Long night dreams

Chapter 31 The Secret of the Old Mansion (1)
Du Yi stumbled out of the morgue, only to see that the flower bed was in a mess.He walked over and took a closer look, and was suddenly shocked again.A hole was dug in the pile of soil where the box was originally buried, and the iron box inside had already disappeared.

Who dug up the iron box?Could it be that what is contained in the iron box is a certain organ in Dr. Chen's chest?

Du Yi suddenly realized that the old man Long covered the new soil with a layer of leaves not to cover up what was buried there, but to mark it so that people could take it away.

Thinking of this, Du Yi's heart twitched, and a trace of inexplicable fear surged into his heart—in this way, isn't Old Man Long sleepwalking, and using sleepwalking to cover up the truth?But what is the truth?Du Yi couldn't figure it out at all.

How is this possible?Old man Long clearly woke up from the vegetative state. Not only Du Yi witnessed it, Yang Mei, Liu Chang, and Wang Li could all testify.Even the dead Dr. Chen can prove it, because he personally treated Old Man Long, and he also prescribed a conservative treatment for Old Man Long, prescribing a bunch of medicines for infusion.

If the sleepwalker dug out the organs of a corpse and buried them in the soil when he was ignorant, it can barely be explained reasonably, then how could he mark the box after burying it in the soil, and After a while someone came to take the box away.This is really inexplicable.

If Old Man Long's sleepwalking is indeed a disguise, then he can really be presented with an Oscar statuette for Best Actor in Acting.And the matter of Du Yi following behind him, wouldn't Old Man Long know all about it?Will Old Man Long be detrimental to Du Yi?Reminiscent of Du Yi being hunted down with an iron sword the night before, and that killer looked exactly like Old Man Long, Du Yi couldn't help but start to suspect that all the situation was a conspiracy surrounding him.And what this conspiracy is, he can't find out.

Whether old man Long's sleepwalking is true or not, the only way now is to go back to the ward in the black building to take a look.

Du Yi walked into the dark building, and vaguely heard the crows and demons dancing and howling outside the building, and the fluorescent lamp ballasts in the corridor creaked.The corridor was empty, there was no one there, only the peculiar smell of Lysol in the hospital.

Stepping on the floor of the corridor, the sound of "tap, tap" footsteps caused a hollow echo, and under the action of the draft, several doors made harsh and difficult friction sounds, creaking, which seemed extraordinarily weird in the quiet night.Du Yi's heart tightened. After seeing the terrible scene in the mortuary, he didn't dare to face Old Man Long again.He was in a trance, as soon as he closed his eyes, he would see a black crow pecking at Dr. Chen's chest.

Standing outside the ward, Du Yi stood on tiptoe tremblingly, and glanced at the scene in the ward.When he saw it, he pushed the door open as fast as he could, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

There was only a pile of messy bedding left on the bed, but Old Man Long was nowhere to be found!
Perhaps after the old man sleepwalked, he never returned to the black building.Or maybe, after he buried the iron box, he dug out the iron box himself, and then continued to sleepwalk.If the latter explanation is true, Du Yi can relax a little bit. In this way, at least Old Man Long is not pretending to be sleepwalking on purpose.

But where did old man Long go?Did he come back to the ward after his sleepwalking ended?How long will his sleepwalking last?
Du Yi remembered that he once watched a foreign expansion film, which talked about the strangest sleepwalking experience.There was a middle-aged man in India who woke up suddenly after sleepwalking for 30 years.During these 30 years, he traveled all over India, got married and had children. When he woke up, he thought that everything that happened in the past 30 years was just a bizarre dream of his.

The world's great wonders.Although Du Yi didn't know whether the sleepwalking experience of the middle-aged man in India was true or not, he was sure that sleepwalking was indeed a medically difficult thing to explain, and there were too many mysteries and weirdness in it.

Du Yi really felt the fear.

He didn't dare to stay in the dark building alone, let alone go out of the dark building alone to find Old Man Long.

Du Yi walked to the nurse's duty room, there was only a fat nurse who was sleeping soundly, and there was no one in the doctor's duty room.

Du Yi didn't care that it was already past three o'clock in the morning, so he used the phone in the doctor's duty room in a panic to call Liu Chang.

"Who is it? It's so late, why don't you let people sleep?" On the phone, Liu Chang protested sleepily.

Du Yi shouted in a hurry: "Come to the hospital quickly! Old man Long is missing. After hearing this, Liu Chang was also shocked. After agreeing a few words, he quickly hung up the phone and rushed to the hospital.

Liu Chang's home was not far from Liuxi Town Hospital, and within 10 minutes, he had arrived in the dark building.He came here in such a hurry that he didn't even comb his hair, and he even buttoned two wrong buttons on his shirt.As soon as he saw Du Yi, whose eyes were loose and his body was weak, he asked with concern what happened.Du Yi gradually calmed down, and intermittently recounted what happened in the dark building and the morgue just now.

After Liu Chang heard it, his first reaction was disbelief.He really didn't believe that a vegetative person who just woke up could sleepwalk and go out to do so many horrible and weird things.But old man Long's empty bed was placed in the ward, and it was empty, but it was an obvious fact.Regardless of the truth, there is no doubt that Old Man Long is missing now.

Liu Chang regained his composure and said to Du Yi, "Are you too nervous, have hallucinations, or see things?"
When Du Yi heard this, he blushed and replied thickly: "Are you suspicious of me? Then let's go to the mortuary to see Dr. Chen's corpse with a blood hole in his chest. You will know when you see the corpse." I am not talking in my sleep.

Angrily, he dragged Liu Chang out of the dark building, and walked around the base of the wall to the iron gate of the mortuary.The iron door was wide open, and Du Yi fumbled to press the button of the fluorescent lamp by the door.

The ballast groaned in pain, and the fluorescent lights came on.

The corpse drawer where Dr. Chen was lying was still pulled out of the iron cabinet. A few dark crows were startled by the sudden light and flew up, flapping their wings, blowing a stream of fishy air.Du Yi grabbed Liu Chang's wrist and said loudly, "Don't you believe me? Come on, come and have a look!" He dragged Liu Chang towards the corpse, and because of the tight grip, Liu Chang's wrist was crushed. Du Yi's nails drew several obvious bloodstains.

When he came to the corpse, Du Yi pointed to the inside of the corpse and shouted: "Liu Chang, look here, you still don't know each other—"
Before Du Yi could utter the last word "letter", his voice suddenly stopped, as if he had stepped on a sudden brake.

He couldn't believe his eyes.
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There was only a little blood left in the corpse, exuding a faint bloody smell, but there was nothing inside!Dr. Chen's body is not inside!His body is also missing!

Where did the body go?Is the corpse resurrected?This is of course impossible, how can the corpse come back to life?
Could it be that the body was stolen?Who did it?
Du Yi's heart was full of turbulent waves, and all his thoughts were dismembered by the strange reality like edges and corners.He glanced at Liu Chang in a dazed way, and Liu Chang was just as dazed as he was.

What happened?

At this moment, there was a loud and vague noise outside the morgue, followed by the sound of footsteps from far to near.It seemed that many people ran towards the black building.Who is it?

Du Yi and Liu Chang tremblingly walked towards the iron gate of the mortuary, before they had time to reach the gate, the iron gate had already been pushed open with a "squeak", and several big men rushed in.

As soon as these people came in, they firmly pushed Du Yi and Liu Chang to the ground, and cut their hands behind their backs.When Du Yi shouted loudly, the other party stopped.Under the fluorescent light, Du Yi discovered that it was the young policeman from the neighboring town who pushed him down.

The young policeman was obviously surprised that it was Du Yi who pushed him down.He asked loudly, "Why are you? Why are you here?"
And the elderly policeman from the neighboring town also rushed to the morgue.He ignored Du Yi and Liu Chang's explanation, and walked straight to the ice coffin.When he saw that there was nothing in the ice coffin, he groaned in pain and said, "Oh, we are still a step late.

"What's going on?" Liu Chang asked.

The young policeman pondered for a moment and said, "Today we received a report from the masses that Dr. Chen's family members in the village had learned of Dr. Chen's death and decided to go to the hospital to grab his body tonight."
"Snatch the corpse? Why do you want to snatch the corpse?" Du Yi asked in surprise.

The young police officer explained that Dr. Chen was born in a very remote mountain village, where there is a very strange custom, people who died of murder, car accidents, drowning, and other abnormal deaths are called "murderers".The soul of the murderous person cannot enter the reincarnation, unless it is sent to the mass grave for burial at night, and the corpse must be intact.After Dr. Chen's family knew that Dr. Chen died of murder, they were worried that the police would conduct an autopsy on Dr. Chen's body. They believed that if Dr. Chen's body was dissected, the whole body would not be left.Even if they buried such a corpse, it would not allow Dr. Chen's soul to enter the next reincarnation.In order to prevent the police from dissecting Dr. Chen, the family members decided to snatch Dr. Chen's body tonight.

"Ah? Oh..." Liu Chang was dumbfounded, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly came out with two words - "Night burial?!"
"Doctor Liu, what are you talking about?" The young policeman asked curiously after hearing these two words.

Liu Chang replied: ""Night Burial" is a novel written by a novelist named Zhuang Qin. It describes the custom of burying the dead at night. I always thought that this custom was fabricated. Thinking that this is all true, and that Dr. Chen is from there."
The young policeman asked very interestedly: "Is "Night Burial" a folk science book introducing funeral customs?"
Liu Chang shook his head and said, "No, it's a thriller and suspense novel. It's horribly written. Many people died in the book—it's not much different from the current situation in Liuxi Town."
Immediately after Liu Chang finished speaking, he clearly heard a slight "cracking" sound, which was the teeth chattering of the young policeman.The young policeman said to the old policeman with a mournful face: "This kind of incident can only be regarded as a security incident, and the criminal police in the city can't take care of it. It seems that the work of chasing the corpse back for an autopsy will eventually fall on the two of us." "
The old policeman smiled wryly and said, "Hehe, I'm going to retire soon, and I've been idle all my life. I didn't expect to encounter such a big case now. There's nothing wrong with chasing the dead body back. Just think of us as traveling in a remote mountain village. Let's go."
Liu Chang smiled and said: "It seems that the book "Night Burial" is based on the customs of Dr. Chen's hometown. Judging from the records in that book, the villagers there are strong and strong, and they can fight for their beliefs. At any cost. It might be a dangerous mission for you to go there."
As soon as the words fell, the voice of the young policeman chattering teeth became clearer.

The two policemen simply recorded their statements and left first.It seems that they still have no idea about the case.

"What should we do now?" Liu Chang asked Du Yi tentatively.Du Yi's lips twitched, but he couldn't say a word.He didn't know what to do either.At this time, Liu Chang's cell phone rang suddenly.Looking at the caller ID, it was Wang Li calling.

"What's the matter, Old Wang?" Liu Chang asked casually.

"Liu Chang? Are you and Du Yi together? Come quickly to the old house! Hurry up!"
"What's the rush?"
"Come quickly! You'll know when you come!"
Because he had no sleep all night, Liu Chang didn't want to go to the ruins of the old house at all. He said to Wang Liming impatiently: "What's the matter? We are still very busy today, and there are many things to deal with.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone, then Wang Li said intermittently and slowly in a terrified and trembling voice: "Just now, we found a corpse in the ruins..."
Along the way, Du Yi and Liu Chang were uneasy, as if a ball of cotton was stuffed in their chests, it was so stuffy that it made people panic.

Another body was found in the ruins of the old house?Who died in the ruins this time?

On the night that old man Long was injured, when Du Yi took three big men from neighboring towns to clean up the ruins, they didn't find any corpses there.Today Wang Li suddenly said that he found a dead body, what is going on?Could it be that someone died there again in the past few days?

(End of this chapter)