"Old Zhao is back from the dead! Li Jianmin was killed by Old Zhao!"
"Oh my god, he really is dead! This old Zhao was fine when he was alive, why is he so restless after his death?"
"Stop talking nonsense. If Old Zhao hears you in the underworld, you might be the next one to die!"
"What should we do? Should we find a yin and yang to perform a ritual? If this continues, can we dare to stay in Heishan Village?"
Listening to the discussions outside the door and looking at the bodies of Zhao Tiezhu's father and the middle-aged man named Li Jianmin in front of me, I felt my scalp tingling and I didn't know what to do. Although after what happened yesterday, I was more or less immune to the body of Zhao Tiezhu's father, but now seeing such a weird scene, I still felt a chill down my spine. It made me feel eerie in broad daylight.
"Officer Yang Yang, what should we do now?"
I really didn't know what to do, so I turned to ask Officer Yang next to me, but I found that Officer Yang was in a daze at the moment. I called him several times before he reacted.
"Hey, what on earth is going on!" Who would have thought that the first sentence Officer Yang said after he came to his senses was this. From his expression, we can see that at this moment Officer Yang seems to have begun to believe the theory of a resurrection.
Lin Yingxue was quite brave. She walked forward and carefully examined the two bodies. She put on white gloves and moved the hands of Zhao Tiezhu's father that were strangling Li Jianmin's neck. Then she shook her head and said, "From the surface marks, it seems that Li Jianmin was indeed strangled to death by Zhao Tiezhu's father's body. As for what happened, I'm afraid only the local forensic doctor can understand it."
"It's definitely not the corpse that killed the person. The real murderer just wants us to think that the corpse killed the person. Now I finally understand why the corpse appeared next to me for no reason yesterday. The murderer must have used the rumor of the corpse to brainwash the villagers first, and then carried out his murder plan. In this way, no one would suspect that it was human error." I also went forward to check the two bodies with Lin Yingxue. I knew nothing about autopsies. I looked for a long time but couldn't make any sense, but it made me terrified.
When have I come into contact with so many corpses in my life? It would be strange if I wasn't scared.
Just when I was about to stop looking at the two bodies, I suddenly discovered that there seemed to be some mark on Li Jianmin's neck where the hand of Zhao Tiezhu's father's body covered it.
I immediately stepped forward and prepared to move Zhao Tiezhu's father's hand away, but Lin Yingxue stopped me and said, "You are not wearing gloves, you can't touch the evidence, let me do it."
As she spoke, Lin Yingxue gently moved Zhao Tiezhu's father's hand away. Only then did I realize that there was an oval red mark on Li Jianmin's covered neck. It looked like a mosquito bite, or like a burn. In short, I couldn't tell.
"What's this?"
Lin Yingxue and Officer Yang both stepped forward to take a closer look and shook their heads, saying, "I don't know, but it seems that this is very likely Li Jianmin's fatal injury. Xiaolin, take a photo quickly to collect evidence and send the picture of the body to Chief Bai, and ask him to find someone to investigate what happened."
Lin Yingxue nodded, took out her cell phone and started taking pictures of the two bodies from various angles.
Lin Yingxue was taking pictures over there. Officer Yang and I were just about to discuss what to do next when we heard hurried footsteps outside. Turning around, we saw that it was Zhao Tiezhu who had rushed over after hearing the news. After entering the room and seeing the scene inside, he collapsed on the spot and sat on the ground, unable to stand up for a long time.
Officer Yang and I helped Zhao Tiezhu sit on a chair. Zhao Tiezhu finally couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes, and angrily shouted to the villagers watching outside the door: "Who on earth is it! Who on earth wants to harm my whole family! If you have any problems, come to me. What's the point of framing a dead person!"
The village chief outside the door had been playing the role of a peacemaker. Seeing that Zhao Tiezhu was really angry, he immediately went into the house and tried to persuade him in a friendly way, saying that they were all from the same village and there was nothing wrong with not talking it out nicely.
But before the village chief could say a few words, someone outside the door stood up and spoke.
"Why are you shouting? Who would frame a dead person for nothing? Besides, who told you that someone framed Lao Zhao? Isn't what happened yesterday and today obvious enough? Lao Zhao must have come to the village to claim his life after faking his death! Don't listen to the police's nonsense, they won't believe it at all. When they solve the case, our Heishan Village will probably be wiped out! Fellow villagers, what do you think?"
The person who was speaking was a middle-aged man who was dark and thin, but looked very powerful. His skin was very dark to begin with, and now he was staring at us in the room and talking to us, looking very ferocious.
The villagers outside the door also agreed with what the middle-aged man said. They raised their hands to vote and started shouting together.
"Zhang Guozhong! Do you want to rebel? Officer Yang and I will be fully responsible for this matter. What does it have to do with you?" Seeing the chaos outside the door, the village chief immediately stepped forward and angrily said to the thin and dark middle-aged man named Zhang Guozhong.
But Zhang Guozhong didn't care about the village chief at all, and sneered: "You are responsible? That sounds good, but you should give a reasonable explanation. We are not blind. Old Zhao's resurrection is a thing that everyone has seen. If you want to find out whether it was man-made, I don't care, but we must consider our own safety."
The usually amiable village chief was also angered by Zhang Guozhong. He said with wide eyes, "For your own safety? What do you want to do?"
Zhang Guozhong snorted coldly, "It's very simple. Now that Old Zhao's resurrection has threatened our lives, I propose that we cremate Old Zhao's body on the spot. Fellow villagers, what do you think?"
"Burn him! If he comes out to kill people every night, it would be better to burn him!"
"Yes, for the safety of the whole village, burn him! Burn Li Jianmin's body together!"
Zhang Guozhong's call received a lot of response, and he smiled triumphantly at us in the house. The villagers behind him expressed their attitudes one after another, making the village chief's face increasingly ugly. He was so angry that he was shaking all over, but he couldn't speak.
I finally understood the saying that bad places breed bad people. Seeing that the situation was out of control, I turned to Officer Yang and asked, "What should we do? These two bodies are important evidence. We can't let them burn them. We have to wait until the medical examiner comes to examine them."
Officer Yang naturally knew this, and he couldn't help but reach for his waist, apparently ready to threaten the villagers with a gun. However, Lin Yingxue was surprisingly calm. She stared at the villagers who were making trouble outside the door and rubbed her hands together, as if she was ready to take action.
I once heard Bai Longfei say that although Lin Yingxue is a beauty, her martial arts skills are not weak at all. Besides, I also saw her subdue Zhang Peng who was holding a dagger with one move last time. Now I have no doubt that she can beat ten of me alone.
Time passed minute by minute, and we saw that the village chief who was blocking the door was about to be pushed in by the villagers outside. Officer Yang nodded to us with a serious face, stood up and was about to go out to maintain order.
"Let's see who dares to burn my father today!"
At this moment, Zhao Tiezhu, who had been silent all the time, suddenly stood up from his chair. There were axes for chopping firewood next to the kang in the countryside. Zhao Tiezhu took the axe next to the kang and stood at the door. His eyes were bloodshot, staring at the villagers outside the door fiercely.
The village chief saw Zhao Tiezhu's gesture and did not dare to step forward to stop him. He quietly stood aside and did not dare to speak. Zhang Guozhong, who was at the front of the team, did not seem to take Zhao Tiezhu seriously at all. He walked towards the house while sneering, "I see if you dare to touch me, little kid? You are courting death!"
However, before Zhang Guozhong could finish his words, Zhao Tiezhu screamed like a madman, picked up the axe in his hand, and chopped down hard on Zhang Guozhong's head!
I was watching from the sidelines and was so frightened that I broke out in a cold sweat! I saw clearly that Zhao Tiezhu had no room to hold back at all and was clearly preparing to kill Zhang Guozhong with one axe!
Zhang Guozhong then realized how ferocious Zhao Tiezhu was. He was so scared that he quickly fell backwards and his body fell heavily to the ground. He barely avoided Zhao Tiezhu's fatal blow.
"Zhao Tiezhu! Do you want to kill someone?" Zhang Guozhong was completely frightened by Zhao Tiezhu's ferocity. He stood up and immediately retreated out of the room, pointing at Zhao Tiezhu and shouting at him angrily.
"I'll only say this once. If anyone dares to touch my dad today, I'll make him stay with my dad! Anyone else want to try?"
Zhao Tiezhu at this moment seemed like a different person. Even I, who was standing behind him, felt an unprecedented murderous aura. I fully believed that if this group of villagers really angered Zhao Tiezhu, Zhao Tiezhu would definitely start a massacre!
The situation suddenly became stalemate. Zhao Tiezhu was confronting a group of villagers outside the house alone. The village chief was so scared that he shrank aside and dared not say a word. Officer Yang stood up and walked in front of Zhao Tiezhu. He patted him on the shoulder and said, "Young man, don't be impulsive. No one can burn your father's body. We must wait for our forensic doctor to come and identify it. Anyone who dares to touch these two bodies will be held legally responsible. Don't think that no one can control you in this Black Mountain Village!"
Zhang Guozhong and others outside the door all changed color when they heard Officer Yang's words, but at this moment, I heard an excited voice suddenly coming from the back of the crowd: "Everyone make way, Master Liu is here!"
I didn't know who this Master Liu was. Zhang Guozhong and others, who had been unwilling to give in, showed excitement on their faces after hearing the three words "Master Liu". A group of people hurriedly made way for him. I looked ahead and saw a Taoist-like man in his fifties wearing a green Taoist robe and a beard on his chin. He walked confidently towards the house step by step with his hands behind his back.
"Isn't it just a fake corpse? Is it necessary to fight to the death? I'm here, so don't worry!"