I'm finally sure. Li Jianguo's bust is like a phantom, and I can only see my body.

The body refers to the body of flesh and blood, naked.

It couldn't see anything else, and the clothes I was wearing were as transparent to its eyes as the emperor's new clothes in fairy tales...... Not to mention the pen and paper I have in my hand, and the words written on it.

Although the other party is just a "spirit", the feeling of being looked at by others still makes me very uncomfortable - except for the weirdos who have exhibitionism, there are few normal people who can be naked under the eyes of others, but they don't care, if there is no one around, right?

I tried to pretend that nothing had happened, but one hand was in the crotch of my pants, intentionally or unintentionally, because the phantom kept looking at my place.

Are you staring at the crotch cat?!

It took me a lot of effort to pull its attention back from the strange place, and then I continued to open its mouth and gesture together, asking it, "Can you read the text?" ”

With the experience of the previous time, I only repeated it twice this time, and I understood it and nodded at me.

I thought about it for a moment, tried to take a ballpoint pen and write three words in the palm of my left hand: "Who are you?" and showed it to it.

It understood it right away.

"I'm Li Jianguo." It says, along with a question, "You have words in your hand, but I don't see you holding a pen, how do you do that?" ”

It's good that it can see the words written on me.

I continued: "That's not important. Can you describe what you see? ”

It turned its head and looked around: "The house...... It's a morgue, right? I can see you, and ......," it pointed to Li Jianguo's corpse beneath him, "and this rotten piece of meat." ”

Wait a minute! "This rotten meat"?

But isn't it self-proclaimed Li Jianguo? How can you call your body "a mess of rotten meat" - normally, "my body" or "my corpse" is more appropriate, right?

There was no space left in the palm of my hand, and I wrote on the back of my hand: "Ask again, who are you?" ”

"Li Jianguo, are you sick in the brain? Keep asking. ”

"And who's that corpse under you?"

"I don't know, I don't know this person."

"His name is Li Jianguo, and he has passed away. Your appearance, in my eyes, is exactly the same as this corpse, but you say you don't know him? ”

"I'm like this, do I still have to lie to you? yes, I feel like something is wrong, this thing-" It pointed to Li Jianguo's corpse again, "He's stuck on me!" ”

At this time, my left arm was already full of words, I simply took off my T-shirt and said to Cheng Cheng: "Team Cheng, I will explain the specific situation to you later - you will tell you what I am telling you now, help me write it on my skin, be careful not to write too much, I have limited space on my body." ”

Cheng Cheng and Tang Yuan had already walked up to me, and when they watched my movements, they roughly understood that I was using this method to talk to that weird mist-like humanoid monster, so they didn't interject or interrupt me just now.

As soon as I said this at this time, Cheng Cheng immediately took the ballpoint pen in my hand and nodded his head to show that he understood.

And Tang Yuan was originally holding a camera to record, but at this time, he let out an exclamation: "Wow, Detective Ji, you have a tattoo on your back!" Monty Python! It looks very fierce, it's too expressive - where did you get the tattoo, introduce it to me later, giant handsome! ”

As he spoke, he approached me and took a closer look.

It turned out that Yumoto had seen the tattoos on my back.

I can't see that this chubby tech nerd is also interested in tattoos.

He regarded the tattoo as a tattoo, and I didn't correct him, but I made up my mind that I would call it a tattoo in front of outsiders in the future.

Cheng Cheng on the side stopped Tang Yuan: "During work, be serious!" ”

Of course, the latter didn't dare to make a mistake in front of Cheng Cheng, who was the section chief, shrunk his neck, took two steps back, and stood aside to continue shooting.

And I continued to talk to "Li Jianguo" through the words written on me.

"Do you not recognize, or do you not remember the owner of this corpse?" I asked.

"I said, I haven't seen him! I seem to have a bit of amnesia, I can't remember things, and I get headaches when I think about it - is that important? Li Jianguo's phantom held his head with his hand, and the aerosol-like phantom that made up its head appeared briefly blurred and dispersed.

It continued: "I don't care who is who, what could have gone wrong here – but so what? I just want to get out of this rotten meat now! If you're a good person, please, help me get this thing out of the way—I can't move it! ”

"How can I help you?"

"Bring me together...... Li Jianguo - yes, bring Li Jianguo together...... I need ......"

I kept an eye on its mouth to read the lips, but its mouth opened and closed suddenly.

"I need ...... Need...... Want......? ……？ ”

What is needed? But I really can't tell the last two words.

Then, its gaze stopped at the words on me, and then it slowly turned its whole body away, finally turning its back to me.

The three of us were a little strange, walked around the crystal coffin to the front of "Li Jianguo", only to see that the whole body of the blue mist-like phantom stopped moving, in an absolute static state, and its eyes were blank and scattered, looking fixedly at some unreachable place, and even the lips stopped moving.

"When we first found out that this thing existed, it was like this, motionless." Chengcheng Road.

Tang Yuan added on the side: "I used to move my lips occasionally...... I've done the statistics, and it's about a five-minute period. ”

But we waited fifteen minutes, during which time I tried to get its attention or "wake up" it and interact with it again, but no matter what I did, the apparition still didn't respond.

Moreover, the aerosol-like substance that makes up the phantom's body seems to be more transparent.

With Cheng Cheng's help, I opened the crystal coffin.

The crystal coffin was actually just a large freezer, and as soon as the glass cover was removed, a cool air crept up my hands, and at the same time, an extreme stench of dead corpses directly penetrated my nose.

"Ahh

I was originally a little hot and cold, but I was cold and smoked by the smell of corpses, and I immediately sneezed.

I hurriedly put on a T-shirt, but a burst of chills, still like a needle kept stabbing into my body, I touched my forehead, it was a little hot, and I secretly screamed bad luck in my heart, it seems that this time it is inevitable to have a small illness.

"What's wrong, not feeling well?" Cheng Cheng asked me.

I waved my hand: "Maybe it's a heat cold, it's not a big deal." Then he asked, "How many days has this Li Jianguo been dead?" Three days? ”

"Hmm."

I frowned: "No, why does it stink so much?" ”

Although it is the height of summer, Li Jianguo has only passed away for three days after all, and his body has been stored in the morgue and crystal coffin, which can be regarded as "the whole cold chain preservation", it stands to reason that the smell of the corpse should not be too obvious, but the smell of the corpse in front of him should not be the smell of a corpse that has just died for three days.

My account may be a little strange, but the few people present (including me) are all people who have been dealing with all kinds of corpses for many years, and they are very familiar with the smell and degree of corpse stench, and even if it is really hot, I am sure that my nose can distinguish it clearly.

Sure enough, after Cheng Cheng sniffed twice, he also agreed with my question: "It's really a bit strange, this smell should be at least more than a week, and it has to be at the current temperature...... But less than an hour after Li Jianguo died in the Paradise Club on Earth, the body was transported to the hospital, and the time for rescue and confirmation of death was also counted, and a few hours later, he also entered the morgue. ”

"Team Cheng, I agree with you, this smell is too strong, last time a tenant in Sunshine Garden died in a rental house, and it was only discovered after a week...... The smell of the scene is similar to this, but everyone has already started to rot......" Tang Yuan covered his nose tightly on the side, and instantly retreated a few meters away, "I knew I would have worn a mask." ”

I'm a little skeptical, is this guy really a medical examiner? Cheng Cheng and I are not as exaggerated as him.

And I don't even need to ask, after the corpse is transported here, the first person to do a preliminary examination of the corpse will definitely not be Tang Yuan.

In fact, after a person dies, it is no different from a lump of pork in a short period of time. However, if it is not treated in time (including but not limited to cooking, pickling, smoking, soaking formalin liquid and other embalming measures), the soft tissue liquefaction after the Giant View (don't Baidu picture "Giant View Corps") will taste ...... It's much more "**" than stinky pork and stinky rats.

The most powerful part of the corpse odor is formed by the decomposition of protein-rich internal organs** three days after death. The amount of a dead mouse can stink a floor, not to mention such a big person, the lethality is huge - if you have to describe it, the smell of corpses is no longer a simple smell, but a real "smell of death", that smell can drill through your nose all the way to the brain, much more "deep" than the smell of feces or something!

"Historical Records of the Family of Qi Taigong" recorded a story: "Duke Huan's corpse was in bed for sixty-seven days, and the corpse worms came out of the house", which means that Duke Qi Huan died in bed for sixty-seven days, and no one collected his body, and as a result, the corpse maggots crawled out of the door......

This picture is ......

Therefore, when most people smell a serious corpse odor, they vomit directly, which is really a normal physiological reaction.

I'm kind of a bit of this physiological reaction right now.

I took out a pair of disposable rubber gloves from the pocket of Tang Yuan's forensic gown, put them on myself, and immediately lifted the white shroud covering Li Jianguo's body, and asked Tang Yuan to turn on the electric light in the room.

That wasn't enough, I reached out for my phone again and turned on the phone's flash.

The location where the apparition appeared was on the waist of the corpse, and I also focused on examining this part.

After a while, I found something out of the ordinary!

Under the focus of the mobile phone's flash, I finally noticed that in the depths of the corpse's navel, there was an extremely thin light blue mist coming out, but before it could float out of the navel, it dissipated into the air.

I told Cheng Cheng and Tang Yuan about this discovery, and both were amazed.

I reminded Tang Yuan: "Tang Yuan, in the follow-up autopsy, you must pay attention to this light blue mist, and it is best to find out the exact source." ”

……

"How?" Coming out of the autopsy room, Cheng Cheng asked me.

"Let's make a note first, it's too early for me to draw conclusions."

Since this case has been known to the General Police Bureau, Cheng Cheng must have no arbitrary power, all his actions must first apply for permission, and then submit a detailed report, even so, once the above adjusts the level of the situation according to Cheng Cheng's report, this case is likely to be taken over by the higher authorities, and at that time, Cheng Cheng's level will not be accessible, let alone a private detective like me who is clothed in a layer of "magic stick" light.

Therefore, I made up my mind, there are some secrets, I still don't confess to Cheng Cheng - at least not in the process of transcription, so as not to attract the attention of the above too early, I just need to remind him a little.

Cheng Cheng said: "It's okay." This case is closely watched, and I have to give an explanation sooner. "I don't know if he understood what I meant.

I am also familiar with the interrogation room, so I went to sit first, and after a while, Cheng Cheng came in with two cups of tea, and the recorder who followed behind was also an acquaintance, it was the little policewoman Xiao Zhou, who greeted me when she saw me: "Brother Ji is good." "The sugar content of the voice is quite high.

The case in Heishui Town, although a gag order was placed on it, was still an open secret within the Chengnan Police Bureau, after all, two police officers died, and paper could not contain the fire.

In that case, if it weren't for me, I'm afraid even Cheng Cheng would have to take his life, so I can be regarded as indirectly helping the Criminal Investigation Bureau - if even the section chief Cheng Cheng is killed, then the face of the Chengnan Branch will be lost this time.

Therefore, when I came to the Seongnam Police Station later, the attitude of the officers towards me was much better than before, especially the ordinary officers of the Criminal Investigation Bureau.

Of course, a certain forensic section chief named Shen Tangzhi still has that habitual cold face.

There is nothing to say in the transcript, the point is to retell the conversation between me and the phantom of "Liu Jianguo" in detail, and then also point out the suspicion that the degree of decay of the corpse may not match the actual time of death.

After making the record, it was already evening, and Cheng Cheng left me to finish eating, but I politely refused on the grounds that the detective agency still had something to do.

But I quietly reminded Cheng Cheng that he must keep someone to keep an eye on the surveillance in the police bureau 24 hours a day, especially the situation in the autopsy room where Li Jianguo's body was stored.

Of course, there was nothing wrong in the office, and as soon as I got out of the police station, I took a taxi to Shiqiaopu.

Because I just got a very important piece of information from Cheng Cheng: Li Jianguo's funeral was handled at the Shiqiaopu Funeral Home.

Next to the Shiqiaopu funeral home is the Shiqiaopu crematorium......

Shiqiaopu Crematorium is behind the old 739 steel mill......

And the inhuman monster who called herself Xiaoli who came to me before said that she lived on Laodong North Road near the old factory area of the 739 Steel Mill......

In addition, there is another piece of information that I did not tell Cheng Cheng: the strange blue mist found in the navel of Li Jianguo's corpse is very similar to the blue mist that emerged from Xiaoli's eyes that I saw a few hours ago!

Based on the above two doubts, do I have reason to believe that there is some connection between this appearance is the phantom of Li Jianguo's upper body and the monster named Xiaoli?