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Chapter 31: The underground dead

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I really didn't expect Lao Zhangtou to have such a high level of defense. If I hadn't found someone to monitor him immediately, Lao Zhangtou might have run away the next day. But think about it, how can an ordinary old man have the ability to make a dog trap

I should have kept an eye on it a long time ago, but it's a pity that what I say now is something later.

"But since the old Zhangtou has a problem, why does he still call the police? Isn't this asking for trouble?" Guan Zengbin raised a key question.

I pondered for a moment, and then said: "If the old man doesn't call the police, it may attract more suspicion. The old man only called the police after thinking about it all night, maybe he was thinking about the pros and cons of the two. He was looking at the construction site. It is impossible for him not to discover such a big thing. What he has to do is to act as an ordinary person... "

"Then what should we do now?" Guan Zengbin continued to ask.

"Go to the purchasing station." I replied.

Qingcheng, the old waste collection station.

Seeing the name of Lao Zhangtou's waste collection station, we couldn't help but smile. This old Zhangtou's ability to name is as good as his father's.

The waste collection station is surrounded by two iron fences, and it seems to occupy a relatively large area. Located in the outskirts of Qingcheng, no one can be seen standing here for half an hour. At this moment, the gate of the buying station has been locked, and the big lock is hanging on the iron railing. It has been covered with a layer of dust. It seems that no one has opened and closed it for a long time.

The chain was as thick as someone's index finger, and it seemed that it would take some time to break through the door, so he simply said: "After all, this iron fence is not very high, just go inside."

Gu Chen took a few steps back, jumped up with a run-up, stepped on the iron fence a few times, and he was already at the top. Then I lifted Guan Zengbin up, and then I also took Gu Chen's hand and turned it in, while Xiao Liu stayed outside the door to respond, in case any unexpected situation happened.

We looked around the waste collection station, most of the space inside was occupied by some wood, and the pile was very high, more than two meters high, and we couldn't see the road to the left and right. Moreover, the placement of these woods seems to be very messy. We can only walk in the gaps between these woods and woods, and we are already dizzy after a while.

"This is a maze." Gu Chen knocked on a few pieces of wood casually, and then said, "No wonder there is no business. This customer is lost in this place when he comes. Maybe he has to bring his own dry food. It takes three to five days to go out. What kind of buying station is this, isn’t it good to open a secret room to escape?”

I snapped my fingers, but Gu Chen's words actually hit the point. Even a child knows that this arrangement is undoubtedly wrong, but the old man insists on doing this, which shows that there is something tricky in it, and maybe the clue we want to find lies in a certain fork.

"Let's split up." I said to the two of them: "There must be tricks in here, check carefully. If you get lost, just climb up on the wood and you will be able to tell the direction."

As the sun was about to set, we finally made our discovery.

Guan Zengbin found an entrance on the ground in a corner of the wooden maze. The entrance was covered with a wooden board. When the wooden board was lifted, a hole in the ground appeared in front of us. Use a flashlight to shine inside, and you can see a slanting staircase leading directly to the ground.

"There won't be any danger in here, right?" Guan Zengbin said with a little fear as he looked at the dark hole.

"Is there any danger?" Gu Chen has already walked in first: "You can't have a zombie inside to attack you."

Guan Zengbin and I also walked in, and it was indeed very dark and stuffy inside. After walking a few steps, a rancid smell came out, and the three of us stopped immediately. Because this taste has been in contact with us almost every day in the past few days.

This is a unique smell of rotting corpses.

"Be careful." I reminded: "I don't know what happened before."

We walked forward slowly, and the light of the flashlight became our eyes in the dark environment. But at this moment, I just felt a sudden glare in front of my eyes, and I felt like I couldn't see anything: "No, there are enemies, get out quickly..."

When Gu Chen heard this, he quickly stepped back: "Flash bombs! There are flash bombs!"

At this time, Guan Zengbin's voice came out: "Ahem, I guess there should be no enemies. Just now I saw a switch on the wall and pressed it. As far as I know, it may be a light switch. That's all, you really don't need to make a fuss..."

Only then did Gu Chen and I look up, and it turned out to be the light from the light bulb above our heads.

This was embarrassing, I didn't expect to lose face in front of Guan Zengbin, so I quickly changed the subject: "We walked in the dark for a while, and our eyes just got used to it, but when we turned on the light, the light was too shaky..."

"Yeah, this is an incandescent lamp. It's too wasteful. Look at the light, it's not soft at all. Energy-saving lamps are better..." Gu Chen also said quickly.

"Let me tell you two, now is not the time to discuss this issue, can you take a look at the situation in front of you!" Guan Zengbin casually pointed to the front, and the two of us turned our heads away.

Looking at it, it almost didn't make my eyeballs fall out. I have never seen so many corpses lying on the ground one by one without even covering them with a white cloth. Counting carefully, there are as many as a dozen corpses. Judging from the degree of decay of the corpses, some seemed to have died not long ago, while others had already decayed severely.

"I'll go and have a look, you wait for me." Guan Zengbin walked among the corpses while talking.

Gu Chen shook his head and said, "I really don't know what she was afraid of just now."

Guan Zengbin heard Gu Chen's words and said, "I'm not afraid of the dead. What's there to be afraid of the dead? I'm just afraid of the dark. Which girl is not afraid of the dark?"

Gu Chen had nothing to say.

Guan Zengbin was examining the corpses one by one, and I was also carefully observing these corpses.

Judging from the condition of the corpses alone, these corpses basically have any method of death.

We didn't expect so many corpses to be hidden in the old Zhangtou's buying station, and we didn't know what the old Zhangtou was going to do.

Guan Zengbin frowned while turning over the corpses and said: "From the perspective of the causes of these people's deaths, they are almost different. Some people can see fatal injuries at a glance, and some people don't know the cause of death. From the time of death Looking at it, it’s different, look at this, it’s been two months since I died, and this, it’s been half a year.”

What Guan Zengbin said is good, I can see this too. No one was wearing jewelry. This is a bit wrong, these corpses have not been cremated, which means that they are likely to be buried, but if they are buried, these people should have some jewelry on them.

Some of the corpses here are older, and it is impossible for none of them to be married.

Thinking of this, I took a closer look at the right ring fingers of several corpses, and found that on several well-preserved corpses, there were obvious traces of wearing a ring on the right ring finger, and there were obviously traces of slight depressions. But now the ring is gone, which means it was taken off by someone.

Suddenly, some stories I heard when I was a child came to my mind. If my guess is correct, the old man probably did this shameful thing secretly.

"Where do you think these corpses came from?" I asked.

Guan Zengbin looked at these corpses and said: "With so many corpses, it is obviously impossible for Lao Zhangtou to kill them one by one. I think it is very likely that Lao Zhangtou dug them out of other people's graves. I checked these corpses just now. When the corpses were found, there was mud in the fingernails of these corpses, it should be when they were dragged out... "

"I think so too." I nodded heavily.

"But why does Zhang Tou want so many corpses?" Gu Chen looked at these corpses and said, "And Lao Zhangtou left Qingcheng two months ago, what are these corpses doing here?"

I thought about several possibilities in my mind for a while, and I said: "When Lin Shu was arrested, it was when Lao Zhangtou left Qingcheng. If a living person can do something, a dead person can do it too. Could it be that Lao Zhang Is the head running away because of this incident?"

"Guan Zengbin." I turned to Guan Zengbin and said, "Anatomy."

"Even if it's really used, why don't you bury it after you're done using it?" Gu Chen shook his head and said, "Why keep it, can't a dead person use it back and forth?"

I looked at these dead people and had an answer in my heart. The utilization value of these dead people is far higher than what Gu Chen can imagine. Perhaps, some people would not be able to sell such a price alive.

I looked at Guan Zengbin, then at Gu Chen, and then a word came out of my mouth: "Dark marriage."

"If my guess is correct." I continued: "The old Zhang keeps these corpses for marriage with ghosts. I think we have to go."