With a pungent stench, the corpse completely turned into human skin soaked in a pool of green liquid.
After a while, Zhang Yu squatted down and took out a plastic glove from his pocket, apparently intending to turn the human skin over.
"Slow down!" Mei Qian suddenly shouted: "It's better to be safe." He stretched out the Tang Dao with its sheath.
Zhang Yu thinks it makes sense. It seems that these liquids can corrode all the internal organs and bones of a person. Even touching it with gloves is not safe. Unexpectedly, before his hand touched it, the other party suddenly retracted and turned to the other person.
He handed over the dagger in his hand.
He was stunned for a moment before taking the dagger. He first turned the head of the person on the ground over and began to carefully identify the appearance of the deceased.
But the man's face had no obvious features, so he had to take out his mobile phone, look through the records of the communication software, and compare it with the photos above to confirm that the deceased's name was Peng Xuezhen, and he was the person who disappeared with Maomao.
All three of them looked extremely ugly, after all, this was not a good sign.
"What to do with the body? Carry it back?" Mei Qian asked softly.
"Forget it, go back and report it and let the local police handle it." Zhang Yu sighed and took a few photos of the body with his mobile phone. Then he pointed to the messy footprints on the ground: "This is not a crime scene. He should be in a very panic situation.
I ran here alone."
Mei Qian looked in the direction of his finger. The cave was a little damp, and the marks on the ground were very obvious. Although he didn't find that the footprints were any different from what he usually saw, he believed in the judgment of professionals.
Moreover, these footprints also provide them with directions, so they can just follow the traces to find them.
Now I just hope nothing happens to anyone else.
Zhang Yu rubbed the dagger on the stone next to him, and then handed it back to Ning Chi, who looked resentful.
The three of them searched the area carefully to confirm that nothing else was found, and then followed the footprints left by Peng Xuezhen and headed deeper into the cave.
But after taking a few steps, Mei Qian, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped again. Under the surprised eyes of Zhang Yu and Ning Chi, he turned around and walked back to Peng Xuezhen's body.
"I always feel like I've overlooked something." Mei Qian frowned and looked at the twisted human skin on the ground.
"After so many years as a policeman, this is the first time I have seen this way of death." Zhang Yu twitched his face, and finally shook his head and sighed: "It's so tragic, I can't even imagine what happened to him before he died.
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"Do you still remember the thing that followed us before?" Mei Qian asked suddenly.
"You mean, human skin?" Ning Chi replied with an ugly expression. Apparently, the scene that happened behind his back deeply impressed him.
"How can a piece of skin move like a normal person and still scream?" Mei Qian narrowed his eyes slightly, then waved his hand: "You guys stay away."
Zhang Yu and Ning Chi looked at each other and walked far away obediently, using only their headlights to shine in this direction.
Mei Qian, as if looking for an angle, circled the body half a circle, then took half a step back.
After thinking about it, it seemed that it was not safe, so he took a step back, then took out the Tang sword, threw the scabbard to Ning Chi from a distance, then took out his pocket with his left hand and took out an exquisite pendant from the pocket of his clothes.
And the moment he took out the pendant, a horrifying scene appeared.
The deceased, whose internal organs and bones had turned into green liquid, actually began to twist with only a piece of skin left.
Moreover, this crazy twisting became more and more violent, causing him, no, the green liquid on his body to be thrown everywhere.
Fortunately, the three of them were well prepared, and even Mei Qian retreated to a safer place.
Of course, they won't get close now, and even Mei Qian ran back again.
Fortunately, this weird scene didn't last long. It only took half a minute for the human skin, which had been twisted into a twist shape, to suddenly become quiet.
Because Zhang Yu and Ning Chi were far away, they could only see that the human skin was no longer moving. They didn't know exactly what happened, so they couldn't help but come closer when they saw this.
Mei Qian moved faster, strode forward, the Tang Dao in his hand turned into several rays of cold light, and slashed towards the ground.
When Zhang Yu and Ning Chi came over, they discovered that around the human skin, in the green juice, there were several corpses of insects.
The place where Mei Qian Tang's sword struck just now was not the human skin they imagined, but the insects on the ground.
Zhang Yu couldn't help but touch his arm and felt hairy all over.
Ning Chi beside him actually made the same move.
Just because those bugs on the ground are really weird. Some of them look like stick insects, but the legs of the bugs are exaggeratedly long. These bugs are big and small. The small ones are only as long as a finger, and the big ones are almost as long as a baby's arm.
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"These crawled out from here." Mei Qian shook off the liquid on the Tang knife, and then pointed the tip of the knife at the human skin.
Sure enough, there were also wounds of various sizes on the human skin, which had previously only been a wound on the back of the neck.
"The bugs are inside the corpse?" Ning Chi gasped, thought for a while, and then said, "There are such bugs in nature. They lay eggs inside the corpse, and then the larvae grow on the corpse."
"This kind of bug should be done more thoroughly." Mei Qian snorted coldly and took the scabbard from Ning Chi's hand. After the Tang knife was sheathed, he hung the pendant around his neck: "I was there before
I think, a piece of human skin will definitely not move on its own unless there is something else inside."
"You mean, the human skin that attacked Ning Chi before was actually controlled by this kind of insect?" Zhang Yu stared at the pendant around Mei Qian's neck for a few times before asking.
"Peng Xuezhen shouldn't have been dead for long, the bug has grown so big. If it had been longer..." Mei Qian kicked the biggest bug with his foot. This guy was really tenacious, and it was torn into pieces.
Still squirming slowly: "I suddenly remembered a word, so I ran back to do an experiment. I didn't expect it to be like this."
"What word?" Zhang Yu tilted his head and asked.
"Supporting the tiger..." Mei Qian shook his head and sighed: "Is it similar to this situation?"
"Ghost..." Zhang Yu also sighed: "When a person dies, there is no peace."
Mei Qian lowered his eyes and silently clenched the knife.
Because I didn't expect to go underground, I actually forgot about the Spirit Transformation Seal. I just tried it, and I never thought that it was really a bunch of bugs.
Fortunately, they didn't wear the Spirit Transformation Seal when they first came down, so they were almost attacked by human skin. If it hadn't been for this, he probably wouldn't have cared. If Zhang Yu and Ning Chi didn't know about it, they might have been attacked.
"I said, then you just put these precious things in your pocket?" After solving a question, when the three of them set off again, Zhang Yu suddenly pointed at Mei Qian's neck: "Don't you want to give it to me?"
"What's your use?" Mei Qian glared at him and didn't answer. Instead, Ning Chi interrupted.
"When you squat down, you can prevent mosquitoes." Zhang Yu twitched the corner of his mouth.
Knowing that the other party was deliberately adjusting the depressing atmosphere, Mei Qian thought he should say something, but before he could say anything, he suddenly heard a woman's scream, and he ran towards the direction of the sound without thinking.
Ning Chi behind him was also stunned for a moment, then followed closely.
Because this voice is so familiar, who else could it be if it wasn't Maomao?