Chapter 66: The Vanishing Corpse (3)
Lu Xun stood in the cemetery, with splints and bandages tied to his legs, feet and arms, like a seriously wounded man who had just gotten out of the line of fire.
When they woke up, the executive department was surprised to see their minister's blue nose and swollen face, and they didn't know who could beat such a powerful man as the minister into such a virtuous deed? Lu Xun didn't bother to explain, only said that he accidentally fell down the stairs.
Lu Xun went to the hospital and did a simple examination, except for the calf of his left foot, which was swollen like a turnip, and the pain was so painful that he couldn't touch the ground, nothing else was serious. Lu Xun is a mortal in the end, he doesn't have the powerful self-healing ability of Lemon or Zhao Gao, and he is not much better than ordinary people without the kestrel system, the doctor in the school hospital squinted his eyes and looked at the stump leg for a long time, and finally patted Lu Xun on the shoulder, and said Mr. Lu Xun, why don't you take a cane to support it first?
Lu Xun returned to the office with a cane, but Ai Ye was frightened, and the little girl's eyes were red with distress. She insisted on letting Lu Xun sit down and rest, serving tea and water, but one accidentally tripped under her foot and knocked over the pot full of boiling water on Lu Xun's other intact leg.
Lu Xun's screams were really like killing a pig at that moment.
Lu Xun stood in the cemetery with two crutches, surrounded by people from the executive department, who was installing surveillance cameras for the cemetery, and the cemetery in the security area was stolen and excavated twice in a row, and Lu Xun had to pay attention to it...... He wondered what was going on, what was this ghoul-like creature? Is it some kind of saprophyrcus? Or is it some unknown infected or hunter?
The safe zone can't determine if this mysterious creature is harmful to people, but it's undoubtedly a safety hazard, and the Patrol must catch it just to be safe, and he can't allow any unknown creatures to roam in the safe zone.
"Height?"
"Five feet...... Six feet! Can you see it? ”
"Higher! Higher! The field of view is not big enough! ”
The number of surveillance cameras in the security zone is limited, and the Land Patrol asked the Enforcement Department to dismantle two, but it is obviously difficult for the two monitors to cover the entire cemetery, so the installation angle and height must be carefully adjusted to minimize dead ends.
Humvees from the Enforcement Department were parked on the road, and they brought in a small table to serve as a makeshift workstation, a table full of computers and equipment, messy black cables extending into the yellow weeds, technicians sitting behind desks staring at computer screens, and others setting up surveillance cameras in the cemetery.
"Move to the left! Move two or three meters - that's enough! That's enough! ”
"Camera number one is working fine!"
"The position of camera number two is too off! Lean this way! ”
The two surveillance cameras were set up separately, and the executive department decided to put the surveillance on top of a metal pole, and then put the metal pole in the cemetery like a street lamp, the surveillance camera itself can be rotated, and the angle of vision covered is almost 270 degrees, and the two cameras are enough to monitor most areas of the cemetery.
However, due to the need to take into account the angle and field of view, the monitoring must be high and far, and it is conceivable that the imaging quality will not be ideal, let alone at night.
Lu Xun stood on the side with a cane, if he had been in the past, he would have taken the lead in helping to carry the pole, but he is now a disabled person and can't help much, and the executive department doesn't need him to command this kind of simple work, you must know that many of these people present are experienced retired veterans, and it is easy to set up a monitoring or something.
So Lu Xun was a little idle, he was looking around with a cane, dragging his two stump legs and pacing back and forth in the cemetery with difficulty.
"Minister!" Someone saw him go away and shouted at him.
"Leave me alone, you get on with your work." Lu Xun walked forward step by step, there were tombstones on both sides, and he wanted to see the two stolen tombs again.
Edward Haythal's grave has been cordoned off by the Enforcement Department, the surrounding weeds have also been cleared, and the Executive Department has also cleaned his tombstone by the way, the big pit is very conspicuous, there is nothing under the pit.
Howard Hughes's grave was not far away, also fenced off, the same big pit, the same nothing.
"What else can you see?" Lao Jia asked.
"I can't see anything." Lu Xun shook his head, "I'm not Sherlock Holmes, I can directly deduce the details of the prisoner at the scene of the crime." ”
"Extrapolating the details of the culprit at the scene of the crime?" Lao Jia asked, "Which case are you referring to?" ”
Lu Xun thought for a while, "The Study of Blood Characters." ”
"You've seen so many Sherlock Holmes, do you remember all the episodes?" Lao Jia asked.
"I can't remember most of it, after all, I watched it when I was very young." Lu Xun said, "I remember some of them...... For example, "A Study in Scarlet", "Four Signatures", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "Uncanny Valley", "The Dancing Villain", "The Redheads", "Bohemian Scandal" and so on. ”
"How old were you?" Lao Jia said, "I can read such a thick book with relish." ”
"Anyway, it's a story, I just read it as a story, especially "The Hound of the Baskervilles", it's a horror story, and I can't sleep at night after reading it." Lu Xun shook his head, "If you give me a copy of "Theory of Moral Sentiments" or "Critique of Pure Reason" or something, then I will definitely not be able to read it." ”
"You can't compare to zero distance at this point."
"Zero distance?" Lu Xun was stunned, "Did you say Luo Cheng?" ”
"When I heard that Luo Cheng was the same age as you at the time, I started reading "Critique of Pure Reason". Lao Jia said, "At a young age, the depth of thought is much stronger than yours." ”
"Then I'll be glad I didn't read those books."
"Why?"
"Look at Luo Cheng's current appearance." Lu Xun pursed his lips and lowered his voice, "Obviously, I read too much philosophy when I was a child, and I read my brain stupidly, right?" ”
A person and a computer talking about Sherlock Holmes and philosophy in the cemetery seem to have no reason, but this is the daily life of Lu Xun and Lao Jia, and Lu Xun just thinks and says something to Lao Jia.
He stood on the edge of the grave on crutches, and at some point the sky got dark, and the wind blew bitterly cold, and the time was already in the middle of November, when the climate was rapidly turning cooler, and winter was about to begin.
Lu Xun felt that time was really an elusive thing, and in a blink of an eye, a year would pass again.
He wrapped his coat tightly and sighed, "This world is really full of disasters...... There is no peace for the dead, who have been dead for so long that they will eventually have to be exhumed and their bodies exhumed. ”
"If you catch a grave-digging creature, what are you going to do with it?" Lao Jia asked.
"Is this...... The specific situation is analyzed on a case-by-case basis. Lu Xun replied, "Look at the weight." ”
"What do you mean?" Lao Jia asked, "Weight?" ”
Lu Xun nodded.
"If you weigh more than fifty pounds, you can braise it or sweet and sour, if it is less than fifty pounds, then cook soup and drink it."