When several people came to the crematorium, it was already around ten o'clock in the evening. The crematorium in the old city of Longcheng, as the name suggests, is located in the old city. The buildings here are usually no higher than six floors, and the location is remote and the transportation is inconvenient. Until there are no developers to invest, it should be deserted here.

However, even if there are real estate developers willing to invest in the crematorium, not many people are willing to buy it.

Unlike the noisy and bright scene in the city center, it was only around ten o'clock in the evening, and there were basically no pedestrians on the road. The shops on both sides also closed early, leaving only a row of lonely street lights sleepless until dawn. The crematorium in the old city is located here. It covers a small area and is rarely used.

Yuan Jun parked the car on the side of the road, and a few people got out of the car and walked towards the main entrance of the crematorium.

Two rusted wire doors blocked the way of several people. Jiang He went up to take a look. The two doors were chained together, but not locked. Looking inside through the wire door, I saw a path extending forward, I don't know where it leads, there are no street lights on both sides, and it is pitch black with no end in sight.

There is a ten-square-meter gatehouse inside the wire door, which is also dark and blind, and it seems that no one is guarding it.

Yuan Jun walked up a few steps, pulled the iron chain hanging on the wire door, untied it, then pushed open a wire door and walked in. He put his face close to the window and looked at the pitch-darkness in the gatehouse, wondering if anyone was there.

"Dong dong dong" Yuan Jun knocked on the window and said, "Anyone?"

There was no response at all.

Yuan Jun turned around and said, "It seems that this crematorium is no longer in control."

Xu Yiman looked at the dark road and said, "It seems to have been abandoned. I don't know when this crematorium was built. It should be an old-fashioned machine, and it is no longer suitable for the present. Modern crematoriums are almost It's fully automatic, you just need to press a few buttons on the LCD screen, you can see what it looks like here, and you may need to manually turn the body for cremation."

As a very professional forensic doctor, Xu Yiman often goes in and out of funeral homes, crematoriums, hospital morgues, etc. Xu Yiman understands the procedures and operation methods of crematoriums, which is normal. Xu Yiman felt that this crematorium should be rarely used, and generally few people came. The murderer was hiding here, but it was expected.

"Let's go in and have a look." Jiang He said.

As soon as Jiang He finished speaking, Xu Yiman suddenly screamed. She pointed to the window behind Yuan Jun and said, "Behind you, Yuan Jun."

A human face gradually appeared on the glass, and after everyone saw it clearly, they realized that it was an old man's face. The old man lit a candle in his left hand, put his head close to the glass from inside the house, and his voice was hoarse like a broken drum that has been passed down from the last century: "Who, what are you doing here."

Yuan Jun took out his police card and said, "Police! Come and investigate the case."

The old man moved his throat and placed the candle on the window sill. After a while, he came out of the doorman wearing long johns and a leather jacket. He was hunched over, his face was full of surroundings, his small eyes were hidden behind heavy pouches, and when he spoke, his yellow teeth stained with smoke: "Police?"

Jiang He nodded, looked at the hunchbacked old man, and said, "We're going to check this crematorium."

The old man looked at a few people, then looked at the police card in Yuan Jun's hand, and said, "I don't know how to read, and I don't know if you are a police officer. In short, you can do whatever you want inside, just don't disturb my sleep. Anyway. I sold all the valuables inside, and you can't steal anything."

After speaking, the old man looked at Xu Yiman again, and said fascinatedly: "Big ass~ give birth to a child."

"Okay." Yuan Jun frowned and asked the old man, "Has any strangers come in recently?"

"Are you talking about the dead or the living?" The old man asked Yuan Jun with slanted eyes.

The weird crematorium, the pitch-dark environment, and such a weird old man made Yuan Jun beat up in his heart. He always felt that the crematorium had an indescribable feeling from the inside out. It seems that in the dark corners around, there are countless ghosts who are prying here.

"Is this crematorium not abandoned yet?" Jiang He asked.

The old man laughed and said, "Every second in this world, someone will be born and someone will die. But not everyone who is born can be taken care of by their parents, and not everyone who dies has someone to take their place. Dealing with the funeral. Every day in Longcheng, there are people who are missing, and there are also dead bodies every day that no one can claim."

"Those bodies whose family members have not been found for the cause of death will be sent to me." The old man narrowed his eyes into a slit, unable to see who his eyes were on: "Leave them here. After ten days and a half months, if the family members can’t be found, the corpses will be made into specimens and sent to the hospital for study, and they will be used as autopsy props. Hehe, you can’t live in peace after death.”

"It's all lonely and wild ghosts here. If you're not afraid, what do you want to do?" After speaking, the old man walked into the gatehouse. His face was illuminated by candles, and it looked very strange against the window. Immediately afterwards, he moved his mouth and blew out the candle on the window sill. The face disappeared immediately, and nothing could be seen in the dark room.

Yuan Jun shuddered and said, "This old man is really weird."

Xu Yiman nodded and said, "It's weird, but what he said is true. I don't think anyone would dare to come to the crematorium even if they stole something. Moreover, what he said about the corpse is also true. . When I was in medical school, corpses were in short supply. You think that there are so many students in each medical school, but there are so few corpses."

Jiang He walked inside along the path with a few people, and asked Xu Yiman, "Are your corpses all unclaimed?"

Xu Yiman shook his head and explained: "There are always several sources, one is those who have made a will to donate their remains. The second is some death row prisoners, unclaimed corpses. The corpses were sold. In short, the corpses in our school have never been used. They are basically corpses for many years. They have been dissected and sewn up. Our teacher said that her wish in her life is to make every student Have a corpse of your own..."

Yuan Jun pouted and said, "Your teacher's ideal is really great."

Xu Yiman shrugged and said, "That's right, if you want to cure diseases and save people, you must understand the structure of the human body, and you must constantly practice with corpses.

The few people walked all the way forward. There were no street lights on the dim path, only the moonlight above their heads illuminated the few people. After walking down the path, two dark buildings were standing on either side. On the one hand, it is written as Longcheng Funeral Home, and on the other hand, it is written as Longcheng Crematorium.

Xu Yiman said: "The funeral home and the crematorium have always been together. After the autopsy, if it is confirmed that it is not a criminal case, the cremation can be carried out next to it. From the outside of the two buildings, it is indeed an old-fashioned funeral home. Now the crematorium is It should be out of use, maybe there will be a storage room in the funeral home to store those bodies."

Jiang He looked up and said, "Then let's go take a look. Go to the funeral home first."

Everyone walked to the funeral home. There were a lot of weeds on both sides of the path. Many insects stopped abruptly when a few people walked past, but from time to time strange sounds could be heard in the grass, and it seemed that some small animals were crawling inside.

Standing in front of the funeral home, the paint on the two wooden doors was badly peeled off, and the glass on the wooden doors was also shattered by someone unknown. Standing at the door, you can see that it is darker inside than outside. Jiang He never believed that there were any ghosts in this world, so he was the first to go up and gently opened the wooden door.

With a "squeak" sound, the wooden door opened, and the glass above shattered, making a "crackling" sound.

Jiang He tried to press the switch on the wall, but the light was off, and it looked like the power was out long ago.

"Can the body be placed here even if the power is turned off?" Jiang He asked, looking at Xu Yiman.

Xu Yiman shook his head and said, "That won't work. If there is no cryogenic preservation, in such a weather environment, the body will rot in about ten days, let alone an autopsy, it is estimated that even the flesh is gone. Or in the storage room. It's still on, let's go and see."

Several people walked along the corridor, Xu Yiman seemed to be familiar with the structure here, and led them straight to the storage room of the funeral home. The few people walked deeper and deeper, which forced Jiang He to take out his mobile phone to illuminate the light, but in the depths of the corridor, there was an old sign that said Storage Room.

The door of the storage room was closed, Jiang He pushed it, but found that it couldn't be pushed.

"I'm coming." Yuan Jun stepped up, lifted it up with one foot, and kicked the iron gate open.

A cold air came out from the iron door, and the frozen people shivered, as if a ghost came from the door.

Jiang He lit it with the flashlight on his cell phone, and saw that there were rows of cabinets on the left and right sides of the storage room, which were similar to safes, except that the cabinets were tall and looked bulky.

Xu Yiman looked at the freezers and said, "This is the corpse freezer, but the style of this cabinet is very old. The temperature cannot be adjusted automatically. It seems that a pipe is used to connect the whole cabinet."

"Can you tell which cabinet contains a body?" Jiang He asked, looking at Xu Yiman.

Xu Yiman shook his head and said, "I don't know, the basic information of the deceased is not even posted on the outside of this cabinet. It seems that they are all corpses whose source has not been found."

Jiang He sighed and said, "If that's the case, then we'll have to look at them one by one."