Chapter 27 The Ghost Shadow of the Woods

The old lady sat under the tree, holding a yellow bamboo stick with both hands. The wind blew the white hair all over her head, and the wrinkles on her face looked like dried orange peels. She had no name, and the household registration book was written on the family tree. Many old people in China did not have names.

The village director said: Zhangtian, tell you about historical issues, have you eaten people before?

The old lady said: What nonsense?

The village director said: Think about it, there was a famine in 1960, and you had eaten people.

The old lady said: I have forgotten for 60 years and can’t remember it. My family... eight generations of poor peasants, how dare they do to me?

The old man's thinking is still stuck in the past era. She talked to the village director and the special case team and told the village director and the special case team that his family had good ingredients. From 1949 to 1979, for a full thirty years, the Chinese people took poverty as the honor. The old woman slowly stood up with a crutch. She staggered, took a step, and shook her body, and could fall at any time. Looking at the old man's back, it was obvious that she had difficulty walking and could not be the murderer of a series of missing cases.

Back at Jiba County Public Security Bureau, Professor Liang held a case analysis meeting.

The first missing case was a few years ago. The police had a lot of difficulty in investigating it, and the investigation was only based on the recent missing persons. The case has many things in common. The nine missing teenagers are young men, and the time of disappearance is concentrated in the morning or noon, and the place of disappearance is near Tu Road in Zhanghe Village. The police agree with the family's speculation that the series of disappearances may have been done by the same person or the same gang.

Professor Liang said: None of these children showed signs of running away from home or being kidnapped, and they are likely to have encountered an unexpected situation.

Su Mei said: If it was a series of murders, what was the motive?

Bao Zhan said: We must rise to the height of murder cases and cannot be regarded as ordinary disappearance cases.

Officer Mao said: Will killing people be cut into organs to sell?

Hualong said: You are stupid, I really don’t know how you became the director. It is impossible to sell organs. Organ transplantation requires matching, prior physical examination, organ resection, preservation, and transportation. Any link is very complicated and professional, and is not something that ordinary people can do.

Bao Zhan said: If it is bloodthirsty and retaliation against society, you should choose your goals.

Su Mei said: The missing people are all teenage men, and I think they are likely to have sexual motivation and homosexual motivation.

Professor Liang said: The motive is unknown, I remember the missing case of a famous Korean frog boy!

The three unsolved cases in South Korea have never solved: "The Missing Frog Boy", "Lee Hyun-ho's Caught Abduction and Killing", and "Hacheng Serial Murder Case". All three cases have caused panic in the entire Korean society. The movie "Memories of Murder" that has won many awards is adapted from the Hacheng Serial Murder Case.

The disappearance of the frog boy is very strange and bizarre, and is incredible. It was also adapted into the movie "Children".

On March 26, 1991, five Korean primary school students went to catch lizards on holiday (the media misreported as frogs) and then disappeared mysteriously. The family searched all over South Korea and even alarmed the then South Korean president. The police, including the army, searched for about 320,000 people, but the search made no progress. Until September 25, 2002, the time of the incident was exactly 11 years and 6 months before the incident, and the body was found in Wolong Mountain.

The five corpses have been boned and pressed together in a stacked state of arhats, and a large stone is pressed on the highest level.

The five teenagers had obvious signs of killing him. Their clothes were tied in a unique form. Experts said this was an unprecedented method of tying. The police did not disclose the specific system. You can imagine tying it in a circle or being tied together by the murderer.

The cause of death announced by the South Korean police in the early stage was "death due to low temperature". Later, after the forensic team identified the three deceased's skulls, and some bullet shells were scattered on the scene. What is strange is that the corpse has no hair and is missing a lot of teeth. It is well known that tissues such as muscle fat will rot, but the hair and bones of the teeth are difficult to oxidize and can be preserved for many years.

The murderer has never been arrested...

Professor Liang arranged work, and Officer Mao was responsible for investigating the last contacts of the nine missing teenagers and listing a list to check them one by one.

The crime scene was a dirt road. In addition to the villagers of Zhanghe Village, the people who appeared there were employees of nearby cold storage. Zhanghe Village and cold storage were the key investigation scope, and the murderer was likely to be hiding in these two places. Bao Zhan, Hualong, and Su Mei concentrated all their efforts to conduct a detailed investigation with the cooperation of the local government. Each employee in the cold storage was directly contacted, including transport drivers with business transactions and other relevant personnel. For the villagers of Zhanghe Village, they should go to the village to visit door to door through a census, and record each person who had a criminal record and had been dealt with by the police.

The special case team analyzed that the murderer lived alone near the dirt road where the crime occurred and met the conditions for committing crimes, and was likely to be a person who had been released from prison.

The characteristic of China's criminal investigation is the human wave tactics. Although it is clumsy, it is often invincible. Bai Jingyu sent an inspection team to Jiba County. Officer Mao did not dare to neglect it, and mobilized a large number of police forces to do his best.

Su Mei and Baozhan installed surveillance equipment, two cameras, one fixed on the exterior wall of the public toilet in the cold storage, and the other was placed at the entrance of Zhanghe Village. Police officers on duty were arranged to monitor the dirt road where the incident occurred 24 hours a day.

At night, the surveillance footage was very terrifying. There were no street lights on the dirt road. In the dark, some movements could make people feel nervous, especially in the woods. The staff on duty had been watching for a long time and were extremely nervous.

In fact, as long as you pay attention to it, even in the city, there are roads similar to gloomy.

When walking at night, I always feel that there is a black shadow following you. You walk fast and he can follow you fast. When you run, he runs. When you stop, you can't see people. Only the silent night around you surrounds you.

Su Mei and Bao Zhan pretended to be staff members of the Family Planning Commission. With the cooperation of the local government and the village director, they visited door to door and tried to find the suspect. On that day, the two worked very late and finished their meal at the village director's house at 11 o'clock in the evening. The vehicle broke down and the two decided to walk back to the county public security bureau.

Zhanghe Village is not very far from the county town. When passing through the dirt road, something creepy and strange happened.

At that time, the moon was hidden in the clouds. On the dark night, I couldn't see my fingers. The surroundings were very quiet. The grass on the roadside gave people a feeling of shade and strangeness. The nine teenagers disappeared on this road and were probably killed. Perhaps their wronged souls were still wandering here... Su Mei couldn't help but feel a little scared when she thought of this.

The two of them walked side by side. Su Mei looked around and said: Xiaobao, have you brought a gun?

Bao Zhan said: No, Brother Hualong often brings guns. We are now family planning cadres, so why do we carry guns?

Su Mei said: I have

Slightly cold.

Bao Zhan said: No, here are all seasons like spring.

Su Mei said: You hate it.

Bao Zhan said: Ah... Xiaomei, are you afraid?

Su Mei said: No, I want you to hold my hand.

Bao Zhan hesitated for a moment and said: There is surveillance on this road and it will be seen by people.

Su Mei said: No matter, it’s so dark that others can’t see it, you have to listen to me.

Bao Zhan took Su Mei's hand and walked to the near the woods, he vaguely heard a sound from the woods.

Bao Zhan said: Shh!

Su Mei said: You bastard, don’t scare me.

Bao Zhan said: It seems... someone is talking.

The two of them stood still. The woods looked gloomy and terrifying. The area was full of eucalyptus trees. The trunks were not thick, the canopy was shaped like a tower, and there were some low shrubs called "airplane grass" growing on the clearings in the forest. In the darkness, I vaguely saw someone standing behind the tree peeking at the dirt road. There were two red dots floating in the air, as if they were some ghost's eyes.

Su Mei was a little nervous and held Bao Zhan's hand tightly. Bao Zhan shouted: Who is there?

In the silence, the moon emerged, and suddenly a creepy scream came from the woods. Two ghosts ran out of the woods in a very strange posture. The hands swung back and forth greatly, but their feet seemed to be bound by something, and they could only jog in small steps. Bao Zhan and Su Mei were both frightened by the scene in front of them. The two ghosts became like zombies, jumping straight over the ditches beside the forest. Bao Zhan and Su Mei stood hand in hand in between the road. The two ghosts turned their heads and ran, screaming like ghosts and wolves dragging long sounds.

Bao Zhan has a keen vision and recognizes these two people as the village director’s sons and has seen them at the village director’s house.

They returned to Zhanghe Village as the same way, and the two sons of the village director told the horror of encountering ghosts in the woods.

The two brothers reunite with their classmates in the county town and went home very late. Because there were many missing cases on that road, they walked together. When they were passing through the grove, their brother had diarrhea. He said to his brother: Oh, my stomach is uncomfortable, the spicy hot pot I ate at night is smelly, have you brought paper?

My younger brother said: No paper, I have cigarettes, I can wipe my butt with a cigarette box. I just now... I seemed to see an old woman in the woods.

My brother said: It's been so late, and I'm still joking. I can't hold it anymore and I'm almost putting it in my crotch.

The two brothers went to the woods for convenience. In order to boost their courage, they lit cigarettes. The two red dots that Bao Zhan and Su Mei saw were the cigarette butts in their hands. The two brothers squatted in the woods, and the brother picked up a few leaves on the ground and prepared to use them as toilet paper. At this time, the moon appeared and disappeared in the clouds. The younger brother looked at the shadow of his brother and saw a head suddenly appearing on his shoulder. The younger brother was frightened and quietly pointed at the shadow of the head on the ground with his fingers. The moonlight disappeared and the darkness was everywhere. The brother saw nothing.

At this time, a cool breeze swept through the back with dust. The local temperature was as spring as possible. My brother was wondering why there was a cool breeze. The two brothers looked back and couldn't help but feel scared and sweated.
Chapter completed!