Chapter 4: The Strange Female Corpse
Ding glanced at the two policemen, then looked down at the photo in his hand.
The black widow tattoo in the photograph has a faint shadow that seems to be the kind of ghosting produced by yellowed handwriting.
"How many days has this deceased been dead?" Ding Yi asked.
"Three days." The old policeman asked.
"There is a record in "Minnan Wuzhi" that Minnan Wushu is tattooed with corpse blood, and the tattooed person travels with his friends, encounters ghosts, friends are drowned, and the tattooed person lives alone." Ding Yi looked at the black widow's tattoo and recalled a sentence from the Minnan Wuzhi.
"What does that mean?" The two policemen's eyes widened, and the pens in their hands stopped.
"It means that the shamans of southern Fujian tattooed people with the blood of dead people, and the tattooed person went swimming with his friends, and met a water ghost, and the other friends all died, but only this tattooed person survived." Ding Yi explained.
"Water ghosts?" The old policeman was a little stunned and said, "So evil? β
"It means that the water ghost is afraid of this kind of tattoo, this kind of tattoo has the effect of driving away evil and avoiding disasters, the specific principle is that the older the thing, the more fierce, the older the thing, the more spiritual, the main body of corpse blood is more fierce than the water ghost, and the water ghost does not dare to approach when he smells the smell, so the person who has tattooed the corpse blood is safe." Ding Yi explained.
"Who told you that?" The old policeman looked at the sixteen-year-old boy suspiciously, and felt that Ding Yi was so young, someone must have taught these things, and it was very likely that Liu Yishou would say it, but he wanted to hear Ding Yi say it himself.
"I saw it from the Minnan Wuzhi, there is a note on it." Ding Yi naturally wouldn't tell the master, in fact, these were all taught by Liu Yishou himself.
"What kind of book is this?" The police officer asked again.
"A book that teaches yin and yang embroidery, this book is not circulated in the market, and I also got one by chance."
"Where's the book?" The police asked.
"After I looked at it, it seemed to be a dormitory, but it seemed to be sold to a ragged collector, and I had to go back and find out." Ding Yi said casually, but this was just an excuse, the police believed it or not, but this book was the master's heirloom, and after Ding Yi read it and wrote it down, he returned it to the master.
The old policeman frowned and looked at Ding Yi, the excuse made by the sixteen-year-old boy was very far-fetched, and it could even be said to be a bit naΓ―ve, since it was a very rare book, how could it be discarded or sold casually, but he did not break it.
He said: "You went on to say that tattooing with corpse blood is yin and yang embroidery, right? β
"Yes." Ding nodded his head and said, "This black widow tattoo is a yin and yang embroidery." β
"How so?" The two policemen cheered up and came over to look at the picture of my palm.
"You see, there are ghosts around this tattoo, and these ghosts are oozing oil, and this oil stain is black, it is corpse oil." When Ding Yi finally said these two words, the two policemen were taken aback.
The old policeman said: "This is impossible, this corpse has only been dead for three days, how can there be corpse oil?" β
"This corpse oil is not the corpse oil produced by her own corpse, but the material used to tattoo this tattoo." Ding Yi paused, looked at the two policemen, and then explained: "It is recorded in the Minnan Wuzhi that because the blood of the corpse is not easy to preserve, twenty-four hours after death, the blood in the body begins to coagulate, and the wizard gets it out before the corpse blood coagulates, and then preserves it in a special way, but it is difficult to preserve it for more than a month, and finally it all decays." β
"So wizards switch to corpse oil?" The old policeman asked rhetorically.
"That's right, it's corpse oil, corpse oil is the oil produced when the corpse is naturally decomposed by maggots and microorganisms in the process of decay, and the wizard will open the coffin to take the corpse oil when the corpse is decomposing, this corpse oil is easy to preserve, just like the lard that has been fried, and it can be put for several months under normal conditions." Ding Yi also compared the lard he had eaten before, and he felt a little sick to his stomach when he thought about it.
"You go on." The policeman looked at Ding Yi and asked him to continue, while the young policeman brushed and made notes.
"Tattoo of corpse oil, the embroidery needle pierces the surface layer to reach the dermis, has reached the position of the capillaries, the excess corpse oil will be absorbed by the capillaries, and then with the circulation of blood throughout the body, only a small part stays on the tattoo, but when the tattoo is working, it consumes the corpse oil, that is, the corpse oil is a consumable, the corpse oil on the tattoo is constantly consumed, and the corpse oil in the blood keeps replenishing the tattoo, so that it continues to play a role." Ding Yi continued.
"And what's the oil leaking from this tattoo?" The old policeman asked.
"After the death of the deceased, the blood coagulates within twenty-four hours, that is, it does not flow, and the corpse oil absorbed by the capillaries precipitates from the tattoo, that is, the original entrance, and the tattoo becomes a ghost."
"I see." The policeman suddenly realized.
"But one thing must be clear, corpse oil circulates in the blood of living people, and the physical damage to the tattoo is huge, which will bring all kinds of adverse reactions, and even endanger life, so people who tattoo this kind of yin and yang embroidery, especially those who tattoo the five poisons, are particularly evil, and we are generally unwilling to provoke, of course, we will not embroider yin and yang." Ding Yi finally hurriedly spoke out to clarify himself.
"You won't? So how do you know so much? The old policeman asked rhetorically, looking disbelieving.
"I'm also interested in yin and yang embroidery, and I just got this information from the Minnan Wuzhi, didn't you say that you want the police and the people to cooperate? Then I'll tell you. "Ding Yi is also a little weak, he has said everything that should be said, these two policemen won't believe him, right?
He looked at the policeman, and the old policeman's eyes did not blink, like eagle eyes, staring at Ding Yi's eyes.
This thing is not done by him, he is naturally fearless, his eyes are not blinking, he does not do bad things, and he is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.
"This faceless female corpse, the skin was peeled off, but there were no fatal injuries on the body, and after the autopsy in the morgue, it was found that ......" The old policeman deliberately paused and kept looking into Ding Yi's eyes.
"Found what?" Ding Yi's eyes widened, he was originally very curious about this matter, but he didn't expect the police to take the initiative to confide in the case.
"The stomach of the dead is gone." The old policeman said in a low voice.
"What?" Ding Yi was taken aback, he had never seen such an evil thing.
"From the outside, the body of the deceased is intact, without any gaps, but the stomach inside the body is just gone." The old policeman said: "So we think this matter is very evil, so we want to find someone who knows how to ask, I think your master Liu Yishou should know a lot of things." β
Ding Yi understood that the police took the initiative to reveal the facts of the case, just to let his master take action.
But judging from the master's reaction, constantly grinding his upper with his foot, and even calling him directly to tell him not to confide in them, it is obvious that the master will not cooperate with them.