Chapter Twenty-Four: Headless Rumors
Hearing a sound behind him, the driver immediately looked back, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he was terrified.
Standing behind him was a headless male corpse, standing straight in front of the driver.
The head above the neck was nowhere to be seen, and the broken place was like a pillar of blood, and the red blood stained the clothes on the man's body bright red.
The driver was young at the time, and he had never seen such a scene, so he howled out in fright, and then quickly stepped back.
When he took two or three steps back and suddenly tripped over something under his feet and fell to the ground, he stood up and looked at his feet by the moonlight, and suddenly felt as if he had been struck by thunder, from the soles of his feet to his scalp.
At this time, where is there a leather ball in front of him, a bloody human head is rolling to the ground, his cheeks are pale without the slightest blood, a pair of eyes are staring at the driver, a few seconds later, the head and mouth are slightly opened, and the corners of the mouth show a cold smile: "Little friend, help uncle put his head on......"
"And then? How did you survive? Li Hai seemed to have been attracted by the driver's story, and hurriedly asked when he saw the driver's story come to an abrupt end.
"Then I was scared and fainted, and when I woke up, I was already lying on my bed, and I told my parents about it, but they didn't believe it, and said that I was dazzled, but what I didn't expect was that at noon, dozens of policemen came to the alley, and they were escorted by a man with handcuffs and shackles, and the man came to the front of my yard and pointed to a willow tree, and then the officers began to take out shovels and shovels to dig the soil, and finally guess what was dug up?" The driver said and turned to look at me and Li Hai.
"Just say it quickly, don't sell it." Li Hai urged.
The driver saw that Li Hai was in a hurry, so he lowered his voice and continued: "What was dug up was a headless male corpse, although the vision was not good that night, but I remember clearly, the clothes on this male corpse were exactly the same as the ones I saw the night before, but what was puzzling was that the head of the male corpse was gone, and the man said that the head and the body were buried together, but the police dug a pit or two meters deep and were stunned and did not find it, my parents finally believed what I said after seeing this scene, Within a few days, we started to move, and then moved to a development zone dozens of kilometers away from Haoqiao Hutong, but I still remember this incident vividly. ”
Although it was daytime, I still broke out in a cold sweat after listening to the driver's story, and at the same time I felt a fear of the hat brim alley.
In the end, Li Hai is to blame for this, and if he hadn't made up a story to scare me first, I wouldn't have brought up this topic.
Now I don't know if Qin Wenhua is at home, if he is really not there, then what will we do then, is it possible that we really have to wait until dark in this alley.
Just when I was nervous in my heart, Li Hai's untimely voice sounded again: "Master, you just said that when the criminal identified the scene, only a headless male corpse was dug up, so where did the head go, and was it found later?" ”
The driver shook his head and said he didn't know, he was too young to hear about it since he left Hatbrim Alley.
When he grew up, he investigated the progress of this matter on the Internet, although there was little information about the age, but he still found some clues at the insistence of the driver.
According to reports, the police searched for a week in the hat brim alley, dug a deep pit of nearly 100 meters, but still did not find the human head, and the suspect had already been punished, so the matter had to be resolved.
"According to the report, I didn't find the head in the end, maybe it's still buried under the hat brim alley, you two must be careful when you go, don't stay in it after dark, if you hear the sound of a ball rolling, you hurry up, maybe it's not the ball rolling at all, but the head of the male corpse back then!"
The driver was looking at us with a very strange look when he spoke, and I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart.
Although Li Hai said that he didn't believe in ghosts and gods, his face became a little ugly when he listened to the driver's appearance.
The driver saw that the two of us were pale, and he sneered, just as Li Hai and I looked at each other and didn't know why, the driver smiled and said: "You two are really good enough to fool, I just made up a story to scare you like this, if I really saw dirty things, would you still be able to survive until now?" ”
As soon as I heard that the driver was making up ghost stories to scare us, Li Haiqi was furious, and was just about to break a few words with the driver, when I turned my head and glanced out the window, and found that the words "hat brim alley" were written on the street sign on the side of the road.
Seeing that I had arrived at the place, I didn't want to delay more time with the driver, so after paying the fare, I dragged Li Hai out of the car, and when I got off the car, Li Hai also scolded the driver, and greeted the eighteenth generation of ancestors.
"Okay Lao Li, this driver is just joking, do you need to take it so seriously?" I looked at Li Hai, whose face was flushed, and said.
Hearing this, Li Hai took a sip at the taxi that was heading away in the distance, and shouted angrily: "I didn't believe in any ghosts and gods in the world when I was a child, but I didn't expect this kid to almost subvert my worldview for more than 20 years in a few words, do you think I can not be angry, next time I meet him again, I will have to teach him a good lesson." ”
"Okay, hurry up and get down to business while it's still dark, and after a while, you and I will go to No. 365 Hat Brim Hutong to find a person named Qin Wenhua, after seeing that person, don't talk too much, this person is a little evil." I looked at Li Hai and admonished.
Since I had already made a three-chapter agreement with Li Hai before I came, he didn't continue to ask questions after listening to me, and then followed me in the direction of Haoqiao Hutong.
Before I came to the alley, I looked inside, and it was very long and narrow, and I couldn't see the end at all.
The distance between the two sides is about four or five meters, and the ground is paved with bluestone slabs, perhaps because most of the old bluestones have been broken, leaking out the brown soil below.
There are courtyards on the left and right sides of the alley, one courtyard is about seven or eight meters wide, and there are willow trees in front of almost every house, but most of the willow trees have died, and only a few are scattered in the distance.
After some observation, Li Hai and I entered the alley, perhaps because the alley does not shine sunlight all year round, so it is extremely humid and dark, as soon as I entered, I felt that the temperature around me plummeted, and it was seven or eight degrees lower than the outside.
After entering the alley, I looked towards the courtyards on both sides, and there was a palm-sized piece of aluminum hanging on the door of each house, with the door number clearly engraved on it.
I walked along the door number and found that many courtyards were open, and the sound of children playing and washing and cooking could be heard from time to time.
Seeing the fireworks in this world, my original solemn mood instantly improved a lot, it seems that the driver before was indeed scaring us, how could such a strange thing happen in such a peaceful alley.
Just as he was about to continue walking, the footsteps of Li Hai behind him suddenly disappeared.
After noticing that something was wrong, I immediately looked back, and saw that Li Hai was standing about twenty or thirty meters away from me at the moment, looking down at the mobile phone in his hand, standing stunned as if a wooden pestle was on the ground.
Seeing that he was stagnant, I immediately ran to him and asked, "What are you doing in a daze, now you have reached more than 300 households, and you will be there by walking a few tens of meters further, why are you stopping now?" ”
When he asked, Li Hai's face was pale, his eyes were glued to the screen in front of him, and he didn't seem to hear what I was saying at all, seeing that he didn't respond, I directly pushed his arm with my hand, and shouted: "Are you stupid, why do you ...... when I talk to you?"
Before I could finish my sentence, Li Hai suddenly raised his head, and his face was very ugly at this time, his eyes were wide open, and his eyes were full of fear, as if he had seen some terrifying scene.
"Lao Li, are you okay, are you feeling unwell?" Seeing Li Hai's appearance, I couldn't help but be a little worried.
Li Hai did not respond, but handed the phone screen to me.
When I was in doubt, I looked at the screen, but when I saw the content on the screen, I couldn't help but gasp and get goosebumps!
At this moment, a news item appeared on the screen, which recorded a horrific murder in Hatbrim Hutong in 1978.
A seven-year-old child was brutally murdered by the killers, his head cut off, and buried in the hat brim alley.
The police finally caught the murderer through a night of investigation, and after interrogation, the murderer was only 13 years old, and the reason for the murder was that he wanted to grab some pocket money, but he accidentally killed someone.
The murderer then took advantage of the night to cut off the child's head and hide the body under a large tree in the hat brim alley.
Later, when the police brought the murderer to identify the scene, the child's body was dug up from under the tree, but the head was missing.
No matter how the police inquired and searched, they found no clues, and in the end, the whereabouts of the head had to be lost.
Originally, the murderer was under the age of 14 and did not need to be sentenced, but because this incident caused a lot of trouble in the local area, the above could not resist the pressure from the masses, and finally convicted the murderer and sentenced him to 10 years in prison.
After reading the news report, I fell into a deep thought, although this incident is roughly the same as what the driver said, but the characters in it are diametrically opposed.
He had previously said that the deceased was a young man, but the report said that the deceased was a seven-year-old child, which is not at all true.
If he was making up the story, it would never be so close to the news report, but if it wasn't made up, then why did the deceased change from a young man to a child?
Just when I had some doubts in my heart, I suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a color picture under the text, and I swiped it up with my hand, and the picture showed several police officers escorting the prisoner to identify the scene.
The murderer in the picture looks like he is in his teens and looks relatively immature.
After a cursory glance, I looked at Li Hai and said with relief: "Since this matter has been on the news, it is not surprising that the driver knows about it, maybe the story he told is half-true and half-false, and he has made himself in, and in the end, it is estimated that the two of us were scared before changing his words and saying that he made it up." ”
I thought that Li Hai's nervousness would ease a little after saying this, but I didn't expect him to point his finger at the murderer on the screen, and then said in a trembling voice: "You take a good look at this murderer, do you feel very familiar?" ”