Plague Doctor
Chapter 139: Burial of Limbs
Grandpa Tong had too much information on the case at that time, and it also involved images and symbols that could not be expressed in words, so Grandpa Tong did not immediately tell Gu Jun at the meeting, but said that he would make arrangements.
The next morning, the Eastern State Medical Department arrived.
A new group of patients were added in the middle of the night, and seven more were added inside the Department of Medicine, where the air was depressing.
However, when Gu Jun received a visitor at the door of the psychological building, his mood slightly changed. It was Wu Shiyu and a team of people came with several suitcases.
“Wu Shiyu, what are you doing here?” He asked, "This isn't a great place to travel. ”
“to stare at you.” Wu Shiyu, look at this. There's nothing different about Xiu Mei's face, or he's still lazy and hidden his spiritual appearance. “The original file of the case is here. Grandpa Tong said I can't see it, and you don't want to discuss it with me. My task is to wake you up with a stick if you have signs of madness. ”
Gu Jun understood, nodded and walked with them to the psychological building.
On the way to the 12th floor, a small office was entered and several boxes of archives were placed on the desk.
Others guarded the door, Wu Shiyu comfortably sat on the sofa chair, stared at Gu Jun behind the desk, and also watched his mental changes with super perception.
At this time, Gu Jun opened the suitcase number 1 and saw a large pile of old newspapers, a sour old piece of paper odor surfaced.
He picked up the top newspaper, The Journal of the Guangdong, with the black headline:
[Tenth child disappearance occurred within the month, and the people of Guangting were confused]
The case took place in the city of Guangting.
Gu Jun closely watched the old news, when there were successive cases of child disappearance in Guangting City, as well as cases of infant disappearance in the hospital. The news accompanying drawings were of several parents crying anxiously. The media suspected that a group of traffickers was behind the incident, and the police said it was under investigation.
He frowned, naturally thinking about the kids in the classroom, were they the ones who were stolen?
He gave birth to that suspicion again. Am I from my parents?... But those vague foetal memories, he should really be my own...
Less than a few days after this stack of newspapers, things went public, saying that these were rumours, only because a child had been lost in a hospital and had been recovered. Don't say that in an age without the Internet, even now, PR can quickly calm down hot spots.
So it was over at the time, and there was just another urban legend in Guangting City.
But the NASA files show that it's not a rumor, it's all true.
In less than three months, 156 infants and 183 early childhood children disappeared throughout the city.
Gu Jun tightened the file on his hand, and the blues on his forehead slightly beat.
How many families are broken in here, how many parents have been struggling to find for years...
These disappearances were the cause of the old case, which was so harsh that NASA dispatched a mobile contingent to assist the police in their investigation.
It was Grandpa Tong Huang Guotong who led the Fire Phoenix Squad, an integrated team with 105 permanent members. Grandpa Tong was only 27 years old at the time and from the Investigation Department, although a bit light-hearted, he was brilliant and had a brilliant future.
However, the case was not solved immediately after the Fire Phoenix team intervened.
Because, on the one hand, this is not an ordinary type of gang crime; on the other hand, families who have lost children have nothing in common, have no blood ties, have a high or low level of literacy, have different occupations, and the gangs appear to be random.
The breakthrough occurred to unexpected people. Liu Daze, an old professor of archaeology at Guangting University, is well known in the industry.
His students reported to the police that they had visited Professor Liu's house several times recently and could hear the baby cry in secret every time, but Professor Liu was an elderly man living alone.
Also because Professor Liu recently made people feel “strange”, the student was disturbed and contacted about the recent case of infant disappearance.
When Grandpa Tong came to the house to investigate, he understood what “strange” meant.
The archaeologist told Grandpa Tong of a theory that there were some noble and great beings long before human beings existed. In the history of human civilization, their impact has been ubiquitous. It's just that some of them are too old to be forgotten by humans themselves.
“Where those children go is not a place where mortals can live.” The archaeological professor told them, "but I knew where they were buried. ”
This is a strange phrase. This professor has a strange face. It's also crazy.
However, in the absence of clues, any clues would have to be tried, and NASA excavated them according to the site described by the old professor - a hill on the outskirts of the city of Guangting.
This excavation excavated an ancient tomb. It is now determined to be from the Qin Dynasty. It is not the tomb of the King, but...
“Hmm...” Gu Jun frowned and looked at some of the old grave-digging pictures in the file. The irritability in his heart was so strong that some hallucinations flashed in front of him.
“Hey?” Wu Shi Rain over there sensed. “Easy, easy. ”
He was silent and unresponsive, and these are pictures of the exhumed martyrs, all of which are already a bunch of bones, marked as "limb burials”.
A limb burial is a method of martyrdom in Qin Dynasty. Contrary to a straight limb burial, it is to curl the lower body of a person, then tie it together with a rope before burial. Amputation is a peculiar phenomenon in the history of tombs, whose origins, popular times and regions, expressive meanings, etc. are not yet conclusive.
In front of Gu Jun, it was as if to see these former living people broken limbs and distorted into strange shapes...
With these martyrs dug up, not a tomb owner, there was only one strange stone statue.
“Where are the pictures?” Gu Jun mutterly turned over the information, did not find the photograph of the stone sculpture, even the text description was missing, just the word “strange”.
This tomb has nothing but the remains of thousands of martyrs and that stone statue. They were buried alive on their knees surrounding the statue.
This is clearly a ritual of sacrifice.
How did that crazy archaeological professor know there was an ancient tomb here? That's not even a burglary. It's impossible to know for no reason.
This question has not yet been solved, because without the Sky Machinery Bureau's interrogation, Liu Daze died of a strange heart attack in prison, and only one strange word was left when he was rescued. Nobody knew what he was saying at the time, couldn't record it, or even had difficulty writing it down, just thought it was crazy nonsense.
But the latest is that Grandpa Tong, who was also present at the time, believed that what the archaeologist was delusional about at the time was that phrase:
[Ph 'ngluimglw 'nafhCthulhuR 'lyehwgah 'naglfhtagn]