Chapter 20: The Strange Numbering
They can't figure it out that the four dead people they saw in front of Hai Meirong's grave told me before that they were waiting for me and wanted to take me along, maybe they were ghosts, not hallucinations.
No, you can't sit still, jump over, you must jump over!
The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, how could I, a big living person, wait for death?
I hurriedly took a dozen steps back and rushed towards the opposite bank. But after running for less than two steps, his arms were suddenly grabbed by a pair of hands.
"Eh Chun'er, what are you doing?" Ma Yong's voice came from behind him.
"Ouch hey, I'm dead." Ma Jialiang's voice sounded in the back.
My legs and stomach were weak, and I froze in place as if I had been hit by a fixation spell, and I wanted to run but couldn't move my legs.
I've been caught by a ghost!
Just when I was terrified, the tall figure in the corner of my eye turned, walked up to me, and scolded: "Chun'er, you burn your ass, what are you running?" ”
When I saw it, it was Ma Yong, but I was trembling and couldn't speak, because I wasn't sure if it was a human or a ghost in front of me.
Ma Yong took two breaths, and when he saw that I was still stunned, he reached out and patted my face, and said, "What are you doing, why don't you speak?" ”
The warm touch of his hand on my face shook me, no, this is clearly human!
The old people say that ghosts are yin, and their bodies have no temperature, like snakes.
He is Ma Yong, not a ghost.
"Hey!"
Seeing that I didn't speak, Ma Yong shook me twice with all his might.
I was still terrified, "You, are you really Ma Yong?" ”
"Isn't that who I am?" Ma Yong looked like an idiot and said, "Are you okay?" ”
"You, haven't you returned to the village, why are you still here?"
"We'll be waiting for you." Ma Yong said speechlessly.
It's really Ma Yong!
I suddenly loosened my body, turned around, and saw Ma Jialiang with his hands on his knees, panting, he smiled and joked when he saw me, and said, "Brother Chun, what are you running, it's like being chased by a wolf dog." ”
I didn't have the heart to laugh, although the two in front of me were indeed Ma Jialiang and Ma Yong, but the ghost knows if the thing that hurt me has followed. Looking at the broken road in front of him, he hurriedly said: "The bridge has been removed, what should we do?" ”
"Bastard." Ma Yong ran to the broken road and immediately scolded: "Which dog removed the bridge?" ”
"It's too far apart to jump through." Ma Jialiang also walked up, shook his head and said, "Let's go back by the path." ”
Ma Yong nodded, "That's all it can be." After speaking, he turned back and walked towards the way he came, and Ma Jialiang followed.
I looked at the broken circuit, gritted my teeth, and walked back.
After walking for a while, Ma Jialiang, who was in front of me at this time, didn't look back, and suddenly said: "Don't go any further, otherwise you will die!" ”
I was like being struck by lightning, my heart twitched a few times, and I hurriedly asked Ma Jialiang: "Jialiang, you, what are you talking about?" ”
At the same time, I had a very bad premonition in my heart, because although the voice was from Ma Jialiang, the tone was obviously not his.
And this voice appeared when Hai Meirong was buried last time, and it was here. The same time, the same place, the same timbre, even the same tone.
Ma Jialiang turned around, looked confused, and said to me, "What, say, say what?" ”
The hunch came true, but I still didn't give up, and asked again: "Just now, what did you say?" ”
"Me?" Ma Jialiang looked inexplicable, spread his hands, and said, "I, I didn't say anything?" ”
Ma Yong also turned around and looked at me with a confused expression, as if he was looking at a neuropathy.
"Your uncle!"
I didn't say a word, I turned around and fled!
Last time, it was also this voice that said that something was going to happen to Hai Meirong's coffin, and asked me not to help, but I didn't listen, so I went to help, and as a result, I even fell into the water with Hai Meirong's coffin, and I almost died nine deaths.
Now the warning is coming again, saying that I will die any further!
Should I listen to it?
Of course you have to listen!
Not long after the terrifying lesson happened, can you not listen to it?
"Ah......h
I screamed and sprinted, and when I reached the edge of the road, I jumped violently.
Jump over, live, can't jump, die!
The horror turned into a burst of energy, and I swear, this is the farthest I've jumped in more than twenty years.
I flew over the stream and crashed into the edge of the cliff, and my eyes were dark and my stomach ached, but fortunately I didn't fall because I grabbed a small tree on the side of the road.
"Damn!"
"What?"
Behind, there were two exclamations from Ma Jialiang and Ma Yong.
I shook my head, my head cleared a little and I climbed up, pain was nothing compared to fear.
But at that moment, I suddenly caught a glimpse that my reflection in the water seemed to be something that was not quite right.
When I looked closely, the reflection looked at me and actually smiled!
My scared pee is about to come out, and my reflection is smiling at me!!
But I didn't laugh!
My hair stood on end, and my body seemed to have a divine power, and I shrank ashore, and then ran wildly towards the village.
My own reflection is actually smiling at me?
But I was so anxious that I was about to cry, how could I laugh?
I'm not afraid of people or things, and even dirty things have a certain mental endurance, but for the abnormality of the things that are close to me, this kind of horror that can't be shaken off is terrible.
All the way non-stop, I rushed home and took the black tiger to the store, and released the big rooster of Luhua, and after a long time I saw that they had no abnormality, and then I was shocked.
And it is very strange that the originally gloomy day, there was no rain and no thunder on the night, and it was sunny again.
After a while, Ma Jialiang and Ma Yong, who had returned to the village, came and ran over and asked me what was going on, why I was so crazy, and I was not afraid of being thrown to death.
I smiled bitterly, I really didn't know how to explain it, so I said that I was scared unconscious.
When they saw that I was not hurt or asked any more questions, they laughed at me for being cowardly, and said that there was something to be afraid of a few dead people, and comforted me a few words before leaving.
After they left, I thought about the reflection and found that my memory had become blurry.
Maybe it's because of the sense of security, I'm not sure if the reflection I see is really smiling?
Maybe it's distorted by the rippling water, and it's dazzling?
After all, I only glanced at it at the time, and I only dared to look at it.
Could it still be an illusion?
You know, in front of Hai Meirong's grave, I hallucinated that the four dead people were rushing towards me with their teeth and claws.
Is it because I inhaled too much corpse oil incense, so that the "smiling face reflection" I saw later was still an illusion?
It's entirely possible.
But the sound is not easy to explain? One time it might be a hallucination, but this is the second time, so it's unlikely to be a hallucination, right? And Ma Jialiang, why is it his voice twice?
My mind was a mess, I wasn't sure about anything, I didn't know anything, and this feeling of powerlessness made my heart tighten.
In the afternoon, I was called back by my mother to have lunch, and then went to Chen Jiu's house.
It's a pity that he didn't go home, and he should still be in the back mountain.
I turned back to the store, and it didn't take long for several police cars to drive at the entrance of the village, and it was the county police; Among them, the special police officers with loaded guns and two German black-backed wolf dogs went straight to the back mountain as soon as they got out of the car.
The news of the death of five people also spread in the village, and many villagers were worried.
Such a big tragedy and such an evil door, everyone muttered in their hearts, Hongcun has been peaceful, this period of time can be described as a wave of unsettled waves, one after another dead people.
My shop is a small commercial area in the village, and there are always villagers passing by next to my shop talking about what happened today.
I was so flustered that I occasionally ran over to listen, and although there were many rumors, I could always hear something.
For example, the corpse of the dog in Uncle Jiu's house, as well as the dead head, have been taken away by the police, and the public security is counting whether there are any missing people in the village, almost door-to-door investigation.
But to my comfort, those five people were by no means from the village. If five people disappeared in the village at once, I am afraid that it would have exploded a long time ago.
Thinking back to those corpses, it still makes me feel terrified, with a lamp on my neck and a skull on my hands, which is really evil.
When it was dark, the police from the county left a group and took away the five corpses and the dog corpses, saying that they were autopsies.
Yang Jianguo and his entourage are still in the village, and several special police officers and wolf dogs have not left, and it seems that they want to stay in the village to continue the investigation.
My dad and Yang Jianguo were originally classmates, so he entertained Yang Jianguo and his party, and the village chief Ma Yongde also came, as well as several clan elders in the village.
But Chen Jiutong was gone, and I secretly asked the public security Qian Fei, and he shook his head and said that he didn't know where he was.
I muttered in my heart, the police have withdrawn from the mountain, where did Chen Jiu and the others go?
At dinner, I was too young to be qualified to attend the table, so I poured wine for Yang Jianguo and them, and when they finished eating, I saw the opportunity to pull Qian Fei aside and hand him a cigarette.
"Koharu, what's the matter with you?" Qian Fei drank some wine and was a little embarrassed, but he was not drunk, and his eyes were shining.
"Ahem, what, I want to know about those five people, who are they?" I was slightly embarrassed and said with a smile.
Eating people is soft-mouthed, Yang Jianguo took them to eat together, Qian Fei was not easy to refuse, and I helped him find the five corpses first, which can be regarded as a small credit. So he whispered to me, "I'm still sure who it is, it's been a week since he died, his face is rotten, and there is nothing on his body that can prove his identity." ”
"Been dead for a week?"
I was very strange, people had been dead for a week, and they couldn't smell the stench of corpses, but a faint fragrance, Chen Jiutong said that it was the smell of burning corpse oil.
But can the scent mask the stench?
As far as I know, there's probably nothing in this world that can hide the stench of decomposing corpses, except for sealing, right?
Even if it is covered up, the mixed smell will only smell worse.
"Yes, the priority now is to establish the identity of the deceased." Qian Fei took a puff of his cigarette and nodded.
I also lit a cigarette and muttered secretly, who the dead were, why did I always feel that the figures of those people were a little familiar, as if I had seen them somewhere.
"Oh, by the way, we have a major discovery on the corpse." Qian Fei said suddenly.
My heart tightened, and the secret path might be a clue, so I asked what I found.
Qian Fei looked around vigilantly, and when he saw that there was no one around, he took out his mobile phone to open the gallery, took out a photo from it and showed it to me, saying, "On the stomach of the deceased, we found some strange number numbers. ”
I took a look, this photo was not taken head-on, but on the side, two or three meters away from the deceased, as if it was taken secretly, but Qian Fei's mobile phone is very good, you can clearly see that there is a reddish mark on the deceased's stomach, which looks like a "five" character, and I don't know if it was formed by itself or scribbled on it.
I swiped the screen and saw that it was just this one.
Qian Fei took back his mobile phone and said, "The other four corpses are one, two, three, four, but I didn't take a picture." ”
I nodded to show my understanding, the public security has rules, and it is illegal to take evidence privately, and he can show me a photo taken secretly, which is already a trust.
At this time, Yang Jianguo and his entourage also got out of the banquet, saying that they would continue to investigate in the village, and they left one after another, and Qian Fei also followed. I don't know what else they're going to do, but I don't have the heart to find out anymore because it's getting dark.
I told my parents, took the black tiger and went to the store, and made up my mind to go to Chen Jiutong tomorrow, those numbers are too strange.
This reminds me of a perverted homicide case I read in the newspaper a few years ago, where every time the murderer kills someone, he will leave a letter on the deceased's body, and the combination of those letters is the clue to solve the case.
It's arrogant, but it's also terrifying.
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