"Why not call the police?" Li Hongyu asked.
"How can I call the police!" the middle-aged man was very excited. "The woman was already dead at the time. I don't know if she drowned, but she was soaked! And the body was in my truck. There were no surveillance cameras around. If I called the police, they would definitely suspect me first!"
"Where was your truck parked at the time?" Wu Weiwei asked.
"In the alley." The middle-aged man said, "I'm from another place, and I rented a house in the village in the city. That place is full of all kinds of people, and the two surveillance cameras have long become decorations."
He bit his cheek tightly and clenched his fists. "If it were you in this situation, what would you do?"
False accusations do occur, and men’s concerns are understandable.
Wu Weiwei was silent for a moment, then continued, "So you hid the body in the car, and took her to the construction site while transporting goods and dumped the body there."
The middle-aged man lowered his head and said nothing.
Wu Weiwei: "Then why did you come again seven days later? Was it really because you delivered the wrong goods?"
"No..." The middle-aged man suddenly shuddered, "I'm just scared."
"You were contaminated with corpse odor and bad luck while moving the corpse. You must have had bad luck recently." Li Hongyu pointed out in a calm voice.
The middle-aged man looked up suddenly, with a flash of surprise in his eyes.
After a while, he lowered his head again and whispered with some fear: "Since the night I brought the body to the construction site, I started having nightmares, especially in the past few days, I have been getting more and more unlucky. Just like today, if someone hadn't pulled me back, I would have been killed by a flower pot falling from the upstairs this morning."
"She must be blaming me for not burying her properly. That must be it..." The middle-aged man's body was shaking more and more violently, and he was extremely scared.
He is full of regret now, but if the situation happened again, he might make the same choice.
He has a wife and children to take care of at home, and the whole family depends on him to make money by driving his sports car to transport goods for others. If he really gets into trouble and is arrested because of this, his family will collapse.
"Where did you hide the body?" Li Hongyu stood up straight, looked up in the direction of the office door, and gestured, "Take us there."
The man froze in place, shaking his head vigorously: "I'm not going, I'm not going!"
He suddenly knelt down, crawled to Lu Guangan who was closest to him, hugged Lu Guangan's legs tightly with both hands, and begged: "Mr. Lu, I shouldn't have come here to ask for money today. It's my fault, it's all my fault. I don't want the money. Please ask the people guarding outside to let me go! I promise I will never show up again."
This was the first time Lu Guangan encountered such a situation and he stood there in a daze. It was Wu Weiwei who reacted first and reached out to help him up.
"So you came here today to ask for money because you want to leave here?" he asked. "Do you think that as long as you stay away, the bad luck will go away and the dead woman will no longer affect you?"
“Isn’t it…” the middle-aged man said hesitantly.
"Of course not." Wu Weiwei said, "If it's just a small amount of bad luck, it will naturally dissipate after a few days of sun exposure, but you are also contaminated with corpse qi. If this continues, the bad luck will become heavier. Today you just almost got hit on the head by a flower pot, but tomorrow you may get into a car accident or fall from a building."
The middle-aged man was even more frightened and looked at this and that in confusion.
Seeing the other party looking at him, Wuxu was stunned for a moment, and said weakly: "So you'd better take us to the scene to have a look. Only by solving the problem at the source can your bad luck dissipate."
"Will you call the police?" asked the middle-aged man.
"It depends on your performance." Li Hongyu raised his wrist to check the time. It was already 5:30 in the afternoon and the sun was about to set.
The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and made a painful decision: "I'll take you there."
The place where the body was hidden was at the innermost part of the entire construction site.
It was a basement with a main valve that controlled the tap water for the entire community, and the body was hidden in one of the largest pipes.
Because the water was flowing, the valve of the pipe was open, and the water washed the body from the valve to the fork of the water pipe. The fork was not as thick as the main pipe, and the body was blocked there in a difficult and twisted posture.
When Wu Weiwei crawled into the half-flooded pipe and shone the flashlight on the corpse, he was so frightened that he kept crawling backwards, and his feet and buttocks almost hit Li Hongyu's face.
"Calm down." Li Hongyu used his elbow to push the man who was retreating. "What did you see?"
The young man's cold voice did have a soothing effect.
Wu Weiwei shone the flashlight over again. The corpse's face, swollen by water, was glaringly pale, her eyes were wide open, her mouth was slightly open, and her long black hair was entangled around her neck, like a series of terrifying lines.
"It's a corpse." He swallowed and tightened the flashlight in his hand. "Based on her posture, the bones in her spine, arms and legs should have been broken. I didn't see any other external injuries."
Li Hongyu was silent for two seconds, then asked an irrelevant question: "Are you scared?"
"Ah?" Wu Weiwei was stunned for a moment, and reminded himself that as a man, he should not say he was afraid! Then he asked, "What's wrong? Do you want me to get the body out?"
Li Hongyu said: "No need for you, I'll do it. Let's exit first."
Wu Weiwei tried to save his reputation: "I'm not afraid. I can do it."
Li Hongyu ignored his stubbornness and backed away from the branched pipeline and stopped at the main pipeline. Hearing the noise behind him getting smaller and smaller, Wu Weiwei felt uneasy and didn't care about face. He used his hands and feet to quickly back away.
The light of the flashlight moved farther and farther away from the corpse as he moved.
The dazzlingly white face began to darken.
Wu Weiwei raised his head while doing this and happened to see that face. His heart skipped a beat and he was about to look away when he suddenly found that the eyes blinked.
His heartbeat stopped for a second and then started jumping wildly. He crawled faster and faster like crazy, but still couldn't avoid the long black hair extending along the wall of the pipe.
Wu Weiwei's hands and feet were entangled in hair, and his body was dragged uncontrollably.
Inside the main pipeline, Li Hongyu sensed something and immediately got in. The copper coin sword in his hand was quickly disassembled, and the copper coin flew out with a red rope upside down, just entangled with the hair on Wu Weiwei's wrist.
In an instant, the water ghost's hair was completely untied, emitting black, foul-smelling smoke.
Wu Weiwei reacted immediately and with unimaginable flexibility, he turned around in the narrow pipe and quickly crawled towards Li Hongyu at the fork in the road.
Li Hongyu bent down and stretched his hand forward. The moment he held the other person's hand, he felt a strong force pulling him. Then he saw Wu Weiwei coming out from inside, holding him with open arms, and kept shouting, "Oh my god, I was scared to death. The sudden blinking was so scary that it felt like something out of a horror movie."
The body he was hugging had strong muscles and warm body temperature. Wu Weiwei hugged Li Hongyu tightly again, and he finally came back to life. "
Li Hongyu's whole body was stiff, his chin was raised high, and the tip of his nose was filled with the fishy smell of water that Wu Weiwei had picked up in the pipe.
"Have you hugged me enough?" He spoke in a low and hoarse voice, his brows slightly furrowed, looking a little uncomfortable.
Wu Weiwei shook his head, and the ends of his hair moved back and forth on Li Hongyu's chin as he moved. "We are all grown men, what's wrong with a hug?" He said this, but he still let go of his hand.
Thinking of the horrific scene he had seen before, Wu Weiwei's scalp went numb and he rubbed the goose bumps on his arms back and forth vigorously.
"That female ghost really likes to surprise me. Just now, her eyes suddenly moved, and I was caught off guard. And..." Thinking of that scene, Wu Weiwei felt cold in his heart, "and I seemed to see her smile..."
Wuxu: "Mr. Wu, you are so timid."
Wuxu nodded in agreement.
Wu Weiwei curled his lips: "It's not shameful to be timid." Speaking of which, he and Brother Chen have been through a lot, but his mental endurance has not improved much.
Lu Guangan was trembling with fear as he listened to this. He turned to look at the middle-aged man, who was probably scared silly. His legs were shaking uncontrollably and he looked like he was about to faint at any moment.
He reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and the middle-aged man shuddered.
I peed.
Lu Guangan withdrew his hand awkwardly, turned his face away and pretended that he saw nothing.
On the other side, Wu Weiwei had already crawled out of the main pipe and was wiping his face with the tissue from Wuxu. He was lying on the exit of the pipe worriedly, looking down. Suddenly, remembering something, he slapped his forehead, threw the bag on his back forward, and took out a crossbow from it.
The crossbow is the most basic version, light and easy to use, with a bright red arrow dotted with cinnabar in the middle.
The arrowhead is made of lightning-struck peach wood, soaked in chicken blood and black dog blood, and runes are engraved on the arrow.
His spiritual power was low, so the runes were not very effective. Instead, chicken blood and black dog blood were very useful. Even Mr. Zhao and his brother Chen praised his good craftsmanship and the arrows' full of yang energy.
There is absolutely no problem with simple exorcism.
Wu Weiwei tied the crossbow to his forearm, with the firing button located in the palm of his hand, which could be touched with just a hook of his finger.
Soon, a dragging sound came from the pipe. Li Hongyu appeared in the main pipe with one hand dragging the almost folded body. He walked forward with a hunched back and soon saw the light at the exit.
Wu Weiwei saw the corner of his clothes, immediately fastened the safety buckle on the launch button, and reached down to pull the man.
His hands were stained with a lot of mud and rust from the pipes, and his palms were numb.
Li Hongyu's gaze stayed on it for a few seconds, then he raised his hand to hold it. Only then did he realize that Wu Weiwei's hand was a size smaller than his, and there were some thin calluses hidden in the places covered by mud and sand stains.
Feeling the force coming from the other party, Wu Weiwei pulled the man upwards with force. Seeing that the man was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief, grabbed Li Hongyu's arm and brought him out of the pipe.
The woman's body was still in the pipe. Whenever Wu Weiwei thought about the two attacks he had suffered in succession and how Li Hongyu was covered in dirt, all because of the middle-aged man, he became so angry that he wanted to curse.
He angrily pulled the man over, pinched his neck and pushed him down, "Look at what you've done. Go, go in and carry the man out."
The middle-aged man was so scared that he couldn't speak clearly: "No, no, I won't go!"
He turned around and tried to run, but Wu Weiwei grabbed him by the collar, pulled him back, and threw him directly into the pipe.
The middle-aged man's back hit the woman's body. The wet hair stuck to the skin on the back of his neck as if it had hands and feet. He was so scared that he screamed and his legs were so weak that he couldn't stand up.
Wu Weiwei's head appeared at the exit above, and he said expressionlessly, "Get the person out."
Li Hongyu brushed off the wrinkles on his clothes and said, "I'll go."
After all the trouble, time has passed.
Wu Weiwei thought he was soft-hearted, and poked Li Hongyu's arm in frustration: "Why are you so kind? He was involved in the cause of the incident, why should he let you suffer the consequences!"
Li Hongyu glanced at the fingers on his arm, his eyelashes trembled, and he nodded: "Yes, you are right."
The middle-aged man felt a chill in his heart when he heard this. Without caring about his fear, he quickly stood up, grabbed the pipe opening with both hands and tried to get out, but Wu Weiwei pushed him back forcefully.
The middle-aged man gasped in pain as his buttocks hit the ground.
He turned his head tremblingly, his eyes fell on the pair of open eyes, his scalp tingled, and he hid backwards by holding on to the wall of the pipe like a madman.
The voices of several people outside came in through the thick metal pipes, making the room seem even more closed and eerie.
He knew that Wu Weiwei would not be soft-hearted towards him, and he had to carry the body on his back whether he wanted to or not!
Taking a deep breath, he closed his eyes and touched over. The skin that his fingertips touched became stiff due to swelling. The cold and wet touch made his heart beat faster.
With a determined heart, the middle-aged man gritted his teeth, picked up the corpse, turned around and put it on his back. Suddenly, he felt that he was wrapped from head to toe by the cold air emitted by the corpse.
The body was filled with water and was very heavy. Wet black hair slid down the body's back and shoulders and hung down beside his cheeks.
The middle-aged man felt like his heart was about to jump out, and his steps became faster and faster.
Fortunately, the corpse was only a few meters away from the exit of the pipe. With his deliberate big steps, he reached the exit in just a few moments.
Wuxu and Wuxu were there to help, so they naturally couldn't let Li Hongyu do such a thing, so they hurried over and first dragged the body of the middle-aged man on his back out and laid it flat on the ground.
The middle-aged man was so frightened that he felt powerless all over. In the end, it was Lu Guangan who lent a hand and pulled him out of the pipe.
He propped himself up on his knees and took a few deep breaths, then slid down to the ground against the pipe, looking blankly at Wuxu who was wiping the corpse.
The water on the corpse's face was wiped clean, and Wuxu combed the messy hair casually. He turned around and looked at Li Hongyu: "Team leader, what should we do next?"
Li Hongyu held a compass in his hand, and the needle was still, indicating that there was no evil spirit nearby.
The water ghost that suddenly possessed the corpse and attacked Wu Weiwei has already escaped.
"Let's wait until night." Li Hongyu squatted down and put his hands over the eyes of the corpse. "According to what the truck driver said, the person may have drowned from the beginning. Water ghosts cannot live without water, and this area is far away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The yang energy is relatively thin, and there are workers stationed nearby... In comparison, this construction site is the best place for her to hide and find a scapegoat."
Wu Weiwei: "You mean, she will probably come out again at night."
"Yeah." Li Hongyu responded in a low voice, his eyes falling below.
He moved his palm down, flicked it, and then moved it away... The eyes of the body were still open.
Wu Weiwei sighed, and it was obvious how resentful and hateful she was when she died.
"Then... what should we do with the body?" Lu Guangan asked. He clenched the phone in his trouser pocket. If he called the police, the news of the body being found at the construction site would sooner or later spread, which would have a great impact on the project.
Li Hongyu seemed to see through his thoughts and said, "I have my own way."
Half an hour later, several plainclothes police drove to the construction site, put the body into a body bag and carried it out. At Li Hongyu's request, Wuxu and Wuxu followed the plainclothes police and the middle-aged man to go to the police station to handle some formalities.
The middle-aged man was very scared. He grabbed the window before driving and repeatedly asked Li Hongyu: "Mr. Li, will they really let me go home?"
Wuxu thought he was too noisy, so he reached out and pulled him back and closed the car window.
Lu Guangan, who watched the plainclothes officers leave, looked up to Li Hongyu and spoke more politely: "Mr. Li, it's so late, why don't we find a place to eat first?"
As soon as the words fell, a gurgling sound was heard among the three of them.
Wu Weiwei touched his belly and said, "It's me."
Lu Guangan laughed twice, "I was negligent, I will send someone to order food nearby right away."
Lu Guangan's subordinates were very efficient. They booked a private room at a nearby five-star hotel in less than five minutes and sent someone from a nearby branch to pick him up.
Except for Lu Guangan, Li Hongyu and Wu Weiwei were all in a dishevel, and they attracted a lot of attention when they walked into the hotel.
Wu Weiwei curled his lips and reached out to touch Li Hongyu's arm: "Why don't we find a place to change clothes first?"
Lu Guangan had already considered this and said with a smile, "I have someone book a room at the hotel, but the clothes will not be delivered until later."
"It's okay, let's eat first." Wu Weiwei was starving. Since he started hanging out with Chen Ling, he hadn't felt this hungry for a long time.
Lu Guangan's people handled the matter properly and arranged a very sumptuous meal.
Wu Weiwei devoured the meal in no time, his mouth full of oil, but Li Hongyu, who consumed more than him, didn't eat much.
He wiped his mouth with a tissue and moved closer to Li Hongyu: "Is that all you're going to eat?"
Li Hongyu said, "It's okay. I'm not very hungry." He turned his eyes and fell on Wu Weiwei's face, "But you are eating very happily."
Wu Weiwei touched his face awkwardly, "Is that why you kept looking at me just now?"
"Yeah." Li Hongyu said frankly, "It's delicious to eat with you."
Lu Guangan also agreed, "I feel like I'm hungry after having dinner with Mr. Wu." If Wu Weiwei's delicious eating habits had not stimulated his appetite, he would definitely not be able to eat tonight. Just thinking about the hideous appearance of the corpse made his heart, liver, spleen and lungs feel blocked.
Wu Weiwei was embarrassed by the compliment: "This is how I eat."
He had been lacking in food and clothing since childhood. Even though he recognized a blind man as his father, the two of them still struggled to make ends meet. Eating, especially a good meal, was a very happy thing for him.
Every time he encountered this, he wished he could eat up all the food on the table and fill his stomach with all the happiness.
After dinner, Wu Weiwei and Li Hongyu went to the room upstairs to change into dry clothes.
The clothes of both of them were placed in the same room. When Wu Weiwei was halfway through taking off his T-shirt, he suddenly discovered that under Li Hongyu's unbuttoned shirt, the lines of his abdominal muscles were clear, and below them were two smooth mermaid lines looking downward.
Each abdominal muscle is distinct and of appropriate size, without any greasy or exaggerated look.
Wu Weiwei couldn't help but whistled at Li Hongyu, and said with a nonchalant look, "Dude, you have nice abdominal muscles."