Chapter Ten Xie Ping An's Head

  "It's just an ordinary copper coin sword, only it hasn't been well-maintained with my yang energy." The old man smiled complacently as he put away the copper coin sword and carefully wiped off the bloodstains on it with a piece of cloth.

  Gale was almost exhausted, covered in sweat. I held him up and we both panted heavily. The scene just now was really too terrifying, even the most frightening nightmare wouldn't have such a scenario. Even though it was a personal experience, there was still an unreal feeling, like being in a dream.

  "You two kids are doing pretty well, I didn't misjudge you!" Old Master praised: "The first time I saw you, I knew you two were the right stuff for this."

  I don't want to talk to Lao Gan Ma, if time could flow backwards, I wish I would never have met Lao Gan Ma.

  The workroom fell silent again, the morgue humming. The already somewhat old room was left in disarray by us, I had no idea how to explain it to the forensic doctor tomorrow.

  Pfft...... Hmph......

  The corpse next to us suddenly let out a strange noise, and Grey and I were startled. This thing won't come back to life, will it? The two of us almost jumped up and ran away.

  The old man stood calmly on the spot, smiling at us and said: "Don't be excited, this is a normal phenomenon. This shows that the resentment in the corpse has been released and there will be no more zombie transformation. It's completely safe."

  I let out a mouthful of air, and then a foul odor drilled into my nostrils, entering my lungs through the respiratory tract. At that moment, I felt suffocated, so smelly that I couldn't breathe.

  "My goodness, how could I have forgotten this?" The old immortal tucked the copper coin sword into his bosom and rushed to our front in a few steps. He grabbed us by the collar and dragged us outside the forensic room. The night air was very refreshing, but we were still suffocated by the stench.

  The old man looked around and saw a small puddle of water nearby, scooped up some stagnant water with both hands and splashed it onto the faces of the two of us.

  Suddenly I was splashed with cold water, I shivered, and finally I could breathe. A stream of fresh air entered my lungs, and the feeling of suffocation disappeared.

  We were gasping for breath in big gulps of fresh air, almost as if we were going to die. It took a full minute before we came back to our senses.

  "What just happened?" The near-death experience left me with lingering fear.

  The old man said with a hint of apology, "I forgot to tell you earlier that this monster transformed from a corpse into a flower will release a stench after death, ten times more pungent than the smell of rotting flesh."

  "You should have said that earlier, I almost suffocated to death!" Ge Lei shouted: "This is probably the most suffocating way to die."

  "Why didn't you say so earlier!" I sniffed the clothes on me and they had a strong stench of corpses, probably won't dissipate for a long time.

  "I'll remember next time!" The old man stumbled and staggered as he walked away.

  "What about the body in there? And this case..."

  The old man interrupted my words and said casually, "It will take two or three days for the corpse to dissipate. The forensic doctor will handle the body inside. As for the case, that's your business. I just want to see the closing report."

  "In other words, once I write this closing report, the case can be closed?" I asked.

  "In theory, yes! I'm old and need to go back and rest early." The old man walked away without even turning his head.

  Leaving Grey and me disheveled in the night wind, we found a deserted place and let the night wind blow for more than an hour, but still couldn't dissipate the stench on our bodies.

  The case has reached this point and it's already very clear. Many clues have surfaced, and the situation is much more complicated than we imagined.

  The Ding is the key to the case, and a series of brutal murders are all related to the Ding. The Ding possesses some kind of evil power that can kill people. However, there are differences among the victims, and I feel that there is an invisible hand controlling from behind.

  There's another question mark, which is Jia Liu. The two corpses inside must have some connection with Jia Liu. I think it's necessary to find this guy and have a chat tomorrow.

  "Let's go back and sleep for a while," said Gail, yawning. "We'll be more clear-headed after we wake up."

  I'm also a bit sleepy, my eyelids feel like they're filled with lead and are about to close. We stumbled to the dormitory door, and at the moment we opened it, the room was pitch black, but I saw something on the table that looked like a tripod by its outline.

  My heart hung up instantly, my scalp was numb in waves, and a sense of fear enveloped me instantly.

  Grey didn't notice that I had stopped moving. He stretched out his hand and pressed the switch beside the door, and the lights in the room flickered on.

  The light was a bit dazzling. After my eyes got used to the light, I looked up again and saw that the table was empty, and the tripod was gone!

  Was it just my illusion? For a moment I hesitated.

  "Come on in, what are you standing at the door for?" Gale shouted.

  "I just saw something that didn't look too good!"

  "What did you see?" Gray quickly scanned around, but didn't find anything suspicious.

  "I think I saw a tripod!" I closed the door and searched the room carefully, but didn't find anything that looked like a tripod.

  "Are you seeing things?" Grey asked.

  I shook my head, indicating that it was impossible. In Xie Ping'an's mansion, I saw a small cauldron, which disappeared in the blink of an eye. It happened again right before my eyes, and there was only one possibility: for some reason, the small cauldron had chosen me, and this was probably not a good thing.

  The sky was just about to brighten, which is the darkest time of day and when people are most tired. Grey had been sleepy for a while, and as soon as he lay down on the bed, he fell asleep in less than half a minute.

  Listening to his snores, I also felt a bit sleepy. If Ding really wanted to take my head off, it would be a matter of minutes and he wouldn't wait until now. I lay down on the bed and fell asleep in a daze.

  I felt like I had just fallen asleep for a while when I heard a voice calling out my name again. "Officer Shi, I'm in so much pain, save me, save me!"

  Slightly regaining consciousness, I thought it was just a dream and didn't take it seriously.

  Tick-tock! Tick-tock!

  A faint sound of water dripping came from a corner of the room, and at first I didn't pay attention to it. The pipes in the dormitory were old and often leaked.

  Tick-tock! Tick-tock! Tick-tock!

  The sound of dripping water seemed to be moving and was now beside me, accompanied by a chilly breath that enveloped me, causing me to shiver.

  Suddenly I realized a very frightening problem, I was no longer in the school's broken dormitory, I was in the police station's single dormitory, and there were no water pipes in our room.

  Drip!

  A drop of icy water dripped onto my face, a chill entered my body, and I shivered. At the same time, a strong smell of blood pierced into my nostrils.

  I touched it with my hand and found something sticky on my face. I opened my eyes to take a look, and it was blood!

  In an instant, I was thoroughly awake. Opening my eyes to take a look, the room was pitch black, without any light at all, and it felt like being in a grave. The night wind blew against the curtains, and outside the window was also pitch black.

  I thought I had slept for a long time, but in fact, I only slept for five or six minutes. The door of the room was closed, but I felt that something had entered the room. I looked around and the room was pitch black, nothing could be seen.

  The phone was right next to the bed, I turned over and picked it up, lit up the screen, and the phone's screen illuminated my face.

  A strong sense of fear suddenly engulfed me, every pore on my body was gushing with cold sweat, and my heart was beating violently, as if it was about to jump out of my chest.

  I didn't dare move, and out of the corner of my eye I saw a terrifying face, deathly pale, with eyes wide open, almost bulging out of their sockets. The eyeballs were cloudy, indicating that death had occurred a long time ago. Dark red bloodstains flowed from the corners of the eyes, down the cheeks, and collected on the chin, dripping down.

  The drop on my face was the blood that had seeped out from the corner of my eye, and this thought sent a chill down my spine.

  The phone screen can only illuminate a small area, and in this faint light, I can only see one head, but not what's behind it.

  Calm down, must calm down, the more so at this time. I was thinking about what to do when that head suddenly moved, and it came down sharply, almost sticking to my face, mouth open, a cold air hit my face.

  Ah...... Oww...... Ah...... Oh......

  The mouth on the face opened and closed as if wanting to say something, but could only utter some meaningless syllables.

  I couldn't understand what was being said at all, this is absolutely nonsensical talk.

  After I calmed down, I recognized this face, which I had actually seen countless times before. It was the first person to die in the report, the owner of the murder house, Xie Ping'an!

  Although it was a bit scary, Xie Ping'an's head appeared in front of me, and he must have had something very important to tell me, unfortunately I couldn't understand.

  I helplessly said: "I know you mean well, but I really don't understand what you're trying to express by doing this."

  Ding!

  A crisp sound came from a corner of the room, the sound of metal hitting something. Then Xie Ping'an's head changed again.

  Originally ferocious, after this faint sound, Xie Ping'an's face became even more terrifying, the skin on his face twitching uncontrollably, his eyeballs rolled up, revealing grayish whites.

  Something was a bit off, and apart from Xie Ping'an's head, there were other things in the room.

  I sat up with a start, the room was not big, and there were not many places to wipe things. I immediately thought of under the bed, lowered my head to take a look, it was pitch black under the bed, and indeed there were things, but I could only see a vague outline. In the corner of the wall, it seemed like two, one big and one small.

  No way, it's not going to be Ding again, and this time there are even two of them.

  I felt for the phone and shone it under the bed, the glow of the phone dispelled the darkness, but what was under the bed had also disappeared. I didn't believe it, where could this thing have run off to?

  As a result of using too much force, I slid down from the bed and fell heavily onto the floor. My head hit something hard and it hurt a lot. When I got up holding my head and looked around, Xie Ping'an's head was gone!