Author: Peace Shark

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The match struck across the phosphorus plate.

Bright yellow fireballs rose with smoke in the darkness.

It reflected an old face with a cloth covering his mouth and nose, his temples were gray, and his forehead had crisscrossed ridges.

Several oil lamps were lit one after another.

Lights illuminate the autopsy room of the Lanyang City government office.

Two "fresh" corpses were placed on the wooden platform in the middle, with straw mats covered in blood and mud underneath.

The torso of a headless corpse seemed to have been completely hollowed out, leaving only the shriveled and tattered skin.

The head covered with blood stains and mud spots was placed aside.

Another corpse with a short stature was placed face down, with multiple bulges on its back, as if something was trying to get out of it.

In the middle of the open space in front of the wooden platform, there is also a strange insect corpse.

Its appearance is somewhat similar to that of a moth, but its size is the size of an adult native dog. Its backbone is composed of human spine and ribs. There are dark red fleshy membranes connecting the blue and white skeletons, and it seems to contain Yan Dongsheng's organs.

The insect wings were spread out, and the patterns on them were like ghost faces, extremely ferocious.

"Master Wu, this, this is not half a year ago"

Seeing the corpse this time, Wu Zuohun looked at the two people standing at the door with panic on his face.

"If you find out what happened to these two corpses, don't worry about anything else. If you do it, you will be rewarded."

With a beard, Mr. Wu from Lanyang Fucheng Yamen sucked on his pipe in an attempt to cover up the odor in the house with the smell of tobacco.

His eyes were always focused on the insect corpse, his expression solemn.

An Jing, who took off his bamboo hat and raincoat and wore a navy blue martial arts uniform, stood next to Capt. Wu.

Hearing the conversation between the two, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Something similar happened half a year ago?

Facing Captain Wu's order, Wu Zuo could only open the tool box and start dissecting the corpse.

"I have sent someone to collect the bounty. You can wait at the Yamenmen first."

Noticing that An Jing never left, Capt. Wu thought he was waiting for the reward, so he hurriedly spoke.

In recent years, the name "ghost agent" has been widely circulated in the world. As the chief arrester of Lanyang government, Capt. Wu has handled many cases. Occasionally, he will cooperate with An Jing in order to arrest fugitives. The two parties are considered acquaintances.

"I'm interested in this case, let me participate."

An Jing's answer was straightforward.

"Stop joking, you."

"I'm tired of running around in the past two years. I want to find a place to rest for a while. The credit and reward for solving the case will belong to you, but you have to apply for a household registration in Lanyang Fucheng for me and find a suitable house.

I'll pay for it."

An Jing thought of an excuse to intervene in the case on the way back to Lanyang City from Sanxi Town.

It would be difficult for him alone to find out and solve the ghost moth incident.

On the other hand, Capt. Wu, as the person who specializes in various cases in Lanyang Mansion, has many clues and resources.

"It's a deal, just wait here, I'm going to get the ghost moth case file that was sealed half a year ago."

After An Jing finished speaking, Wu Captou was afraid that he would regret it, so he quickly agreed.

The ghost moth incident is very likely to involve the evil spirits and weirdness in the recent rumors in the world. It would be false to say that he is not worried.

Now there is a strong man who is willing to help without any credit or bounty.

It’s a pie in the sky, how can you not open your mouth?

As for the household registration and house required by An Jing, it was a simple matter for him as a head catcher.

After watching Mr. Wu leave, An Jing walked straight to Wu Zuo who was cutting open the skin on Chen Si's back and asked,

"What happened half a year ago?"

"Master An, I'm just a coward. It happened half a year ago."

Looking back at An Jing, Wuzuo's lips twitched. Just as he was about to decline politely, he saw the former take out a silver coin and place it beside the wooden table.

"But those victims were all dissected by me. There may be clues you want to know."

"Keep talking."

Another ingot of silver was placed on the table, and the man was dazzled by the light.

"The ghost moth grabs nutrients by parasitizing on the human spine. At the same time, it uses a large number of tentacles to penetrate and transform the spine, ribs, and even human organs, using them as its own organs."

Wu Zuo held an oil lamp and approached Chen Si, who had just finished the dissection and had his back opened. Under the light, he could clearly see the black and red tentacles wrapped around his spine and ribs, as well as a fist-sized ghost moth lying on the back of his neck.

head,

"When the host dies, they will completely devour the host's flesh, flesh and organs in a short period of time, and then break out of the body after completing the transformation."

"No, the conditions of Yan Dongsheng and Chen Si are not what you said!"

An Jing recalled his arrest in Sanxi Town and shook his head.

"That's because the ghost moths in their bodies are not mature. To be precise, one is a larvae and the other is semi-mature. This leads to the phenomenon that the host dies but the ghost moths do not immediately replace them."

After taking half a step away, he pointed the knife in his hand at the insect corpse still lying on Chen Si's back and on the ground.

The fact is exactly what he said.

An Jing could clearly see that there was a big difference in the size of the two insect corpses.

"The ghost moth that appeared in Lanyang City half a year ago became even taller than its host after leaving the human body. It can fly short distances and is extremely ferocious. It will kill any living thing it sees."

Xu recalled the horrific scene at that time, Wu Zuo's expression was panicked, and his voice was a bit deeper.

"How was it resolved half a year ago?"

I thought of what Capt. Wu had just said about going to get the sealed files.

Only after the case is closed will it be sealed in the form of a file for the convenience of future generations.

"At that time, there was an eminent monk who traveled here and took his two disciples to kill several ghost moths one after another."

"It seems they didn't kill them cleanly enough and there are still people in Lanyang City?"

An Jing asked.

"I remember that I left after finishing the rituals."

"Have you seen them?"

"I've only seen him once. The great monk is a strange man. His bare-breasted appearance is quite similar to the Maitreya Buddha in the temple. He is extremely tall and strong, at least seven feet tall. He also has a strange mouth habit, like

Country slang.”

Because he was the one who solved the ghost moth incident, Wu Zuo had a deep impression on the monk.

Seven feet?

About two meters.

This height is not something ordinary people can have.

An Jing was about to continue asking when he heard a knock on the door.

Turning around and looking back, I saw Mr. Wu standing at the door with empty hands, gesturing for him to go out and talk.

At this time, nearly two hours had passed since Anjing arrested two fugitives in Sanxi Town.

Dark clouds gathered outside and thunder roared loudly.

"The file on the Ghost Moth Incident is missing!"

As soon as he walked into the corridor outside the morgue, Capt. Wu looked very ugly.

Hear this.

Anjing's steps faltered.

The memory given by the system shows that because of his profession, he often interacts with the government.

I have some understanding of the operation of the latter.

The case files from half a year ago still involved strange and special cases.

It goes without saying that the relevant files will be properly sealed by the government and even inspected regularly, so that they cannot be lost due to some accident.

"It seems that the ghost moths half a year ago had another secret. Some people didn't want the things in the file to be exposed. The reappearance of the ghost moths is the best proof. The ghost moths were not killed at that time, or someone deliberately concealed something.

information."

An Jing looked at Capt. Wu. Lanyang City was under his jurisdiction. Now if someone stole the file under his nose, it would be like a slap in the face.
To be continued...