Chapter 225: The Demon Tower (C)
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"There is one, if you want to say that this song was played by him, I really believe it, it is out of tune, but it can't be played by him. The man scratched his head, thought for a moment and said.
"Is it because he didn't move to the tower?"
"No, that person's surname is Ma, and he is a big family in our village for several generations, and before liberation, we still called Mawang Village here, but this person died of illness two years ago. β
Xiao Zhang came out of the tower and reported the situation to Director Ji of the police station the next day. Director Ji didn't speak after listening, just looked at Xiao Zhang, as if waiting for his next step. Xiao Zhang still knows Director Ji very well, he is in his fifties, and after a few more years, he will retire with honor, "I don't seek merit, but I want no fault", "do my best, obey the destiny of heaven" are the words he has said the most in the past two years. If he has reservations about something, he will definitely not open his mouth, waiting for you to come up with a solution.
Xiao Zhang thought for a while and said: "Director Ji, I want the residents of that community to report the case for a long time, we have to ignore it, and there is no way, how can we say that we also have to maintain the stability and unity of this area, right?" Those residents mentioned to me, when the developer repaired the house in the past, there were always strange things, how to say this, it happened in his community, he also has a certain management responsibility, my opinion is, not in the name of our police station, I will privately find the developer, let him invite the previous master again, over-exceeding, even if there is no change, at least those residents do not have such a big opinion, I take some time, through the household registration inspection, and then understand the situation of those foreign population, see what you find, report to you at any time, and lead you to see itοΌβ
Director Ji smiled, patted Xiao Zhang's shoulder, and said, "Xiao Zhang, you have grown up very quickly, and you are thinking more and more comprehensively." As long as we solve problems for them, we can change the ways and means while doing it, your ideas are very good, do it boldly, and the institute is your strong backing. β
The next morning, Zhang went to the developer, whose office was right next to the project site. In charge of the reception was a vice president surnamed Zhong. Xiao Zhang briefly told Mr. Zhong about the recent situation reported by the residents, and seeing that his reaction was calm, he went straight to the point, hoping that the company would come forward to ask the master to solve the problems in the tower. Mr. Zhong smiled bitterly, "Officer Zhang, you are welcome to visit our company, and we will discuss it later, shall we?"
Xiao Zhang didn't understand what Mr. Zhong meant, so he followed him suspiciously and walked to the company's backyard. In the company's aisle, Xiao Zhang has already found that something is wrong, the walls on both sides should be hung with the company's management regulations, or can represent the company's culture of the propaganda board or something, but the company's walls are full of big red background, with black ink painted all kinds of charms, from a distance to see like a calligraphy exhibition, close to those twists and turns of the symbols, none of them recognized. At the end of the corridor, there is also a wooden incense case, on which is the wooden statue of Guan Erye, and the incense is flowing underneath.
followed Mr. Zhong out of the corridor and into the backyard. The backyard is not big, but there are more than a dozen one-meter-square stone platforms in the center of the courtyard, and there is a clay statue on each stone platform, which seems to be the statue of Taishang Laojun, the original Tianzun, the eight immortals and five saints, and there are incense cases, incense burners and tributes in front of each one. And these stone piers seem to be arranged according to the direction of the five elements and eight trigrams, which is very imposing of a temple. I saw that Xiao Zhang Leng was in place.
Mr. Zhong on the side said slowly: "Officer Zhang, don't tell you, we are going to sell the house, we may be more anxious than any household, all concerned, you see, we have thought of a way to think of, and the gods who can be invited have also been offered, our courtyard and tower are less than two hundred meters, and we can't hold it at all, the master has come a few times, you see, the array is all set, or not, the master said when he left, the grievances can be resolved by a generation of incense." We're really out of options. β
Xiao Zhang didn't expect this twist and turn, think about it, such a big movement has no effect, it seems that the matter of the tower is really difficult to handle.
Mr. Zhong saw that Xiao Zhang was a little discouraged, and he already had a plan in his heart. The reason why a businessman becomes a businessman is that he knows the truth of first suppressing and then promoting, and he can understand the psychology of the world and transform the smallest effort into the greatest effect. Mr. Zhong walked to Xiao Zhang's side and whispered, when the master left, he left us a batch of New Year's paintings of the door god, our company does not have so many doors, there are dozens left, saying that the master has opened the light, warding off evil and exorcizing evil spirits, Officer Zhang will not pull all back, send it to the residents, whether it is posted or not is their business, whether it has any effect or not has nothing to do with us.
Xiao Zhang thought about it, it's better than nothing, but it doesn't have a good impact on the police station, so he told Mr. Zhong that it is better to arrange the property company to send it.
I thought that this matter would be over, but I didn't think that within two days, there was a murder case in the tower.
First, someone found a vegetable basket and a beige bag in the elevator, and I don't know who dropped it and sent it to the property management company. The people of the property management company often saw Aunt Li on the sixth floor often carrying the small bag when she was shopping for vegetables, so she sent it to Aunt Li's house, but Aunt Li was not there, and the family said that they went out to buy vegetables in the morning and had not come back. Now everyone was in a hurry, and they were looking for the whole building, but there was no trace. Everyone went to the vegetable market again, and the small shops around went to look for it, but there was still none.
After a night, the person did not come back, the family was ready to go to the police station to report the case, the property company suddenly had a bad premonition, opened the elevator door on the first floor, and used a flashlight to shine in the elevator shaft, and found that Aunt Li was face down, fell at the bottom of the well, the blood had long dried up and blackened, and the person had been dead for a long time.
Soon, the criminal investigation detachment of the Public Security Bureau and the police station both came and conducted a scene investigation, ruling out the possibility of homicide and suicide, which was attributed to the accidental death. According to the analysis of the post-mortem report of the Public Security Bureau, Aunt Li should have fallen from a height of at least 10 floors or more, but Aunt Li's house was on the sixth floor, so why did she go to the 10th floor? Everyone had no clue for a while, but Xiao Zhang thought of the strange encounter when he went to the tower before, could it be related to the elevator stopping on the 13th floor for no reason?
He briefly communicated the situation with the comrades of the criminal investigation detachment, and everyone also realized the seriousness of the problem, and after studying it with the bureau, it was decided that the Cao team would take the lead in the investigation. I never thought that there was a sensational robbery and murder case in the Northeast, two people wandered to many provinces, killed more than 20 people and were on the run, and the Cao team was transferred to keep an eye on that case, and under the recommendation of the Cao team, the elevator accident case in the tower fell on Xiao Lei.
Just received this case, Xiao Lei was extremely excited, after all, it was his first time to handle the case independently. But as soon as I went to understand the facts of the case, Xiao Lei's head was big, there were no clues at all, everything was ordinary and abnormal, and the people's grievances were very strong, but the grassroots police station advocated handling it as an accident, and there was not much enthusiasm for the investigation. Fortunately, Xiao Lei and Xiao Zhang participated in a short course for criminal investigation in the public security system together, and lived in a dormitory for a month, so they are very familiar classmates. Xiao Lei opened his mouth from a young age and learned a lot of secret insiders that are not humane.
But knowing this, Xiao Lei didn't know how to start. Remembering that when Team Cao encountered this kind of strange thing in the past, they all came to me for help, so they came to the door to ask for advice.
Three hours passed after Xiao Lei's speech, and we forgot to change the tea leaves, and the Kuding tea was drunk tasteless, but we didn't notice it at all. What really attracted me to this incident was what was dug up at the construction site at that time? From Xiao Lei's brief conclusion, the coffin and the jar in the dead corner should constitute a demon array, but it is not used to suppress demons as explained by the master, it is really hard to say, in my opinion, it looks like a gathering evil array, and it is a legendary and vicious way of cultivating immortals. Besides, the water swallowing beast should be the lying pit in the nine sons of the dragon, but it is a famous auspicious beast, the ancients thought that it could get rid of floods, so it often appeared on the side of the river and on the bridge, why should it put a bad array to suppress it? It seems that what the master said is not true. And the situation in the tower is estimated to be related to the evil array, but the array has been removed, and there are still strange things in the building, so only the field can be checked.
Xiao Lei was very excited to see that I agreed to go out, and hurriedly asked me how I planned to carry out the investigation. I told him that I still planned for the two of us to go our separate ways, and I went to the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau to find out about the excavation at that time. Ray continues to collect information about the tower's occupants, the more detailed the better. Two days later, we met again and called Xiao Zhang from the police station to go to the building to see what was going on.
I have a very good friend in the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, surnamed Xu, who has been friends for more than 20 years, so I went to him to learn about the evil array. Lao Xu thought about it for a while and told me that this matter was quite a sensation in the bureau at the time. The person in charge of the excavation was an associate researcher surnamed Qian, who was working hard to become a researcher. When he saw the scene, he was extremely excited, thinking that it was a tomb site of a living sacrifice. The Qin and Han dynasties contained in the history of the funeral customs of the living sacrifice have been abolished, and if it appears in the tombs of the Ming Dynasty, it will be a major event that will change the history of funerals.
Lao Xu took out the excavation briefing at that time and told me that many experts at that time did not agree with Associate Researcher Qian's conclusion because there was an obvious flaw. The eunuch in that coffin was not of high status, and if it was said to be the tomb of the emperor's relatives or the emperor's relatives, how could an unknown eunuch use 36 children to make a living sacrifice? Later, the symbol on the cylinder was deciphered, it was the ancient Sanskrit "Mantra of Death", which was beyond those children, if so, the soul was exceeded, how could he serve the master in the coffin in the underworld? The so-called view of living sacrifice was fundamentally shaken.
Soon, it was revealed that Associate Researcher Qian had changed the excavation report without authorization in order to sit on the point of view of the live sacrifice, and it turned out that the jar was not buried in the direction of the southeast, northwest, and northwest, but was actually buried very randomly, and it was Associate Researcher Qian who arranged for someone to move the position again, just to make the scene look more like a deliberately arranged live sacrifice scene. From this it seems that the location of the burial in the vat was not planned in advance, or even buried at the same time.
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