"Brother Runsheng, call us if you need anything again."
"Okay." Run Sheng walked to the lower part of the dam, tore open the packaging paper of the fireworks, and pulled out the fuse inside.
After a while, a police tricycle drove over, and Tan Wenbin shouted "Uncle Liu" as he led Li Zhiyuan to sit on the motorcycle.
After they left, Yin ng held an incense stick and lit a firecracker:
"Boom... Bang!"
After lighting one, Yin ng looked at Run Sheng and said,
"I say, how co it’s so peaceful here with you all?"
Run Sheng pointed in the direction of Big Beard’s house in the distance, and said, "Xiao Yuan said it’s because there’s a big fellow lying over there, still not dead."
"When will it die?"
"I don’t know, and it doesn’t matter anyway. After another sester, Xiao Yuan will go to college. You’ll have to bear with it a little longer."
At the sa ti, Tan Wenbin, sitting on the motorcycle, was rubbing his fingers continuously. *After experiencing such a big thrill, the long and mundane life ahead seed a bit unbearable.*
Upon arriving at the station, Tan Yunlong personally ca out to receive them.
Tan Wenbin pulled out two cigarettes, handed one to the Uncle Liu who was driving the motorcycle, and the other to Tan Yunlong,
"Here, Captain Tan, have a smoke."
Tan Yunlong took the cigarette and asked, "You started smoking again?"
Tan Wenbin stuffed the cigarette pack back into his pocket and smiled, "Oh no, it’s just approaching New Year, and Mr. Li gave it to ."
"Xiao Yuan, co with ."
"Okay, Uncle Tan."
Tan Yunlong led Li Zhiyuan to the forensic room, and naturally, Tan Wenbin followed along.
"Captain Tan, this is..." A young female forensic doctor seed surprised to see two young people.
She still rembered chatting with an old Corpse Recovery Diver last ti, who had provided lots of insights and thoughts.
*Wasn’t it supposed to be that old man here this ti, so why didn’t he co?*
"Forensic doctor Xiao Wang, let’s begin." Tan Yunlong made no further explanations.
Forensic doctor Xiao Wang led the group to a gurney bed, reaching out to grasp the edge of the white cloth, and hesitated a bit while asking,
"Captain Tan, is it really okay? I’m afraid it’ll scare them."
Tan Wenbin shrugged, "Don’t worry, it’s just the giant’s view, nothing major."
The body, though covered with a white sheet, had feet exposed that were already heavily swollen, indicating it had been soaked for a long ti.
"It’s more than just a giant’s view." Forensic doctor Xiao Wang unveiled the white cloth, revealing a swollen corpse whose chest area was hollow, as if a scoop of pork jelly had been taken.
Originally, forensic doctor Xiao Wang thought it would frighten them, but to her surprise, the two young n eagerly examined it from both sides.
"Hey, this is interesting, Brother Yuanzi."
"Yeah."
"What’s going on in the middle? It’s in an arc shape. How did it happen? Could it be that?"
"No."
"Then is it that one?"
"Also no."
Forensic doctor Xiao Wang stood nearby, quite puzzled by what she heard.
Even Tan Yunlong couldn’t help but glare at his own son, "Speak plainly."
Tan Wenbin said disgruntledly, "I told you to read properly."
Tan Yunlong: "..."
Seeing that his father was actually getting angry, Tan Wenbin hurriedly explained, "Dad, these are professional terms I learned from Mr. Li."
He had read the "Jianghu Chronicles," and first thought of the "mother-and-son death" and "parasitic death," but both were denied by Xiao Yuan.
Li Zhiyuan reached out and pointed at a green strip in the corpse’s hollow part.
Forensic doctor Xiao Wang said, "Is it aquatic plants?"
Li Zhiyuan shook his head, "Not aquatic plants, it’s animal hair."
Tan Yunlong asked, "Xiao Wang, didn’t you test it?"
"I..." Forensic doctor Xiao Wang admitted sowhat embarrassedly, "It was my negligence at work, I didn’t notice it."
"Uncle Tan, where was the body discovered?"
"In the Tongxing River. We’ve already sent people upstream to investigate any middle-aged males missing recently."
"Is the upstream closer to us or the downstream?"
"What do you an?" Tan Yunlong seed confused.
Tan Wenbin interjected, "Xiao Yuan, I know this river; it passes our place first before going to the neighboring town."
Li Zhiyuan said, "Uncle Tan, then you should investigate downstream, not upstream."
"The body can go upstream?"
"Yeah, what if it got carried by a boat? It’s possible, right."
"Okay, I get it." Although still perplexed, Tan Yunlong decided to follow the suggestion and give it a try.
No matter whether it was deliberately mysterious or just the atmosphere at play, forensic doctor Xiao Wang now had a bit of recognition for the two. She pointed at the body and said, "Also, the water infiltration on this corpse is sowhat strange."
Tan Wenbin imdiately got excited upon hearing that, "That’s great, I’ll bring the equipnt later when we go back."
Li Zhiyuan said, "It’s okay, that’s considered normal."
Forensic doctor Xiao Wang, feeling perplexed, asked again, "That’s considered normal?"
"Yes, don’t worry."
Exiting the forensic room, Tan Yunlong called Xiao Liu to send the two back again.
After getting off the car on the village road in front of their ho, Tan Wenbin couldn’t help but ask, "Xiao Yuan, what exactly was that thing?"
"Corpse Demon."
Similar to the cat-faced old lady from before, an accumulation of grievances where an animal’s corpse and a human’s corpse et and rge.
"Oh?" Tan Wenbin ford a circle with his hands, "That missing part, is it the demon’s body?"
"Yeah."
"The corpse is here, so where did it go?"
"It got scared away."
"Scared away?" Tan Wenbin turned his head to look in the direction of Big Beard’s house, "It reached our territory, and the Corpse Demon got scared away? No wonder you told my dad to investigate downstream. Right, if this Corpse Demon got scared and ran off, its original direction must have been heading here toward us."
Normal corpses would sure flow downstream, but a Corpse Demon going upstream wasn’t surprising at all.
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