Chapter 83: Internet Rumors

The TV set of the Municipal Patrol Bureau is broadcasting the news, which has made the female corpse incident in the Mid-Levels Reservoir public, and not many people originally knew about it, but now it is reported by the local TV station, and now many people are beginning to follow the trend and believe that the so-called water monster kills, plus some people on the Internet have exaggerated the matter, and the Mid-Levels Reservoir has become a new Internet celebrity check-in mecca.

"Special news reports that the body of a woman found at the Mid-Levels Reservoir last week has reappeared at the scene of the incident nearly four days after going missing, and is now following reporters to the scene to watch."

The TV set reported the incident at the Mid-Levels Reservoir, and also picked up the footage of the investigators from the Municipal Patrol Bureau entering the scene, and the whole picture of the Mid-Levels Reservoir and the scene of the crime were exposed.

The female corpse was wrapped in a white cloth in the TV camera, but before the investigators arrived, some unscrupulous self-media had already rushed to the scene of the crime and used their cameras and boards to send photos and videos to the female corpse that reappeared.

The camera of the TV station at least filtered out some bad speeches, such as the description of the so-called water monster, and the exclusive revelations were filtered out by the TV station to avoid creating rumors, which is the responsibility and obligation of the TV station as a mainstream media, as well as the minimum respect for the facts, but this is also the most sensational news in the past ten years in the Yanxia District.

And those unscrupulous self-media have made a great adaptation of the Mid-Levels Reservoir incident, photos of water monsters have appeared on the Internet, where did those photos come from, the so-called photos of water monsters have been publicly reported in these unscrupulous self-media articles, and the most excessive thing is to put the photos of the deceased Zhang Mengmeng's corpse on the Internet, only when people open these articles that have been fabricated into facts, you can see the writer's fanciful writing, as well as fictional parts, the photos are true and false.

The Mid-Levels Reservoir incident has caused a huge discussion on the Internet, and there are many local big V reprinted relevant articles, they are the biggest beneficiaries of this incident, they don't care about the authenticity of the article and respect for the dead, and the water monster incident created by Internet rumors is further spread, and some Internet promoters further coaxed, and immediately launched a relevant short story serial style, and set up paid reading, and all of a sudden, the major Internet forums in Yanxia District have become places where rumors are generated.

These processed articles and styles have also begun to affect the waterworks in Yanxia District, because the Mid-Levels Reservoir is also one of the water supply sources of the Waterworks, and Internet rumors also say that the water monsters will pass through the pipes of the waterworks, and then invade people's homes to take people's lives, many people who eat melons also called to ask the waterworks to close the Banshan Reservoir, and many people began to buy a large number of drinking water, resulting in all the drinks in the Yanxia District being out of stock, and the merchants had to transfer the supply from the surrounding towns, and the prices were too high.

This time it is a carnival of Internet rumors, but it is a big disaster in the hot summer area, the people who eat melons have become tools of unscrupulous self-media, and the fear of water monsters has been further spread, and some people have already purchased pumps, planning to pump out the water in the Mid-Levels Reservoir, catch and kill the water monster that killed the Internet celebrity Zhang Mengmeng.

The Municipal Patrol and Arrest Bureau, in conjunction with several departments, focused on severely punishing self-media and individuals who maliciously spread rumors on the Internet, and ordered them to immediately explain and apologize to the public, and registered and suspended business for rectification of merchants in the city who maliciously raised prices, so as to barely alleviate the side effects caused by online rumors.

Internet rumors have not only had a huge impact on the people and social stability, but also caused a lot of pressure and new problems to the investigators who investigated the case, and now all departments in Yanxia District have to increase their manpower to crack down on these self-media and individuals who create rumors, and also to appease the people's emotions.

I could have left the Patrol Bureau immediately, but because of this incident at the Mid-Levels Reservoir, Li Yang and Captain Zhang left me behind, and temporarily added a task, that is, to guard the morgue, guard Zhang Mengmeng's body, and prevent people from disturbing the peace of the deceased and creating new trouble, so I became the one who guarded the corpse.

I was partnered with a man named Uncle Cripple, who was a worker in the hospital morgue, who usually carried corpses back and forth between the hospital and the funeral home, and was a half-insider, who was good at carrying corpses, and he was already half a hundred years old, but he had no intention of retiring.

I heard other people say that when Uncle Cripple was young, he was a social person, eating, drinking, prostituting, gambling and smoking, not to mention losing all his family's money, and was kicked out of the house by his family.

Every time I work with him, he is always very anxious, eighty percent is in a hurry where to play cards, the lame uncle's right leg was broken, it is said that he was caught gambling money back then, and the other party broke his right leg when he was angry, so the lame uncle walked with a limp, but it did not affect him to carry the body, his upper body has strength, the lame uncle lives in a small single room in the hospital, and three meals a day are in the hospital.

When Uncle Cripple has no money, he will also go to the funeral industry to do a part-time job, chanting scriptures and reciting Buddha on other people's rituals, and acting as a person who supports the coffin, as long as Uncle Cripple can do something, he will do it, and the extra money he earns is his own wine and playing cards, and it is a chic and depraved life, and he doesn't know when he will die.

"Hurry up, young man, uncle, I'm going to play cards." Uncle Cripple talked to me on the phone, his tone was very anxious, it seems that tonight is his game with others, Uncle Cripple is on duty during the day shift, so he has a lot of programs at night.

I came out of the single room of the hospital, looked at the lame uncle with a resentful face, signed the handover book, and the lame uncle quickly disappeared in the corridor of the hospital, he is a person who does not know repentance, but I am also curious where the lame uncle got so much money, which can be used for him to eat, drink and gamble, I am also this kind of entertainment, but it is only once every two weeks, and this lame uncle goes almost every night.

I watched the passage and the door of the freezer closely, and I was not afraid of anything on duty at night, but I was afraid of encountering the corpses sent into the morgue, but fortunately nothing happened for the past two days.