Book 2: The Bronze Hanging Coffin of the Ba People Chapter 12: The Faceless Stranger
As I was walking back with Dachang, I subconsciously turned around and glanced at the second floor of the hydropower station.
At this time, the breeze blew, the fog was blown away, and the originally vague hydropower station was gradually clear, so I saw a faint figure in the room where the body was found on the second floor, and the figure looked at me motionlessly, but it was only a moment's effort, and the shadow was gone.
"Huh!?" I couldn't help but be shocked, and I thought to myself, "Who could it be?" Could it be the murderer? As soon as this thought flashed through my mind, I immediately chased after him, and Dachangtong followed, but when we reached the second floor, no one was found except the body.
"Dude! What's wrong? The panting Dachangtong was looking left and right with the lamp.
Since I wasn't sure if it was dazzling, I just asked in a tentative tone, "Tong!" Didn't you see anything just now? ”
"What's that, man! What do you mean? Dachang Tong looked confused.
"Like a figure or something." I asked in a tentative, gloomy tone.
Dachang Tongdeng's face changed, "What!?" Person...... Figure? Dachangtong looked around and said, "Brother! Don't say it so evilly, it's just the two of us here, the figure that came. ”
Could it be that I'm really dazzled? When I was still struggling to leave, I accidentally found a shallow and deep mark on the ground, which looked like footprints, just on the edge of the hanging corpse, all the way to the window.
"Brother, let's go, don't be suspicious?" Dachangtong was pulling my clothes and urging me away.
"Didn't you notice that there were footprints on the dust here, and there were no footprints when we were there just now, and now there are footprints for no reason, and it is very likely that the murderer left them." I pointed to the footprints on the ground, "Go!" Go after it. ”
Judging from the footprints, the owner of the footprints fled the scene through the window, and at my strong request, we went downstairs to look for traces, and soon I found footprints in a reed field directly below the window on the second floor.
Since the reed field is mostly wet and muddy, the footprints are easy to identify, and we followed the footprints all the way until we passed through the reed field, and the footprints disappeared into a pool of lakes.
Although it is summer, people are unusually cold by this lake, and the cold air from the surface of the lake faintly rushes to our skin, which is strange, why is the lake so cold, could it be that there is something under the lake?
"Dude! How the footprints are gone. Dachangtong asked with a trembling body holding the lamp.
"In such a short time, if someone really has it, they will definitely not be able to run far, fast! Look around. "Saying that, I and Dachangtong began to look in one direction, Dachangtong is looking for a lamp, the sight effect is naturally better than me, but I can only use the light of the mobile phone to illuminate the ground a little bit to find, after walking around the lake for half a circle, I don't know what hard things are mixed under my feet, and there is a crisp sound.
When I looked at it, it turned out to be an iron chain, strange! Why is there a chain by the lake? Driven by curiosity, I tried to pull it, and one end of the chain was soaked in the ice lake, and there was a certain weight in the pull, and at this time, Dachang Tong also circled around the ice lake and came to me.
Although the chain is slightly heavy, I can still pull it alone, and since the other end of the chain is in the lake, we don't know what the chain is tied to, so I let the Daechang Tong lantern illuminate.
Soon! Under my tugging, something on the other end of the chain gradually surfaced, appearing in the range of the light, a white thing, looking a bit like a human face. It wasn't until they were all pulled out that I realized that the white thing under the chain was indeed a human face, a dead human face.
"Wow! Elder brother...... Brother, look, this ...... It's a corpse! Seeing this, Dachangtong was so frightened that he almost dropped the lantern in his hand into the lake.
"Nonsense, sir, I have eyes." With that, I ordered Daechang Tong to "Hurry!" Bring the body ashore. ”
The corpse is also a male corpse, about thirty to thirty-five years old, and there are traces of being strangled by iron chains on the neck, and what is even more strange is that the deceased also has a slight pulse, because the corpse is fished out of the ice lake, so the corpse is naturally also ice, which makes me think of whether the ice corpse in front of me has also been soaked in this lake?
What is even more suspicious is that there are many similarities between the two deceased, what kind of connection will there be between them? Who will be the murderer? What was the motive for the killing?
It seems that there should be some secret in this, my intuition tells me that it is not simple behind this, and it is estimated that if you want to find the fat man, Xiao Jing and Yanzi, you can't do without the cause of death of these two dead bodies.
"Brother, what's going on?" How did this corpse die from the strong man who stole you just now?
Because the matter was too complicated, I didn't have a clue for a while, so I told Da Cheongtong, "Take pictures first, and I'll sort out the clues when I go back." ”
After taking the pictures, we pushed the body back into the lake and then led the way back by Dachangtong, because it was getting late and we didn't follow anyone, so we took the main road on the way back, which is the same way the previous undercover visitor came.
Although it is a big road, but it is also tortuous enough, not to mention overgrown with weeds, but also special winding, if it is not for the local people like Dachangtong to lead the way, I am afraid that if you want to go to the riverside is enough to choke, you have to take a few unjust roads.
When approaching the river, I vaguely saw a faint light flickering on the river, and I don't know what it was, it was in the dark night, flashing on the river, and it was very bright.
Because I have a habit of being wary of unknown things, my first reaction when I see the bright light is to press the Dachangtong walking in front of me into the grass, then point to the bright light, and lower my voice and say to Dachangtong, "Look ahead, there is a glowing thing, do you see?" ”
Due to the remoteness of this place and the fact that no one has set foot in it for many years, these grasses grow taller, and as soon as we squat, our vision is basically blocked, and we can only barely have a little vision through the gaps in the grass, so Dachangtong can only probe his brain to peek, because he is also afraid that he will be exposed.
"Oops! There is indeed something, floating on the surface of the river, what the hell is it? After seeing it, Dachangtong said as if talking to himself and as if he was asking me.
"I don't know what it is, and I don't know if it's dangerous, in short, be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, let's wait and see what happens." Just as I was finishing, there was a sudden swishing sound in the grass, as if something was approaching.
"Dude! Did you hear that? Dachangtong also heard it, and his eyes widened as if he was looking at me in panic.
"Shh I made a quiet gesture with my hand, then pressed Dachangtong's body even lower, and whispered, "Don't make a sound, it seems that something is approaching us." ”
Just as I was finishing, the grass suddenly swished again, this time closer, and then I realized that the old miner's lamp in the hand of Dachangtong, who was cating beside me, had forgotten to turn off.
After being shocked, I immediately reached out and turned off the light, if it wasn't the first time I knew Dachangtong, or if it was a fat man, I really wanted to kick to death, such a low-level mistake was made, isn't it clear that there is no silver three hundred taels here? Squatting here with a lamp, the blind man should have seen it.
Daechang Tong, who reacted, said to me with a "finished" expression, "It's broken, we've been discovered." ”
As soon as Dachang Tong finished speaking, the original intermittent swishing sound of the grass became coherent, and it sounded like footsteps coming from the grass, and the sound was not far from us.
I immediately patted Dachangtong, suggesting that he would switch places with me, and that I would be in front of him, giving the comer a surprise attack, and just as we had just changed positions, a tall figure had already appeared in front of me, with his back to the moonlight, and I could only see his broad and tall silhouette.
In the flash of light, I immediately put him to the ground with a sweeping leg, and then a cross-legged choke lock locked his neck, and I only saw his face clearly when I was in close contact with him, which was okay if I didn't see clearly, and it almost scared me to death when I saw it.
This man can be said to be unrecognizable, the facial features of his whole face are unscrupulously distorted, either his mouth is crooked to the cheeks, or his eyes are narrowed into a line while the other eye is bulging like a goldfish's eye, not to mention his strange nose that does not grow in the middle of his face and lacks a piece of flesh, and no part of the whole skin is intact.
The weird guy struggled desperately after being locked up by me, and made a strange "haha" sound, sounding like a broken throat and vocal cords.
And just when I was about to stun him with all my strength, Dachangtong, who didn't know what nerves I had, suddenly slammed me away with his body.
When I just got up and wanted to scold, I saw Dachangtong holding his hands strange
Male, his mouth keeps saying "Ha'er! How are you Ha'er? Are you alright? ”
The strange man gestured with his teeth and claws, and his mouth made a "ha-ha" sound, as if he was expressing that he was fine.
I look like a monk who is the second of my son, it seems that Dachangtong knows this strange man, and it seems that he is quite familiar, and then he realized that he was still sitting in the quagmire Dachangtong hurriedly pulled me up, "Brother!" I'm sorry......" and apologized again and again. Then Dachangtong immediately introduced me to the strange man in front of me, although the strange man looks strange and scary, but people are still very polite, when Dachangtong introduced me, the strange man folded his hands and bent down slightly to nod to me to say hello, because the first time I met the strange man was very polite, and even polite beyond my expectations, so subconsciously let me remember his hands folded and bent over and nodded like a monk's greeting action.
It was only after the introduction of Dachang Tong that I learned that this polite faceless strange man named "Har" was his good friend.
"Then why is he here?" I asked Taechang Tone curiously.
The man named Ha'er obviously understood what I was saying, and when he came over, he made a "ha-ha" sound, and made a physical gesture, which looked like a mute and extremely exaggerated.
"Hey! Open! What did he compare? Puzzled, I leaned close to Dachangtong's ear and whispered.
"Dude! You don't know, Harr is mute, and he can only speak dumb when communicating with others. ”
"Then why is his mute language different from other people's, why does he still have feet, this body language is too rich, could it be your Sichuan version of dumb language?" I gestured a little bit as I spoke, and then pursed my lips and smiled at Hal who had been looking at me with a smirk.
"What Sichuan version, Hal is an orphan and has no money to learn formal mute language, so he is blind to himself, but we are familiar with each other before we understand what he said."
"Oh! So what did he just say? ”
"Ha'er, my brother just asked you, why are you here?" Dachangtong turned his head and asked Ha'er, who was still giggling.
After hearing this, Hal began his unique Sichuan version of the body dumb again, and after Dachangtong looked surprised, he immediately leaned into my ear and said, "Brother! It turned out that the strong man we were following just now came from H'er's speedboat, and Hal still didn't know that the man was dead, and he was still waiting here. ”
I said how could it be that I was here all of a sudden, I see, and the light we just saw on the river turned out to be the lights on the Ha'er boat.
"Dude! What do you think? Seeing that I didn't speak, Dachang gently touched me.
"Nothing!" Saying that, I asked Dachangtong to tell Ha'er, let him stop waiting, what are you waiting for when everyone is dead, go back first.
On the way back, I asked Dachangtong why he called the faceless man Ha'er, was it because he could only call "haha"?
Dachangtong smiled and responded, "What is it, brother, you don't know, Ha'er has a bit of a problem with his brain, and "Ha'er" on our side means fools. That's why we call him Har. ”
A fool can sail a boat, I'll go, I haven't sailed yet, sir.
I wanted to know more about H'er, but then I thought that I hadn't looked at my phone for a long time, and I didn't know if there was anything new about the ghost? So I dispelled my thoughts and looked at my phone, and there was a message posted by a ghost in the QQ of my phone, to the effect that I was asking where I was? I saw that I was almost in Dachang Town, so I didn't reply to him.
When Dachangtong was sailing, I flipped out the photos of the two deceased people on my phone and looked at them repeatedly.
When I returned to Dachang Town, before the boat was completely docked, I saw a tall man standing on the river bank on the edge of the ferry, and I recognized it as a ghost at a glance.
As soon as I heard that I was leaving, he hurriedly beckoned Har on the side to come over and help him tie the boat, and he blocked me and said urgently, "No!" Brother, what happened to the abandoned hydropower station? After all, it's a dead man, so we can't just leave it alone. When Dachangtong said, "After all, it's a dead person," he didn't forget to keep his voice to the bottom.
"I'll think about it again when I go back, and I'll talk about it later." I casually answered and prepared to leave, for I saw that the ghost was already in a hurry and wanted to beat me up.
Dachang Tong didn't follow and grabbed my clothes, "Alas! Brother, brother, where do you live? If I don't go with you, I always feel that I don't know the bottom of this matter, do you think the police will suspect that we did it? ”
"Are you afraid? I'm afraid you'll go to the police" I smiled bitterly and patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, that's it, I'll go back first, and I'll talk about it tomorrow." ”