originally, the father wanted to teach his daughter a good lesson, but seeing that her daughter had changed so much, he had no intention of training her at all.He smiled and said that he would go to the supermarket to buy some good side dishes, and the father and daughter would have a good meal at night. Shang Xiaodie continued to look at herself in the mirror, and took a few steps back: "Are you beautiful?" 22:40 on the night of June 16 "yeah!" Zhuang Qiushui jumped up from the sofa, thousands of miles away at the Schalke Stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Messi scored a beautiful goal for the Argentine team.The score is jaw-dropping: Argentina 6:0 Serbia and Montenegro. This is also the only happy moment for him this week.As an Argentine fan, Zhuang Qiushui firmly believes that only Pampas is worthy of the World Cup championship. The excitement of winning the game quickly passed, and he thought of Shang Xiaodie, and the eternal forbidden area—the Butterfly Cemetery. It felt like a brick was crushed in his heart, especially when he fell into the "ghost creek" and witnessed the fate of the dead man's bones fished up from the river—Meng Bingyu—going to the "Butterfly Cemetery"! What if he can't swim?What if your feet get entangled in water plants?Frightened, I threw myself in front of the mirror, and realized that I had changed these days, and was thinner than before. Obviously, it was the result of the recent loss of appetite and insomnia all night. In the mirror, the lips are a little purple, which is said to be the characteristic of the dead—— Mom is back.As the head nurse of the hospital, I often leave early and return late like this.Yu Fenfang saw that her son's expression was not right, and he lost a lot of weight, so she hurriedly took her son's hand and asked, "What happened at school?" "It's nothing." He never wanted his parents to worry about him. "I know you have something on your mind! What happened to that girl named Shang Xiaodie?" "She was fine, and the fever subsided the next day." Yu Fenfang has vaguely guessed that her son is because of Xiaodie's matter: "That girl is not good-looking at all, she is not worthy of you at all, I advise you to give up as soon as possible!" "Mom, you've completely misunderstood. Besides, she's changed a lot now—" He dare not say that Xiaodie has become more beautiful, for fear of arousing more disgust from his mother. "No, I didn't allow you to associate with her! Even if she is really a beauty, I will never allow it! Because there is something evil in that girl—" Yu Fenfang said fiercely, suddenly she was in a daze, and some fragments came from Howled through my mind, "Very, very evil, and extremely unclean! Don't get close to her, absolutely not to get close to her!" Zhuang Qiushui was stunned by this passage: "Mom, you let me down so much! How could you say such a thing? What crime did Xiaodie commit?" Yu Fenfang took a breath: "There are many things I want to completely forget. However, she reminded me of a past—" The fragments in my brain flew faster, screaming continuously, running over the body of memory like sawtooth, and returning to the rainy night with thunder and lightning.No, what fell from the sky was not raindrops, but drops of dark red blood, cloudy and viscous...