Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 214 Murder
It was an ordinary residential building, and the deceased was a male. The first to enter the security area were two male colleagues, that is, the room of the deceased. Gu Wenmin was outside, grabbing the reporter and questioning him, and the time when the body was found, etc. series of questions.It was the landlord who found the body, and he was incoherent in fright, and suddenly said: "The death of the body is too horrible?"

Gu Wenmin poked the paper with a pen, and asked, "Why is it terrifying? Corpse dismemberment? Disfigurement? Acid splashing?" She asked a series of questions in one breath, and the landlord was so frightened that he wanted to cry, and said, "It's more terrifying than this, you go in Just look at it..." At this moment, the two male colleagues who entered the warning area suddenly let out a terrified cry and ran out staggeringly. "

She was startled, put away the pen and paper and asked the two what was going on, while staring at the door vigilantly.From this angle, the deceased can be seen, but only the feet, which are blocked by the door.One of the male colleagues ran aside and vomited, and the other's throat was rolling up and down, his head was covered in cold sweat, and he couldn't say a word.

Gu Wenmin has always been courageous, frowned, pulled out his pistol, and walked towards the door. The moment he saw the corpse, Gu Wenmin took a step back in fright, and couldn't even scream.

The corpse was sitting on the ground. It was a male around 30 years old, with his back leaning on the leg of the table. He had no head. It should have been chopped off by the murderer.Of course, it's okay if it's just that there is no head. After all, Gu Wenmin was in the homicide squad at the time, and ordinary scenes really couldn't scare her.But the headless corpse in front of him makes one's scalp numb, because his belly was cut open, and his head was placed in the abdominal cavity. His eyes were not closed, and his face was covered with blood. Staring at Gu Wenmin standing at the door like this.

Gu Wenmin's legs went limp. If it wasn't for the anti-theft door just behind her, she would have been scared to the ground. She was pushed against the hard edge of the anti-theft door. The pain made her wake up slightly, and the fear receded a little. Then she looked at the corpse carefully. An even weirder detail appeared, because Gu Wenmin suddenly discovered that one of the corpse's hands was actually grabbing the hair of the head, and it was tightly packed. Into the slit belly.

But how is this possible?

Overcoming the initial fear, everyone began to investigate the cause of the deceased. Obviously, this was a brutal murder, but in the following series of investigations, more and more doubts emerged.

Tofu has been listening intently, obviously listening to it as a story, but Gu Wenmin's expression is not good. For us, this is a story, but for her, it is a personal experience. Obviously, this is not a good thing memories.

Tofu had no eyesight, and asked: "What happened later? Has the murderer been found? What are the doubts? I have watched more than 500 episodes of Conan, and it is easy to reason and find doubts."

Gu Wenmin smiled, and continued to speak, his expression became serious.

There are many suspicious points, such as the murder weapon. The murder weapon found by everyone was placed next to the corpse, but there were only the deceased's own fingerprints on it.

For another example, the deceased was an oil painter who had just returned from a trip not long ago. Most of the time, he painted behind closed doors and had no interaction with the people around him. He didn't even have a girlfriend. How could such a person be killed so cruelly?
There was neither a vendetta nor a love motive, and no belongings were taken from the room.

What is hidden behind this murder case?
Due to too many doubts, no way to start, and no clues to be found, the case was delayed again and again, and the pressure from above was increasing. The leader called the team in charge of the case to the office and scolded him head and face.Miss Gu was so focused on solving the case that she drove around after get off work for a while, and the more she thought about it, the more angry she drove the car to the place where the incident happened, which was the home of the deceased.

Since the case has not been solved yet, except for the corpse, the rest of the things in the room have not been moved, and the corridor is pitch-black. Gu Wenmin asked the landlord for the key, and walked upstairs in the dark. In the silent corridor, only her The sound of footsteps, the sensor lights flickering on and off.In this atmosphere, Gu Wenmin regretted a little. He knew that he should come back during the day, but at this moment, when Gu Wenmin looked up, he suddenly saw a black shadow at the corner of the stairs.

The black image is a person. The reason why it looks like a person is because of subjective impressions. After all, what appeared in this place at this time is not a person, could it be a ghost?Later, after the incident, when I recalled the plot at that time, I realized that it was not a human figure. If I had to say it, it would be better to say it was a distorted ghost.

At that time, Gu Wenmin thought it was a person, but in the dark, that person seemed to sense Gu Wenmin's gaze, and ran away.When Gu Wenmin saw this situation, something was wrong. If you didn't do anything wrong, why did you run away?Immediately without saying a word, he pulled out his gun and chased up the stairs.

The figure kept running ahead, and only a dark silhouette could be seen. When he ran to the corridor, he saw a flash of black shadow, and the person disappeared.

Gu Wenmin turned around, and suddenly felt a thump in her heart, because she found that she was standing in front of the door of C6 just by turning around.

C6 is the room number of the deceased, which is her destination tonight.

Rao Gu Wenmin was so bold that he was frightened for a while, wondering where did that person go?Could it be that he entered C6?But does he have the key?Damn it, could it be that what I saw was the ghost of the dead?The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, but before this, Gu Wenmin had never encountered any supernatural events. In addition, in the homicide squad, she often came into contact with the dead, so she was not superstitious, and she never cared about ghosts and gods.

After the initial fear passed, Gu Wenmin decided to find out, carefully paying attention to the movement around her, standing in the dark corridor, took out the key given by the landlord, and opened the door of C6.

At that moment, a cold and damp wind blows from the door.

Gu Wenmin held his breath.

It was dark in front of him, and the room seemed to still have the breath of the dead, exuding a strange smell.Gu Wenmin remembered that the lamp was nearby, so she touched the wall with her right hand to the side, but at this moment, she suddenly touched a cold thing, not a switch, but a human hand!
In such a situation, it happened suddenly, not to mention how terrifying, Gu Wenmin yelled in shock, and suddenly withdrew his hand, only then remembered that he was still carrying a small flashlight with him, so he quickly took it out and opened it, and slammed it in. Take a look, look to the side, there are no hands on the wall, only switches.

Gu Wenmin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, felt his neck was cold, and thought to himself, could it be that he was scared by the atmosphere and became paranoid?
She has never believed in ghosts and gods, so after hesitating for a while, she got up and turned on the switch. As the light came on, the eerie atmosphere permeating the darkness disappeared. Gu Wenmin subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and began to look carefully at the surrounding thing.This is not the first time she has come here, and she knows exactly what items are there.

After flipping through for a while, Gu Wenmin found a picture folder, which should be drawn by the oil painter. I flipped through two pages before, but there was no useful information, so I didn't finish it. For possible clues, I began to patiently read the oil paintings inside.

Most of these are landscape paintings, and the painters are very good. They should be places where oil painters walked. At this moment, a sudden figure painting appeared in front of Gu Wenmin's eyes. To be precise, it was an oil painting of a god. It is painted with a statue of Dainichi Tathagata.Western paintings seldom depict things like Buddha. Gu Wenmin felt strange, so he took out this painting and looked at it carefully. At this time, he found that there was a line of words in the lower right corner of the painting. Gu Wenmin didn't recognize it, but his keen sense told her, This might be a clue.Then, the next day, she took the painting away, checked the words on it, and was surprised to find that it was actually a scripture to exorcise evil spirits and suppress ghosts.

It is rare to use Western paintings to paint Buddha, but now he even writes scriptures. What does this oil painter mean?
Gu Wenmin came up with a guess: did he encounter some kind of ghost?
After returning, she told her father about the case.His father has been in this business for many years. After hearing what Gu Wenmin said, his expression became serious, and he did two things immediately. The first one was to make a mysterious phone call, and the second one was to ask Gu Wenmin not to Take care of this case, someone will take over next.

Gu Wenmin was very curious, and the strange case she was in charge of was handed over to a group of strange people. She was worried, so she drove the car and followed the group of people to the deceased's house. Since she followed them far away, she waited for her to go upstairs. , 'processing' is already in progress.She didn't see anything extra, but she saw a small cluster of flames floating in the palm of one of the young men.

It is true, just a small cluster of flames, green flames.

Later, the case seemed to stop there and not be pursued.

After Gu Wenmin finished speaking, he said: "So, maybe supernatural powers really exist. If the person wearing the mask has this kind of ability, we probably have no chance of winning."

Tofu was already stunned, and said, "Why do I feel that the world I live in has suddenly become strange? First it was the cat, then the rice dumpling, then the cadaver, and then the dragon, the corpse wall, hiss... Miss Gu, I don't doubt your words, but I still think it's too nonsense, Lao Chen, do you believe it?"

(End of this chapter)