Chapter 21: Strange Bones

"It's actually quite simple. Lu Ying's group of juniors, who had not long been in the woods to exhume the baby's corpse, had mentioned to me that they had dug a very cold cave under the tree, but when they looked back the next day, they found that there was no trace of the excavation in the place they had dug the night before, which puzzled me.

"When the possibility of him lying was ruled out, I began to investigate the place again and again, and finally found something suspicious." I crouched down and grabbed a handful of dirt with my hands, "The place where they dug was as stiff and inelastic as the dry soil next to the grave." But the biggest suspicion is that it is too natural, without any traces of human interference, and it has become very unnatural

"The group of people in Lu Ying didn't have a dream, they did dig a cave, but someone for some purpose annihilated the traces they made. And looking at your expression now, I'm even more sure that person is you. ”

Zhou Jian snorted and did not speak.

"Five years ago, that sophomore Wang Qiang was also killed by you, right? He accidentally learned the secret of this cave, and you found out and killed him? I continued my reasoning, "and then you added fuel to his disappearance to your school legend, which has long been distorted, to deter other curious young people, and remind them to go into the camphor forest as little as possible, lest misfortune befall them." ”

Zhou Jian raised his head suddenly, looked at me with a hint of weirdness, and said, "Yes, Wang Qiang was indeed killed by me. The guy jumped over the wall and climbed the tree to escape, and I followed him to climb, getting higher and higher, and later, I simply cut down all the branches under the white camphor tree one by one! Hahahaha, in the end, he still has to die at my hands! ”

"I just didn't expect it...... In the dark, Wang Qiang not only found Li Ping's body, but also wrapped up the pieces of her clothes, and the school card that you somehow neglected when you killed Li Ping, he climbed the tree, maybe not to avoid you at all, but to hang the bag on the white camphor tree to provide clues for this incident! I continued.

Zhou Jian's face was distorted for a while, so fierce that he didn't look like a human, his eyes were full of cruelty and resentment, and he actually exuded a strange sense of anger and laughter.

"I guess you killed the duck too, right? Why did you kill him? Could it be that he also discovered that cave? I asked quietly.

Zhou Jian shook his head: "Duck? You mean Wang Wei? I didn't kill him. He was already in pigtails when I found him, and I didn't want things to get big here, so I kindly threw his body and Wang Qiang's together with him. ”

"What about the Chen family's treasures?" Seeing that he became so cooperative, I secretly rejoiced in my heart: "After the death of Bear and Zhang Wen, I once thought that maybe they invited me and Xueying to the tomb on the construction site, just to kill us; But now that I think about it, the newly engraved Song characters on the broken wood of the coffin that proves that the Chen family's tomb contains treasures, and the person who set up this scam is probably you!

"Since you know that we are investigating Li Ping's affairs, and it is getting more and more progressive, so you want to seal the entrance while we go down to the tomb and hunt down everyone who is tracking down the cause of the duck's death, but you didn't expect that I actually saw that there was something wrong with the font, and the plot to kill you did not succeed."

"Not bad. That's really my plan, but I'm not lying, it's really the burial tomb of the Chen family's tomb. Hey, do you want to know where the real tomb of the Chen family is? Zhou Jian ignored my shocked gaze and turned his gaze to the two ancient tombs behind him.

"That'...... Is it the main tomb of the Chen family? "I was amazed.

"That's the Chen family's tomb, but there is no treasure in it, not even burial goods. But there is a long, hidden passage that leads to the burial tomb on the other side of the playground. There is a section of air-raid shelter under the burial tomb, and because it has been in disrepair for many years, the mezzanine between the air-raid shelter and the burial tomb has collapsed, revealing a large interconnected hole, which has made it very convenient for me to dispose of the corpse. I will never let the corpses of those two stinky men be put together with my Ping'er! ”

I see.

Although I guessed that the burial tomb was above a certain section of the air-raid shelter, I have always unilaterally believed that the burial tomb was dug up when the foundation was being laid, and the air-raid shelter below the burial tomb was dug and collapsed, opening up the mezzanine between the burial tomb and the air-raid shelter, connecting the two......

Zhou Jian was silent for a while, and suddenly asked me, "Do you know why I became so cooperative?" ”

"I guess you've decided to turn yourself in." I replied quietly.

Zhou Jian laughed: "You are very smart, but you are also stupid." Do you think that by hiding a tape recorder on your body and quietly recording my words, you can bring me to justice? Tell you, I will kill you like I killed Wang Qiang, and it's a big deal to find a hidden place to hide your body. ”

"Do you really think I'm going to be that stupid?" A sly smile appeared on my face.

Zhou Jian was stunned for a moment, and then walked over to me step by step with a hideous face: "Don't try to lie to me, I have already carefully checked the neighborhood when I came." It's Saturday, and now there's no third person in the school besides you and me! ”

I took out a tape recorder from my trouser pocket and threw it on the ground, and said slowly, "There are exceptions to everything, this thing is just a prop to lie to you to tell the truth." Hmph, since the Tibetans on the ground can't fool you, won't I hide them underground? I cleared my throat and shouted in the direction of the tomb on the right, "Cousin, it's time for you to appear." ”

As I watched my cousin Yefeng climb out of the entrance of the tomb, I locked my eyes on Zhou Jian again and said in a deep voice: "When I understood that there was a big cave under the white camphor tree, I immediately thought that the cave might be related to the two tombs in the woods, so I avoided your surveillance and tried my best to find it.

"Hey, the emperor lives up to his wishes, the entrance and exit that was hidden under the tombstone in the tomb on the left were finally found by me. Then, a bitter ploy that I carefully planned, written, directed, and acted to make you confess your sins came on. Of course, if you're not willing to confess your sins until now, then play a game with me, a game about the Saucer Immortals......"

Zhou Jian, a seemingly loyal and honest fellow, was thrown into prison shortly after the police station announced his sentence to the public. The charges are rape and murder of Li Ping, murder of Wang Qiang, and attempted murder of Ye Bu Si......

According to Zhou Jian's confession, after excavating the Chen family's tomb, the bodies of a woman and a baby were found in a deep pit. After the investigation, it was confirmed that it was Li Ping, a girl who suddenly disappeared more than ten years ago.

She was indeed murdered, and she was tied hand and foot by Zhou Jian and cruelly thrown into that deep pit.

Zhou Jian was sentenced to death.

Unfortunately, the law did not have time to punish him, and he died in prison before the execution.

Zhou Jian's death is said to be terrifying, his eyes are dead, his face is full of horror, his hand is stiff and grabbed into the air, his expression is very painful. What did he see before he died, and he was scared to death?

I don't know, and I don't really want to know.

One night, my dad walked into my room and handed me an envelope.

"What is this?" I asked, with a tired face.

"Airfare."

"Tickets? Where? ”

"United States. There's been so much going on in this time, I think you'd better go out for a walk. ”

"I don't want to go."

"There's my friend over there, you know him, and I came to see you the year before last."

"I really don't want to go! I don't want to go anywhere. ”

"When you were a child, didn't you keep saying that you wanted to marry that sister of their family when you grew up?"

“……”

Before going to the airport, my cousin Ye Feng, who was a criminal police officer in the next county, came to look for me.

"I've read the report on Zhou Jian's case, and I feel that there are a lot of suspicions, so I'd like to hear your opinion on this matter completely personally." Night Peak patted me on the shoulder.

I glared at him, "When did your curiosity become so intense?" ”

"Don't forget, we're related by blood." Ye Feng said with a smile: "And I'm curious about all the things that you, the devil cousin, have gone through, because as long as the events that happen around you will definitely not be dull." ”

I wanted to refute him, but in the end I just sighed with self-pity: "Yesterday I thought about it again after synthesizing the whole incident, and suddenly found that many doubts became explainable. Now that I think about it, the so-called Disc Immortal that we and the four girls invited nine years ago should be Li Ping, who was killed by Zhou Jian! She wanted to tell us that she was buried by the river, but there was no river on the gossip graphic paper, so the words "at the water's edge" appeared in front of the eyes of the five of us. ”

"Why did Li Yun kill Xu Xu, Zhang Xiu and Wang Wen nine years ago?"

"Quite simply, because of fear. This thing is sometimes a murder weapon that kills people without seeing blood, and I think Li Yun and the four of them also have the same dreams as Duck, Bear, Zhang Wen, and Xue Ying. She was afraid, afraid that she would die, so she took the lead and murdered her three good friends with her own hands. ”

I paused, and then said softly: "Of course, there are still many doubts about this incident that I have not figured out. First of all, the words on the gossip graphic paper and the things in the dream are the warnings that the pathetic and neurotic girl gives us? Or does she want to take revenge on all humans because of her resentment that she has nowhere to redress?

"Also, on the night when we went to find the baby's corpse, before we set off, since the duck was already dead, who was with that group of junior students? The most important point is, why am I the only one who didn't have that dream? Did I do more than they did? Alas, lately I've been thinking about it almost and can't find the answer. ”

Cousin Yefeng thought for a moment, and suddenly said, "Maybe I can give you some advice on these questions." ”

I immediately looked at him in amazement.

My cousin smiled proudly: "This tragedy, which lasted thirteen years and killed more than ten people, actually had two murderers at the beginning. The first is the main culprit Zhou Jian, who killed Li Ping, Wang Qiang, and the stolen baby.

"The second prisoner is Li Ping, who is the murderer and a tragic victim. After the woman's death, she was angry and began to frantically search for a breakthrough...... It just so happened that you stupid people who are not afraid of death went to invite the Saucer Fairy, and inadvertently woke up her resentful spirit.

"You know, everything the deceased did is not what we living people can imagine, and the resentment that wakes up begins to erode all those who have played the game of Saucer Immortals, and finally kills them all."

The cousin swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued: "If this is the case, your so-called doubts are well explained. There are only two possibilities for those who went to the camphor forest in their first life, one is Li Ping's soul, and the other is Wang Qiang's soul, and I personally prefer the latter.

Pushing it up like this, nine years ago, Li Yun may not have committed suicide, but jumped off the building under the influence of Li Ping's resentment. Because of a person who was so afraid of death that she killed three good friends in a row so that she could live, I really can't think of any reason why she would kill herself out of shame. As for your Xue Ying, maybe she didn't choose to die because she was worried about you......"

I stood still, my mind in a mess. After a long time, he smiled bitterly: "You are a policeman, right...... How does it look more superstitious than I am? ”