Chapter 234 The corpse in the basement, human skin, spiritual position
Hugo once said: "The sewer is the conscience of a city. All despicable and ugly things in a civilized society will be thrown into the sewer once they are no longer used."
It is true that the sewers reflect the conscience of a city, while the basement often reflects the conscience of a person and a family. Just like the sewers of a city, anything we don’t use will be thrown into the garbage dump and basement, where it accumulates over time.
It was covered with dust and never saw the light of day, until one day, it was suddenly turned out and exposed to the sun, just like our hearts.
Du Ziqiao searched for the sound and came to a room next door. It should have been a bedroom before, but compared to the bedroom Du Ziqiao saw before, this bedroom was even neater and tidy, which made people very uncomfortable and uncomfortable.
Of course, Du Ziqiao's attention was not focused on the layout of the bedroom, but on an open basement next to the bed.
The curtains in the room had already been opened by the police officers who came to investigate, allowing the sunlight from outside to shine in. As the sunlight entered, the originally damp and dark room became much brighter. However, when the basement
After the floor was opened, the dark hole was revealed, making the room once again eerie and terrifying.
A smell of dampness, musty, stagnant air, or something rotting filled the room, which didn't look very big.
Everyone present is a veteran policeman who has been in and out of many scenes. They have long been accustomed to this unpleasant smell. If they don't smell this smell at a crime scene, they will feel a little uncomfortable.
, maybe this is the so-called occupational disease, and this rotting smell is very familiar to Du Ziqiao and the others. It is the smell of rotting corpses. So, is it a human corpse, or the corpses of some cats and mice?
Looking at the dark hole in front of them, no one knew.
Fan Yang came here with Du Ziqiao. When she saw that everyone was stunned on the spot and had no intention of going down, she put down the tool box in her hand, put on her gloves and said, "Flashlight."
A policeman subconsciously handed a miniature flashlight to Fan Yang. After taking it, Fan Yang walked towards the entrance of the basement. She was going to go down first to see what was going on inside.
After seeing Fan Yang's actions, Du Ziqiao came to his senses. He walked a few steps quickly, grabbed Fan Yang who was about to go down, took the flashlight from her hand, and then, holding the flashlight, walked along the entrance of the cave.
Walked down the stairs.
Just kidding, with so many big men present, how could Du Ziqiao let a woman like Fan Yang take the risk first? Wouldn't this be a slap in the face to all the male police officers?
After Du Ziqiao took the lead, the other male policemen also reacted and walked to the entrance of the basement one after another and walked down the stairs.
The stairs in the basement were not long, only seven or eight steps. Du Ziqiao only walked a few steps and came to a corner. After passing the corner, he saw the entire basement.
The basement is not big, but because there is no sunshine for a long time underground, it is extremely humid and cold. After Du Ziqiao and the others walked down, they immediately felt that the surrounding temperature dropped several degrees, and goosebumps appeared on their skin.
Du Ziqiao shook the flashlight in his hand and shined it everywhere. Under the flashlight's illumination, the basement, which was not very large, gradually appeared in everyone's field of vision.
This basement is not filled with messy stuff like other basements. This basement is very empty. In the middle of the basement, there is a square thing covered by a black cloth.
I don't know what it is, but there is a rag hanging on one wall. It has green hair on it and is pitted because the hole in the basement was opened. As Du Ziqiao and the others moved around, the air flow here was taken away.
A piece of rag also began to sway from side to side in the air.
Du Ziqiao looked around with a flashlight, but found no danger or anything unusual. He put down his right hand on his waist, walked to the middle of the basement, and walked around the square thing.
lock up.
The black cloth was covered with dust and there were many dried water stains on it. It looked like a tattered rag. It looked like no one had been here for a long time, and the rotten smell became even stronger here.
Intensify.
"What's in here? Is it a corpse?"
This question appears in everyone's mind.
"Wow."
After Du Ziqiao circled around the square object, he suddenly pulled away the black cloth, and then the true appearance of the thing under the black cloth was revealed.
This is a square glass cabinet filled with green liquid, and in the liquid, a corpse is quietly soaking in it. There is no flesh on the corpse, only a pale skeleton, and the empty, bare heart
The head appeared naked in front of everyone's sight.
"ah......."
As Du Ziqiao opened the black cloth and the glass cabinet appeared in everyone's view, everyone who went down to the basement was shocked, especially when the flashlight in Du Ziqiao's hand shone on the glass cabinet.
When the corpse was shined through the glass through the gap, some people couldn't help but exclaimed, and their faces turned pale.
These reactions are normal. After all, if such a strange cabinet is found in a basement with a corpse without any skin and flesh in it, it would be abnormal if there is no normal reaction.
When Du Ziqiao saw the corpse in the glass jar, he was also startled, and his expression changed drastically. However, his expression soon returned to normal. He dropped the black cloth in his hand and approached
Check the glass cabinet carefully to see what's inside.
As Du Ziqiao got closer, he found that there was a lot of cotton-like stuff deposited at the bottom of the glass jar, a dark mass, and he didn't know what it was.
Fan Yang also came down. She walked to Du Ziqiao's side and also looked at the situation in the glass jar. After looking at it for a while, her face changed and she said uncertainly: "Isn't this the flesh and skin of the deceased?"
Organize it?"
As soon as Fan Yang said this, the expressions of most people present changed, and so did Du Ziqiao. He looked at the glass jar, then turned to look at Fan Yang's profile, and asked, "Are you sure?
"
However, Fan Yang shook his head and said: "I'm not sure, but according to my investigation experience, this should be the product of the deceased's skin and flesh tissue soaked in liquid for a long time. As for whether it is skin and flesh tissue, we still need a forensic doctor.
Come and identify it.”
When Du Ziqiao heard what Fan Yang said, he frowned, obviously not very satisfied with Fan Yang's results, but he also knew that no one knew what the cotton-like stuff inside was before opening the glass cabinet.
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Thinking of this, Du Ziqiao straightened up and said to a policeman: "Go and notify the forensic doctor."
After hearing what Du Ziqiao said, the policeman hurriedly walked toward the entrance of the basement, his steps hurried, a bit like he was running away. Indeed, this scene was very terrifying.
Just when Du Ziqiao stood up and asked someone to call the forensic doctor, while Fan Yang was squatting next to the glass jar to check the contents, another exclamation came from the basement.
"Ah... Damn, what is this? It shouldn't be pig skin, right?"
A policeman came to the rag that was still swaying in the air. He stared at it for a long time and suddenly let out an exclamation.
Du Ziqiao and the others quickly turned their heads, and the light of the flashlight shone on the green-haired 'rag'. Du Ziqiao frowned, walked a few steps quickly to the front of the 'rag', took a closer look, and then,
His face became very ugly.
The policeman was right. This was indeed animal skin, but it was not pig skin, but human skin. However, because it took a long time to peel off, and the air was not circulating here, it was a closed environment, resulting in human skin.
The moisture gradually drained away, and it curled up, looking like a rag from a distance. However, after getting closer and observing carefully, you can see that this is not a rag, but human skin, the human skin of a man.
"This is human skin."
Du Ziqiao looked at the human skin in front of him and said this sentence almost through his teeth.
After hearing this, everyone present suddenly changed their expressions. Several policemen with poor psychological quality began to retch on the spot, especially the policeman who was the first to find human skin. He directly covered his mouth and ran a few steps quickly.
He came to the corner and started vomiting like crazy.
In an instant, a sour smell suddenly appeared in the basement that originally smelled bad. The police officers who originally just felt their stomachs churn and were trying not to vomit were also affected by the smell.
Excited, he covered his mouth and went to the corner to vomit.
As more people vomited, the smell in the basement became more and more unpleasant. Du Ziqiao and Fan Yang also felt their stomachs churn, but they did not vomit on the spot. Du Ziqiao frowned and looked at those squatting in the corner vomiting.
His expression became increasingly ugly among the crowd, and he was about to reprimand them, but when he saw the green fur human skin still swaying in the air from the corner of his eye, he swallowed the words that came to his mouth.
Fan Yang looked at the human skin for a while. The sound of retching and the pungent smell of sour rot in his ears made Fan Yang frown into a Sichuan shape. She turned her head and said to Du Ziqiao: "Let them
Get out, if you continue like this, they will destroy the scene."
Du Ziqiao nodded. He knew that Fan Yang was right, so he asked everyone who was still here to go out and conduct a search outside.
After hearing what Du Ziqiao said, these people felt as if they had been granted amnesty and rushed towards the entrance of the basement. Soon, they disappeared here.
After these people left, Du Ziqiao took the flashlight and shined it around in the basement. The basement was not big, and he quickly finished reading. Just when Du Ziqiao was about to transfer the flashlight to the green-haired human skin again, he suddenly saw a person in the basement.
In a dark corner, there was a black cabinet. Because everyone's attention was on the glass jar and the green fur human skin at that time, no one noticed the cabinet.
Du Ziqiao took a flashlight and walked to the cabinet. He found that there was nothing else placed on the cabinet, but many spiritual tablets. The one placed at the top was Zhang Kaifeng's spiritual tablet, and Zhang Kaifeng's name was not written in white.
, but was written with a red pen. Because it took too long, the original red writing has turned into deep red, almost the same color as the spiritual tablet. If you don't look carefully, it is difficult to spot.
There are almost a dozen spiritual tablets placed on the cabinet. Six of them have no names, only a few numbers, 38, 96, 77, 305, 709, 815. Except for these few spiritual tablets, which have no names and only have code names, there are other spiritual tablets.
Names, and Du Ziqiao had never heard of these names before, but when he saw the bottom spiritual tablet, he found that this spiritual tablet was a little weird.
The other spiritual tablets are all made of complete wood carvings, but this spiritual tablet has a crack from the top, extending to the base. However, the spiritual tablet is not completely cracked, and the spiritual tablet is covered with filth, I don’t know if it is dust.
It was still something, and the handwriting on the spirit tablet was also obscured by these filthy objects. It was difficult to see the name clearly. Du Ziqiao picked up the spirit plate and stretched out his hand to wipe off the dried filth on it. The writing was revealed. Du Ziqiao identified it.
, I saw a name, Song Yutiao.
When he saw this name, Du Ziqiao was stunned for a moment. He felt that the name seemed familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere. He held the spiritual tablet and fell into deep thought.
After thinking for a while, Du Ziqiao remembered where he had heard this name. Song Yutiao was the deputy director of the Chengxi Public Security Bureau. He suddenly resigned nine years ago and disappeared for a long time. At that time, the deputy director of the Chengxi Public Security Bureau
People thought that Song Yutiao had been killed, and they organized many people to search for her, but to no avail. About a month after Song Yutiao disappeared, the director of the Chengxi Public Security Bureau received a resignation letter, written by Song Yutiao.
Song Yutiao wrote in the letter that she felt that she was not qualified enough to be a police officer, so she decided to resign and hoped that her leadership would approve it.
The letter was very short, and it was the last thing Song Yutiao left behind. After that, Song Yutiao never appeared in public view again. People in the West City Public Security Bureau didn’t know where he went or why he suddenly resigned, and his family members didn’t know either.
Knowing where Song Yutiao went, he seemed to have evaporated from the world and completely disappeared from everyone's sight.
At that time, some people speculated that Song Yutiao was killed in retaliation. However, his body was not found for a long time after Song Yutiao disappeared. Some people also speculated that Song Yutiao encountered some problems. He could not solve the problem himself and chose to escape.
Some people believe that when Song Yutiao was the deputy director, he was suspected of taking advantage of his position for corruption and bribery, which attracted the attention of relevant departments. He got wind of it, so he chose to resign. Others believe that Song Yutiao went into business.
, etc. There are many speculations like this, but what is the truth? Even in the past, there is still no way to know, whether Song Yutiao was alive or dead, or dead.
Because Song Yutiao submitted a letter of resignation after his disappearance, coupled with his continuous absence from work, he finally had to erase his position as deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, and because his murder was not discovered and his body was not seen, so
, the matter just went unnoticed, and after Song Yutiao disappeared, his family also organized relatives to search, but found nothing, and in the end, they chose to give up.
Du Ziqiao also overheard Xu Lang talking about this matter when he came to S City. At that time, he and Xu Lang discussed the matter while eating and drinking, but there was no result, and in the end there was no further discussion.
Du Ziqiao didn't expect that he would see Song Yutiao's spiritual tablet here.
Looking at the cracked spiritual tablet, he raised his head and looked at the other spiritual tablets on the wooden frame. The owners of these spiritual tablets were all dead. Zhang Kaifeng and the six people with only numbers but no names were indeed dead.
, can be confirmed in the diary, and although Du Ziqiao did not know the other people, they should be dead. So, these people are dead, is it possible that Song Yutiao is still alive? Du Ziqiao thinks it is impossible.
Thinking of this, Du Ziqiao seemed to have thought of something. He turned his head suddenly and looked at the glass jar in the middle of the basement. The cold beam of the flashlight shone on the corpse in the glass jar. He had a very bold idea in his mind, and it sounded like it should be
A very scary guess.
Could it be that the owner of the corpse soaked in the unknown liquid is Song Yutiao, who has been missing for nine years, neither alive nor dead?
The reason for this speculation is that Song Yutiao's spiritual tablet appeared in the basement, which is very abnormal.
Secondly, Song Yutiao's spiritual amulet cracked, and the cracked cracks appeared to be not natural cracks, but man-made.
Thirdly, there was a lot of dirt on the spiritual tablet. Du Ziqiao picked up the spiritual tablet and put it under his nose and smelled it. A faint smell of feces and urine faintly spread into Du Ziqiao's nasal cavity. It seemed that the other party had soaked the spiritual tablet in it.
It was in the urine and feces, and it must have been for a long time, otherwise, after so long, the spirit tablet still smells like this.
Fourth, this corpse must have been here for a long time. Without overwhelming hatred, the murderer would not have been able to abuse and humiliate this corpse in this way.
Thinking of this, Du Ziqiao looked at the green-haired human skin again. He now began to suspect that this piece of human skin should belong to the corpse himself. If this is really the case, then it would be very important to find out the identity of the corpse.
The key.
Du Ziqiao hoped that this corpse was not that of Song Yutiao. After all, he was once a policeman, and Du Ziqiao was also a policeman. Seeing the corpse of his colleague being so trashed, Du Ziqiao felt not only sad but also angry. As for the truth, was it true?
As Du Ziqiao guessed, it would take a forensic doctor to conduct an autopsy to know the result.