In the ward filled with the smell of disinfectant, there was a patient with his entire arm wrapped in bandages. He told me and Zhen Zhen about his terrifying experience, and when he talked about certain parts, his body kept shaking, maybe it was the most terrifying experience in his life—
The day my family sent money, I invited Fatty and Siyan to drink at the bat bar outside the school. We met two good-looking sisters in the bar. We wanted to get them drunk, but we didn't expect them to be able to drink. Later, not only did they not get them drunk, but they delayed their return to school.
The sixth uncle Ojisan in the guard room was very despicable. If he was asked to open the door for us, he would not say much at that time, but he would complain to the head teacher the next day. We had already suffered such losses several times during our freshman year, so this time we decided to climb over the wall behind the school to get in.
Going back from the school, you have to go through a camphor forest to reach the dormitory area. It is gloomy there. I heard that there is often a female ghost haunting there, but that is just a legend, and we didn't pay much attention to it. Unexpectedly, that night really let us meet.
As soon as I walked into the woods, I felt something was wrong, it seemed to be much colder than usual. I thought at the time, maybe it was because of drinking, so I didn't think much about it, I just wanted to hurry back to the dormitory to sleep. But not long after I walked into the woods, I vaguely heard a woman singing, which should be a nursery rhyme. I was so frightened that my scalp went numb. If it was just me, I would definitely run away. Although I only heard that nursery rhyme for the first time, I remember it very clearly.
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Hissing, White Snake Fairy
Live a thousand years, the law is boundless
whistling, the north wind blows
Full stomach, delicious heart
Snoring, don't ask God
Immortal residence, sleep for a hundred years
boom, guest
Without courtesy, fry the main
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The rumors were always near and far, very ethereal, very mysterious, and it was impossible to hear that they were coming from that direction. The fat man was bold and strong. With him in front of him, Siyan and I felt a little more at ease, so we ran to the dormitory with him. However, it didn't take long for us to run, and we saw the female ghost...
At the beginning, we thought that someone was hanging a white dress on the tree to scare others, because the camphor trees in the woods were so lush, most of the moonlight was blocked, and the view was not very good, we just saw a front Conspicuous white shadow. Just when we saw that the white shadow turned out to be a female ghost in white with a baby, she had already rushed towards us. We screamed in fright and ran back.
The fat man grows fat, runs the slowest, and is caught by the female ghost first. I heard his screams, heard him screaming for help, and I could even imagine the scene where he was torn apart by a female ghost, and his heart was dug out, but I was so scared that I didn't even dare to turn my head back, only Knowing to run desperately out of the woods.
Four Eyes was running ahead of me, maybe his eyes weren't very good and he stumbled. If I had pulled him back, maybe he wouldn't have died...
(Speaking of this, Yu Zhen suddenly stopped trembling, but tears poured out like a flood. Perhaps he felt deeply guilty for his cowardly behavior toward his best friend, and this guilt might torture him for the rest of his life.)
When I was about to rush out of the woods, there was a horrific scream from behind, and then my arm was grabbed by a blood-stained ghost claw. Although the female ghost's fingers were very slender, they gripped my arm like pincers, and the nails that were sharp like razor blades sank deep into the flesh, and the gushing blood stained the sleeves red. I almost fainted from fright, what a terrible thing it was to be in close contact with a female ghost. Although I only glanced at it, I still clearly remember the terrible picture at that time-the messy hair covered most of her He opened his face, his left eye that was as bright as blood was looming, and the corner of his mouth was raised high, revealing an extremely mysterious smile. There was a pool of bright blood stains on the white clothes, like a rose blooming in the snow, exuding a suffocating beauty.
I don't know the courage that came from, and I suddenly kicked her, but the kick was in the wrong place. Instead of kicking her, I kicked the baby in her arms. The baby was only about three months old. He had no clothes on, his skin was as white as snow, and he didn't cry when he was kicked. It must be a dead baby. She seemed nervous about him, screaming and jumping at him. I thought she would let go, so I ran desperately out of the woods, ran out of the woods and continued to run, and didn't stop until I turned outside the school.
Only then did I notice that the sleeve was torn and the entire arm was covered in blood. I thought it was just a bit of skin being scratched by the female ghost's nails, but after a closer look, it turns out that the skin on the arm has been completely torn off...
After listening to Yu Zhen's narration, I sorted out the main points in my mind: First of all, the female ghost can peel off the skin of his entire arm, which not only proves that her wrist strength is amazing, but also verifies my previous guess - she is There is a real, not ethereal ghost. In other words, she is likely to be a living person, if not, at least a zombie.
Secondly, the "dead baby" who was kicked by Yu Zhen could very well be the key to this case. Assuming that the so-called female ghost is a living person, then she is either suffering from severe mental illness or is possessed by the soul of a dead baby. I am more inclined to the former, after all, ghosts are no longer believed.
It is also worth noting that the nursery rhymes sung by female ghosts are very strange, and it is difficult to understand their true meaning for a while. Maybe this nursery rhyme has no special meaning, but I intuitively feel that it has something to do with this case.
After leaving the ward with Zhen Zhen, we went to Yu Zhen's attending doctor to learn about his condition. His attending doctor is the vice president of the hospital, and it seems that the hospital attaches great importance to his situation. The vice president opened the medical record book, looked at it for a while, and said, "His current condition is relatively stable, and there is no sign of poisoning for the time being..."
"Poisoned? Why is it poisoned?" Zhen Zhen asked in confusion.
"Well..." the vice president hesitated, "perhaps you should visit the forensic department..."
The Forensic Department of the Public Security Bureau, a place I haven't set foot in for two years, but two years ago, I was a regular visitor here. After greeting a few old friends in the corridor, I took Zhen Zhen directly into the office. A wretched man in a white coat was sitting in front of the computer sorting out information. When he saw me, he immediately put down his work and walked towards me with open arms, wanting to give me a warm hug: "Hi, Brother Mu! Blowing you up, transfer back to the Criminal Investigation Bureau? Shouldn't it be time to celebrate and invite you to have two drinks!"
I jumped back immediately: "Brother Ye, you have to keep in mind that you are in the sex industry, don't make me smell like a corpse like you."
He ignored my sarcasm, his eyes fell on Zhen Zhen who was beside me, he stretched out his hands to shake hands with her: "I'm forensic doctor Ye Liunian, you are Amu's partner!"
Zhen Zhen is not stupid, she quickly hid her hands behind her, leaned forward slightly and nodded: "Hello Doctor Ye! My name is Li Zhen Zhen, please take care of me."
Liu Nian showed a helpless smile and said to me angrily, "Why did you come to me?"
I pinched my nose and said, "Bullshit, what else can I do other than look at the corpse! Move fast, I can't stand the smell of your corpse."
"Damn, you stinky bastard, curse me to death as soon as we meet, see if I don't treat you..." Although this fellow Liu Nian is a little perverted, but his IQ is not low, he immediately realized that I said he was a corpse, and suddenly rushed He hugged me and pouted to kiss me. God of longevity, it seems that I have to use rice water to bathe tonight, otherwise the corpse odor cannot be removed.
Zhen Zhen looked at us with disgust, maybe she thought we had broken backs.
After the fight, Liu Nian took us to the autopsy room filled with the smell of formalin, and immediately pushed out two corpses covered with white cloth, and said to Zhen Zhen as if he was courteous: "It's your first time here, do what you need to do. Be mentally prepared!" After speaking, he lifted the white cloth covering one of the corpses.
Under the white cloth was a thin corpse, which should be the "four eyes" in Yu Zhen's mouth. The corpse was clenched with both fists, and there were several slender wounds on the right arm, with a small amount of black blood oozing out, and no obvious corpse spots were seen. The muscles on his face were severely distorted, his complexion was dark, his lips were as black as inkstone, his eyes were slightly bulging, and he looked like a dead eye, which was very scary. If I saw this body in the middle of the night, I might be scared to death.
Zhen Zhen frowned after looking at it, Liu Nian held the report and read with a serious expression: "The deceased Luo Weiguang, 20 years old, has four scratches on his right arm, and there are bite marks on the right side of his neck. In addition, there was no obvious trauma, and it was initially suspected that the cause of death was poisoning."
"Do you know what poison is?"
Liu Nian scratched his head: "It has been tested, and it is an unknown alkaloid. The toxicity is unimaginable, and it is several times more powerful than poison dart frogs."
As far as I know, the poison dart frog is very poisonous. Today, the biological world recognizes it as the most poisonous species. The venom contained in a poison dart frog less than five centimeters long is enough to poison 20,000 mice. Immediately die. If there is a poison that is more powerful than poison dart frogs, maybe there is only one possibility: "Could it be the poison of gu!"
"I can't answer this for you, and the report can't be written like this. What I can tell you is that the venom entered the vein from the wound in the deceased's neck. It is conservatively estimated that the poison will kill you within a minute, but in fact the whole process may occur in a few days. Within seconds, and the brain is likely to have died the moment it was bitten." After reading the countless fleeting years of the corpse, he couldn't help shivering.
The commentary of fleeting years makes me think that the possibility of gu poison is more likely. While I don't think it's very likely that the killer was a ghost, if her teeth or saliva contained such a potent venom, would she still be human? Maybe I should assume the killer is a corpse turned zombie.
"Look at the arm of the deceased." Liu Nian pointed to the scratches on the arm of the deceased. The scratches are very strange, there are only four, and the gap between the second and the third is obviously larger, "The same is true of the scratches on the body of the other deceased. The murderer's right hand seems to have no middle finger, so such scratches are caused. "
"Is this also poisoned?" I asked, pointing to the corpse still covered with a white cloth.
"No, but the state of death is even more terrifying..." Liu Nian covered the four-eyed corpse with a white cloth, then lifted the white cloth on the other corpse. This is Fatty's corpse. The color of the corpse is normal. Judging from the many spots on the chest and abdomen, it should be in a prone position when he died. The color of the lips is pale, the eyes are closed, and there are many scratches on the arms, shoulders and neck. There are no signs of being bitten. Just looking at the surface, no fatal wounds are found. point to that.
"Unlike poisoning, there are no obvious fatal wounds. What was the cause of death?"
"You'll know when you look at the back, come and help, I can't turn it by myself." Liu Nian motioned for me to put on gloves. Although I was very reluctant, I still cooperated with him to turn over the dead body. This fat man is really not built, at least he weighs more than 80 kilograms, and it took a lot of effort for the two of them to work together.
When he was about to turn the body over, Liu Nian deliberately said to Zhen Zhen, "Beauty, be prepared!"
"Oh." Zhen Zhen responded casually, not paying too much attention to the reminder of fleeting years. However, when the corpse was turned over, she just glanced at it, then hugged the trash can beside her and vomited.
There was a palm-sized hole on the thick back of the corpse, and there was nothing in the hole, like a bottomless abyss, which made people feel a bottomless and inexplicable fear.
"The heart is gone?" I couldn't help frowning.
Liu Nian picked up another report and read: "The deceased Liu Dahai had thirty-six scratches on his body. The fatal injury was that his heart was pulled out. The wound on his back is relatively flat. Although it is unbelievable, it is basically certain that he was removed by the murderer. It was dug out alive, but... no heart tissue was found at the murder scene."
"Isn't it going to be eaten!" My words made Zhen Zhen vomit even more.
After saying goodbye to Liu Nian, I asked Zhen Zhen jokingly: "I have spit up everything in my stomach, do you want to find something to eat first, there is a restaurant nearby that is famous for its spicy duck heart."
With a disgusting expression on her face, Zhen Zhen kicked my ass fiercely: "If you dare to say it again, I will show you the style of a Sanda champion."
I patted off the shoe prints on my buttocks and shrugged: "Then let's go, go to the medical university to investigate..."
The boss has a little friendship with the President Lu of the Medical University, so when we came to the Medical University, we first went to his office to worship the mountain. But it happened that he was out, maybe he was worried about the baby girl ghost! I couldn't find the leader, so I had to go to the scene of the murder for a walk.
The scene of the murder is a very gloomy camphor forest. Colleagues of the Criminal Investigation Bureau have already dealt with it. The evidence that can be taken away has been taken away by the technical team, and there are records of what cannot be taken away. We turned around a few times and found nothing new except that the camphor trees were so lush and dense that there was not much sunlight coming in during the day, so we thought of asking someone to ask questions in the dormitory area.
The camphor forest is located behind the girls' dormitory, and it's not a short distance from the boys' dormitory, so I walked out of the woods and caught a passing girl student and chatted up: "Beauty, can you talk a little bit? Oops..."
Zhen Zhen kicked me from the back, kicked me aside, stepped forward and grabbed the female student by the shoulders rudely, showing her ID: "Police! What's your name?"
The female student panicked: "I, my name is Yaxian... Zhao Yaxian. I didn't do anything wrong, why are you arresting me?"
"It's not up to you to tell me if there is any crime! Let me ask you, what do you know about the murder that happened a few days ago, tell me all about it!" Zhen Zhen's attitude was so good, it was probably the sequelae of being an armed police officer, After all, the people the armed police have to deal with are not good men and women.
"I don't know anything!" Yaxian was so anxious that she was about to cry.
"Seeing that you've frightened my little sister, let me do it!" I couldn't see Zhen Zhen's way of doing things, so I pushed her hand away from Yaxian. Of course, I pushed "gently" because I didn't want to get another kick.
Treating gangsters is tougher than him, but treating ordinary people should be polite and courteous, and treating gentle and lovely girls even more with pity: "Don't be afraid, little sister, the police brother is not here to arrest you, just want to tease you... Hey, You have chocolate on your head..." She took out a piece of chocolate from her head and put it in her hand. Of course, I haven't forgotten to wipe the oil, her hands are very tender.
"So you can do magic, hee hee!" Ya Xian's mood calmed down quickly, I told her a few jokes, which made her laugh out loud. Zhen Zhen snorted coldly, slipped aside and muttered to herself without interest, she thought I didn't hear it, I have ears, and when she heard her say: "Cut, you will lie to the little girl."
After chatting for a while, I began to turn to the topic: "Yaxian, can you tell my brother what happened that night of the murder?"
"I don't know if this counts as uh!" Yaxian hesitated for a moment, and told a strange thing that happened in the girls' dormitory—
Room 106 on the first floor of the girls' dormitory has been vacant for a long time. It is said that a girl died there a long time ago, and it has been haunted since then, so no one dared to live there.
When I first came to school, I heard my senior say this, but because I didn't see it with my own eyes, I was always skeptical. Later, after I moved into Room 105 opposite Room 106, I often heard footsteps in the corridor at two or three in the middle of the night.
At first, I thought it was someone going to the toilet, but after listening to it more, I felt something was wrong. Because the toilet is at the end of the corridor, but the footsteps always start from the gate and disappear before the door of Room 106. After that, he moved from Room 106 to the gate.
When I was chatting with my senior, she told me about a girl who lived in room 108 before and wanted to go to the toilet in the middle of the night. As soon as she opened the door, she heard footsteps outside, so she put her head out the door and glanced at it, who knows I actually saw a female ghost in white clothes with disheveled hair walking past the gate with a bag of things. She was so frightened that she almost wet her pants, she closed the door and got under the covers, and moved to live outside the school the next day.
"Did you hear the murder that night?" I asked after listening to Yaxian's narration.
Yaxian nodded earnestly: "Well, I can hear it almost every night. I slept next to the door. I could hear it clearly, but I didn't have the guts to open the door to see it. In fact, everyone in the dormitory knew that we lived in a I don't even dare to go to the toilet in the middle of the night."
"Can you show me your dormitory?"
"It's okay to take you there, but the dormitory is fierce, so you have to be careful!" Yaxian took me by the arm and walked towards the girls' dormitory, and told the dormitory's surname Yu, and how to deal with these girls. Zhen Zhen followed behind us angrily.
Yaxian didn't dare to provoke Warden Yu, so she took us to the door of the concierge and slipped away. There was a fifty-year-old Obasan in the concierge who was sitting and dozing off. After I woke her up, I asked her to come to Room 106 to investigate.
"It's just a utility room, it's been locked for a long time, and no one comes in or out at all. What's there to investigate? If you want to go in, come with me." The dormitory Yu was obviously dissatisfied with the disturbance of Qingmeng, and his face was angry. lead the way with the key.
Although the dormitory Yu said that Room 106 has been locked for a long time, she didn't bother to open the door and opened the door at once. As she said, the room was just a utility room, with nothing special except for boxes full of sundries. Perhaps the most peculiar thing is that although the floor is a little dirty, there is not much dust, and there is a noticeable layer of dust on the clutter.
Zhen Zhen opened several boxes and found that they were filled with old sports equipment, so she asked, "Why aren't these things in the gymnasium?"
"The gymnasium has no place to put it here, anyway, no one dares to live here." Maybe because he was used to being cruel to the students, the dormitory Yu didn't give Zhen Zhen a good look.
"Why?" Zhen Zhen's attitude was also very bad.
"Why? People are dead!" The dormitory Yu replied strangely: "A girl died here ten years ago, and after that, some people said that this place is haunted, and no one dared to live there, so it has to be used for sundries."
Zhen Zhen trembled slightly and looked around: "Is it really haunted?"
"There are ghosts in this world, there are many cowards. I have been here for more than ten years as a dormitory, and I haven't even seen a ghost." The dormitory Yu was deliberately mocking, and Zhen Zhen couldn't help but look embarrassed.
"Some students said that they heard strange noises coming from here in the middle of the night. Is that true?" I added.
"Don't believe their nonsense, I have to patrol several times every night after turning off the lights before I go to rest, and I have never heard any weird noises." The voice of the dormitory Yu was firm, I think she should be an atheist.
There is nothing special in the room, but the window caught my attention, so I went to the window and tried to open it, but I couldn't open it with great effort. This window seems to have been violently broken, but does a woman have that much strength
The dormitory Yu glanced at me: "The window and door have long been broken, and I don't know how many years it has not been opened."
This is a sliding aluminum alloy window. Through the brown glass that has become obscured by dust, you can barely see the woods where the murder took place. The window facing the woods doesn't prove anything, but if the window can be opened, then this room is somewhat suspicious.
I stayed in front of the window for a while and lit a cigarette, but after a few puffs, the dormitory Yu was unhappy: "Mr. Police, please don't smoke here, after all, this is also a warehouse. If there is a fire, who will be responsible? what!"
I shrugged and said hello to Zhen Zhen: "I'll smoke outside."
As soon as I walked into the corridor, I saw Yaxian standing behind the door of Room 105 on the opposite side and waving to me. When I walked in, she was surrounded by her roommates. In fact, I am quite welcome!
After chatting with Yaxian and the others for a while, they played cards on a whim. Of course, I also asked them for news during the mid-term. In the middle of the period, a girl said that the sixth uncle of the guard knows best what happened in the medical university, and suggested that I might as well talk to him.
"You're actually being lazy, go to hell!" When she was having a good time, Zhen Zhen suddenly rushed in from the door and kicked me over, scaring a few girls to hide to the side.
"Who's lazy, I'm working!" I got up and patted the dust on my body.
"Playing cards can also be called work?" Zhen Zhen Xing stared at me with furious eyes, as if I had killed her whole family.
"You didn't play poker, so have you found any clues? If you don't, just step aside and don't disturb my work. Go go go... " To ensure my personal safety, she hurriedly kicked Zhen Zhen out of the house and continued to play cards. Her fists are good, but her mouth skills are far from mine.
After playing cards for about an hour, Yaxian and the others were going to class, and I reluctantly said goodbye to them. As soon as I walked out of the dormitory, Zhen Zhen, who didn't know where I came from, grabbed my collar and asked strangely, "Have you found any clues after playing cards for a long time? If not, I'm welcome!"
I pushed her hand away gently: "Do you know what haste means? Come with me if you want clues!"
"I see what tricks you're up to." She followed my ass angrily.
I took Zhen Zhen to the guard room at the gate of the school, there was an old man who was playing chess alone, he was Uncle Six. After I understood his chess game, I said, "Pao Er and Ping Liu."
Sixth Uncle looked up at me, moved the chess pieces as I wanted, and then pondered for a moment: "The rook goes into the third."
"Ma six to eight." I simply sat on the empty stool opposite him and played chess with him.
"Handsome four and five."
"Ma eight retreat seven."
"Two guns back one."
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After you came and I played for an hour, it ended in a draw. I smiled and said, "Uncle Six, you are really amazing. It's been a long time since I met a master like you."
Sixth Uncle is obviously still not finished: "Young man, you are not bad, how about another game?"
I looked at my watch and looked at Zhen Zhen who had been waiting impatiently, and shrugged helplessly: "I really want to play another round, but I still have things to do..." I identified myself to him and admitted that I was Investigate the murder of the female ghost, and have no clue.
"Instead of running around outside, you might as well ask me. I have been a guard here for more than 30 years, and there is nothing I don't know. Come on, come on, in the next game, I will tell you about the ghost girl slowly. "Uncle Six seemed to be afraid that I wouldn't agree, so he quickly set up the chess pieces, and told me about the female ghost while playing chess with me...
This matter started ten years ago. A girl who lived in room 106 of the girls' dormitory at that time suddenly went crazy the night before graduation. She killed another girl in the same room, and even dug out her heart to eat. Lose.
I went to see that room the next day, and there were bloodstains all over the floor, almost staining the floor red. It was terrifying to death. However, it is quite strange to say that the girl died so tragically, it should be louder than killing a pig, but the girl who lived next door that night did not hear anyone calling for help or anything, even fighting and making noise The voice was not heard. There were two other girls in the same room at that time. They both said that they went to bed early and didn't know anything, as if the dead girl was killed voluntarily.
In order to protect the reputation of the school, the leaders suppressed this matter. I heard that they lost a lot of money to the parents of the dead girl. And that crazy girl seems to be sent to a mental hospital. Since then, no one dared to live in Room 106.
About two or three months later, I remember that shortly after the new semester started, a couple sneaked into the camphor woods behind the dormitory in the middle of the night, and no one saw them after that. At first, everyone laughed at them for eloping or something, and it wasn't until a few days later that the girls in the girls' dormitory smelled the stench and found their bodies. They died horribly, the boy's face was black, the girl was even worse, the heart was gouged out.
At that time, the incident caused people to panic, because the murderer could not be found, and the girl had the same heart as the girl who died in Room 106 before, so some people said that the girl was haunted and came out. Harm people.
After that, several people died in the camphor forest, and the methods of death were similar. If there is only one person whose heart is gouged out, if there is more than one person, the rest will have black faces. It seems that two or three escaped, and they all said that the murderer was a female ghost holding a baby.
I don't know if it's a coincidence or what, every time an accident happens when the moon is full, plus some people add salt and vinegar, the rumors spread more and more fierce. Later, the school had no choice but to set a school rule that prohibited students from going to the camphor forest behind the dormitory at night. It should have been five or six years since the last accident. Most of the new students didn't know about these things, thinking it was just some bluffing legend, but I didn't expect it to happen again...
The two-hour game ended in a draw.
"Do you know the names of the girls in Room 106?" I handed Uncle Six a cigarette and lit it for him.
"There are tens of thousands of students in the school. I can remember it, and it was already ten years ago. Hmm..." Sixth Uncle exhaled, "You might have a trip to the library. It was found that the archives should have kept the students' materials, but it may be troublesome to find them."
"Then I'll go to the library to have a look first, and I'll play chess with you when I have time." I said goodbye to him and motioned to Zhen Zhen, who was waiting for the moss to grow, to leave together.
Uncle Six stood at the door and waved reluctantly: "Remember to come to me when you are free, I am here every day."
Father Sun is about to get off work, but we can't get off work on time. In order to solve the case within the time limit, we didn't dare to delay for a moment and rushed to the library immediately.