The air in the room suddenly became cold, and I felt the hairs on my body stand up! I stared at the body of Zhao Tiezhu's father who appeared inexplicably in my bed with my eyes wide open, and covered my mouth with my hands, trying not to scream.
At this moment, my brain was in a mess and I had lost all ability to think. There was only one thought in my mind, and that was to escape!
I don't know what I was thinking at that time. I seemed to be afraid that Zhao Tiezhu's father would wake up suddenly. I moved my body carefully little by little towards the bed, and I lost control all of a sudden and fell heavily to the ground. However, I didn't feel any pain. I ran out of the room as if I was escaping for my life and came to the yard.
After escaping from the room, I instantly felt a lot more relaxed. I no longer suppressed the fear in my heart and started shouting at the top of my lungs.
“Help! Help!!”
Zhao Tiezhu came over and asked me what was going on. I was so scared that I couldn't speak. I pointed at my room and Zhao Tiezhu rushed into it. Then, I heard Zhao Tiezhu's terrified shouts from inside the room.
This incident soon caused an uproar in the entire Heishan Village. All the villagers rushed to Zhao Tiezhu's home. Seeing the scene, no one was not scared. They just stood outside the house and watched from a distance. No one dared to go into the house to see the body of Zhao Tiezhu's father.
I was sitting in the living room of Zhao Tiezhu's house with a coat on. The village chief, Officer Yang and Lin Yingxue were all looking after me. Zhao Tiezhu was kneeling at the door of his father's room and crying loudly. The whole Zhao family was in a state of turmoil.
Officer Yang handed me a cup of hot water and asked with concern: "How is it? Are you okay?"
Although I haven't recovered from that horrifying scene, I feel much better now, except that my body is still shaking slightly. I turned around and forced a smile at Officer Yang.
Lin Yingxue, who was standing by, looked at me with disdain and said, "You were scared like this by a dead person. Is that all you can do?"
After hearing what Lin Yingxue said, I immediately flew into a rage and said, "Why don't you try it? If you wake up in the morning and find a dead person sleeping next to you, you'd be lucky if you're not scared to death!"
The village chief looked out the window at Zhao Tiezhu who was still crying with a horrified look on his face, and then asked, "Young man, what's going on? Wasn't Old Zhao buried yesterday? How come he is in your bed today?"
"Who should I ask if you ask me? When I woke up in the morning, he was sleeping next to me. I was so scared."
The village chief looked even more horrified after hearing what I said. He turned around and looked around, then whispered to us, "In my opinion, Old Zhao must have died with his eyes open, so he crawled out of the grave in the middle of the night and returned to his home. You happened to live in his room, so this happened. I'm afraid that the empty bag you mentioned before is really weird!"
"What nonsense are you talking about? If you say that, there are so many people dying in the world every day. Are they all going to crawl out of their graves and go home? In my opinion, someone must be playing tricks and deliberately scaring us!" Officer Yang rolled his eyes at the village chief and gave him a severe scolding.
Although it was obvious that the village chief did not believe in the rumors of someone playing tricks on others, he did not dare to say any more feudal and superstitious words in front of Officer Yang. He could only sigh and stop talking.
Officer Yang looked serious and said to me, "Ji Wen, what do you think?"
After recovering from the shock, I gradually calmed down and nodded, "I agree with Officer Yang. Someone must have secretly placed the body next to me in the middle of the night. As for why he did this, I have no idea."
"Didn't you hear any noise last night?" Officer Yang asked puzzledly.
I shook my head. Indeed, maybe it was because I was too sleepy. I slept very soundly last night. A corpse appeared next to me and I didn't hear any sound at all.
Lin Yingxue said coldly: "If that's the case, why don't we go and take a look at the body and find out."
Officer Yang agreed with Lin Yingxue's statement. Although I really didn't want to see that pale face again, I had promised Bai Qi to come and solve the case. I couldn't back down at this time. I nodded, and together with Officer Yang, Lin Yingxue and the village chief, I walked towards the room where I lived yesterday.
The courtyard was full of villagers from Heishan Village. When they saw us and the village chief coming out of the house, they all made way for us. Zhao Tiezhu, who was sitting at the door of Old Zhao's room, was still crying with his face covered. The village chief stepped forward to comfort him, "It's okay, why are you crying, old man? Officer Yang is here, you don't need to worry about anything."
Zhao Tiezhu raised his head with tears on his face and looked at us and said, "Officers, my father must have been murdered by someone. He died unjustly, so he came back to ask me to find the murderer for him. You must help my father."
As someone who experienced this incident personally, it was difficult for me to refute his words. Officer Yang calmed Zhao Tiezhu down and said, "Don't worry, we know what is right and wrong. Please move aside first. We will go in and take a look at your father's body to see if we can find any clues."
Zhao Tiezhu wiped the tears from his face, stepped aside from the door and walked into the room with us. I walked at the end of the crowd. After all, I was the one who was least willing to come here again.
Since no one had come in after I left, the quilt on the kang was still very messy, and the horrible body of Zhao Tiezhu's father was lying quietly on the kang, with the posture and expression exactly the same as what I saw in the morning.
Even though there were people everywhere, I still shuddered involuntarily when I saw the corpse again. The village chief turned his head away and dared not look. Officer Yang and Lin Yingxue, who had laughed at me before, had wonderful expressions on their faces. I thought to myself that finally someone understood my pain.
"It's a pity that the road is blocked now, otherwise we should ask the forensic doctor to come and take a closer look at what happened." Officer Yang really didn't want to look at the body any more, so he turned around and asked me, "Ji Wen, what do you think?"
Although I was still a little scared when I saw Zhao Tiezhu's father's body again, I was much calmer now. I looked around the room carefully and said, "Don't think about it. Someone must have done this on purpose. It's impossible for the corpse to be faked. You should remember that there was a heavy rain yesterday. The roads in the village are still full of mud and water. If the corpse walked back last night, there should be mud and water on its feet. But you see, not only are the feet of the corpse spotless, there are no footprints on the ground. Don't you think it's strange?"
The village chief muttered quietly at this time: "What's so strange? The corpse must have resurrected and flew directly over here."
I was too lazy to pay attention to the village chief, but Lin Yingxue understood what I said and nodded, "You mean, someone carried this body here last night, and wiped away all his footprints before leaving in order to deliberately pretend that it was haunted?"
"Obviously! As for why that person did this, I don't know, but I feel that Qiongqi sending the empty package here is definitely related to this incident."
After realizing that someone was playing tricks, I was no longer afraid. I walked forward and carefully examined the body of Zhao Tiezhu's father, and asked, "Tiezhu, was your father buried like this?"
Zhao Tiezhu looked at it and shook his head, "No, I made my father's remains look peaceful when he was buried, not like this."
After hearing what Zhao Tiezhu said, I became even more certain that someone must have deliberately wanted to create a "corpse resurrection" incident in Heishan Village, which is why the corpse was made so horrific.
A few of us stayed at the scene to check, but the village chief had already left the room out of fear and was standing outside the door discussing things with the villagers who were watching the excitement. Everyone had a look of fear on their faces, and no one believed that this time Zhao Tiezhu's father's 'resurrection' was a frame-up.
People outside the door were talking about it, but I kept my eyes on Zhao Tiezhu who was secretly wiping tears. If this incident was really man-made, then Zhao Tiezhu would definitely be the most suspicious one. But now Zhao Tiezhu's expression does not seem to be pretending. Moreover, from my previous conversation with him, I also learned that Zhao Tiezhu is a filial son. I don't think he would do such a thing as digging up his father's body.
Now it seems that the only clue is what Zhao Tiezhu told me last night, the person who once secretly followed him. My intuition tells me that this person is definitely related to this strange incident!
"We can't see anything here, let's go to the cemetery." Officer Yang suddenly suggested. Lin Yingxue, Zhao Tiezhu and I all agreed. The villagers outside, who were there to watch the fun, also agreed to go to the cemetery. Just like that, hundreds of us headed towards the place where Zhao Tiezhu's father was buried yesterday.
The mountain road was indeed very difficult to walk on after the rain. By the time we arrived at the grave, my shoes and pants were basically ruined. From a distance, I saw that there seemed to be a cemetery ahead, and there was more than just Zhao Tiezhu's father buried there.
The village chief told us that the villagers of Heishan Village have always been buried here, and this place can be regarded as the ancestral tomb of Heishan Village.
Soon, I discovered that there was a broken grave at the edge of the cemetery. Needless to say, this must be the grave of Zhao Tiezhu's father.
Seeing the appearance of the grave, the villagers of Heishan Village who were originally chatting and laughing along the way suddenly fell silent. They all stopped walking and dared not go forward to take a look. Zhao Tiezhu ran to the grave with an angry face, knelt in front of the tombstone and shouted: "Who did it! Who did our Zhao family offend? Who wants to mess with my family!"
Zhao Tiezhu's shouts continued to echo in the empty cemetery, making the already eerie cemetery look even more eerie.
Officer Yang, Lin Yingxue, and I walked forward and took a closer look at the grave. In the center was the opened coffin that I had seen before, and all around it was dirt that was still damp because it had just rained.
Seeing the tomb opened, I couldn't help laughing, and turned to the villagers who didn't dare to come forward and said, "Everyone, it's obvious now. Someone definitely dug up Zhao Tiezhu's father's body, and it's not a so-called fake corpse. You see, the dirt on the ground is all piled in one direction. If the tomb was opened from the inside, the dirt should be scattered everywhere. The fact that it's all piled in one direction can only mean that the tomb was dug up!"