The next morning, just after dawn, I heard a "click" on the courtyard door, which seemed to be rudely slammed open, and then someone hurried into the courtyard.

"What are you doing, robbing?" said Ma Dafa's reproachful voice.

"Uncle Ma, do the police officers from the city live here?" the tone of the person who came was a little flustered.

Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen pushed the door out almost at the same time, and recognized that it was the young man in Li Guifu's shop who broke into the courtyard. They "chuckled" in their hearts, and they had a premonition that something was wrong.

Sure enough, the young man said with a sad face: "Comrade police officer, Director Liu asked me to come to you, you can go and have a look, our boss, he ...... He's dead!"

Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen immediately asked the young man to lead the way and rushed to the place where the accident occurred. Along the way, the young man told them about some of the relevant information.

Last night, Li Guifu did not go home. Wang Lianhua's emotions changed from anger to worry, and finally to anxiety. As soon as the sky was bright, she called the young man up, and the two searched all the way down the mountain road village, and finally found Li Guifu's body by the ghost lake.

Wang Lianhua, who was in a hurry on weekdays, was suddenly confused, only knowing that she was crying and wailing, or the young man called the police, and then under the command of Liu Xiaoguang, he came to Ma Dafa's house and told Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen about the situation.

While talking, the three of them had already come to the Ghost Shadow Lake, only to see that on the shore not far away, Liu Xiaoguang was comforting Wang Lianhua, who was still in tears, and several other police officers were taking pictures next to Li Guifu's body to collect evidence.

Seeing Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen coming, Liu Xiaoguang temporarily left Wang Lianhua and stepped forward, his face full of anxiety: "Another death, another death! ”

Shui Bingyu didn't say anything, first walked to the corpse, leaned down to observe the corpse.

The deceased was lying on the shore with no visible injuries or blood on his body. He curled up slightly, covering his heart with one hand, and resting weakly next to the medicine bottle with the other. The pill bottle was tipping over, and the pills were scattered around the mouth of the bottle, and judging by the label, it was a fast-acting heart pill.

And the expression on his face is unforgettable.

It's hardly an expression that should be on a human face. His facial features were extremely distorted, his mouth was half open, and the muscles of his cheeks were tense, as if he was holding back his strength to let out a loud cry, and his eyes were wide, although he had long lost his lustre, there was a palpitating horror frozen in the depths of his pupils.

"I just checked it out. The person was already frozen to the ground, and it was estimated that the time of death was about five hours. The cause of death, my judgment is a heart attack. The exact cause of his illness is unknown, but it is clear that he was suddenly stimulated by some kind of outside world. Meng Xingchen, who had already finished examining the body, said.

Further, he seemed to have seen something that shocked and terrified him, but for some reason, he couldn't take his eyes off it for a long time. Meng Xingchen continued.

"Can't take your eyes off for a long time?" Liu Xiaoguang looked at Meng Xingchen with some surprise, "Team Meng, why did you say as if you were there at the time?"

This is not difficult to explain. The deceased had already pulled out the medicine bottle and had even opened it. This means that there was at least a little more than ten seconds between the onset of his illness and his eventual death. But until the critical moment when he was about to take the pill, he still twisted his neck and looked up into the distance, and he could see the situation in front of his eyes, which was not only terrifying, but also had a fatal attraction to him. Shui Bingyu explained.

Because the body had been moved, in order to speculate what the deceased saw at that time, Shui Bingyu had to ask Wang Lianhua, who was the first to contact the scene, about the relevant situation.

"What did he look at when he died?" this question did not stump Wang Lianhua, because the gaze of the deceased was so special, no matter who could not help but look for the reason for this gaze. Wang Lianhua pointed to the high place behind the right with her finger: "Well, he just stared at that side, his expression was like seeing a ghost." ”

Everyone looked in the direction of Wang Lianhua's finger, and they couldn't help but be stunned.

This is the center of the legendary "Ghost Lake"!

"There, what's there...... Impossible, impossible. Sister-in-law Liu, who was watching the excitement on the side, shook her head again and again, obviously some kind of absurd association in her heart was denying it herself, but her tone revealed confusion and fear that could not be hidden.

Shui Bingyu ignored Sister-in-law Liu, she looked at the "Ghost Shadow Lake" in front of her, and asked herself: "What is he doing here?"

"Not necessarily to come here on purpose, maybe just passing through. Seeing Shui Bingyu thinking hard, Meng Xingchen reminded him beside him.

It's very likely. Judging from the deceased's fallen posture, he should have been heading east to descend the mountain, and Li Guifu's shop was located on the east side of the island.

Was he about to go home?

Judging by the time of death, it was already late at night when he came here. If the former answer is yes, then the other question becomes more relevant: where did he come home, that is, where did he go before, and what did he do?

Shui Bingyu straightened out his thoughts and said to Liu Xiaoguang: "Director Liu, you go to the village to find out, and the scope is as large as possible." The first is to re-determine, whether anyone saw Li Guifu yesterday. The second is to ask anyone who had been to the lake last night and if anything unusual had been found during that time. ”

It was already dawn, and the lake soon attracted onlookers and onlookers, looking at the dead and talking.

A few quick-witted villagers had some associations with Li Guifu's death, and couldn't wait to tell what they had discovered, which immediately caused a small commotion among the onlookers. Everyone looked at the "Ghost Shadow Lake" one after another, and although they couldn't see anything special, an inexplicable uneasiness had enveloped everyone's hearts.

Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen also returned to their residences. She washed up briefly and went to bed. After a night of running around, she was indeed a little tired, which would affect her thinking and analytical skills. Now, she needs a good night's sleep.

After waking up, Shui Bingyu looked at his watch, and the time was already more than eleven o'clock at noon. She didn't get up immediately, but lay down on the bed, closed her eyes and began to think about something. This is one of her favorite ways of thinking, which can minimize the interference of external things and concentrate on relevant thinking. Moreover, when you are in a state that has just recovered from a dream, you may have unexpected and strange thoughts that pop into your head, and these thoughts tend to give you some kind of unexpected hint.

Just like now, maybe it's the reason for the sleepiness. Her mind was a little confused, and she didn't form any rigorous and logical ideas, only pictures appeared, and she jumped out of the air, rushing back and forth.

At this moment, her eyes suddenly widened, and she bounced off the bed at once, and the picture that had just flashed in her mind instantly had a logical explanation. She sat there for another minute or two, her thoughts becoming clearer.

Of course, more questions need to be further explored and verified.

Without further ado, she immediately dressed up, Ma Dafa had already prepared lunch at this time, and waited for Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen to get up and eat.

Not long after Shui Bingyu came out, Meng Xingchen also walked out of the house. The three of them sat down at the dinner table and began to eat lunch.

"Uncle Ma, you also experienced the plague five years ago, right?"

"Of course. Thanks to my good health, such a severe plague could not help me. Ma Dafa first said a few words proudly, and then a trace of compassion appeared on his face, "But the residents of this island in the middle of the lake are miserable, and there are many families who have died!"

"Then do you think it is possible for the bodies of the victims to sink to the bottom of the lake?" Shui Bingyu pondered for a moment, afraid that Ma Dafa would not be able to understand what she meant, so she simply asked directly, "I mean, could the black shadow on the 'Ghost Shadow Lake' be the remains of the victims who sank to the bottom of the lake and were washed up by the lake and hung on the trees?"

"No, it won't. When the epidemic broke out at that time, the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention sent a medical team to the island, where the corpses were strictly disposed of and buried deeply. No body will sink to the bottom of the lake. Moreover, the ghost of the "Ghost Lake" also appeared a week before the outbreak of the plague, so the black shadow could not be the body of the victim at that time. Ma Dafa explained.

Shui Bingyu nodded, and then asked another question: "You said that the ghost appeared before the outbreak of the plague, who found the ghost at that time?"

Ma Dafa thought for a moment, and then said: "I remember, it should have been Sister-in-law Liu who discovered it first, and her family's jade apartment was facing the "Ghost Shadow Lake"!"

"Just based on what she said, do you all think that there are really ghosts in the lake?" Meng Xingchen interjected at this time.

At first, everyone didn't believe it! Later, Sister-in-law Liu asked a few brave young people on the island to keep watch by the lake at night, and they really saw the ghost! Finally, even the presiding officer of the mountain temple on the island saw it! Everyone believed it! In addition, a week after the ghost appeared, the plague broke out on the island, and everyone believed that there was a ghost on the island! Hey! Everyone didn't know what evil was done on this island? It caused the ghost to take revenge, and most of the inhabitants of the island died of the plague! When Ma Dafa said this, his face showed a trace of regret and sadness.

Shui Bingyu was about to open his mouth to continue asking Ma Dafa, when suddenly, he heard the sound of a gong ringing outside the courtyard again! The three of them immediately walked outside the courtyard, thinking that something unexpected had happened.

I saw that many villagers were hurrying out of their homes and running towards the open space in the southwest, and most of them had panicked expressions on their faces. Shui Bingyu grabbed an older woman in surprise and asked what was wrong.

"'Ghost Shadow Lake'! That female ghost has reappeared! Two people have died on the island one after another! Hurry up and burn pillar incense, and beg the female ghost to be reincarnated as soon as possible, so as not to harm the inhabitants of the island again." The woman replied tremblingly, but with concern.

This sudden situation greatly surprised Shui Bingyu and Meng Xingchen, and they hurriedly followed everyone to the shore of the "Ghost Shadow Lake".

In the open space, many villagers lit incense and were kneeling down devoutly!

Is there really a ghost in the "Ghost Lake"? No, how can there be ghosts in the world?

But, if it's not a ghost, then what's the matter with the ghost that appears in the "Ghost Lake"?

What does the appearance of the "ghost" have to do with the plague five years ago, and the deaths of Wang Xiaoming and Li Guifu in the past two days?

Shui Bingyu couldn't help but think about it, and her head hurt a little!