Volume 4

Haunted phone

Those who forget themselves are enough to build a city.-Brodsky

There are always some people leaving us, and there are always some things that have not been finished yet.

Pick up your phone and look at the missed calls. Maybe one of the strange numbers was called by the dead person.

Chapter 16: Floating corpses in the lake

A woman in Hangzhou accompanied her mother with lung cancer in the hospital. One night, her mother actually got out of bed and walked out of the ward and squatted down in the corner of the corridor. The woman shouted, "Mom, where are you going?" Mom turned her head and looked, but couldn't speak. At this time, the woman's phone rang, and it turned out to be a dream. The mother was still lying on the bed and was already dead. The phone was called by her mother, but the phone was not with her mother. She asked her family afterwards, but no one called her.

The woman thought that when her mother was dying, she might have something to say.

A high school student in Hefei did not go home on weekends and lived alone in the dormitory. Before going to bed, he placed his slider on a stack of books beside his pillow. When he woke up in the morning, he saw that the phone was sliding away. He didn't care. He wanted to check the time, but found that the phone was stuck in the interface for editing text messages. There was a sentence on it: Are you sleeping? I want to talk to you. He thought about it for a long time and didn't remember editing this text message.

So who wants to talk to him?

There is an artificial lake in Yingfeng University Town, surrounded by six universities. Every weekend, the artificial lake is particularly lively and many college students visit here.

The weeping willows swaying on the shore, and a warning sign "No swimming" is erected. The lake is filled with blue waves and lotus flowers bloom.

Several students stood by the lake to drift water, and the stones jumped on the water surface, flying lightly and far. They competed with each other, cut off the lotus flowers in the lake with stones, and after a while, a huge creature floated out of the dense lotus leaves, and everyone was shocked.

There is a floating corpse on the side of the water.

This is the corpse of a girl in a green skirt. It has already raised its belly. It was originally hidden among the dense lotus leaves, but now it slowly floats out. The lotus leaves hold an umbrella for the corpse, like a funeral procession.

As dusk approached, a sun rain had just fallen, and the lotus leaves were filled with crystal raindrops. The female corpse in the lake was undulating with the waves. When the lotus leaves were touching, the raindrops poured into the water. A lotus was blocking between the legs of the floating corpse. The pink lotus was graceful and the dark green lotus leaves were swaying. The corpse stayed in the elegant and quiet lake for a moment, and then pressed the lotus into the water. The little red fish in the water played with the huge corpse.

A pointed bird flew over and landed on the bulging belly of the female corpse, constantly pecking.

At this time, more people had gathered on the shore. Everyone saw that the belly of the female corpse was pecked by a pointed beaker, exploded like a balloon, and a piece of intestine flew into the air, and the bird flew away in a flash.

After the corpse exploded, it slowly sank into the lake.

The floating corpse in the lake scared everyone. Several girls on the shore covered their mouths and started crying, while some people vomited.

The Public Security Bureau in the university town area received a report and salvaged the female body from the lake. After visiting and mobilizing the masses to identify it, the identity of the deceased was quickly identified. The girl in green dress is a senior student from a nearby normal university, named Piaolian, and she also salvaged her cell phone in the lake.

Piaolian sent a text message to her father

, However, my father is a farmer [31   ] and he can only answer calls and not read text messages.

The content of this ignored text message is as follows:

Dad, I don’t want to live anymore, and I plan to take poison first and then jump into the lake. The emotional entanglement makes me exhausted. I’m sorry, doing this is too selfish. My daughter is unfilial. I will repay you in the next life. I will be your daughter in the next life. I will take poison first and then jump into the artificial lake outside the east gate of the school. Please transport my body back to my hometown.

The date of this text message was sent three days ago. On the surface, it was a suicide case.

However, the forensic doctor confirmed that Piaolian's death was at least one week, which means that she was dead when she sent the text message. At that time, her body was soaking in the lake water and rotting in the fragrant and elegant lotus flowers.

Bai Jingyu distributed the case file to the special case team, and this case of floating corpse in the lake was very strange.

Su Mei said: It's so thrilling.

Professor Liang said: It is impossible for dead people to send text messages.

Bao Zhan said: The murderer killed Piaolian, threw the corpse into the lake, and used her cell phone to imitate her tone and sent a text message to her father.

Hualong said: The murderer finally threw his cell phone into the lake, pretending to be the illusion of suicide.

Bai Jingyu said: On the day when Piaolian's body was salvaged from the lake, another girl disappeared. The local police checked the case file and found that a senior girl mysteriously disappeared a few months ago and her whereabouts were unknown.

Professor Liang said: One of the three girls died, and the other two girls were not alive and the body was not seen.

Bai Jingyu said: Now is the time for our special case team to show off. Let’s go!

The head of the Public Security Bureau in the university town is named Lu. He is big and thick, with a wide face and big ears. He used to be the captain of the armed police and liked fighting, nicknamed Lutixia. After the arrival of the special case team, the rough man respectfully saluted Hualong and said: Hello, instructor.

Hualong was stunned for a moment, and after watching it for a long time, he recognized it. It turned out that this person had learned fighting with Hualong in the past.

Hualong looked at him and said: It's you, Lutixia, why have you become like this? Judging from your belly, I really can't recognize you.

Lutixia said: Instructor, since I became the director, my belly has become bigger. I used to have abdominal muscles on my stomach, but now I have turned into pork belly. We haven’t seen each other for many years. Let’s go and have a few drinks.

Bao Zhan said: Director Lu, let’s wait until we get off work before drinking.

Hualong said: Why call me the director? Call me Xiao Lu? This is my apprentice and I have learned Kung Fu from me.

Su Mei said: Oh, Hualong, she is older than you, so she even asked us to call Xiao Lu, why are you so awesome?

Hualong said: Xiao Lu is older than me and taller than me. When I was practicing fighting, I was beaten and cried several times.

Su Mei said: A big man who snatched his feet also has a loli heart.

Lutijie was easy-going, and held a banquet to entertain the special case team. During the meal, Lutijie complained and complained that three girls in the university town disappeared and died, and the two girls were missing in the lake. The social impact was extremely bad, and the police were under great pressure. It was rumored that the bodies of the other two girls were also found in the lake. The parents believed it and rushed to the school thousands of miles away. The school said that they would actively cooperate with the police's investigation. Several parents posted missing notices everywhere in the university town and offered rewards with a lot of money, but found no clues.

.The parents united and pulled up a blood-like banner in front of the municipal government, and wrote a letter to the city government leaders for their inaction and the school’s fault. The city government leaders said that the case should be solved within one month!

Lutijie said: Let me solve the case in one month, and I will be killed. Your special case team is my great benefactor.

Professor Liang said: We cannot guarantee that the case will be solved on schedule, we can only do our best.

Lutixia said: All the police officers in the bureau have been mobilized and have been busy for a few days, and the case has no clue.

The three girls, except for the deceased Piaolian, are two other girls who are unknown. One is Aixi and the other is Xiao Qiangwei, both of whom are students from several nearby universities.

Piaolian and Ai Xi are in their senior year, while Xiao Qiangwei is a freshman. They don’t know each other and are not in the same school.

Aixi has been missing for more than four months. Her family had reported the case before, but it did not attract the attention of the police.

On the day Piaolian's body was discovered, a classmate reported to the police that a girl named Xiao Qiangwei was missing.

Lutijie extensively investigated the interpersonal relationships of the three girls and retrieved mobile phone communication records from the telecommunications department, but no suspicious clues were found. Aixi and Xiao Qiangwei disappeared, Piaolian was poisoned by someone with narcotic drugs and then threw it into the lake. The nature of the three cases was difficult to draw conclusions.

Lutixia said: So far, we do not know if these three cases were caused by the same murderer or the same group of murderers.

Hualong said: Xiao Lu, you are so stupid.

Bao Zhan said: Aixi has been missing for more than four months. Why didn’t you investigate at that time? Now you missed the best opportunity.

Lutixia said: Adults usually run away from home.

Su Mei said: Judging from the photos, the three girls are all very beautiful and can be considered beautiful women. Will Ai Xi and Xiao Qiangwei be abducted into a kiln or imprisoned as sex slaves?

Professor Liang said: First of all, we can rule out the motive for kidnapping. Let’s go to the lake to take a look.

The artificial lake is located in the center of the university town, with six universities gathering around. People who come here usually visit college students. Even the graffiti on the pavilion by the lake seem to have cultural heritage. A poem is written on a pillar: Just because I misappreciating the snow in the past, I felt sad until dawn all night.

Su Mei said: This may have been written by a girl.

Bao Zhan said: Sister Xiaomei, how did you know? You can’t tell that the font was written by a girl.

Su Mei said: Go to death, I’m guessing too.

The grass next to the pavilion is a date for college couples, and they kiss as if no one else was around.

Lutixia pushed Professor Liang and parked his wheelchair on the shore. Professor Liang was fascinated by looking at the lotus flowers in the lake. Hualong went to a newsstand to buy cigarettes, but the newsstand even sold condoms. A college student was just lying down and sent a text message, and almost bumped into Hualong.

The college student pressed his cell phone and said: Baby, wait for me, I will buy a few small raincoats first, is three enough?

Su Mei said to Bao Zhan: He is chatting on WeChat.
Chapter completed!