Chapter 22 Chapter 21: Bewitched

I hurriedly said, "Look at the old man first!" Mayor Niu has already let me go to the inner room, and I saw two strong young men guarding in front of the bed, and the old man Niu, who was lying on the bed like a living dead, is now waiting for a pair of dead fish eyes, more white than black, vicious He stared at us, but fortunately his hands and feet were tied tightly with ropes. "Doctor Xu, I'm laughing at you, but the old man is really making a fuss without this method, and we can't help it!" Mayor Niu explained. "I know, the son told me just now!" I hurriedly said, and I wanted to untie the old man's rope.

"Doctor Xu, I can't move!" Niu Zhenhua hurriedly said, "Once the rope is untied, Grandpa will make a fuss again..." "It's okay, let the two of them help, hold the old man down, I'll check the pulse, just don't let go of your feet!" As I said, I put down the medicine basket on my back, took out the medicine box, and squeezed two Silver needle in hand. Sure enough, I let go of the old man's body, and he jumped up immediately, with a hoarse scream from his throat, just like the neighing of a monster, it really didn't sound like a human voice.

Needless to say, those two strong young men had already held down the old man. After all, the old man was weak, even though he was struggling desperately, he couldn't break free. I stretched out my hand and pressed it on the old man's wrist, and I didn't speak for a long while—— "Doctor Xu, how are you?" Mayor Niu asked anxiously. I didn't speak, the silver needle that had been in my hand pierced the old man's jade pillow point accurately, and the old man who was still struggling and screaming suddenly tilted his body and fell limply on the bed. "Wait until night, he will still be noisy!" I took a deep breath, and smiled at the two strong young men, "You don't have to look at him like a thief, even if he wakes up, he won't have the strength for the time being. There's trouble!"

"Doctor Xu, is there any way to treat it?" Mayor Niu asked anxiously, rubbing his hands. I thought about it, and then said: "There is a way, maybe you can try it!" "Go find some young elm leaves, then buy two bottles of mature vinegar, boil them together, give him a try, if it works, maybe he will be saved!" I said. Both elm leaves and mature vinegar are worthless things. Niu Zhenhua heard this, and before the mayor Niu could speak, he ran outside. Soon, he bought mature vinegar, found elm leaves and came back, asking me how much to use. When I was asked by Niu Zhenhua, I was worried, what is the dosage?Back then, Master just mentioned something casually, and didn't mention anything specific at all. What should we do?Forget it, let’s treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. I looked at it immediately, and fortunately, I didn’t pick many elm leaves, so I asked Niu Zhenhua to pour all the elm leaves and mature vinegar together and cook.

Soon, the room was filled with a strong sour smell, even a little choking. The mature vinegar hadn't been cooked yet, suddenly a few people rushed outside and shouted at Mayor Niu: "It's not good, it's not good..." "What's wrong?" Mayor Niu hurriedly greeted him and asked. "A corpse was dug up behind that school. Director Chen invites you to take a look!" Two errand runners who hurried over said anxiously.I asked Niu Zhenhua to find out that the director Chen he was talking about was the director of the police station in the small town. The town is not big, although it is not as simple as a mountain village, but even if there are some petty theft cases on weekdays, no murder case has been seen. Therefore, the mayor of Niu turned yellow on the spot and asked Niu Zhenhua to take care of his father and take care of his father. Grab a piece of clothing and go out.

When I reached the door, I stopped suddenly again, turned around and came in, and asked me, "Doctor Xu, is it convenient for you to accompany me for a walk?" "Ah?" I looked at Mayor Niu puzzled, what did you want me to do?I don't know how to solve crimes. "It's like this. You are a doctor. Follow over to see how that man died. It will help solve the case. There has never been such a vicious murder in our town!" Mayor Niu widened his eyes and shook his head. sigh. I thought about it, the old man will be fine for the time being, the main thing is to wait for him to take the medicine, and the specific performance at night will be accurate, I will be fine if I stay here.Immediately told Niu Zhenhua to wait for the vinegar to boil, let it cool down a bit, and then give it to the old man. After taking the medicine, the old man still had to sleep.

In fact, at his age, and after being paralyzed for a period of time, his body has already been weak after such a fuss. Once he settles down, it's no wonder he isn't sleepy. Niu Zhenhua agreed one by one, and then I took the medicine box and followed Mayor Niu out.The elementary school is not far away, just a few steps behind Niu's house. It is said that the primary school was originally a Town God's Temple, but it was rebuilt into a primary school after it was destroyed.And behind the original Town God's Temple, there is a well. Naturally, this well has been abandoned long ago, and even more than half of it was filled with soil and garbage.This body was found in this abandoned well.

When Mayor Niu and I arrived, we saw a few people in police uniforms doing field surveys. When we saw Mayor Niu, Director Chen rushed up to greet him. "What's going on?" Mayor Niu asked. Director Chen shook his head and said: "The devil knows! The school took out the garbage in this broken well, and it was the same today. Two fifth-grade students dumped the garbage over after cleaning up. Unexpectedly, they looked into the well. , Seeing a human hand stretched out straight, the child was terrified, crying and going to tell the teacher—the case reported by Lao Wang.” Lao Wang is the principal of this elementary school. When such a murder occurred behind the school, Lao Wang was naturally uneasy and hurriedly reported the case. With the help of Director Chen and several police officers, the dead body was taken away. It was pulled up.

"Do you know the cause of death?" Mayor Niu asked hurriedly. "I don't know yet, hey...you don't know, the corpse is really smelly, and it was buried in the garbage. We don't have a forensic doctor in this small place." Director Chen sighed. "Doctor Xu, why don't you take a look?" Mayor Niu looked at me with some embarrassment upon hearing this. I looked at Director Chen. Director Chen was not very old, about forty years old. He was thin and shrewd in his eyes, but he seemed quite kind.Hearing that my doctor was busy, he smiled and said, "It's good to have a doctor. If you can find out the cause of death, it will help us a lot in solving the case, and the people of the whole town will be grateful to you."

"I can only see and see, I may not be sure!" I said, and walked towards the crowd. The corpse was lying on the ground and covered with a white cloth. A public security officer hurriedly came over and removed the white cloth. As Director Chen said, it really stinks. Before I could reach the corpse, a stench had rushed into my nose. I couldn't help frowning, and my eyes fell on the face of the corpse. It was a male corpse, and the deceased was about thirty-five or sixteen years old, not very old—but what surprised me was that the pale face of the corpse was really frightening, but there was no sign of decay at all. Moreover, although I have no real contact with him, and I cannot determine the exact time of death for a moment, I can guarantee that this person has been dead for a while...

I borrowed a pair of plastic gloves from the police officers, and took off all the white cloth covering the corpse—the male corpse was wearing tattered clothes whose color was no longer recognizable.As I expected, judging from the signs of decay in the clothes, this person has indeed been dead for more than a while, but why is there no sign of decay in the body? As I was thinking, I squatted down, and my eyes fell on the fingers of the corpse. Just now Director Chen said that it was a student who found the corpse’s hands sticking out of the garbage, killing people and burying the corpse. No one would be so careless, right? ? The fingers of the male corpse seemed to be a little slender, but the nails were very long, about an inch and a half long, pitch black... I squatted on the ground, squatting on the corpse for five or six minutes without speaking, how could this be?After a person dies, if the body is not to rot, it is generally necessary to use a high-quality coffin and seal it for burial.Obviously, this person is absolutely not.In addition, there are some special reasons that will also cause the corpse to die and become a zombie! And this male corpse is obviously ossified, and even judging from the muscles on his arms, there are some signs of weathering—zombies don't weather, and weathering is usually caused by humans. While thinking, I opened the medicine box, took out a silver needle, and stabbed it at the arm of the dead body. Sure enough, as I expected, my silver needle failed to penetrate the dead body, as if it had touched a brick. I took out another small pair of tweezers and tapped on the dead body's arm, and it made a popping sound, as if tapping on leather.I stared at the nails of the corpse again. After death, some muscle tissue did not die completely. Therefore, for example, hair, nails, etc., some will grow for a while.A normal living person would not keep such long nails!From this, it can be concluded that the nail should have grown after death... After death, even if some muscle tissue still has vitality, it grows very slowly—it is definitely not as fast as when alive. Therefore, it is definitely not something that can be achieved in a short period of time for nails to grow so long. Thinking about it this way, I couldn't help but smile wryly, director Chen saved the trouble, this case doesn't need to be solved at all, it's just a corpse from decades ago, what case is there to solve? However, the signs of weathering and stiffness of this corpse still make me very suspicious, unless—as recorded in the Sutra of Qingnang Sutra, what evil method did someone use to preserve a corpse so well? While thinking about it, I walked to the head of the corpse and pulled away the rotten hair. Sure enough, the entire back of the corpse had a circle of thin scars. It should be that the bone cover on the back of the head was lifted and stuffed into went to certain special drugs. I broke out in cold sweat. I know that if this method is used to preserve the corpse, the human skull must be uncovered, the brain marrow taken out, and replaced with some medicines when the person is alive. I would never use such an unimaginable method to preserve the corpse, no, no, no... This is too cruel, it is simply killing...