Following the direction pointed by Li Lu, the two of us walked from the main road to the small path, and then from the small road into a wasteland that I didn't know what to do. Probably worried that I was afraid, along the way, Li Lu told me a few stories that happened in their police force, such as how the lost pony dog became a member of the police dog, and how their daily training was cruel and necessary. His voice was so steady that it made people forget about their situation and feel inexplicably relieved.

It was pitch black, and the weeds barely reached the calves, sweeping from the knees. After a few more steps, suddenly you can hear the unmistakable sound of water, coming from the bottomless darkness of the night.

"It should be almost there", Li Lu put away his basket of topics and walked slightly sideways in front of me.

Sure enough, after a few more steps, a small river came into view. It appeared so suddenly, as if it had spurred out of the depths of the earth, ghostly, and its unhurried gesture proved the fact that it had always been here. The moon frankly shared its purity, and there was no other source of light, so that the crystalline green scales floating on the surface of the river shimmered and were so misty that it was impossible to see that it was a sewage river.

"The marker point is on the left side of the sewage river, and we are now on the right bank of the river. That's right, it's around here", Li Lu said and stopped and looked ahead to the right.

I followed his gaze until my gaze converged on the extension of the wasteland, and I suddenly understood why Cao Ke's body was here—a ruined burial mound. In many villages, people are not accustomed to cremation and buying a cemetery in a regular cemetery, so they choose to bury their dead family members in the fields or wasteland in the village, and over time, the graves form the village's own cemetery.

In front of us is such a masterpiece of rural culture, unguarded, unattended, overgrown in the countryside wasteland, in front of the mounds of different sizes set up cold stone monuments, shadows and shadows are becoming more and more dark. Apart from the sound of our footsteps, there is only the mournful cry of crickets and the low chirping of unknown birds, echoing the ghostly fire that flickers in the stars, inviting us.

"If nothing else, it's here—" I pointed to the cemetery, then at Li Lu, who nodded thoughtfully.

"If you're scared, wait for me here, I'll go by myself," he said, pulling out a bunch of keys from his pocket, one of which had a mini flashlight hanging from the keychain. When lit, the pillar of light is particularly visible in the night. "But I don't know what I'm going to investigate, it's a bit difficult. ”

"I'll go with you, and you'll know soon. ”

The two of us walked to the depths of the cemetery one after the other, and the tombstones on both sides were new or old, elaborate or rough, with different stones and carved with different patterns. Li Lu walked very carefully, the light of the flashlight in his hand swept over the tombstones without temperature, and there were unfamiliar names engraved on them, and their portraits were stereotyped and haggard, and they had completely lost their human breath. My heart was tugged at by some force, and I could feel it getting closer and stronger—until my gaze was drawn to a particular tombstone, and the throbbing force in my heart suddenly contracted, as if it were being held tightly by a hand, and then it was completely relaxed.

Li Luo also noticed this tombstone, and he stayed on this tombstone for a long time, carefully examining it. It is an ordinary black marble tombstone, rectangular and smooth, except that it is eeriely terrifying in the cemetery. The candle under the tombstone is stout and covered with solidified wax oil.

I still had the sweetness of chocolate in my mouth, and my stomach was churning and I felt nauseous. I hurriedly took the candy out of my pocket, put it on the plate in front of me, and looked at the name on the tombstone. The tombstone seems to have been erected by parents for their children, and the white-haired person sent the black-haired person, with two names engraved on it, like a husband and wife. The man's name is Zhang Tiemin, and the name of the wife next to him has a brand new notch, and the oil paint on it is still fresh and shiny, not completely dry. Cao Ke.

I've finally found you. Stand up.

"No, the one who asked for your help - this is the woman who asked for your help," I took a step back, staring at everything in front of me.

"Why, is their burial so lively here", Li Luo stepped forward and bent down to check the various things in front of the stele, touched the floating soil on the stele and the mound behind it, and his tone was full of puzzlement, "It looks like it is newly buried, the soil is still very new and very damp." ”

"No?" Li Lu continued to search the side of the grave, and without answering me, I said to myself, "nothing more than to seek psychological comfort." ”

"I've heard others talk about it before, but I didn't expect to see it today", Li Lu checked to no avail, and then returned to me and stood still, shining a flashlight on the name on the tombstone, "So this tomb has been newly repaired." ”

"That's true", when I was still alive, I read about this research, and thought it was some alarmist urban legend, but I didn't expect it to appear in front of me now. That's why it goes.

"......What do you mean?" Li Lu listened to my story, and pondered for a moment, doubting it, as if thinking about the credibility of the above content. Soon, he threw out this valuable question, which was in vain for the foreshadowing I had painstakingly foreshadowed.

"Maybe", I nodded, spread my hands, and looked at Li Lu with an innocent expression. I can't say that I have already communicated with Cao Ke, and the news is absolutely accurate, she is a stumbling girl.

"If that's the case, I need to go back and report to the team and bring someone over. ”

"There is no evidence for you to go back and report this mysterious incident, so it is better to ......" Li Lu and I looked at each other, and a cool breeze passed between the two of us, a mysterious force, trying to make us stay. "Let's do it first. ”