2. Mirage

It's just that I found that number 456 is followed by number 458, and there is no number 457.

This once again made me fall into deep thought, but I didn't give up, I counted one by one and searched the whole cemetery, I don't know how much time I spent here, anyway, I only found this tombstone in a very inconspicuous place in the corner, but when I found it, the tombstone was fallen to the ground, and the surrounding numbers had nothing to do with this tombstone at all, I saw that some of the tombstones had even been dug up, but not completely.

What's going on?

I squatted down and tried to plane with my hands, and soon I felt a hard object, which seemed to look like an urn, but soon I felt that it was wrong, because this cemetery was formed very early, and there was already a custom of cremating corpses at that time?

So I tried to cut this thing apart, and it turned out to be a stone slab that was not thick, and underneath the slab, it looked like a coffin.

Sure enough, as I expected, the tombstones here are relatively loosely arranged, not like the urn is compactly arranged, so there must be a coffin buried underneath, and after realizing this, I found a shovel that was already a little broken, and dug up this purpose little by little. In the process of excavation, I have been thinking about a question, so many hints and foreshadowing, let me find this cemetery in this time, so what is the information to tell me in the coffin under this tombstone, or who is the body in the coffin?

When I thought of this, I looked at the tombstone again, only to see that there was only one name written on it - Ding Zheng.

Ding Zheng? A name that I had never heard of at all, and even this name did not stir up the slightest splash in my memory, that is, it was a stranger who did not know him at all. At this time, I already had some bad premonitions in my heart, and this bad premonition came from the intuition of constantly tracking the clues of the case.

When I dug out the coffin completely, I lifted the stone slab covering it, but found that the coffin did not have a coffin lid, this stone slab was the coffin lid, and the scene in the coffin was indeed a little terrible, I saw that there was indeed a person lying inside, but then I realized a problem, after the coffin was lifted, there was no smell of rotting corpses.

Sensing something unusual, I approached the corpse and realized that it wasn't really a corpse, but just a corpse, or a dummy at all. But what shocked me was that the dummy's face was a mask, and although it had become dull from being buried in the ground for a long time, it was still recognizable as a silvery mask, exactly like what I saw on Mr. Silver's face.

This clue is not trivial, because Mr. Yin has been shuttling through the whole case, and his intuition tells me that he is not the murderer, so who he is is a very important question, and now I have found the body of such a dummy in the coffin under this 457 tombstone, does this mean that Mr. Silver is Ding Zheng, and Ding Zheng is Mr. Yin?

I reached out to try to remove the mask, but when my hand touched the mask, I hesitated and stopped, and then I reached for its body, and I realized that it was a rag doll.

At this moment, I just felt as if I had been struck by lightning, because this feeling and scene were so familiar, so familiar that they have always been deeply engraved in my mind.

My mother, who was my adoptive mother, He Zhuo's wife, used to sew a cloth figure at night, a cloth figure exactly the same size as a normal person, and when I was a child, I didn't understand and asked her why she sewed this cloth figure every night, and I remember when she replied to me, "One day, when you see it again, you will understand." ”

When I was a child, I didn't understand this sentence, and I didn't want to understand it, and my childhood mentality quickly forgot about things I didn't understand, and I didn't pursue it anymore.

But I never imagined that I would see this cloth man again in such a situation.

It was only at this time that I reached out and lifted the silver mask from the cloth man's face, and the answer I wanted was under this mask. When I actually saw the face under the mask, I was both surprised and expected, and at the same time, the two faces completely overlapped, as if the cloth man and the black stone man in the stone house were exactly the same person.

On the face of this cloth man, it is exactly the same symbol as the black stone man, and even the two humanoid things are exactly the same, I can't tell if my mother made this cloth man because she saw the black stone, or she made this cloth man first, so that she got this black stone man in the stone house, everything looks so weird and mysterious, so weird that all my cognition seems to have been subverted.

Then, I found a kraft paper envelope in the cloth man's hand, I picked up the envelope was complete, and there was something inside, I hesitated for a moment, and soon opened the kraft paper bag, I felt that it seemed to be a letter-like thing, and after tearing it up, it was also a piece of oil paper, and what was written, but because I couldn't see clearly at night, I came to my eyes to try to identify, just when I put the oil paper in front of me, I suddenly felt that something was wrong behind me, Because an invisible feeling of oppression suddenly appeared in that moment, I instinctively turned around, and saw a man standing behind me, and I didn't even see who he was, and I felt a blow to the neck, and I had no memory of what happened next.

When I opened my eyes again, there was the light above my head that was constantly shaking, the noise around me, and Wang Zhexuan's questions over and over again, and my whole mind was blank, and only one thought was clearly presented in my mind - No. 415 Haiquan Cemetery, Ding Zheng's tomb was empty.

As if this was a crucial clue, I had to tell Wang Zhexuan that he had to find this place, and he couldn't wait.

For a long time after that, I was in a state of confusion, the noise around me disappeared, and I only remember the sound of the instrument "Dididi" ringing in my ears intermittently, which is also the only memory I have during this time.

When I was a little sober, I found myself lying in the hospital room, and at the same time, a tearing pain came from all parts of my body, and the slightest movement made my heart ache.

The first person I met was also Wang Zhexuan.

I had no idea what I was in, so I asked him, "What's wrong with me?" ”

Wang Zhexuan said: "He Yang, you are injured. ”

I didn't know where it hurt, I just felt the pain and I asked, "Where did I hurt?" ”

Wang Zhexuan said: "It's all some trauma, it doesn't matter, the doctor has already dealt with it for you." ”

I asked Wang Zhexuan again, "What kind of place is this?" ”

Wang Zhexuan asked me, "Then where do you think this is?" ”

I shook my head, but I still said, "This is a mountain city." ”

Wang Zhexuan shook his head and said, "Now you are in Haishi." ”

I was stunned for a moment: "Haishi? ”

I remember that I had gone to Shanshi, but why was I in Haishi now, and Haishi was where I grew up, and I lived here until I went to college, so I asked, "Where is Haiquan Cemetery?" ”

Wang Zhexuan said: "It is the first time I have heard the name Haiquan Cemetery, but after investigation, this is a cemetery that has been abandoned 20 years ago, but it has not been renovated. ”

When I heard Wang Zhexuan say this, although I had a lot of questions in my heart, I didn't ask them, I just asked him: "Have you checked the tomb of Ding Zheng in Cemetery No. 415?" ”

Wang Zhexuan comforted me and said, "Team Nie has already brought someone to investigate, you don't have to worry." ”

I said, "Team Nie is here too?" ”

Wang Zhexuan looked at me with a strange expression, and he said, "He Yang, how much do you remember from before?" ”

I didn't have the strength to ask him, "What happened before?" ”

Wang Zhexuan said: "It's just a few days before you were injured. ”

I thought about it, then shook my head, and I said, "I only remember that I found Ding Zheng's grave, but his coffin was empty, and then I ......"

I paused when I said this, and I didn't seem to see who the person who attacked me behind my back was, but at the moment when I was about to say something, I seemed to vaguely see this person's face.