Victor Hugo once said: "The sewer is the conscience of a city, and all the vile and ugly things in a civilized society are thrown into the sewer as soon as they are no longer needed." ”

It is true that the sewer level reflects the conscience of a city, while the basement often reflects the conscience of a person and a family, and the sewers of the city, everything that we don't need will be thrown into the garbage heap and the basement, accumulating over time, leaving it dusty all over and not seeing the light of day, until one day, suddenly turning it out and basking in the sun, just like our hearts.

Du Ziqiao came to a room next door, which should have been a bedroom before, but, compared to the bedroom that Du Ziqiao saw before, this bedroom was even more tidy, and it was very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

Of course, Du Ziqiao's attention was not on the layout of the bedroom, but on a place next to the bed in a basement that had been opened.

The curtains of the room had already been opened by the police officers who had come to investigate, allowing the sunlight from the outside to shine in, and with the sunlight entering, the originally somewhat damp and gloomy room became much brighter, but after the floor of the basement was opened, the black hole was revealed, which once again made the room gloomy and terrifying.

A damp, musty, poorly ventilated, or rotting smell of something permeated the room, which didn't seem very large.

Everyone present is a veteran policeman who has been in and out of many scenes, they have long been accustomed to this unpleasant smell, if they do not smell this smell at a crime scene, they will be a little uncomfortable, maybe this is the so-called occupational disease, and this smell of decay, Du Ziqiao They are very familiar with it, it is the smell of rotting corpses, so, is it a human corpse, or the corpses of some cats and mice?

Looking at the dark hole in front of him, no one knows.

Fan Yang came with Du Ziqiao, she saw that everyone was stunned on the spot, and she had no intention of going down, she put down the toolbox in her hand, put on her gloves, and said, "Flashlight." ”

A policeman subconsciously handed a miniature flashlight in his hand to Fan Yang, and after Fan Yang took it, he walked towards the hole in the basement, and she was going to go down first to see the situation inside.

After Du Ziqiao saw Fan Yang's movements, he also came back to his senses, he walked a few steps quickly, grabbed Fan Yang who was about to go down, took the flashlight from her hand, and then took the flashlight and walked down the stairs at the entrance of the cave.

Just kidding, there are so many big men at the scene, how could Du Ziqiao let a woman in Fan Yang take the risk first, isn't this a slap in the face of all male policemen?

After Du Ziqiao went down first, the other male policemen also reacted, and walked to the hole in the basement one after another and walked down the stairs.

The stairs in the basement are not long, only seven or eight steps, Du Ziqiao only walked a few steps, and came to a corner, after passing the corner, he saw the whole picture of the basement.

The basement is not big, but, because there is no sunlight underground, there is no sunlight for a long time, and it is extremely humid and cold inside, after Du Ziqiao and the others walked down, they suddenly felt that the temperature around them dropped by several degrees, and the skin of the body had goosebumps.

Du Ziqiao shook the flashlight in his hand and shone it around, and under the illumination of the flashlight, the basement, which was not very big, gradually appeared in everyone's field of vision.

This basement, unlike other basements, is full of messy debris, this basement is very empty, in the middle of the basement, there is a boxy thing covered by a black cloth, I don't know what it is, and there is a rag hanging on one wall, with green hair on it, and it is pitted, because the hole in the basement is mouthed, and with Du Ziqiao and their movements, they take away the air flow here, and the rag also begins to sway left and right in the air.

Du Ziqiao took the flashlight and looked around, he didn't find any danger, and he didn't find anything abnormal, he put down his right hand on his waist, walked to the middle of the basement, and circled around the boxy thing.

The black cloth was covered with dust, and there were many dried water stains on it, it looked like a rag, and it looked like no one had been here for a long time, and the smell of rot was getting stronger here.

"What's in there? Is it a corpse? ”

This question came to everyone's mind.

"Whoa."

After Du Ziqiao circled around the square object, he suddenly ripped off the black cloth, and then, the thing under the black cloth revealed his true face.

It was a square glass cabinet, the cabinet was filled with a green liquid, and in the liquid, a corpse was quietly soaked in it, the corpse had no flesh on it, only a miserable white skeleton, and the hollow, bare head, just naked-naked in everyone's field of vision.

"Ah.......h

As Du Ziqiao opened the black and the glass cabinet appeared in everyone's field of vision, everyone was startled by the police who went down to the basement, especially the flashlight in Du Ziqiao's hand shining on the glass cabinet, and when the light passed through the glass and shone out from the gap in the corpse, someone couldn't help but exclaim, and their faces became pale.

For these reactions, it is normal, after all, such a strange cabinet was found in a basement, and there was a corpse soaked in the cabinet without any flesh and skin, if there was no normal reaction at all, it would be abnormal.

When Du Ziqiao saw the corpse in the glass jar, he was also startled, and his face changed sharply a few times, but soon his expression returned to normal, he threw away the black cloth in his hand, and approached the glass cabinet to carefully check the situation inside.

As Du Ziqiao approached, he found that at the bottom of the glass jar, a lot of cotton wool-like things had been precipitated, and it was a black mass, and he didn't know what it was.

Fan Yang also followed, she walked to Du Ziqiao's side, and also looked at the situation in the glass jar together, after looking at it for a while, her face changed, and she said uncertainly: "This shouldn't be the flesh and skin of the deceased, right?" ”

As soon as Fan Yang's words came out, the faces of most of the people present changed, and so did Du Ziqiao, he looked at the glass jar, turned his head to look at Fan Yang's side face, and asked, "Are you sure?" ”

However, Fan Yang shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, but according to my investigation experience, this should be the product of the deceased's skin and flesh tissue soaked in the liquid for a long time. ”

When Du Ziqiao heard Fan Yang say this, he frowned, obviously not very satisfied with Fan Yang's results, but he also knew that before opening the glass case, no one knew what the cotton wool inside was.

Thinking of this, Du Ziqiao straightened up and said to a policeman, "Go and notify the forensic doctor." ”

After hearing Du Ziqiao's words, the policeman hurriedly walked towards the hole in the basement, his steps were hurried, a bit like an escape posture, indeed, this scene was very terrifying.

Just as Du Ziqiao stood up and asked someone to call a forensic doctor, while Fan Yang squatted next to the glass jar to check the contents of it, there was another exclamation in the basement.

"Ah....... -groove, what is this thing? It's not pigskin, is it? ”

A policeman approached the rag, which was still swaying in the air, and he stared at it for a few moments, then let out an exclamation.

Du Ziqiao and the others hurriedly turned their heads, the light of the flashlight shone on the 'rag' covered with green hair, Du Ziqiao frowned, walked a few steps quickly to the front of the 'rag', looked closely, and then, his face became very ugly.

The policeman was right, this is indeed animal skin, but not pig skin, but human skin, however, because of the long time of peeling, coupled with the lack of air circulation here, it is a closed environment, causing the moisture of human skin to gradually pass away, curled up, and it looks like a rag from a distance, but after getting closer, you can see that this is not a rag, but human skin, a man's human skin.

"It's human skin."

Du Ziqiao looked at the human skin in front of him and said this sentence almost from between his teeth.

When everyone present heard this, their faces suddenly changed greatly, and several policemen with poor psychological quality began to retch on the spot, especially the policeman who was the first to find human skin, directly covered his mouth, ran a few steps, came to the corner, and vomited wildly.

In an instant, there was a smell of sour rot in the basement of this already smelly bad, and those policemen who had just felt a churn in their stomachs and resisted not to vomit began to cover their mouths and come to the corner and start vomiting under the stinging of this smell.

As the number of vomiting people increased, the smell of the basement became more and more unpleasant, Du Ziqiao and Fan Yang also felt a churning in their stomachs, but they did not vomit on the spot, Du Ziqiao frowned, looking at the people who were squatting in the corner and vomiting, his face became more and more ugly, and he just wanted to reprimand them, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw the green-haired human skin still swaying in the air, and he swallowed the words back to his mouth.

Fan Yang looked at the human skin for a while, the sound of retching in her ears, and the pungent smell of rancidity, made Fan Yang's brows wrinkle into a Sichuan shape, she turned her head and said to Du Ziqiao: "Let them go out, if they continue like this, the scene will be ruined." ”

Du Ziqiao nodded, he knew that what Fan Yang said was right, so he asked the people who were still here to go out and conduct a search outside.

After hearing Du Ziqiao say this, these people rushed towards the hole in the basement as if they had been granted amnesty, and soon, they disappeared here.

After these people left, Du Ziqiao took a flashlight to shine around in the basement, the basement was not big, and it was finished quickly, just when Du Ziqiao was just about to transfer the flashlight back to the green-haired human skin, he suddenly saw a black cabinet placed in a dark corner of the basement, because everyone's attention was on the glass jar and the green-haired human skin at that time, so no one noticed this cabinet.

Du Ziqiao took a flashlight, walked to the front of the cabinet, and found that there was no other thing placed on this cabinet, but a lot of spiritual positions were placed, and the top was Zhang Kaifeng's spiritual position, and Zhang Kaifeng's name was not written with a white pen, but with a red pen.

There are almost a dozen spirit cards placed on the cabinet, of which six spirit cards have no name, only a few numbers, 38,96,77,305,709,815, except for these few spirit cards that have no name, only code name, other spirit cards have names, and these names, Du Ziqiao has never heard of before, but when he saw the bottom spirit card, he found that this spirit card was a little weird.

The other spirit cards are all carved from wood, and this spirit card has a crack from above, extending to the base, however, the spirit card is not completely cracked, and the spirit card is stained with filth, I don't know if it is dust or something, and the handwriting on the spirit card is also covered by these filth, and the name is not clear, Du Ziqiao picked up the spirit card, stretched out his hand to wipe off the dried filth on it, revealing the handwriting, Du Ziqiao identified it, and saw a name, Song Yuyuan.

When he saw this name, Du Ziqiao was stunned at first, feeling that this name was familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere, he took the spirit card and fell into deep thought.

After thinking about it, Du Ziqiao remembered where he had heard this name, Song Yuyuan is the deputy director of the Chengxi Public Security Bureau, nine years ago, he suddenly left his post and disappeared for a long time, at that time, the people of the Chengxi Public Security Bureau thought that Song Yuyuan was killed, and they also organized a lot of people to search, however, there was no result, and about a month after Song Yuyuan disappeared, the director of the Chengxi Public Security Bureau received a letter of resignation, which was written by Song Yuyuan.

Song Yuyuan wrote in the letter that she felt that she was not capable enough to be a police officer, and decided to resign, hoping that the leadership would approve it.

The letter was very short, and it was also the last thing Song Yuyuan left, after that, Song Yuyuan never appeared in everyone's field of vision again, the people of the Chengxi Public Security Bureau didn't know where he went, why he suddenly resigned, and his family didn't know where Song Yuyuan went, he seemed to have evaporated from the world, and completely disappeared from everyone's field of vision.

At that time, some people speculated that Song Yuyuan was retaliated against and killed, but long after Song Yuyuan's disappearance, his body was not found, and some people speculated that Song Yuyuan encountered some problems, and he couldn't solve this problem himself, so he chose to escape, and some people believed that Song Yuyuan was suspected of taking advantage of his position to embezzle and accept bribes when he was the deputy director, which attracted the attention of the relevant departments, and he got the news, so he chose to resign, and some people thought that Song Yuyuan went to the sea to do business, and so on There are many speculations, and what is the truth, even in the past, there is still no way to know, Song Yuyuan is alive and dead, and there is no corpse.

Because Song Yuyuan submitted a letter of resignation after his disappearance, coupled with his continuous absenteeism, in the end, he had to erase his position as deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, and because he was not found to be killed, and his body was not seen, so the matter was over, and his family also organized relatives to search for Song Yuyuan after his disappearance, but found nothing, and in the end, they also chose to give up.

Du Ziqiao also came to S City when he overheard Xu Lang talk about it, at that time, he and Xu Lang were eating and drinking, and they also discussed the matter, but there was no result, and in the end he didn't pay attention to it anymore, and Du Ziqiao didn't expect that he would see Song Yuyuan's spirit card here.

Looking at this broken spirit card, he raised his head and looked at the other spirit cards on the wooden shelf, the owners of these spirit cards, they are all dead, Zhang Kaifeng and the six people who only have numbers and no names are indeed dead, this can be confirmed in the diary, and the other people, although Du Ziqiao does not know, but should also be dead, then, these people are dead, is it possible for Song Yuyuan to still be alive? Du Ziqiao felt impossible.

Thinking of this, Du Ziqiao seemed to think of something, he turned his head sharply, looked at the glass jar in the middle of the basement, the cold beam of the flashlight shone on the corpse in the glass jar, and he had a very bold guess in his heart, and it should sound very terrifying.

The owner of this corpse soaked in an unknown liquid could not be the Song Yuyuan who has been missing for nine years, and has not seen anyone alive or dead.

The reason for this speculation is that Song Yuyuan's spirit card appeared in the basement at a distance, which was originally very abnormal.

Second, Song Yuyuan's spirit card cracked, and the cracks that cracked were not naturally cracked at a glance, but artificially caused.

Third, there is a lot of filth on the spirit card, Du Ziqiao picked up the spirit card and put it under his nose and smelled it, a faint smell of feces and urine faintly entered Du Ziqiao's nasal cavity, it seems that the other party should have soaked this spirit card in feces and urine, and the time must not be short, otherwise, after so long, there is still this smell on the spirit card.

Fourth, this corpse should have been here for a long time, and if it were not for the monstrous hatred, the murderer would not have abused and humiliated this corpse in such a way.

Thinking of this, Du Ziqiao looked at the green-haired human skin again, he now began to suspect that this human skin should be the corpse's own, if this is really the case, then it is very important to find out the identity of this corpse.

Du Ziqiao hopes that this corpse is not Song Yuyuan's, after all, he used to be a policeman, and Du Ziqiao is also a policeman, seeing the corpse of his peers being so ruined, Du Ziqiao not only felt a burst of sadness, but also angry, as for whether the truth is the same as Du Ziqiao guessed, it still needs a forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy to know the result.