Chapter 68: The Vanishing Village
"There's nothing to see here, let's go in and have a look."
After Li He shouted a few times inside, we slowly walked inside.
It's still the same as the last time we were here, not much has changed.
We walked from the yard to the inside of the house, and the dust on the table already told us the exact answer.
"Do you want to keep watching?"
I asked Li He tentatively, the matter is already obvious, it is a waste of time here, it is better to go back to inquire earlier, maybe the result will come a little faster.
Just as I was thinking about these things, Li He went to the next room again, and I sighed and walked around this room.
An old photo caught my eye, and I looked at the blurry photo by wiping the dust off it.
"Li Sheng, quick, call quickly!"
A panicked voice came from Li He next door, and I put down the photo and rushed to the room where he was.
"What's wrong? What's going on? ”
Li He pointed to the corner, "Cabinet, there are people in the cabinet." ”
I squinted at the cabinet, which looked like a layer of plastic, and slowly stepped forward to open it, only to see a corpse wrapped in stiffness.
"It's ......"
Li He nodded, I looked at the corpse inside the plastic, and hurriedly dialed the phone.
Although I saw a lot of corpses, I rarely saw such a complete corpse, as if it was a living person who had been put down inside.
The expression is not hideous, but very serene, but the eyes are open, a bit like what we call dead and blind.
Li He and I left here for a while, standing in the courtyard and watching to see if there were any tools for committing crimes.
Li He was relieving his mood in the courtyard, I understood his mood now, after all, in such a quiet place, it was indeed a little scary to see such a thing.
It was already late at night waiting for my colleagues to arrive, and it was pitch black, but under the light of the headlights, it became brightly lit.
I put on the clothes that Wang Ke had prepared and watched as several people unwrapped the wrapped corpse.
The moment the plastic sheet was uncovered, the room was filled with the stench of corpses, and some colleagues couldn't hold back for a while and went outside to vomit for a long time.
I held my breath and stepped forward, examining the exposed parts of the body to see if there were any external injuries.
"Why is this corpse here?"
"At this age, it should either die of illness or old age, how can it become like this?"
The person next to me whispered about the corpse, and my examination came to a preliminary conclusion.
"The deceased should have died a month ago, but the cause of death is unknown, and it should have died of natural causes."
"Even if it is a natural death, it should not be in plastic!"
Of course, I am well aware of this, but for now I can only draw such conclusions.
"Bring the body back to the police station first, go back and do research again, and close the team."
I took off my mask and followed behind Li He, walked out and said to him when there was no one around, "What do you think of this?" ”
"Wait for the result, it's hard to draw conclusions now, it's too late to go back today, I won't report to Su Luo, but you're going to have to work hard tonight."
"It's okay, it should be."
Li He patted me on the shoulder, got into the car and waited for everyone to finish their work, and returned to the police station together.
I was thinking about this all the way, and that strange village, it all felt so weird, like a peach blossom paradise that existed and could be visited again, but then disappeared.
This makes me can't help but be in awe of the world, how many things we still can't know, how many unknowns are still waiting for us to explore.
"When are you going to give me the results tomorrow?"
As soon as I arrived at the police station, Li He began to ask me, "Six hours at the earliest, and it is estimated that it will take more than ten hours if you are slow." ”
"Okay, I'll investigate the village first, and you can give me a conclusion as soon as possible."
I returned to the research room to prepare for the arrival of the corpse, and I firmly said to myself in my heart that I must have a reasonable explanation no matter what.
The body was placed in front of me in its entirety, and Wang Ke was by my side to assist me in my work, and after three hours of hard work, I only took samples and did not find any answers.
Whether it is from the appearance or the autopsy, there is only one conclusion - natural death, but it does not explain why it is in plastic.
Confused, I put the final stitches on the body, and Li He knocked on the door with the papers.
"How's it going, is there a result?"
I raised my head to look at him, shaking my head helplessly, Li He gestured to the document in my hand, and I temporarily broke Wang Ke.
"You wait for me, there are still three stitches."
Li He consciously sat on the chair next to him, and I finished my final work unhurriedly.
"Okay, you have a result over there?"
"I've checked, and it's no different from what the old man said, but the strange thing is that I looked at the previous video according to the time we went last time, but I didn't see a single person going in and out of there."
"Could it be that you got in the other way?"
"It's not that this possibility is impossible, after all, the equipment over there is not very perfect."
Once again, we seem to have reached an impasse that completely disrupted our plans for the rest of the day.
Dangdangdang –
"Team Li, there is a little boy outside, it seems that he is lost, and he came to the police station to call the police."
"Where is the child now?"
Led by our colleagues, the two of us walked out and saw the little boy surrounded in the office hall of the police station.
"It's him, not long after he first came, no matter how we coaxed him, he didn't speak, just laughed or didn't laugh."
Li He squeezed in and looked at the little boy, and I followed closely behind.
When I see the little boy, I always feel a sense of déjà vu.
"It's all gone, hurry up and get to work, don't gather around here, are you all okay?"
Colleagues looked at each other, and everyone returned to their positions.
Li He also tried to communicate with the child, but the boy kept staring at me.
This also caught Li He's attention, holding a piece of candy next to him and signaling to me.
I handed the candy to the boy and said, "Do you know me?" ”
The boy took the candy from my hand and just shook his head, I couldn't help it now, even if Li He kept staring at me, I could only shrug my shoulders and express helplessness.
"I want to drink water."
The boy suddenly spoke, startling all of us here, and after Li He and I looked at each other, we tried to communicate with the boy and said, "Where is your home?" ”
The boy looked at me with innocent eyes and said, "I don't know either, that's why I'm here." ”
"And how did you get lost?"
"I don't remember either."
"Don't you know the phone numbers of the family, or the names of your parents?"
The boy shook his head and continued to look down and play with his phone, and our conversation stopped there.
The two of us got up and gestured to each other, and my colleague shouted from the sidelines, "Found it, the boy's address has been found." ”
This sound once again attracted all the people, and they stepped forward to join in the fun, Li He coughed, and everyone made a way for him.
It turned out that the boy was also the son of a large family, his father was a civil servant in the city, his mother also had a company under his name, and the old man in the family was either a doctor or a teacher.
It stands to reason that after the child is lost, he should come here to report the crime, but so far, his family has not been seen.
"Hurry up and find the contact information and call the family."
At Li He's command, my colleagues began to get busy again, and the two of us also shifted our attention to the corpse.
As soon as we walked out to talk about it, we felt that someone was watching us behind us, and when we turned our heads, we realized which little boy it was.
The two of us had to go somewhere else, but as soon as we moved, the boy moved with us, and I felt a little inappropriate, so I crouched down and asked, "Do you want to say something, or do you want to eat something?" ”
The boy returned to his previous state, replacing his answer with silence.
Li He could only ask the female colleague to take the boy back, but as soon as he pulled the boy by the shoulder, he began to cry.
I patiently asked again, and although I stopped crying, I still couldn't tell him what he wanted to do.
There was no way, and the two of us could only wait for the boy's family to arrive.
Li He looked at him for a long time and said to me, "Did you say that this child did it on purpose, or did you just want to stay with you?" ”
"I don't know him, how is it possible?"