Because the incident happened suddenly and there were many dead bodies sent in, more than ten in total, in order to shorten the process of autopsy and autopsy, several bodies were transferred to Tongcheng Affiliated Hospital to assist in the autopsy investigation.
Tongcheng is a peaceful city. It is precisely because of this that such a serious homicide case suddenly occurred, which instantly attracted attention from all sides. The news about this incident has been spread in WeChat Moments and Weibo circles, and many citizens have even felt panic and anxiety because of it.
This, to a certain extent, put pressure on the police handling the case.
The police put all their efforts into finding the truth of the incident as soon as possible, and a special task force was set up. Of course, these things had nothing to do with Zhou Ze.
Right now, he only needs to confirm one thing, that is, whether those dead doctors and nurses were killed by people or by... ghosts.
In fact, Zhou Ze did not feel any uneasiness about the death of that group of people, nor did he blame himself for any responsibility or guilt. If the female ghost was more powerful and normal, she would have become Zhou Ze's knife to kill people with a borrowed knife. The death of those scum who used human lives as a tool for gambling could make the world a cleaner place.
But what Zhou Ze couldn't tolerate was that if there really was another ghost hiding in the dark and he hadn't discovered it, and it started killing people as soon as he left, then that would be his dereliction of duty.
I spent the whole day hunting swallows, but unexpectedly, I was pecked in the eye by a swallow. This feeling is not so pleasant.
Zhou Ze stole a white coat and put it on, then walked into the morgue. Two bodies were being dissected and three were parked here. Zhou Ze used to be a doctor here and had worked here for ten years, so he was naturally very familiar with the affiliated hospital.
Besides, Zhou Ze had actually been to this morgue once after his rebirth. Last time, he encountered an incident here where several children were fighting over property and no one came to claim the body of their old mother.
The old Taoist also rushed over from the police station and met Zhou Ze at the affiliated hospital. He established connections with some reporters and obtained some superficial information reports, and hurried to report to Zhou Ze.
However, what disappointed the old man was that Zhou Ze was not interested in the news. Unlike his previous boss, he had little interest in investigating the case.
The temperature in the morgue was certainly not very high, and there was an eerie atmosphere inside and out.
"Boss, why does the body have to be transported to the hospital for autopsy?" The old Taoist couldn't understand this.
"Forensic experts are in short supply even in developed countries, and the same is true in China. If it was just a case involving one or two deaths, this wouldn't be necessary, but this time there were more than a dozen dead, and the forensic experts originally assigned to the Tongcheng Police Station were definitely not enough. We can only rely on the help of private units."
Zhou Ze checked the number, glanced at the form behind the door, and then pulled out a freezer with the body of a gray-haired old woman lying inside.
The old Taoist looked at the corpse and immediately widened his eyes and said, "This must have been done by a ghost. The nurse was sucked dry."
Zhou Ze reached out and knocked on the iron plate. "This is the body of the patient in the basement of that hospital."
"Oh, I see."
The old Taoist touched his head somewhat embarrassedly.
"How did he die?" the old Taoist asked again.
“The corpse was already suffering from cancer. Those patients lying in the basement and being used as gambling tools had long been deprived of all medical assistance. They could have died at any time.
From a general point of view, the body has no obvious external injuries, and I don't sense any residual evil spirit from her."
"Then her cause of death is very strange and hard to find?" The old Taoist touched his chin pretentiously and said, as if at this moment, he was also lost in deep thought. "That's interesting. The cause of death is unpredictable. There must be something strange about it."
"He died of illness."
"Huh?"
"I said, she must have died of illness."
"this… … "
If the person in front of him was someone else instead of Zhou Ze, the old Taoist would probably have started scolding him.
I'm dying of illness. You spent so much time analyzing it and asked me to pretend to be so devoted.
Wouldn't I be embarrassed
Zhou Ze ignored the Taoist's idea and pulled out the second body. It was a male body, a young male body.
"This body looks familiar to me. Oh, it's the body of that security guard." The old Taoist recognized who the body belonged to. After all, he had physical contact with the security guard.
Zhou Ze reached out and lifted the jaw of the corpse, where there was a dark red wound.
The wound was deep and the cut was smooth.
"Is this a cut neck?"
The old Taoist guessed.
Zhou Ze nodded. The cause of death was excessive blood loss due to a sharp weapon cutting his neck.
Zhou Ze pushed open the freezer where the third body was, and it was a female body.
"I know this person too. She's a nurse in the hospital. She was wearing Peppa Pig underneath, so I took a few more glances at her."
Zhou Ze checked the female corpse's jaw and found no wound there, but then, following the neck down, he saw a deep cut below the left chest of the female corpse. The wound was not as long as the one on the neck of the male corpse next door, but the depth should be more terrifying.
Excluding other possible unexpected factors and simply analyzing based on Zhou Ze's own experience in his previous life, the fatal injuries of these two people should be the two wounds he found.
"This must have been caused by someone stabbing him with a dagger."
The old Taoist can be considered a man who has been around the world. For a while, he was also a barefoot doctor in the countryside. Although he is only good at fooling people, he is also well-informed.
"It should be a sharp weapon like a dagger." Zhou Ze nodded.
Ghosts don't use knives to kill people, so, at present, it must have been human-caused.
Since it was man-made, it has nothing to do with Zhou Ze. The affairs of the living world are left to the police, and he is only responsible for capturing ghosts.
But this incident still made Zhou Ze very uncomfortable. It was true that he wanted to kill these doctors and nurses before, but he didn't kill them in the end. However, he could actually imagine a scene in his mind:
That is, after I and the Taoist priest left,
A man came to the hospital with a dagger or a knife in his hand, and the nurses and doctors were probably still in a coma.
He approached them one by one, slashed their necks with a dagger, or stabbed them in the abdomen, causing them to die painfully in a coma from excessive blood loss.
The ghost didn't kill the person, but people helped to kill him.
It's my business whether I kill them or not. You came over to finish them off while I was away and they were unconscious. Zhou Ze felt like he was being taken advantage of and schemed against.
"Let's go, it's okay." Zhou Ze said.
Since it wasn't a ghost, Zhou Ze also planned to withdraw.
"Then... do I still need to turn myself in?"
"With something this big happening, it's impossible to keep it secret. Even if you don't turn yourself in, the black industry chain will be uncovered in this incident."
"That's good."
The old Taoist was really worried that Zhou Ze would continue to ask him to turn himself in and become a tainted witness.
When we walked out of the hospital, it was already late at night. There were quite a few late-night snack stalls outside. The Taoist priest suggested eating something, after all, he hadn't eaten anything since noon.
Zhou Ze nodded in agreement. He also felt that his steps were a little weak. Xu Qinglang had returned to his hometown, and his appetite had obviously been poor in the past few days.
However, because he didn't bring any sour plum juice, the old Taoist priest ate with relish, but Zhou Ze had a hard time eating. He had to force himself to swallow each mouthful of food in great pain, suppressing his nausea.
Moreover, the food at the night snack stalls was greasy, making it even more difficult for Zhou Ze to eat.
The old Taoist was eating, then he touched his mouth, stood up, and went to the front. When he came back, he was holding two still hot steamed buns in his hand.
"Boss, you should eat something light. There's a 24-hour noodle shop in front. I bought you two steamed buns."
Zhou Ze also put down his chopsticks and took the steamed bun. He had to eat something, at least to maintain the energy needed for physical activities. He couldn't let his body collapse due to depletion.
Holding the steamed bun in his hand, Zhou Ze shook his head helplessly, "The steamed bun is not fresh."
"Uh..." the old Taoist said helplessly, "After all, it's already evening. If you want to eat fresh food, you can only wait until the store opens in the morning."
Zhou Ze poked the bun with his fingernails. It was soft on the outside but a little hard on the inside.
Just as he was about to tear off a piece and put it into his mouth, Zhou Ze suddenly froze.
He suddenly turned the bun over and looked at the place where his fingernail had just pierced.
Dropping the steamed bun in his hand, Zhou Ze immediately stood up and ran across the road towards the hospital.
"boss!"
The old Taoist shouted, but when Zhou Ze ignored him, he threw two hundred yuan on the table, shouted "check out" to the owner of the night snack stall, and then ran over with the boss.
The two returned to the hospital and Zhou Ze went straight to the morgue. Coincidentally, a doctor in a white coat walked out of the morgue door. Fortunately, he turned his back to Zhou Ze and walked to the other side and went upstairs from there.
After the doctor left, Zhou Ze and the old Taoist opened the door of the morgue and walked in again.
Zhou Ze personally opened a freezer and found a female corpse lying inside.
"Boss, what happened?" the old Taoist asked breathlessly.
"It wasn't the dagger that killed him." Zhou Ze said in a deep voice.
"If it's not a dagger, then it must be a knife. Why did you come back just for this?" The old Taoist sighed.
Zhou Ze didn't say anything.
Instead, he quietly let his index finger nail grow out.
Then,
Zhou Ze gently placed the black nails under the left breast of the female corpse.
Following the wound left behind,
Stabbed in,
Fits perfectly!
It wasn't the dagger that killed him.
It wasn't a knife that killed him.
Even, it wasn't killed by any sharp weapon.
It's the nails.
It's nails!
The old Taoist's mouth opened wide immediately. He was so surprised that he didn't know what to say. He could only tremble and say:
"Stiff... Stiff..."
"I was wondering why I felt familiar with the wound when I first saw it." Zhou Ze turned his head and looked at the old Taoist priest, saying, "Pull out the freezer where the male corpse was and verify it again."
The old Taoist nodded immediately and opened the freezer where the male corpse was.
Then the old Taoist was stunned.
road:
"Boss, something bad has happened!"
"What's wrong?" Zhou Ze pulled out his nails, turned around and looked at the old Taoist.
"The body... the body is gone!"
The old Taoist turned sideways and looked at Zhou Ze, indicating that the freezer he had pulled out was empty.
Next,
An even more frightening scene appeared. The old Taoist stretched out his hand and pointed at Zhou Ze with some trembling.
Because he saw
Behind Zhou Ze,
The female corpse that was originally lying on the freezer shelf,
Slowly sitting up,
The female corpse turned her face to the side.
With a smile on your face,
Looked at him...