Chapter 21 Chapter 4 The Curse of the Mountain Ghost

Driving to the pine forest with Zidie, before the car stopped, a large group of men rushed over aggressively and surrounded the police car.Moreover, their emotions seemed to be very excited. Several strong men even slammed on the windows and doors of the car to signal us to get out of the car.There were quite a lot of people on the other side, at least forty people, and I was really intimidated by their momentum.Crowds are gathered to rob in broad daylight, and even police cars are not spared. How can the law and order here be so poor. When I was about to tell Zidie to call the police station for help, I suddenly found that although the crowd was mainly men, there were also many elderly women among them.Even if they come out in full force, there shouldn't be even the need to arrest the old lady to make up for it!I thought I guessed wrong, so I asked Zidie what was going on with these people?

"They are from Longdong Village. Every time the mountain ghost commits a crime, they have to make trouble for a while." Zidie looked displeased. "I see." I shrugged helplessly.It's no wonder, who wouldn't be outraged by the successive occurrences of rape cases!But the real culprit has not been found, so we can only vent on the "incompetent" police. "Don't get out of the car, let me handle it!" After I said that, I wanted to open the car door, but I spent a lot of effort on this simple task, because the car door was blocked by people outside.

After finally getting out of the car, an old woman raised her crutches and tried to beat me, and the others seemed to be planning to beat me up too.Two fists are no match for four palms, what's more, there are more than 40 opponents with more than 80 palms, one person pinching me is enough for me.Fortunately, although my fist didn't work, my head was still smart, and I immediately shouted: "I'm sent by the provincial government!" This move was not bad, the old woman's crutches were hanging in the air and did not land on my head.So, I continued: "The matter of the mountain ghost has attracted the attention of the provincial government. The director of the Public Security Department is very angry that the police station of Chongyuan County has not yet caught the real culprit, so he sent me to assist in the investigation. Don't worry, everyone. , I will thoroughly investigate this case and give you an explanation. The most important thing for our Criminal Investigation Bureau is to be efficient, and we will never act like the local police. However, in order to catch the mountain ghost as soon as possible, I hope everyone can cooperate with the investigation work as much as possible, after all, I am not a superman, if everyone does not cooperate, the investigation work will not be able to proceed."

After talking nonsense, these villagers were finally suppressed. They whispered to each other, probably saying that I am a high-ranking official of the provincial government, and I should be able to catch the mountain ghost this time. I suddenly felt a little smug, and it feels so good to be a "senior official" once in a while.In fact, I am just a young man, let alone have no status in the provincial government, even if I am just an errand in the crime squad, but when I come to this kind of poor and remote place, I will immediately become a high-ranking official. There is an old saying that "there are no tigers in the mountains, but monkeys are kings".

Perhaps, I should consider Director Hua's proposal and keep the current director.But this idea just flashed in my mind. I still prefer the colorful life in big cities. If I were to stay in such a small place, I might get sick. Because the villagers regard me as a high-ranking official, and I also draw a clear line between my words and the local police station. What they resent is only the police station, so their attitude towards me changed immediately. The old woman who wanted to beat me just now held my hand, thinking Take me to the crime scene.As I walked, I waved to Chai Die who was still in the car, motioning for her to follow.

On the way, the old lady said that everyone in the village called her the third wife, and that it was her granddaughter-in-law who was insulted by the mountain ghost this time, so she was so angry and wanted to beat me.She also told me that most of the fellow villagers were relatives of the victims.During the conversation, I noticed that these villagers are mainly men, ranging from the elderly to the young.However, women only have three wives and a few old wives. One village and one example, I know that in some places women are forbidden to worship their ancestors, but why are the third wife and others not restricted?And Zidie followed, but they didn't stop them.So I wanted to ask the third wife if there is any taboo in this area in their village. Of course, in order not to offend her, I asked more reservedly and said very politely: "Third wife, is it convenient for my colleagues to come too? She is Ladies, do you have any taboos in this regard?"

"There are no taboos, no taboos. Although our village is called the Yao nationality, it is just a name. It is no different from you. There are no special rules. As long as you can catch the mountain ghost, you can bring anyone you want." The teeth of the third woman Although she lost everything, her speech was not slurred, I could hear her clearly, and she was in good spirits. "Then forgive me, since women can come, why are there only a few of you mother-in-laws, not even a young woman?" I tried to speak politely, because I didn't know if this question would anger her.

However, as soon as the words came out, her face immediately sank.When I thought she would turn her face, she sighed: "Everyone who can come has come. The only women in the village are us old women and some little girls. The little girls are afraid of being targeted by mountain ghosts and dare not come. We The old woman mountain ghost doesn't like it, so it doesn't matter." "Are all the young women in your village going out to work?" I asked. "Part-time work is indeed a part. Even if the little girls don't want to leave, we have to drive them away. If they stay to be watched by the mountain ghost, they will have a dead end." The more she said, the more sad she became, and tears glistened in her cloudy eyes , "My youngest daughter just doesn't want to bear the child, no matter how I persuade her, she refuses to leave, and then she was followed by the mountain ghost..."

She kept saying that she was "stared" by the mountain ghost, but I didn't know what she meant, so I asked, "You mean the mountain ghost entered the village and killed people?" "No. If the mountain ghost enters the village, even if I try my best, I will not let him go, but he always hides his head and shows his tail, and there are not many people who can see his shadow in the past twenty years." She was angry as she spoke. up. "The mountain ghost hasn't entered the village, so how can they keep an eye on people?" The more I listened, the more confused I became.

"He put a curse on our village, but all young and beautiful women will be cursed by him and die inexplicably. In the past twenty years, more women have died under his curse than can be counted, and the women buried here are all because of him. Cursed to death." She said and pointed forward.It turned out that we had reached our destination before we knew it. The feeling of day and night is really different!The tomb that scared me half to death last night, as well as those "hanged ghosts" with red faces and white clothes, is actually not scary when you look closer now. On the contrary, there are hundreds of guys hanging together, which makes people feel It's spectacular.I went to one of them and observed it carefully for a while. It turned out that it was just a dummy made of branches, except that the head was covered with a red cloth, and the body was hung in a pine tree with a white shabby clothes.That said, it can still be quite scary at night from a distance.

"Didn't it frighten you?" asked the third wife. "To be honest, I was really scared when I passed by last night." I said awkwardly. She sighed: "We all know that this will frighten the outsiders, but we are also troubled by mountain ghosts so we can't do it!" "Can they handle mountain ghosts?" I glanced at the dummy. "It's useless, but we can't do nothing! You policemen can't catch the mountain ghosts, so we have to use them to keep the spirit." She spoke confidently, as if all the policemen owed her money . This is how people are. For problems that they cannot solve by themselves, they often put the responsibility on others. And as long as others are at fault, they can do what they do with confidence, even if what they do will cause more trouble.Sometimes, they would even use the troubles they caused to force the other party to submit. The third wife and the others probably thought so.There are so many scary dummies hanging on both sides of the main road in and out of Chongyuan County, it's no wonder it doesn't scare outsiders away.No one dares to come, the economy will naturally plummet, and the local government will definitely attach great importance to it.But the government has nothing to do with them. The mountain ghosts were not caught, and they are a minority. Otherwise, these dummies would have been forcibly taken down long ago. The third wife seemed to want to complain to me, but I didn't want to hear her nagging, so I said, "Let's go to the scene of the crime first." Under the leadership of the third wife and others, we arrived at the scene of the crime within a few steps. "Wow!" Although I have dealt with many murder cases, and I have seen many disgusting murder scenes, the scene in front of me still made me cry out.Zidie was even worse, maybe it was too dark last night, so she couldn't see clearly, but now she saw it in broad daylight, and immediately ran to a distance to vomit. Beneath the red-faced and white-clothed dummy was an open grave.Loose soil was scattered around the tomb, shredded mourning clothes bloomed here and there, and the coffin lid fell carelessly aside.These are just the green leaves of the foil, and the bloody lilacs are of course the desecrated tomb owner—a rotting corpse. Longevity God!The corpses have rotted like this, how could the mountain ghost do anything!I saw that it even lost its appetite, and there was no talk of sexual desire. The rape case is similar to the rape case. The best way to find out the real culprit is to test the semen left in the victim's body. However, the police station does not have a forensic doctor, nor does it have the corresponding laboratory personnel and equipment, so this procedure can be saved. .Although I can collect a semen sample from the corpse myself and send it to a nearby county or city with corresponding equipment for testing, I really don't have the courage to face this highly decomposed corpse.Maybe that perverted man in Fleeting Years doesn't care, but I can't do it. The strong smell of corpses alone almost made me faint. Although the scene was stinky, I had to work, so I had to endure the stench and search for clues.The tomb was obviously dug with bare hands, and there were finger marks on the cave wall. Since there were no claw marks left by animals, and the size and distance of the finger marks were comparable to that of a human hand, it is almost certain that the perpetrator was a human being. The finger marks on the coffin lid are even more obvious. The perpetrator should have lifted the coffin lid with bare hands, which is not something ordinary people can do. In addition to his great strength, he also has a pair of "iron sand palms". After careful inspection for a while, they found nothing but finger marks. Originally, the loose soil could provide the perpetrator's footprints. Unfortunately, this important clue has been destroyed by the villagers. Now the tomb is surrounded by the villagers' footprints.Since I couldn't find any more clues, I told the third wife that the body could be reburied, and then I prepared to leave with Zidie.But the third wife immediately pulled me back, saying that she must catch the mountain ghost and give her granddaughter-in-law justice.I talked a lot of nonsense to her and managed to get away. "Did you find anything?" Zidie asked me on the way back to the police station.She vomited endlessly when she saw the rotten corpse just now, and didn't observe the situation at all. I replied: "The footprints left by the mountain ghost were destroyed by the villagers. There is no forensic doctor here to examine the corpse, and there is no technical team support. The clues that can be found are very limited. Now the only clue found is the coffin." Judging from the size and depth of the finger marks on the cover and the cave wall, it is certain that the mountain ghost is an adult male, aged between thirty-five and fifty-five years old, with great strength and calloused palms." "Thirty-five to fifty-five years old, full of calluses... why are you so sure?" She cast a puzzled look at me. I explained: "The mountain ghost has been committing crimes for twenty years. If it is in a big city, the possibility of others following suit cannot be ruled out. The perpetrators are the same person. Rape by juveniles under the age of fifteen is rare, and in this kind of rural area, sexual consciousness may not even be formed, and it is even more impossible to rape corpses. Therefore, if it is assumed that the mountain ghost started committing crimes at the age of fifteen , then his current age limit is thirty-five years old. And if the mountain ghost is over fifty-five years old, even with a shovel, it will be very difficult to dig the grave alone, let alone digging with bare hands and removing the coffin. The cover is lifted? Taking into account the problem of declining libido, the upper limit of age for mountain ghosts should be fifty-five." "You also guessed the calloused hands?" She asked again. "It's not guessing, it's reasoning." I lightly grabbed her white and tender palm, and said again: "If the hands of the mountain ghost are as tender as yours, then the grave has not been dug up yet, and his hands are too damaged to look at." , The soil and broken shrouds will also be stained with blood. But I only found corpse water flowing out of the corpse at the scene, and I didn't see a drop of blood, so I can draw the conclusion that the skin of the mountain ghost's hands is very thick and covered with calluses. " Her body trembled suddenly, and she withdrew her hands, her face was slightly flushed, and she didn't speak very well: "I can't see, you have some skills." "I'm still far away! If my old partner comes, the mountain ghost can be caught in three or two days." I suddenly thought of Xiaoxiang. If he came, I would be much more relaxed.Just like before, I basically don't need my help to investigate the case, he can handle it by himself. "It's an exaggeration to solve a 20-year-old mystery in three or two days!" She opened her beautiful eyes with a slightly surprised expression. "You can do it too, as long as you pay attention to every detail." I smiled. She remained silent, as if she was really recalling the details of the case, but she couldn't figure it out, and asked after a while: "What should we do next?" "Let's go back to the police station and have a full stomach. I didn't even have breakfast!" My stomach was already croaking with hunger. "Just know what to eat. Dad just told those people that the case can be solved within a month. If you fail to catch the mountain ghost, they will come to make trouble again." Her young lady lost her temper again. "You also care about Director Hua." I glanced at her teasingly, and she immediately turned her face away, looked out the window and said, "I don't care about him, I just want to solve the case as soon as possible." Women always say what they mean. Seeing that I was about to go back to the police station, I didn't want to tease her anymore, so I said seriously: "When I was chatting with the third wife just now, something caught my attention." She immediately turned her face away and asked me what it was thing? "The curse of the mountain ghost." "I've heard of this too, it's just that they are too superstitious, what a curse it would be." Her enthusiasm immediately disappeared, replaced by disappointment. "Things happen for a reason. Although the curse is ridiculous, many young women did die in Longdong Village, don't you find it strange?" If the curse does not exist, then these women are likely to be murdered. Is it true? In this way, perhaps I will have a clear idea after I check the records of this case in detail. However, Zidie suddenly said something at this time, which made me wonder whether the curse really existed: "I remember that the woman who was raped by the mountain ghost seemed to have suffered from mental illness..." Could it be that Longdong Village was really cursed by the mountain ghost?