Thirteen prisons

Chapter 41 Remains
Standing at the door of the warehouse, Lao Hu couldn't help sighing: "The aunt must have been young at that time. It seems that children see things from a different angle than adults. I guess even if we ask someone who stayed here in the past, he would not be too old. I may not have such an intuitive impression of this building. The child is short, and the first impression when looking at things is the outline. You see, we stand here to look at it and watch the video, it is completely two places."

Zhou Yuan nodded in agreement.The buildings in front of me are completely dilapidated, consisting of several small three-storey buildings connected to the foundations, and next to it is a half-destroyed building, which should be the semicircle in the video.On the video, it’s just an outline, but when it’s here, it’s a three-dimensional image.The front part has collapsed, and it looks dilapidated, and the curvature can be barely seen in the back. There are still rusty railways on the ground, and at the interrupted position, the wind and rain have already deformed and warped. It's overgrown with weeds.If they hadn't approximated the location in advance, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to recognize it as the place in the video.

Thinking about the "years" described by the aunt before coming here, Zhou Yuan sighed: "After all, this place is also the end of an era."

Lao Hu took out his mobile phone and said: "Don't sigh, this is only half done. I have to quickly distance myself, use my mobile phone to try to find the direction, and first determine a similar location. I don't know how long I will have to toss around?"

After finding the target, the next step is to finally determine the orientation.Now that the building has been found, it is equivalent to more than half of the success. The rest is to deduce the location of the video shooting based on this point.This is not too difficult. After determining the east with the compass, go directly down the mountain.In fact, it would be easier to walk down the mountain by detouring from the mountain road, but this may go out of the range, so they rolled down the mountain in the weeds as tall as a person.Near noon, the sky began to heat up. The two looked back from time to time while going down the mountain. The seemingly simple last step made them sweat dripping down their chins.

After arriving at the foot of the mountain, I walked for about an hour, kept comparing photos and videos, and walked two or three miles away before finally seeing the same background outline in the photos.The two adjusted their direction according to the angle of the video, and began to search carefully.Because this area is too barren and there is no mobile phone signal, the two of them are afraid of getting separated, and something similar to what happened in the warehouse before.That's why they didn't dare to separate too much, not to mention being able to keep the other party in their sight in the tall grass of one person, at least to ensure that the other party could hear the shouting, so they slowly and carefully searched this area.

After searching for more than ten minutes, Lao Hu was the first to call out.

Zhou Yuan pushed through the weeds and followed the sound, and saw Lao Hu bending over to look at something.

When he got closer, Zhou Yuan saw a round object half buried in the soil, covered with soil and surrounded by weeds.

around.

Hu Dongdong brushed off the dirt on the thing with his hands, and straightened up: "Mineral water bucket, the kind that Lin He drank."

This mountain is very remote, and a mineral water bucket suddenly appeared, which seemed out of place, and it was inevitable that the first reaction would be to think of Linhe.

Zhou Yuan was overjoyed: "It's the same as what I saw in the warehouse. Keep looking, it should be nearby."

Hu Dongdong nodded, and the two of them radiated and searched around the wine barrel.Sure enough, after walking less than a few tens of meters, I saw the wooden sign at once.

In the video, I saw that the sign was long, similar to a stone tablet.Seeing it with his own eyes at this time, Zhou Yuan realized that it was half a person tall, and it was poked on a low mound, and there was no paint on it, as if it had been polished with something, and the surface was quite smooth. The word "Zhi Tomb" is the most clear, the middle character has been distinguished, it is a "wife", and there are three small characters in the lower right corner, it is "Lin Heli". The other small characters are hard to read because of the sun and rain. Clear, but it doesn't matter anymore.

Zhou Yuan looked at Lao Hu in a daze: "The one buried here is really that guy's wife?"

This situation was somewhat beyond their expectations.Zhou Yuan remembered that he and Lin Jing once watched the stars on the roof of the small building. At that time, Lin Jing once said that Lin He had a girlfriend who died unexpectedly later.

Zhou Yuan didn't pay much attention to this information before.But in retrospect, Lin He's girlfriend is also likely to be from nearby.But what was Lin He burning in the video?If it was cremation, why didn't Lin He cremate her and put her in the cemetery, but buried her in such a remote place?
Zhou Yuan thought hard for a moment, and suddenly a light flashed in his eyes: "Old Hu, I know!"

He excitedly pointed at the sign and said, "It's not Lin He's girlfriend at all, and no one is buried here. Lin He set up this wooden monument to conceal people's eyes, and he just left clues. He did it on purpose!"

"Don't talk nonsense, this is a typical conspiracy theory. If we hadn't accidentally gone to the warehouse to find that mobile phone, who would have known what he was doing here?" The old man tore off his backpack, took out an engineering shovel, and threw it to Zhou. Yuan said, "Hurry up and dig!"

Zhou Yuan raised the engineering shovel, but hesitated.It seems that this is really the grave of Lin He's girlfriend, and it always feels bad to do so.

Lao Hu became anxious, pulled up the wooden sign and threw it aside: "You are still hesitant, you and Lin Jing are like this, and they may burn at any time. If you dare not dig it, I will die in a few days." I have to dig a hole and put up a sign for you!"

When Zhou Yuan saw Lao Hu get angry, he knew it was because he was also under a lot of psychological pressure. After all, it was not very good to do such a thing, and Lao Hu didn't want to be the first to do it.Zhou Yuan gritted his teeth, thinking that everything was caused by himself, this girl who had never met before, was really sorry, so he waved his hand and made the first shovel.

This shovel mainly allowed the two to overcome their psychological barriers.Old Hu said in a low voice, that's right, and lowered his head to dig.There is little soil in the mountains, so the grave should not be deep when it was first opened. After more than ten minutes of digging, black soil was soon exposed underneath.

Old Hu stopped, picked out a piece of black soil and smashed it on the ground: "This should be burned by Lin He, otherwise it wouldn't be black, keep digging."

Less than 2 minutes later, Zhou Yuan's shovel brought out a pile of off-white matter.He bent down to pick it up, and it looked a bit like the paint scraped off after it was half-dry, and it looked a bit like broken pieces of weathered and decayed wood on an old building. He asked Hu Dongdong curiously: "What is this? Architecture Rubbish?"

Hu Dongdong asked him to put it on the ground, pulled it with the head of the shovel, straightened up and said with certainty: "This is the ashes."

Although he was mentally prepared, Zhou Yuan was still taken aback, and subconsciously took two steps back before he dared to look at the pile of things again.However, he found that the ashes were completely different from what he had imagined: "Impossible, isn't the ashes all like lime powder?"

Hu Dongdong curled his lips: "You don't have a life. You said that those were burnt in the funeral parlor, picked out the bones, smashed them, and gave them to the family. These really haven't been smashed, and the bones are still there."

Zhou Yuan thought to himself that I had never smashed ashes, how could such a life exist?But Lao Hu just continued, so he had to bite the bullet and dig down together.

Sure enough, many bone-like things were found, but they couldn't dig any deeper, because when they went down with a shovel, they could only hear the sound of colliding with rocks. It seemed that they had already dug into the mountain. It's over.

The two of them piled up the excavated bone fragments in the open space next to them. There were quite a few of them, but most of them were charred black.Other than that there is nothing special about it.

Looking at these things, Zhou Yuan was not too scared, but became curious. While picking up the ashes with a shovel, he complained: "That kid Lin He is really fucking perverted. Just go to the crematorium if you want to be cremated. Why do you run away by yourself?" Came here to dig holes and burn people. I also need to record a video, making it look like a perverted murderer? Oh, yes, Lao Hu, do you think his girlfriend was killed by him? Destroying corpses and leaving traces, it’s really crazy. Get it!"

Lao Hu sat not far from the pit, bowed his head and thought about something, his face was covered with sweat, and ignored Zhou Yuan's nagging.

After finally finding this place, but failed to find any useful clues, Zhou Yuan felt very disappointed, and continued to mutter: "Old Hu, don't you have enough life experience, let's see if this ashes belong to his girlfriend?"

Unexpectedly, when Lao Hu heard this sentence, he suddenly slapped his thigh: "Fuck, I know."

"Old Hu is still awesome!" Zhou Yuan squatted in front of Old Hu, fanning him while lighting a cigarette like a dog: "Quickly tell me, what did you find?"

Lao Hu waved his hand: "Let's talk about it. What did you just say?"

"I'm asking if the ashes belong to his girlfriend..."

Old Hu interrupted him: "Yes, let's start with this sentence. Let's talk about one thing."

"Now that the pit has been dug, it proves that this is indeed a grave, but no other useful clues have been found, right?"

Zhou Yuan nodded.Lin He once encountered Lin Jing's current situation, but he recovered miraculously afterwards.That's the immediate reason they're here.But this pit doesn't have any direct clues to explain what happened to Lin He.

"So it's better to change the angle. Let's make a guess and imagine what Lin He did these things for?" Lao Hu pointed to the wooden sign that was thrown aside: "First, let's assume that this sign is real. That is It is said that this burned body is indeed Lin He's girlfriend."

"My next question is: Did this grave exist before, or was it dug when Lin He was filming the video?" Lao Hu asked.

Zhou Yuan thought about it carefully, and felt that it was possible, but he was not sure: "It should be the latter...otherwise why would he record it?"

Hu Dongdong motioned Zhou Yuan to sit down, drank two big sips of water, wiped off his sweat, then shook his head and said, "It should be the former. The death of Lin He's girlfriend did not happen recently."

"Isn't that a good reason?" Zhou Yuan objected.

"Do you remember what Lu Ming said, the third video on the phone is the one in the warehouse, it's actually the first one, and it happened before the other two digging videos."

"What does this mean?"

"It shows that Lin He did not have any motivation or ability, and walked in the mountains with a dead body. When we were in the warehouse, we only saw the domestic garbage left by Lin He. So we can only assume that the body was originally buried in the grave Here, he only dug up and burned the body when the video was being filmed."

Zhou Yuan was still puzzled: "But what does this mean? Lin He is suspected of being insane, and it is possible to do such illogical things!"

Hu Dongdong looked at Zhou Yuan, and said word by word: "No, these things are logically connected!"

He said with some emotion: "Zhou Yuan, you just took Lin He for a trip, maybe you accidentally got his blood, and you got this disease. Right?"

"Yes..." Lao Hu raised this question when he was flipping through Lin He's notebook before.The hypothesis he is talking about now is the most likely according to common sense, although it has not been verified.

"His girlfriend has also been with Lin He for several years. So let me ask you, how could she not be infected?"

"It is very likely that she was not infected." Zhou Yuan shook his head and said: "Both Yan Yi and Lu Ming said that the transmission route of this disease is not yet clear. After staying in Yang City for so long, I must not be the only one who has been infected! Moreover, what Lin Jing said at the time was that Lin He's girlfriend died by accident, not by illness."

Zhou Yuan's rebuttal was well-founded, but Hu Dongdong smiled more confidently instead.He clapped his palms: "Yes, you can also analyze one, two, three, four. You are right." Then he changed the subject: "So the truth of the matter is about to come out. Let's stand in Lin He's perspective , let’s put these things in order.”

"Lin He's girlfriend was buried here after her death. From the message about her in the notebook, it can be seen that Lin He has a deep affection for her, and he should often come here to worship. When Lin He found that his symptoms were getting worse and worse. After getting serious, he learned what happened back then, so he went alone to the warehouse where the fighting took place. There, his body mutated like Lin Jing, and the red substance grew out of his body. He must have been filled with fear."

"Then, some kind of change happened again. Regardless of whether this change happened inexplicably, or Lin He used some method to suppress the red substance, in short, Lin He got rid of that state, and the red substance is still there. But he returned to normal."

"Zhou Yuan, if you were faced with this situation and thought about the incredible things that happened to you, what would you think?"

Zhou Yuan thought for a while when he saw the red "cocoons" on Lin Jing's body, swallowed his saliva, and said with difficulty: "If I were him, I would definitely feel that I am a... monster." In fact, he feels that now I am already half a monster, and I feel guilty towards Lao Hu and the others, feeling that I have dragged them all into this strange and dangerous situation.

Hu Dongdong slapped his thigh hard: "Yes, it's normal to have such thoughts after seeing such an incredible mutation in himself. Let's continue to think about it. Lin He has always been brooding over his girlfriend's death, so he may feel ..."

"You mean, he would think that he killed his girlfriend? But didn't his girlfriend die accidentally?" Zhou Yuan interjected.

Lao Hu shook his head, his expression became very strange: "He dug up the grave and burned the body because he was afraid that his girlfriend would turn into such a monster. Even if she was dead."

(End of this chapter)