Chapter 019: Beast Blood? Natural death
The two policemen also came, and they asked about the details in a port dialect. They originally came to check the unknown bloodstains in Sansong Temple, but they didn't expect that someone would die as soon as they came. Two policemen asked who had first found out that the old Taoist chief had died, and the two Taoist priests walked towards us while wiping away tears.
They said that they had come early in the morning to open the door of the main hall for the worshippers who had gone up the mountain to worship, and as soon as they pushed the door open, they found the old Taoist chief sitting there, and then they found that the old Taoist immortal had passed away. As soon as they found out that the old Taoist immortal had passed away, they called everyone in a panic.
I frowned, staring at the corpse of the old Taoist who could no longer move, and I found that the old Taoist still had a whisk in his hand, and there was a scripture book on the ground. There was no expression of pain or struggle on his face, and he walked very peacefully, with no signs of a fight around him, not like a murder.
However, I still can't believe that the old Taoist who had only met me last night had left so suddenly. After the body was found, two police officers immediately notified the police, and about an hour later, more officers arrived at the scene. The forensic doctor who came out of the scene gently put the old Taoist chief on the stretcher.
When they wanted to carry the old Taoist chief out, many Taoist priests stopped him, saying that the old Taoist had passed away and become an immortal, and had nothing to do with the police, and they did not let the police take the body away. One of the policemen at the head obviously didn't believe in these things either, he sneered and scolded: "Chengxian is gone, you crying fart!" ”
The policeman's attitude was very tough, and the Taoist priests had no choice but to give in. The police promised to return the body when they found out how the old Taoist chief died. Soon, the body of the old Taoist chief was carried down the mountain, and Sansongguan sent many Taoist priests to follow. People died in the temple, and the believers who went up the mountain were also dismissed by the police.
Sansongguan was very cooperative, and immediately feared that the door would be locked, except for the Taoist priest who accompanied the corpse of the old Taoist, everyone else waited for the police to question. The policeman asked us where we were, and Chen Fan honestly said that he was a mainland policeman who was assisting the police in the Hong Kong area in investigating the case of ghosts and restaurants.
Chen Fan also showed him his ID, and the policeman didn't ask any more, probably thinking that I was also a policeman. So, I went around the Sansong Temple more freely. I wanted to know who this old Taoist was, why he knew my name, and why he asked me to leave Minato.
However, I searched in the old Taoist's bedroom for a long time, and I didn't find any evidence that could show his identity, and I also asked the Taoist priests of the entire Taoist temple, and the fact was really the same as what the big man said yesterday, no one knew what the old Taoist was called, not even a Taoist number.
In the old Taoist's room, there are some books about Taoism. I didn't find anything, I retreated, and Chen Fan asked me how the old Taoist chief died. I raised the corners of my mouth and said I didn't know, but it looked like I was born and died of natural aging. Soon, we were approached by the first two policemen we had to meet.
They asked me where the blood was, and I followed my impressions to that place. During the day, I finally saw that it was indeed a piece of silt, but the color of the silt was very strange, dark red mixed with gray. The mud was not dry yet, so after putting on my gloves, I grabbed a handful of mud and put it in front of my nose to smell it.
I could smell the earth all at once, but on closer inspection, I still smelled a faint smell of blood. Blood and dirt mixed together, and the smell of earth overshadowed the smell of blood. I stood up and told the two cops that it was absolutely bloody. The two police officers immediately called in the police and began to extract the soil and prepare to bring it back to the police station for identification.
At the same time, they asked the Taoist priests in the temple what was going on with the soil, but no one came up.
After a circle in the Sansong Temple, we arrived at the stop gate again, the police and the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple had a quarrel, the police seemed to want to enter here to investigate, but the Taoist priests did not let them in, and said that only the old Taoist chief could enter this gate. The policeman in the lead sneered again: "He's all dead, do you want his soul to go in?" ”
The police did not forcibly break in, the old Taoist chief did seem to have died of natural causes, and it was difficult for the police to forcibly investigate before there was evidence. It's not a way to go on like this, so I pretended to be gentle, saying that if the old Taoist chief has gone immortal, he must have let go of everything in the mortal world, and this stop door should not stop anymore, and it shouldn't let us see it, and the old Taoist chief will naturally hide and not let us see it.
Chen Fan also sneered: "Dao Chief, it's convenient, we are just making an errand, we won't mess with the things inside, and we'll come out in a while." ”
Our argument seemed to work, and eventually, a Taoist priest who could call the shots finally agreed, and after bargaining, they allowed us two people to go in, and we had to get out as soon as possible. We got them to the point, and the policeman in charge pointed at me and said I was clever and told me to go in with him.
After entering, we went our separate ways, and I was the first to go to the room where the old Taoist chief sat yesterday. During the day, I get a clearer view of the layout. The layout of this room is very strange, there is only one door in the whole room, and only the other side of the door has a window, and the rest of the room is a closed wall.
As I saw yesterday by candlelight, the room was simply furnished, except for a few human-tall statues, a table and a bed. On both sides of the table, there were two thick cushions, the one that the old Taoist chief had sat on last night, the middle was concave downward, and there were obvious sitting marks.
And when I looked at the cushion on the other side, I found that the cushion also had seat marks.
In my mind, the image of the old Taoist chief talking to himself to the air across the table suddenly appeared. I was thinking about it when the policeman who came in with me called me and asked me what I was looking at, and I shook my head and said it was nothing. The constant encounters with strange things also made me a little suspicious.
The fact that the cushion has a sitting mark does not mean that two people should sit at the same time, and it is likely that the old Taoist left it at different times.
The policeman said he didn't find anything. After that, the two of us searched the rooms again, but we still didn't find anything. I was particularly concerned about these rooms, because at that time, I heard Yunqing's screams, although I didn't know if I heard them wrong.
The Taoist priests outside had already begun to urge us, so we had no choice but to walk out.
We stayed at the temple until the afternoon, during which time the bloody mud was sent down the mountain for identification. Perhaps because of the religion involved, the police acted quickly, and when the sun was about to set, we received reports one after another. The first is the identification of those with bloody sludge.
The police reported that it was indeed blood, but not human blood, but animal blood. Many of the police were relieved and said it was a false alarm, but I was a little strange. The entire Taoist temple doesn't know where the blood came from, and no one claims to kill in the Sansong Temple, and it is impossible for believers who go up the mountain to do such a thing in the Taoist temple and not be discovered.
Taoism is not like Buddhism, Taoism has branches, some branches require that killing is not allowed, and meat consumption is not allowed, but some branches do not have prohibitive regulations.
Why the beast's blood was mixed with the soil and appeared in the Sansong Temple has become a mystery, because it is not human blood, and the police have no intention of investigating it deeply.
After that, it's time to investigate the identity information of the old Taoist. The police quickly retrieved the identity information and found that the identity information of the old Taoist chief was not entered at all, that is, he was a black household, and no one knew what his name was.
Finally, the cause of death of the old Taoist chief, the forensic doctor gave a preliminary autopsy result: the old Taoist died of natural causes.
When the policemen who were still sitting on the hill heard this, they all stood up. They didn't want to do much, since it was a natural death, it meant that nothing major happened, so they were all ready to go down the mountain. Chen Fan asked me what to do, this Taoist temple is indeed weird, but nothing can be found, we can't do anything, we can only go down the mountain with the police.
Before going down the mountain, Xuanyi still hadn't returned, and I asked where Xuanyi, the Taoist priest in the Taoist temple, had gone.
Someone told me that Xuan Yi was ordered by the old Taoist two days ago, saying that he would go down the mountain for a while, and the old Taoist made a hexagram for Xuan Yi, saying that the best time to travel was last night. I asked the old Taoist chief where he was going and what he was doing, and those Taoist priests said they didn't know, because no one told Xuanyi and the old Taoist chief.
In this way, we ran many times back and forth from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain in two days.
When I got to the bottom of the mountain, it was almost dark, and the body of the old Taoist was lifted, Chen Fan said, the old Taoist was dead, and I am afraid that there will be many believers in this Sansong Temple to mourn soon. Carrying the stretcher back were a few Taoist priests, they were still crying vigorously, I finally glanced at the face of the old Taoist leader, the old Taoist chief closed his eyes, his lips were white, I made up my mind to find out the identity of this old Taoist leader.
And that one of them, both of them are too weird, and I always feel like they know me.
When we got back to the hotel, we fell asleep very quickly.
There is still no progress in the case of the ghost calling the meal and the case of Fei Ji's death, Chen Fan told me that the police are heartbroken about this, and Yunqing, who is missing, does not know where he went.
I used Luo Feng's connections to give them the task of investigating the old Taoist and Xuanyi.
Just when I thought that I was going to spend the day without progress, Chen Fan suddenly brought me back the news, he said that Yunqing had found it, and it was found in a remote room, and in that room, there were also tablets of Lao Jiu and four people.
I was slightly stunned, that place, I followed Yunqing before......