Chapter 19: Dried Corpses
Sleepless nights.
The next morning, it was just dawn.
Knock knock!
There was a sharp knock on the door.
Wei Tao rubbed his slightly swollen eyebrows and sat up from the bed.
"Who?"
"Is the old guard here?"
An old voice sounded outside.
It's the old Li Tou who lives in the alley.
Wei Tao went out to open the courtyard door, and at a glance, he saw that Lao Litou's face was as white as paper, and there was no trace of blood.
"It's Brother Tao, you're okay at home."
Lao Li's body trembled slightly.
His voice trembled a little when he spoke.
When Wei Tao saw it, a slight bad feeling rose in his heart.
"Uncle Li, what's going on, don't be in a hurry to say it slowly."
"In the alley, something big is wrong!"
Lao Li's lips moved, trembling and almost speechless.
"What's wrong?" Wei Tao was a little puzzled for a while, and he couldn't imagine what would happen.
After all, since he met with the head of the Youth Alliance, not to mention other places, at least the current security environment in Yaoshi Lane is clear, and I don't know how many times better than before.
Not only do the gang members of the Youth Chord no longer harass the neighborhoods, but they even patrol the alleys from time to time to drive away other scattered thugs and prevent them from causing trouble.
It's only been a few days since the result got better, why did something big happen?
Lao Li Tou breathed a sigh of relief before he continued to speak.
"The Xu family and the couple who live on the very edge, the five members of the Qiu family, are all dead."
"There are also several strange corpses in an empty courtyard."
"All dead?" Wei Tao couldn't help but be stunned.
He immediately thought of the attack that had struck him last night.
I don't know if there is any connection with these two massacres.
Quickly putting on a coat, he and Lao Li Tou walked towards the front of the alley together.
A moment later, Wei Tao came to the door of Qiu's house, and after only one glance inside, he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
Inside the courtyard, five corpses were neatly placed.
There was not a trace of blood on the ground.
The corpse's face was as white as paper, his expression was distorted, and his eyes were wide open.
It was as if they had all seen something terrible and horrible before they died.
Wei Tao turned his head to look at Old Li, "Uncle Li, were they moved to the yard, or was this how they were found?" ”
Lao Li said in a trembling voice, "I went to collect gold water in the morning, and when I saw a crack in the door of their courtyard, I thought that the Qiu family had already gotten up."
When I got closer, I saw that everyone was lying on the ground, and it was already the same as it is now. ”
"Have you reported to the official......" Wei Tao stopped halfway through his words and did not continue.
On the outskirts of the city, the dead are as common as wind and rain, and reporting to the officials is of little use, but will cause a lot of trouble, and finally have to break the bank to get rid of the blood-sucking locusts.
He let out a slow breath of turbidity, pushed the door in, and took a closer look.
It's not like the Silver Wolves' tactics.
The Silver Wolf Gang kills people, it won't be so weird.
Why is the corpse's skin as white as ice and snow, and it looks visibly shriveled?
Wei Tao wrapped his fingers in a small piece of cloth and slightly touched the bare skin of the corpse.
Hiss!
His brow furrowed.
The tentacles of the corpse were cold, and it felt like it had just been taken out of the refrigerator.
In order to verify his guess, Wei Tao found a firewood knife from the courtyard, sharpened it on the bluestone casually twice, and then slashed the corpse's arm.
Really.
He looked down at the flesh that parted to the sides, but only a tiny little bit of blood oozed out, and he immediately confirmed his idea.
The blood in their bodies was almost drained.
Coming out of Qiu's house, the two soon came to Xu's house.
A young couple was also lying on their backs on the floor of the courtyard.
The corpse was twisted, its skin was as white as snow, and its face was hideous, and it was impossible to see it.
He had seen them before, and had scared away the CYADS people on their doorstep, helping them block loan sharks.
Only now they have turned into cold corpses.
There was a muffled sobbing sound behind him, then it grew louder and louder, and it joined together.
Wei Tao's mood also became a little heavy.
It's not like he hasn't seen dead people.
Even a few hours earlier, he had made dead people with his own hands.
But I have never seen a dead person whose blood has almost been drained from his body.
These two tragic cases of annihilation reveal an eerie atmosphere from beginning to end.
It was as if some danger was lurking in the darkness, slowly approaching.
Suddenly, Wei Tao found a bright red color in the corner of his eye.
He walked around the two bodies and walked briskly to the door of the wing, looking through the half-covered door.
Two large red lanterns came into his sight.
It's like a giant beast lurking in the house, staring at two red eyes, ready to break down the door at any moment.
"It's ......"
Wei Tao inexplicably thought of the eight words "golden light and skylight".
A sense of foreboding suddenly welled up in my heart.
"Uncle Li, let me ask you something."
Coming out of the courtyard of the Xu family and his wife, he quickly found Lao Li Tou, who was collecting gold water.
"What's the matter, you ask." Lao Litou's eyes became a little cloudy, and he didn't know if he was so frightened that he lost his soul.
"Have you ever been around the alley lately......" he asked, but suddenly changed his words, "I remember wrong, so I don't need to ask." ”
"Oh." Old Li Toumu nodded, and poured a bucket of gold water into the cart behind him.
Wei Tao stood where he was, watching a group of nearby residents enter the courtyard, wrap the two corpses in a corner, and then begin to search inside and outside the house, removing all the slightest useful things, leaving only an empty and dilapidated courtyard.
However, in the end, they carried all the corpses to the wasteland outside the city, rolled them up on mats, dug pits and buried them, and gave a few people a ride.
Wei Tao had already come to the abandoned house that Lao Li Tou said at this time, and before the surrounding residents came to clean up, he saw those strange corpses.
These are a few ordinary people dressed in coarse cloth clothes, who look like they live in the alleys and live on part-time jobs.
Their complexion was also snow-white.
There was still a look of horror in his wide-open eyes,
It was as if he had seen something terrible before he died.
Wei Tao didn't want to stay here longer, and after checking it out, he was ready to leave.
"Huh?"
Suddenly, the pattern on the wrist of one of the corpses caught his attention.
Wei Tao squatted down and raised the dead body's right hand to see the full picture of the tattoo.
It's a gray wolf head.
These corpses turned out to be members of the Silver Wolf Gang?
They are here for no purpose other than to target his family.
But now, all the people from the Silver Wolf Gang are dead.
So, who did it, and does it have anything to do with those two lanterns?
Wei Tao straightened up, and his heart was slightly cold.
After leaving the house in the morning, he did not go to the martial arts hall, but first went to the jade workshop, hiding in the dark and carefully observing the surrounding situation.
Soon after, several men who appeared to be clearly gang members appeared nearby.
They crouched not far from the gate, like spies on their feet, carefully screening everyone who came in and out.
Wei Tao waited quietly and did not act rashly.
It wasn't until one of them left alone that he secretly followed.
Knocked it down in a no-man's land, and opened his wrist to see the same wolf head tattoo.
As for the other guys who were still squatting on the side of the avenue, Wei Tao did not choose to continue to do it, but turned around and left directly.
These people are just low-level members of the Silver Wolf Gang, and even if they are killed, they will not make the Silver Wolf Gang hurt their muscles and bones, and they will not even have a substantial impact.
But as long as the people of the Silver Wolf Gang find out that he is doing it, it may startle the snake, making their actions more stealthy and ruthless.
Fortunately, the workers in the jade workshop were not allowed to take half a step out of their workshops until they had time to rest, and this system of exploitation, which in the eyes of later generations was extremely restrictive of personal freedom, became a great security guarantee in this world.