C141

Chapter 141 - Corpses

Watching Sang Lan stagger into the building, I was a little stunned.

This little woman doesn't have a good alcohol tolerance, and her alcohol tolerance is so poor as well. How can she use alcohol to take advantage of me?

Pan Ying chased them to the entrance of the pavilion, then suddenly turned around and gave them the middle finger. After opening her mouth as if she had said something, she turned around and entered the pavilion.

When he got home, he was about to open the door with his key when the door opened from the inside.

"I'm back." Xu Jie looked at me and pursed his lips.

I used the remaining alcohol to hug her and vaguely whispered in her ear, "I'm so tired, I want to sleep."

I had wanted to get closer to him, but somehow, when I thought about the close touch that Sang Lan had when she got off the car, I felt guilty and betrayed.

"You smell like a woman." Xu Jie suddenly said.

I jolted and looked at her guiltily.

She gently pushed me away and looked at me with a faint smile.

I don't know if it was just an illusion, but when I breathed in and out with her, I could smell a fishy and sweet smell.

Seeing me in a daze, Xu Jie raised an eyebrow, and revealed a mischievous smile, "Big Treasure told me already, you didn't sleep last night, and now you're reeking of alcohol … Wash your face and go to bed. "

I was really sleepy, thinking I'd tell her what happened last night when I woke up. After entering the house, he randomly washed his face, then forcefully moved her onto the bed. He hugged her as he fell into a deep slumber.

When he woke up, there was no one in his arms.

He looked outside and saw that it was already dark. He checked his watch and saw that it was nine o'clock in the evening. After a short nap on the bed, he got out of bed and went to the outer room.

There was food on the table and a note.

I picked up the note and saw that it read: My family called and said that something had happened at home and I had to go back to my hometown. Take care of yourself and remember to eat breakfast every day.

I frowned, took out my phone and called Xu Jie, but she turned it off.

Sitting on the sofa, I gloomily lit a cigarette. I was a little disappointed and a little annoyed.

Why can't you just let me know when you're leaving?

"Woo …"

The meat floss stuck its head out from under the coffee table, as if it knew that I was not in a beautiful mood. It whimpered, then lay down on the ground and silently looked at me.

The next morning, just as he went downstairs, he saw a few police cars enter the residential complex and stop not far away.

"Xu Huo!" Guo Sen got out of the car and waved me over.

"Captain Guo, what happened?"

"Someone has called the police. A murder case has been committed in Building 7. 301."

Block 7, isn't that the building next to mine?

Ma Li got out of the car, and told me to carry the case and follow him.

On the third floor, a cordon had been raised outside 301.

When he entered the room, he saw the team of police officers standing at the door of the washroom with unsightly expressions.

I walked over and looked in.

The old bathtub was filled with water, and a male cadaver was lying inside it.

However, what caused people to be terrified was not the corpse, but the blood-red symbol drawn on the mirror above the washbasin!

Based on the traces of the brush strokes spreading out and twisting, he was sure that this talisman was not drawn with cinnabar or something like that, but with blood!

Guo Sen asked me quietly what the talisman was used for.

I don't know, I've never seen such a symbol.

With Ma Li's permission, I opened the test kit and walked to the bathtub to start inspecting the corpses.

The dead man was about thirty years old. He was short, thin, and completely naked.

Other than his two legs outside the bathtub, the corpse's head and body were submerged in water. Its eyes were tightly shut. Other than its pale face, there was no expression of pain, as if it was peacefully sleeping underwater.

I took a closer look at the body and saw a few greyish-white marks below the dead man's chin and on the left side of his neck.

Because the corpse was submerged in water, after consulting the evidence, I wanted to fish out the upper half of the corpse.

I pulled up my sleeve and reached into the tub.

The moment my fingertips touched the shoulder of the corpse, the corpse's eyes suddenly opened!

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Even if I was brave enough, I was still frightened by this scene. I screamed out and staggered a few steps back. This corpse's eyes were actually filled with whites!

Normally, even if Ma Li didn't teach me a lesson, she would still tease me a bit.

This time around, she rarely got near me. She didn't say anything for a long time, and her face became deathly pale. Because she was short of breath, her chest violently heaved up and down. She was obviously frightened as well.

After a long while, she turned her head back and asked Guo Sen with a frown: "The victim was blind?"

Guo Sen shook his head, "The victim's name is Pei Shaoyi, he is a programmer from a computer company."

Programmer?

How could a programmer be blind …

I took two deep breaths and stepped forward again.

This time, it was clear that there were no eyes in the corpse's eyes. The two eyes were like plaster statues that had no color, they were dead fish white.

A witness behind him said, "The water samples have already been extracted. Let the water go."

I nodded and unplugged the tub.

The moment the water began to gurgle, I began to regret it.

The water in the bathtub was originally very clear, and through the surface of the water, one could clearly see the pores of the dead person's body.

However, the moment the water started leaking, the lower part of the corpse seemed to have been sucked out by a strong suction force. A pungent black liquid came out, instantly dyeing the water in the bathtub like ink, even the corpse could not be seen.

"Ugh …"

"Ugh …"

The pungent smell caused many people to retch.

Looking at the slowly leaking black water in the bathtub, I had a vague feeling that something was wrong. Anxiously wanting to fish out the corpse, but Guo Sen and Ma Li dragged me out of the toilet.

"How could this be?" Guo Sen frowned and asked.

"It's the smell of rotting internal organs, retch …" Just as Ma Li said this, she couldn't help but cover her chest and retch.

Due to the stench, everyone had to temporarily withdraw 301.

After a full twenty minutes, the stench had yet to dissipate.

Ma Li, who had already vomited a few mouthfuls, clenched her teeth and put on a mask, allowing me to follow her inside.

When they came back to the bathroom and saw the scene in the bathtub, both of them were stunned.

The black water in the bathtub hadn't completely leaked out, because the opening was blocked by a large amount of black floc, leaving only a fifth of the sewage.

The corpse was revealed, but it was not its original appearance. Instead, it had turned into a desiccated corpse that was only skin and bones!

Due to severe dehydration, the mouth of the corpse had been cracked open, exposing a mouth full of teeth and shrivelled gums. His eyelids were still open, but only his eye sockets were left, without any eyeballs.

What was even weirder was … The blood symbol on the mirror had disappeared!

"What the f * ck is going on?"

Guo Sen, who was usually calm, could no longer hold it in.

This had nothing to do with his mental state. The sensory stimulation from the dead body in front of him was not something a normal person could withstand.

There were many types of mummies, all of which were covered in a layer of dried black leather with skeletons.

However, the corpse in front of him looked like all the organs, impurities, and pigments in his body had been drained away by the black liquid. Only a paper like piece of white skin was left over, which was wrapped around the white skeleton … Even the gums that were exposed were white!

Remembering what I had seen, I held my breath, reached out a hand, and lifted the dead man's bowed chin.

When I saw the condition of my neck, my whole body went numb, and my heart almost stopped beating.

"What's that?" Ma Li asked.

I managed to say, "It went through the wound, and the victim was bitten through the great carotid artery."

Thinking about the color of the corpse, I subconsciously muttered, "He was sucked dry of his blood."

Ma Li pressed her hand on the corpse's abdomen, immediately revealing a centipede-like protrusion underneath the white belly.

It's the spine.

We looked at each other, then we took off one of our gloves and took a powerful flashlight out of the lab box and shone it at the eye sockets and mouth.

"Truly a bag of bones … Viscera, brain … All the structures are gone. "

Ma Li rested for a long time before she finally got her body to be packed back into the police station.

I walked out the door, took off my mask, and breathed deeply.

Inadvertently, my eyes fall on the door plate next door. I can't help but be stunned.

Building 7 301...

Isn't that just a wall away from our number 6 building?

Even though it's a medical examiner, I still feel a little depressed.

Returning to the station, he began an in-depth examination of the body, only to find that there was not much operational at all.

In addition to skin, bones and teeth, the corpse was also a sample of the sewage that had later been taken from the bathtub.

Ma Li stood up from the experiment table and returned to behind the desk. She picked up the autopsy report, paused for a moment, then threw it back onto the table and casually picked up the phone.

"Hey, Professor Lin, this is Ma Li. The police found a dead body in the Old Town this morning, and my lab couldn't tell for sure what it was like. I would like to apply for the transfer of the body to the school laboratory for more in-depth analysis. "

Ma Li spoke a few words to the other party before suddenly raising her head to look at me.

"Xu Huo is also participating in today's work. Based on his performance during this period of time, if the academy agrees, I can give him a grade in advance."

Startled, I clasped my hands together and bowed to her.

Ma Li stared at me, then said seriously into the phone:

"There was no favouritism. In his last two jobs, he had faced the body with calmness that exceeded that of all the forensic staff in the headquarters laboratory. "Yes, including me."

Seeing that Ma Li had hung up, I walked forward with pursed lips and took out my phone to look at her gratefully, "Sis, tell me, the Han Court is still 7 days away, even if it's 5 stars, I will give it my all!"

"Get lost!"

Ma Li quickly typed out a document on her computer, typed it out, and threw the unsigned autopsy report into my arms, "Scram to the front, let the Old Guo sign his application for the autopsy!"

"Thank you, Li-jie." I sincerely said. I bowed to her, turned around, and walked out.

After waiting for around 20 minutes at Guo Sen's office, he finally returned with a document bag.

Just by looking at the application that Ma Li had submitted, she signed it and called for Yang Lei to bring it to the bureau chief for him to sign.

I said if there was nothing else, I would go back to the office first. He told me to stay and discuss the case.

I have a lot of respect for this big bro, and I know that he has been under a lot of pressure due to Li Qingyuan and the abandoned factory's child corpse, so I didn't dare to speak ill of him.

He recounted the details of the case, took out a cellphone with a sealed bag from his folder, and said while flipping through:

"This phone should belong to the deceased Pei Shaoyi. Based on the chat that was left behind on WeChat, I can roughly deduce that this case was caused by a love affair."

"Cyber love? This programmer is really bold. " I subconsciously rolled my eyes.

Guo Sen nodded his head, "According to the records, the deceased had an intimate relationship with at least three females, I have already sent the technical department to gather more information."

He suddenly stopped, "Eh... This avatar is rather special … Xiao Yu... "