Seeing the two people away, Zhou Guangguang sat down again, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Glancing at the mountain of cases on the table, he opened the drawer in front of him and took out a document from the backlog of old cases.

From the data, he took out a folded half-section photo.

The photograph shows a boy of about ten years old, half-crouched on the ground, staring fiercely in one direction.

After looking at it for a while, he spread out half of the photograph again, and on this complete photo, a dried corpse lying on the coffin board appeared in the boy's hand.

The corpse was brown and naked, with a few sparse hairs growing on its skull, its limbs as thin as thin bamboo poles, and its skin clinging to the bones.

His mouth was wide open, his cheeks were deep, as if he had been sucked dry in a movie, and his entire row of teeth could be seen clearly.

The case was originally named: The Dried Corpse Case.

Zhou Guangxue closed his eyes and slowly muttered, "Gu Fangwen." It seems to be reminiscing in my mind.

Things go back to yesterday.

When the two got out of the car because of Gu Chuan's sneaking away and looked at each other unpleasantly.

Zhou Guangxue talked to Yu Hai about his past.

He and Yu Hai graduated from the same police academy, and after graduation, he was recruited into the public security and became a grassroots police officer.

I like to work hard and work hard, and when I encounter a case, I have to solve it, and at that time I still had a nickname called Desperate Saburo.

But according to Yu Hai's words, this is called a great achievement, not advisable, no wonder it is obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Zhou Guangxue snorted, and bluntly said that you know a fart, you are young and energetic, in other words, this is called progress, no matter how tragic the case, his heart has never deviated, and he has always unswervingly walked his own path.

But then he encountered a difficult case, but he didn't expect it to become his heart disease, a hurdle that he couldn't overcome.

Yu Hai raised his eyebrows, and he didn't shy away from saying, "Gu Chuan's father's case, right?" Gu Fangwen? ”

Zhou Guangxue took out his cigarette at the end of the day and nodded, "That's right, it's this case." ”

"You are just too persistent, you like to get to the bottom of everything, this case has been solved back then..."

"Don't talk to you kid, what do you know about what happened back then? When I first came out of the police, you were probably still a junior high school student. ”

Zhou Guangxue chirped a lot of things that didn't have them, and finally returned to the topic just now.

"Gu Fangwen's body disappeared from the funeral home, and I feel that this matter is still boring."

"What? Suspect that kid of stealing corpses? Why don't you go to his house and rummage through it? Yu Hai's face was full of smiles, and he said sarcastically, who doesn't know that Gu Chuan was only eleven years old back then, and what ability he had to steal the corpse.

This week, Guangxue can hold on to anyone, but it is really unwise to hold on to Gu Chuan.

Zhou Guangxue's expression was changeable, and he slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette, "How much do you know about that case?" This stopped him, because he had only read the relevant files of that year, and besides, the events of more than ten years ago, the written records were not as rigorous as they are now.

"Could it be that there is any inside story?"

At this time, Gu Chuan had just gotten out of the car and returned home, and it was sparsely raining outside, he was glad that he came back early, otherwise he would have to become a soup chicken, but when he thought of the ghost covering his eyes just now, his whole person was instantly not good.

He took off his shoes and glanced at the picture frame next to the living room, where the old man in the portrait was looking straight at him.

Gu Chuan's face changed, he stepped forward and walked over, picked up the photo frame and took a look, and saw that there were a few incomprehensible runes drawn at the foot of the frame, so he breathed a sigh of relief, this photo frame was given to him by his father before he died, along with the pendant around his neck.

Daddy said that if one day you find that the runes behind this picture frame are gone, remember, leave this house and don't come back. Although he didn't know what Daddy meant by saying this, Gu Chuan still silently wrote it down.

In his heart, Gu Fangwen was his only relative after all, even if something like that happened during the time when he was delirious......

"You mean Gu Fangwen took him as an offering?" Yu Hai braked the car suddenly, his face was shocked, there was no mention of this in this case file, and it was only recorded in the case file that when the police found his son, Gu Fangwen was already dead.

I didn't say anything about what happened in between, but I just closed the case as child abuse.

There is also one last thing recorded in the case file, that is, Gu Fangwen's body is suspected of being stolen, and it was a normal case, but because of the disappearance of Gu Fangwen's body, it was covered with a layer of fog.

Until three months later, the police did not find any whereabouts of the body.

At first, this matter was only known by a few people, but it did not attract attention as an important clue, and since then this matter has not been resolved, and even Yu Hai is not sure if there is such a thing, but Zhou Guangxue is even more curious as evidence.

Seeing Zhou Guangxue take a deep breath and explain, "You don't know, this photo was taken when I went to the abandoned underground garage with my master to go to the police." ”

As if recalling some horrific experience, he pulled out a photograph.

At that time, he went into the underground garage and kept in touch with other colleagues, and the recorder on his chest was always on.

This time the police were called because someone called the police, saying that there were large blood stains in the abandoned garage on the west entrance of Hui'an Huayuan.

At first, people could occasionally hear the cries of pain from inside, and some residents thought it was the barking of stray cats and dogs, so they ignored it.

Later, a bold man went down to the garage, but before he could get close to the place where the sound came from, the scattered blood stains along the way, and the smell of blood in the air scared him enough.

He crawled out of the garage and then called the police.

Looking at the scattered blood marks on the ground, some of them looked like children's and some of them were palm prints of adults, Zhou Guangxue said that his heart was in his throat at that time, and the palms of his hands holding the gun were full of cold sweat.

Just as he was still wondering if there had been a homicide in this police trip, the blood mark became more and more obvious, behind the wall in front of him.

He heard a faint humbling sound.

"Hey, two groups and two groups, I have a situation here, come and ......"

But as the sound became quieter and quieter, he couldn't sit still, turned around and stood out with a gun, and the strange scene in front of him was also recorded by the recorder on his body at the same time.

A boy of about ten years old crouched next to a dried corpse, holding a piece of iron in his left hand.

He cut the palm of his hand and reached over the dry corpse with its mouth wide open, and the blood that flowed from it ran down the palm of his right hand and was dripping into the mouth of the dried corpse.

The boy had a withered face and a thin body, and when he saw a stranger, he quickly withdrew his hand, and held it tightly into his arms, and his eyes, which should have been clear, stared at the man with a fierce look, as if he were a heinous enemy in front of him.

Zhou Guangxue, who is only 24 years old, has never seen this meeting, and for a while both of them stood in place, and when he reacted, the master had already brought other colleagues here, and he saw the situation here at a glance.

Xu is there too many people, or the blood loss is too fast, the boy's chapped lips opened, and he wanted to say something, but as soon as he rolled his eyes, he fainted.

In my ear was the master's sentence, "Why are you still stunned!" Get someone to the hospital! ”

He wanted to step forward, but as if he couldn't move, the other colleagues took the first step to pick up the boy and rushed outside.

At this time, his eyes were attracted by the ink-strewn wall in front of him, and there were many small people painted on the wall.

It's a picture of hell, with a monster with horns standing in front of a frying pan with a man in front of a frying pan, next to a group of demons with steel forks in their hands, watching it all with great interest.

At the bottom corner, a boy with two pigtails and a red belly pocket was covering his eyes and crying, and the child's hand was injured.

The whole painting follows the wall to the other end of the wall, and the shock seems to be impossible to describe his expression at this moment.

Then he went around the back of the wall.

At this point, a complete picture of hell appeared before his eyes.

This is a story about the underworld, or about hell.

A man dressed in coarse linen stood guard by a red river, and the bank was covered with many red flowers, some of which were blown into the air by the wind. Some float down the river and go down with the current.

The flower name is on the other side, born in Huangquan and grew up in the underworld.

A man danced obsessively until his feet turned to bones, and his whole body became a skeleton, and he fell by the river.

As soon as the story turned, it was the man just now, who was holding a baby tightly in his arms, his expression was panicked, and he was running barefoot in the river, as if something was chasing him behind him.

The more Zhou Guangxue looked, the more obsessed he became, as if he was enchanted, and his eyes frantically searched for the next paragraph on the wall.

This is the man placing the baby on an altar and then making an unexpected move, he kneels down, folds his hands, and seems to be praying, at which point the baby in the painting has opened his eyes.

The drawings are weird and crazy.

There seems to be a connection between the front and back but it is pieced together, here it is still talking about men, and the next paragraph is a man being thrown into the oil pot and struggling, and the child is not crying, but standing there and watching all this.

He noticed that behind the child, a figure was observing.

He was too curious, and it was his master who noticed Zhou Guangxue's abnormal behavior.

At first, he felt angry, but when he looked at his master's face, he realized how ridiculous his crazy eyes were, and he even felt that it was not him.

He didn't dare to look at it, but walked out of the underground garage.

The fresh air poured into his lungs, and he suddenly realized that it was real, and it was strange that he felt that everything just now was unreal.

Hearing this, Yu Hai couldn't help but interrupt him, "So, that mural affected you?" He pinched his chin thoughtfully, "but that doesn't explain everything you see, why a ten-year-old would behave like that!" What happened to Gu Fangwen's death? ”

The cause of death given in the dossier was also sloppy: death from blood loss.

But this can't explain that Gu Fangwen's corpse has turned into a dry corpse.

Zhou Guangxue hissed, and said: "It's not wrong to die of blood loss, there is indeed no trace of blood in his body, as if it has evaporated, and the whole person is dehydrated and shrunk into a dried corpse." ”

"Is it so evil?"

He later asked some experts to study this, and according to them, the painting depicts a kind of worship, and there are some places in the painting that are very obscure. Take the man dancing by the river, for example, he danced a kind of Zhurong dance in ancient times, a kind of blessing.

But the feet have turned into bones, indicating that their purpose is impure, meaning desire.

Then he took the baby away, indicating that the baby was a tool for him to realize his desires, and sure enough, after he got the baby, he couldn't wait to start the offering, and the baby opened his eyes, which means that he had accepted the man's offering.

This is followed by the oil pot, indicating that the man's desire has been discovered, and the baby's secret has also been exposed, here may not be the baby crying for the man, but because of the figure behind it, as for why this is not known.

"A lot of people have persuaded me that the painting is nothing special, just a strange act of an abusive father who is insane." With that, he snuffed out the cigarette and threw it out the window and out of the road.

Yu Hai became more and more puzzled in his heart, "Then what does this have to do with you holding Gu Chuan?" Gu Fangwen's body can't still be stolen by him. ”

Zhou Guangxue didn't know how to explain it, he always had a question in his heart, why did the child behave like that after his father died? Before Gu Fangwen died, Gu Chuan saw something again.

"I don't know, but I've always had a gut feeling, anyway, I think it's better for you to stay away from him, his whole person has always given me a strange feeling, when I started noticing him, I don't remember."

Zhou Guangxue didn't tell Yu Hai, he always felt that as long as Gu Chuan was still there, then Gu Fangwen would appear sooner or later, which was a terrible premonition.

Looking at the photo handed over by Zhou Guangxue, Yu Hai was suddenly silent.

Zhou Guangxue thought that he was moved by what he said, so he didn't make a sound.

What he didn't know was that he had already seen this photo when Yu Hai found Gu Chuan.

It turned out that the source of the photo was here, Yu Hai turned his head to stare at Zhou Guangxue and asked, "Who else knows about this photo?" ”

Zhou Guangxue didn't expect him to ask this, and then shook his head, "Except for me, none of them know that this photo was taken from the video in the recorder." ”

The clue was broken again here, Yu Hai secretly clenched his fists, who was behind the ghost, and what was the purpose of sending this half of the photo to himself? Could it be that the answer he wants lies with Gu Chuan.

At this time, he touched his pocket, and it was broken, "Why is that copper coin of his missing!" ”

And here, Gu Chuan put down the photo frame and re-straightened it.

Looking at the person in the frame, he smiled unconsciously, and then turned his head to look at his father's room behind him, keeping his eyes fixed on the wall.

A ghostly figure floated in slowly through the crack in the door, and he didn't pay attention.