Although the ghost had never seen a corpse, he had seen the photos I had taken last night, so he was surprised by the scene in front of him, and he saw that the muscles on his whole face twitched slightly, and his brow was furrowed no more.

And just before we could speak, there was a swishing sound in the reeds by the lake, as if something was approaching us, and we both fixed our eyes fixed on the direction from which the sound came.

It was no one else from the reed field, it was Dachangtong, but there was a person behind him, it was a man, a man with a three-seven hair shape, a hair wax, a man with polite and glasses, the most dazzling thing about the man's body was a police * inspection * uniform, and at a glance he knew that it was a police * inspector.

Daechangtong greeted me warmly as soon as he saw me, but then the male policeman did not look at me and the ghost very kindly, and looked at us with a kind of suspect look.

"What are you doing here? Can I ask you to send me my ID card? "As soon as the male policeman arrived, he started to walk through the procedure, and he didn't have a Sichuan accent, so he shouldn't be a local.

Dachangtong is quite clever, and when he saw that the atmosphere was not right, he started a circle, "Health Bureau, this is all your own people, your own people!" Then he introduced the male police officer called Officer Wei, who was the local bureau chief, because he spoke with a bit of a foreigner's Chinese accent, so everyone in the bureau joked, called him Officer Wei, and then pointed at me and said, "This brother is a private detective, and he is also here for this case." Then he immediately looked at the ghost beside me, and just as he was about to speak, he didn't know how to introduce it.

"He's my colleague." I immediately made a round.

"Private detective?" The male * policeman repeated in a low voice, his suspicious eyes never left me, and he said unceremoniously, "Private detectives also have to check ID cards, cooperate, I will do my routine." ”

Just as I was about to take out my ID card, the ghost took out a small notebook from his pocket, handed it to the male policeman named Officer Wei in front of me, and said with a smile, "Comrade! You may be mistaken, but we are all good people. ”

The officer took the small notebook handed by the ghost and opened it to check it, and in an instant his face became harmonious, and he gave a military salute to the ghost, "Oh! It turned out to be his own person, and he was rude. ”

The ghost also returned a military salute: "Understood! Understand! ”

The sudden change in the attitude of the officer made Dachangtong on the side stunned, looking at me like a monk, in fact, I knew that the ghost gave him his previous military * official certificate.

After a false alarm, everyone turned their attention to the bones by the lake, and Dachangtong was surprised and asked me what was the situation, why did the corpse become bones overnight?

Officer Wei had never seen the portrait of the corpse, so he asked me to show him the photo, of course I tried my best to cooperate, but after seeing the photo of the deceased, Officer Wei's face changed greatly, and he said in surprise, "This...... I know this man. ”

From the mouth of the officer, we learned that the man who died in the lake was named Zheng Dong, a native of Quanzhou, Fujian, who was a businessman in Lijiang and a member of the Yunnan Fujian Merchants Association.

After briefly introducing the situation about Zheng Dong, the officer asked me, "Comrade, did you find Zheng Dong's body last night?" ”

I should say, "Hmm! I was there last night, and when I found the body, I took a look at it and confirmed that he died a few days ago, and it was still a full corpse last night, but today it is already what you see now. ”

The ghost said in a speculative tone, "Could it be that there is something in the water that has eaten the corpse?" ”

Dachangtong continued with the ghost's words. "You say, could it be a piranha?"

"Impossible! Piranhas are mainly distributed in the Amazon River in South America, and they are tropical fish, and this lake is so icy that it can freeze to death like a mother's big refrigerator. "I flattened my denial of Che Chon-tong's speculation.

"Practice is the only criterion for testing the truth, no matter what it is, let's take a look first." In the case of the officer Wei proposed to go to the lake to see, we immediately watched the lake, the lake was as cold as ever, and we all gasped in unison, "This July day, the whole Dachang is about to dry people, why is this lake icy?" Weird. Officer Wei muttered to himself about the strangeness of the frozen lake.

The glacial lake is as quiet as a mirror, the lake water is a little muddy and can't see through the situation in the lake, just like this, you can't see anything with the naked eye, but you can't go down, don't you say whether there is danger in this lake, just say that no one wants to go down to the cold water of this lake.

Just when I was still thinking about what to do, the kid from Dachangtong moved a big stone out of nowhere, raised the top of his head and threw it into the lake, this time it can make a lot of movement, not only the lake exploded a big splash, even the water in the lake is also surging, make such a big movement out of the water is not afraid of not being able to startle the things in the water, provided that as long as there is really something lurking in the lake.

As a result, to everyone's disappointment, after a while, the lake has gradually calmed down, and there is still nothing to see. Why did the corpse become bones overnight? It's a brain-wrenching problem.

"! Lao Tzu still doesn't believe in evil, you wait a minute, I'll move a bigger one, and let's take a look after it is fried! Dachangtong turned around and prepared to move the stones, but as soon as he turned around, the sharp-eyed ghost stopped, "Wait, don't panic, there seems to be movement in the water." "It's not been a day or two since the ghost eats the sniper's job, so his eyesight is beyond ordinary people, and he finds that some moving objects are beginning to appear faintly in the lake.

Under the guidance of the ghost, I also saw that the swimming thing in the lake, slender and long, about seven centimeters to eight centimeters, the body is brownish-yellow, because this creature is too small, and the lake surface is a little muddy, so I can't look closely, but I guess it should be the larvae of some kind of creature, and there are very many of them, densely moving in the lake water, looking outrageous, the scalp is numb for a while.

When Dachangtong saw this, he couldn't help but shudder, and approached me and asked, "Brother! What is this? ”

"I don't know, it's hard to see like this," I also looked at the lake in confusion, "It would be much easier to recognize if I could catch one." ”

"Isn't that easy?" Dachangtong squatted down and was about to reach out to the lake to fish, I was very surprised, and immediately stopped, "Tong!" You're lacking in eyes! If this corpse is eaten by these things, do you still want your hands? I pointed to the corpse next to me and patted Dachangtong's head, "You can have a snack, use your brain." ”

"Hee-hee!" Dachang Tonghan smiled, "I'm used to it, doesn't the apprentice have to listen to the master, just now I only knew that the master was going to catch it up, so I didn't think much about it." ”

As soon as I heard this, I didn't say yes, "Who...... Who is your master, don't talk nonsense, I can't confiscate you as an apprentice. ”

"Anyway, I'll treat you as a master" Although Dachangtong is five big and three thick, but the thief is fine, and he will pull the relationship like a personal essence, "Master!" I really want to learn from you about detectives, even if it's a good job. ”

"Anyway, you can't call me a master, as for whether you can learn something, it depends on your understanding." I had no intention of dwelling with Da Cheong Tong on this issue, so I casually prevaricated and then changed the subject: "Our top priority now is to find out what the hell is in this lake." ”

The ghost, who had been watching the lake from the sidelines, spoke, "If only there was a fishing net, catch a net and study it slowly." ”

"Fishing nets I have on board!" Dachangtong was told this by the ghost, only then did he remember that there was a fishing net on his boat, and he clapped his hands and said, "You wait for me, and I'll be back immediately." With that, he plunged into the reeds and went straight to the river.

After a while, Dachangtong, who was holding the fishing net, ran to me excitedly, and "Shi ......" immediately stopped his mouth as soon as he opened his mouth: "No! It's the brother, the brother gives, you come. ”

I took the net from Dachangtong and sprinkled it casually, and after a while, I closed the net, only to see a net of larvae like small shrimp hooked in the net, but these strange larvae are much longer than shrimp.

At first glance, it looks like a dead leaf rolled up, but if it weren't for its round head and pointed ends and its body that keeps moving, it really looks like a rolled up dead leaf.

The larvae, as I mentioned earlier, are yellow, with smooth skin to the naked eye, a distinctly arched back, short tentacles on the lower jaw, a translucent body, a white crystal-like thing faintly hidden in the body, and a few tendrils like feet growing under the head.

"What is this? Corpses can't be eaten by these bugs, right? Dachangtong looked at the piles of larvae moving in the net, and asked with a puzzled expression.

"If I'm not mistaken, these should be the larvae of dragon lice," when everyone was speechless in the face of Dachangtong's question, the ghost saw a reason, "I once saw dragon lice during a military operation in Heilongjiang, so I know a little bit about it." ”

"Dragon lice is a carnivorous insect, fierce and gluttonous, they are insatiable for food, not easy to satisfy, in addition to eating small fish, small shrimp, small insects, small tadpoles, even the volume of several times larger than their own fish, frogs will also attack and prey, they are group eating insects, once the predator is bitten, the nearby dragon lice will swarm when they smell blood."

Speaking of this, in order to better illustrate the insatiable greed of these "foodies", the ghost pointed to the larvae in the net, and then said, "Don't look at their small ones, but they have an amazing diet, and can eat more than ten tadpoles in one day and night." ”

"So what do you mean, this corpse is what these dragon lice larvae eat?" When the officef guard heard the ghost say this, he couldn't help but ask curiously.

The ghost glanced at the group, his eyebrows furrowed, and his eyes began to look suspicious or "I can't say it, as far as I know, dragon lice don't have the habit of eating dead bodies." As he spoke, he gave me an inquiring look.

I understand that the ghost wants to hear my opinion, but I don't think these things are as simple as dragon lice, because dragon lice I understand, they can't survive in such a cold environment, I think this lake has at least a few degrees below zero, just like a big refrigerator, it is impossible for a normal creature like dragon lice to survive in this environment, but one thing is certain is that these larvae have a certain connection with dragon lice, at least this larvae are similar to the larvae of dragon lice, a bit of a distant relative.

Dachang listened to my analysis and listened to it without speaking, and the ghost was also thinking about it, so he also remained silent, except for the officer, "In my opinion, no matter what these larvae are, they can't be separated from the corpse being eaten." As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and took a few photos of the male corpse with only the skeleton and the mysterious larvae in the net, and then took back the mobile phone, cast his eyes in the direction of the hydropower station outside the reeds, and then said, "Let's go!" Let's go to the second floor of the hydropower station first, last night Dachangtong told me that you found two corpses in the same state of death, I want to go and see. So saying, he took the lead and went into the reeds.

When Dachang Tong was about to catch up, I grabbed him and scolded him in a low voice, "Why didn't you talk to me before calling the police?" Kill me by surprise. ”

"Didn't you tell me to call the police?" Dachangtong looked at me as aggrieved as he wanted, "When I asked you what to do last night, you didn't say you called the police." ”

As soon as I heard this, I almost vomited old blood, is this kid really lacking heart or stupid? Can't even hear the jokes? How can you be as naïve as a fat man? After a secret nagging in my heart, I couldn't say anything to Dachangtong, "Okay, I know, let's go!" ”。

When I entered the reed field, I accidentally noticed that this reed field was very strange, some of them were long and luxuriant, and some of them were dying, and the bottom of the dying ones was black, and when I was curious to pull up one and inspect it, the ghost came out of the reed field and said, "Wang, what are you doing, let's go." ”

Everyone walked through the reed fields, and when they first arrived at the dilapidated doorman station of the hydropower station, Dachangtong suddenly said, "Brother? Didn't you tell me last night that you were attacked by something mysterious in that part of the wastewater pit? Last night, it was dark and foggy, and you didn't see it clearly, so you heard the sound of chains, and now it's broad daylight, and the vision is clear, why don't we go and see it this time? Anyway, the corpse upstairs is dead, and you can't run away, but the thing that attacked you is a living thing, and if it escapes, it's really hard to find. ”

"You kid wasn't very timid last night, why are you so fat now, what! Did you eat bear heart or leopard gall last night? Dachangtong was suddenly said by me, first paused for a moment, and was speechless for a while, but soon he began to laugh "hehe" and laughed, "Isn't it daylight now, besides, isn't there still yours, what am I afraid of?" Don't be afraid! ”

Since I forgot to tell the ghost about this last night, the ghost asked me with a little concern when he heard such a big mouth. What's going on?

I told him what happened to me last night by the suspended black group, and I didn't want to arouse the curiosity of the officer and the ghost, and after everyone unanimously voted to make a decision, I temporarily changed my attention, and first went to see where the demons and monsters were locked in the chains?

Anyway, as Dachangtong said, the corpse on the second floor can't fly, but the chain is a living creature that can run, and if you don't go to the meeting first, you might really let it run.

Note: The ruffian may have paid more attention to suspense at the beginning of this volume, but the follow-up adventure is still exciting, and there is also news about Yanyu, does Wu Nian solve the mystery of Yanyu's identity in this volume? Is she alive or dead? Stay tuned.

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