Chapter 19 eighty-ninth night tattoo

Li Zheng's arrival surprised me and made me very happy. Although he is a guy who doesn't talk much, he also has a strange experience.He removed the eyes planted by Zongmu on my wrist. "Using the mirror demon requires a lot of energy. It's not suitable for people with your physique. Let it sleep in your eyes temporarily." Li Zheng suggested, and I agreed. When I asked him where he had been during this time, he bowed his head in silence, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. "I went to fulfill my last responsibilities and fulfilled his last wish." A rare look of sadness appeared on his face, but it was only for a moment, and then it was replaced by the same frosty coldness.

"I went around looking for a way to restore my original body. Unlike your good friend, I will never interfere with things that have nothing to do with me, but this time is an exception. In that city I am very familiar with, unexpectedly A strange case happened, not so much a case, but a series of mysterious disappearances. Most of the missing persons were teenagers, many of whom were gangsters. Due to their marginalized status, they rarely received people's attention. The number of people started to increase gradually before it attracted the attention of the police." "And it was a child who made this matter bloody. Children like to run wild, and they exude curiosity that adults don't have from head to toe, and this curiosity is often the root of disaster. The first The victim's body was found in the toilet of an abandoned factory, no, not so much a body, but a part of a body, and the children loved to play with the things they found, or take them home, if only to catch some strange things Naturally, parents won’t pay attention to insects or small objects. But what would you do if your child came home with a piece of human skin? The child’s parents thought it was just a piece of dirty leather at first, but on closer inspection, it was A piece of human skin."

"Oh? How did they know it was human skin?" I asked curiously. "Do you think pigskin or cowhide can be tattooed?" Li Zheng asked Maan Ran.I am speechless. (The following is Li Zheng's tone.) This piece of skin was naturally handed over to the police. A careful policeman remembered a series of recent disappearances, so he took the human skin for testing. It turned out that this piece of human skin belonged to one of the missing men. According to the appearance of the skin , It is estimated that it should be a piece of skin from the back of the waist to the back. In this way, the disappearance case becomes a homicide case.Of course, this also piqued my interest.I got the poor victim's information very easily through the corpse control bug's appearance deformation.

His nickname was Chongzi, his real name was Li Chong, he was seventeen years old, he didn't continue to study after graduating from junior high school, and got mixed up with a group of gangsters.Both parents went to other places to work, and Chongzi was handed over to his grandmother who was nearly 70 years old to raise him.I have been to his house - a low-rise house in a slum. The old man still doesn't know that his grandson has had an accident. She just sighed and said that the child is often outside and rarely comes here to live. Every time he comes, he just takes money, or He hurriedly finished his meal and left.

It seems that the disappearance of the worm was not discovered by his relatives, so I had to go to his friends. The reporter was a girl named Ami who worked in a restaurant. Chongzi and a group of his friends often frequented this ordinary small restaurant, so they got to know Ami well, and Ami could also be said to be Chongzi's girlfriend. I saw that she was being pestered by a chunky man whose face was flushed from drinking. This kind of restaurant on the side of the road entertains passing drivers. Of course, there are many people who make trouble with alcohol.I couldn't help but be intrigued to see how this girl would handle it.

Ami is not tall, but her figure is very well-proportioned.It was winter, and the black nylon trousers wrapped tightly around her legs outlined her slender but plump legs, and the same red uniform fit her very well.She is not pretty, let alone temperamental at all, but she has slightly upturned thin lips and a pair of small but sharp Danfeng eyes.Undoubtedly with a kind of wildness, maybe some men like this tone. I had a hunch that the man who did it to her would not take advantage of it. Sure enough, the fat, hairy hand just stretched out to Amei's chest, and then suddenly retracted as if being pricked by a needle, and screamed strangely.

It turned out that the pungent girl casually picked up the boiling water pot next to him and poured it on the man's lap, and the small restaurant burst into flames. Soon, there were five fingerprints on Amei's face. I went over immediately and took out a ID. For me who can change my appearance, it is easy to make a police ID that can be faked. The fat man and his companion immediately softened, paid the money and left, while Amei was holding back her red and swollen face and looking at me with tears. Five minutes later, Amei was fired. When she went out, others looked at her very strangely, and they all whispered how she who was joking around on weekdays suddenly changed into a different person.

I chased her out, trying to stop her, but she opened her eyes like an enraged lioness and yelled at me: "Are the police amazing? What's the difference between you and those hooligans? Do you think you want to sleep with me because you saved my old lady? Get lost!" After she finished speaking, she gasped for breath and blew out clouds of white mist. I was not angry, but took her to a nearby porridge shop, ordered a bowl of white porridge for her, and explained why I came. "The worm won't die, he promised me that he would marry me." A Mei didn't drink the porridge, but suddenly lowered her head, and said while crying. In the end, she couldn't make a sound, so I had to wait for her to calm down a little.

Half an hour later, she rubbed her eyes that were red from crying like peaches, and told me intermittently that she hadn't seen Li Chong for nearly two months. As there was no news, Ah Mei had no choice but to go to the police two weeks ago. "You must help me find him. I, I can't live without him. I'm not afraid of even the hardest days. I have his child." The girl suddenly changed into a different person, looking at him with pleading pains. So I didn't tell her about Li Chong's human skin, but just comforted her and asked for the information of several other people who had close contacts with Li Chong.

And when I got the list of Li Chong's other friends, I found that the above two names were also on the missing list. And these three disappeared at the same time. The relatives and friends of the other two told me that the three of them seemed to have gone somewhere together, and then there was no news. And so the thread was cut off.I really have no way of knowing what Li Chong and the others did, and they got the bad luck of being skinned. So I had to go to the place where the kid found the human skin in the first place. As I said, it's an abandoned factory, a valve manufacturing factory to be precise, the factory has been bankrupt for a long time, and it has been lying there, because of the weeds and rusty iron slag everywhere, it is suitable for some gangsters to come here reunion.

It seems that Li Chong finally appeared here, but the factory is also tens of acres in size, not to mention that I am not familiar with this place. Li Chong's piece of skin was found near the toilet.I began to simulate the situation at that time, maybe the three of them were bragging to each other here, and Li Chong was in a hurry to urinate and was killed on the way to the toilet. But why is there only that piece of skin left, and where did the body go?I sent out the corpse control bugs to scatter to find the corpse, but there was no clue except some blood on the ground, which was obviously Li Chong's. So I was left with the only piece of skin left by Li Chong. It's not easy to get the skin, it's in the evidence room, so I had to find the man.Ji Yan and I are more or less similar, since the sky is already half blue, no matter how much I pay, I still want to know the truth. He wasn't surprised by my arrival at all, he seemed to have been prepared for it.He is much older than before, no wonder, he will retire in a few years. "Are you here to kill me?" He smiled and picked up a cup of tea, but his hands were shaking, and I felt sorry for him. I told him that I had forgotten all the previous things, and that I came here just to get evidence.He was a little disappointed, but happy nonetheless. "I would also like to be able to solve this case, but I can only lend you that piece of skin for one day, because the task force from the province is coming tomorrow, and the young master of a certain leader has also disappeared strangely. Before he left, he said that he came to our city. .” He explained softly.I have no intention of talking to him, I just hope to get the human skin as soon as possible. Relying on his status, I easily obtained the piece of skin left by Li Chong. I began to observe carefully, but was disappointed that it was just very ordinary human skin, and it had begun to deteriorate, turning dark purple, and the pattern on it could not be seen clearly. However, I got the rotting part eaten by the corpse-controllers, and I still got to see the contents of the tattoo. In fact, there are many kinds of tattoos: the first one is handed down by the Maori people, using shark teeth and animal bone spurs to bind wooden sticks dipped in ink, and hammer into the skin; the second one is to tie several needles together on wooden sticks. The stick is used to puncture the skin manually; the third is to use a motor to drive the needle to puncture the skin.Now mostly use the last one.And Li Chong's tattoo is very strange, it doesn't seem to be tattooed, on the contrary, it looks like a birthmark growing out of itself, and the pattern of the tattoo is also very strange, it looks like a part of some animal, it seems to be the leg of a horse, maybe , Li Chong tattooed a horse. These things don’t seem to be of much value to me, but I soon learned from Ami that Li Chong and his partners love tattoos, and once wanted to learn this craft and open their own tattoo shop. However, there are dozens of tattoo parlors in this city, large and small, so I had to inquire one by one, and finally learned that there is a small shop that has been opened for less than a year recently and the business is very good, and Li Chong also proposed to go to that shop tattoo. This is an ordinary small tattoo shop, similar to a cylindrical connecting room. The first room is where the owner lives, and the inside is a tattoo room. Do not underestimate the tattoo, it is undoubtedly a small operation, if done randomly, it is easy to cause skin infection.Most tattoo parlors have very strict requirements on their equipment, not to mention that this store in the city center uses stainless steel surgical instruments, disposable gloves and needles, etc. The boss is a tall, thin, middle-aged man with a smile on his face.He was dressed stylishly, with a red turban covering his head and black sunglasses.But I was very uncomfortable looking at his smiling face, because that smile seemed to be formed by stacking the muscles on both sides of the cheeks with something. He thought I was here to get tattoos, and when I asked him whether Li Chong and his friends came here to get tattoos, the boss's smile was still there, but there was something strange in his eyes. "They got tattoos, but they left soon. I wanted to keep them dry for a week and come to scrub them, but they disappeared." The boss squinted his eyes and said. I didn't ask much, so I simply asked him to tattoo me. The boss was taken aback for a moment, and immediately agreed. He put on his gloves, took out the puncture needle, warm water and epinephrine, and was about to stop the bleeding. When it was time to start, he asked me what pattern I wanted to get tattooed. "Let's just get tattooed by Li Chong." I told him without looking up. "Okay." The boss agreed in a low voice, and began to tattoo. I don't feel any pain at all. Although my body is the same as ordinary people, I have no sense of touch, but I do notice that the pigment he used for tattooing is a bit strange. General tattoo pigments are liquid plant pigments soaked in alcohol. Since plant pigments are extracted from natural plants, they are less susceptible to infection when they penetrate into the skin.But he took out a bottle with a dull color from the back room, and took out the pigment from it. I asked him about it, and the boss casually told me that this is their family-owned coloring material, which is very safe, and the color is bright and not easy to fade. He also joked that if I am really worried, I can use it for him on the spot. After the pattern was finished, I looked at it, and it was exactly as I expected, it was a horse, and the position of the back waist was also the same horse leg. I paid the money and went out.The boss still bowed to say goodbye with a smile on his face. I returned the human skin to the man and went back to the hotel alone. When I was taking a shower, I looked at the tattoo in the mirror, the heat slowly dissipated, and the horse pattern in the mirror was no different, I turned around in disappointment. But at that moment, I felt something was wrong, because I felt something strange about the corpse control insect-it appeared at my feet without my order. I turned around again to look at the tattoo on my back and it really changed.The originally fixed pattern actually started to move, and the horse began to deform violently in the narrow bathroom surrounded by white mist. The horse's body began to swell and turned into the shape of a cow, and the horse's head also changed from majestic and unrestrained to ferocious, and finally formed a familiar face. That's Li Chong's face, that's right, although it's blurry, I can't remember this face after seeing it for several days. Li Chong's face, cow body, horse legs, a monster-like guy is actually tattooed on my face. on the back. What puzzled me even more was that the thing began to squirm slowly along my back. Li Chong opened his mouth wide and stared at me from the mirror with his bloodshot eyes. His mouth began to move slowly toward my neck. near. Although I didn't feel any pain, I saw the pattern biting my neck from the mirror, and the muscles began to contract violently. I felt as if I was being strangled by someone with a rope, and it was difficult to breathe. Li Chong is still relentless, I can't fight a pattern, and it's the pattern on my own body. For a while, I have no idea at all. The corpse control insect is under my feet, but I can't order it to kill me Eat it yourself. At that time I thought of May, so I yelled: "Bug, don't you want to see May?" Li Chong's head seemed to be puzzled for a moment, but he still bit his head, so I had to shout again: "She has been waiting for you, and she has your child!" Li Chong's eyes began to shrink, and the strength to bite the back of my neck was also reduced. I let the corpse controller tear off the skin with Li Chong's head tattooed on my back, but it recovered quickly. Li Chong on the skin looked at me, opened his mouth, but quickly closed his eyes, the whole face began to turn black rapidly, like a soaked Chinese painting, blurred into a black mess, and then fell off the skin , vanished. I was still a little scared, if I were my body, maybe I would have followed in the footsteps of Li Chong, and I began to regret my reckless behavior of tattooing my boss at will. And I know what this monster with a human face, a bull's body, and a horseshoe is. Next, I'm going to go to the boss's tattoo parlor again. I rushed there that night. I thought the boss had already closed the door and left, but I didn't expect him to sit inside and look at me with a smile, as if he was waiting for me. "I'm not mistaken, ordinary methods can't deal with you." He stood up again, completely without the humility before. I didn't make a sound, just trying to figure out where to strike him, because obviously he knew me well and I knew nothing about him. The boss took off the turban on his head and took off his sunglasses. He has no hair, but this is not the main point, the key is that the color of the forehead skin above the eyes is obviously different from that under the eyes, as if a person was cut from the eyes and combined with another person at will. "Don't think about how to knock me down. I know you very well. The bugs you control cannot cause direct harm to living people." The boss said with a smile, but that smile made me feel chilly. "But don't worry, I can't kill you. Originally, I wanted to collect more materials before leaving here, but now that you are here, I have to leave quickly. I can tell you that through the tattoos on the backs of those people, I I come to eat their flesh, and these fresh flesh and blood are my very precious materials, as for what to do, it is still a secret for the time being.” The boss stretched out his left index finger and put it to his mouth, as if he was not talking about human life, but Ants. I remained silent, just thinking about how to hold him back and call the police. The boss shook his head: "Don't think about calling for a helper, unless you want to kill more people here, really, you are not the same as that kid at all, if it was a kid from the Ji family, he would definitely ask me why I wanted to kill him." So many people, why are they so cruel and desperate to keep me here." The boss still looked at me with provocative eyes, I was surprised that he knew about Ji Yan, but I didn't even know he existed. I snorted, indeed, knowing the truth of the matter is far more important than catching the murderer, this is indeed the difference between me and Ji Yan. "Okay, I seem to have said too much, the endgame here is up to you, what a pity, what a beautiful work of art is human skin." The boss walked past me humming a tune, I had no choice but to Because I know I can't keep him. The back of the shop is like a bloody slaughterhouse. The bodies of all the missing people have been found, but they are basically separated from each other, as if they were being eaten. I don’t know what the boss is doing for collecting so many corpses, but it is certain Instead, he imprisoned the victim's blood, mixed it with paint and pierced the next person's skin. Just like minions and tigers, the last person who died turned into a man-eating ghost.Li Chong was eaten by the tattoo on his back, so only the part of the tattooed skin remained. I told the man the ins and outs of the case, and he was very happy. This can be regarded as doing him a favor, let's end the last relationship.It's just a pity that Amei, I just told her that Li Chong and his friends went to other places to do business, and I hope that time will allow her to slowly accept the cruel fact. After speaking, Li Zheng stood up, as if he was about to leave. "So, what exactly is that monster with a human face, a cow's body and a horse's legs?" I couldn't help asking. "Jiao Jiao, a monster that loves to eat human flesh. I don't know how the boss summoned it. Forget it, you don't understand. I'm leaving first. If you need anything, just call me." Li I was writing a set of numbers on the calendar and left in a hurry. Bored, I turned on the computer and found this news: "Captain Li cracked a series of serial murders, and the souls of many murdered youths were appeased."