Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen

City C in early autumn was filled with the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus. It was rare for Sima Fanti to have no case, so he sat in the office and drank tea leisurely.After drinking the tea, I was about to make another cup, but found that the tea pot was empty.The Public Security Bureau was located in a remote place, and he had to run across a whole street to buy tea. He looked up at the sweet-scented osmanthus tree outside the window, and had a plan in mind. He opened the window and jumped onto the tree.Just as he was about to get down after grabbing a handful of sweet-scented osmanthus, the door of the office suddenly opened, and a policeman in uniform came in with a middle-aged woman in luxurious attire, and stared at him dumbfounded.

"Boss, what are you doing?" "Picking flowers." As soon as the words came out of his mouth, he regretted it, jumped down from the tree, coughed twice, "Used to make tea." "Boss, you are really elegant." The little policeman quickly flattered him, and Sima Fanti glared at him: "Xiao Lin, what trick did you stab?" "Boss, I really didn't stab Lou Zi this time, but I do have something to ask for your help." Xiao Lin pointed to the middle-aged woman in expensive clothes and said, "This is my distant aunt, surnamed Chen. Something strange happened."

Sima Fanti looked at the woman, she was well maintained, but her eyes were dull, her expression was haggard, her eyes were bloodshot, and she hadn't slept well for many days. "Please sit down." Sima Fanti made her a cup of fresh osmanthus tea, "Aunt Chen, what happened to your family?" The woman looked sad and her spirits were extremely low: "My daughter has a big sore on her neck." Sima Fanti glared at Xiao Lin, and said in a soft tone as much as possible: "Have you been sent to the hospital for examination?" "I checked. At the beginning, the hospital said it was sarcoma, and it was surgically removed, but it was cut long and long, and I had three surgeries. We also went abroad for examination, and no one knew what kind of disease it was. , There is also a hospital that wants to treat my daughter as an alien research, which scares me to death. I quickly took my daughter back to the country, and the sore on her neck is getting bigger and bigger, and now it is as big as a basketball. My daughter is in pain every day, I can't help it, I went to the doctor in a hurry, and I have invited all kinds of Taoist monks, but there is still no improvement, if this continues, how can I live." As he spoke, Sima Fanti was comforting and handing tissues : "Aunt Chen, I can understand your feelings, but I'm not a doctor, I'm afraid I can't help you."

"I've heard from Xiao Lin that you have solved many supernatural cases." Aunt Chen cried, "Please, Police Officer Sima, please save my daughter, if you refuse to save her, she will die Ah. She is only nineteen years old, and she will take the college entrance examination next year, how can I live!" She snotted and burst into tears, crying earth-shatteringly. Xiao Lin said pitifully, "Boss, just help my aunt! My distant cousin is too miserable." Sima Fanti looked at the two teary-eyed people and suddenly felt a headache. "So you agreed?" Long Chuxia exhaled smoke rings and looked at him dissatisfied, "Don't you think the doctor should take care of this matter?"

"The doctor can't find out the cause, maybe it's a supernatural case." Sima Fanti leaned forward, "Chu Xia, you should go and have a look! If you can't cure it, you can turn around and leave." Long Chuxia rolled his eyes: "I really owed you in my previous life. Say yes first, I can't guarantee a cure." "Of course, of course." Sima Fanti hastily offered courteously, "Would you like two more scoops of strawberry flavored ice cream?" "No, I'm going to have diarrhea if I eat any more." Long Chuxia got up, "Let's go! Take me to see that girl."

"Now?" "It's better to hit the sun than to choose the day. I have always acted vigorously, don't you know?" "..." Sima Fanti's tattered Jinbei car drove crookedly on the winding mountain road, and it took a full hour to reach the halfway up the mountain.This is a villa area, full of all kinds of famous cars.The security guard at the entrance of the community gave their car a contemptuous look, and asked them to park their car outside the community and walk in, so as not to damage the overall style of the community. Sima Fanti's face was so ugly that he looked like a concubine, Long Chuxia patted him on the shoulder: "Don't be angry, tonight I will draw a talisman, fold an evil spirit, and go to his house as a guest."

"No need, I'd better save up and buy a better car!" I don't know how long it will last.Long Chuxia couldn't bear to hit him, so she had to keep silent. Aunt Chen seems to be very concerned about her appearance, and she is still dressed in famous brands and jewels when she comes out to greet her.She led the two into the villa, and there was a foul smell in the air, which was the smell of rotting corpses.The smell of corpses is different from other smells. They will penetrate through the pores of the human body and adhere to the texture. It is difficult to get rid of. If the person died violently, the smell will be stronger.

Aunt Chen opened the door at the end of the corridor on the second floor, and the rancid smell became stronger.The curtains were drawn inside the room, and it was very dark. A person could be vaguely seen lying on the bed, moaning in pain. "Xixi, don't be afraid, mom brought a doctor to see you." Aunt Chen wiped her tears and patted the person lying on the bed. The person screamed, "Go away, I don't want to see anyone! Don't!" "Xixi, good boy, you can only go back to school when you are cured!" Aunt Chen held her down and nodded towards the two of them.When Long Chuxia walked over, the rancid smell was emanating from the bed. If she hadn't heard her speak, she would almost have thought that the bed was a corpse.

"Can you turn on the light?" she said. "No, don't turn on the light!" The girl on the bed screamed, "I don't want people to see me like this!" No matter how much she persuaded her, the girl was not allowed to turn on the light, and Aunt Chen cried in anxiety.Long Chuxia took out a stick of incense from his bag and lit it with a lighter. The light fragrance diffused like the mist in the morning and swept the whole room. . "Crack", the light came on, and the girl looked at her with tears in her eyes.Judging from the facial features, it should be a very beautiful girl, but at this time half of her face was swollen like a floating corpse, and the huge tumor on her neck was bigger than a basketball, and the skin was almost burst, with clear blood vessels So, like a criss-crossing cyan wool.

Long Chuxia leaned down, touched the tumor lightly, and felt a clear tactile sensation from her fingertips, as if something had moved.She hurriedly withdrew her hand, and almost at the same time, a face floated up from under the skin, like a person wrapped in a tumor, and that person was struggling desperately to break through the skin and rush out. Its face is extremely hideous, just like the horrible murder mask in "Scream". Aunt Chen turned pale, and collapsed, Sima Fanti hurriedly carried her to the living room for first aid.After finally waking up, she covered her face and cried bitterly: "Retribution, it's all retribution."

After repeated questioning by Sima Fanti and Long Chuxia, Aunt Chen revealed a secret. Aunt Chen, whose original name was Chen Chunhua, was born in a rural area near City C. Both her parents were sick and her family was poor.She has been close to another girl in the village, Chen Dongmei, since she was a child. The two are inseparable, better than sisters. They both hope to leave the village one day and go to the big city to make a fortune.During the college entrance examination, the two made an appointment to be admitted to the same university, but in the end Chen Chunhua failed to pass, but Chen Dongmei did.Chen Chunhua cried at home all night. Early the next morning, Chen Dongmei asked her to go out to relax, comforted her, and encouraged her to review for a year and work hard to take the exam again.The two walked along the small river at the entrance of the village. Chen Chunhua will always remember the scenery of that day. It happened to be the busy season of farming. The villagers were harvesting rice in the fields. , and then go deep into the soil.Chen Dongmei accidentally tripped over a tree root and fell into the river. She struggled in the river and called for help, begging Chen Chunhua to save her.Chen Chunhua took off her coat, and the moment she went into the water to save someone, she suddenly thought, if Chen Dongmei died, wouldn't she be able to take her place in college?The two of them grew up together, and because they were distant cousins, they looked alike. Chen Dongmei's father had passed away a long time ago, and there was only one very old mother. Replacement is too easy. It was these few minutes of hesitation that ruined the life of a young girl. Chen Dongmei sank into the river, and even her body failed to surface. Everyone thought she was missing.Her frail mother was unable to withstand the blow and soon died of illness.By helping with the funeral, Chen Chunhua took away Chen Dongmei's university admission letter and ID card, and went to university under a false name.She stayed in the city to work after graduation, married a wealthy husband, and never returned to the village. Although she lived a life without worrying about food and clothing, she could no longer get rid of Chen Dongmei. Every night, she would dream of that day, that Chen Dongmei would sink little by little from the river.She would always see her bloated head sticking out of the sky, glaring at her, saying she would come back one day, come and make her pay. Her life was a nightmare from which she could never wake up. "I know I made an unforgivable mistake." Chen Chunhua cried, "But my daughter is right, please, save her! I am willing to surrender." Long Chuxia and Sima Fanti looked at each other. From a legal point of view, it is not a crime to ignore death, not to mention that it was sixteen or seventeen years ago. "Is there a way?" Sima Fanti asked in a low voice. "It's not impossible." Long Chuxia said, "Aunt Chen, what's the name of your village?" "Lighthouse Village." Although Dengta Village is very close to the urban area, the mountain roads are difficult and the village has always been poor.Sima Fanti's broken Jinbei car came in handy and drove for several hours on the rugged mountain road.When they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw the small river and the tall Jue tree. The water in the river was clear and the trees were towering. Although the weather turned cold, there were still children swimming in the river. "What are you going to do?" Sima Fan asked. "The sore on Xixi's neck is caused by resentment. The easiest way is to find Chen Dongmei's body and incinerate it. Once the resentment is resolved, everything will be over." "It's that simple?" "Who said it was easy? Finding the corpse is not an easy task." Long Chuxia extinguished the cigarette on the tree trunk, "Go to the village and ask first! If the house Chen Dongmei lived in back then is still there, then everything would be easy gone." The two asked the villagers, and to their surprise, the villagers quickly pointed out the location of Chen Dongmei's house.It can be said to be a dilapidated house. The house is crumbling. The door panels cannot be closed or locked. It is estimated that there is nothing to steal. Long Chuxia pushed open the door, and there was a smell of rotten wood inside the door.The two began to look for the things Chen Dongmei had used. After searching inside and out, they found two clothes worn by young women from the cabinet. They were very old and torn. Not too dirty. It was getting late, and the two returned to the entrance of the village with these two clothes. The swimming children were all caught and went home for dinner, which happened to be convenient. Several roots of the yellow jue tree went deep into the water. Long Chuxia put his clothes on the roots of the tree, murmured something, and took out two yellow talismans from his pocket. Without ignition, the yellow talismans caught fire by themselves.She threw the yellow talisman on the clothes, and the clothes were wet, burning like gasoline. "In less than fifteen minutes, the corpse will float." Before Long Chuxia finished speaking, the fire was extinguished.Sima Fanti asked curiously, "What does this mean?" Long Chuxia was stunned for a few seconds: "This is impossible, unless..." "Unless what?" "Unless there is no body of Chen Dongmei in the river at all." "What are you doing?" The flashlight shone on the faces of the two.The two turned their heads and saw a middle-aged man approaching. Sima Fanti took out his police ID and introduced himself, lying to him that he was investigating a case.The middle-aged man was very enthusiastic, saying that he was the head of Dengta Village, and invited the two of them to have a light meal at home. At the dinner table, Sima Fan asked about Chen Dongmei, and the village head blushed from drinking, and said, "You said Dongmei, she went to work in the city seven or eight years ago, and she never came back." "What? Seven or eight years ago?" Long Chuxia said in surprise, "Didn't she die sixteen or seventeen years ago?" "In sixteen or seventeen years, Dongmei died once at that time, but she was fatal. After falling into the river, she floated downstream and was rescued. Because of some kind of pneumonia, she came back after two months. Poor, she My mother thought she was dead, so she cried herself to death. Chen Dongmei probably got burned out by pneumonia, and she was in a daze all day long. She lived alone for many years and refused to marry. My family is related to her. We also take good care of her. Once my family was too busy to spare anyone, so I asked her to go to the city to buy some daily necessities. She didn’t know what she saw in the city. When she came back, her face was very ugly, but But his brain was brightened, and he said that he would go to the city to work after packing up some things, which is a good thing, and we didn't stop him." The more Long Chuxia heard it, the more frightened she became: "Village Chief, do you have a picture of her?" "There seems to be one." He told his wife in the kitchen to rummage through the cabinets to find the photo. "This was taken many years ago, when we were young." As soon as they saw the photo, the expressions of Sima Fanti and Long Chuxia changed. "We fell for it." The rapid ringtone of the phone woke up Xiao Lin, who was sleeping soundly, from his dream. He squinted his sleepy eyes and picked up the phone weakly: "Hello?" "Xiao Lin, how much do you know about your distant aunt?" "Boss?" He immediately woke up halfway, "Uh, my mother in the country called me a few days ago and told me to go out with my relatives more, so I went to visit my aunt. Haven't seen each other for many years." "Then?" "Then I saw that cousin who was sick, and I told her that my boss might have a solution, but she refused at first, for fear of troubling you." Sima Fanti could not wait to hit him on the head with a violent chestnut: "You brat, don't say I brought it out. You have no vigilance at all!" Xiao Lin was startled: "Boss, what happened?" "We went to your aunt's hometown and found a photo. The person we saw was not your aunt Chen Chunhua at all, but Chen Dongmei!" "What?" Xiao Lin asked in surprise, "Then, where is my aunt?" Sima Fanti hung up the phone and said to Long Chuxia beside him, "Sit still." Long Chuxia rolled his eyes, how fast can you go with a Jinbei car even with full power? Facts have proved that Sima Fanti can really drive the Jinbei at the speed of a BMW, install a warning light on the roof of the car, and drive fast on the road.But when we arrived at the community halfway up the mountain, it was already dawn, and the security guards blocked us from entering, with our nostrils turned upside down and very arrogant.Sima Fan showed his police ID, but he still refused to let him go, saying that the mayor's so-and-so lives in our community, so what do you mean if you break the police?Sima Fanti flashed the gun expressionlessly, he immediately became quiet, and obediently opened the door.The two of them were too lazy to argue with him, and rushed to Chen's house without stopping. The door was locked tightly. Sima Fanti held the gun in one hand, and took out the master key from his pocket with the other. He put it into the lock hole and tapped it lightly. The door lock made a soft "click" sound and opened. The light seemed to be blocked from the room by something, the inside was pitch black, and the smell of rotting corpses became stronger, a long shadow was reflected on the ground, pulled into a strange shape by the light. The two looked up and saw a person hanging from the crystal chandelier in the middle of the room, with his hands drooping, and one of them was holding a chain tightly. The pendant was shining brightly, making people's eyes hurt. "Quick, save her!" The two hurriedly put her down. Although her face was bruised and her tongue sticking out, they could still tell that she was Chen Dongmei. Sima Fanti touched her neck: "It's dead already, and the corpse spots have appeared." Long Chuxia picked up the chain in her hand. The pendant looked like a single character, but she couldn't recognize the language of any country.She was stunned for a moment, and called out in a low voice, "No, go and see Xixi!" The two put down the body, hurried up to the second floor, pushed open the door, and the smell of putrefaction and blood was overwhelming.Sima Fanti turned on the light, and when they saw Xixi, their expressions changed. The sore on Chihi's neck was as big as a box, and something was struggling inside.Xixi's facial features were stretched out of shape, her lips and nostrils were split, and she was silent. "It's a human." Long Chuxia exclaimed in surprise, "There is someone in the sore!" It was stabbed, a huge opening was pulled out of the skin, blood was splashed everywhere, a hand stuck out from the opening, and the two of them backed away in fright.That person is like a dinosaur egg on TV. The dinosaur tore the eggshell and crawled out of it. It was a person, a grown woman. "You, who are you?" Sima Fan asked. The blood-covered man turned his head, glanced at the bloody Xixi, and suddenly hugged his head and screamed loudly, his voice was so shrill, it was not human at all. Long Chuxia swallowed her saliva: "If I guess correctly, she is Chen Chunhua." A chill came from the bottom of their hearts. Even though it was autumn, they were still sweating profusely. "Chen Dongmei sealed Chen Chunhua in the sore on Xixi's neck?" Bai Xiaozhou was dumbfounded, "How did she do it?" The smell of coffee filled the research institute, and Ye Buer brought the brewed coffee to everyone's hands one by one. "Where is this technique?" Zhu Yikai asked. "I've never heard of it either." Long Chuxia took out the chain from his bosom, the pendant was dangling, reflecting the light of the incandescent lamp, Bai Xiaozhou couldn't help covering his eyes with his hand. "What is this?" Qu Siqi asked. "Who of you know this word?" Everyone looked at it and shook their heads: "Could it be Sanskrit?" "When I was young, my master forced me to study Sanskrit for a year." Long Chuxia said, "I've never seen this word before." "Maybe it's not a word, but a spell?" Sima Fanti opened the door and came in, holding a folder in his hand: "I checked that Chen Dongmei, she went to the city for eight years and did many jobs, including being a babysitter, serving dishes in a restaurant, and being a sheep customer at a station. I heard from the person who shared the room with her that she is usually normal, but at night she becomes very strange, as if she has planted some kind of flower, but usually she covers the flower with a cloth, and no one is allowed to touch it .”