“Corpse rigidity?”

Zhang Yanfeng was taken aback.

“Impossible.”

Corpse rigidity only forms in a corpse some time after death. In both ancient and modern homicide cases, investigators use corpse rigidity to estimate the time of death.

But this was a living person,

A living person who could move.

“What do you say?” Officer Chen looked at Zhang Yanfeng. “Don’t you want to go up and take a look?”

“Are you kidding me?”

Zhang Yanfeng asked.

“Yeah.”

Officer Chen nodded.

“Dead people can’t possibly move, right?”

“Right.”

Zhang Yanfeng breathed a sigh of relief.

“People can’t possibly come back to life after they die, right?”

“Right… huh?”

Officer Chen smiled

and habitually put her fingernails to her lips,

biting them.

Because she was good-looking,

this action of hers was also very cute,

with the charm of a mature woman yet containing the playfulness of a girl.

Smart women, no matter the industry, actually know how to maximize their beauty; this is a woman's gift.

“I say, let’s go take a look.”

Officer Chen urged while gnawing on her nails.

“Oh, okay.”

Old Zhang ran over there.

Watching Old Zhang’s running back,

Officer Chen’s previously smiling face slowly faded,

but the nail-biting continued.

“The DNA and fingerprints are fine, but how do you really seem like a different person?”

Officer Chen frowned,

switched fingers,

and continued biting her nails.

…………

“Hey, kid, wait a minute!”

Zhou Ze was already mentally cursing Old Zhang, planning how to punish this blind subordinate when he got back.

But hearing Old Zhang’s shout from behind,

Zhou Ze immediately became a little excited.

So fragrant! (meaning: it is still worth it)

The little boy pouted,

turned around.

His gaze didn’t first look at Zhang Yanfeng who was running over, but at Officer Chen a little further away.

“Uncle, that sister makes me feel very uncomfortable. She gives me the feeling of looking at those grandpas and grandmas buried underground.”

The little boy helplessly reached out and patted the railing, saying with some resignation,

“Uncle, I want to go home; it’s too late. My mom and dad will be worried at home. Please say hello to that uncle for me.”

Saying this,

the little boy left,

carrying his Peppa Pig backpack and running off.

Zhou Ze breathed a sigh of relief,

thinking that the next scene would be a touching reunion between a superior and a subordinate.

He was already brewing his emotions.

But in the next moment,

Zhou Ze suddenly raised his fist,

turned around,

and smashed it at Zhang Yanfeng!

Crap,

Old Zhang,

Boss, I didn’t mean to!

“Bang!”

This punch landed directly on Old Zhang’s jaw.

Caught off guard, Old Zhang completely took the punch, and his whole body was knocked back and fell to the ground.

But Old Zhang reacted quickly.

He had been a veteran criminal police officer for decades,

and now he had experienced a second spring with a younger body.

Plus, he had been persistently exercising recently.

His belly was gone, and he was at the peak of a police officer in terms of experience and physical condition.

After falling to the ground,

Old Zhang did a sweeping leg.

“Bang!”

Hiss…

Zhou Ze was knocked to the ground,

and his head hit the riverside railing.

Old Zhang,

you dare hit me?

You dare hit your boss?

Old Zhang immediately got up from the ground and pounced over.

Zhou Ze’s body was no longer under his control.

He kicked out,

but having learned from the previous lesson, Old Zhang was much more cautious this time, dodging the kick and retaliating with a kick to Zhou Ze’s abdomen.

“Buzz!”

Although Zhou Ze couldn’t control this body at this time,

the pain was real.

However,

no matter how much Zhou Ze writhed in pain,

the body’s reaction didn’t stop because of it. His hands directly grabbed Old Zhang’s leg,

and then,

he opened his mouth,

and bit down!

Watching the foot getting closer and closer,

Zhou Ze felt a strong sense of resistance in his heart.

“Pfft!”

He bit down!

A strong stench came,

like a three-year-expired can of sardines.

Old Zhang,

how long has it been since you changed your socks?

This smell

made Zhou Ze almost vomit.

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

Old Zhang screamed.

He had never seen a suspect like this before.

When he stepped on him, Old Zhang thought the other party would lose resistance, but he didn’t expect him to be so fierce.

Well,

the ferocity of a veteran criminal police officer was demonstrated at this moment.

The safety of criminal police officers is actually the hardest to guarantee,

because they often face the most vicious people.

Of course, you can’t be gentle and soft when dealing with evil people.

“Crack…”

Zhou Ze’s neck was grabbed by Zhang Yanfeng, and Zhang Yanfeng’s knee pressed down directly,

against Zhou Ze’s head!

“Bang!”

His head suffered a heavy blow.

Zhou Ze’s consciousness was in a daze.

However,

immediately after,

Zhou Ze’s body was like an octopus, wrapping around Old Zhang’s body, and he opened his mouth and bit down on Old Zhang’s arm again.

“Hiss!”

Old Zhang gasped.

At this time,

he was already a little puzzled in his heart.

What the hell was this suspect?

Ordinary people, even those desperate people, wouldn’t fight in this way, right?

This was a completely fearless and reckless fighting style that ignored pain and any bodily reactions.

He turned his hands up, directly grabbed Zhou Ze’s neck, and then performed a shoulder throw!

“Bang!”

Zhou Ze was thrown heavily to the ground.

Just as he was about to get up,

Old Zhang didn’t want to take any chances,

and stepped forward to kick Zhou Ze in the chest.

“Bang!”

“Crack…”

Several more of the already fractured ribs broke.

Now,

should he be quiet?

Old Zhang felt a little regretful that he had come out in plain clothes and hadn’t brought handcuffs; otherwise, he could have just handcuffed the person, and the problem would have been solved.

But the next scene

made Old Zhang’s eyes widen.

He saw the suspect, who had been thrown to the ground and stepped on by him,

actually jump up in a carp-like flip.

However, one of the opponent’s legs seemed to be lame, and he couldn’t stand up completely,

but he bent over and charged directly at him.

“Bang!”

Old Zhang was dazed by the impact on his stomach,

and then he only felt his back pressed against something hard, and his body began to tilt backward.

This guy,

this guy wanted to push him into the river!

Old Zhang immediately stabilized his lower body and grabbed the opponent’s neck tightly with both hands, but even though he was strangling the opponent, the opponent didn’t seem to be affected at all and was still continuing to exert force on him.

The two men suddenly fell into a stalemate.

Because of the fight just now,

the mask had also fallen off.

Old Zhang saw an unfamiliar face very close to his own.

It was a very white face, a strange kind of white.

A white that

looked like a dead person.

And this dead person,

while strangling him and trying to push him into the river,

actually,

actually winked at him!

“……” Old Zhang.

Old Zhang was a little confused.

What exactly was going on!

“Old… Old… Zhang…”

Hmm,

was he talking?

Seemingly because the little boy had run far away,

Zhou Ze found that he seemed to have regained a little control over this body. At least, he could move his lips and make a little noise.

“Old… Old… Zhang…”

“Who are you?”

Old Zhang was stunned.

Although he was still desperately wrestling,

he instinctively sensed something was wrong.

To be precise,

this feeling of strangeness had been evident from the beginning of the fight.

Lawyer An had said that Old Zhang was the weakest of Zhou Ze’s ghost servants.

Because his soul had never been to hell, he was called a ghost servant, but he didn’t have the experience or qualifications of a ghost servant, nor did he have any special abilities.

Old Zhang was more like he had changed bodies and continued to be his police officer.

But the old criminal police officer still had his insight.

“I… Boss… Boss…”

“Who are you?”

Zhang Yanfeng’s feet were now raised in the air.

He was almost exhausted,

and the guy in front of him seemed to have endless strength.

“Boss…”

“Who are you?”

“……” Zhou Ze.

Was it easy for me to make a sound right now?

Why couldn’t you still hear me clearly?

Zhou Ze wanted to give up resisting

and just help this body kill Old Zhang.

“Who the hell are you?”

Old Zhang said.

He was using a lot of strength,

but at this time, his question was actually a little weak, like whispering, because his feet were off the ground and he was about to be pushed into the river.

“Boss…”

“Old partner?” (老伴儿 is a term for "old partner" or "spouse")

“……” Zhou Ze.

Kill him,

hurry,

kill him!

Why did I have a moment of kindness and recruit this guy as my subordinate?

Lawyer An was right.

What a waste of a spot!

“Ah, Old Boss!”

Old Zhang finally understood.

Zhou Ze was so moved that he was about to cry.

“It… It’s me…”

“Boss, what exactly happened to you?”

“I…”

Before Zhou Ze could finish speaking,

they heard a gunshot.

Oh,

in fact,

they shouldn’t have heard the gunshot first,

because the initial velocity of a bullet is much faster than sound.

Never mind that,

anyway,

someone had fired a gun!

“Bang!”

Zhou Ze only felt a heavy blow to his head.

He could even hear the bullet entering his head and breaking out the other side,

and the intense heat generated by the friction when the bullet briefly lingered in his brain.

Zhou Ze’s body staggered to the left,

and then his whole body fell to the ground due to inertia.

In a daze,

Zhou Ze saw Old Zhang, who had climbed down from the railing and was roaring and rushing towards him with a panicked expression,

and also saw

the policewoman not far away, holding a gun with smoke possibly coming out of the barrel.

“Thump…”

His back slammed heavily on the ground.

Zhou Ze felt like his whole head was empty.

In a confused state,

Zhou Ze vaguely saw himself on the sofa in the bookstore in the early morning,

lying there drinking coffee and reading the newspaper,

with Yingying standing behind him, holding *The Self-Cultivation of a Maid*.

Damn,

I really misunderstood those directors and screenwriters of bloody dramas before.

So,

when a person is shot, many, many scenes do flash through their mind in an instant…