Chapter 22: The Body

When the dark blue stone was absorbed by the blood jade in my chest, I felt a mysterious power dissipate from the funeral parlor in an instant, like the night covered by dark clouds suddenly opened, and the moonlight shone on the ground silvery, and the feeling of stabbing in the back that had been there since entering this building also dissipated without a trace.

There is no need to worry about the safety of the staff at the funeral home, as it is completely safe.

The tables, chairs, and banners in the Yulian Hall were scattered on the ground, and it was a mess, and the original solemn memorial service atmosphere was gone, and the entire hall was empty—the corpse in a shroud lying in the center of the hall could no longer be counted as a "person", at least not a living person.

The corpse has completely changed back into a corpse, and the dead cannot die again.

Like Li Jianguo's corpse, this corpse also exuded a strong putrid smell, as if it had been dead for a week. When we looked closely, we found that the skin of the corpse was intact, but the inside was estimated to be highly decomposed, and the naked eye could see that there were corpse insects wriggling under the facial skin of the corpse, and burrowing in and out of the mouth, eyes, ears and nose, which could not help but make the scalp tingle.

Seeing that everything was indeed back on track, I got up to leave, but at this time Cheng Cheng suddenly said, "Look at the crystal coffin......"

The crystal coffin was placed in front of the farewell table in the hall, and the whole wall behind it was hung with a black and white curtain and a large elegiac couplet and the word "dian", which seemed to be normal, but when I looked closely, I noticed that something was wrong-

The lid of the crystal coffin was actually closed, and there was a faint touch of red inside.

"Is it ......?"

The three of us thought of something at the same time, and hurriedly rushed forward, and when we saw the scene in the crystal coffin, we couldn't help but gasp together.

Inside was a person.

…… If, that could still be considered human.

The person in the crystal coffin, without a strand of it, the epidermis of the whole body was cut open and separated, revealing the cyan blood vessels, white fat, pink muscles, and white bones under the skin, and the most terrifying thing is that this person who seems to have been dissected is still alive!

His whole body was drenched in bright red blood, the killer cut open the arteries in his hands, and slowly bled them.

On the ribs of the weakly undulating chest, there was a piece of paper with four words written on it:

"Punishment for blasphemy".

The victim was Zhang Dehai - the murderer was afraid that we would not recognize him, so he deliberately left Zhang Dehai's head intact and did not move a knife.

Cheng Cheng approached, observed through the glass lid of the crystal coffin for a while, and then turned around and said, "The appliance should be a scalpel, but in terms of technique, it is not even an amateur...... It also means that the victim will report more suffering. Aji, is there a connection between the note on Zhang Dehai's body and the note we found on Zou Xianshan's body before? ”

When I saw the note, I also instantly remembered the Zou Xianshan case, which we coincided with.

I nodded and said: "The note on Zou Xianshan's body is 'The Punishment of Hiding Needles in the Honey', and the note on Zhang Dehai's body is 'The Punishment of Blasphemy', one of the two people was stung to death by a poisonous bee, and the other was dissected by **, and the death was extremely painful, to say that the two are not connected, it is a strange thing." The murderer who killed Zou Xianshan and Zhang Dehai should be the guy wearing the mask of the ghost head - it is very likely to be Zhang Hui! Unfortunately, you didn't shoot him in the morgue, and he just turned around and hid behind the wall, so I still haven't seen if the Ghostface is lame or not. ”

The old knife said: "It should be this Zhang Hui who didn't run away." Aji, you guy is good at everything, but he is a little obsessive-compulsive, and he has to find evidence of real hammers before he can draw conclusions. In fact, why bother, we all know that it must be this Zhang Hui's ghost, and all the evidence points to him. ”

Cheng Cheng disagreed: "But the most important point has not been explained, and that is the motive." Why did Zhang Hui use such cruel means to kill Zou Xianshan and Zhang Dehai? As for the strange things about the resurrection of the dead, let's not mention it yet. ”

I said, "The content of these two notes should be the motive. The murderer's actions don't seem like a simple revenge killing, and I'm sure the story must be so complicated that he must leave us with a hint - a little worried that we won't be able to solve the case......"

The three of us have seen a lot of death, and we know that we don't need to call an ambulance anymore, the person in the crystal coffin is no longer saved, he has already fallen into shock due to excessive blood loss, and now his faint flame of life is just a candle in the wind, which may be extinguished at any time.

But out of humanitarianism, Cheng Cheng still notified the hospital's emergency center as soon as possible, and the support of the police bureau will also arrive soon to do a carpet search of the entire funeral home - what if my feeling is skewed, and there are still living corpses in the funeral home?

Therefore, Cheng Cheng also made a special confession that the special police must be fully armed.

And the three of us hurriedly drove to the next destination - Zhang Hui's house.

On the way, Xiao Zhou led a team of police officers from the Criminal Investigation Bureau to join us, and since there were enough people, Cheng Cheng commanded his subordinates to surround the seven-story red brick building near the 739 steel mill.

After breaking down the door, he was greeted by a disgusting smell of heavy corpses.

Zhang Hui was not found in the room, only a female corpse, lying upright on the bed in the bedroom.

It was the woman who had entrusted this case to me, Xiaoli.

Like the corpse found in the Yulian Hall of the funeral home, Xiaoli's body was relatively intact on the outside, but the inside was already highly decomposed, she was lying on her back, her mouth was wide open, and a large mass of corpse insects was surging in her mouth like a huge ball of yarn, and her eyes had already been hollowed out, and white-brown fat corpse insects were crawling back and forth between her eyes, nostrils and ears......

Coupled with the terrible stench of rotting corpses, policewoman Xiao Zhou and several other colleagues didn't last long, and they ran outside the house one by one, almost vomiting out the bitter bile water.

"A few days ago, she came to my grocery store to look for me, and this case was just a small case to investigate her boyfriend's loyalty at first, but I didn't expect such a big battle to come later." I looked at Xiaoli's corpse and felt it by the way.

Looking around, there are only some old furniture in the room, and I am not going to participate in the on-site investigation, because since Zhang Hui did not take Xiaoli's body away, it must be another reason, at least it was expected that we would come here, so we will definitely not find any useful clues in this house.

"You say, she came alive to your grocery store a few days ago?" The old knife covered his nose, a little incredulous.