Chapter 59: Investigating the Crematorium

  Cheng Bin analyzed and looked at the captain and deputy captain of the first squadron: "I am familiar with my own subordinates, and for the first squadron, taking over the investigation of this kind of case is still a bit difficult for them at present."

  Liu Li, you are our bureau's renowned detective and also famous for your bravery. After some thought, I think only you can handle this case, so I want to assign it to you.

  At this time, don't distinguish between the jurisdiction of the First Brigade and the Third Brigade. Everything is focused on the case. You see, should you let someone from the First Brigade stay with you to handle the case or pull people over from the Third Brigade to help you?

  "Let's get someone from the third squad over here, I'm more familiar with the people there and it will be easier to work with them." After saying this, Liu Li seemed to have thought of something and looked at Yang Zhengcai: "Manager Yang, you said that when you arrived, you saw that the electric door of the crematorium and the office area's gate were already open.

  The electric gate of the crematorium is easy to understand, because its switch controller is set in the duty room at the entrance of the crematorium, and that duty room is just a decoration. Whether it's the staff inside the crematorium or outsiders, anyone can enter the duty room and open the electric gate with the controller from inside.

  "I'd like to ask about the doors in our office area. Are those two large doors not going to be opened before dawn after they're closed? If someone wants to use the restroom or go shopping after work, or if there's someone knocking on the door outside, won't those two doors be opened?"

  In response to Liu Li's inquiry, Yang Zheng explained: "It's like this, our office area is equipped with all the necessities of life, including a dedicated canteen, heating equipment, water source, lighting system, and even independent toilets. If we lack something, we will buy it before the end of work."

  Because this is a crematorium, there are either ashes of the dead or corpses inside, which is quite eerie. So after work hours, our staff will stay in this office area. According to superstition, the layout here can keep ghosts and monsters away.

  So after work, unless it's an emergency or the boss calls, no matter who knocks on the door, we all pretend not to hear and any business is handled tomorrow morning when we go back to work.

  These are the rules passed down here, and because of this, when designing the gate at the beginning, someone was specially invited to install the door bolts inside, so that the two large gates can only be opened from the inside.

  Although Old Chen didn't believe in these things, since he came here, he has always followed these rules. After we leave work, he never leaves the office area, so it's impossible for Old Chen to go outside to use the restroom or buy things.

  "But the deceased's body happened to appear at the entrance of the morgue, how can this be explained?" Liu Li asked back, seeing that no one could answer, he felt a bit dizzy.

  So far, he hasn't heard any suspicious points from this bizarre case. After a moment of contemplation, Liu Li looked at Cheng Bin: "Captain Cheng, I don't have any leads for the time being either. I think I'll go to the scene first and see if I can find anything. Can I ask Dr. Deng to accompany me to the morgue?"

  Cheng Bin nodded and said to Deng Xinming beside him, "Xiao Deng, go with Captain Liu to the scene and restore it to its original state at that time."

  "Yes." After Deng Fa finished instructing, he stood up and accompanied Liu Li to leave the place.

  Under the leadership of Deng Xinming, Liu Lai came to the funeral building. This was his first time here. After walking up the steps and looking at the old wooden door at the entrance, he felt a bit apprehensive about the gloomy atmosphere around him.

  The door was not locked, and Deng Xinming gently pushed open the door. He seemed to have been here before, and he was very familiar with the layout of this place. After entering, looking at the empty hall, he told Liu Li that there were three corridors here.

  The corridor on the left leads to the mourning hall and autopsy room, the corridor on the right leads to the wake hall and mortuary, and the corridor facing the entrance leads to the cremation chamber in the back.

  The reason why there is a separate corridor for the cremation chamber is that it is said to be the place with the heaviest yin energy, where three large cremation furnaces are installed.

  These years, the cremation furnace has burned countless corpses, and the bottom of the furnace is filled with endless ashes and dripping corpse oil. Since the funeral home was established, it has never been cleaned once. In order to prevent these yin objects from gathering into ghosts, a ritual instrument was buried underground when the cremation room was built. Because they were worried about damaging the power of the ritual instrument, none of the successive managers of the crematorium dared to build other facilities around the cremation room.

  Deng Xinming led Liu Li to the mortuary door, which looked like a school teacher's office from the outside. There was a sign on the door with traditional Chinese characters that read "Mortuary".

  Looking around at the snow-white walls, and then seeing the old door of the morgue, even Liu Li's boldness couldn't help but make his scalp feel numb. At this moment, Deng Ximing opened the door of the morgue. As soon as the door was pushed open, a cold gust of air rolled out towards the outside.

  Liu Li, who was already a bit apprehensive, felt even more uneasy when he encountered this cold aura, and upon seeing the rows of refrigerators storing corpses inside, the feeling that had made his legs tremble earlier returned. However, having gone through it once before, Liu Li was still able to maintain some composure.

  Looking back at Liu Li's expression, Deng Xinming smiled and said: "Liu team, your courage is really not bad. In our criminal police team, including Cheng Dadao, everyone who comes here for the first time is scared to the point of trembling legs."

  "Is that so? I really didn't notice, just now Cheng Daqi said he often comes here." After saying this, Liu Li couldn't help but sigh: "It seems my courage is still not enough, to be honest, since becoming a police officer, I have personally touched over ten corpses, and just the other day, I shot and killed three thugs. I thought my courage and mental quality were already perfect, but I didn't expect that as soon as I arrived here, my heart would start trembling."

  Upon hearing this, Deng Xinming replied: "As soon as I heard you say that, I knew you were a sincere person, because you dared to admit your inner fear of this place. People who come here are afraid, and it's considered cowardly, but that's actually wrong."

  After humans enter here, a sense of fear will be produced in their hearts. Although this has something to do with the person's own courage, the relationship is not too deep. The most fundamental reason is that it is related to the magnetic field here.

  Actually, everyone who comes here will have a sense of fear in their heart, but some people dare to admit it, while others do not want to admit their own fear. The first time I came here with my colleagues to dissect the corpse, I was also scared to death.

  But later on, I came here to dissect many times, and gradually got used to the environment here, slowly getting accustomed to the magnetic field around me. Now walking here is no longer so fearful."

  At this point, Liu Li's heart suddenly moved, as if he had thought of something. He looked around and muttered: "Does everyone feel fear when they come here for the first time? If so, then..."

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