what's in the depths

"Actually, we came to you because we wanted to ask you for a favor." After hesitating for a long time, Zhu Yuhan explained the purpose of his visit in a rather embarrassing manner.

Hearing this sentence, Chu Rong hooked the corners of his mouth, but his eyes remained fixed on the computer screen.

Just because Chu Rong didn't speak, or even expressed his opinion, Zhu Yuhan didn't know whether to continue talking.

This kind of Chu Rong also made me feel very strange.

Maybe he is used to him responding to his needs, but today he suddenly came out, writing all the negative emotions on his face, that kind of reluctance and even ridiculous thoughts can be seen at a glance by others, so much so that Zhu Yuhan's heart He started to beat the snare drum, wondering if he had offended him somewhere.

The atmosphere was awkward for a while, Zhu Yuhan finally retreated, and said discouragedly, "Then you should do your work first, we will go back first."

"What's the matter?" Chu Rong finally spoke the moment Zhu Yuhan turned around.

The flame that was almost extinguished was refilled with fuel, and the fire rose instantly.

He turned his head and found that Chu Rong was also looking at him. If Fu Huaiyu hadn't been there, he really wanted to rush over to give him a big hug.

"That's right, help us go to the autopsy."

"Another murder case?" Chu Rong frowned.

"No." Zhu Yuhan shook his head, "The corpse to be examined this time has not been ordered by the police station, that is to say, it is a private autopsy."

"Do you know that this is illegal? If someone finds out, we may be charged with desecrating the corpse." Chu Rong was still leaning on the bed, tapping the keyboard with his fingers.

"I know." Zhu Yuhan's tone was very firm, "But, if we don't do this, the next victim is likely to appear."

"What's the meaning."

Zhu Yuhan paused, and said: "I now suspect that the female corpse found in the river before may be related to the ghost marriage. Of course, this is just my personal guess, and there is no clue or evidence, but don't worry, if something really happens I will bear the crime alone, and I will definitely not implicate you."

Chu Rong looked at him, and suddenly laughed: "Where is the corpse?"

"In the hole of the earth building."

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At three o'clock in the morning, the earth fell into nothingness, the moon was hidden behind the clouds, and the silence spread to every corner, only the owls perched on the branches occasionally made a low cry or two.

On the empty street, three figures came in a hurry by the night.

The three nimbly climbed over the wall and went straight to the cave that exudes a strange red light.

There are two wooden coffins parked in the cave, and a large number of funeral supplies are neatly placed around, and the wind sounds like crying, and the sound is like mourning.

Zhu Yuhan pointed to the wooden coffin on the right: "This is the corpse."

"Can you confirm your identity?" Chu Rong habitually put on gloves and goggles, raised a wolf-eyed flashlight, and shined on the coffin.

"Yes." Zhu Yuhan took a deep breath and lowered his voice as much as possible, "This is the great-grandson of the nearly [-]-year-old lady. His posthumous photo is hung in the outer hall. It is said that he died in a car accident last year, but I think Looking at the corpse, it is probably speculated that the time of death is not so long, but recently..."

Chu Rong let out a long sigh and waved his hands: "Push the coffin board away first."

The two looked around like thieves, and after confirming that there was no one there, they worked together to lift the coffin board and put it aside.

The stench of corpses wafted into their nostrils, and the two coughed repeatedly, but they were afraid of disturbing others, so they quickly covered their mouths.

Chu Rong put on his mask, looked over his head, and found that this was indeed the great-grandson of the centenarian in the posthumous photo hanging in the outer hall.

The deceased looked about 24 to [-] years old. He was ordinary-looking and dressed in wedding clothes. Due to the long time of death, the body was pale. The plaques on the skin had melted into large patches, some areas of the plaques had retreated, and corrupt blood vessels appeared on the surface of the body. net, shrunken lips, and dry hair. From this phenomenon alone, it can be inferred that the deceased died in about a week.

Chu Rong respectfully mourned the deceased for 3 minutes, then raised his hand and lifted the deceased's wedding dress.

The body of the deceased was covered with large and small blisters, densely packed like a lotus pod.

Chu Rong touched the dead man's hair again, and when he retracted his hand, a lot of hair was stuck to the rubber gloves.

"The hair is dry and easy to fall off, and there are rotten blisters on the body surface. The time of death is about a week." After speaking, Chu Rong took out the ophthalmoscope from the toolbox and opened the eyelids of the deceased.

"The cornea is highly turbid, the pupils can no longer be seen clearly, and the conjunctiva of the eyes is severely self-dissolved. It is preliminarily estimated that the time of death is more than three days." Chu Rong took a photo of the deceased's eyeballs with an ophthalmoscope and came to such a conclusion.

"The exact time of death." Zhu Yuhan leaned over to take a look, and immediately retracted his head.

"This, it's hard to judge without further autopsy. After all, there are too many constraints, and I can't apply the knowledge in books mechanically, but judging from the appearance of the body, the death time is probably more than three days and within a week. "

Chu Rong finally took the mucous membrane in the deceased's mouth and put it on a glass slide, intending to go back for further examination.

"Where's the other body?" He looked at another coffin.

Zhu Yuhan and Fu Huaiyu hurriedly covered the coffin back, then turned off the wolf-eye flashlight, and said in a low voice: "The other one is just an empty coffin. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's go first and explain to you when we go back."

After packing up the tools, Chu Rong looked around the scene again. Just as he was staring at a mold spot on the wall in a daze, someone suddenly grabbed his clothes and pulled him outside vigorously.

Fu Huaiyu pulled a person with one hand and ran forward desperately.

Both of them were startled and almost cried out.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yuhan asked in a low voice.

"Someone, go!" Fu Huaiyu whispered, his voice urgent.

Zhu Yuhan was stunned for a moment, and when he was about to turn around to check the situation, Fu Huaiyu held him down: "Don't look back, get out of here first!"

The three hearts were beating like thunder, and they hurried back to the base, and followed Fu Huaiyu into the room through the window in an "unconventional way".

Fu Huaiyu drew the curtains and turned off the lights.

Zhu Yuhan managed to catch his breath, and when he opened his mouth, his voice trembled: "You said someone, who is it?"

"I didn't see clearly." In the dark night, Fu Huaiyu said, "But I can probably guess who it is."

"who is it."

Fu Huaiyu calmed down, picked up the glass of water on the table in the dark, drank it down, and continued: "Go out quietly, go to Chu Rong's room, and don't make any noise."

The mysterious Fu Huaiyu made the two of them uneasy. Although they didn't know what happened, they had no choice but to follow suit. They tiptoed out of the room and went to Chu Rong's room on the second floor.

Chu Rong went to the window to have a look, and sure enough, he saw a black shadow flash past.

"We're being watched." Chu Rong pulled the curtains casually, and turned around to say this.

"Who the hell is it? Tell me quickly, I'm so anxious." Fu Huaiyu kept telling off, Zhu Yuhan felt that he was about to lose control of his prehistoric power, and wished to pry his mouth away.

"The person who implanted the virus in your phone." After a long time, Fu Huaiyu spoke slowly.

"So who planted the virus in my phone?" Zhu Yuhan lost his patience for a moment. He grabbed Fu Huaiyu's collar and looked down at him, "What's that person's name?"

But what Fu Huaiyu said next was the real shocking fear.

"Besides, it's also possible that it's...Captain Yang."

Zhu Yuhan's eyes widened in disbelief, and the hand holding Fu Huaiyu's collar gradually lost strength and dropped down.

"Why did you come here?" Hearing this answer, even Chu Rong couldn't help asking.

Fu Huaiyu took a deep breath, then smiled, with a lonely and desolate smile:

"In fact, I really agree with one sentence. Some things are happier if you don't know them. It's not good to be too deliberate."

Chu Rong nodded slightly, as if he agreed with this sentence.

"About the case of floating corpses in the river, I probably heard Tong Si talk about it. Since I came to Yong'an and followed you to visit the residents of the tulou in the afternoon, I already felt that something was wrong with Captain Yang." Fu Huaiyu stared at the door and said eloquently.

"Actually, you have worked with Chu Rong for so many years, and you have a certain understanding of the normal forensic autopsy procedures, but maybe you have always kept an attitude of staying out of the matter, so you didn't notice it. For so long, the identity of the female corpse floating in the river has always been Unsolved, there are only a few residents in the earth building, and the female corpse is obviously related to a ghost marriage, but the local residents and even the police station have never responded positively to this person's identity. Don't you think they are deliberately hiding something? "

After Fu Huaiyu mentioned this point, Zhu Yuhan suddenly remembered that when he visited the residents of Tulou with Captain Yang that afternoon, he met the boy who liked to imitate others and had abnormal mentality, and the boy said at that time:

"You can't let your brother die in peace!"

Although there is not enough evidence, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the boy is imitating the centenarian.

At that time, I was really suspicious of the sentence the boy imitated, but Captain Yang prevaricated it by saying "don't pay too much attention to his words". As a criminal investigation policeman, can he really muddle along with such subtle clues?

And there is another detail that I almost forgot, that is, before visiting the residents of the tulou, Captain Yang asked when he saw himself going there alone, "Isn't Team Leader Fu coming?" After getting his negative answer, he There was an imperceptible expression change on his face.

How should I put it, it seemed like a moment of relief.

Thinking about it carefully, now that I think about it, this captain Yang is definitely hiding something from himself. When he volunteered to stay and help solve the case, he was already passively doing foreign work, and even blocked all rumors.

And the reason why I asked Chu Rong for an autopsy tonight was because I had heard that one of the conditions for a ghost marriage was that the wedding should be held on the first seven days of the deceased, which was seriously inconsistent with what Lu Shichao said at the time that his eldest brother died last year.

If the time of death of the deceased was really about four or five days, then in the past two days, a woman who was assigned a yin relative would appear in the empty coffin.

"By the way, I forgot to ask you, did the deceased really die in a car accident?" Zhu Yuhan turned to Chu Rong and asked.

Chu Rong frowned, seemingly puzzled:

"A car accident? Who said he died in a car accident? There was a depression in the back of his skull, and there were bleeding spots on the conjunctiva of his eyes. He should have died of severe external force injuries, but because he couldn't conduct a comprehensive inspection of the body, did he really die from external forces? , and cannot be easily determined.”

The chill invaded every pore, like a strange electric current stimulated the whole body, Zhu Yuhan shivered.

The most frightening thing is that the character representing justice and security uses his power to try to cover up the sky with one hand, covering all the darkness under the power, and even——

Treat human life like a mustard.

The two returned to the room. Fu Huaiyu installed an infrared alarm device outside the window and set the time. Whenever someone stays here for a long time at night, the alarm device will emit a high-pitched and loud alarm bell.

I came here to travel happily, but in the end, there was a murder case. The most tragic thing is that you can't even redress the injustice for the dead.

As the saying goes, a strong dragon can't overwhelm a local snake and disturb others' cleanliness in other people's territory, who knows what he can do.

If it wasn't for Fu Huaiyu's willful running over, perhaps he would have been kept in the dark and would not be able to solve the case until his death. It wasn't that he didn't have this ability, but that someone tried every means to prevent him from seeing the facts clearly.

But the truth must never be buried, even if you dig three feet into the ground, even if you are covered with bruises, just like Fu Jiasen said, you must stick to your own guiding light.

Zhu Yuhan was lying on his side on the bed. In the dark night, he looked at Fu Huaiyu's sleeping back, and his heart throbbed. He couldn't help leaning forward, smelling his body, and he felt a little relieved.

As if disturbed by Zhu Yuhan's subtle actions, Fu Huaiyu slightly opened his eyes, turned his head, and saw that Comrade Zhu from his family was pressing his head against his back, curled up into a ball.

Fu Huaiyu smiled helplessly, turned around, stretched out his hand to embrace Zhu Yuhan in his arms, hugged him tightly, stroked his hair, and said softly:

"good night."

He is really too stubborn, whether he walked more than 30 kilometers to the police station in the heavy snow, or it was an annoying thing that had nothing to do with him but he couldn't sleep and eat because of it, but because he was so stubborn, he let himself I feel that I like him so much that I won't change it for a thousand dollars.

"I see Captain Yang tomorrow, what should I do?" Zhu Yuhan asked in a low voice.

Fu Huaiyu kissed his forehead to express comfort, and continued:

"If he is the one guarding the cave tonight, then he has also guessed our purpose, so we can't hide from this. We can only pretend to be stupid with Chu Rong, pretending that nothing has been found out, and pre-empting the attack. Inform him in advance that we have investigated the deceased privately in order to assist the Yongan police to solve the case as soon as possible, but as for the result, that is not important."

"It's good to have you here." Night can make people emotional, and the irascible straight guy Zhu Yuhan is no exception.

After saying this, he finally closed his eyes in peace.

Lying in Fu Huaiyu's arms, one could even hear the beating heat in his chest. The heart that had been sick was miraculously healing itself.

"It's late at night, don't tease me." As he said, Fu Huaiyu tightened his arms and held Zhu Yuhan tightly in his arms, as if "swearing to die and not letting go".

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No matter how long the darkness is, as long as you walk firmly, you will always see the light.

It was as if when Zhu Yuhan was at a loss, three rays of dawn that blinded people's eyes were ushered in.

Early the next morning, I heard the noise at the door, and Zhu Yuhan, who had only slept for three or four hours, picked up his slippers and ran to the door in the turbulent wake-up mood to see who was so unqualified.

As soon as the door was opened, three faces squeezed in.

The proud Tong Si, the excited Zou Xintong, and the expressionless Huo Sang.

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