It was Ji Chen who reported Gu Linze to the police and had him arrested. So the moment something happened to Gu Linze, the police station informed Ji Chen.
In the parking lot behind the police sub - station, Ji Chen said to Si Jiangchen somewhat sheepishly, "Boss, you really didn't need to come in person..."
Bothering Si Jiangchen over such a small matter proved that he, as the special assistant, was incompetent!
"Mr. Si, you're the CEO of Fir Corporation. I think I should explain this man's situation to you," the police officer said. It seemed he had never encountered such a tricky case before, and his brows were deeply furrowed. "The man Mr. Ji reported and had arrested is Gu Linze, a former director of the board of Hong Kong Hongjun Group. You know that the Gu family of Hongjun is the richest in Hong Kong. Gu Linze is the elder brother of the current chairman. After we reported the case, the man died. If we're held accountable, it might have an impact on Fir Corporation..."
"Thank you, officer," Si Jiangchen always wore that amiable smile when facing outsiders. "Could you please take us to see Gu Linze? I also want to know how a living person could just die like that?"
"Um..." The police officer thought Si Jiangchen was different from other rich people he had met. Others would shy away from the word "dead person" as if it were a taboo, but he dared to bring his girlfriend and directly ask to see the body!
After a moment's thought, he called a young police officer who was coming out from the back door of the sub - station and was about to help carry the body that had been put into a body bag. "Xiao Fu, take these three to the morgue to have a look."
According to the police station's rule, the zipper of a body bag couldn't be opened outside. Only in the morgue, under the supervision of a forensic doctor, could one see the body.
"Okay!" The young police officer pushed the stretcher cart over.
"Fu Ning? It's you!" I exclaimed in surprise when I saw the young police officer. Fu Ning was the young police officer we had met twice before. He was taken away for investigation because Du Peiyun had used him to frame us. I didn't expect to see him here!
"Miss Du!" Fu Ning was also surprised to see me in a place like the police station. His eyes widened in shock, and his face showed a look of both joy and excitement. "I, I went to your shop to look for you, but you weren't there!"
I had been guarded by Si Jiangchen all the time recently. How could I have time to go back to the shop?
Fu Ning must have gone to look for me during that period and been turned away several times...
"How is Officer Xue now?" I asked as I followed Fu Ning. I knew why he was looking for me. If he hadn't been so eager to save his master, he wouldn't have been taken advantage of by Du Peiyun. Judging from the job he was doing now, it was obvious that he had been relegated to a menial job. Usually, such jobs were done by security guards or police officers about to retire. It was a leisurely job for waiting to retire!
Fu Ning gave a bitter smile and shook his head. "He's in a deep coma. Although he can breathe on his own, he still has no consciousness... Miss Du, please go and see him."
"Okay! I will!" I nodded heavily. Officer Xue was a good policeman. He couldn't be turned into a vegetable by a ghost like this! He lost his soul because of Du Peiyun's scheme. Actually, it all started because of me. I should be responsible for him!!
As we were talking, we had arrived at the morgue on the first basement floor of the police station.
The whole basement floor was a evidence warehouse. Only the rectangular room closest to the end of the corridor was the morgue.
Pushing open the big white stainless - steel door, a blast of cold air and the smell of formaldehyde hit us.
I couldn't help shivering.
Si Jiangchen reached out and held my fingers. That faint warmth was just like him. He didn't need to do anything. Just feeling his presence made me feel at ease.
Fu Ning pushed the stretcher cart with wheels squeaking and registered at the guard post at the door before leading us in.
"Achoo!" The thick cold made me shiver a few more times. Fu Ning rubbed his hands gently and looked at me. "Miss Du, shall I open the bag now?"
"Okay!" We just wanted to find out why Gu Linze had died.
When I saw him in the hospital corridor, I didn't notice anything abnormal about him.
"Hiss." Fu Ning opened the plastic zipper of the body bag, and Gu Linze's face was revealed.
"Um..." I wasn't mentally prepared. Who would have thought that the face of a newly deceased person could look so terrifying?
Gu Linze's dirty and disheveled face was rotting like a melted wax figure. His eyelids had drooped, and his eyeballs, which couldn't be covered at all, hung on the side of his face along with the eyelids and swayed slightly as the body bag was opened.
"How could this happen?!" Fu Ning was also so frightened by this strange scene that he took several steps back. The forensic doctor who came to receive the body heard our voices and quickly walked a few steps forward.
"This... this body looks like it has been dead for at least ten to fifteen days. But the form you filled out says it was within an hour?" The forensic doctor's brows were deeply furrowed. The folder in his hand showed that from the time the suspect was arrested to his death, it was no more than forty minutes. The body's temperature hadn't even completely dissipated. How could it have turned into adipocere?
"But the senior officers who arrested him recorded clearly that when he was taken into the police car, he was still cursing!" Fu Ning hadn't witnessed the arrest scene either, but the state of the body was definitely wrong!
"He might have died long ago," I said. Without caring about the sticky feeling of the body, I reached out and took the ball - point pen from the forensic doctor's folder. I pushed aside Gu Linze's messy hair on his head, and there was a rusty iron object the size of a one - yuan coin on his scalp.
The forensic doctor's brows furrowed even more. He turned around and picked up a pair of metal tweezers from the operating table and touched the object.
"A nail?!" He couldn't move the round iron piece, but he had already noticed something strange.
There was a very thick rusty nail inserted into Gu Linze's Baihui acupoint on the top of his head. How could he have been alive and cursing forty minutes ago?
"The Soul - Suppressing Nail! An evil technique that seals the soul of the dead to control the movement of their body!" When the forensic doctor touched the round iron piece with the tweezers, I already understood why Gu Linze was in this state!
He might have had his fontanelle, the place where the soul leaves the body, sealed with a Soul - Suppressing Nail half a month ago. After being nailed with a two - inch coffin nail, his soul could stay in his body, and he could walk like a normal person.
His sudden death might be related to the police officers.
The police badge on the officers' heads is a highly yang object.
It can suppress all evil spirits.
One can imagine how panicked the person controlling Gu Linze's corpse must have been when seeing those police officers about to take him into the car!
No wonder he struggled and cursed desperately. The moment he got into the car, the power controlling his corpse lost its effect, and Gu Linze was like a remote - controlled toy without a signal, losing all signs of life!!