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Chapter 197: The Cemetery's Corpse Pit
When I arrived at the suburban cemetery, a large crowd had already gathered outside. Most were just there to watch, while some had come to pay their respects with paper houses or bouquets.
"You finally made it!" Captain Wang exclaimed as he hurriedly pulled me through the crowd. After we passed the police cordon, we entered the cemetery.
Looking around, I noticed that the area outside the cemetery was filled with police officers. Inside the cemetery, aside from the officers, there were only Murong Duoduo and Gu Zixu, both dressed in plain clothes.
"What happened?" I asked as we walked.
"Ah!" Captain Wang shook his head and said while leading the way, "You'll see for yourself."
Captain Wang brought me to a low-lying area.
The cemetery was generally flat, but in the center, there was a depression. I realized this was where the Three Sovereigns' graves used to be. There had once been three tombs here, but now they had vanished, leaving behind a large pit.
As I approached the edge of the pit, I glanced over at Murong Duoduo and Gu Zixu on the other side, who were continuously vomiting, and couldn't help but look into the pit.
After my first glance, I instinctively pressed a hand to my mouth and gagged.
The scene before me could only be described as horrifying beyond belief.
Surrounding the pit were eyeballs!
Each person has two eyeballs, yet along the edge of the pit, there were eyeballs lined up one after another, forming a complete circle around it. In the pit itself lay a pool of water, floating in it were chunks of flesh, intestines, strands of hair, and fingers...
The sight was truly ghastly.
Accompanied by the rippling of the water, one could see beneath the floating objects, there were individual heads. Those heads had all their hair pulled out, noses and ears cut off, eyes gouged out, and even the skin of their faces removed; the muscles had been excavated and sliced into shreds, leaving only skulls behind.
"Wow!" I finally couldn't hold it in anymore and ran to the side, starting to vomit violently.
Just imagine, in such a large pool of water, everything looked like human organs and pieces of flesh, and along the edge of the pool, there were eyeballs arranged neatly. What kind of deep hatred must have existed to leave behind such a horrifying pool of corpses!
Captain Wang gently patted my back while solemnly saying, "According to what we currently know, there are thirty-eight victims! All of them are police officers on duty here. The person who reported it was an elderly man who came to pay respects at a grave! After receiving the call, we rushed over immediately."
"The killer's methods are extremely brutal!"
"First, they stripped our colleagues of their clothes, then cut off protruding body parts such as noses, eyes, ears, and penises. After that, they skinned them, gouged out the flesh, sliced it up, and threw the organs into the pool, surrounding the edge with eyes."
At this point, Captain Wang's voice clearly choked up.
"Master Cao, do you know?"
"This morning, Xiao Li's wife came to the police station. She said she was worried that Xiao Li would be too cold on night duty and specially knitted a sweater for him to pass along."
"Aunt Zhang brought a box of oranges yesterday morning. She said her son works here and thanked us for taking care of him. She asked everyone to eat some oranges and help look after her son."
"Xiao Mao came to the police station the day before yesterday. He saluted me and asked me to show his drawing to his dad. He also said he was very well-behaved at school and wanted to be a police officer like his dad when he grew up."
"Uncle Liu came to the police station the day before yesterday..."
As Captain Wang spoke, he broke down in tears. At that moment, other officers guarding the scene also shed tears. Although they stood motionless by the pool of corpses, those silent tears fell onto the ground; I could even hear their crisp sound.
I wiped my mouth and slowly raised my head. I patted Captain Wang's shoulder and said, "I'm sorry; it's my fault that they died!"
"I'm sorry?" Captain Wang looked at me with tear-filled eyes and said, "Is that useful?"
"Xiao Hu!" He pointed towards the corpse pit and said, "He just came to the police station last month. I even said I would take good care of him! Xiao Zhou, who has been with me for several years, had the biggest hope of catching all the bad guys in the city and then retiring honorably! And also..."
"Enough!" I really didn't want to listen any longer. Slowly standing up, I looked in the direction of the corpse pit, then placed my right index finger in my mouth. After biting it, I raised my right hand and said, "I, Cao Qilong, swear to heaven that in my lifetime, I will definitely bring the murderer to justice! Whether they are human, ghost, or demon! As long as I can catch them, I will send you down to the eighteenth level of hell for eternity!"
My voice echoed through the empty cemetery.
Deep autumn!
The fog was thick!
Even close to noon, the cemetery was still shrouded in mist that lingered on. I knew that at this moment, the thirty-eight Wandering Souls were restless! They were arranged here to guard the graves so that I would have enough time to recover the Ghost King and prevent the Seven Gates Ghost Sealing Formation and Three Sovereigns formation from being destroyed again!
But!
They paid for this with their precious lives, their bodies unrecognizable, their resentful spirits restless.
They were all righteous police officers, serving the People's Police. They worked hard from dawn till dusk for a life of integrity, so that everyone in the city could live and work in peace.
Suddenly, I felt like a sinner!
If it weren't for me asking the chief to send people to guard the cemetery, they might not have died.
At that moment, I waved my hand and left with a flick of my sleeve. The wind was strong, and the fog was too thick; perhaps it was sand getting into my eyes or maybe I hadn't slept well last night; anyway, I shed tears.
But I didn't feel like I was crying; instead, I thought it was just sand bothering me. I clearly didn't want to cry!
After leaving the cemetery, I didn't take a car nor did I plan to; instead, I walked directly back to the paper-making shop. Although it wasn't my first time doing this, it wasn't until I found myself outside the paper-making shop that I realized my feet and body had already gone numb.
Upon entering, I moved all the goods from the shop out onto the street and then set everything ablaze.
Blazing Fire attracted a lot of viewers. Some said I was planning to close up shop, others said I intended to change careers, and some even said I was crazy.
I simply used a stick to continuously throw Paper House, Paper Sedan Chair, Paper Figurine, and other items into the fire, stirring them with the stick until they burned completely.
This time, I burned all the stock I had made in the past, and the entire Paper Shop instantly became empty.
Looking at the vacant Paper Shop, is there nothing left?
No worries!
I can make more!
But definitely not now!
I returned to the back room, took off my shoes, and buried myself under the covers for a deep sleep.
However, could I really fall asleep?
Until I heard the sound of the Paper Shop door opening, I checked my phone and realized that from just after ten in the morning to now past four in the afternoon, I thought I had fallen asleep, but in fact, I had only soaked my pillow.
“Cao Qilong!”
I heard Murong Duoduo calling me again, not as Loser, but by my name; however, I didn’t respond.
She pushed the door open and yanked the blanket off me. “You jerk!” she shouted at me.
I ignored her and turned over to continue sleeping.
She might have been angry. After climbing onto the bed, she started punching and kicking me. I silently endured it, feeling no pain at all.
After a while, she must have gotten tired of hitting me. She lay down on the bed and began to cry loudly. As she cried, she hugged me from behind and shouted, "Why? Why did you let them go on duty? They shouldn't have died! They shouldn't have died!"
I thought that nowadays, the only person who wouldn't blame me might be the Director! Perhaps the deaths of the Thirty-Eight Police Officers could bring peace to the entire city, and the Director could do so without batting an eye.
But I was different; I felt very uncomfortable inside.
Murong Duoduo held onto me like that. I knew she was a woman, and a beautiful one at that. I also knew that I was single and a normal man, lying next to a beauty on the same bed.
But for some reason, I even had an impulse to push Murong Duoduo away from me; I just wanted to be alone in silence.
After a while, I fell asleep, although I didn't know how I fell asleep.
In my dream, I arrived at the Cemetery. Thirty-eight 'people' in uniforms lunged at me. I knew they were ghosts, and I was a Paper Effigy Maker with the ability to resist. But for some reason, I didn't want to resist; I let them tear and bite at me, and I couldn't even feel pain.
It wasn't until two in the morning that I woke up from that torment because I knew it was time!
Murong Duoduo was sleeping beside me. Although she was already fast asleep, tears kept flowing from the corners of her eyes! I removed her hand from my body, then took my Bloodstained Bag and slowly walked out of the Paper Shop with a Frying Pan on my back.
The street outside the Paper Shop looked very desolate, shrouded in mist with dim lights barely illuminating the road. The fallen leaves rustled in the wind.
I had three things that I must do!
The first thing: go to the Cemetery!
The second thing: go to the International Trade Building!
The third thing: go to the police station!
Walking down the street, I soon arrived near the cemetery. On the roadside, just like before, I saw the man in a suit. His small car was no longer in front of him. When he saw me approaching, he hurriedly stood up and said, "What do you want?"
I didn't answer him, but he ran away in fear. Perhaps my previous act of smashing his car had scared him, making him a bit afraid of me.
Watching him flee, I suddenly had a strange illusion. This guy had been lurking by the road near the cemetery for a long time; what was he really after? I had doubted more than once that he might pose a threat to me or Murong Duoduo, yet he had never taken any action. Moreover, seeing him run away in such panic didn’t seem like the behavior of a formidable adversary.
"Stop right there!" I suddenly shouted at him.
He instinctively paused for a moment before continuing to flee.
Thinking of running away?
It's not that easy!
I took out my bag and pulled out five small Paper Figurines. After giving them eyes, I chanted, "Urgent Order, go!"
The small Paper Figurines immediately came to life and quickly chased after the Suit-clad Man under my control.
Last time in the elevator, I summoned a spirit and then gave the small Paper Figurines eyes because I needed them to be able to stop Bingqing for a while without my direct control. But now, that wasn't necessary.
The night wind was the greatest aid to the movement of the small Paper Figurines. They quickly caught up with the Suit-clad Man, who was lifted off the ground by the five small Paper Figurines. He screamed and flailed about, while I moved my fingers to direct the small Paper Figurines to bring the Suit-clad Man before me.
"What do you want? Let me go!" the Suit-clad Man said in terror.
I had the five small Paper Figurines hold down his legs. It was very likely that this Suit-clad Man didn’t even realize he was already dead or perhaps didn’t know that spirits could move through the ground. That’s why it was so easy for my Paper Figurines to capture him.
"I need to ask you some questions!" I said calmly. "If I'm not mistaken, you should be the son of the police chief in the city, right?"
"No! I'm not!" the Suit-clad Man hurriedly replied. "I don't have a father like that!"
"So that's it!"
I continued to ask, "I need you to tell me everything you know!"
"Who are you? On what authority?" Suit Man shouted.
I took out a jade pendant and released Chickenshit from it. The reason I released Chickenshit instead of Rooster was that Rooster was too aggressive, and I couldn't control him. However, Chickenshit was different; due to long-term bribery with Chicken Blood, she seemed to have no hostility towards me.
Once Chickenshit came out, she blinked her beautiful big eyes and said, "Handsome Smida, you miss me so soon! There's no one around here; how about helping me scratch an itch?"
I calmly replied, "Isn't there one right here?"
"That guy?" Chickenshit pointed at Suit Man and then grinned, "He really looks so cute!"
"You can eat him!" I said with a cold laugh.
Suit Man shivered, while Chickenshit's eyes sparkled. Then she licked her sexy lips and transformed; her entire body was instantly surrounded by Ghost Fire. Her clothes and skin almost disappeared in an instant, and in the blink of an eye, she turned into a skeleton engulfed in Ghost Fire.
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