Chapter 2 Chapter 1
It was a sunny morning, I usually have the problem of sleeping late, under normal circumstances, it is difficult for me to open my eyes before ten o'clock in the morning, the succubus is always clutching my lethargy nerves tightly, there is no means to relax.
But that morning was an accident, because the telephone rang relentlessly, endlessly!When I dimly hung up the phone for the eighth time, I finally picked it up unbearably, and yelled at the other party: "Are you a corpse? Call in the middle of the night!"
A woman's voice came from the phone, and she was surprised for a while before saying, "Uh! I'm sorry, I thought you should get up now!"
I said angrily: "What time is it now!"
"Beijing time, nine thirty in the morning!"
I cleared my mind a little, and my voice was no longer so rough: "Oh! What's the matter with you?"
"Excuse me, are you Mr. Alien?" After getting an affirmative answer, she didn't seem to believe my words, and asked again with the same tone. At this time, I was fully awake, so I made a more affirmative gentlemanly answer.
"I'm a criminal policeman from City S. We have encountered a very tricky case, so I would like to ask for your help!"
"Criminal case? Homicide case? What's going on at the scene?"
She was very embarrassed and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Yi, this matter is very special, it can be said to be very weird, if it's convenient for you, you'd better come and have a look!"
I snickered twice, thinking that if I said it was inconvenient, I don't know how she would answer!
Two hours after getting on the plane, I was already standing at the gate of S City Airport. The person who came to pick me up was a young woman in a police uniform. She was tall and tall. The uniform police uniform could hardly conceal her attractive figure. Her complexion was slightly dark, but she was as smooth as fat, and she would shine brightly in the dark. Like silk satin.The eyes are not big, but they are very energetic, and the thin lips are slightly raised-the personality should be more arrogant.On the whole, she is a woman who makes people's heart beat just by looking at her, and she is only in her early twenties.It was she who called me, her name is Bai Feng. Maybe it was to catch the wind for me. She accompanied me to a well-decorated restaurant and had lunch. The dead are a bit of a disgrace.Then he took me to the police station. Bai Feng led me into the lounge first, and said with a smile, "I'm sorry to disturb Mr. Yi's rest time. You should catch up on your sleep first, and I'll call you later!" Made me feel a little embarrassed about my rudeness on the phone. I usually take a nap at noon, so after lying down for a long time, I fell asleep soundly. When I was woken up, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and Bai Feng led me to see their captain, a thin man, although he was not tall, he had sharp eyes: "This is the captain of our criminal police department, Lu Hua is also the person in charge of this case!" Bai Feng introduced to me. The man stretched out his right hand and shook my hand vigorously. His hand clamped me tightly like a vice, and he knew that he must have practiced kung fu.Without waiting for Bai Feng's introduction, he said first, "Alien Hero, I have long admired your name!" After I sat down, Lu Hua said straight to the point: "This time, Mr. Yi is invited to come, mainly because this case is different from other cases, and I want to hear Mr. Yi's opinion." The photo is placed in front of me. Judging from the photos at the scene, the deceased was a family of three. The male and female deceased were about forty years old, and the other was a child in his teens.The man died in the bathroom, the woman died at the door, and the child died on the sofa.The faces of the three of them showed horror, obviously they saw something terrible, there were black spots on their bodies, and there were no obvious scars!There is a line of pale yellow footprints on the indoor floor!The footprints were made barefoot, with thick toes. Judging from the size of the footprints, it should have been stepped on by an adult man. I asked, "When did they die?" Bai Feng said: "According to the forensic examination, they should have died between 12 am and 2 am on August 23rd!" "When was the body found?" "Two o'clock in the afternoon on August 24th! The photo was taken at that time!" I smiled slightly: "Since Captain Lu said that this case is different from other cases, excuse my ignorance, what is the difference?" Lu Hua smiled and said, "Mr. Yi is testing me, right? Well, then I'll give my opinion first. The deceased was a family of three. There were no obvious injuries on the body. The door of the room was intact, and the doors and windows were not damaged. It shows that all three died of tachycardia. Judging from the blood test results, the three did not inject stimulant drugs that may cause tachycardia before their lives, and no heart disease was found in the three. The scene at that time should be a man Going to the toilet in the bathroom, the child was watching TV, the woman heard the doorbell ringing, and then went to open the door, did not know what she saw, resulting in a sudden heartbeat and sudden death, and then the child and the man also died due to excessive fright. The criminal walked in from the door In the room, after comparing the footprints of the deceased, the footprints printed on the floor tiles were not those of the deceased male and female, and we initially judged that they were left by criminals!" I asked: "Then follow the footprints as a clue, won't we be able to solve the case?" Lu Hua smiled wryly, and said: "This is the strange thing, because there are no footprints on the footprints, just an ordinary footprint shape, from the results of the soil analysis, these soils are the fields that can be seen everywhere in the local area. There is nothing special about the mud. The skin flakes carried in the mud have already rotted. As Mr. Yi discovered, the second peculiarity is that all three of them have corpse spots on their bodies. Grow corpse spots in two days?" (Author's note: The corpse spots referred to here are the scabs formed by stasis after the corpse decayed, not the usual dark spots on the corpse.) "Actually, you've already got the result, haven't you? It's just that you're not sure?" Lu Hua sighed, and said, "This case is beyond the scope of ordinary homicide cases. We are not sure. We know you are an expert in this field, so we asked Mr. Yi to help." "Is it really a fraudulent corpse? Hell, can a word of complaint be enough to startle the wronged soul?" I joked. Lu Hua was very surprised and looked at me strangely! I glanced at Bai Feng, and she burst out laughing! After making a joke, I immediately said sternly: "Have you investigated whether anyone died in the surrounding area that night? If it was a fraudulent corpse, please ask a psychic to explain it and everything will be fine!" Lu Hua said embarrassingly: "This matter should not be investigated with great fanfare. Besides, we have a special status. If we carry out this work, it may cause panic among the citizens. This is another reason why we invited Mr. Yi to come!" Lu Hua spoke very bluntly, as if I was a different kind of life form from the earth, but thinking about the profession I am engaged in, it is really no different from the different kind, and the unhappiness that arose in my heart was relieved immediately: "If This is just a fraudulent corpse that went into a stranger's house by mistake, and now many days have passed, the corpse should be cremated and buried, even if the investigation is true, can't the dead body be exhumed?" There was still an inexplicable doubt in Lu Hua's tone: "Personally, I don't think it's that simple. If it's really a mistake, then why don't you let the people on the side of the road go, but go deep into the house?" The dead man's house in the alley? If it's a zombie, why are the doors and windows closed? Could it be that the corpse will close the door after killing someone? And according to our secret investigation, no one in the village held a funeral in those few days!" I felt my heart tense, and said, "Isn't the place where the crime happened in S City?" Bai Feng said, "It's a small town on the outskirts of the city, but because it's closer to City S, most people there make a living doing business!" I was startled, and looked down at these photos again: the dilated pupils due to fright, the disgusting corpse spots, the traceless footprints, the rotting flesh... So I nodded and said, "Okay, let me try!" A smile appeared on Lu Hua's face, and he said, "Okay, but it must be kept absolutely secret! Just tell me if you need anything!" I laughed and made a joke: "Not yet, but I won't spare you!" Lu Hua let out a burst of hearty laughter: "Hahaha... Waiting for you at any time! In order to facilitate your investigation, Bai Feng will be your assistant. She is very familiar with the environment there and has been involved in this case from beginning to end. Can you use Got it!" I know that letting her follow me has another purpose, that is, to report to Lu Hua in time if there is any situation, and of course, to monitor me along the way to prevent me from breaking the rules.I don't care about it, but I just think it is a great joy in life to have a beautiful woman by my side in this bizarre case! That afternoon, I asked Bai Feng to change into casual clothes and go to the crime scene with me.Bai Feng, who had changed into casual clothes, lost her heroic appearance in uniform, but she showed her lively and lovely side in jeans. Bai Feng's driving skills are good, and the BMW in her hands is like a horse galloping on the battlefield.I joked: "If the traffic police catch us speeding, I wonder if it will give you face?" Bai Feng said with a smile: "Now I am not a policeman, but an assistant of Yiduxia. How about it, it all depends on the face of the alien man!" "Are you afraid of ghosts?" I asked her, because nine out of ten girls are afraid. She smiled and replied seriously: "If the ghost doesn't spray the stench on my face, I won't be afraid!" I asked curiously: "Who told you that ghosts spray bad smell on people's faces?" But as soon as this sentence came out, I thought of scenes that often appeared in Lin Zhengying's ghost movies, and I couldn't help shaking my head. Most people's understanding of zombies is probably It is also limited to the scenes seen in ghost movies. "Have you ever encountered a ghost? In all your years of mysterious career?" She asked curiously again. I said seriously: "Of course I have, but ghosts are nothing to be afraid of. In fact, ghosts are just the result of a special electromagnetic force and a certain earth's magnetic field. There is nothing to be afraid of! This is an international psychic study." The most popular view, haven’t you heard of it?” In fact, the so-called ghosts I’ve seen can’t be called ghosts, because those things all appeared under specific circumstances, with reasonable environmental factors, real ghosts and ghosts , How many people in the world have actually seen it? "I've heard of it, but I don't know why this electromagnetic force can be seen by people?" she said. "I'll teach you a good lesson another day!" "So this time, is it something like this?" she asked me. "It's not like, if it's a ghost, there's no way there will be footprints left behind. I'm more inclined to be a zombie! Only after a zombie has physical contact with a stranger, can a person be infected with corpse spots, but what is the truth, I don't know. Not sure either!" The car gradually approached Qingming Town, here is our destination!It's four o'clock in the afternoon, but there are not many pedestrians on the street. I was a little curious and asked, "Is there a small population living here?" Bai Feng said: "It used to be a very prosperous town with a permanent population of 30,000 to 40,000! But now many people go out to work, and when they have money, they move to the urban area. Also, a few years ago, there was an outbreak here. After a great plague, many people died, and everyone said that this place was the main culprit, but now there are a lot fewer people!" "What plague, why haven't I heard of it?" I was very surprised. "This happened five years ago. I don't know where a disease came from. Everyone coughed and had a fever. It was not good to take injections or medicine. After two or three days of fever, it was difficult to breathe. Hundreds of people died in a week or so. In the end, it was an old professor at the Central Hospital who developed an antibiotic drug that stopped the spread of the plague. He said that this is an endemic plague, which was caused by the mutation of the cold virus caused by the humid environment of S city. He developed a corresponding vaccine against this disease, and widely injected it in the city of S, which completely wiped out the plague! There has been no outbreak in recent years!" While speaking, he had already arrived at the crime scene. As Lu Hua said, this place is very remote. It takes seven or eight turns to get there from the main road. Moreover, this is a dead end. It is the twelfth house from the entrance of the alley. Counting from the farthest part of the alley is the third one. If it is a fraudulent corpse, it is impossible for an unconscious corpse to come here no matter what! Opening the door, the room was very dark, with a strong smell of corruption, and it smelled bad.Turn on the lights and you can see that there are all kinds of electrical appliances in the house, the furnishings are exquisite, and the decoration is also very high-end. It can be seen that the deceased had a good income during his lifetime.In the east room hangs a portrait of an old man, a very kind old man.The photographs were placed in a box niche, covered with a black cloth. I asked Bai Feng: "Who is this old man belonging to the deceased?" Bai Feng said: "It's the father of the deceased. It is said that he died of a serious illness three years ago!" Just as I was about to turn around and leave, a big black cat jumped out from the shadows in the corner with a whoosh, looking at me full of hostility. There was a faint green light in the eyes, and the hairs on my whole body stood on end. It's rare that the master has been in trouble for so many days, and it can still stay here without leaving! I suddenly saw faint traces of footprints on the white floor tiles, and immediately squatted down to check carefully. They were indeed footprints, exactly the same as the footprints in the photo. There were a few grains of dirt around the footprints. I gently picked them up and put them on my nose When I smelled it, the stench was mixed with a trace of fresh soil. When I twisted it lightly, the soil was squeezed into a piece and stuck to my fingertips. I suddenly remembered something and asked, "Bai Feng, what's the date today?" Bai Feng was slightly stunned, and said with a smile, "September 5th!" I silently counted in my heart: it is exactly twelve days from August 24th to today, and the ground looks very dry, without any water stains... Then I said, "Bai Feng, how about staying here tonight?" Bai Feng was taken aback, looked at me suspiciously and asked, "Are you joking?" I handed the soil to her, she twisted it lightly, and exclaimed in surprise, "It's true!" I nodded and said, "Maybe he didn't leave this room at all, or he's been here for the past few days. Let's try our luck here tonight!" Bai Feng knew who I was talking about, but he still couldn't help asking: "Who are you waiting for?" At this time, a mournful wail came to my ears, and at some point the big black cat had already jumped onto the niche of the portrait of the old man, staring at us with green eyes, and there seemed to be a trace of twitch hanging from the corner of the mouth of the old man on the portrait. Weird smile! I asked slightly provocatively: "Don't you dare? Why don't you go back first, and I'll spend the night here alone to see what's causing the trouble!" Bai Feng said stubbornly: "If you don't go, then I have no choice but to risk my life to accompany the gentleman. With you here, I have nothing to be afraid of!"
Although he said he wasn't afraid, Bai Feng's face still turned pale, I smiled and said, "Isn't it pretty like this!" Bai Feng smiled at the mirror, and she smiled unnaturally in the mirror.I comforted: "Don't worry, since you trust me to handle this case, I won't disappoint you." So we walked out of the courtyard and found a small restaurant to have a full meal. The owner of the restaurant saw that we were driving a good car, so he greeted us very hospitablely, and kept coming over to refill soup and water, while chatting up: "Two one It looks like a rich and powerful person, what business are you doing here?" I waved my hand to him mysteriously, and asked softly, "Boss, is your house haunted recently? I'll help you catch some for fun!" The boss shook his head, smiled embarrassingly, and said, "Sir, you can really make fun of me. My house is not a black shop. What the hell is going on?" "It's a pity, it's a pity, we came here all the way to catch a few little ghosts, how could we not make trouble? Did you see that? She is my apprentice, she quit her job as a police officer to catch ghosts with me everywhere!" Seeing that I was speaking seriously, the boss also became half-believing and dubious. He backed out with a shy smile, and heard him spit twice at the door, holding his throat and cursing: "Day, catch ghosts, hit ghosts!" After dinner, we found a parking lot and parked the car, and walked back to the house on foot. It was already dark at this time, we tiptoed back to the house, the room was so dark that we couldn't see our fingers, Bai Feng reached out to press the light switch.I grabbed her and said, "It's not haunted, but when you turn on the light, the neighbors think it's really haunted. Besides, have you ever seen ghosts under the light?" I pulled a blanket from the bed, led her to the room where the portrait was kept, sat on the floor against the wall, and said, "Okay, go to sleep! I will call you if there is any movement!" I said and covered the blanket on her. Bai Feng gently lifted the blanket and said that I am not cold, but I know she thinks that the blanket was covered by the dead, for fear of bad luck! She called out to Mr. Yi, and I said softly, "Don't talk, as soon as you speak, you will have the aura of a stranger, and the unclean things will not come out!" She also stopped, and slowly leaned against me. I heard the big clock in the hall rang eight times, then nine times, until eleven o'clock, and I heard her breathing was very uneven. Although she tilted her head and pretended to sleep, she was clearly not asleep. Go! There was silence everywhere, the big black cat didn't know where it went, and there was no sound of it, as if it never existed at all. After a while, the bell in the hall rang twelve times, and it was midnight! Suddenly there was a rush of dog barking outside, the sound was very anxious! Then there was a creak, and the door slowly opened a crack.I suddenly felt a tightness in my right arm, and was tightly grasped by a small hand, that was Bai Feng.I gently reached out and patted the back of her hand to comfort her. After the creaking sound, a black figure rushed out from the crack of the door with a whoosh, staring at us with a pair of bright eyes, the faint green light shining!Hearing its meow, it rushed up to the shrine with the portrait. I looked sideways, and a ray of moonlight came in from the window, just shining on the face of the portrait, and his eyes seemed to radiate light, staring at me coldly, the black cat meowed softly again, as if complaining As mentioned, it seemed that someone was talking in his sleep! Not far away, the barking of the dog gradually became quieter and turned into a low groan. At this moment, there was only a long sound, and the courtyard door slowly opened. Then there was the sound of someone walking in the yard, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and a rancid smell gradually permeated, and finally, the sound of knocking on the door It rang out one after another, like someone knocking on my eardrum. The sound of knocking on the door echoed in the quiet night, and it was frightening to hear. After a while, the door was finally pushed open! Kick-tap-kick-tap, the sound of footsteps came in slowly. I leaned over and looked out through the crack of the door, only to see a pair of big feet walking numbly on the floor tiles. Those feet were covered with yellow soil, rotten and damaged, the white toe bones were exposed, and a stench permeated the whole room, making people sick. The black cat let out a shrill scream, jumped out, bit one foot hard, and immediately pulled off a piece of meat. The meat was not sticky, just like the old earthen wall in the countryside. In the sun and rain, a piece of soil can be buckled with a light tap of your fingertips. The owner of those feet seemed to be completely unconscious, and was still walking around the room. I looked up and couldn't help but gasped.I saw that the man was wearing an old-fashioned shroud made of silk and satin, and a felt hat on his head.It's just that the clothes and hats have faded to earthy gray, and there are a few beards floating on the scorched yellow skin, stretching around the mouth in a crooked manner, as stiff as a few rusty iron wires, and the man's eyes are deeply sunken into their sockets You can't tell if it's open or closed.Half of the corner of the mouth was broken, exposing yellow and black teeth. He turned half a turn in the hall and walked slowly towards the house where we were. I noticed that Bai Feng was shaking with my hands, knowing that she was terribly frightened, so I didn't wait for the man to enter the room, I suddenly pushed open the door, and covered my face with the blanket in my hand. He didn't dodge, the blanket covered his face as if he didn't feel it, and he continued to move forward.I gently pulled out the prepared ink fountain, tied one end to the doorknob, pulled the other end to the other side, flicked it lightly, and with a scoff, the ink thread collapsed on him.But strangely, he was unmoved in the slightest, took two steps forward, and the ink thread was torn off. At this moment, the black cat sprang up suddenly, bit the blanket with its teeth, and pulled it down desperately. After a while, the blanket slipped off the man's face and fell on the ground together with his dilapidated felt hat. on the ground. When I looked up at his face again, I was even more horrified. I saw the silver hair on his head was like pine needles that had been shaken off, falling to the ground, revealing a bloated head. It turned out that there was a huge growth on the top of his head. The pustule is about half the size of a skull, very similar to the Lei Zhenzi with wings in the Romance of the Gods, but the difference is that the pustule is only covered with a very thin layer of skin, and when the moonlight shines in, you can actually see the thin skin Every time he took a step, the pustules trembled and trembled, as if they were about to burst open and ooze pus at any time. Seeing that the ink fountain didn't work, I felt anxious, and hurriedly took out three small swords carved out of peach wood—all of them had incantations engraved by a very knowledgeable friend.He rushed in front of the monster with a vigorous step, stretched out his hand and inserted the mahogany sword into his Yintang, chest, and navel respectively. The thing didn't even stop, and continued to move forward.Now I started to panic, I didn't expect that the ancient method of dealing with zombies is useless! The monster rushed in front of me, and with a slight push with both arms, I felt as if my body was suddenly hit by a thousand-ton force, and I fell out hard! At first, Bai Feng just curled up in the corner of the wall and stared at it with a pair of inexplicable eyes. When he saw me fall out, the monster had rushed into the room. He screamed in fright, and instinctively touched his right hand to his waist. Go, when she raised her hand tremblingly, she was already holding a pistol, the black muzzle tremblingly pointed at the monster, and her voice changed: "You, stand still...don't move!" The monster ignored her words, and I knew it couldn't possibly hear them either! In a panic, Bai Feng pulled the trigger, bang bang bang—three gunshots, all three bullets hit the target, and one of the bullets hit him right in the face, instantly smashing the left half of his face, several pieces The carrion was divided into several pieces and splashed out.His face was stiff, there was no blood at all, and his cheekbones were exposed white, his face was extremely terrifying! Seeing that the bullet didn't stop it from moving, and seeing the terrifying shape on its face, Bai Feng couldn't help opening his mouth and let out a scream. At the moment when he was shot in the face, taking advantage of the moonlight, I suddenly saw the portrait of the old man hanging on the wall. Although the monster was thin and bony, its appearance vaguely resembled the portrait, and I couldn't help but move. Standing up hastily, he took off the portrait, casually placed a small compass on the floor of the house, and ran out of the room quickly. This trick really worked, the monster turned around suddenly, and chased me. Although he was kicking and walking, his pace was not slow. I let go of my pace and ran wildly, but he was not behind! I ran out of the alley, and there was no one on the street. A few wild cats by the roadside screamed repeatedly and fled into the darkness. I didn't want to be chased by him all the time, so I took out the lighter, lit the fire, and set the portrait on fire. I put the unburned portrait in the middle of the street, and I ran to a dark corner and hid myself. After a while, the monster chased after it, circled around the ashes a few times, turned around and left. I was afraid that it would run back into the house again, and Bai Feng would follow it slowly when he saw that he would faint from fright.When it reached the entrance of the alley, it paused for a while, as if identifying the way, but then walked along the street. I let out a sigh, and finally tricked him away, seeing him kicking and kicking, about to disappear into the hazy night.I suddenly thought: Where will he go? Since he didn't want to go back and didn't have to worry about Bai Feng's safety, I followed him to find out. It went all the way to the south, and after walking for a while, the road gradually narrowed and the surroundings gradually opened up. A fresh breath of soil was sent into the nostrils along with the night dew, and it had already reached the outskirts of the town. After walking for a while, tall and short grave mounds appeared in front of my eyes, some of which were still covered with yellow soil, soft and soft, and the white paper streamers swayed with the breeze, which was a new grave; Some are like a small mound; some stand tall stone tablets with photos of the deceased inlaid on them, full of smiles; some are bare and empty.This should be a mass cemetery in the small town. When I think of the many dead people who might turn into zombies lying here, I can't help but feel my scalp tingle. I saw it walking up and down in the cemetery for a while, and when it got short, it didn't go away. gone.I hurriedly turned around and ran away, but a story came to my mind. It said that a person was walking at night and was followed by some gangsters on the way. He couldn't get rid of him several times. On the grave, he sighed, and said faintly: "Finally home!" The gangsters thought they had encountered a ghost, and ran away crying in fright.Just when he was complacent, he suddenly saw an old man holding a hammer and a chisel in both hands on the grave next to him, digging the tombstone seriously, so the man asked, "Master, it's so late, what are you doing here?" The old man turned his head and smiled, and said: "It's okay, you go to bed first, I don't know who engraved my name wrong, I will come out and change it!" The man fainted on the spot! This was originally a scary story, but it was changed into a joke by Xiaoshenyang, and he said it everywhere, but now there was a faint knocking sound in my ears, and I felt chills on my back, and I suddenly felt that this was a joke. It's not funny at all, so I ran wild! When I ran back to the house, I saw Bai Feng curled up in the corner with a pale face, holding the pistol in his hand blankly.
Two hours after getting on the plane, I was already standing at the gate of S City Airport. The person who came to pick me up was a young woman in a police uniform. She was tall and tall. The uniform police uniform could hardly conceal her attractive figure. Her complexion was slightly dark, but she was as smooth as fat, and she would shine brightly in the dark. Like silk satin.The eyes are not big, but they are very energetic, and the thin lips are slightly raised-the personality should be more arrogant.On the whole, she is a woman who makes people's heart beat just by looking at her, and she is only in her early twenties.It was she who called me, her name is Bai Feng. Maybe it was to catch the wind for me. She accompanied me to a well-decorated restaurant and had lunch. The dead are a bit of a disgrace.Then he took me to the police station. Bai Feng led me into the lounge first, and said with a smile, "I'm sorry to disturb Mr. Yi's rest time. You should catch up on your sleep first, and I'll call you later!" Made me feel a little embarrassed about my rudeness on the phone. I usually take a nap at noon, so after lying down for a long time, I fell asleep soundly. When I was woken up, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon, and Bai Feng led me to see their captain, a thin man, although he was not tall, he had sharp eyes: "This is the captain of our criminal police department, Lu Hua is also the person in charge of this case!" Bai Feng introduced to me. The man stretched out his right hand and shook my hand vigorously. His hand clamped me tightly like a vice, and he knew that he must have practiced kung fu.Without waiting for Bai Feng's introduction, he said first, "Alien Hero, I have long admired your name!" After I sat down, Lu Hua said straight to the point: "This time, Mr. Yi is invited to come, mainly because this case is different from other cases, and I want to hear Mr. Yi's opinion." The photo is placed in front of me. Judging from the photos at the scene, the deceased was a family of three. The male and female deceased were about forty years old, and the other was a child in his teens.The man died in the bathroom, the woman died at the door, and the child died on the sofa.The faces of the three of them showed horror, obviously they saw something terrible, there were black spots on their bodies, and there were no obvious scars!There is a line of pale yellow footprints on the indoor floor!The footprints were made barefoot, with thick toes. Judging from the size of the footprints, it should have been stepped on by an adult man. I asked, "When did they die?" Bai Feng said: "According to the forensic examination, they should have died between 12 am and 2 am on August 23rd!" "When was the body found?" "Two o'clock in the afternoon on August 24th! The photo was taken at that time!" I smiled slightly: "Since Captain Lu said that this case is different from other cases, excuse my ignorance, what is the difference?" Lu Hua smiled and said, "Mr. Yi is testing me, right? Well, then I'll give my opinion first. The deceased was a family of three. There were no obvious injuries on the body. The door of the room was intact, and the doors and windows were not damaged. It shows that all three died of tachycardia. Judging from the blood test results, the three did not inject stimulant drugs that may cause tachycardia before their lives, and no heart disease was found in the three. The scene at that time should be a man Going to the toilet in the bathroom, the child was watching TV, the woman heard the doorbell ringing, and then went to open the door, did not know what she saw, resulting in a sudden heartbeat and sudden death, and then the child and the man also died due to excessive fright. The criminal walked in from the door In the room, after comparing the footprints of the deceased, the footprints printed on the floor tiles were not those of the deceased male and female, and we initially judged that they were left by criminals!" I asked: "Then follow the footprints as a clue, won't we be able to solve the case?" Lu Hua smiled wryly, and said: "This is the strange thing, because there are no footprints on the footprints, just an ordinary footprint shape, from the results of the soil analysis, these soils are the fields that can be seen everywhere in the local area. There is nothing special about the mud. The skin flakes carried in the mud have already rotted. As Mr. Yi discovered, the second peculiarity is that all three of them have corpse spots on their bodies. Grow corpse spots in two days?" (Author's note: The corpse spots referred to here are the scabs formed by stasis after the corpse decayed, not the usual dark spots on the corpse.) "Actually, you've already got the result, haven't you? It's just that you're not sure?" Lu Hua sighed, and said, "This case is beyond the scope of ordinary homicide cases. We are not sure. We know you are an expert in this field, so we asked Mr. Yi to help." "Is it really a fraudulent corpse? Hell, can a word of complaint be enough to startle the wronged soul?" I joked. Lu Hua was very surprised and looked at me strangely! I glanced at Bai Feng, and she burst out laughing! After making a joke, I immediately said sternly: "Have you investigated whether anyone died in the surrounding area that night? If it was a fraudulent corpse, please ask a psychic to explain it and everything will be fine!" Lu Hua said embarrassingly: "This matter should not be investigated with great fanfare. Besides, we have a special status. If we carry out this work, it may cause panic among the citizens. This is another reason why we invited Mr. Yi to come!" Lu Hua spoke very bluntly, as if I was a different kind of life form from the earth, but thinking about the profession I am engaged in, it is really no different from the different kind, and the unhappiness that arose in my heart was relieved immediately: "If This is just a fraudulent corpse that went into a stranger's house by mistake, and now many days have passed, the corpse should be cremated and buried, even if the investigation is true, can't the dead body be exhumed?" There was still an inexplicable doubt in Lu Hua's tone: "Personally, I don't think it's that simple. If it's really a mistake, then why don't you let the people on the side of the road go, but go deep into the house?" The dead man's house in the alley? If it's a zombie, why are the doors and windows closed? Could it be that the corpse will close the door after killing someone? And according to our secret investigation, no one in the village held a funeral in those few days!" I felt my heart tense, and said, "Isn't the place where the crime happened in S City?" Bai Feng said, "It's a small town on the outskirts of the city, but because it's closer to City S, most people there make a living doing business!" I was startled, and looked down at these photos again: the dilated pupils due to fright, the disgusting corpse spots, the traceless footprints, the rotting flesh... So I nodded and said, "Okay, let me try!" A smile appeared on Lu Hua's face, and he said, "Okay, but it must be kept absolutely secret! Just tell me if you need anything!" I laughed and made a joke: "Not yet, but I won't spare you!" Lu Hua let out a burst of hearty laughter: "Hahaha... Waiting for you at any time! In order to facilitate your investigation, Bai Feng will be your assistant. She is very familiar with the environment there and has been involved in this case from beginning to end. Can you use Got it!" I know that letting her follow me has another purpose, that is, to report to Lu Hua in time if there is any situation, and of course, to monitor me along the way to prevent me from breaking the rules.I don't care about it, but I just think it is a great joy in life to have a beautiful woman by my side in this bizarre case! That afternoon, I asked Bai Feng to change into casual clothes and go to the crime scene with me.Bai Feng, who had changed into casual clothes, lost her heroic appearance in uniform, but she showed her lively and lovely side in jeans. Bai Feng's driving skills are good, and the BMW in her hands is like a horse galloping on the battlefield.I joked: "If the traffic police catch us speeding, I wonder if it will give you face?" Bai Feng said with a smile: "Now I am not a policeman, but an assistant of Yiduxia. How about it, it all depends on the face of the alien man!" "Are you afraid of ghosts?" I asked her, because nine out of ten girls are afraid. She smiled and replied seriously: "If the ghost doesn't spray the stench on my face, I won't be afraid!" I asked curiously: "Who told you that ghosts spray bad smell on people's faces?" But as soon as this sentence came out, I thought of scenes that often appeared in Lin Zhengying's ghost movies, and I couldn't help shaking my head. Most people's understanding of zombies is probably It is also limited to the scenes seen in ghost movies. "Have you ever encountered a ghost? In all your years of mysterious career?" She asked curiously again. I said seriously: "Of course I have, but ghosts are nothing to be afraid of. In fact, ghosts are just the result of a special electromagnetic force and a certain earth's magnetic field. There is nothing to be afraid of! This is an international psychic study." The most popular view, haven’t you heard of it?” In fact, the so-called ghosts I’ve seen can’t be called ghosts, because those things all appeared under specific circumstances, with reasonable environmental factors, real ghosts and ghosts , How many people in the world have actually seen it? "I've heard of it, but I don't know why this electromagnetic force can be seen by people?" she said. "I'll teach you a good lesson another day!" "So this time, is it something like this?" she asked me. "It's not like, if it's a ghost, there's no way there will be footprints left behind. I'm more inclined to be a zombie! Only after a zombie has physical contact with a stranger, can a person be infected with corpse spots, but what is the truth, I don't know. Not sure either!" The car gradually approached Qingming Town, here is our destination!It's four o'clock in the afternoon, but there are not many pedestrians on the street. I was a little curious and asked, "Is there a small population living here?" Bai Feng said: "It used to be a very prosperous town with a permanent population of 30,000 to 40,000! But now many people go out to work, and when they have money, they move to the urban area. Also, a few years ago, there was an outbreak here. After a great plague, many people died, and everyone said that this place was the main culprit, but now there are a lot fewer people!" "What plague, why haven't I heard of it?" I was very surprised. "This happened five years ago. I don't know where a disease came from. Everyone coughed and had a fever. It was not good to take injections or medicine. After two or three days of fever, it was difficult to breathe. Hundreds of people died in a week or so. In the end, it was an old professor at the Central Hospital who developed an antibiotic drug that stopped the spread of the plague. He said that this is an endemic plague, which was caused by the mutation of the cold virus caused by the humid environment of S city. He developed a corresponding vaccine against this disease, and widely injected it in the city of S, which completely wiped out the plague! There has been no outbreak in recent years!" While speaking, he had already arrived at the crime scene. As Lu Hua said, this place is very remote. It takes seven or eight turns to get there from the main road. Moreover, this is a dead end. It is the twelfth house from the entrance of the alley. Counting from the farthest part of the alley is the third one. If it is a fraudulent corpse, it is impossible for an unconscious corpse to come here no matter what! Opening the door, the room was very dark, with a strong smell of corruption, and it smelled bad.Turn on the lights and you can see that there are all kinds of electrical appliances in the house, the furnishings are exquisite, and the decoration is also very high-end. It can be seen that the deceased had a good income during his lifetime.In the east room hangs a portrait of an old man, a very kind old man.The photographs were placed in a box niche, covered with a black cloth. I asked Bai Feng: "Who is this old man belonging to the deceased?" Bai Feng said: "It's the father of the deceased. It is said that he died of a serious illness three years ago!" Just as I was about to turn around and leave, a big black cat jumped out from the shadows in the corner with a whoosh, looking at me full of hostility. There was a faint green light in the eyes, and the hairs on my whole body stood on end. It's rare that the master has been in trouble for so many days, and it can still stay here without leaving! I suddenly saw faint traces of footprints on the white floor tiles, and immediately squatted down to check carefully. They were indeed footprints, exactly the same as the footprints in the photo. There were a few grains of dirt around the footprints. I gently picked them up and put them on my nose When I smelled it, the stench was mixed with a trace of fresh soil. When I twisted it lightly, the soil was squeezed into a piece and stuck to my fingertips. I suddenly remembered something and asked, "Bai Feng, what's the date today?" Bai Feng was slightly stunned, and said with a smile, "September 5th!" I silently counted in my heart: it is exactly twelve days from August 24th to today, and the ground looks very dry, without any water stains... Then I said, "Bai Feng, how about staying here tonight?" Bai Feng was taken aback, looked at me suspiciously and asked, "Are you joking?" I handed the soil to her, she twisted it lightly, and exclaimed in surprise, "It's true!" I nodded and said, "Maybe he didn't leave this room at all, or he's been here for the past few days. Let's try our luck here tonight!" Bai Feng knew who I was talking about, but he still couldn't help asking: "Who are you waiting for?" At this time, a mournful wail came to my ears, and at some point the big black cat had already jumped onto the niche of the portrait of the old man, staring at us with green eyes, and there seemed to be a trace of twitch hanging from the corner of the mouth of the old man on the portrait. Weird smile! I asked slightly provocatively: "Don't you dare? Why don't you go back first, and I'll spend the night here alone to see what's causing the trouble!" Bai Feng said stubbornly: "If you don't go, then I have no choice but to risk my life to accompany the gentleman. With you here, I have nothing to be afraid of!"
Although he said he wasn't afraid, Bai Feng's face still turned pale, I smiled and said, "Isn't it pretty like this!" Bai Feng smiled at the mirror, and she smiled unnaturally in the mirror.I comforted: "Don't worry, since you trust me to handle this case, I won't disappoint you." So we walked out of the courtyard and found a small restaurant to have a full meal. The owner of the restaurant saw that we were driving a good car, so he greeted us very hospitablely, and kept coming over to refill soup and water, while chatting up: "Two one It looks like a rich and powerful person, what business are you doing here?" I waved my hand to him mysteriously, and asked softly, "Boss, is your house haunted recently? I'll help you catch some for fun!" The boss shook his head, smiled embarrassingly, and said, "Sir, you can really make fun of me. My house is not a black shop. What the hell is going on?" "It's a pity, it's a pity, we came here all the way to catch a few little ghosts, how could we not make trouble? Did you see that? She is my apprentice, she quit her job as a police officer to catch ghosts with me everywhere!" Seeing that I was speaking seriously, the boss also became half-believing and dubious. He backed out with a shy smile, and heard him spit twice at the door, holding his throat and cursing: "Day, catch ghosts, hit ghosts!" After dinner, we found a parking lot and parked the car, and walked back to the house on foot. It was already dark at this time, we tiptoed back to the house, the room was so dark that we couldn't see our fingers, Bai Feng reached out to press the light switch.I grabbed her and said, "It's not haunted, but when you turn on the light, the neighbors think it's really haunted. Besides, have you ever seen ghosts under the light?" I pulled a blanket from the bed, led her to the room where the portrait was kept, sat on the floor against the wall, and said, "Okay, go to sleep! I will call you if there is any movement!" I said and covered the blanket on her. Bai Feng gently lifted the blanket and said that I am not cold, but I know she thinks that the blanket was covered by the dead, for fear of bad luck! She called out to Mr. Yi, and I said softly, "Don't talk, as soon as you speak, you will have the aura of a stranger, and the unclean things will not come out!" She also stopped, and slowly leaned against me. I heard the big clock in the hall rang eight times, then nine times, until eleven o'clock, and I heard her breathing was very uneven. Although she tilted her head and pretended to sleep, she was clearly not asleep. Go! There was silence everywhere, the big black cat didn't know where it went, and there was no sound of it, as if it never existed at all. After a while, the bell in the hall rang twelve times, and it was midnight! Suddenly there was a rush of dog barking outside, the sound was very anxious! Then there was a creak, and the door slowly opened a crack.I suddenly felt a tightness in my right arm, and was tightly grasped by a small hand, that was Bai Feng.I gently reached out and patted the back of her hand to comfort her. After the creaking sound, a black figure rushed out from the crack of the door with a whoosh, staring at us with a pair of bright eyes, the faint green light shining!Hearing its meow, it rushed up to the shrine with the portrait. I looked sideways, and a ray of moonlight came in from the window, just shining on the face of the portrait, and his eyes seemed to radiate light, staring at me coldly, the black cat meowed softly again, as if complaining As mentioned, it seemed that someone was talking in his sleep! Not far away, the barking of the dog gradually became quieter and turned into a low groan. At this moment, there was only a long sound, and the courtyard door slowly opened. Then there was the sound of someone walking in the yard, the footsteps were getting closer and closer, and a rancid smell gradually permeated, and finally, the sound of knocking on the door It rang out one after another, like someone knocking on my eardrum. The sound of knocking on the door echoed in the quiet night, and it was frightening to hear. After a while, the door was finally pushed open! Kick-tap-kick-tap, the sound of footsteps came in slowly. I leaned over and looked out through the crack of the door, only to see a pair of big feet walking numbly on the floor tiles. Those feet were covered with yellow soil, rotten and damaged, the white toe bones were exposed, and a stench permeated the whole room, making people sick. The black cat let out a shrill scream, jumped out, bit one foot hard, and immediately pulled off a piece of meat. The meat was not sticky, just like the old earthen wall in the countryside. In the sun and rain, a piece of soil can be buckled with a light tap of your fingertips. The owner of those feet seemed to be completely unconscious, and was still walking around the room. I looked up and couldn't help but gasped.I saw that the man was wearing an old-fashioned shroud made of silk and satin, and a felt hat on his head.It's just that the clothes and hats have faded to earthy gray, and there are a few beards floating on the scorched yellow skin, stretching around the mouth in a crooked manner, as stiff as a few rusty iron wires, and the man's eyes are deeply sunken into their sockets You can't tell if it's open or closed.Half of the corner of the mouth was broken, exposing yellow and black teeth. He turned half a turn in the hall and walked slowly towards the house where we were. I noticed that Bai Feng was shaking with my hands, knowing that she was terribly frightened, so I didn't wait for the man to enter the room, I suddenly pushed open the door, and covered my face with the blanket in my hand. He didn't dodge, the blanket covered his face as if he didn't feel it, and he continued to move forward.I gently pulled out the prepared ink fountain, tied one end to the doorknob, pulled the other end to the other side, flicked it lightly, and with a scoff, the ink thread collapsed on him.But strangely, he was unmoved in the slightest, took two steps forward, and the ink thread was torn off. At this moment, the black cat sprang up suddenly, bit the blanket with its teeth, and pulled it down desperately. After a while, the blanket slipped off the man's face and fell on the ground together with his dilapidated felt hat. on the ground. When I looked up at his face again, I was even more horrified. I saw the silver hair on his head was like pine needles that had been shaken off, falling to the ground, revealing a bloated head. It turned out that there was a huge growth on the top of his head. The pustule is about half the size of a skull, very similar to the Lei Zhenzi with wings in the Romance of the Gods, but the difference is that the pustule is only covered with a very thin layer of skin, and when the moonlight shines in, you can actually see the thin skin Every time he took a step, the pustules trembled and trembled, as if they were about to burst open and ooze pus at any time. Seeing that the ink fountain didn't work, I felt anxious, and hurriedly took out three small swords carved out of peach wood—all of them had incantations engraved by a very knowledgeable friend.He rushed in front of the monster with a vigorous step, stretched out his hand and inserted the mahogany sword into his Yintang, chest, and navel respectively. The thing didn't even stop, and continued to move forward.Now I started to panic, I didn't expect that the ancient method of dealing with zombies is useless! The monster rushed in front of me, and with a slight push with both arms, I felt as if my body was suddenly hit by a thousand-ton force, and I fell out hard! At first, Bai Feng just curled up in the corner of the wall and stared at it with a pair of inexplicable eyes. When he saw me fall out, the monster had rushed into the room. He screamed in fright, and instinctively touched his right hand to his waist. Go, when she raised her hand tremblingly, she was already holding a pistol, the black muzzle tremblingly pointed at the monster, and her voice changed: "You, stand still...don't move!" The monster ignored her words, and I knew it couldn't possibly hear them either! In a panic, Bai Feng pulled the trigger, bang bang bang—three gunshots, all three bullets hit the target, and one of the bullets hit him right in the face, instantly smashing the left half of his face, several pieces The carrion was divided into several pieces and splashed out.His face was stiff, there was no blood at all, and his cheekbones were exposed white, his face was extremely terrifying! Seeing that the bullet didn't stop it from moving, and seeing the terrifying shape on its face, Bai Feng couldn't help opening his mouth and let out a scream. At the moment when he was shot in the face, taking advantage of the moonlight, I suddenly saw the portrait of the old man hanging on the wall. Although the monster was thin and bony, its appearance vaguely resembled the portrait, and I couldn't help but move. Standing up hastily, he took off the portrait, casually placed a small compass on the floor of the house, and ran out of the room quickly. This trick really worked, the monster turned around suddenly, and chased me. Although he was kicking and walking, his pace was not slow. I let go of my pace and ran wildly, but he was not behind! I ran out of the alley, and there was no one on the street. A few wild cats by the roadside screamed repeatedly and fled into the darkness. I didn't want to be chased by him all the time, so I took out the lighter, lit the fire, and set the portrait on fire. I put the unburned portrait in the middle of the street, and I ran to a dark corner and hid myself. After a while, the monster chased after it, circled around the ashes a few times, turned around and left. I was afraid that it would run back into the house again, and Bai Feng would follow it slowly when he saw that he would faint from fright.When it reached the entrance of the alley, it paused for a while, as if identifying the way, but then walked along the street. I let out a sigh, and finally tricked him away, seeing him kicking and kicking, about to disappear into the hazy night.I suddenly thought: Where will he go? Since he didn't want to go back and didn't have to worry about Bai Feng's safety, I followed him to find out. It went all the way to the south, and after walking for a while, the road gradually narrowed and the surroundings gradually opened up. A fresh breath of soil was sent into the nostrils along with the night dew, and it had already reached the outskirts of the town. After walking for a while, tall and short grave mounds appeared in front of my eyes, some of which were still covered with yellow soil, soft and soft, and the white paper streamers swayed with the breeze, which was a new grave; Some are like a small mound; some stand tall stone tablets with photos of the deceased inlaid on them, full of smiles; some are bare and empty.This should be a mass cemetery in the small town. When I think of the many dead people who might turn into zombies lying here, I can't help but feel my scalp tingle. I saw it walking up and down in the cemetery for a while, and when it got short, it didn't go away. gone.I hurriedly turned around and ran away, but a story came to my mind. It said that a person was walking at night and was followed by some gangsters on the way. He couldn't get rid of him several times. On the grave, he sighed, and said faintly: "Finally home!" The gangsters thought they had encountered a ghost, and ran away crying in fright.Just when he was complacent, he suddenly saw an old man holding a hammer and a chisel in both hands on the grave next to him, digging the tombstone seriously, so the man asked, "Master, it's so late, what are you doing here?" The old man turned his head and smiled, and said: "It's okay, you go to bed first, I don't know who engraved my name wrong, I will come out and change it!" The man fainted on the spot! This was originally a scary story, but it was changed into a joke by Xiaoshenyang, and he said it everywhere, but now there was a faint knocking sound in my ears, and I felt chills on my back, and I suddenly felt that this was a joke. It's not funny at all, so I ran wild! When I ran back to the house, I saw Bai Feng curled up in the corner with a pale face, holding the pistol in his hand blankly.