What's in the depths II

Chapter 47 Navel Biting [2 more]

"When I was young, I often heard the old people in my family say that after death, animals should never be approached by animals, especially cats, because cats have nine lives. The energy from the animal's body is borrowed from the corpse to revive its soul, turning into a half-human, half-cat monster, eating your flesh and drinking your blood!"

Speaking of excitement, the old man still pretended to be ferocious, and the children in front of him screamed in fright.

"When I was 33 years old, I worked in Harbin. I was engaged in the dead business. I was in charge of taking the dead to burial. Commonly known as the leader of the Yangjian, he took the dead to the last journey, and then handed them over to the Santuchuan guide for reincarnation. Said It's strange, I didn't go there for a long time, a woman came to the door and said that her mother-in-law had gone, and asked me to help lead the way, I didn't think too much at the time, so I followed."

One of the little boys wearing an orange baseball cap squatted in front of the old man. His legs were numb and he didn't realize it. He just looked at the old man telling the story with horror, but he was looking forward to the next development of the story.

The setting sun was like fire, dyeing the whole city red.

"As soon as I went to the old lady's house, I felt something was wrong. Her house was dark and messy, full of dust, and the corners were covered with cobwebs. It looked like no one had lived in it for a long time."

The little boy swallowed nervously, his eyes widened bigger than copper bells.

"When I saw the old lady's corpse, I was almost scared to death. Although I often deal with the dead, this is the first time I have seen such a shocking corpse. The whole body is rotten. Good place, just looking at it, you can tell that it was definitely not just dead. It was winter, and with the degree of decay, it would have been a few months, let alone dead, but why it was buried now, we don’t know, and we dare not ask .”

The old man knocked on his cigarette pipe, looked up at the red clouds in the sky, and shook his head: "At that time, there were several cats in the yard of the old lady's house, white, black, and different colors. The feral cats that are fed usually don't settle down at home, but when the old lady died, all of them came, and the sound of barking was terrible."

As he said that, the old man gave two "tsk tsk" sounds as if he was afraid.

"I've heard people say that animals can't get close to the dead, and it's easy to resurrect the dead, so I drove the cat away with her daughter-in-law and son. After driving away, I planned to build the coffin and hold a leading ceremony. We just closed the coffin lid. , I just lit the candles, and there were a few pairs of blue eyes in the dark yard. I was frightened at the time, and when I took a closer look, I realized that those cunning little beasts hadn't gone away at all, they were all in the corners Waiting."

The little boy gasped, and asked tremblingly, "Wait, what are you waiting for?"

The old man took a deep puff of the cigarette, and the turbid smoke instantly spread in the air, choking the children in front of him coughing again and again.

"Waiting to repay the favor."

"Thank you?"

"Yes, they are all wild cats. In winter, especially in Harbin, very few can survive the cold winter, and most of them are frozen to death. This old lady was a kind person before she was alive. She gave these wild cats hot food to help them. They barely survived the cold winter, and they let the old lady breathe her own breath, and the old lady lifted the coffin board and sat up! You know, the coffin board is dead and heavy, and the three of us are too tired to carry it. She One person just pushed it away!"

The little boy was so frightened that he almost cried, and quickly covered his ears.

"Then overnight, the villagers in the whole village were killed by this old lady. The old lady was very powerful, and she didn't need to walk on both feet. They were all floating. When you see anyone, ask if you have seen them. My cat? Ordinary people can’t hide it at all. You should have seen the scene of corpses strewn all over the field after the war in the TV series. It’s worse than that! Maybe because I’m a foreigner, the old lady let me go. After that, I rushed back to Huiyuan overnight, and now I am afraid of cats, especially those black cats, because the old lady inhaled the breath of one of the black cats, and her face was covered with black cats Mao, the eyes are so big, they are still blue, not to mention how creepy they are."

As the old man spoke, he stretched out his hand and gestured.

The little boy covering his ears wobbled to his feet, glanced at the clock on the square, and hurriedly said, "It's seven o'clock, I'm going home."

The other children were so frightened that they all stood up and wanted to leave.

The old man looked at it and took out an iron box from behind: "My little friend, don't leave in a hurry. Grandpa, I haven't eaten all day. I have told you this story for so long. Give me a few dollars to buy a steamed bun." chant."

Several children took out a few coins from their pockets and threw them into the iron box in the old man's hand, and then ran home crying and howling.

"That's right! If you come across this cat-faced old lady, if she asks you if you have seen her cat, don't make a sound, just run!" The old man shouted at the backs of the fleeing children.

After the children ran away without a trace, the old man took out the coins from the iron box and counted them. It was 12 yuan, which is fine. You don’t have to eat steamed buns tonight. Comfortable.

The old man weighed the coins, put them in his pocket, rolled up the broken bedding on the ground, tied it up, carried it on his shoulders, and turned around with his rag shoes into the alley behind him.

The afterglow of the setting sun recedes gradually, the sky is filled with a cool blue-gray, the aroma of food is wafting from the door on the roadside, or the family sits around in front of the TV watching a short TV series, laughing wildly, in a happy and harmonious way scene.

In the mid-range residential area of ​​Linjiang, dim yellow street lamps were turned on early, stretching people's shadows obliquely.

From the window on the eleventh floor, a woman with long chestnut hair anxiously leaned out half of her body and looked towards the gate of the community, muttering, "Why hasn't Xiaoyu come back? This kid is so careless. Know to wear a phone watch."

As he said that, he saw an orange baseball cap appear in his field of vision, and then that immature figure hurriedly swiped his card into the community.

The woman smiled and shook her head: "This child, looking at him like this, he must have gone to the old man to listen to stories again."

The little boy in the orange hat was looking around nervously as he walked back. His face was really not very good-looking. It seemed that he was really frightened by the story the old man told.

"Xiaoyu, don't be in a hurry, walk slowly, and be careful of falling~" the woman smiled and shouted softly.

The little boy in the orange hat heard his mother's voice, and heaved a long sigh of relief. He immediately looked up at the woman in front of the window, waved his hands and shouted excitedly, "Mom, what are you eating tonight?"

The woman smiled, her beautiful almond eyes narrowed into a crescent moon: "Your favorite hamburger steak—"

Hearing this, the little boy happily jumped three feet high: "It's great! Mom, I love you!"

As he spoke, he raised his head and planned to blow a kiss to his mother.

However, the moment he raised his head, the smile gradually froze on his face.

Mom was still waving at herself, but she didn't know that there was a... cat-faced woman standing behind her.

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"Take another bite, you little bird stomach."

"Sorry, I really can't eat." An Yan stood up, pushed Yun Qian's hand away and limped towards the bathroom.

"I'll help you there." Seeing An Yan's appearance, Yun Qian rushed over to support him.

"Where are you going?"

An Yan glanced at him: "The bathroom, do you want to follow?"

Yun Qian obediently let go of her hand: "You should do it yourself."

After tidying up the dishes, Yun Qian sneaked around the door and poked his head around again, and saw An Yan sitting in front of the computer and writing something.

Yun Qian wanted to go in and take a look, but An Yan pushed the chair away and walked to the door, closing the door mercilessly.

Looking at the cold wooden door, Yunqian lowered his head in disappointment.

I have been staying at An Yan's house for almost a week. Although both of them are resting at home and did not go out to work. Although they did not see each other when they looked up, they really did not say more than ten sentences with An Yan, and they were alone most of the time. As noisy as a little bee, An Yan remained silent, and only replied when he couldn't bear it.

Moreover, An Yan is really the kind of person with strong principles. When he said that he would not eat without lunch, Yun Qian felt that he was not good enough.

In addition, he has to accept phone harassment from his father day and night.

There are a few words back and forth: "Your son is too big to stay, leave me, a dead old man, at home and leave me alone, old woman, take me away quickly—"

Yunqian's ears are callused, but it's good, so he can take advantage of the opportunity to negotiate terms with his father:

"You can go back, but you can no longer interfere with my work, and you are not allowed to force me to resign."

There was silence on the phone for a while, and then came the sentence "The young lady I've been chasing recently will be on the air soon, don't talk, just hang up first."

Don't look at the old man Yun who has a playful smile all day long and has no right to do it, but he said the same thing. He is as stubborn as a donkey. Mom comes out to cue.

Yun Qian is really aggrieved, there is no normal person around him, either like An Yan who can't fart for a long time, or like his father, who pours everything out of his mouth like a broken teapot.

Looking at it this way, it's better to go back to the police station and have a fling with their captain. Although sometimes it's quite annoying, but at least I feel happy.

Some people really didn't talk about it, saying that Cao Cao had arrived, but Yu Yuan called suddenly.

"Yu Dui—I miss you to death—"

"Okay, don't get tired of it." Yu Yuan interrupted him with a serious tone, "Something happened here, and the bureau requires you to return to the team quickly."

"Ah? Am I still on suspension?" Yun Qian asked in a daze.

"Xiao Wu in the team went back to his hometown to get married. Now he is short of manpower and has a new case. Come here quickly. Now, immediately, immediately."

"Why is it so urgent?" Yun Qian said, pushing open An Yan's door vigorously, walked to the wardrobe, picked up the police uniform from inside, and put it on.

"I can't tell for a while, you will know when you come." Yu Yuan's broken voice could be heard clearly through the phone.

After hanging up the phone, putting on his police uniform, and taking his police ID, Yunqian said, "You wait for me at home, I have something urgent to return to the team."

At this moment, Mu An Yan got excited and asked, "What's the hurry?"

"I don't know, just say it's a new case."

After a moment of silence, An Yan also got up suddenly, and limped to find his shirt.

Yun Qian was putting on a tie, and seeing An Yan about to change, he hurriedly pressed his hand: "What are you doing changing?"

"Go to the police station." An Yan pushed his hand away and said without raising his hand.

"I beg you, why don't you drag Ni to the police station? If you don't know, you might think that the leaders in the bureau are all skin pickers, exploiting the wounded."

An Yan ignored him, put on his shirt and tie, took out the police uniform from the closet, and limped stubbornly towards the door.

Yunqian really convinced An Yan, he was not only wooden, but also stubborn, the kind that even nine cows could not pull back.

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When the two appeared in front of Yu Yuan at the same time, deep doubts inevitably arose in Yu Yuan's heart.

Why did they come here together.

Could it be that Comrade Xiaoyun, who is persistent, finally sees the rainbow after the rain and lives with An Yan?

"Yu Dui, what's the situation?" Yun Qian asked anxiously before he could catch his breath.

Yu Yuan pointed to the bloodstains on the ground: "Just now a [-] or [-]-year-old boy came to the bureau, crying and saying that he saw a woman with a cat face. At first everyone thought he was some kind of supernatural story and didn't take it seriously. Something happened, so I sent a police officer to take him home, and the police officer called to say that there was a murder here."

Yunqian put on his overalls, put on his shoe covers, and stepped into the scene of the crime carefully, only to see a long-haired woman lying in a pool of blood.

Yunqian walked over to take a closer look, but just as he brushed aside the woman's long hair, he gasped.

The woman's face was scratched seven or eight times by the sharp blade, and her original shape was no longer visible, and the force was very strong, the wound was deep, all the flesh and skin were turned out, and the fatal wound came from the knife edge on the left chest.

An Yan on the side also put on his work clothes, limped to the side of the deceased, squatted down reluctantly, and pressed the incision on her face: "The margin of the wound is red and swollen, and the death time is not long."

Then, he touched the blood on the ground and looked at it in front of his eyes: "The viscosity of the blood is low, and the death time is no more than three hours."

"The deceased's name is Zhou Xinlu, 32 years old, a full-time housewife, and her husband's name is Tang Zongyuan, who does export business. He is now in Thailand to discuss business. We have notified him and he will be back tomorrow." Yu Yuan said.

"Where is the dead man's son?"

"The child was frightened, crying, convulsing, and even showing symptoms of delirium. We are now arranging for him to be treated at the Children's Hospital."

Looking at the woman lying in the pool of blood, Yu Yuan thought of the poor little boy again, and shook his head regretfully: "Seeing my mother die in front of my own eyes, what a psychological trauma it must cause."

"Did you stop breathing when you came here?" And An Yan didn't have much reaction to this kind of thing, just asked routinely.

"Yes, we knocked on the door for a long time and couldn't open it, so I knocked the door open, and then I saw the dead man lying at the door."

"The deceased crawled a certain distance before he was alive. When he was stabbed, he fell down next to the gas stove in the kitchen and crawled from the kitchen to the door. Therefore, the first crime scene should be in the kitchen."

"Are you sure he killed him?"

An Yan nodded: "The focus on the chest is from bottom to top, which does not conform to the traces of suicide injuries, and the point of force is not right, and the deceased's clothes are messy, and one slipper is missing on his feet, and he struggled violently before death, so Defined as homicide."

"I remember that the son of the deceased ran to the police station crying, and when he entered, he shouted that he saw a woman with a cat face at the window, a woman with a cat face... what the hell..."