The other party did not answer, but asked, "You, who are you-"

"Don't say yes?"

I exerted my strength, and the other party immediately shouted in pain, but he still scolded his mother: "! Who the fuck are you? ”

"The mouth is quite hard!" I spat at the side, "Lao Tzu is a private detective, a temporary adviser to the police department!" ”

When I said the words "police department", I clearly felt the other person's body shake suddenly.

Damn, there is a ghost in my heart!

"Click."

I reached for the handcuffs on my lower back and handcuffed the crippled hands behind my back to the handrails of the stairs.

After I reported my identity, he stopped cursing and stopped struggling, just gasping for air.

I searched his body and found no murder weapon, so I breathed a sigh of relief, took two steps back, and let my sweaty back stick to the wall of the hallway.

There was some anger in the hallway, so I wiped the sweat from my forehead with the back of my hand, then pulled out my phone and turned on the flash.

The dark corridor was suddenly illuminated.

I saw the lame man lying on the stairs, the yellow rubber raincoat on his body was particularly conspicuous under the flashing lights, his hands were raised high, he was handchained to the handrails of the stairs, his head was lowered, avoiding the direct light, I noticed that his nose was broken by me, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.

Barely even...... I touched the right side of my chest, which was still in severe pain, but luckily my ribs were not broken.

As soon as the light swept away, I found that the dark gray long bag was actually a very regular PVC body bag, not a woven bag or something, which made me feel a little wrong......

When I opened the bag, it contained a corpse.

The body was already cool, but apparently not just killed, the time of death was at least 12-24 hours or more, that is, the suspicion of the lame man immediately killing was ruled out, he was just transferring the body.

This is a female corpse, with curly hair dyed brown, with a very thoughtful appearance and makeup, but the yellow spitting at the corners of the mouth, purple skin and lips indicate the cause of death of the female corpse, which is very likely to be poisoned.

It's a pity that there is no mobile phone signal in this corridor at all, otherwise, I can ask Cheng Cheng to send someone to support me now.

"Ah Hui! What's wrong? Ah Hui—"

Just as I was about to continue the questioning of the lame man, a shout came from downstairs, the footsteps were anxious, and the sensor lights in the stairwell were lit up in turn, getting closer and closer—it seemed that the man in the cap who had answered downstairs rushed up!

I didn't say anything, but immediately retreated to the fire door, although I had subdued the cripple, but I didn't have any weapons with me, and if there was any murder weapon in the cap's hand, I would still be unable to match it, so I had to find a way out first.

A bright flashlight shot up with a shaky glow.

"Ah Hui, what's going on?" The cap saw the appearance of the lame man, and saw the body bag containing the corpse opened, and was startled: "That, that bag, why did you open it?!" ”

He was so frightened that he took two steps back, almost stepped on the air, and rolled down the stairs.

The lame man was handcuffed with his hands behind his back, unable to move at all, and only muttered in his throat: "You ask him - I don't know where the neuropathy came from, and suddenly rushed out and hit me!" ”

Only then did the cap realize that there was another person, and asked me tremblingly, "...... you Who are you? ”

I glanced at the cap, he was holding a flashlight in one hand and tugging on the handrail of the stairs with the other, his legs still shaking, and he looked extremely nervous, not like he was deliberately trying to confuse me.

In stark contrast, this cripple I handcuffed, who was much calmer than a cap.

"My name is Ji Guang, a temporary consultant of the Criminal Investigation Division of the Seongnam Police Bureau, and a private investigator of the 'Ji Guang Detective Agency'. Now, tell me, who are you, who are you, what are you doing here?! ”

"The ...... of the Police Department Detective, detective? ”

My list of names made the cap a little confused, but I didn't give him a chance to think about it, and shouted: "Turn around, face the wall, and put your hands up against the wall!" I now suspect that you are involved in a criminal case! ”

My tough attitude made the cap forget to question my right to question me, especially the words "criminal case", which made him tremble.

After a slight hesitation, the cap obediently leaned on the wall with his hands raised.

Nor did he find anything that could be called a murder weapon.

"Tell me, what are the identities of the two of you, why are you smuggling female corpses in the middle of the night? What does this corpse have to do with you? ”

The cap trembled, "We...... We are employees of the Shiqiaopu funeral home, this corpse has nothing to do with us, we are just here to transport the corpse......"

According to the confession of the cap, his own name is Zheng Xiaoyu, a full-time hearse driver at the Shiqiaopu funeral home, and the lame man's name is Zhang Hui, who is a professional corpse bearer.

The two of them received a call from the funeral home at around 10 o'clock last night, and the boss asked them to make this order - to carry the body from the Shining Star Hotel and transport it to the morgue of the Shiqiaopu Funeral Home.

Afraid that I wouldn't believe it, Zheng Xiaoyu asked me to take out a document from his trouser pocket, which was a work card of Shiqiaopu Funeral Home, I took Zheng Xiaoyu's flashlight, took a photo of the photo on the work card, and then took a photo of Zheng Xiaoyu's face, which was indeed consistent.

Zhang Hui's work card was also on me, I checked it as usual, and there seemed to be no problem - the ID photos have steel seals, and the photos also match, and the documents of this special industry, generally do not do fake certificates (because the original as a reference is not easy to do), so it is difficult to get forged documents on the market.

At this time, I can basically determine that I seem to have misunderstood Zhang Hui.

Of course, I know something about corpse bearers.

Xiangxi drove corpses, everyone has heard of it?

The so-called expulsion of corpses means that after some people die in a foreign land, because they pay great attention to "returning to their roots" in the old days, they need to bring the corpses back to their hometown for burial.

However, the transportation of corpses is a major problem.

No one wants to go on the road with a corpse, whether it's an ancient chariot or a modern train or plane, they don't want to carry the living and the dead together - after all, the dead are considered extremely ominous, and no one wants to touch the bad luck.

Or, the dead bodies died in places with precipitous terrain, such as mines and deep mountains, where vehicles could not enter at all, and the bodies could only be transported out by manpower.

As a result, there is a profession that has always been mysterious - "corpse chaser".

Legend has it that the corpse catcher can make the corpse walk on its own as if it were alive, and in addition to this, the corpse catcher also has a secret set of secrets that ensure that the corpse does not decay before it is transported to its destination.

But legends are legends after all, and they all say that people die like lights go out, and although the appearance of dead bodies and living people is similar, in fact, life and death are like chasms, and how big is the difference between living and non-living bodies? Worlds apart.

How could a dead body get up and walk on its own when all its bodily functions had ceased to move?

The so-called "driving out the corpse" probably uses a variety of unknown secret methods to make the corpse not decompose or destruct, and at the same time uses special methods to transport the corpse -

The common speculation is that the corpse is broken down into pieces, packed and embalmed in secret ways, and then the living person pretends to be a dead corpse to rush away - in fact, the living person carries and transports the corpse pieces.

After transporting the body to its destination, the corpse chaser will then assemble the decomposed body pieces into their original shape, completing the purpose of returning the deceased to their roots.

And the person who pretends to be a dead body for the corpse chaser and transports the corpse parts is called a "corpse bearer"!

In modern times, corpse chasers have long been lost in the long river of time, and corpse bearers are no longer so mysterious, but have become a special profession in the funeral industry.

In the old days, if someone died in a large family, the body could be packed in a precious coffin, and the mourning and music rang out, the paper money flew into the sky, and the mourners lined up in a long line, carrying the coffin to the feng shui treasure cave in the deep mountains, and the swaggering scenery of the funeral.

But now there are tall buildings everywhere, people live like bees in hive-like buildings, and homes are so close together that there may be hundreds or thousands of people sharing an elevator, and most of them don't know you......

In this case, the old set of funeral customs will not work at all, after all, in the metropolis of steel and concrete, no one will accommodate even a living person, let alone a dead person?

In order not to let the "afterlife" disturb others, the profession of "corpse bearer" came into being.

Carrying corpses usually goes out in the middle of the night to transport the dead bodies from high-rise buildings from rarely visited roads (such as fire stairways) and then load them into hearses and send them to funeral homes.

The rest of the process is done in the funeral home and crematorium.

At this point, a person's last journey is over.

Since then, the only trace left by the deceased in this world, except for the name as a code name, is only the memory of relatives and friends...... When the last person on earth who remembers you dies, you will be gone from this world forever.

Xiaoli's boyfriend Zhang Hui is a corpse bearer, which I really didn't expect at all.

Looking back now, it's no wonder that I feel that Zhang Hui is ghostly, in addition to being with Xiaoli, the corpse bearer often has close contact with all kinds of dead corpses, and it is inevitable that he will have a very heavy corpse on his body.

The income of the corpse bearer is indeed very expensive, but not everyone can do it.

After doing this work for a long time, they will often be infected with some strange diseases, and if they are not hard enough, they will die in the end, and the death will be quite ugly - many of them are scared to death.

The corpse bearer who gets along with the corpse almost day and night will also be scared to death, imagine what a terrible thing must have happened?

I couldn't help but glance at Zhang Hui's lame leg - could this not be a simple lame leg, but some kind of strange disease?

……

Although there is a high probability that it was a misunderstanding, if I release and apologize immediately, it is estimated that not only will I not be understood, but I will also be complained.

So, still with a straight face, I asked about the source of the bodies, wrote down their contact information and addresses, and took pictures of their work cards.

For my behavior, the hearse driver Zheng Xiaoyu is very cooperative, Zhang Hui has always had a cold face, and I even feel that his gaze is quite unkind to me - but, first, I have just had a fight with him, and some anger is normal, and second, he has the inhuman monster Xiaoli hidden in his house, and it is understandable that he is very vigilant.

I just didn't see his gaze.

Zhang Hui used half a tissue to plug his bleeding nostrils, rubbed his shoulders and arms that would be tortured, and then silently sorted out the body bag again, carried it directly on his body, and walked downstairs.

At the back door of the Shining Star Hotel, there was another van parked, which must have been the hearse driven by Zheng Xiaoyu.

Zhang Hui moved the body into the back compartment of the hearse, Zheng Xiaoyu lit the fire, said hello to me, and drove out of the back alley in a blink of an eye.

"I'll check this tonight, and I'll look for you again no matter what the outcome is."

I lit a cigarette, only took a shallow puff, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest, and there were bursts of dull pain in the parts where I had a fierce fight with Zhang Hui in the dark - damn, why did this kid have such a strange power?

I handed him a cigarette and he didn't answer.

"Thanks, I don't smoke."

Zhang Hui took a deep look at me, turned his head and limped to his van, and soon drove away.

……

Early the next morning, a phone call from Cheng Cheng woke me up, who had just fallen asleep for a while.

"Aggie, the autopsy report is out. The cause of Li Jianguo's death was nothing unusual, it was indeed due to excessive excitement, which caused the bursting of a cerebral artery...... However, Yumoto discovers two strange places. ”

"First, Li Jianguo's time of death was three and a half days ago, but the degree of decomposition of his body did not match this time. Li Jianguo's internal organs have begun to rot, Tang Yuan said, judging from physiology, Li Jianguo should have been dead for at least a week - however, I visited some of Li Jianguo's family and friends overnight yesterday, and at least 20 of them can prove that Li Jianguo was alive in about four days between 'physiological death' and 'discovery of death'! We also found a number of surveillance videos, all of which can prove that Li Jianguo was still moving around as a living person during this time. ”

These contents were all within my expectations, and I yawned: "Did you ask those people, did you notice anything strange about Li Jianguo before he died?" ”

"Of course. Seven people reported to us that they found that Li Jianguo seemed to have a foul smell on his body. ”

"That's right. This Li Jianguo's death is not simple...... What's the second weirdness? ”

"Tang Yuan followed your prompts and focused on examining the position of the navel of the corpse, including testing the organs at the location, but the final result was a bit unexpected - we found prostate fluid in the navel of Li Jianguo's corpse - DNA comparison results showed that this did not belong to Li Jianguo."

I sat up from the bed all at once: "What? Prostate fluid? ”

"Yes."

"Li Jianguo is a gay?!" My eyebrows were wrinkled.

Li Jianguo's tonnage...... If his boyfriend is also fat......

Damn, the picture is too strong.

That's going to shake the earth!