Strange Sequence: Longevity from Guoshu

Chapter 74
It was still ten o'clock in the morning, and the sky was gray, cloudy and cold.

There was no need for Jiang You to look for the house number carefully, and a cordon was pulled at the entrance of the alley, surrounded by a group of neighbors on both sides, gossiping in a mess.

"What's wrong? What happened?"

"You don't know yet? I heard that there is a corpse inside!"

"Old lady Zhu? No way, what year is it, and still cheating on the corpse?"

"The bitter master said it himself, and he started yelling in the middle of the night last night!"

"Yeah, I just fell asleep last night, when I heard ghosts and jackals howling outside, it exploded at that time, I heard that someone died?"

"Who died?"

The old man was about to speak when he was interrupted by the policeman next to him, "What nonsense! It's about burglary, swindling corpses, what kind of swindling corpses? Every day I know that I'm engaging in these feudal superstitions, they're all gone, gone!"

The policemen waved their hands again and again, and the surrounding neighbors just took a few steps back, lowered their voices, and still whispered to each other, pulling their necks from time to time and peeking into the alley.

There was a low roar of the engine in the distance. A young man with long hair and a stone sword behind his back was driving fast on a motorcycle. With a screeching brake sound, the young man got off the car gracefully, parked the car on the side of the road, and walked into the alley.

"Hey! Hey! Don't you have long eyes, didn't you see the cordon here? You still go in, stop!"

Jiang You was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he took out a card with red letters on a black background and slammed it in the police officer's face, "Do you know him?"

The policeman stared wide-eyed, and there were three large characters of the Third Investigation Bureau written on it, and Jiang You's name and photo below. He immediately took out his mobile phone, called up a picture, compared it carefully, and immediately put on a smiling face.

Jiang You glanced at him indifferently, crossed the cordon, and walked towards the alley.

The crowd behind was still whispering.

"What unit is this Bureau of Investigation? I've never heard of it!"

"This young man is still carrying a sword, can't he be a Taoist priest?"

"Old Wang, the comrades from the Investigation Bureau are here!" The policeman behind him yelled, and three policemen came out of a house in front of him. Seeing Jiang You, they walked over quickly, and the leader stretched out his hand.

Jiang You shook hands with him, "Hi, I'm Jiang You, and I've been assigned full responsibility for this case."

"Hello, Investigator Jiang. We are from the Wutong District Police Station. We have been notified by the higher authorities and promise to fully cooperate with you. This matter is very serious. Go in and have a look!"

Jiang You and the other two nodded and walked into the gate together.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a few middle-aged men in sackcloth and filial piety in the yard, sitting on the horses and smoking tiredly with red eyes. As soon as they saw the police coming in, they surrounded Jiang You.

"Officer, is this the person we're waiting for?"

"This is Investigator Jiang. He was specially sent by the higher authorities to handle your affairs. You should cooperate well!"

A middle-aged man nodded quickly, "Investigator Jiang, I've sent you here." The man took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Jiang You.

Jiang You took a deep breath, exhaled a puff of blue smoke and asked, "Tell me everything you know!"

The man nodded, and a fearful expression flashed across his face, "Last night, our three brothers sent the friends who came to express condolences to the door. They found that the elder sister was not there. They thought they were in the mourning hall, so they went inside to find the elder sister. When they went in, they found that the room was dark and the lamp was off. They turned on the light, and no one found the elder sister in the house, so they called her. The bell rang in the room. We searched around and found that the bell came from the coffin!"

Speaking of this, the policeman next to him gasped. Even though this was the second time he had heard it, he still felt chills running down his back. After working as a policeman for so many years, this was the first time he encountered such a vicious case.

"And then?" Jiang You asked blankly.

"Of course we quickly opened the coffin, who knows, inside...inside"

At this moment, tears welled up in the man's red eyes, and two lines of tears flowed down, choking and twitching so that he couldn't speak a complete sentence.

The brothers at the side hurriedly stroked their backs to comfort them.

"What did you see in the coffin?"

The policeman nearby sighed, "Investigator Jiang, you should go and see for yourself."

The man squatted on the ground covering his face and weeping bitterly. The three of them bypassed the man and entered the room. The mourning hall was already in a mess, the photos on the altar table were dumped on the table, the tribute fruits were scattered on the ground, and a white candle was also poured out.

"The coffin is at the back, go and have a look, we won't follow," said the policeman.

Jiang You walked directly towards the coffin. The lid of the coffin was tilted halfway, revealing a corner. As soon as Jiang You approached, he smelled a familiar stench. It was the smell of dead bodies.

He grabbed the coffin lid with one hand, flipped it to the ground, and looked inside.

A female corpse stared straight at him with wide-eyed eyes. She lay on her back with a terrified face. The clothes on her body had several scratch marks, and the blood all over her body had turned black. One hand was resting on her lower abdomen, and a mobile phone with a black screen was pressed underneath.

And the original owner in the coffin, Mrs. Zhu, has disappeared.

Jiang You has seen many tragic corpses in the past few days, and most of them were caused by his own hands. Faced with this sudden female corpse, it was not enough to make him change color. After observing calmly, he found that there was a mess of scratches on the coffin board lying on the ground, as if someone had scratched it with nails.

He squatted down, and quickly swipe the nail of his thumb to the pad of his index finger, and a few drops of blood flowed out. He stroked the scratch with his index finger, and there was a sizzling sound, but he quickly recovered. Although it had been a while, even Jiang You's few drops of blood couldn't consume the strangeness, which allowed him to judge the general strength of this monster.

The few people waiting at the door did not hear the expected exclamation, and thought to themselves, "Sure enough, they are professionals. This psychological quality is not a boast."

Jiang You came out soon, and just about to speak, Jiang You came to the courtyard first.

"Clear the field! Now everyone is waiting at the entrance of the alley."

Dai Xiao's family members asked, "Investigator, do you have any conclusions?"

"I probably know what's going on, and I can't tell you now, and cooperate with my work now."

The police present were all ordered by their superiors to cooperate with the investigators unconditionally. Of course they would not question them at this time.

After all the staff had gone out, Jiang You was the only one left in the yard.

He pulled out the Shengxie sword on his back and looked towards the mourning hall.

A faint light flashed in his eyes.

"Tongyou!"

(End of this chapter)