"If the nightmare doesn't wake up, then the dream is reality."

This is a sentence in my head at the moment lying in bed. I can't remember who said this, or where I saw it. But I think it describes what I went through last night.

Last night, I slept at home, the same bed I'm lying on now.

But I had a nightmare.

There was a case in the dream, a murder, and there were many dead. The scene of the crime was a western-style building, and I searched for the body in the western-style building, and the picture in the dream was dark and dark, and the atmosphere was weird, and I felt a sense of suffocation in it.

I remember in my dream, I heard a faint cry for help, and then, following the cry for help, I found a black door at the end of the corridor, and when I opened it, there was a torture cell, which was full of corpses that had been tortured to the point of bloody flesh, and then the corpses came alive and dying and begged me for help......

"What are you muttering about?" Mina rolled over and put a hand on my chest.

She's my girlfriend and fiancée.

"I had a nightmare yesterday."

"What about the content?"

"It's related to the case, you're not interested."

Mina turned to the other side and said lazily: "It's all on vacation, and I'm still full of cases." ”

"It's just a dream."

Yes, just a dream.

I haven't had a case lately, and happily, I'm on vacation.

However, God just likes to joke, and ten minutes after my idea came to me, I received a call from my boss that there was a major case on the outskirts of the city, and my vacation was temporarily canceled, and now I will go to the scene immediately.

My name is Zuo Le, I am 30 years old, I am a police officer by profession, and I am currently serving as the deputy team of the Criminal Investigation Team of the Third Area of Responsibility under the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Bincheng Nanchuan Branch. It has been eight years since I joined the criminal investigation team. I was also a teenager who loved reasoning, which is why I chose the police academy.

And my passion for reasoning vanished with the first sight of the victim's cold body.

It was then that I understood that reasoning was not interesting, like a murder, not our guessing game.

So, I'm in a bad mood at the moment, and the sudden termination of my year-old vacation must be a major case.

When I went downstairs, Team Chen's car was already waiting there.

"Pick me up in person? It's too face-giving. "I walked over to the window that was lowered.

Chen Sen took off his sunglasses, "It's my idea to cut off your vacation, I don't want you to complain to me about those little rabbits." ”

I opened the door and got into the car: "I don't care, it's just my girlfriend's side, I guess it will be a few more days, she doesn't like our business." ”

Chen Sen pinched the steering wheel with one hand and turned his head to look at me: "Speaking of girlfriends, the two of us have been working together for eight years, right?" You're getting married, I haven't seen what your girlfriend looks like, it's a bit raw, right? ”

"When the case is over, call her and invite you to dinner."

"Done!"

"Let's talk about the case."

Chen Sen briefly introduced what is known so far,

On May 30, 2019, at 9:30 a.m., a report was received from a villager in Tucun on the outskirts of the city, saying that his children were playing in an old western-style building near Tucun when the victim's body was found.

There were thirteen corpses, ten men and three women.

According to the extent of the body's decomposition, the time of death was about a month ago. The body was cut open in the abdomen and had no internal organs, and has been sent for an autopsy pending specific death information from the medical examiner. Thirteen corpses, judging purely from their clothing, have a huge difference in identity levels, and a watch on the wrist of corpse A may be the salary of corpse F for a year.

It's hard to imagine how these thirteen people would be related during their lifetimes.

As for the western-style building, I heard from the villagers that this western-style building has been abandoned for at least 20 years, and it is impossible to find out who built it and who it belongs to now. So, why did these thirteen people, the seemingly unrelated thirteen, get here?

Is the western-style building the first crime scene?

"What do you think?" Chen Sen reminded me.

I did get distracted, when Chen Sen first said about the western-style building.

It can't be such a coincidence, right?

My dream has become a prophecy?

"It's hard to say, let's go to the scene first." I shook my head.

Chen Sen, who has been my partner for eight years, knows me very well, slowed down the car, turned his head and stared at me for a full three seconds, "Why do you think, something is wrong with you today?" ”

"I had nightmares last night, insomnia."

With that, I leaned my head on the saddle and began to pretend to sleep.

At that time, I thought that maybe everything was just a coincidence, but when I really arrived at the western-style building where the crime occurred, my heart twitched a few times!

It's almost the same as the western-style building in my dream.

Perhaps, the difference is that, in reality, it is more shabby.

And the western-style building in the dream is brand new.

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Sen walked up to me and placed a hand on my shoulder.

But it scared me.

"It's okay...... Look at the scene. ”

Entering the western-style building, it was dilapidated, the ground was thick with dust, and there were some messy footprints, the location of the corpses had been marked, and the bodies of the thirteen people had gathered in the hall on the first floor of the western-style building. I have simply compared the footprints around here and the shoe size of the deceased before, and I can basically find the correspondence, and there are no traces of any fight, so after they arrived here, they suddenly died?

Of course, it is not ruled out that this is just a corpse dumping site, and the footprints were forged by the murderer.

But I always felt that if the murderer really did that, it would be a bit redundant.

In addition to the facts of the case, in fact, I am more concerned about this western-style building, what is the interior of the western-style building, the picture in the dream, has been a little blurry, but there is always a voice telling me that it is the picture I see in front of me, it gives me a sense of familiarity.

It makes me uneasy.

And what is even more coincidental is that the corridor that I remember deeply in my dream is also in front of me. I was standing on the side of the hallway, with an open window behind me, through which the children had climbed into the bungalow and found their bodies.

"What do you think, I don't think it's a crime scene, throwing corpses, and then faking the scene." Chen Sen came to my side: "Why are you still preoccupied?" What the hell is wrong with you? ”

"I'm thinking about the case." I said casually, turned around, and looked out the window.

"Really? Listen to what you mean, what have you discovered, tell me? ”

I did have a discovery.

My hand reached out the window: "It's been very hot lately, you see, flying insects outside." ”

There are a lot of flying insects, in the grass not far away.

"What kind of discovery is this?"

"A corpse that has been dead for a month must have attracted a lot of flies, right? Even if it had been transferred a few hours ago, it wouldn't have been like it is now. ”

This western-style building is bleak and gloomy, and there is not even a fly.

Knock knock!

Suddenly, there was a knocking sound in my ears, and the moment this sound appeared, my scalp suddenly tingled, and I heard that sound, it was the knocking sound behind the iron door in my dream last night, and it was because of this sound that I went to that door.

And now, I'm ......

I turned my head, and the direction of the sound happened to be at the dark and narrow end of this hallway.