Chapter 6 Chapter 3 Strange Objects

Li Ming died, a strange death. According to Bu Shuanzi, the person he sent couldn't figure out how Li Ming died. In the end, Bu Shuanzi sent him to a mental hospital. I asked Lao Bu for the detailed address, and this obscene little old man said with a rare earnestness: "Xiaoye, don't interfere with Li Ming's affairs. You know the quality of my subordinates, tough guy! A veteran of the special forces A tough guy can be scared like this, no matter how you think about it, it feels weird." Before he could finish speaking, I hung up the phone and drove to the West Bridge of Dongfeng Canal.

This bridge is not big, about ten meters long. The water in the river is not clear, but it is not smelly either.There are a lot of mosquitoes in summer, especially near the water. As soon as you get close to it, you can hear the buzzing sound in your ears, which makes you feel irritated and uncomfortable. I found a gap and went down to the river bank, and walked along the bank until I walked right under the West Bridge. There were two big piers in front of me.Bu Shuanzi said that Li Ming did live here, and set up a big tent in the most hidden place of the pier. It was already dark, I took out my phone and checked, it was a quarter past eleven in the evening.Turn on the flashlight function, and a beam of fairly bright light illuminates a small area ahead clearly.Suddenly feeling a sense of peeping, I suddenly turned my head and looked behind, but there was nothing behind me.

The neon lights of the city flicker non-stop on the shore, and people chasing the feasting and feasting begin to go out for a nightlife.In the leisurely city of Spring City, no one knows that just a few hours ago, a clue provider who was very important to me died strangely under the bridge pier. I shook my head slightly, trying to shake off the discomfort in my mind.The peeping eyes only stayed on me for half a second, and I even wondered if I had an illusion because of the darkness around me. As I approached the bridge pier quickly, it suddenly dawned on me that there was no space. In an unexpected corner, a Decathlon four-person tent appeared in front of me.It can be seen that the tent seems to have endured a fierce struggle, the polyester fiber outer tent was completely blown off, and it was full of holes of different thicknesses that were cut with something.

The tent's elastic metal brackets were twisted crookedly.Bu Shuanzi's subordinates obviously called the police. The police who arrived first took away not only Li Ming's body, but also everything in the tent. Even if I wanted to investigate, I couldn't find any clues. The footprints around are very messy, and the police did not deliberately protect the scene. After I carefully identified it, I suddenly frowned. The pier is covered with dirt, and although the shoes of the police officers are not uniform, they are easy to identify.According to my knowledge of footprints, it is not difficult to judge Li Ming's footprints, but the situation is weird. From the beginning to the end, I only saw Li Ming's footprints hiding around in a panic, but I couldn't find them at the scene. traces of others.

But who is Li Ming fighting with?To whom was he so frightened that he ran away indiscriminately?Who is that invisible, leaving no trace of existence?In other words, the one who killed Li Ming was not human at all? I shivered involuntarily, and felt a chill crawling from the soles of my feet to my spine. The sultry night breeze was blowing on my face, but it didn't bring me any warmth.Li Ming's sudden death was really weird! But if something invisible really exists, then why would the tough guy sent by Bu Shuanzi to monitor and protect Li Ming be so frightened that he would lose his mind?The more I think about it, the more I feel incomprehensible.

There was no way to find more clues at the scene of the death of the person concerned, so I could only sigh and dialed the phone numbers of my acquaintances in the police station. After stalking and stalking, I managed to get authorization to enter the morgue.I am very concerned about Li Ming's body, maybe I can find more clues on his dead body. But just maybe.The murderer who killed him didn't leave any sign of searching the scene, and didn't even care that his body was taken away by the police. Does this mean that an unknown force is only interested in his life? Tired all day today.Whether it was Li Ming's unexpected e-mail or the conversation with him, they all had a great impact on me.I always felt that this matter was not pure from beginning to end, as if there was a pair of invisible hands behind it manipulating it.At that time, I didn't even realize what kind of horror experience the morgue in the police station would bring me.

Yes, the morgue always gives people a cold, damp, and scary feeling. Seven hours after Li Ming died, I stepped into the thick door under the leadership of an old policeman. As soon as he entered the door, a gust of cold wind blew on his face.The morgue of the police station has a bad smell, and an old electronic clock hangs in front of the door, showing 4:44 in the morning, what an ominous number! "Go in by yourself." The old police officer stopped at the door, and his eyes flickered when he spoke. I laughed dryly, "Lao Li, you have been a police officer for more than 30 years, and you are still afraid of ghosts and gods?"

This police officer surnamed Li is an old colleague of my cousin Ye Feng, he is a half-acquaintance. Although Ye Feng has left long ago, the police circle in Spring City still remembers him. After all, no one in the Ye family is ordinary. Old Li is not afraid of anything, and it is said that he ate corpses to judge the time of death of the deceased. He was so disgusting that the trainee policemen vomited for a few days.And such a person is actually afraid of going to the morgue? "There are no ghosts in the world, only people scarier than ghosts." Lao Li vaguely pointed inside, then slipped away as if fleeing.

I pushed open the door of the inner room suspiciously, and heard a cold, arrogant and impatient young female voice: "I've been here for a long time, hurry up." The layout of the police station has always been the same, but this branch is different. In order to save space, the morgue and the autopsy room are closely connected. There was a tall girl wearing a mask who only showed a pair of big eyes. She looked at me arrogantly: "Are you silent at night?" "it's me." I stroked the back of my head.Although this little girl couldn't see her face clearly, she was definitely not more than twenty-three years old.The eyes are beautiful, but the character is not flattering.

"The bastard Yefeng's cousin? Some people in the bureau have mentioned you. It is said that you are well-known, and you have helped in a few cases! Tsk, I don't know why you, an outsider, get so much praise. , but looking at the real person, it's nothing more than that." The girl exhaled contemptuous air through her nostrils, and looked at me without blinking, "Why do you care so much about this homeless man, and insist on personally participating in his autopsy? He is your relative?" "No." I shook my head, "He is pitiful, I am the only acquaintance left. I want to find out the cause of his death."

"I heard that the criminal police did not find any clues to the murderer at the scene of the crime. This case is probably unsolved." The girl flicked her tongue, "Go wear a white robe and gloves, and don't spit it out later." The combination of this guy's words and tone has a super poisonous feeling.I suddenly understood the reason why Lao Li avoided it as soon as he arrived at the door. If he stayed with the girl in front of him for a few minutes, he might lose ten years of his life. I put on my white robe and gloves, and followed her to the freezer where the corpses were stored. Every mortuary in the world has roughly the same appearance. A square room. Except for the entrance and exit, the four walls are densely packed with metal cabinets about the size of coffins. The cabinets are refrigerators, and the temperature is adjusted to the most suitable temperature for storing corpses. . The girl pulled the corpse out of one of the freezers, and the pulleys made an unpleasant grinding sound, resounding in the room full of the colors of death. "is it him?" she asked. I looked down, and it was indeed Li Ming's face.Before he died, his eyes were wide open, his pupils were congested with blood, and his mouth opened as if he was about to roar, completely unwilling to die. "This guy is very mysterious. It is said that there is no file on him at all. Even fingerprints and DNA tests can't confirm his identity. He suddenly popped out of the rock as if he never existed." The girl curled her lips and pointed to me with her eyes, "Move him to the dissecting table, do you still want me to do it myself?" I didn't snort, for fear of angering the aunt in front of me. If she quits, my investigation will definitely come to an impasse.No matter how reasonable the police were, it was impossible for me to dissect the body myself. Normally, the dissection trolley would be pushed over when transporting corpses, but this girl was obviously trying to make things difficult for me, she looked leisurely with empty hands, and she wanted me to carry it with my hands.I'm depressed, this is the first time I really see this beauty, why does she always have a stinky face, as if she has a grudge against me?When did I offend her?The corpse was covered with a transparent plastic seal, which was cold to the touch.I carried it for dozens of meters, and finally put it on the dissection table.The girl glanced at me domineeringly, then picked up the knife and cut open the plastic bag. I looked at Li Ming's body without blinking.Although he is in his forties, his body has shrunk severely, and his body surface is still densely covered with a large number of black spots.That is definitely not a corpse spot, but melanin that has precipitated from the body, like a mole.But who has moles that grow so many and so big that they are shocking just by looking at them?What's more, those moles are arranged regularly, as if printed. The girl was also a little surprised by this, obviously she had never encountered a similar situation, but as soon as she started working, her annoying personality disappeared immediately, leaving only concentration. I frowned. When I met Li Ming yesterday, I didn't feel that he was sluggish. Most of Xia Tian's clothes were very thin. Looking through his clothes, he should have a strong physique, but now the body has changed. He was rickety and haggard, as if something in his body had been sucked away by someone. "The victim had no apparent external injuries." The girl recorded with a voice recorder while dissecting, "Now cut off the melanin deposits on the corpse, ah, what is this!" With her exclamation, the scalpel has steadily cut a black spot on Li Ming's body.Suddenly, a cloud of pitch-black liquid splashed out like a cuttlefish spraying ink, staining both of us who had no time to dodge. "It's disgusting. These mole-like things are definitely not natural. They may be some kind of lesion." The girl's breathing was a little short, and she didn't dare to touch the black spots on the corpse, but cut open the abdomen of the corpse with a little force. The dissection made her startled again, and even I almost exclaimed. All the organs in Li Ming's abdomen were shattered by an indescribable force, and the body was filled with colorful blood accompanied by bile, as well as liquids of urine and feces, exuding a strong pungent smell. I couldn't help clenching my fists. What kind of power can crush a person's internal organs without harming the surface?The legendary fight against cattle across the mountains in martial arts movies is nothing more than this, but that is just human imagination. Perhaps, the real situation is more terrifying than I thought! As the time passed bit by bit, the atmosphere in the room became more and more tense, and the girl couldn't help breathing quickly.With the in-depth dissection of the corpse, mysteries emerged one after another. Li Ming's corpse is like a complex composed of countless mysteries, which is difficult to explain. The more anatomical.The more difficult it is for me to understand how he died, who is the murderer, or what kind of thing? I even wondered, Li Ming, is he still alone after all! Although his body shrank, his bones turned black as if poisoned, and their hardness was astonishing. After the toxicity test, Li Ming had no poisoning reaction during his lifetime.His skull is also very strange. There are two round holes in the position of the Tianling Cap. The holes are not drilled by a machine, but more like being bitten by some kind of animal's teeth. But what kind of animal has such a large bite force?The most surprising thing is Li Ming himself.Judging from the volume of the drilled hole, the hard object had pierced his cerebral cortex at that time, but he did not die, nor did he suffer from loss of behavioral capacity. Instead, he lived alive and kicking for a long time. Judging from the growth around the piercing of the Tianling Gai, the piercing occurred at least ten years ago.It seems that Li Ming has not told me the truth about many things. His experience of escaping from Stone Bodhisattva Village back then was not as light as he said. After escaping from the village, he probably lived a bizarre life that I can't fathom.At least, his death was anything but ordinary! My brows became tighter and tighter, and I couldn't help feeling a lingering irritability in my heart. I always felt that something was ignored by me. As a notorious professor of tomb robbing, Kong Shihui must have gone to Stone Bodhisattva Village to rob tombs, but how did he know that there is an ancient tomb buried under Stone Bodhisattva Village?What's more, according to Li Ming's narration, that place is not as simple as an ancient tomb at all, but hides some kind of mysterious supernatural power that is difficult to explain. I didn't believe it at first, but after seeing all the unbelievable things that appeared on Li Ming's body, I believed it a little bit. At this moment, the girl's scalpel made a crisp sound, as if it had hit a hard object.She was already mentally broken by the bizarre condition of the corpse in front of her, and she subconsciously looked at me. Our eyes met, hesitated for a while, and I coughed, "Cut it open and have a look." Her knife stopped on the stomach bag of the corpse, paused slightly, and then forcefully, the stomach wall was cut open.I saw a ball of green juice coming out, and after the liquid flowed out, a strange thing the size of half a fist was exposed to the light, slowly reflecting the dazzling light. She and I were completely unprepared. When we came into contact with that thing now, we couldn't help being stunned. It was a completely unexpected item, glowing with a strange red light, the whole body was cloudy and fusiform, it looked like an eye.The eyeballs are inlaid with round rubies. If you look carefully, some kind of profound and simple words are actually engraved on the gems, and the white part of the eyes is a milky white, indistinguishable artificial compound. Doubled in size, it looked terrifying. The digested food in the stomach pouch is like balls of black slime, which is extremely disgusting, and the strange eye-shaped thing is just lying in the black substance, reflecting the dazzling light like breathing, which is breathtaking, I even feel myself His soul almost left his body. The girl subconsciously stretched out her hand to pick up the object and looked at it carefully. After looking at it for a while, she couldn't see why. "There is a ruby ​​in the middle? Why is it so strangely red, as if it has sucked blood!" She used a knife to pick out some of the black liquid in Li Ming's stomach pouch to judge, and smacked her lips: "What did he eat last night? How did it turn into dark brown after digestion, with a pungent smell?" Stinky. Strange, the stomach acid that this person secretes is also not right. Is he really human?" I took the weirdly red ruby ​​from her hand and looked at it a few times. "This is an antique. The ruby ​​part should be produced in the phlogopite marble in the metamorphic rock distribution area of ​​Ailao Mountain in western Yunnan. It is a typical rose red color, rich and uniform, and it is of the highest quality. It is difficult to estimate the market price. The ruby ​​is engraved in the center. The characters should belong to the ancient characters before the Qin Dynasty, and we need to check the information for details. But the white part of the eyes... Huh." I was surprised to feel that the white part of the eyes of the ancient object had an astonishing coolness piercing the skin through the gloves, so cold that my bone marrow was about to freeze.This kind of coldness is difficult to describe clearly, it is not physical, but more like acting on the psychological level. But judging from the texture, it is just a kind of milky white granite with high purity, but why does it bring me a sense of horror that my scalp is tingling?It's as if this object is extremely ominous, it's a murderous thing! I trembled, and hurriedly put it on the dissecting table, not daring to touch it any more. The girl had already completely dissected Li Ming's body, her face was full of confusion, and the way she looked up at me was even more strange. "Who is this guy? I have never seen such a strange corpse. From the growth of his teeth and bones, he can't tell the age, and the hardness of the bones is three times that of human beings. The strength is definitely great, even professional weightlifters are far inferior to him. There is also the eye-shaped thing, although it is not big, but it is definitely beyond the tolerance of the human throat. I seriously doubt how he swallowed it !" She looked at me without blinking, as if interrogating a prisoner: "Mr. Ye Buyu, is it necessary for you to explain his situation to me completely?" I frowned, and said displeasedly: "You are just a coroner. If you want to interrogate me, it should be the responsibility of the criminal police team?" "You mean, I have no right to ask you?" The girl's reaction was great, and her tone was so cold that few people would dare to speak to her like that. Her beautiful eyes contained the calm before the storm. "good." I nodded indifferently. Li Ming's body has been dissected, and I have read what should be seen. It's time to cross the river and tear down the bridge.Girls with this temper, it's better to have less contact with them in the future. "good very good!" She was so angry that she dropped the scalpel and wanted to leave. Suddenly, the dropped scalpel accidentally hit the eye-shaped ancient thing in the corner of the dissecting table, and the old thing fell to the ground, emitting a dazzling light, accompanied by indescribable crisp sounds, like The wind chime is like scratching the glass with your fingernails.I was so uncomfortable with her that I closed my eyes and covered my ears. The light only appeared for a second, and then died down. The eyes bounced back and forth on the ground, and finally lay down flat. The red eyeballs were frighteningly red, as if they were staring at us. "It's looking at me?" The girl almost cried out in fright, and approached me subconsciously. I picked it up, wrapped it in a handkerchief, and put it in my pocket. "What are you doing, that's evidence, you can't take it away!" The girl pulled my arm and asked me to take it out. At this moment, a strange sound came from the morgue separated by a curtain. Both of us were shocked at the same time, the girl's mouth trembled a few times, "What's the sound?" "Like someone is kicking a metal door." My eyelids kept trembling, and a sense of crisis kept running around in my mind. She and I looked at each other, opened the curtain and walked out in a tacit understanding.The morgue was quiet, there was no one there, only countless neatly arranged metal coffins.The strange sound did not reappear, and neither of us could determine the original source of the sound. But before we could feel at ease, the sound of kicking came again. This time I heard it very clearly, it came from inside the coffin, as if the corpse inside had come alive and was struggling outward desperately. "ah!" The girl hid behind me in fright, completely losing her forensic composure. I was also frightened so that my heart was beating wildly, and I tried to calm down: "Don't be nervous, it may be the dead person's nerve reflex, and accidentally kicked the metal wall." At first, there was a crashing sound from a metal cabinet, followed by the second, and the third, and not long after, all the metal coffins containing the corpses trembled crazily. This is definitely not something that can be explained by simple neurological reflexes.The girl was so distraught that she was about to collapse, I took her hand and fled desperately.Just a few steps away, the metal cabinet not far away could no longer withstand the internal force and slid away.