Chapter 14: Flying Corpses
Zhou Yuxia looked at the muzzle of the Wudong cave in horror, she never thought that one day a gun would be aimed at her head, she had never touched the gun a few times in so many years after joining the police!
Lou Lanfeng was surprised and asked her, "Why did you get into my room?" ”
Zhou Yuxia replied to the question: "Why do you sleep with a gun?" ”
Lou Lanfeng was a little annoyed and angry, and was actually touched into the room by a woman in a daze, if this was known by the army instructor, even if he didn't pick up a layer of skin, a five-kilometer cross-country run would be inevitable!
Lou Lanfeng put away the gun with anger and said, "I still have a bigger gun, I was scared by you!" ”
Of course Zhou Yuxia understood, although she was embarrassed, she still stood there and didn't leave, Lou Lanfeng saw that she didn't move, so she asked again: "How did you get into the room?" ”
Zhou Yuxia showed him the key in her hand, and then whispered: "I have the key, I have the key to this house, grandpa asked me to come over and call you, and specially told me not to wake up others." ”
"Don't wake people up and touch into someone's room?! Why don't you touch my bed?! ”
Lou Lanfeng wanted to get dressed and get up, but Zhou Yuxia still didn't leave, Lou Lanfeng looked at her: "What's the matter?" Want to see how men dress? ”
Zhou Yuxia smiled and said, "Actually, I want to ask you a word." ”
Loulan Feng said: "Ask, I'll get dressed after asking." ”
Zhou Yuxia approached him: "Do you say that there are really goblins in the world?" ”
Lou Lanfeng looked at her vigilantly: "What do you mean?" ”
Zhou Yuxia was a little embarrassed, but finally said: "I went back last night and told my grandfather that you had arrived, and my grandfather sighed and said: 'The demon hunter has arrived!'" 'I've been wondering all night, is it true that the folks are telling the truth, and we're really making a goblin?! Can you tell me the truth? I was so scared that I didn't get a good night's sleep! ”
Lou Lanfeng blasted her out.
In Lou Lanfeng's imagination, the head of the group should be a yin owl or a strong person, but this old man is not at all, he looks like an old worker who has retired and played chess under the trees on the street. If there is any disobedience, it is that he, as an old farmer in the mountains, looks so thin and tender.
Zhou Shiliang welcomed him into the house very warmly, and everyone in the family also came out to say hello.
Lou Lanfeng has generally understood what is going on, it seems that the company has always had some kind of contact with this group leader, and once there is a situation, he will report it, which is equivalent to a local intelligence officer.
It's just that if there has been contact for a long time, it seems that this place has a problem and has a long history.
After breakfast, the tea was brewed, and everyone else retreated, leaving a middle-aged man and Zhou Yuxia behind. Zhou Shiliang introduced that this was his eldest son Zhou Dequan, he said: "I have no grandson, and when I leave, this stall will be left to him and Yuxia!" ”
Zhou Tuantou first counted the names of a few cadres who had contacted and cooperated with him, in fact, the fourth dimension was only established in the eighties, and the people he counted Lou Lanfeng didn't know what department they belonged to. In the end, he said with emotion: "Some of them have retired, some have been transferred, and now it's your turn, Xiao Zou's last visit was three years ago, where is he going now?" ”
Xia Xi said in the headphones: "He has been transferred to other departments, and now I am in charge of this part." ”
Lou Lanfeng repeated it.
Zhou Tuantou sighed: "It's been more than fifty years, and it's been peaceful, but it's coming again this year, and you're going to put it on the stall." ”
Lou Lanfeng repeated Xia Xi's question: "Do you always think that today's incident is the same thing as what happened in the 60s? ”
Zhou Tuantou said with certainty: "Yes! It's a complete road, as soon as someone goes missing, I went to the cemetery, and sure enough, there was a new grave that was opened, and I secretly buried it silently, and then I notified you! ”
Zhou Tuantou sighed again: "I have lived so big, I believe in one thing, no matter what, God will leave a way for you to live, even if you are going to starve to death, there is half a bowl of porridge waiting for you, the key is that you can't miss that half bowl of porridge." You are my half bowl of porridge. Alas, now is different from the past, if this matter is spread on the ground, the day of the separation of the Dagu Village will not be far away, and the hula will be empty at that time! ”
Zhou Dequan comforted on the side: "Dad, if you don't leave a few more people, what's the matter!" ”
Zhou Tuan straightened his head and waist, and looked at Zhou Dequan: "You were still breastfeeding when there was this last time, you know what a fart!" At that time, your grandfather was still in charge, and he cooperated with the people above to suppress the matter. Over the years, our village has spread out its branches and leaves, and the old bangzi has almost died, and I guess few people still remember this. ”
Xia Xi asked: "I heard that there are rumors of mountain demons in the village, will someone leak the rumors of that incident more than fifty years ago?" ”
Zhou Tuantou shook his head: "I've also heard the rumors, grandma scared the child, I don't think many people really believe it, and they didn't get to the point!" ”
Zhou Yuqin breathed a sigh of relief, seemed to relax a little, and felt that something was wrong when she thought about it, but she was even more nervous!
Zhou Dequan smiled and said to the old man: "I said Dad, you haven't told me for so many years, what the hell is going on, can you tell me?" ”
Zhou Yuqin also nodded helpfully.
Lao Wang Tou looked at his son and granddaughter, and then at Loulan Feng, and then said: "I want to give you the truth in front of the organization today, which can be regarded as passing on the help, what I said is wrong, and the comrades in the organization will help me correct it." ”
Lou Lanfeng smiled: "Where, I am also listening." ”
Zhou Tuantou cleared his throat, took a sip of tea, and then pointed out the window and said, "There is something on Lao Gu Peak!" ”
In the thirties of the last century, during the war-torn era, Lushan Province was ravaged and the people were displaced, so it became a well-known beggar province in China.
Occasionally, a beggar went into the mountain to beg and found that Dagu's village was empty, the villagers ran out and did not know where to go, and the roads in the village even began to grow weeds, becoming an empty and dead village!
The beggars reported the situation to the head of the group, so a large number of beggars began to slowly enter Dagu Village, using it as a base camp for recuperation. They did not delve into the old village in the mountains that was so secluded, and why people left the village without war.
At that time, the personnel of Dagu Village were very loose, and the entry and exit were very chaotic, and there were many old and frail ruffians among the beggars, and there were many fights during the period, so the head of the regiment at that time began to vigorously rectify. He demanded that the beggars who stayed in the village must change their surnames to Zhou and swear allegiance, and slowly the population of nearly 1,000 people in Dagu Village stabilized and formed a powerful force for self-preservation and xenophobia. By now the population has exceeded 3,000.
The arable land in Dagu Village is limited, and because their homeless beggars belong to the lowest strata of society, the post-liberation movements have not affected them much. In fact, the previous town leaders who were struggling with hardship were not interested in managing this group of people. Although a new production team organization has been produced on the surface, it is still the head of the group who manages the whole village in his bones. It's just that after the new national policy, management was strengthened, and it became a little difficult for them to go out to beg.
During the most difficult economic years of the early sixties, they were completely unable to provide for themselves, except for a few who continued to venture out to beg, and most of them relied on meagre quantities of food relief. In the second year, people starved to death one after another, and the bodies were buried in the old cemetery in front of the mountain, and strange things happened at this time!
One day in June, when the villagers were burying the newly deceased, they were horrified to find that the two graves buried not long ago had been dug up, and the way of digging was extremely strange, both of which made a hole in the side, destroyed the coffin, and then directly stole the body!
So rumors of people eating people, mountain demons stealing corpses, etc., spread far and wide! Some villagers took the opportunity to get rid of the constraints of the group leader and began to flee, and they were confident to return to the road of begging. But the strange thing did not stop there, not long after the second batch of graves were dug up, the county public security and a working group were stationed in Dagu Village to carry out an investigation.
Zhou Tuantou's memory is not reduced: "I remember very clearly that the team leader is called Xue Liming, single and unmarried in his forties, he looks about the same height as the comrades on this floor, a big man of more than one meter and eight meters, he is shrewd, he does things neatly, he is lustful and, and he has lived here for two months, and I know that I have slept with three or four widows." ”
Lou Lanfeng was a little surprised: "So bold? Blatantly violating discipline, not to mention that era! ”
Zhou Tuantou said with a smile: "It's not a matter, life was not worth much in those years, don't talk about widows when you send some money and food, the big girls are on the kang casually!" Lao Xue is not an ordinary person, the National Government will be a policeman, specializing in handling some strange cases, he said that he has damaged his yin morality, and he is destined to be homeless and childless, so it is better for us to ask for food. ”
Zhou Dequan was interested: "Which family did you sleep with?" ”
Zhou Tuantou glared at his son: "What's the matter with you?" I said that there is your mother-in-law's share, do you believe it? ”
Zhou Yuxia burst out laughing, and Zhou Dequan retracted and shut up.
Zhou Tuantou continued: "At the beginning, the county's desire to start with the investigation of people eating people, there was a shortage of food at that time, and this kind of statement was very popular everywhere, and Xue Liming immediately judged that it was impossible. You said that on the day of June, the mourning was stopped for three days, and after three days after entering the earth, the tomb was six days inside and out, and there was no problem with the grave at that time, so can the meat still be eaten after six days? Wild dogs may not be willing to eat! ”
"We people don't see birth, old age, sickness and death lightly, the rules of death are not so big, and the people at that time were also hungry, and the grave was not dug deep, so I wonder if it was dug out and eaten by wild beasts?"
Xue Liming vetoed this view after the on-site investigation, he said that although they are all thin wooden coffins, it is very difficult for the beast to break open, the key is that he found a very neat incision on the coffin, which should be caused by tools, so the case is basically locked in man-made!
It's just that the motive of the crime is really incomprehensible, and the nearest village to this village has to walk here for more than three hours, what are they doing here to steal the corpses that are about to decompose? As for the people in this village, after several rounds of investigation, no suspect can be found. Of course, Xue Liming considered these factors at that time, but he could only be sure that they were man-made, not beasts and no more, how to explain them to the villagers at that time?
Since the incident, more than a dozen people have left the village one after another, and their whereabouts are unknown, which adds to the complexity of the case. But there was no way, it was very difficult to investigate and grasp the information of the people who left at that time, and several of those people are still missing.
The conditions were scarce, and the technical means were limited, and the mainstream detection method at that time was squatting. In order to paralyze the criminals, the county public security officers retreated, and Xue Liming and Xiao Kong, who assisted him in handling the case, secretly stayed and lived in Tuantou's house.
It's June, and it's very hard to stay in the wild. Zhou Tuantou said that they slept during the day, and at night they went to the cemetery and squatted in three corners to watch. Sometimes it is foggy at night and the visibility is very low, and for the safety of personnel, Xue Liming sometimes cancels the mission according to the situation.
The strange atmosphere in the cemetery is the most unbearable, every wind seems to carry the stench of corpses, every sound seems to come from the ground, that fear goes deep into the bone marrow, Zhou Tuantou said that he had to check whether his tongue was black and blue every day when he went home, and he was afraid that he would be scared!
But the graves that had been buried without being stolen were no longer cared for, and they squatted for seven or eight days without finding anything, and during this time, some villagers left without permission in spite of the policies and decrees.
The turning point is that there are dead people in the village again, maybe the new corpses will attract criminals? They adjusted their time, repaired at home for three days, and waited for them to be buried.
Fearing that the criminals would strike first, they did not wait for the grave to be completed three days later, and began to squat on the day of the burial, focusing on the new grave.
On the fifth day, the fog rose, and the fog became bigger and bigger in the middle of the night, and Zhou Tuantou was thinking that Lao Xue might be going to call it a day, when he suddenly heard a rustling sound from the cemetery, which was not at all like the footsteps of Lao Xue coming over! He hesitated a little if someone was digging the grave, but the rustling sound stopped after a few clicks, and before he could understand what was going on, he heard a bang, as if the coffin had been opened by gravity!
At this time, I heard Lao Xue shouting: "Don't move!" Public security! If you move again, you'll shoot! ”
At this time, a gust of wind suddenly rose in the flat ground, which dispersed some of the fog around him, and Zhou Shiliang saw a scene that he would never forget: the corpse suddenly rose into the air in the night, lying flat and bringing the fog under it was rolling, and then like a cannonball, it roared away smoothly towards Laogu Peak!