314 Ghost Cemetery
◎Is this Bai Cheng's "resurrection point"?◎
Huo Wenxi went to see the autopsy report.
This is a private institution, converted from the basement of a hospital. The lights are dim, the corridors are emitting green light, and the pungent smell of medicine is everywhere.
Several rooms are used to store corpses, and the decoration in the corridor is a few jars filled with human organs, which is a bit creepy at first glance.
Corpses killed by pollutants will be examined by professional autopsies. Their main purpose is to see what elements are attached to the person's body or which parts are damaged, so as to infer the exact cause of death.
For example, when a blood manipulator kills someone, all the blood in the deceased person's body dries up.
The person in charge of the autopsy was called Jiang Yan. She was a leader in the field and had been dealing with corpses since she was born. Some people called her the Death Doctor, but her appearance was very different from her nickname. She had a pear-shaped hairdo and very round eyes, and looked like a student.
Huo Wenxi: "No fatalities?"
Jiang Yan nodded: "I can't tell."
This is also normal. The autopsy can only reveal one-third of the case, and the remaining two-thirds are unsolved cases. This is also Huo Wenxi's intuition that the autopsy will not produce any results.
How did he die? Huo Wenxi recalled the strange death scene. Are all "Chen Qihang"s so strange?
Huo Wenxi shook his head. "It's okay, thank you."
Huo Wenxi didn't have time to waste here. Zhuang Lin would handle the follow-up, and she had to go back to investigate other matters. Huo Wenxi had just turned to leave when Jiang Yan suddenly said from behind, "Um..."
Huo Wenxi turned to look at her. Jiang Yan was wearing a white coat with blood stains on his body. He looked hesitant. She pointed at her eyes and said, "Your eyes..."
Huo Wenxi raised an eyebrow: "Hmm?"
Jiang Yan: "It seems I can't hold on much longer."
When he took a closer look, Jiang Yan saw something squirming under Huo Wenxi's eye mask, and the surface of the eye mask bulged slightly, as if some strange creature was buried inside.
Jiang Yan dealt with this kind of thing. "You have the smell of a corpse."
The strongest smell on Huo Wenxi's body is actually the smell of tobacco. Because he deals with documents all year round, there is also a bit of ink smell on his body. This is the first time Huo Wenxi has heard someone say that he smells like a corpse.
And she came here for Chen Qihang's matter, so how come she also had clues about the Devil's Eye?
Jiang Yan twitched his nose and muttered to himself, "I seem to have smelled it somewhere..."
Huo Wenxi asked: "Where?"
Jiang Yan shook his head. "On another body. Let me think about it."
…
Outside the wall.
Zhu Ning was originally researching a fake urn and had discussed this with Pei Shu, but none of them had any clue.
Zhu Ning had no choice but to look at the scenery to divert her attention. When she first saw something rolling, she thought it was a tumbleweed, but when she looked closely, she saw that it was garbage all over the ground.
Cans, abandoned trash cans, car wreckage, and colorful ribbons moved across the grass like cattle and sheep.
Zhu Ning noticed that there was a lot of garbage at Duoluo Station. The more he walked, the more there was, and it actually became such a large area.
Zhu Ning propped up his chin and asked, "What is this?"
Pei Shu answered every question: "It's a phenomenon outside the wall. It happens in many places. You can think of it as ants moving."
Huh? Is this ants moving?
Zhu Ning looked at it again with this setting in mind. The garbage was lined up in a long line, as if it had some direction.
Zhu Ning: "Where are they going?"
"I don't know. They're quite common outside the wall. They're harmless and won't hurt anyone. But don't touch them. It's easy to get entangled in them and suffocate to death."
Suffocation? It doesn't seem to be a very serious injury.
Pei Shu: "I remember a form of punishment in the past where they would wet a thin piece of rice paper and then cover the person's face. It was originally a piece of paper, but it became a torture device."
"It's pretty much the same principle," Pei Shu said. "When you're covered in a torn fishing net or a large garbage bag, you feel like you're just a light mass of plastic at first, but then it becomes more and more, and you lose track of it. You can cut it with a knife or burn it with fire, but even after that, there's still an endless amount. The more you fight, the tighter it gets, and then it's like sinking into sand, impossible to pull out. The garbage will engulf you, suffocating you, and take you with it."
Zhu Ning thought about it and realized that the situation was indeed troublesome. He asked, "What if I accidentally go in?"
Pei Shu thought that if he didn't provoke this thing and stayed away from it, nothing would happen. But when he thought about the person asking him, he couldn't be sure.
Pei Shu: "Actually, it's best not to move. Stay inside, relax your body, and slide out in the direction of the garbage bag. With luck, you might find a way out."
Zhu Ning: "Died because of bad luck?"
Pei Shu hummed in agreement. Zhu Ning asked, "So they also have a pollution source?"
No one had ever asked Pei Shu this. Pei Shu was silent for a moment and said, "I've never been in there. Do you want to purify yourself?"
Is Zhu Ning really going to eat garbage? This pollution source might be a monster twisted from garbage. Isn't that... too much?
Pei Shu's mind inexplicably flashed with the scene of Zhu Ning devouring the garbage mountain, and he quickly stopped talking. "I feel like this thing is like a kind of natural purification."
As pollution spreads, humans have hidden behind high walls, leaving behind urban ruins and garbage all over the ground. Nature is purifying the land in its own way.
Pei Shu has always thought that it is because humans think they are the masters of the world that they regard pollutants as enemies.
In the eyes of pollutants, perhaps they, humans, are the pollutants.
However, this kind of scene seems to be becoming more and more common in the past two years. In the past, garbage migration could only be seen near the north. Garbage migration is similar to some natural landscapes in the past, such as tornadoes. In the future, human exploration activities outside the wall will only become more and more difficult.
Zhu Ning seemed to be lost in thought. He saw Pei Shu in the rearview mirror. Pei Shu was knitting very fast and the yarn was already as big as a palm.
Zhu Ning asked, "What are you knitting?"
Pei Shu: "Do you want a hat?"
Zhu Ning was silent for a moment. Pei Shu was using a pink hat, and she seemed to have not used a hat of this color since kindergarten. It seemed quite punk to her at her age.
"Yes," Zhu Ning said, never refusing anything that came to his door. "Xiaofeng, do you want it?"
Lin Xiaofeng was driving, and Zhu Ning was afraid that she would feel sleepy, so he talked to her all the way. Lin Xiaofeng was not good at making her own requests, but following Zhu Ning cured this problem.
"Can I have gloves?"
Pei Shu: "Okay."
Zhu Ning thought Pei Shu knew a lot, even how to make gloves. He also remembered that he had all kinds of woolen toys at home, which were very delicate, and he thought they must have been knitted by himself.
It’s a pity that it was burned... Zhu Ning thought he should go get some more wool for Teacher Pei as compensation.
Pei Shu: "Then I'll get one for Bai Cheng too."
They didn't encounter much danger along the way, as they were just looking at the scenery outside the wall. Once, Zhu Ning saw three other cars floating in the air, which might also be exploring outside the wall.
They seemed not to see each other and did not say hello.
However, the further we walked, the more traces of other people we saw. Does this prove that this road is indeed not dangerous?
They passed by an abandoned city and rested for a day. They originally wanted to relax and hurry on their way, but thinking that Bai Cheng might be waiting for them, they didn't rest much and wanted to pick up their teammates early.
Pei Shu pointed and said, "The ghost cemetery is in front."
Pei Shu was pointing at a mountain. It seemed to be a scenic spot in the past. There was a ticket booth at the entrance. There was a winding road that led up to the mountain. However, no one had maintained it for many years. The road was covered with plants and only a few traces could be seen.
Zhu Ning looked around and saw that there were a few cars behind him, but they all turned in another direction and no one was heading towards the mountain.
Pei Shu explained, "That's the main road. We've never been in there, we've just been passing by."
The place that Bai Cheng found for herself to hide the body was a quiet place in a noisy place. It had to be a place that Pei Shu knew, but not everyone could go there, otherwise she might be found in advance.
Zhu Ning was very curious about Bai Cheng. Since the immortals are immortal, do they need to be awakened?
The car circled the mountain. The trees were too dense to see clearly below, and they didn't know where to park the car. Zhu Ning asked, "Shall we go inside?"
Pei Shu: "This is the only way."
They were looking for a place to park, and then they found a parking lot here, with only two scrapped old world cars. They parked in the middle, as if they were here for tourism.
Before getting out of the car, Zhu Ning rummaged through the trunk. The equipment prepared by Lao Zhao was so comprehensive that she picked out three retractable shovels.
Pei Shu: "Are you going to rob a tomb?"
Seeing Zhu Ning's attitude, I thought she was going to dig up someone's ancestral grave. Zhu Ning said: "Maybe we really should dig it out."
Pei Shu thought it made sense. He wouldn't believe it if it were someone else, but that was Bai Cheng. It was so reasonable for her to bury herself underground.
The three of them got out of the car with shovels. They were not sure if they could find the destination in one day. They also carried tents, backpacks and some necessities, and it looked more and more like they were here for camping.
Walking in from the parking lot, I found that it was a relatively undeveloped scenic spot. There were a few words faintly visible on the arched gate: Muxishan Forest Park
There is also a forest fire prevention sign hanging next to it, warning people not to bring lighters or other fire sources up the mountain.
Zhu Ning wondered what the definition of fire was. He didn't bring a lighter, but he brought Pei Shu, who was good at setting fires.
After Zhu Ning went to the Guixiang, he always looked at the rules and regulations before anything else. Pei Shu also looked at them and felt that he would definitely be able to get in. Otherwise, why would Bai Cheng ask him to come?
This park is free. The ticket counter at the entrance sells cable car tickets, and there is a sign saying that people with heart disease and mental illness are not allowed to ride the cable car.
Zhu Ning asked, "Why is it called the Ghost Head Cemetery?"
Pei Shu: "Before the scenic area was developed, it was a cemetery. Locals worshipped their ancestors here. When the scenic area was established, there was a discussion about moving the graves, but the locals refused to allow it, so the two were merged."
Zhu Ning asked, "How did you know?"
There were no signposts nearby. Pei Shu said, "Five kilometers further is the shelter. When we used to rest, several groups of people would gather and some would talk about the rumors nearby. I heard about it there."
Pei Shu had also heard about the Homecoming. It was simply the most complicated place Zhu Ning had ever been to. It wasn't the pollutants that were complicated, but the things involved that gave Huo Wenxi a headache.
Zhu Ning: "Anything else?"
"That's all. There's just a legend here that someone would hear someone crying in the middle of the night, and someone else saw a floating human head. It sounds pretty unoriginal, so later people called it the Ghost Head Cemetery."
It's really uncreative. Ghost stories are not written like this nowadays.
Now that we're here, we must go in. This time, Pei Shu leads the way, Lin Xiaofeng remains invisible, and Zhu Ning follows behind. As she walks, she thinks it's as if this is her first time climbing a mountain in this world.
The three men were wearing protective suits and holding shovels, looking like dangerous elements.
Without human constraints, the plants here grow horizontally and climb up the mountain steps, but the higher you go, the more colorful garbage there is.
They walked for about three hours before they reached a hillside and saw graves all over the mountain.
There are all kinds of tombs here. Some are just a small earthen slope with a stone tablet in front. Others are more exquisite, made of cement, and it seems that a family lives in them. There are three floors in total.
Some are even more luxurious, with stone gates built in them, as if there is another world inside that needs to be opened to enter.
When we arrived at the cemetery, there were paper money floating in the air, faded gold ingots on the ground, crooked wreaths, and rotten offerings scattered on the ground. It was an unattended wild cemetery with a lot of garbage.
What's very strange is that the cable car is suspended in the air. Cemeteries are usually quiet, so why are tourists walking over the heads of the dead?
They had chosen to come at daybreak, but the trees here were so tall that they blocked out the sun, making the cemetery look eerie and dark.
A gust of wind blew, and the leaves shook with a whistling sound. Paper money seemed to be scattered out, covering their heads.
Zhu Ning didn't dare to move, feeling paper money and paper flowers passing by her body. Suddenly, she heard a creaking sound. Zhu Ning looked up and saw that the cable car above her head was still moving. It had been out of use for many years and was covered in rust. There was no one on it, but it was moving forward with a creaking sound.
Zhu Ning always felt that this place was weird and wanted to find Bai Cheng as soon as possible and get out. They spread out to look for clues. They looked at the graves one by one and found that many of them were unattended and covered with moss.
If you stare at the inscription on a tombstone for a long time, you will feel inexplicably cold and dizzy.
After searching for several hours and looking at so many graves, and the sky getting darker and darker, Lin Xiaofeng finally found something, and several people hurried to her side.
She found a tombstone, which stood very awkwardly. There was no grave mound or burial chamber behind the tombstone, just a flat ground. On the tombstone was written: Tomb of Bai Cheng.
Is this Bai Cheng’s “resurrection point”?
Pei Shu: "Dig it up?"
Zhu Ning nodded. She had never dug a grave before, and she didn't expect that the first time would be for Bai Cheng. They dug a few times with the shovels. The first time was the hardest, but after that they became numb, as if three laborers had been digging a tunnel all night, and suddenly, something other than soil appeared.
It feels soft to the touch. Could it be that they didn't even prepare a coffin for Bai Cheng to lie in, and they dug it up like that?
Zhu Ning dug with his hands but couldn't find the body. A red corner was exposed in the black soil. Is this... a plastic bag?
Zhu Ning had just listened to Pei Shu's lecture on plastic waste and was a little confused about it. It was normal to dig out plastic from the ground, but when Zhu Ning touched it through her gloves, the plastic rustled in the wind. Why did she feel like the plastic bag seemed to be alive?
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