Mysterious creature sightings

Ash?
  Ling Jiangyue and Lin Zheng put on protective clothing and went over to take a look.

There was indeed a very light layer of ash on the ground around the body, like pine pollen shaken to the ground, but the color was more like stone.

Weeds and fallen leaves are everywhere here, and you can't even notice them if you don't pay attention.

Lin Zheng took some for on-site analysis, and then went in to see the corpse.

The corpse was really not pretty, half of its face was rotten, its skin and clothes were stuck together, and there were burying insects on it that were diligently guarding their food.

Of course, where there are burying bugs, there are also other common scavengers, and the scene really makes people want to vomit.

Ling Jiangyue just took a look and his eyes were covered by Lin Zheng's palm.

"What?" She grabbed his wrist with both hands like a horizontal bar and tried to pull it down.

"very ugly."

Jiang Yuxing rolled his eyes at the side.

When he first joined the Special Investigation Division, a human life occurred in his first case. He vomited looking at the corpse and couldn't eat. At that time, the respected Captain Lin was not so gentle. He said with a cold face that he must adapt as soon as possible and asked him to Watch the autopsy...

It's really no better than I don't know, I shed tears first.

He felt dissatisfied and Liangliang reminded: "You blindfolded her, how can people observe her? We just wait for her to be used as a detector."

Lin Zheng glanced at him lightly.

Ling Jiangyue took Lin Zheng's hand down and whispered to him: "I can see it. The photos Sister Qing showed me last time were quite disgusting. I didn't vomit."

"Well, you..."

Jiang Yuxing was the first to remind: "Don't praise how brave you are, or I will vomit too."

Lin Zheng's words were blocked by his disgusting reminder as soon as they came to his mouth. He looked like he had eaten a living loach, neither up nor down, and kicked him: "Get out."

"Okay, I'll get out now. You'd better let Sister Jia come and admire the corpse with you. Xu Jiayan and I will go find someone."

It turns out that this is the purpose, Ling Jiangyue smiled with crooked eyes.

The forensic doctor brought by the police was examining the body. When he saw them coming, he breathed a sigh of relief:

"Are you from the special investigation? Just transfer the case to the special department. I can help with murders and suicides, but I really can't help with this. Plants growing on people completely violates current scientific conclusions."

Lin Jia: "Would it be better to imagine that you have mushroom lungs?"

Forensic doctor: "It's also growing in the lungs. How could it grow outside? It's like a ball of nutritious soil wrapped in a thin film. The buds of something are about to break through the thin film and grow out!"

Yes, grass grows on people. This is the biggest reason why the Special Investigation Division accepted this case.

Lin Zheng took a pair of forensic tweezers and squatted down to remove the cover and look at the body.

The eyeballs in the eye sockets were dry and strangely bulging. The original vitreous body had turned into a viscous liquid, and there seemed to be buds about to sprout out of it.

And there is also such a bulge on the back of the corpse's head.

"How long has it been dead?" he asked.

Forensic doctor: "According to this degree of decay, it is about half a month, but there are too many saprophytes here, which will accelerate the decay. The real time of death may need to be pushed back to about nine or ten days ago."

Lin Jia: "I died here for ten days and no one found out and no one called the police?"

Forensic doctor: "We still need to compare DNA with recent missing cases to find out."

Ling Jiangyue was also eager to ask a question: "You just said too many, are you referring to those burying bugs? Is it abnormal for them to appear in groups here?" The forensic doctor patiently explained: "Burying bugs can not be seen everywhere, and not only There are a lot of them, and there are also a lot of other saprophytic organisms, which is twice as many as the number of normal mountain forest death cases.”

"Maybe it's because of regional habits," Lin Zheng looked around, "There are many ethnic minorities in Panzhihua City, of which the Yi are the largest, and there are also Tibetans. When I went up the mountain, I saw a village over there, is it a Yi village?"

Lin Jia: "Yes, Hejia Village is a Yi village, but there are Tibetans not far away. Do you want to talk about sky burial?"

Sky burial? Ling Jiangyue then raised his head and looked at the towering trees around him, his eyes dazzled by the light that penetrated.

Lin Zheng said: "Not only sky burials, but also natural burials can cause saprophytic organisms to gather. As time goes by, decomposers will become accustomed to gathering here. There are dense forests here and high bare rocks. Tree burials and sky burials should both It was popular for a while.”

The forensic doctor works locally and quickly said: "Yes, yes, the city has been promoting land-saving ecological burials in recent years. Burials with flowers, grass and trees are buried. However, many citizens cannot accept it and will still follow the previous customs." .”

"What is a sky burial?" Ling Jiangyue asked again. She was very interested in this information that she had never been exposed to before.

The forensic doctor happened to also want to say something, and when he saw an audience, he spoke more enthusiastically.

"Sky burial is a form of burial among Tibetan, Mongolian and other ethnic minorities. Because they believe that the soul will leave the body after death and needs to be reincarnated through birds, so they will dissect the corpse after a series of rituals and then place it in the open space. If vultures or other birds and animals eat it, it means ascending to heaven.”

"Many professional sky burial masters have particularly strong dissection abilities. It is because of this custom that surgical academics have also been very developed in the history of Tibetan medicine."

Ling Jiangyue showed a look of surprise as if illiterate people had received universal education, which aroused much discussion among forensic doctors.

Lin Jia and Lin Zheng looked at each other, shook their heads and smiled.

The two of them chatted together year after year. Lin Zheng continued to examine the body. He changed his hand to a scalpel blade and was about to cut open the bump on the back of the head to see inside. As soon as the blade touched the skin, Ling Jiangyue suddenly grabbed his hand.

"There's something alive inside." She shifted her gaze and stared at the piece of skin like an ant hole, her behavior slightly abnormal.

The forensic doctor stopped talking and looked at her with wide eyes.

Lin Jia: "Let me introduce you formally. This is the special consultant of our special coordination office. He is a strange person."

Forensic doctor: "...I understand, I understand, I understand. This, specifically...can you see living things through the skin?"

Lin Jia: "The secret must not be revealed."

Lin Zheng ignored their conversation and kept his hand hanging steadily. He glanced at the slender fingers on his wrist and asked her, "How can you tell?"

"They become active."

But from the outside, there was no sign of any activity.

Lin Jia: "That shouldn't be a bug, otherwise it would be like a burrowing bug in your clothes when it becomes active."

Forensic doctor: "It's a plant, the one growing in his eyeball, something like a peanut bud."

Lin Jia: "Insects may also grow like peanut buds, and compared to the horror stories of plants growing on people, is it easier to accept that insects parasitize the eyeballs? After all, insects are the least understood group by humans, and many are extinct before they are discovered. .”

Forensic doctor: "...Same. I don't know much about the history of biological development. You continue."

Ling Jiangyue was still staring at the skin and couldn't help but reach out to touch it.

Lin Zheng grabbed her hand in time: "Don't touch it."

"I just feel familiar." Familiar with the neighbor in her body.

Her fingers pressed on it anyway, and at that moment, the skin on the back of the corpse's head was like a balloon that was stretched to the extreme. It was burst by the contents inside, and a burst of pink mist sprayed around.

Lin Zheng quickly pulled her back with quick eyes and hands, and quickly backed away. Lin Jia pulled the forensic doctor and rolled down, and cursed loudly: "Fuck! Fungal fruiting body! Let everyone wear protective clothing!"