◎Chapter 42 The rotting corpse knocks on the door

Soon after the boy in red case, there was another series of strange child deaths in Shancheng**!

A new ramen restaurant has opened near Shancheng Experimental Middle School, and the customers are mainly students, and the owners are a couple surnamed Cai. On December 14, at about 7:40 p.m., it was already dark, and the proprietress of a stationery store next to her ran over and said to Mr. and Mrs. Cai: Hurry up, your baby has an accident.

The couple hurried out and saw their four-year-old child hanging from a telephone cable in a phone booth in front of the stationery store, his feet dangling five to six centimeters from the ground, unconscious. After being taken to the hospital, doctors declared the child dead. The parents were heartbroken and felt that the death of their only child was unknown and asked the police to investigate. The local criminal investigation department ruled out homicide, and based on superficial indications, the boy surnamed Cai was determined to have died accidentally. The incident aroused public outrage, and many people believed that the murderer picked up the child and hung it on the telephone line, and the child's jumping ability was limited, and it was difficult for the neck to reach the height of the telephone line.

A few days later, the couple surnamed Cai went to the funeral home to take care of the funeral. The workers at the funeral home said to them, "You kid died a little strangely."

The worker in charge of the cremation said something that made them feel terrified, this child was the seventh child surnamed Cai who died mysteriously in the past month or so!

The couple surnamed Cai felt creepy, seven children surnamed Cai died unexpectedly one after another, how could it be such a coincidence?

A person at the funeral home looked at the death certificate and exclaimed: Your child was born on August 18, 2005, which is the 14th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Midyear Festival!

Another worker said: "Seven and a half."

This child was born on Halloween!

Funeral workers have their own taboos, and they refer to Halloween as "Midyear Day" or "July and a half". Halloween Festival is a traditional Chinese custom, it is said that the fourteen ghost doors are opened, ten thousand ghosts travel, and the ghost doors are closed in the middle of the night on the fifteenth. Children born on Halloween are called ghost cubs, and people born on this day have always had their birthdays on the solar calendar.

Seven children surnamed Cai, two of whom had needles in their foreheads, were concluded by the police to have died accidentally.

The two children were drowned, a boy and a girl, living in the same village. On the way back from school, he fell into a waterhole at the bottom of the mountain road and drowned, and the police could not explain how the needle eye in the child's forehead formed. Other children died of food poisoning, electric shock, car accidents, sudden asthma deaths, and children who hanged themselves from telephone booths, a total of seven.

Seven children surnamed Cai, the youngest is four years old and the oldest is 12 years old, the police said they are not related.

Angry villagers drained the waterhole in an attempt to find evidence of the killer's killing, but found nothing. The two children who died by drowning were not cremated, and the parents and villagers carried the bodies to the city hall to petition for an explanation.

People in Shancheng are panicked, and a large number of parents gather at the school gate every day to pick up and drop off their children, and a series of mysterious deaths of children** cast a shadow on the city.

The Yamashiro police requested assistance from the Special Task Force in the investigation. The director of the Shancheng Public Security Bureau is a well-known anti-crime hero Wang Lingjun in the police circle, who has won numerous honors in his life as a police officer, and is one of the top ten outstanding police officers in China, and he is also one of the few living first-class heroes. This man is gentle on the outside, but tough on the inside, and his iron-faced and ruthless style once shocked the Chóng Qìng police community, and the people of the mountain city all gave a thumbs up when they mentioned his name.

Su Mei said: It seems that Wang Ju is in trouble, and he doesn't want to bear the infamy of a police inaction.

Bao Chu said: The fact that Director Wang Lingjun, who is well-known in the police circles, was able to bow his head and ask us for help shows how difficult this case is.

Professor Liang said: I have read two monographs by this person, "Proceedings of the International Craniofacial Forensic Identification Association in 2004" and "Trace Examination and Investigation to Solve Cases".

Hualong said: This is a real man, and the national police community can let me call my brother, that is, him.

Wang Lingjun used his highest specifications to receive the special case team. In the past, when the special case team handled cases, it was treated like a moon by the stars, and some of the local police held a welcome banquet in a luxury hotel, and some of them made a big splash

Drums hold a press conference. However, Director Wang Lingjun was different, he invited the special case team to have a barbecue at an open-air barbecue stall near the Public Security Bureau, which was regarded as a dust wash for the special case team.

A few people sat on the maza, eating barbecue and drinking beer, the barbecue stall owner took a broken fan to fan the charcoal to a red flame, sprinkled with chili powder, the smoke and fire around it, and there was a few mountain city bangs shouting and drinking fists on the next table.

Su Mei said: Wang Ju is so picky, just invite us to eat kebabs.

Director Wang Lingjun said: This is my highest reception standard, the suit and leather shoes go to the hotel to eat mostly for entertainment, and the one who can sit in the night market and drink is a friend. I treat you as friends.

Devouring The painting dragon said: Sure enough, I'll change the big bowl and drink with you, this cup is too small.

Director Wang Lingjun said: Boss, take a few big bowls, I respect you. Professor Liang Shuye, I have admired the name for a long time, I respect you.

Professor Liang said: It seems that today I will not get drunk and not return.

Bao Chop said: I blush when I drink, and I lose my temper after drinking, so I'll use a small cup.

Su Mei said: I and Xiaobao both use glasses, and you use big bowls to show the heroism of the rivers and lakes. Wang Ju, you're not afraid of your sister-in-law tickling you when you're drunk.

Director Wang Lingjun quipped: Girl, you are so beautiful, do you have a partner, do you want to introduce one to you?

Su Mei smiled and said: I don't even know what my future husband will be like.

Director Wang Lingjun said: Your sister-in-law will say this - don't marry a policeman.

Everyone laughed, it was not suitable to talk about the case in the open air: a few bangbangs on the next table actually started to talk about Wang Lingjun, the director of the Shancheng Public Security Bureau, and everyone listened attentively.

Bangbang is the coolie of the mountain town, and you will see some people in the streets and alleys, holding flat poles or bamboo sticks in their hands, these temporary porters are called Bangbang, and they live at the bottom of the society.

A stick said: Director Wang Lingjun wears body armor and sleeps with a gun every day, because he has offended many people.

Another awesome saying: Wang Lingjun often drives a taxi to visit privately, and when he was in the Northeast, Wang Lingjun had supreme prestige among the local manpower tricycle drivers. Many of these people are laid-off workers, who are often bullied and blackmailed by local ruffians. Wang Lingjun ordered that if such a ruffian was caught, he should not only be severely punished according to the law, but also let him take out all the money in his pocket and pay it to the tricycle driver as compensation. There is a very popular joke that late one night, Wang Lingjun walked home from work. A coachman saw that it was him, and hurriedly pedaled over to see him off, Wang Lingjun walked while refusing, but within a few hundred meters, a string of tricycles followed behind, there were more than a dozen.

The last one said: If there are more such officials, our society will be peaceful!

The four members of the special case team raised their glasses, and everyone did not speak, and toasted Wang Lingjun together.

No matter what kind of glory an official has won or what kind of outstanding qualifications he has had, it is a superficial phenomenon, and the monument of an official only exists in the mouths of the common people. If the leaders attending various high-level meetings can understand the difficulties of the people and participate in the Spring Festival, the problem of the Spring Festival transportation will be easily solved; Those officials who eat and drink at public expense hold 100 meetings to discuss the solution of people's livelihood, which is far better than listening to the voices of neighboring tables at the open-air barbecue stalls, and can face the public opinion at close range.

The Shancheng police are entering the final stage of the special struggle to crack down on criminal syndicates and eliminate evil, confiscating black guns, solving backlog cases, and chasing fugitives. The case of the boy in red and the death of seven children surnamed Cai** have called into question the people's image that the police have established for many years. Director Wang Lingjun invited the special case team, hoping that they could give the people of Shancheng an authoritative investigation conclusion.

According to the analysis of the special case team, five of the seven children surnamed Cai can be determined to have died accidentally.

In the case of the hanging of a boy in a telephone booth, the special case team gave a result after inspecting the scene. The phone booth is cylindrical, 210 cm high, and has three semicircular stainless steel guards at the bottom, which are 48 cm, 30 cm and 11 cm high from the ground. The trace matter test proved that there were no obvious stampede marks on the second steel pipe, and the child should have stepped on it and died by accidental hanging.

The two children who died of drowning had needles on their foreheads, and the boy in red also had needles on their heads, and the cause of death of these three children was suspicious.

Spreading out the map, the special case team chose a forest police station closest to the three children as a temporary office location. Director Wang Lingjun could not mobilize more police forces, so he sent an assistant surnamed Tang to assist the special case team in the investigation. Assistant Tang told the special case team that the forest police station was very simple, but it was actually a checkpoint, located halfway up the mountain, with a good scenery.

On the top of the mountain, pilgrims gather in a Taoist temple, and there are many people who pray for blessings and burn incense.

There is a temple fair at the foot of the mountain, which is very lively, and Assistant Tang and the special case team met a Taoist priest who told fortunes at the temple fair. The Taoist priest was more than half a hundred years old, with a beard, wearing a Taoist robe with big sleeves, sitting on the ground, with Zhou Yi's gossip chart in front of him, as well as oracle bones, copper coins, yarrow and other divination props. The Taoist priest did not wear shoes, and claimed to be a pair of barefoot travelers around the world, regardless of spring and autumn, to form good fate, and to plant good causes.

Bao Chu has always respected the monks and cultivators, and he reported his birthday and asked the Taoist priest to tell the hexagram.

The Taoist priest closed his eyes intently, and after a while, he said in shock: I am invisible to the grass and trees, and it is the first time I have seen such a fierce and noble numerology.

Bao Chop said in a respectful tone: Dao Chief, please advise.

The barefoot Taoist priest said that Bao Chop had a rough childhood, and after a catastrophe, Bao Chop nodded yes.

The Taoist priest then said something unfathomable:

Don't look at the clouds, you can forget the sea, the rivers and lakes have no road, and you can seek up and down.

As far as the branch can see, the gentleman is in charge of the knife, slaughtering people and sheep;

Facing the wall, the neighbors crying, the common people are compassionate;

In peaceful and troubled times, the stars return to their places.

The sun and the moon are full of stars, a well can flourish, if I don't know, what is the use of being enough.

The barefoot Taoist priest accurately calculated that the four members of the special case team were policemen and came to solve the case, but there was little hope of solving the case, unless-the ghost knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and the ghost came up during the day! These strange words made Su Mei feel very surprised, and she also reported her birthday, so that the Taoist priest could calculate her marriage. The Taoist priest said some difficult words, such as Zhengguan, Biguan, Xin Bibei, Wu Zhengyin, etc. Su Mei was incomprehensible, and the Taoist priest wrote a word in Su Mei's palm.

Su Mei's face was stunned and felt incredible.

When the Taoist priest writes, the sleeve of the Taoist robe covers Su Mei's hand, and no one else knows what words are written.

On the way up the mountain, everyone was very curious, and Bao asked Su Mei: What is that word?

Hualong also asked: Is it your future husband's name?

Su Mei's answer was: It is the name of one of the two of you, but I will not tell you.

It was already evening when they reached the halfway point of the mountain, and everyone planned to rest at the forest police station for the night, and then go to the village where the boy in red and the two drowning children died tomorrow to investigate. This police station is a checkpoint, there are police on duty during the day, but no one lives at night, and the work is mainly to check passing vehicles, prohibit illegal logging, and usually inspect the mountains and forests to prevent fire accidents.

The dilapidated tiled houses, overgrown with weeds behind the houses and with artemisia grass on the roof, make the checkpoint look eerie at night. At midnight, there was a knock on the door, and what the Taoist priest said was fulfilled - the ghost knocked on the door in the middle of the night.

After Hualong inspected, it was found that there was not even a figure in front of the house and behind the house.

However, the four members of the special case team and Assistant Tang all clearly heard the knock on the door.

Everyone thought the knock on the door was very strange, and when they looked up, a small handprint appeared on the door.

It was a little cold on the mountain, and the wind was gusting, and the handprints looked very terrifying. The handprint was not a bloody handprint, it was like a watery little hand patting on the door, leaving some liquid on the door and emitting a stench. Bao Chop took a closer sniff, he was all too familiar with the smell of this liquid - the smell of rotting corpses!

Such a terrifying picture appeared in the minds of the special case team and Assistant Tang:

A decomposing corpse, staggering in front of the door, raised his hand dripping with corpse fluid, and knocked on the door.