At more than ten o'clock in the morning, Xia Houdun walked out of the exit of Yecheng Railway Station, carrying a handbag and a coat in one hand, and taking out his mobile phone with the other hand to look at the time and information push, and then carefully looking for it in the crowded hall.

"Team leader! What about this! Suddenly, a familiar voice drew Xiahoudun's gaze.

A burly man appeared in Xia Houdun's sight: the man was about 1.8 meters tall, and his physique was very strong, not to mention that the shirt and dark suit on his body could be supported by him, and even the black jacket on the outside did not look loose on him; He looks delicate, he looks like he is about twenty-five years old, his facial features are upright, his beard is clean, his short and medium hair looks neat, handsome and handsome. This person is the stationmaster of Yecheng Station under the Yuanrang Group - Li Dian.

"Li Dian!" Xiahoudun waved his hand in response to Li Dian and walked towards Li Dian quickly.

"Team leader, long time no see!" Li Dian greeted each other, and subconsciously reached out to take the things in Xiahou Dian's hand.

"yes, the last time we saw me was the annual meeting." Xiahoudun smiled, waved his hand to signal that he could take the things himself, and then looked at the two people standing next to Li Dian and asked, "Who are these two?" ”

"Oh," Li Dian hurriedly introduced when he saw this, he first pointed to a strong man in his thirties wearing a jacket, "This is the captain of the Yecheng Criminal Investigation Team - Zhao Peng." Then he pointed to a man about forty years old next to him who wore glasses and an open cotton jacket that could vaguely reveal the police uniform inside and said, "This is the forensic doctor of the Yecheng Criminal Investigation Team - Guo Yaojie." ”

"Forensic Doctor Guo and Captain Zhao, good two." Xiahoudun shook hands with them one by one.

"It's hard, Team Leader Xiahou." Zhao Peng shook hands with Xiahoudun and led Xiahoudun in the direction of the parking lot, "Let you run so far away." ”

"It's all about duty." Xiahoudun responded with a smile and walked with them.

The car drove to the door of the Yecheng Criminal Investigation Team, and Xiahoudun and his entourage got out of the car.

Xiahoudun stood at the door, his brows furrowed tightly, and suddenly turned around and asked Guo Yaojie behind him: "Forensic doctor Guo, according to what you just said, the deceased still communicated with people within 18 hours, right?" ”

"Yes," Guo Yaojie nodded, gently lifted his glasses, and said seriously, "Whether it is the eyewitness statement or the nearby surveillance video, it is confirmed that the deceased communicated with people within 18 hours before his death." ”

"I mean, spoken?" Xiahoudun added.

"Spoken." Guo Yaojie said firmly.

"That's what gives me a headache." Li Dian listened and said on the side, "It's such a person who only had language contact with people 18 hours ago, but the forensic examination results showed that the time of death was three days ago. ”

Xiahoudun frowned, sighed softly, and said, "Could it be that someone did something to do it?" ”

"No," Guo Yaojie shook his head and explained, "First, the cause of death of the deceased was myocardial infarction, coupled with our visits to his neighbors, the possibility of homicide was basically ruled out; Second, the deceased fell ill while shopping for groceries, and someone immediately called the police, and no one had the possibility of tampering. ”

"Hmm......" Xiahoudun nodded, muttering in his mouth, "Since you have spoken, it is different from the principle of things like walking corpses." ”

Zhao Peng also spoke on the side: "This is also the reason why we invited Team Leader Xiahou to come." ”

Xiahoudun reasoned about these possibilities in his heart, and didn't say much, just nodded lightly at Zhao Peng.

"I have read the file of Bo Fu before, but there have been similar cases," Li Dian saw that Xiahoudun did not speak, so he interjected, "It seems that there is a young man who lives alone, and he used his mobile phone to order takeout the day before, and the takeaway brother said that he didn't find anything abnormal when he delivered the food, but the next day his family called the police and said that he couldn't be contacted for a few days, and the police came to see that the body had been heavily decomposed, and the time of death should be three to five days." Do you think there is any connection between the two cases? ”

"No, it won't." Xiahoudun replied to Li Dian without too much hesitation, but he hurriedly continued, he took two steps towards the office building of the criminal investigation team, looked up and thought for a while, and then continued, "I have also heard of the case you mentioned, but it was because the deceased was too autistic before his death, so a special symptom caused by long-term maintenance of fixed and separate activities every day is called 'perceptual detachment failure'. In other words, his corpse dog cannot be dispersed in his body and he is forced to do his habitual movements until his body is too corrupt to bear, but in fact his consciousness is no longer there. But in this case, the deceased had communicated with people before her death, which means that her Fu Ya is at least still there, which is not just a matter of soul function. ”

Zhao Peng and Guo Yaojie were confused by Xiahoudun's words, and the two had to move their eyes to Li Dian who nodded slightly on the side without saying a word.

"So that's the case," Li Dian looked at Xiahoudun and frowned, "That's even more strange, since Fu Ya is still here, how did this person die?" ”

"The only way to look at the corpse is first." Xiahoudun turned his head to look at Zhao Peng and Guo Yaojie, and then stepped forward and patted Li Dian on the shoulder, "Let's go." ”

The group went to the dissection room under the leadership of Forensic Doctor Guo.

"This is the deceased in this case," Guo Yaojie began to introduce as soon as he entered the autopsy room, "the name is 'Tan Xiaohua', female, local, and the age is 58 years old according to the ID card." ”

Looking at the corpse on the dissecting table, Xiahoudun was stunned for a while, and thought silently for a moment before turning around and asking Guo Yaojie beside him, "Forensic Doctor Guo, did you say that the time of death of the corpse was 72 hours ago?" ”

"Yes," Guo Yaojie replied, "combined with the outdoor temperature of the season, it is easy to deduce the time of death from the decay on the corpse and the state of the pupils." ”

"That's the case......" Xiahoudun nodded slightly, thought thoughtfully for a while, turned his head and asked Li Dian again: "Did you bring the speculum?" ”

"Oh, bring it." Li Dian hurriedly took out a long box from the inside pocket of his coat, took out an electronic thermometer-like thing from it, and handed it to Xiahoudun.

Xiahoudun took the speculum, squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the information on the small monitor above, and then pressed the button on the side of the instrument twice, then put the probe on the instrument on the deceased's seal hall and began to test it.

After a while, Xiahoudun picked up the speculum, pressed the button a few times, read the data on it carefully, and then took the speculum back into the box and handed it back to Li Dian.

"Do you see what's wrong?" Li Dian took the box and asked.

Xiahou frowned, first turned his head to look at Guo Yaojie and Zhao Peng, then shook his head slightly, and replied: "The three souls are separated, it seems that they have indeed been dead for more than 72 hours. Curiously, the corpse dog of the deceased and the Fuya, although faint, are still clearly visible. ”

Hearing this, Guo Yaojie, who was standing on the side, looked at Zhao Peng suspiciously, then moved his eyes to Li Dian and asked, "What does this Xiahou team leader mean?" ”

"That's right," Li Dian coughed lightly, cleared his throat, and explained, "When a person dies, the soul usually does not disperse all at once, but leaves the body in an orderly manner. Generally speaking, the two spirits of the supervisor's consciousness and the corpse dog of the supervisor's consciousness will be the first to dissipate along with the soul of the supervisor's consciousness. But now something strange has happened, the rest of the dead man's soul is gone, but only the corpse dog is still there, which is far from the so-called walking corpse, but more like ......"

"Devil?" Guo Yaojie is very smart and has a wide range of knowledge, and he can guess a rough idea from Li Dian's brief explanation alone.

"That's right." Li Dian was not surprised by Guo Yaojie's words, he nodded, and looked at Xiahoudun silently, as if waiting for Xiahoudun to take the words.

"But at present, the 'ghost' is no longer true." Xiahoudun lowered his head, was silent for a moment, and continued, "However, it is still possible to analyze the cause of this phenomenon from the obsession of the deceased, because although it is not a powerful ghost, the cause of the remnants of Fu Ya and the corpse dog must be caused by some kind of obsession, and this must not be a problem. ”

When Zhao Peng heard this, he immediately responded: "Then I will immediately send someone to investigate." ”

"Don't worry, Captain Zhao." Xiahoudun stopped Zhao Peng, who was walking out of the door, "There must be a direction for Cha." ”

Zhao Peng stopped, nodded, and returned to his original position.

Xiahoudun leaned on the table beside him, put his hands in his pockets, and began to reason: After a person dies, the three souls and seven spirits leave the body in order, which is a natural law, and if this law is violated, it must be affected by some kind of obsession, which cannot be denied. Generally speaking, extreme resentment leads to one of the main obsessions of the dispersion disorder of the soul, but in that case, the deceased must have extremely negative emotions during his lifetime. Negative emotions will also drive the rest of the souls to not leave freely, thus forming a spirit that retains a certain appearance and characteristics of the deceased before his death, those with resentment value will become powerful ghosts, and those without resentment or low resentment value will become ghosts. However, in the current situation, it is clear that the deceased in front of him does not fit these assumptions. So, what is the obsession of the deceased that causes the soul disorder? Xiahoudun raised his head slightly, looked at the corpse lying on the dissecting table, and said, "Could it be because of love?" ”

"Love?" Li Dian was a little confused by Xiahoudun's sudden statement.

"Captain Zhao," Xiahoudun ignored Li Dian and asked Zhao Peng instead, "In the process of investigating, did you find anyone who the deceased cared about in particular?" ”

Zhao Peng was stunned for a moment, took a deep breath, and then replied: "According to the current investigation, the deceased's parents died in her early years, and her husband died ten years ago, living alone with her son. ”

"What about my parents-in-law?" Xiahoudun immediately asked.

Zhao Peng replied: "My in-laws lived with her second son after her husband died, and basically abandoned their mother and son. ”

"I see," Xiahoudun glanced at the corpse on the dissecting table, sighed, and said, "It seems that her son has made her feel at ease." ”

"Really," Zhao Peng continued, "I learned from a visit to the deceased's neighbor that her son is now twenty-four years old, graduated from high school, has never gone to college, and has not looked for a job, so he spends his days in an Internet café, and he ignores the affairs of his family. ”

As soon as Zhao Peng's words fell, the corpse on the autopsy table sighed "hey", which really frightened Zhao Peng and Guo Yaojie, who had never seen this scene before.

Guo Yaojie had a panicked expression on his face and asked Li Diandao: "Stationmaster Li, what is the situation?" ”

Li Dian stood aside very calmly, he intervened, stared at the corpse, and said lightly: "According to the team leader's analysis, it should be the sentence just now that stimulated the spirit of the deceased." The deceased's Fuya and the corpse dog are still in the body and have not dispersed, so it is normal for them to interact with each other after receiving a certain sensory stimulus. ”

"It's normal......" Guo Yaojie smiled bitterly, still difficult to accept Li Dian's explanation, after all, he has been engaged in forensic work for many years, and it is difficult for him to link the things in front of him with the word "normal". He glanced at Zhao Peng, who also looked surprised, and then looked at Xiahou Xuan, waiting for further processing.

"Although it is normal, the situation is not optimistic." Xiahoudun took a deep breath, tilted his head slightly, and slowly paced up beside the dissecting table, "We still need to find a way to remove the dead man's arrows, that is, to find the root cause of the arrows that can't leave." ”

"What if it's forcibly removed with a repellent?" Li Dian interjected.

"Try not to use that thing unless you have to." Xiahoudun stopped, dismissed Li Dian's suggestion, and walked a few steps towards Zhao Peng, saying, "Captain Zhao, let's start with the deceased's son, the problem must be him." ”

"Okay," Zhao Peng nodded, although he hadn't fully recovered from the shock of the corpse anomaly just now, he still immediately entered the working state when he got the task, "I have already sent someone to look for it before, and there should be a clue soon." ”

"Team Zhao!" Suddenly, a police officer opened the door and entered the autopsy room, "The deceased's son has arrived." ”