Long night dreams

Chapter 32 The Secret of the Old Mansion (2)
They dare not think about it anymore, because the more they think about it, the more terrifying it will become.

After a while, the two arrived at the construction site of the ruins. Wang Li squatted on the ground smoking a cigarette with horror on his face, his fingers trembling.It turned out that the hole in the foundation was covered by him with a flat and smooth stone slab. Several construction workers also stopped their work and stood aside silently in a daze.It seems that Wang Li doesn't want the workers to know what's under the foundation. I don't know whether he is afraid that the workers will see the tombs under the foundation and dare not start construction, or because he is worried that some secrets in the foundation will be discovered. Only then did the stone slabs cover the mouth of the pit.

In a messy corner of the ruins, there was a person lying flat, his body covered by a long white cloth, presumably it was the mysterious corpse found in the ruins.

As soon as Wang Li saw Du Yi and Liu Chang, he immediately stood up as if seeing a life-saving straw, and said in a trembling tone: "You guys are here, you really scared me to death just now.

"What's going on?" Du Yi asked impatiently.

Wang Li was obviously still in shock, his face was pale, and there were big beads of sweat dripping from his forehead.He clutched his chest and said, "It's like this..."
Early this morning, the construction team from the city rushed to Liuxi Town, and Wang Li led them to the site of the ruins.After a brief look at the stacked bricks, the workers set to work.A few days ago, Du Yi led the workers from the neighboring town to clean up some of the waste bricks on the site, but they only cleaned up the bricks that had collapsed, and there were still some remaining walls that had not collapsed.The workers first smashed down the residual wall with a large hammer, then smashed the larger bricks that were still stuck together, and then used a wheelbarrow to push the bricks and stones to the side of the cliff and dumped them.

There are not many remnant walls still standing, but near the southwest corner, there are four walls surrounding each other. It looks like that place should be a small house.

"Go smash that wall first!" Wang Li pointed at the walls and ordered.As soon as the words fell, several stout workers went up to meet them, looked at the shape of the wall, and each chose a suitable position, chanted labor slogans, and smashed the wall with a sledgehammer.

"Bang! Bang! Bang—bang! Bang! Bang—wow—" With a loud noise, the four walls collapsed inward at the same time.Only a small section of a wall remained, still standing upright.

The workers burst into cheers, and walked towards the section of the wall that was still standing.When they got close to the broken wall, a worker suddenly called out: "Look, what is this?"
Wang Li was also attracted by the workers' shouts. He walked over, took a closer look, and suddenly sat down on the ground in fright.

On the edge of the remnant wall, a skinny hand stretched out, half clenched into a fist, as if struggling, but at the moment it was motionless, the color of the skin had long lost the luster of life.What was even more frightening was that his hands were covered in mottled skin, and the skin had been peeled off a lot, exposing the dark red muscles under the skin.

A daring worker went around the wall and walked inside the ruins of the hut, finally seeing what was going on inside.As soon as he saw it, he immediately lowered his waist, and with a "wow", he vomited out all the buns and fried dough sticks he ate in the morning, and the ground was filthy.

The corpses in the wall were hardly human-shaped.His whole body was scorched black, and his hands were stretched out into the distance.His face was mottled, the eyeballs were hanging outside the eye sockets, the blood vessels and muscles under the skin had dried up, turning into a lifeless, indescribable dark red.

The air is filled with a faint sour smell.

It is impossible to distinguish the appearance of the corpse. The reason why he became what he is now is because his whole body was splashed with a layer of sulfuric acid, and the muscles under the skin appeared one after another. Thin and dense red blood bubbles appeared. It's shocking to look up, and I can't bear to see it.The most frightening thing was that his skull was shattered, white brains were squeezed out from under the bones, and drenched on the skull, it had already solidified, attracting a group of buzzing flies, extremely disgusting.

And the faint sour smell in the air is exactly the smell emitted when the sulfuric acid volatilizes.

After removing the white cloth, Du Yi saw the mutilated corpse of the stranger, and something indescribable was churning in his stomach.After taking a few deep breaths of air, he asked, "Wang Li, did you call the police?"
Wang Li was stunned for a moment, then said: "I'm a businessman, I don't ask for money... I don't know who this corpse is, and I don't know when it died... If the police come, what will happen here?" Just stop..." He looked worriedly at the stone slab on the foundation, and closed his mouth.But any fool could hear what he meant - he didn't want to call the police.

"Should we just find a place to bury this corpse?" Du Yi was slightly annoyed.

At this time, Liu Chang walked over, held the corpse's chin still dripping with pus with his hands, and pried it hard, the corpse's mouth was pulled open, revealing a mouthful of snow-white teeth.

"Ah—how could it be him?" Liu Chang exclaimed in shock.

"Who? Who is he?"
Liu Chang stroked his chest and said, "Ever since I resigned from the hospital and opened my own dental clinic, I have always believed that it is necessary to establish a database of the oral conditions of the residents of the town. Of course, it is impossible for me to collect everyone's dental records. , but I have compiled all the files of the patients who have been to my hospital. When I am free, I will look at these records, so I will know who has had dental treatment and what dental treatment they have done , I am very familiar with it. Now this person’s teeth have had a simple filling, and only half of the filling was done. I remember that when he came to me that time, he said that the money was not enough, so he only filled half of it. It came back a week later and never came back. So I'm very familiar with this half-filled tooth."
"You've said so much, who is this person?" Du Yi couldn't hold back anymore.

Liu Chang fell silent suddenly.He glanced at Du Yi, then at Wang Li, and said slowly, "I'm afraid, you won't believe me when I tell this person's name."
"Who the hell is it? Don't be fooled." Du Yi shouted.

"...It's Old Man Long!"
As soon as these words were said, the three of them fell silent at the same time.

There was an eerie silence all around.A few black crows suddenly appeared in the sky, staying on the tree branches, screaming "quack".The cry of the crow made the hearts of the three even more chaotic.

It's unbelievable, how could this be the corpse of Old Man Long?
Old man Long was still lying on the hospital bed in the first half of the night, and sleepwalked into the morgue in the second half of the night, doing a series of weird things.In the morning, he was found missing, but how could he turn into a corpse here, and his whole body was splashed with sulfuric acid?Who has such a big hatred with him, not to mention killing people, but also pouring sulfuric acid on the corpse?
Liu Chang is a doctor. Even though he is only a dentist, he is not afraid of corpses. After all, when he was in medical school, he often dissected corpses.He bent down, pondered for a while beside the corpse, and said, "It didn't take long for him to die. Judging from the coagulation of his blood, he may have only been dead for about ten hours. It's a pity that the skin of his body It was all destroyed, otherwise I could have guessed the time of his death from the spots."
Du Yi wanted to call the police, but was stopped by Wang Li.Wang Li said: "Old man Long died in the ruins of your old house. What will the police think? They will definitely think that you are inseparable from this incident. Work here will definitely be shut down, and the police will search this place..." He suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Brother Du, now that I've reached this point, I don't want to hide anything from you anymore. I got very reliable information that there is a treasure hidden under the foundation of your old house. If the police Entering the site, the ruins will definitely be sealed off. If they find the treasure, then we will get nothing. You know, there is a law that everything found underground belongs to the state, even if it is in your own home Found in the homestead of..."
"Ah?. Du Yi was shocked, "How do you know there is a hidden treasure here? "
"You may not believe it, because by chance, I got a treasure map. The address on the map is the Luo Family Mansion in Liuxi Town. I don't know what treasure is hidden, because the person who gave me the treasure map People are dead."
Liu Chang also asked with great interest: "How did you know?"
Wang Li's eyes suddenly became sad, and his expression became very gloomy: "That picture is my cousin's relic... my cousin is studying in the city. She has no other relatives except me. We often chat online. ...She kept telling me that her life would have a turnaround, that she would escape from her previous poverty...One day, she suddenly committed suicide without any reason. She fell from the roof of the school building, like a The bird with only broken wings died on the spot. I went to the school to retrieve her relics. In her computer, I used her date of birth as a password to crack her encrypted e-mail. In the e-mail Here, I found this treasure map."
He pulls out a crumpled printout of a blueprint.Sure enough, there were two diagrams drawn on the paper.One marked the location of Liuxi Town, while the other marked the location of Luo's old house.On the location of the Luo family's old house, a circle was drawn, with an arrow next to it pointing to the circle.

"How do you know that there must be a treasure buried here? There are all kinds of possibilities in a circle." Liu Chang said suspiciously.

"No matter what is buried here, I feel the need to dig it out. My cousin is my closest relative. She died for no reason at all. I'm sure her death has something to do with this picture. Regardless of whether the buried treasure is a treasure or anything else, even if it is a pile of tombs, I have to dig them out to find out the truth. My interest in treasures is far less than the cause of my cousin's death! I I work as a contractor to do projects. I am not poor. I can even say that I am richer than both of you. I just want to fulfill my cousin’s wish, that’s all! And my cousin also said that she is about to bid farewell to her previous poor life. It also secretly explained that under this foundation, there may really be a treasure..." Wang Li said while raising his head, and looked at Du Yi meaningfully, as if everything was said in silence.

Wang Li's words made Du Yi feel very uncomfortable.He suddenly asked with a sad tone: "Where does your cousin study? What's her name?"
"She is studying at City University," Wang Li said after a pause, "Her name is Su Ye.

Du Yi was stunned.My heart was beating wildly.

Du Yi agreed to Wang Li's request not to call the police.Apart from the treasure, in fact, in his heart, he wanted to find out the truth about Su Ye's death.

Du Yi never expected that Wang Li was actually Su Ye's cousin. This world is really small.If Su Ye hadn't died, Wang Li would have become his brother-in-law sooner or later, and the chance for them to meet would definitely not be in this remote Liuxi Town.

Although Wang Li insisted that there were treasures under the old house, the reason was that Su Ye said that her life was about to be changed.But Du Yi had other ideas. He thought that the reason Su Ye said this was because she and Du Yi were together, and Du Yi had the ability to help her change her life.

Because he was worried that Liu Chang would disagree, Wang Li suggested that if the treasure was found under the foundation, he, Du Yi, and Liu Chang would share all the treasure equally.This attraction is very strong. After Liu Chang considered it for a long time, he still acquiesced to Wang Li's statement.

Wang Li took out the money and gave each worker a red envelope, asking them to wrap Old Man Long's body in a white cloth, carry it away, and bury him in a deep mountain outside the town.

Workers are also happy to receive an unexpected sum of money. Anyway, it has nothing to do with them. One thing is worse than one thing. The real money is the real money, and this thing is the most reliable.After the workers left the site of the ruins, the three stood together silently, looking at the devastation, each with their own thoughts.

After a long time, Du Yi said: "After the masonry above the foundation has been cleared, Wang Li, you can send the workers away. We will handle the matter under the foundation by ourselves."
Wang Li nodded.

At this moment, Du Yi suddenly shouted: "Look, what is that?"
Unknowingly, the sun has risen to the top of the head. Under the strong sunlight, there seems to be something in the ruins that is reflecting the soul-stirring light, so dazzling that people can't open their eyes.That's where the broken wall collapsed and Old Man Long's body was found.

The three of them curiously walked to the middle of the remnant wall, took a closer look, and couldn't help being surprised.

Among the broken bricks and stones on the ground lay a pile of shattered brown glass vials that looked like light-shielded vials from a medical laboratory.

How can there be such glassware here?These bottles should have been left by the previous owner, Luo Dingran, right?What exactly does Mr. Luo do?Did he know there was treasure under the foundations?Is there any treasure under the ground?
Du Yi was lost in thought.

(End of this chapter)