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Chapter 12 Digging and Filling in the Dead

The old coroner Zhao Liu carried his box and finally arrived.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhao Liu saw rows of corpses, especially when he saw the female corpse, he was stunned for a moment.

"Old Zhao, hurry up and see how he died." County Magistrate Chu urged.

Zhao Liu hesitated for a moment, but finally walked to the female corpse, took a deep breath, squatted down, took out the gloves from the boy he carried, and took out a pair of small iron clamps.

Zhao Liu's eyes were not very good, and he had to get close to him before he could see clearly. He approached the female corpse, with only three or four fingers apart from the female corpse's face, which made people feel trembling.

"The deceased had signs of being bitten on the side of his face..." Zhao Liu used small iron pincers to search the rotten flesh of the woman's jaw and neck, and a foul stench became more obvious.

"The teeth marks don't look like they were bitten by wild animals, they should be... human bites."

Zhao Liu was only concerned about the autopsy he had, but he didn't see the faces of the people present looking increasingly ugly.

Captain Zhang’s previous inference was correct, it was indeed bitten by a human!

Who would bite others alive and be able to bite them so well beyond recognition? It’s terrible to think about it carefully.

Zhao Liu continued to look down. When he saw the woman's left chest, he was also stunned. "There are a lot of teeth marks on the chest, and the left chest is missing... the internal organs... are gone."

Zhao Liu had to change to a large iron pliers, put the iron pliers from his chest into the lower abdomen of the corpse, and pulled out a pile of black and rotten things.

The Chu County Magistrate and others had their eyes wide open, their expressions were distorted, and they had retching several times, but they had already vomited cleanly just now, but now they can't even vomit.

The surrounding yamen runners, police officers, and some soldiers were in great pain. These people were used to seeing corpses and the like, but they couldn't bear it when they saw this scene.

Zhao Liu endured it several times, but fortunately he didn't vomit it out.

The pile of rotten things he pulled out was extremely stenchy, and what was even more disgusting was that this thing was obviously something like a stomach or a stomach.

Zhao Liu took a rough look at the intestine and quickly stuffed it back.

No matter what, it will be a little better for everyone to stuff it in.

Next, it was finally a relatively relaxed part.

But when Zhao Liu pinched the corpse's arm, wrinkles on his face were squeezed together, "Why are the limbs so stiff?"

Of course no one can answer his questions. He is the most professional here, and he doesn't know others, let alone know.

Zhao Liu tried another arm again, the same was true.

This stiffness is different from the weapons held by dead soldiers on the battlefield. It is not caused by the tightening of bones. The arms of the corpse can be bent and joints can move freely. This stiffness is actually caused by the high tightness of the muscles.

Zhao Liu stood up, covered the straw mat on the female corpse, turned around and said to Captain Zhang, "Captain Zhang, can you show me a few more corpses?"

Captain Zhang took a long breath, "Zhao Liu, do you still want to see it? I don't think it's necessary to see it. We have seen it when we were moving the corpses before, and each one is almost the same."

Zhao Liu shook his head, "I just looked at their limbs. I just saw this female corpse. What's strange is that her whole body was festering, but her limbs were always tight and not as loose as normal people."

"Catcher Zhang, there are some arms that lack skin. Let me see."

At this time, a small policeman shouted, "Zhao Liu, come and take a look at this."

Everyone's eyes turned to the policeman.

The policeman was pointing at a corpse in front of him. The straw mat on his body covered his body, but an arm just appeared. The skin on this arm was rotten, revealing the muscles under the skin.

This should be what Zhao Liu wanted to see.

Zhao Liu hurried over, squatted down and took small tweezers to check.

I just saw the female corpse, and now I see Zhao Liu fiddling with a dead arm, everyone feels refreshed and happy.

This is good, this is good, and this level is acceptable.

However, the good times did not last long, and Zhao Liu lifted the straw mat on the body again.

The deadly appearance of this male corpse was also extremely terrifying. Zhao Liu searched him and checked his internal organs again... There was another sound of dry retching around him.

A little gratifying thing is that the inspection time was much shorter than the female corpse. Soon, Zhao Liu stood up, ran to another corpse, pinched his limbs, opened the straw mat and took a brief look, and then ran to a corpse next to him... After checking more than a dozen times, Zhao Liu stopped.

Zhao Liu walked to the magistrate of Chu and reported, "Sir, these people died strangely."

"At first, I suspected that it was caused by bone steaming disease. The disease was infected with each other, and all those who suffered from it died. It was caused by tuberculosis. The insects ate the heart and lungs. However, after careful observation, it was not this disease. The bone steaming disease only occurred in Guanzhong, and it was impossible to completely swallow the internal organs."

"From the limbs, it seems that they have died shortly, but their internal organs are rotten very seriously, like a corpse that has been violent for many days, almost all of which have tooth marks on their bodies, as if they are bitten by humans. In addition, the limbs of these people are extremely powerful. I have looked carefully and found that there is no oil in their limbs, and their muscles are abnormally refined, for some reason."

The Chu County Magistrate and others now felt exhausted.

Seeing Zhao Liu checking so many corpses, he not only vomited until he had nothing to vomit, but also was shocked and scared.

"Sir, what should I do now?" The anchor was locked behind the county magistrate, and his tone was quite weak and weak.

The magistrate of Chu was gasping for breath and frowned.

After pondering for a long time, the Chu County Magistrate worried, "Although it is not a bone vapor, I don't know if it is caused by other diseases."

"And these people are cruel in their deaths and cannot stay in the county government office. Captain Zhang, you can cover the bodies and push them to a place where there is no one in the suburbs of the city and bury them first."

"There will be everyone present today and they will live in the county yamen courtyard first. After seven days, if there is no symptoms, they will leave."

The Sui Dynasty already had an imperial examination system, and there was a lot of ink in the belly of being a county magistrate.

Although the magistrate of Chu County is not considered a clean official, he still has a little awareness of disease control.

Everyone did not dare to neglect them. Captain Zhang immediately led seven or eight police officers to carry the body back onto the cart, disguised it, and pushed it towards the suburbs of the county.

It was all the way to the sparsely populated wasteland, and Captain Zhang asked someone to dig a hole to fill the body.

If so many corpses were buried, this pit would definitely be small, and seven or eight police officers would have to work hard for a while.

"Catcher Zhang, these corpses aren't really sick, right? I don't want to become like this."

Captain Zhang shoveled down and dug out a large piece of soil. "It shouldn't be caused by illness. You forgot that the people in the village next door said that the strangers in Panjia Village were ringing and the figures were shaking. Generally, people who died of illness did not have the strength to do so. There were also these bite marks. Have you noticed that the missing parts of the body were bitten down."

"Oh, too, but it's strange that these people can become like this in one night. Their internal organs are rotten into mud."

"Everyone dig it out quickly. I was afraid when I thought of these things. They died so miserably that they would not become evil spirits."

"Don't talk nonsense! We are helping them. They know that they are in the spring. We can't thank us yet. How could we harm us? Dig it quickly!"

Everyone was also furious and tried their best to dig.

Three hours later, the sky gradually darkened, and everyone finally filled all thirty-nine corpses into deep pits and buried them carefully.

A large grave of considerable size appeared on the originally flat ground.

Captain Zhang found a wooden stake around him, inserted it in front of the grave, and carved the words with a sword: Tomb of Panjia Village.

"Everyone comes here to worship."

Everyone followed Captain Zhang.

Captain Zhang clasped his fists with his hands and muttered something, "The souls of Panjia Village, we really can't bear to have you stormed in the wild, so we will buried you here."

"I know you have died tragically. If we can find out the real murderer in the future, we will go to the grave to burn incense and paper to comfort the dead souls."

"Please rest here and go to reincarnate as soon as possible."

After saying that, the constables knelt in front of the grave and bowed three times to worship the dead.

After three bows, a headmaster on the last trembled and said, "Zhang, headmaster Zhang, have you seen the wooden sign just now, moving?"

The others hurriedly looked up and stared at the wooden stake for a while.

The wooden stakes stayed there, but they didn’t move!

"Li Ergou, what are you talking nonsense? Are you blind? Bah, I won't kowtow to all the dead souls and apologize!"

The detective was relieved and hurriedly kowtowed three times, "Don't blame everyone, don't blame everyone, I'm talking nonsense."
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