Volume IX

Cat-faced granny

When the fence gate of the village closed behind her, the violins began to play. - Calvino

China's Top Ten Spirits**: 1. Pisces Jade Pendant; 2, 95 Chengdu zombies; 3. Shanghai Vampire; 4. China Airlines crash recording; 5. No. 37, Lin Family House; 6, Chóng Qìng boy in red; 7. Guangzhou-Kowloon Railway Advertisement; 8. Beijing 330 bus; 9. a transparent coffin of the Yellow River; 10, cat-faced old lady.

Chapter 41: Top Secret Archives

The level of secrecy of the homicide file is divided into three classes: first, top secret; 2. Confidentiality; Three, secrets.

Out of the need for secrecy, and from the overall situation of stabilizing society, a small number of extremely perverted and cruel homicide cases will be included in the scope of secrecy, and the news will be blocked by the police and the media. Once leaked, it may damage the security and interests of the political, economic, religious and other fields, and is not conducive to social stability.

Bai Jingyu held a volume of files in his arms and looked at the electronic clock on the wall of the office of the special case team, it was already midnight.

The four members of the special case team did not speak, and they also looked at the clock silently, vaguely feeling that there must be an extraordinary big case, but they didn't understand why Bai Jingyu was staring at the clock, and everyone waited quietly.

Midnight has passed, and a new day has arrived.

Bai Jingyu unraveled the file and said: In the past ten years, the classification of this case file has been top secret, and only a few people can see this file...... The secrecy period has passed and it is ready to be declassified.

Not only in China, but also in Western countries, criminal investigation files involving bloodsucking are generally classified in nature. This top-secret file records a series of bloodsucking cases that occurred in the Northeast 20 years ago, that is, the "cat-faced old lady" case that has been widely circulated and far-reaching.

The cat-faced old lady's case has triggered a huge social panic in the three northeastern provinces, and today's post-80s and post-90s generations have a deep memory of this.

There are several versions of the cat-faced old lady, and this terrifying legend has become a childhood shadow for many people in the Northeast, and it was once a terrifying experience in the hearts of many people.

It is said that in a small village in the north of Harbin City, there was an old lady surnamed Li, who hanged herself because she was angry with her daughter-in-law and died of hatred. The appearance of death is terrifying, the eyes are half-open, the tongue sticks out of the mouth, it is a little black, the face is hideous, and people dare not come forward. When he died, the sky was overcast and miserable, and after the family changed the old lady's shroud, a flower cat jumped on the body, and the old man suddenly cheated the corpse and sat up suddenly, half of the human face, half of the cat's face. The cat-faced old lady catches a neighbor to death and runs away like a tanuki. Later, I felt that this village was very scary, there were always animals missing, and a few children disappeared mysteriously. On the mass graves outside the village, coffins that are not deeply buried are often dug out indiscriminately, and the corpses inside are gnawed to pieces.

Another legend is somewhat similar to the one above

, An old lady went to buy vegetables in Daowai District, Harbin City, died on the road when she came home, and was pounced on by a cat, and she was cheated at that time, and the old lady's body did not change, but half of her face became a cat's face. Legend has it that the cat-faced granny is usually nocturnal, agile and powerful, and likes to eat children's flesh and drink children's blood. During that time, some people continued to claim to have witnessed the cat-faced old lady, and this legend spread quickly, and soon spread to the entire three northeastern provinces.

This was more than 10 years ago, when people were panicked and rumors were spreading, and it had reached a serious level of affecting social order.

Many primary and secondary schools held a school-wide assembly for this purpose, and the principal warned students not to travel alone, and all students in the school must tie red ropes. At that time, it was thought that tying a red string around the wrist would ward off evil spirits. The police stepped up patrols and went to schools to refute rumors, and a TV program once broadcast this, but later apologized to the public. In the end, the rumor spread to a terrible level, and children throughout the three northeastern provinces began to panic, and some children even did not dare to go to school at all for fear of being eaten on the road.

The ending of this rumor is also dramatic - the "cat-faced old lady" alarmed the central government, so the army was dispatched, and the cat-faced old lady was burned to death with a flamethrower by a special forces soldier with a machine gun in the back of the head.

It is said that at the time of death, a cat ran out of the stomach of the burning corpse.

Su Mei said: I've heard of this cat-faced old lady, I have a classmate who is a girl from the Northeast, and it's so evil.

Drawing the dragon said:, I haven't heard of it.

Bao said: When I was a child, there were also terrifying rumors, when I was in the fifth grade, it was said that every child would be sterilized, so I was scared when I saw the doctor, and now I am afraid of the injection.

Su Mei said: Haha, Xiaobao, the shadow of your childhood, laughed at me, you are so smart and afraid of this.

Bao Chu said: At that time, I learned two words: ligation and banding. Boys are afraid of ligation, and girls are afraid of rings.

Professor Liang said: What is recorded in the top-secret criminal investigation file is not only a rumor!

Bai Jingyu took out a yellowed photo from the file, which looked a little old. The deceased was a small child, lying on his back, and the detectives drew the shape with chalk according to the deceased's pose, with a gloomy alley in the background. The child was still wearing leaky crotch pants and plastic sandals, which were popular more than a decade ago, and the upper body was a small white vest, rolled up to the armpits, and the stomach was dug up, and the intestines were running all over the ground. The child's neck and both wrists have deep tooth marks, and the whole body is horribly grayish-white due to excessive blood loss.

Bai Jingyu took out a brand-new digital photo, with a rural mountain road in the background, and you can see the houses in the distance, on both sides of the road are farmland and grassy slopes, and above the grassy slopes is the Daxinganling forest area. A woman and a child died in a terrible state on a grassy slope

The child's stomach was overflowing, the woman's body was full of scratches, and the placket was bright red. From the grass on the ground, it is clear that there was a fierce fight in the area before the women and children were killed. The fatal wound of the woman was in the chest, and the main wound of the child was in the neck, both of which were stabbed by some sharp object.

Bai Jingyu said: More than ten years ago, the cat-faced old lady case that was widely circulated in Northeast China actually originated from a murder and blood-sucking case, and later two similar cases occurred. After the murderer committed three cases in succession, he mysteriously disappeared and is now ...... After more than ten years, there was another similar murder and bloodsucking case.

Professor Liang compared the photos and said: These cases have a time span of more than ten years, and the methods are the same.

Su Mei glanced at the photo and asked, "Is this a human or some monster?"

The dragon said: The wound of the deceased is very strange, and it looks like it was scratched by a human finger. However, this is definitely not something that can be done by human strength, no one can scratch the belly with his fingers to devour the skin and pierce it into the chest, unless the human body is made of tofu, which is like the claws of a beast.

Su Mei said: This is too similar to the legend of the cat-faced old lady, the cat-faced old lady is to scratch people's belly and suck blood.

Bao Chop said: It's not a beast, it's a human doing, in this latest case, the deceased's pocket was turned open, and the ring on his finger was gone, the beast couldn't rob money, but what kind of person could kill people with his fingers, it was incredible!

Involving the top-secret archives in the Daxinganling area, there are not only bloodsucking murder cases, but also several mysterious UFO sightings**. On August 28, 29 and 30, on the night of three consecutive days, a large golden circle of light appeared in the sky above the Great Khing'an Mountains, and there was an object in the shape of a pipe or comma in the aperture, which slowly rotated and became larger and larger, and lasted for half an hour before disappearing. At that time, there were countless witnesses, some of whom were the whole village running out to see the unidentified object in the sky, the children were excited, and the adults were frightened.

In addition, in addition to Shennongjia, the Daxinganling area has also been found to have humanoid creatures, that is, legendary savages.

Before leaving, Su Mei asked suspiciously: Are we going to catch the perverted murderer, or are we going to catch the cat man or the wild man?

Bai Jingyu said: These murder and blood-sucking cases, whether they were done by people or monsters, you must investigate them clearly.

The dragon said: Boss, don't worry, I'll catch the cat-faced lady back and show you.

Professor Liang said: This trip to the Northeast is full of dangers, everyone should bring guns, don't take it lightly.

Bao Chu said: The murderer we are facing this time must be extraordinary!