Mystery Hunter - Chapter 235

[Chapter 235 The place of cremation]

When several people came to the crematorium, it was already around ten o’clock in the evening. The crematorium in the old city of Longcheng, as the name suggests, is located in the old city. The buildings here are usually no higher than six floors, and the location is remote and the transportation is inconvenient. Until there are no developers to invest, it should be deserted here.

However, even if there are real estate developers willing to invest in the crematorium, not many people are willing to buy it.

Unlike the noisy and bright scene in the city center, it was only around ten o’clock in the evening, and there were basically no pedestrians on the road. The shops on both sides also closed early, leaving only a row of lonely street lights sleepless until dawn. The crematorium in the old city is located here. It covers a small area and is rarely used.

Yuan Jun parked the car on the side of the road, and a few people got out of the car and walked towards the main entrance of the crematorium.

Two rusted wire doors blocked the way of several people. Jiang He went up to take a look. The two doors were chained together, but not locked. Looking inside through the wire door, I saw a path extending forward, I don’t know where it leads, there are no street lights on both sides, and it is pitch black with no end in sight.

There is a ten-square-meter gatehouse inside the wire door, which is also dark and blind, and it seems that no one is guarding it.

Yuan Jun walked up a few steps, pulled the iron chain hanging on the wire door, untied it, then pushed open a wire door and walked in. He put his face close to the window and looked at the pitch-darkness in the gatehouse, wondering if anyone was there.

“Dong dong dong” Yuan Jun knocked on the window and said, “Anyone?”

There was no response at all.

Yuan Jun turned around and said, “It seems that this crematorium is no longer in control.”

Xu Yiman looked at the dark road and said, “It seems to have been abandoned. I don’t know when this crematorium was built. It should be an old-fashioned machine, and it is no longer suitable for the present. Modern crematoriums are almost It’s already fully automatic, you only need to press a few buttons on the LCD screen to see what it looks like, and you may need to manually turn the body for cremation.”

As a very professional forensic doctor, Xu Yiman often goes to and from funeral homes. In crematoriums, hospital morgues and other places, Xu Yiman understands the process and operation methods of crematoriums, which is normal. Xu Yiman felt that this crematorium should be rarely used, and generally few people came. The murderer was hiding here, but it was expected.

“Let’s go in and have a look.” Jiang He said.

As soon as Jiang He finished speaking, Xu Yiman suddenly screamed. She pointed to the window behind Yuan Jun and said, “Yuan Jun behind you.”

A human face gradually appeared on the glass. It’s an old man’s face. The old man lit a candle in his left hand, put his head close to the glass from inside the house, his voice was hoarse like a broken drum that has been passed down in the last century: “Who, what are you doing here.”

Yuan Jun took out his police card and said, “Police! Come here! Investigate the case.” The

old man moved his throat and put the candle on the window sill, and after a while, he walked out of the gatehouse wearing long pants and a leather jacket. He was hunched over, his face was full of surroundings, his small eyes were hidden behind heavy bags under the eyes, and when he spoke, his yellow teeth stained with smoke showed: “Police?”

Jiang He nodded, looking at the hunchbacked old man , said: “We are going to check this crematorium.” The

old man looked at a few people, and then looked at the police card in Yuan Jun’s hand, and said, “I don’t know how to read, and I don’t know if you are a police officer. Anyway, you are here. You can do whatever you want inside, just don’t disturb my sleep. Anyway, I sold all the valuable things inside, and you can’t steal anything.”

After speaking, the old man looked at Xu Yiman again, and said fascinatedly: “Big ass~ give birth to a child.”

“Okay.” Yuan Jun frowned and asked the old man, “Have any strangers come in recently?”

“Are you talking about dead or living?” The old man squinted at Yuan Jun, and gently asked.

The weird crematorium, the pitch-dark environment, and such a weird old man made Yuan Jun beat up in his heart. He always felt that the crematorium had an indescribable feeling from the inside out. It seems that in the dark corners around, there are countless ghosts who are prying here.

“Is this crematorium not abandoned yet?” Jiang He asked.

The old man laughed and said, “Every second in this world, someone will be born and someone will die. But not everyone who is born can be taken care of by their parents, and not everyone who dies has someone to take their place. Dealing with the funeral. Every day in Longcheng, there are missing people, and every day there are dead bodies that cannot be claimed by anyone.”

“Those bodies whose family members have been found out but whose cause of death has never been found will be sent to I’m here.” The old man narrowed his eyes into a slit, and he couldn’t see who he was looking at: “Leave it here for ten days and a half months, if you can’t find your family, the corpse will be made into a corpse. The specimens are sent to the hospital to study, and they will be used as anatomical props. Hehe, you can’t live in peace after death.”

“The people here are all lonely and wild ghosts. If you are not afraid, what do you want to do?” Said, the old man Walking into the concierge, his face was lit by candles and looked eerie against the window. Immediately afterwards, he moved his mouth and blew out the candle on the window sill. The face disappeared immediately, and nothing could be seen in the dark room.

Yuan Jun shuddered and said, “This old man is really weird.”

Xu Yiman nodded and said, “It’s weird, but what he said is really right. I don’t think even if someone steals, they may not dare to. Come to the crematorium. Also, what he said about corpses is also true. When I was in medical school, corpses were in short supply. You think that there are so many students in each medical school, but there are so few corpses. .”

Jiang He walked along the path with a few people, and asked Xu Yiman, “Are all your corpses unclaimed?”

Xu Yiman shook his head and explained, “There are always these kinds of corpses. Let’s take a look at the source. One is those who have made a will to donate their remains. The second is some death row prisoners, unclaimed corpses. The third is some who sold their family members’ bodies for money. The above are corpses of many years, which have been dissected and sewed up. Our teacher said that her wish in this life is to let every student have a corpse of their own…”

Yuan Jun said with a pouted mouth: ” Your teacher’s ideals are really great.”

Xu Yiman shrugged and said, “That’s right, if you want to cure diseases and save people, you must understand the structure of the human body, you must continue to practice with corpses, and you don’t know how to die.

” Walking forward, there are no street lights on the dim road, only the moonlight above the head illuminates a few people. After walking down the path, two dark buildings were standing on either side. On the one hand, it is written as Longcheng Funeral Home, and on the other hand, it is written as Longcheng Crematorium.

Xu Yiman said: “The funeral home and the crematorium have always been together. After the autopsy, if it is confirmed that it is not a criminal case, the cremation can be carried out next to it. From the outside of the two buildings, it is indeed an old-fashioned funeral home. Now the crematorium is It should be no longer in use, maybe there will be a storage room in the funeral home to store those corpses.”

Jiang He looked up and said, “Then let’s go and have a look, go to the funeral home first.

” There are a lot of weeds on both sides, and the growth is gratifying, and it seems to be half the height of a person. Many insects stopped abruptly when a few people walked past, but from time to time strange sounds could be heard in the grass, and it seemed that some small animals were crawling inside.

Standing in front of the funeral home, the paint on the two wooden doors was badly peeled off, and the glass on the wooden doors was also shattered by someone unknown. Standing at the door, you can see that it is darker inside than outside. Jiang He never believed that there were any ghosts in this world, so he was the first to go up and gently opened the wooden door.

With a “squeak” sound, the wooden door opened, and the glass above shattered, making a “crackling” sound.

Jiang He tried to press the switch on the wall, but the light was off, and it looked like the power was out long ago.

“Can the body be placed here even if the power is turned off?” Jiang He asked, looking at Xu Yiman.

Xu Yiman shook his head and said, “That won’t work. If there is no cryogenic preservation, in such a weather environment, the body will rot in about ten days, let alone an autopsy, it is estimated that even the flesh is gone. Or in the storage room. The electricity is still on, let’s go take a look.”

Several people walked along the corridor, Xu Yiman seemed to be familiar with the structure here, and led them straight to the storage room of the funeral home. The few people walked deeper and deeper, which forced Jiang He to take out his mobile phone to illuminate the light, but in the depths of the corridor, there was an old sign that said Storage Room.

The door of the storage room was closed, Jiang He pushed it, but found that it couldn’t be pushed.

“I’m coming.” Yuan Jun stepped up, lifted it up with one foot, and kicked the iron gate open.

A cold air came out from the iron door, and the frozen people shivered, as if a ghost came from the door.

Jiang He lit it with the flashlight on his cell phone, and saw that there were rows of cabinets on the left and right sides of the storage room, which were similar to safes, except that the cabinets were tall and looked bulky.

Xu Yiman looked at these freezers and said, “This is the corpse refrigerator, but the style of this cabinet is very old. The temperature cannot be adjusted automatically. It seems that a pipe is used to connect the whole cabinet.

” Can you spot a corpse in which cabinet?” Jiang He looked at Xu Yiman and asked.

Xu Yiman shook his head and said, “I don’t know, the basic information of the deceased is not even posted on the outside of this cabinet. It seems that they are all corpses whose source has not been found.”

Jiang He sighed and said, “If it is In this way, it can only be opened one by one to see.”

[End of This Chapter]