Chapter 7 Chapter 6 Reappearance of the Shadow Corpse

"Hi, Ah Mu, Zhen Zhen, you have come to look for me so early!" Every time I come to the forensic office, Liu Nian always welcomes me with open arms. When the smell of corpses that lingers on his body blows over my face, I always have the urge to kick him away.However, no matter what, she came to him for business, so she couldn't just give him no face, so she had to dodge behind Zhen Zhen immediately, so as not to get the smell of his corpse. "Damn, do you need to treat me like this!" He glared at me, then put on a smile again, and stretched out his hands enthusiastically, ready to shake hands with Zhen Zhen.

Zhen Zhen has been with me for a long time, and she already knew how to deal with this wretched forensic doctor, so she immediately hid her hands behind her back and smiled politely: "Morning, Doctor Ye." Fleeting Nian shrugged uninterestedly: "Are you here for the case of the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts?" I said angrily: "Otherwise, why would we come to find you so early in the morning!" "I really remembered a joke made by my junior." He smiled disconcertingly. Zhen Zhen asked curiously: "What kind of joke is it?" "It's like this..." He pretended to be mysterious and smiled, "I have a junior who has a crush on a junior sister. I want to date him but I can't find an excuse, so I have to tell him: Hey, come with me tonight Do you want to see the body?"

"Don't you think this joke is silly?" Zhen Zhen glanced at him disdainfully. "Well, it's really dirty, but isn't someone using it now? Haha..." He suddenly laughed at me, clearly making fun of me for using the corpse as an excuse to date Zhenzhen. After Zhen Zhen was stunned for a moment, she seemed to understand what he meant. Although she didn't make a sound, her pretty cheeks suddenly turned rosy. After making a joke, Fleeting Nian led us into the dissection room, where we saw a corpse covered in a white cloth.Liu Nian specially reminded Zhen Zhen that the death of the deceased was terrible, and told her to be mentally prepared.

The scene in front of me reminds me of the first case investigated after the establishment of the Conspiracy Crime Squad - the female ghost of the medical university.There are many similarities between these two cases. The same three students returning from the night were attacked, and they were also suspected of being attacked by ghosts and other supernatural forces.But this time there were two survivors, not one. "Are you ready?" Liu Nian said and lifted the white cloth. Under the white cloth is the naked body of a young male, with a relatively fat body, giving people a powerful feeling.If he's still alive, I'm sure I can't beat him, let alone kill him with my bare hands.However, at this moment, he was lying helplessly on the cold dissecting table, telling the pain he suffered before death with scars all over his body.

The body was covered with terrible scars. On the livid cheek, the left eyeball was missing, and the wound on the right forehead exposed the skull to the air. Judging from the shape, it should be bitten. I can even see the teeth marks left on the skull.The entire corpse basically did not have a piece of complete skin from head to toe, and the scars left by teeth and nails covered the entire body. Although it has been cleaned, it is still shocking. Among the many wounds, the most terrifying is the blood hole in the throat, which I think should be the fatal blow. When Liu Nian took the report and was about to tell us about the situation of the deceased, Zhen Zhen suddenly flew to the trash can and "discarded" the breakfast in her belly.

I shook my head helplessly: "I really don't know how you become a criminal policeman." Although I have dealt with many murder cases with me, her tolerance for disgusting things still needs to be improved. Fleeting Nian shrugged and said, "Girls, it's normal to feel sick." I nodded seriously: "I understand this. It's not a matter of a day to become a pervert like you...Damn, what do you want to do!" Fleeting Nian actually put the white cloth covering the corpse on my head. After the fight, Liu Nian put on a serious expression and told us about the situation of the deceased: "The deceased, Fang Shu, was 22 years old. He had 45 scratch marks on his body and seven bite wounds. Among them, the throat wound was Fatal wounds, suffocation due to blood clogging the windpipe."

I looked at the terrible wound on the neck of the corpse, and asked with a frown, "Are you sure you were killed by the murderer with your bare hands?" Fleeting Nian put down the report in his hand, and replied angrily: "You don't need to do an autopsy to determine whether it's good or not." This is indeed the case. Just by the blood hole on the neck of the corpse, it is known that the deceased was killed by the murderer in the most primitive and brutal way.Now the question is, is it possible for normal people to do it?If the murderer was a beast, there would be no suspense in the case.But the question is, is it possible for the weak Shen Tingyue to do it?Did she really become a "shadow corpse"?

"What's the matter with this scar?" I noticed a healed scar on the dead man's arm. Fleeting Nian glanced at the dead man's arm: "Judging from the degree of healing, it was probably put on a month ago. It was probably scratched by something like a branch. It should not be directly related to this case." Mai Qinghe once said that when Fang Shu was violent to Shen Tingyue, he was scratched with a broken paintbrush on his arm. This scar verified from the side that he was not lying. I told Fleeting Year what I knew and asked his opinion.He frowned and thought for a moment before answering: "I have heard of such a case, a woman overturned a car weighing several tons with her bare hands in order to save her son who was crushed under the wheel."

"That's the case of a living person, but Shen Tingyue is probably dead." I said. He shook his head and said: "This is not a question of life and death, but a question of potential. Human potential is unlimited. Of course, certain conditions must be met to unleash the potential. As long as the potential can be unleashed, it is not impossible to transcend life and death. Haven’t you noticed that in many TV dramas, even if some characters are seriously injured, they have to finish speaking before they die? In fact, this is not necessarily because of poor screenwriters. In fact, a firm will can often make a dying person hold on for a while. This is a very common thing in the intensive care unit of the hospital. However, a situation like Shen Tingyue's seems to last too long. Maybe there are other explanations..."

I tossed him a cigarette and urged him, "Don't be impatient, just say whatever comes to your mind!" "Let's talk outside." Perhaps out of respect for the corpse, Fleeting Nian rarely smokes in front of the corpse, although he often eats in front of the corpse. Outside the door of the dissecting room, after lighting a cigarette, Fleeting Nian asked me, "Do you know what a zombie is?" "I've heard that, do you think Shen Tingyue has become a zombie, not a shadow corpse?" "Whether it's a zombie or a shadow zombie, they are both a type of zombie, but the formation of the two is slightly different. Let me first talk about what a zombie looks like in your mind." He smoked a cigarette leisurely.

Fleeting Nian suddenly threw out this weird argument, and there must be some unique insights, so I told what I knew: "As far as I know, the so-called zombies are directly transformed by wizards using secret techniques. Infinite, but slow-moving, and without the ability to think, they can only be at the mercy of wizards. And in the case of losing the control of wizards, they can only survive with the primitive instinct of animals, they will go crazy because of the smell of blood, and their speed will suddenly increase. Please fill your stomach with fresh flesh and blood at the first time." "This is just a rumor." He shook his head lightly. "Actually, zombies are not a product of fantasy. In fact, they do exist in this world." "Is there really such a thing?" Although Zhen Zhen showed a little fear, she was gearing up at the same time, as if she had recovered from the vomiting just now.As long as the opponent is a tangible entity instead of an ethereal ghost, she has the confidence to defeat the opponent.Of course, if the other party is a rotten corpse, then I have reservations. "Of course there is, but it's different from what you imagined." He took a puff of cigarette and said: "Under normal circumstances, zombies are 'made' by wizards using secret techniques. But the so-called secret techniques are actually Use drugs to turn living people into "living dead", and then control them with vocal music stimulation. In simple terms, zombies are living people who have not yet died. Because of the influence of drugs, the brain in charge of thinking is severely damaged, so Only the low-level animal-like thinking ability is retained, such as finding food, attacking enemies, etc. At the same time, the brain damage causes mutations, making them infinitely powerful. But relatively speaking, their cerebellum functions are relatively complete, So even though it moves slowly, it can basically move like a living person." After he stubbed out the cigarette butt, he continued: "In these days, it may be more difficult to find a wizard who can drive zombies than a clean official who is not corrupt. But I have heard that living people can also become ghosts under certain circumstances. Zombies." "What's the situation?" Perhaps because of curiosity, Zhen Zhen's fear has disappeared. Fleeting Nian replied: "As I said just now, zombies are actually living people with severely damaged brains. Therefore, trauma to the head, suffocation, poisoning, etc., may turn a living person into a zombie. Of course, it is just 'possible' ’ That’s all, the odds are lower than winning the lottery jackpot.” "Nonsense!" I gave him a blank look, "I've never heard in my life that the lottery jackpot winner has a name." He shrugged and said, "I'm just making a metaphor. Anyway, although the chances of this kind of thing are slim, it's not impossible." If the facts are true as he said, and Shen Tingyue turned into a zombie, then many questions can be solved, and the only problem now is how to find her. After returning to the crime team office, I immediately reported the investigation to the boss. He closed his eyes and thought for a moment before asking, "What do you think?" I lit a cigarette and answered leisurely: "Yuetong took the guys from the technical team to Chen's cemetery to investigate, and it has been confirmed that the human-shaped shallow pit was caused from the inside out. That is to say, someone was buried in the soil, and then Crawled out. And judging from the body shape, the buried person should be a woman with a thin body and a height of about 160 cm. Judging from these physical characteristics, the buried person is likely to be Shen Tingyue." "Then it will be difficult to handle. The resurrection from the dead cannot be included in the report." The corner of the boss's mouth was smiling, and his sly eyes rolled slowly, wondering what the hell he was thinking. I spread my hands helplessly: "You can't help it if you don't believe it. The fact is true. Shen Tingyue came back to life after death. And she has probably turned into a zombie such as a shadow corpse or a zombie, and killed Fang Shu, These are facts supported by evidence." "Whether it's the truth or not, we have to wait until we find her." He showed a malicious smile, "Well, I'll take what you said is the truth. Now I'll give you three days, whether it's a corpse It's still a zombie, you catch one and bring it back to me." I jumped up and shouted: "God of Changsheng, do you think you are catching stray dogs? It's only been three days, where do you want me to catch Shen Tingyue back for you?" He stared at the stock market quotes on the computer screen, and said leisurely: "Don't worry, I believe you can find your own way." "We don't have many clues about where Shen Tingyue is hiding now. Her range of activities may be near the Chen's Cemetery and Tangzai Village. But the surrounding area is full of barren mountains and wild mountains. She can hide in any ravine, which is enough for us." I've been looking for ten and a half months, and I can't find her in only three days. You have to give me at least a week, or you can arrange a team of armed police to help me, so maybe I can find her earlier..." Just as I was bargaining with the boss, the phone on the desk rang.After the boss answered the phone, he frowned and said, "Now we have clues. The boy surnamed Mai is dead. He was killed by homicide. The manner of death is similar to that of the previous deceased." I froze for a moment, then collapsed on the chair, and said weakly: "What kind of clue is this? It only shows that Shen Tingyue's range of activities is wider than I imagined. Do you know how big the Provincial Academy of Fine Arts is, and there are many people around it?" It’s a ghostly place where birds don’t lay eggs, and if she just climbed a tree, it’s enough for us to search for it for two months.” The boss smiled slyly: "I didn't say that the boy surnamed Mai was killed in the Academy of Fine Arts." "What?" I looked at him in astonishment, "It's not the Academy of Fine Arts, where could it be? When I met him before, he didn't even dare to leave the dormitory door!" "Ah Yang said that he was killed in a commercial street near Tangzai Village. Please learn more about the details when you arrive at the scene!" "Well, I'm going now." When I walked to the door and was about to go out, the boss's treacherous voice came from behind: "Don't forget that you only have three days."