Chapter 28 Chá

Zhou Ze walked over, crouched down, and examined the wounds on the corpse.

"Tsk, tsk, it really looks like it was bitten to death by a zombie."

The little loli wouldn't leave tooth marks.

"Are the wounds on the other two bodies the same?" Zhou Ze asked.

"Yes," Zhang Yanfeng gave a definite answer.

"Boss, you might have relatives of yours haunting this area."

Lawyer An lit a cigarette and continued,

"Should we call them out for a gathering?

And then ask if they've seen Lin Ke?"

Zhou Ze didn't respond to Lawyer An's teasing but used his fingernails to dig open the wound on the corpse's neck. Inside this wound, white hairs had grown, densely packed like a fungus.

"This is..."

Lawyer An was somewhat surprised.

"Burn these three bodies before we leave later; we can't leave them here. There's still time. Once the white hairs grow beyond the skin's surface, they'll turn into corpses."

"Turn into corpses?"

Zhang Yanfeng really wanted to take out a recording pen or notebook to take notes. These were knowledge points he had never encountered during his police academy studies or his years of handling cases.

Now, he needed to adopt the attitude he had when he first became a criminal police officer and learn how to be a ghost messenger.

"I know there's a chance of turning into a zombie after being bitten by one, but directly growing white hair..." Lawyer An scratched his head.

"Directly turning white means the zombie that bit them is of a very high level. It's definitely not an ordinary zombie, maybe even..."

Zhou Ze turned his head to look at Yingying, who was still looking around, studying the interior design.

"Much, much older than Yingying."

"That scary?" Lawyer An chuckled sheepishly.

"Yes, so do you still want me to call out my relative?

I'm telling you in advance, the one inside me just made a ruckus, and he's in hibernation for the time being. I can't even wake him up.

Maybe that relative will let us off the hook since I and Yingying are of the same kind.

As for you two… hehe."

"Visiting relatives is the most troublesome thing, right? I hated visiting relatives the most when I was alive."

Lawyer An stood up and handed Zhou Ze a cigarette.

Zhou Ze clapped his hands and said, "This first floor is about done. Let's go up and take a look."

The four of them went up the stairs to the second floor.

Sure enough, there were corpses on the second floor, two of them.

One was a woman, wearing a women's suit; the other was a man who looked a bit old.

It was a pity that the old Taoist wasn't here. He had already embarked on the journey to send Hei Xiaoniu back to the bookstore. If he were here, he would definitely recognize these as his old human-trafficking buddies with whom he used to drink and brag.

The female corpse was probably around forty years old, and her death was very tragic. To be precise, both corpses had died very tragically.

"The female corpse has traces of being stabbed extensively by glass, probably from the chandelier originally on the ceiling. Moreover, both corpses show signs of being restrained, and the male corpse's neck..."

Zhang Yanfeng made a crossing motion,

Emitting a "crack" sound from his mouth.

"Hmm, it feels a bit familiar."

Zhou Ze smiled.

Yes,

Lawyer An also smiled.

Old Zhang wanted to smile, but he held back.

Smiling at a murder scene is not right. It is disrespectful to the deceased.

But having seen so many corpses, it's impossible to respect them all.

Traces of the little loli were found on these two corpses. As expected, they were probably killed by the little loli's tongue.

Weren't they going back into the mountains to find the little loli?

Otherwise, everyone would probably have taken Hei Xiaoniu back to Tongcheng to grow vegetables long ago. Who would have the leisure to wander around in this mountain gully?

Now, at least it proves that everyone's direction is correct. The little loli had been here and had killed people.

"The people on the first floor weren't killed by her, but the people on the second floor were. What does that mean?" Lawyer An said, "Maybe the little loli ran into that zombie?"

"There's one more floor. Let's go up and see."

Zhou Ze walked up the stairs, holding onto the railing. The space above was actually simpler: a large living room, plus a bathroom and bedroom. Directly opposite the stairs was the door to a study.

Very simple, very solemn.

There were no corpses here; it was quite clean.

However, the study door was tightly closed, giving off a great sense of oppression, as if it were telling you, in no uncertain terms, that there was definitely something behind this door.

Zhang Yanfeng tried to push the door open, but found it was locked.

Indicating for Old Zhang to step aside, Zhou Ze personally walked over, picked the lock with his fingernails, and then the study door slowly opened on its own.

The furnishings in the study were also very simple.

The floor was covered with a red carpet.

A desk, a rocking chair,

Four curved walls of bookshelves, filled with books.

Somewhat surprisingly, there seemed to be someone sitting in the rocking chair. From the doorway, it seemed as if you could see an old man with white hair sitting with his back to them.

This feeling,

It was as if this old man had been sitting there waiting for them to come in.

Moreover, because the windows in the study were open, the mountain wind kept blowing in, and the rocking chair was gently swaying.

It had a feeling similar to that of a prophet in a Western movie.

But Zhou Ze couldn't sense the other party's aura.

There were two explanations for this:

One was that the old man was ridiculously strong.

Two was that this was a dead man.

Zhou Ze remembered how Zhang Yanfeng scared off that old man with sunglasses at the convenience store entrance.

Therefore,

At this time,

Zhou Ze didn't hesitate.

While the three people beside him were still a little hesitant,

He directly said:

"Newspaper!"

A cloud of black mist burst out from Zhou Ze's five fingernails,

And rushed directly towards the rocking chair.

With a crisp "crack" sound,

The rocking chair shattered,

And the old man on it also fell down,

Lying on the ground, motionless.

"Phew..."

It was a dead man.

"Phew..."

Lawyer An and the others also breathed a sigh of relief.

Everyone was obviously shocked by the scene they had seen when they first opened the door.

"Search the vicinity, see if there are any other leads..."

"Boss, there's someone by the window!"

Bai Yingying shouted, pointing to the west window of the study.

Zhou Ze looked over and found that there was indeed a figure flashing by the window!

Lawyer An reacted the fastest this time and rushed to the window, pulling back the curtains. By the time Zhou Ze and Zhang Yanfeng arrived, there was nothing to be seen.

"I saw it," Lawyer An said. "That thing was just by the window. By the time I got here, he had already run to the doorway and ran outside. It's too dark, and I can't see any further."

Zhou Ze nodded.

Lawyer An's movements just now were very fast. It didn't take a few seconds to get from the door to the window, but that person was able to jump directly from the third floor and run outside. This speed and skill definitely exceeded the scope of ordinary people.

"There's one thing I'm not sure about: that guy was running very smoothly." Lawyer An frowned and continued, "So smooth that it was like he was floating."

"Floating?"

Zhang Yanfeng wanted to take out his notebook again to record it.

"If he was floating, then drifting diagonally downwards from the third floor to the doorway would be very fast. Could it be a ghost in clothes, but this ghost is messing around at night..."

Before Zhou Ze could finish speaking,

They suddenly heard a noise from behind.

The three men leaning against the window immediately turned around.

The white-haired old man who had been lying motionless on the ground,

Had actually stood up at this moment,

And was waving his arms and claws!

The hell, was he reanimated?

In short,

The sudden movement of the old man's corpse, coupled with the visual impact of opening the study door earlier,

Made Zhou Ze's heart skip a beat.

As a ghost messenger,

He actually found the thrill he used to have watching horror movies when he was an ordinary person.

Zhou Ze wanted to make a move,

But he didn't make it in time,

Because Bai Yingying was closest to this suddenly risen old man.

"Eeeek,

You scared me to death!"

When faced with this kind of situation,

Some girls would faint directly,

And others would be so frightened that their bodies would tremble,

But Yingying was "eeeking"

While subconsciously throwing a punch!

"Bang!"

Zhou Ze believed that Yingying was really frightened just now.

He was also frightened.

But Yingying's fist directly blew the old man's head off.

Yes,

Blew it off.

But the headless old man was still swaying,

As if he were dancing an old-man disco.

"What the hell is this thing!"

Lawyer An stepped forward and kicked the headless old man.

"Bang!"

The old man was kicked over,

And his abdomen directly caved in upon landing.

A furry thing crawled out.

"Get over here!"

Lawyer An's left hand instantly transformed into a white bone hand and grabbed forward,

Catching a large thing in his hand.

It looked a bit like a cat, but much bigger than a cat.

It had a tail,

And looked like a fox, but wasn't a fox. In short, it was a strange-looking thing.

Gray light was flickering in this thing's eyes,

And it was still struggling and thrashing madly, even after being caught.

Looking at the old man again,

It turned out that the old man's corpse was actually empty inside. He couldn't see it clearly before because it was wrapped in clothes, but now he could clearly see that the old man's entire body had been hollowed out.

So,

When this thing moved around inside the old man's corpse,

It caused the old man's corpse to move along with it.

"Boss, do you know what this thing is?"

Lawyer An asked Zhou Ze.

"How would I know? It's like a fox that's not like a fox, and a cat that's not like a cat," Zhou Ze shook his head.

"I know," Zhang Yanfeng suddenly said, "I grew up in the countryside. There were things like this by the fields and rivers when I was a kid. They're called chá!"

"Chá?"

Zhou Ze repeated the name,

Then looked at Zhang Yanfeng,

"Old Zhang, did you have a little friend in the countryside when you were a kid..."

"Little friend?"

"Yeah, his name was Rùn Tǔ."