You're Guilty: Conspiracy Scene 2 crime escalation

Chapter 5 The Walking Dead
Su Caixuan remembered it very clearly. Half a month ago, she read the report about a pair of lovers who disappeared while visiting Cangmang Mountain in the "Quzhou Evening News", and she sighed a little.It's just that she never imagined that this incident would be connected with the strange incident she encountered at the high school reunion.

Wang Xiaoqian, her deskmate when she was in school, is still the same as before, thin and small, with a high forehead, raised ponytail, thick and shiny lips, it seems that more than ten years have left no trace on her body .It's just that his expression is a little gloomy, not as energetic as when he was in school.

When Wang Xiaoqian saw Su Caixuan, she held hands for a few words of greeting and then stopped talking, looking very preoccupied.Su Caixuan asked with concern: "Xiaoqian, how are you doing recently?"

Wang Xiaoqian leaned her head towards Su Caixuan, lowered her voice and said mysteriously: "You are a forensic doctor, do you believe that there are living dead in this world?"

Su Caixuan froze for a moment, convinced that she had heard correctly, and said, "What is a living dead? Is it a living person or a dead person?"

Wang Xiaoqian said: "I'm alive, but I think I'm dead."

Su Caixuan rolled her eyes, thought for a while and said, "Is it insanity?"

Wang Xiaoqian said: "At first I thought so too, but the more I looked at it, the more I looked at it. The mental state of the whole person is normal, and I can live and work independently. The only symptom is that I imagine myself as a corpse every day, and I even claim to be able to smell it. smell of rotting corpses."

Su Caixuan said: "The symptoms you describe are similar to delusions, and the degree is already very deep, but patients with deep delusions have lost their rationality and cannot live and work like normal people. What is the relationship between this patient and you?"

Wang Xiaoqian glanced around to make sure that no one was eavesdropping on them, and said, "It's my husband. Think about it, the person who shares your bed with you every day imagines that he is a corpse with his internal organs decomposing and his skin It's festering, are you afraid?"

Su Caixuan put herself in Wang Xiaoqian's place and thought for a while, and couldn't help shivering, and said, "Take him to see a psychiatrist, the more delay the worse."

Wang Xiaoqian said helplessly: "He refused to go, he insisted that he was dead, locked himself in the room after work, barely ate anything, washed his hands with formalin, saying it was not good. It rots quickly. When I go out, I wear a navy blue uniform, which is actually a shroud bought from a funeral shop, but most people don’t recognize it.”

Su Caixuan said: "It has reached such a serious level, why are you still carrying it alone? Why didn't you tell his family members? We can find a way together, and it will always be better."

Wang Xiaoqian said: "He has no family, his adoptive father is dead, and he has no other relatives except me."

Su Caixuan understood Wang Xiaoqian's situation very well, and also understood why she wanted to reveal this unspeakable secret to herself, so she said: "Xiaoqian, don't worry, the matter has already happened, you have to face it bravely, wait a minute, let's leave early , let’s go to your house together, maybe I can give you some advice and help.”

Wang Xiaoqian nodded gratefully to Su Caixuan.

In the taxi home, Wang Xiaoqian introduced her husband Dang Yuhong's life experience and the course of his illness in detail.

Dang Yuhong was 27 years old at the time. He was an earthquake orphan. His biological parents were unknown. He grew up in an orphanage until he was five years old and was adopted by a widowed old man.When Dang Yuhong was 20 years old, her adoptive father died, and five years later she married Wang Xiaoqian, who was four years his senior.Now Dang Yuhong works as the room supervisor in a four-star hotel.

Dang Yuhong has always been in good health, has a cheerful personality, loves sports, and especially likes outdoor adventures. He is a sunny man.About 20 days ago, he suddenly fell ill for no reason, and complained to Wang Xiaoqian that his whole body was in unbearable pain, especially the spine and legs, which seemed to be broken and cut.Wang Xiaoqian was very nervous at the time, and carefully inspected his spine and legs, but found that they were intact, and there was nothing unusual on the surface.She asked Dang Yuhong to go to the hospital for an examination, but Dang Yuhong refused without question.

Dang Yuhong's "illness" worsened day by day until ten days ago, he officially announced his death.He told Wang Xiaoqian that his life was gone, only a walking corpse remained, and his body would gradually rot until it became a skeleton.He became more and more silent, ate less and less, washed his body with formalin solution every day, and ostentatiously wore a shroud.

Wang Xiaoqian felt that the familiar and friendly Dang Yuhong was disappearing, replaced by a strange, terrifying male body exuding the breath of death.Great fear filled her heart.

What's even more frightening is that she has to sleep and eat with this death-smelling shell every day under the same roof.

Until yesterday morning, the last straw that overwhelmed Wang Xiaoqian finally fell on her shoulders unexpectedly.Before going out of the room to go to work, Dang Yuhong suddenly stopped, turned her head slowly, and said to Wang Xiaoqian expressionlessly: "I have begun to rot, maggots are wriggling in my body, I hate this feeling , I hate the smell of my body." After finishing speaking, he straightened the collar of his shroud, wrapped his neck tightly, and went to work with his document bag between his arms.

Wang Xiaoqian fell down on the sofa, shedding tears in a daze.She felt that she was in a huge black hole, alone and helpless, and she didn't know where to break out.After spending two or three hours in a trance, she remembered that she would attend the high school reunion the next day, and her tablemate Su Caixuan, now a forensic doctor at the Municipal Public Security Bureau, might be someone she could confide in.

Although Wang Xiaoqian tried to keep her voice down as much as possible when telling this story, a few words were still heard by the taxi driver. He secretly looked at Wang Xiaoqian in the rearview mirror, his eyes full of suspicion.

Wang Xiaoqian's family lives in a newly built community in the southern suburbs of Quzhou City. It is a one-bedroom house with one living room. The interior decoration is brand new, but the space is a bit cramped.The two opened the door, and the room was pitch black. Wang Xiaoqian turned on the light, pointed to a closed door inside, and whispered, "He's in that room."

Su Caixuan also said quietly: "The room is not turned on, how do you know he is at home?"

Wang Xiaoqian said: "He has been like this these days. He comes home after get off work, does not cook or turn on the lights when he comes back, and just lies quietly on the bed in the bedroom with his clothes on."

Su Caixuan said, "Can I have a talk with him?"

Wang Xiaoqian said: "I just want you to get in touch with him, and I hope he will talk."

The two walked to the door of the bedroom lightly, opened the door, and Wang Xiaoqian said softly at the door: "Yuhong, I have a friend who is visiting at home and wants to say hello to you."

Through the hazy moonlight coming in through the window, one could see a well-dressed man leaning forward and sitting up on the bed, wiping his hair with his hands, straightening his collar, and whispering, "A guest is here, hurry up." Please sit on the sofa."

During her years of forensic medicine career, Su Caixuan has developed extraordinary courage and strong will, but after hearing Wang Xiaoqian's previous narration, she was still a little uneasy when she met Dang Yuhong face to face.She looked at Dang Yuhong, and saw that he was about 1.7 meters [-] tall, thin, and his complexion was so pale that it was almost transparent, giving off a very gloomy feeling.The dark blue uniform on his body was a little bulky, but it was clean and neatly ironed.Su Caixuan was used to seeing corpses in funeral parlors, and recognized that the suit was a shroud produced and sold by the "Wan Shou Yuan" funeral supplies store in this city. She couldn't help her scalp tingling, but she tried to stay calm and sat on the sofa with a smile on her face. .

Dang Yuhong's words and deeds were a little stiff, but there was nothing unusual. He sat down on the sofa to the left of Su Caixuan and said, "My hands are cold, so I won't shake hands with you, Xiaoqian, why don't you give it to the guests?" Take a glass to drink, mineral water, let’s have it iced.”

He said apologetically to Su Caixuan: "I'm sorry, I'm not in good health recently, and I don't see hot things." But he kept his expression still, and he didn't see any guilt.

Su Caixuan regretted for a moment that she was busy, maybe she shouldn't come to Wang Xiaoqian's house to see this damned "living dead", but this thought was fleeting, she brushed her hair that was hanging down her temples, and said with a smile : "It's okay, I like to drink cold ones."

Wang Xiaoqian fetched water and poured a glass for each of them. Su Caixuan picked up the glass and took a sip of cold mineral water to moisten her dry throat and said, "Mr. Dang, isn't he thirsty?"

Dang Yuhong sat upright and said, "I don't eat much, drink little water, and my body doesn't need it anymore. I haven't asked your name yet. Where do you work?"

Su Caixuan saw that Dang Yuhong's speech was measured and clear, except for a strong gloomy atmosphere, she was no different from ordinary people, so she said frankly: "My name is Su Caixuan, and I am Xiaoqian's high school classmate. I work in the Municipal Public Security Bureau. medical."

Dang Yuhong said: "Forensic? Then you must have seen many of my kind."

Su Caixuan probed further and said, "Who are your kind?"

Dang Yuhong's tone was undulating, plain and strange, and said: "My kind is not a human being, but a corpse. I am a corpse. Didn't Su forensic doctor see it?"

Su Caixuan thought, finally got to the point, and said along the lines: "I can't tell, I've never seen a talking or walking corpse."

Dang Yuhong nodded seriously, and said, "It's not your fault. I'm actually a walking corpse. My life is gone, but my body is still there, but it has begun to rot. My flesh and blood emit a rotten smell, and maggots breed. Eat my body."

Su Caixuan glanced at Wang Xiaoqian subconsciously, and saw that her eyes were full of tears, and her whole body was trembling slightly with fear, as if she was on the verge of collapse.Su Caixuan picked up the cup and took another sip of water. Feeling the comfort brought by the cold water flowing down the esophagus into the stomach, her mood seemed to stabilize a little. She said, "When did you die? How did you die? Tell me something?"

Dang Yuhong said: "20 days ago, on July 21, I began to suffer unbearably pain all over my body, and my spine and legs were broken. Since then, life has left me bit by bit. Until ten days ago, I completely Lost vital signs, according to your doctor's standards, I died at that time. These days, I have been trying to use various methods to prevent the body from decomposing, but the weather is too hot, I don't think I can last long, soon It was eaten up by maggots and turned into a skeleton."

Su Caixuan pondered for a moment and said, "Since you are already dead, why didn't you go to the crematorium and burn yourself? Why do you still live in a society of living people?"

Dang Yuhong said: "I like to make a corpse. If it is burned, it will turn into a pile of ashes. I don't want to do that yet."

Seeing that Dang Yuhong's condition was far beyond her imagination, Su Caixuan knew that she had to make a decision immediately, and said, "I have a suggestion and I hope to ask for your approval. My classmate, your wife Wang Xiaoqian, is not willing to make a decision with a She is living with a dead body, and she wants to live outside temporarily, is that okay?"

Dang Yuhong said: "Of course, I support her to live outside. This home is now a tomb. I have been wondering why she likes to live with corpses. Does she have necrophilia?"

(End of this chapter)