Chapter 8: The Ghost Fire in the Mountains
Judging from the current situation in Dong'an Village, they are very hostile to outsiders, and have set up all kinds of roadblocks and traps.
But after thinking about it carefully, the possibility of this kind of thing happening is still very low, so I followed Li Meng's analysis and continued: "Even if this is the case, after all, if it involves human life, the villagers will find a way to destroy the evidence and bury the body as soon as possible?" How can a corpse be discarded casually? ”
"Yes, destroying corpses is a knee-jerk reaction of people, how can they be allowed to rot in the air?" Liu Jingyuan, a policeman sitting on the side, echoed that this case was really beyond his ability.
Although he is also a policeman, he is just an ordinary policeman at the county police station, and most of the cases he usually handles are fights, and even if there are criminal cases, they will not be so complicated.
After a brief analysis of the case, we agreed that since the body was not buried, but exposed to the ossification of the air, we would be able to find the other bones of the deceased.
This tibia was found by a dog in the village, so the location where the tibia was found must not be far away. The corpses will not be placed in the living quarters of the villagers, so where will the corpses be placed?
After a while, Xu Huan, the village party secretary, who had not spoken, suddenly looked at us with a nervous expression, and said quietly: "I should know where the body is......
Dong'an Village is a village at the foot of a mountain with its back against a large mountain.
The mountain has no name, and the villagers call it "Snake Mountain" because there are many black snakes in the mountain, but in the early years, due to the large number of snakes caught by the villagers, there were very few black snakes in the mountain, and the remaining black snakes lived in the deep mountains.
Snake Mountain is the highest mountain in the area, covering a large area, and the villagers rarely go into the mountain, except occasionally to collect some firewood or mushroom picking.
Xu Huan, a college student, was very enthusiastic about the job when he first came here, ready to help the villagers make a fortune, and he carefully studied the snake mountain, hoping to find something economically valuable in the mountain.
But soon this enthusiasm disappeared, not only because there were only some wild black snakes in the mountains, but also because the villagers did not accept his enthusiasm at all, and they were very repulsive to this knowledgeable village party secretary, and they all looked at him like a monster.
At first, when I heard him say this, I was puzzled, thinking that the villagers' behavior of looking at the village party secretary as if they were monsters was somewhat exaggerated, but when we actually walked into the village, I understood what it meant to "pass but not do anything".
In order to prevent the villagers from influencing the handling of the case, we entered the village as leaders of the township and town governments, claiming that we were going to inspect seven villages in Dong'an County, and that we had just come to Dong'an Village today.
On the way, the villagers stared at us with a hostile look in their eyes, and even gave me the feeling that they would suddenly pull a dagger from their waist and attack us.
The five of them were used to this kind of look, because they had seen the villagers when they were angry, and that kind of look was murderous.
We walked quickly through the village to the foot of Snake Mountain, which the villagers called it.
Xu Huan slowly opened his mouth and introduced us to the natural situation of this mountain, when he first came here, he had entered the depths of Snake Mountain to investigate, and he was very familiar with this place.
"I checked the county records of Dong'an County, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this was an enemy-occupied area, and devils would go to the countryside from time to time to sweep up. In order to escape the intrusion of the Japanese invaders, the militia organized many shelters in the snake mountain. Every time the devils came, they collectively took food and livestock into the mountains to take refuge.
According to incomplete statistics, there are at least a dozen shelters here, and many of them are connected, like tunnels. Later, after the victory in the war, these shelters were converted into bomb shelters. Xu Huan said to us.
This situation has existed in various regions of our country and is uniformly called civil air defense engineering.
Civil air defense projects are military installations that are of great strategic and combat readiness significance.
As our country grows stronger and stronger, standing on top of the world, let's stay away from war and live a peaceful life. Many air defense projects have also been abandoned, but as everyone knows, there are many civil air defense projects not only in mountain villages, but also in many cities.
All civil air defense projects are designed to effectively resist various attacks, including nuclear weapons, and secondary disasters in cities. In the 70s, the slogan of "digging deep holes and accumulating grain" sounded, and every city in our country was actively preparing for war, digging a lot of air-raid shelters and tunnels, thus forming a large area of underground construction.
There are even air defense projects that can be used as airfields to hide aircraft in times of war and preserve the air force's ability to counterattack.
Having said that, compared with the civil air defense projects in the city, there are still drawings to refer to, but the civil air defense projects in the countryside are all dug by the villagers themselves, and they don't know how many air-raid shelters there are, and how many holes there are.
Fortunately, Xu Huan, the village party secretary, is an absolutely good village official, and when he first went into the mountain to investigate, he found several caves, and there was an entrance to the west of the mountain.
At this moment, the small stone on the side sent us a divine assist: "Team Leader Qin, I remember that the book said that after a person dies, there will be a ghost fire, right?" ”
I looked at him, didn't understand what he meant, and simply nodded: "Yes, there will be ghost fire." ”
"Ghost fires" are "phosphorus fires" and are usually found in rural areas, more often than in dry summer weather. However, it occasionally appears in the city. Because human bones contain phosphorus, after the corpse decomposes, it will produce phosphine, which has a very low ignition point and can spontaneously combust.
When walking, it will drive it to move behind (because the flow speed is high and the pressure is small), and when you look back, it is very scary, so it is called "ghost fire" by those superstitious people. The color of the ghost fire changes depending on the color of the elements contained in the human body. There are 3 colors of ghost fire that we can see: green, blue, and red, and if there is a special color, it means that the deceased has a lot of trace elements in his body.
Xiao Shi recalled for a moment and said slowly: "That was a long time ago, when I was wandering around the village, I heard the villagers talking about the mountains together, saying that they had seen a ghost fire on the west side of Snake Mountain. I didn't pay attention to it at the time, thinking that it was just the villagers chatting and bragging after dinner, and I also said that I had seen aliens. It was only later that I accidentally read in a book that it was said that after death, a ghost fire will form. ”
After listening to him, we immediately had a direction, and walked towards the west side of the snake mountain, and soon we saw a hole......