Chapter 23: Sitting on the Altar of Corpse(1/2)
The dilapidated stone walls looked particularly majestic and majestic under the sunlight, but there was an indescribable smell permeating the air.
"What does this smell like?"
Xiong Tao lifted his nose and took a deep breath. He felt that the smell was neither smelly nor fragrant, but there was always a heady feeling when he smelled it.
"It smells like corpse oil!"
Captain Wang, who was following behind, suddenly said: "Corpse oil is formed when the body is highly decomposed and the fat overflows in the form of oil. It usually appears on corpses that have not had time to be processed in the summer."
"Corpse oil??"
Xiong Tao's face darkened and he felt a little disgusted for a moment, but he still asked without giving up: "Don't the corpses stink? How come it smells so good?"
Captain Wang glanced at him and saw that he was suppressing his disgust. He couldn't help but sneered and talked about a case that year in a leisurely manner.
"Two years ago, there was a case involving a J woman. This woman was already in her forties, but she would have a special fragrance permeating her body. With this fragrance, her business was very good.
But after she was caught during an anti-pornography operation, we found three corpses in the refrigerator at her home. The jaws of these corpses were cut off and then burned with candles. The dripping oil was corpse oil.
The scent on the woman's body is the scent of the perfume she made with these corpse oils. Although the smell is a little different from the one here, I will never make a mistake. It is definitely the smell of corpse oil."
"vomit!!!"
When he heard this, Xiong Tao couldn't help but think of a bunch of men lying on top of a woman, frantically licking and sniffing the woman covered in corpse oil, and he immediately vomited on the spot.
Xu Tong and Yang Zixuan were fine. Yang Zixuan even asked thoughtfully: "So that woman is still a murderer?"
Captain Wang nodded: "The deceased were all her regular customers, and it was easy to find out their family backgrounds. They were all single men with few people at home, so until the case was solved, no one came to claim the bodies."
Xu Tong interrupted at this time and asked: "A woman kills three men just to get the corpse oil on their bodies? If so, killing one is enough. After all, there are many places besides the chin that can be used, why do she have to kill them continuously?
Lose three men?”
Captain Wang was startled when he heard this, and murmured: "This... maybe the corpse oil on the chin is better?"
After hearing this, Yang Guanjin finally couldn't help but interrupt their interest in continuing the discussion on this case: "Stop talking, this matter has nothing to do with our current situation."
After speaking, she did not forget to remind: "Nine times out of ten, the poisonous insects you eat are heart-piercing poisons. When the time comes and there is no antidote, the poisonous insects will start to bite along your intestines, and finally get into your heart, killing you."
My heart bit out a hole."
"Damn, I remembered the movie Alien I watched last time." Xiong Tao twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking of the scene of his chest exploding, and his whole body felt bad.
"Can this thing be removed through surgery?"
When it came to talking about Gu insects, Yang Zixuan finally became serious, but behind the scenes, he was still considering whether to use special props to leave here.
"Surgery? How precise is the surgery? And the bugs will keep moving. How can you confirm the location of the bugs?"
Yang Guanjin shook her head. This question was beyond her understanding. Although she knew some medicine, in this terrible era, how could she understand the development of medicine in reality when she had never even been exposed to X-ray machines?
degree.
But having said that, even with advanced medicine in reality, it is obviously not easy to accurately find the location of bugs.
"So we can only find what he is looking for in exchange for our lives? Is this why he doesn't ask for the golden dagger even though he knows it is on you?"
As Xu Tong spoke, he did not forget to glance at Yang Zixuan. Thinking of his cute cartoon underwear, he must be a young boy full of childlike innocence.
Sensing Xu Tong's teasing look, Yang Zixuan twitched the corner of his mouth, coughed twice and said, "Then what exactly is he looking for??"
This time Yang Guanjin also looked confused: "I don't know, I've only heard of the Shengxian Bureau, but I don't know the details."
Xu Tong raised his eyebrows and said thoughtfully: "It's better to go in and take a look first."
"Yes, seeing is believing. What Zhou Huasheng said is too hypocritical and illusory."
Captain Wang waved his hand and motioned for everyone to continue moving forward.
At the same time, he did not forget to ask Yang Zixuan if his gun was in his hand.
When Yang Zixuan mentioned this matter, he couldn't help but touch his chin and shook his head: "No!"
Seeing that they refused to admit it, Captain Wang had no choice but to keep his head down and walk in front with Xiong Tao.
The group walked through the dilapidated ruins, and in front of them were stone towers and pine forests.
"This place..."
Everyone felt something was wrong, but they couldn't tell what was wrong.
"Wait, look over there!"
At this time, Yang Zixuan suddenly noticed something and pointed forward. Everyone walked forward and took a look. It was a stone wall, but there was a beautiful relief carved on the stone wall.
In the mural, there are densely packed monks kneeling on the ground, but right in front of these monks is not the Buddha but a demon king with a green face and fangs.
What's even weirder is that the devil actually lost his arms, his blood spilled on the ground, and lotus flowers sprouted from the ground.
"What does it mean???"
Everyone looked a little confused and didn't understand the meaning of this mural at all.
"You all don't understand this. Just put down your butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately." Xiong Tao said carelessly when he saw everyone staring at the relief in rapt attention.
Needless to say, when he said this, everyone really thought that was what he meant.
"Bah, it's all feudalism, something to fool the masses."
Captain Wang spat coldly, looking down on this kind of feudalism the most, and sneered: "If this is the case, and those murderers suddenly repent, can they all become Buddhas? If so, wouldn't society be in chaos?"
Of course he has a reason for saying this. Although there are not many homicides, as a police officer, I have never seen all kinds of criminals. After being caught, these criminals do not say they regret it, but they really regret it.
What? If you regret it, why are you so mad when you break the law?
But no one paid attention to his remarks.
Only Xiong Tao showed a rare look of approval, while Xu Tong and Yang Zixuan looked at the mural with particularly heavy expressions.
"I think... this is more like a kind of sacrifice!" Yang Zixuan said after a moment.
After saying that, he turned around and looked at Xu Tong, wanting to see what he had a different opinion. Unexpectedly, Xu Tong just shook his shoulders, pointed at Xiong Tao and said, "I think this guy is right. Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha immediately."
Well." As he said this, he did not forget to blink at Yang Guanjin behind him.
This made Yang Guanjin startled and seemed a little uncomfortable.
The unproductive suggestion made Yang Zixuan just roll his eyes, thinking he could say something different.
There was no obvious reason for these stone carvings, so everyone could only continue walking down.
"Hiss, that's not right!"
At this time, Yang Zixuan suddenly stopped, looked around and said, "How do I feel that we have entered a temple? It doesn't look like some kind of immortality bureau?"
"Your temple is built in this place? It would be strange to say there are no ghosts."
Xu Tong held his arms at the side: "Most temples are built on the top of the mountain. They want to build them as high as the mountain is. It makes those who climb the mountain very tired, so that they can show their sincerity in worshiping Buddha. Even those who do not believe in Buddhism climb it."
When I went up to the temple, I felt that it was not easy to climb up. If I didn’t pay my respects, I would lose money.”
"This..." Yang Zixuan scratched his head, and after thinking about it carefully, this seems to be true, and he couldn't help but laugh: "The ancients also studied psychology."
"Come on, I found the source of that smell!"
At this time, Captain Wang's shout came from a distance, and everyone hurried over to take a look, only to see a huge bronze pot in front of them.
This bronze pot was hung in the air by several iron ropes, which were as thick as an adult's arm. A section of the iron rope was embedded in the surrounding stone pillars. Over the years, it was already covered with rust.
Seeing everyone arriving, Captain Wang excitedly pointed at the bronze pot in front of him and sneered at Xiong Tao: "I can tell you 100% now that the smell we smell is the smell of corpses."
He pointed to the black traces left in the pot: "This is corpse oil."
"vomit!!!"
Suddenly Xiong Tao couldn't bear it anymore and opened his mouth to vomit again.
“Is such a big pot used to boil corpse oil??”
Yang Guanjin walked up to the pot with a horrified look on his face. The pot was at least five meters wide and three meters deep, and was filled with a thick layer of black stuff.
It’s hard to imagine what it would look like if such a big pot was used to cook corpse oil?
After she said this, everyone couldn't help but think of how chefs usually make lard, and then placed that image on this big pot.
When they thought of the huge bronze pot filled with all kinds of white meat pieces rolling and frying, everyone could not help but shudder.
"What do they do with such a big pot of corpse oil??" Captain Wang walked up to the pot, probably out of professional reasons, and he couldn't help but start thinking.
"In addition to offering sacrifices, what else can you do, but you can't make hot pot."
As Yang Zixuan spoke, he turned his eyes and saw Xu Tong standing motionless. He couldn't help but stepped forward and said, "What are you thinking about??"
"Do you have the feeling that something is watching us??"
Xu Tong frowned. From the moment he walked in, he always felt a little uncomfortable. He always felt that something was observing him, and this feeling became stronger and stronger.
At this time, he suddenly walked to the bushes, reached out and pulled on the bushes.
"Crash..."
He pulled off the dense rattan. As the rattan was torn off by him, a huge Buddha statue appeared in front of everyone.
I don’t know when the stone Buddha was carved, or because it has been weathered for a long time. Most of the face of the Buddha has been corroded by the rain, so that it looks a little... silly instead of as solemn as in the temple.
To be continued...