Merchant of the Underworld

Song Longji frowned: "No."

"Where are the carrots?" I asked. "I cut a whole carrot yesterday."

After hearing what I said, Song Longji's mouth suddenly opened wide, and it took him a long time to look at me: "I promise again, no one really came in yesterday..."

I smiled and said I knew.

"So...where did the carrot go?" Song Longji asked.

I pointed to the cleaner's body: "It's in her stomach. Do you want to do an autopsy?"

Song Longji swallowed hard, maybe he felt too disgusting, and looked around for the trash can to vomit.

"Mr. Zhang is indeed a man of great ability. I believe what you say. What can a carrot prove? That a dead body can still eat?"

I shook my head: "Actually, there are many kinds of materials for human bone necklaces, and it doesn't have to be the skull of a three-month-old baby. Others such as cat bones, tiger bones, and rhino horns can be made into human bone necklaces as long as they are ferocious enough. . Think about it, among these animals, which animal likes to eat carrots the most?”

Li Mazi said: "I really like eating carrots. It promotes body fluids and quenches thirst, and nourishes the skin and appetite."

"Fuck you, uncle." I rolled my eyes at Li Mazi: "Go and take out the carrots from the corpse's stomach and eat it!"

Li Mazi retched again: "It's so damn disgusting."

Song Longji said thoughtfully: "Is it a rhinoceros?"

I nodded: "Yes, it's a rhinoceros. So I can now tell that the raw material of the human bone necklace in the other person's hand is rhino horn. Rhinos are the biggest eaters among these animals, and they are also the ones with the heaviest yin energy! They just eat the intestines of dead people. , is far from enough to maintain its superpowers, so the other party will look for undead to feed it."

Song Longji asked: "Mr. Zhang, are there really ghosts in the world?"

I said: "I don't know if there are ghosts or not, but at certain times, in certain places, through certain special rituals, supernatural phenomena will really occur, or certain items will be given magical powers, just like we are now The human bone necklace I encountered.”

Song Longji suddenly sighed, not knowing what he meant.

After walking out of the morgue, Yin Xinyue came up to me immediately and asked me what progress I had made. I said that I already knew the origin of the human bone necklace, and the next step was the real search.

Yin Xinyue quickly took me back to the hotel. After arriving at the hotel, she dialed a number and asked me to tell the boss the latest situation.

As a result, from beginning to end, it was just me talking, and the person on the other end of the phone said nothing.

I secretly cursed this boss for being so arrogant and didn't even say a word.

But before hanging up the phone, he still said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you."

His voice was strange, like a dying patient, but the volume was so loud that it was really unpredictable. I think it may be a young man who has lost his voice?

Li Mazi asked me what should I do next? Where can I find a human bone necklace.

I asked: "Do you know which place in Hong Kong is the most haunted?"

Li Mazi said without hesitation: "Of course it's the countryside of Hong Kong! The story of "The Old Corpse in the Mountain Village" takes place in the countryside, and that female ghost ruined my childhood."

I said: Apart from the countryside, where else?

After all, rural areas are a broad concept, and there are too many rural areas in Hong Kong. Now I am looking for a place where the negative energy is relatively concentrated, such as an abandoned building.

Yin Xinyue said: "I seem to know a place called So Uk Village. It is a famous haunted place in Hong Kong. It is similar to Fengmen Village in the eyes of mainlanders."

I quickly asked Yin Xinyue to tell me what was so evil in So Uk Village.

Yin Xinyue smiled bitterly and said: "It won't be scary if you say it. You'd better check it online yourself!"

I was speechless for a while, and I didn't feel any horror at all. But since Yin Xinyue didn't want to say more, I didn't force it and simply opened the laptop.

After a brief search, I realized what kind of place So Uk Estate is in the eyes of Hong Kong people. It’s pretty much what Yin Xinyue described to me. It’s exactly the Hong Kong version of a ‘closed ghost village’.

Ever since So Uk Estate was built in the 1980s, supernatural events have almost never stopped until now. A Baidu search for 'So Uk Estate, supernatural' turned up three million search results, which shows how popular this place is.

The most widely circulated ghost story is that there are many abandoned buildings here that are haunted houses. The so-called haunted houses are places where the dead live.

Since the completion of So Uk Estate, a death cycle has occurred here. Almost every month, people commit suicide by jumping off the building, and most of them are concentrated on the Dujuan Building.

The strangest thing is that those who commit suicide by jumping off buildings are often unwilling to leave the place where they lived. Many residents will see these dead people after the sun goes down.

As a result, no one dared to live in Dujuan Tower anymore, and the idea of ​​a ghost house gradually spread...

I smiled and pointed with my hand: "It's right here! Tonight, go to So Uk Estate."

Li Mazi immediately asked me why I went to So Uk Village. No one dares to go there during the day, let alone at night.

I said: "If a person holding a human bone necklace wants to add super powers to the necklace, he must go to a place with extremely strong yin energy. So So Uk Village should be his must-choose place! With luck, maybe we can still Meet him.”

Then I turned to look at Yin Xinyue: "You don't want to go. You ask a few bodyguards to be on standby in the hotel at any time. If I find the other party, I will call you and you will send bodyguards to follow him as soon as possible..."

Yin Xinyue immediately shook her head: "No, I will go wherever you go. This is the boss's order and also my obligation. I must ensure your safety."

I smiled helplessly, not knowing who was ensuring whose safety.

I didn’t force her, she could go if she wanted to. As long as we were careful on the road, nothing would happen.

After lunch, we arrived at So Uk Village.

I took a look and found that the area here is very large, with various buildings emerging one after another. However, these buildings have long lost their former simplicity. Instead, they have a strong commercial atmosphere and look like new buildings.

Yin Xinyue told me that these buildings were all built after the previous buildings were knocked down and rebuilt.

I nodded thoughtfully.

I asked Li Mazi to ask around and ask if anyone had died in Du Juan Tower recently.

And whenever we ask about the words "Dujuan Tower", people here will look at us cautiously. The first sentence is often: Why are you asking about this?

I asked several people one after another and the answers were all the same.

They seemed to know the weirdness of Dujuan Tower, but they didn't tell us what was weird about it, and they kept trying to persuade us not to go.

The more they remain mysterious, the more curious I become.

While it was still early, I simply went to the building and took a walk.