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After receiving the letter, I took a plane back to China that day. After a quick meeting with Uncle Lin and the others in Guangzhou, I hurried back to my hometown.

After several twists and turns, I finally returned to my homeland that I had been separated from for over ten years — — Hu Jia Village

For me, Hu Jia Village is very familiar, but I have not seen it in 16 years. When I first left the village, the scenery was already blurred. When I looked back, I felt particularly familiar.

Coming here, I remembered the letter I had received the day before yesterday.

The contents of the letter, like a spell, brought me back here.

The letter was written by Gao Yun.

Who was Gao Yun?

I should call him Uncle Gao. Back then, he was just like my father, a respected senior in the Hu Family Village. Very lucky to have survived that disaster.

That night, I received the letter. I opened it very seriously and saw that the words on it were actually printed on a printer. I couldn't help but exclaim. After more than ten years, even our backwater village had started to keep up with the pace of the times.

I composed myself and read:

"Tianyi, I am Uncle Gao.

I miss it so much for sixteen years.

After that, I should have left you alone.

However, we found a body behind the village in Qishan. According to the police investigation, it was most likely your father.

There were still a lot of doubts about the body, and it was common sense that a medical examiner should first dissect it. But in order to respect the dead, they decided to wait until you returned.

From the point of view of your father and friends, Tianyi, you must come back this time and return the truth.

Because, according to the preliminary analysis, this corpse could very well have died from 'murder'! "

The letter was brief. That night, I stared at the words on it, not daring to miss a single word. There was also a kind of uneasiness that lingered in his heart for a long time.

Father...

Murder?

In my previous life, my father's disappearance had become a foregone conclusion. Everything that was relevant to him disappeared forever with his disappearance.

Now, his father, who had originally accepted his father's fate, was unexpectedly told that he had been "murdered".

I can't accept that.

After reading this letter, I made up my mind to return to Hu Jia Village immediately without a second thought.

If the body was indeed his father, then he might know the truth about what had happened. Furthermore, if his father had died in murder, then I would find out the truth and give my father justice.

Arriving at the Hu Family Village again, he found that the village had changed a lot. The muddy streets had already been replaced by cement roads. On this road, all the carts and tractors were coming and going from the village.

The newly built rows of street lamps corresponded to the shops on both sides of the street as the feeling of being in the countryside gradually faded. Only the occasional appearance of cow dung on the cement ground could slowly evoke the warm feelings of a child chasing a cow with his friends.

After a short rest in the village, I headed for Uncle Gao's house.

I had already contacted him on the phone before. When Uncle Gao heard that I was coming, he urged me to hurry up.

When I arrived at Uncle Gao's house, Uncle Gao had already been waiting for me for a long time.

"Tianyi, Tianyi!"

They hadn't seen each other in 16 years, and the Uncle Gao in his memory had long since changed his appearance. The handsome and brave Uncle Gao in his mind definitely wasn't the fat middle-aged man in front of him.

"Uncle Gao!" After all, I haven't seen her for 16 years, so I'm a little unfamiliar with her. However, I can't say that I'm too far away from her.

Uncle Gao didn't bring me to his house. Instead, he walked in front of me and said with a face full of excitement, "Aiya, it's been 16 years since we last met. You actually grew up. Look at you, a handsome young man, getting married, don't you think?"

I smiled awkwardly. "Not yet …" "Uncle Gao!"

"Aiya, you're still not done yet? Everyone says that the girls in the city are snobbish, that there are many beautiful girls in the village waiting to get married, you choose the one you like. Bring some joy to the village as well. "

Hearing Uncle Gao's words, I felt a warm feeling in my heart. After all, in modern cities, there were very few people who could let go of their own hands from the very beginning.

However, as I thought of this, I shook my head and said, "Uncle Gao, let's talk about this later. The main reason I came back this time is because of your letter."

"A letter?" Uncle Gao's eyes suddenly opened wide.

"Yes, yes, yes! Look at me, I was so happy to see you that I forgot about such an important matter. " Uncle Gao's expression changed drastically. He slapped his own forehead and pulled my hand, pulling me as he jogged, "Quickly, quickly! That body is definitely your father. "

Seeing that Uncle Gao was so sure.

I couldn't help but ask anxiously, "Where is the corpse?" I came back to see if it was my father. "

"The body is in the morgue of the hospital. I know the short cut, so I'll take you there."

Uncle Gao's anxious expression made me even more baffled by this matter.

Along the way, I was bored by this matter, although Uncle Gao was talking to me warmly. Uncle Gao seemed to be able to read my thoughts. During the rest of the journey, he only called the police and told them that he had gone with me.

After that, the two of them stopped talking. They drove the music station on the minivan and listened to some Cantonese songs from the 1980s.

The body was deposited in the morgue of the Chinese Medical Hospital in the next town.

After Uncle Gao and I got off the car, there were already a lot of plainclothes policemen who walked over.

One of the middle-aged police officers in the lead walked in front of me and asked, "Hu Tian Yi?"

"En!" I nodded.

"Come with us!" The middle-aged officer waved at me and walked into the hospital.

Uncle Gao and I followed them.

Along the way, the middle-aged police officer walked very quickly. As he walked, he told us, "Things are a bit complicated. Originally, we were going to perform an autopsy on the corpse this morning, but we heard that you had already arrived at Hill. There's still time, so we'll wait for you to arrive."

"Police Officer... "What happened?" I asked, still curious, as I tried to keep up with them.

The middle-aged police officer turned around and looked at me before saying anxiously, "My name is Xu Guorong, and I'm the captain of the Public Security Bureau in Hill City. You can call me Captain Xu. I'm in charge of this case." We rushed back to find you this time because we need you to confirm whether or not your father is Hu Yunhai. "

"Why did you come back so quickly just to confirm a corpse?" Not to mention whether the body was my father, even my father. Did it help them, I pointed out?

Was it really that important to them?

"Right, all you have to do is confirm that the corpse is your father." Captain Xu said with an expressionless face.

After hearing this, I frowned and replied, "Captain Xu, from Uncle Gao sending a letter to Guangzhou and from Guangzhou sending a letter to Germany, I dared to come here from Germany for a full six days. You've waited six days, not to solve the case, not to examine the body, just for me to identify you? Isn't that illogical? If I come back a few days later, won't this case be impossible to investigate? "

Captain Xu left really quickly and unknowingly arrived at the hospital's morgue. As he opened the door to the morgue, he answered my question, "Tianyi, you're right. According to the previous procedures, we don't need to go through your identification to be able to dissect the corpse and obtain clues to solve the case. "But …"

He paused here for a moment. Two paramedics had already dragged a body covered in white cloth out of the cold storage room, placed it on the moving bed and pushed it to the center of the room.

"We lack the database that was used in the Hu Family Village, so any identities of this corpse have already been removed. However, we must know whether or not he is your father, Hu Yunhai! In your village, there were two other murders a few years ago. The murderer could have been your father! "

Captain Xu's words were as cold as bullets, striking me in the heart.

"What?" Was it my father? How is that possible? " I shook my head.

My father had disappeared sixteen years ago, and in my memory he was no different from dead. How could he have done it?

Captain Xu seemed to have also seen my reaction, and he shouted to an assistant beside him, "Xiao Liang, show him the document. "I'm fine!"

"Yes, Captain Xu!" The policeman called Xiao Liang took out his cell phone, found some photos and brought them in front of me.

The first murder was committed at Wang Fu's house in the village," he explained as he flipped through the pages. The victim was Wang Fu himself, and the victim died of a stab wound to the great carotid artery. This is a picture we took at the scene and it is very important. If the contents of the picture cause you discomfort, please forgive us.

I nodded and focused on the photo on my cell phone. I saw that the villager called Wang Fu had died a horrible death. It was as if a knife had pierced through his neck, leaving only a cervical vertebra with a skull attached to it. "Blood from the eyeball, purplish lips, and a ghastly face.

The policeman Xiao Liang saw that I didn't have any aversion to the photos, so he moved on his cell phone screen and said, "There's still the second murder case. The deceased was Wang Fu's next-door neighbor, Zhang Chong, who died on the same day as Wang Fu, Zhang Chong died in the same way as Wang Fu died, and the two murders are committed in the same way, so the verdict is that this is a serial killer case of the same killer."

As I was engaged in medical science and had done animal and human anatomy in the academy, I was already used to seeing corpses. Thus, what I saw now did not scare me.

I calmly looked at the photo. I still had a lot of questions in my mind. As I continued to browse through the photo, I asked, "Captain Xu, I've seen the photo. I still don't understand. What does these two murders have to do with my father?"

Captain Xu looked at Little Liang, and Little Liang replied, "We found something about your father at the scene. The two tragedies happened less than 10 minutes ago, and on the day of the murder, there were eyewitnesses who said that the culprit came out of Zhang Chong's home wearing a white robe. His hair was messy, and his actions were weird. "

With that, he rummaged through his phone and found a picture of a white jade pendant in an "evidence bag".

It was a pendant with a transparent white piece of jade on it. "Hu Yunhai" was engraved on it.

Hu Yunhai is my father's name.

But when I saw this pendant, my pupils suddenly contracted.

Looking through the 16 years of memories have long been hazy, but, this pendant I remember.

There were originally two of these pendants. They were Father and Mother's love tokens from back then.

Around his neck, there was a white jade pendant engraved with "Lin Wanting".

On his mother's neck was a white jade pendant with the words "Hu Yunhai" engraved on it.

"This is something we found from your dad at the scene. Is this his? " Captain Xu suddenly asked when he saw me looking at the photo in deep thought.

"No!" I shook my head. "This is my mother's white jade necklace."

"Your mother's?" Captain Xu suddenly frowned.

No matter how strong their logical reasoning ability is, it's impossible for them to know about my parents' exchange back then.

"There are a total of two of these white jade pendants. They are for my parents, who exchanged them for the pendants when they made their love." Only, to my surprise, my mother had been dead for many years, and her locket had been buried with her. Did my father not bury it with my mother? "

I muttered to myself, feeling puzzled.

Captain Xu clapped his hands, drawing everyone's attention to him.

"Alright, sure enough, finding Little Hu is the right decision." There were new leads and new doubts in these cases. "It seems like it's not as simple as we thought."

After saying that, Captain Xu looked at me and said, "Time is of the essence. Little Hu, the completeness of the corpse is very good. First, identify the corpse!"

A policeman walked to the side of the bed and reached out to pull the white cloth over the body.

"Comrade Hu, regardless of whether this person is your father or not, you still have to be mentally prepared!"

I nodded. "Don't worry. My father has been missing for 16 years. I have long since become aware of today's result. I can bear with it!"

The policeman quickly pulled down the white cloth. Suddenly, everyone was shocked by the scene in front of them.

I was stunned as well. Why was this corpse like this?

I turned my head to look at Captain Xu and the others.

At this moment, they were also at a loss. They had horrified expressions on their faces. It was as if the matter had greatly exceeded their expectations.

I'm sure that when Captain Xu and the others found the corpse, it wasn't like this at all.

It was a corpse that was intimidating with just a glance.

Her long black hair was like little snakes that extended all the way to her abdomen. It covered the face of the corpse. Beneath the thin white gauze were pale, bloodless arms and feet.

The most frightening thing was that the arm and the soles of the feet were as sharp as knives, with a total of three centimeters of fingernails.

Although I had seen many corpses in medical school, as well as cases from all over the world, there had never been a corpse like this one before me.

Looking at his white clothes and his long hair that covered his face, it was very easy to imagine that abnormally terrifying face. He was like a "virgin" inside a bell, quietly lying on the corpse bed.

"How could this be?" One of the policemen opened his eyes wide. It was obvious that the appearance of the corpse was different from what he had seen before.

"Did anyone move the body this morning?" Captain Xu asked the staff member calmly.

The staff member who pulled out the corpse shook his head and said, "Officer, I'm the only one with the key to the freezer. There's nothing abnormal about it!"

Captain Xu waved his hand, "Xiao Liang, go check out the surveillance cameras from this morning. "Go and come back quickly."

"Yes sir!"

Seeing this, I couldn't help but ask, "Captain Xu, what's going on? How long has he been dead? "

Captain Xu walked in front of the corpse and looked at it. He said, "A preliminary autopsy was performed six years ago."

"Six years?" I couldn't believe my eyes. "How could a body die for six years without rotting?"

"We don't know either, so we'll have to wait until the autopsy to get the answer." The assistant, Xiao Liang said.

From the expressions on Captain Xu and the others' faces, I am certain that the corpse has undergone such drastic changes during the period from morning until now.

What I find strange is that, according to common sense, a body with only 24 hours after death will undergo a series of changes such as rigor mortis, mortis, etc. But it never occurred to me that the body would metabolize after all this time.

No wonder, Captain Xu told Little Light to check if the corpse had been tampered with by humans.

Basically everyone was waiting for Xiao Liang to come back, but I just silently looked at the corpse in front of me.

If he really is my dad … I looked at the corpse with its face buried beneath its hair.

This thought suddenly popped into my mind.

Aside from his hair and fingernails, his physique, his width of body, and even the mark left on his right arm by the fire all those years ago, everything is exactly the same as what I remember …

Memories from his childhood burst out like a gushing spring.

Dad will always have a good temper, a gentle smile, understanding.

He would rather live a well-off life, resolutely returned to this obscure little village, silently guarding our village. His lofty sense of responsibility was like a hammer striking at the moral stake in my heart. Whenever he thought of it, a sense of admiration would well up.

Now, sixteen years had passed. The memories of his childhood have already faded, yet he has turned into a cold corpse, quietly lying in front of me.

As if possessed, I walked over to the deathbed and reached out to brush the thick hair from his face.

I wanted to see his face. He wanted to recall the memory in his mind that had been sealed up for a long time. Captain Xu and the others didn't stop me.

I grabbed his hair with my hand and felt the wetness of it, a layer of slime on my hand. It was like the oil of a corpse after death.

I gently brushed his hair away.

Just as I was about to brush away the layers of hair that were abnormally thick, there was a sudden shout from behind us.

"Let go. Do you want to cause a Corpse Transformation? "

But it was already too late.

I have already pulled out a slit in the corpse's hair. I turned my head and saw her face under her hair.

When I looked at it, it was like a thunderclap that gave me a huge shock.

The corpse seemed to have come alive. The eyes that were popping out like lanterns were filled with malice as it stared at me.