Chapter 837: The Sea-Suppressing Stone Beast Corpse Case

As soon as I opened the door and entered the evidence hall, I was greeted by the sweltering hot weather first, and then by the foul and unpleasant smell.

The weather in the south is inherently hot and humid, which is conducive to corpse rot and all kinds of mildew. You can imagine how unpleasant the smell in this room is.

Not only is it mind-blowing, it's also irritating to the eyes.

Finally, the old Taoist priests tied their mouths and noses with wet cloth strips soaked in water before they dared to enter the evidence hall.

On the contrary, Jin An, who practiced the art of breath-holding, did not use these external objects.

No wonder those princes and the Immortal Master of the Tianshi Mansion did not take away these living stakes of Zhenhai stone beasts. How could the Wang family in the capital, with bodies of thousands of gold, rich clothes and fine food, be willing to endure such suffering and stay with the rotting dead? .

"This typhoon was so violent that we found only a small part of the destroyed ships, and more ships were permanently sunk at the bottom of the sea. Including the living piles of the Zhenhai Stone Beast found near the Wuzang Taoist Temple, we found a total of Five living piles of Zhenhai stone beasts." The speaker was Fatty Li, whose voice was a bit dull because his mouth and nose were tied with wet cloth strips, and he didn't dare to take a deep breath because of the strange smell.

Several people came to a corner, where there were five damaged stone beasts of Zhenhai, two stone monkeys, one stone turtle, one stone fish, and one stone crow.

Seeing the two stone monkeys placed here, Jin An couldn't help but think of the scene when he was at the pier that day when he saw the local people carrying the Zhenhai stone monkeys for a sacrificial ceremony, and finally throwing the Zhenhai stone monkeys into the sea to pray for blessings... His heart moved, and he thought about it. It’s the Zhenhai Stone Monkey. It seems that people prefer the Stone Monkey.

The Sea Dragon King would not dare to use it casually. It would be a capital crime for everyone to be executed, so the next best thing was to use the Stone Monkey. Sun Dasheng had a magic weapon called the Dinghai Shenzhen, which was a mascot for those who ran sea ships.

The Zhenhai stone beasts in front of them were all damaged in different ways. Some were smashed by typhoons, and some were smashed open by humans, revealing mummies in their empty stomachs.

These mummies are small children, which can be easily hidden in the Zhenhai Stone on an empty stomach. They were all suffocated to death before they were alive, because their bodies were curled up in pain, their faces were in pain, and their fingertips were badly worn. There were a lot of fingernail scratches inside the Zhenhai Stone. mark.

All signs indicate that these children were suffocated to death in order to be used as life stakes. The more miserable the death, the heavier the resentment, and the more powerful the evil will be after death.

"Sure enough, this is not an isolated case. So many children were killed innocently. What a crime!" The old Taoist priest turned pale with anger.

These children's mummified corpses all had a corpse-preserving prisoner sticker affixed to their foreheads. After asking, I found out that the local county government had asked Taoist priests to do it.

"These children died tragically before they were alive. The damage to those Zhenhai stone beasts is equivalent to the damage to magical instruments. They get very noisy at night and strange things happen frequently."

Fatty Li knew a lot about the situation and took the initiative to explain: "The most violent incident was in a small fishing village called Cangshui Village. In just two days, most of the chickens, ducks and poultry in the village were killed at night."

"At first, the villagers thought it was a weasel or a wild dog. It wasn't until they discovered that the real cause of death of the poultry was that the blood in the body was sucked out. When some villagers found a few chicken feathers in the belly of the Zhenhai stone animal, the villagers realized that the poultry might not be... The one who was bitten to death by the weasel was bitten to death by the mummy child from Zhenhai Stone Beast who came out and sucked up all the blood."

"The villagers were so frightened that they immediately called for folk gentlemen to do the work. As a result, the first two calls were all charlatans with no real skills. Not only did they fail to subdue the evil corpse, but they actually angered the evil corpse. One of them was bitten to death. It is said that his death was... It was so miserable that it was almost impossible to piece together a complete corpse. The evil corpse became more ferocious after being stained with human blood. This time it no longer only sucked blood. Every poultry killed was disemboweled and its internal organs were missing. In those days, the whole village was in a state of panic, and Nanning was left in a state of panic.”

"The villagers were afraid that if this evil corpse continued to grow like this, sooner or later it would destroy all the poultry in every house and start eating people, so they abandoned their family business and fled with their families. In the end, the local county government invited the Taoist priest from a well-known local Taoist temple. That’s how you subdued the evil corpse.”

Fatty Li said as he raised his hand and pointed at one of the mummified children.

The mummified child had eaten people and a lot of poultry, and a layer of fine white hair grew on its body.

"Fortunately, he was surrendered in time. This corpse has a tendency to transform into a hairy zombie. If it had been delayed for a few more days, when he really grew into a hairy zombie, he would not have stolen poultry to eat, but would have eaten people because of his increased appetite. "The old Taoist priest frowned and said solemnly.

Fatty Li nodded: "Yes, that's what the Taoist priest who surrendered the evil corpse said. The Taoist priest knew that there was something complicated behind this, so he sealed the evil corpse with the corpse-suppressing talisman and immediately asked people from the county government to send it to the government office. , let the government investigate the reason."

"Have there been any cases of missing people in the government office in recent years? The focus is on missing children. In which places there are more cases of missing children, use this as the center point to spread the search, and it is possible to find out the origin of these Zhenhai Stone living piles. "

The old Taoist priest said: "There are so many lost children, and it is inconvenient to transport a large number of them. Maybe the children are abducted and trafficked nearby."

Before Fatty Li could answer, Jin An discovered some new clues: "These people are very smart and will not blatantly abduct children. Once the parents report the crime, they will be very conspicuous and increase the risk of exposure. They should be looking for children without fathers and children." A beggar from a mother or a refugee child separated from his parents.”

"Although these children's clothes have been severely rotted, it can still be seen that the size of the clothes does not fit, and the toes of the shoes are severely damaged, and the toes are exposed. Looking at their skinny and malnourished appearance, we can roughly deduce their poor life experience."

After talking about it, Jin An sighed.

They were born in misfortunes and had to endure the evils of the adult world. These beggar children and refugee children were swallowed by darkness before they saw the sunshine of the world.

After listening to Jin An's analysis, Fatty Li and his colleagues looked over: "Master Jin An's analysis coincides with ours, which greatly increases the difficulty of our investigation of their identities."

According to Fatty Li, before the case is closed, these sea-suppressing stone beasts and mummified children have to continue to be placed in the evidence hall and cannot be buried for the time being, so as not to miss any clues. We can only wrong these dead souls for the time being. They also hope to be understood in order to solve the case.

"Fatty Li, you said that there are some strange things washed ashore with the sea-suppressing stone this time. What are they that can make the prince and the people from the Tianshi Mansion come to the government office to ask for them in person?" Jin An raised a question.

"They are all strange things with human faces carved on them, such as human-faced stones, human-faced square tripods, human-faced night-shining pearls, human-faced statues, human-faced bronze mirrors, etc...."

"On the contrary, a box of gold has become the least noticeable thing among them."

Fatty Li counted on his fingers and said like a treasure.

"A box of gold?" The old Taoist's eyes lit up and he immediately became energetic.

If you talk about this, I, the old Taoist, will not have backaches and will not feel sleepy today.

Fatty Li frowned and thought: "To be honest, that box of gold is also very strange."