The fat man behind him scratched the back of his head, as if he was very puzzled, and he said softly angrily: "The handprint was left a few minutes ago, and it ...... If it's not human, can't it be...... Is it a water ghost? ”

Hao Minyuan turned his head and glared at him: "Nonsense, where are the water ghosts in the world!" ”

The fat man smiled awkwardly: "Captain Hao may not know, there is a legend of water ghosts dragging children in our area for a long time, and an old colleague of mine who retired even saw it with his own eyes back then - not only him, but many neighbors in Shuanghe Village have seen it......"

Hao Minyuan waved his hand, motioned him to stop talking, and glared at him fiercely again: "Okay! If you have anything to do, let's take the body back first. After speaking, he immediately changed his expression, smiled and asked Fa Dian: "Master, what do you think about this?"

For a few minutes, several of us were staring nervously at the water, but Fa Dian stood aside, leisurely plucking his ears.

"I don't know what's in the water! Maybe it's a cannibalistic thing! After finishing speaking, he continued to pluck his ears.

Hao Minyuan sighed softly, maybe he also knew how strange the master was, just like the master of the law in Hangzhou Lingyin Temple.

"Put the body in your town police station first......"

The fat man interrupted Hao Minyuan very embarrassed: "Team Hao, it's really ...... I'm sorry, we're a small place, and we don't even have a morgue for forensics! ”

"That's to put it in the hospital for the time being - there's always a morgue in the hospital, right?"

The fat man nodded like pounded garlic: "This one has!" ”

When I left, I just took a few steps before I couldn't help but look back at the water again, damn it! Could it be that the water ghost I just saw was really a water ghost? What does the words mean? Based on my interactions with this monk in the past two days, I can feel that he seems to be crazy and unreliable, but in fact, what he says and does has more or less some truth.

And what is a cannibal?

When I first came to work at the water conservancy station, I thought of the strange things about the Yellow River that Lao Hong and Li Guozhi told me, and I couldn't help but feel ripples in my heart.

On the way back, Hao Minyuan asked the fat man's men to send the body to the local hospital first, leaving the fat man alone.

After everyone left, Hao Minyuan smiled bitterly and said to the fat man: "I said big brother! We're all old detectives, and you're more than ten years older than me...... There are some things you need to know, don't tell them to the public! ”

The fat man nodded and pondered for a moment: "Team Hao is talking about seeing water ghosts?"

Hao Minyuan nodded: "Yes!" There is no clear idea of the case at present, so let's figure out all the relevant information first! Tell me about the water ghosts! ”

The fat man nodded as if he didn't understand: "If this matter is calculated, it's been almost thirty years, and I just came back from the army at that time - I remember that it was the second year, our police station received a report, and a family in Shuanghe Village was wiped out, and when we arrived, I saw a scene that made me feel ......sick to my stomach when I recall it now."

According to the fat man's description, it happened in the early nineties, when he had been in the army for nine years, and he was really tired, so he applied for rehabilitation.

At that time, as long as those who had been in the army for more than three years, after returning to the place, they would be arranged to work, and after the officers were restored, they were also at the leadership level, and ordinary soldiers were mostly arranged to be drivers, workers, and better ones were assigned to the police station or traffic police force.

The fat man is one of the lucky ones, his parents helped him find someone, was assigned to the Dongji Township Police Station, and followed a forty-year-old criminal police master, because of his old qualifications, everyone who knew his master shouted Lao Hu, and after getting acquainted, the fat man also called Lao Hu. Little Snail Chinese Network

After receiving the alarm at that time, Lao Hu immediately rushed to Shuanghe Village with the fat man and another little criminal policeman.

Shuanghe Village is located at the corner of the Yellow River and one of its tributaries, which may be the origin of the village's name. Perhaps for the same reason, until the early 90s, many of the people in Shuanghe Village made a living from fishing, and I don't know if it was the last fishermen's village in China.

The family surnamed Meng at the time of the case occurred and a couple in their forties with a pair of sons, the eldest son was eighteen or nineteen, and he had also followed his parents to make a living by fishing.

It was a report received in the morning, and although after so many years, the fat man still felt that the whole thing was vivid.

As soon as they stepped into the courtyard, they immediately smelled a pungent fishy smell that made him feel his hair tingle. The ground was covered with bloodstains, and even on the walls, tables, and doors, there were traces of blood, and the fat man could barely bear it, and another young criminal policeman threw up on the spot.

Lao Hu's face also changed suddenly, gritted his teeth, and walked to the first corpse first.

This is a female corpse, almost the entire chest is covered with blood, most of the top and the whole pants are dyed red, the expression is hideous and terrifying, although the person is dead, but the blood-red eyes are wide, and the mouth is almost impossible to open to a normal human being.

Based on experience, Lao Hu judged that the deceased must have seen an extremely terrifying scene in the moment before he died, and it was surprise or excessive pain that caused the muscles on his face to deform and distort.

To put it bluntly, people are scared like this!

At this moment, the fear in the fat man's heart had reached its peak, he only felt that his legs were shaking so badly that he could barely walk, and he forcibly gritted his teeth before he could barely stand still.

The other three corpses were in similar condition, all covered in blood, and the expressions on their faces were extremely hideous.

How so?

The blood in each person's body is directly proportional to their weight, and Lao Hu judged from the blood stains around the deceased's body that the blood in the bodies of these four people should have all flowed.

Only the woman closest to the door was fully dressed, the man and the young man were wearing shorts, and the youngest son, who was seven or eight years old, was directly naked, and it was obvious that the four had slept before they died.

How do people die? Knife killing? Shot? In general, there is not so much blood.

Lao Hu dared to walk around the room and found dozens of strange footprints on the ground and on the windowsill and on the wall under the windowsill.

Why is it strange!

These footprints look like they were left by a child's bare feet, but if you look closely, you will find that there is a big difference between bloody footprints and human footprints, and the most different part is the toes.

The toes of these footprints are particularly long, and there is a thin layer of skin between the toes, which looks like the webbing of frogs.

Although Lao Hu has rich experience in criminal investigation, he is also confused at this time, what are the footprints of this thing, as a criminal policeman's intuition tells him that no matter what the footprints are, it must be related to this homicide.

After hesitating for a moment, Lao Hu walked to the first corpse again, picked up a chopstick from the ground, squatted down, and gently lifted the deceased's shirt.

In the next second, the fat man standing behind Lao Hu was almost scared to death, even now, twenty or thirty years later, when he said this, his face had changed suddenly.