Chapter 8: The Beginning of All Fate
Li Jing and Xiaozhi met in a tearoom outside the school, and it was already 8 o'clock in the evening when they met, and there were almost no customers in the tearoom, only a skinny girl playing the guqin there. It happened that her eyes fell on Li Jing who pushed open the door www.biquge.info the moment their eyes met, the moment their eyes met, Xiaozhi was even more convinced that the person who pushed the door in was the man who could take her out of the mess and mud, her sixth sense told her that this time was just the beginning of their countless future encounters, she raised her head and smiled at him: "So, you still believe me, right?" ”
The man sat opposite Xiaozhi without any expression, glanced at the wolfberry sprouts ordered by Xiaozhi on the table, and then asked the waiter for a small plate of ginkgo nuts. He looked at Xiaozhi and asked, "We've met?" Xiaozhi shook his head: "No." But I just know you're the one I'm waiting for. ”
Even if Xiaozhi guessed correctly, Li Jing still introduced himself seriously: "I'm Li Jing, the person who called you in the afternoon." By the way, you were the one who asked my classmates to show me the photos last time, right? You look much smaller than him. ”
"That's a classmate of mine who is older than me, and it was my friend's idea to find you, but now that my friend and I have some disagreements, he doesn't want to look any further, of course he is worried about my safety. But we have a reason why we can't call the police, so I want you to help me, call the police and accompany me to verify the truth of my guess. Xiaozhi didn't hide it from him.
The waiter brought over a plate of white fruits, Li Jing lowered his head and beat the table rhythmically with the bone joints of his index finger and the playing of the guqin, as if thinking, and finally the girl played the last trill, and as the tune calmed down, Li Jing finally raised his head and looked at Xiaozhi: "I can only spare time for this night." ”
Xiaozhi's heart lit up instantly, she smiled and bent her eyes and agreed to Li Jing's proposal: "Okay." ”
Xiaozhi roughly talked to Li Jing about the discoveries of these days, and also said his own speculation: "In fact, all of this is just my guess, and I am not sure if I can rescue Li Ruxuan, after all, it has been almost 9 hours, if Li Ruxuan has not come out of that building, I am afraid that it will be more than lucky." Xiaozhi said.
Li Jing's stiff face showed signs of loosening slightly: "Didn't he come out when you left?" ”
Xiaozhi shook his head: "No." However, because its underground leads to the crematorium, it is not certain whether he hid in the crematorium to avoid being looked for. ”
Li Jing took a look and suggested that the two of them go back to the hospital together. When he walked out of the door, Xiaozhi suddenly grabbed Li Jing: "Li Jing, do you know how to keep others from finding out?" ”
"Found what?" Li Jing looked at her puzzled.
Xiaozhi pointed to himself: "Find me, I came to you behind my friends' backs, because you have contact with the police, and the identities of me and my friends can hardly have any contact with the police." So after learning about your situation, we just want you to help us analyze the photos that the police also have, like looking for a private detective, but they don't want the police to know about our private investigation, so they absolutely don't agree with me coming to you for help. After all, we are people from different worlds, so if my friends know that I am coming to trouble the police again, they will definitely do everything possible to stop me, and maybe things will be very big, and because of these movements, it will irritate the murderer who has been in an abnormal mental state. So, we can't let them find the two of us anyway. "Xiaozhi ended up using us, not me.
Li Jing thought for a moment: "Do you know any other paths you can take to get there?" ”
Xiaozhi shook his head: "I don't know, there is a high wall behind that building, unless we go over the wall, we have to enter through the main entrance no matter how nostalgic we are." Xiaozhi said helplessly.
"Are you sure the crematorium is connected to the basement of that building?" Li Jing confirmed to Xiaozhi again. After getting Xiaozhi's confirmation, Li Jing smiled: "Let's go in from the crematorium, right?" ”
"Crematorium?" Xiaozhi looked at Li Jing with some disbelief, "You can't just go in there, right?" ”
Li Jing nodded: "Yes, if an ordinary person like Xiaozhi can't get in, but I'm not." Don't forget that I'm a medical student, and I'm still a foreign aid to take on cases. I guess if it were me, it wouldn't be too difficult. Hearing Li Jing say this, Xiaozhi finally put his mind at ease. However, he added uncertainly: "But don't be too public." ”
Li Jing didn't speak again, but stopped a taxi on the side of the road and told the location of the crematorium. When the taxi driver heard the address, he suddenly panicked, and wanted to refuse to take them several times, and looked at them suspiciously for a long time. "Uncle, don't look at it, we are alive, not in a hurry to be reincarnated."
The uncle smiled at them a little embarrassedly, and hurriedly found a topic to chat with them like a donkey down the slope: "Don't blame the uncle for talking too much, that place has been very evil recently." ”
Xiaozhi was a little curious: "Why do you say that?" ”
The uncle lowered his voice: "I have more than one brother around me, and my friend has seen a strange phenomenon after pulling someone over there." ”
"Oh?" At this time, even Li Jingjing became interested in his uncle's words, "What happened?" ”
"When they came, they could hear cries coming from inside the crematorium." The uncle had a terrifying expression on his face, "I really didn't lie to you, my friends who have been there at night have heard it." When I passed by there at night, it was very quiet, so I could hear the cry of a woman, which was quite miserable. ”
"Are you sure the crying is coming from the crematorium?" Li Jing questioned. But I didn't expect the uncle to become a little angry when he heard Li Jing ask: "I'm so old, why are I lying to you, there is such a crematorium next to it." There used to be a hospital, but because I love the crematorium, it makes people feel twisted, so the hospital has built a new building in front of it, and the original site is no longer needed, and now it is an abandoned building, unless it is a ghost, who will cry inside? But as soon as the words fell, I saw that the uncle's face suddenly turned pale, and I guess I realized what I was talking about.
Li Jing didn't pay too much attention to the driver's reaction, but turned his head and asked Xiaozhi: "Xiaozhi, how far is the distance between the old hospital building and the crematorium?" ”
Xiaozhi recalled the location of the two buildings, and the floor plan he saw on Jin Hao's computer in the afternoon, estimated the area, and then said: "The distance in a straight line is no more than 500 meters. And the distance from the underground passage of the old building to the morgue. ”
At this time, the driver seemed to realize that the two people sitting in the back were not simple, so he cautiously asked, "Excuse me, what are you two going to the crematorium for?" ”
Xiaozhi looked at Li Jing, she obviously didn't want the driver to know what they were looking for. After Li Jing glanced at him clearly, he said to the driver: "We are medical students, have you heard of the specimen incident that has been very popular recently?" ”
"I've heard of it, I've heard of it." The driver's uncle became a little excited, "I can hear this incident on the radio every day, why, you went to the crematorium because of this case?" There was a hint of gossip in the uncle's tone.
Li Jing said without any expression: "Sort of." I heard that the previous specimen was going to be cremated, and I wanted to see if there were any clues on the corpse. It was arranged by our teacher, who had recently been involved in the investigation of the case, so he assigned us to examine the body. If you have any other questions, I have a letter of introduction from the teacher here. ”
The driver's uncle was frightened, and hurriedly said, "Oh, oh." He nodded, but then asked, "Then why don't you come during the day?" Are you not afraid of this black light? And, there's a little girl. After that, he glanced at Xiaozhi in the rearview mirror, "Little girl." You're so daring. ”
Xiaozhi didn't speak, but Li Jing answered his uncle's question: "We have classes during the day, and when we encounter this kind of thing, our medical school students are very sensitive. If we come to the crematorium and they will speculate and write exaggerated news, it will control the direction of public opinion and affect the police's handling of the case. So, what we need is less exposure. You see, the place where I stopped your car is far away from our school. ”
The driver nodded: "I really didn't expect you to be a big shot." By the way, did you find any clues? "Uncle is a very talkative person, because Li Jing diverted the topic, so he is no longer like just now, and even the sound of breathing is full of fear.
"So let's go to the crematorium now." Li Jing sneered, "We're so obvious, I think you'd better not ask anymore." After all, the less people know, the safer. ”
Hearing the reminder in Li Jing's words, the driver finally stopped asking, but after a while, he couldn't help but glance at the two people sitting in the back seat from the rearview mirror, and asked hesitantly: "Just now you said that the underground tunnel of the hospital is connected to the crematorium?" ”
"Sort of." Xiaozhi made up a lie that sounded quite credible, "The abandoned building was later turned into a laboratory building, and the average person would think that it was particularly scary and would not want to be too close to the crematorium, but in fact, the doctors didn't mind this problem very much. If you think about the average medical student, who usually goes to school for six or seven years, often goes to class to face corpses, and even occasionally does research with teachers, do you think they will have the same opportunities for these things as ordinary people? Therefore, people did not dare to approach it, but made it an ideal test base and clinical research center. There are test subjects to be disposed of, such as mice for experiments, and it would be better to send them directly to the crematorium to be incinerated after the experiment. So digging an underground passage is the most convenient and safe way. ”
"So." Li Jing continued: "I think the strange things that your friend encountered near the crematorium may have something to do with the bad things we did. Can you tell us more? Or can you call them for us? I'd like to know more about the strange things that have happened recently. ”
The driver felt that this was an opportunity for him to be chosen by fate to become a key person, and immediately straightened his waist in the driver's seat and said, "You don't have to call them, I'll just tell you." ”
"When did they hear the sound? Do they remember the time? And do they hear that sound everywhere they go, or do they only hear it by chance? Li Jing asked the driver's uncle.
The driver frowned and thought for a long time before he replied vaguely: "I remember that when they heard the sound, it was in the second half of the night, that is, in the early morning of the next day, and it was night, strictly speaking, it should be at three or four o'clock in the morning." Occasionally, emergency patients are taken to the hospital, so they pass by the crematorium in order to take a shortcut. If you walk there in the first half of the night, you won't hear any sound, but in the second half of the night, you can faintly hear a woman crying. I haven't encountered it, but people they've heard say that the cry is very terrible, and it's more like crying. Someone said before that the deceased didn't want to be cremated, or was still nostalgic for the world, so he cried at night, telling that he probably knew that he was going to be cremated the next day, and he was wronged in his heart, so he cried loudly, because it sounded like a young girl, maybe unwilling to die at a young age. It's been better for a while, and I don't know if it's because everyone didn't go there after everyone learned about this rumor recently, so I didn't hear any more crying. However, if you take my car to the crematorium in the middle of the night, I will never let you get in the car. The uncle was able to say all the way to this, "Or I won't pass through that area." I'm not afraid of your jokes when I say it, don't look at my age, uncle, in fact, I'm the most afraid of ghosts. ”
"There are no ghosts in this world, only the hearts of human beings who are more terrible than ghosts. If you use the darkness in people's hearts to scare the rakshasas, the rakshasas will also be scared and scattered. Okay, driver, don't drive any further. We'll just get off here. Li Jing asked the driver to stop the car at the intersection, "You can just go back the way you came, so that you won't encounter anything strange." Also, thank you for the clues you provided on the road to the sky, it is really helpful to us. Also, please don't disclose today's events to the media, after all, it will leave a lot of room for the media to imagine, and if someone says it is slanderous, I think it will always make you feel embarrassed. ”
The driver nodded and agreed, "Definitely, it must be kept secret." After we got out of the car, he quickly left the scene the same way.
"Do you think he'll say it?" Xiaozhi said with some concern as he played in the direction of the taxi leaving.
After shrugging his shoulders indifferently, he pulled Xiaozhi into the alley, and whispered in her ear: "Don't talk too loudly now, it's quiet in the dead of night now, and the voices of the two of us will reach the ears of those you want to avoid on the other side." So it's still a low-key past, and I hope you can figure things out on your own. ”
I don't know if Li Jing was too close when he spoke, but I clearly heard Xiaozhi's deafening 'dong dong' heartbeat and the feverish temperature on his cheeks. Xiaozhi pulled his arm out of Li Jing's hand, turned off his mobile phone by the way, and then followed Li Jing towards the gate with his head down. The two men tried to bury themselves in the black projection of the crematorium courtyard wall. At the gate, Li Jing knocked on the door, and an old man walked out of the room. Li Jing took out a symbolic thing from his backpack and showed it to the old man, who looked at Li Jing and then welcomed them in.
I really went to the crematorium only to find that it was not as terrifying as I imagined, except that the communication room at the door was still in an old style, and it seemed to have expanded a lot, and it was more solemn against the background of the moonlight. Xiaozhi and Li Jing were brought into the communication room. The old man poured water for the two of them to drink, and by the way, asked Li Jing what he was doing here.
"You don't look like a policeman, what are you doing here?" The old man's eyes made people a little afraid to look at each other.
Xiaozhi didn't know what to say, so he could only snort and drink the water in the cup. Li Jing directly told the truth: "Have there been more corpses here recently?" ”
The old man sneered: "I have only heard that in the 18th and 19th centuries, in Europe, in order to study the structure of the human body, graves were dug up and stolen corpses, but I have never seen anyone who had nothing to do to send corpses to the crematorium. You also saw it just now, and if you want to come in, you have to pass the old man and me first. ”
Li Jing also smiled: "Then has the old man ever heard about another passage?" ”
There was no change in the expression on the old man's face, and he denied: "I haven't heard of it. ”
"But that doesn't mean there's no here, does it?" Li Jing smiled slyly.
The old man still had a straight face: "So, you went to great lengths to get the pass here, just to confirm the number of corpses?" If you're really an investigator hired by the police at the medical school, I guess it's better for you to come over and talk to our dean during the day, right? An old man like me doesn't know much about it, and inviting you in is just fulfilling the rules here. But I found out that I couldn't help you, so after drinking the water, I'd better ask you two to go back, right? If you have any doubts, it would be better to ask them openly. "The old man gave the order to evict the guests.
Li Jing didn't mean to move, but said with a smile: "Old man, if these things can be solved in broad daylight, I won't do everything possible to ask you for help." So, old man, I want to see the mortuary. I want to be able to pass around here as I like with my ID. So, whoever I'm done drinking, please come to the road. You should know where I want to go. ”
"You really don't listen to persuasion." The old man sighed, and then looked at Xiaozhi: "Little girl, do you listen to persuasion?" ”
Xiaozhi nodded: "I am persuaded, but if you leave me here alone, I will be terrified, so I still want to go with you." Moreover, the cause of the incident was that I insisted on coming here, so if I didn't show up, wouldn't I be ruining my companion who came with me? ”
The old man sighed, and no longer insisted, picked up the key on the table, and beckoned me to follow him out. The dog in the yard heard us coming and kept barking, "Black Boy, stop barking. I'll let you out and give me a good look at the yard. Don't let strangers into the yard. The old man unlocked the cage and patted the jackal called Blackboy. Hei Zai really stopped calling, but came over to sniff Xiaozhi and Li Jing, and then began to wander around the yard. The old man took us to the backyard: "The morgue is inside, and this is the last day of their physical stay in this world." So everyone is quiet, here they look back on their lives, waiting to be reduced to ashes. No matter how unwilling, no matter how sorry, when you lie here, your soul looks down on the body, you can't make any changes, you can only look at what you have done in this life, regret or gratification, all this has nothing to do with you anymore, so cherish the time you are still alive, so that you don't regret more than be happy when you lie here. ”
"That's why I insisted that you bring me here, and I don't want to regret that I couldn't help them." Xiaozhi looked at the iron door in front of him and said.
The old man didn't speak, but just took the key and opened the big lock on which Nana looked a little old, and then said in a barely audible voice, "Fifteen." "The chains and keychains collided so loudly that the old man's words were as if he hadn't said them.
"What?" Xiaozhi asked.
"Click." The sound of the door lock opening, "There is one more one today." The old man's voice was still not as loud as the sound of unlocking. But this time, Xiaozhi understood what the old man was talking about.
She took two steps back in some panic and nearly fell. Li Jing helped her, "Are you okay?" Li Jing asked.
Xiaozhi slowed down for a while before nodding and saying, "I'm fine." After that, Xiaozhi whispered with some sadness: "I still couldn't save him, sure enough, it would be nice if I went in at that time." ”
Li Jing grabbed Xiaozhi's shoulder, turned Xiaozhi to face him, didn't know how to comfort her, didn't speak for a long time, and finally let go of his hand and patted her shoulder instead: "It's not your fault." Even if you go in, it won't change anything. If you hadn't come to me, not only would we not know there were so many corpses here, but you might even be one of them, and you would not be able to help the victims. Don't forget, before you tell me, you're the only one who knows the truth and is willing to help them. Li Jing almost whispered in Xiaozhi's ear, "So cheer up, the real mission has just begun." (To be continued.) )