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Chapter 168: The Person in the Mirror
After a person dies, within 3 to 6 hours at room temperature, the smell of decay will begin to appear; however, in certain specific illusions, the time for the body to start decomposing is delayed.
Liu Yiyi's room was not large, consisting of a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and balcony. The balcony connected to the living room, with the kitchen and bathroom on the right side and the bedroom on the left.
After entering, I quickly glanced around the living room before hurrying into Liu Yiyi's bedroom.
The room contained a wardrobe, a desk, a bed, and a stool. On the ground, there was also a chalk-drawn outline of a human figure.
I first approached the bed because from the coverage area of the DV recording, it could be determined that this was the primary scene of Liu Yiyi's death.
Directly in front of me was a desk, or rather, it resembled a computer desk. There were some chalk circles drawn on it, indicating that cosmetics or similar items had likely been placed on the surface before.
Against the wall near the desk was a piece of glass.
The entire room had excellent lighting due to its particularly large windows.
It seemed that when Liu Yiyi was filming, she must have been sitting at the desk facing that piece of glass.
I walked up to the desk and reached out to touch the glass.
Women tend to enjoy dressing up more than men do, so they usually install a mirror in their bedrooms. However, it was strange that the glass on Liu Yiyi's wall was not a mirror but just a piece of glass.
"Ugh!" As soon as Murong Duoduo entered the room, she hurriedly covered her mouth and rushed out after just a couple of steps.
Captain Wang was not much better off; he was retching continuously because the room was unbearably foul. The stench had a sour smell, reminiscent of a dead rat in a garbage pile. Perhaps due to the room's good sealing, the odor couldn't dissipate.
I covered my nose and asked, "Did you smell anything when you came to collect evidence?"
"I did," Captain Wang replied while still covering his nose. "But it wasn't this bad."
Indeed! It was horrendous! Even if Liu Yiyi's body had not been cleaned up properly after being moved, it wouldn't smell this terrible! This could only mean that there must be another body in this room.
I shared my thoughts with Captain Wang, who quickly began searching everywhere. He started by looking under the bed, while I focused on the glass in front of me. Although the entire room reeked, I felt that the source of the stench should be coming from here.
The glass surface was smooth, and I found nothing unusual. I then looked at one side of the glass; on the right side, there was a small string. I pulled on the string.
With a ding, the lights in the room suddenly turned on.
I turned back to see that the bulb above the headboard had unexpectedly lit up!
It seemed that this small string was indeed the switch for the bulb. But why was the switch here while the bulb was above the headboard?
"Did you notice this switch when you first discovered it?" I asked Captain Wang, who had crawled out from under the bed. He looked at it and said, "Yes, we noticed it."
Could it be that I was being overly suspicious? I glanced back at the glass; the light from the headboard reflected off it, and suddenly there was a bright bulb visible in the glass.
I have to say, the refraction of light is indeed cleverly utilized, but why is there such a strange installation method?
With my doubts, I pulled out the chair under the desk and sat down. I glanced at the glass, and a shadowy figure appeared faintly within it.
I was taken aback and hurriedly shouted to Captain Wang, "Quick, pull down the curtains!"
Captain Wang was puzzled but still pulled down the curtains.
At the moment the curtains were drawn, I couldn't help but jump up from the chair!
In front of me, the glass revealed a decayed and somewhat deformed human head. The head was slightly bowed, but those two eyes were wide open, staring directly into my eyes. Through the refracted light above, the expression on that face appeared extremely terrifying, as if someone was shining a flashlight from below the chin and making a ghostly face at me.
A person in the mirror!
I never expected that a person would suddenly appear behind that glass!
At this moment, my heart raced, and I even forgot about the foul smell in the room.
"What happened?" Captain Wang asked in confusion.
I pointed at the glass in front of me and said, "There's a dead person back there!"
"How is that possible?" Captain Wang hurriedly looked at the mirror, his face full of doubt. I pushed him down onto the chair in front of the desk.
"Ah!" Captain Wang screamed and quickly jumped up from the chair, then swiftly drew his sidearm and pointed it at the glass.
Clearly, that head could only be seen from the chair, cleverly using various lights and angles in the room.
How could there be someone inside the wall? Normally, the thickness of a house wall is between 10 to 40 centimeters, and an adult's cross-section is at least fifteen centimeters.
No one would think that a person could hide inside the wall.
But I definitely saw a person!
I ran to the door of the room and checked the thickness of the wall; this was not a load-bearing wall but an ordinary brick wall. However, behind the glass in the living room, there happened to be a protruding TV wall that increased the thickness of this area.
"Quick! Quickly take down the glass!" I urgently said to Captain Wang.
Captain Wang nodded hurriedly. The two of us moved the desk aside, revealing a large piece of glass that reached down to the floor and was embedded in the wall, making it difficult to remove.
We improvised with a kitchen knife, slowly prying it apart at the seams before finally taking down the entire piece of glass.
At the moment the glass was removed, with a thud, a corpse fell heavily to the ground. A nauseating stench instantly assaulted us, so intense that both Captain Wang and I couldn't help but gag as we ran out of the room.
"What happened?" As soon as we stepped outside, Murong Duoduo asked.
I pointed back into the room and said, "Inside... inside there are... diamonds!"
"Diamonds?" Murong Duoduo looked at Captain Wang with skepticism, who was leaning over the railing and retching continuously.
This girl actually dared to play a trick on me in the detention center; I refuse to believe she doesn't love diamonds!
Sure enough, Murong Duoduo hesitated for a moment, gritted her teeth, then pinched her nose with her left hand and slowly pushed the door open to walk inside.
As expected, she had barely stepped in for a few seconds before rushing out in a flurry, squatting in the corner and vomiting uncontrollably.
After a person dies and is left in a sealed space for too long, the accumulation of foul odor can reportedly be strong enough to kill a bunch of flies. This might be an exaggeration, but it indirectly illustrates just how terrifying the smell of decay can be.
After a while, the forensic doctor and police team arrived. We put on masks before returning to Liu Yiyi's room.
The body in Ground was male, with its hands and feet severed and tied to either side of the deceased. That wasn't even the strangest part; the oddest detail was that the deceased was dressed in funeral clothes, and there was no coagulation where the limbs had been cut off.
The body had likely been dead for quite some time, as it showed signs of bloating and the flesh was beginning to peel away.
"The body has started to undergo gigantism. Based on the scene, it seems the time of death should be between eight to fifteen days ago," the forensic doctor said while examining the corpse.
"I don't know who it is, but they died a terrible death," a police officer whispered.
Looking at Ground's deformed body, I murmured, "He is very likely Guo Yang!"
"Guo Yang?" Captain Wang replied. "But Guo Yang was buried nine days ago; his parents came to claim the body at the police station. How could he possibly be here?"
"She’s such a tough girl!" At that moment, I thought of Liu Yiyi. That night, I chased her outside, but she disappeared. Later, I followed her to the cemetery, which indicates that when Liu Yiyi was running, she subconsciously ran toward places she was familiar with, meaning she had been to that cemetery before.
So, it’s very likely that Guo Yang's body was dug up by Liu Yiyi!
When Liu Yiyi was telling me about her relationship with Guo Yang, she didn’t mention the cause of his death. When I asked about it, she screamed and ran away. This suggests that she might not have run away because she saw Guo Yang's ghost but rather because she remembered something.
Additionally, thinking back to that text message "Help, Guo Yang," I suspect that "Guo Yang" is a signature. The person who sought help from the police wasn’t Liu Yiyi or anyone else but Guo Yang himself.
For a corpse that has been dug up, after the living burn paper money and other offerings at its grave, the ghost cannot receive them. Therefore, the night Guo Yang appeared in my shop might not have been because he was following Liu Yiyi; he could have come to my shop to shop. When he saw me and said, "Liu Yiyi, you’re ruthless," it was likely an expression of his unwillingness.
My mind suddenly became chaotic. I had a bold idea: the person who killed Guo Yang is Liu Yiyi! And Guo Yang is the real victim. As for Liu Yiyi's death, it might not be related to Guo Yang at all; instead, Liu Yiyi had been tormenting Guo Yang all along, causing him to remain restless even after death.
"By the way!" Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked Captain Wang: "You said Liu Yiyi isn’t a flight attendant? And those two flesh balls that fell from her underwear in the video are real flesh balls?"
Captain Wang nodded. "Yes!"
"Tell me more about Liu Yiyi's situation," I said urgently. For some reason, I suddenly felt like I had been heading in the wrong direction all along!
I admit I'm lecherous and easily swayed by Liu Yiyi's beauty; however, I'm also a Paper Craftsman and a Yin-Yang master. Besides believing in the living most of the time, I often help resolve issues for the dead.
Based on the current situation, I even suspect that not only is Liu Yiyi the murderer but she might also be related to my junior brother Pan Shenbao being trapped in a Seven Gates Ghost Sealing Formation!
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