There are three buildings in the crematorium.

Incinerators, morgues, and an auditorium for simple funerals. There were a few spare rooms in the hallway of the auditorium, and that was where Stammer had arranged for us. After that, he began to deal with the two rabbits. I didn't plan to go to bed right away, so I started chatting with him.

"This ...... This is the old crematorium, to ...... If you want to dismantle it or not, it's just, it's been left here for many years and no one cares. But, but it can also be refined...... However, no one came in the city, and the road was too far. So, so it has been scrapped. He gave a general account of the reasons for the abandonment of the crematorium, and then, as if remembering the purpose of our visit, he asked, "You, you two...... Going to Shunshan Village? ”

"Hmm......" But when I mentioned this Shunshan Village, I was suddenly curious about one thing, "Didn't you say that Shunshan Village is not far from here?" ”

"Yes, not far away. But, but in such a small village, people can't die every day...... However, even if there were dead people, they were never delivered. ”

The second half of the stammering sentence was a bit strange and inexplicably aroused my interest.

So I asked, "Where is it customary to bury in Shunshan Village?" ”

"Well, I don't know...... Anyway, I've been doing it for more than 20 years, and one, there hasn't been a single dead person sent by their village. ”

"That's it. I don't think there is a shop in front of the village or behind the village, so you have been staying at this crematorium? ”

"No, there's no way, nothing else, out, you can't live when you go out." Speaking of this, he stammered and sighed, pointing to his brain, "I, I know I'm not like you, I, I'm not good at it." ”

"What about Shunshan Village, why don't you go there. That place, can't survive? I continued to ask.

"Go, go...... But don't love to go. That place, that place looks pretty good. ”

Speaking of this, the stammering face suddenly changed slightly, as if he was recalling something. The expression was neither excited nor sad, as if he was recalling a memory that he could not understand.

"It looks good." I muttered something and asked, "Then why don't you love going?" ”

"It's just, I just don't think it's the same, that person...... The people are all very good. But it's just not quite the same. ”

He said the words "not quite the same" over and over again, probably trying to express what was unusual about Shunshan Village. But he has never been able to say what the "different" is.

This is the end of our conversation.

"Eat together for a while?" He carried the processed rabbit. But just kind words, it can be seen that this person cares a lot about the two rabbits in his hands.

"No, thank you." I shook my head, walked to the door, and turned my eyes to Du Youlan, who had been sitting on the side to rest, "Go out and take a walk?" ”

"Okay." She seemed to have thought that I would make this decision.

It's just that at this time, the stammerer suddenly put down the rabbit meat, "You, where are you going?" ”

He was a little nervous.

"It's around here. What, the money has already been given to you, and you are still afraid that we will run away? I said tentatively.

But as I expected, this guy didn't actually plan to hide anything from us, he immediately shook his head, his expression was a little tangled, and he said helplessly: "I, I'm afraid, I'm afraid that you will turn around and go to the morgue." ”

"What's so scary over there?" Du Youlan took over.

"I, I...... Hey, let me tell you straight, there's still a corpse in there, it's been put away for a long time, one, no one has been caring, I, I'm afraid of scaring you. But, don't get me wrong, then, that corpse has nothing to do with me. ”

That's the smell of corpses I'm looking for.

……

"Why is the body here?"

When I asked the question, I had already come to the morgue with Du Youlan and Stammer, and Stammering opened the door a little helplessly, and responded: "Before, two years ago, one day, in the morning, I didn't know who ...... It was sent by car, and then there were no people, no more. ”

"What car? Who? "Reed bamboo forest

"One, a broken minivan, people, people don't see clearly, in the summer, there are a lot of clothes."

The door opened, and several coffins were parked in the dark environment, one of which contained the corpse, which had become a dried corpse.

"This, this place is hot and rainy, and the light leaks during the day, and it is sunny, and after a long time, it will be dry." Stammering explained.

"Hmm......" I nodded, and then my eyes suddenly turned to stammering, "but why don't you cremate it?" ”

Stammered with a tangled expression, "Then, at that time, I, I was a little angry, I didn't give money, who, who worked for nothing?" I, I'm stubborn, I don't, I don't practice...... Anyway, I, I, I've seen dead people for half my life, I, I'm not afraid of this thing. ”

"Alright, you can go out for a while." I interrupted him.

He stammered and looked at me suspiciously, "You, you two stay?" ”

"Hmm."

"You, you two ......"

He stared at us for a long time, but he didn't ask any more questions, just nodded stiffly, and then walked out.

I took a look at the body, "There were multiple stab wounds on the body, but they were basically not fatal. Unfortunately, he was stabbed in the inner thigh and cut the femoral artery. He should have died of blood loss. If the stutter didn't lie to me, it probably had something to do with the man who sent it, right? Of course, maybe it can't be separated from this stammer. You see, how much he wanted to explain to me that he wasn't a pervert. ”

"What, you still want to solve the case?" Du Youlan smiled coldly.

"Nope. It's just casual talk, and not everything is managed. It's just this corpse, it's really something I need. ”

"Oh?" Du Youlan was a little curious, but she didn't seem to be so surprised by what she said.

I thought for a moment and continued to ask, "You knew how to make a corpse puppet before, right?" Can you do it with this thing? What are the restrictions and how long will it take? ”

"You're going to be a corpse puppet?" Du Youlan thought for a moment, and then directly reached out to touch the dry corpse, "It's okay to do it, not to mention, it's a good material." If the rest of the materials are sufficient, one night will be enough. ”

"What are the rest of the materials?"

"It's like this, and the corpse puppet should look better, right? I need flesh and blood. ”

"Human?"

"Nonsense."

"That's easy." I pulled out a dagger, "Cut mine." ”

"Aren't you afraid of residual insect venom?"

"That's a lot of fun."

"Okay."

……

At noon the next day, everything was ready, and the stammering would take Yao Qianwen and me to Shunshan Village.

It was only as he was leaving, that he found that the body was missing.

"You, you two, where did you get that corpse?" He asked.

"Don't talk nonsense, after reading it last night, we went back to sleep in our rooms, and we never left. You probably haven't slept all night, haven't you noticed, none of us have left. I responded.

He hadn't slept all night, not that I had paid attention, but the dark circles under his eyes had said it all.

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