Chapter 34 Chapter 1 Same Bed, Different Dreams

If you don't do anything wrong in your life, you won't be surprised if you knock on the door in the middle of the night. If people in the world ask themselves, who would dare to say that they have done nothing wrong?In this world, there will be more or less times when you will bury your conscience, but the degree is different.Besides, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are disputes. If you have no intention of harming Boren, you may not be able to keep Boren alive.Unintentional mistakes can also leave lifelong regrets. With guilty thoughts in my heart, how can I not be surprised when I knock on the door in the middle of the night?

My humble servant, Mu Shenyu, is engaged in the profession most feared by the unscrupulous - criminal police.However, I'm not your average detective, as I belong to a crime squad that specializes in supernatural matters.And the case I'm going to investigate this time starts with a dreaded place where everyone ends up going, called the crematorium. A strange case happened in the crematorium last night. There was a cremator who went crazy.If you are crazy, you are crazy, so what is so strange about it?The strange thing is why he ran to the crematorium in the middle of the night, and the strange thing is that he seems to be frightened crazy by ghosts.

This incident had a great impact on the crematorium, and the employees in the crematorium were panicked, which seriously affected the daily operation.Its leaders had no way to deal with it, so they had no choice but to call the police for help.Because it was a case of suspected haunting, it was referred to the crime squad. I drove to the crematorium in a secluded suburb with my partner Zhen Zhen. When I arrived, I found that the environment here was quite quiet, which was very different from the bustling city.In the guard room, we explained the purpose of our visit to the security guard, and the field manager, Xu Jiansheng, came out to greet us in person immediately, and invited us to his office, where we were served tea and offered cigarettes.He told us as if complaining: "The night before yesterday, there was a cremator named Liang Jin who sneaked into the cremation room in the middle of the night. Liu Xin, the security guard on duty, heard the cremation room screaming and thought there was a thief inside. Go in to check. But the thief didn't see it, only Xiao Liang was inside. When Xiao Liu found Xiao Liang, he was already crazy, and he would only keep saying that there was a ghost in the cremation room. Otherwise, he might be frightened crazy. This incident caused panic in the entire crematorium. Most of the cremation workers in the crematorium are full-time employees. They came up with a lot of messy tricks to ask for leave. It was stopped, but a few old workers who were afraid of death did not dare to cremate their ancestors by themselves, and even arrested temporary workers to help. Because these temporary workers are not familiar with the operation of cremation, and they are not necessarily courageous They are older than the employees, and they only bite the bullet to get on the job in order to keep their jobs, so the efficiency is very low, and the daily work in the factory has been seriously affected."

"Aren't you dealing with the dead all day long? Why are you so timid? Also, isn't cremation just pushing the corpse into the cremation furnace, pressing the ignition button and it's over. What's the difference between a novice and a proficient?" Zhen Zhen asked puzzled. Director Xu looked distressed and explained to her: "I think you don't know much about the situation of the crematorium. Because we need to deal with the ancestors all day long, we are very respectful to the ancestors. Most of the employees regularly go to the temple to burn incense. The habit of worshiping God is for peace of mind. As for the cremation process, I will take you to the cremation room to see, and you will know.” Because the cremation process was frightened insane in the cremation room, Director Xu said Take us to the cremation room to investigate, and let us understand the cremation process smoothly.

I have the experience of sending funerals for relatives and friends, and of course I have also watched the cremation process, but I used to watch it from the outside of the cremation through the glass.The cremation process I have seen before is very simple, that is, the crematorium pushes the remains of the ancestors into the cremation furnace, closes the furnace lid, presses the ignition button, and half an hour later, the ancestors will be reduced to ashes.However, when I entered the cremation room, I realized that what I saw was only a small part of the cremation process. After entering the cremation room, the first thing I saw was not a cremation furnace, but an empty room without windows, and an employee happened to push a body in at this time.Seeing this, Director Xu explained the cremation process to us on the spot: “Before cremating the remains of the ancestors, we must first remove metals, jade and other objects that are difficult to burn, otherwise the cremation furnace may be damaged.” .”

As he said, the body was pushed to the center of the room, and the staff took off the gold, silver and jade objects on his body, and put the ornaments in a small box. "What are you going to do with these jewelry?" Zhen Zhen seemed to ask knowingly, which made Director Xu very embarrassed.In fact, the fact that the rooms have no windows is enough to tell that these decorations will of course eventually become employee benefits. Only after the body has been "looted" will it be pushed into the real cremation room, where you can see sixteen cremation furnaces lined up, and opposite the furnace mouth is a semi-open glass wall, and you can see many cremation furnaces outside. The relatives and friends who were sent to the funeral, they either burst into tears or mourned, and said goodbye to their ancestors one after another.

The employee pushed the body to the furnace mouth, pressed the switch, and the conveyor belt in the furnace started to run, and the body was sent into the furnace. After closing the furnace lid, he left the cremation room.There is an inconspicuous passage next to the cremation furnace. Director Xu led us into this somewhat mysterious passage. After passing through the passage, I discovered that the cremation room turned out to be a hidden place. The place behind the cremation furnace, which the family members cannot see, gave me the feeling of a kitchen.But what this "kitchen" cooks is not delicacies, but human corpses.

At the back of nearly every cremation furnace, an employee holds a long steel bar-like tool and sticks it into a window about the size of a mouse pad to stir, like cooking.However, there was an older person standing next to several employees and reminding them from time to time. I think these old guys are the old employees who made excuses to ask for leave as Director Xu said before! There was also a cremator behind the cremation furnace into which the corpse had just been pushed. He held a three to four-meter-long steel rod with a hook and inserted it into the cremation furnace to stir like other people.I walked behind him to watch, and saw that he used the chisel inserted into the furnace to turn over the corpse from time to time, and the fire there turned over there, and the more it looked, the more it looked like he was cooking.

The temperature inside the furnace was very high, as high as 1,300 degrees Celsius according to Director Xu. In about ten minutes, only bones remained in the furnace.The cremation worker used a drill to break the large bones one by one. After the body was completely reduced to ashes, he began to take out the ashes and put them into the urn. The whole process took about 30 minutes. However, I found that the cremation time of some corpses seemed to be longer than 30 minutes, so I asked Director Xu if the cremation time of each corpse was different.He replied: "Generally speaking, the remains of normal ancestors can be burnt in 30 minutes, while the ice corpses that have been refrigerated can be burned in about 45 minutes. However, how long it actually takes depends on the operation of the cremation process." Are you proficient.” He said he glanced at the old workers who were “on the sidelines” and shook his head and sighed.

I think these old employees probably have some backgrounds, so Director Xu can't do anything to them. Otherwise, he would randomly attack one of them as an example to kill others, and the others would not dare to be presumptuous anymore. After learning about the cremation process, Director Xu said he would treat us to dinner.Zhenzhen was probably the same as me. She felt that the scene of the crematorium turning over the corpse with a drill was like cooking. She seemed to have no appetite, so she politely declined and asked to see the person involved. "Xiao Liang is staying in the staff dormitory now, and his wife will take care of him. Let's go eat first! There is a very good vegetarian restaurant in the city. I'll take you to try it, and I'll go find him with you after dinner." Xu The director once again warmly invited.

"Let's go and see the parties first. It takes more than two hours to get out of the city from here." Zhen Zhen's impatient nature can't tolerate time wasted in vain. "Come back?" Director Xu asked with a puzzled look on his face, "Is there anything else you need to investigate? I'll just take you there now, and I won't need to make another trip later." "We want to see the client, you can take us to the dormitory now." Zhen Zhen said. Director Xu suddenly laughed: "Ha, I think you misunderstood, the staff dormitory is not here, but in the urban area." "What, in the urban area? Wouldn't that be a lot of trouble? It takes more than two hours to go back and forth every day." Zhen Zhen seemed to find it incredible. I leaned close to her, and said in a strange way: "Would you like to live here? Maybe there will be cold ones sticking into your bed in the middle of the night..." As I spoke, I touched her thigh lightly. She shuddered and flicked her whole body, but luckily she didn't cry out.There was a sudden scream in the cremation room, which probably scared the relatives and friends outside to death.However, she soon realized that I was trying to scare her, but she didn't kick me up like usual, and said to Director Xu with a smile on her face: "Then let's get out of the city as soon as possible!" The foot moved quietly, stepping hard on my toes. As the saying goes, the pain of ten fingers returns to the heart, and I broke out in cold sweat after being stepped on by her. If it weren't for the fear of causing panic among the masses, I would have yelled loudly.Seeing this, Director Xu quickly helped me out of my troubles and urged us to go to dinner. Perhaps most people who have watched the cremation process will not be interested in meat for the time being, so Director Xu specially invited us to a vegetarian restaurant for dinner.But looking back on the cremation process like cooking, we really don't have much appetite, no wonder the cremation room is only open to the funeral relatives and friends. After the meal, Director Xu took us to the staff dormitory to find the person involved, Liang Jin.When I saw him for the first time, he was curled up in the corner, muttering to himself: "They are going to seek revenge on me, they are going to kill me..." At this moment, although he has the appearance of an adult, he is Like a terrified child.The obese body hesitated to face the needle-pricking balloon, trembling unceasingly. Director Xu brought fruit, and on behalf of the crematorium, sent condolence money to his wife, Guo Ting.Seeing the two of them, I suddenly thought of a poem-a clever woman sleeps with a clumsy husband, flowers are planted on cow dung, and red apricots will come out of the wall one day, if you don't take time to leave regrets. Liang Jin, who is middle-aged, has a rather apologetic appearance, and is also quite obese. He is incompatible with his charming, slender, graceful, and fashionable young wife. I think the probability of green clouds appearing on his head is not low. .Guo Ting's performance also made me feel that my thinking was correct. When my husband had an accident, as a wife, she would usually appear helpless or panicked, but she was very calm, as if nothing had happened.As for Director Xu's condolences, she only responded perfunctorily, and then opened the envelope containing the condolence money very rudely, glanced inside and said displeasedly: "Your unit is too stingy." Come on! This little money is not enough to go to the temple to add sesame oil to my husband!" She is also quite mean when she speaks, and she doesn't give the other party any face. This is probably the reason why she is so young!Although Liang Jin is already in her thirties, she should be around twenty-three or four.Director Xu probably didn't expect her to say such a thing, and his face showed embarrassment. I seemed to see the muscles on his face twitching slightly, but he still squeezed out a polite sentence: "Xiao Liang's situation, I am deeply sympathetic to you. If you have any difficulties, just ask, we will try our best to help if we can." Perhaps it’s okay for the manager Xu not to speak, but it’s even more embarrassing when he opened his mouth, because Guo Ting actually said: “I don’t need you anymore, I don’t need anything but money, my husband went crazy in the work unit for no reason, you guys Anyway, you have to pay me a million or hundreds of thousands! Anyway, you are a state-owned unit, and you don’t need to pay for it yourself, so you won’t feel bad about losing any amount.” This time I really saw the muscles on Xu Chang's face twitching, and I explained to her embarrassingly that Liang Jin sneaked back to the crematorium in the middle of the night and caused the accident. The reason for compensation, and then the two quarreled even more about it. I was not interested in their argument, so I walked up to Liang Jin and tried to extract a statement from him, but he seemed to be very afraid of strangers, and when I asked him anything, he didn't answer, just curled up in the corner with his head in his arms.Looks like he's really crazy, or Cortana can help, but I need to find a way to get him away first.After all, his wife was arguing with Director Xu, her face was red, so she might not necessarily cooperate with the investigation. "Ahem!" I pretended to cough twice and said, "Director Xu, you can't rush to shirk responsibility before the investigation is clear. If the responsibility really lies with your unit, then the appropriate compensation is It should." "That's right, the police also said that you should pay me money, so hurry up and bring me the money!" Guo Ting's face was full of complacency. Director Xu cast a puzzled look at me, as if he was blaming me for not speaking up for him, but for turning against me.I gave him a wink. He is also a well-read person. He immediately understood that I had other intentions, so he stammered and said: "If our unit is responsible, I will discuss it with the secretary to see if it is possible. Give you financial support." Guo Ting really saw that Qian's eyes were wide open, and she was immediately elated and beamed with joy.I saw the opportunity and said again: "However, this must first prove Mr. Liang's accident, and the responsibility belongs to the crematorium!" "How can I prove this? My husband had an accident in the work unit, of course it is the work unit's responsibility!" Although she was a little anxious, her tone was still confident. "You can't say that, at least we need to know what happened at the time." I put on a look of seeking truth from facts, and said, "Do you know why he went to the crematorium the night before?" "How do I know what he's doing there!" She replied as if it had nothing to do with her. "My husband goes out at night, so you just ask me a question?" I asked suspiciously. "I was not at home at the time, and I didn't know when he would go out. If you want to know why he went to work, just ask him to say no." She walked up to her husband and yelled like an animal "Hey, why are you going back to work in the middle of the night? How did you get scared crazy? Talk! Talk!" Liang Jin didn't reply, but held his head in horror, curled up like a big meat ball.Seeing this, she even kicked her husband's feet lightly. Although it was a light kick, the toe of her high-heeled shoes was still pointed, and it should be very painful when she kicked the other's fat. Although it is difficult for an honest official to judge family matters, how can anyone treat a mentally unsound person like this, let alone her husband.Zhenzhen couldn't see it at first, and seemed to want to step forward, so I quickly stopped her and said to Guo Ting: "Mr. Liang's condition doesn't seem to be very good, why don't you send him to the hospital?" "It's free to go to the hospital! I don't have any money, so of course I can only let him stay at home." Guo Ting said and glanced at Director Xu, as if the other party owed her money. Liang Jin is an employee of the crematorium, so she should have medical insurance, and the self-pay part is not much, so it is impossible for her not to take it out.Perhaps she was trying to defraud the crematorium of a sum of money so that she would not send her husband to the hospital.So I said: "How about this, let's send Mr. Liang to the hospital first, and the hospitalization fee will be paid by the crematorium first. It would be the best if he can be cured. Prove that the responsibility is returned to the crematorium, and compensation will also be dealt with.” I thought that when I said this, she would immediately agree to let us take Liang Jin away, but in fact she hesitated for a moment before nodding.She didn't think that Liang Jin was always in a daze, so she could swindle her to get more money! I suddenly thought of a sentence - the most terrifying person is the person next to the bed with different dreams!