The locker room is the most decent building in the entire inn. It is made of wood and has a thick rammed earth foundation underneath. The layout inside is no different from that of a regular inn locker room: there is a wooden locker in the middle room.
There is a locked standing cabinet, a guest book on the cabinet, and tea sets. There is nothing suspicious about it. There is nothing special about the east and west chambers. However, on the back wall of the east chamber, there is a secret door covered by a cabinet. Open the secret door.
The door is a small courtyard, the air is humid, and the roaring sound of the river is endless - obviously we have reached the riverside.
There is a shed open in all directions in the courtyard. There is a brick stove against the wall with an iron pot. Scattered next to it are guillotines for cutting medicinal materials, mortars of various sizes, large and small pots and baskets, and copper pots.
There is a cauldron made of iron for refining medicine, and unprocessed medicinal materials are scattered on the ground. At first glance, it looks like the compound of a medicine shop.
However, the air of this pharmacy is filled with a strange smell, including the aroma of cooking meat and a disgusting rancid smell, sometimes mixed with spices and medicines and the smell of water and fish outside.
The smell. As soon as Wu Xiang entered the courtyard, he felt tight in his chest and nauseous.
But Gao Chongjiu knew that there was something important here. This was obviously the place where this group of people's evil deeds took place. He glanced around and saw the necessary things for this group of people: cutting knives, iron needles, incense ash and herbs to stop bleeding.
, and bags of lime. The river wind here is strong, and all kinds of smells are easy to dissipate. The large amount of dried fish outside and the smell of water from the river itself can also cover up the smell here.
Gao Chongjiu stood in the yard, smoking silently. Li Ziyu looked anxious and frightened.
"Section Chief, look." The policeman opened the lid of an iron pot. Inside was a half-pot of white broth, with some bone-in meat floating in it. The surface of the soup was covered with foam. It was obvious that
The blood was not removed.
Wu Xiang kept his composure, picked up the fence next to him, and put it into the pot. Suddenly a little foot appeared on the surface of the soup. Judging from the size, he should be a child of seven or eight years old.
Several policemen who were searching nearby couldn't stand it any longer and quickly turned their heads.
Wu Xiang looked solemn, put down the fence, turned around and said, "Lao Gao, what do you think?"
Gao Chongjiu said: "Section Chief, this should be the place where they collect and cut raw materials. Cooking human flesh is not to satisfy hunger, but to combine with medicine."
"Combined medicine?" Wu Xiang has only heard that human blood can cure tuberculosis. He also knows about purple river carts, red lead, and autumn stones, but he has never heard of eating human flesh to cure diseases.
In this era of famine and war, cannibalism was not uncommon. Not only did such news come from other places, but even from the suburbs of Guangzhou, such news occasionally came from the famine season. But this was all due to hunger and cold.
He was forced to kill someone, boil their flesh and combine it with medicine, which was unheard of for him.
Gao Chongjiu said: "Yes, human flesh, human bones, and internal organs... can be combined into medicine in their hands. Each has its own use."
These "medicines" created by killing people are not on the market, and their uses are naturally shady - most of them are aphrodisiacs, abortion pills and "drugs for torture". The price is high, they are pretending to be mysterious, and they sell well.
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Wu Xiang felt a little unbelievable. He had received modern scientific education from the Senate since he was a child, and he had always scorned such nonsense. He asked: "Is this useful?"
Gao Chongjiu said: "If it doesn't work, how can anyone buy it? There probably are."
Jianghu secret medicine is a very big school, with many varieties and countless methods. The Public Security Bureau has caught some people selling "secret medicine", most of which are made from various Chinese medicinal materials, although they are also mixed with all kinds of unbelievable substances.
raw materials, but generally speaking, most of them still have some medicinal properties. But what medicinal effects can the "secret medicine" made from human flesh and bones have?
Wu Xiang is full of suspicion, but he has been a policeman for a long time and knows that the dark side of human nature is sometimes unfathomable. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, the existence of this kind of activity shows that the demand is strong.
The police conducted further searches in the yard, and more and more horrific scenes were displayed before their eyes. An iron pot was filled with the bones of children that had been burned, and the internal organs that had been dried on a wooden plate... A policeman opened the
A small wooden box contains the boy's genitals dried with lime as if to store treasures...
There are more and more signs of corpse destruction. There are remnants of unburned clothes in the furnace, and there are many bone fragments and hair mixed in the mud of the drainage channel on the back wall that leads directly to the river. This is a terrifying scene like a nightmare.
, even the well-informed police officers couldn't bear it. Some people couldn't bear it anymore and ran out to vomit. Although Li Ziyu hadn't started vomiting yet, her face turned pale and she could hardly stand.
Although Gao Chongjiu was still calm, he was secretly suspicious: What is the origin of this group of people? Since ancient times, harvesting and cutting of raw materials have been shady. Most of the people who do it are traveling around to commit crimes, and they rarely "work" continuously in one place. Such a presentation
There must be some other reason for opening a stall and working hard.
Wu Xiang smoked a cigarette and watched the workers retained by the forensic department who arrived to clean up the human remains. Seeing that they were almost done, he asked: "Approximately how many people are there here?"
The leader of the team said: "I haven't counted the shapes yet, but at a glance there are at least four or five human skeletons."
This is too much! Wu Xiang thought.
However, Gao Chongjiu thought just now that there were more victims: there were as many dead as there were gourds that collected living souls.
"There is something wrong with the ground. There is lime in the soil, and there may be corpses buried underneath." Gao Chongjiu said. The ground in the backyard was covered with a thick layer of plant ash and sand. The sand was white. Wu Xiang squatted down and used his hands.
As soon as you twist it, you can see the white lime inside.
Wu Xiang nodded: "Dig!"
Under the command of Gao Chongjiu, the gangsters began to dig into the ground.
The first excavated place was not far from the entrance of the drainage channel. Gao Chongjiu thought this was probably the place where they disposed of the corpses. There was a desktop-sized river stone sunk into the ground, with a slightly flat surface. The widowed workers were excavating
When digging the ditch, I once found black residue in the cracks of this stone. I picked it out with a bamboo skewer and found that it was blood.
The excavation started from the front of the stone. After removing the thick layer of covering, the moist soil below was exposed. The police immediately discovered that the color of the soil in one area was darker than that of the surrounding areas, which was a full three or four feet.
Fang Fang. Gao Chongjiu knew it was bad at first sight: not only were there corpses down there, but there were also quite a lot of them.
"Dig along the edge, don't use too much force." Gao Zhong ordered.
After digging a few shovels, a gangster suddenly stopped.
"So?" Wu Xiang asked.
The worker didn't answer, he seemed very nervous. There were some blackened reed mat fragments in the dug soil.
This strengthened their judgment. Below is the burial place!
Gao Chongjiu asked the laborers to continue digging. The covering soil was not thick, just more than a foot. After removing the covering soil, a layer of rotten reed mat fragments were revealed, which had turned black. However, the residue of lime could still be seen on the edge.
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Several gangsters continued to dig down, and their feet kept slipping on the shovel. More reed mat fragments were turned up. When another shovelful of soil was turned up, the gangsters suddenly stepped back, like snakes and scorpions entangled in their hands.
He yelled loudly, threw the shovel away and fled the scene.
The police who were searching the scene rushed up. Gao Chongjiu asked: "What's the mess?" He rushed over and took a look, only to see something stuck on the head of the shovel. Looking at the dug area, there was something.
Some red-black liquid came up and soaked the soil. There were many fragments of reed mats mixed in the soil.
What devastated the poor worker was a small black hand sticking out of the soil.
"Asshole!" Gao Chongjiu heard a policeman cursing. His face turned pale and he said, "Keep digging! Hurry!"
As the covering soil was continuously removed, the fragments of the reed mat could no longer cover the body underneath. Only a small arm could be seen stretching straight out from the hole in the reed mat, stretching stiffly into the air.
The gangsters sped up their movements, and all the reed mats were uncovered. The police and national soldiers who came over out of curiosity and put aside their work at hand to watch took one look and turned their faces away instantly.
Many of them have experienced mountains of corpses and seas of blood on the battlefield or walked on the bodies of hungry people on the road to escape. But no one has ever seen such a miserable and terrifying scene.
At first glance, there were four or five corpses. They were stacked using the method of stacking firewood. They were stacked very neatly. The heads and feet were staggered and inverted, so they were very compact. However, from the edges, you could see that there was another layer or layers underneath.
More than one layer.
Although these corpses have been decomposed to varying degrees and are mixed with sediment, most of them are short and short, and they are either women or children in stature. Some are even quite young. What is even more frightening is that many corpses have incomplete limbs, and Cong Tian Zi San
The corpses exhumed from the cell were similar.
The commanders present could no longer maintain even their superficial composure. They stared blankly at the corpse pit, not knowing what kind of instructions they should give. After the crowd's uproar, there was silence. Everything inside and outside the scene seemed like something in a movie.
They were all frozen in place, even the air was frozen - people were haunted by the nightmare-like scene.
Wu Xiang touched his hat nervously and issued an order: Temporarily stop the survey and report it to Chief Mu of the Municipal Bureau immediately!
Soon, the National Army sent another platoon with live ammunition from the city and completely blocked the scene. At the same time, another company blocked the streets on Haipi where the inn is located, strictly prohibiting anyone from entering or exiting. The police began to conduct house-to-house checks and searches.
Suspicious persons. Wu Xiang's order is very simple: all suspicious persons will be arrested. At the same time, a "typewriter" was set up on the riverside, the harbor was blocked, and the small boats of the people on the riverside were ordered not to leave. In order to enhance the effect of the blockade, from the coast
The guard mobilized two more patrol boats and several small and medium-engine motor boats to monitor the riverside. The dark artillery and "typewriters" took off their gun jackets and pointed directly at the small boats of the Dan people. (To be continued.