Chapter Seventeen The Wound Healed

  I couldn't help but ask weakly: "Ma Suochang, you're not joking with me, are you? Don't scare me, I'm timid."

  Ma Zhiguo sighed: "Do I deserve to joke with you? Earlier, after I came back with Mr. Xiao, I was preparing to find someone to cremate Zhao Mei's body, but unexpectedly the body was gone. Mr. Xiao has already gone to look for it, and there is no news yet."

  This is unbearable, I couldn't help but scold those police in my heart, what are they even eating? It's just a corpse, it won't run away by itself, can't even keep an eye on it.

  But thinking that it was a female ghost's corpse, things seemed different, perhaps the corpse would really run away by itself?

  That's not right, the female ghost has been following me all along, how could she manipulate the corpse to leave the police station? Besides, she begged me to bury the body, no need to hide her own corpse again.

  After hanging up the phone, I hesitated for a long time and rushed to the police station. On one hand, Ma Zhiguo urged me to hurry over, on the other hand, I also wanted to see the body being solved with my own eyes, otherwise I wouldn't feel at ease.

  "No matter what, I also have the protective divine light on me, so I shouldn't encounter any danger, right?" I secretly comforted myself.

  All the mortuaries were sent out, which were very simple and didn't even have freezing facilities. Ma Zhiguo took me to the mortuary and we saw that on the bed where Zhao Mei's body was placed before, there were still some disgusting sticky liquid and meat residue left.

  Even with a mask on, I almost threw up. The lighting in the morgue was very dim, giving people a sense of oppression, and since entering, my chest has felt stuffy.

  "Does Xiao Huan have a way to find the body?" I casually asked.

  Ma Zhiguo fell silent for a moment, then said in a low voice: "Mr. Xiao didn't have full confidence either, he was using that incense to search for the body. Right, that incense, when Mr. Xiao left, had already burned nearly one-third."

  "What? One-third?" I exclaimed in surprise.

  That old woman told me that if the incense stick burns out and I still haven't let Zhao Mei rest in peace, she will haunt me forever.

  Tonight's kung fu almost killed me, if she keeps bothering me, will I still be alive?

  Ma Zhiguo glared at me: "What's wrong with you? You can't shout loudly here, or you'll wake others up."

  Damn it, this is a morgue, who can wake up? Ma Zhiguo was lecturing me with righteous words when I first told him about ghosts, but he's also superstitious.

  Ma Zhiguo looked at me with a nonchalant expression, pointing to the several beds deep in the morgue. The lighting here was too dim, and I hadn't noticed earlier that on one of the beds inside, there was actually another corpse.

  It's probably just a coincidence that the police station is divided into sections, and the jurisdiction isn't large. Normally in our area, the probability of encountering a homicide case is very small.

  Seeing Ma Zhi Guo's tense face, I also became cautious and stopped speaking loudly. But soon, I discovered that I couldn't calm down at all. If I wasn't mistaken, the corpse seemed to have moved!

  "It moved, the corpse moved!" I shouted loudly.

  "What's going on? You're all startled!"

  He hadn't noticed anything unusual about the corpse, but I had been watching as it slowly got down from the bed, its body dressed in white clothes, moving towards us with an eerie posture.

  I used to hear others say that mortuaries are places with a heavy yin energy where paranormal events often occur, I thought it was nonsense, but it turns out to be true.

  I turned around and ran out, but a big hand suddenly grabbed my arm, making me unable to move. Turning my head, it was Ma Zhiguo with an iron-green face.

  "You've also experienced great waves and storms, how can you still be so timid? Take a closer look, that's not a corpse, it's a person!" Ma Zhiguo's loud shout left me stunned on the spot.

  I rubbed my eyes and looked at the "corpse" again, only to realize that it was actually a big living person. His legs were just not very flexible, so his posture was a bit strange when he walked.

  "What's going on? What case happened again, and why are there people here?" That was a lame old man with a sleepy face, looking like he had just woken up.

  Ma Zhiguo waved his hand: "Nothing, you continue sleeping, if there's really a case, I'll definitely call you."

  The old man with a lame leg yawned and muttered, "That rotten female corpse, I really don't know when it was lost. Just went to the toilet for a while, came back and didn't see it. Could it be that the corpse can run? Where can I reason with it?"

  "Alright, hurry back and get some sleep. We'll handle all of this, don't worry about it."

  The old man yawned again and limped back to the bed. Ma Zhiguo pulled me away hastily from the morgue.

  As I walked out of the morgue, I casually threw my mask into the trash can and took a deep breath. The outside air was still fresh; if I had stayed in the morgue for another moment, I would have fainted.

  Ma Zhiguo's face also looked a bit unsightly, I don't know if it was because he was anxious or because of that old man earlier. I clearly felt that he didn't get along with that old man.

  "What Ma said just now, that old man..."

  "He's been here for over twenty years, and before I could even adjust, he was gone. Don't ask too much, about Zhao Mei's missing body, I'm sure it has nothing to do with him. By the way, what are your thoughts now?" Ma Zhiguo interrupted me directly.

  I shrugged, since he didn't want to talk about the old man, I didn't need to ask. All I could think of was that I hoped Xiao Huan was really capable and could find Zhao Mei's body.

  Just now in the morgue, I carefully observed the ground and found no trace of mucus or rotting flesh. In other words, Zhao Mei's body did not pass through the ground, so it can be basically determined that the body was not left by itself.

  I was puzzled, can a corpse even fly? If the corpse was stolen, what kind of mentality does the person who stole this corpse have?

  Ma Zhiguo directly ruled out the speculation of stealing a corpse, and there were not many cameras installed in the police station. From the monitoring, nothing abnormal was found at all. Moreover, several civilian policemen who stayed in the station to guard the door were not vegetarians. If someone really came to steal something, they would not have failed to discover it.

  At three o'clock in the morning, Xiao Huan called and asked us to bring people to the riverbank. His voice was urgent, and he didn't have time to explain before hanging up the phone.

  Ma Zhiguo gave me a meaningful look, and I shrank back: "I guess the body has been found, so you can go now, no need to drag me along? My injuries haven't healed yet, going would be useless anyway."

  He flashed his signature smile, looking sincere but making me feel very deceitful. Ma Zhiguo patted my shoulder: "Don't shirk it, this is something you've brought about, can you not go?"

  I smiled wryly: "What's wrong with that? Look at those police officers in the station, each one is stronger than me. If I went, I'd just be a burden."

  Ma Zhiguo shook his head, gripping my arm tightly: "You little scoundrel, stop stalling. I know your injuries have almost healed. Mr. Xiao also said that there's a master in your family, he wouldn't lie."

  Damn it, who's that big mouth, saying things that almost got me killed? Xiao Huan that bastard was clearly mocking me, what superior person does our family have?

  Ma Zhiguo didn't listen to my explanation at all, and had two police officers lift me up and forcibly stuff me into a police car. After driving for just a few minutes, we arrived at the banks of the Hong River.

  As soon as I walked to the riverbank, I saw Xiao Huan standing at the riverbank with a pretentious look on his face, holding that incense stick in his hand and muttering something non-stop.

  I glared at him with a bad temper and asked, "Was the body found? If it was found, why didn't you carry it back yourself, what's the point of calling us here?"

  Xiao Huan sneered and waved the incense in front of me: "This incense has already burned halfway, the corpse is in the river, go down and pick it up. If the incense burns out before the corpse is buried, I think you know the consequences."

  After he finished speaking, he pointed to the middle of the river. Immediately, a police officer shone his flashlight and indeed, the highly decomposed corpse was still swaying in the water with the current, just like before.

  I'm unwilling, I shouted: "Why should I go down to pick it up? Why don't you go down yourself? Anyway, I'm a wounded soldier and can't get in the water."

  Seeing that corpse makes me hair stand on end, it's absolutely impossible for me to get into the water. Heaven knows how this corpse got back into the water, what if there's something else inside, I'd be doomed.

  Xiao Huan ignored me, took out a compass from his pocket, no, that thing was called a Luopan. He held the incense in one hand and the Luopan in the other, wandered around for a while, and stopped at an empty space not far away.

  "Dig down from here."

  Several police officers looked at me, I looked at them, a bit at a loss. When we came, we didn't bring an iron shovel or anything, how can we dig?

  "Cut it out, just now on the phone they said not to bring iron shovels, how are we supposed to dig now? I think you're just a stick, do you want to bury the body here? Now it's not allowed to bury in the ground, the body must be cremated and sent to the cemetery." I didn't miss the opportunity to mock Xiao Huan.

  Xiao Huan's face was stern, and he said in a cold voice: "You can't use an iron shovel to dig, only your hands. You few go dig first, Wu Tian, you'd better hurry up and retrieve the corpses!"

  As soon as the voice fell, I felt a chill on my shoulder. Xiao Hua, that grandson, actually rushed over and lifted the gauze off my shoulder. He bent down again to pull off the gauze on my leg, and I kicked him with one foot.

  "Ah...... you damn well want to break my leg off?" I took a sharp breath in.

  He lightly grasped my foot, with a great deal of strength, almost breaking my leg. Damn it, Ren Binghua is born with superhuman strength, and her senior fellow apprentice isn't anything good either!

  "Look for yourself, the wound has already healed, hurry up and go down." Xiao Huan said calmly.

  I looked down and was stunned, the wound had really healed completely, this was too eerie. I was still in shock when Xiao Huan suddenly pushed me, and I flew out, straight into the river.