Chapter 44: The Corpse Puppet
Yue Qianling didn't plan to let me go to the appointment alone, let alone Fang Yanan's date.
After almost two weeks of Longquan Lake, Fang Yanan wanted to invite me to a meal as soon as he was discharged from the hospital.
But Yue Qianling only remembered that Xiao Lianshan came back and told her how I used my mouth to pull out the red thread in Fang Yanan's throat, as for what the result was, Yue Qianling didn't care, but this process made her not say a word to me for a week.
So while I happily went to the appointment, Yue Qianling followed me without saying a word.
is a very ordinary homely meal, and Hu Zhiwen was accompanied by Xiao Lianshan, who did not come because he was going to the airport to pick up Gu Anqi.
Fang Yanan is beautiful and lovely no matter how she looks when she doesn't wear a uniform, a little less bold, but a little more coquettish, she has only been discharged from the hospital, her body has not fully recovered, her face is not very good, she is a little sickly pale, but there is a feeling of pity for me.
I haven't looked left and right to see Fang Yanan, although the situation in Longquan Lake was critical that day, and I had to do that, but after all, I had a skin-to-skin blind date with Fang Yanan, and I never thought about it anywhere else, not at all.
If the heart is not right, the sword will be evil.
But sitting here, I always feel that there is an eternal iceberg next to me, and you can feel the biting chill without touching it.
Yue Qianling obviously didn't think that she was a superfluous person, she sat very close to me intentionally or unintentionally, and the smile on her face was as warm as a spring breeze in March, but in my eyes, it was completely a kind of autumn wind and coldness.
"Qin Yan ......." Hu Zhiwen broke the awkward silence of the dinner and said with a teacup. "In the past, I was preconceived, I missed and offended in many places, and today I am on duty, I can't drink, I use tea instead of wine, I hope I don't go to my heart."
It turned out that Hu Zhiwen could also laugh, and the first time I saw him without blackening his face, I was not used to it, so I hurriedly raised the teacup.
"You are businesslike, there is nothing to offend, let's forget about this cup of tea."
Fang Yanan sat silently for a long time, and also picked up the teacup.
"This year's meal is to thank you for saving your life, but I am a police officer, and I treat everyone equally, and if you do something you shouldn't do in the future, I will also arrest you."
Yue Qianling glared at her, and was about to have a seizure, when she found me patting her hand below, I am not surprised that Fang Yanan can say such a thing, black is black and white is white, and the clear character of public and private makes me appreciate it a little, otherwise Fang Yanan would not have invited me to this meal in civilian clothes today.
"What Officer Fang said is that one yard is one yard, if I really become a traitor in the future, Officer Fang will act according to the law."
"Okay, then I respect Brother Qin for this cup of tea, and I don't thank you for my kindness, my Yanan owes you a life for the incident of Longquan Lake last time." Even if Fang Yanan was wearing casual clothes, the tone of her voice was still not shaved.
Yue Qianling suddenly found that her existence was completely superfluous, like air, and put a dish with chopsticks in my bowl.
"This is your favorite mapo tofu."
In the end, the word tofu Yue Qianling deliberately said very seriously, I understood it, and smiled like a pins and needles.
"There's something I've been forgetting to tell you." Hu Zhiwen put down his teacup and took out a file from his bag. "After Officer Fang was rescued, we searched around Longquan Lake to see if there were any clues left by the murderer, and found a piece of broken clothes, and later the police dog found the person wearing the clothes according to the smell on the clothes."
"Have you caught the murderer?" I looked a little unsure.
Hu Zhiwen and Fang Yanan glanced at each other and said with strange expressions.
"I don't know if it's a murderer?"
"How can you police handle the case so abruptly, yes, no, no." Yue Qianling finally had a chance to interject and said dissatisfiedly. "Don't catch the wrong person again, it's better to ask clearly."
"The man who was found was not ...... at all There's no way to ask! Hu Zhiwen looked a little embarrassed.
"Officer Hu, what can't you ask?" I was confused, too.
"Based on the smell of the clothes, the police dog tracked it all the way to the hospital morgue." Fang Yanan said in a deep voice. "The fragments of clothing matched the clothes worn by one of the corpses."
"Corpses?!" The dish on Yue Qianling's chopsticks fell. "What do you mean...... Is that the body of the hospital ...... Kidnapped Fang Yanan? ”
I opened the file bag, and I could clearly see the tears in the clothes on the corpse on the photos, the corpse was a man in his thirties, very thin, but the clothes he was wearing were very loose, I suddenly remembered what the caretaker said that day, the two people who came down from the upper floor were very fat, but their heads were not big, they looked very uncoordinated, and they walked like puppets.
"This body should have been dead no more than seven days ago." I said calmly. "And he died from drowning."
"How do you know?" Hu Zhiwen said, pointing to the corpse in the photo. "We looked through the hospital records and found that the deceased had drowned because of a heart attack while swimming."
"The corpse had holes the size of a little thumb in the chest, joints of the limbs, eyebrows, and the top of the head." I put the photo back in my file bag and said lightly. "There's black mud in the Seven Orifices, right?"
Hu Zhiwen and Fang Yanan looked at each other in fear, and nodded without saying a word.
"He's been made into a corpse!" I said with a solemn expression.
Yue Qianling has no appetite at all now, and after looking at that photo, Yue Qianling's stomach turned upside down, but she still asked curiously.
"What do you mean by a corpse puppet?"
"Hehe, the two police officers won't believe this, or don't say it, anyway, it's over." I saw that Yue Qianling's face was ugly, and said with a smile.
"I didn't believe it before...... But since what happened in Longquan Lake. Hu Zhiwen lowered his head and took a sip of tea, and said with palpitations. There are many things that cannot be explained, and it cannot be assumed that they do not exist. ”
"What the hell is going on, you know a lot about this, and you may be able to give us clues." Fang Yanan asked curiously.
"After a person dies, the soul is attached to the bones, and on the seventh day, the soul is stimulated, so he walks away from the bones, this person dies in the water, has a grudge against the water, the soil can overcome the water, and then mixed with the blood of the black dog, can suppress the yin soul, sealed in the seven orifices of the corpse, the soul can not leave the body, and then use icicles to insert into the chest, limb joints, eyebrows, before the icicles melt, the corpse will be at the mercy of people, this is the corpse puppet!"
Yue Qianling swallowed her saliva, and she listened to it with a creepy feeling.
"You're saying that the corpse will move?"
"Of course not, the exorcism of corpses has actually been there for a long time, this is a kind of magic in the Taoist Maoshan technique, Xiangxi's driving corpse is actually the same as this, but the corpse is to guide the body and soul back to their hometown, but being a corpse puppet is against the way of heaven, forcing the soul not to leave the body, in order to achieve the purpose of driving the corpse to do something."
"So the person who actually kidnapped and wanted to murder the officer's officer has this ability?" Hu Zhiwen asked in horror.
I nodded and said calmly.
"It's easy to be a corpse puppet, but you can't drive a corpse puppet without superb Taoism, this person is more powerful than I imagined."
Hu Zhiwen suddenly thought of something, and said in a panic.
"Now that the murderer has not been caught, although Officer Fang is safe for the time being, according to what you said, he can continue to murder Officer Fang at any time, what should we do?"
"Hehe, you don't have to worry about this, Officer Fang will be fine in the future." I smiled and said in the affirmative.
"For ...... Why? This person has been planning for so long just to want my life, but you saved me, why will I be okay in the future? Fang Yanan asked puzzled.
"With this person's skills and Taoism, I want your life, why do so many things." I suddenly smiled faintly self-deprecatingly. "I almost killed you because I miscalculated your birthday, if it wasn't for this person to save you, how could you still be alive today."
"This ...... This guy saved me?! ”
I nodded and said calmly to Hu Zhiwen.
"Do you remember that when you came to arrest me that day, you said that you found my fingerprints in Officer Fang's house."
"Yes, but then I asked Officer Fang, you have never been to her house, and the fingerprints should have been deliberately left by someone to blame you." Hu Zhiwen nodded and said.
I smiled and shook my head and said calmly.
"The person who left the fingerprints didn't want to blame me, he wanted me to take you to save Fang Yanan!"
The more Yue Qianling listened, the more confused she became, and she tilted her head to look at me and asked.
"Since this person wants to kill Fang Yanan, why do you want to save her?"
"This person obviously knows me, at least this person knows my five techniques of Jingdao family, and if he leaves my fingerprints, the police will definitely find me, and I can figure out where she is when I get to Fang Yanan's house."
"There's always a purpose, what's the benefit of him doing this?" Yue Qianling still asked suspiciously.
"I didn't figure it out at first, until I ...... later." I looked at Hu Zhiwen on the other side and said calmly. "Later, your colleague reported to you that the police station in your area was stolen, and I suddenly realized."
Fang Yanan raised his head suddenly and said in surprise.
"I understand, let you find out where I am, and then everyone follows you to save me, there are a few people left in the police station, and the other party can just go to the police station to steal!"
"Yes, this person's purpose is not to harm Officer Fang, but to use Officer Fang to lure away the police in the police station, Ming Xiu plank road and dark Chen Cang, this person's purpose is in the police station!"
"The police station was burglarized? What can the police station have to steal, and not the bank? Yue Qianling said to Hu Zhiwen with a wink. Did you take stock of what you were missing afterwards? ”
"That's even more strange, at first we all thought that guns were stolen, but no one had ever entered the gun room, what was stolen was the evidence room, which was turned over, but it didn't seem to be for money, there were seized drug money and gambling money in the evidence room, adding up to more than 100,000 yuan, but the money was thrown all over the ground, and finally counted, a lot of points, as for other things compared with the files, the same did not lose a single item."