Chapter 002: Scarecrow, Suicide Forest
"Teacher, how did this car get in?" I frowned and asked.
Lao Zhang hurriedly waved his hand: "Professor Li, don't call me teacher, I can't afford it, just call me Lao Zhang." ”
I didn't care about these details, and asked again how the car got in, but I didn't see the first scene, so I could only ask Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang told me in detail about the situation that day. On the day Lao Zhang called me, a family went on an outing, and they found a bus passing by, and there was no one on the bus, so they called the police force in City G, and the police team arrived immediately.
There was no one on the bus, but the fire had not been extinguished, and the captain of the police force immediately realized that something might have happened, but they searched near this grove for a long time, but they did not find any passengers. Lao Zhang immediately remembered my confession a few years ago, so he hurriedly called me, and at the same time, the police force also notified the police force in City B, but I didn't expect that we set off overnight, which was still a step slower than the police force in City B.
Lao Zhang also told me that except for these few trees that were dug up, the scene was exactly the same as that day, and I walked into this clearing with a frown. The clearing is huge, with only four visible marks on the ground, and years of experience have taught me that this is where the 330 bus stopped.
I circled around again, and there was no sign of any other wheels around. After so many years of guiding the case, the traces of various crime scenes are imprinted in my mind, but this time, the question of how the car got in really stumped me.
It is impossible for the car to appear in this open space out of thin air, the only possibility is that there are only two, one is hoisted in, and the other is to dig up the tree and drive it in, and then plant the tree. The bus is very heavy, and if you want to lift it in, the weight of the crane must be heavier, and the crane will inevitably leave grooves around, and this kind of soil, it is impossible to perfectly cover the groove traces, but I looked around, and I didn't find any suspicious traces.
I looked around each tree again, and the trees were at least a dozen years old and could not have been dug up.
I frowned and pondered carefully, when Lao Zhang interrupted my thoughts, and he said to me mysteriously that everyone was rumoring that this forest was often haunted.
I became serious: "Lao Zhang, you are also an old policeman, why do you still believe this?" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, a cold wind suddenly blew in the forest, Lao Zhang's whole body was excited, and he looked around a little nervously, the sky was gradually getting dark, Lao Zhang urged us to leave quickly, Meng Ting had been on the side without speaking, missing on the 330 bus, and Du Lei, she was unwilling to give up easily.
But if I stayed any longer, I would probably not find anything, I nodded, and was about to leave with them when a scarecrow caught my attention in the distance. The scarecrow was wearing a blood-red robe, and I pointed to the scarecrow and asked Lao Zhang what was going on with the scarecrow.
Lao Zhang looked at my fingertips, and at this look, Lao Zhang's face suddenly turned pale, and he grabbed our hands and immediately dragged us to the car.
I asked Lao Zhang what was going on, and I was inexplicable by Lao Zhang's move, and Meng Ting was also at a loss.
Lao Zhang dragged us to the side of the car, opened the door for us, and begged, "Professor Li! Let's get out of here, please! ”
Seeing Lao Zhang's old face that was about to cry, I had no choice but to get into the car.
Lao Zhang was very anxious, didn't say anything to us, was in a hurry to drive, this is very remote, after driving for a while, the road is not smooth, the sky is already dark, but Lao Zhang has no intention of slowing down, old-fashioned cars, shockproof this piece is not good at all, we were shaken stomach rolling.
"Lao Zhang......" I just wanted to tell Lao Zhang to slow down, Meng Ting, who was sitting next to me, screamed, and at the same time, Lao Zhang braked suddenly, and my head hit the backrest hard, and suddenly a big bag was raised.
"What's wrong?!" I covered my head and asked.
Meng Ting covered her eyes with her hands, and pointed to the front with a trembling: "Then, there is one there, there is a woman with a bloody face......"
I looked along the way, and saw that in the middle of the road, there was a scarecrow, it was draped in a red robe, wasn't this the scarecrow near the forest? Why did you get here?
Lao Zhang was also frightened, he turned his head and told me intermittently that he also saw a woman with a bloody face......
I patted Meng Ting on the shoulder, comforting her that it was just a scarecrow in red clothes, and told her not to be afraid.
Meng Ting slowly put her hand down and glanced in the direction of the scarecrow, but this time, she screamed again, I turned my head, the scarecrow was gone......
I hurriedly opened the car door and got out of the car, and in the blink of an eye, the scarecrow was really gone! Lao Zhang honked the horn twice and motioned for me to get in the car, and I immediately returned to the car, urging Lao Zhang to hurry back to the previous forest to have a look.
But Lao Zhang looked unwilling, and he didn't drive for a long time.
"You have something to say." I remember that Lao Zhang was not like this before, when he took me for an internship, but he was very decisive, every time the police force had a mission, he rushed to the front, and won a lot of honors for the police force.
Lao Zhang looked around and said to me cautiously: "We are hitting ghosts, this is the suicide forest, and no one comes, because there have been many people who have come here to commit suicide!" ”
I vaguely remembered the scene of the internship in G City a few years ago, the so-called suicide forest, I did hear others mention it, and I don't know why, in G City for a few years, the suicide people have chosen this forest, and several people have died, so this forest is called the suicide forest, but I didn't expect that the suicide forest is the forest just now.
"Okay, Lao Zhang, I don't believe in these things, drive back, there's something wrong with that scarecrow!" I interrupted Lao Zhang's words and urged.
After a quick glance, I wasn't sure if the scarecrow was the one in the suicide forest, but my intuition told me that there must be something wrong with the scarecrow.
Lao Zhang was reluctant to live or die, and asked me to explain why he and Meng Ting both saw the woman with a bloody face.
I was dumbfounded, Meng Ting was obviously frightened, and her face was very ugly, but I insisted on going back, Lao Zhang couldn't resist me, so I had to sigh and drive the car back, while he drove, chanting "Amitabha". Although I don't know why Lao Zhang and Meng Ting are wrong, and I don't know why that scarecrow suddenly disappeared, I don't believe in ghosts and gods when I was killed.
The car slowly drove back to the forest, and I thought about it for a while in the car, the scarecrow was probably taken away by someone while I was comforting Meng Ting. There were weeds on both sides of the road, and if that man tried to hide in, I couldn't have found him.
Lao Zhang drove for a long time before driving the car to the vicinity of the forest. The car stopped, Meng Ting refused to get out of the car with me, Lao Zhang was reluctant at first, but he was worried that something would happen to me, so he had to take a flashlight from the car and get out of the car with me.
At night, we could only see the outlines of the dense trees, and the air was a little humid and a little foggy, so it seemed that the woods did have a somewhat eerie smell, and from time to time there were the cries of unknown insects.
We went to the forest again, Lao Zhang took a flashlight and shone it, and I looked at the place of the scarecrow, which was empty, there was no scarecrow, only a bamboo pole with a scarecrow stood there.
"Oops! Oops! Hell we really did! The flashlight in Lao Zhang's hand trembled, and he shouted a few times in fright.
I grabbed the flashlight and walked towards the bamboo pole, Lao Zhang told me not to go, but I ignored him. Lao Zhang didn't dare to stay alone, and shouted words like "wronged" in his mouth, and followed my footsteps.
It was early spring, the sky was still a little cool, and the cold moonlight sprinkled on the branches of the forest, leaving a series of speckled shadows on the ground. Lao Zhang and I walked to the bamboo pole, I took a few deep breaths, and smelled a faint smell of blood. I crouched down and grabbed a handful of sand, which was so soft that our shoes had left marks on them, but there were no other people's footprints here. Even though I've been working on cases for many years, I can't figure it out all of a sudden.
Lao Zhang cried and begged me to leave here quickly, and said that this place was too gloomy, so cold, and the yin qi was too heavy. As he spoke, Lao Zhang looked around in horror, and finally, his gaze stopped in the depths of the forest. Lao Zhang shivered, and his legs trembled violently.
I stood up and looked in the direction that Lao Zhang was staring at, I shone the flashlight there, only a few streaks of fog drifted in the light of the flashlight, nothing. I was a little helpless: "Lao Zhang, at night, the temperature of the woods is ......"
Before I finished speaking, another scream sounded, this voice was Meng Ting's!
Without saying a word, I ran towards the car, and the flashlight in my hand was thrown to the ground because I was nervous. The fog in the forest was thicker than before, and I was able to see the road in front of me with great difficulty. Lao Zhang is old, and his physical strength can't keep up, but he gasps heavily, and he doesn't dare to stay too far away from me.
Running to the vicinity of the car, I saw a scene in front of me, Lao Zhang sat on the ground in fright, only to see that on the windshield of the car, there was a scarecrow in a red robe lying reclining, the head of the scarecrow was taken off, I don't know where it went, and the windshield has been splashed with blood......